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Human-Powered Transportation
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One way to cut the carbon footprint and boost public health is to get more people biking and walking. Read about how this is working out here and around the world.
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by Julie Babinard Transport for Development, 03/12/2018
Transport As a Service: It Starts with a Single App
(excerpt) The Economist, Sep 29, 2016
Get the Traveler Seamlessly from Door to Door
Helsinki residents can travel quickly door-to-door within the city by using an app that mixes and matches a variety of public and private means of transport. MaaS Global (short for Mobility as a Service) is the startup behind the smartphone app, Whim, that finds the best way to get from A to B by combining public transport and a variety of options from participating private firms. Whim is now available in Helsinki. [It is live and also available in the UK, according to the MaaS Global website]
If there is no obvious route, a scheme like Whim's might suggest a bicycle from the city's bike-share scheme (if one is close to your front door), followed by a train and then a taxi; an on-demand bus ("hail" it on the app and it will come and pick you up); or a one-way car-share to a tram and a rented "e-bike" with a small electric motor to alleviate the strain of pedaling for the final leg. Once a route has been chosen it will make any bookings needed, as well as ensuring that hire vehicles are available and public-transport sections are running on time. Costs will be displayed for every option, making clear the trade-offs between speed, comfort and price. Customers will be able to buy one-off journeys or "bundles" modeled on mobile-phone contracts, allowing a certain amount of travel each month.
Many countries have websites that give information on how to reach a destination by bus or train, both within cities and between them; in some places Google's online maps have transport information built in. Buying tickets online is now common; Trainline, an online booking system for rail tickets, is rolling out across Europe. But after getting advice on their routes, travelers have always had to find their own way to a bus stop or train station, or call a cab. Payment and booking systems have generally been separate for each leg of a journey, and the "last mile" between mass transit and final destination has not been covered at all. Services such as Whim aim to change all this: removing the guesswork, combining the various options in the most efficient and cost-effective ways, and getting the traveller seamlessly from door to door.
Without such new thinking, cities will grind towards gridlock. In 2007 half the world's population lived in cities; by 2050 it is expected that two-thirds will. According to Arthur D. Little, a consultancy, urban journeys already account for nearly two-thirds of all distance travelled by people. On current trends urban distance travelled each year will have trebled by 2050, and the average time urban drivers spend languishing in traffic jams is set to double to 106 hours a year.
The traditional policy responses to congestion—-build more roads and expand public transport—-are too expensive for these cash-strapped times. Hence the appeal to urban planners of the idea of travelers combining existing mass-transit schemes with a growing variety of private services. It offers a way to attract private capital into "public" transport. By enabling a closer link between supply and demand it will make mass transport more efficient. Congestion at peak hours will fall as travelers are diverted from crowded routes to less-packed ones; varying prices by time of day could help here, too.
Public-health experts are also keen on the new approach. The apps through which the various options are accessed could be tweaked to encourage healthier choices, such as walking or cycling, if desired. Emissions of pollutants should also fall, because fewer vehicles would be idling in jams and there would be fewer cars on the street. Helsinki thinks it can make its center free of cars by 2025—not by banning them, but by building a transport system that renders them redundant.
As well as commuters' lives, cities will be transformed, too. With fewer cars and parking spaces needed, they can be redesigned to be more pedestrian-friendly and to have more green spaces. Quicker journeys will increase the catchment area for job-seekers prepared to travel to work.
Won't the arrival of self-driving cars render such thinking unnecessary? Not quickly, and even then, not really. Affordable driverless cars that can handle both city driving and motorways safely are a long way off. And even after they arrive, mass transit systems will often remain the best way to move large numbers of people swiftly. If all of the 1.3m daily commuters into central London switched to autonomous vehicles, it would become a giant parking lot. The better integrated a city's transport system, the less demand there will be for driverless cars, and the easier those cars will be to combine with the other options.
The New Transportation
The new approach to transport as a service relies on two interconnected trends. The first is the spread of smartphones, which both generate the data required to manage a system that combines a wide variety of public and private transport options, and allow firms to offer the information via an app. They have already made navigating a city by public transport much easier. "Intelligent" journey planners, which use live information about congestion, disruption from accidents and the like to suggest the best route, are proliferating. Around 70% of Londoners regularly use an app such as Transport for London's journey planner. Live travel information shows whether trains and buses are running on time.
The second is the rise of the "sharing economy", with businesses such as Airbnb making it possible to rent fixed assets such as apartments when they are not being used. Young urbanites, who have become accustomed to usership instead of ownership, find the notion of transport as a service both natural and appealing. Meanwhile the cost of running a car in a city goes ever upwards. Parking gets harder. Many city-dwellers are questioning whether the convenience is worth it. Between 1983 and 2014 the share of Americans aged 20-24 with a driving license fell from 92% to 77%.
Ride-hailing services are the most obvious response to these two trends. Since Uber turned the ignition switch in 2008 it has expanded to operate in 500 cities around the world. Competitors such as Lyft, which also uses an app to match riders with drivers and to handle payments, are growing rapidly, too. Didi Chuxing, China's biggest e-taxi service, has 300m users in 400 cities and towns.
Uber and Lyft essentially provide a new way of calling a cab. But both firms also offer ride-share services that promise to make journeys cheaper and only slightly less convenient. UberPool, Lyft Line and specialist ride-share companies such as Via, which operates in Chicago, New York, and Washington DC, put passengers going in the same direction together in shared cars and lets them split the bill.
Passengers are being pooled in larger vehicles, too. Firms such as Bridj are using the wealth of data they collect from users' smartphones to model travel patterns, and thus to run on-demand minibuses in several American cities, including Boston, Kansas City, and Washington DC. Book a ride and the app will show pick-up and drop-off points close to your origin and destination, any walking required and the fare. "It's the bus that catches you," says the firm's founder, Matthew George. At $2-6 a trip it is not much pricier than a regular bus, but a comfortable seat is guaranteed.
Ford is testing an on-demand shuttle bus around its vast plant at Dearborn, near Detroit. Several universities around the world run similar services for students around campuses. Plenty of firms now have pools of shared company vehicles available on demand, instead of giving one to every eligible employee.
Self-driving is not out of the picture entirely. Car-sharing schemes, which offer most of the benefits of owning a car, but at much lower cost, are revving up. Some allow cars to be rented by the hour or even minute. Vehicles may have to be returned to the point of hire; or schemes may allow one-way trips between designated parking spots. Boston Consulting Group reckons that the 5.8m people now signed up to car-sharing schemes worldwide could grow to 35m in the next five years.
These firms expand the traditional car-rental business by allowing shorter rental periods and more convenient pick-up and drop-off. Peer-to-peer schemes such as Getaround and Turo in America, and CarUnity in Germany, take car-sharing one stage further. These enable owners to rent out their cars for short periods, thus sweating assets that would otherwise sit at the curb for as much as 95% of the time. Services that fill empty seats in cars and split the cost of gasoline by connecting drivers with prospective passengers are also growing fast. The biggest by some way is BlaBlaCar, a French firm with operations in more than 20 countries. It mainly connects big cities rather than operating within them, taking a fee for matching passengers and drivers going the same way.
Baby, you can drive my car
Other niche services are springing up. In America Carpool Kids and Voom are among a band of new services that let parents connect and share rides. Zum, in San Francisco, is aiming to co-ordinate transport for children and child care such as babysitting in a single, on-demand system.
The various permutations of car-sharing, car-pooling and ride-hailing pose a big threat to vehicle manufacturers' sales. Some are rattled enough to get in on the act. The global car market is worth $2.3 trillion a year, of which Ford gets 6%, says Mark Fields, the firm's boss. The market for transport services is $5.4 trillion a year, he estimates, of which it gets near to nothing.
That is starting to change. Many carmakers already manufacture small electric vehicles that would suit a sharing scheme as they are easy to maintain and can be charged when they are parked, saving users the need to stop and pay for fuel. Some are planning powered scooters and electric micro-cars, which could also be used as shared vehicles for short urban trips. And most are busily reinventing themselves as mobility providers. In January GM announced it was investing $500m in Lyft to help it understand new transport models. In May Volkswagen put $300m into Gett, an Israeli rival to Uber; Toyota invested an undisclosed sum in Uber around the same time.
Some carmakers have launched services of their own. Daimler has started a car-sharing service, car2go, which offers point-to-point rentals charged by the minute, hour or day. Users arrange, via an app, to pick a car up where a previous customer left it. Ford's GoDrive, which operates in parts of London, also offers rental by the minute, as does DriveNow, a competitor, which is owned by BMW and Sixt, a car-hire firm.
Get on the bus
The next step is to combine these disparate experiments. Helsinki is not the only place seeking to integrate public and private transport, and do better at getting passengers from A to B. Switzerland's national rail company has teamed up with car- and bike-sharing firms. Several Canadian cities have a scheme incorporating public transport, bike-sharing, taxis and Communauto, a car-sharing service; Brussels runs a similar scheme. But these only provide discounts for combined subscriptions and some limited integration of booking, though not payments.
In Hanover, Germany's 13th-largest city, Hannovermobil goes a bit further by charging users for their month's travel in a single monthly bill. Moovel, owned by Daimler, operates a countrywide service in Germany that also knits different transport together—but booking and ticketing are still handled separately. Joint Venture in Silicon Valley is experimenting with integrating shuttle buses with other mobility apps that whisk users from door to door. After a successful pilot in Gothenburg, UbiGo will launch in Sweden this year, combining public and private transport.
Herculean Whim
But truly turning transport into a service, as Helsinki is aiming to do, is a Herculean task. It not only means integrating the booking, payment and operating systems of dozens of transport providers. It also means persuading private firms to take part in the first place. Public-transport operators can be forced to do so by national or municipal authorities. But private operators may balk at sharing data and real-time information on customers with a third party, even if they are promised confidentiality. And why would a ride-sharing or taxi firm want to sign up to a scheme that may direct customers to its rivals?
In Helsinki, Sampo Hietanen, the boss of MaaS Global, has two answers. First, as the use of private cars declines many more people will use the firm's app (and its competitors'), so taking part will mean getting access to an ever-growing pool of customers. Second, any firm that does not join will be left behind. And though the contractual negotiations are proving tricky, to some amazement nearly all Helsinki's transport operators—even taxi drivers—seem willing to give it a go.
Finland's sense of shared national endeavor probably helps. More important is the determination of the municipal and national governments. Indeed, without city authorities' active encouragement mobility as a service will not take off, says Catherine Kargas of Marcon, a Canadian consulting firm.
Finland's national government is doing its bit by rewriting legislation to bring the various laws covering different modes of transport into harmony. The transport minister, Anne Berner, cites regulations that treat hire vehicles with fewer than seven seats as taxis, whereas minibuses are covered by the same laws as full-sized buses. Entirely separate laws cover vehicles that shift parcels and vehicles that shift people. That places an unnecessary obstacle in the way of any firm that might like to do both.
Putting an independent tech firm like MaaS Global rather than an existing transport operator in charge of the app has some big advantages. A tech firm may be more innovative and more willing to take risks than a big incumbent. The likes of Deutsche Bahn, which already has a system to integrate trains and car-sharing, might still be slow to let innovators break in, reckons Mr Hietanen. Independent operators would be happy to offer a large ready-made market of travelers to any firm able to extend its range of offerings, and might be more willing to support small firms with new ideas.
Mr Hietanen certainly has big plans. The Whim app includes pay-as-you-go "multi-modal" packages that bundle monthly travel requirements at a single price. For perhaps €95 ($106) a month it might offer free city-wide public transport, 100km of local taxi use, 500km of car rental and 1,500km on national public transport. He thinks that aiming mobility services at city-dwellers is too limited, and wants to integrate regional and national trains—as well as rural services, where on-demand buses and ride-sharing could prove handier than scheduled buses, which often travel half-empty.
Other mobility evangelists go further. Some are eyeing big cities in the developing world, even though these rarely have good public-transport networks. Could the 50,000 minibuses and 150,000 taxis in Mexico City, for example, be better deployed as part of a system that encouraged ride-sharing and on-demand re-routing? Others talk of interoperability across borders; a few even suggest roping in airlines. Who knows: one day a wily entrepreneur may add an on-demand mobile pub.


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Andrew Skilleter is an artist who made a considerable contribution to the artistic interpretation of the world of Doctor Who through a wide range of media, from novelisation covers to large format illustrated guides, from calendars to posters, bookmarks to exhibition touring trucks during a fifteen year period from 1979 through to 1994.
Initially trained as a designer, he considered himself an illustrator by vocation.
On Chris Achilleos's advice, to protect the copyright on his work Andrew Skilleter set up his own (short-lived) publishing company, Who Dares Publishing.
Blacklight: The Art of Andrew Skilleter was a title published by BBC Books, an imprint of Virgin Publishing, which focused on the artist's Doctor Who output in various media.
Book covers Edit
Andrew Skilleter painted a number of original Doctor Who novelisation covers (and gift sets) for Target Books, his first being the novelisation cover for Destiny of the Daleks, as well as the New Adventures series by Virgin Publishing. Original paintings were small, measuring 235mm x 150mm. Pastel colours and small brushstrokes were used. By The Gunfighters Andrew Skilleter had moved onto a larger size painting and by 1987 was feeling sufficiently competent with the airbrush to use it in his work.
Returning to the design of covers for novels, after long absence from Target Books, came about when the commissioned artist was unable to continue with the project to supply covers for the first four titles in the New Adventures series of novels from Virgin Publishing. A further cover was provided some time later in this series for Iceberg, which featured an oriental-style TARDIS in the design. This later reappeared on the cover of Sanctuary.
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The Adventures of K9 and Other Mechanical Creatures (Andrew Skilleter's first Doctor Who commission)
The TARDIS Inside Out
Doctor Who: The Monsters
Doctor Who: Cybermen
The Gallifrey Chronicles
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As well as providing covers Andrew Skilleter was also illustrator for a number of Doctor Who titles:
Exhibitions Edit
Andrew Skilleter's artwork has been used at a number of Doctor Who Exhibitions, most significantly for the Doctor Who USA Touring Trailer, where he was responsible for the 48-foot trailer exterior.
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Andrew Skilleter provided the cover artwork for the Radio Times issue promoting the 20th Anniversary story The Five Doctors, for which he received an invitation to the Radio Times Cover Party, where he received a framed cover. The artwork was subsequently used for the video release and available as a poster after the likeness of Richard Hurndall was reworked.
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Andrew Skilleter was commissioned by Doctor Who Magazine to produce two pieces that were given away with issues 85 and 87, featuring the Master in Masterpiece and The Cybermen on Gallifrey respectively.
Video covers Edit
When the decision was taken by the BBC to drop the photographic montages used in the early video releases of Doctor Who, Andrew Skilleter was commissioned to provide the covers for new releases. He also provided artwork for the the special video release tins for The Trial of a Time Lord and the Dalek tin release and the spine design for the Key to Time releases.
Who Dares Publishing Edit
Who Dares Publishing was a separate publisher set up by Andrew Skilleter producing a range of quality merchandise that included poster prints, calendars (1986, 1987, 1988 and 1999) and bookmarks.
Who Dares Publishing Ltd was reformed on 9th October 2016 along with business partner and Doctor Who specialist Matthew Doe.
Andrew Skilleter's poster work also featured in a range of jigsaws released for the USA market.
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KDE 4.2 will probably be mature enough
Story: KDE 4.2: I'm tired of Pundits, Here's MY Take Total Replies: 16
tracyanne
6:43 AM EST to move my Linux noobs to it by the time the next version of Mandriva is released, until then they stay on MDV 2008.1, and if it's not Ill either move them to one of the Buntus with a GNOME desktop or keep them at MDV 2008.1.
What this bloke forgets, is that ther are now lots of Linux users who don't get involved in the forums, and don't do bug reports. Having an immature product like KDE4.0 as the default desktop was and is really stupid.
7:10 AM EST > Having an immature product like KDE4.0 as the default desktop was and is really stupid.
Yep. Had the distros waited for KDE 4.2 or 4.3, then things would have worked out much better.
jacog
7:43 AM EST I am using 4.1 now on MDV2009.0.. and have decided to give it a serious look, rather than the glance-and-spit method that seems to be popular among Linux curmudgeons.
I am having a world of fun with it. It's certainly different than the 3 series, but no less useful or functional. Just different. I made a few changes, like making Konqueror file management themes easily accessible, but I actually don't hate Dolphin for simple file stuff. In fact, it's probably a better choice for the casual user.
Some of the plasmoids have rather naff implementations, like the sticky notes one, but having these components as the central building blocks of the desktop actually means that in the long run, this will be a more flexible and costomisable desktop than any other.
Quoting: rather than the glance-and-spit method that seems to be popular among Linux curmudgeons.
This Linux curmudgeon spent a lot of time from Alpha 1 through to the final release of MDV 2009.0 trying KDE4 (4.1), and even tested it on a Linux noob user. 4.2 seems a lot better, and the issues that caused said noob to panic appear to have been resolved.
Oh, and this Linux curmudgeon is currently running MDV2009.1 with KDE4.2 in test mode as we speak.
8:30 AM EST Mileage varies, I guess.
My wife is competent as a computer user, but not the adventurous sort when it comes to power features and customisation, yet with KDE4 she has been ripping it up and customising it like a loon, whereas the 3.5 desktop on her other machine remains pretty much in its default state.
8:32 AM EST >yet with KDE4 she has been ripping it up and customising it like a loon, whereas the 3.5 desktop on her other machine remains pretty much in its default state.
There are 2 ways to take that, you know. Satisfied users tend not to muck around with something they like just fine.
8:36 AM EST In her case it's the "oh fun, i can do this" factor.
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Quoting: Satisfied users tend not to muck around with something they like just fine.
True, but KDE users often like KDE because they can customize it to heck and back. I always tweaked the dickens out of KDE3, and now to KDE4 also. Good stuff, IMO. I am getting tired of Gnome on Ubuntu; the Kubuntu desktop is pretty good, though.
@jacog, mileage does indeed vary greatly from user to user.
Bob_Robertson
2:35 PM EST One of the things I've liked about KDE since I started using it, is that the "look and feel" were customizable. Some said overly so.
As soon as I loaded one of the KDE4 demonstrations, I found that I loathed the new menu. So I looked for a way to turn it off. Sorry, no, no way to return to how the menu was displayed before.
That's not what I consider progress.
DiBosco
2:46 PM EST Bob, if I understand your gripe correctly, you just right click on the menu button and change it to the classic style.
4:21 PM EST Maybe now, not then.
If so, then it will be a major improvement for me. Luckily, 3.5 will be available for a long time, and maybe by the time 4 is required it will be configurable to the degree that I want it to be.
4:26 PM EST @Bob, I've discovered, at least on Mandriva, that certain applications; DigiKam, for example, don't work properly if you elect to install KDE3.5.10. and if you install KDE4 then install KDE3.5.10 or install KDE4 to get those apps to work, Konqueror becomes infected with Dolphin, and you lose the KDE3.x funtionality
I've elected to stay with MDV 2008.1, and kept my noobs there as well.
1:51 AM EST I am confused... how does Konqueror get infected with Dolphin? You can still use Konqueror pretty much the same as always. :/
Quoting: > Having an immature product like KDE4.0 as the default desktop was and is really stupid.
Nope, I can't agree. You should listen to what the KDE-people themselves have said about this topic before.
If KDE 4.0 wouldn't have been the default desktop then 4.1 wouldn't even be ready today. Nobody would have used KDE 4.0 which meant not enough bug / usage reports which meant no improvement in the KDE4 branch, equaling a total standstill. Remember, KDE isn't a company like Apple or Microsoft or for that part Mozilla with enough money / fans to do the beta-testing, so they had to reside to this less popular method to reach a 'mature' KDE 4 implementation. Although, that's what the KDE-people themselves say.
azerthoth
4:03 PM EST @hkwint, another way to read that would be that it's a rush job. Instead of taking the time to beta test with people who wanted to beta test and/or knew they were beta testers, they squeezed out a pile, intentionally misguided almost all end users as to it's actual status, and used the resultant storm of monkey poo as the real beta test.
There is another group of people that push beta software out habitually as stable, they label the result Windows.
4:26 PM EST > Nope, I can't agree. You should listen to what the KDE-people themselves have said about this topic before.
> If KDE 4.0 wouldn't have been the default desktop then 4.1 wouldn't even be ready today.
Which is a problem for the KDE developers, not anyone else. KDE not having enough beta testers (though 4.0 didn't even qualify as a beta) isn't a problem for the distributors to solve. Offer it as an option if you want, but don't make it the default desktop until it's ready.
Quoting: If KDE 4.0 wouldn't have been the default desktop then 4.1 wouldn't even be ready today.
In the process they nearly lost a lot of new Linux users by doing so. They didn't lose my new Linux users, because I made sure KDE4 didn't cause them the angst it could have, by not allowing them to upgrade. What urinates me off is the unmitigated arrogance shown by some of the KDE people (the we should be ever so grateful to them attitude certainly came across when I was talking with one of them), and the sheer stupidity of the Distributors. Linux is no longer the exclusive domain of Geeks, and the Distributors, at least can't, if they want to continue the momentum that's building, do this sort of thing.
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FRISCO, Texas — Dres Anderson always sees the proverbial glass as half-full.
And, considering that Dallas is the sixth different NFL team the former Ute receiver has been with since his days at Utah, optimistic is the only way to feel about his future in the league.
Anderson has only been a Cowboy for about 10 days but feels he's progressing nicely in learning Scott Linehan's offense and the organizational culture in Dallas.
"Things have been great. Just trying to take advantage of every opportunity I get, learning the offense, the terminology up here and just how they do things, just adapting and getting right," he said.
The son of former standout NFL pass catcher Willie "Flipper" Anderson, Dres was at Utah between 2010 and 2014. Despite ending his collegiate career with a truncated senior campaign due to a season-ending knee injury, his memories of those days remain overwhelmingly positive.
Those Utah roots are reinforced by the former teammates and coaches he remains in contact with.
Anderson said during the season that he keeps up with the Utes every week, which works out well because Saturday is usually a light day for most NFL teams with only a walk-through and a few meetings, leaving him ample time to watch his alma mater play.
Thus far, he's been on the practice squad for four teams, most recently with Indianapolis last fall. But, like most players who have spent time on what is also called "the taxi squad," the experience isn't terribly different than for players on the full 53-man active roster — well, except for one aspect.
With last season's top receiver, Dez Bryant, no longer in Dallas, and with the Cowboys' No. 2 receiver in 2017, Terrance Williams, involved in a notable off-field incident earlier this year, there are clearly roster spots to be won in the receiving corps for America's Team.
That opportunity is one reason Anderson landed in Dallas. But another reason he became a Cowboy was to reunite with Sanjay Lal, Dallas's new receivers coach who coached him last season with the Colts.
"Sanjay's going to coach everybody the same way. No matter whether you're the star receiver or the last receiver on the depth chart, he's going to coach you hard," Anderson said. "He's going to make sure you know what you're doing, all the details of every play, every route.
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4 NBA brands LeBron James shares with Michael Jordan
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Comparisons of the careers of LeBron James and Michael Jordan have been around for almost two decades. Over the course of his NBA career, the "Kin
Comparisons of the careers of LeBron James and Michael Jordan have been around for almost two decades. Over the course of his NBA career, the "King" has created a legend with an impact comparable to that of "His Majesty."
Here are four brands that both share and only show their greatness.
During the most recent Los Angeles Lakers game, LeBron took it upon himself to record standing out with a brilliant mark in terms of scoring. At the age of 37 and as the offensive leader of his team, he had 43 points and 14 rebounds in a matter of 29 minutes against the Portland Trail Blazers.
This record places him on a par with Michael Jordan, who had been the last player over 37 to hit a similar line, after His Majesty did so with the Washington Wizards in 2003.
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Hi to all, I'm the 70 year grandmother who use to blog daily on Red State, FOX Blogtown Hall, TPN and all at once it seemed to me that all I was doing amounted to zilch! Today, two days after the midterm election something inside me made me return to my computer for what I have to say may be of interest to some.
Does Obama really want to lead our Nation and restore our once strong foundation or is he once again playing his old soft shoe and hat tricks? Me thinks we have a rat in our icebox and the rat just allowed the Feds to steal our cheese again and devaluate our dollar.
If you notice, we were exhilarated after the election and in our hearts hope was softly stirring again; we thought that just maybe there was light at the end of the tunnel. While we were distracted reviewing election results, the FEDS once again sneaked behind closed doors and decided to print 600,000,000,000.00 dollars. There excuse is this was the way to stimulate our weak economic situation, but let's think about that… Yep, the "Snuckers" are at it again lead by one of my least favorite people Bernanke.
Who is going to take the hit? Without a doubt the taxpayers are about to get the "aftershock "of their life! Remember the debt ceiling has been raised three times during Obama's reign, even when Republicans stood up and said, "enough is enough," the Democrats nonchalantly screwed Americans again.
The vicious circle we're in at this time will create yet more hardship, stress, fewer jobs and harder economic times. I feel that this definitely could be the preliminary act by the FEDS that will lead to a Depression.
In big banker's terms, the printing of money we don't have is fondly called quantitative easing which in my layman's lingo means they're once again devaluating our dollar. So this means the interest we're paying China and others is actually going to cost us more.
What happens between now and next June if the FEDS continue this formula of taking nothing to create nothing? I believe China is going to step forward and say, sorry USA you're not a good risk anymore; your government is selling out your country one billion at a time.
So, in ending my soap box spree, I would like to share this with my fellow Americans. The one we call Obama doesn't give a Damn about any of us and talks out of both sides of his mouth. Yesterday on national TV, he feebly tried to assure us that he understands that we're out of jobs, losing our homes and scared. But, today he is headed to India to play footsy with some foreign powers and spend millions (some estimate billions) of the taxpayer's money and for what?


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What does a non-technical founder bring to a tech company? [closed]
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The classic formula for a tech startup is that technical founder(s) build an MVP, get funding, and then bring on non-technical staff as required, this leaves the majority of the equity in the hands of the technical founder(s).
However, this is not always the case, Airbnb was founded with Brian Chesky as the CEO and majority shareholder, despite not having a technical background.
I'm currently being offered to join a fintech startup with promise as the CTO and technical co-founder. However, the founder and majority shareholder has no finance or software engineering skills and is not brining any initial cash investment to the table.
Among software engineers, there seems to be a sentiment that ideas aren't worth anything without the skills to bring them into reality, and thus that technical founders bring the most important skillset. However, clearly, this must not be the case otherwise founders like Brian Chesky would not have been kept on as a CEO and majority shareholder.
My question is, how can I evaluate and understand the skillset that my non-technical founder brings to the table that is vital to the success of the startup, and that means he deserves a majority share in the company?
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@Issel From what I understand of the question: OP would be starting the company just as much as the other two founders.
– JS Lavertu
Among software engineers, there seems to be a sentiment that ideas aren't worth anything without the skills to bring them into reality, and thus that technical founders bring the most important skillset.
People that think that are wrong: there is no point building a product unless there's a market for it. You can make what is technically a wonderful, brilliant system that does all sorts of cool stuff - but it's worth precisely $0.00 unless somebody (in the long run) wants to use that product.
Many technical folk are notoriously bad at actually understanding the market, customers and the need to produce deliverables which actually do something rather than just use the new shiny tech in a fancy way. Having someone in that company who does understand all that stuff is at least as important as having the right technical folk, because it's actually easier to change the technology you're using than it is to change the product you're building and the market you're selling that product into.
Philip KendallPhilip Kendall
Although, the founder evidently has no background in finance either, so it's unclear to me what the cofounder is there for.
– EJoshuaS - Reinstate Monica
To take AirBnB as an example, the technical side of the business is simple -- I could probably hammer out a minimum viable product single-handedly in six months or so. The hard part is convincing people to make their homes available for short-term rentals.
This feels like a generic commentary about technical vs non-technical value. This question brings more context than that: the non-technical founder is not bringing money (and I'm reading into that also they're not bringing funding) and it is not mentioned that they have superior sales, customer base or product definition experience. These should be clearly identified or it is becomes a reasonable question just what do they bring.
– WestCoastProjects
@Barmar Jobs is pretty much the perfect description of a founder that understood the market. He did have technical skills, but his business sense was MUCH greater. Apple is a great example, not a counter-example.
The answer very deliberately says "many technical folk", not "all technical folk" or just "technical folk". One exception doesn't mean anything really - of course there are some technical folk who understand business, but there are lots that don't, and a terrible attitude among many of them who assume that the only thing that matters is the ability to write code.
– Philip Kendall
Ask about the history of the startup, what are the goals, who had the initial idea, and what the business plans are for developing the company.
There must be something in there to get this thing off the ground.
The founder had the initial idea and created a business plan. However, is having the idea and creating a business plan enough to justify a majority stake in the company? How can I evaluate what the founder will bring to the business as it progresses and as I build out the product?
– Adam Griffiths
Surely you'd be talking about these points in your interview/onboarding process?
His answer was he has some experience from a previous failed startup, and that he brings the vision and passion for the product.
Having an idea, creating a business plan to make that idea a reality, is one of the hardest things outside of actually making that idea a reality. Lots of people have ideas, most never take that first step, the rest mostly fail at making it a reality. Don't under estimate the amount of work that individual has brought to the table. If he is a founder and the "idea man" that's pretty big.
– Donald
@AdamGriffiths, failing at a previous startup can have some significant advantages, like having learned what not to do.
– computercarguy
Because it depends on who takes the risk.
Here's a simple illustration on this.
Situation 1. Alice the Business Savvy Guru and Bob the Tech Savant are friends and decide to try launching an idea they had, with each of them chipping in 10k and owning half the company.
Situation 2. Alice has an idea and she gets funding (self funding, friends/family, angel investors, whatever) so that she can pay a salary to Bob to execute it.
In the second situation, Bob is just a regular employee. He's being paid a regular salary. Alice is taking the risk - she stands to not earn a dime for her efforts to launch the company.
The companies founded by non-tech people tend to be ones where the non-tech person took the risk, and the tech people that implemented the project were paid traditional salaries. The companies founded by tech people were ones where, if the startup failed, the tech people were going without pay.
There is a third variant. Alice has an idea but no funding. She gets Bob to execute it for free (payment will come later when the product is successful). In that case Bob takes a big portion of the risk. You can often see this variant with strangers or friends.
– some_coder
Yes, the third variant is the situation I am in.
@AdamGriffiths Then it seems that you are providing the venture capital. She raised the funding from you.
– moooeeeep
ideas aren't worth anything without the skills to bring them into reality, and thus that technical founders bring the most important skillset.
This is slightly wrong. True that ideas aren't worth anything. It's the execution that counts.
However, technical skills are a very small piece of the puzzle, even in a tech start-up. Most software developers can make something that would make money but lack all the other skills required, such as:
You could ask the same question about a technical founder. What value do they really bring. A founder with funding can start a company and just employ an agency to build their product.
Usually you would expect a non-technical founder to bringing something to the table. Other than non-technical skills listed above, this could be resources like:
Patent and IP
I've worked with a lot of tech start-ups and usually the non-tech founder provides funding, contacts, sales and business management skills.
My question is, how can I evaluate and understand the skillset that my non-technical founder brings to the table that is vital to the success of the start-up.
with promise as the CTO and technical co-founder
Are you taking a share (becoming a stakeholder) in the company or just a job. If it's just a job, then is it really your business to evaluate and understand the founder? (rhetorical)
As you're joining as a CTO, literally ask. Ask about the company and what the founders do. If they don't bring anything to the table, then it's up to you if you work for them or not.
Founders deserve whatever shares they have. They founded the company and take the risks that come along with that, they may or may not provide anything else, but people rarely get what they deserve based on their skill set or how hard they work.
If it's just a job, then is it really your business to evaluate and understand the founder? The one thing is that you would at least want to know either that the founder is a good leader or that they'll at least get out of the way and let someone else be a good leader in their stead. If a startup suffers from bad leadership, you may be out of a job pretty fast.
– Panzercrisis
Think about how many people you know who have the skills to program something. Think about how many people you know who have the skills to raise 10 million dollars. Which skill set is rarer? Which is more important?
To be successful, you need a good idea, good marketing, good execution, and MONEY.
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Raising large amounts of venture capital requires the ability to inspire confidence. You have to be a confidence man, better known as a conman. Like Donald Trump, or Alan Bond in Australia. In both cases the businesses were not profitable but by force of personality they convinced people to keep bankrolling them. Alan Bond in particular was very popular for taking the America's Cup away from America. He wasted an incredible amount of investor money on 12m yachts doing it, but it certainly reinforced the perception of him as being a winner. If you can run the con, a good idea is incidental.
– PAW
AirBnB does not involve any technical innovation, it's just a brokerage business with an app.
As such, the only technical skill the business needs are people proficient in building apps, who you can hire easily, and you wouldn't draw these from a pool of people you'd have to give equity to.
In the same way, I'd expect the investors to question what value a CEO brings to the venture. If they don't, then that is to some extent their loss, but be prepared that they still expect a company worth their investment in the end, and if you are the only contributor to that value, you will have a stressful time ahead, doubly so because you will also need to document your contributions.
Simon RichterSimon Richter
The key questions for a startup really are:
"What problem are you solving better than it can be done now?", "Who will pay you to do this - and are there enough of them?" "How can you maintain your lead over competitors?" "Do you/your team have the requisite skills, contacts, and drive to make this happen?"
Maybe the problem you are solving for customers is solved with some unique technology that is being developed. There are some great companies doing this.
But often it is about someone having insight into potential customers' needs, deep understanding of how value can be delivered differently, and the networks, skills, and motivation to pitch it, raise money, and take action.
You see plenty of ideas that are solutions in search of problems. You need to be solving a problem that matters.
Most functions within business tell themselves stories about how they are really the most important one (and should have top level executive committee posts too). Marketing is everything. Finance is everything too. So are the people. So are operations. Software engineers are no different in believing they are the people who really matter.
Lately I have seen precious few new financial sector startups where the value proposition is truly based on some unique technology ("but it uses the internet" no longer qualifies). It usually has more to do with an idea for meeting an unmet customer and/or exploiting some structural issue within the sector.
So ask yourself: Why can only the founder do this? What is their novel insight? What is the valuable opportunity they have found?
(I would say as a word of warning that there are a lot of me-too "fintech" startups around now. Ask yourself why this one is one different.)
Duke BouvierDuke Bouvier
What does a non-technical founder bring to a tech company?
Not a lot, unless he has the network to make things happen and the marketing skills to attract funding.
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DTE Joint Venture Powerley Hires Silicon Valley CEO, Grows Company In Year One
Royal Oak-based software company Powerley has hired Manoj Kumar as its CEO and is moving into new office space in downtown Royal […]
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Royal Oak-based software company Powerley has hired Manoj Kumar as its CEO and is moving into new office space in downtown Royal Oak.
Powerley is a joint venture formed in 2015 between DTE Energy and Royal Oak-based global design and technology firm Vectorform.
Powerley will employ nearly 20 employees in its new Royal Oak office.
Kumar's appointment follows the release of an app that allows users to monitor energy consumption information in real-time and get coaching tips on how to optimize energy usage.
"With the successful launch of the DTE Insight app, we knew we needed the right talent and leader to realize the potential both Vectorform and DTE saw in Powerley when the joint venture was formed," said Jason Vazzano, co-founder and CEO of Vectorform. "Manoj brings the right blend of entrepreneurial drive, technical knowledge and business savvy to capitalize on growing consumer demand nationwide."
Kumar, who was most recently a partner at McKinsey & Co.'s Silicon Valley office, brings more than two decades of experience in the tech world to Powerley, according to a news release. In his new role, he will be responsible for growing the startup into a multi-product and solution company focused on working with utilities to further the availability of real-time, energy monitoring applications.
With this kind of technology platform now a part of Powerley's product offerings, the company is looking to offer this platform to other utilities around the world, according to the release. Multinational consulting firm
Accenture said upward of "60 percent of consumers want home energy management services" and would use it if their utilities provided them. More than 150,000 DTE customers have downloaded the Insight app to date and Kumar said he is aware of the growing demand in this market.
"This is an evolving market, and we're on the edge of incredible growth," Kumar said in the release. "The home automation market has an incredibly high amount of fragmentation, coupled with unbelievable opportunity. Powerley has proven success through unprecedented collaboration with DTE Energy, one of Michigan's largest utilities, and we plan to build on that success globally."
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How Tideway used NEC to buy six European TBMs
The six tunnel boring machines (TBMs) for the £4.2 billion NEC-procured Thames Tideway 'super sewer' in London UK have been bought from France, Germany and the UK using the NEC3 Supply Contract. Ordered in 2015, the first of the six machines started tunnelling the 25km long, 7.2m diameter, 35–65m deep sewer under the tidal River Thames in November 2018.
Worth an average of £15 million each, the TBMs are named after inspirational London women from the twentieth century. The largest four – Millicent and Ursula (8.84m diameter), Selina (8.8m diameter) and Rachel (8.0m diameter) – are driving the main tunnel between shafts at Acton storm tanks in the west and Abbey Mills pumping station in the east. Annie (6.6m diameter) is driving a 4.5km connection from a shaft at Bermondsey to Greenwich, while Charlotte (3.4m diameter) is making a 1.1km long connection from a shaft at Fulham to Wandsworth.
French and German suppliers
The Millicent and Ursula earth-pressurebalance machines (EPBM) were supplied by NFM Technologies in Le Creusot, France to FLO, a Ferrovial Agroman UK and Laing O'Rourke joint venture. They were shipped up the Thames via Hamburg, Germany in September 2018. Together they are driving the 12.6km central section which FLO is delivering under an NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC) Option C (target contract with activity schedule) for licenced infrastructure provider Tideway. Launched in opposite directions from a shaft in Battersea, they weigh some 1300t each and measure over 100m long.
EPBM Rachel and slurry TBMs Selina and Annie were made by Herrenknecht in Kehl, Germany. Rachel arrived in 2017 and in early 2019 started driving the 7km west section from Fulham to Acton, which is being delivered under ECC Option C by BMB, a Balfour Beatty, Morgan Sindall and Bam Nuttall joint venture. In 2020 Selina and Annie will start driving the 5.5km east section from Bermondsey to Abbey Mills and the Greenwich connection respectively. Both drives are being delivered by CVB, a Costain, Vinci and Bachy Soletanche joint venture, also under ECC Option C.
Charlotte is a Lovat EPBM which has been refurbished at Morgan Sindall's factory in Staffordshire. In is currently driving the Frogmore connection to Wandsworth, which forms part of BMB's west section contract. All tunnelling is due to be completed by 2021 and the whole project should be operational by 2023. It will intercept 34 existing combined sewer overflows, provide a storage capacity of 1.6 million m3 and reduce untreated discharges into the Thames from an average of 18 million m3 a year to just 2.4 million m3.
Key subcontracts
The Tideway programme manager and NEC project manager Jacobs, engaged under an NEC3 Professional Services Contract, was closely involved in the review and acceptance of the NEC3 Supply Contracts for the six TBMs. The TBM supply contracts were all classified as critical packages, which means they had critical importance to successful achievement of the project's objectives. They were also defined in the main NEC3 ECC Option C works contracts as 'key subcontracts', requiring the contractors to seek the project manager's acceptance prior to issuing tenders or appointing suppliers.
Furthermore, the TBMs were defined as 'exceptional equipment' and were therefore compensated as subcontracts rather than operating the schedule of cost components, as would traditionally been done to ascertain the amount due for equipment (though the direct fee and subcontractor fee percentages would be the same).
Supply contracts
There were no significant concerns expressed by the TBM suppliers when tendering for the NEC3 Supply Contracts at prequalification stage, and expressions of interest were received from tenderers (all from outside the UK) with adequate qualifications. The contracts excluded legal jurisdiction and dispute resolution procedures under secondary option W2.
Herrenknecht had already supplied eight TBMs to the NEC-procured London Crossrail project and one for the similarly procured Lee Tunnel project, which Tideway will flow into, so was familiar with the provisions and administration of the NEC3 Supply Contract. NFM Technologies had not previously had NEC3 exposure but recognised its obligations under the contract.
Both successful suppliers were fully on board with the core values of NEC, including the clause 10.1 obligation to act, 'in a spirit of mutual trust and co-operation'. The NEC3 Supply Contracts included the transportation of the TBMs with associated key dates and delay damages. The contracts provided for the shields and cutterheads to be transported by ship and the back-up system components by a mix of ferry, lorry and barge.
Effective delivery
According to Tideway programme delivery director Andy Alder, 'The use of the NEC3 Supply Contract on Tideway for the TBM procurement has been very effective, with the flexibility to tailor the contracts to meet project needs. This included accommodating the logistical complexities of transporting TBMs over 100m long from Europe to the heart of London, as well as removing the financial risk from suppliers prior to delivery.
'It has been demonstrated on Tideway that the NEC3 Supply Contract encouraged the right philosophy to deliver these high-risk, high-profile subcontracts collaboratively and therefore efficiently. NEC's use of simple English has supported its application for the procurement of the TBMs with international suppliers without the need of costly legal intervention.'
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https://www.neccontract.com/news/how-tideway-used-nec-to-buy-six-european-tbms


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Artist's impression of 60 Moorabool St, courtesy of Quintessential Equity.
In mid-December 2019, diversified property group Quintessential Equity appointed Kane Constructions to deliver a new $85 million commercial development in Melbourne's Geelong – 60 Moorabool St.
Designed by Cox Architecture, the mixed-use building will comprise approximately 11,050 square metres of A-Grade lettable office space to accommodate over 900 employees and includes retail commercial space, an underground car park and end-of-trip facilities.
Construction is expected to commence in March 2020, with the build of 60 Moorabool St forecast to generate 250 jobs within Geelong and inject more than $50 million into the local economy.
The office building is set to become the new headquarters for health insurer GMHBA, the anchor tenant, who is leasing three of the eight levels.
Quintessential Equity, GMHBA and Kane Constructions are all signatories of the G21 Region Opportunities for Work (GROW) Compact – an initiative focused on maximising economic and social outcomes in the Geelong region.
Quintessential Equity's executive chairman, Shane Quinn, says the partnership marks a significant milestone for Geelong's burgeoning commercial landscape.
"To work with partners that share the same passion about providing world-class office spaces that help our tenants, the community and the environment thrive has all the hallmarks of what we value," he said.
Kane Constructions' project director, Sam Birdseye, said 60 Moorabool St represents another important step in revitalising Geelong.
"We're excited to be appointed as the design and construct contractor to deliver GMHBA's new head office. In addition to creating 250 jobs, it is estimated that around 60 per cent of the total construction cost will be procured from the Geelong/G21 region," Mr Birdseye said.
"We look forward to working with Quintessential Equity and GMHBA who share our passion and commitment to the region."
GMHBA Chairman, Jim Walsh, says the project is a great sign of confidence by GMHBA in Geelong.
"The building will not only bring our staff together to provide an efficient, modern and collaborative workplace, it is also an investment for GMHBA members to benefit from annual returns and potential future capital growth, in a growing commercial real estate market," Mr Walsh commented.
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Huge Savings Item! Save 13% on the Franklin Sports 5 Hole Washers by Franklin Sports at Ipswich Recreation. MPN: 13135. Hurry! Limited time offer. Offer valid only while supplies last. Create a friendly competition against family and friends with the Franklin Sports 5 Hole Washers Game. Much like horseshoes, washers is a challenging game that requires poise and precision. The goal of washers is to get the washer into the target hole for points. This game set features 1 molded 5 hole, felt surface washer target with 3 red and 3 blue washers. For hours of amusement, bring the 5 Hole Washer Game to your next BBQ.(1) 19.5'' x 19.5'' molded 5 hole washer target with felt surface.
Create a friendly competition against family and friends with the Franklin Sports 5 Hole Washers Game. Much like horseshoes, washers is a challenging game that requires poise and precision. The goal of washers is to get the washer into the target hole for points. This game set features 1 molded 5 hole, felt surface washer target with 3 red and 3 blue washers. For hours of amusement, bring the 5 Hole Washer Game to your next BBQ.(1) 19.5" x 19.5" molded 5 hole washer target with felt surface. (6) Steel core washers.
(1) 19.5" x 19.5" molded 5 hole washer target with felt surface
(6) Steel core washers
Washers: (3) red and (3) blue
Perfect for backyard, park or beach family fun
Manufacturer: Franklin Sports, Inc.
Brand: Franklin Sports
Publisher: Franklin Sports, Inc.
Studio: Franklin Sports, Inc.
Item Size: 18 x 1 x 1 inches
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Franklin Sports 6 Replacement Washers
By Franklin Sports
Franklin Sports Replacement Washers can be used with most washer style games. These washers are tournament play and feel. Includes 6 steel core washers, 3 red and 3 blue. Perfect as replacements or to add additional players.Multi-purpose size can be used with most washer style games. (6) steel core washers, (3) red and (3) blue. 2.75'' outer diameter. For tournament play and feel. Replacement or to add additional players.
Maranda Enterprises Perfect Pitch Washers
By Maranda Enterprises
mpn: MEPPW1A-PPWRR, ean: 0788451015001,
You will spend hours having fun with family and friends playing Perfect Pitch Washers. Constructed from high quality, durable, polypropylene, Perfect Pitch Washers doesn't nick, chip or splinter like the wood versions. This game is waterproof and weatherproof, so don't worry if you leave it out in the rain overnight. The versatile design also allows for them to be filled with sand or water for an alternative game play. The targets nest together for compact and convenient storage in the
Best Choice Products Wood Washer Toss Game Set Outdoor Backyard Party Games
Have fun with friends and family playing a classic game of washers! This set comes with everything you need to play: 2 birch wood targets and 8 washers. Snapping the two targets together with the attached locks creates a game case with handles for easy storage and transport. Get your game on with the Wood Washer Toss Game Set from Best Choice Products! SPECIFICATIONS: Overall Dimensions: 13.5"(L) x 13.5"(W) x 4"(H); Weight: 9.36 lbs.; Includes (2) targets and (8) plastic-coated steel
5 Yellow/5 Silver Replacement 2-1/2" Washer Toss Pitching Game Washers (Zinc Coated)
By AirstreamIT
This is a set of 5 silver and 5 yellow zinc coated steel washers. Their outside dimension is 2.5''. Their inside dimension is 1.0''. They are the standard size, weight, material, and dimensions demanded by competitive washer players and are the type required to be used at the biggest tournaments around the world. They come in a medical grade polypropylene resealable container so that they stay together and secure between uses. All 10 washers in each set are individually weighed to ensure the
Maranda Enterprises Perfect Pitch Washers Game Replacement Washers
mpn: MEWPK-WPKRB, ean: 0788451015018,
Did you lose your washers for your PERFECT PITCH WASHERS Game? Get the originals! These hefty washers have a steel interior and heavy duty plastic exterior coating making them waterproof and weatherproof. Use them with Maranda Enterprises's Perfect Pitch Washers Game or with your own homemade game!Get the ORIGINAL replacement washers for your Perfect Pitch game. Washers have a steel interior and heavy duty plastic exterior. Waterproof and weatherproof. ASTM toy safety tested and approved. For
Nova Microdermabrasion 15'' Wood Washer Toss Game Set Outdoor Portable Backyard Classic Games w/Carrying Box for Lawn,Beach,Parties, Camping, Tailgating (8 Washers)
By Nova Microdermabrasion
mpn: NM0465,
Washer Toss is an exciting team game that is perfect for children and adults alike. Have fun tossing the washers towards the Target (like horseshoes but safer) with your family! Perfect for outdoors use in winter, summer, spring and fall! Features: 1. Premium yard game 2. Set up is quick and easy 3. Great game for all ages and skill levels 4. Boards latch together with carrying handles for maximum portability 5. With the included product instruction,even a child can set up this washer toss game
Washoooes – All-Weather Washer Toss Game- Outdoor Family Horseshoes Style Game, Perfect for Parties, Camping, Tailgating and more. Hours of Fun For ALL by Driveway Games
By Driveway Games
Washoooes - All-Weather Washer Toss Game- Indoor Outdoor Family Horseshoes Style Game, Perfect for Parties, Camping, Tailgating and more. Hours of Fun For ALL by Driveway GamesWasher pitching is a game, similar to horseshoes, that involves teams of players that take turns tossing washers towards a box or hole. The game has many variations, and may be called washer pitching, washer toss, washers, huachas or washoes (which is based on the similarity to horseshoes)The game field consists of two
ROPODA Washer Toss Game Set-Outdoor Family Game-Perfect for Lawn,Backyard,Beach,Parties, Camping, Tailgating and more.
By ROPODA
PRODUCT FEATURE Washer toss game similar to Horseshoes, in which individuals or teams compete against one another in an effort to be the first to reach a winning score of 11, 17 or 21 points. The game consists of two washer pits located a set distance (This washer toss game can be played on 20, 30, or 40 foot long areas depending on skill level ) from one another, each with a recessed cup.use the red and blue washers and pitch them at the opposing tray. The closer to the center the more points


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The Arboretum de Charvols, of approximately hectare extent, also called the Arboretum du Plateau de La Chaise-Dieu, is an arboretum located in Malvières, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, France. It is open daily without charge.

The arboretum was established in 1993 on a former agricultural clearing in the middle of the forest of La Chaise-Dieu, at an altitude of approximately 900 meters, with a primary mission of timber trials for enrichment of the forest. It consists of almost 100 plots with collections containing 97 species (34 conifers, 38 hardwoods, 25 shrubs and fruit).

See also
 List of botanical gardens in France

References
 Arboretum de Charvols
 Parcs et Jardins entry (French)
 Gralon.net entry (French)
 Culture.fr entry (French)

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10.63 / 12.00 Brenda Bowen
Global Change & Sustainability Center
Total number of employees that conduct research:
Number of employees engaged in sustainability research:
Percentage of employees that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
Total number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts research:
Number of academic departments that include at least one employee who conducts sustainability research:
Percentage of departments that conduct research that are engaged in sustainability research:
A copy of the inventory of the institution's sustainability research (upload):
UU_Sust_Faculty_Research_Inventory_200802.xlsx
Inventory of the institution's sustainability research:
A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:
Faculty who are affiliates of the Global Change and Sustainability Center self-identify that interdisciplinary research within sustainability is a significant component of their scholarship when they become affiliate faculty. This identifies 138 UU faculty who are actively engaged in sustainability research that span ecological and social systems. These faculty engage with the GCSC in many ways, sharing their research through annual research symposium, publications, presentations, class discussions, mentoring student research projects, participating in team research across departments and colleges, contributing towards conversations around sustainability governance and operations on campus, and more. The GCSC regularly follows and supports the research of these faculty in many different ways (see: https://environment.utah.edu/faculty).
In addition, the GCSC worked with the VP for Faculty office and the Office for Global Engagement to create an online Sustainability Inventory beginning in 2017 (https://inventory.environment.utah.edu/) that builds from Faculty Activity Reports (FAR) that all faculty at the University are required to complete annually. Faculty have the opportunity within the reporting system to self-identify any scholarly work that links to sustainability (including publications, media, service, awards, presentations, etc). Faculty are prompted to optionally identify the theme that their sustainability research links to; selecting from nine overlapping themes: AIR QUALITY, BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND COMMUNITIES, CLIMATE CHANGE, ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE, ENERGY, FOOD SYSTEMS, JUSTICE, NATURE AND CULTURE, and WATER. This approach identified 126 UU faculty (58 of which were already identified as GCSC affiliates). Information added into this database by University of Utah faculty from its creation in 2017 through the end of 2019 is included here.
Faculty who were recipients of GCSC Seed grants in 2017 and 2018 are also included in our list. These projects were all highly interdisciplinary and focused on a major sustainability challenge. This seed grant program is sponsored by GCSC in collaboration with the Society, Water and Climate Research Group and NEXUS: iNterdisciplinary EXchange for Utah Science to incentivize new or expanded interdisciplinary collaborations between two or more U of U faculty researchers from different disciplines. These grants are intended to help foster new interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary sustainability and global / environmental change research. This identified 11 additional faculty.
A special effort was made to identify faculty associated with the health sciences who are working on research in the area of ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH that clearly links to both social and scientific aspects of sustainability. Because of a divided campus structure, the faculty in the health sciences have had less involvement with the GCSC and do not use FAR. The GCSC collaborates closely with NEXUS, where there has been a focus on linking faculty between the social and environmental sciences and health science, and NEXUS helped us to identified eight additional faculty who have been involved with their center in interdisciplinary sustainability research. We identified another eight additional faculty who presented in a campus-wide AIR QUALTIY and CLIMATE CHANGE themed symposium in the Fall of 2019 that included current sustainability research on air quality, health, and society. We also queried new institutional database that was created by the UU research development office, PIVOT, where faculty seeking funding opportunities enter keywords describing their research and identified five additional faculty working in interdisciplinary research spanning ecology and social aspects of ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH. The GCSC created and advertised a link for faculty to self-identify if they do sustainability research.
The total number of faculty that conduct research was determined based on institutional data on the total number of tenure-line faculty, library research faculty, and career line research faculty. All tenure-line faculty have a research component as a part of their job. Adjunct, visiting, and part-time faculty generally do not. Career line faculty are categorized as either teaching or research faculty and here we include research faculty.
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In addition, the VP for Research Office keep track of how many faculty receive ANY portion of their salary from a research grant account or contract. In 2018 this number was 1,069, which provides a minimum for research active faculty and verifies that our baseline of 1,761 faculty engaged in research is a reasonable estimate (given that some faculty are pursuing research without external funding).
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Natural Resources officials to meet Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission about allegations of nuclear unsafety
CNSC head to meet with officials to tackle allegations in anonymous letter, GLORIA GALLOWAY, OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail, Jul. 19, 2016 Natural Resources officials will meet with the head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to discuss allegations that information was withheld from commissioners as they made critical decisions about the licensing of the country's nuclear plants.
An anonymous letter, purportedly written by specialists at the nuclear regulator, was sent five weeks ago to CNSC president Michael Binder. It points to five separate cases in which the commission's staff sat on relevant information about risk or non-compliance that might have called the safety of a nuclear plant into question…….
The anonymous letter writers say nuclear hazards have been underestimated, plant operators have been permitted to skip requirements of the licensing regime, and assessments outlining what could happen in the event of a major nuclear disaster – such as the one that occurred in Fukushima, Japan in 2011 – have been withheld from the commissioners and the public……
Among other allegations, the writers of the anonymous letter to Mr. Binder say an evaluation of the effects of a Fukushima-scale nuclear disaster in Canada has never been released to the commissioners or the public.
In a 2014 e-mail obtained by the environmental group Greenpeace under access to information laws, François Rinfret, a director at the regulator, said a scenario for a Fukushima-size disaster would "become the focal point of a licence renewal and, despite brilliant attempts to caution readers … would be used malevolently at a public hearing" by people concerned about nuclear energy. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/anonymous-letter-accuses-cnsc-of-withholding-critical-information/article30998523/
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Q: How to check a character is alphabet or integer In my project i have string suppose NSString* str = @"$ 120.00";
From the above string i am getting every individual character, Now i have to get all integres in the string i.e, $ is not a integer so i dont want that, "1" is a integer i want that like this . How can i do that can any one help me
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A: You can get a character set for digits and then use it to check your characters:
NSCharacterSet* digits = [NSCharacterSet decimalDigitCharacterSet];
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}

A: Unbeli's answer is probably the best for what it sounds like you want, which is an array of characters that happen to represent integers.
However, if your end goal is to reassemble all of the integer characters you've pulled out into a number, I'd suggest regular expressions.  Cocoa doesn't have regex wrappers for replacement, but you should be able to use standard C <regex.h> code; Obj-C is a superset after all.
But that would give you 12000 in your example, as opposed to 120 which might be what you're after.  In that case, I'd give [str intValue] a try.

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Botulism is a foodborne illness first documented in a case of some tainted sausages in 1820, but to quote Wikipedia and save you from having to type in the word and look it up yourself, "Botulism is a rare and potentially fatal illness caused by a toxin, produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum." Interestingly enough "Clostridium Botulinum" is also the bacterium that produces Botulinum, the most acutely lethal toxin known to man, and where Botox (Botulinum Toxin = Botox) comes from. While Gwyneth Paltrow may disagree with Botox being a toxin, Martin Galindo, the man who died from eating Botulism tainted nacho cheese assuredly does not. While Botulism might not kill a lot of people, only about 20 per year, it still kills people. You don't want to get it.
As you can probably guess from knowing how Botox works, Botulism causes muscle paralysis. While the above could also be the symptoms of your typical drunk, is the case of actual Botulism they could progress to cause paralysis in fun places such as all the other muscles in your body, including the oft used respiratory ones. In the foodborne variety of the illness usually there are signs 18 to 36 hours after eating the tainted food, but it can range from 6 hours to 10 days, so don't get too comfortable.
You can get it from canned food, so if you find a canned item that's swollen or squirty or foamy when you open it, toss that baby ou. Also, why would you ever eat a can of foamy food?
If you have a food low in acid such as seafood, meat, potatoes, green beans, beets, asparagus, boil it for 10 minutes before nomming down on it. Boiling it should take care of any nasty old toxins lying around.
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For the gas station in question the California Department of Public Health fortunately removed the toxic cheese on Cinco de Mayo, which is like removing Botulism ladened Peeps on Easter, so that being 20 days ago you'd know if you caught it from there by now. If you caught it some other way you should consult a healthcare provider or go to the emergency room immediately. There is an antitoxin, but even with that it can still be weeks or months for your paralysis to improve. Also in 3 to 5 percent of cases even with all our fancy medical advances the patient will still die, but that's down from half the people who caught Botulism dying that was the reality 50 years ago, so progress!
Botulism is not fun. You don't want to get it. Don't eat nacho cheese from a gas station. The more you know.


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Katherine Litvak's areas of expertise include venture capital, private equity, corporate and securities law, and corporate finance. She has previously served as an assistant professor at the University of Texas School of Law, a clerk for both the Hon. Ralph K. Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Hon. Frank H. Easterbrook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, as well as a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at Columbia Law School. She has presented at more than 50 national and international conferences, workshops, and seminars. Litvak received her BA from the University of California-Los Angeles, an MA in international relations from Harvard, her JD from Stanford Law School.
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