Map Of Eastern Us Airports Elegant where is Philadelphia Pa Philadelphia Pennsylvania Map is a part of Map Of Eastern Us Airports pictures gallery. To download this Map Of Eastern Us Airports Elegant where is Philadelphia Pa Philadelphia Pennsylvania Map in High Resolution, right click on the image and choose "Save Image As" and then you will get this image about Map Of Eastern Us Airports Elegant where is Philadelphia Pa Philadelphia Pennsylvania Map.
This digital photography of Map Of Eastern Us Airports Elegant where is Philadelphia Pa Philadelphia Pennsylvania Map has dimension 728 × 425 pixels. You can see another items of this gallery of Map Of Eastern Us Airports below. Get interesting article about Map Of Eastern Us Airports that may help you.


ALOYSIUS GOH is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Singapore International Mediation Centre and a Certified International Mediator.
As a mediator, Aloysius has mediated more than 100 cases including medical negligence, shipping, commodities trading, insurance, employment, and construction disputes.
Aloysius has taught conflict resolution at the National University of Singapore Law School, the Singapore Institute of Management University, and the Singapore Institute of Legal Education. Some of his corporate training clients include major airlines, financial regulatory bodies, multinational healthcare companies, law firms, and education firms.
Aloysius is a Public Service Commission Humanities Scholar and a National University of Singapore (NUS) Research Scholar. He holds a Masters of Law and a second upper honours Law degree from the NUS, and a Masters degree in Education Leadership from Boston College.


text:
Lust for Darkness Review
gorondorf July 3, 2018 Featured, PC Reviews, Reviews
What happens when you watch too many films about cultism? Either you make this game or a Kubrick flick. Let's take a deep dive into horror with Lust for Darkness for PC.
Okay, I know people: horror it's not at its best these days, I know that. After… That thing made in order to torture souls, spooky games are not the interesting genre we used to love back in the day. But fear not fans of good scares, because today's game is going to leave you with some good (and sadly some bad) impressions. This is Lust for Darkness review for PC.
A 'cult' classic
The main premise of this game is simple: you start in a small cell, with small locker and a letter on a bedside table. You don't know how or why are you there, but you have to get out. And after exploring for a while, you discover something: you are in the house of 50 Shades of Ye olde Gray. After that, I don't want to enter into plot details, as this is a game that rests on a very interesting story. For the most part.
You see, even if the idea of cults and orgies and stuff that you would only see either on a Kubrick or a David Lynch fever dream, it's not told in a very fluid way. While it's true that we have some notes and readable lore stuff to take a look at, some of those things feel like random objects or things that do not make much sense. Oh, and a lot of sexual… Everything. Really: you name something BDSM related or weird as balls (no pun intended) and it will probably appear in this game.
I might have struck my head because I have Amnesia
So, as this is a review without spoilers, I might as well talk about other things, such as the main gimmick of this game. Lust for Darkness is a First Person light-puzzle spooky scary mask simulator 2018. Okay for real this time: this game behaves a little bit like the original Amnesia. You know, opening doors, closets, and drawers by clicking and pulling your mouse forward or towards you. And don't get me wrong, it's something cute to do in order to feel more immersed, but there's not much to do with this mechanics (and you can't even see your legs, so there's that).
Most of the time (which is not too much because the game takes around 3 hours to finish) you'll be opening things that will have either a golden dong, a double dong or, you guessed it: a dong with lady legs. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind sexual paraphernalia in a game that talks about cults and orgies, far from it. But after opening the drawer number 15 and discovering a dildo you'll probably say out loud "Fine I get it, it's about dicks and stuff!". These mechanics don't offer anything crazy or interesting, not even with the puzzles. And oh boy, the puzzles…
Bop it, Twist it, Wait for it
I know I'm way far from having some interesting creative puzzles like those found on the Silent Hill series or heck, something from the first Resident Evil game. But these puzzles are just… Okay. They are not bad, but they are pretty straight forward: pick a thing, or pick 3 things, put them here. Bonus points if after putting the thing on its place you have at least a pretty easy "rotate until it fits" minigame. You won't get mad from the puzzles (maybe you'll go a little angry in one or two at the end that is just plain dumb) but you won't enjoy them too much either. But this makes me even angrier because I wanted to like this game so much! Yet I was unable to do it, and that's due to two main reasons: the game's length and its final moments.
As I said, you'll beat this game in 3 hours or so, and that's something that I don't usually care about (I love Super Metroid and you can beat that game in less than 2 hours, come on), but in this game, it's an important issue. The first 2 hours are amazing! Great pacing, interesting things happening, some really tense moments,… And then you get to the final hour and everything just go bananas. Again, no spoilers, but man what a horrible boss battle. Seriously why it's this a constant thing in horror games, not been able to offer a good pay-off? And the final sentence of the game before the credits? Yeah, it would have the perfect amount of cheesy voice acting if it was followed by this song:
So, did I enjoyed after all of this rant Lust for Darkness? Of course! But with a huge disclaimer on the cover, though. This game delivers some really good visuals and some creative environments, and I really enjoyed the plot as it was, well, really fun! But despite its good things, Lust for Darkness feels like something who could have been bigger, better and stronger. The final hour it's really dull with cheap jump scares and stupid AI, and it felt like everything was a little bit rushed.
If you want to have a good quick time, feel free to grab a copy and support the devs who made this game, because it has potential, it does! But it lacks that thing that makes you go "yeah, this will get along fine with the other horror games".
Lust For Darkness
Fun Factor
Great atmosphere
It has some really creative environments
Interesting plot
The final hour of the game is really dumb
Really simple puzzles
Cheap jump scares from time to time
Tags: Lust for Darkness, Review
Previous ArticleMario Tennis Aces ReviewNext ArticleBlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle Review
Castle Creeps Battle – Review
Albert and Otto Review
Apparition Review
Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption Review
20XX Review
Dream Alone Review
More in Featured, PC Reviews, Reviews
Mario Tennis Aces Review
Mario Tennis Aces is the latest in the long running...
This is the Police 2 release date revealed, coming very soon!
This is the Police 2 will launch August 2nd on...
Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr console version has a new release date!
Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr will launch August 23rd on...

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Sarah Rubinfeld
Director, Environmental Science Program; Associate Professor of Environmental Science
srubinfeld@carthage.edu
Straz Center 84
Professor Sarah Rubinfeld was born in Michigan and grew up in northern California. She earned a B.A. in geoscience from Princeton University in 1997, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University. In 1996, she was a summer intern for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, where she did background research on global warming and the structure of the Environmental Protection Agency.
M.S., Ph.D. — Civil and environmental engineering, Stanford University
B.A. — Geoscience, Princeton University


Join us at the Seattle Investors Club to learn how to do lease options with little or no money. This event is March 18/4pm at the Renton Technical College Annex in room 113.
To find out more info about the event, checkout our promo video below.
What is the difference between a cooperative or wholesale lease option, and sandwich lease option, and a pure option?
What role do notes play in this?
How do you structure a sandwhich lease option?
What types of contracts do you use?
How do you approach a person about doing a lease option? How do you overcome the fear of using this unusual sales strategy?
Will lease option work with high end properties?
How do you avoid "equitable interest" in a property?
How do you handle/determine rent credits?
How do you comply with/avoid violating Dodd-Frank?
How do marketing and referrals work?
What due diligence should be done?
Do you need to use escrow?
What is the option consideration, and how does it apply?


Creating a website can seem like a huge undertaking, and it is! Luckily, I'm here to hold your hand through every step of the process. Is your branding is already in place, but you need to spruce up your site or build your first ever business website? Then the "Single Website" option is your best bet! Are you starting a completely new company, or you need both branding and a website? Then the "Complete Branding Overhaul + Website" is the perfect option for you! Whichever option you choose, you will get a gorgeous, responsive website at a great price!
Completely custom websites available- contact me for a quote!


Buy Bitcoin. current bitcoin market price 7000.22 USD Loading offers. Click on Pakistani Rupees or Bitcoins to convert between that currency and all other currencies.Convert 2 01800 Pakistani Rupee PKR to Bitcoin BTC currency PKR Pakistani Rupee to BTC Bitcoin Currency Rates Today Thursday, 14062018Given below is the price of a.Buy Bitcoin, Create Bitcoin Wallets, Read Bitcoin News, and more, at Bitcoin.com.We also use the current Bitcoin price in. but it is important to consider the price of Bitcoin at that time was much less thant it is today.
Calculator to convert money in Bitcoin (BTC) to and from Canadian Dollar (CAD) using up to date exchange rates.Pakistani bitcoin exchange Urdubit launched today in an effort to facilitate greater adoption of the digital currency in the region.
Online converter show how much is 400 Bitcoin in Pakistani Rupee. money to Pakistan.
FirstCoin is an alternative digital currency that differs from Bitcoin,. halving rate time 2.5 m.
Gold prices are updated regularly according to live spot gold rates. In.Korean Cryptocurrency Exchange Executives Detained in Embezzlement Probe.
Today Gold Rate in Pakistan per Gram 22k in. 22K Gold Prices in Pakistan per Gram Today.Latest bitcoin News, Photos, Blogposts, Videos and Wallpapers.You should confirm current rates before making any transactions that could be affected by changes in the exchange rates.Enter the amount to be converted in the box to the left of Bitcoin. Convert amounts to or from USD and other currencies with this simple Bitcoin calculator.
One ad with average price of 1085999.00 PKR Karachi: Selling bitcoins.Volume (notional value) in Columbia, Dominican Republic, Pakistan, Poland, Saudi. Legality of bitcoin by country. it is banned by State Bank of Pakistan. all customers of Bitcoin Exchanges to provide purchase price information to.
This Bitcoin and Pakistan Rupee convertor is up to date with exchange rates from August 29, 2018.Online converter show how much is 1 Bitcoin in Pakistani Rupee. money to Pakistan.
Today updated gold price forecast and predictions for 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. Bitcoin Price Prediction 2018,.


text:
BLOG: BioLogue
Mapping Out the Biomass Power Market
WEBINAR: 2021 International Biomass Conference & Expo Speaker Orientation
January 14-14, 2020 - Cost: Free 2:00 pm CST
UF constructing cellulosic ethanol pilot plant
A groundbreaking ceremony was held for Stan Mayfield Biorefinery, a cellulosic ethanol pilot plant to be built in Perry, Fla. The project is a joint venture of the University of Florida (UF), Buckeye Technologies Inc. and the Florida Legislature, which provided $20 million in funding.READ MORE
Mitsui, Inbicon partner for biomass refineries
A Danish cellulosic ethanol company and a Japanese heavy industries company will work together toward cellulosic ethanol production in Southeast Asia. Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding signed a licensing agreement to build a number of biomass refineries using Inbicon Biomass Refinery technology.READ MORE
Tax credit extension still possible
A one-year extension of the production tax credit for biomass power facilities is included in the American Workers, State and Business Relief Act, introduced March 1 by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.). The 5-year credit was originally included in the 2004 Jumpstart Our Business Strength Act and is crucial to the biomass power industry.READ MORE
Florida livestock pavilion gets bioenergy plant
A bioenergy demonstration project at the Southeastern Livestock Pavilion in Marion County, Fla., will produce energy and organic fertilizers using the pavilion's raw animal waste.READ MORE
ISU will stack algae traits
A researcher at Iowa State University will use a $4.37 million grant from the U.S. DOE to stack traits in Chlamydomonas alga that will improve oil yield, growth rate and offer better thermal resistance.READ MORE
Range Fuels to help meet RFS2 in 2010
In November 2007, Range Fuels announced intentions to build the world's first commercially-viable cellulosic ethanol plant at Soperton, Ga. Since then, there have been some setbacks and changes made to the master plan.READ MORE
Advanced biofuel industry pushes for tax credit
A large number of advanced biofuel industry members are urging Congress to grant an investment tax credit to advanced biofuel producers in order to help overcome financial barriers associated with the timely development of commercial-scale projects.READ MORE


UK communications regulator looks into media owners' complaints that broadband carriers are deliberately slowing down some types of net traffic.
Ofcom is to consult on net neutrality - the idea that all bits should be treated equally on the internet - following media owners' complaints that broadband carriers are deliberately slowing down some types of net traffic.
Net neutrality has been an issue in the US for many years, but is becoming a problem in the UK and Europe, Ofcom head Ed Richards told an audience at a Financial Times conference this week when he announced the forthcoming consultation.
Some types of network traffic, such as video and voice, are time-critical. All or most of the bits that make up the content have to be present for the message to be intelligible. Network owners hope to charge people extra for giving priority to this type of traffic.
This is unacceptable and against the spirit of the internet, say critics. It will lead to a reversion to monopoly suppliers and a decline in innovation, they say.
Jean-Jacques Sahel, director of government and regulatory affairs at voice over IP software firm Skype, says mobile network operators either ban Skype completely or provide a degraded service to VoIP calls. This is either written into their terms and conditions, or is done secretly.
He said European telecoms legislation presumed net neutrality, which makes such actions illegal. But national implementations of the law allowed network operators to discriminate against Skype. He said Skype was making representations to national regulators to enforce net neutrality.
Network operators are already under pressure to boost capacity to meet national broadband obligations and to cope with the rise in mobile backhaul traffic.
Most are worried that "bandwidth hogs" such as BBC's iPlayer, which uses a peer-to-peer network protocol to distribute video material, will take up all their capacity, leaving none for normal web users.
Last year BT accused the BBC of getting a "free ride" on its networks for iPlayer. BT has its own video distribution business, BT Vision.
Most internet service providers (ISPs) already include provisions in their terms and conditions that users may not receive all the capacity they pay for. This provides ISPs "wriggle room" to manage congestion on the network.
In its latest survey, Ofcom found that average broadband speeds in the UK were 4.1Mbps - about half the "up to 8Mbps" service most were paying for.
John Chambers, CEO at network equipment maker Cisco, said recently that video was the future of internet communications. Cisco paid $3.4bn for online video system maker Tandberg to strengthen its hand in the digital video market.
Most corporates that use video conferencing do so over private or dedicated networks because of the bandwidth required. However, Google's YouTube and other video sites are increasingly popular media for corporates to reach consumers. In addition, Skype, which already offers video calls over fixed networks, is likely to launch video over mobile as well as a business grade telephony/video service.
These will cause congestion on both fixed and mobile networks, creating incentives for network operators to provide tiered services based on quality of service criteria, and requiring service level agreements.
Managing network costs, already complicated, could become a lot more so if net neutrality is ditched.


text:
Against Prevailing Winds
Originally published in our magazine's hallowed print edition Details
The short-lived rise and disastrous fall of Britain's first socialist airship.
Andrew Messick
filed 08 September 2020 in Socialism
It's early October 1930. Rain thunders down on open umbrellas. Strong winds and ever-increasing gusts send autumn leaves tearing through the air as waves crash on rocky shores. Through the deafening rain, a gentle hum arises, getting louder and louder until it becomes a steady drone, and finally the roar of huge engines passing overhead. Travelers stop and look up, and through the rain and dimly lit sky they see a silver behemoth, gliding slowly through the storm as if the wind and rain are, if anything, a mere inconvenience. The flying giant pushes against the headwind, not without effort, but within minutes it's passed, the roar reduced to a faint murmur as it fades into the darkness over the English Channel.
Should you, by some strange fortune, find yourself catapulted back to such a dismal evening to see this strange sight, you would be one of the final witnesses to Britain's last airship, the R.101. The grace and strength that the airship seemed to possess that night would prove to be an illusion. In reality, the ship's crew struggled the whole time to keep it level and flying through the gale. The R.101 carried on until shortly after 2:00 a.m. on the morning of October 5th, 1930, when it crashed on a French hillside, exploding and killing all but six people onboard. From that fateful night began a decade of airship disasters that would culminate in the Hindenburg.
The question that naturally arises is simple: why did the airship crash? What brought the R.101 down on her maiden voyage from Britain to India? A court of inquiry held afterward suggested that the combination of high winds and a fault in the airship's outer canvas cover created a long tear in the ship, which forced the R.101 into a sudden dive from which it could not recover. The subsequent sudden contact with the ground broke a water ballast pipe in the control car, spraying water onto phosphorus navigation flares which ignited, and with them the hydrogen lifting gas.
This is, in a very literal sense, what brought down the R.101, but it's not what actually caused the airship to crash. The disaster was not solely due to some technical fault, or the predictable result of a large, hydrogen-filled, lighter-than-air vessel losing control in the middle of an autumn storm. It was, in fact, the culmination of over ten years of political compromise, ignorance of facts, and the weaponization of the entire project—both literally and figuratively—by Britain's Conservative and Labour parties. It was the result of acquiescence to the pressure to do something quick and dangerous in the hopes of a modicum of success. And, as the government-designed R.101 came to be nicknamed "the Socialist airship" (and its privately-designed rival R.100 "the Capitalist airship") the R.101 came to serve in the 1920s as a referendum on the perceived viability of British socialism itself. It was felt that if the airship could rise to the occasion, so to speak, then it was proof that socialist principles could succeed; and if it crashed, then socialism would invariably do the same.
The Imperial Airship Scheme, of which the R.101 would be the ultimate product, began as an attempt to physically link the spreading, bloated British Empire. In an era where steamships couldn't reach the farthest corners of the empire fast enough, and airplanes couldn't yet reliably cover any significant distance, the airship concept filled a specific niche allowing for relatively rapid transit from the London metropole to Egypt, India, Australia, and every other conceivable colony, protectorate, or commonwealth. With the benefit of hindsight, it may seem clear that having a large quantity of flammable hydrogen floating perilously above passengers' heads as a means of transporting them a mile above the earth was maybe not the smartest idea in the world, but it's important to remember that this was ground-breaking technology for the time and place. The ability to fly commercially to North America was unprecedented, and the Imperial Airship Scheme's ultimate goal of flights to Australia was revolutionary. In spite of our current sentiments on the merits of lighter-than-air travel, in the 1920s the airship appeared to be an untapped source of industry, profit, job creation, and a means toward increased globalization.
It was within this framework that Britain's first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald began experimenting with military airships shortly after the First World War. The emphasis on "military" cannot be stressed enough: these airships were not meant to carry passengers. They were built to reach the extremes of humanity's flying capabilities in speed, altitude, and bomb-carrying capacity—and yet, they resulted in a series of light, fragile, delicate objects. During a training exercise, the R.38 cracked in half and exploded mid-air because the captain tried turning the ship a little too rapidly and a little too sharply.
Photo via Getty Images.
After this devastating 1921 event, the founding principles of the Imperial Airship Scheme became focused on building something vastly more solid and capable. Yet between 1921 and 1924, testing continued on outdated and rotting airships. Before work on new development and construction could really proceed, Ramsay MacDonald's Labour government gave way to Stanley Baldwin's Conservative Party.
This transition caused enormous setbacks. The original testing fleet of five (already dilapidated) airships had dwindled to two largely experimental ones; the R.36 (a failed and forgotten first attempt at a British passenger airship), and the R.80 (a small and unique design whose characteristics would be emulated in World War II bombers). The facilities required to construct, house, and maintain newer models had not been built. Even the new experimental airship designs themselves were still in the most preliminary stages of planning, with no significant work done on any of their component pieces. From this chaos, these new iterations of airship development were eventually granted names: the R.100 and the R.101.
These ships were intended to be the most advanced flying objects ever built, each reflective of different aspects of aeronautical engineering. The R.100 was designed with traditional, proven, conservative elements, while the R.101 was, from the outset, a testbed for all possible forms of innovation in flight control and passenger comfort. Reflecting these varying approaches to development, the design processes for both ships were assigned to two different groups respectively: a private engineering firm for the R.100, and a specially created government airship organization for the R.101. This was, again, the source of their popular nicknames: the Capitalist and Socialist airships respectively. Since the creation of a fleet of airships to encircle the globe had initially been the project of the Labour Secretary of State for Air, Christopher Thomson (and he was the only member of Parliament for whom it was ever a top priority), it was always considered a Labour Party project, and any failures were naturally set upon by the Conservatives. Likewise, the successes—few though they were—and (more importantly) the promise of successes were often thrown in the faces of Conservative critics.
The stakes were high. Sir Phillip Sassoon, the Conservative Under-Secretary of State for Air under Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, in discussing the Government's commitment to the two-fold scheme of private versus state enterprise, said ironically on the floor of the House of Commons: "In fact, I think if the Government had wanted to demonstrate to the country the superior advantages of Socialism over private enterprise (that is to say, whereby the greatest sum of money is spent with the least possible result), I think they could not possibly hit upon a more convincing instance."
Construction of what was to become known as R.101 was slated to begin in 1925, with trial flights to India in 1927. But neither the R.101 nor the R.100 would begin construction in 1925, let alone to fly to India in 1927 due to delays in funding, a lack of attention by the Conservative Secretary of State for Air Sir Samuel Hoare, and a generally apathetic approach to the airship concept. In fact, neither would fly until 1929, just in time for the second MacDonald ministry and the return of Christopher Thomson as Labour Secretary of State for Air.
Facing a program that was approaching its third year over schedule, several million pounds over budget, and potentially symbolic of the success or failure of the entire socialist project, Thomson was pressured to produce results, which is when his fatal errors and devastating compromises began in earnest. Elements of this appear in the parliamentary record. There are questions directed at Lord Thomson seeking information on what the new airships would be used for, whether they were really necessary, or, as one member asked of the R.101 specifically, if "she would ever fly at all?" Thomson, generally considered unflappable and charismatic, batted away most of these questions, but he had a tendency to do so by making rather impossible rhetorical concessions. The R.101 itself was really intended as an experimental testbed, a functioning proof of concept rather than a commercially viable product. Yet throughout many debates in parliament, the airship's capabilities evolved from into an actual commercially-operating air liner, a sometimes freighter, an as-needed troop transport, and an occasional aircraft carrier, a commitment that Lord Thomson never detracted from. [1]
In addition to quelling naysayers on the floor of Parliament, Thomson also sought to use the new airship as a means of swaying skeptical members who felt that the program was a waste of time and resources. But this involved some risky stunts. To appeal to the skeptics, Thomson proposed a scenic airship flight for 100 members of Parliament. Yet the R.101 was so enormously overweight that the first officer found it necessary to remove all unneeded crew, all the ship's ballast, and all of the parachutes before the ship could even host a sedate dinner for 100 people. Even then, and perhaps rather ironically, the airship was only able to host the dinner event because the high winds of a stormy day kept the ship upright and unable to leave its mooring mast.
Thomson further endangered the airship when, at his insistence, it took part in an airshow: the RAF Display at the Hendon Airfield north of London. This, in theory, sounds innocent enough. However, feeling the need to create spectacle and prove its capabilities, the order was given for the R.101 to fly as if bowing to the Royal Box at the airfield, and only after emerging dramatically from a cloudbank [2]. It is unclear if this was Thomson's doing, but the airship's presence at Hendon rather than being employed in training exercises is certainly his responsibility. Perhaps, you may be thinking, this is still not terribly bad. It should be noted at this point, however, that the dinner with 100 members of Parliament (and the days spent preparing for it), and the airshow (and the days spent practicing for it), all came at the expense of actual, verifiable training flights and proving trials. The R.101's first officer observed that "all these window dressing stunts and joy rides during the ship's trials… are quite wrong, but there is no-one in the [Royal Airship Works] executive who has the guts to put their foot down and insist on trials being free of joyriders."
After a year of similar stunts, it was finally accepted that R.101, as it was then constituted, could not possibly make it to India. It was far too overweight, in part due to Thomson's insistence on using the newest technology, such as heavy servo motors, diesel engines, and automatic gas valves [3], whether they were necessary or not. When it was clear that these heavy technologies would make it impossible for the R.101 to make it to India, the ship was dramatically reconstructed to such an extent that, in terms of its flying characteristics, it was an entirely new ship. This ship-of-Theseus R.101 was lengthened, additional hydrogen gas cells were added, the faux-opulent cabins and public spaces were gutted to the most basic necessities, and the ship's fragile outer cover was worked and reworked into something the builders considered passable. In this new form, the R.101 emerged from its shed on October 1, 1930, and that evening embarked on an intended 24-hour endurance flight which, by some stroke of mathematical genius, lasted less than 17 hours total. As Nevil Shute Norway of the R.100 design team commented of the R.101's flight, "flying conditions were dead calm and so perfect that it was hardly a trial at all, and in these circumstances nothing in the ship gave trouble but [a burst] oil cooler."
The record suggests that the endurance flight may have been cut short to begin prepping the ship for its maiden voyage to India. Lord Thomson exerted a great deal of pressure on the project prior to the ship's test flight, writing: "So long as R.101 is ready to go to India by the last week in September, this further delay in getting her altered may pass. I must insist on the programme for the Indian flight being adhered to, as I have made my plans accordingly." In spite of the dangerous, politically-motivated rush, and in spite of the fact that an essentially new ship was pulled from the sheds at Cardington for the trip to India, a Certificate of Airworthiness (which proclaimed that the ship was tested, tried, and ready for any and all flying circumstances) was issued the next day. Three days after emerging from its shed, and two days after its half-attempted endurance flight, the R.101 slipped from its mast in Cardington and set course for India, with Lord Thomson aboard. The rest of the story is well known to us now.
The blame for the failure of the R.101 rests almost entirely with Lord Thomson, who was one of the forty-eight killed in the crash. He was from the beginning wholly unsuited for the job, having no understanding of the basic fundamentals of airship operations, and he was pushy with his status and position. As pilot and historian Robin Higham wrote of Lord Thomson in his work The British Rigid Airship, 1908-1931, "[He] was one of those disastrous political choices, a professional soldier turned radical politician. He added dangerously to his lack of knowledge of aeronautical matters an unbounded enthusiasm for the new technology. His complete failure to comprehend the nature of experimental work led directly to his death in the flaming wreckage of his greatest ambition, R.101's journey to India." Thomson, rushing the program along for political ends, failed to respect the expertise of his crew. He failed to accept the limitations of the technology as it existed and wait for more favorable innovations; he failed to put trials and training above popular acceptance; and he failed to ask some questions about the wisdom or appropriateness of Britain having imperial possessions at all, not to mention realms that were so far away it was difficult to reach them safely.
Whether Lord Thomson personally viewed the success of the R.101 as an analogy for the success of British socialism, or was invested in the project as a means of protecting and furthering his own career, is not known. What we do know is that he loved airships themselves; and airships, however fantastic and unrealistic they may seem to us now, were at the time an elegant and beautiful symbol of the impossible made into reality. Thomson's efforts gave the R.101 life from a void, but by cutting corners, curtailing trials and testing, and cajoling the crew into a dangerous course of action, Thomson gambled the dream of the Imperial Airship Scheme for the hopes of a half victory, of the ability to say "we did it" when the dream was still physically out of reach.
Would airship technology have worked if the R.101 had not crashed? Probably not: lighter-than-air travel had always been a dangerous and potentially impossible business. In the years between the initial conception of the airship in 1900 and the fiery death of the R.101, dozens or even hundreds of military airships crashed with significant fatalities, and a dozen or so German passenger airships had crashed with minimal injuries. Germany would end up building the most successful airships, including the Graf Zeppelin, which was the first manmade object to circumnavigate the globe by air. But the Graf Zeppelin seemed to be the only passenger airship to fly without issue, and her passenger trips were curtailed in May of 1937 when the Hindenburg went down in flames over Lakehurst, New Jersey. The Graf Zeppelin and her intended replacement, dubbed the Graf Zeppelin II, served out the remainder of the 1930s as Nazi propaganda machines, with one attempt at airborne espionage very early in the war, before both were hung up, deflated, and scrapped to make airplanes.
A few other countries tried to use airships. In the United States, airship development was confined to purely military purposes. Two of the three American airships flying in the 1930s crashed in violent storms, and the third—the very small USS Los Angeles—did not exist for long before the American program was scrapped, and the Los Angeles with it. The French and the Italians each operated one airship, both of them former German liners that had been handed over after World War II, and neither of which crashed.
In Britain, the entire Imperial Airship Scheme was scrapped within a year of the failure of the R.101. This included the "capitalist' R.100. The loss of the R.101 and the death of the greatest advocate of British airships, Lord Thomson, left no one willing or able to continue the airship program, no matter their political leanings. The "capitalist" R.100 was deflated and scrapped, having only made one flight of any significance, and it has remained in the shadow of its better-remembered counterpart.
Art by C.M. Duffy.
It would be easy, and even tempting, to regard the R.101 and airships more generally as an embarrassing symbol for the socialist project. The crash of the R.101 is not just the story of a disaster, but the story of an unfortunate end to a concept that could, in theory, have changed the world, but would, in practice, likely never have worked at all. However it's important to understand why the R.101 failed: not because it was state-made and state-funded, but because it was a project of personal vanity and drive by a single-minded aristocrat who didn't listen to his crewmen and engineers, and who cared more about innovation as a thing in itself than in everyone's safety. The ship, along with its passengers and crew, were victims of political ineptness and of the pressure to produce material success at the expense of principle. And furthermore, the whole Imperial Airship Scheme was a tool of empire for the maintenance of empire, as were the short-lived German and American airships. Despite its branding, the R.101 was never a "socialist" airship in any sense we would recognize: just a top-down, failed, rushed, undemocratic imperial government project.
Regardless, after the crash of the R.101, the use of the airship as a rhetorical point of comparison for socialism versus capitalism continued. Yet there were still some, including conservatives, who called for a renewal of government efforts toward building viable airships. One of these was a Mr. Wellwood Johnston, a Conservative MP and member of the Scottish Unionist Party. In a speech in the House of Commons, he said:
"I proceed on the footing that airships are not a proved failure. After a failure in an enterprise which is not a proved impossibility the natural instinct, the human instinct, and particularly the British instinct, is not to give up, as we seem rather to have done in connection with airship construction… Mankind has not been deterred from further effort… towards the conquest of the air, by the fate of Icarus who flew too near the sun so that it melt[ed] the wax by which his wings were attached to himself."
Johnston himself had been elected in 1931, part of an absolutely crushing Conservative victory over the Labour Party. The Conservatives had previously held 260 seats to Labour's 287, but when the 1931 election was over their share increased to 470 seats compared to Labour's miserable 32. Nonetheless, Johnston said in the same speech, grudgingly but respectfully, of his opponents:
"Honorable Members of the Opposition [Labor] and their political associates in the country do not appear to have been diverted by what was for them the disaster of the last General Election from a continued advocacy of Socialism in our time, and while I cannot predict their ultimate success, I can at least admire their pertinacity."
This is, perhaps, the more workable R.101-based metaphor for socialism: sometimes we fail, either from difficult conditions, individual intransigence, moral compromises, or all of them combined. Sometimes we fly too close to the sun. Sometimes the socialist airship plummets to the ground. But one single, or even multiple failures, does not prove that socialism is impossible: it proves that we need to, and we will, keep trying to fly.
[1] It should be noted that, as ridiculous as that last point sounds, the use of an airship as an aircraft carrier actually was a possibility, one that the United States Navy briefly utilized in the early 1930s in the airships USS Los Angeles, Macon, and Akron. It was not, however, a physical possibility for R.101.
[2] During the course of practicing this particular stunt, it was intended that the airship would enter a shallow, gentle dive, but the elevator controlman lost control when the airship suddenly, unexplainably entered a steep dive from which it was brought back under control only with great difficulty.
[3] As an airship rises, the gas within its lifting cells expands, and requires that some lifting gas be vented into the atmosphere to prevent the lifting cells from bursting. Traditionally, manually actuated valves would be mounted on top of the ship to allow the crew to vent gas as necessary. However, on the R.101, Thomson insisted that new gas valves which could automatically vent gas in response to a given pressure should be mounted on the sides of the ship. This not only added unnecessary complication and weight to the airship, but the valves also showed a propensity to open before their set point, venting much-needed lifting gas from an increasingly overweight ship.
More from Andrew Messick
More In: Socialism
Why We Should Abolish the Family
Lily Sánchez
Keeping the Faith: Socialism in the Waiting Place
Sam Allison-Natale
Socialist Politics are More Necessary Than Ever
The Quest for Red Plenty
Ben Burgis


text:
Home Blogs Heading for impeachment
Heading for impeachment
BlogsCountriesBrazilTopicsHuman RightsJan Rocha's BlogJournalism & MediaPolitics & PartiesTrade Unions, cooperatives & employment
SourceJan Rocha
Brazil heads for legal coup from illegitimate Congress
São Paulo, 2 April: The word "golpe" – coup — hangs over Brazil like a dark, threatening cloud. In Congress, the special committee set up to consider the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff is going through the motions of listening to arguments for and against, but the mood is overwhelmingly pro-impeachment.
Two jurists called to explain the legal arguments for impeachment, based on the claim that the President had carried out so-called "fiscal manoeuvres", used their time to make impassioned, political accusations. The two witnesses called to defend Dilma, Finance Minister Nelson Barbosa and academic Ricardo Lodi Ribeiro, refuted each accusation soberly with painstaking technical details. But in the end, it is a political judgement, not a technical one. Dilma is not under investigation by the police for corruption, she has not been charged with any crime by a CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry), as President Collor was in 1992, but she has to go, it seems.
It is not only Dilma`s supporters who talk about a coup. Even Supreme Court minister Marco Aurelio de Mello says that impeachment without a judicial fact that demonstrates Dilma`s responsibility would constitute a coup.
Moreover, 302 of the 513 deputies who will vote on her impeachment, are themselves accused of, or are being investigated for, various corruption crimes. Eduardo Cunha, president of the Chamber of Deputies, who will chair the plenary session, expected to take place on 14 or 15 April, has been charged with taking bribes and using his position to protect himself from accusations of unethical behaviour. A recent TV report detailed the lavish lifestyle of the self-styled evangelical leader and his family in Paris, Rome and Dubai, who have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on luxury hotels, meals and clothes and used credit cards allegedly tied to illegal accounts.
Cunha was present at last week`s lightning three-minute meeting, when the PMDB (Brazilian Democratic Movement Party) took the dramatic decision to leave the government, depriving it of its main coalition partner. All the PMDB leaders shown celebrating the decision are being investigated in the various corruption inquiries now under way.
Another Supreme Court judge, Luis Roberto Barroso, was caught on camera in an unguarded moment, exclaiming as he watched the meeting on television: "My God! Is this our alternative government? This is a disaster".
If Dilma is impeached, her vice-president, Michel Temer of the PMDB, will become Brazil`s new president. So, as the centre of power shifts towards him, there is feverish activity among the parties as they jockey for position in a new government.
Lula, now officially a government adviser, is also engaged in febrile activity at his new HQ – a hotel room in Brasilia, described by one newspaper as his `bunker` — to persuade the small political parties who helped to make up the government `base` to stay faithful to Dilma, with offers of government posts, even ministries. It is an undignified spectacle seeing the parties bargain for power: some would say it's a case of outright bribery.
But Dilma supporters have also taken to the streets again, choosing 31 March, the 52nd anniversary of the 1964 coup which overthrew President João Goulart, for big demonstrations with the slogan Nao vai ter Golpe – No to the Coup – in 75 Brazilian cities and foreign capitals, including London and Rome.
In the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Dilma has been hosting events in order to receive support from social movements, artists, and trade unions. Some have become rather too enthusiastic, like the leader of Contag (The Agricultural Workers Union) who pledged to invade the offices and ranches of those who support impeachment.
Judge Teori Zavascki
But then understanding and tolerance are not much in evidence in today`s Brazil. In Porto Alegre, a doctor refused to treat a one-year-old child, because his mother belongs to the PT (Workers' Party). The PT congress leader, deputy José Guimarães, was heckled and insulted by hostile protesters when he arrived at Fortaleza airport. The home of a High Court judge, Teori Zavascki, was surrounded by protesters because his decision regarding Lula`s right to be tried in the STF (Supreme Court) was deemed favourable to the PT leader.
What sometimes gets overlooked in the storm of stories, rumours, accusations and versions flying about is that Lula has not, in fact, been charged with any crime.
This did not stop the weekly magazine, Veja, from printing an "exclusive" cover story, on a lurid red background, entitled Lula`s Secret Plan to Avoid Arrest – claim asylum in Italy and leave the country. Although the Italian Embassy denied the story, saying it was a complete fabrication, before the magazine went to press, Veja went ahead and published it; the magazine is now widely available, with its false story, in shops and newsstands.
The concerted attempt not only to discredit Lula, but to brand him as a criminal, and therefore to disqualify him from running in the 2018 elections, involves not only sections of the press, but also some public prosecutors and members of the federal police and the judiciary, at different levels of seniority.
There was, indeed, a secret plan, but it was hatched, not by Lula, but some of these people. On 3 March when Lula was taken in for questioning by the Federal Police at 6.a.m. in the morning, he was driven, not to the Federal Police HQ, but to Congonhas airport near the centre of São Paulo, where apparently an executive jet was waiting to fly him to Curitiba, the centre of the Lava Jato investigations, to be questioned by judge Sérgio Moro. Air Force officials got wind of what was happening and prevented it. But ultra-reactionary Federal Deputy Jair Bolsonaro, a former army officer, nostalgic for the good old days of military rule, had already been tipped off and hurried to Curitiba, to gather hostile crowds to greet Lula.
Pro-impeachment supporters have had some unexpected rebuffs. FIESP, the influential São Paulo Industrial Federation, is using a giant rubber yellow duck as the symbol of its pro-impeachment campaign because of the Brazilian phrase não vou pagar o pato (we are not going to bear the cost), referring to the tax burden.
FIESP's duck
But a Dutch plastic artist called Florentyn Hofman has appeared, claiming that the FIESP duck is based on one of his models and he is suing them for plagiarism. Regardless, FIESP has placed 5000 small rubber ducks on the grass in front of Congress, where the next round of the impeachment battle will take place on Monday 4 April, when President Dilma presents her defence.
A request for the impeachment of Vice-President Temer has been lodged in Congress, but stands little chance of being accepted.
Previous articleBNDES 5: The Bank for for continental dam construction
Next articleBrazil: London protest against the coup


text:
FaceOakley - The Best Cheap Oakleys Sunglasses $19 Outlet Sale
HomeOakley Holbrook Lenses
Oakley Ca Trulia
In the ninth minute a great cross to Cesar Gelabert, of Real Madrid, saw the striker scuff his shot but Gomez turned the loose ball into England's net. After that Spain took the game to England, with the muscular and skilful Ruiz proving a menace to England's back line. When Spain's second came in the 28th minute, it was a three man move involving skipper Abel Ruiz, Cesar Gelabert and Gomez, with the captain going on a dizzying run before…
Oakley Ca Urgent Care
Harold Campbell, Associate Superintendent of Schools, New York City; Dr. W. L. "I think guys are really embracing the fact that we want to be a defense that chases perfection with relentless effort," Beason said. "Do your job and after you do that, keep playing and go be a factor on something else. That's something that Coach [Steve Spagnuolo] has brought here. This surgical treatment treats open angle glaucoma and chronic closed angle glaucoma. I had it done because I…
T Mobile Oakley Ca
Viewed in the broad landscape of Canadian politics, however, it all seems rather overblown. Politicians regularly stump for certain products and businesses, after all, implicitly at the expense of others. More to the point they routinely give businesses free money without asking us, and not out of the goodness of their hearts. Unbranded weirdly branded road cycling clothing: About four years ago I came across a website that was a clearance center for major road cycling clothing manufacturers. It sold…
U Haul Trailer Rental Oakley Ca
"I was heartbroken," he said. "They said, 'We only got 78 games left or something like that.' I thought, 'Wow, that's really weak.' I felt bad. I didn't get to play very much, but I felt bad. Their Oakley Ridgelock interchangeable lens readily adapt to changing sunlight, while their discreet frame notches conveniently allow for you to wear your prescription eyewear underneath. Their Oakley Ridgelock interchangeable lens readily adapt to changing sunlight, while their discreet frame notches conveniently allow for…
T Ball Oakley Ca
I tried to back away using a circular motion. It never a good idea to run to or from bulls or cows in a straight line. They are faster than you and will catch you. Higher up on the walls is a continuous band of intricate timber bay windows. The traditional trefoil window arch expressed in timber is ubiquitous, along with corbelled timber dentils used as a supporting cornice. These details are normally highly decorated with carvings and paint, but…
Moore 4 U Trucking Oakley Ca
"How many times do you hear players say, 'The refs set the tone early,' right? 'They let us play. They let us play for the first two quarters, so we knew we could play the rest of the game. Or they were calling it very close.' You know early on, so they're just setting the tone.". Most football players and coaches give robotic answers that border on nonsensical . The Patriots even practice their banal answers midweek. Apparently NBA players…
Oakley T Shirts Canada
Want to be as cool as your kids? Frogskins by Oakley were big with teen agers before catching on with adults, says Pete Siegle, vice president for merchandising for Sunglass Hut. These sunglasses combine the futuristic look with an athletic appeal. Selling for $35 to $55, they were first popularized by cyclists on the Tour de France and skiing stars. O Matter frames are formulated for high durability and high flexibility for improved safety during impact. Maintains resistance to ultra…
Oakley Camo T Shirt
Or, the comparison can also be made to a soldier awaiting orders. Without input from the officer in charge, there is little that soldier can do. The activities he is allowed without orders are little more than the computer being "allowed" to have a battery that maintains its memory of the date and time.. The UNO2DUO travel system starts out as a single stroller and expands into a double stroller to grow with your family. With an easy, one hand…
At&T Store Oakley Ca
However, if the number is as high as 10 12%, then it can be a huge burden. That is where we are at. We are trying to nail down that number. The three were arrested a short time later at Middle River Road and Pulaski Highway by county police who searched their van and discovered more property reportedly bought with stolen or bogus credit cards.ROBBERY: Towson District A man wearing a chef's hat and jacket robbed the American Cafe in…
Oakley California T Shirt
I would like to go in order to establish a trade system of resources and knowledge between Earth and Equestria. Basically, we would exchange tech for magic. Our technology level is far higher than Equestria so we could provide them with modern medical devices and knowledge to help eradicate their illnesses. She's chucked her makeup, except for a few items that were gifts. She shops more carefully. She still likes to dress up from time to time, but no more…
© FaceOakley - The Best Cheap Oakleys Sunglasses $19 Outlet Sale 2020. Allegiant theme by CPOThemes.


In the framework of the TOP GLOBAL UNIVERSITY CAMPUS programme, promoted by the Government of Japan, the Nagaoka University of Technology has signed a collaboration agreement with Mondragon University to promote an exchange of students between MGEP and the Nagaoka University of Technology.
It was established in late 2015, including the participation of the Development Agency of the Commonwealth of Debagoiena and the GARAIA Innovation Hub, supported by the expertise of Saiolan and the monitoring of BIC GIPUZKOA.
Saiolan works in the detection of foreign companies with innovative solutions to connect them with companies from the Basque Country. Within this service, we differentiate between the following: Antenna-International-COMPANIES and Antenna-International-START-UPS.
"Invest in the Basque Country" is a working unit of the SPRI Group, specifically dedicated to the collection and maintenance of foreign direct investment (FDI).


If your property or properties have been damaged, you can count on Vacant Property Services to provide first class, cost effective and reliable boarding up service, this includes 24/7 emergency response boarding up service. As soon as you have made contact, we can arrange to send a local, qualified and experienced engineer to fully repair your property and/or provide temporary boarding until a complete repair can be undertaken.
Properties become vacant for all types of reasons including, awaiting clearance, refurbishment or it is vacant between tenancies. When a property becomes vacant/empty there are a number of security measures that can be taken to avoid illegal entry by potential squatters or vandals. We are specialists in all types of vacant property security services including changing locks, boarding up, surveliance and more.


This post categorized under Bracelets and posted on March 12th, 2017.
This Sterling Silver Cross Cuff Bracelet was related with this topics.
Greens Blue Flame Gas is a locally owned and operated propane company that is as established as its native Houston owners and family of loyal employees. MFNRocks.com is an Internet Radio station with daily live streaming jewelry. The station plays Hard Rock Cljewelryic Rock and Punk Rock. MFNRocks streams music 247 365 Gljewelry fusing instructions and information.
Since November 1994 Scambusters.org has helped over eleven million people protect themselves from scams Scambusters is committed to helping you avoid getting Propane is used in a number of applications the most common being a heating fuel. While the Houston heating season is limited our location size and industrial Civil Engineering Applications for the use of consulting engineers structural designers and architects.


The right left path from the Azalea Walk leads to a lovely gazebo overlooking a panorama of trees labeled for identification. The arboretum features trees that can be grown in the Augusta area. This first arboretum in Augusta was established in 1987. In the future, phase II development will be in the wetland site. All trees in the Arboretum were donated in honor or in memory of someone by organizations or individuals. An expanse of lawn was seeded to give the arboretum an Old English theme.
Barbara Botts established the attractive gazebo overlooking the arboretum in memory of her husband, Bert Botts. Mr. Botts was a long-time PKP commission member and was responsible for much of the early work in the park.
The Pendleton King Park Foundation and the City of Augusta have a working partnership that has repeatedly broken new ground in the advancement of urban forestry in Augusta. The arboretum, camellia garden, and azalea walk have greatly added to the educational attributes of the park.


text:
Jersey Jazzman: Who Put the "Stakes" In "High-Stakes Testing"?
Who Put the "Stakes" In "High-Stakes Testing"?
Peter Green has a smart piece (as usual) about Elizabeth Warren's position on accountability testing. Nancy Flanagan had some smart things to say about it (as usual) on Twitter. Peter's piece and the back-and-forth on social media have got me thinking about testing again -- and when that happens these days, I find myself running back to the testing bible: Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing:
"Evidence of validity, reliability, and fairness for each purpose for which a test is used in a program evaluation, policy study, or accountability system should be collected and made available." (Standard 13.4, p. 210, emphasis mine)
This statement is well worth unpacking, because it dwells right in the heart of the ongoing debate about "high-stakes testing" and, therefore, influences even the current presidential race.
A core principle of psychometrics is that the evaluation of tests can't be separated from the evaluation how their outcomes will be used. As Samuel Messick, one of the key figures in the field, put it:
"Hence, what is to be validated is not the test or observation device as such but the inferences derived from test scores or other indicators -- inferences about score meaning or interpretation and about the implications for action that the interpretation entails." [1] (emphasis mine)
He continues:
"Validity always refers to the degree to which empirical evidence and theoretical rationales support the adequacy and appropriateness of interpretations and actions based on test scores." [1] (emphasis mine)
I'm highlighting "actions" here because my point is this: You can't fully judge a test without considering what will be done with the results.
To be clear: I'm not saying items on tests, test forms, grading rubrics, scaling procedures, CONTINUE READING: Jersey Jazzman: Who Put the "Stakes" In "High-Stakes Testing"?
Peter Greene: Should A Teacher Be The Secretary Of Education?
Should A Teacher Be The Secretary Of Education?
This is part of the value of having a clown car full of candidates for a Presidential primary: the contest becomes a primary of ideas, and certain notions gain traction by spreading across the field of candidates. Not that gaining traction means those ideas will ultimately prevail (a widespread notion among the 2016 GOP field was that Donald Trump was unfit to be President), but it's still an intriguing process.
One up-and-coming education policy idea that was first proposed by Elizabeth Warren, but has now garnered wider candidate support, is the notion that a teacher should be the next secretary of education. At last count, four major candidates were supporting some version of the idea. It's an arresting and appealing idea. Betsy DeVos is widely seen as a controversial opponent of public education, and in many education circles, predecessors like Arne Duncan were not much loved, either. Many teachers feel that the folks in DC just don't get it, so the idea of someone from the trenches who would, presumably, get it--well, it's an attractive idea. Now we have to ask--is it a good idea?
The devil, as always, is in the details. The idea has been expressed variously as appointing an educator, a public school teacher, or CONTINUE READING: Should A Teacher Be The Secretary Of Education?
Posted by Mike Simpson at 10:21 AM No comments: Links to this post
Hewlett Packard And The Pitfalls Of "Deeper Learning" In An Internet Of Things World – Wrench in the Gears
Hewlett Packard And The Pitfalls Of "Deeper Learning" In An Internet Of Things World
It was time to say good-bye to the chinstrap penguin. The paper mache model had kept watch over a corner of my sewing room for years, but with our child moving on to college and evidence of flour-beetles impossible to ignore, its time had come. It was an endearing second-grade project, now a decade old. It was the kind of project many of us remember; you know, the ones that start out scrambling around the back of a closet in search of a shoebox? Today, hands-on, creative projects have largely been cast aside in favor of online learning modules that tout their test score-boosting efficacy. There were many thoughts running through my head as I placed the bug-eaten model into the trash that day.
A day or so later, I happened to read a CommonWealth article in which Jeff Riley, education commissioner of Massachusetts, laid out a "radical center" vision for public education outlined in the report "Our Way Forward: For Massachusetts K12 Public Education." The media outlet, a mouthpiece for privatization interests, framed the piece to appeal to teachers and parents beleaguered by decades of harmful ed-reform policies. There was talk of an unhealthy fixation on test scores, the need for a rich curriculum, and incentivizing teachers to create "innovative" lessons. I sensed a trap, and that trap was "deeper learning" and "project-based learning."
In the article Riley also spoke of expanding assessments beyond English and math and of new "performance tasks." His proposal touted adoption of "smart" technology, flexible career pathways, and perhaps most troubling, tracking and measuring "skills and dispositions" for future employers. The need for increased public funding was downplayed, though the possibility CONTINUE READING: Hewlett Packard And The Pitfalls Of "Deeper Learning" In An Internet Of Things World – Wrench in the Gears
Posted by Mike Simpson at 9:26 AM No comments: Links to this post
Christine Langhoff Describes the Charter-Friendly Power Elite in Massachusetts | Diane Ravitch's blog
Christine Langhoff Describes the Charter-Friendly Power Elite in Massachusetts
Christine Langhoff, retired teacher and education activist in Massachusetts, describes the power elite in the Bay State. After losing the charter referendum in 2016 by 68-32%, they keep pursuing ways to bypass the voters.
Massachusetts has 3 Walton-connected members of the state board of education, appointed by the governor, who was formerly the executive director of The Pioneer Institute. The Pioneers are funded by the Kochs and State Policy Network (worth checking out, as they like to fly under the radar). The Pioneers are affiliated with ALEC. The secretary of education, Jim Peyser, formerly ran Pioneer and in between serving Republican administrations in MA, he also ran Education Next, which posted this bio:
"Jim Peyser is Managing Partner for City Funds at NewSchools Venture Fund, a non-profit grant-making firm that seeks to transform public education by supporting innovative education entrepreneurs. In this role, Jim leads NewSchools investment activity in Boston, Newark and Washington, DC. From 1999 through 2006, Jim served as Chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Prior to joining NewSchools, Jim was Education Advisor to two Massachusetts Governors, where he helped shape state policy regarding standards and assessments, school accountability, and charter schools. In 1995, he served as Under Secretary of Education and Special Assistant to the Governor for Charter Schools. He spent more than seven years as Executive Director of Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, where he helped to launch the Massachusetts Charter School Resource Center, which supported the CONTINUE READING: Christine Langhoff Describes the Charter-Friendly Power Elite in Massachusetts | Diane Ravitch's blog
LAUSD School Performance Framework: Parents Focus Groups | Wejoinin
LAUSD School Performance Framework: Parents Focus Groups
Wejoinin - https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/makgd
We are inviting you to join us in a focus group to provide input on LAUSD's draft School Performance Framework—a tool intended to inform educators and families on how schools are performing. It is our goal that this new tool will provide comprehensive data including student growth, transparent ratings that allow comparisons across schools beyond the state dashboard, and alignment with district values of equity and inclusion. We are seeking to engage with a variety of parents, principals, and community stakeholders in the process to ensure this tool meets the needs of our communities. We would greatly appreciate your input as part of the process.
Breakfast and refreshments will be provided.
Monday, July 8th 12:30PM – 2:30PM
Location: Office of Parent Community Services
Address: 1360 W. Temple Street, Los Angeles CA 90026
Tuesday, July 9th 9:30AM – 11:30AM
Location: Local District Northwest
Address: 6621 Balboa Boulevard, Van Nuys, CA 91406
Wednesday, July 10th 1:30PM – 3:30PM (Translated in Spanish)
Thursday, July 11th 4:30PM - 6:15PM (Dinner provided)
Opposing Charter Schools Without Really Opposing Them (Part 3) | Dissident Voice
Opposing Charter Schools Without Really Opposing Them (Part 3)
Irrationalism and disinformation manifest themselves in endless ways. While both have intensified greatly in the neoliberal period which began in the late 1970s, the public should brace for even more of both. The obsolete forces who have long benefitted from an outdated economic system that cannot provide for the needs of the people will surely sustain a massive onslaught of irrationalism and disinformation in an attempt to preserve their class power and privilege while keeping people disempowered and disoriented. They see no alternatives to anachronistic arrangements in society and its institutions.
In Opposing Charter Schools Without Really Opposing Them: Part 1 (November 2018), I highlighted some of the forms of confusion promoted by neoliberals, privatizers, and corporate school reformers in order to block people from concluding that nonprofit and for-profit charter schools are detrimental and must be opposed.
Seven months later, in Opposing Charter Schools Without Really Opposing Them: Part 2 (June 2019), I highlighted a different offshoot of the forms of confusion highlighted in Part 1.
The core of all these different types of confusion typically takes the form of detailing many damning and indicting problems with charter schools, while still managing to find a convoluted and bizarre way to support them. It is essentially poorly-disguised support for privately-operated charter schools.
In this article, Part 3, I address yet another form of charter school disinformation distorting consciousness, harming the public interest, and enabling school privatization.
In a July 2, 2019 article in the Hechinger Report revealingly titled, "Charter schools aren't a radical solution and neither is blaming them: Slamming charters won't address systemic inequality or put families to work." Andre Perry correctly notes that social and economic problems; e.g., racism and CONTINUE READING: Opposing Charter Schools Without Really Opposing Them (Part 3) | Dissident Voice
Big Education Ape: NYC Educator: Bill de Blasio Offers Valuable Lip Support Against Privatization - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2019/07/nyc-educator-bill-de-blasio-offers.html
Ed Notes Online: The 2019 Socialism Conference, sponsored by American leftist juggernauts the DSA, Jacobin magazine, and ISO's Haymarket Books
Ed Notes Online: The 2019 Socialism Conference, sponsored by American leftist juggernauts the DSA, Jacobin magazine, and ISO's Haymarket Books, features regime-change activists from multiple US government-funded NGOs - The Grayzone
The 2019 Socialism Conference, sponsored by American leftist juggernauts the DSA, Jacobin magazine, and ISO's Haymarket Books
features regime-change activists from multiple US government-funded NGOs - The Grayzone
Now that the ISO has disbanded, its veterans can reach into the rapidly growing ideologically diffuse world of Democratic Socialists of America, using platforms like Socialism 2019 to infect DSA's youthful core with the imperial politics of regime change – but always "from the left," and always "from below." ....The Grayzone
There were estimates that 300 former ISOers were at the socialist conference in Chicago. Here's an article that raises important issues about sectors of the left and how some organized groups operate. Note this excerpt which has relevance to events that occurred in MORE since the leaders of the split came from ISO, Solidarity and people they recruited from the Democratic Socialists.
This March, the ISO voted to dissolve — in a decision some former members joked was the most democratic act ever undertaken by the organization, which had been dominated by an unelected leadership of veteran Trotskyite activists.
The dissolution was prompted by evidence that the ISO's steering committee mishandled sexual assault allegations. It also came as the ISO's membership was shrinking and rapidly being absorbed by a newly burgeoning anti-communist organization, the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA.
Now that the ISO has dissolved, some of its past prominent members have entered the ranks of the DSA, burrowing from within to inject their anti-anti-imperialist politics into the group.
Because Trotskyites are so sectarian and notoriously incapable of holding together organizations, they are infamous for infiltrating larger, more popular groups and trying to take them over, in a tactic known as entryism.
This is precisely the strategy being used by former members of the ISO — and by another tiny US Trotskyite organization, Solidarity, which was led by anti-Nicaragua regime-change activist and Socialism Conference speaker Dan La Botz, now a leader in DSA.
Democratic Socialists of America is the largest self-described socialist organization in the United States, with more than 60,000 card-carrying members. It is also very heterogeneous, with many internal contradictions and conflicting political views.
I joined DSA and have some hopes they can be a counter force to the Democratic Party machine as I've been reporting. But I CONTINUE READING: Ed Notes Online: The 2019 Socialism Conference, sponsored by American leftist juggernauts the DSA, Jacobin magazine, and ISO's Haymarket Books, features regime-change activists from multiple US government-funded NGOs - The Grayzone
Effective but never popular, court-ordered busing is a relic few would revive - The Washington Post
Effective but never popular, court-ordered busing is a relic few would revive
Sixteen years after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in public schools, an attorney representing black families in Charlotte stood before the court. The landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, he argued, had failed to deliver on its promise.
"Black children and parents in Charlotte have struggled since Brown," said the attorney, Julius Chambers. He urged the high court to embrace a plan to integrate Charlotte schools through a controversial method: busing black children to white schools, and vice versa.
The Supreme Court agreed, unanimously endorsing busing as a legitimate means of unraveling the segregation of children by race. The 1971 decision launched an explosive chapter in American history, touching off a long and polarizing battle that set public opinion against busing for decades, even as the programs succeeded in promoting integration.
Later, evidence would emerge that busing improved outcomes for black students, with no harm to white students. But that evidence came far too late to change public perceptions of a program that was hugely unpopular among whites and left blacks divided.
The vexing issue has reverberated through the Democratic presidential primary since last month's debates, when Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) criticized former vice president Joe Biden for opposing court-ordered busing in the 1970s. But Harris soon found herself backpedaling when asked whether she would advocate busing today: Last week, she called it a tool to be "considered" but mandated only if local governments are "actively opposing integration."
That position is not so far from Biden's, and not a single Democratic candidate is arguing for a return to CONTINUE READING: Effective but never popular, court-ordered busing is a relic few would revive - The Washington Post
Big Education Ape: Busing and School Segregation Used for Politics not Policy | gadflyonthewallblog - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2019/07/busing-and-school-segregation-used-for.html
Busing and School Segregation Used for Politics not Policy | gadflyonthewallblog
Busing and School Segregation Used for Politics not Policy
If children of all races went to the same schools with each other, it would be harder to treat them unequally.
Moreover, it would be harder for them to grow up prejudiced because they would have learned what it's like to have classmates who are different from them.
And though most people agree with these premises in principle, our laws still refuse to make them a reality in fact.
Perhaps that's why it was so astounding when Kamala Harris brought up the issue of school segregation and busing at the first Democratic debates.
If you're anything like me, for the first time these debates made Harris look like a viable contender for the party's Presidential nomination to face Republican incumbent Donald Trump in 2020.
But then she immediately contradicted herself when people actually started to take her seriously.
During the debates, Harris called out front runner and former vice president Joe Biden for opposing court-ordered busing in the 1970s as a way of combating school CONTINUE READING: Busing and School Segregation Used for Politics not Policy | gadflyonthewallblog
NYC Educator: Bill de Blasio Offers Valuable Lip Support Against Privatization
Bill de Blasio Offers Valuable Lip Support Against Privatization
I got to see a little of the NEA forum with Democratic presidential candidates, ably covered here by Chalkbeat. Bernie Sanders really shone here, in contrast to his indifferent showing in the debate. He seems to have gotten a better focus on the education issues that were so thoroughly neglected by all in 2016. He's not the only one.
Of course, there were disappointments, including Beto O'Rourke, who trotted out the old canard about opposing private, for-profit charter schools. That's a dubious distinction, as only two states even permit so-called for-profit schools. Yet they all make profits, one way or the other. I like Mayor de Blasio's message much better.
That said, it's tough to take his opposition very seriously. When de Blasio first ran for mayor, I supported him enthusiastically. I declined to support his primary opponent, what's-his-name, who had told the Daily News editorial board that NYC couldn't afford to give teachers the raise that NYPD and FDNY had gotten under Emperor Bloomberg. The time to support what's-his-name, in my view, was four years earlier when he ran against Bloomberg.
I contributed to de Blasio, went to Queens UFT to make calls for him, and attended his inauguration. I froze my ass off out there, having neglected to wear warm shoes, but it seemed worth it. We were finally going to have a mayor who was Not Insane, a mayor who didn't hate us and everything we stood for. What was one day of cold when we'd finally be able to move teaching into the twenty-first century?
De Blasio, though, didn't make the moves that were necessary to fix NYC. He left most of Bloomberg's awful educrats in place. Worse, he appointed one of Bloomberg's leftovers CONTINUE READING: NYC Educator: Bill de Blasio Offers Valuable Lip Support Against Privatization
Michigan State Policy—Not School Governance—Dooms State's Poor, Segregated School Districts | janresseger
Michigan State Policy—Not School Governance—Dooms State's Poor, Segregated School Districts
Through the month of June, Michigan's new governor, Gretchen Whitmer threatened to close Benton Harbor's high school due to falling enrollment, low test scores and the school district's indebtedness. Benton Harbor is among Michigan's extremely poor, majority-African American school districts on which, under former governor Rick Snyder, the state imposed emergency fiscal managers. Benton Harbor is a little different—managed by the state under a court order that ran out last week on June 30. Governor Whitmer had threatened to close the district's high school on June 30, but then, at the last minute, it seemed there was a deal to keep Benton Harbor's high school from being shut down.
Then, on July 2, it was reported that the local school board said it had never agreed to the deal. And what a deal it was. The Detroit News quotes Patricia Rush, a physician and member of Benton Harbor's local school board, who commented on why the members of the school board felt they couldn't accept Whitmer's deal: "Rush said the board wouldn't agree to even a tentative deal unless the state agreed to increase funding by a minimum of $1.3 million a year so the school system could fill all its teaching positions at salaries comparable to neighboring districts… The proposal said that if the district failed to meet certain goals after a year, the board would agree to suspend operations at the high school… Residents also were angry by what they saw as the short time frame of the proposal. The pact sets benchmarks that would show whether progress is made academically and financially after a year…. But several residents said one year wasn't enough time to show progress in a school system that has struggled for a long time… The first step of the proposed accord called for the district to meet this month with national experts who have experience turning around troubled school systems."
In her personal blog on Wednesday of last week, Diane Ravitch published a description by Thomas Pedroni of Wayne State University of four organizations the state has approved to serve as possible consultants: the Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL), which has managed specific schools for the Chicago Public Schools; the New Teacher Project founded by CONTINUE READING: Michigan State Policy—Not School Governance—Dooms State's Poor, Segregated School Districts | janresseger
Goodbye AltSchool, Hello Altitude Learning | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Goodbye AltSchool, Hello Altitude Learning
Begun by wealthy high-tech entrepreneur (and ex-Google executive) Max Ventilla in 2013, AltSchool made a splash with its string of private "micro-schools" in New York City and the San Francisco Bay area (tuition was $26,000)–see here, here, and here. Ventilla saw AltSchool as a string of lab schools where progressive ideas could be put into practice and the individualized software that staff designed and used in the "micro-schools" could be bought and used in public schools.
AltSchool "micro-schools' were ungraded, used project-based learning complete with individually designed "playlists," small classes, and experienced young teachers. Were John and Evelyn Dewey alive, they would have enrolled their six children in AltSchool.
But, there is always a "but," running these "micro-schools" was expensive. The business plan (Ventilla raised venture capital of $176 million) was anchored in a dream drawn from the film Field of Dreams: "build it and [they] will come." The plan depended upon tuition and licensed software bought by public schools. Didn't work out as Ventilla had dreamed. Spending $40 million a year and taking in $7 million in revenue is a recipe for financial disaster. Ventilla closed some of the "micro-schools in 2017.
And on June 28, 2019, in a press release, came the news:
AltSchool to become Altitude Learning, an educator-run startup powering the growing learner-centered movement
Expanding support for districts nationwide with new approaches to professional development and the products schools need to shift to learner-centered models
Altitude Learning to formally launch later this fall
As R&D focus ends, tech co-founders pass torch to education industry CONTINUE READING: Goodbye AltSchool, Hello Altitude Learning | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Dem Candidates: Charter-School-Enabled *Profiteering* Is the Problem. What's Your Plan? | deutsch29
Dem Candidates: Charter-School-Enabled *Profiteering* Is the Problem. What's Your Plan?
Some Democratic hopefuls for the 2020 presidency have taken to saying that they do not support "for-profit charter schools." (See here and here and here.)
On July 07, 2019, Network for Public Education (NPE) executive director, Carol Burris, called them out for promoting a false distinction. Below is Burris' commentary, in part:
When Democratic candidates are questioned about charter schools, many typically reply, "I am against for-profit charter schools." Everyone cheers. Politicians have created a convenient (and false) dichotomy that says nonprofit charter schools are good, and for-profit charter schools are bad.
Don't be fooled. There are now only 2 states that allow for-profit charter schools—Arizona and Wisconsin. California changed its laws.
However, 35 states allow for-profit Charter Management Organizations (CMOS) to run their nonprofit charter schools. …
The question candidates need to answer then are:
"Do you support for-profit Charter Management Organizations, and if you do not, what are you going to do about them?" …
There is a reason the charter lobby never complains when a candidate says that he/she is against for-profit charter schools. It means nothing will change.
What Burris demonstrates is that there are layers to profiteering off of charter schools, with the term "nonprofit" being a key distractor to layered profiteering.
The for-profit CMO behind the "nonprofit" charter school is one such example, but there are others.
For instance, consider the California-based Today's Fresh Start Charter School CONTINUE READING: Dem Candidates: Charter-School-Enabled *Profiteering* Is the Problem. What's Your Plan? | deutsch29
At NEA Representative Assembly, Educators Prepare to Make an Impact in 2020
Galvanized by the historic mobilization of public school educators that caught the attention of the entire nation, educators converged on the George E. Brown convention center in Houston, Texas on July 4 for the 157th National Education Association Representative Assembly (RA). The theme of the 2019 RA was Our Democracy. Our Responsibility. Our Time! After four busy and exciting days, the more than 6,000 delegates left Houston ready to carry the momentum of the #RedforEd movement into 2020 and play a pivotal in choosing the next president.
"This movement has created something better for millions of students and educators, but it's bigger than that," NEA President Lily Eskelsen García told delegates in her keynote address. " We've created something better for communities—for this country that we love."
And that unnerves people like Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and the army of billionaires who are funding the school privatization schemes that driver her agenda. But if we are to bring real change, Eskelsen García said, we need to look to the top.
Electing a new U.S. president in November 2020, she said, should be a priority of anyone who cares about public education. And public school educators should not shy away from working toward that goal.
"Political action isn't subversive," Eskelsen García said. "It's the essence of democracy. … We will use our collective power to listen and learn and teach and reach and engage and organize and convince."
At this year's RA, NEA took a big first step in leading the conversation around public CONTINUE READING: At NEA Representative Assembly, Educators Prepare to Make an Impact in 2020
Jersey Jazzman: Who Put the "Stakes" In "High-Stak...
Peter Greene: Should A Teacher Be The Secretary O...
Hewlett Packard And The Pitfalls Of "Deeper Learni...
Christine Langhoff Describes the Charter-Friendly ...
LAUSD School Performance Framework: Parents Focus ...
Opposing Charter Schools Without Really Opposing T...
Ed Notes Online: The 2019 Socialism Conference, sp...
Effective but never popular, court-ordered busing ...
Busing and School Segregation Used for Politics no...
NYC Educator: Bill de Blasio Offers Valuable Lip S...
Michigan State Policy—Not School Governance—Dooms ...
Goodbye AltSchool, Hello Altitude Learning | Larry...
Dem Candidates: Charter-School-Enabled *Profiteeri...
At NEA Representative Assembly, Educators Prepare ...


text:
Ящурки, или степные ящерицы (), — многочисленный род ящериц из семейства настоящих ящериц.

Описание

Внешний вид
Мелкие, средних размеров, реже сравнительно крупные ящерицы длиной до 30 см.

Брюшные щитки расположены косыми рядами по отношению к средней линии живота. По краям пальцев могут быть увеличенные зубчатые чешуи.

Окраска обычно песчаных или сероватых тонов, с полосами и пятнами.

Распространение
Распространены в Африке, Передней, Средней и Центральной Азии, в Северном Китае, Корее и Юго-Восточной Европе. В России встречаются на Северном Кавказе, в Нижнем и Среднем Поволжье, Туве и Забайкалье

Образ жизни
Дневные ящерицы, обитающие в пустынях, полупустынях и сухих степях и других открытых местообитаниях, иногда в горах.

Питание
Питаются насекомыми и другими беспозвоночными, иногда мелкими ящерицами и растительной пищей.

Размножение
Большинство видов ящурок откладывают яйца, некоторые яйцеживородящи.

Классификация
В роде Eremias на 2008 год выделяют около 33 видов, объединённых в 5 подродов, из них на территории Северной Евразии (то есть на территории стран бывшего СССР и Монголии) представлен 21 вид.
 подрод Dimorphea
 Высокогорная афганская ящурка (Eremias afghanistanica)
 Лалезхарская ящурка (Eremias lalezharica)
 Горная ящурка (Eremias montanus)
 Ящурка Штрауха (Eremias strauchi)
 Чернобокая ящурка (Eremias nigrolateralis)
 Киргизская ящурка, или ящурка Никольского (Eremias nikolskii)
 Персидская ящурка (Eremias persica)
 Таджикская ящурка (Eremias regeli)
 Турецкая ящурка (Eremias suphani)
 Быстрая ящурка (Eremias velox)
 подрод Eremias
 Разноцветная ящурка (Eremias arguta)
 Афганская ящурка (Eremias aria)
 Средняя ящурка (Eremias intermedia)
 Черноглазчатая ящурка (Eremias nigrocellata)
 подрод Pareremias
 Монгольская ящурка (Eremias argus)
 Ящурка Барбура (Eremias argus barbouri)
 Ордосская ящурка (Eremias brenchleyi)
 Кашгарская ящурка (Eremias buechneri)
 Кокшаальская ящурка (Eremias kokshaaliensis)
 Глазчатая ящурка (Eremias multiocellata)
 Гобийская ящурка (Eremias przewalskii)
 Тувинская ящурка (Eremias przewalskii tuvensis)
 Алашаньская ящурка (Eremias quadrifrons)
 Тянь-шаньская, или исык-кульская ящурка (Eremias stummeri)
 Ящурка Щербака (Eremias szczerbaki)
 Яркендская ящурка (Eremias yarkanndensis)
 подрод Rhabderemias
 Ящурка Андерсона (Eremias andersoni)
 Холистанская ящурка (Eremias cholistanica)
 Систанская ящурка (Eremias fasciata)
 Линейчатая ящурка (Eremias lineolata)
 Закавказская ящурка (Eremias pleskei)
 Песчаная, или полосатая ящурка (Eremias scripta)
 Центральноазиатская ящурка (Eremias vermiculata)
 подрод Scapteira
 Остроносая ящурка (Eremias acutirostris)
 Сетчатая ящурка (Eremias grammica)
 Eremias aporosceles

Ряд азиатских и африканских видов, ранее также относимых к этому роду, выделены в отдельные роды, например, месалины (афроазиатские ящурки) и африканские ящурки.

См. также
 Настоящие ящерицы

Примечания

Литература

 Банников А. Г., Даревский И. С., Ищенко В. Г., Рустамов А. К., Щербак Н. Н.. Определитель земноводных и пресмыкающихся фауны СССР. Учеб. пособие для студентов биол. специальностей пед. институтов. — М.: Просвещение, 1977 — С. 164.
 Жизнь животных в 7 т. / Гл. редактор В. Е. Соколов. Т. 5. Земноводные и пресмыкающиеся. / А. Г. Банников, И. С. Даревский, М. Н. Денисова и др.; под ред. А. Г. Банникова — 2-е изд., перераб. — М.: Просвещение, 1985. — С. 221—223.
 Орлова В. Ф. «Таксономическое разнообразие ящурок рода Eremias (Sauria, Lacertidae): история вопроса и современное состояние проблемы» в сборнике Вопросы герпетологии. Материалы Третьего съезда герпетологического общества им. А. М. Никольского СПб: 2008 — С. 328—336 (pdf: 6,1 МБ).

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Rocket Internet SE / Key word(s): Bond 15.02.2016 08:35 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS
Group AG.
The issuer / publisher is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rocket Internet SE: Quasi Ad hoc Announcement pursuant to Sec. 19 para. 1
lit. c) of the General Terms and Conditions of Deutsche Börse AG for the
Regulated Unofficial Market (Freiverkehr) on Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse Rocket Internet Decided to Use Up To EUR 150 Million for the Buyback of
Convertible Bonds Berlin, Germany, 15th February, 2016 - The Management Board of Rocket
Internet SE ('Rocket Internet' or the 'Company') decided today, February
15, to spend up to EUR 150 million on a program to repurchase senior
unsecured convertible bonds due 2022 issued by the Company (ISIN
DE000A161KH4) (the 'Bonds') during 2016. Repurchases of Bonds under the
program may commence immediately. Repurchased Bonds will be held by the
Company or cancelled. The Company's Supervisory Board approved the
repurchase program. The Company's successful divestiture of La Nevera Roja, PizzaBo and other
non-core takeaway food businesses at the beginning of February 2016
increased the available funds of Rocket Internet and its portfolio
companies by EUR 125 million. In addition, following the launch of the
Rocket Internet Capital Partners Fund in January 2016, the Company has
secured co-funding commitments from third-party investors for new
investments resulting in a further improvement of the financial flexibility
of Rocket Internet. Therefore, the Company intends to use available funds
for the repurchase of the Bonds and thereby reduce interest expenses for
outstanding Bonds. A repurchase of the Bonds will also reduce the dilution
risk faced by the shareholders. Repurchases of Bonds will be carried out using one or more banks based on
instructions given by Rocket Internet. The buyback may be suspended and
resumed at any time. Rocket Internet will make an announcement once the
repurchase program has been completed. Ends Contact Rocket Internet T: +49 30 300 13 18 68
E: [email protected] Disclaimer This document contains forward-looking statements. These statements are
based on the current views, expectations and assumptions of the management
of Rocket Internet SE ('Rocket Internet') and involve known and unknown
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or
events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such
statements. Actual results, performance or events may differ materially
from those described in such statements due to, among other things, changes
in the general economic and competitive environment, risks associated with
capital markets, currency exchange rate fluctuations and competition from
other companies, changes in international and national laws and
regulations, in particular with respect to tax laws and regulations, and
other factors. Rocket Internet does not assume any obligations to update
any forward-looking statements. 15.02.2016 The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements,
Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases.
Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------


The Sochi Stadium, designed by Populous and completed for the 2014 Winter Olympics. With a temporary roof and a hanger extension either end to house the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony. All production engineering by Atelier One which included enclosure, aerial delivery system, stage and all scenic elements throughout the ceremonies.


Stewart Connector, a Bel group company, (NASDAQ: BELFA and BELFB) and world-class manufacturer of high-speed connectors used in Data Communication applications announces the addition of IP67 rated RJ45 to RJ45 couplers to the SealJack Cable Applied product line. The IP67 rated RJ45 to RJ45 couplers provide another interconnect option for Ethernet communications in harsh environment locations.
Stewart Connector's IP67 couplers are intermateable with SealJack Cable Applied series RJ45 plug kits and cable assemblies. SealJack couplers are designed to be panel mounted to create an IP67 rated connection outside of the panel and connection inside the panel utilizing an industry standard RJ45 patch cord. These couplers are offered in Category 5E and 6 UTP versions.
The SealJack Cable Applied series is ideally suited to support connectivity for devices within the Internet of Things (IoT) umbrella where reliability and functionality are necessary as Ethernet applications move from a typical office to harsher environments.


Jorge Romero, MD, is an Attending Physician and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Arrhythmia Service in the Cardiology Division at our Montefiore-Einstein Center for Vascular Care. He has maintained this position since the summer of 2016.
Dr. Romero specializes in the treatment of complex arrhythmias, particularly in catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia and atrial fibrillation using cutting-edge technology. He is one of the few electrophysiologists in the country who performs these procedures without fluoroscopy, which avoids radiation exposure to both patients and staff.
Dr. Romero, who hails from Colombia, earned his medical degree at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia. Following graduation, he spent a year working as a community physician in Colombia's rural areas before coming to the United States. There, he embarked on a series of residencies as well as cardiovascular and cardiac electrophysiology fellowships at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
His extensive research focuses on issues within cardiology and specifically on electrophysiology. He has developed the autonomic modulation program for the treatment of refractory ventricular arrhythmias by performing bilateral cervico-thoracic sympathectomy. Additionally, he investigates His-bundle pacing for patients with heart failure who are not candidates for cardiac resynchronization therapy as well as the use of devices to occlude the left atrial appendage for patients with atrial fibrillation who cannot be anticoagulated.
Dr. Romero has designed and played a leading role in managing two prospective clinical research studies at our Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care: implementing novel catheter ablation techniques and developing techniques for esophageal and phrenic nerve protection, particularly during radiofrequency ablation of atrial fibrillation. He is one of the few electrophysiologists in the world, along with Luigi Di Biase, MD, PhD, who performs electrical isolation of the left atrial appendage for treatment of persistent and long persistent atrial fibrillation.
Dr. Romero has been recognized with several awards, including the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program Director's Award at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and two Young Investigator Awards—one from the American Heart Association and the other from the American Society of Hypertension.
He has developed the autonomic modulation program for the treatment of refractory ventricular arrhythmias by performing bilateral cervicothoracic sympathectomy at Montefiore. He has developed techniques for esophageal and phrenic nerve protection particularly during radiofrequency ablation of atrial fibrillation. Along with Dr. Luigi Di Biase, he is constantly developing techniques to perform electrical isolation of the left atrial appendage for treatment of persistent and long persistent atrial fibrillation in a safe and effective manner.
Dr. Romero specializes in the treatment of complex arrhythmias, particularly in catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia (endocardial/epicardial) and atrial fibrillation (left atrial appendage electrical isolation) using cutting edge technology and the latest techniques. He performs all of his procedures without fluoroscopy (non-ionizing radiation), which avoids radiation exposure to the patients and his staff. He also specializes in His-bundle pacing and placement of left atrial appendage closure devices in patients who cannot take oral anticoagulation. Lead extractions, leadless pacemakers, and subcutaneous defibrillator implantations are also among his practiced interests.
Emergence of atrioventricular nodal reentry tachycardia after surgical or catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation: Are we creating the arrhythmia substrate?
Romero J, Kumar S, Akira F, Briceño DF, Tedrow UB, Epstein L, John R, Stevenson WG, Michaud GF.
Romero J, Ajijola O, Shivkumar K, Tung R.
Romero J, Michaud GF, Avendano R, Briceño DF, Kumar S, Carlos Diaz J, Mohanty S, Trivedi C, Gianni C, Della Rocca D, Proietti R, Perrotta L, Bordignon S, Chun JKR, Schmidt B, Garcia M, Natale A, Di Biase L.
Kumar S, Romero J, Stevenson WG, Foley L, Caulfield R, Fujii A, Tanigawa S, Epstein LM, Koplan BA, Tedrow UB, John RM, Michaud GF.


Robert Mueller authorized the scrubbing of vital evidence from disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok's iPhone, a new inspector general's report reveals.
After Mueller's special counsel's office reviewed Peter Strzok's text messages, all of the evidence was then swiftly deleted.
Bigleaguepolitics.com reports: The Mueller team is specifically responsible for the scrubbing of the Strzok phone, while the explanation for the Page phone is a bit more muddied.
Comey Sent Strzok To London To Meet With The Australians About George Papadopoulos.
On January 24, 2017, Peter Strzok interviewed General Michael Flynn inside the White House alongside another agent. Flynn's lawyer was not present. Flynn apparently did not tell the White House about his meeting. Guess who did?
Sally Yates, the anti-Trump deputy attorney general whose underling told the FBI to shut down the Clinton Foundation case. Yates informed the White House on January 26 that Flynn met with the FBI.