The latest review in our #harfangatang competition comes in from Frank in Frankfurt.
Although it is already fall now and summer is gone, I want to let everyone know about what I think are the best barefoot-sandals for distance skateboarding. Luckily I still had the chance to test them recently on some warmer days.
For quite some time now I have been a big "fan" of moving in a way that is natural and healthy for my feet and the rest of the body. Part of this is to incorporate more barefooted movement in my life. When running I usually use Huaraches (barefoot sandals) to get a little protection for my feet and this works quite well.
But pushing a skateboard in traditional style Huaraches has always been an unsatisfactory experience to me. As these sandals are attached to the feet with the help of thin shoelaces, they don't sit tight enough to prevent your feet from slightly slipping around on the sole. As a result the lace next to the big toe always caused a rubbing sensation that could be quite annoying. I made this experience while pushing and especially when skogging. Tightening up the laces more did not help for me and made wearing the Huaraches rather more uncomfortable.
But riding a board without any footwear doesn't really seem appropriate to me. I know that some people do skate barefooted and they are doing it quite well, which of course shows that it is possible. But while skating with higher speed or going for longer distances, I personally like to have some protection for my feet to avoid injuries, because scratches on the soles or sides of the feet are more likely to happen when you go faster than just in a walking or running pace.
Of course I could always take Vibram Five Fingers which I think would be a better choice than using traditional huaraches. But I know from running in Vibrams that they have a rather stiff sole and the separate holes you have to force your toes into always gave me a constrained feeling which is still quite different compared to moving around in Huaraches. So I always wished to find a solution one day that would fit tightly on my feet while at the same time allowing my feet to have that pure barefoot feeling when pushing or skogging.
Recently I heard of Danny Dreyer (inventor of the method of ChiRunning) using the Xero Shoes sandals for running. As he praised them to be very good running sandals, I hoped they would work for my distance pushing as well. And indeed, they are exactly what I have been looking for. Instead of shoelaces they use a strapping system which allows the sandals to be attached to the feet more tightly and secure than with usual huaraches. The flat straps also make them more comfortable, avoiding any grinding sensations. Once you have customized the straps, the sandals don't need any further adjustment and fit like a second skin. Another result of this tightening system is that when it gets colder outside you could even wear your usual socks with them instead of having to buy special toe-socks.
The Xero Shoes sandals come in two versions: The Amuri Z-Trek with a 5,5 mm sole and the newer Umara Z-Trail with a sole of 10 mm. As the Z-Trail was made with trail-running on unpaved surfaces in mind, I intentionally chose the Z-Trek for more barefoot feeling. The thin flexible sole really gives you the same feeling as if being barefoot but with the needed protection for fast pushing. Though I am aware that the Z-Trail, having a thicker sole and nonetheless being 20% lighter than the Z-Trek, might be the better sandal for the really long distances.
The first time I tested my new Xero Shoes sandals was on a short 14 km push going slightly uphill. Although I had two little blisters on my feet afterwards it was nothing tragic and owed to the fact that I first had to find the right way to push without any dampening shoe soles. Later I adapted my pushing and did not experience any more problems of this kind. As the manufacturers claim that both of their sandals have a very durable sole and even give a 5.000 miles warranty on them, I could not help but test the sandals while frequently footbraking on my 14 km ride back downhill. As you can see on the photos I made afterwards, some areas of the soles are already a bit worn down from this. But the rubber-sole seems to be quite durable, as the result doesn't look worse than what you would expect after footbraking with other skate or running shoes. Nonetheless the sandals are of course not made for this kind of usage. But for the purpose of long distance pushing and skogging, when you don't necessarily need to do much footbraking, they are the best barefoot-sport-sandals I am aware of.
Cheers for the review Frank! If you want to be in with a chance of winning a set of Harfangatang wheels, email your review to nat@skatefurther.com – it could be skating equipment, camping kit or even a skate route you use. Send it it and you might win!


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Can we be sure that the Treasurer is responsible for his actions ?
His recent "Descent Into Madness" meltdowns in the media have the look of someone setting themselves up to cop an insanity plea.
Unfortunately government deceit is now rampant, at least in most governments of the former "Free West" nations.
Those noble goals were apparently behind decades of government deceit during my career (1960-present) that finally culminated in the release of Climategate emails and documents in November 2009.
NSW Land Tax:(for one specific individual) UP 17.3%, Council Rates: UP 12.1%, Housing Insurance: UP 8.6%, and horror-of-horrors, my football rego fees:UP 10.71% .
3.1% CPI- my arse!! And WE pay these dorks (ABBS-Aust.Bureau of BS) to lie to us!!
Don't speak to the media or talk about this fraud. You will be taken to Court for speaking the truth. For goodness sake, wake up Australians. It is getting too late – the government must get out soon for the sake of the future of Australia and Australians. Surely there are some ALP members who can see through this fraud but perhaps they are too stupid or haven't the guts to get up and go.
Since it states in MYEFO it was ABS who adopted the new System of National Accounts I have to ask, how much control does the Government have over ABS methodology?
The head of the ABS, the "Australian Statistician", is a public servant with the status of "Permanent Head", and is directly answerable to … surprise surprise, the Treasurer. Draw your own conclusions.
The information paper written in september 2007 by the ABS, actually shows where there have been manipulations by the government in how the GDP figures are different.
This also shows where the 4.15% increase in the 2007-8 GDP current prices actually came from: R&D investment (about 1.5%) and captial used by non profits (2-3%).
So that shows that there was influence by the government, but that wouldn't have a material impact on growth rates.
The paper referenced does not assist in explaining why the government failed to draw public attention to the changes at the time of the release of MYEFO, instead preferring to mention a "substantial increase" to GDP only in the fine print of MYEFO. It cannot explain why the government chose not to detail the actual magnitude of the change in the MYEFO, but rather in a single sentence in a press release one month after the MYEFO, and buried in the news frenzy on the opening day of the Copenhagen Conference. Nor can it explain why that (belated and buried) press release concedes the actual magnitude of the change for one year only (2007-08) … the magnitude of the adjustment for the critical (viz possible "technical recession") 2008-09 year is not given.
Even if one were to cautiously accept the paper's position, that a base level adjustment/increase in GDP (ie, across the entire historical series) will not materially affect growth rates (ie, quarter on quarter), it is important to note that we are not informed in the Treasurer's press release (or elsewhere?) that the amount of increase has been uniformly applied across all years. If a revision of (eg) 3% is made to one year, and a 4% adjustment made to the subsequent year, then the net effect of the two non-uniform adjustments will be to show an artificial increase in YoY GDP growth in the second year versus the first.
By my calculations the government adjusted historical GDP upwards by (eg) 2.75% for 2001-02, 3.52% for 2002-03, 2.89% for 2003-04, 2.56% for 2004-05, 3.46% for 2005-06, and 4.49% for 2006-07.
The fact that we are only informed (belatedly, on a huge international news day) of the magnitude of the change for one year (2007-08), and not for 2008-09, must prompt the question of whether the (unknown, unstated) amount of "adjustment" for 2008-09 may have continued the rising trend indicated by the adjustments to the immediately preceding years 2004-07.
Finally, it's worth noting that while this paper gives us some very approximate indications of what the ABS intended to do back in September 2007, it does not help us to know what they actually did do regarding the magnitude of the impact on the GDP number for the key year of 2008-09, in which, if we believe the government, we narrowly escaped a "technical recession" due to their "decisive" stimulus.
Well if you want to check the before and after revision GDP figures correctly, go to the original source documents.
The system of national accounts at the ABS has the complete range of figures.
You can find spreadsheets with the complete GDP figures under downloads. Table one is good becuase it has the complete range of GDP figures. If you just compare the numbers you can see how the change has happened.
I don't know what you were doing on the 28th of October 2009 but the ABS website had this information avialable right then, when it was relevant, when the actual changes were made and when the media would have actually looked at the GDP figures.
Hoepfully you will actually look for the information in the future before you claim that it was hidden.
>>"The system of national accounts at the ABS has the complete range of figures.
As noted at the link you've provided, this data was prepared per the new system, and thus (on brief scan) appears to be of little help in determining what the reported GDP for 2008-09 would have been if prepared under the previous system of accounting. However, I will certainly look into this data in more detail when time permits, to determine if there is anything contained by which to identify the specific quantum of GDP in 2008-09 that is solely attributable to the changed system of accounting.
I very strongly doubt that the media would have been looking at an obscure ABS Information Paper on Implementation of new international statistical standards in ABS National and International Accounts at all, much less in October, given their attention would naturally be on the Treasurer's coming MYEFO release and related speeches/interviews in November. The fact that the sole mention of the changed accounting methods resulting in a "substantial increase" to GDP (but nil quantifying details) and reference to revisions to the historical series, was buried in the MYEFO fine print, further suggests that it is highly unlikely that many if any journalists would notice it at all, much less think there was any obvious or compelling reason to question what might be the actual quantum of the change, and refer back to the ABS archives for more information.
Warning: The estimates in this publication are indicative. They are presented to give an indication of the magnitude of the impacts of proposed change to Australia's macro-economic accounts. All estimates are subject to refinement and revision in the compilation of the annual Australian System of National Accounts to be published on 8 December 2009 and in the quarterly Australian National Accounts to be published on 16 December 2009.
Your failure to observe and mention this, along with your continued failure to make any attempt to account for the questionable actions of the Treasurer in his (lack of) clear and upfront communication of the changes in accounting methodology, and especially of the actual quantum of their impact (why reference only the 4.4% adjustment for 2007-08 in his buried press release of 8 December 2009, when the all-important 2008-09 figure was also known by then?), causes me to question your motivations and sincerity in your comments to this post.
So now you've had a chance to look through the actual ABS reports, you should pay attention to the published dates. Notably, the 2008/09 system of national accounts was released on the 8th of December, the EXACT date of Wayne Swan's press release 221 you linked to in your article.
Anyway, which is a more likely explanation? That the ABS released the updated anual GDP as scheduled on 8/12/10 and Wayne Swan desperately released a press release to distract from the Wikileaks saga, or Wayne Swan leaked the US diplomatic cables just in time to cover a large and complicated change in statistical standards? Frankly, I want to believe that Wayne Swan is really Julian Assange with a face mask because that would be awesome, but it's likely not the real answer.
Also, what other way of making a meaningful comparison of government finances over time and between countries, if not by comparison to the size of the economy as measured by GDP?
For example, New Zealand had about 60Billion NZD in debt at 30/6/11, while Australia had about $85 Billion AUD in net debt then. Just comparing dollar amounts, New Zealand seems to have less of a debt problem than Australia. But if you compare the ratio to GDP, New Zealand ratio to GDP is over 30% compared to 6% in Australia. So how would you avoid this sort of confusion happening?
It appears that you have typed this (9:44pm) while not being aware of my own response just posted (9:40pm) to your previous comments. I leave it to you if you wish to respond further.
I have no substantive comments to make in response to this, Lachlan. It is my view that the evidence (incl. timing, choice of information included/not included in Treasurer's press release/s, etc) all speaks for itself, as outlined in the article and earlier articles from 2 years ago. The only additional observation I would make is that the Information paper dated 28 October 2009 that you referred to previously, advises that the Australian System of National Accounts (new system) with final figures would be released a little over a month later, on December 8 – note well that the period where there was a risk of the economic numbers going into "technical recession" was way back in the Dec 2008 – Mar 2009 quarters. The government knew years in advance the dates of the Copenhagen Conference. If we take Lindsay Tanner at his (post-career memoir) word regarding having engaged in "dark arts", including "switching between methods of accounting" in order "to maximise political appearances", then IMHO it is entirely plausible that back in the GFC peak period, the government/"Gang of Four" chose to instruct the ABS (the head statistician is a public servant directly answerable to the Treasurer) to ensure that adjustments to GDP under the new system of accounting were sufficient to avoid a second negative quarter of GDP in March 2009, knowing full well they could bury the evidence in fine print, and in happily-timed, vague and misleading press releases.
EDIT: I see now that you have graced us with your presence previously, Lachlan. You have form. Unless you are prepared to present careful, thorough (ie, read the papers you link to with care first, before quoting them as supposed support for your position), and substantive arguments against the position and evidences I have put forward, your future comments will be rejected. I'm sorry …I do not have time nor inclination for refuting your habit of presenting numerous misdirections and errors, nor for following every link you provide only to discover you haven't checked it thoroughly yourself, much less bothered yourself to read through and locate specific evidence within the datasets you link to that actually proves my position incorrect.
EDIT2: By way of example of your penchant for (careless?) errors that waste others (my) time in addressing, I note in your comments at 9:44pm re ABS updated annual GDP, that you have now given the date as 8/12/10. Wrong. You then immediately go on to discuss "the Wikileaks saga", "leaked US diplomatic cables", etc. This actually occurred in February 2010 … well after the early December 2009 COP15 Copenhagen Conference. I can only guess that you are confusing the Wikileaks diplomatic cables release, with the "ClimateGate" release of emails from the CRU/UEA which began in November 2009, prior to the Copenhagen Conference. As per above, Lachlan, you have form here; if you are unwilling to carefully check your facts before posting, I will reject your future comments.
The United Nations was formed on 24 Oct 1945 out of fear of the "nuclear fire" that vaporization of Hiroshima on 6 Aug 1945.
Fear of man-made "nuclear fire" convinced world leaders and leaders of scientific community to ignore, obscure or avoid revealing any finding that would lead to the discovery of the trigger – neutron repulsion .
My research mentor, the late Professor Paul K. Kuroda, was Dr. Kazuo Kuroda of the Imperial University of Japan during WWII. The US military relocated Dr. Kuroda to the United States after WWII.
His effort to report in 1956 that a "nuclear fire" had occurred spontaneously on Earth was almost, but not quite successfully, blocked from publication [2-4].
Government deception culminated in Climategate emails and documents that became public in Nov 2009.
Moral: Power corrupted, but those who misused power are now living in fear.


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Q: How can I break down the strings listed below with tcl I can have several possible strings such as "1, 1203;2 59", "1, 1203;2 59;3 44" or "1, 1203;3 44".  The way I need to read this is "1" has a value of 1203, "2" has a value of 59 and "3" has a value of 44.  There will always be at least one  entry with the format "number" space "value" but there can be up to three sets of entries in the string (like the second example shown above).

A: example:
set str1 "1, 1203;2 59;3 44"

you may need to split the string first:
set str1_list [split $str1 ";"]

then you can use "regexp" for each item parse:
regexp {(\d+),* *(\d+) *$} [lindex $str1_list 0] -> res1 res2

A: Sample code:
proc foo {data} {
    array set return_value {}
    foreach item [split $data ";"] {
      set elements [split $item]
      set key [string trimright [lindex $elements 0] ","]
      set value [lindex $elements end]
      set return_value($key) $value
    }
    return [array get return_value]
}
array set tmp [foo  "1, 1203;2 59"]
puts [parray tmp]
unset tmp

array set tmp [foo  "1, 1203;2 59;3 44"]
puts [parray tmp]
unset tmp

array set tmp [foo  "1, 1203;3 44"]
puts [parray tmp]
unset tmp

Execution output:
tmp(1) = 1203
tmp(2) = 59

tmp(1) = 1203
tmp(2) = 59
tmp(3) = 44

tmp(1) = 1203
tmp(3) = 44

A: You are using a string to define an associative relationship between some keys (1, 2, 3) and some values (1203, 59, 44). In Tcl, this relationship can be expressed simply as the value
{1 1203 2 59 3 44}

Let's see if we can translate the given string into this value. Let's strip away any commas and replace all semicolons with spaces:
% set data [string map {, {} ; { }} "1, 1203;2 59;3 44"]
1 1203 2 59 3 44

And we're done. Testing:
% dict get $data 1
1203
% dict get $data 2
59
% dict get $data 3
44

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The City Council met in regular session on August 18, 2014 at 7:30 P.M. in the Council Chambers of City Hall.
MINUTES: The meeting was called to order and the minutes of August 4th were approved as corrected on the banner request by Councilman Peterson, second by Councilwoman Grant. Motion carried by a unanimous vote of the Council present.
VISITORS: Travis and Jennifer Randall, 417 N Junction would like to place a fence in the right of way on the back side of both sidewalks. On motion by Councilman Lester, second by Councilman Peterson to allow Travis and Jennifer Randall to place 4' chain link fence within 50' of the corner and in the right of way at 417 N Junction. Motion carried by a unanimous vote of the Council present.
WWTP PHASE II UPDATE: Public Works Director McFrederick stated the City is releasing half the retainage for Shannon Industrial. There are a couple SCADA programming issues that need to be resolved. McFrederick had a conversation with JUB last week. There is still air in the sludge line which causes problems with the SCADA system for the screw press. McFrederick feels it is a design issue.
On motion by Councilman Peterson , second by Councilwoman Grant to authorize Pay Request #11 to Shannon Industrial for $30,596.72. Motion carried by a unanimous vote of the Council present.
COMMITTEE REPORTS: The department had 45 cases written, 19 citations, 4 written warning and 164 calls for service for July 2014. The Police and Animal Control Report for July 2014 was accepted on motion by Councilman Lester second by Councilman Peterson. Motion carried by a unanimous vote of the Council present.
HEALTH INSURANCE COMMITTEE REPORT: Clerk Kennedy reported the committee recently met to discuss health insurance. Amy Manning with III-A visited the City and met with employees to answer insurance questions. The other insurance reimbursement was brought up during the meeting and it was stated that all City employees were required to be on the City health plan. Clerk Kennedy had a conference call with III-A the following week to visit about the other insurance program and it was explained that when the City joined III-A, the City was brought in "as is". All existing programs/policies were grandfathered in. Any employees hired after the City joined III-A were required to be on the City policy. The committee made the recommendation to the Council that the four people originally grandfathered in should stay on the other insurance program and the three new hires would need to move to the City plan as per III-A requirements. This recommended policy change occurred later in the meeting with the Personnel Handbook change.
BILLS: The bills in the amount of $251,566.22 were approved and ordered paid out of their respective funds, on motion by Councilman Lester, second by Councilman Peterson. Motion carried by a unanimous vote of the Council present.
CANCER AWARENESS PROCLAMATION: Mayor Walker proclaimed September 2014 Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
OUT OF CITY WATER AND SEWER REQUEST: Rick Ross recently purchased an airport hangar at 228 Airport Lane, and requested out of City water and sewer. Mr. Ross has agreed to pay the equity buy in fees and out of City rates. On motion by Councilman Lester, second by Councilman Lorentz to allow Rick Ross 228 Airport Lane to hook up to water and sewer and pay the current rates and buy in fees. Motion carried by a unanimous vote of the Council present.
PINE STREET PAVING: Public Works Director McFrederick hired Allwest Testing to test Pine Street Paving. Allwest is saying the blame is on both the City and Knife River. The pavement is too thin and there was not enough oil in the mix; however the compaction is not as good as it should have been. Attorney Green reviewed the Pavement Distress Evaluation for Pine Street does not recommend suing because there are problems on both parties. It was suggested the City could ask from some compensation and comprise. The Council directed Attorney Green to send a letter to Knife River with a copy of the report, stating the City would like to compromise and see what type of response the City gets back.
J-U-B CONTRACT: On motion by Councilman Lester, second by Councilman Peterson to have the Mayor sign the renewed agreement with J-U-B for Biosolids Management ROLL CALL VOTE: YES: Dumas, Winkler, Lester, Lorentz, Grant, Peterson. NO: none. The motion passed.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF GRANGEVILLE ESTABLISHING A MEASUREMENT PERIOD FOR PURPOSES OF DETERMINING ELIGIBILITY AS MANDATED BY THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT AND ADOPTING THE ACA PLAN FOR NON FULLTIME EMPLOYEES.
ROLL CALL VOTE: YES: Dumas, Winkler, Lester, Lorentz, Grant, Peterson. NO: none. The motion passed. Mayor Walker then declared Resolution No. 241 duly approved and adopted.
1. Group medical insurance shall be provided to full-time employees.
2. Medical insurance (ACA Plan) will be offered to non-fulltime employees. Employees will cover 100% of the cost and are not eligible for the City buy down program.
3. The City may choose on a yearly basis to refund a portion of the deductible to the employees when the deductible has been met (buy down program).
4. The City may choose on a yearly basis to pay the actual costs (premium and/or a portion of the deductible) for an employee to have his/her family on a non-City policy. The employee can be paid up to a maximum of 70% of the City's cost to have the employee and his/her family on the City policy.
Councilwoman Dumas felt all City employees needed to be on the City policy and not grandfathered in. No motion to change the grandfather status was made. On motion by Councilman Lorentz, second by Councilman Winkler to adopt the handbook revision due to III-A requirements as presented. Motion carried, Councilwoman Dumas voting no.
APPOINTMENT OF PETE LANE: Mayor Walker appointed Pete Lane to serve the remainder of Brian's term. On motion by Councilman Lester, second by Councilman Peterson to approve Mayor Walker's appointment of Pete Lane to fill the vacancy of Brian Lorentz. Motion carried by a unanimous vote of the Council present.
OATH OF OFFICE: At this time Councilmember Lane was sworn into office by Clerk Kennedy and the official oath was duly executed and filed. Lane was then presented with a Certificate of Appointment.
August 18, 2014 – 7:30 P.M.
August 12, 2014: The City Pool is closed for the rest of today due to a vomiting incident. The pool will reopen tomorrow with regular hours.


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And they came to Inventure from Kolar.
Breaking news- elephants in our school!
The school gave us an unusual holiday.
Where the land was free for them to roam.
We really should heed their cries for reforestation.


Town of Kapuskasing Status: Completed 2011 Consultant: C.C. Tatham & Associates Ltd.
The project scope of work consisted of the supply and installation of Greatario glass-fused to steel, bolted bio-solids storage tank with driven piles, pile cap, foundation, jet mix system, decant piping, and all associated piping; supply and installation of UV disinfection system and Sodium Hypochlorite system; supply and installation of new transformer and unit substation, as well as, automatic transfer switch and emergency standby diesel generator with enclosure.
Removals and replacement work by supplying and installing new process equipment including, FRP clarifier covers and motor enclosures, two pre-selected Landustrie Sneek screw pumps, three RAS/WAS pumps, one sewage grinder, and two pre-selected Hayward Gordon sludge transfer pumps. We supplied, installed, programmed, and commissioned the new PLCs, HMI and SCADA system and completed the site work, which included yard piping, excavation, backfilling, compaction, grading, and restoration. The extensive refurbishment and retrofits, that included all electrical distribution, was completed while maintaining existing plant operation. All civil, mechanical, and electrical work was self-performed.


Balkh is a town in Afghanistan.
Balkh was the capital of the historic region of Bactria, even before the arrival of Alexander the Great, and of a Greco-Bactrian Kingdom afterward. It was destroyed many times over by the likes of Ghengis Khan and Timur-i-lang.
Compared to the rest of the country, almost all citizens of Balkh can speak English. There are English schools/lessons and computer courses are also taught (such as Microsoft Office programs). A traveller will be hard pressed not to run into one of the teachers and invited into their home. The young students are shy about using their English.
Balkh is easily reachable from Mazar-e Sharif by shared taxi for about 20 afghani. Look for the passengers sitting in the open boot of some cars. The road passes through a fort with destroyed tanks and APCs; the fort was probably a road block during the Warlord and Taliban period. The landscape before and around the town is fields. South of the town at the turnoff is a large mound that was probably a watchtower.
The town is completely enclosed by its ancient fortifications; brick and mud walls at least 30 feet high and in good condition. They can be climbed, giving views of the countryside and the town. At the north end is another larger mound that was the fortress. The walls slope on the outside and are vertical on the inside, giving an impression from the inside of being very tall. Turrets along the walls are in varying states of decay, providing glimpses of building techniques.
The town has a central park, where children play soccer or volleyball. At one end are the ruins of a tiled mosque; at the other, the gate of a madrassa. Again the construction technique of the madrassa can be seen. As the park is full of trees and small shops surround the park, it is difficult to take photos of the madrassa. Full shots of the mosque are easy.
This city travel guide to Balkh is an outline and needs more content. It has a template, but there is not enough information present. Please plunge forward and help it grow!


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This paper focuses on the technology gap between African-Americans and the general population. This separation, is often dismissed as the digital divide; however digital indifference is a more fitting label.


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Розши́рення спектра́льної лі́нії за раху́нок оберта́ння зорі́ — механізм, який дає основний вклад у спостережуване розширення спектральних ліній у спектрах зір та планет.

Фізичний зміст

Під час спостережень зорі ми бачимо лише її поверхневі шари (що відповідають її фотосфері), звідки до нас доходить випромінювання. При осьовому обертанні зорі атоми різних хімічних елементів, що містяться в її фотосфері, обертаються разом із нею. Таким чином, з одного боку видимого диску зорі (розділеного віссю обертання) ці атоми наближаються до спостерігача, а з другого — віддаляються від нього. У формування кожної спектральної лінії роблять внесок атоми, розташовані на всій видимій частині фотосфери. Тому завдяки ефекту Доплера спектральна лінія у спектрі зорі з осьовим обертанням буде розширена за рахунок зсуву довжини хвилі випромінювання: у синій бік за рахунок тих атомів, які наближаються, та у червоний бік — за рахунок атомів, які віддаляються.

Найбільший внесок в утворення кожної лінії дають атоми, що перебувають поблизу центру видимого диску зорі (внаслідок видимості глибших шарів фотосфери). Напрямок руху цієї частини фотосфери буде перпендикулярним променю зору, тому випромінювання цих атомів майже не зазнає Доплерівського зсуву.

Профіль спектральної лінії

У результаті симетричного розподілу напрямку та значень швидкості обертання на поверхні зорі профіль спектральної лінії залишається симетричним. Ефект Доплера (за умови максвелівського розподілу швидкостей атомів) дає гаусівський профіль спектральної лінії. Проте в реальних спектрах, де існує також природне розширення лінії, яке надає лінії профілю Лоренца, спостережуваний профіль спектральної лінії являє собою згортку профілю Лоренца та профілю Гаусса, й має назву профіль Фойґта.

Vsin(i)
Саме розширення спектральних ліній за рахунок осьового обертання зорі дає можливість вимірювати величину Vsin(i). Вказаний параметр є проєкцією екваторіальної швидкості осьового обертання зорі на промінь зору й вимірюється в км/с. V — це значення швидкості обертання на екваторі зорі, а i — це кут нахилу осі обертання до променя зору. Для того, щоб отримати власне екваторіальну швидкість обертання зорі, необхідно спершу визначити кут i між променем зору та віссю обертання, застосовуючи інші методи. Тому значення параметра Vsin(i) дає змогу оцінити лише нижню межу екваторіальної швидкості обертання, але не саму швидкість.

Оцінювання максимального значення періоду обертання зорі

Маючи значення Vsin(i) (у км/с), можна визначити максимальну величину періоду обертання зорі (у днях) через значення її радіусу (вираженого в радіусах Сонця), використовуючи формулу
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Для цього припускають, що i=90° й відповідно що екваторіальна швидкість обертання безпосередньо рівна Vsin(i). Проте у переважній більшості випадків таке припущення не є вірним, бо кут i може бути меншим за 90°. Тому екваторіальна швидкість обертання зорі завжди більша або дорівнює значенню Vsin(i) й, відповідно, період осьового обертання завжди менший або дорівнює Pmax.

Стабільність величини Vsin(i)

Оскільки спостерігач завжди перебуває на Землі (у випадку наземних спостережень) або в навколоземному космічному просторі (у випадку спостережень з борту космічного телескопа), а зорі є дуже віддаленими об'єктами у космосі, то для кожної окремої зорі кут i залишається практично незмінним у часі (за винятком випадків прецесії чи нутації осі обертання зорі). Хоча екваторіальна швидкість обертання зорі може поступово змінюватися в процесі еволюції зорі, однак протягом тисяч років такі зміни дуже незначні. Відповідно, параметр Vsin(i) для кожної окремої зорі можна вважати практично «постійним».

Спостереження

Для зір однакових спекральних класів ширина спектральної лінії пропорційна екваторіальній швидкості обертання зорі.

Разом із тим є зорі, які обертаються не як тверде тіло, а диференційно: коли кутова швидкість обертання більша на екваторі зорі й дещо менша — поблизу полюсів (як приклад — наше Сонце). Для таких зір разом із величинами параметрів Vsin(i) та i слід також знати закон диференційного обертання для того, щоб визначити їхню лінійну швидкість обертання на екваторі. .

Див. також

 Ефект Доплера
 Променева швидкість
 Спектральний аналіз зір

Джерела

Посилання

 «Зорі і їхня доля», Українські реферати (українською)
 Довготривала змінність емісійних спектрів Be зір різних типів (українською)
 ROTATIONAL VELOCITIES FOR EARLY-TYPE STARS IN THE YOUNG LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD CLUSTER R136 (англійською)
 Rotational Velocities and Radii of Pre-Main-Sequence Stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster (англійською)

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Спектральний аналіз зір
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Q: How to replace a string for a buildvariant with gradle in android studio? I have two flavors of my project:
flavor1 -> packagename: com.example.flavor1
flavor2 -> packagename: com.example.flavor2

Now I want to build a buildvariant of flavor1 and flavor2.
The only difference of the buildvariant is another packagename.
My project uses MapFragments and has just one Manifest - so I put the the permission name of MAPS_RECEIVE in my string resource files of the respective flavors.
The question is: how can I replace a string resource of a buildvariant?
I tried the following approach (described in this post):
buildTypes{
    flavor1Rev{
        packageName 'com.example.rev.flavor1'
        filter(org.apache.tools.ant.filters.ReplaceTokens, tokens: ['package_permission' : 'com.example.rev.flavor1.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE'])
    }
}

But using this I got this error:

Could not find method filter() for arguments
  [{tokens={package_permission=com.example.rev.flavor1.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE}},
  BuildTypeDsl_D ecorated{name=ReplaceTokens, debuggable=false,
  jniDebugBuild=false, renderscript DebugBuild=false,
  renderscriptOptimLevel=3, packageNameSuffix=null, versionNameS
  uffix=null, runProguard=false, zipAlign=true, signingConfig=null}] on
  BuildTypeD sl_Decorated{name=buderusFinal, debuggable=false,
  jniDebugBuild=false, renderscr iptDebugBuild=false,
  renderscriptOptimLevel=3, packageNameSuffix=null, versionNa
  meSuffix=null, runProguard=false, zipAlign=true, signingConfig=null}.

Do I have to define an own task for the filter method?
EDIT [2013_07_09]:
String in src/flavor1/res:
<string name="package_permission">package_permission</string>

Code in build.gradle to replace the string:
buildTypes{
    flavor1Rev{
        copy{
            from('src/res/'){
                include '**/*.xml'
                 filter{String line -> line.replaceAll(package_permission, 'com.example.rev.flavor1.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE')}
            }
            into '$buildDir/res'
        }
    }
}

A: I solved the problem on my own, so here is the solution "step by step" - perhaps it will help some other newbies to gradle :)

*

*Copy Task in General:
copy{
    from("pathToMyFolder"){
        include "my.file"
    }
    // you have to use a new path for youre modified file
    into("pathToFolderWhereToCopyMyNewFile")
}

*Replace a line in General:
copy {
   ...
   filter{
       String line -> line.replaceAll("<complete line of regular expression>",
                                      "<complete line of modified expression>")
   }
}

*I think the biggest problem was to get the right paths, because I had to make this dynamically (this link was very helpful for me). I solved my problem by replacing the special lines in the manifest and not in the String-file.

*The following example shows how to replace the "meta-data"-tag in the manifest to use youre google-maps-api-key (in my case there are different flavors that use different keys ):
android.applicationVariants.each{ variant ->
    variant.processManifest.doLast{
        copy{
            from("${buildDir}/manifests"){
                include "${variant.dirName}/AndroidManifest.xml"
            }
            into("${buildDir}/manifests/$variant.name")

            // define a variable for your key:
            def gmaps_key = "<your-key>"

            filter{
                String line -> line.replaceAll("<meta-data android:name=\"com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY\" android:value=\"\"/>",
                                               "<meta-data android:name=\"com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY\" android:value=\"" + gmaps_key + "\"/>")
            }

            // set the path to the modified Manifest:
            variant.processResources.manifestFile = file("${buildDir}/manifests/${variant.name}/${variant.dirName}/AndroidManifest.xml")
        }
   }
}

A: The answers are quite outdated, there are better ways now to archive it. You can use the command in your build.gradle:
manifestPlaceholders = [
            myPlaceholder: "placeholder",
    ]

and in your manifest:
android:someManifestAttribute="${myPlaceholder}"

more information can be found here:
https://developer.android.com/studio/build/manifest-merge.html

A: I use almost exactly the approach you wanted to. The replaceInManfest is also generic and can be used for other placeholders as well. The getGMapsKey() method just returns the appropriate key based on the buildType.
applicationVariants.all { variant ->
    def flavor = variant.productFlavors.get(0)
    def buildType = variant.buildType
    variant.processManifest.doLast {
        replaceInManifest(variant,
            'GMAPS_KEY',
            getGMapsKey(buildType))
    }
}

def replaceInManifest(variant, fromString, toString) {
    def flavor = variant.productFlavors.get(0)
    def buildtype = variant.buildType
    def manifestFile = "$buildDir/manifests/${flavor.name}/${buildtype.name}/AndroidManifest.xml"
    def updatedContent = new File(manifestFile).getText('UTF-8').replaceAll(fromString, toString)
    new File(manifestFile).write(updatedContent, 'UTF-8')
}

I have it up on a gist too if you want to see if it evolves later.
I found this to be a more elegant and generalizable approach than the others (although the token replacement just working would have been nicer).

A: In the current Android Gradle DSL, the ApplicationVariant class has changed and Saad's approach has to be rewritten e.g. as follows:
applicationVariants.all { variant ->
    variant.outputs.each { output ->
        output.processManifest.doLast {
            replaceInManifest(output,
                    'GMAPS_KEY',
                    getGmapsKey(buildType))

            }
        }
    }

def replaceInManifest(output, fromString, toString) {
    def updatedContent = output.processManifest.manifestOutputFile.getText('UTF-8')
        .replaceAll(fromString, toString)
    output.processManifest.manifestOutputFile.write(updatedContent, 'UTF-8')
}

The new DSL also offers a cleaner approach to get directly to the manifest file.


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The Qatari hurdler says he competed in the World Championships only because it was being held at home.
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Still a gathering Storm in Seattle
By Tim Korte, The Associated Press — Oct 14th, 2004
Seattle Storm's Lauren Jackson, left, hugs teammate Sue Bird as they celebrate their 74-60 victory over the Connecticut Sun to win the WNBA championship. AP photo by Ted S. Warren
SEATTLE — Lauren Jackson jogged into the tunnel clutching a bottle of champagne. Sue Bird wore a broad smile, slapping high-fives with fans on her way off the floor.
Seattle's stars wouldn't be WNBA champions, though, without gritty Betty Lennox, who was honored as MVP of the finals after the Storm beat the Connecticut Sun 74-60 to win their first league title.
"Betty deserved it," Jackson said. "You can't stop a whole team."
As important to Jackson and Bird are to the Storm, Lennox was unquestionably the star of the finals. She scored 23 points in the decisive third game, two nights after scoring 27 when Seattle evened the series in Game 2.
"You asked me if I was going to get 30 points, but I was trying to pick up my defense all night," said Lennox, who played for Miami and Cleveland before both teams folded, and she wound up in Seattle after her second dispersal draft.
"I let my defense take me wherever it took me," she added.
After a boisterous sellout crowd of 17,072 soaked in the revelry of the championship, many fans probably left the arena wondering if this might be the start of a Storm dynasty.
Jackson is 23 and Bird turns 24 this week, and coach Anne Donovan hoisted the championship trophy only two seasons after joining the team. With a strong supporting cast, the Storm could be a force for years.
"It's a great team," WNBA commissioner Val Ackerman said. "Anne Donovan has done a terrific job. They have great chemistry and a great core of players in Lauren and Sue, and the players built around them. This might be just the beginning for them."
It was a great year for Bird, who in August added an Olympic gold medal to the two NCAA titles she won with the Connecticut Huskies. Donovan was an assistant on the U.S. Olympic team, and Jackson took silver for her native Australia.
"Now I've won a WNBA championship, and there's still next year!" Bird exclaimed.
Jackson had 13 points and seven rebounds, but Seattle got an enormous contribution from Kamila Vodichkova, who scored eight of her 14 points in the opening 61/2 minutes, forcing the Sun to defend her jumper from the top of the key.
"We've been after that, that free-throw line jumper," Donovan said. "We knew that would open things up for Lauren. We talked about that going into Game 1, and we hadn't had the opportunity to knock it down until tonight."
The Storm claimed the city's first major professional sports championship in 25 years, going back to the SuperSonics winning the 1979 NBA title. It also gave Donovan her first WNBA crown, after she missed in 2001 with Charlotte.
Donovan is the first female coach to win a WNBA title, following Houston's Van Chancellor (1997-00), Los Angeles' Michael Cooper (2001-02) and Detroit's Bill Laimbeer (2003).
"No better candidate than me, huh?" she said. "Yeah, it's something that we've been striving for. I think there are a lot of great women coaches out there. In order to get to the next level of respect, we have to win championships."
Donovan demonstrated she knows how to coach defense.
All season, she emphasized the importance of grabbing rebounds and creating turnovers to ignite the offense. It was on display during a key 13-2 run midway through the second half that squashed Connecticut's chances.
The Storm forced 14 turnovers in the second half, and it was over when Lennox threw in an off-balance jumper, drew a foul on rookie Lindsay Whalen and completed the three-point play for a 62-48 lead with 6:52 remaining.
"We told ourselves, 'We've worked too hard for this. It's been too long of a season to quit now,"' Lennox said. "This was our opportunity. We had to seize the moment, and that's what we did."
Connecticut's Nykesha Sales, who scored a WNBA Finals-record 32 points in Seattle's Game 2 victory, shot 5-of-12 and was held to 18 points Tuesday. The other Sun starters combined for only 26 points on 7-of-31 shooting.
"I saw a lot of great shots go up. They just didn't go in," Sales said.
Katie Douglas, who had 18 points in Game 1 and 14 in Game 2, scored all six of her points at the free throw line and was 0-for-11 from the field. Whalen and Taj McWilliams-Franklin each scored 10.
"It's been a great year," Connecticut coach Mike Thibault said. "It doesn't feel like it tonight."
Can Storm ride off with city's first title in 25 years?
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Storm blow into championship
Seattle's Lauren Jackson, left, and Sue Bird leave the bench cheering after beating the Sacramento Monarchs to advance to the WNBA Finals. AP photo by Elaine Thompson SEATTLE -- Broken nose and all, Sue Bird is headed back to Connecticut, this time to ... [Read More...]
Sun Earns Revenge on Storm
Seattle Storm's Lauren Jackson, left guarding Connecticut Sun's Taj McWilliams-Franklin, finished with 20 points. Bob Child | Associated Press Uncasville, Conn. Sue Bird banged the floor in pain and frustration. The feeling was all too familiar. Bird and the Seattle Storm had begun rallying from ... [Read More...]
Storm at the summit
Seattle Storm guard Betty Lennox (22) passes off as Connecticut Sun's Taj McWilliams-Franklin and Lindsay Whalen defend in Game 3 of the WNBA Finals. Lennox was voted MVP after scoring 23 points in the championship game. AP photo by Elaine Thompson Seattle Storm's Betty Lennox shoots ... [Read More...]
Bird returns to old stomping grounds
Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird, a day after surgery to repair her broken nose, handed out 14 assists in win that clinched an appearance in the finals. AP photo by Rich Pedroncelli SEATTLE -- Sue Bird had a distinguished college basketball career at Connecticut, ... [Read More...]


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RESILIENCE protocol
incentive-based dividend network with secondary applications
by Johan Nygren, @resilience_me
Resilience, as I call my technology, is something new. There are no metaphors for it. It´s part welfare system, part co-operative dividends. Part state and part market. It blends those two narratives together, and obsoletes the dichotomy between the market and the state. Think of it as a decentralised, free market, welfare system.
Co-operatives that provide dividends for their costumers have been around forever, in one form or another. When the Swedish Co-operative KF was at its peak in the 1960s, it held as much as 25 percent of the entire Swedish market (1). The co-operative business model has been proven successful. RESILIENCE is a new web-standard for dividend co-operatives like KF. These co-operatives still use 20th century technology, and RESILIENCE attempts to bring co-operative businesses into the 21st century and the digital age.
The RESILIENCE protocol hopes to establish a new standard for co-operative dividend networks much in the same way that the Ripple protocol has established a new standard for value exchange. The RESILIENCE protocol evolves the co-operative model, and hopes to establish a form of dividend network 2.0, that would provide all its members with a steady stream of income. This network would scale to the entire human population.
Dividend co-operatives in the 20th century
"The dividend scheme makes it more advantageous to be a loyal Coop member. As more people realize the economic benefits, the idea is that more people will become members, more people will shop at Coop and that casual customers will transform into regulars and consolidate their purchases to Coop. This will make Coop more profitable, making it possible to further improve the stores and offers to members. "
-@CoopSverige, In Brief, 2010
"The idea of co-operative trading revolutionised food retailing with the dividend, often known as "divi", and the "divi number" became a part of British life. The way in which co-operative retail societies are run for the benefit, and on behalf of their members sets them apart from their modern-day competitors. The dividend is a financial reward to members based on each member's level of trade with the society. The distribution of profits on the basis of turnover rather than capital invested is a fundamental difference between a co-operative and most private sector enterprises."
-The Co-operative Group, Wikipedia
"Cooperative businesses may retain their earnings, or distribute part or all of them as dividends to their members."
-Dividend, Wikipedia
Bitnation and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs)
RESILIENCE is an internet-protocol for an incentive-based peer-to-peer dividend network. This dividend network could potentially scale to the entire human population, and would support each human with a steady stream of income, in proportion to each humans unique interactions with co-operatives around the world.
RESILIENCE also has potential as an alternative to nation-state-based coercive taxation. The dividends could replace parts of traditional social security, and RESILIENCE also provides a framework for secondary applications, social services such as minimum guaranteed income, healthcare and schools.
The RESILIENCE protocol
*RESILIENCE is the standardized dividend framework that the Bitnation DApp Basicincome.co is built on
*the videos in this paper are concept-videos for the RESILIENCE application Basicincome.co
The core components of RESILIENCE are the dividend pathways that grow the network, and the incentive layer that replaces coercive force.
Dividend Pathways
Peer-to-peer dividend pathways and the mycelial archetype
Every time you make a transaction with someone else inside the network, you create a dividend pathway. This pathway then connects you to that node, and also to everyone who´s connected to that node, and so on.
These pathways create the basic architecture of the network. Through them, you connect to your own unique network, that potentially scales and interconnects with a much waster network. These pathways are similar to memetic pathways that convey the spread of Ideas.
The internet as a metaphor
The TCP/IP protocols of the internet have transformed the way we communicate. Information used to travel through a centralised network. We had to send our messages through a voice that could be heard, like the jungle drum, or the national media outlet. Social media has transformed that, and we now communicate pretty much peer-to-peer, and Ideas spread through a distributed network (c) rather than a centralised one (a)
The co-operative dividend-model has been designed for 20th century technology, and dividends are still shared based on a centralised design (a). The RESILIENCE protocol does for the co-operative model what social media did for communication, it brings it into the 21st century and the peer-to-peer model (c).
Using memetic pathways and biology as a metaphor for dividend pathways
The way content spread on the internet is through peer-to-peer pathways. You might follow an individual who´s caught up in broadcasting content that inspires you, and that individual is in turn following a network of people who inspire him or her. Through each new connection you make, you connect to a much wider web of Ideas and Story. Every new relationship you create connects you not only to that person, but to the friends of that person. In F2F (friend-2-friend) theory as well as memetics, the concept 'your friends are my friends' applies. Through your new friend, you receive not only his or her Ideas, but also Ideas that he or she has received through his or her friends. Every new relationship you create opens up connections to a network that extends beyond your friend.
Your attention shifts as your life unfolds. People and Memes that you have followed in the past will gradually fade and wither, to be replaced by new connections and new webs of Ideas. These memetic pathways are always changing as your life unfolds, and this pattern applies to many organic systems.
"In my Basic Income #DApp, your safety net emerges from the sum of your financial interactions, allowing you to live and evolve as a global and mobile citizen. Basicincome.co transforms the stage upon which we unfold."
*Basicincome.co is an application that runs on top of the RESILIENCE protocol
A living digital network
These pathways are organic in the sense that they grow and wither naturally. Pathways you create are not static, they emerge and they disappear. If you create a pathway to a new node, at say $100, then you´ll receive $100 via that pathway and then it fades.
Think about organic systems, think about your own nervous system, think about mycelia and think about any self-organizing living system. These pathways behave like that system, you might grow thousands of pathways in one place, like if you live in Sweden, and then if you move somewhere else, you´ll create new pathways while your old ones gradually fade.
The Incentive Layer
Attraction by incentive rather than coercive force (Incentive-centered design protocol)
The incentive layer that RESILIENCE uses is simple, yet powerful: if a person or corporation consumes from someone outside the network, they get disconnected. Only temporarily. If they buy for $100 from someone outside the network, they get disconnected for the duration it takes for $100 in dividends to flow through them.
This is very meta and recursive because if a node gets disconnected, all their consumers also get disconnected, and so on. Which means that staying connected will make a node extremely attractive to others who want to stay connected.
Decentralized taxRate governance (every node sets their own taxRate)
The incentive-structure enables a peer-to-peer governance method were each node sets their own taxRate. Using the same logic as the incentive layer, a node who consumes from a node that uses a certain taxRate is then locked to that taxRate for the next x-$ she receives. This creates the same sort of meta-ripple effect, where nodes who set high percentages will be attractive. Using @CoopSverige as an example, if @CoopSverige becomes so successful that other food-stores have to join RESILIENCE to compete, then @CoopSverige might increase their dividends, to maintain a competitive edge.
Works with any currency
Think Ripple, Bitcoin, Ethereum - any platform that has an open API can be connected to RESILIENCE.
The early versions will connect to currencies through a bit of a hack, reading ledgers, calculating pathways and dividends, and then relay that data to the users who sign payments, manually or through a client that automates the process.
Future versions will be more optimized, similar to how Ethereum attempts to optimize many computational processes that underlie basic transactions.
The idea behind resilience is to empower co-operatives who have a social conscience, and to give them a tool that they can use to support their community. RESILIENCE is a framework through which they can go beyond the limitations of the current model.
The question is really if there are enough co-operatives out there who would be interested in this, and I believe the answer is yes. Humans are wonderful, altruistic, and kind hearted.
RESILIENCE also provides a framework for secondary applications, through which the users can choose to donate part of their dividends to different causes. The idea here is that if corporations find it in themselves to support their community, then perhaps the members of the community will find it in themselves to support the less fortunate, or to support community services such as a minimum guaranteed income, schools, and healthcare.
"prompted by the Cooperative Societies Law which requires cooperatives to allocate a portion of the dividend for common welfare purposes such as public health"
Grassroots Social Security in Asia: Mutual Aid, Microinsurance and Social, 2011
Donation-based social service applications on top of the RESILIENCE protocol
The incentive to pay tax to RESILIENCE is very different than traditional coercive-force-based incentives. RESILIENCE has potential to create a global scale dividend network through completely voluntary means.
RESILIENCE also has potential as a platform for secondary applications. The dividend-revenue that passes through the network might be made accessible to secondary applications. There might be a lower threshold for a person to choose to give away part of his dividends through voluntary means, then for that person to choose to give away his earnings. The dividends might be perceived as a form of reward, and the threshold to choose to give part of them to social services such as schools, healthcare or unconditional basic income (UBI) might be lower than the threshold to, voluntarily, pay taxes to those services directly. The dividends network also serves as a sort of map. The dividend pathways are unique in that they very closely resembles the real human interactions that underlie them. The interactions between people and their technology and surrounding environment, that are played out in real time, are mirrored almost perfectly.
Your dividend pathways would be a form of map of your life playing out, and who and whom you shared your unfolding with. Any persons dividend pathways are an accurate representation of their social relationships, and any person might have dividend pathways that stretch all over the world. Each of these pathways tough exist in financial proximity to a network of its own. For example, if you live for just a short time in India, and create $2000 in dividend pathways, then these $2000 might be taxed as you receive your dividends through them.
If the RESILIENCE protocol works, it might be the ideal platform to use as for donating to social service applications. It would have a dedicated user-base that have joined through personal incentives, it would interface every financial platform online, and it would be built on a database that stores an (ever evolving) map over the state of the world.
Basicincome.co - basic income through donated dividends
Basicincome.co is an application that runs on top of the RESILIENCE protocol. Users within the RESILIENCE framework may choose to share their dividends with those in financial proximity to their dividend pathways. You would only donate to those who could be seen as part of your society, those who you have shared a financial and social proximity to.
Through connecting Basicincome.co as an application, your dividend pathways would be made accessible to the application, and parts of your dividends would be used to fund an UBI for those in financial proximity to your pathways. Users who use Basicincome.co to receive UBI 'reach out' to dividend pathways that they are inter-connected and enmeshed with, and receive a boost so that their dividend yield reaches the amount that Basicincome.co has computed would cover basic needs.
Conclusion: How to Create Resilience
There needs to be more interviews in general because it will help people understand the project but at the same time a use case will help as well. All of these similar innovations go through this sort of phase where people don't know what to make of it. Bitcoin went through that phase too.
Lastly, here´s a message from Jason Silva. Jason has made it his mission to popularise the most mind-expanding Ideas on the internet. He´s made a name for himself from the medium that he and NotThisBody, a media-duo that described their work as digital parkour, invented together. His shots of awe are an evolution of Timothy Leary´s early attempts at broadcasting Ideas trough increased immersion and sen-surround. He´s a modern-day philosopher who - like philosophers of the past - spreads Ideas through the most immersive mediums he can find.
Here´s how Ideas spread,
1. The Cooperative Business Movement, 1950 to the Present, page 244
https://books.google.se/books?id=XshpFhVmVhMC&pg=PA245&lpg=PA245&dq=dividend%20kooperativ&source=bl&ots=QxQxYJkCw4&sig=jEa8kURYIoFgrEF-RkAJ9pkxyHY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YgnxVOKBIcG5ygPq8IHgCQ&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ
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BETHALTO — The Civic Memorial Eagles got dominant performances in the post from Megan Trost and Addie Ballard and another big floor game from Lindsey Fencel to beat the Mascoutah Indians 72-31 in a Mississippi Valley Conference girls basketball game Thursday in Bethalto.
CM improves to 15-1 and 5-0 in the Valley. It was the 24th straight MVC win for the Eagles, who play at Alton on Monday. Mascoutah is 6-8 and 2-2 in the league.
Trost had 21 points and 12 rebounds and Ballard added 13 points and 11 rebounds. Fencel, a senior point guard, finished with 12 points, seven rebounds, five assists and five steals. Katelyn Turbyfill came off the bench and contributed 11 points and six rebounds.