Our impatience with waiting—and our demand for efficiency—betray our mistaken beliefs about time. We think that time is a commodity, something to be spent and wasted and saved. But a Christian perspective on time begs us to see that time is first and foremost a gift, given to us by our Creator God.

From God’s good and generous hands we are given every moment called now.

As the Apostle James reminds in his letter, we’re not in control of time, not even able to reliably plan for tomorrow. “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’—yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time then vanishes,” (James 4:13, 14).

We learned this truth, of course, during our earliest pandemic days when normal life was overturned by the global crisis. Graduations were cancelled, weddings were postponed. Days blurred one into another, and tragically, people grew sick and died, reminding us that tomorrow is never a guarantee.

Where do we find hope in the midst of these sobering truths about time? James gives us a simple and yet profound answer. He says that God’s people must live in surrendered trust to his will—and his good time. Instead of presuming on tomorrow or next month or next year, we ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that,” (v. 15). This isn’t to say that planning is wrong, but it is to say that counting on time is a presumption we can’t exercise. It is to say that alone we must learn the ancient monastic wisdom of remembering that we die.

Living in time requires gratitude: for every gift of every new day. And it also requires humility: to recognize that only God can make sure and certain plans. This gives us a freedom to believe that our time is a gift received from God and rendered back to him in worship.

We won’t get everything done that we hope and plan, but that’s okay. Because God’s never in a hurry—and never out of time.

As two courts of appeals have now concluded, the federal contractor mandate is unprecedented and unlawful. It would allow the government to use its purchasing power to mandate individual health decisions for one-fifth of the nation’s workforce. This sort of policymaking decision must be made by Congress, not an agency that is unaccountable to the American public.

Now would be the time to negotiate an end, except Russia has unilaterally annexed four more Ukrainian oblasts. Even the “foreign policy realists” are belatedly coming to the conclusion that there are exactly three ways to end this war.

• Ukraine is forced to accede to Russia’s terms and give up its entire Black Sea coastline, and be reduced to a satrapy of Moscow;
• A truce line is established along the current line of contact, creating another “frozen conflict” and setting the stage for another Russian invasion in the future; or,
• Russia is driven out of Ukraine, possibly even Crimea, and NATO gives Ukraine security guarantees against any future Russian invasion.

Much of NATO is leaving toward option number three.

Earlier this week, the Brits announced they would transfer a single squadron, 14 tanks, of top-of-the-line Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine. These working with the 50 Bradleys receiving training at Grafenwoehr, Germany, would make a battalion task force that, if supported by artillery and properly handled, could break the developing stalemate.

Wrapped inside the “what next” question is how much capability does NATO want Ukraine to have? Does it want Ukraine dishing out payback on Russian cities in proportion to the criminal attacks on Ukrainian population centers the Russians are carrying out? I think Ukraine’s strikes against Russian strategic bomber bases using homegrown “kamikaze” drones have put some of the BigBrainThinkers® at State and the Pentagon off their feed as they are sensing that Ukraine is unwilling to play by the losing set of rules for losers trying to lose hatched by the McNamara Defense Department during Vietnam.

The top-rated program was 2022’s overall leader in cable news, “The Five.” That panel show logged 3,469,000 viewers, in line with its average figures. What is the standout statistic is this: That audience figure for the one-hour broadcast surpasses all of CNN’s primetime lineup! Beginning at 5 p.m., with “The Lead,” all the way through the 11pm hour with “CNN Tonight,” the combined audience of those shows did not total as much as Fox drew – for just the 5 p.m. hour. //

That is the viewership of seven CNN programs failing to draw as much as the lone show for Fox. It is rather tough to even process that disparity between what are supposed to be broadcast rivals.

The New Scientist calculated the number of deaths per kilowatt-hour question based on the data from International Atomic Energy Agency in 2011.

• https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928053.600-fossil-fuels-are-far-deadlier-than-nuclear-power/
• https://www.iaea.org/

According to the New Scientist:

The agency examined the life cycle of each fuel from extraction to post-use and included deaths from accidents as well as long-term exposure to emissions or radiation.

They concluded that "fossil fuels are far deadlier than nuclear power" and that "the large number of deaths [related to fossil fuels] are caused by pollution."
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Another, more recent, report supporting these numbers can be found at the World Nuclear Association, here. http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/energy-and-the-environment/environment-and-health-in-electricity-generation.aspx

An article in Forbes gives the following numbers, which I reproduce here in their simplified form: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/#571bf970709b

Free speech is not some right-wing reframing of whatever, it’s the foundation of Western civilization. Upon which this civilization is built and the alignment values that led to it.

“The only way to deal with the problem of racism is to treat people on the content of their character. And nothing else. And the fact that WOKE culture seeks to overturn that is a new form of racism that we must all oppose.” //

“[Climate Change will be decided] by poor people in Asia and Latin America who don’t care about saving the planet—because they’re poor.” //

“One-hundred-and-twenty million people in China do not have enough food. That means their immune system is breaking down because they do not have enough food.

“Where do you think Climate Change ranks in Xi Jinping’s list of priorities?

“You’re not going to get these people to stay poor. You’re not going to get them to not want to be richer.” //

Kisin even had the unmitigated gall to insist that there was only one solution to Climate Change.

“To make scientific and technological breakthroughs that will create the clean energy that is not only clean, but cheap.” //

“And the only thing that wokeness has to offer in exchange is to brainwash bright, young minds like you to believe that you are victims. To believe that you have no agency. To believe that what you must do to improve the world is to complain, is to protest. Is to throw soup on paintings,” he said.

Petroleum producers know that there are not many opportunities to make major new discoveries so they are focused on maintaining their current production levels. In many cases, there is a growing supply of unused capital waiting for an appropriate place to invest.

Oil executives would be wise to consider investing their human and financial resources in nuclear reactors, which can be considered to be modern, near zero emission energy wells. When nuclear reactors are used as advanced heat sources to produce synthetic fuels and hydrocarbons, a substantial portion of the capital infrastructure and core competencies are directly transferrable from the conventional petroleum industry. //

Fossil fuel companies have the necessary assets to make successful investments in nuclear energy wells. They can raise capital from investors that are comfortable with risk, work their way through the regulatory wickets, buy the steel and concrete, develop the necessary agreements with local governments and ensure that their suppliers meet exacting specifications. They live and breathe safety based on long experience with massive quantities of volatile materials. After their new energy wells begin operation, they can look forward to many decades worth of reliable production and sales – energy is not a fad and people will always find new ways to use whatever quantity is available.

Sea-going or floating nuclear plants are especially well-matched to the current infrastructure and skill set of fossil fuel companies. They will be produced in the same shipyards that currently produce off-shore platforms, tankers, support vessels, and barges. In some cases, the production platforms will closely resemble floating petroleum or natural gas processing plants.

There are increasing pressures on fossil fuel companies to slow or stop their contributions to greenhouse gas emissions. Fossil fuel companies can legitimately meet their fiduciary responsibility to maximize their investor returns by directing their capital budgets to a new generation of energy production and distribution capability.

That new energy production capacity should include:

• Systems using heavy metal fission to directly supply heat and power
• Installations that use fission to produce heat and power for synthetic fuel production that combines hydrogen from water and carbon that is captured from the atmosphere.

At Nucleation Capital, we are focused on investing in advanced nuclear energy, synthetic fuels and macro energy integration systems that can all help decarbonize our energy and power sources. The transition from hydrocarbons to clean energy will be challenging, but nuclear energy investments will enable its success with lower costs than attempting to complete the transition without nuclear energy.

[Cueball is typing on a computer.]
Voice outside frame: Are you coming to bed?
Cueball: I can't. This is important.
Voice: What?
Cueball: Someone is WRONG on the Internet.

Title text: What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!

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.@DavidSacks explains how the FBI was using a tool called “ teleport” to communicate with Twitter. They were able to send instructions that deleted after 10 days and they weren’t able to take a screenshot of the communication.

5:20 PM · Jan 15, 2023

But they could tell that some messages were sent via the teleport tool when they were looking at the emails and the FBI would tell Twitter Safety head Yoel Roth to look at the messages they just sent him on teleport. “It was a very weird detail,” Sacks said, “And it shows the way our government prefers to operate, which is in secrecy.” “What basis is there for the FBI first of all even to be engaged in censorship on social media to the extent they were,” Sacks said, noting they had an 80-agent team flagging posts for the FBI and other parts of the government. //

“What was the crime that they were investigating here,” Sacks declared. This was all coming under the heading of searching for “foreign interference” in elections, a truly nebulous justification. Add to that the instructions were secret, disappearing, Sacks said, “Why isn’t that a matter of public record?” He said first of all, it was a violation of the First Amendment if they were pushing censorship, but on top of that, they weren’t even being transparent about it. “We have a right as citizens of this country to know what our government is doing, and for them to be engaging in this sort of um, you know, magic trick, where the instructions they are giving are disappearing, it’s almost like the cover-up part of this crime.” //

What that means is that it’s harder to find the evidence of secret instructions that they were giving to Twitter if you were trying to figure out what they were doing. It also raises questions about why they’re erasing the evidence unless they knew that what they were doing was problematic. Yet, we still haven’t gotten any real answers from the FBI on this, just a response that claimed that this was “traditional” contacts they’d had with private companies (that alone is chilling if this is “traditional”) and they called the Twitter files “conspiracy theorists. //

Quiverfull
10 minutes ago
Relevant to the discussion, and hopefully a jury instruction read during the trial of numerous federal employees who participated in this mass violation of Americans' civil rights, here is the Federal Court Jury Instruction:

1.20 SPOLIATION/DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE
[Party] contends that [Other Party] at one time possessed [describe evidence allegedly destroyed]. However, [Other Party] contends that [evidence never existed, evidence was not in its possession, evidence was not destroyed, loss of evidence was accidental, etc.].
You may assume that such evidence would have been unfavorable to [Other Party] only if you find by a preponderance of the evidence that:
(1) [Other Party] intentionally [destroyed the evidence] [caused the evidence to be destroyed]; and
(2) [Other Party] [destroyed the evidence] [caused the evidence to be destroyed] in bad faith. //

anon-8f8k
17 minutes ago
Isn't destruction of official government communications a crime in and of itself?

Axiomatically, you sign your federal income tax return under penalties of perjury. That means it should be accurate and complete. But in the real world, despite your best efforts and honesty, you may forget something or make an innocent--even if foolish--mistake.

In fact, it may not even be your fault. You may receive a Form 1099 or Form K-1 after you file your return. Amended K-1s from partnerships, S corporations and LLCs have a particularly bad habit of showing up right after you file.

In such cases, it may surprise you to learn that you are not required by law to file an amended return. Once you have filed your tax return, you cannot be prosecuted for failing to file an amended return, even if something happened after you filed that makes it clear your original return contains mistakes. When considering an amendment, first ask yourself whether the return you filed was accurate to your best knowledge when you filed it.

If it was, you are probably safe in not filing an amendment. (You still may want to amend, of course, but filing an amendment would be optional.)

My best understanding is that you need to file Form 843. The instructions for the form say that it can be used to request:

A refund or abatement of a penalty or addition to tax due to reasonable cause or other reason (other than erroneous written advice provided by the IRS) allowed under the law.

The "reasonable cause" here is a good-faith confusion about what Line 79 of the form was referring to.

In Form 843, the IRC Section Code you should enter is 6654 (estimated tax). For more, see the IRC Section 6654 (note, however, that if you already received a CP14 notice from the IRS, you should cross-check that this section code is listed on the notice under the part that covers the estimated tax penalty).

If your request is accepted, the IRS should issue you Notice 746, item 17 Penalty Removed:

We removed the penalty we charged you and we are reviewing your account. We will let you know the results

You can get more general information about the tax collection process, and how to challenge it, from the pages linked from Understanding your CP14 Notice.

An important new study in the journal Energy (Weißbach et. al. 2013, paywalled) focuses on energy return on investment (EROI, or sometimes ERoEI), which is the ratio of electrical energy produced by a given power source to the amount of energy needed to build, fuel, maintain and decomission that power plant. //

Here's the idea in a nutshell: in the US, a kWh of energy (unweighted) costs about 10 cents but it produces about 70 cents worth of GDP, a ratio of 7 to 1. //

But the big winners in non-fossil energy are run-of-river hydro (Weißbach allows a 100 year plant lifetime, which may be generous) and nuclear (at a 60 year plant lifetime, in line with other studies). And by the way, this is one reason Weißbach's study is better than some earlier works: he includes plant lifetime in his computations, which can make a big difference. Wind turbines, for example, are subjected to large physical stresses which limits their lifetime to about 20 years, both in this study and according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. In effect, you have to build a windfarm two or three times over during the lifetime of a nuclear plant, and that adds up.

Two cases were analyzed for coal, one hard coal (EROI 29, EMROI 49) and one brown coal (EROI 31, EMROI 49). These were averaged to an EROI of 30 as shown. In the US we have plenty of hard coal reserves and don't use brown coal. Also, the authors omitted from this study the energy cost needed to transport coal, apparently because that varies by country. Using EIA data, this amounts to 244 KJ per tonne-km for rail transport. So in the US, where a lot of coal is moved from mines in Wyoming to end users far away, a typical 1000 mile trip would lower the EROI of coal from 29 to 28, while EMROI remains unchanged at 49. //

So if you ever wondered why climate scientists like James Hansen are pro-nuclear, this is one reason. Yes, wind is fine if it can be grid-buffered against a non-fossil generating source. And absolutely we need more hydro, especially run-of-river hydro where it's feasible. But there are limits to the amount of river where it is feasible. So if we want to eliminate fossil fuels from electricity production (and we do), and if we want to manage that transition so that it doesn't hurt the economy (and we do), nuclear has to be part of the mix. And in fact, it has to be a much bigger part of the mix than it has been in the past. In the next part of GETTING TO ZERO, I will address the safety issues of nuclear power in detail, but for right now what you need to know is that even after accounting for latent deaths from Chernobyl (and non-deaths from Fukushima), nuclear is still one of the safest forms of energy.

Finally, if you'd like to take a detailed look at the calculations, Weißbach's spreadsheet can be found on Google Docs. I used the spreadsheet to compute some of the numbers above.

CONFIGURE THE NETWORK:
PLEASE ENTER THE HOSTNAME FOR THE SYSTEM:
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• You've been staring at that screen a while.

• Picking a good server name is important.

[This hostname is going in dozens of remote config files. Changing a kid's name is comparatively easy! ]

Botanical name: Chlorocardium rodiei
Family: Lauraceae
Default name: Demerara Greenheart
Other names: Sipiri, Sipiroe, Itauba Branca

Wood description
The height of the tree is 21-35 meters (maximum 40 meters) and the branch-free straight cylindrical trunk is 15-25 meters long with a diameter of 40 to 60 cm. The heartwood is light to thunder olive green in color, sometimes drawn with brown or black stripes. These color differences can occur in one trunk, which sometimes gives this type of wood a colorful appearance. The sapwood is light yellow or greenish, usually 30x60mm wide and has no sharp transition to the heartwood. This type of wood is a type of wood with exceptionally good strength properties.

Wood properties
Demerara Greenheart is a heavy one hardwood having all of the following:

Volumic mass (at 12%): 970-1020 kg / m³
Bending (at 12%): 240 N / mm²
Shrinkage (at 12%): rad. 3%, pliers. 4.5%
Sustainability
The heartwood is durable (class 1) and it is very resistant to insect attack.

Editable
Drying - Very slow with a lot of tendency to tear and forming surface cracks. The deformation of the wood during the penetration is not too bad.
Edit - Quite difficult because Demerara Greenheart has a high density.
Nailing / Screwing - Moderate, pre-drilling recommended for splitting.
Finishing - Good.

Applications
Due to the high durability, strength and large dimensions in which the wood is available, it is mainly used for heavy construction work (water bridge and ship bolt, lock gates and harbor works). It can also be used for heavy workbenches and company floors.

An ABC producer used her credentials to create fake hit pieces on local politicians in Florida while pocketing thousands from a political lobbying firm, a report said.

Freelance producer Kristen Hentschel — who mostly worked for “Good Morning America” — was paid at least $14,350 by Alabama-based political consulting firm Matrix LLC to sandbag the environmentally friendly politicians with bogus questions, according to a report released Wednesday by NPR and Floodlight, an “environmental news collaborative.”

When Ana Belén Montes was arrested as a Cuban spy 10 days after Sept. 11, 2001, the people who knew her best couldn’t believe it. One college friend said such treachery didn’t seem true to Ana’s character. During their time at the University of Virginia, the pal wrote in a newspaper op-ed, “The only secret she ever gave us was her mother’s luscious flan recipe.” But not only was Montes a Cuban spy, she was “one of the most damaging spies in US history,” author Jim Popkin writes in “Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America’s Most Famous Female Spy — and the Sister She Betrayed” (Hanover Square Press). (The book title refers to the FBI’s randomly generated code name for Ana.)

During her illustrious two-decade Washington career, Ana Montes shined at both her real job and her shadowy side hustle.

As an analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), she won citations and cash awards for her impeccable work in charge of the agency’s Cuba desk — colleagues even called her the “Queen of Cuba.”

But outside office hours, Montes shared her knowledge about American plans for Cuba — gleaned from classified US government documents — with the DGI, Castro’s intelligence agency. From 1984 to 2001, Ana would memorize secret documents on American policy before sharing the information over casual dinners with her Cuban handlers. Montes was literally given medals by the Cuban government for her undercover work (which they would take back for “safekeeping”), but as Montes regularly “Ironically it was partly the work of Montes’ sister Lucy that ultimately did Ana in. Lucy’s involvement in the FBI, NSA, and Navy’s Royal Flush Task Force broke up a Cuban spy ring in South Florida, and part of the information uncovered revealed a mole working in an unknown Washington, DC intelligence agency. The double agent was known to have had a student loan paid off by the Cubans, owned a particular type of Toshiba computer, and traveled to Guantanamo Bay in the summer of 1996.

That ended up being strikes one, two and three against Montes. After the earlier accusation against her, those new disclosures were enough for DIA investigators to point the finger at their very own “Queen of Cuba.” ” her US superiors with the quality of her work, no one was the wiser. //

It was a lonely existence for Montes though, who couldn’t talk to anyone other than her Cuban handlers about her double life.

Worse, her immediate family had unwittingly become Ana’s enemy: Her brother Tito and his wife became agents in the FBI’s Atlanta office, while her closest sibling, Lucy, worked for the FBI’s Miami field office — on a task force rooting Cuban spies out of South Florida.

“Ana was surrounded,” Popkin writes.

The isolation Montes felt from her deceit nearly broke her, leading her to visit a psychiatrist, take anti-depressants, and become obsessed with cleanliness, including spending hours every day in the shower — a calm, cool and collected James Bond of a spy Ana Montes was not. //

Ironically it was partly the work of Montes’ sister Lucy that ultimately did Ana in. Lucy’s involvement in the FBI, NSA, and Navy’s Royal Flush Task Force broke up a Cuban spy ring in South Florida, and part of the information uncovered revealed a mole working in an unknown Washington, DC intelligence agency. The double agent was known to have had a student loan paid off by the Cubans, owned a particular type of Toshiba computer, and traveled to Guantanamo Bay in the summer of 1996.

That ended up being strikes one, two and three against Montes. After the earlier accusation against her, those new disclosures were enough for DIA investigators to point the finger at their very own “Queen of Cuba.” //

The FBI broke into Ana’s Washington apartment under a FISA court order — “we snuck in like ninjas” the agent in charge boasted — to plant cameras and recording devices and soon found the very model of Toshiba computer used by the mole. There was a short-wave radio that could be used to communicate with Cuba and, most damningly, unencrypted messages on a typewriter cartridge that unequivocally proved Ana Montes betrayed her country.

After she was arrested, Montes denied nothing. She pled guilty in open court, even confessing she hadn’t committed treason for the money. Other than the $2,000 student loan the Cubans had paid off at the beginning of Ana’s second career, she’d continued undermining US national security for the next 15 years as a matter of principle.

Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke
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This from Trump's deposition in the Jean Carroll case is hilarious.
https://documentcloud.org/documents/23572304-trump-deposition-transcript-ordered-unsealed-in-carroll-case-by-judge-kaplan-whos-on-sbf
4:59 PM · Jan 13, 2023

Q: "Did you talk to anyone about what to say in the statement?"
A: "No, i didn't. I'm not Joe Biden."

There’s long been a concern among Trump’s lawyers that putting him in a deposition is a bit like putting a rabid raccoon in a crib with a baby. Doing that just isn’t going to end well, but in this case, the former president was left with no choice, having been ordered by the judge to appear. Sure enough, it was vintage Trump, and that shot at Biden in which he’s bragging about having written a statement himself is an instant classic. //

Larry Foster @Murvel2015
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I read his entire response and it’s priceless… he tells the lawyer he’s going to sue him, classic Trump

Megan Fox @MeganFoxWriter
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THREE TIMES! Lawyer response, "are you done?" ROFL
6:49 PM · Jan 13, 2023

Images and spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that the first galaxies in the universe are too many or too bright compared to what astronomers expected. //

Evidence is building that the first galaxies formed earlier than expected, astronomers announced at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, Washington.

As the James Webb Space Telescope views swaths of sky spotted with distant galaxies, multiple teams have found that the earliest stellar metropolises are more mature and more numerous than expected. The results may end up changing what we know about how the first galaxies formed.

6 Fixes to Anti Malware Service Executable High CPU Usage 2021

Method 1:

I would suggest you to perform a Clean Boot on the PC and check if that helps. Refer the article How to perform a clean boot in Windows. https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows

Performing a clean boot will start the computer with minimal set of drivers and programs, to determine whether a background program is causing the issue. Some of the Startup programs will not load after performing a clean boot on the computer. However, that functionality will return when you reset the computer to start normally after finishing the troubleshooting.

Note: Please refer the section Reset the computer to start normally after clean boot troubleshooting to boot the computer in to normal mode after troubleshooting.

Method 2:

The error is mainly due to its Windows Defender real-time protection feature. Kindly follow the steps to change Windows Defender’s schedule to fix it.

1. Press Windows key + R. This will open Run. Alternatively, you can go to Start and search for Run.
2. In Run dialog box, type taskschd.msc and hit enter.
3. Navigate to Task Scheduler Library > Microsoft > Windows > Windows Defender.
4. On the right hand pane, double-click on Windows Defender Scheduled Scan.
5. On the General tab, uncheck the option Run with highest privileges.
6. Click on Conditions tab and uncheck all the options.
7. Click on OK.