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Pirelli Renews Partnership with the University of Milan
Posted By: Manju Mathewon: Saturday, December 9, 2017 In: TiresNo Comments
Pirelli has renewed for another three years a research partnership that it had with the University of Milan. The agreement was signed by Pirelli's executive vice chairman and CEO, Marco Tronchetti Provera and Ferruccio Resta, rector of the Politecnico University.
The signing ceremony was attended by eminent dignitaries including Gianantonio Magnani – the president of the University of Milan Foundation and Maurizio Boiocchi, Pirelli's executive vice president and strategic advisor for technology. The original agreement between the two organizations dates back to 2011 when a Joint Labs agreement was signed with the objective of developing innovative tyre technology for the future.
Over the next three years, the University of Milan and Pirelli plan to collaborate on the use of nano charges to produce tyres having minimal impact on the environment, mathematical modelling studies to support the Cyber Tire program and the development of innovative materials which can protect tires from aging.
The collaboration between Pirelli and the University of Milan and Pirelli is a longstanding, going riht back to the time when in 1870, Giovanni Battista Pirelli graduated from Milan University and was advised by one of his lecturers, Giuseppe Colombo, to pursue chemical engineering and specifically rubber manufacturing. He went on to become the first person to venture into this industry in Italy, establishing Pirelli & C.in 1872.
The joint research projects that the University of Milan and Pirelli have undertaken include those like CORECOM (Consorzio Ricerche Elaborazione Commutazione Ottica Milano), which was set up in 1995 as one of the first public and private consortia in Italy leading international photonics.
The partnership has already yielded excellent results. 15 research projects have been assigned to young graduates in the field of materials chemistry, and two doctorates have been completed as a result of the association with Pirelli.
Over the past three years, the focus has been mainly on the alternative sources for natural rubber, production and functionality of carbon charges (from graphene to carbon black nanotubes), preparation of modified silicon fibre, and the development of innovative polymers and self-repairing materials. From 2011, 12 research contracts have been activated for Cyber Tire and Formula 1, which focus on the interaction between tyres and the road surface.
Commenting on the renewal of the agreement, Marco Tronchetti Provera, executive vice chairman and CEO Pirelli said that now more than ever, innovating and carrying out research is not no longer just an option but a must. Those who do not invest in research step up are unable to retain their competitive edge and soon disappear from the scene whereas those who do enjoy greater advantages in the marketplace as they come up with innovative products.
He concluded. "The challenges that our sector, the automotive industry, are going through are getting increasingly bigger. We are experiencing a period of unprecedented transformation where automation and connectivity are king. In such a dynamic context, it's essential to work very closely with research bodies and the most advanced universities in the world; the University of Milan is certainly one of those. With the renewal of the Joint Labs program, Pirelli underlines its commitment to collaborate with one of the most renowned academic institutions in the country, with the firm intention of confirming our Group's strategic know-how in Italy."
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However, Van Dyke is not guilty of misconduct in the 2016 shooting.
A Chicago jury has found Jason Van Dyke guilty of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
The ruling happened Friday (Oct. 5) as demonstrator waited outside and McDonald's family listened in the courtroom. Van Dyke was also found guilty of 16 counts of aggravated battery but found not guilty of official misconduct. The shooting drew public attention in 2016 after it was discovered that the Chicago Police Department along with embattled Mayor Rham Emanuel kept footage of the graphic shooting from the public. Emanuel released a statement about reform shortly after the verdict.
McDonald was accused of breaking into vehicles while holding a three-inch blade. While there were many officers at the scene, Van Dyke was the only officer who fired 16 shots at the teenager. USA Today notes he continued to fire his gun after the teen was laying on the ground. Van Dyke claimed he was fearful of his life while in contact with the teen but footage of the shooting never showed McDonald approaching the officer in a threatening manner.
"None of that happened!" prosecutor Jody Gleason said during the trial. "You've seen the videos. He made it up to justify his use of force."
Van Dyke's lead defense attorney Daniel Herbert claimed the victim was the "author and choreographer of this story" while painting him as a drugged teen with a checkered past.
Chicago natives like Vic Mensa have spoken out about the teen's tragic murder. The rapper released "16 Shots" in 2016 to honor the teen.


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Firstly, hello, me again! I've not been feeling great recently and haven't been in the right frame of mind to write anything, hopefully, now i'm feeling a little better, i'll be back with more blog posts!
On Sunday 25th June my family, Kay and I decided to go and check out the Monks Kirby country fair. Lucas, my skater boy brother, and a few friends were there promoting for the Coventry Skatepark Project.
Lucas – Skating the ramp which he built in our parents back garden!
The fair was held at the Newham Paddox, a beautiful and spacious place with plenty to see and do! Getting there turned out to be an adventure on it's own after getting lost driving through a field of cows, most of which were larger than my car, and my mum was in the back screaming at me to not run over any lambs, (I came nowhere near)!
Mum paid the entry fee of £4 per adult (a little pricey if you ask me!) Dad found the bar whilst we enjoyed tea and cakes and listened to the live music, the choir were so entertaining and it was lovely to see the children give up there Sunday to perform. If they are anything like me they enjoyed the sweets and icecream afterwards!
We had already been to check out Lucas' set up but due to the weather they'd had to keep it covered, luckily the sun did creep out for a while and we were able to watch Lucas and his friends in action. I forgot my camera (sunday brain!) so above and below are just a few off my phone.
Overall it was a lovely little adventure and gave us all something to do on a Sunday! It was great to see Lucas skate his ramp which we'd watch him and his friend Billy build. I was super impressed! If you haven't heard of the Cov Skatepark Project please check it out! CLICK HERE!


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Test your Elwha knowledge, win tickets to "Return of the River"
Tristan Baurick
On Friday evening, the Kitsap Sun will host a screening of "Return of the River," a documentary about the Elwha dam removal project. The show starts at 6.m. at the Admiral Theatre in downtown Bremerton. That's the trailer above. The filmmakers, John Gussman and Jessica Plumb, will be on-hand for a panel discussion.
Tickets are $12, with proceeds benefiting Great Peninsula Conservancy.
I'm offering two free tickets to the first person who aces my Elwha quiz.
All of the answers can be found in my recent story, "River Delta's Rebirth," which explores the dramatic changes happening at the mouth of the Elwha.
Study up by reading the story here.
Send your quiz answers to me by email, tristan.baurick@kitsapsun.com
ELWHA RIVER DELTA QUIZ
1. How much sediment has flowed down the Elwha since its two dams were removed?
2. How many dump trucks would that fill?
3. How tall was the Glines Canyon Dam?
4. How has the fashion sense of decorator crabs changed since the dams were removed?
5. Port Angeles built a massive seawall near the Elwha's mouth to hold back what?
6. How much did the dam removal cost?
7. What kind of seafood does the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe say is in greater abundance now that the dams are gone?
8. What human-made feature still blocks part of the river at its mouth?
9. What percentage of shoreline between the Elwha's mouth and Port Angeles is covered by bulkheads and other beach armoring?
10. What day was the last bit of dam blasted out?
Don't have what it takes to be a winner? Don't worry, you can still buy your way into the a seat at the Admiral. But you've got to act quick. As of this (Tuesday) morning, we had pre-sold about 500 tickets, so we're getting pretty close to capacity. Online ticket sales and more info about the screening can be found here.

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December 31, 2009 Music » Music Features
Local favorite Little League Hero re-unites with songs old and new
By Becky Carman
Little League Hero
8 p.m. Thursday
The 51st Street Speakeasy
1114 N.W. 51st
www.myspace.com/51speakeasy
Little League Hero's Kyle Caldwell admits he might be little bit out of touch with the area's music scene.
Since the band disbanded in January 2008, he said that while he's noticed some changes among venues and crowds, it's been only from afar.
"I've been a little reclusive for the past couple of years," he said. "I really haven't gone out. I've been sitting at home, sharpening my little music knife."
Formed in Stillwater in 1998, Little League Hero is the latest in a string of decade-old area acts to uncall it quits. A reunion, however, for nostalgia's sake or otherwise, isn't quite what Caldwell originally had in mind.
"Little League Hero had been broken up for a couple of years. I wanted to start a new band, with new songs. I wanted it to not be called Little League Hero," he said.
However, word of jam sessions with former bandmates Justin Barnes, Dewayne Henagar and Jerry Christian(better known as "Red") ignited a quiet buzz and, after being offered a handful of shows as Little League Hero, decided to take the bait.
"I just thought, 'OK, that's fine,' because I do miss it. The songs are a little dated at this point, though," Caldwell said. "I'm still looking forward to writing new stuff and moving on, but for now, we're doing what people know."
What people know is the group's signature ambient-rock sound, often characterized by complex guitar riffs, although the man behind those riffs has changed. "The last few months, we've been getting (new guitarist) Rodney (Rozell) into the fold, and we're learning our old songs again, which has been weird," Caldwell said.
"The sets we play now are primarily the old stuff that everybody knows. We're stuck in 2004 again, just to play catch-up, but we're definitely all about moving forward. The fun part is writing new songs and discovering who we are now as a band, which I'm excited about. I think it's fun to reveal yourself to yourself. I mean, it'll be similar, because it's mostly the same guys, but we've definitely all
grown up a little bit."
A recent warm-up show at Belle Isle Brewery renewed that sentiment, as Little League fans both old and new enthusiastically turned out in droves. "People I'd seen before at our shows were there and loved it, and new people I'd never met came up after the show and said that it affected them," Caldwell said.
"It's strange when that happens, because you have to lower a defense, but it's awesome. There has never been a show where the vibe in the room afterward
wasn't fantastic " everybody giving hugs and being jolly, or being inebriated and jolly " whatever it has to be. If people have a good time and listen with their ears cocked just the right way, we might reach them, you know?"
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Spring: Successful completion of first semester AP Biology or permission of the Science Division Chair.
This Advanced Placement course provides an accelerated, comprehensive, and thorough overview of the field of biology in preparation for the AP Biology exam. The course covers biological chemistry, cell biology, Mendelian genetics, evolutionary theory and principles, and an overview of the diversity, structure and ecology of organisms. Laboratory activities follow the required AP Biology lab exercises and other lab activities. Students will prepare for and are encouraged to take the AP Biology exam in May.
* Ball State University offers 4 college credit hours in BIO 111 and 112 to students who complete this course. Refer to the Dual Credit section for details on enrollment and fees.
The history of bacterial discovery, the scope of bacterial effects, biotechnology, and the classification of micro-organisms are studied. The course includes the study of the structure, function, and ecology of microbes and viruses. Basic aseptic and sterile techniques for isolating, culturing, and identifying bacteria are discussed and practiced in the laboratory as a prelude to learning fundamental staining techniques, biochemical tests, etc. that are used in the identification of unknown bacteria. Some consideration is given to the medical concerns related to bacterial and viral pathogens.
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Spring: Successful completion of first semester Biology II: Human Anatomy and Physiology or permission of Science Division Chair.
Using an integrated text, this course covers material in six parts, which include: levels of organization, support and movement, control and regulation, fluids and transport, environmental exchange, and the continuity of life. Clinical topics that relate to personal and family health concerns are interwoven with a consideration of the relationship of structure to function. The concepts of anatomical and physiological processes are explored so that not only those seeking careers in the health sciences may benefit from the course, but also those interested in the mechanics of the human body are challenged.
Zoology is a comprehensive survey of the diversity found in Kingdom Animalia. This course addresses the issue of why such diversity occurs, and what factors influence and constrain it. Laboratory explorations of live and preserved specimens allow hands-on examination of the structure and behavior of animals.
Principles of Genetics and The Human Genome is an introductory genetics course that examines classical Mendelian genetics and modern examples as they relate to the human genome. Specific topics include Mendelian genetics, the inheritance patterns of genes, the Central Dogma, pedigree analysis, chromosomal aberrations, behavioral genetics, and genetic screening. Laboratory activities emphasize techniques used to detect and analyze genetic information.
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The ethical basis for the use of scientific knowledge is explored during this course. Students will explore ethical issues resulting from the application of scientific knowledge to solve problems in today's world. Our priority will be the promotion and development of informed citizens and leaders who can use scientific information to cope with science related issues. The focus of the course revolves around such issues as energy resource problems, sustainability, the bioethics of genetic engineering, medical practices and death and dying. We hope to expand students' horizons and understanding of science by exposing them to a variety of issues using selected readings. This course does not satisfy the Academy lab science requirements.
The study of environmental science concerns itself with the interaction between humans and the ecosystems, in which we live and work. The course focuses on the determination of environmental quality through a series of laboratory experiences dealing with soil, water, and air resources. There is a concentration on problems having to do with population, pollution, agriculture, resource management and land use. An integrated approach to the issues facing us is emphasized. Students will prepare for and are encouraged to take the AP Environmental Science exam in May.
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Rationality vs. Intelligence
By Keith E. Stanovich
TORONTO ― In 2002, the cognitive scientist Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University won the Nobel Prize in Economics for work done with his longtime collaborator Amos Tversky (who died in 1996).
Their work had to do with judgment and decision-making ― what makes our thoughts and actions rational or irrational. They explored how people make choices and assess probabilities, and uncovered basic errors that are typical in decision-making.
The thinking errors they uncovered are not trivial mistakes in a parlor game. To be rational means to adopt appropriate goals, take the appropriate action given one's goals and beliefs, and hold beliefs that are commensurate with available evidence. It means achieving one's life goals using the best means possible.
To violate the thinking rules examined by Kahneman and Tversky thus has the practical consequence that we are less satisfied with our lives than we might be.
Research conducted in my own laboratory has indicated that there are systematic individual differences in the judgment and decision-making skills that Kahneman and Tversky studied.
Ironically, the Nobel Prize was awarded for studies of cognitive characteristics that are entirely missing from the most well-known mental assessment device in the behavioral sciences: intelligence tests.
Scientists and laypeople alike tend to agree that ``good thinking" encompasses sound judgment and decision-making ― the type of thinking that helps us achieve our goals. Yet assessments of such good (rational) thinking are nowhere to be found on IQ tests.
Intelligence tests measure important things, but they do not assess the extent of rational thought. This might not be such a grave omission if intelligence were a strong predictor of rational thinking.
But my research group found just the opposite: it is a mild predictor at best, and some rational thinking skills are totally dissociated from intelligence.
To an important degree, intelligence tests determine the academic and professional careers of millions of people in many countries.
Children are given intelligence tests to determine eligibility for admission to school programs for the gifted. Corporations and the military depend on assessment and sorting devices that are little more than disguised intelligence tests.
Perhaps some of this attention to intelligence is necessary, but what is not warranted is the tendency to ignore cognitive capacities that are at least equally important: the capacities that sustain rational thought and action.
Critics of intelligence tests have long pointed out that the tests ignore important parts of mental life, mainly non-cognitive domains such as socio-emotional abilities, empathy, and interpersonal skills.
But intelligence tests are also radically incomplete as measures of cognitive functioning, which is evident from the simple fact that many people display a systematic inability to think or behave rationally despite having a more than adequate IQ.
For a variety of reasons, we have come to overvalue the kinds of thinking skills that intelligence tests measure and undervalue other important cognitive skills, such as the ability to think rationally.
Psychologists have studied the major classes of thinking errors that make people less than rational.
They have studied people's tendencies to show incoherent probability assessments; to be overconfident in knowledge judgments; to ignore the alternative hypothesis; to evaluate evidence with a ``my side" bias; to show inconsistent preferences because of framing effects; to over-weigh short-term rewards at the expense of long-term well-being; to allow decisions to be affected by irrelevant context; and many others.
All of these categories of failure of rational judgment and decision-making are very imperfectly correlated with intelligence ― meaning that IQ tests tend not to capture individual differences in rational thought.
Intelligence tests measure mental skills that have been studied for a long time, whereas psychologists have only recently had the tools to measure the tendencies toward rational and irrational thinking.
Nevertheless, recent progress in the cognitive science of rational thought suggests that nothing ― save for money ― would stop us from constructing an ``RQ" test.
Such a test might prove highly useful. Suboptimal investment decisions have, for example, been linked to overconfidence in knowledge judgments, the tendency to over-explain chance events, and the tendency to substitute affective valence for thought.
Errors in medical and legal decision-making have also been linked to specific irrational thinking tendencies that psychologists have studied.
There are strategies and environmental fixes for the thinking errors that occur in all of these domains. But it is important to realize that these thinking errors are more related to rationality than intelligence. They would be reduced if schools, businesses, and government focused on the parts of cognition that intelligence tests miss.
Instead, these institutions still devote far more attention and resources to intelligence than to teaching people how to think in order to reach their goals. It is as if intelligence has become totemic in our culture.
But what we should really be pursuing is development of the reasoning strategies that could substantially increase human well-being.
Keith E. Stanovich is professor of human development and applied psychology at the University of Toronto and the author of ``What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought." For more stories, visit Project Syndicate (www.project-syndicate.org).


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What Our Forefathers Ate
Vrbovec, a town with a population of 5,000 lying 40 km from Zagreb. The first written record of the town dates back to 1244 (document of King Bela IV). The Vrbovec fortress was raised in 1528 as a defensive structure to fend off the Turks. Later it was owned by the Zrinski, Erdödy, Patačić and other families. Petar Zrinski was born here in 1621. Today, only the cylindrical tower still stands.Near Vrbovec (Negovec), M.J. Zagorka, the popular novelist and first female journalist in southern Europe, was born. The area abounds in valuable cultural heritage and numerous rural excursion areas, which are perfect places for relaxation and culinary delights (including the event "What Our Elders Ate", held in August), and sports: tennis, trap shooting and fishing.
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Football on TV
Tottenham to take legal action after being thrown out of Europa Conference League
By Sean Walsh
Tottenham were booted out of the Europa Conference League on Monday / Anadolu Agency/GettyImages
Antonio Conte has confirmed that Tottenham will take legal action following UEFA's decision to award Rennes with a 3-0 win on the last matchday of the Europa Conference League group stage, which consequentially eliminated Spurs from the tournament.
Dismal defeats away to Vitesse Arnhem and NS Mura meant that Spurs needed to beat Rennes on matchday six to stand a chance of advancing from the group.
However, a Covid-19 outbreak at their Hotspur Way training ground meant that Tottenham requested to postpone the game, and despite attempting to rearrange it before UEFA's deadline of December 31, were unable to do so and were deemed to have forfeited the match.
The Evening Standard reported on Tuesday that Spurs are seeking legal advice due to lost earnings, though will not appeal their elimination in court and club sources are not confident that any revenue will be legally recovered.
And Conte revealed later that day that Spurs will not take the decision lightly.
When asked if Spurs will take further action and take the matter to court, Conte replied: "Yeah, there is another step [to take].
"UEFA took this decision [to eliminate Spurs] but there is another step. We are confident that in another step, they take a normal decision - not a decision in our favour, but a normal decision. It was incredible what UEFA did.
"[The] explanation about this defeat I have read, 'Tottenham couldn't play the game for Covid cases'.
"But we are very, very confident for the next step because we deserve to play [for] qualification on the pitch, not in court. I'm very disappointed in UEFA for this decision."
Spurs' elimination from Europe does boost their chances of success domestically, however. Conte's positive impact at the club is becoming increasingly evident, most recently culminating in an impressive 2-2 draw with Liverpool on Sunday.
Tottenham are well in the hunt for a top four finish in the Premier League, while they host West Ham in the EFL Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday and have been drawn at home to League One side Morecambe in the FA Cup.
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John Counts had to excuse himself when I called to discuss "Jerry Darn Nation," his short story about a former Chicago rocker on the skids. A reporter for a north Michigan daily, Counts was covering a cabin fire in the woods. Firemen, he told me, were arriving on snowmobiles.
Counts's contribution to the Reader's 2010 fiction issue covers another kind of conflagration: his desperate, alcoholic Jerry is ready to explode. And so is Jackie, the hero of Eldad Malamuth's "Customs," when his nice gesture—he's bringing kosher hot dogs to his stepfather in Canada—goes awry.
The other three pieces in this year's collection burn more quietly but no less intensely. DePaul faculty member Daniel Stolar explores the facts and fantasies of a 60-year marriage in "Hymie and Ruth," while his onetime student, Marco Buscaglia, packs all the pain of adolescence into an evening of shooting alley hoops in "The Specialist." And Jessie Morrison's "The Carnival at Bray" deals with another Chicago teen, attempting to cope when her flighty mom finds true love and drags her off to Ireland.


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Hey, You Should Play This: 'Resogun'
Simeon Hance in Gaming on 23 February, 2014.
Lasers everywhere!
When looking at the admittedly short list of PS4 exclusives before it's launch, there was one title that I nevertheless managed to pay very little attention to – Resogun. Having never really gotten into twin stick shooters and thinking I'd be dedicating my gaming time to the triple AAA, blockbuster launch titles, it was simply not on my radar. This was a mistake, for now, it is my most highly recommended PS4 game. So let me fill you in on this surprise hit.
Resogun is a twin stick shooter, played on a circular plane. Each of the five stages begins with an electronic voice (projected through the Dualshock 4's speaker) telling you to 'Save the last humans.' These bright green figures, scattered across the map are locked in transparent cells. Once the level begins, enemy ships spawn with the primary goal of blowing you up. Other ships called 'Keepers' (identifiable by their fluorescent green tint) instead focus on preventing you from saving the remaining humans. To satisfy the electronic voice's command, you need to shoot down all of the 'Keepers', at which point a human is set free from their cage, requiring you to find and fly them to safety. The stages have three distinct and increasingly difficult phases, before ending with a boss fight which are often the highlights of the stages, requiring far more acute aiming and increased reactions – although one of the five bosses battles is significantly under par and boring to battle against, as simply flying straight and firing backwards is sufficient for victory.
Yet the draw is not simply carrying out a rescue operation or blowing up hundreds of enemy ships but instead a desperate struggle for a new high score. In fact, the number of points you acquire is the measure on which success is judged; not the length of time survived nor how many humans have been saved – although both of those are important aspects to achieving a personal best. As you destroy enemy ships, you gain both points and an increase to a multiplier. This multiplier will continue to rise until reaching its variable limit, dependent on the difficulty level, unless one of two things happens – your ship is destroyed (achieved after just one hit from an enemy), or you go a few seconds without shooting an enemy/rescuing a human. These conditions work together perfectly, forcing a perfect balance of risk and reward. Too aggressive and you'll find you don't last the stage, too passive and your survival will have been simply to achieve a minimal score. That said, once the action starts, there is not often the chance to be particularly passive as, especially on the later stages, the screen is often filled with enemies.
To fight back against the seemingly endless waves of enemies, alongside the main gun of the ship, you are given a limited number of bombs, which clears out the immediate area around where they are detonated. The ships also have a rechargeable boost feature, which allows for quick movement around the circular plane and, more importantly, means crashing into enemies ensures their destruction, not your own (the opposite as to what would normally happen after a collision). On top of this, the ships have a chargeable 'overdrive' attack, which functions quite a lot like you'd imagine something called an overdrive attack would, slowing down enemies and allowing a more powerful attack to be fired off. There are three different ships to choose from, which differ in their main guns, boosting abilities, agility and the effectiveness of their overdrive.
With the minimal margin for error in a game where the enemies significantly outnumber you, the difference between it being frantic high score chasing fun and a frustrating failure rests significantly on how it controls. Thankfully, Resogun nails this aspect of the game. Especially with the new and improved controller for the PS4, I always felt in complete control of my ship. When failure comes from my own poor judgement or inadequate reflexes, I'm far more inclined to try again compared to when it comes from miscommunication between my thumbs and the ship. The only exception to this would be on rare occasion, in the most action packed sequences, I would crash into a small ship that was hidden in with the endless particle effects.
This brings me to my next point – it would be unfair to Housemarque (the game's developers) to not mention the effort they've put in to make this look like a next generation title. Whilst the general aesthetic is fairly simple, the game shows off when it comes to particles effects. At the end of a stage, the boss ship explodes, alongside pretty much anything else left on the stage at which point the screen is made up almost solely of individual particles. This also occurs during the most frantic phases, when dealing with the potentially overwhelming number of enemies. This level of detail and graphical fidelity helps differentiate Resogun from anything on the PS3. Whilst it may not add anything to the gameplay and gives rise to the minor annoyance I mentioned earlier, it is nevertheless a satisfying sight to conclude a stage with.
One other aspect of the game that I particularly like is the challenge, especially on the higher of the four difficulties. Admittedly this is a genre I'm inexperienced in, but nonetheless I can recognise that Resogun is not a game afraid of punishing the player. In arcade mode, where stages are played back to back, with lives (or too often in my case, lack of) and bombs being carried forward without being replenished, surviving long enough to gain a particularly noteworthy score is no easy task. On potential high score plays, where I complete stages without a hiccup, I cannot help but feel proud of my feat.
The high level of difficulty and the naturally addictive task of attempting to beat any previous personal best not only makes Resogun a game that provides potential for giving off a strong sense of accomplishment, but also one that is highly replayable – although this is perhaps necessary to balance out the otherwise small amount of content, as if the appeal of chasing high scores was removed, all that Resogun has to offer could be seen in a couple of hours. But the thrill of breaking a record makes Resogun a game I keep coming back to – and most likely will do for the foreseeable future. After all, 43,521,570 is a significant improvement over my first efforts, but I reckon I can still do better.
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There's been a lot of speculation and conjecture around this "Petya" outbreak. A great deal of it seems to have been fueled by confirmation bias (to us, at least).
Many things about this malware don't add up (at first glance). But it wouldn't be the first time that's happened.
And yet everyone seems to have had answers to a variety of burning questions – within mere moments of this whole thing exploding. It's either a case of "wisdom of the crowd" (definitely good) or "group think" (definitely bad).
We prefer to avoid being pulled into group think, so we've stepped aside, exercised patience, and tried to apply some healthy skepticism to the matter. We realized that our questions could only be answered after a thorough analysis of the available material. So we took the methodical approach.
There's a large risk of jumping the gun in this particular case, and it's too important to us to risk that. Yeah, we get it. This is a topic with very high interest and people have been awaiting our say on the matter. We've erred on the side of caution. In the current media landscape, narratives can quickly get out of control of one person or organization's ability to course correct. We don't want to be the ones steering the ship in the wrong direction.
Needless to say, our analysts have been working long, hard hours on this case over the past few days, and ordering in so they can keep working.
Pizza: the lunch of champions!
So, taking the default position of "it does what it says on the tin", what evidence would convince us to change our minds? (Fans of the scientific method.) We didn't really know what evidence was needed until we started looking. And, so, over the past 48 hours, we've bombarded our colleagues with questions (a lot of which we've seen others asking). So, without further ado, let's start.
Lots of ransomware uses email. There's only two choices to communicate with your customers/victims: use email or create a service portal. They each have pros and cons. Starting with email doesn't mean you've ruled out creating a portal later on, because in a case such as this, if you build it, they will come (if everything's working properly).
So, is everything working properly?
Aha! So that's evidence of it not being ransomware, right?
Malfunctioning malware isn't rare. It's possibly evidence of nothing more than a bug in the code, a design flaw, or issues with supporting infrastructure. It's typically not enough evidence for us to attribute anything in particular.
Decryption of files is not possible.
For many reasons. We'll get into that below.
Many reasons? So there's lots of bugs? Isn't that evidence that it's not real ransomware?
To be honest, who knows. It's evidence of a mess, and we're still working to untangle all the knots. It's time-consuming.
This line of questioning is getting us nowhere. Let's move on.
Nation state malware is advanced and sophisticated, right? Is this sophisticated?
Yes and no. As you might have guessed from above, part of it most certainly isn't sophisticated. But… part of it is. We've identified three main components. Two of them are pretty shoddy and seem kinda cobbled together. But the third component, the bit that allows the malware to spread laterally across networks, seems very sophisticated and well-tested.
So it's a paradox then?
Kinda. You probably can see why we're trying not to rush to any judgements (we hope!). For the sake of this post, let's call these three components "user mode component", "network propagation component", and "MBR component". Here's a diagram.
Bad handwriting by yours truly (Andy).
So what's the deal with this "sophisticated" part?
February is many weeks before the exploits EternalBlue and EternalRomance (both of which this module utilizes) were released to the public (in April) by the Shadow Brokers. And those exploits fit this component like a glove.
Note: this isn't rock solid evidence, but it's far more compelling to us than any of the other reasoning we've seen so far.
How does it compare to WannaCry (which also used these exploits)?
WannaCry clearly picked these exploits up after the Shadow Brokers dumped them into the public domain in April. Also, WannaCry didn't do the best job at implementing these exploits correctly.
By comparison, this "Petya" looks well-implemented, and seems to have seen plenty of testing. It's fully-baked.
So, if the network propagation component is fully-baked, why aren't the other two?
Here's our theory. WannaCry, again.
WannaCry burst onto the scene in May, and started trashing up the joint, causing everyone to scramble to patch SMB vulnerabilities. Microsoft even patched XP! The result of this was a sudden drop in effectiveness of carefully crafted network propagation components (such as the one we're talking about here). Whatever project these guys were working on, suddenly got its deadline adjusted. And hence everything else was done in a bit of a hurry.
Do you have anything else to add to your timeline?
Kaspersky Lab pointed to a Ukraine-based watering hole, and it turns out the MBR component was actually pushed out via that site in late May, post-WannaCry. We feel this might also be consistent with an "adjusted" deadline.
So, can you sum this up for us?
January 2017. The Shadow Brokers advertised an "auction" which revealed the names of all the exploits they had for sale.
The NSA, upon noticing their exploits being advertised, hurriedly contacted Microsoft (reportedly with hat in hand), and owned up to their shenanigans.
February 2017. Microsoft then had a very busy patch cycle and actually missed patch Tuesday that month.
March 2017. Microsoft rolls out patches. Many fixes (to NSA-exploited vulnerabilities) made.
April 2017. The Shadow Brokers dump a whole bunch of exploits into the public domain.
Somebody with possible connections to North Korea notices.
May 2017. WannaCry, 'nuff said.
Or they figured they could "join the party" as yet another ransomware, as long as they capitalized on it within a reasonable amount of time.
The MBR component of this malware was alpha tested using a watering hole attack.
June 2017. You are here.
But are you still skeptical about this malware being "nation state"?
Less and less so. We don't think any current attribution is rock solid (attribution never really is). We feel this is definitely worth deeper investigation. And more pizza.
We've changed our minds on some of our earlier conclusions. Please note this if you're reading any previous F-Secure analysis. And, of course, this is subject to further revision, as new facts come to light.
As we mentioned earlier, two of the components in this malware are quite shoddy. Here are some interesting/confusing things we found.
The generated "personal installation key" displayed on the MBR version of the ransom page is 60 bytes of randomly generated data. This wouldn't be a problem if it were sent upstream to the attacker, as a customer ID, but it isn't (there's no C&C functionality at all). It's basically a placeholder that makes the ransomware look legit.
Why the authors of this malware failed to add proper decryption functionality to the MBR lock screen is still a question. Was it intentionally left out, did they make a huge mistake, or did they run out of time?
One of our analysts noted that implementation of the Elliptic curve Diffie–Hellman functionality necessary to enable proper encryption-decryption services in the MBR portion of the malware would take upwards of a week. If the developers were in a hurry, this could be one of the reasons why they opted for the "illusory" functionality we're seeing.
This malware encrypts files on the user's system and then, if it can elevate to admin, rewrites the MBR and reboots into a lock screen. Why encrypt files on the machine if you're going to ultimately render the whole machine unusable? The user-mode encryption step is actually a fallback mechanism for if the malware can't attain admin rights, which it would need to modify the MBR and execute that phase. Essentially, it's a way of increasing the author's chances of receiving a payment.
In cases where the malware fails to elevate, and only encrypts files in user-mode, a ransom note is left for the victim. This ransom note contains a different, much longer key than the one seen in the MBR lock screen. We're currently looking into whether that key is generated in a way that might allow decryption to happen¹.
Petya user mode ransom note.
You can get infected multiple times.
This malware also does other stuff that indicates poor testing practices. For instance, a machine infected with this malware can re-infect itself via one of its own propagation mechanisms. In this case, user-mode encryption will run a second time (most likely with elevated privileges), making decryption impossible.
It has a vendetta against Kaspersky Lab.
If this malware finds running Kaspersky processes on the system, it writes junk to the first 10 sectors of the disk, and then reboots, bricking the machine completely.
We know of victims who don't use M.E.Doc and have no obvious connections to Ukraine. Yet they were infected during Tuesday's outbreak. This mystery is one of the factors that have kept us from jumping on the conspiracy train. And we still don't have answers here.
We've confirmed that the user-mode encryption-decryption logic is functional and does work. Details here.
Some of the payloads utilized by the network propagation component have compilation timestamps from February 2017. The compilation dates on these payloads don't have any bearing on when the Eternal* exploits were implemented in the network propagation code.


The joys of large family living and being frugal is teaching your children how to make laundry soap. Yesterday we made 10 gallons of laundry detergent this will last our family about 3 to 4 months for a cost of $3.75 total. It's amazing with minimal effort how much money you can save by just living a little more simply.


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Margaux Hemingway makes her film debut as a high-fashion model who is violated as much by "the system" as she is by her rapist. Chris Sarandon (Fright Night, Child's Play) plays the low-key music teacher who brutally attacks her and forces her to the point of desperation– and revenge. As Margaux's lawyer, Academy-Award winner Anne Bancroft (The Graduate) gives a brilliant, uncompromising portrayal of a woman who takes on the legal system to define the rights of women in this complex and controversial issue. The film also features Mariel Hemmingway (Star 80) and Perry King (Class of 1984).
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Honesty and fashion go together like stripes and polka dots.
Why they always made questions that make us hurt ?
The trick is knowing when not to answer!
Sometimes it's hard to win no matter what you do.
Poor Wink, he needs to answer with, "I gotta go, I just remembered something!" It's safer.
That sounds like a smart thing to do!
A list of other webcomics, blogs, and other sites that are worth visiting.


SimpleTax selected as tax calculator solution provider for Which?
To make self-assessment returns more straightforward, Which? has partnered with SimpleTax to create a tax calculator.
SimpleTax, a HMRC-recognised tax solution provider, is working with Which? to make self-assessment returns more straightforward. According to SimpleTax data, 75% of missed tax allowances are from the self-employed sector. As the government pushes for online tax accounts with the Making Tax Digital initiative, this collaboration is designed to simplify reporting and ensure the self-employed pay no more than they owe.
Which? has worked with SimpleTax to launch a new tax calculator, which gives their members, as well as anyone who needs to complete a self-assessment return, transparency on tax allowances, thanks to intuitive prompts based on their profile and data. Which? sought a long-term and consumer-oriented solution. The SimpleTax solution offers the ability to submit directly to HMRC and tailored tips.
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Having undergone a thorough due diligence process, SimpleTax came out as the provider of choice. In December, Which? launched a new service that allows members and non-members to see their tax liabilities upfront, in association with SimpleTax.
This fast, intuitive solution is ideal for business owners, landlords, pensioners and investors, available to Which? members as a value-added service. As the partnership moves forward, plans are already underway to make managing tax obligations even easier for the self-employed.
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It's a holiday weekend and I spent a bit of time on Facebook this morning. Reading about the plight of immigrant families being separated at the U.S. border and all the other unfortunate developments arising in so many different ways, I found myself again wondering how to cultivate hope and hold a sense that things can be better. Then I remembered a documentary I recently watched that ended up giving me some unanticipated optimism. It's a talk given by Jeremy Rifkin, an economic and social theorist. It's called "The Third Industrial Revolution" and, even though it begins with examples of our dire environmental crisis, it ends on hopeful notes of what is emerging already within the awareness of millennials around the world. Even with all the challenges and misuses, the Internet has created a more directly connected experience amongst young people in many countries and that is already creating change in how they think about and treat one another.
Perhaps one of the most important elements in thinking about "What can I do to help heal, change, ease, or transform things?" is to remember that every small act contributes to the quality of life individually and collectively. Even our thoughts and feelings affect the tone of our being as we move through the world and the quality of our contributions to our collective consciousness matters, too. So, even if you live in a situation where action is impossible, you can contribute to the well-being of us all through the quality and tone of your internal life.
Also, with my now 37 years of experience working with the optimal future self, one of the things I've focused on recently is holding the possibility of an optimal future humanityemerging from the time we are in now. Because I believe in the suggestions from quantum physics that probabilities are constantly shifting in response to intention and the focus of attention, I say "yes" to an optimal future selfand an optimal future humanity at the beginning of each day. I figure that even if reality isn't constructed of ever-shifting probabilities, it can't hurt to say "yes" to optimal potentials.
Remember to allow mixed feelings as you engage this practice. It's rare that we are completely one way or another, so mixed feelings generally are just a part of life. Learning to allow feelings to arise, move through, and move on—just as clouds do in the sky—means that it doesn't matter what feelings arise. Nothing needs to be avoided or pushed away. We can feel both the suffering of our brothers and sisters and also the beauty in how human-kindness can appear and express in some pretty wonderful ways. The key is to allow mixed feelings to come into awareness, where you can then decide whether you want to explore them, act on them, or simply allow them to move on through as the never-ceasing stream of consciousness continues on its way.


You go in the ruins. Your clopping hooves echo throughout the cavernous and foreboding environment. But you are too stupid to be nervous.
Your powerful snout detects the scent of Rose's MOM. She went this way.


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Lomanthang, Lo Mantang ou Lo Manthang () é uma aldeia e um village development committee (lit.: "comité de desenvolvimento de aldeia") no distrito de Mustang, da zona de Dhaulagiri da região Oeste do Nepal. Em 2011 tinha  habitantes e 172 residências.

Até 7 de outubro de 2008 foi a capital do Reino de Mustang (ou Lo), o estado semi-independente vassalo do reino nepalês, oficialmente extinto pela recém-criada república nepalesa. Situa-se na parte superior do vale do Kali Gandaki, a norte de Kagbeni.

O village development committee tem as seguintes aldeias:

Chhorak ()
Dhigaun ()
Durang ()
Lomanthang ()
Manshail ()
Suruk ()

Descrição
A aldeia destaca-se pelas suas muralhas altas de tijolos caiadas de branco, os gompas (mosteiros budistas) e o palácio do rajá, também chamado palácio real e palácio do rei, um edifício com nove esquinas e cinco andares construído . Há ainda quatro mosteiros principais: Jampa Lhakhang ou Jampa Gompa, o mais antigo, construído no início do  e também conhecido como a "Casa de Deus"; Thubchen Gompa, um enorme mosteiro e salão de reuniões vermelho construído no final do  e situado imediatamente a sudoeste de Jampa Gompa; Chodey Gompa, atualmente o mosteiro mais importante da aldeia; e Choprang Gompa, popularmente conhecido como "Nova Gompa".

Ao contrário dos seus vizinhos do Baixo Mustang (ou Thak), os Thakali, os habitantes do Alto Mustang estão muito mais próximos dos povos tibetanos do que do resto da maior parte das etnias nepalesas.

Apesar de a visita de turistas estrangeiros ser autorizada desde 1992, o turismo no Alto Mustang continua limitado, com apenas pouco mais de  turistas estrangeiros registados em 2008. O Departamento de Imigração do Nepal obriga os visitantes estrangeiros a obterem o visto especial, que custa 50 US$ (36 €; 111 R$) por dia, um valor exorbitante comparado com a generalidade dos vistos de trekking para outras zonas do Nepal, nomeadamente do vizinho Circuito do Annapurna. Além disso, a contratação de um guia local é obrigatória, alegadamente para proteger a tradição local de influências externas e proteger o ambiente.

História

A pequena cidade foi fundada em 1380 pelo fundador do reino de Lo, Ame Pal, que supervisionou a construção da muralha que a rodeia e muitas das edificações aindas existentes atualmente. Após os Shas de  fundarem o reino do Nepal no  juntando ou conquistando vários reinos minúsculos, Lo tornou-se dependente desse novo estado mas manteve os seus monarcas hereditários. Esta situação manteve-se enquanto o Nepal foi uma monarquia, mas terminou quando o primeiro governo republicano subiu ao poder em 2008, que retirou o título ao gyelpo ou rajá de Mustang, Jigme Dorje Palbar Bista (n. 1933), o 25º descendente direto de Ame Pal.

Em 2007 foram descobertos na região pelo menos doze cavernas decoradas com antigas pinturas budistas, situadas em penhascos a pique a  de altitude. As pinturas mostram influências neuaris e datam aproximadamente do . nas cavernas forma também descobertos escritos tibetanos realizados com tinta, objetos de prata e ouro, além de cacos de cerâmica do período pré-cristão. O exploradores encontraram estupas, arte decorativa e pinturas representando várias formas do Buda, em muitos casos com discípulos, suplicantes e acompanhantes. Algumas das pinturas murais apresentam temas subtropicais, com palmeiras tecidos indianos ondulantes e aves.

Notas e referências

Ligações externas

Localidades do Nepal
Localidades do distrito de Mustang
Village development committees do Nepal
Village development committees de Mustang
Alto Mustang

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Sport Solar Panel Charger Review
By Travis Houser August 12, 2015 Updated: March 31, 2022 No Comments5 Mins Read
Drawing usable power from the Sun sounds cool, but avoid a heated experience by keeping expectations in check.
Forget about Qi or Powermat. One of the original methods of wireless charging is a technology that has been around for a while: Solar Power. With light-sensitive panels and circuitry getting smaller and cheaper, the ability to charge an internal battery using only sunlight is a feature that continues to appear in all sorts of new gadgets. Some watches will use a solar panel as a clock face while portable batteries of all sizes are commonly paired with some form of solar panel attachment. During my time with the Stunning Gadgets ES500, the initial gimmicky feeling of solar charging transformed into real curiosity and excitement for the technology. Well, after a few days of trial and error, that is.
The ES500 is equipped with two USB ports for charging output, a USB Micro port for traditional charging input, a single LED that acts as a tiny flashlight, and of course a 200mA solar panel. The casing is available in several colors and also comes with a small carabiner so the unit can easily hook onto a backpack or other piece of luggage.
A battery like this is designed for an active lifestyle, so accidents are inevitable. Because of this, the manufacturer has done a fair job at increasing the sturdiness of this unit versus a traditional portable battery by including rubber bumpers on the sides to help with the occasional drop. As far as drops go, the entire unit seems to handle a typical six-foot drop with little damage. After a week of use (and drop testing), the small bindings on the internal battery loosened which now cause a slight rattle to be heard if the unit is shaken, but charging performance has not been impacted. The unit is also granted a "rain-resistant" feature set by the inclusion of a snap-seal casing around the battery and circuit board and rubber plug covers. I commend the forethought used when designing the unit in this manner, but the rubber pieces are somewhat loose and each of the plug covers eventually grow looser over time which will only lessen the effectiveness of any moisture prevention measures.
The manufacturer claims on the device fact sheet that two devices can be charged at the same time. While this is technically true, I should warn readers that the max power output by the device is 2.1A so attempting to charge a modern tablet and smartphone will likely be asking too much of the modest hardware. However, the available 2.1A will allow for a newer smartphone to draw a "quick-charge" charging speed if it is the only device connected to the unit.
About that battery…it's only 5000mAh. Frequent readers of MacSources will notice that many of the other portable batteries reviewed on this site are at least double the ES500's capacity. This portable battery should be taken in a camping bag to be used as a fallback for a mobile phone and/or hiking GPS with perhaps an additional charge cycle for a smartwatch of some kind. 5000mAh will likely get a single full charge for most modern smartphones, and then it's time to recharge. In a bit of annoying design, each of the status LEDs are extremely bright and bleed through the plastic into the next status indicator area. I'm certain that these LEDs do not draw very much power, but I would have thought that any amount of power conservation would have helped with overall performance of the unit.
Speaking of recharging, it is time for some real talk about the ES500 solar performance. To be blunt, most users are likely going to be disappointed if this unit is purchased blind as a first experience to solar charging. The manufacturer keeps things honest and admits that the solar panel has a difficult time charging the included battery. In perfect weather conditions, they estimate about 8 hours for an "emergency charge" meaning the available battery level will likely charge a smartphone to 50% or 60% before more sun is needed. Personal experience leads me to estimate 12-16 hours are going to be needed for the portable battery to be fully charged, and this is where the expectations need to be set in reality. 12-16 hours of perfect bright sunlight are likely impossible in most of the world, and even getting 8 hours will be a challenge. Thus, this battery is better handled by leaving it in a passive area of the campsite or just letting it dangle in the sunlight during a hike.
A final note on recharging: I was excited by the manufacturer's claim that with enough sunlight, this unit could trickle charge a smartphone even if the internal battery was not charged. Unfortunately, I was not able to reproduce this. Perhaps I need more of a tropical full-blast environment, but I was disappointed all the same.
So, is the ES500 worth its asking price (about $40 as of this writing)? I think the most honest answer would be "No, unless the device will be used as it was designed." An end user that takes a routine trip to Starbucks while leaving the office for the day would not be an active enough user since this unit's key feature is only going to work in continual sunlight. I suppose the device might also be used as a low-price entry point into playing with solar charging hardware, but outdoor extracurricular activities will really allow this device will shine.
I am already wishing for a "v2" model of this unit with at least double battery capacity, a larger fold-out panel for increase solar charge performance, and higher charge output when charging multiple devices. Well, maybe next year.
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Matlock, C. J.; Banner, T. R.. Letter from C. J. Matlock to C. W. Lewis, 1890 April 1 - Page 1, front. March 2 - April 1, 1890. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. April 23, 2019. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/1970_001/item/420/show/416.
Matlock, C. J.; Banner, T. R., Letter from C. J. Matlock to C. W. Lewis, 1890 April 1 - Page 1, front, March 2 - April 1, 1890, City of Houston, Its Development and Evolution, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries, accessed April 23, 2019, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/1970_001/item/420/show/416.
Description Letter from C. J. Matlock to C. W. Lewis, in which he encloses a copy of a letter from T. R. Banner concerning his response to the request of selling or donating of his property to the City of Houston.


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Der Sparkassenverband Bayern ist ein Sparkassen- und Giroverband der Sparkassen, Landesbausparkasse und Landesbank im Land Bayern.

Allgemeines
Es handelt sich um einen Verband in Form der Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts, der als Interessenverband fungiert und der Pflichtmitglieder hat. Er ist der zentrale Dienstleister der Sparkassen in Bayern. Er vertritt deren Interessen, unterstützt und berät diese. Außerdem bietet er mit seiner Sparkassenakademie Bayern ein umfangreiches Aus- und Fortbildungsprogramm.

Organisation
Organe und Gremien sind:

 Verbandsversammlung der Verbandsmitglieder
 Verbandsverwaltungsrat
 Bezirksverbände für jeden der sieben bayerischen Regierungsbezirke Oberbayern, Niederbayern, Oberpfalz, Oberfranken, Mittelfranken, Unterfranken sowie Schwaben
 Fachbeirat aus den stellvertretenden Vorsitzenden der Bezirksverbände, die zugleich die Bezirksobmänner sind
 Kommunaler Beirat aus Vertretern des Bayerischen Gemeindetages, des Bayerischen Landkreistages und des Bayerischen Städtetages
 Beirat für sparkassenpolitische Grundsatzfragen
 Beteiligungsbeirat
 Arbeitskreise für Betrieb und IT, Personal, Vertrieb und Verbund

Der Verband ist mit den zwölf anderen deutschen Sparkassenverbänden Mitglied im Deutschen Sparkassen- und Giroverband. Er hat seinen Sitz in München. Präsident ist seit Januar 2021  Ulrich Reuter .

Geschichte
1908 schlossen sich die Sparkassenverbände Pfalz, Oberpfalz, Oberbayern, Niederbayern und Schwaben zu einem Landesverband zusammen. Anschließend traten die Sparkassenverbände Unterfranken und Mittelfranken sowie Oberfranken diesem Landesverband bei. 1919 fusionierte der Landesverband mit dem 1914 gegründeten Giroverband bayerischer Sparkassen. 1925 erfolgte die Umbenennung in Bayerischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband (BSGV), der 1933 durch den Erlass der bayerischen Sparkassenordnung zu einer Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts wurde. 1997 erfolgte die Umbenennung in Sparkassenverband Bayern (SVB).

Sparkassen in Bayern
In Bayern gibt es 61 Sparkassen mit 2.626 Geschäftsstellen (davon 1.641 konventionelle Geschäftsstellen, 368 Beratungscenter und 617 SB-Geschäftsstellen) und 35.813 Mitarbeitern. Zum Verbund der Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe Bayern gehören außerdem u. a. die Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB), die Bayerische Landesbausparkasse (LBS Bayern) sowie die Versicherungskammer Bayern (VKB).
 Sparkasse Aichach-Schrobenhausen
 Sparkasse Allgäu
 Sparkasse Altötting-Mühldorf
 Sparkasse Amberg-Sulzbach
 Sparkasse Ansbach
 Sparkasse Aschaffenburg-Alzenau
 Stadtsparkasse Augsburg
 Sparkasse Bad Kissingen
 Sparkasse Bad Neustadt a. d. Saale
 Sparkasse Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen
 Sparkasse Bamberg
 Sparkasse Bayreuth
 Sparkasse Berchtesgadener Land
 Sparkasse im Landkreis Cham
 Sparkasse Coburg-Lichtenfels
 Sparkasse Dachau
 Sparkasse Deggendorf
 Sparkasse Dillingen-Nördlingen
 Sparkasse Donauwörth
 Kreis- und Stadtsparkasse Erding-Dorfen
 Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Erlangen Höchstadt Herzogenaurach
 Vereinigte Sparkassen Eschenbach i.d.OPf. Neustadt a.d.Waldnaab Vohenstrauß
 Sparkasse Forchheim
 Sparkasse Freising
 Sparkasse Freyung-Grafenau
 Sparkasse Fürstenfeldbruck
 Sparkasse Fürth
 Kreissparkasse Garmisch-Partenkirchen
 Sparkasse Günzburg-Krumbach
 Vereinigte Sparkassen Gunzenhausen
 Sparkasse Hochfranken
 Sparkasse Ingolstadt Eichstätt
 Kreis- und Stadtsparkasse Kaufbeuren
 Kreissparkasse Kelheim
 Sparkasse Kulmbach-Kronach
 Sparkasse Landsberg-Dießen
 Sparkasse Landshut
 Sparkasse Mainfranken Würzburg
 Kreissparkasse Miesbach-Tegernsee
 Sparkasse Miltenberg-Obernburg
 Sparkasse Mittelfranken-Süd
 Kreissparkasse München Starnberg Ebersberg
 Stadtsparkasse München
 Sparkasse Neuburg-Rain
 Sparkasse Neumarkt i. d. OPf.-Parsberg
 Sparkasse im Landkreis Neustadt a. d. Aisch - Bad Windsheim
 Sparkasse Neu-Ulm - Illertissen
 Sparkasse Niederbayern-Mitte
Sparkasse Nürnberg
 Sparkasse Oberland
 Sparkasse Oberpfalz Nord
 Sparkasse Passau
 Sparkasse Pfaffenhofen
 Sparkasse Regensburg
 Sparkasse Regen-Viechtach
 Sparkasse Rosenheim-Bad Aibling
 Sparkasse Rottal-Inn
 Sparkasse Schwaben-Bodensee
 Sparkasse im Landkreis Schwandorf
 Sparkasse Schweinfurt-Haßberge
 Kreissparkasse Traunstein-Trostberg
 Kreis- und Stadtsparkasse Wasserburg am Inn

Literatur
 Bayerischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband (Hrsg.): 1908–1983 Bayerischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband. Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, Stuttgart 1983.
 Christoph Gold: Gebietsreformbeeinflusste Fusionen bayerischer Sparkassen. Empirische Analyse betriebswirtschaftlicher Effekte. Diss. Göttingen 1997.
 Stephan Raum: Wirtschaftsordnung und Bankensystem. Die Geschäftspolitik der bayerischen Sparkassen und ihre Entwicklung zu Universalkreditinstituten (1900–1933). Kovač, Hamburg 2000 (= Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis, Bd. 112)
 Robert Schachner: Das bayerische Sparkassenwesen. Verlag A. Deichert, Erlangen und Leipzig 1900.
 Bodo Spiethoff: Ungewollt zur Größe. Die Geschichte der bayerischen Sparkassen. Verlag Max Schmidt & Söhne, München 1958.

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Einzelnachweise

Sparkassenverband
Organisation (München)
Finanzdienstleister (München)
Karolinenplatz
Gegründet 1919
Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts (Deutschland)


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We propose that a learner-centered environment (LCE) is particularly suitable for Earth System Science (ESS) learning due to the nature of the knowledge and research environment that characterizes the field. We show how the principal characteristics of LCE effectively provide learners with motivation and opportunity to understanding this complex area of scientific inquiry.
We describe a course that supports learning the science of global change and address the human aspects of global change through the development and negotiation of an international environmental agreement. Students play the roles of country representatives and participate in activities such as writings, class discussions, presentations and negotiations. Rubrics developed for each activity are used both to assess student learning and to communicate feedback to students about their work.
Our study suggests that the adoption of a LCE enhanced student learning of content and critical skills. The frequent student presentations were found to play a major role in student learning. The rubrics served as scaffolding for knowledge construction, helped students to self-assess and maintain their quality of work, and allowed instructors to provide quick and efficient feedback. The development of basic learner-centered tools and teaching practices will help ESS instructors provide learning environments most suitable for their discipline.
Student conceptual understanding and conceptual change is an active area of research in many science disciplines. In the geosciences, alternative conceptions held by students, particularly college students, are not well documented or understood. To further this body of research, students enrolled in introductory science courses at four institutions completed 265 open-ended questionnaires and participated in 105 interviews. Data were collected at a small private university, two large state schools, and one small public liberal arts college. Students were probed on a variety of topics related to the Earth's crust and interior, as well as geologic time. Analysis of questionnaire and interview responses indicates that students hold a number of non-scientific ideas about the Earth. Additionally, students apply a range of ontological categories to geologic phenomena, with significant implications for teaching geosciences from a systems perspective.
Supernova explosions are so enormous that their scale is difficult to imagine. Thought experiments and simple calculations involving the Sun going supernova can help with visualization. The energy flux would be roughly equivalent to having the entire earth's nuclear arsenal detonated a kilometer away, and would be sufficient to boil away the surface at hundreds of meters per second. Even on the temporarily protected night side, scattered light in the atmosphere and light reflected from interplanetary dust would far exceed normal sunlight, and radiation reflected from the moon would heat the earth to lethal temperatures if the moon were near full. The earth would take at most a few days to vaporize. Fortunately, the sun is not massive enough to become a supernova. Supernova explosions occur only in short lived stars, so that the melancholy science fiction theme of a civilization being incinerated by its own sun is very unlikely to happen in reality.
The Community Review System (CRS) of the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is intended to help educators seeking excellent and appropriate digital resources, and resource creators seeking recognition. The CRS gathers web-based feedback from educators and learners who have used DLESE educational resources, plus specialist reviews by science and pedagogy experts. This information is used to identify exemplary resources to be showcased in the DLESE Reviewed Collection. Detailed, but anonymous, feedback is provided to the resource creator to encourage improvement of the resource. To help potential users of the resource decide whether (and how) to use the resource, we also web-disseminate four kinds of aggregated information from the review process: Teaching Tips, recommendations about whether the resource is effective with specific learner populations, a graphic summary of the quantitative feedback from the community reviews, and an Editor's summary.
This note offers a new tool for indirect stream velocity estimation: the transparent velocity-head rod (TVHR). When compared to the commercially available Price-type AA current meter, the TVHR dramatically reduces the time necessary for each velocity measurement. The TVHR is simple to build, far less expensive than a high quality current meter, and typically precise within 5%. The TVHR is an outgrowth of the older tool of indirect velocity estimation known as the velocity-head rod (VHR). The VHR, although simple, contains measurement difficulties that make its use inaccurate and somewhat unwieldy. The TVHR is a simple construction of transparent plastic and hardwood meter sticks. It allows simultaneous measurement of upstream superelevated water and depressed downstream water elevation created when the rod is placed into flowing water. The difference between these water height measurements can be used to predict the depth-averaged flow velocity using a simple, physically-based equation empirically calibrated for this particular design. In a field environment the TVHR is rugged, lightweight, and simple enough to allow velocity measurements to be made very rapidly on site. In a classroom environment the TVHR can be used to teach physical energy concepts, calibration techniques, design, and sampling theory.
In 1950, J. P. Guilford, the President of the American Psychological Association, gave a speech often identified as initiating national interest in creativity in which he asked researchers to find the promise of creativity in our children and to investigate enhancement of the development of the creative personality. Fifty years later, Yager (2000) called for the knowledge accumulated during the ensuing years of inquiry to be applied to science education.
This article briefly explores different aspects of creativity, and then examines K-12 teachers' reactions to exercises applied to earth science concepts in a graduate creativity class. Different types of puzzle activities centering on geoscience content include a quiz game based on Odyssey of the Mind spontaneous problems, and other exercises related to embedded words, transformed cliches, remotely associated word sets, and wordsmithing. Teachers used visualization for an imaginary interview with a geoscientist, along with personal analogy of an earth science feature. As a culminating activity, teachers fashioned a geoscience curriculum material with a given set of items after using Productive Thinking (Schlichter and Palmer, 1993) to generate possible uses for each given material. Ideas for applying the activities to geoscience classes at various grade levels are included.
"Discovering Plate Boundaries" is a classroom exercise based on four world maps containing earthquake, volcano, topography, and seafloor age data. A novel aspect of the exercise is the "jigsaw" manner in which student groups access the maps and use them to discover, classify, and describe plate boundary types. The exercise takes three 50 minute class periods to complete and involves the students making presentations to one another in small groups and to the whole class. The students are first organized into four groups where they work together to become "specialists" in a particular data type. They are later reorganized into groups containing a specialist in each data type to study the boundaries of a particular tectonic plate. The exercise concludes with student presentations of their group work, followed by a presentation by the teacher and a group discussion.
The exercise is useful at a wide variety of levels because it is based only on observation and description. We have used it successfully with middle school, high school, and college major and non-major Earth science classes, as well as with pre-service and in-service K-12 teachers. The students come away fromthe exercise with knowledge of the key features of each type of plate boundary and a sense of why each looks the way it does. While the materials to conduct the exercise are available on the Internet (http://terra.rice.edu/plateboundary/), the actual exercise is not based on student access to the Web and does not require sophisticated classroom technology equipment.
This study investigates how using debate as a pedagogical tool for addressing earth system science concepts can promote active student learning, present a realistic and dynamic view of science, and provide a mechanism for integrating the scientific, political and social dimensions of global environmental change. Using global warming as an example of earth system science, we consider how participation in debate provides an avenue for engaging students in science. Our investigation draws from studies of school science focusing on the use of argument as a pedagogical tool and examines how students make use of observationally-based climatic data sets when debating the cause of global warming. We found that, when crafting their arguments, students used observational data sets in four ways: 1) to support their central argument; 2) to negate the central argument of the opposing side; 3) to present challenges to the opposing side; and 4) to raise new scientific questions. We also found that students also used climatic data sets when discussing the social and political dimensions of global warming.
To promote active learning and increase student involvement in their own knowledge construction, we have implemented the use of concept sketches, which are simplified sketches that are concisely annotated with processes, concepts, and interrelationships, in addition to labels of features. When concept sketches are instructor-generated, they help students see how we organize and explain our knowledge. Students can generate their own concept sketches after seeing animations, video clips, photographs, and detailed textbook-style illustrations. They can also generate concept sketches while reading their textbook or after participating in inquiry exercises and in-class demonstrations. By generating such sketches and explaining them to their peers, students necessarily process the information more fully, consolidate their understanding, and personalize the information to suit their learning styles. Concept sketches are also excellent for identifying student conceptions prior to instruction, for directing student study as homework, and for assessing student understanding in exams. Concept sketching engages students in the learning process, develops critical thinking skills, teaches communication skills, and makes the course more enjoyable. Abundant educational research indicates that such sketches promote better student comprehension of the system under study and permit students to better use this knowledge to investigate the underlying processes and principles.
This project is intended to replace some of the lectures that would ordinarily be necessary in a survey of Earth history over geologic time. The students will be taking the lecturer's place in front of the class, presenting some of the material to their colleagues. Students will work in groups on a single era or period. Each student role-plays an expert (such as an oceanographer) and works with teammates playing other sorts of experts (a biologist, a geologist, an atmospheric scientist). Their presentation will require them to do research. They will be constructing resource lists to keep track of how they learned what they are presenting and beginning a critical analysis of resources found on the World Wide Web. They will also write brief individual summaries of the findings within their area of expertise. While the students are researching and preparing their presentations, the instructor will start giving lectures on the earliest time units, modeling the kind of presentation that the students will be doing. Eventually, students will take the stage, presenting their time units in order. Rubrics for assessing the presentation and the resource list are included.
To improve our Petrology course, I have changed it from a lab-lecture format to one that emphasizes studio and cooperative learning. The goals of the changes are to: (1) improve student learning by covering (a smaller number of) topics in greater depth, (2) deemphasize knowledge-based learning and emphasize development of higher order thinking skills (comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation), and (3) help our students develop good habits of the mind and fundamental skills useful for lifelong learning.
The reformatted course requires that students take more responsibility for their learning. I and the teaching assistant act as mentors, guiding students as they carry out the learning process. Lab and lecture sessions are seamlessly combined. Formal lectures are short and rare. Instead, students do many group projects, studying complex problems in depth. The content covered in the semester is less than in a more traditional class but the learning is greater.
After one semester, a multipronged assessment reveals that students like the redesigned course and believe they learn more than in a traditional course. They report no major problems. I, too, have found the redesigned course to be a success. It met all of the initial goals, was successful in many other ways, and will lead to improvements in other classes and in our curricula.
Three sequential geomorphology labs introduce students to concepts of landform evolution, hypothesis testing, and grain-size analysis. Students combine qualitative observations with quantitative measurements from cutting-edge analytic equipment to critically evaluate their understanding of delta formation.
In the first lab, students predict graphically how a stream-table delta will develop through time, and hypothesize how and why sediment grain sizes change across and within the delta. Digital Web cameras provide remote viewing and a time-lapse MPEG video sequence of delta formation.
In the second lab, students compare the final landform with their original predictions of landform development. They sample delta topset, foreset, and bottomset beds for analysis on a laser particle-size analyzer to test their original hypotheses about grain-size distributions in the delta. Students operate the analyzer and produce grain-size distribution graphs of each sample. The graphs are posted to the course Web page, allowing students to compare visually the measured results to their Lab-1 predictions and to re-assess the processes of delta formation.
The third lab is a field trip to local stranded late-Pleistocene deltas. By comparing the sediments of natural deltas to the stream-table version, students report improved understanding of the similarities, as well as the differences, in formation of each. Student assessment of the labs indicates they feel improved understanding of and interest in landform development compared to more traditional lecture and field trip-based instruction on the topic.