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Queensland motorists will be slugged with a registration increase twice the level of inflation as the Palaszczuk-Gordon Government uses car owners as cash cows.
Shadow Transport Minister Scott Emerson said the massive hike will see Queensland become the most expensive state in Australia to own a car.
"This comes as no surprise that Labor wants to slug motorists," Mr Emerson said.
"It is a return to the bad old days under Labor when car registrations went up 30 per cent in their last four years in office.
"That was when Annastacia Palaszczuk was Transport Minister. Now that she is Premier, she wants to start slugging motorists again and using them as cash cows."
Registration costs for four-cylinder cars will jump from $328.90 to $340.40, while a six-cylinder car will increase from $492.30 to $509.50, excluding insurance costs from 1st July 2015.
Mr Emerson said in comparison the LNP's record when in Government was to freeze family car registration over three years.
"We understood the pressures put on motorists and worked hard to be fair to them," he said.
"At the same time as the LNP froze family car registration, it also saw record spending on the Bruce Highway and work beginning for the Toowoomba Second Range crossing among dozens of other significant road projects across Queensland," he said.
"This week we saw Labor trying to talk down the Queensland economy and today we see one of their pre-budget announcements is to slug motorists.
"This is another example of a Government with no plan, no initiatives and making it up as they go.
"I don't believe Queensland voted for massive hikes in registration fees."
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Huawei's next good smartphone will be good enough to go out
Huawei comes with a new good smartphone and there is a design that few manufacturers, including Huawei, try to make. The Mate X2 has a number of good features that Huawei announced in 2021. The phone was launched as Huawei's third good smartphone, but first with a good design inside, similar to the Galaxy Z fold 3.
Huawei is one of the pioneers in the good smartphone industry. Meanwhile, growth has slowed on a US projection that dealt a devastating blow to its businesses, cutting off access to components. Not long ago, Huawei launched its first proper smartphone in the hand, the P50 Pocket, which is the company's real rival to Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip series. The phone is only sold in some markets and the US is not one of them.
Huawei's first good smartphone of 2022 is a design that is not new, but also not popular with phone manufacturers. The launch of the device has been confirmed as Mate Xs 2, according to an official Weibo post, and the device is slated to launch on April 28. The special thing about the good is that it does not have a good interior design, similar to OPPO Find N or Honor Magic V. Again, there is a substance that is good to go out.
With the Mate X 2019 and Mate Xs 2020, Huawei is launching the Mate Xs 2 as its third good smartphone with a good fabric to go out with. Of course, the new bath is not a real successor to the Mate X2 from 2021, but it is the successor to the bath launched in 2020. This should come as no surprise to those who are close to the good devices from Huawei. , although Huawei has always favored this design in relation to the good design for the popular Galaxy Z Fold line.
When specifying, the teaser image doesn't seem like much, there are still some inferences that can be made based on Huawei's previous models and the company's current position. Like the previous good devices, this phone should only have one fabric, which acts as the cover fabric and main fabric. Also expect to have a single set of cameras that will serve as the front and rear cameras. It also proves that the Mate Xs 2 offers an enhanced advantage, possibly with a new Falcon Wing design, as well as a high-load upgrade fabric.
The best smartphone can be equipped with Huawei's latest Kirin 9000, while it can also be equipped with a 4G version of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888/888+ or Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset. Unsurprisingly, given the current situation, the Huawei Mate Xs 2 will launch first in China and may eventually become region-exclusive. see Huawei deciding to advertise availability in other regions, including Europe, will likely be in limited quantities.
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Silly Little Windmills
By Martin Patriquin September 9, 2009
After the National Battlefields Commission cancelled the re-enactment of the Plains of Abraham battle, several "members of Quebec's artistic community" (read: sovereignists) decided to commemorate Quebec through the ages by getting a bunch of their friends and colleagues to read a variety of texts, songs, passages, etc. from the annals of its history. The result: Le Moulin à Paroles–literally, "windmill of words", but also a term meaning "windbag". A bunch of other people, sovereignist and federalist alike, were asked to attend. OK so far. Then it was announced that the FLQ manifesto would be read and all hell broke loose. One provincial Liberal minister said he was dropping out. Ditto Quebec's mayor. The sovereignists and federalists cried censorship and propaganda, respectively. All in all, a very plain, paint-by-numbers, made-in-Quebec mini-psychodrama that helps pass the time.
The sovereignist talking point throughout the whole debacle has been this: the FLQ manifesto is part of our history, and to exclude it would amount to censoring a crucial time in the province's history. "It's like if the Americans refused to speak of slavery, if the Germans refused to speak of the Nazis or if France didn't speak of the resistance," said Luck Mervil, the Quebec entertainer who will read the manifesto, to Le Journal de Montréal yesterday.
It's an interesting analogy, however flawed. It suggests he is reading it to remember, not glorify, the terror the FLQ inflicted on Quebec 39 years ago. Logically, then, you'd also want to hear about the direct victims of this terror–that is to say, Pierre Laporte, James Cross (whom the FLQ kidnapped, but who is still very much alive) and the handful of people who died as a result of the FLQ's many bombing campaigns.
It's why Dominic Maurais, a radio host at Quebec's Radio X, humbly suggested to festival organizer Brigitte Haentjens that he, or someone else of her choosing, be allowed to read a letter written to Robert Bourassa from Pierre Laporte shortly before the FLQ abducted and murdered Laporte, as well as a list of people murdered in during the FLQ's reign. (My colleague John Geddes makes a similar case here.)
Here's Haentjiens' response to Mr. Maurais (translated, natch):
We thank you for your suggestion. But the Moulin à Paroles is not meant to be an objective history book. The texts are chosen for their pertinence, and given this we must do the same for all of Quebec's major events (for example, the loss at the Plains of Abraham is a victory for others, as you know!)
Ah, yes, Brigitte. It's important to remember terrorism but not the blood it spills. Remember slavery, but not the actual slaves. Remember Nazism but not its victims. Ain't history grand?


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What should we expect from the next gen of VR?
13thApril2018
The Vive Pro is out and the Pimax is on the horizon, whilst it's too early to tell what the Pimax will be like, the reviews are in on the Vive Pro and they all seem to be "Meh, it's a nice little bump but hardly gen 2".
So... What DOES Gen 2 look like?
1) Wireless
For me, this is the #1 thing that Gen 2 needs, we're starting to see Wireless add-ons for headsets now and that's great, but they still require a PC to power them.
I think the Gen 2 headsets should not only be tether-free but truly stand-alone. Look at the headsets in Ready Player One for an example of this, to access the Oasis, they didn't need a PC, they just put the headset on.
This may sound implausible but it's not, or at least, it won't be soon.
Last year, AMD started releasing their mobile graphics chipsets known as the 'bifrost' series. The latest one the 'Mali-G71' has some impressive benchmarking scores:
Graph taken from https://versus.com/en/arm-mali-g71-vs-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080
The blue bar is the Mali-G71 and the orange is the Nvidia GTX 1080, now although the Mali is quite far behind, just take a look at that graph again, it's just below half the speed of the most powerful graphics card currently available on the market.
That means that a smartphone with this chip in it is already half the power of a top of the line gaming rig. A few more years and we'll easily have mobile devices that can power 4K VR.
Even now, we have fairly powerful gaming laptops, the size of those laptops can be reduced quite considerably if you take the display away from the build and put it into a connected headset, this makes standalone backpack VR rigs possible, right now!
2) Fully immersive displays
One of the major problems with current gen VR is the Screen Door Effect (SDE), in a lot of games it's easy to forget about but when you want to watch a movie, play a game with a detailed UI (Elite Dangerous for example) or just sit down and do some work in VR, the SDE is a major block to that.
Again, we've seen display bumps with the Vive Pro and the Pimax 8k promises 4k per eye, which is a fantastic step in the right direction but reviews of the Vive Pro and early reports of the Pimax 8K are reporting that although reduced, it's not the end of the SDE.
One of the big problems here is the amount of processing power it takes to power a 3D 4k display, however, a new technique has recently been developed called 'Foveated rendering' which could mitigate those problems until our processing power catches up with our display technology. Rather than waste time in this article explaining what it is, take a look at the linked Wikipedia article above for more information.
Another major issue is Field of View (FoV), early prototypes of the current-gen were terrible for this but thankfully the consumer versions made it a lot better, however no headset from the current gen that I've personally tried has managed to eliminate the feeling of looking at the world through welding goggles.
Early reports are suggesting that the Pimax _has _actually solved this to a degree creating an ultra wide FOV that goes right to the edge of our peripheral vision, although it's still not perfect, reviews are suggesting that the vertical FOV is still notably shallow and that lens distortion in the peripheral vision is quite noticeable. Of course, the Pimax isn't out yet so any demo versions that have been seen still have to be considered as 'beta' devices, so we still have to wait for the first consumer versions to be shipped.
For a headset to be truly next-gen, the SDE has to have been reduced so dramatically that users can read a word document without any squinting or moving their head, they should be able to feel completely immersed in the world around them and see no black bars or lens distortions.
3) Inside-out tracking
Ok so this one already exists in the current-gen, Microsoft's 'Mixed Reality' headsets use this and although they work, they don't work well. It feels very much like the first instance of this technology and needs to be a lot better to be able to call it 'gen 2'.
Inside-out tracking is basically the ability to track the position and angle of a headset without the need for base-stations or external cameras to tell the headset where it is. Current gen does this with cameras in the front of the headset which use software image processing to determine what it can see.
This is actually a great way to do this technology but it needs to be improved, also two cameras in the front is not enough, there needs to be multiple cameras dotted around the entire headset in order for it to be able to detect when you have moved your controller behind you.
Inside out tracking done this way has positives and negatives
People don't like cameras in their house, so strapping cameras to their heads may be offputting for some
Current gen uses black and white camera footage to process images, however, future ones should also implement infra-red as the trackers work poorly in low light.
Image processing eliminates the need for powered external trackers, hands and feet (and other objects) could easily be tracked simply by putting a sticker on them. As processing technology improves, even this will become unnecessary.
It would be a lot easier to use these devices to implement augmented reality headsets
Inside out tracking means you can wear your headset anywhere, not just in your designated 'VR' space.
Once it is advanced enough, it can probably be used to track individual fingers and possible even facial expressions.
I'm pretty sure that this tech is very close to being reliable, for gen 1 it's already incredibly well-done and with so many companies working on this, it's not going to take long for someone to crack it.
4) Haptic feedback
I mentioned Haptic Feedback before in my previous VR article, but it is worth repeating as this is a major part of what will make VR really feel 'next gen'. Right now, we don't have hands or feet in VR. Sure, we can simulate our hands fairly well with controllers but to truly immerse us in the virtual world, we need to have complete control over each, individual finger.
We also need our feet back, even though we don't have infinite treadmills or gyroscopic rigs yet, just being able to see and track our feet in VR adds to the immersion to an incredible degree, I highly recommend trying out VRChat to see what I mean, they have implemented a system which approximates your foot position based on where your head is and if you walk around, your VR feet shuffle around with you.
The company 'HaptX' have recently developed some haptic feedback gloves which not only give you control over your fingers but also give you the feeling of touching something, they even have the ability to apply resistance to your hands so you can feel yourself squeezing something.
It should be noted though that these gloves a) have not been released yet and b) are not targeted at consumers at this point. It's not really surprising though, just looking at them you can tell that these things would be incredibly expensive to produce so putting them out to the professional market first makes a lot of sense whilst they figure out how to get their costs down. So I'm not expecting technology quite this advanced in Gen 2. However just high-fidelity finger tracking and feet tracking would be enough for me, for now.
With all this in mind, I imagine a real Gen 2 of VR is still probably a couple of years away. If I were to guess, I'd say 2020 at the earliest before we see a released headset with all of the above features out of the box. However for those of us who can afford it, a lot of the tech will probably become available as 'add ons' before then.
Who knows? Give it a year or so and perhaps I'll see you in the Oasis.
Article author: Alex Foxleigh
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They have a group of unique rooms created in harmony with nature, and with our ecological values. They are all set in the forest where we live, a refinement of the local conditions. "Dig where you stand" as the saying goes.
Their inspiration came from the documentary film "Trädälskaren" (Treelover) by Jonas Selberg Augustsen. It is the story of three men from the urban environment who look to get back to their roots by building a tree house together. It is a philosophical film about what "the tree" means to us humans, both historically and culturally.
Treehotel is located in the beautiful village of Harads, approximately 60 km south of the Arctic Circle, and one hour drive from Luleå, which has the largest airport in northern Sweden.
Harads is a place that surrounded by forest and water and by stillness and wilderness. Here lives 600 inhabitants. They have restaurants, stores, hostel, gas station, swimming facilities, view point Klippan and a beautiful church. It is a place that is dominated by forests and water, the serenity and wilderness.
In first generation there are six uniquely themed Tree Rooms, created by 6 separate architects. The Tree Rooms that are finished to days date are: The Mirrorcube, The Bird's Nest, The Cabin and The Blue Cone.
In addition they have a sauna and a relaxing area room which seat 12 guests comfortably. This is the first Tree Hotel in the world with a Sauna.
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The rooms can be accessed by either a ramp or sturdy stairs. One of the rooms has an electric retractable stairs.
Every Tree Room has its own living and sleeping areas. Two of the Tree Rooms are accommodate 2 beds and the remaining three rooms will have 4 beds, which are ideal for families. Each Tree Room is equipped with its own state of the art eco-friendly incineration toilet and water efficient hand basin, which means there is no artificial plumbing.
The interior of each Tree Room are uniquely designed by the architect, with its own furniture and lighting to complement the individual theme.
The Treehotel will be open all year round, which means guests will be able to benefit from either of our lovely hot summer or our beautiful winters. To make this possible, each Treehotel have an electric under-floor heating system which is being delivered from an eco-friendly source of electricity.
What Treehotel are offering is a new experience living close to nature in a place of great natural beauty, where joyful childhood memories can be relived with added comfort and sophistication. The next time you are in Sweden; do try this out and share with us your experience.


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El Christopher AG-1 fue un propuesto planeador de asalto estadounidense de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, parte de un proyecto de planeadores de asalto del Ejército de los Estados Unidos. No se construyó ninguno y el programa fue cancelado en septiembre de 1943.

Diseño y desarrollo

El Ejército de los Estados Unidos tuvo la idea de procurarse un planeador de asalto, un planeador armado que aterrizaría antes y ayudaría a asegurar la zona de aterrizaje que más tarde usarían los planeadores de transporte. Cada planeador de asalto tendría seis tripulantes así como un piloto y un copiloto. Los tripulantes estarían armados con dos ametralladoras de 12,7 mm y otras dos de 7,62 mm y dos lanzadores de cohetes. Se concedieron contratos en mayo de 1943 a dos compañías, la Christopher Company y la Timm Aircraft Company, para construir dos prototipos cada una. El prototipo de Christopher fue designado XAG-1 y debía haber sido un monoplano cantiléver de ala baja con un paso cargado de 3855,5 kg. La compañía entregó una maqueta de túnel de viento al Ejército. El general Chidlaw de la Oficina del Jefe Adjunto del Estado Mayor Aéreo decidió que era "una maldita idea tonta" y canceló el proyecto en septiembre de 1943.

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Aeronaves relacionadas

Véase también

 Anexo:Aeronaves de la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos (históricas y actuales)

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Aeronaves de ala baja
Planeadores militares de los Estados Unidos de los años 1940
Aviones de ataque de los años 1940 de Estados Unidos

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Man accused of attempting to hijack three cars on same day to face Crown Court
He was released on his own bail of £500 to appear before Craigavon Crown Court
A man who is accused of attempting to hijack three cars, all on the same day, will face Crown Court proceedings next month.
The 52-year-old appeared at Craigavon Magistrates' on Friday for the purposes of a preliminary enquiry (PE), the legal process during which a case is referred to the higher court.
Nigel McDowell, with an address in Armagh city, is charged with three counts of attempted hijacking and common assault.
As these charges were read, it was heard that all of the offences are alleged to have occurred on September 8, 2019.
Appearing via videolink from his solicitor's office, McDowell made no objection to the holding of a preliminary enquiry.
Prosecution submitted that based on the papers before the court there was a prima facie case to answer.
Defence solicitor Philip Reid made no contrary submissions.
Deputy District Judge Chris Holmes was satisfied there was a prima facie case to answer and the defendant was released on his own bail of £500 to appear before Craigavon Crown Court on March 23 for arraignment.
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Île Lattanzi ist eine bis zu  hohe Insel im Géologie-Archipel vor der Küste des ostantarktischen Adélielands.

Ursprünglich war sie als Îlot des Damiers ( für Damebrettinsel). Französische Wissenschaftler nahmen 1999 eine Umbenennung vor. Namensgeber ist Dario Lattanzi, Ingenieur des französischen Schiffs L'Astrolabe, der am 8. Februar 1999 bei einem Hubschrauberabsturz unweit der Dumont-d'Urville-Station gemeinsam mit zwei weiteren Besatzungsmitgliedern ums Leben gekommen war.

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USS Sea Gull (SP-544)
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Name: USS Sea Gull
Builder: Greenport Yacht & Basin Company, Long Island, New York
Launched: 1902, as Heather
Acquired: 1 June 1917, renamed Sea Gull
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Decommissioned: 27 November 1918
Struck: 2 June 1919
Fate: Returned to owner
Type: Wooden yacht
Displacement: 20 long tons (20 t)
Length: 58 ft 6 in (17.83 m)
Beam: 13 ft (4.0 m)
Draft: 5 ft (1.5 m)
Speed: 9.5 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph)
Armament: 1 × 1-pounder gun
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The third USS Sea Gull (SP-544) was a wooden yacht in the United States Navy.
Sea Gull was built during 1902 as Heather by the Greenport Yacht & Basin Co., Long Island, New York, was enrolled in the Naval Coast Defense Reserve on 1 June 1917 following the entry of the United States into World War I; and commissioned shortly afterward, Ensign Cheston M. Bryant in command.
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You hardly need a reason to throw a good party. I've thrown plenty of them. From wanting to toast a new apartment to feting a friend's birthday, from wanting an excuse to dress up, to gathering the group for Friday night dinner, everyone loves a celebration. It's also good for business.
On Thursday night, Yesware, the startup I've recently started working for, and Terrible Labs, another new venture down the street from us in Boston, invited 300 partners, clients, prospects, press, and job candidates to our office warming party. We wanted them to see not only where we worked, but also how we worked, and why they should join the team.
We had the requisite open bar, complete with custom cocktails. The menu included the CRM Sync (think Long Island Iced Tea), the Custom Template (create your own, name it, and have the bartender track how many people order it), the Team Collaboration (a round of shots), and the Yestail (a green Midori sour).
But we had something I hadn't seen before, a bungee run —an inflatable, two person bouncing race track where you're attached to a bungee cord, which feels like a rubber band that snaps you back into place as you try to outrun your opponent. It was probably the best ice-breaker I've seen recently.
What was amazing to see was just how intensely competitive the run got as the party went on. It was as if people were competing for a job. And that gets into the heart of why you'd throw a recruitment party. Besides generating buzz to show your investors and potential future backers (like Highland Capital Partners, who were in attendance) that people are loving your product, that you can pack a room with clients and press, you want to show prospective hires that this company is a good alternative to the other options out there.
Recruiting for startups is a tough task, especially when they reach a certain critical growth point. There are other complications too. First, companies need a range of people from junior to experienced professionals, but they seek fresh points of view and new approaches to problem solving that often come with younger (read Millennial) talent. Second, due to cash constraints and the need to pour just about every dollar into the business, compensation is often a challenge.
In my startup, we go to college career fairs. We're lucky because in Boston, we have a strong talent pool to choose from. But even in schools like Tufts, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Boston Startup School, and others, finding the right fit for our needs is no easy feat. We need specific engineers at a relatively senior level who are willing to take the risk of working at a new company versus the perceived security of working somewhere like Microsoft.
Summing up one of his recruiting trips to a university a couple of weeks ago, our vice president of engineering said that while students were cued around the corner for the big players like United Technologies and Intel, they dribbled in around the startups, as if afraid to catch the entrepreneurial disease.
But a closer look at the employment numbers tells a very different story. While month-over-month, national hiring is down 0.2 percent and the average paycheck was flat, according to national data released today by SurePayroll's Small Business Scorecard, startups are aggressively recruiting talent.
Yet candidates are still scared to make the leap. I know I was. But what's surprising to me every day is just how normal it feels. I go to an office. I have co-workers. I don't work in a vaccum. In many ways this is very much like working for a "real" company. Where it gets more challenging and more interesting is that over the course of three weeks I've managed to take on more responsibility and propose more initiatives than I ever would be able to pitch and work on at a traditional company.
So on those days when I ask myself if I made the right decision, all I have to do is look at where I am now versus where I was last month. And then I look at the post-it that greeted us this AM. It said "lost skirt last night. Please call me." That's how you know you've had a great startup party.
This post originally appeared on Upstart Business Journal.


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Evgeniya Sergeevna Karimova (; born June 12, 1989) is an Uzbekistani taekwondo practitioner. She won a silver medal for the heavyweight category at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, losing out to two-time Olympic champion Chen Zhong of China in the final match. She also shared her bronze medal position with Jordan's Nadin Dawani at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.

Karimova represented Uzbekistan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she played for the women's heavyweight category (+67 kg). She lost the first preliminary match by a decisive point and a double defensive kick from Malaysia's Che Chew Chan in the final round, with a score of 4–5.

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This article draws from sections of my forthcoming book, From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia: Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales (Chicago: Haymarket, 2011). The sources for data on economic and social trends touched on in this article are cited more comprehensively in the book, and their significance is explained at much greater length.
"The explosive apex of Evo's power: Bolivia's presidential election," Economist, December 10, 2009.
See Pablo Stefanoni, "Bolivia después de las elecciones: ¿a dónde va el evismo?" Nueva Sociedad, No. 225, January–February 2010, 4–17; and, on the recall and constitutional referendums, see Pablo Rossell, "El proyecto de Evo Morales más allá de 2010," Nueva Sociedad, No. 221, May–June 2009, 23–32.
Atilio A. Borón, "¿Por qué ganó Evo?" Rebelión, December 8, 2009.
Rosa Rojas, "Arrasa Evo Morales: Gana relección y el MAS tiene mayoría en el Congreso," La Jornada, December 7, 2009.
Stefanoni, "Bolivia después de las elecciones," 4–5. For a discussion of the origins and trajectory of the eastern bourgeois bloc, see Jeffery R. Webber, "Carlos Mesa, Evo Morales and a divided Bolivia (2003–2005)," Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 37, No. 3, May 2010.
Judy Rebick, "Bolivia re-invents democratic socialism with indigenous people in the lead," www.rabble.ca, November 14, 2009.
Naomi Klein, "Bolivia's fight for survival can help save democracy too," Guardian, April 22, 2010.
Ana Esther Ceceña, "Es el tiempo de crear el sistema del vivir bien y el manantial está en Bolivia," La Epoca, December 11, 2009. See also Ángel Guerra Cabrera, "La victoria de Evo y las nuevas ame?nazas," La Jornada, December 11, 2009.
Quoted in Hugo Moldiz Mercado, "Evo pide acelerar el camino al socialimso," La Epoca, December 10, 2009.
For a discussion of the way forward after Copenhagen, see Mike Davis, "Who will build the Ark?" New Left Review, II, 61, January–February 2010, 29–46.
See Jorge G. Castañeda and Marco A. Morales (eds.), Leftovers: Tales of the Two Latin American Lefts (New York: Routledge, 2008).
"Bolivia's new constitution: A passport to utopia," Economist, January 22, 2009; Michael Reid, "Latin drift: Sorting Latin America's pragmatists from its populists," Economist, November 19, 2008; "The explosive apex of Evo's power," Economist, December 10, 2009.
Diego Ore and Eduardo García, "Bolivia nationalizes four power companies," Washington Post, May 2, 2010.
Representative examples of the conservative position are Franz Xavier Barrios Suvelza, "The weakness of excess: The Bolivian state in an unbounded democracy," in John Crabtree and Laurence Whitehead, eds., Unresolved Tensions: Bolivia Past and Present (Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh University Press, 2008); José Luis Roca, "Regionalism revisited," in Crabtree and Whitehead, Unresolved Tensions; Juan Antonio Morales, "Bolivia in a global setting: Economic ties," in Crabtree and Whitehead, Unresolved Tensions; and Horst Grebe López, "Estado y mercado en Bolivia: Una relación pendular," Nueva Sociedad, Vol. 221, May–June 2009, 137–150. And of the liberal position: George Gray Molina, "State-society relations in Bolivia: The strength of weakness," in Crabtree and Whitehead, Unresolved Tensions; Xavier Albó, "The 'long memory' of ethnicity in Bolivia and some contemporary oscillations," in Crabtree and Whitehead, Unresolved Tensions.
See, for some representative examples, Pablo Stefanoni and Hervé Do Alto, Evo Morales de la coca al palacio: Una oportunidad por la izquierda indígena (La Paz: Malatesta, 2006); Shirley Orozco Ramírez, "Historia del Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS): Trayectoria política e ideológica," Barataria 1, No. 2, 2004, 16–22; Pablo Stefanoni, "MAS-IPSP: la emergencia del nacionalismo plebeya," Observatorio Social de América Latina, No. 12, 2003, 57–68; María Teresa Zegada, Yuri F. Tórrez, and Gloria Cámara, Movimientos sociales en tiempos de poder: Articulaciones y campos de conflicto en el gobierno del MAS (La Paz: Plural Editores, 2008); Jorge Komadina and Céline Geffroy, El poder del movimiento politico: Estrategia, tramas organizativas e identidad del MAS en Cochabamba (1999–2005) (Cochabamba: CESU-UMSS, 2008); Karin Monasterios, Pablo Stefanoni, and Hervé Do Alto, eds., Reiventando la nación en Bolivia: Movimientos sociales, Estado y poscolonialidad (La Paz: Plural Editores, 2008); Jim Shultz, "'Evonomics' Gets a Second Term," NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 43, Issue 1, January–February 2010, 4–5; Nancy Postero, "Morales's MAS government: Building indigenous popular hegemony in Bolivia," Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 37, No. 3, May 2010, 18–34. Luis Tapia is, by far and away, the most interesting in this camp. He is ultimately supportive of the MAS project, but is uniquely unromantic and often has highly perceptive critiques to offer. See, for example, Luis Tapia, Pensando la democracia geopolíticamente (La Paz: Muela del Diablo Editores, 2009); Política salvaje (La Paz: Muela del Diablo Editores, 2008); and La coyuntura de la relativa autonomía del Estado (La Paz: Muela del Diablo Editores, 2009).
Examples of this eclectic group of thinkers include: various contributors to Gustavo Ayala and Luis Tapia, eds., Amanecer en Bolivia: Los movimientos sociales y el cambio (Quito: Ediciones La Tierra, 2007), particularly the chapters by Jorge Viaña and Marxa Chávez; Raúl Zibechi, "Bolivia-Ecuador: El Estado contra los pueblos indios," Rebelión, July 19, 2010; Lorgio Orellana Aillón, Nacionalismo, populismo y régimen de acumulación en Bolivia (La Paz: CEDLA, 2006); Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar, Los Ritmos del Pachakuti: Movilización y levantamiento indígena-popular en Bolivia desde la perspectiva de emancipación (2000–2005) (La Paz: Textos Rebeldes, 2008); Jeffery R. Webber, Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010); Forrest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson, Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics (London: Verso, 2007); Enrique Ormachea Saavedra, ¿Revolución agraria o consolidación de la vía terrateniente? El Gobierno del MAS y las políticas de tierras (La Paz: CEDLA, 2008); Enrique Ormachea Saavedra, Soberanía y seguridad alimentaria en Bolivia: Políticas y estado de situación (La Paz: CEDLA, 2009); Silvia Escóbar de Pabón, Situación de los ingresos laborales en tiempos de cambio (La Paz: CEDLA, 2009); Silvia Escóbar de Pabón, Situación del empleo en tiempos de cambio (La Paz: CEDLA, 2009); Marxa Chávez, "Weaving the Rebellion: Plan 3000, Center of Resistance in Eastern Bolivia," Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2009, 101–116 ; and the contributions by Máximo Quisbert Quispe, Rafael Bautista, Pablo Mamani Ramírez, Ximena Soruco Soluguren, Lucila Choque Huarin, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, and Esteban Ticona Alejo to the first two issues (2008 and 2009) of the new journal Willka: Análisis, pensamiento y acción de los pueblos en lucha.
For one classical representative statement of this perspective, see Osvaldo Sunkel, Development from Within: Toward a Neostructuralist Approach for Latin America (Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1993).
Drawing on data from Bolivia's National Institute of Statistics, the best study thus far charts poverty and extreme poverty trends up to 2007, which are the latest available figures. The study notes that since 2005 there has been only marginal change in the poverty rate, and that this change has been slightly upward, from 59.9 percent of the population in 2005 to 60.1 percent in 2007. Levels of extreme poverty increase from 36.7 to 37.7 percent over the same two-year period. At the same time, other categories relevant to living standards, such as household density, and access to electricity, running water, and sewage systems, all show modest improvements between 2005 and 2007. It is possible that poverty levels have improved since 2007, and it should also be noted that these figures do not take into account improvements in the social wage of workers and peasants—i.e., any improvements in social services for the poor. Again, however, social spending has actually declined as a percentage of GDP under Morales, even as it increased in real, inflation-adjusted terms. The record on poverty shows that there is little to celebrate. The key data here is derived from Mark Weisbrot, Rebecca Ray, and Jake Johnston, Bolivia: The Economy During the Morales Administration, Center for Economic and Policy Research, December 2009, 16. It ought to be noted the poverty figures from ECLAC do not correspond with the figures discussed here. The latest ECLAC publications provide national figures for 1999 and 2007, and claim that there has been a downward shift in Bolivian poverty from 60.6 percent poverty to 54 percent poverty between these years. See ECLAC, Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe, 2009, 2009, 65. Inequality, likewise, remains a huge barrier to achieving social justice in the Bolivian context. Between 2005 and 2007, income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, declined from 60.2 to 56.3. Figures for the distribution of Bolivian national income show that the poorest 10 percent of the Bolivian population received 0.3 percent of national income in 1999, and still received only 0.4 percent by 2007, the last available figure. Meanwhile, the richest 10 percent of the population took home 43.9 percent of national income in 1999 and precisely the same percentage in 2007. If we broaden our perspective, to compare the bottom and top fifths of the social pyramid, we reach similar conclusions. The poorest 20 percent of society took in a mere 1.3 percent of national income in 1999 and, in 2007, a still-paltry 2 percent. The richest 20 percent of the population pocketed 61.2 percent of national income in 1999 and 60.9 in 2007. In other words, there has been almost no change on either end of the scale in terms of the redistribution of income, never mind the redistribution of assets. See, Weisbrot, Ray, and Johnston, Bolivia: The Economy, 18, for inequality figures employed here.
Federico Fuentes, "Bolivia: Between Mother Earth and an 'extraction economy,'" The Bullet, Socialist Project E-Bulletin, No. 355, May 17, 2010.
Pablo Stefanoni, "Bolivia después de las elecciones," 5.
Ibid., 14. There is an increasing rupture between the socioeconomic and sociocultural dimensions of evismo, with intensifying class differentiation and stratification within the indigenous nucleus of MAS supporters, and one way to maintain the cohesion of the social base in light of these growing contradictions has been the appeal to indigenous populist nationalism. See Pablo Rossell, "El proyecto de Evo Morales más allá de 2010," Nueva Sociedad, No. 221 May–June 2010, 27.
James Malloy and Eduardo Gamarra, Revolution and Reaction: Bolivia, 1964–1985 (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1988), 16.
Osvaldo Guachalla, "La exacerbación de la política extractivista del MAS: Privatización con fachada nacionalista," El Observador, Vol. 4, No. 8 January 2010, 14–15.
Silvina Heguy and Pablo Stefanoni, "'No hay una agenda oculta: la Constitución respeta la propiedad': Entrevista a García Linera," Clarín, December 6, 2009.
The official conspiracy theories concocted by state managers escalated when the COB called, on Thursday, May 6, for a general strike to begin on Monday, May 10, in the event that the government did not respond to the workers' demands for a better salary increase. García Linera intimated that the United States and the domestic right were behind the call for a general strike, which he compared to earlier (authentic) right-wing destabilization campaigns that the Morales government had endured. "Those who have been a part of union struggles know that general strikes have a political content; general strikes are declared to overthrow governments," García Linera argued. He said that right-wing groups since 2006 "have tried coup d'états, assassinations, and now they are attempting [destabilization] from within; the right uses these measures, and I wouldn't doubt that behind this there also could be North American functionaries." See, "Bolivia: Principal sindical obrera desafía a Evo Morales con huelga general," La Razón, May 7, 2010.
See "Bolivia: Alza salarial propuesta por Evo genera rechazo y ?amenazas de huelga," La Razón, May 3, 2010; see also, Carlos Arze Vargas, "El aumento salarial del 'vivir bien,'" Nota de Prensa, CEDLA, May 2010; Confederación General de Trabajadores ?Fabriles de Bolivia, "Rechazamos el incremento salarial de 5%," Nota de Prensa, April 27, 2010.


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The 2017 Colorado Girl's State Championships kicks off this Thursday, February 9th, and runs through Saturday, February 11th. With the state championships also comes the test that will verify or disprove the rankings compiled below.
First, let's remember there have some changes in Colorado high school swimming recently, including a reorganization that added a 3rd level of competition for the state's smallest schools.
In 5A (the largest schools) Zoe Bartel, Winter Junior National Champion (West) in the 100 and 200 yard breaststroke, has clocked a 1:01.88 in the 100 breaststroke already this year during the high school season, but she was 59.04 at Juniors West in Austin, TX, in December. Bartel swims for Fossil Ridge which is ranked #1 in each of the 3 relays, with swimmers holding 1st in the 50 and 100 freestyle (Kylee Alons), 1st and 2nd in the 100 back (Kylee Alons & Bayley Stewart), 100 fly (Kylee Alons & Coleen Gillilan), 200 IM (Bailey Kovac & Kylee Alons), and 100 breast (Zoe Bartel, Coleen Gillilan). Bartel, while only being ranked 14th in the Colorado high school system in the 100 back, swam a brisk 53.42 at Winter Juniors, which would put her comfortably in the lead in the high school rankings. Given their stacked team and 68-point lead in the rankings, Fossil Ridge is the likely state champ in 5A, where team standings overall have not significantly changed for the top 8 teams since last reporting.
Cheyenne Mountain maintains a significant lead in 4A where they will likely usurp the title from last year's champion, Valor Christian, who graduated 3 of the 4 swimmers on the 4A Record-setting 200 medley relay last year. While Cheyenne Mountain is only ranked 1st in two events (200 IM with Cat Wright and the 200 medley relay), they are ranked 2nd in both the 200 and 400 freestyle relays and possess outstanding depth with 1 or 2 athletes ranked in the top 8 in every event except diving. Cheyenne Mountain has kept a comfortable lead all season, though Heritage recently pulled ahead of Valor Christian to claim the 2nd position in the 4A rankings. On the other side of the spectrum, Pueblo West knocked George Washington out of the top 20 in 4A.
A few weeks ago, Aspen wasn't even on the radar for 3A, and now Aspen occupies first place by a narrow 15 points ahead of St. Mary's Academy. Aspen leads the rankings in the 200 medley and 400 freestyle relays, and sits in 2nd in the 200 free relay, while Kennidy Quist leads in the 50 and 100 freestyles, and teammate Davy Brown holds the top seed times in the 100 back and 200 IM. As far as team ranking shakeups go, Aspen's sudden ascension to #1 in the 3A rankings is by far the most dramatic. Whether or not they can hold that lead with their small but solid squad will make for a very interesting meet.
The team rankings are calculated like a championship swim meet, with adjustments for athletes ranked in more than two events so that the results are not skewed too much by one athlete or school. The top 16 in each event score (just like the state meet), and times are pulled from MaxPreps – where coaches are required to be submitted to by the state association. Rob Nasser, the creator of prepswimco.com and head coach of Mountain Vista High School (and formerly of Valor Christian High School), maintains the rankings.
The 2017 Colorado Girl's State Championship meets run from February 9th-11th.


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Power Shift Pushes for Change in Climate Policy
Lesley Parrish
Last weekend, over 12,000 students from around the country converged on Washington D.C. for the Power Shift Conference. Their demand: that the president and Congress rebuild the American economy and reclaim the future by passing a bold climate and energy policy that prioritizes renewable energy and green jobs. Sixty Colgate students were in attendance at the conference for a weekend full of activities, which culminated Monday with a rally on the Capitol's West Lawn and a day of calling on lawmakers.
The conference was held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, where there were hundreds of panels and workshops supplemented by keynote speakers, including Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and musical artists, including the Roots.
Sophomore Lindsay Miller attended the conference and commented on her experience.
"I had so much fun talking to everyone at the conference," Miller said. "People were so open, curious and willing to learn."
Her only disappointment was that there were so many options and not enough time.
"It was hard to get into the panels that I wanted to see. [Still, the conference] gave me some ideas of stuff we can do on campus. Also, in future years, it will be a great opportunity for networking," Miller said.
Power Shift began in 2007 with the first-ever national youth climate summit aimed at raising environmental awareness and lobbying leaders on green issues. Just one conference later, the number of attendants has more than doubled. According to Jessy Tolkan, Director of the Energy Action Coalition, which organized Power Shift, this increase has been partly due to the excitement surrounding the new governmental administration.
"The youth of America turned out in record numbers to elect a new president and transform Congress in the last election," Tolkan said in a press release. "We're here now to take our rightful seat at the political table…We are at a critical point in our nation's history. We have the chance to work with our new leadership to pass a green economic stimulus package and bold climate and energy policies. We won't allow this moment to pass us by."
Meetings were scheduled at more than 360 congressional offices, some of which drew as many as 600 constituents at a time. The group pressed Congress to pass a comprehensive climate change bill that will position the United States as a leader going into international climate talks in Copenhagen this December.
Sophomore Caroline Callahan attended the conference because of her connection to Outdoor Education and her desire to address green issues at Colgate.
"I am really involved with Outdoor Education on campus and I feel that, as an organization, we should learn a lot about the environment and help Colgate to work on its sustainability," Callahan said.
Her favorite part of the conference was "listening to the speakers because you could feel the energy with all 12,000 students around and the speakers were phenomenal."
Callahan hopes to bring some of the information and excitement from the conference back to Colgate to benefit the campus.
According to the press release and company spokesman, Gary Skulnik, the conference has made arrangements through the Rockville, Maryland based organization, Clean Currents, to offset all 93 tons of carbon dioxide the conference is expected to generate. He explained that investments in wind power will offset the event's electricity and natural gas use.


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A little under the weather today, but I'm really grateful to my friend Darnell Moore for pointing me to this video of Jacqui Alexander discussing her relationship with Audre Lorde. The clip is part of the Signified Project which is worth looking into as well.
I am so grateful for this Lambda Literary interview with Nikky Finney. Truth be told, I haven't even finished reading it but I couldn't wait to share it with all of you. Given the thematic focus of this blog, I figured this excerpt was worthy of a taste, but you really need to read the entire interview.
Did you stay in South Carolina?
I could not have stayed in South Carolina and become the writer that I have become; a writer who relishes exploring themes that are as beautiful as they are taboo. I was always my mother's most curious child, the one also with the hardest head. I wanted to see the rest of the country and the rest of the globe. I loved to be on the move. I had to see what was down the road and over the hill. South Carolina is a state steeped in conservative values and traditions. There's a lot about the state that does not like change. As a teenager I knew I would break away from some of those traditions. As much as I loved my family, I knew I would step away from home and make my own way in the world. I had to. I had to leave home, the church, and all the people who loved and protected me. I had to explore all the things that I needed to explore. I knew that I had to leave the southern landscape that I had been born into in order to find out exactly who I was in the world.
I went further South (laughs).
Counting influences as varied as Toni Morrison, Greek mythology and Alexander McQueen, the young poet is as unabashedly concerned with beauty as he is socially conscious. His slim 44-page collection, out November 15 from Sibling Rivalry Press, calls upon a multiplicity of voices and a strong sense of the magical to address the complexities of desire, violence and memory faced by a queer person of color from the South.


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Need for harmonisation in ITS standards
First publishedin ITS International
2010 November December
asBehind the scenes
ETSI's Martin Arndt discusses recent and current ITS standards development
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Martin Arndt
As the calendar rolls over, and we hop from continent to continent and World Congress to World Congress, where Memoranda of Understanding and cooperation agreements are the headline news, it is easy for those not intimately involved to forget that standards definition is a well-nigh continual process. Significant progress has been made in recent months towards achieving the critical mass and economies of scale which are going to drive development and deployment in, amongst other things, cooperative infrastructures and Martin Arndt, Technical Officer with responsibility for ITS within the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), details an extensive list of standards which have been published or are being progressed towards formalisation.
Modular architecture
"Perhaps one of the most important pertaining to intelligent transport systems is a European standard for a communications architecture, EN 302 665, which features a modular structure. This allows the various ITS implementations which have different communications requirements to share harmonised interfaces. EN 302 665 was published in September this year; with that European Union [EU] member states and other countries such as Switzerland and Norway have a series of standards which need to be transposed into national standards. It gives Europe a basis for all ITS applications.
"In practical terms, for instance, it doesn't matter if an ITS service uses WLAN or UMTS to communicate because its content is harmonised and reaches the other layers in a standardised form. Pushing back from the infrastructure side, it also means, for example that information from a local or city council providing information on parking availability can be shared quite readily with other ITS systems."
5.9GHz developments
In January, ETSI also published a harmonised standard for the use of the 5.9GHz band.
"This provides the technical regulation which will avoid harmful interference and lead to more efficient use of the frequency band," Arndt explains. "This standard, along with the previously announced frequency allocation, forms the legal basis for putting 5.9GHz-based systems on the market in Europe. While the general arrangements aren't exactly the same as those in the US and Japan, the differences aren't great enough to preclude deployment of the same systems in each market.
"The EU and the American and Japanese governments have all stressed the need for harmonisation. The ball is certainly rolling - Australia, for example, has recently announced that it will allocate the 5.9GHz frequency band to ITS and there's the potential for other countries to follow."
Greater cooperation
Cooperative infrastructures have also made major strides forward in some key areas.
June 2009 saw publication of a Taking a view on HMIs
"It's going to be very interesting to see how ICT technologies develop in relation to the vehicle. We've seen various HMI solutions emerge in recent years, including LCD-based displays and windscreen projection. However, if we get away from concentrating on the hardware and look more to the software then we can start to use the dash in a much more flexible way because we don't have a static environment any more. That'll come with the cooperative environment: drivers can say, 'I don't want speed, I want a map.' OEMs, meanwhile, can gain differentiation - luxury vehicles can have more features, for example. I don't think that that's too unreasonable to expect."catalogue of a basic set of 90 use cases as defined by cooperative infrastructure stakeholders - applications such as intersection and collision warnings, or emergency vehicle approach. Work has been done to synchronise that set and build what are termed Cooperative Awareness Messages (CAMs).
Arndt: "CAMs are those 'heartbeats' between vehicles which tell each other who's where, the directions in which they're moving and so on. They form the basic management standard for vehicle mesh networks. Current work is looking at providing longitudinal and intersection collision warnings as well as electric vehicle charging spot notifications based on CAMs.
"We've also worked to define a decentralised environmental notification service; such geo-networking standards are important for how you or more correctly your vehicle is supplied with information relevant to your local environment. Technically, it's possible to share data between vehicles in two different cities - Paris and Brussels, for instance. But would you want to do that? Would the information be at all relevant? More locally, in a dense urban setting, an emergency vehicle might cross your path or a breakdown might occur in close proximity to you but in such a way that neither would necessitate you to take action.
"The requirements have been published and there is an architecture. This lays out the basics for how things work and the timing requirements, especially those for safety-critical applications.
Now, we're looking at how IP packages can be transmitted; with the basic specifications published we now need to look at how IPv6 and other protocols can be integrated. I'd expect to see results from that by mid-2011." Other, spectrum-related activity has looked at the power control mechanisms in 5.9GHz-based technologies with a view to reducing interference, promoting efficient use and avoiding spectrum congestion.
"In an urban environment, a transmission range of 200-300m is usually sufficient from the infrastructure side. Other information, such as that on braking, would be transmitted by the vehicles themselves to others in the vicinity. Information on a broken-down vehicle might be passed between it and other vehicles in close proximity. You pass by, your vehicle picks up the information and passes it on to others, which in turn do the same. But only to those affected. This chain of point-to-point links, of hopping messages, means that only a few cars speak to each other, not many thousands, and a clear characteristic of mesh networks is that you don't need high-powered transmission equipment. I'd expect standards for this to be finalised by the end of 2010." Security is a huge concern going forward. With very large numbers of senders and receivers of data in dense environments it is crucial to ensure that hacking or spoofing does not occur. March 2010 saw another major milestone reached, in the form of an ETSI report which gave an analysis of threat vulnerabilities as well as which security technologies, such as encryption, need to be implemented.
That works two ways, according to Arndt: "You need to be sure that the car or piece of infrastructure that you receive information from is what and where it claims to be. Also, there's a lot of information floating around inside the vehicle, such as that on recent journeys and movements, that for privacy reasons you might not want people to know." Another major piece of the puzzle, in terms of the standards themselves, is the need to get in place a testing base standard in order to ensure that the automotive OEMs all have a common base to work from such that (for instance) BMW can talk to Renault can talk to Ford. A "lot of work" is going on in relation to CAMs, geo-networking and decentralised messaging, says Arndt, and we can expect to see results by the third quarter of 2011.
Placing faith
What we'll end up with, says Arndt, is a situation where trusted systems can be implemented in vehicles which (in line with the Vienna Convention) greatly assist but do not take over the driving function.
"In terms of the standards we need to have an environment populated with information, we're almost there now," he continues. "Now it's just a case of populating that environment with vehicles. The automotive OEMs now need to look at providing a mechanism for updating onboard applications such that people with older vehicles don't become 'lost' in that information environment. That means finding a way of getting ICT [Information and Communication Technology] lifecycles into vehicles' lifecycles.
"Currently there's no true standardisation effort going on for nomadic devices. The current strategy is to get a basic standard of information into the vehicle onboard systems, where there's already a lot of data amassed. OEMs are reluctant to provide an interface to nomadic devices that would allow them to access the sorts of data held on a vehicle's databus.
"Nomadic devices are maturing for applications such as navigation but the HMI [Human-Machine Interface - see Sidebar, 'Taking a view on HMIs'] issues aren't yet sorted. Even if you could achieve very deep integration of the nomadic device with the dashboard, you still have identification issues. OEMs will include a GSM, UMTS or LTS module in a vehicle but how do you CAM onto a nomadic device and so authorise it onto a network? The use of SIM card data might be a solution but I'm not yet convinced that the nomadic device is ready to be an additional processor in the cooperative environment; providing legacy vehicles with a harmonised interface for cooperative applications remains a challenge.
"The current objective is to fit all new cars with cooperative systems but carmakers will only include such systems if their cost point is such that they can effectively be written off and 'lost' in the vehicle. That's why we need harmonisation: to achieve the necessary economies of scale."
Wider issues
In terms of the overall health of the standardisation effort, Arndt feels that the historical difficulty of getting the various automotive OEMs around the same table has been addressed.
"We've got that understanding we needed: that common technology is an advantage to all. We now have a strong, useful standardisation effort in the sense that with a large number of companies involved we have technological commonality.
"The issue now is how to address the policy framework issues: how to get standards in place - spectrum allocation and so on - that are also supported by local administrations. We need to increase awareness of the fact that everyone benefits. If a driver can for example drive all the way from the UK via France to Morocco using the same service, then we have something that even politicians at the local level can sell. Safety doesn't recognise geographical borders.
"Market factors also have an important role to play - GSM rollout in the US, which facilitated global roaming, came about as a result of consumer pressure. On the flipside, the manufacturing side, we have to recognise that the automotive industry is truly global, with the major OEMs turning out products on several continents. They want to use the same systems and components globally." There is however an outstanding discussion: that over whether standards are always necessary. HMIs are a case in point, says Arndt.
"Vehicles don't need to have the exact same HMIs and there is still space here for marque differentiation and branding. On the infrastructure side, we've had two decades of ITS development which has led to many island solutions. Cooperative infrastructures aren't in place yet so we have an opportunity to streamline things globally. If that's possible, then we should definitely go for it."
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The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Army ...
von Aaron Bancroft
Being better clothed and fed than in the preceding winter, their situation was greatly ameliorated, and their sufferings were comparatively nothing.
At the close of the campaign of 1778, the local situation of the hostile armies did not greatly differ · from that at the commencement of the campaign of
1770, except the possession of New York by the British.
This fact is impressively stated by Gencral Wash INGTON, in a letter written to a friend. " It is not a little pleasing, nor less wonderful to contemplate, that after two years maneuvring, and undergoing the strangest vicissitudes, both armies are brought back to the very point they set out from, and the offending party in the beginning is now reduced to the use of the pickaxe and the spade for defence. The hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked that has not gratitude to acknow lodge his obligations."
CHAPTER VI.
Plan formed by Congress and the French Minister for the Invasion
of Canada and Nova-Scotia-General Washington's objections to it-Tardiness of the United States to prepare for the approaching Campaign-The exertions of the General-His Letter on the State of the Nation–The Remonstrance of Officers belonging to the Now-Jersey Brigade--Letters of the Commander in Chief on the Subject--Expedition against the Indians under General Sullivan-le destroys their Towns-The American Army posted for the Defence of the High Lands on the North River, and for the protection of the Country against the Incursions of the British--Sir Henry Clinton moves up the Hudson, takes Possession of Stony and Verplank Points, and fortifies them--Arrangements made for assaulting these Posts-General Wayne carries Stony Point by Storm-The Attack upon Verplank fails-Congress voto their thanks to General Washington and to the brave Troops employed in this service-They vote Genera! Wayne a MedalEvils of short Enlistments-Plan of the General's to remedy them --The Army in two divisions erect huts for Winter Quarters, The Troops suffer through the scarcity of Provisions-Colone! Wadsworth resigns his Office-Confusion in the Commissary's Department-The Commander in Chief apportions supplies of Meat and Flour upon the Counties of New Jersey-The Winter excessively cold, and the Waters around New-York frozen over --Expedition to Staten Island fails.
1779. The emancipation of Canada had ever been ån important object with Congress. By its incorporation with the revolted colonies, the boundaries of the United States would be greatly enlarged, and the coun. try delivered from the destruction and terrour of war from the northern tribes of Indians.
In the winter of 1777–8, an expedition for this purpose had been settled with the Marquis de la Fayette, and in its prosecution he repaired to Ticonderoga. Wanting then the means to accomplish the design, it was relinquished. During the succeeding autunn the scheme was resumed under the auspices of the French Minister. The plan embraced the conquest of Canada, Nova Scotia, and all their dependencies. It was to be carried into effect by the joint operations of distinct detachments of Americans, acting in different points,
and all co-operating with a French fleet and army on the river Saint Lawrence.
'This lofty scheme of military operations had been adopted in Congress without consulting with the Commander in Chief, or any American officer. It was to be communicated to the French Court by the Marquis de la Fayette, and his influence, with that of the French Minister, was to be employed to induce his government to adopt their part of the expedition. In October the plan was communicated to General WASHINGTON, he was desired to give Congress lis opinion upon it, and to enclose it with his comments to the Marquis.
Tho General had already revolved in his mind an expedition against the British posts in Upper Canada, with the intention to be proscouted the next season, on the contingence that the British army should be withdrawn from the Units: 3:13. Struck with the extravagance of the plan of C gress, instead of complying with their requisition, he wrote to them, stating in strong terms his objections to the scheme. He mentioned the impolicy of entering into any engagements with the Court of France to execute a combined system of operation, without a moral certainty of being able to execute the part assigned to America.
It was, the General observed, morally certain in his mind, that if the English should maintain their posts on the continent, it would be impracticable to furnishthe men, or the necessary stores and provisions for the expedition. "If I rightly understand the plan," he remarked, "it requires for its execution, twelve thousand and six hundred rank and file. Besides these, to open passages through a wilderness, for the march of the several bodies of troops, to provide the means of long and difficult transportation by land and water, to establish posts of communication for the security of our convoys, to build and man vessels of force necessary for acquiring a superiority on the lakes; these
and many other purposes peculiar to th.ese enterprises, will require a much larger proportion of artificers, and persons to be employed in manual and laborious offices than are usual in military operations." The aggregate number, he obsa-wed, requisite for the contemplated expedition, addeu co the force necessary to be kept in the field to restrain depredation from the British posts at New York, would make nearly double the men pecessary, to any number, which with all their efforts, the United States were ever yet able to raise.
The experience of the General taught him, that it would be as difficult to furnish the necessary supplies of provisions as to raise the men. " The scene of our operations has hitherto been in the heart of the country, furnishing our resources, which of course facilitat. ed the drawing them out. We shall then be carrying on the war at an immense distance, in a country wild and uncultivated, incapable of affording any aid, and great part of it hostile. We cannot, in this case, depend on temporary and occasional suppiies, as we have been accustomed; but must have ample magazines laid up be. fore-hand. The labour and expense in forming these, and transporting the necessary stores of every kind for the use of the troops, will be increased to a degree that can be more easily conceived than described The transportation must be a great part of the way through deserts affording no other forage than herb. age; and from this circumstance our principal provi. sions, of the flesh kind, must be salted, which wonld greatly increase the dificulty, both of providing and transporting." Supplies upon this scale, he conceived, greatly exceeded the resources of the country, and in policy and honour, Congress could not promise to fur. nish them.
Serious doubts restcd upon the mind of the General, whethor France would execute the part of the Canada expedition assigned to her. The superiority of the British fleet was evident The Court of London would
be made acquainted with the scheme, and a superiour British fleet might prevent the French squadron, de tached on this service, from entering the river St J.awrence, or destroy it after its entrance, or tho Bri tish garrisons in Canada might be reinforced, and ren dered superiour to the assailing armament.
In an expedition consisting of several distinct parts, General WASHINGTON thought it unreasonable to expect that exact co-operation among the different detachments which would be necessary for mutual support ; of consequence, the divisions might be defeated in detail, and after all the expense, the expedition miscarry. The consequences of a failure, which were inuch to be deprecated, would be the misapplication of the French force; the ruin of the detachments employed in the expedition, and jealousy and disafrection between France and the United States.
The letter of the Commander in Chief, Congress referred to a Committee. In their report, this Committee admit his objections to be weighty, but still advise to the prosecution of the plan. Congress accepted the report, and again requested the Genoral to write fully on the subject to the Marquis, and to Dr. Franklin, then the American Minister at the Court of Versailles. Congress probably felt themselves already pledged by their conversation with the Marquis and the French Minister, and possibly they thought that measures had already been adopted in France to carry the plan into exccution.
General Washington was greatly perplexed by the perseverance of Congress in this measure. All his objections to the plan remained in full force, and be found himself called upon to use his influence to bring the French government to adopt a scheme, of which ho himself wholly disapproved, and to promise the co-ope. ration of the American arms in a manner that he thought impracticable. To this request he thus replied :


Today I was reminded of a story about a family on the East Coast. They held a party to celebrate Christmas. As the guests arrived, they all threw their coats on a bed. They proceeded to celebrate, eating, drinking and opening gifts, etc. It was later discovered that the guests had actually thrown their coats on top of a baby. The baby was asleep on the bed and was smothered by the coats and died. They overlooked, or didn't actually see the baby. They had gotten caught up in their partying.
This was a very sad situation. It was also an eye opener as to how Jesus can get "smothered." It often happens during Christmas celebrations, ignorantly or deliberately. Our world is moving more and more in the direction of trying to remove Him from being the center of this holiday. Have you noticed that many, particularly in our work places, are afraid. They will hesitate in saying have a "Merry Christmas?" Instead they will say "Happy Holidays." Some will call Christmas trees "holiday trees." In many neighborhoods, instead of Nativity Scenes on front lawns of houses, we see Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and other cartoon or fictitious characters.
Christmas seems to be the only holiday where many don't want to call it by it's name. This is also true particularly in our work places. In the United States, we seem to have no problem saying any other holiday's name. They will say; Independence Day, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, President's Day, etc. But when it comes to saying have a "Merry Christmas", some of us stutter.


Godolphin and Darley have been paying tribute to Cape Cross, a foundation sire of the global breeding operation, who has been put down aged 23, following complications associated with old age.
Cape Cross, a G1 winner in the Godolphin colours, was a phenomenal success at stud, siring Champions such as Golden Horn, Sea The Stars and Ouija Board, and becoming only one of 17 stallions to have produced more than one Epsom Derby winner as well as becoming broodmare sire of a blue riband winner.
Joe Osborne, managing director of Godophin, Ireland, where Cape Cross stood at Kildangan Stud in the northern hemisphere, said the stallion had been hugely influential, particularly in Darley's formative years when he became the flagship of the operation.
"He has been an integral part of the Godolphin and Darley stories, and an integral part of Kildangan," Osborne said.
"He was our first major success as a stallion. He was Champion first-season sire, making an immediate impact, and went on to sire a collection of outstanding racehorses, who left their mark in some of the world's great races.
"As an individual, he was the boss. You did it his way. He very much ruled the roost," he added.
In 2000, Cape Cross started shuttling to the southern hemisphere, first to Sir Patrick Hogan's Cambridge Stud in New Zealand, then to Kelvinside stud in Australia.
He was retired from stallion duties in 2016.


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Over 1,300 individuals started an application to the Programme and the Society awarded 111 Scholarships, following 12 assessment days. The Society has since held a Scholar Training Day and Residential Fieldwork Course over the summer, and will be hosting another training day and a networking evening for our Scholars over the coming year.
The Department for Education has confirmed that the Geography Scholarship Programme will continue in 2018-19, for trainees starting their teacher training in September 2018. Scholars will receive £28,000 tax-free funding, alongside an array of materials, resource and events to support them throughout their training year and into their teaching career.


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Once upon a time, there were two little hamsters who lived together in a burrow, and they were very much in love. Every night, they combed each other's hair and then cuddled up together to sleep. But one day, one hamster told the other that he'd found another hamster and he wanted to go live in her burrow.
The remaining hamster was very sad and lonely and went into a deep depression. She had a number of friends, and they all tried to make the lonely hamster feel better, but eventually, the lonely hamster still had to go home alone and sleep in a cold burrow all by herself.
One day, the lonely hamster was foraging around near a stream, and she met a snake.
"Invite me back to your burrow," said the snake. The snake thought that he'd have a snack, and then also have a burrow to move into, because things had recently gone pretty sour back at the hollow log where he'd been living.
"Let's take things slow," offered the snake, and the lonely hamster began to meet him at the stream every day.
The lonely hamsters' friends were horrified.
The lonely hamster invited the snake back to her burrow.
Even the snake told her what he was all about!
So, she invited the snake into her burrow, and the snake ate her immediately and without any dithering or remorse. He lived in her burrow for a few months, until a honey badger that had been looking for him sniffed him out.
Moral: It's probably more dignified to be a lonely hamster than to be snakefood…but sometimes being snakefood is more interesting.
Nice allegory about capitalism! At least that's one way to read it.
In which case, I guess the honey badger represents global warming.
Either that or Occupy Wall Street!
That is much more optimistic!


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