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USDA Opens Application Portal for New ReConnect Rural Broadband Infrastructure Program
Weldon Freeman (202) 690-1384
Jay Fletcher (202) 690-0498
WASHINGTON, April 23, 2019 – Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is now accepting online applications for funding through the new ReConnect Rural Broadband Pilot Program. These funds will enable the federal government to partner with the private sector and rural communities to build modern broadband infrastructure in areas with insufficient internet service. Insufficient service is defined as connection speeds of less than 10 megabits per second download and 1 megabit per second upload. Beginning today, ReConnect funding applications can be submitted at reconnect.usda.gov.
"Reliable, high-speed broadband internet e-Connectivity is critical for economic prosperity and quality of life in the 21st century, from education to health care to agriculture to manufacturing and beyond," Secretary Perdue said. "We at USDA are very excited to begin accepting applications for funds from this new and innovative program, which will bring critical infrastructure investments to homes, farms, ranches, schools and health care sites in rural America."
Congress first appropriated funds for the new Rural e-Connectivity Pilot Program, known as ReConnect, in 2018. The program will be a proof-of-concept, enabling USDA to create and implement innovative options for rural connectivity by providing various financial packages to our customers.
In this first round of funding, USDA is making available at least $600 million in rural broadband projects, through $200 million in grants, $200 million in loan and grant combinations, and $200 million in low-interest loans. The application deadlines for each of these funding packages are as follows:
May 31, 2019, for projects seeking federal funds from the grants-only package;
June 21, 2019, for projects seeking a combination of federal loans and grants; and
July 12, 2019, for projects seeking low-interest federal loans.
This $600 million appropriation from Congress more than doubles federal funding available through USDA's longstanding broadband programs. Future rounds of funding for ReConnect will be announced later this year.
For additional information about the ReConnect program, see page 5981 of the February 25, 2019, Federal Register (PDF, 230 KB) and page 64315 of the Dec. 14, 2018, Federal Register (PDF, 286 KB).
In April 2017, President Donald J. Trump established the Interagency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity to identify legislative, regulatory and policy changes that could promote agriculture and prosperity in rural communities. In January 2018, Secretary Perdue presented the Task Force's findings to President Trump. These findings included 31 recommendations to align the federal government with state, local and tribal governments to take advantage of opportunities that exist in rural America. Increasing investments in rural infrastructure, including rural broadband infrastructure, is a cornerstone recommendation of the task force.
To view the report in its entirety, please view the Report to the President of the United States from the Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity (PDF, 5.4 MB). In addition, to view the categories of the recommendations, please view the Rural Prosperity infographic (PDF, 190 KB).
USDA Rural Development provides loans and grants to help expand economic opportunities and create jobs in rural areas. This assistance supports infrastructure improvements; business development; housing; community facilities such as schools, public safety and health care; and high-speed internet access in rural areas. For more information, visit www.rd.usda.gov.


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Rich Raffals – Coaching Bio
Since high school, Rich Raffals has been coaching people to build the competencies required to succeed. As valedictorian, Rich was afforded the opportunity to coach and tutor fellow students to master study skills and topics they felt were beyond them—everything from English Literature, Grammar and Poetry, to Analytical Geometry and Calculus. Not only did these students succeed, they also discovered abilities they didn't think they had, while learning how they best learn and to believe in themselves.
At the top of his class in engineering school, Case Western Reserve University paid Rich to coach and mentor fellow students. He also did similar paid work as a consultant in the campus computer labs. On a volunteer basis, however, Rich expanded beyond the academic into career coaching: self-assessment, résumé writing, job search, interviewing, and job offer negotiation. (He modeled mastery of these skills by securing competitively sought after internships at IBM as a sophomore, and at Texas Instruments as a junior. Upon graduation, during an extremely tight market, he landed a coveted position with a cutting-edge Silicon Valley company.)
After graduation, friends and colleagues continued to seek Rich out for assistance with their careers and life path. Over time, people have consulted him for coaching in ever more varied facets of life: relationships, career and cultural transitions, work/life balance, foreign travel/jobs, spiritual growth, stress management, emotional healing, Repetitive Strain Injuries, starting a business, traumatic experiences, parenting, surgery, loans & home purchase, financial planning, and more.
Again modeling what he coaches, Rich has made two successful career transitions, bought a house in Palo Alto, survived a RIF without missing a mortgage payment, traveled to 22 foreign countries, started his own successful business, built several successful communities, and enjoyed months of vacation per year.
To better understand himself, other cultures, his own culture, and how to best live life on this planet, Rich went to live in Spain, in the jungle with a tribe of Amazon natives, and in an ashram in India. In addition to many traditional self-assessment explorations, Rich fasted alone in the desert for 3 days during a "Vision Quest" to discover his life path, and has spent 10 continuous days in silent meditation to investigate the origins of human suffering, its opposite, and the true nature of reality. Rich has also done significant personal work in both individual and group therapy. Through this years-long journey to his authentic self and ideal life, a unique set of values, beliefs and spiritual practices have evolved which are serving him quite well. At times, Rich even gets accused by people of, "...having more fun than anyone I know and still always looking for ways to have more!" To which he replies, "Then, aren't I exactly the person you want as your personal coach?"
In short, Rich has journeyed within and around the world to learn "who he is" and "how to best live his life." He's applied what he's learned to coach hundreds of others to find their own answers to these questions and overcome whatever specific challenges they encounter along the way. It's not something he was taught. Rather, it is who he's always been, what he's always done, and what people have always come to him for—regardless of his official job title at the time.
Rich has augmented his special gift and innate talents with the highest quality professional training available. In addition to over a decade of non-professional coaching, Rich has many years of professional Co-Active Coaching experience, as taught by the International Coaching Federation-accredited Coaches Training Institute. He has also trained with Coach University, New Ventures West, CoachVille, and Thomas Leonard (founder of Coach University and CoachVille). Rich has worked with Laura Whitworth (co- founder of The Coaches Training Institute and author of Co-Active Coaching), to refine a next-generation leadership/coaching model called "The Bigger Game," and to co-author a book on the same.
Among his many other teachers, Rich counts each of his past, present & future clients. Also: Eckhart Tolle, Carolyn Myss, Carl Jung, S.N. Goenka, Challenge Day, Tim Corcoran, Byron Katie, Gil Fronsdal, Carl Rogers, Michael Harner, Outward Bound, Robert Bly, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Jack Kornfield, Viet Nguyen, James Redfield, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Peter Bigfoot, Dick Sutphen, Joseph Campbell, Dan Millman, M. Scott Peck, Adyashanti, Margaret Paul, Katherine Woodward-Thomas, and the indigenous Achuar and Shuar people of the Amazon rainforest.
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Hylton Family Endowed Scholarship Fund
Warren and Patty Hylton each have connections to Beckley College. Warren attended Mullens High School and Greenbrier Military Academy before enrolling at Beckley College. His classes took him on to Marshall University where he studied engineering and business management. Patty graduated from Shady Spring High School, attended Beckley College, and Bluefield State. She earned a master's degree from Marshall and then worked for 18 years at Beckley College. Tracy Warren Hylton II served in the Armored Calvary of the National Guard; learned about farming, hunting and fishing from his grandfather; and became involved in mining at an early age under the tutelage of his father, Tracy. He became active in politics including his father's state senate races. Warren established a number of mining and excavating companies and other business ventures based in Raleigh County. Understanding the importance of area young people having access to higher education close to home, the couple started a permanently endowed scholarship at MSU. With the closure of the MSU Foundation, they elected to move the fund to BAF where it will generate income for need/merit based scholarships for college qualified students residing within coal producing counties in southern WV. Recipients shall be students pursuing a degree at UC–Beckley.
Pursuing college degree at the University of Charleston-Beckley
College qualified students residing within coal producing counties in southern West Virginia (2012 counties were Boone, Fayette, Greenbrier, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mercer, Mingo, Nicholas, Raleigh, Wyoming)
Recipient must demonstrate academic promise and financial need
Apply: No application submission is required. Every new UC Beckley student will be reviewed for consideration for available BAF scholarships designated to this institution and according to each scholarship's specific criteria and student level of financial need.


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Changing Careers? 3 Reasons to Consider a Second Degree in Nursing
By: Vanessa Lane November 22, 2020
If you've been thinking about making a career change, here are three reasons why you should go back to school for nursing.
3 Reasons to Consider a Second Degree in Nursing:
1. Nursing blends critical thinking and communication.
Nurses are trained to think critically, and it's for good reason. They are required to balance information with interpersonal communication. Whether it's reviewing a care plan with a team member, or listening to the concerns of a patient, nurses rely on both information and emotional intelligence.
Concordia University's Second Degree BSN Program Director Dr. Sue Cole, Ph.D, RN, says that building relationships is the best part about being a nurse. She says, "Establishing trust and building caring relationships with people takes time, but it's my favorite part of the job. Developing relationships and interacting is so important."
Uncommon Nurses
Concordia University's mission is to prepare students for service to Christ and the world. You'll often hear and see the word "Uncommon" at Concordia, and being Uncommon is what sets us apart. In the midst of chaos, nurses have to dig deep to problem-solve with grace. Other times, nurses are celebrating with their patients and their families after a final round of radiation, or when a surgery is successful. These very human moments happen, but they're also making important decisions for the well-being of their patients. Nurses are constantly growing in their ability to look at a situation and determine the best course of action based on data and experience. It takes an Uncommon person to do all of that with empathy. Even on a slow day, there are plenty of opportunities to Live Uncommon as a nurse.
Current student Luther Himsel wanted more out of his career. When he shared what made him pursue nursing, he said, "I wanted to live out Jesus' greatest commandment, which is to love God and love your neighbor as yourself. When I thought about where I could do that, nursing made the most sense. The career appeals to me because part of the job is to show mercy to your neighbor. I [get to] be compassionate at work."
2. Nursing means getting paid to make a difference.
Nursing can be an appealing career choice because you can make a good living while helping others. Additionally, the job outlook for nurses is good. Back in 2017, AMN Healthcare surveyed a group of nurses, and 75% of them indicated that they planned to retire in the next three years.
Dr. Cole agrees with the trend, saying, "Nursing is a very in-demand profession right now. Lots of nurses are retiring early, due to COVID-19 and other reasons." Nursing World reports that by 2022, "there will be far more registered nurse jobs available than any other profession, at more than 100,000 per year."
While salary isn't the only motivation for pursuing a career, a poor salary can certainly be demotivating. If you're going to make a career change, it's wise to investigate realistic salaries for your context, just so you know what to expect. Nurse.org posted this blog that breaks down some of the terms around nursing salaries. While it's important to keep in mind cost-of-living, even the lowest-paying states' average salaries are competitive in nursing.
3. Nursing allows you to follow your dreams.
"One key advantage of nursing is that you can make lateral and upward moves," Cole says. If you want to specialize in something, you can focus on one area. If start in pediatrics, but then you want to pivot and move into critical care, that's available. Perhaps, you're inspired to work in community health. Do you have an adventurous spirit? Maybe you want to be a travel nurse. There are lots of opportunities to try new things.
Obviously, with certain pivots, there could be additional certifications and trainings required, but the options are still there. Many nurses discover that they want to grow as leaders and influence the healthcare system in that way. You can determine what you want to get out of your career and go for it.
So, what is the Second Degree BSN?
This program is an accelerated second bachelor's degree for students who already have an undergraduate degree but want to pursue a career in nursing. Most students complete this program in 14 months. Dr. Sue Cole not only has experience as a nurse, but she has over 25 years of experience in education, and she's passionate about teaching students who want to change careers.
The students in this program are considered "adult learners" and vary in age. Many of them have families and other responsibilities to manage. Graduates from this program end their coursework and graduate in April, as opposed to May, in order to prepare for the NCLEX.
Do you want to know more about taking the next step in pursuing a Second Degree BSN? Feel free to reach out to our Inquiry Support Specialist to book an appointment to chat about your goals.
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How to Travel The World by Organizing Retreats for Digital Nomads
by Ratri Arifin
in Digital Nomad Stories
Casey Rosengren is a 26-year-old entrepreneur who became a digital nomad by creating retreat programs for other digital nomads. He founded his company back in 2014 and has worked remotely out of ten different countries ever since.
Becoming a digital nomad was not something Casey had planned, so how did it happen?..
It all started with an empty hotel in Costa Rica.
The Digital Nomad Lifestyle Might Find You Where You Least Expect It
During his years as a business school student in Philadelphia, Casey founded a few different startups: a website that sold movie tickets at discounted rates, and an online furniture shop in Tokyo. In both cases, he was in charge of sales, marketing, logistics, and some web development. In order to focus on his startup ideas, Casey decided to put his studies on hold. However, after two years in the highly competitive startup environment, Casey knew he needed a change: "I was just feeling burnt out and decided that before jumping into the next business idea, I wanted to spend some time seeing the world and working on passion projects, before I buckled down to work hard on another 3-5 year project."
To sustain his travels, he started working as a freelance digital marketer and web developer. On a few occasions, he bartered his marketing skills for free hotel rooms: "Free accommodation in exchange for my services was a good way for me to build my portfolio and keep my travel expenses low. One time I was working with a hotel in Costa Rica to help them fill rooms in the off-season, and I pitched them on bringing a bunch of tech people down to do a 'retreat'. Since no one was doing anything like this at the time, we moved forward with the idea."
The same day Casey convinced his friend Alexey to come on board and together they came up with a three month-long retreat package that included accommodation, co-working space, entrepreneurship events, workshops and occasional talks with local techpreneurs – all within the hotel vicinity. For the first round of Hacker Paradise, they managed to find 30 participants by simply spreading the word to their friends and former colleagues in the startup industry.
After seeing how well it was received, the two guys decided to turn it into a proper business. They expanded their target market from purely tech people to designers, entrepreneurs and other creative types outside of the tech industry.
Creating a Great Product Might Be The Best Customer Acquisition Channel For Your Business
Most people are afraid of making mistakes, but Casey attributes a huge part of his success to his early startup failures: "A lot of the mistakes I made in my earlier startups were about me not communicating to customers, or taking too long to get the product into the market. But with that experience, I managed to set up a landing page for Hacker Paradise and start taking applications within a week. It also gave me a network of people to tap into to look for participants, a lot of whom became my very first customers."
Casey's company has now grown into a community of more than 400 members from over 30 countries around the world. He has expanded the retreats to dozens of destinations across the globe, such as Vietnam, Indonesia, Estonia, Spain, Japan and many others.
When it was just him and his co-founder, Casey spent a lot of time doing the small things like creating itineraries, community building, dealing with hotels and getting speakers on board. Fast forward to 4 years later, the company has grown much larger with two more facilitators on the team, which allows Casey to focus on growing the business.
When it comes to acquiring customers for Hacker Paradise, nothing beats word of mouth: "Our main customer engagement and acquisition strategy is all around just having a great product and providing a great experience. We work hard to make sure everyone feels connected and included in the community, and that they learn something or grow professionally in some way that they can take with themselves going forward. If we achieve that, the participants become our best marketing tool by talking about the retreat with all of their friends."
When I asked Casey how he made sure his retreats provided a great experience to his customers, he said Hacker Paradise stands out because of the strong sense of community participants get to build within the three months they live together. Activities like hackathons, demo nights, skill exchanges, and meet-ups with the members of the local tech scene help his customers enrich their knowledge in a supportive environment.
Separate The Desire For Travel And The Desire to Run a Business
When it comes to work, Casey is a firm believer that things are done better when done together. This is a principle that he instils on both his life and Hacker Paradise. He makes sure that there's a good balance of work and play in his life as it is essential in the digital nomad lifestyle: "A lot of my best ideas have come from random conversations over lunch with other smart, passionate people. Being surrounded with like-minded people can be super helpful when stuck on a business or tech problem as others might have more experience in that area can help you."
If you're looking to start your own business and working remotely from anywhere you like, Casey shared some of his most powerful tips:
Separate the desire for travel and the desire to run a business. If you just want to travel, save up some money and then go backpack, or get a job teaching English somewhere abroad;
Learn a skill like programming where there is high demand and a liquid freelancing market to support your travels;
Look for problems in your own life that you'd like to solve – there are opportunities all around if you just pay attention and become mindful of the inefficiencies of daily life.
Interested in Following Casey's Footsteps?
Check out these online courses to learn more about how to become a location independent entrepreneur, just like Casey:
Entrepreneurship 101;
Leadership, Management & Entrepreneurship;
Growth Hacking in Digital Marketing.
Casey also recommends these 3 books for you to read: Man's Search for Meaning, Give and Take, and Siddhartha.
To learn more about Casey's work, join a Hacker Paradise retreat or read his pieces on Medium.
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Thanks, man! 🙂
Really interesting journey … and I love the progress they've made .
Yes indeed! Hacker Paradise for the win haha 🙂
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Ratri has a pocketful of stories about her misadventures around the world as a digital nomad, but she prefers to share those that aren't her own. See what she's up to on her Instagram and blog.


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The University of Warwick has been chosen to host eleven of 2019's Leverhulme Early Career Fellows – just under ten per cent of the national total.
Early Career Fellowships are awarded to enable young researchers to undertake a research project, under the supervision of a Warwick academic mentor, which will lead to publishable results and help them get a foothold on the academic career ladder.
The Leverhulme Trust provides half of the funding for each fellowship; the remainder is provided by the University of Warwick.
The young researchers awarded Early Career Fellowships at Warwick are:-
• Dr Tobias Barker, Warwick Mathematics Institute. Dr Barker will tackle fundamental unsolved mathematical questions around the Navier-Stokes equations, which are widely used to model the motion of viscous fluid substances.
• Dr Hannah Boast, English and Comparative Literary Studies. Dr Boast will analyse literary works from countries experiencing water crisis to explore how literature registers or resists dominant ways of managing and imagining water, both reflecting the water crisis and imagining a way out of it.
• Dr Claudia Daniotti, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. Dr Daniotti will explore the depiction of women, including figures from ancient myth, history and the Old Testament, in French and Italian texts and images from c. 1350 to 1620. These women were often portrayed as defying traditionally assigned gender roles and Dr Daniotti's work will evaluate how this helped shape female identities between the medieval and early modern periods.
• Dr Minkyung Kang, Department of Chemistry. Dr Kang will investigate and help expand current understandings and viability of CO2 recycling through artificial photosynthesis, a technique which directly converts atmospheric CO2 to sustainable fuels and value-added chemicals - transforming light energy into chemical energy.
• Dr Katie Moffat, School of Theatre & Performance Studies and Cultural & Media Policy Studies. Dr Moffat will explore how the media industry has become one of the most important vehicles for articulating indigenous people's rights and interests, with a specific focus on the relationships between the Norwegian-based International Sámi Film Institute and other indigenous media organisations.
• Dr Imogen Peck, History. Dr Peck will undertake the first dedicated study of annotations inscribed in almanacs - annual publications listing events in the forthcoming year - in Britain and North America during the early modern period. The annotations include financial records, reinterpretations of historical events and local gossip, and their study will reframe how we understand ordinary citizens as participants in history.
• Dr Julia Perez, School of Theatre & Performance Studies and Cultural & Media Policy Studies. Dr Perez will undertake the first major study of the performative dimension of Anglo-American relations, combining archival research and performance analysis to expand the emerging interdisciplinary field of politics and performance research.
• Dr Bethany Rex, School of Theatre & Performance Studies and Cultural & Media Policy Studies. Dr Rex will investigate the how local authority museum services in England are changing following the introduction of austerity measures in 2010.
• Dr Shiwani Singh, Warwick Mathematics Institute. Dr Singh will use her Fellowship to develop an approximation-free and computationally efficient multi-scale modelling approach for polymer solutions.
• Dr Justin Tackett, English and Comparative Literary Studies. Dr Tackett's research will develop the first comprehensive poetics of silent film, focusing on the period from 1880 to 1930. Using digital analysis of title cards, scripts and patents, he will explore how everyday practices of reading, memorizing, and performing nineteenth-century poetry guided film's development.
• Dr Javier Moreno Zacarés, Politics and International Studies Department. Dr Zacarés will trace the impact of urbanisation, tenure structures, mortgage markets, and the Eurozone on the formation of housing bubbles in three European countries, contributing to the study of the political economy of housing.
Congratulating the eleven new Fellows, Professor Stuart Croft, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick, said: "It is inspiring to see the breadth and scope of these research projects – from the rights of indigenous people to the housing bubble via the water crisis and planetary warming, each of these topics fulfils our mission of creating research with impact and purpose which will help transform the way that we understand the world.
"I look forward to finding out more as each of these projects unfolds."
Professor Jackie Hodgson, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, (Arts, Social Sciences and Interdisciplinarity) said: "We are committed to interdisciplinary, curiosity-driven research that will engage with and help to solve global challenges. We cannot achieve this vision unless we attract the very best young researchers to work with us, and we look forward to seeing what our new Early Career Fellows achieve."
Professor Pam Thomas, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) added: "We are absolutely delighted that the Leverhulme Trust has made eleven awards to young academics who want to undertake innovative and transformative research here at Warwick. It is a testament to the University's commitment to supporting world-class researchers at every stage of their career."
The Leverhulme Trust was established by the Will of William Hesketh Lever, the founder of Lever Brothers. Since 1925 the Trust has provided grants and scholarships for research and education. Today, it is one of the largest all-subject providers of research funding in the UK, distributing approximately £80m a year.
For more information about the Trust, please visit www.leverhulme.ac.uk and follow the Trust on Twitter @LeverhulmeTrust
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Sambhav Nepal is a non-profit organization based in Nepal.

Background
Sambhav Nepal was founded by Prem Kumar Khatry in 2007. The organization mainly works for education, health and sanitation in underdeveloped villages of northern parts of Gorkha district, in western Nepal. The organization also facilitates volunteers at the villages. Also, the organization pays for education and living of some underprivileged children of those villages.

Main programs

Child Sponsorship
Sambhav Nepal currently sponsors 12 brilliant children coming from back warded families of villages like Aarupokhari, Manbu of Gorkha. It sponsors for their education, food, stationery, medical emergencies and other expenses in Gorkha and Kathmandu.

Voluntourism
Sambhav Nepal facilitates volunteers from different countries at the schools and local development activities of these villages. The volunteers are made available under a special program called Voluntourism, of a popular travel company in Kathmandu.

Other projects
Besides, Sambhav Nepal has earlier built a 5-stalled toilet in a local school of Aarupokhari. Also, it has made a community library at another school, which was inaugurated by Susan Grace, Australian Ambassador to Nepal. Sambhav Nepal has also worked on renovation of old schools in those areas.

Donors
Donors of Sambhav Nepal are from all around the world. Some of the countries the donors are from are: Switzerland, Australia, Canada, United States, Israel and Belgium. Ace the Himalaya also donates a part of its annual income to Sambhav Nepal's projects.

Partners and Supporters
Below are listed the partners and supporters of Sambhav Nepal:
Sambhav Nepal – Schweiz
Rotary Australia World Community Service
Australian Embassy of Nepal
The Rotary Club of Wahroonga, Australia
Rotary Club of Chatswood, Australia (supporter)
Pymble Public School, Australia
The Rotary Club of Mount Everest, Kathmandu, Nepal

See also
Voluntourism

References

External links
Official website
Facebook Page

Child-related organisations in Nepal
Charities based in Nepal
2007 establishments in Nepal

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Home - Vessel Efficiency News - China yard orders Wärtsilä propulsion package for chemical tankers
China yard orders Wärtsilä propulsion package for chemical tankers
Submitted by Editorial staff on 9th December 2013
Wärtsilä's propulsion packages include RT-flex50 2-stroke engines, controllable pitch propellers with a tunnel gearbox and shaft generator
Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group will build six chemical tankers integrated with propulsion equipment from Wärtsilä
Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group in China has contracted Wärtsilä to supply complete main propulsion systems for six new chemical tankers the yard is building.
Wärtsilä's propulsion packages include RT-flex50 2-stroke engines, controllable pitch propellers with a tunnel gearbox and shaft generator, and oily water separators.
The Finnish-headquartered company said that it can ensure efficient integration of the various systems because it is the sole supplier of entire propulsion package.
"The owners and the yard have specified the highest possible efficiency to keep fuel costs down with the lowest possible pressure pulses to safeguard a high comfort level on board for the crew, and Wärtsilä has consistently demonstrated its ability to meet this demand," said Aaron Bresnahan, vice president Sales, Wärtsilä Ship Power.
Wärtsilä said in a statement that the risks of costly building delays caused by multi-supplier deliveries can also be avoided with complete propulsion packages provided by a single supplier.
The six chemical tankers are being built at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group yard in China on behalf of Stolt Tankers B.V., the operator of one of the world's largest chemical tanker fleets and a unit of Stolt-Nielsen Limited.
"These ships have been designed to deliver substantial improvements in fuel efficiency, and are expected to consume significantly less fuel compared with existing parcel tankers," said Niels G. Stolt-Nielsen, CEO of Stolt-Nielsen Limited.
Each of the tankers will be 185 meters in length, with a 32.26m beam and will have 43 stainless steel tanks with a total volume of 44,000 cubic meters. The ships will have IMO I, II and III capabilities and will be able to handle the full range of difficult-to-handle cargoes that Stolt Tankers carries.
Wärtsilä will begin deliveries of the equipment in summer 2014. The first of the new 38,000 deadweight ton (dwt) tankers is expected to be delivered in December 2015.
An option for a further two vessels at Hudong-Zhonghua exists.
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academia, bioengineering, biotechnology, governor, Puerto Rico, resignation, Ricardo Rosselló Nevares
Conversation with Dr. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares on Ph.D. in Bioengineering, Science, Being the Governor of Puerto Rico (2017-2019), and Resignation and Lessons Learned: Former Governor, Puerto Rico (2)
Interviewer: Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Numbering: Issue 26.A, Idea: Outliers & Outsiders (21)
Place of Publication: Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Title: In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal
Web Domain: http://www.in-sightjournal.com
Individual Publication Date: March 15, 2021
Issue Publication Date: May 1, 2021
Name of Publisher: In-Sight Publishing
Frequency: Three Times Per Year
Words: 2,522
Ricardo Rosselló Nevares holds a PhD in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering with a concentration in Developmental Economics. Rosselló continued his academic studies at the University of Michigan, where he completed a master's degree and a PhD in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. After finalizing his doctoral studies, he completed post-doctoral studies in neuroscience at Duke University, in North Carolina, where he also served as an investigator. Dr. Rossello was a tenure track assistant professor for the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus and Metropolitan University, teaching courses in medicine, immunology, and biochemistry. Dr. Rossello's scientific background and training also makes him an expert in important developing areas such as genetic manipulation and engineering, stem cells, viral manipulation, cancer, tissue engineering and smart materials. He discusses: moving past a Ph.D. into becoming governor of Puerto Rico and resigning from the position.
Keywords: academia, bioengineering, biotechnology, governor, Puerto Rico, resignation, Ricardo Rosselló Nevares.
*Please see the footnotes, bibliography, and citation style listing after the interview.*
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, you finished your education, you are away from your parents, you get your Ph.D. in bioengineering. Most people think, "Okay, this is a great capstone. I can get going with a straight tenure track job, do some research, and coast into retirement." More things have happened!
Dr. Ricardo Rosselló[1],[2]*: Yes.
Jacobsen: What is the thought process following from the Ph.D.? Because these are the highest levels of education attainment that any national system provides. So, what was the thinking for you, once that was accomplished?
Rosselló: I love science. Although, I struggle: There's this strict analytical side and then this emerging observational type of new complexity being observed. I enjoy both of them. I think they are at odds at some points. I'd say: when I was done with my Ph.D., I though that I wanted to continue an academic career – just move forward.
Then I stumbled upon this idea right after my Ph.D. to try a startup. It was very exciting. I must admit. It was new for me. Ultimately, it was not successful. I think the idea was fairly good at the time. Now, you can get all this information without that.
It was a way of extracting more information out of public opinion polling being had at that time. I stayed. I gave myself a year to try that. It didn't quite work. I sold my part in the company. I sort of need to reconnect with the pure science part of it.
I went to Duke to do a post-doc and get some grants, and practice before I applied to an academic position. Focusing on bioengineering principles, I focused on neuroscience, particularly this phenomena of the vocal learning pathway.
To this, it shows the beauty that I was speaking about before. There are all these connections. There's even an explanation for evolution, and so forth, but there are some traits that skip some phylogeny. Vocal learning is one of them.
To briefly define it, not to make it about this, though, I find it interesting. Humans are vocal learning. Someone tells us something often enough; eventually, you'll spit it out. Our closest relatives are not. If you go back, bats are vocal learners. Whales are vocal learners. Songbirds are vocal learners. But close phylogeny to them are not vocal learners.
So, how did this property from really similar brains evolve? There's many theories. We were looking into them a lot. It is this concept of emergence. Evolution keeps tinkering, tinkering, tinkering, and then all of the sudden finds a way. Vocal learning was a very interesting stepping stone for me to comprehend all of this.
Because I don't think I'll ever be able to tap into this question. Obviously, to keep the curiosity juices flowing, the concept of consciousness is really the most complex version of these complexities that emerge. I did that for a while. I was in the States all throughout.
I finished it. I went and applied for an academic position in Puerto Rico. I got it. There's another parallel track, which is s thing that impassions me. It is the civil rights situation in Puerto Rico. Basically, to reduce it crudely, we are a part of the United States, but not an equal part.
We are a colonial territory. I was passionately linked to that. My family was linked to that. Up until that point, I was really engaged in politics whatsoever, but that issue in particular, to this day, sparks emotion and passion.
So when I got to Puerto Rico, naturally, worlds collide, I start getting involved in this question of how Puerto Rico, from our view, can become a state. My preferred solution is Puerto Rico becoming a state. The tough solution would be becoming something different that what we are not.
Ultimately, we have a say in what happens to the people of Puerto Rico. Then, as I got involved in it, I started seeing all the problems in the island. I started looking around at political cycles. My brain, using my scientific preparation, started seeing that really every political cycle that came and went; there were these promises. The promises were, essentially, the same, even from opposite ends of the political spectrum. For instance, everyone wants a better economy and everyone wants a better education.
The devil is in the details on how it goes. But based on how limited the public discussion is, you could argue there are more ways to get that, but you could argue there are more inaccuracies. Seeing that, unless, we broke with that way of doing things.
Things were going to be the same. Using Einstein's old adage, 'Madness is defined by people who do the same experiments and expect different results.' Not thinking about jumping into politics, I said, "What seems to me, there are complex problems in Puerto Rico. Nobody is touching them."
If I veer off, take a hold of me, I will try to come back. In the case of Puerto Rico, it had a fiscal and economic collapse. That not only wasn't like anything seen, barring Greece, in the world. It is a precautionary tale for countries moving forward and states if we're looking at the United States.
It is complex. It is not just going to be saved by the moxy of somebody saying, "We need more jobs. I'm going to create more jobs." We really need to dig in deep and question, "How are we going to do this?"
I said, "Let me set up a framework, so whoever runs can buy into it." The framework was as follows. Let's start preparing a long-term plan for Puerto Rico, that's based on a 4-year path identifying the root cause problems.
People say, "The economy is a problem." Sure, but what is the root of the problem? It is a symptom of other things occurring. Let's land on these root problems, the second one was: Let's see if we can go elsewhere, once we identify those problems, in the world, and see what are the best practices.
Even though, the idiosyncratic behaviour is different in the government structures. We can learn something from it, at the principle levee. Some of the guys and girls, and I, went to different countries. We went to Singapore, for example.
There, we studied a few something. Something called the T Government. What is called Urban Redevelopment Authority, which is really cool, we're talking about how everywhere else infrastructure is falling down.
In Singapore, those guys solved it. They solved it 50 years ago. It is a long-term problem. You need long-term institutions to solve that, not those that change on the whims of politics every four years.
We went to Estonia to see, at the time, e-government. They were at the forefront at the time. We went to Finland to seen the education system to get best practices. We decided to do something, which was the turning point for me in running for office.
It was civic engagement. We went. The idea was: Let's present what we think are the root-cause problems, and how they connect to what they feel everyday, let's present what some other places are doing to tackle those problems, and let's, maybe, present what we can do in Puerto Rico to see if it fits or not.
It was more a call for papers saying, "Hey, look at these things. Why don't you help us find proposals for the island?" We did. I think it was very successful. At that point, when I decided to really go ahead and run for office, I was running against a guy who was a two-time congressman incumbent, clearly the leader of the party.
But I said, the crystallization moment, "I think this is a critical moment in the history of Puerto Rico. I think there are a lot of things that need to be done. A lot of those things may be hard to explain. But they need to do anyways."
I don't think anybody else will buy into this plan for Puerto Rico that we were doing. Long story short, I, through the moxy of that and engaging citizens, was able to squeak out a victory in the primaries by about 2%. I was able to squeak out a victory in the general election by about the same margin.
So, but what I had, which nobody else did before, was a great starting point to start executing reforms, I made everybody in our party sign a document saying that they would support the reforms. Otherwise, they would be kicked out of the party.
The problem: Not a lot of people read them, but they signed them because it was the thing to do. The first part of the administration, we were successful in enacting reform. We were able to push forward some external entities that have said that we were able to do more reform in 100 days than the previous 16 years combined.
It was, essentially, because we had the willpower before rather than arriving over there and starting to figure out what we wanted to do. It started moving along under the most challenging of circumstances. Puerto Rico, at that point, had a little under $300,000,000 in the bank. To give a sense that pays for two payrolls, for about a month's worth of payrolls in Puerto Rico.
We have to figure out how get more money. We have to figure out how to kickstart the economy. At the same time, with our colonial history with the United States, six months before my administration; there was a fiscal oversight board, which was imposed in Puerto Rico.
So, lots of haggling, lots get done, by the end of Summer, as we were moving along, a black swan or a black elephant event occurs. We get struck, by not one but, two major hurricanes in Puerto Rico.
The first one was September 6, 2017. It was Hurricane Irma. We were able to bounce back quickly from that one. We were able to rescue 5,000 people from the neighbouring islands to give them support, help, and so forth.
The next was Hurricane Maria, which was, by all accounts, a 500- or 1,000-year storm. The strength of it, breadth of it, the complete devastation that it cost. It really set us back. As this thing was unfolding, I felt I had to work on three parallel tracks.
One, the immediate response, people were going to be dying, struggling for their lives. How do we stabilize that element? How could we provide food? How could we provide all these things? That lasted about 2 months, that period.
A typical storm lasts, maybe, a day. For us, it lasted two days. We had no electricity in any parts of the island. No way to communicate with anybody. Roads were clogged or broken down. Different to if this occurs in Vancouver or in Florida, neighbouring parts can come to the aid.
Neighbouring parts were disconnected by a sea. So, it took longer for them to get to Puerto Rico. That was the first phase. The second phase: How do we restore normalcy or a new normal? How do we recover from it?
That meant: When do we start schools? When does everybody have electricity again? The third phase, in my mind, the most exciting phase: the rebuild, how do we take this awful act of nature and try to turn it into something that we can build from?
The truth of matter is we now, or then, have the opportunity to rebuild effectively, to get a lot of federal funds more than ever, and redo our energy grid, redo our education system. That happened when we were getting to the normalization phase.
We went through a second phase of fundamental reforms on energy, on insurance, on poverty, on education, and so forth, to leverage the rebuilding and embed it into this new opportunity. I saw Puerto Rico. Some might find it crude. But we have a blank canvas now.
Pace-wise, instead of building Puerto Rico little by little, we can take a fell swoop at things and fix them. As things are moving forward, we're stabilizing, reducing the size of government, making some social reform changes.
We abolished – or I had to abolish – conversion therapies in Puerto Rico because the Congress didn't want to do it. So, I had to do it via executive order. We made equal pay for equal work for women. A lot was happening at the same time.
There was a sort of under-layer of resent and anger for, maybe, things I did, but also because of the environment. Some people didn't have energy for a year. That's just ludicrous to think about in the 21st-century.
That was the situation through it all. With the impetus of trying to do reforms, I think I created a lot of enemies. I did an energy reform that would shift energy towards renewables. The petroleum companies were not too happy. Let's put it that way.
Jacobsen: [Laughing].
Rosselló: Similar to a lot of things, coming through to the Summer of '19, some communications that I had with my government officials, close government officials, had inappropriate language. Of course, I regret using it.
Filtered out, all of the sudden, there was this perfect storm of things happening. Two months before, polls came out saying I would, essentially, win fairly easily if there was a re-election. Two months later, I had to take the determination to resign because of two things.
Number one, I was concerned about the safety of my family because there is a lot of emotion. I don't blame anyone. It is just what happens. I realized, even if I stayed, I couldn't do what I was supposed to do.
I did not have the wherewithal to execute the changes that I wanted to. So, if I stayed, I was, essentially, holding the island hostage for two more years. When push came to shove, obviously, after that, there were very unflattering things.
Obviously, part of my effort is correcting some of the record that were said. I made the decision, stayed about a week after – or 10 days approximately – to make the transition to give the opportunity for Puerto Rico to move forward.
Since then, I have stayed away. My mentality, I wanted to removed myself from the equation. Challenges still remain. Hopefully, things can move forward. It has been an interesting life. Obviously, during this process, I've reconnected, somewhat, with academia as well – doing some other things.
One of the things that I want to do based on my experience: share those experiences and tackle some of the mistakes I made, so other people can learn from them. Hopefully, Puerto Rico can be a cautionary tale for other jurisdictions of how these things unravel very quickly if you're not paying attention to them.
That's a longwinded – sorry if I overextended – account of what happened. There's many other ways to spiral this. Of course, I will answer any questions coming to mind. That's, essentially, an overview of what went along.
Appendix I: Footnotes
[1] Former Governor, Puerto Rico.
[2] Individual Publication Date: March 15, 2021: http://www.in-sightjournal.com/rossello-2; Full Issue Publication Date: May 1, 2021: https://in-sightjournal.com/insight-issues/.
*High range testing (HRT) should be taken with honest skepticism grounded in the limited empirical development of the field at present, even in spite of honest and sincere efforts. If a higher general intelligence score, then the greater the variability in, and margin of error in, the general intelligence scores because of the greater rarity in the population.
Appendix II: Citation Style Listing
American Medical Association (AMA): Jacobsen S. Conversation with Dr. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares on Ph.D. in Bioengineering, Science, Being the Governor of Puerto Rico (2017-2019), and Resignation and Lessons Learned: Former Governor, Puerto Rico (2) [Online]. March 2021; 26(A). Available from: http://www.in-sightjournal.com/rossello-2.
American Psychological Association (APA, 6th Edition, 2010): Jacobsen, S.D. (2021, March 15). Conversation with Dr. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares on Ph.D. in Bioengineering, Science, Being the Governor of Puerto Rico (2017-2019), and Resignation and Lessons Learned: Former Governor, Puerto Rico (2). Retrieved from http://www.in-sightjournal.com/rossello-2.
Brazilian National Standards (ABNT): JACOBSEN, S. Conversation with Dr. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares on Ph.D. in Bioengineering, Science, Being the Governor of Puerto Rico (2017-2019), and Resignation and Lessons Learned: Former Governor, Puerto Rico (2). In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal. 26.A, March. 2021. <http://www.in-sightjournal.com/rossello-2>.
Chicago/Turabian, Author-Date (16th Edition): Jacobsen, Scott. 2021. Conversation with Dr. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares on Ph.D. in Bioengineering, Science, Being the Governor of Puerto Rico (2017-2019), and Resignation and Lessons Learned: Former Governor, Puerto Rico (2)." In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal. 26.A. http://www.in-sightjournal.com/rossello-2.
Chicago/Turabian, Humanities (16th Edition): Jacobsen, Scott "Conversation with Dr. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares on Ph.D. in Bioengineering, Science, Being the Governor of Puerto Rico (2017-2019), and Resignation and Lessons Learned: Former Governor, Puerto Rico (2)." In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal. 26.A (March 2021). http://www.in-sightjournal.com/rossello-2.
Harvard: Jacobsen, S. 2021, 'Conversation with Dr. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares on Ph.D. in Bioengineering, Science, Being the Governor of Puerto Rico (2017-2019), and Resignation and Lessons Learned: Former Governor, Puerto Rico (2)', In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal, vol. 26.A. Available from: <http://www.in-sightjournal.com/rossello-2>.
Harvard, Australian: Jacobsen, S. 2021, 'Conversation with Dr. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares on Ph.D. in Bioengineering, Science, Being the Governor of Puerto Rico (2017-2019), and Resignation and Lessons Learned: Former Governor, Puerto Rico (2)', In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal, vol. 26.A., http://www.in-sightjournal.com/rossello-2.
Modern Language Association (MLA, 7th Edition, 2009): Scott D. Jacobsen. "Conversation with Dr. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares on Ph.D. in Bioengineering, Science, Being the Governor of Puerto Rico (2017-2019), and Resignation and Lessons Learned: Former Governor, Puerto Rico (2)." In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal 26.A (2021): March. 2021. Web. <http://www.in-sightjournal.com/rossello-2>.
Vancouver/ICMJE: Jacobsen S. Conversation with Dr. Ricardo Rosselló Nevares on Ph.D. in Bioengineering, Science, Being the Governor of Puerto Rico (2017-2019), and Resignation and Lessons Learned: Former Governor, Puerto Rico (2) [Internet]. (2021, March 26(A). Available from: http://www.in-sightjournal.com/rossello-2.
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But some go further, actually installing adware, lacking privacy policies, and stealing each others databases. What, youre surprised?
In the meantime, the actual adware out there (when we say spyware, we mostly mean adware; the two terms have come to be intertwined for reasons which arent entirely logical) has become more aggressive, utilizing vulnerabilities in Windows to install themselves.
The adware industry, which showed up at the workshop, makes all manner of lame excuses for itself, blaming, among others, users for not being more savvy about these things and not reading the lengthy license agreements in which the companies often state that they will install other software when and how they please.
I think its fair to say that other forms of threats and malware, for the most part, are in retreat.
Users who want to can protect themselves in almost all cases automatically and unobtrusively.
But adware is growing as a threat, and adware vendors are getting more aggressive.
They even have the temerity to attempt to silence their critics, as Ben Edelman has documented in his "Threats Against Spyware Detectors, Removers, and Critics" page.
Some have succeeded in bullying anti-spyware companies into removing signatures.
Howes is most distressed at the attempt by adware vendors to distance themselves from the act of infecting the system by using third-party "pay-per-install" affiliate networks to attach the programs to other applications.
Its not hard to see how theyll get away with this by using legal intimidation and obfuscation.
There is good news, although I have to feel that Ill defer my optimism until its clearly warranted.
Windows XP SP2 has many new features that make illicit installations of programs more difficult—but not at all impossible.
Good anti-spyware products are emerging, even from companies, such as Microsoft, that are difficult to bully, and the anti-virus industry is finally awakening to the notion that it should be blocking threats like these. (Its about time.)
ISPs are also beginning to provide software to protect users.
Howes is encouraged at some legal developments, but this worries me also.
Id rather see the federal government go after miscreant adware vendors than either state attorneys general or the plaintiffs bar.
Since the feds dont seem inclined to go after the problem, even though they claim they have the legal authority to do so, Ill stick with my downcast attitude.
As long as there are teenagers, it seems computers will get infected with adware.
Security Center Editor Larry Seltzer has worked in and written about the computer industry since 1983.
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Q: Pooling data from n groups with different means and variances; finding the standard deviation I want to pool data from different samples, each with a different mean, standard deviation and n. I don't have the original data, only these three parameters.I'm sure they can be pooled because they belong to the same population (but with different time sampling) and that they are non-overlapping.
Figuring out the mean is simple, but I'm having problems with the standard deviation.
Most links on this forum provide answers for finding mean and variance of POPULATIONS but I would like the formula for SAMPLE-based statistics, so with denominator n-1.
For this I found Wikipedia Sample-based statistics. I believe I can reduce the formula for the standard deviation of non overlapping populations to the one given in Wikipedia Pooled Variance, except for the denominator! The denominator for the first one is $(\sum_{i=1}^k n_i) - 1$ while for the second is $\sum_{i=1}^k n_i-1$, which gives an entire different result, with the first giving me lower results. Perhaps this is because on the second formula it is assumed that "the variance of each population is the same", but I would like to understand it mathematically to know which is correct.
(Also, my n are two small to assume normality of samples)

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Q: PHP inheritance question, freaking me out Got a question that is freaking me out. Do parent constructors constructs itself without being called?
Cause Im seeing it working on a situation and not on the script Im writing.
I got the following:
boot.php
$this->router = new router($param);

router.php
class router extends routerController

*

*on the class router I don't have any __construct.

routercontroller.php
class routerController{
    function __construct($param){
        $this->param = $param;
    }

*

*if I add a __construct to the class router the __construct from the extended class routerController is not executed. So, it seems on this case the constructor is being constructed without a parent::_construct.

On the same script I got inside the routerController class.
$this->newclass = newclass($this->param);

newClass extends someClass. For some reason the someClass constructor is not instantiated if I don't call it from the newClass using parent::__construct($param).
I already spent hours reviewing all the code and can't find what Im doing wrong. Why in the first case the parent constructor is instantiated without being called and on the second case not?
Is this a bug? Any idea what I am doing wrong?

A: In PHP parent constructors aren't called implicitly.
Source: http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.decon.php


I don't think they will be responding. As mentioned pretty much are directly above your post, they can't really comment or reassure without the approval of lawyers, and there's no way the lawyers would approve it. But, as with many of the others, I don't think it will be an issue.
@MaximumThrust I suggest using something like Dropbox or OneDrive. I've posted a number of log files in these forums, and it seems the easiest method. :-) @navot I only started using this mod today, but I wanted to say that I love it. I've been waiting a long time for something like this. I'll keep an eye out for any bugs I can find.
I'm not a mod developer, just a player who enjoys using them. (In fact, I really physically wouldn't be able to play without some of them, like MechJeb or TCA.) My hope is that the language around custom content was written to cover missions made in the new mission creator, perhaps using something like Steam Workshop, and not the mods we currently use. I don't have much faith in that, though.
I'm on 4.7 of .NET framework, and I'm having the problem. Is there a configuration or something I have to activate? (I've done the 'ckan update' route, with no luck.) Edit: Yeah, I realized right after I clicked send I should report to the GitHub issue.
It's funny, I'm just coming back to KSP and starting to build my 1.3 install since my 1.2 version is getting buggy. I thought to myself that I'd skip kw this time. I've used it every other time I've played (except, back when I started, I used NovaPunch), but I always felt I needed to use it almost exclusively in my rocket building because of the very efficient early tanks. Nothing else could really compare. I wanted to force myself to use more of a variety of rocket parts. So, this time, I thought I'd go without it. Only to find, as I scanned through my ckan, that there was a new rebalanced version! I'm very happy to see this, as I do love many of the kw parts.
Thank you. :-) I used the command line update.
Yeah, just started having this problem too.
Thanks for the answer, and the link! Unfortunately, logging in didn't help, so I guess I'll have to keep trying (via browser, for now) at different times during the day to hopefully find a time that it isn't being throttled.
Hello! First of all: this doesn't have to do with the mod in particular, I'm just hoping someone in this thread might have run into the same problem and knows a solution. I've started playing KSP again after a long absence, but my old 1.2 save isn't working like it used to, so I've been thinking of starting a new save. However, I have run into problems downloading large mods (GPP most notably, but others too) from GitHub. Any mods more than 20mb seems to fail downloading most of the time (and all the time over 100mb), dropping to 0 b/s and then giving a network error. This happens in both chrome and CKAN, and as I dictated this I tested in Microsoft Edge and that failed as well. Does anybody know what might be wrong?


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Q: Does bulk collect affect multiple sesssions? I have a piece of code that uses tables as well as PL/SQL tables and collections.
This piece of code runs for multiple sessions (multiple companies in our business terms)
 create or replace TYPE TY_REC FORCE IS OBJECT
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 create or replace TYPE  TY_TAB  AS TABLE OF TY_REC ;

  v_tab_nt.DELETE;
  FETCH v_tab_cur BULK COLLECT INTO  v_tab_nt;
  CLOSE v_tab_cur ;

  FOR i IN v_tab_nt.FIRST..v_tab_nt.LAST
     LOOP
       :
       :
          insert into xyz table --this table is present in multiple schema's
     END LOOP;

This is working fine in my dev enviornment ,but today's in productions i can see v_tab_cur is fetching data from schema1 and inserting data into xyz table of schema2,which looks strange to be ,the amount of data is huge.
Can anyone make a guess of what is wrong with the bulk collect.


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Internet Discrimination Is a 'Feature,' not a Problem, Says FCC Chief
The Federal Communications Commission votes next week on whether to undo net neutrality. The rules help protect consumers in uncompetitive markets, so rural America has a lot at stake.
by Craig Settles December 7, 2017 January 29, 2020
The concept of "net neutrality" has been around for years. But we've heard more about it in the last few months than we did in the preceding decade.
There's a reason: On Thursday, December 14, the Federal Communications Commission will vote on a proposal to abolish net neutrality. People who care about rural America's access to services and information should be concerned.
Net neutrality is the concept that web pages, MP3s, movies, or any other data should be able to go from any internet location to any other location without favorable or unfavorable discrimination. It prevents service providers like Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast from "speeding up, slowing down or blocking any content, applications or websites you want to use."
In 2015 the FCC enacted rules to ensure that internet companies couldn't discriminate against certain content or customers. The new chairman of the FCC wants to undo those rules.
Let's look at how we got here and what's at stake for rural residents.
From Competition to Monopoly
In the 90s, residential end users got the Internet delivered in two parts: the telephone service, which most residents had, and multiple Internet providers (ISPs) such as America Online (AOL) or Compuserve.
At the time, it was a truly competitive market because end-users could easily switch between internet service providers easily (though the phone companies, not so much). However, between 1995 and 2005, there was a lot of consolidation, significantly narrowing the choices for consumers and smaller businesses. Then the largest companies started bundling internet access with their other services like telephone and cable TV. This led to even larger companies with more market share and more cash.
Technically these companies have competitors, with at least one telephone and one cable company in most markets. But it's different in practice.
"In reality, when you talk about solid competitors, there are none against Verizon, Comcast or the other large telcos or cablecos," says, Anne Schwieger, broadband and digital equity advocate for the City of Boston. 'These companies rarely go into each other's territory."
The marketplace doesn't work well without competition. In the early 2000s, FCC Chairman Michael Powell, a George W. Bush appointee, advocated for more private-sector competition. He said companies should protect what he called the "Four Freedoms Network Neutrality." Here's what he said:
"As we continue to promote competition among high-speed platforms, we must preserve the freedom of use broadband consumers have come to expect," Powell said. "Thus, I challenge the broadband network industry to preserve the following 'Internet Freedoms."
consumers should have access to their choice of legal content;
consumers should be able to run applications of their choice;
consumers should be permitted to attach any devices they choose to the connection in their homes; and
consumers should receive meaningful information regarding their service plans.
In 2005, the FCC incorporated these principles into a Broadband Policy Statement, but the DC Court declared that the FCC lacked authority to enforce them.
Sure enough, lack of competition led the private sector to ignore these principles, so the FCC began to step in to uphold them. In 2015 under Chairman Tom Wheeler, the FCC classified broadband providers as a Title II service, meaning the FCC could regulate them like it does old-fashioned phone lines. Under this authority, the FCC protected the Four Freedoms of Network Neutrality.
Now Chairman Pai wants to get rid of those protections.
Without net neutrality rules, consumers and the federal government have no way to prevent internet service providers from doing bad things to consumers until after the fact. And because there are no rules, how do you get providers to stop doing bad things to consumers and businesses?
The stakes are higher for rural internet users, because rural areas have even less choice in internet service providers than urban residents do.
An Example: Telehealth
Let's focus on telehealth to see what could happen in the real world if Chairman Pai has his way. Telehealth is an emerging service that has a lot of promise for delivering better healthcare to rural America. The development of this field depends on net neutrality.
"Today, telemedicine applications are built for an internet that does not distinguish based on the type of traffic or origin of the traffic," says Harold Feld, senior vice president for Public Knowledge, a Washington D.C. nonprofit. "There's no advantage using one vendor over another in terms of internet connection. It makes no difference."
But without net neutrality rules, broadband providers can set their own rules for paid prioritization (or "fast lanes"). They can create different pricing tiers or other forms of differentiated treatment for the services and content that happens to run over their network. They could cut a deal with one telehealth service to put their data in the fast lane and the competition's in the slow lane. That puts the internet service provider in the role of helping determine where you get your medical treatment. Or it might mean consumers have to pay more to get "priority" (or faster) access to telehealth services.
The consequences "Priority Internet"
Priority internet service will work the same way "priority" boarding works on airlines. Airlines make boarding an airliner easier for some passengers than others so they charge you extra fees. With a premium price, you can board the aircraft early, before the overhead bins fill up. Or you can select a seat with more legroom. That's how it will work with internet prioritization. Consumers and businesses will pay more to get to information more quickly than others or with less hassle.
Internet service providers actually hold up prioritization of telemedicine as a "benefit" of repealing net neutrality. But it's likely to be better only for the company or consumers who pay extra for it. That creates winners and losers for a service that's meant to be accessible to everyone, the same way we all are supposed to get equal service for home phones or electricity.
Pai states that this "feature" of speed discrimination will allow providers to "innovate and distinguish themselves in the market." That's corporate-speak for saying incumbents will charge more and make standardization harder, which will likely result in computing devices costing more, too.
"The draft FCC Order makes it clear that the FCC thinks these are precisely the kinds of 'market negotiations' that we should be seeing," says Feld. "That the regulations adopted by the government in 2015 to stop abuses from happening are 'heavy handed public utility regulation' that 'crushes innovation and reduces investment.'"
The end of net neutrality could also allow internet service providers to make their systems incompatible with other providers' devices. "Imagine needing to design somewhat different telehealth applications for Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, CenturyLink, etc.," Feld says. "This is, after all, how the cable box market works."
There is a reason people hate cable and telecom companies. With no rules, no accountability, and no big stick or carrot when incumbents get out of line, do you really think broadband will get better? If broadband doesn't get better, neither will new and promising services like telehealth.
One bright spot in all of this is community-owned broadband. These networks, which are accountable to local customers, are more likely to defend the four internet freedoms, mitigate a lot priority "boarding," counter predatory pricing, and reduce the infringement of freedom of speech or the press.
One caveat, though. There may be a movement starting in Congress for legislative "reform" of net neutrality. In my opinion, we should fear this more than the FCC, because the largest telecoms could hijack the legislative process. We will get a bill that drips with the allusion of internet freedom but favors corporations over internet users.
Craig Settles is a broadband industry analyst, consultant to local governments, and author of Building the Gigabit City. His latest analyst's report is Telehealth & Broadband: In Sickness and In Health.
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