In response to my critique of Exvangelicals as a movement that centers whiteness, I wanted to offer some examples of movements led by people of color against white supremacy, as well as multi-racial movements led by people of color.
It's important for me to highlight POC-led movement because white led movement cannot lead communities out of right wing authoritarianism, as white supremacy exists as the ideological and cultural backbone of right-wing authoritarianism in our current age.
Some folks have observed that I have not addressed explicitly that the Exvangelical movement is not a Christian movement, which I do believe misses the heart of my critique, which is first and foremost about racism in the movement and the need to commit and unite over dismantling white supremacy. My critique is not about those who remove themselves from Christian religion altogether, and I can understand why someone who is not a Christian may come to that conclusion upon knowing that I myself am a Christian. However, my critique is about the ways that whiteness is still centered in a movement that believes itself to be anti-racist. Because participants of Exvangelicalism overwhelming fail to address and conspire against racism in that which they critique (white authoritarian Christian religion), I believe that my analogy, where I compare Exvangelicalism to the Women's March, still stands. Whether or not communities of Exvangelicals choose to identify with Christianity, what matters is that these communities must ultimately decided to decenter whiteness in ideology and in action.
White people must engage and do the heavy lifting of anti-racism work, but this means that white folks must be willing to take leadership and direction from communities of color, who can voluntarily and involuntarily reflect to white people how whiteness manifests in the world much more clearly than most white people are able to observe about themselves. White people need new role models. One cannot dismantle white supremacy by continuing to uplift white leaders, white ideologies, white culture, and white ways of being. I myself, as a queer black woman, have not been able to begin my healing process until I decided to stop being around progressive movements that centered white people and white culture. I experienced white progressive spaces as emotionally hostile and spiritually lonely; I constantly experienced overt and polite aggressions about my race in white-led congregations and festivals. I could barely find anyone who would show up for people of color like myself. I wasn't meeting people who were living anti-racist lives.
Anyway, I want to begin with this article by Deepa Iyer, where we commit ourselves to resisting cycles of outrage and numbness about the issues we see in the world. I appreciate this piece because Iyer asks us to look at the ways that our gifts and inclinations might align with roles we can play in fighting the many fights we are up against. What role(s) can you play in our current movements for social change? In anti-racist movements?
Now, here are some of the examples of movements and networks that I find are taking seriously the anti-racism part of challenging and resisting authoritarian Christianity. My short list also contains resources created by people highlighting some these movements/networks. I hope to share more in the future.
I am a part of the Good Neighbor Movement! This is a space where I feel like I can bring my whole self as a queer Christian and a black woman. This movement is multi-racial and includes white folks. White people — straight, cis, trans, single, coupled — are part of our communities, but they are co-laborers with people of color. Individuals in the Good Neighbor Movement have partnered with organizations in Greensboro (such as the Homeless Union of Greensboro) and with grassroots leaders in the fight against racist state violence.
Second Acts is a multi-racial community of Jesus followers that I deeply admire and deeply respect. Many of their members are part of the congregational life of First Congregational Church of Oakland in California, a church that made headlines last year for their commitment to refuse calling the police or involving police in any conflicts that may occur at the church. I became acquainted with this collective during my time at a convergence for Christians involved in or supporting the Movement for Black Lives. The convergence was entitled, Arise in Power. You can keep track of Second Acts by following their Facebook page, here.
La Mechuda by Carla Sofia Vargas — I wanted to uplift Carla Sofia's work as a lesbian Christian living in Nicaragua. She is a leader in the movement for LGBTQ justice in the Central America Church, which drips with the influences of white evangelicalism. I met Carla Sofia when I was part of The Reformation Project's 2018 Leadership Cohort. Our cohort met at an LGBTQ+ affirming congregation, but I remember how Carla Sofia courageously shared the lament she felt upon seeing a church bulletin with pictures of missionaries with brown children in Central America. Carla Sofia reminds us that the violence experienced by queer and trans individuals worldwide is a directly related to Western colonialism. Her work reminds us that our lands of origin are not inherently homophobic and patriarchal, but have become so because of the direct influence of Western-led international missions which many people of color understand as a colonialism enacted by the Christian church. Support her work on Patreon!
Check out this video by Bianca Louie, entitled Queer Asian American Christianity. She discusses the ways that queer Asian American millennials are disrupting and transforming Christian religion by resisting white supremacy.
Mystic Soul Project — Mystic Soul Project is a POC-led and POC-centered network for those interested in black, indigenous and people of colored centered spirituality, healing and social justice. There is so much to learn from within this community and they host gatherings, webinars and conferences. I was able to attend their conference last January and find that the network is full of leaders doing amazing things within their own contexts. If you want to see if there is a Mystic Soul community group in your area, click here.
Lastly, I find that Kenji Kuramitsu's critique of Wild Goose Festival to be an invaluable resource for those who are trying to move away from whiteness in progressivism. Wild Goose Festival attracts a lot of Exvangelical types, mostly Christian, but many who are moving away from Christian faith as well. As someone who has attended the festival about 4-5 times (more than half of the festivals lifetime), I've experienced that whiteness is the greatest barrier to many of the festival's ambitions which seems to be to provide gathering space that welcomes all and inspires spiritual and faith-led people towards peace and justice. Meeting Kenji and other leaders of color here was a deeply formative experience for me. Kenji also has a book of Uncommon Prayers which uses prayer to "confront white supremacy". I have this prayer book and find it helpful, as prayer has the power to transform our hearts, minds and actions.
Obviously, this is not and isn't meant to be an exhaustive resource. I am only one person and there are millions of movements and bridge builders outside my sphere of influence that may be in yours. I hope that this will encourage you to notice the movements that are around you in your own context. People of color have long been fighting patriarchy, homophobia, transphobia, capitalism and colonialism. We must cultivate the eyes to see. White folks must resist the narrative of the white savior and become partners and co-laborers. White progressives are not immune to the savior impulse.
If you are super interested in any POC ministries and movements, you should also consider supporting these ministries with your dollars. If you are part of a church community, consider partnering financially with one of these ministries, or including them into your monthly tithing cycle. Where you money goes speaks volumes to what you value, and people of color are often under resourced in our own ministries. We could use all of your financial support.
These are difficult times and I am terrified. I am terrified for myself and for the people that I love. I feel rushed and I feel urgency. I don't have all of the time in the world to convince you of my urgency with beautifully thought out language. Beautiful language or academic words are not the point. I only have this. If you, reading this, are a Christian/evangelical, and you cannot hear me or ascribe me the benefit of the doubt while I am in this pain, then your heart is callous.
I am frustrated with the evangelical tendency to make shallow and uninformed calls to love the oppressed. What I mean by this is that I often see Christians make statements that we need to love Muslims, we need to love Black people, we need to love LGBTQ+ people because they are siblings, they are family. But in the same breath, I see Christians perpetuate false information and stereotypes about the people they profess to call family.
These blog posts and sermons I see from Christians do not call the audience to action in a particular manner that is informed or helpful to those they speak of loving. I am worried that those who are unaffected by certain oppressions will hear those calls, tell themselves "I have never done a racist/Islamophobic/sexist act", and then convince themselves that by agreeing that the xyz neighbor must be loved, that having that agreement alone is what it takes to love the xyz neighbor.
An example I encountered of a vague, (late) and misinformed call to love is with an article posted on an evangelical website called Dear Church, Islamaphobia is Anti-Christ. I agree with the basic argument, that Christians must love our siblings who are Muslim. Of course. However, I am appalled by how the article perpetuates misinformation, one-dimensional narratives and a shallow notion of love. (Please feel free to read it yourself so you may form your own opinions). The author describes a personal experience where he watched a house of worship get destroyed by an extremist group. But the way that he introduces the idea of loving our Muslim neighbor is by talking about extremist groups like Daesh/ISIS.
Having an article about "loving your Muslim neighbor" and fighting Islamophobia while referencing an act committed by radicalized groups like Daesh, Boko Haram and the Taliban conflates the actions of these groups with an entire population of Muslim people. This is problematic on so many levels and perpetuates the stereotype that the religion of Muslim people is inherently a violent one.
The Muslim people that we encounter on a day to day basis, our neighbors and co-workers — they are not Daesh. They are not affiliated with the Taliban. But articles like the one I referenced make these false equivalencies.
Relying on stereotypes like this perpetuates the idea that some people are good and some are evil, that entire groups of people are not worthy of protection. Christians then waste time trying to self-righteously tell their peers to love a group of people whom they have and continue to dehumanize in their ignorance.
I am not writing you this to convince you that this reductive conflation of your Muslim neighbor with Daesh is wrong. Because it absolutely is wrong. You already know that assuming all Christians are KKK members is wrong. You already know that assuming that all Christians represent the Crusades is wrong.
So why do you refuse to understand that believing that all black people commit crimes is wrong?
Why are you hesitant to believe that most Muslims are just as human as you are?
Why do you spend so much energy relying on the stereotypes that this society has fed you?
Do you not understand how dehumanizing it is to keep doing this?
I encountered that article as someone who is tired of watching the humanity of the oppressed being debated by the Church. I am tired of watching Christians who might not identify with a particular oppression debate tirelessly whether we ought to fully include or protect the oppressed, whether that oppression is tied to someone's gender or someone's faith. I am tired of watching the Church spread false information about a group of people in order to discredit their humanity.
All of it is dehumanizing.
Christians should not be deciding whether or not women are worthy of protection before uplifting them.
Christians should not be deciding whether queer people are worthy of protection before protecting them.
Christians should not be deciding whether people of other faiths are worthy before protecting for them.
Because a tenant of our Christian faith is that ALL PEOPLE AND ALL LIVING THINGS ARE UNDENIABLY LOVED BY GOD.
And this love is not a shallow love. This is a Love that seeks JUSTICE and PEACE for the people that Love loves.
If we Christians really were committed to loving our Muslim neighbor (to continue on with the example of the article), we do not keep debating their humanity. If we say that we love someone, we already commit to wanting to understand them. We already commit to seeing them as human — as worthy of protection, safety, happiness and abundant life as ourselves. We already understand that the stereotypes are just that. Stereotypes.
These are dangerous times. Muslim Americans and immigrants and refugees have and continue to be survielled in their communities and threatened by hate crimes. Now, our neighbors have to wake up to television and social media timelines to hear politicians and authorities plot more evil actions against them.
As a black woman, I have watched a lot of white conservative, white moderate and even white progressive Christians waste precious time self-righteously writing blog post after blog post about whether or not my life matters and whether or not I am worth protecting. However, that time could have been used to more accurately understand what those who are being oppressed, stigmatized, and demonized are experiencing. That precious time could be spent fighting for a better life for your neighbors.
Beyond seeking to love our Muslim neighbor or our black LGBTQ+ neighbor, we must seek out justice for them, and we must confront the powers and principalities that are not interested in seeing justice for them.
If you are a Christian, you might be familiar with this verse.
Instead of wasting so much time, Christians, you need to name these forces and evil powers that contradict the values of Jesus. These powers have names, but they are not people, and these powers show up and appear in our communities in certain ways. White supremacy (which Alicia Crosby greatly describes here). Capitalism (which treats the bodies and landscapes inhabiting the world as disposable). Homophobia (which treats non-heterosexual relationships as less than human). And once you know what those forces are, you need to know how to combat them. And that requires that we build knowledge and wisdom and seek truth about what is happening in the world and in our community. That way, our knowledge and wisdom can accompany the love that we say we have for our neighbors.
As Christians, we should have already agreed that all of God's creatures were named good and that everyone is trying their best to live and to love well.
There were a lot of good intentions with blog posts like the one I mentioned. But good intentions are not enough, and misinformation can create serious harms. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, they say. We must have intimate knowledge about who our local and global neighbors are, knowledge about what actions we are to take, and knowledge about what our love is to look like at a particular time and place.
Otherwise, our love is just sentimental and imagined.


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Q: Invocation of init method failed when I add a query in a repository I'm trying the spring-data-neo4j in a project. I defined my domain object but I've got problems with the repository usage.
Below the code of my repository interface:
public interface UserRepository extends GraphRepository<User> {
    public User findByEmail(String email);
}

Easy, isn't it ? :)
But when I launch my spring project (a REST service), I got those exceptions:
23:13:23.833 [main] ERROR o.s.boot.SpringApplication - Application startup failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'userRepository': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.springframework.data.neo4j.repository.query.GraphQueryLookupStrategy.resolveQuery(Ljava/lang/reflect/Method;Lorg/springframework/data/repository/core/RepositoryMetadata;Lorg/springframework/data/repository/core/NamedQueries;)Lorg/springframework/data/repository/query/RepositoryQuery;
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1578)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:545)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:482)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:306)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:230)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:302)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:197)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:753)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:839)
    at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:538)
    at org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.refresh(EmbeddedWebApplicationContext.java:118)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:766)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.createAndRefreshContext(SpringApplication.java:361)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:307)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1191)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1180)
    at hello.Hello2Kt.main(Hello2.kt:18)
Caused by: java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.springframework.data.neo4j.repository.query.GraphQueryLookupStrategy.resolveQuery(Ljava/lang/reflect/Method;Lorg/springframework/data/repository/core/RepositoryMetadata;Lorg/springframework/data/repository/core/NamedQueries;)Lorg/springframework/data/repository/query/RepositoryQuery;
    at org.springframework.data.repository.core.support.RepositoryFactorySupport$QueryExecutorMethodInterceptor.<init>(RepositoryFactorySupport.java:416)
    at org.springframework.data.repository.core.support.RepositoryFactorySupport.getRepository(RepositoryFactorySupport.java:206)
    at org.springframework.data.repository.core.support.RepositoryFactoryBeanSupport.initAndReturn(RepositoryFactoryBeanSupport.java:251)
    at org.springframework.data.repository.core.support.RepositoryFactoryBeanSupport.afterPropertiesSet(RepositoryFactoryBeanSupport.java:237)
    at org.springframework.data.neo4j.repository.support.GraphRepositoryFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(GraphRepositoryFactoryBean.java:43)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1637)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1574)
    ... 16 common frames omitted
Disconnected from the target VM, address: '127.0.0.1:52143', transport: 'socket'
23:13:23.836 [main] INFO  o.s.b.l.ClasspathLoggingApplicationListener - Application failed to start with classpath: [file:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_74.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/charsets.jar, file:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_74.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/deploy.jar, file:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_74.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/cldrdata.jar, file:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_74.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/dnsns.jar, file:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_74.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/jaccess.jar, file:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_74.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/jfxrt.jar, file:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_74.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/localedata.jar, file:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_74.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/nashorn.jar, file:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_74.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext/sunec.jar, 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That is my dependencies (from pom.xml):
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-actuator</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-data-neo4j</artifactId>
        <version>4.1.1.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>

As you can see, I'm using a release version of the neo4j spring data integration (4.1.1.RELEASE).
For your information, if I don't declare any query function in the repository interface, the spring application starts without error.

A: could possibly be caused by a version conflict. could you try using the spring data without the version tags.
<dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-data-neo4j</artifactId>

    </dependency>

Look at this answer

A: Thanks to austin and the link he provided me, I've succeeded to launch my application with a repository.
I've added those lines below in my pom:
<dependencyManagement>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-data-releasetrain</artifactId>
                <version>Hopper-SR1</version>
                <type>pom</type>
                <scope>import</scope>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

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Huntingdon residents who want to put something back into their community by standing as a councillor have been invited to a special session being run by Huntingdon Town Council.
The authority is running a Be a Town Councillor event at the town hall on January 25, starting at 7pm.
Natasha Pierson, deputy town clerk, said: "If you feel passionate about Huntingdon and want to make a difference in your local community, come along to the town hall to find out about the role of a town councillor and the work of Huntingdon Town Council.
The council is holding the session ahead of elections in May and further information is available from town.council@huntingdontown.gov.uk or by calling 01480 388388.


In this article we report further explorations of the classroom video analysis instrument (CVA), a measure of usable teacher knowledge based on scoring teachers' written analyses of classroom video clips. Like other researchers, our work thus far has attempted to identify and measure separable components of teacher knowledge. In this study we take a different approach, viewing teacher knowledge as a system in which different knowledge components are flexibly brought to bear on specific teaching situations. We explore this idea through a series of exploratory factor analyses of teachers clip level scores across three different CVA scales (fractions, ratio and proportions, and variables, expressions, and equations), finding that a single dominant dimension explained from 55 to 63 % of variance in the scores. We interpret these results as consistent with a view that usable teacher knowledge requires both individual knowledge components, and an overarching ability to access and apply those components that are most relevant to a particular teaching episode.
Kersting, N, .Sutton, T., Kalinec-Craig, C., Stoehr, K., Heshmati,S., Lozano, G., & Stigler, J. (2015). Further exploration of the classroom video analysis (CVA) instrument as a measure of usable knowledge for teaching mathematics: taking a knowledge system perspective. ZDM Mathematics Education.


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Propane Bus Case Study: Fort Zumwalt
For More Than a Decade, Fort Zumwalt School District Proves Staying Power of Propane School Buses
District: Fort Zumwalt School District
Location: St. Charles County, Missouri
Vehicles: Blue Bird Vision Propane school buses (70)
Fueling: On-site propane autogas stations (2)
A St. Louis suburban school district's goal to reduce bus emissions and costs led to researching alternatives to diesel. The district became the first in the state to add propane autogas buses.
70 propane autogas school buses.
Approximately 10,000 miles traveled per bus per year.
70,000 gallons of propane autogas used annually.
Two propane autogas fueling stations.
$70,000 estimated annual reduction in fuel costs per year.
District and Fleet Background
The Fort Zumwalt School District comprises 125 square miles in St. Charles County, outside St. Louis, including the cities of O'Fallon and St. Peters. With 26 schools and 12,000 students transported by school buses each day, the district runs 110 daily and special-education routes, requiring the use of 174 school buses.
Migrating to a Cleaner Fuel
Fort Zumwalt School District's transportation department started researching alternatives to conventional fuels in 2010. According to Jeff Schwepker, director of transportation, propane autogas stood out because of the low price of fueling infrastructure and the ease of implementation. "We could achieve our district's two major objectives when it came to cleaner school buses: Saving money and forging a greener footprint," said Schwepker.
Schwepker initially learned about propane buses from the district's bus dealer, Central States Bus Sales.
In 2011, the district purchased eight Blue Bird Vision Propane buses, replacing diesel models from early 2000s. ROUSH CleanTech, the propane fuel system manufacturer, provided training for the district.
"Propane autogas school buses reduce the costs of fuel and maintenance, allowing school districts like Fort Zumwalt to spend less on transportation and more on education," said Jeff Reitz, president of Blue Bird dealer Central States Bus Sales.
Affecting Regional Change
The propane autogas buses benefit not only Fort Zumwalt School District, but the surrounding community since they cut harmful emissions. Propane autogas is a nontoxic, non-carcinogenic and non-corrosive fuel. Propane autogas is naturally lower in nitrogen oxides, which are federally regulated due to their negative impact on human health and the environment. The buses also produce fewer greenhouse gases and smog-producing hydrocarbons, and no particulate matter.
The clean-operating buses eliminate the strong-smelling fumes and harmful tailpipe emissions found with diesel buses. According to a 2019 West Virginia University study, propane school buses reduce nitrogen oxides by at least 95% compared with diesel.
In 2013, the school district won the Community Leadership in Environmental Awareness Now (CLEAN) award, presented by the Missouri Propane Education & Research Council, for the buses.
Budget Benefits
Financially, the propane buses have more than achieved the district's goals. Schwepker says the district pays $1.36 per gallon for propane, comparing favorably to $2.32 per gallon of diesel. The fuel savings translates to about $70,000 per year for the district. On average, propane costs 50% less than diesel.
Ford Zumwalt School District's propane autogas school buses also lower total cost of ownership by saving on fuel, fluids and filters. Due to the fuel's clean composition, there are no complex and costly after-treatment systems. "Initially we had some issues with maintenance, but we worked through them," he said.
The district accomplishes these cost reductions with a domestic fuel; more than 90% of the U.S. propane supply is processed in the nation, with an additional 7% from Canada. Missouri has access to dependable propane supplies through six terminals statewide.
Fueling Infrastructure
When it comes to fueling, there are three options for propane fleets. Some districts choose mobile fueling where a local propane supplier fills up buses directly from a delivery truck. Others fuel at public propane stations across the nation. However, most school districts, like Fort Zumwalt, install onsite infrastructure for the convenience and low cost — propane infrastructure is inexpensive; a station costs less than any other fuel type. Fort Zumwalt installed two fueling stations on school property. One has a pair of 3,000-gallon tanks, and the other has a 9,000-gallon tank, refilled regularly by propane provider Ferrellgas.
"The fueling process is quick and easy and is similar to diesel," said Schwepker.
Propane suppliers specialize in helping fleets choose the right fueling option based on the fleet size, routes, budget and facility space. Schwepker counsels other fleet operators new to propane autogas to "plan your pump station wisely to maintain a level surface."
Schwepker works to ensure his drivers feel comfortable driving the district's propane buses.
"The drivers were a little tentative at first. But that dissipated quickly when they realized that the new buses warmed up the cabins quickly, a major plus in our Midwest winter cold," said Schwepker. "Warm -up time at idle is comparable to a car." Plus, the new buses are quiet, allowing the drivers to hear clearly what is going on behind them, and the smooth engine is a definite improvement over diesel models. "The quiet operation is a big advantage to the neighborhoods in the mornings," he added.
The drivers also found the performance better than expected. "The drivers enjoy driving them. The propane buses are similar to diesel in all performance respects," said Schwepker.
Low Carbon Fuel
Because propane is a low carbon, low emission fuel, a variety of state and federal grants and funding opportunities are available. Fort Zumwalt takes advantage of federal excise tax credits each year, which reduces the cost of each gallon of propane. The Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC) provides financial data and tools to help fleets, and within the state of Missouri, the Missouri Propane Education & Research Council offers financial incentives to help offset the cost of propane autogas school buses.
Fort Zumwalt School District began purchasing propane autogas buses more than a decade ago, and other Missouri districts followed suit. Currently, about 300 propane buses operate in the state, and more than 21,000 across the nation.
Today, Fort Zumwalt operates 40% of its bus fleet with propane. Schwepker's game plan is to continue replacing aging 77- and 53-passenger school buses with new propane autogas models. The decision means significant fuel and maintenance cost savings, and a community that can breathe deeply due to reduced emissions.
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Heteronormativity in Employment Discrimination Law
Naomi Schoenbaum, George Washington University Law SchoolFollow
This symposium Essay responds to the EEOC's new decision to interpret federal employment discrimination law's ban on discrimination on the basis of sex to include a ban on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. It argues that although the EEOC's decision does provide cause to celebrate, ongoing heteronormativity in federal employment discrimination law will continue to stand as a barrier to equal employment opportunity for gay workers. First, Title VII provides an exception to the sex discrimination ban in the context of intimate spaces, allowing, for example, only women to be hired to serve as labor and delivery nurses. This exception proceeds on the assumption that same-sex spaces are no-sex spaces, furthering the presumption that all employees are heterosexual. Second, Title VII provides an exception to the ban on sex discrimination in the context of role-modeling for children, allowing, for example, only women to be hired as counselors to serve as role models for female clients. This exception assumes that sex dictates the ability to fulfill particular parenting roles, furthering the notion that heterosexual couples have a parenting advantage over same-sex couples. Finally, Title VII's ban on sexual harassment generally treats male-on-female harassment as sex discrimination by assuming that harassers are heterosexual, reinforcing heteronormative assumptions with every such case. So while the EEOC's decision will provide some protection for gay workers, a more searching inquiry of the law to root out bias on the basis of sexual orientation will be necessary for employment discrimination law to achieve its promise of equal employment opportunity for these workers.
Schoenbaum, Naomi, Heteronormativity in Employment Discrimination Law (2017). Washburn Law Journal, Vol. 56, 2017; GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2017-38; GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-38. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2977318


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Home Latest News United States assault on ASICS Half Marathon | Gold Coast Marathon
PHOTO: Sara Hall of Redding, Calif., wins the 2017 USA Marathon Championships women's title at the California International Marathon in Sacramento, Calif., in 2:28:10 (photo by David Monti for Race Results Weekly)
United States assault on ASICS Half Marathon | Gold Coast Marathon
Defending champion Sara Hall and 2:25 marathon runner Laura Thweatt will lead a two-pronged United States attack in the ASICS Half Marathon on the Gold Coast next Sunday 1 July.
Hall, who won the race last year in 1:10:30, is the top seed and will arrive on the Gold Coast in cracking form following a marathon personal best (PB) of 2:26:20 in Ottawa, Canada last month.
The 35-year-old, who also placed second in the race in 2015, will be striving to better her half marathon PB of 1:09:37 as well as claim the winner's spoils of AUD 6,000 plus time bonuses.
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Her compatriot Thweatt, coached by Australian distance running legend and Gold Coast Marathon ambassador Lee Troop (a previous winner of the ASICS Half Marathon), is also in good form having run a 10K PB of 32:20 in Ottawa.
Thweatt is a highly accomplished marathon runner having run 2:28:23 on debut in the New York City Marathon in 2015 and clocking a PB of 2:25:38 in last year's London Marathon.
With the likely strong competition at the front of the field in good Gold Coast conditions, the 29-year-old may leave next Sunday with a new PB under 1:11:02.
The US duo won't have it their own way with a Japanese runner out to add to her country's 22 winners (6 men, 16 women) in the history of the ASICS Half Marathon.
Hanae Tanaka has the fastest half marathon PB in the race (1:09:18 set in 2013) as well as solid form this year highlighted by a sixth placing in the Nagoya Women's Marathon in March in 2:27:40.
Australia's Sinead Diver and Ellie Pashley won't be without a chance to add to a stellar home country honour roll in the 21.1km race.
Diver (1:11:40) and Pashley (1:11:43) both set PBs at the World Half Marathon Championships in Valencia in March and have enjoyed a progressive past 12 months.
Diver set a marathon PB of 2:31:37 in Nagoya last year and, since then, has recorded her best times for 10km on the road, 5000m and 10,000m on the track, and the half marathon.
The 40-year-old runner has also been a podium finisher twice in the ASICS Half Marathon, placing second in 2014 and third in 2016.
Following a similar improvement curve, 29-year-old Pashley clocked a marathon PB of 2:35:55 in Berlin last year and followed that up with best performances over 5000m, 10km on the road and the half marathon.
She also has course experience on the Gold Coast finishing sixth last year at her first attempt.
If Diver or Pashley can break the tape next Sunday, they will join a long list of Aussie female winners of the race such as Lisa Ondieki, Kerryn McCann, Lisa Weightman and Eloise Wellings.
In the ASICS Half Marathon for men, Australia has another good chance to record a victory with World Half Marathon Championships representative Collis Birmingham, previous Gold Coast race winner Liam Adams and a couple of potential bolters in Jack Rayner and Joel Tobin-White.
One of Australia's most versatile male distance runners of recent years, Birmingham will be making his Gold Coast debut.
The 33-year-old from Victoria has a half marathon PB of 1:00:56 from 2013 which sits him third in the Australian all-time rankings behind Darren Wilson and Steve Moneghetti.
In March at the World Half Marathon Championships, Birmingham clocked 1:03:44 which places his season's best ahead of countryman Adams who clocked 1:05:36 for second in last month's Sydney Half Marathon.
The 31-year-old set his PB of 1:03:28 when he won the ASICS Half Marathon in 2012, however wasn't far off that mark last year (1:03:49) when he finished second in this race.
Adams was a gallant performer on the Gold Coast recently too, finishing fifth in the Commonwealth Games marathon.
The runner who beat Adams in the Sydney Half Marathon was 24-year-old Tobin-White who clocked a PB of 1:05:21 in the process.
Another in-form Aussie is Rayner, 22, who broke an 11-year-old race record to win the Launceston 10K in 28:32 earlier this month.
Like the women's race, the previous winner's list is a who's who of Australian distance running with names such as Pat Carroll, Andrew Lloyd, Steve Moneghetti, Darren Wilson, Lee Troop, Martin Dent, Jeff Hunt, Michael Shelley and Adams all featuring.
View Previous Winners
One of the international runners hoping to spoil an Australian party in the men's race is William Chebor of Kenya, the 2009 winner of the Gold Coast Marathon.
Whilst not in the form of nine years ago, the 35-year-old Chebor has run 2:21:32 in the Chongqing Marathon in China this year and 2:16:08 last year in Kaohsiung, Taipei.
In both the men's and women's races, Australian athletes are likely to fight out the podium placings in the IAAF Oceania Area Half Marathon Championships. New Zealand's best chances will be Aaron Pulford and Caden Shields in the men's race.
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ASICS Half Marathon Top 5 Seeds
William Chebor (KEN) 1:00:49
Collis Birmingham (AUS) 1:00:56
Liam Adams (AUS) 1:03:28
Nick Earl (GBR) 1:04:52
Brad Milosevic (AUS) 1:04:53
Sara Hall (USA) 1:09:37
Hanae Tanaka (JPN) 1:09:18
Laura Thweatt (USA) 1:11:02
Sinead Diver (AUS) 1:11:40
Ellie Pashley (AUS) 1:11:43
Race records:
Men – Benson Masya (KEN) – 1:01:16 – 1992
Women – Lisa Jane Weightman (AUS) – 1:09:00 – 2010
Most wins:
Men: 2 – Martin Dent (AUS), Jeff Hunt (AUS), Patrick Nyangelo (TAN)
Women: 3 – Lisa Jane Weightman (AUS), Takako Kotarida (JPN)
ASICS Half Marathon Fastest Performances
Benson Masya (KEN) 1:01:16 | 1992
Steve Moneghetti (AUS) 1:01:48 | 1993
Tadesse Gebre (ETH) 1:01:48 | 1993
Stephen Mayaka (KEN) 1:01:58 | 1994
Dickson Marwa (TAN) 1:02:09 | 2009
Lisa Weightman (AUS) 1:09:00 | 2010
Midori Fumoto (JPN) 1:09:38 | 1992
Lisa Ondieki (AUS) 1:09:43 | 1988
Takako Kotorida (JPN) 1:10:03 | 2002
Eloise Wellings (AUS) 1:10:10 | 2015
Comments from last year's winner Sara Hall:
"It felt very redemptive to run a personal best in Ottawa after all the hard training I had done in the winter, followed by a difficult period of cross training and rehabilitation for my SI joint injury in March. I was heartbroken to have not made the start line for the Boston Marathon, which is what all my training had been geared towards, but Ottawa gave me a goal to refocus on.
"I am really loving the half and full marathon training right now and feel I have more room to improve. I've been able to get in some good half marathon specific work since Ottawa and put in three solid weeks of training before I started backing off for the Gold Coast race. The nice thing about this preparation is I had only been running for eight weeks at the time of Ottawa so I feel like I am still gaining fitness instead of just trying to hold onto it.
"My goal is definitely to run faster than last year in the ASICS Half Marathon. I enjoy the half marathon more than the full marathon at the moment so I'm excited to try to put together a good one, and the Gold Coast is my favourite place to do that. I love the course, the weather is great, and I have felt inspired and had a lot of fun both times I've run it. Starting in the dark and then seeing the sun coming up over the Broadwater is really unique."
Comments from Cameron Hart, Events Management Queensland CEO
"The ASICS Half Marathon will provide a fitting start to Sunday's race program that culminates with the 40th edition Gold Coast Marathon.
"The fields for the ASICS Half Marathon are fast with a strong group of international runners from the United States, Japan, Kenya, Great Britain and New Zealand, while Australian athletes have a great chance to claim a couple of wins on home roads."
The 40th edition Gold Coast Marathon will feature eight races including the Gold Coast Marathon, Wheelchair Marathon, ASICS Half Marathon, Wheelchair 15km, Southern Cross University 10km Run, Gold Coast Airport Fun Run, Garmin 4km Junior Dash and Garmin 2km Junior Dash.
The Gold Coast Marathon is organised by Events Management Queensland, a major event management company wholly owned by the Queensland Government as part of Tourism and Events Queensland.
Visit goldcoastmarathon.com.au for more information.
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Best Action Camera 2014 - Ultimate POV Camera Shootout
By adminon May 21, 2014 - Read 176774 times
Action cameras aren't merely changing the production world, they have become a staple of the production world. Getting the inside shot is simple with POV cameras and the number of choices in this niche world is broad and perhaps daunting. Action cameras are inexpensive and provide a simple means of additional camera angles to any production.
In this review, I'm going to tackle all of the "name-brand" cameras available out there. This article will not provide the answer to "which camera should I buy?" The range of criteria is so broad that the question is beyond the scope of a single review. This review will provide information about which action-camera is best suited for specific criteria and provide information that may help you make informed purchasing decisions.
I've gathered what I believe to be the most viable options for most "extreme" sport enthusiasts for shooting broadcast-quality video. During this review, each camera is set to 1920x1080, 30fps (except where otherwise noted).
The criteria for inclusion:
Price point (150.00-400.00 USD)
Bit-rate (16Mbps or higher)
Codec (must be non-proprietary)
The selectees:
GoPro 3+ ($399.00)
GoPro 3 Black ($349.00)
Sony AS100 ($299.00)
Sony AS30 ($299.00)
JVC Adixxion ($299.00)
Midland XTC400 ($249.00)
Polaroid XS100 ($169.00)
ReplayXD Mini ($199.00)
Liquid Ego ($179.00)
Drift Ghost S ($399.00)
Scoring Procedure
With the criteria determined, particpants selected, I created a scoring sheet that could be used as a reference throughout the process. The goal is to be as objective as possible in a subjective conversation.
A panel was selected, four people who would review images from the cameras and choose the best image when image quality was relevant. Other factors such as battery life, wireless functionality/reliability, audio features/quality are objective. Scores are based on how these functions are implemented and may be relied upon.
For this shootout I mounted 17 action cameras on a single helmet, then took it skydiving, snorkeling, zip-lining, bob-sleighing and motorcycling to enable accurate side-by-side comparisons of each camera.
For example in the battery life test, the Liquid Ego went for nearly 5 hours of record time, blowing through a few cards, while the Garmin VIRB and GoPro 3 Black barely reached 50 minutes of record time. The Liquid Ego nets a score of "5" while the Garmin VIRB and GoPro 3+Black earn a score of 2. The Sony AS series weighed in at just over 2.75 hours earning a score of "4". Had it not been for the curve-altering record times of the Liquid Ego, the Midland and Polaroid cameras, Sony's AS100 would have won this category. Regardless, with a linear scoring value of 0-5, the weighting may seem unbalanced from time to time. Please note that the score card contains two scores; one based exclusively on image quality, and the other score relevant to the overall product experience.
Most of the cameras have tweaks and settings that allow them to be the best they can for specific situations. Rather than setting each camera to its best settings, all cameras were used exactly as they come out of the box. In other words, once the box was opened the battery was charged, a card inserted into the camera and formatted, it was put to the test.
Sony, GoPro, and ReplayXD all have internal tweaks accessible via either proprietary software or .txt files. Each allow for an optimized image even though I've avoided using any of these optimizations.
After all the results were in and the panel gave their feedback, here's what the final result looked like. I sorted the score sheet below by total score but you can click on any header to sort the table by that column and see how the different cameras compared in any specific test. I discuss each test area in detail below.
Score Sheet
Winner in Image Quality - Sony AS100V
The subject of image quality is subjective. The four panelists had to choose from a variety of videos (a few of which are linked in this article). Factors involved in the comparison are dynamic range (darkest to the brightest representation of image content), saturation, color accuracy, codec compression/banding/pixelation, motion management, and frame to frame blurring.
Watch the Wingsuit Exit Video
For example, in the image above, the center top allows for the lake in the background to be seen, while also allowing for the darker interior and tires of the aircraft to hold details. There are no blowouts of the highlights, and the reds, greys, whites, and orange colors are all accurate to original. Watch the YouTube-linked video at the 4K resolution on YouTube for the best experience and ability to determine which image you find best. Each camera is displayed at approximately 720p.
You'll likely want to turn off your audio as there is no usable audio content.
Watch the Zipline Video
Watch the Bobsled Video
In the above test, one of the cameras failed due to (I believe) card error. The high motion, high contrast, light and dark areas for exposure testing provides for a terrific challenge. Even in the still framegrabs, the torture is evident in blur, color, and compression artifacting.
Watch Wingsuit Overhead Video
The complexity of the ground coupled with the high motion makes for a good test of contrasts and detail management in moving platforms. Note that the majority of the cameas are set to an FOV of 120 degrees, as that's how they come out of the box. A couple cameras are 170 degrees.
All panelists unanimously chose this action camera over all others in all resolutions and framerates. The GoPro 3+ came in second. The Sony AS30 takes third prize, and an honorable mention goes to the Drift Ghost S. In well-lit situations, the Midland and Garmin VIRB cameras really surprised me too, but at 35Mbps (this camera also does 50Mbps in XAVC-S mode, not used in this shootout), the Sony AS100 sweeps the image quality score.
Winner in Battery Life - Liquid Ego
This was a stunner. I left all the cameras running/recording and went to dinner. Battery life would be lessened by movement, but the bigger point was how long the cameras could record. In most cases, the camera battery died prior to the card being filled (I used 16 GB cards for this test). The Liquid Ego kept running and running, filling a 16 and then 8 GB card before finally dying at just under 5 hours in 1080 mode. Wifi was disabled (all wifi was disabled for most tests).
This is one of the least expensive cameras in the shootout; it has some shortcomings, yet one major bonus is that this camera, removed from its own mounting clip, can be fitted to GoPro mounting systems. Brilliant move on the part of Liquid!
What I didn't like about this camera are the number of button presses to record in 720-30p or 60p without wireless enabled. However, shooting in 1080 mode is as simple as turning it on and hitting record.
When in the waterproof case, it's impossible to see the LCD display. For budget users, this is an easy camera to like.
Winner of the Action Camera Profile Category - ReplayXD Mini 1080
At slightly larger diameter than a nickel this camera is rock-solid, doesn't need stabilization, and blew my mind when I found I could drive a car over it. So small to present less of a snag hazard for skydivers, this tiny marvel is also perfect for UAV/Drones, hiding on cars (ReplayXD is the camera most used in professional auto-racing) and so small it can even be placed upright under a skateboard. It's tiny and weighs virtually nothing. The camera also offers a threaded head so that lens adapters may be used for either lenses or filters for better image. This is tremendously valuable for outside photography, where an ND filter will immediately remove the heavy contrast and juddered playback, while reducing jello-cam (rolling shutter) issues. JVC, Polaroid, and Garmin all have the ability to come in fairly high in this conversation except their mounting systems are not only flimsy, they're high profile and a snag hazard. Using these cameras without their manufacturer-issued mounts will provide a very low platform and a much more stable image.
The waters of Ocho Rios Jamaica, Mystic Mountain for snorkeling, bobsled, and zipline testing
Lake Elsinore California for skydive tests
Virgin River Gorge for road/motorcycle testing
Toronto, Ontario for slow motion and other comparisons
Although durability wasn't a measured factor in this shootout, ReplayXD would easily win the durability category (comparing cameras out of their waterproof box). There simply isn't a tougher camera on the market. Other features I like; the camera offers up timecode for professionals, external audio inputs and user-controllable image quality (Saturation, Exposure, Audio Gain, Sharpness, etc).
Winner of the Wifi Category - Sony AS100 and Liquid Ego
This was a tougher call. Other than the Replay Mini, all of the POV cameras offer wifi control or connectivity to a mobile device. I tested the systems on a Samsung GalaxyIII cell and Samsung Galaxy Tab2 tablet. All devices connected successfully. All devices allow for some level of "streaming preview." Some devices such as the JVC Adixxion allow for streaming directly to UStream if the user has an account and is fortunate enough to be very close to a WAP. Streaming for preview is a serious drain on battery life, rarely works in a moving environment, and is overall somewhat useless beyond setting up a camera angle or adjusting settings (in this writer's view). Sony's Play Memories application was difficult to use on their early AS15 models but on the AS100 they've gotten it right. It's install and done. The same can be said for the Liquid Ego. JVC's Adixxion was a bit of a struggle but it did work once all the paths were traveled properly.
The same can be said for the Garmin VIRB, the Polaroid X, and the Midland XTC. GoPro was also reasonably easy to set up so saying that the Sony and Liquid win this category is essentially a small thing. In the end, these two were simply easier/faster to set up than the others by a small margin of time and/or frustration. It should be mentioned that the JVC Adixxion was the most difficult to set up. They use a broader-scope application called WiVideo, designed to work with a host of action cameras.
Wet Use
Winner of the Wet Use Category - Three Way Tie Between GoPro3+, Sony AS100 and Drift Ghost S
What made the difference in this category is "how deep can they go and how easy are they to operate under water?" I did not take the action cameras to their rated depths and I am relying on the manufacturers for accurate information on how deep these POV cameras can go. With that said the Replay Mini, Garmin VIRB, Ghost S, Polaroid XS, do not require water housings.
Watch Underwater Video
After spending 3 hours in the water with the action cameras, water was no issue for any of the cameras. GoPro and Sony both include the waterproof housing in the purchase price. Garmin, Midland, Liquid, and even ReplayXD (for depths greater than 12') all require the purchase of a waterproof housing for wet use. For underwater image quality, Sony AS100 and Drift Ghost S provide the most accurate image, yet the GoPro has a slightly smoother color saturation that is pleasing to the eye. For reasons I could not figure out, the Sony AS30 fogged in the lens. This didn't happen with the AS100 and more curious, it didn't happen with the hand-held AS15 I was using to document the event. The fogging didn't affect the image much, but it was there. What I liked most about the AS100 is that the LCD panel is large and it was easy to see what was going on with the camera while under water.
Winner of the Audio Category - Sony AS100
With external microphone-in that requires no adapters, AGC, and high-end audio converters, this camera offers wonderful compressed audio, equal to the audio recording capability of significantly more expensive cameras. The Sony AS30 also offers external audio inputs, but is a bit less flexible, as the audio input is hidden under the connection cover.
ReplayXD also offers external microphone input as does the GoPro 3+ but both require larger, more bulky adapters that cost more dollars. ReplayXD offers a user-controlled gain function which is a real benefit to professionals needing nat audio from locations and in loud environments (such as auto races or helicopter skins). However, the Sony AS100 offers not only the external microphone input on the bottom of the action camera (obviously cannot be used in the water housing), but a higher grade of DAC (Digital Audio Converter) than its categorical counterparts.
Winner of the Ease of Use Category - No Clear Winner
Most of the cameras offer a one-button on/record feature. Out of the box the Sony series, Polaroid, Midland, Garmin, and ReplayXD cameras offer a one-button record feature. GoPro offers one button record as a menu feature, and the Drift can be programmed to loop and record when turned on for ease of use. However, out of the box there are several that are easy to use as point and press action camcorders and so there is no clear winner.
If menus are the measure then the Drift Ghost S, the Garmin VIRB, and the JVC Adixxion win for graphic interface. Sony AS series win for clear instruction and ease of navigation. The GoPro wins for sheer depth of options. I'm not a fan of some of the GoPro surface options that make the menus long and kludgy to navigate. Curiously enough, ReplayXD has no menu; all controls are done in a .txt file set on a phone, tablet, or computer. However, their menu options go deeper and are more relevant to picture quality than any other POV camera available.
Winner of the Mounts Category - Replay XD Mini
Although the (likely obvious) winner for mounts would be GoPro, it actually isn't. On sheer numbers of achievable angles and mounting systems, REPLAYXD Mini takes the prize with GoPro following a close second. There is a reason there are so many mounting kit options for some of the cameras out there; their factory mounts are terrible.
Many of the parts and pieces available for various POV cameras are designed to compensate for the initial weaknesses of the mounting system. Mounting systems matter far more than most users of action cams realize. If the mount is not 100% solid then the image will be unstable and aside from needing stabilization in post (which affects image quality), the image will likely incur 'jello-cam' also known as "rolling shutter," which cannot be repaired.
In this video, both are out-of-the-box mounting systems. Note the difference in stability. A rock solid mount needs no stabilization work in post. Choosing the right mount system is important. A weak mount will be buffeted by the wind, bounced around by roads, surf, or the turbulence that affects a UAV camera platform.
Internal stabilization is a tremendous benefit if it is done well. The Sony AS100 has a tremendous stabilization system (Sony has long been famous for their BOSS camera stabilization) matched by no other low-cost camera whether a POV/Action camera or a larger palm-corder category camera.
This stabilization system makes the AS100 superior for use on a UAV platform, as it is not susceptible to jello cam, is very light weight, and allows for long battery life. Matched with a two or three-point gimbal flawless smooth video is possible for very little cost on a drone system.
JVC and Garmin VIRB ELITE offer stabilization, but at a tremendous cost of resolution and color saturation.
Slow-Motion/Overcrank
Winner of the Slow-Motion/Overcrank Category - Sony AS100
It's no surprise that the newer Sony AS100 wins in this category. Only Sony and GoPro offer high framerates of 120 or 240 frames per second, so only the Sony AS100 and the GoPro 3+ were tested for these features. Most every action sport benefits from slow motion, so with the ability of the Sony AS100 to sync up to five cameras with one button push, it makes for a wonderful mix of slow motion and normal motion possibilities.
GoPro 3+ shoots 240fps with a resolution of 720 x 480 pixels and Sony shoots at 800x480 pixels. The Sony has been cropped to match the GoPro3+. Both cameras would benefit in their "pro modes" where GoPro offers up to 35Mbps and Sony AS100 offers 50Mbps in the semi-professional XAVC-S mode. However, since these tests are entirely "out of the box," it was not appropriate to compare the slow motion at anything but the stock settings.
Winner of the Low Light Category - Tie Between Sony AS100V and GoPro3+
This is a challenging category for most of these cameras. All of them have very small imagers and lenses that shoot at a very high resolution. Packing so many pixels onto very small surfaces means very little light can get into the individual pixel sensors and therefore, noise is usually part and parcel of for each of these POV cameras.
GoPro offers the smoother color representation with slightly more noise. Sony is brighter with less noise, but a blue cast is apparent in both Sony cameras. The additional information in the 50Mbps file allows for a cleaner color correction, yet the smoother color in the GoPro 3+ means less need for color correction. Pushing the color in the GoPro3+ at 35Mbps brings up the noise pretty quickly, so if matching cameras is part of the workflow, beware that matching higher grade formats might be difficult. It's a choice between removing blueish casting or a fair amount of noise reduction processing in the professional environment. On a personal note, I'd prefer to remove/reduce the blue cast.
Watch the Low Light
The table cloth in this image is purple, not black. The GoPro3+ (lower right) is smoother in its dynamic range but less accurate than the Sony AS100V (upper left). The GoPro Black at 16Mbps is quite noisy, while the Sony AS30 is clean, but also displaying a blueish cast.
Winner of the Extra Featured Category - Garmin Virb
This category is easily earned by the GARMIN VIRB. With a cyclometer, heart rate monitor, GPS, ANT+™ wireless control (a wide range of remote and input possibilities), accelerometer, barometer, and a "skiing" mode that is a huge benefit to action sports enthusiasts, this camera is packed with features. In Skiiing mode, the camera knows when you're engaged in your activity or not. It will stop recording when you've landed, stopped moving, etc. Unfortunately for skydivers, the camera senses aircraft movement as "sporting movement so in this mode, it will record the climb to altitude. For mountain-cyclists, this is a great feature. However, it's also a battery-eater. Sony AS100 and GoPro 3+ also offer a plethora of features that advanced users will appreciate, such as higher framerates, controllable scenes, FOV adjustments, 24p, and other video-related features. Both Sony AS100 and ReplayXD Mini offer Timecode for multiple camera sync, logging, or reference video.
Professional Codecs/Bitrates
Winner of the Professional Codecs/Bitrates Category - Sony AS100V
Both Sony AS100V and the GoPro 3+(Black) offer users higher bitrates and professional codecs for critical functions that will benefit the editing process during post production. Only these two cameras offer these features and although the unique features go beyond the scope of this review, I feel it's worth of demonstrating what the differences look like. Not all video editing systems can manage these codecs. Professional video software has the necessary decoders yet even casual users can find free decoders on the GoPro and Sony websites. Apple FinalCut has issues with both the XAVC and Cineform codecs without downloading the decoder but again, every pro-level application can decode/read files generated by these cameras.
Why would one want a higher bitrate, more robust codec? If color correction or compositing are to be employed to process the footage captured by these action cameras, it's a good idea to have as much information in the file as possible. A higher bitrate provides more "bits" that the NLE can push around, and still retain quality.
Watch the Codec Test Video
This image is raw, no processes added. Keep in mind that when shooting high bitrates the camera is shooting flat, no internal color processing. In the upper right is a GoPro Black shooting standard bitrate. In the lower left, I've set the Sony AS 30 to "Neutral" so that there is no color processing. Pay attention to detail rather than color range. This is an overcast day, so there is no blue in the sky. In the next image, I'll oversaturate and over luminate the image to better demonstrate how far the footage can be processed without falling apart.
Here, an HSL filter has been applied. Note that the Sony AS100V in the upper left, and the GoPro 3+ in the lower right, best hold together. As subjective as this conversation is, most would agree that the AS100V at 50Mbps holds together better than its counterparts, although the GoPro 3+ at 35Mbps is very impressive. This is a very important consideration for professional users.
To access high bitrates with the Sony AS100V action camera, a 64GB SDXC card is required. Smaller cards use the FAT format while the larger 64GB card uses EXFAT. EXFAT is necessary to access the PRO mode in the AS100V. The manual does not clearly state this, so beware. It actually took two calls to Sony technical support to realize this. Their own technical support team didn't know the answer, probably due to the newness of the camera model.
See the 4K video for more content and comparison.
All in all, each of the action camera/POV camera products tested in this shootout did very, very, well and far exceeded the quality of cameras only one generation past. This shootout truly came down to a select few cameras though, and any one of the top five are excellent choices depending on requirements for form factor, image quality, post-production requirements, and high framerates.
Not unexpectedly, the scoring fell very close to the price points of the cameras. Only the ReplayXD Mini was the surprise. Ultimately, it came down to a few things, all of them feature-related as opposed to picture quality related. Truly, there are so many offerings overall, it's impossible to suggest that any one camera is significantly better than the others for overall use. My personal preferences come down to the Sony AS100V, it's been called the "GoPro-killer" by many reviewers, but there is a reason everyone compares themselves to GoPro cameras; GoPro is a damn fine product. I don't care for the GoPro manufacturer mounts, and mount stability is a very large factor in action sports, motor sports, and high-impact situations. The Garmin VIRB took me by surprise; the camera is the heaviest of the lot and has a terrible mount. It would be a terrific camera for most users if the mount was as stable as the camera itself. It truly feels like manufacturers pay almost no attention to the stability of the mounting system, and it's for this reason that I didn't use most of the manufacturer mounts (I was doing them a favor while also watching out for my own safety).
Mounts aside, battery life aside, the VIRB is an exciting newcomer to the mix of cameras. Midland's new XTC 400 really threw me for a loop, as the camera feels/looks cheap. Again, they have a horrid mount that is even more flimsy than GoPro's mount. Yet the picture quality, price point, and ease of use make the Midland a wonderful choice for the budget-conscious sport shooter. Finally, Liquid's EGO really is a delight. Yeah, it's a pain in the ass to use when in the water housing, and it has a mount identical to GoPro, but it looks like a Minion. How can one just simply not LOVE a Minion? The record time makes this an all-day camera and given that it shares mount points with GoPro, a whole world of mounts are available for this fun little camera at the lowest price point in the mix (it barely made the review criteria).
Final Standings:
Sony AS100
GoPro Hero 3+
ReplayXD Mini 1080
Sony AS30
Garmin VIRB
GoPro 3 Black
Drift Ghost S
JVC Adixxion
Midland XTC400
Liquid Ego
Polaroid XS100
All The Test Videos:
Motocycle / Road
Underwater Snorkel
Underwater Snorkel II
Underwater Snorkel III
Wingsuit Overhead
Wingsuit Exit
Zipline II
Codec Test
This Week in Photo
1st Runner Up
2nd Runner Up
Replay XD Mini
New Action Camera Releases
- Sony HDR-AZ1VR (Release Date: October 2014)
- GoPro Hero 4 (Release Date: October 2014)
Douglas Spotted Eagle (D29060) is a videographer/producer living between the world of professional production and skydiving. With more than 5000 skydives and 300 film/television productions, he loves playing with cameras and things that go fast. He is the managing producer and instructional designer at VASST, who will be releasing "ActionCam ClipFix," an NLE plugin product designed for POV camera shooters. Thanks to Max at Mystic Mountain, John/Karl/Steve/Kenn/Ziggy at Skydive Elsinore, Pepper at Jamaica Snorkel, the Arizona Highway Patrol, Dropzone.com, Adam, Roger, and Nashie who helped make this review happen as smoothly has herding lenses can be. No animals alive or simulated were harmed in the production of this shootout/review.
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Stunningly great article. Super useful. Wow!!!
XMarked 0
Is my light on?
RidingJapan 0
gopro3+
you are aware that adding up all scores you get a 61 and not 60? and yes the cam isn t water proof but the housing doesn t count?
also in my opinion the wider picture outweighs more of the points you are trying to make in this review :)
TakeEm 0
Of the cameras tested, which one would you recommend for shooting waterfowl hunts? I plan on using on a head mount and from the shooters POV. I love the price and durability of the Replay. Would it do well at shooting birds at say 25 - 40 yards? Low light performance would also be very important. Could you please rate these cameras according to my use? Thanks in advance....
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Q: I was recently asked: "Why so many haven't commented about the safety aspect of this stunt."?
A: Basically, the popularity of the author, the novelty of the situation, the fact that if anyone contradicts what a "more" popular personality has to say about any subject, and a host of other psych factors will completely blind the public to the lack of safety demonstrated here. The most troubling aspect is how an individual who is well know for his views on safety throw's everything out the window when it comes to his own safety. Never mind the hypocrisy shown, by the blatant example of do as I say , but NOT as I do. (This actually illustrates the fundamental attribution error and how this little bit of psychology works.) This is a problem. And continues to be a problem. This isn't a reflection of the author, who BTW is a wonderful and caring personality! But this does illustrate how the belief that,...as just one example, (It can't happen to me,...) the idea that a cutaway handle on the helmet is going to save your neck. The problem is that your neck, in the event of something going wrong, (hey this is skydiving, nothing goes wrong ,...RIGHT?) anyways yor neck will be long stretched before you can react fast enough to do anything about it,...BUT the held belief,..."The idea" that you can do something to save your neck is so strong, this belief then justifies the conduct! The real world isn't so forgiving however. This is just my 2 cents from a psych perspective, I'm not going to argue this viewpoint, there just isn't any point to that. This whole test could have been done,...and done considerably more safely, by just mounting everything to a bike handle bar or the equivalent. This is my point.
peetre 0
Thanks for helping many people see comparisons of numerous cameras!
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MrSnipes 0
Thank you to whoever put this together. Lots of hard work for our benefit. Very cool!!
Ritter 0
I've used for over a year Drift Stealth 2 and it's hell of a cam! Smaller and lighter that most of cameras available on the market and comfortable when mounted on the helmet. As far as quality of the videos is concerned, I cannot complain as well.
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    $.browser.chrome = /chrome/.test(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase());

    /* Detect Chrome */
    if($.browser.chrome){
        alert("You are using Chrome!");

        /* if it is Chrome then jQuery thinks it's
           Safari so we have to tell it isn't */
        $.browser.safari = false;
    }

    /* Detect Safari */
    if($.browser.safari){
        alert("You are using Safari!");
    }

});

This code, but I've no idea, how I can know about other browsers like

Opera, UC browser or IE !

Parse method
I can extract
navigator.userAgent.indexOf(); using parse method but if every time I've to get -1 then what's the purpose of doing it? How can I use this information?


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No, Punting Is Not An Acceptable Practice
By Tom Martin
In my experience, people -- fans and racers alike -- are somewhat confused about contact in motorsports. There seems to be an impression that contact is okay, just like there may be an impression among casual fans that fighting in the pits between drivers is okay in NASCAR. For example, we recently had a driver observe "Punting seems like a perfectly acceptable practice in Miatas from what I could tell. Leaders had no shortage of touching."
But this simply isn't the case. Rather, contact is a byproduct of other aspects of racing and all contact is not created equal. Given the desirability of those other aspects of racing and the resulting differences, contact is managed differently in different series, which is a good thing. Let's break this down:
1. Contact is the result of close racing. Generally drivers and fans want close racing, so many series have worked hard over the last decade to use spec rules and Balance Of Performance systems to tighten up the action. On the opposite end of the spectrum, you hear moaning about the end of days every time F1 produces one of its patented lead/follow demonstrations where the cars are 3-5 seconds apart after 3 laps. On the other hand, when the cars run close, there is more likelihood of contact, somewhat obviously. Fortunately, most of this contact is incidental.
2. Contact depends on how long close racing lasts. Of course, close racing is a factor in contact. But you also get more contact in series that are close for many laps. Take two recent examples. First, consider the 2017 Russian Grand Prix. There was close racing on lap 1 and there was contact. After that, close racing was minimal (typically 3-10 seconds between each pair of cars) and there was no contact. Second, consider Pirelli World Challenge TCA at VIR on the same 2017 weekend. There, the top 4 cars ran about 0.5 seconds apart and cars 6-9 were similarly close for the entire race. You can have a lot more contact when there are so many more laps where the cars are close. Add multiple passing attempts and, again you have more opportunity for contact (although in the TCA case there wasn't much). In contrast, Vettel didn't touch Bottas after the first turn in Russia because he couldn't get close to him.
3. Contact depends on car count. There is more contact in Spec Miata or Global MX-5 Cup or Pirelli World Challenge TC because there are more cars. SM often has fields of 25 and sometimes has fields of 75. MX-5 Cup has fields of 35 or more. PWC is running over 50 cars in TC this year. F1 runs 20 cars (if you count McLaren). IMSA GT3 Cup runs 23 cars. 50% to 100% more cars and you would expect more contact.
Now, when you get more contact, the officials and the competitors have to get better at defining a) incidental contact (e.g. touching), b) a racing incident in which two drivers had more than incidental contact but both were reasonably following the rules and c) unacceptable transgressions (e.g. punting, blocking, dive bombs). Confusing a) with c) would lead to huge numbers of penalties and simply make the racing worse. Confusing b) with c) imagines that drivers who follow the rules should be able to magically predict complex physics in a way that even supercomputers probably can't. Every series penalizes c) although amateur series have fewer resources and more to police, so implementation is less than perfect.
Fans who want large fields and close racing, but also want zero contact, are dreaming or just being whiny idiots. F1 drivers and IndyCar drivers and IMSA DP drivers can't make this happen. And if they can't, then certainly drivers with less experience but closer racing in bigger fields won't either. But that doesn't meaning punting is okay.


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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an increasing public health problem and the number of patient with chronic kidney disease is increasing worldwide. Bone abnormalities are found almost universally in patients with CKD requiring dialysis and in the majority of patients with CKD stages 3-5. Chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorder (CKD-MBD) is a complex disorder of bone and mineral metabolism, which is associated with disorder in circulating levels of hormones and development of secondary hyperparathyroid disease. The abnormalities of mineral homeostasis impair bone remodeling and mineralization and results in cortical and trabecular defects and an increased fracture risk. There is also an association with increased morbidity and mortality. CKD-MBD is also associated with development of calcification of the blood vessels. During the last decade it has been increasingly acknowledged that mineral and bone disorder contribute to the excessively high cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease. The pathophysiology behind the disorder varies a lot and can be divided into three groups; high turnover renal bone disease, low-turnover disease and mixed-uremic osteodystrophy. The treatment of CKD-MBD depends of the subtype of the disorder.
The diagnosis of CKD-MBD is still challenging. Biomarkers such as parathyroid hormone (PTH) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) are used to evaluate bone turnover and formation, but both biomarkers have several limitations and are both unspecific. Many biomarkers have been used in research applications, but yet none of them is in clinical use. Dual X ray absorptiometry (DXA) is used to measure fracture risk in patients with normal kidney function, but is not useful in patients with chronic kidney disease stage 3 - 5. Different imaging techniques have been investigated, but still bone biopsy is the golden standard for diagnosing and classification of the subtypes of CKD-MBD. Bone biopsy is invasive and is not available in every center.
This study`s goal is to evaluate, if 18-Fluor-Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (18F-PET-TT) can be used in the assessment of CKD patients. The hypothesis is that 18-PET-TT correlates with the histomorphometry of bone biopsy and with the calcification score in CKD patients and that 18F-PET-TT maybe can be used as a diagnostic imaging technique in the future.
This is a prospective study which will recruit patients with severely decreased kidney function (eGRF below 20ml/min) and who have secondary hyperparathyroidism. Also patients who have received a renal transplant will be included, if they have hyperparathyroid disease. A control group will be needed to validate the F18-PET-TT method.
The goal is to include 10-20 patients in each group and 10 persons in the control group. Group I: patients in hemodialysis, group II: patients in peritoneal dialysis, group III predialysis patients, group IV: patients with a kidney transplant and group V: healthy controls. Blood tests measuring the bone formation and turnover will be taken during the normal clinical controls of the patients. Echocardiogram, which is reasonable sensitive, is done to detect and evaluate valvular calcification. Bone biopsy is done in the day care unit. To obtain information about dynamic parameters of the bone the patient should have a double labeling of the bone surface, which is achieved by giving tetracycline in two periods. The biopsy is taken in local anesthesia from the anterior iliac spine vertically. Bone biopsy gives the possibility to evaluate the histomorphometry of the bone and to diagnose the subtypes of CKD-MBD.
18F-PET-TT is done within one month from the bone biopsy. PET with the short half-life bone seeking 18F-Sodium Fluoride (18F-NaF), provide an unique way of assessment of regional bone metabolism. 18F-NaF binds to sights of new bone formation and serves as a marker of bone blood flow and osteoblastic activity. A dynamic 18F-PET-TT imaging is first done of the lumbar region of the spine, following with a static PET-TT and also measurement of calcification score using PET-TT. 18F-NaF is injected intravenously by direct venipuncture or intravenous catheter. All the patients are also asked for permission to use DNA-samples if needed.
Patients with severely decreased kidney function (eGRF below 20ml/min) and who have secondary hyperparathyroidism. In addition a group of healthy volunteers.