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Change Has Never Been This Fast. It Will Never Be This Slow Again - Forbes

The 2010s were an ironic decade. Most metrics show that human welfare improved at an extraordinary rate, but many of us seem to be fearful or resentful, or both. The world is far richer in 2020 than it was in 2010, and global inequality is declining. There is still plenty of poverty, egregious inequality, and injustice, and there are still brutal wars and civil unrest. But overall, life expectancy is sharply up, and child mortality and deaths during childbirth are sharply down. Despite global warming, the number of deaths and injuries from climate-related disasters has fallen significantly, and many rich countries have passed the point of “peak stuff”: they are using fewer resources, polluting less, and the world has actually increased its forest cover.

And yet, the most potent political force in many countries is populism. Some populists are sincere people motivated by genuine conviction, but many more are obvious opportunists. Their claims are consistent: the world used to be a better place; the people’s birthright has been stolen by outsiders, enabled by an established elite, and only the populist can rectify the situation. Oh, and anybody who opposes them is an enemy of the people.

Populism is rampant on both sides of the political divide. Today’s right-wing populism is often explained as a reaction against economic disadvantage – the resentment of people who feel left behind by globalism and technological change. There is something in this, but in truth it is much more a cultural phenomenon: a reaction against the decades-long triumphal march of social liberalism, which has overturned what people believed to be the natural order of things. The worst insult a right-wing populist can level is “politically correct.”

Populism of the left claims that modern capitalism is a conspiracy by an elite which is dedicated to (or at least indifferent to) the immiseration of the majority. Contrary to what the data shows, it claims that inequality is at an historical extreme, and getting worse. 

Much of the improvement in the quality of human lives which populists don’t want you to know about was produced by the exponential improvements in technology, so it was perhaps inevitable that the ironic 2010s would see a backlash against technology – the techlash. Social media is accused of enslaving everyone to the dopamine rush of a Facebook like or a Twitter reply, and these accusations are often expressed most forcefully by the most avid users of the technologies they rail against. The tech giants are hoovering up our personal data for nefarious purposes, and recklessly deploying algorithms that are opaque, riddled with bias, and diluting the agency and humanity of a population that is increasingly dumbed down - incapable of paying attention to anything for more than ten seconds, unless it’s a video game or a blockbuster movie.

Techlash encompasses artificial intelligence too, which is either feared or ridiculed – or both. Either it is about to take over all human jobs and then destroy the species in a robot apocalypse, or it’s an over-hyped fad: a mere conjuring trick using statistics and human slave labour.

In fact, the 2010s were AI’s decade of wonders. In 2011, IBM’s Watson beat the best human players of the US TV quiz show “Jeopardy” - an amazing achievement, and the gracious human loser gave us the memorable phrase “I for one welcome our new robot overlords.” The next year saw the Big Bang in AI, when Geoff Hinton and others figured out how to get machine learning to work in AI – and in particular deep learning, which is (to over-simplify) a rehabilitation of neural networks. What made this possible was the huge increases in the available compute power and data, and what it made possible was superhuman facial recognition, and seriously impressive search, mapping, and translation services. (The often lauded recommendation services are still a bit crap, though.)

Two things which will have huge impact during the 2020s showed signs of their promise during the 2010s. Self-driving cars went from being rubbish, to being deployed in a pilot service carrying members of the public in self-driving taxis with nobody in the front seats. Smartphones went from rare in 2010 to globally ubiquitous in 2019. The digital assistants in these phones and other devices (Siri, Cortana, Alexa and co) are basic today, but Google Duplex offers a glimpse of how powerful they will become, and some of this promise will be realised in the 2020s.

In the next few days you will probably read many predictions about what AI will and will not be able to do by 2030. Here are a few contributions. 

  • There will be another major breakthrough in AI, similar in impact to 2012’s Big Bang
  • Researchers will work out how to combine symbolic AI, or good old-fashioned AI with machine learning
  • Machines will start to display signs of common sense
  • We will still be a long way off artificial general intelligence, or AGI – a machine with all the cognitive abilities of an adult human
  • The business world will move beyond pilots to large-scale implementation, and start catching up with the tech giants 
  • Europe will try harder, and might even start to crack the current US-China AI duopoly
  • By 2030, self-driving cars will be a common sight in most cities, but in taxis rather than privately-owned cars 
  • Many taxi drivers, van drivers and lorry drivers will be looking for new careers 
  • You will have conversations with your phone, and send your digital assistant off into the net to do errands for you 
  • 5G will make the internet of things a reality, so predictive maintenance will mean that things will break down and collapse less often, and there will be less waste 
  • Virtual and augmented reality will work quite well, and it will be interesting to see whether lots of people spend much of their lives in simulated worlds 
  • AI simulations will enable better decisions to be made in business, science and government
  • We may finally be able to turn sick care into health care. There’s a decent chance we will cure many types of cancer, and the idea of ending ageing may well be in the mainstream 
  • And yes, we will have flying cars.

Some of this may seem fanciful, and predicting the future is, of course, impossible. But here’s the thing which most people still miss. When you read the forecasts elsewhere in the coming days, ask yourself whether they appear to be taking exponential growth into account. 

Moore’s Law is the observation that computers get twice as powerful every 18 months or so. People often say it is dead or dying, but really it is evolving – which is what it has done since the phenomenon was first observed in 1965. Moore’s Law gives us exponential growth, and exponential growth is astonishingly powerful. If you had one unit of computing power in 2010, you will have 125 units in 2020. How many will you have in 2030? Believe it or not, you will have 8,000 units.

Change has never been this fast. And it will never be this slow again. Hang onto your hat: the 2020s are going to be astonishing.

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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Fast & Furious: Spy Racers' On Netflix, An Animated Extension Of The Hit Movie Franchise - Decider

Considering the Fast & Furious franchise has been around for 18 years, we’re surprised that there hasn’t been a kid-oriented animated series until now. But with Fast & Furious: Spy Racers, the franchise has its very own animated spinoff to add to the canon. Is it any good?

Opening Shot: In the Gulf of Mexico a sleek ship is being manned by some henchmen. They get boarded by motorcycle racers who blow some things up and steal a very expensive car.

The Gist: Back in Los Angeles, a group of amateur gearheads, led by Tony Toretto (Tyler Posey) are challenged to a street race by a lunkheaded frenemy of theirs named Mitch (Jimmy Tatro), and we see Tony try to beat Mitch’s rocket-engine hot rod and fail, mainly because a fuel pump hose came loose. “Nothing a little gum can’t fix” says mechanical whiz Cisco Renaldo (Jorge Diaz). The other members of the crew are Margaret “Echo” Pearl (Charlet Chung) and tech genius Frostee Benson (Luke Youngblood).

After that race, Tony’s cousin Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) comes for a visit, and when he gets kidnapped, the crew chases after the van that he’s in. They find out it’s just a test; a government organization Dom has worked with needs street racers to infiltrate a gang of thieves called SH1FT3R. Ms. Nowhere (Renée Elise Goldsberry), the high-strung operational leader, needs them to find a tryout race in order to infiltrate the gang and see how they’re getting away with robbing high-tech moguls of expensive cars and other gear.

The crew’s operation to get into the tryout race works too well, and Ms. Nowhere almost cancels the operation. But as Dom told Tony, “A Toretto doesn’t follow the rules; he follows his gut,” and Tony does just that as he gets what he needs to enter the race — a digitally-coded car and an entry in their retinal scan database. Both schemes involve tricking Mitch, who isn’t exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer.

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Our Take: If you like fast cars and playing video games with fast cars, you’ll probably like Fast & Furious: Spy Racers. If you like smart dialogue, well-done animation and some semblance of story, then you’ll probably hate Fast & Furious: Spy Racers. We are more or less in the second camp.

As and extension of the Fast & Furious film franchise, we weren’t expecting Spy Racers to be heavy on story. We figured it would be a kid-friendly series of races and chases and explosions. And the first episode gave us just that, with at least 2/3 of the 23 minutes taken up by action. And the cars look great, with a lot of creativity and detail.

But the rest of the show is a disaster. It feels like DreamWorks Animation had enough budget to sink into developing the CGI for the cars or the human characters, but not both. So they sunk the money into designing and animating the cars and left the human characters looking like something out of an early-’00s CGI-based series, with stiff facial expressions and herky-jerky motion. It makes the overall feel of the series look cheap and thrown together, despite the detailed look of the cars. Backgrounds look fairly simplified, too, leading to that thrown-together feeling.

And we get that when you’re animating an extension of a franchise whose star is Vin Diesel (an executive producer of this series), acting isn’t high on the priority list, plus the fact that voice acting for kids’ animation is by definition less subtle than it would be for live action. But it feels like everyone, including the usually-reliable Goldsberry, have been directed to take it up even more notches than they might have by default, making every line feel like it’s delivered like a punch line instead of a line of dialogue. There are a few good quips in the script, but they’re delivered in such an over-the-top manner it feels wrings out all the funny they may have had.

We’re actually surprised by all of this; DreamWorks Animation-produced series usually display not only visually interesting animation techniques, but usually has smarter, more naturally-delivered dialogue. We figured they’d make a F&F cartoon that was at least as smart as the franchise it comes from. But it looks like they couldn’t even reach that level.

What Age Group Is This For?: The series is rated TV-Y7-FV; the “FV” is for “Fantasy violence,” and we see some of that from the jump, with the master racers from SH1FT3R blowing things up while stealing that car. So we’re figuring that this show is for kids 10 and up.

Parting Shot: Master racer/thief Layla Gray (Camille Ramsey) decides to jump into the tryout race, and slides in next to Tony, whom she thinks is Mitch. “Hi, Mitch,” she says.

Sleeper Star: The cars. The animators have done a fantastic job of making detailed, creative-looking cars that you wouldn’t likely see in the live-action movies.

Most Pilot-y Line: Tony tells Frostee to “hack faster” to get his picture in the retinal scan database. Frostee has the appropriate response, as he tells the knocked-out, man-bunned computer guy they tied up. “I mean, do your people treat you like this? Hack faster! They have no idea what we do!”

Our Call: SKIP IT. Fast & Furious: Spy Racers looks like a video game, which would be great if you were sitting in front of it with a controller in your hand. But since it’s a series and not a game, you’ll likely shut it off and turn on your favorite racing game instead.

Joel Keller (@joelkeller) writes about food, entertainment, parenting and tech, but he doesn’t kid himself: he’s a TV junkie. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, VanityFair.com, Playboy.com, Fast Company.com, RollingStone.com, Billboard and elsewhere.

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New York Rangers: Why Jesper Fast is the most underrated player of the decade - Empire Writes Back

The New York Rangers have undergone many changes throughout the better part of the 2010s. But, if one thing has stayed consistent throughout it all, it’s the heart and consistency of Jesper ‘Old Reliable’ Fast.

It’s not often you hear about New York Rangers veteran forward, Jesper Fast. No, you won’t read much about him in the papers, notice him trending on Rangers Twitter, or even see his name on backs among the 18,006 seats in Madison Square Garden.

Yet strangely enough, he plays and has played an integral part of any success this franchise has achieved since his rookie season in 2014. He’s one of the few tenured Rangers left from the glory days of the 2010s. While not a potent point producer, I would imagine Fast is the first example a coach would point at in explaining what a professional hockey player is to a rookie.

His work ethic and 200-foot play are unmatched inconsistency, and he’s the most effective penalty killer on the team, can be played with any player on any line, and is even suitable for a clutch goal or two here and there.

Fast is arguably the most versatile Ranger—and has been for every edition of Gorton/Sather’s rosters. He’s the definition of reliable—a trustworthy professional you can lean on in tight spots. However, in so much change throughout this decade of emotional highs and lows, we forget who is behind the curtains in black camouflage—quietly doing his job and setting the stage every night.

So then why is the quiet Swiss-army knife so under-hyped? Why is the focus always on so many other names rather than him if he’s so valuable? I see it like this: Jesper Fast is like an offensive lineman in a football game; if he’s doing his job right, you’ll never hear about him.

It’s the little things that Fast brings at a world-class level to a hockey club. It’s his shot-blocking and pesky play style that frustratingly hinders his opponents, while also setting himself up in the right places, giving him the chance to cash in offensively when needed.

I remember there was a bit of communal head-scratching going on after 2018’s deadline purge. Once McDonagh had been shipped, there was a temporary alternate captain’s position available, and it was given to Fast. People were confused by this. With several other headliners on the team, why would Fast take this role? Especially during such a vulnerable time.

It’s not always about the points or the contracts. It’s about ethic and leading by example on the ice. Without Fast, you can bet that many tight wins we’ve enjoyed would have never happened. He’s not complicated to keep around either, so it was the ideal choice to then honor him with the “A” permanently the following season.

As we approach more decisions yet again, Fast will, unfortunately, be an unrestricted free agent this coming offseason after having signed a 3-year deal worth $5.55 million in 2017. As the budget is tight after this past summer’s signings (and more significant contracts to decide on in the meantime), Fast could end up being let go in July or packaged at the deadline as the front office could decide that his services are replaceable.

I have protested in my writing enough over the past couple of years. I am exhausted from all of the thought I invested in this over the last two deadlines. It makes me sick we will likely have to deal with this again, but that’s the business. I have learned what will be when it comes to these decisions.

Next: New York Rangers: 2019 Poll – The fans speak – Part 2

I’d like to see Fast stick around as he plays a unique role that is not quantified in numbers but rather trusts. For now, “Quickie” will quietly continue to be the unsung hero of the New York Rangers—as he has through parts of seven seasons and three numbers on his back.

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ASU-Florida State Sun Bowl game got real weird, real fast - Arizona Sports

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Arizona State and Florida State meeting in the Sun Bowl on Tuesday was supposed to be a good one.

It wasn’t supposed to be so … weird.

The game in El Paso, Texas, only took six minutes of game action to get completely off the rails.

On the first play from scrimmage, ASU running back A.J. Carter fumbled for a turnover on the Sun Devils’ own 20-yard line. Four plays later, Seminoles quarterback James Blackman threw an end-zone interception to ASU safety Aashari Crosswell, who returned it 29 yards out.

And after an ASU three-and-out, FSU went on a nine-play drive only to see its field goal blocked by Arizona State’s Chase Lucas.

It was recovered and returned by Sun Devil linebacker Khaylan Kearse-Thomas.

If you’re keeping up, the score was 0-0 after all that action.

That is not the scoreboard of a good game, but it sure had some type of entertainment value.

Arizona State finally broke the scoreless game with a 40-yard field goal by kicker Cristian Zendejas with 3:57 left in the first quarter.

But not before Twitter had its fun with the less-than-pristine start by both teams.

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How to cure a hangover fast: Doctor-approved remedies - TODAY

For many, celebrating a new year and a new decade involves enjoying a few alcoholic beverages. Well, maybe more than a few. The next day, heads throb, stomachs rumble and everything feels fuzzy. It’s definitely a hangover and the desperate search for a cure begins.

But is hoping for a remedy useless?

Probably.

“Obviously, the best way to avoid hangovers is by not drinking so much,” Dr. Michael Lynch, medical director of the Pittsburgh Poison Center and emergency department physician at UPMC in Pittsburgh, told TODAY.

There’s not a ton of research on hangovers but experts know that dehydration and inflammation work in tandem to create that icky, rundown feeling.

“A big part of it is dehydration as well as a build-up of some of the alcohol metabolites," he said. “Some of a hangover is an inflammatory response."

Lynch says that thinking ahead could help prevent hangovers. Eating and drinking water in addition to alcoholic beverages can soften the blow. Even chugging a glass of water before bed could help.

“The most tried-and-true methods are probably still the best," said Lynch. "Lots of water" is one of the best ways to prevent or ease a hangover. An anti-inflammatory such as ibuprofen the next morning will give some relief in about 30 minutes, although be sure to take with some food to avoid stomach upset.

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A study in 2016 found that the color of the alcoholic beverage could contribute to the severity of the hangover. Investigators at the National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, examined people's reactions to congeners, chemicals which give color and flavor to alcoholic beverages. Dark drinks, such as red wine, brandy or whisky, are packed with congeners while there are fewer in light drinks, such as white wine and vodka.

“Some people find that drinks with high levels of congeners make them feel worse. And there is some evidence supporting this,” Allsop previously told TODAY.

There are other theories as why the hangover is worse with certain types of alcohol. Some suspect that the various additives contribute to a miserable morning after.

“There are sugars and other things like tannins that are present that may contribute to not feeling well, just because you’re overwhelming your system,” Lynch said. “Overall the most consistent predictor seems to be the volume.”

Drinking water while consuming alcohol can help people avoid dehydration.

“Your whole body water supply is diminished,” Lynch explained. “It is like taking a diuretic, which also induces you to urinate more than just the volume you’re taking in.”

Is Pedialyte a hangover cure?

That’s why many people turn to sports drinks, Pedialyte, which some consider the "ultimate hangover cure," or even pickle juice to rehydrate the next day. The salt and sugar bolsters the body’s ability to absorb liquid.

The replacement fluids Pedialyte provides could help relieve hangover symptoms — even if it's a placebo effect, some doctors say — and may be a good option for people too nauseous to eat. Their flavor, too, may encourage people to drink more fluids than they would if they were drinking regular water.

While many swear these drinks banish hangovers, Lynch remains unconvinced.

“I wouldn’t expect Pedialyte to help significantly,” he said.

On thing, Lynch discourages for a hangover: intravenous fluids. Few people need IV fluids to rehydrate, unless they are so ill they cannot keep anything down.

"If you are able to drink fluids, we almost always prefer that people drink their fluids,” Lynch said.

What about supplements, vitamin B or potassium?

Again, there’s no evidence they work.

“If you are deficient in vitamin B or potassium it might help,” he said. “It is pretty uncommon — short of a medical reason or pregnancy — that you would need to supplement.”

While hangovers feel like the worst, they are mercifully short-lived. Lynch worries more about accidents from drunken antics.

“A hangover feels crappy for a day, but injuries and things that happen while really intoxicated can be serious and potentially permanent,” he said. “And that is what we want people to avoid.”

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Nio's stock is skyrocketing, but the carmaker needs more cash fast - KTVZ

Nio — China’s troubled Tesla rival — gave investors a little bit of hope this week when it reported improving car sales and revenue. But the electric carmaker is still hemorrhaging money and could have problems keeping the lights on if it doesn’t find more cash.

Nio’s stock popped nearly 54% in New York on Monday to $3.72 after it reported $257 million in revenue for the third quarter, a 25% uptick from the same period a year earlier. It also said it delivered nearly 4,800 cars in the quarter, an improvement over the first and second quarters of 2019. It expects to have delivered more than 20,300 cars by the end of the year.

But the company has lost $1.2 billion so far this year, and admitted Monday that its cash problems are a huge issue. It had about $274 million cash on hand at the end of September, and said in a statement that it doesn’t have enough money to keep its operations going for the next year without external financing.

Nio has gotten some funding from investors. New CFO Feng Wei, who also goes by Steven Feng, pointed out during an earnings call Monday that Tencent loaned the company $100 million — money reflected in its most recent earnings report. Nio CEO Li Bin, also known as William Li, also loaned the company roughly $90 million out of his own pocket as part of that agreement.

Feng added that Nio has made “significant positive progress” on securing new funds. But he said those projects are still ongoing and declined to disclose any other information.

The company still needs to “take every effort” to save costs, Feng added, including securing more capital and selling more cars.

Nio has also been laying off staff. Li said the company’s headcount should drop below 7,500 by the end of the year, after starting 2019 with about 9,900 people.

The stock has been on a wild ride, too. It reached an all-time high of $10.06 in March but has plummeted more than 60% since then.

A tough market

Nio was once billed as China’s answer to Tesla. But the company is contending with a ton of pressure, including a slowing Chinese car market and tough competition.

The number of electric car makers registered in China has ballooned as the country pushes for a more aggressive adoption of new energy vehicles, such as electric cars or plug-in hybrids. But the market is now oversaturated, leading the government to dramatically cut incentives for buying those kinds of cars.

Nio, meanwhile, still has a long way to go before it makes a profit, analysts from research firm Tianrui Securities said in a note on Monday.

And its American rival Tesla is doing well. While it lost a ton of money in the first quarter, the company got a better handle on cost and rebounded. Elon Musk’s electric car maker just started delivering its first China-made Model 3s.

Tesla’s rollout of those vehicles is “adding to the misfortunes” of Nio, the Tianrui Securities analysts added.

Li, the Nio CEO, said Monday though that he thinks his company’s cars are “still very competitive.”

“We don’t actually belong to the same segment with Tesla Model 3,” he added.

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San Franciscans are getting older fast. NEXT Village helps them do it with dignity - San Francisco Chronicle

Jeff Van Bueren bounded up a steep sidewalk in his North Beach neighborhood, long strides carrying the 63-year-old over slick leaves and past Victorians to a fog-obscured view of the Bay Bridge.

“Just wanted to get the heart rate going,” he said.

Beside him, volunteer Samantha Wales had to break into a jog.

“He’s slowly getting me fit,” the 47-year-old joked.

The pair’s recent morning jaunt was part of a weekly routine designed to help slow the progression of Van Bueren’s Parkinson’s disease. The meetups are coordinated by NEXT Village SF, a nonprofit organization that serves the city’s fastest growing population: seniors.

Adults older than age 60 will make up 23% of San Francisco’s population next year, and 27% of all residents a decade from now, according to the city’s Department of Disability and Aging Services.

NEXT Village, whose name stands for Northeast Exchange Team, seeks to help seniors in that corner of the city — which has San Francisco’s highest concentration of elderly residents — remain in their homes as long as possible. The work is vital in a city known for its high cost of living, as well as its many steep hills.

The organization is part of the national Village to Village network, which has more than a dozen branches in the Bay Area and 240 nationwide. The hyper-local groups were modeled after the first “village” created in Boston in 2002.

Many of NEXT Village’s clients face daunting issues such as navigating the streets alone, landlords attempting to push them out of rent-controlled apartments, social isolation and loneliness.

“So many of our members didn’t marry and didn’t have kids,” said Jacqueline Jones, NEXT Village’s executive director. “So, we’re it.”

Supervisor Aaron Peskin, whose District Three includes North Beach, Chinatown and Nob Hill, called NEXT Village a “godsend” for his older constituents.

“With a pittance of city dollars, and an incredible amount of local volunteer and neighborhood support, NEXT Village SF has helped my neighbors age in place and get services big and small that they need to have a good quality of life,” Peskin said.

NEXT Village, now in its 10th year and serving roughly 220 members, plans to expand operations in January by adding biweekly events in the Marina. The membership-driven organization charges clients $600 a year, while low-income seniors can pay a $120 fee supplemented by city funds.

Barbara Blake toasts with other members during a Dec. 18 book club meeting organized by NEXT Village SF.

Neighborhoods served include North Beach, Telegraph Hill, Polk Gulch, Russian Hill, the northern waterfront, the Marina, Nob Hill and the Financial District. The goal is to “fill in the gaps of whatever people might need,” Jones said.

For Van Bueren, the biggest need is a steady walking partner.

Doctors told him exercise could help slow the progression of his nervous system disorder, which has no cure. Medication boosts his stamina in the morning, but by the afternoon Van Bueren can hardly muster the energy to inch through his apartment on a walker or reach for his reading glasses.

The morning walks remind him of the active lifestyle he used to enjoy, backpacking and yoga, before several falls and brain surgery. The conversations Van Bueren and Wales have are as colorful and winding as the path they usually take.

“We gossip a lot,” Wales said. “Jeff helps me out with work problems.”

Volunteers such as Wales help members buy groceries, drive them to appointments and teach them how to use technology. NEXT Village also hosts lunches, book clubs and painting classes to give seniors a chance to socialize outside the house.

In one case, said Jones, the executive director, a landlord nailed shut a woman’s recycling container. Volunteers carried her recycling down three flights of stairs — an insurmountable obstacle for the woman alone.

“In those kind of cases, we’re like, ‘Oh, we’re here — that’s not happening under our watch. We’re going to take care of this for you,’” Jones said. “So, there’s a lot of cases where we’re a step ahead of the landlord when they want somebody who’s been in a rent-controlled apartment to go so they can renovate and rent at market rates.”

NEXT Village identified social isolation as one of the biggest issues facing seniors in San Francisco, after the city’s aging department estimated that nearly 30% of older adults live alone.

On a recent afternoon at the North Beach Public Library, a group of elders sat around a table as Lucia Gonnella, an artist, stood in front of an easel with a paintbrush in hand.

The seniors dabbed at their own papers with watercolor paints, glancing back and forth between their artwork and the red potted plant in the middle of the table. Leonie Van Den Berg, 73, peeked at the paintings of those around her and offered compliments.

“It’s like extended family,” she said about the friends she’s made through NEXT Village.

For Wales and Van Bueren, what began as a weekly walk has morphed into a friendship. The get-togethers give Van Bueren perspective, he said, when he begins to worry about his future.

“I don’t worry about anything,” Wales said. “We balance each other out.”

Most importantly, Van Bueren has found a friend who can keep up, step for step.

“She takes it all in stride,” he said.

Anna Bauman is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: anna.bauman@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @abauman2

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Here's a video of how fast each planet spins in one slick giant globe - TweakTown

If you didn't know, every planet in the solar system spins at a different speed. This is due to each of the planet's size and mass. So how fast are other planets spinning in comparison to Earth?

James O'Donoghue, a planetary scientist at the Japanese space agency (JAXA) and a former scientist over at NASA, has comprised a short animated video that gives us a clear visualization of each of the planets rotation speed. The video shows one globe, but each of the sections of the globe is the different planets in the solar system. Each is rotating at their respective speeds.

Earth rotates at 460 meters per second or roughly 1,000 miles per hour. This is how we established that there are 24 hours in one day. The above video shows how each of the other planet's full rotations compares to Earth's relative to our star. O'Donoghue said on Twitter, "I had the idea to make this back in December last year but I didn't think people would be interested in it." Since then, the video has had over 215,000 views.

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Ankle injury put damper on Dobbins’ fast start in OSU Fiesta Bowl loss - Dayton Daily News

J.K. Dobbins could not have asked for a much better start to the Fiesta Bowl.

The Ohio State running back ripped off a 68-yard touchdown run on the Buckeyes’ second possession to stake them to a 10-0 lead.

He went 64 yards on the last play of the first quarter to set up an Ohio State field goal and finished the first stanza with 141 yards.

He surpassed Eddie George’s school record for rushing yards in a season (1,927) in the process, and was nearly halfway to George’s single-game rushing mark (314 yards) with three quarters yet to play.

There was talk of Dobbins matching Ezekiel Elliott as a postseason hero for Ohio State, and the Buckeyes had good reason to think a trip to New Orleans to play LSU in the national championship game was in the works when they held a 16-0 lead in the second quarter.

None of that came to pass, though.

Dobbins twisted his left ankle in the second quarter and was never quite the same.

He left the game at one point and returned after having it retaped in the third quarter. That allowed him to continue to be part of the Ohio State offense, but the Buckeyes missed the explosiveness that differentiated those long gallops in the first quarter from quick bursts for a few yards in latter stages of the game.

“They made some good adjustments up front,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day said. “We were throwing the ball a lot in the second half. Receivers and the protection and Justin (Fields), they made some big plays, but it was hard to run the ball. They were kind of coming at us different ways.

After crediting Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables for adjusting to how Ohio State was attacking the Tigers on the ground, Day acknowledged the impact of Dobbins’ injury.

“He was really working through that, but I think it did affect his play a little bit,” Day said. “He didn’t have that explosion. Couple of those first runs in the first half, he came out of the back end of those things, he looked powerful. What a gritty performance by him to come back in the game and play.”

Dobbins, who also dropped a screen pass that could have gone for a big gain before the Buckeyes settled for a field goal on a drive in the second quarter, did not have much to say in the locker room after the game.

“I didn’t play good enough,” he said.

He confirmed having pain in the ankle and said it had been taped wrong before he returned to the game for good.

“I mean, it didn’t go as planned,” he said when asked to evaluate the season. “So, I mean, it’s a failure.”

Master Teague, a redshirt freshman who was named third-team All-Big Ten after rushing for 780 yards in the first 13 games, was mostly ineffective in Dobbins’ place against the Tigers. Lacking Dobbins’ ability to change directions (when healthy), Teague finished the Fiesta Bowl with five yards on seven carries.

Dobbins, who is widely expected to enter the NFL Draft rather than use his last year of eligibility, finished the night with 2,046 rushing yards this season.

He is the first Buckeye to crack the 2,000-yard mark and stands second on the career rushing list with 4,559 yards. Only Archie Griffin (5,589) has more.

Against Clemson, Dobbins logged his 19th career 100-yard rushing game — the only one Ohio State lost.

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"The Fast and the Furious" is becoming a video game in 2020 - Motor Authority

Get ready to celebrate, "Fast and Furious" fans, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and Tyrese Gibson are coming to consoles in a new video game.

Rodriguez and Diesel took to the stage during a recent game awards night and announced "Fast & Furious Crossroads." Set to be a video game for PC, PS4, and XBox One, the game will feature the three movie stars, though it's unknown if more characters from the movie will appear in the game.

Sonequa Martin-Green from "The Walking Dead" and Asa Kate Dillion from "Billions" will join the "The Fast and Furious" trio in the game.

The same developers that created "Project Cars," Slightly Mad Studios, are behind the game, with Bandai Namco serving as publisher.

The trailer looks like one for the movies, with explosions, car chases, street racing, drama, and of course, unrealistic stunts. It's clear driving will be involved and it's likely a mission-based game. Bandai Namco said the game will be team-based and include vehicular heist situations in exotic locations. Players will also be pulled into the murky world of international espionage.

"Fast & Furious Crossroads" will be released in May 2020. For those keeping track, the ninth installment of the movie franchise, "Fast 9," will hit theaters nationwide on May 22, 2020.

To keep everyone content until then, a new animated series based on "Fast and Furious" called "Fast & Furious: Spy Racers" was released on Netflix on December 26. While it doesn't feature Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto, it does feature Tony Toretto, a cousin of Dominic. Naturally it features racing along with the doings of a massive criminal organization.

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U.S. Soldiers Learned Fast That World War II Was A Battle For Survival - The National Interest Online

Private Armand Lorenzi and his fellow soldiers were advancing through a snowy German forest when enemy machine guns opened fire. It was Lorenzi’s first time in combat. He started scraping a shallow foxhole until he heard German mortars and artillery exploding and rockets screaming in. Then he started digging desperately. “You learn fast,” he recalled. The Germans fired Nebelwerfers, rockets that made a high-pitched scream as they roared to target, earning them the name “Screaming Mimis.” One rocket exploded in the trees. “That’s what scares the life out of you.”

It was during the last months of the war, February 1945, and Lorenzi had just joined Company C of the 302nd Infantry Regiment, part of the 94th Infantry Division in Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.’s Third Army. Lorenzi and his fellow soldiers were trying to wrestle Germany’s Campholz Woods from the stubborn enemy.

In the following weeks, Lorenzi would fight toe to toe with the enemy, battling through forests and towns filled with destroyed German tanks and dead horses. He marched through minefields marked with white tape, constantly worrying about tripping a mine. “Then they send you to that room [in the hospital] where you never go home,” he said. Sometimes German shells, likely manufactured by slave labor, impacted near him without exploding.

A native of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, Lorenzi grew up with his parents, an older brother, and four younger sisters. He was only 15 when he read about the attack on Pearl Harbor in the morning paper. Although only a high school student, he worked as a projectionist at the Hilltop Drive-in Theater until he was drafted in July 1944, five months after he turned 18.

Lorenzi reported to Pittsburgh for his physical. A recruiter asked him what branch he wanted, and he picked the Navy, like his brother. The recruiter stamped NAVY on his card and told him, “We’ll call you in a couple of weeks.” Sure enough, the phone soon rang, and he was invited back to Pittsburgh for another physical. “Bring your clothes with you,” the voice on the line instructed, “because you’re not going home.” After his physical, Lorenzi and all the other recruits were put into the U.S. Army. “Everything broke out in Europe,” he said. “They needed soldiers.”

From Pittsburgh, Lorenzi went to Fort Dix, New Jersey, for basic training, then to Camp Crowder, Missouri, where he was assigned to the Signal Corps. He spent his days climbing poles, stringing wire, and learning to operate a radio. While he trained in Missouri, across the Atlantic Ocean three German armies attacked the American First Army through Belgium and Luxembourg’s Ardennes Forest on December 16, 1944—the Battle of the Bulge. Lorenzi and the other trainees were immediately sent to Louisiana’s Camp Livingston for six weeks of infantry training, including fighting insects and surviving the heat.

After training, Lorenzi and the other replacements headed to New York, but he was able to visit home for a few days on the way. Once in the city, he boarded the SS Louis Pasteur, a French liner, for a six-day journey across the Atlantic. While he never succumbed to sea sickness, his fellow replacements did. “A guy across from me was throwing up in his mess kit,” he recalled.

The Louis Pasteur docked in England at night, and Lorenzi and the others climbed aboard a train. They had to keep the blinds down to prevent light from showing. “I didn’t see anything of England,” he said regretfully. The train deposited the men on a dock, and they boarded another ship bound for Le Harve, France, where they boarded trucks and sped to the front.

Lorenzi’s truck arrived at the front lines at night, and the men piled out. It was cold, and snow blanketed the area. Lorenzi was assigned to a squad in C Company, 302th Infantry Regiment, of Maj. Gen. Harry Malony’s 94th Infantry Division.

The 94th had arrived on the Continent in September 1944 and spent the next four months containing the Germans along France’s Channel ports. During the Battle of the Bulge, it raced across the country and took up positions on the southern flank of Patton’s Third Army. While most of Patton’s other divisions pivoted north to attack the southern border of the Bulge, the 94th was one of the few that remained in place to prevent more Germans from joining the campaign up north.

By the time Lorenzi joined the 94th in February 1945, the Battle of the Bulge had ended, but the Germans were still in the fight. There would be at least three more months of fighting before the war ended. While the division fought specific actions during those months, Lorenzi does not recall the exact towns, hills, or forests where they occurred, but most of his memories coincide with locations and certain aspects of the regiment’s campaigns. 

Company C was probably in Pillingerhof, Germany, east of the Moselle River, when Lorenzi joined the unit. On his first patrol, he witnessed the carnage of combat. “The first German I saw had his hand sticking out of the snow.” It was a dead enemy soldier. Behind him Lorenzi saw three American bodies covered by blankets with rifles topped with Army helmets stuck in the snow. “That was pretty scary for an 18-year-old just leaving home.”

One of the first soldiers Lorenzi befriended was a Texan named Leon Stenson, who was older than any of the replacements. Stenson had been fighting with the division for months. “He never smoked or drank,” remembered Lorenzi.

Soon after his introduction to Company C, Lorenzi came under fire for the first time and learned to dig a deeper foxhole. Later, on a predawn patrol with a redheaded sergeant, he crept up to a series of German foxholes, spotted a German, and raised his rifle. “Don’t shoot him,” the sergeant whispered. The shot would have alerted the enemy to their presence. Instead, they made their way back to friendly lines, where they reported the German location. American artillerymen targeted the foxholes and fired a few volleys. The Germans retreated.

Company C’s next task was to take the town of Orscholz on February 19. The men jumped off through a forest at 4 am. When the Germans fired flares into the air, illuminating the area, the men ducked, trying to reduce their profiles. Then the Germans lobbed mortars. “They were more of a concussion than anything,” said Lorenzi.

At night the men climbed aboard some tanks for an attack into Keuchingen. “They smelled of diesel,” Lorenzi recalled. The tanks reached the town, and the men jumped off. Then the tanks roared forward, driving straight into a German ambush. The infantrymen heard the clash. “They got shot up pretty bad.”

The men entered houses, less interested in booze than just finding a place to sleep. They found two old people sleeping in a bed. “We told them to go to the bunker,” said Lorenzi. The Americans preferred German homes to any other place to sleep. In one house, Lorenzi found an Italian .34-caliber pistol while rifling through some drawers. He made it his own.  

For meals, Lorenzi enjoyed C-rations, canned meals. Special meals, which were supposed to be treats, had the opposite effect. One of the worst was fresh turkey. “They didn’t even clean it well,” he recalled. “There were some feathers.” Fresh eggs were another disappointment. One day the men were each given two raw eggs. “Cook ‘em the best you can,” the sergeant told them. Lorenzi tried heating his with hot water in his helmet. The result was two soft boiled eggs. “That was the worst.” 

Even basic needs resulted in pain. “I drank a lot of bad water,” said Lorenzi. The men had been issued iodine pills to drop into their canteens to purify whatever water they could find. But the pills needed an hour to take effect, and the men were usually too thirsty to wait. The result was misery. “I had diarrhea for a long time,” he recalled. During night marches, Lorenzi and other soldiers would run out of the line to relieve themselves. “Some had it worse than I did.”

One night Lorenzi was standing guard on the line when his stomach started burning. It felt like heartburn. A soldier offered to relieve him from his post, but Lorenzi refused. His guts hurt so much he couldn’t sleep, so he figured it was better to stand guard, explaining, “That was 1945 and I still have it today.”

At the end of February, the division pushed to the Saar River’s west bank near Taben. Lorenzi and five other soldiers clambered aboard a rubber raft, commanded by a lieutenant, to conduct a night reconnaissance. They paddled through the pitch-black night until they could hear German voices and truck motors on the east bank. They were supposed to land, but when the lieutenant heard the noise, he whispered, “That’s enough. Let’s go back.” They turned around.

The next day, February 22, the men received an oral order as they bivouacked in a field: “Patton’s coming!” They scrambled to put their camp in order, but the general never arrived. Patton did visit the division’s headquarters and told General Malony and his staff, “I don’t care if it takes a bushel basket full of dog tags, we’re crossing the river right here.”

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Dave Schroeder's 'Fast 5 Pack Facts': Packers at Lions - WBAY

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - As the Green Bay Packers (12-3) prepare for their regular season finale at the Detroit Lions (3-11-1) it's time to get ready for kick with Dave Schroeder's 'Fast 5 Pack Facts.'

#1 PLAYOFF SCENARIOS: Matt LaFleur has said his team is treating this as a playoff game. A win guarantee gives Green Bay a playoff bye. Beyond that, the #1 seed and homefield advantage throughout the playoffs is possible with a Packers win over the Lions + a Seahawks win at home over the 49ers.

The worst Green Bay can finish is the #3 seed (with a Packers loss + a Saints win over the Panthers). The #3 seed would provide a Wild Card weekend matchup against the Vikings, who are locked in to the #6 seed.

Aaron Rodgers is in his 12th year as a starter, but has had the benefit of a bye week in the playoffs only twice before (2011 & 2014). No team has reached the Super Bowl in the last 6 seasons without having a playoff bye.


#2 AARON JONES CHASES HISTORY: Packers RB Aaron Jones leads the NFL with 19 TD's this season and sits 1 score shy of Ahman Green's franchise record for scores in a season. 20 TD's would be a historic milestone. And beyond Green Bay greatness, #20 would put Jones rare air league-wide Only 3 players in the NFL have scored 20 times in a season this entire DECADE.

Jones also sits just 16 yards shy of his first 1,000-yard rushing season. His teammates want the milestone for him.

#3 CROSBY'S RETURN TO DETROIT: The last time the Packers made the trip to Motown, Mason Crosby had the worst day of his kicking career, missing 4 field goals and an extra point. But since then? Crosby has kicked at an All-Pro level, making 103 of 107 total kicks.

Crosby missed 5 times last year in Detroit, but has missed just 4 times since.

#4 RODGERS NO MVP: Aaron Rodgers is not going to be the NFL MVP this year. But that's a good thing! No MVP has won the Super Bowl the same season in 20 years (since Kurt Warner in 1999).

Rodgers said this week: "In this offense, this year, I don't need to throw 40 touchdowns for us to win." He is right. Rodgers' numbers may be down (24 TD, 3 INT), but the team's win total is up. And a 13th win would make 2019 the 2nd-most successful regular season of Rodgers' career.

#5 PACKERS DEFENSE DELIVERS: Since the setback at San Francisco, the Packers defense has performed quite well, with drastic improvement in December. Green Bay has given up fewer than 13 points per game during a 4-game win streak. The Packers have eliminated many of the big plays that went against them during the first 3 months of the season. Last week the Vikings generated only 3 plays that gained more than 10 yards.

PREDICTION: Packers 35, Lions 16

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Delran boys basketball coach Travis Murphy was not thrilled about the way his team started in the opening period of its first two games this season.

That problem was corrected in a major way on Saturday afternoon at the Collingswood Holiday Tournament.

The Bears went on a 15-0 run after allowing the first point of the game and led 20-3 after the first quarter on their way to a 48-27 win over Salem. They improved to 2-1 and will face host Collingswood in the championship game on Sunday at 12:30 p.m.

“We played well,” Murphy said. “I keep stressing to the guys to come out fast, be ready to play and not put ourselves behind the eight ball. Our first game (a loss to Burlington City) we didn’t have a good start and against Woodstown we were a little slow, but today I was really proud of how we started.”

Senior Tommy Murphy had 10 of his game-high 17 points in the opening period as Delran built a double-digit lead it never surrendered. His backcourt mate, senior point guard Glenn Morrison, also stood out from the opening tip and finished with 16 points, six assists, six rebounds and three steals.

The performance was even more impressive considering Delran had not played since Monday. Murphy was pleased with how the Bears practiced the last two days, and Morrison agreed.

“Coach told us that we had to be ready from the jump,” he said. “It’s been a while since we’ve played, but we’ve been giving it our all in practice and it translated to the court. I was ready to go and I think we all were.

“(The first quarter) just showed us that what we were doing was working and we had to keep doing it.”

Morrison consistently got into the lane to create opportunities for himself or his teammates. Forward Ahmed Johnson was the third Bear in double figures with 11 points.

“I like to attack and draw defenders and then kick it out to open guys,” he said. “Sometimes I look to score, sometimes I look to pull up. I like getting my teammates involved. We have a big man, we have shooters, we have everything. I’m confident in my guys.”

Tommy Murphy was often on the receiving end of Morrison’s passes. The two have developed great chemistry from years of playing together, according to their coach, Tommy’s uncle.

“He’s a smart player and a good kid and he works hard,” the coach said of his nephew. “They’ve been playing together since they were 8 or 9, all through travel. They complement each other and know what each other does well. It’s a big benefit to me because I don’t have to worry about those two.”

The victory avenged a 58-46 loss to Salem in last year’s championship game. Delran will look to complete the redemption by winning the tournament on Sunday.

“That’s what Coach said from the start, that they beat us last year and we had to come out and prove that that shouldn’t have happened,” Morrison said. “This was kind of a revenge game. We’re glad to be back in the final and we have to go out tomorrow and play like we did today.”

Salem was plagued by early foul trouble after getting whistled for 15 fouls in the first half. Starting point guard Keith Brown had four of them and starting center Zilon Cupe had three.

“That hurt us,” Salem coach Cameron Smith said. “We had to take (Cupe) out and you saw what that did to our defense. We didn’t have our rim protector out there.”

Gage Ausland led Salem with 13 points and Cupe had eight points and six boards. The Rams – who are coming off an 18-8 season in which they claimed the Tri-County Conference-Classic Division title – are 0-2 and will look to bounce back Sunday morning against New Foundations of Philadelphia in the consolation game.

“We have a target on our back from last year, which isn’t a bad thing,” Smith said. “Most winning programs like that target, and I want to enjoy wearing it. But I told the boys if we want to continue being a winning program, we can’t be getting buzz sawed like this to open the season.

“Every loss gives you things you things you can work on, and for us it’s mostly effort, getting up the court and running our offense.”

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Fast & Furious Spy Racers Season 2: Release Date & Story Details - Screen Rant

Here's what we know about Fast & Furious: Spy Racers season 2 and what the story could be about. Spinning off of the incredibly successful movie franchise, Spy Racers is an animated series created by Dreamworks exclusively for Netflix. The streaming service just recently launched the first season of the show, but with only eight 22-minute episodes in total, it is a quick watch for fans of the franchise.

The first season of Spy Racers follows Tony Toretto (Tyler Posey), the younger cousin of Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto, and his group of friends as they are recruited into the world of espionage. Their mission is to infiltrate a racing group and crime organization known as SH1FT3R. Their leader Shashi Dhar (Manish Dayal) is trying to collect five "keys" that will give him access to a piece of technology known as Skeleton Key that will enable his quest to conquer the world and kill those responsible for the deaths of his parents.

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Given the popularity of the Fast & Furious brand, likable characters, plenty of action, and stylish animation, Spy Racers has all the ingredients to be a hit for Netflix. The hope is that this first season will be one of many, but what do we actually know about season two at this point? Here's a quick breakdown.

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At the time of this writing, Netflix has yet to announce that Fast & Furious: Spy Racers season 2 has been ordered. Without a renewal for the series, the fate of the show is still unknown. Created by Tim Hedrick (Dreamworks Voltron Legendary Defender) and Bret Haaland (All Hail King Julien), the show could work as a standalone adventure that expands the world of the Fast & Furious franchise. But, the first season of Spy Racers has also earned positive reviews early on, so Netflix could very well announce another season is on the way if the response is favorable.

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Without a renewal, Fast & Furious: Spy Racers season 2 is without a release date as well. If a second season is announced though, then another late December release over the holidays could be a smart move again. The series is targeting a younger demographic than the PG-13 movies, and the holiday season gives kids time off from school. With plenty of free time to watch content, Spy Racers could easily find a passionate following during this window.

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If Fast & Furious: Spy Racers season 2 is announced, the story is free to go in many different directions. Tony and his friends need to return the plane they stole from Ms. Nowhere and hand over Skeleton Key. It could be put to use to find the businessmen who killed Shashi's parents who escaped Las Vegas at the end of the season. The whereabouts of Layla are also a loose end that season 2 can explore, hopefully bringing her back to the group on a permanent basis. It is also possible that the second season could take the franchise back to Tokyo, as Frostee mentions a desire to go there.

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