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Charles Walters
Charles Walters was born on 17 November, 1911 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA, is a Director, Miscellaneous, Actor. Discover Charles Walters's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of Charles Walters networth?
Occupation director,miscellaneous,actor
Born 17 November 1911
Birthday 17 November
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Date of death 13 August, 1982
Died Place Malibu, California, USA
Nationality USA
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He was under contract to M-G-M, first as a choreographer and then as a director, for over 20 years and all the films he directed were made for that company except his last one, "Walk Don't Run" (1966), which he made for Columbia. In the later days of his Metro contract, he was often called in to direct additional scenes for other people's movies - these tended to be very unlike his own films, and included the erotic drama "Go Naked In The World", the western epic "Cimarron" and the Biblical epic "King Of Kings". All these assignments were uncredited.
He is known for his work on Lili (1953), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) and Ask Any Girl (1959).
Actor, dancer and choreographer on Broadway. Signed in 1942 by Arthur Freed for the new MGM musical unit. Worked as dance director from 1943 to 1946, then made the transition to full motion picture director, specialising in musicals and comedies. He remained at MGM in that capacity from 1947 to 1964.
Was with his partner John Darrow from 1936 until Darrow's death in 1980.
Charles Walters was born on November 17, 1911 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 1160-1164. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
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Animals Tasmania is an independent animal advocacy organisation based in Tasmania. Our broad aim is to eliminate exploitation, abuse, and suffering of all non-human animals within our state and beyond.
We work to facilitate change through peaceful action, education and political lobbying on issues affecting all species. We encourage greater awareness and understanding of the way human choices impact on non-human animals. We represent and speak for all animals, no exceptions.
Animals Tasmania wants and end to the needless exploitation of horses used in racing. This is part of a wider call for an end to the treatment of nonhuman animals as property.


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How to Choose a Standing Desk
Today's top models allow you to achieve an ergonomic position while you're sitting or standing
By Allen St. John
Ed Kocher wanted his dining room table back—and some relief from his chronic backaches. So after a month of 10-hour workdays at his Mount Ephraim, N.J., home because of the coronavirus pandemic, the logistics manager took the advice of a friend and bought a standing desk.
The model that Kocher bought, from a company called Vari, has a 4-foot-wide reclaimed wood top and an electric motor that allows the entire desktop to move quickly and easily from standing height to sitting and back. Kocher expected to spend most of his time standing, but he came to realize that switching between sitting and standing works best for him. "I definitely mix it up," he says. "My back feels great now and it's light-years better than the dining room table."
Standing desks started getting popular a few years ago when medical researchers began warning about the health dangers of sitting all day. A doctor at the Mayo Clinic even coined the motto, "sitting is the new smoking," and it caught on.
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Today, though, ergonomics experts say the consensus is that switching back and forth throughout the day is the healthiest for your body. "It isn't that standing all day is better than sitting," says Dana Keester, CR's in-house ergonomics expert. "The main benefit of a standing desk is the ability to move."
Standing desks come in several basic styles, and they all let you switch quickly between sitting and standing. The best style depends on personal factors, including your home office space.
Swing arm models are an unobtrusive piece of hardware that allows you to raise your monitor or your laptop, so that the webcam is positioned at eye level for online meetings. They attach with screws or clamps to an existing work surface and can be pushed out of the way when not in use.
Conversion desks sit on top of an existing desk and raise both the keyboard and the monitor, or a laptop, to a standing height, usually with a manual, spring-assisted mechanism, although there's a growing number of power-assisted models.
Dedicated sit-stand desks like the one Kocher bought, function like a regular desk with room for not only a keyboard and monitor, but papers, books, and even a water bottle or coffee cup. On most models, a motor raises the desk from sitting to standing height and back again.
To choose the best desk for your needs, there are a couple of things to consider, starting with ergonomics.
The Basics of Ergonomics
First step in picking a desk: Make sure it's the right height, says Carolyn Sommerich, an associate professor of systems engineering at Ohio State University. Whether you're sitting or standing, when you're typing your forearms should be parallel to the ground, your elbows at around a 90-degree angle, and your feet flat on the floor. When you're sitting, your hips and knees should also be at an optimum 90-degree angle.
Experts stress that if you're even a little taller or shorter than average, you shouldn't assume that all standing desks will accommodate you. So grab a tape measure and a friend to measure from the floor to the bottom of your bent elbow while standing and sitting. That's how high above the floor the keyboard should be, in both its raised and lowered positions. Also measure your seated and standing eye level, which is where your monitor should be placed, so you can look forward at your screen, not up or down.
In general, a wider the range of adjustment is almost always better; the devices tend to be most stable when they're not at their max height.
A few quick tips: If you're not ready to commit to a standing desk, or the model you want is back-ordered right now, an ironing board makes a surprisingly good substitute, according to University of Cincinnati public health sciences professor Kermit Davis.
Plan to stand on a mat in supportive shoes to protect your joints, especially if you'll be standing on a concrete or tile floor. Finally, if you have lots of equipment with power cords, Ethernet cables, and other wires, think about how you'll hook those up as you're shopping. For instance, you may need to invest in longer cords, or decide to get a wireless, rather than wired, keyboard.
Here are the details on the three standing desk styles to help you choose the right model for your needs.
Swing Arm Adaptors
The UpliftDesk Range Monitor Arm and Laptop mount can raise your laptop to a comfortable height for videoconferencing.
Photo: UpliftDesk
A swing arm adaptor clamps to the back of an existing desk or table with either a shelf for a laptop or a mount for a monitor. The swing arm can be lowered (if you're using a monitor) to a seated position or the shelf can be moved out of the way if you want to place your laptop on your desk or spread out your paperwork.
Who it's for: A laptop user who does lots of teleconferencing, and wants to make maximum use of every square inch of space.
Price range: $100 to $300
Pros: They're relatively inexpensive, and work well for someone who's doing a lot of teleconferencing. The laptop's webcam can remain at eye level while you're sitting or standing and can even be adjusted mid-meeting. This can help you avoid the unflattering angles you get when you're videoconferencing and you leave your laptop on your lap.
Cons: If you use one of these devices to elevate your laptop monitor while seated, you'll need an external keyboard to maintain good ergonomics for typing. You may also need something to boost the height of your external keyboard if you're typing a lot while standing.
What to avoid: Indecision. Many swing-arm adaptors are designed either for a laptop or a monitor, so if you're considering a move from a laptop to a dedicated monitor, you may have to buy a different model or shop for one, like the Upflift Desk Range monitor arm, that can do double duty with an optional laptop shelf. "You need to really think about how you're going to use it," says Meg Honan, a California-based board-certified ergonomist and workspace consultant.
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Conversion Desks
The Vari Pro Plus standing desk converter sits on your desk and raises your monitor and keyboard to standing height.
Photo: Vari
A conversion desk sits atop your existing desk or a table, with no permanent mounting required. Most models have two shelves—one for a monitor or monitors and the other for the keyboard—which move up and down in concert, boosted by a spring mechanism or other mechanical device. There are one-shelf models for laptops, although a swing arm model might be a better choice. Vari (formerly Varidesk) makes some of the most popular models—Kocher placed an order for a conversion unit before changing his mind and ordering his dedicated sit-stand desk.
Who it's for: Someone tight on space and funds who's willing to do a bit of work to raise and lower the desk.
Pros: Relatively inexpensive. Saves space because you can use your existing desk.
Cons: The conversion unit adds height to an existing table or desk, which can mess up your seated typing position, especially if you're relatively short. The surface area is too small for much besides a keyboard and a mouse, so your other work materials will likely stay on the desktop well below your screen and keyboard. If you've used a multiple monitor setup or other heavy gear, some manual models can be hard to raise or lower—in which case you might investigate a conversion desk with an electric motor.
What to avoid: Models with limited adjustment range. Make sure the model you buy rises high enough to put your monitor at eye level; that can be a challenge with some models, especially if you're six feet tall or bigger. "You need to have a range of 18 to 20 inches," says Honan.
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The Fully Jarvis standing desk has an electric motor that raises and lowers the desk top.
Photo: Fully
The entire surface of a sit-stand desk moves up and down, usually powered by an electric motor. A few less-expensive models have hand-crank mechanisms that, experts warn, take lots of time and effort to adjust. That means you're less likely to change positions as often as you should. "The hand-cranking models are horrible," Cincinnati professor Davis says flatly.
Who it's for: Someone who's going to be doing a lot of working from home, and can devote the space to a dedicated workstation.
Price range: $300 to $1,500 and up
Pros: Dedicated desks tend to offer the widest range of adjustment, especially at the low-height end, where they can dip well below the standard 29-inch desk height, which is a relic of the pre-computer era. Most models are motorized to allow for quick and easy transitions and some, like the Fully Jarvis, have presets that allow you to dial in your optimal sitting and standing height and change frequently throughout the day. Most also allow you to choose from various desktop colors and materials when you order, while outlet strips and other wire management accessories tend to be an option.
Cons: These desks tend to be more expensive than the other options, and they take up more space in your home. Some less expensive models don't have a sufficient range of adjustment and can be less than stable at their full height. (Look for models with beefy cross bracing between the two legs or three-section legs with a large cross-section.) Many models have little or no drawer space compared with a conventional desk, because the weight of the drawers and their contents can tax the motors and structure of a desk.
What to avoid: Desktops that are too small. You don't just need room for just your keyboard and monitor, but also for everything else on your desk, from your stapler to your water bottle. You'll want a little extra space around the perimeter so items don't keep falling off when you're raising or lowering the desk. "If a desk is smaller than 4-feet wide, it's too small," Honan says.
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I believe that technology has the power to change our lives—for better or for worse. That's why I've spent my life reporting and writing about it for outlets of all sorts, from newspapers (such as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times) to magazines (Popular Mechanics and Rolling Stone) and even my own books ("Newton's Football" and "Clapton's Guitar"). For me, there's no better way to spend a day than talking to a bunch of experts about an important subject and then writing a story that'll help others be smarter and better informed.
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Samsung Announces the NX1, a More Serious Camera with 28MP and 4K Video
by Jaron Schneider
Samsung has been trying to hit the digital interchangeable lens camera (ILC) market for some time, slowly clawing their way to #2 in market share in the US. That said, they haven't done a lot to impress professionals. I had a sense they were going to release something special at Photokina, and the NX1 doesn't disappoint. With a 4K video shooting APS-C sensor and newly announced 50-150mm f/2.8, Samsung is taking aim at more serious photographers.
The NX1 boasts an all new 28MP BSI CMOS sensor, which supports Samsung's fastest autofocus system to date, the NX AF System III. We have already been impressed with the focus speed and accuracy of the previous generation sensor, so this is of course great news. The sensor was developed utilizing Samsung's advanced semiconductor technology, and the back side illuminated sensor is capable of gathering more light than conventional CMOS sensors. The new NX AF System III features 205 Phase Detect AF points covering 90 percent of the frame, allowing you to quickly focus on their targets. This quick focusing ability allows the camera to achieve 15FPS of continuous shooting while continuously tracking focus. The system also employs a patterned AF Assist Beam that reaches up to 15m and will help to more accurately capture clear photos in low light.
The NX1 also incorporates a new DRIMe V Image Processer that delivers superior color reproduction and works with the camera's built-in Adaptive Noise Reduction technology to help retain details and remove noise from photos captured at high ISO's. The advanced algorithm also analyzes details and color in each photo, making sure users always have the clearest image.
Wide Phase Detection gives the NX1 the ability to instinctively track subjects almost anywhere in the frame, regardless of their location. Samsung claims that because of this, there is never a need to re-compose a shot. This technology will be of particular interest to those of us shoot video, as the NX1 supports the use of Phase Detect AF during movie recording.
The new Samsung Auto Shot highlights the innovation available in the NX1. Using the DRIMe V Image Processor and an advanced algorithm, the NX1 will track a baseball as it travels to a player, allowing photographers take crisp images of the moment a ball connects with a bat. While these shots can often be difficult to take, the NX1 removes any concern by accurately predicting the right time to trigger the shutter and capture a full-resolution image.
Samsung is also taking a page from Canon and Nikon DLRS with a top-facing LCD panel. It's a nice touch for those of us used to seeing our settings instantly.
Cinema Quality Video
Videographers and filmmakers can easily shoot cinema-quality video straight from the NX1. Utilizing the next generation HEVC codec, the NX1 is capable of recording smooth and immersive UHD/4K (DCI Standard) video. Users can easily save files directly to the memory card in the camera, eliminating the need to carry hefty external 4K recorders. This is made possible by a built-in HEVC Codec (H.265).
With a myriad of input, output and connectivity options, users will be able to customize their NX1 for their unique recording needs. Additionally, using Samsung's SMART technology, users can also share their videos directly to any Samsung UHD television via Wi-Fi.
New Super-Fast Telephoto Lens
Expanding upon Samsung's premium line of "S" lenses, the new Samsung 50-150mm F2.8 S lens is the second in the series and affords photographers the opportunity to capture telephoto images with crisp clarity and tack sharp focus in a variety of scenarios. Its fast aperture provides excellent low light performance and beautiful bokeh, making it perfect for sports, nature and wedding photography. The lens features an Ultra-Precise Stepping Motor (UPSM), improved from the conventional Stepping Motor (SM), it is three times more precise in its ability to control and focus on subjects. Photographers can capture sharp photos at low shutter speeds using advanced multi-axis Optical Imaging Stabilization (OIS) with four-axis control and a six-axis sensor array. These sensors detect camera motion, and help the lens to make the precision corrections necessary.
The new telephoto lens features a dust and water resistant build, supposedly making it both durable and reliable. All of the lens controls, focus, zoom and OIS, are located in a single "function zone" on the side of the lens, making it easy to control.
If you didn't notice from the photos, this lens is a monster. We're eager to see how it actually performs, but a 50-150mm f/2.8 is incredibly useful.
Smart Connectivity, Tag & Go
As alway, Samsung builds in connnectivity tech into their cameras, and the included SMART Camera technology here is no different. The NX1's NFC and Wi-Fi capabilities offer the next-generation of connectivity, making it is easier than ever to take advantage of a host of intuitive sharing features. The 'Tag & Go' function lets users tap and share memories instantly and easily, pairing the NX1 with NFC enabled smartphones and tablets. Additionally, the NX1 incorporates Bluetooth 3.0 for an always-connected experience with a mobile device. After authenticating the connection via Bluetooth, the NX1 is capable of collecting important time, date and location data and automatically imports it into the image's metadata. Once authenticated, the connection will automatically switch to a Wi-Fi connection for data transfer.
The Photo Beam feature allows the transfer of images or videos to a smartphone or tablet by simply touching the two devices together with no other configuration needed. MobileLink lets users select multiple images to send to four distinct smart devices at one time, so everyone can treasure photos without the need to take repetitive shots on each individual device. AutoShare sends every photo you take instantly to your smartphone or tablet and the Remote Viewfinder Pro function enables control of the NX1 from a smartphone, allowing the user to zoom and snap shots remotely yet still have full visibility of the scene, opening up new photographic possibilities. Manual settings can still be accessed, including shutter speed and aperture, so that photographers can retain camera control yet have another option as to how they want to frame their shot.
Samsung NX1 Product Specifications
28.2 effective megapixel APS-C BSI CMOS sensor
76.8mm (3.0-inch) Super AMOLED Tilt Display with Touch panel (tilting Up 90°, Down 45°)
FVGA (720x480) 1,036K dots
EVF (OLED) with Eye Contact Sensor
Auto, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400, 12800, 25600 (1EV or 1/3EV step) (EXT. 51200)
JPEG (3:2) : 28M (6480x4320), 13.9M (4560x3040), 7.1M (3264x2176), 3.0M (2112x1408)
JPEG(16:9) : 23M (6480x3648), 11.9M (4608x2592), 6.2M (3328x1872), 2.4M (2048x1152)
JPEG (1:1) : 18.7M (4320x4320), 9.5M (3088x3088), 4.7M (2160x2160), 2.0M (1408x1408)
RAW : 28.0M (6480x4320)
* 3D Lens Image Size: JPEG(16:9) 5.9M (3232x1824), 2.1M (1920x1080)
File format: RAW (SRW ver2.0.0), JPEG (EXIF 2.3), MPO (for 3D Lens), DCF
MP4 (Video: HEVC /H.265, Audio: AAC)
UHD 3840x2160 (30fps Only), 4K 4096x2160 (24fps Only), Full HD 1920x1080, 1280x720 , 640x480
* 3D Lens Movie Recording Compatible only for Full HD
Frame rate: 60fps, 30fps, 24fps NTSC / 50fps, 25fps, 24fps PAL
NTS, PAL, HDMI
Value- Added
SMART Mode: Action Freeze, Beauty Face, Fireworks, Landscape, Light Trace, Multi-Exposure, Night, Panorama (Live), Rich Tone (HDR), Samsung Auto Shutter, Silhouette, Sunset, Waterfall
3D still image & video capturing
Built-in Flash (Guide Number 11 at IOS100)
Magnesium cover body
External Microphone
Dust and splash resistance
* Note - This product is not water or dust proof. It is designed to resist dust and minor splashes only. Exposure to severe conditions is not recommended.
IEEE 802.11b/g/n/ac
Quick Transfer
TV Link
Full Browser(SNS & Cloud)
Auto Time Setting
BT GPS Tagging
Mobile Link
Photo Beam(Play Back)
Remote Viewfinder Pro
* Note - The availability of each service may differ by country.
SD,SDHC,SDXC,UHS-I,UHS-II
BP1900 (1860mAh)
138.5 x 102.3 x 65.8
550 g (without battery)
Samsung 50-150mm F2.8 S lens Specifications
50 - 150mm (equivalent to 77-231mm in 35mm format)
Elements in Groups
20 elements in 13 groups (4 ED, 1 XHR)
31.4° - 10.7°
F2.8(Min. F22)
Focus Distance
Wide 0.7m, Tele 0.98m
Value-added Feature
SHS (Samsung Hyper Shield Coating), dust and splash resistance, UPSM, Custom Focus Range Limiter, Tripod Mount Collar
NX Mount
Dimension (DxL)
No price or official availability was given for either the NX1 or the 50-150mm f/2.8. We will let you know as soon as we hear any more information.
Jaron Schneider is an Fstoppers Contributor and an internationally published writer and cinematographer from San Francisco, California. His clients include Maurice Lacroix, HD Supply, SmugMug, the USAF Thunderbirds and a host of industry professionals.
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Luc Szczepanski - September 15, 2014
Very interested to see how the video holds up on this camera. APC + internal 4k is a killer combination.
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It can challenge most dslrs
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Look at you Samsung, all grown up and playing with the big boys. Looks like an interesting camera, can't wait to see how it handles.
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Stunning 4K video. I would really like to try this beauty
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John Dewey once wrote: "Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful." For him communication is the highest of the "arts of life," for it is in communication that society is born and nurtured. It is by communication that we discover the possibilities of nature. And it is through communication that we make our shared experience meaningful. It is no wonder, then, that Dewey would conclude The Public and Its Problems with this provocative statement: Democracy "will have its consummation when free social inquiry is indissolubly wedded to the art of full and moving communication."Dewey, however, does not adequately explain what he understands by "the art of full and moving communication" and never tells us how "communication" functions in the varied contexts of practical life. Despite, then, his obvious affection for communication, he leaves many questions about it unanswered. For instance, what makes communication possible? In what kind of situations is communication called for and why? How does an inchoate feeling or idea find concrete embodiment in language? What are the connections among language, communication, thought, feeling, and action? Most importantly, what is the process by which one employs the art of communication to influence the beliefs and behaviors of others? This dissertation addresses these questions by approaching Dewey's thinking on communication from a distinctly rhetorical perspective. Even though Dewey almost never mentions "rhetoric" in his entire corpus, I argue that it is precisely the absence of the term from his writings that makes a rhetorical reading of his work all the more imperative. Such a reading permits us to understand the practical importance of the "art of communication" in the larger context of his social thought. If, then, the problem with Dewey's writing on communication is that it often drifts into abstractions, one remedy is take those abstractions and place them into concrete situations, where communication is required to transform some part of the environment through transaction with human thought and action. Because this kind of activity has been the specific domain of rhetoric since the time of the sophists, it is only appropriate to read Dewey's work through that tradition.In effect, the goal of this dissertation is to explicate Dewey's theory of communication in the terms of a rhetorical theory. But insofar as his thought went through three distinct "periods" in his lifetime, beginning with his Idealistic period in 1880, moving into his Experimental period in 1903, and culminating in his Naturalistic period in 1925, Dewey can be said to have had three implicit rhetorical theories. To articulate and explain each of these theories, I trace Dewey's theoretical development through time and construct, through published works, private correspondence, and biographical material. I show that the first theory envisioned rhetoric as a form of eros that helps us grow towards Absolute self consciousness. The second theory views rhetoric as a form of critical inquiry whose goal is the development of phronçsis, or practical wisdom. The third theory treats rhetoric as a productive technç, or a naturalistic form of art that has the power to transform experience, nature, and society through its transactional character.By tracing Dewey's theoretical development and explicating three implicit theories of rhetoric in his writings, this dissertation not only provides a unique perspective on Dewey's changing views on language, ontology, and social practice, but also demonstrates how each theory can still be effectively used to interpret and guide the art of rhetoric. This kind of work enables us to grasp different facets of this diverse and vibrant art. At the same time, it shows how Dewey's work remains an important resource for those who wish to promote and sustain a democratic way of life by educating citizens in the art of full and moving communication.


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How More Than 12 Students at One University Ended Up Dead By Suicide
Why were there so many deaths at Bristol university?
by Hannah Ewens; photos by Bekky Lonsdale
Bob and Maggie Abrahart, parents of late University of Bristol student Natasha Abrahart; (R) Photos of Natasha in their home
Bob Abrahart greets me at the front door of the three-storey detached house he shares with his wife Maggie in suburban Nottingham, shaking my hand so warmly I forget for a moment why I'm here. Absentmindedly, I ask how his retirement is going and he responds, "Well, it was going OK." He leads me into the living room, where on every wall, ledge, piece of furniture – anything that would constitute a surface – his late daughter Natasha's face smiles back. I feel Bob hang back for a moment, allowing me to take in the room.
Natasha's friends kept coming to the house, he tells me, so he and Maggie put up the collection of photos leftover from her wake. Her friends are "all very young and didn't know what to do or say or what was going on, so we use these photos to make them feel at home". Natasha died in April of 2018. I meet Bob and Maggie a year later. Now, grief comes in shades and at odd moments, cutting through when a forgotten memory surfaces. It's no longer raw-edged.
Maggie walks in from the kitchen holding two mugs of coffee. She and Bob talk about Natasha in the present tense. Both parents have dedicated their lives and retirement savings to working out why their eldest child died while attending Bristol University.
In the 18 months between October of 2016 and April of 2018, 11 Bristol University students died by suspected suicide. In the year-and-a-half since, that number has risen to at least 13. For parents left behind, closure can feel impossible. They could investigate through an inquest, where a coroner calls witnesses to look into a sudden or unnatural death. What's known as a pre-inquest review hearing offers a chance to push for answers, but only if you hire legal aid or understand the legal system enough to demand the right results.
Natasha's parents crowdfunded legal help, allowing them to argue for an Article 2 inquest, which they received. Many of the bereaved parents of Bristol students had a more narrow inquest, framed around statements rather than questions. After one of those, the case is closed and you're left with a simple verdict – the one you already knew. But the question still remains: why and how did this happen to my child?
Natasha Abrahart and her brother.
Natasha had aimed for Oxford University, but got into Bristol, her second choice. She was determined, hard-working, bright. During school holidays, her parents would try to force her to take time off from studying, but she'd rebel, by studying. At some point in her teenage years, she started dressing in darker, neutral colours to hide her body. Her teachers would always say: Natasha is extremely gifted but doesn't speak out a lot in class. If there was a recital or a show-and-tell in class, sometimes she'd freeze and, for a moment, you wouldn't know if she'd do it. But there were no "off days" in Natasha's world.
When she went to university, as far as Bob and Maggie could tell, she was doing what she'd always done: working extremely hard, getting on with everything without asking for help. When I ask about the first time they heard of her mental health problems, they check each other's faces and say "the phone call". In March of 2018, Natasha's housemate called to tell them Natasha had been showing signs of extreme distress. Over the phone, Natasha then promised Maggie she'd see her GP.
When Natasha was home for Easter she seemed back to her normal self, if a little subdued. She angrily told her parents the name of someone from the university who she'd told about her issues (Bob and Maggie would later find out Natasha had told this faculty member that she was suicidal and had attempted to take her own life), and Maggie decided to continue with the "softly, softly" approach. The summer holidays were close, and the pair knew Natasha needed to pass her exams so she could concentrate on getting better, rather than studying for re-sits.
"Two weeks later, she was dead," Bob says bluntly. "After she died we went down and ID-ed the body the next day. We stopped off at the flat and collected all her belongings." In shock, they gathered what they could and, in among all her possessions, found her passwords, written down.
"Typical Natasha, so well-organised," says Maggie, shooting Bob a half-smile.
Bob had wondered if he should log into her email accounts to see what was going on.
"Would you?" he asks me. I answer "yes", quickly. "Yes, I did as well."
Bob found Natasha's student email ID on the family computer and was able to log into her account. Bob and Maggie found a thread of correspondence with the Bristol School of Physics, where Natasha had asked for help, explained she'd had suicidal thoughts and had attempted to take her own life. These messages dated back to February – a month before the phone call – and were sent to the student administrator Natasha had told her parents about. There was further communication with wellbeing advisors. Bob printed it all out, in case her account got shut down.
Readying themselves for the inquest, they found another key piece of information: the second-year Physics student was due to give an assessed oral presentation to just over 40 students and staff in a 329-seat lecture hall the day she was found dead. University members of staff had been aware of Natasha's severe anxiety around public speaking. No alterations to the task or provisions for help had been made. The university would later share a statement on their website regarding media reports of Natasha and the events leading to her death, writing that they "worked incredibly hard and diligently to help and support Natasha with her studies and her mental health needs".
In the many interviews and statements given by parents following their children's deaths, they express surprise. They say, as Maggie, a trained mental health professional, says to me, "If I could think of the people I knew who might die by suicide, Natasha would never have been on that list."
Around summer exam season in 2017, two ice cream vans drove outside one of the Bristol University libraries. Stories of deaths were circulating around campus, their heaviness felt among the student body. Some students ran down to queue for their free Whippy cones. Others watched on, cigarettes in hand, a sour taste in their mouths. "I know a lot of us were really offended by it," one student who was there that day told me. "It was like, kids are dying and you're giving us ice-cream? What's going on? It's nice, but it's not going to solve anything."
Even if these students hadn't struggled with poor mental health themselves, losing their peers took its toll. As one Law student who started at the university in 2016 said to me, "If I sound unfazed by the suicides, it's because it's happened so much since first year. As awful as it is, I'm used to it and have sort of become desensitised."
The Law student's second year at uni was the worst of her life – there were more deaths that academic year than the previous one. "Every time it would happen they'd send an email around if you were in the same department or halls with the person who'd died. It'd say something like, 'If you've been affected by it, reply to this email and we'll do our best to help,' or whatever."
Bristol is a somewhat unique institution. Students there are high-achieving, and worked hard, but don't have the same kind of support infrastructure Oxbridge provides to their students. At Oxford, for example, employment during your undergraduate years is only allowed with permission from your tutor, so you can focus on your studies, while financial aid is offered by the individual college if you need it. Tutors will meet frequently with you one-on-one to talk through work and personal issues. Pastoral care at Bristol, however, is structured similarly to that of any other British university: it is objectively hands-off.
Additionally, as one student told me, the party and drug scene at Bristol is all about "ket and MD and going out to [popular club] Motion". It's a party uni with an Oxbridge mentality and work ethic.
Bristol is not alone in its problems with student mental health. Since about half of 18-year-olds now choose to go to university, this problem reflects a wider mental health crisis for the age group. About one UK student dies every four days, and we now know that deaths happen disproportionately among freshers, who themselves are now disclosing their mental illness on application with far more frequency (up by 73 percent in the last four years). What these institutions all push back against – and what Bristol University referenced in various student death inquests – is that universities are educational bodies, not healthcare providers. They can't be expected or relied upon to pick up where the underfunded NHS is failing, and academics certainly can't stand in for therapists. That said, student wellbeing lies somewhat in their hands. The question is: how much?
To consider that, you have to start with student numbers. In 2015/16, the student fees cap was removed entirely by the Tory government, and student numbers at Bristol rose dramatically, by nearly 4,000 (22,333 students to 26,020). Students repeatedly told me their tutors didn't know who they were, that meetings with tutors weren't mandatory, that they'd flagged poor mental health with tutors and received a minimal response or signposted support.
Cris, a masters student at Bristol and a key mental health campaigner, said numbers had visibly increased year-on-year since the cap was lifted, and that the simultaneous rise of student numbers and poor student wellbeing is no coincidence. "With more students, it's easier to fall between the cracks. Staff are less likely to notice you, and scheduling to see your tutor might only happen once a term." In a statement to VICE, Bristol University press office said, "The University has grown but we are still a relatively small institution and we have expanded staffing and space to respond to growth."
Ella, a 2018 graduate, told me she was off unwell for long periods of time. She says no one checked in on her. "I spoke to three or four different tutors in my first year and reached out and said: 'I'm finding this really tough; my mental health is suffering.' All of them asked if I was having suicidal thoughts and I told all of them that I was, and nothing was done." The university said in an email to VICE that they didn't think it appropriate to fact check this with her tutors.
Annie* was familiar with two boys who died. I spoke to her just days after an international student at the halls killed himself. "You're at school and at every point you're being watched, and then you go to uni and there's nothing," she says. She talks of Ben Murray, a fresher who went for lunch with his dad, then killed himself later that day. It would transpire through an inquest that he'd been unwell for some time, and not properly attending uni, only to receive a letter and an email saying he'd been kicked off his course and would have to leave his accommodation the following week.
"Surely if someone's missing university for two or three months you should be asking, 'Where are they?' rather than kicking them out," said Annie. "How is that going to make someone feel if no one from the university is checking up on them physically?"
The significance of a tower block had never occurred to Diana Thomson, until her counsellor mentioned that "they can be very isolating". No, Diana told her counsellor, she and her son James had never lived in one. In hindsight, Diana realised that, for James, moving from a decent housing estate in Northampton to a tower block, miles from home, at the age 18, might have been a shock to the system.
"It wasn't the accommodation they show you on the open day," Diana told me over the phone in May of 2019. The accommodation her second-year Bristol University student son had been in months before he died by suicide, after developing depression, has now been condemned because it was covered in the same cladding as Grenfell Tower. But Diana will never know if living in the tower block had been troubling him – she never found any concrete answers as to why he died.
After James' death, Diana asked the university which lectures he'd been missing. She says the head of student services told her in person that they didn't know because no such register was held. She questioned this, but says they told her if students missed a lecture they could just view it online. The university confirmed that a conversation was vaguely remembered by the member of staff in question and that it's true the university "does not routinely record a register of attendance for each student at each lecture". Personal tutors, Diana learned, were contactable by email and during office hours rather than on a compulsory basis.
"That's the sum total of adult contact they have," she told me. "There's no tutorial with someone once a week or fortnight where somebody might pull them up on why haven't they attended or if they're struggling and why. They're just on their own, together." Diana describes scenes of James' lectures that are corroborated by conversations I've had with students – lecture halls so packed that students sit on the floor at the front or leave altogether. "You question what you're paying money for," she said.
One thing Diana did find out after his death, in vague detail, was that James had attempted suicide the previous year, while he was in those tower block halls. Diana has no idea how much of this the university knew. She didn't employ legal help. As a pilates instructor from Northampton with two other sons to support, she couldn't afford to, so when the inquest into her son's death came up, it was, unlike Natasha's, a read-only. The coroner would read from reports, and no witnesses would attend. "No one was going to answer the questions I wanted answered," she said. They read out the verdict of suicide, and the Thomson family – like the vast majority of the families involved in these cases – went home to grieve.
"If I'd have employed barristers and demanded this and demanded that, at the end of the day it's not going to bring my son back," she said. We can come up with all sorts of reasons as to why, but the bottom line is: nobody knows apart from James. There was no letter, there was no note, there was nothing."
Before we got off the phone, she told me of losing a child, "When it happens it's so unexpected, and you think it's never going to happen to anyone else, so you just want to tell the world so that it doesn't happen to anyone else. But having done my best to tell the world, it's still happening. James was number seven, and I can't remember now what number we're on."
When Natasha's inquest date came around this summer, it confirmed her family's fears: that a series of failures by mental health services had contributed to her death. At the time, her parents said: "Natasha's social anxiety resulted in a six-month struggle with oral assessments at the University of Bristol. Her anxiety forced her to avoid most of these – for which the University docked her marks. As a result our bright, capable daughter faced failing academically for the first time in her life."
The last time I spoke with the Abraharts, they told me they were planning to sue the university, an unprecedented move in the UK.
At some point, universities have to investigate independently why this is happening and how to make a genuine and meaningful difference. Ben Murray's dad, James, had suggested that data be pulled from various existing records – academic struggles, reported health concerns, library access – and staff should pull students in to speak with them, to see if anything is wrong. Further suggestions from Murray also pressed Bristol to introduce an opt-in scheme for students that allows the university to contact parents if students are suffering with mental health problems. When the Bristol student body was asked if they wanted this scheme launched for the academic year starting 2018, 94 percent opted-in. In its first year in action, Bristol University used its new powers to alert the parents of 36 students. Other universities are currently considering this approach.
One of campaigner Cris' key wins in negotiating more support for students arose from a meeting with the university, where they promised to start speaking to students before suspending them. Ben Murray was impacted by this previous "fitness-for-study" policy when he was dismissed from the university with a letter, rather than a face-to-face conversation. This was confirmed in a statement to VICE from the university.
Professor Sarah Purdy, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Student Experience at the University of Bristol, told VICE, "Mental health is fast emerging as the single biggest public health issue affecting young people today. The scale of the challenges means all universities must re-evaluate every aspect of their student and staff mental health and wellbeing support and provision. Here in Bristol, we have reviewed everything we do… In terms of pastoral care, Bristol now offers more support and services than almost any other university."
Universities running as businesses may now fail to tap into a more holistic approach to their roles in the lives of increasingly stressed and cash-poor students. "Students are, in my anecdotal experience, really worried about letting people down," Dr Dominique Thompson, a student mental health expert, tells me on the phone. "They hate to feel they have let down their parents and their loved ones. That can lead them to take desperate measures, which is just dreadful. If we can get across the message to them – either as support staff, or as professionals, academics and as parents and as a society – that they're not letting anyone down, then we will be making real progress in changing the way the system is at the moment."
What's important is that students know they aren't alone. Dr Thompson advises parents to tell their children: there is nothing you could do or say that I don't want to hear about or talk about. Whether it's getting kicked out of university or failing classes, I want to talk about it.
Before I leave Maggie and Bob's home, we all take a final look at the left side of the living room. Along with the photos of Natasha are toys and trinkets, from the expensive to the silly but more valuable. One of these is a big plushie dragon. "I got it for her first birthday," laughs Bob. "It was bigger than her and she just kept getting bigger. He came to the funeral, he was on the coffin."
"I don't think she actually particularly liked him, you know," says Maggie.
"Well, I went in there on my own into the toy shop, went looking for a fluffy, cuddly thing... and I came out with that. I didn't know what I was doing," replies Bob, suddenly sounding like a hopeless first time dad.
Next to the dragon, on a tray of assorted mementos, is a plastic Oscar award. Maggie couldn't remember what their daughter had won it for, so she looked through their belongings for an answer. It was a Year 11 prize Natasha had won for "Most Likely to Rule the World".
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If you or anyone you know have been affected by the issues raised in this story, please use the following resources for help and support. In the UK and Ireland, the Samaritans phone lines are open 24/7, at 116 123. In the US, if you're in crisis, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is at 1-800-273-TALK (8255). You can also contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741.
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Churchill famously described Russia as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. But perhaps there is a simpler way of understanding the world's largest country. As Europe knows only too well from its own history, nations respond to stress and challenge with more emotion than reason, just as individuals facing crisis in their personal lives need clear, unambiguous boundaries and a sense of identity. Over the centuries Russia has had more than its fair share of trauma. So when we stop for a moment to understand, might it be that Stalin, and Putin, and Crimea, and the Skripals, and indeed Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and Ivan the Terrible and the rest in all their contradictions, make more sense than an Enlightened Westerner might immediately find comfortable? Join us for an evening with psychotherapist, Russian speaker and former BBC foreign Correspondent Mark Brayne for an illustrated journey into the heart of Russia.
Mark Brayne studied Russian at Leeds from 1968 to 1973, spending a year as a student in Moscow and going on to report from Russia and East Berlin for the Reuters news agency. With postings in Germany, Central Europe and China, and as Diplomatic Correspondent for the World Service until 1992, he covered the final years of the Cold War for BBC radio. Retraining in his spare time as a transpersonal psychotherapist through the late 1990s, Mark left the BBC in 2003 to set up the Dart Centre Europe for Journalism and Trauma, and specialises now in the treatment of PTSD, not just among journalists. Married since 1975 (with a short 14-year break for divorce) to his German wife Jutta, whom he met in Moscow, Mark is a keen photographer and long-distance cyclist, and will be setting off just a few days after this London talk to pedal from Moscow to Teheran via Volgograd and Tbilisi – including, he hopes, a dogleg to Chechnya which he last visited in 1972.


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В Гентской системе основная ответственность за социальные выплаты, в частности пособия по безработице, возлагается на профсоюзы, а не на государство. Система названа в честь города Гент, Бельгия, где она была впервые внедрена. Это преобладающая форма пособия по безработице в Дании, Финляндии, Исландии и Швеции. В Бельгии действует гибридная система, в которой правительство также играет значительную роль в распределении льгот. Во всех вышеперечисленных странах фонды по безработице, принадлежащие профсоюзам или федерациям труда, регулируются или частично субсидируются соответствующим национальным правительством.

Поскольку работники зачастую должны состоять в профсоюзе, чтобы получать пособия, в странах с системой Гента членство в профсоюзах выше. Кроме того, государственное пособие представляет собой фиксированную сумму, но пособия из профсоюзных фондов уже зависят от предыдущего заработка.

Гентская система в Швеции
С января 2007 года шведское государство сократило финансовую поддержку фондов по безработице (большинство из них управляются профсоюзами, есть также несколько фондов, предназначенных для мелких предпринимателей, и один независимый фонд), в результате чего членские взносы в фонды по безработице пришлось значительно увеличить, а членство в профсоюзах снизилась с 77% в 2006 году до 71% в 2008 году. В январе 2014 года бюджетные взносы были восстановлены примерно до того же уровня, что и до 2007 года. В 2015 году членство в шведских профсоюзах составляла 69%, а участие в профсоюзных фондах по безработице - 73% (75%, если добавить независимый Alfa fund).

Гентская система в Чехословакии
Гентская система в Чехословакии была принята в 1925 г. в основном благодаря социал-демократам.

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 Petri Böckerman & Roope Uusitalo (2006). "Erosion of the Ghent System and Union Membership Decline: Lessons from Finland." British Journal of Industrial Relations, 44:2, 283–303.
 Kjellberg, Anders (2009) "The Swedish Ghent system and trade unions under pressure" Transfer no 3-4 2009 (pp. 481–504). ISSN 1024-2589
 Kjellberg, Anders (2006) "The Swedish unemployment insurance - will the Ghent system survive?", Transfer no 1 2006 (pp. 87–98). ISSN 1024-2589
 Kjellberg, Anders and Ibsen, Christian Lyhne (2016) "Attacks on union organizing:  Reversible and irreversible changes to the Ghent-systems in Sweden and Denmark" in Trine Pernille Larsen and Anna Ilsøe (eds.)(2016) Den Danske Model set udefra (The Danish Model Inside Out) - komparative perspektiver på dansk arbejdsmarkedsregulering, Copenhagen: Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag (pp. 279–302)
 Aleksi Kuusisto (2005), "Independent unemployment insurance fund 'undermining unions'" European Industrial Relations Observatory On-Line (October 24, 2005)
 Jens Lind (2007), "A Nordic saga? The Ghent system and trade unions" International Journal of Employment Studies (January 4, 2007)
 Lyle Scruggs (2001), "The Ghent System and Union Membership in Europe, 1970-1996", University of Connecticut Website.

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This short hike in Butano State Park is great for exploring the creek and redwood canopies.
This short hike follows Little Butano Creek through a lush redwood forest. The trail crosses the creek multiple times as you walk over redwood pine needles and through pockets of ferns. Dogs can join on this trail, but must be on leash.


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Tree planting marks 100 years of forestry in Wales and sets future ambition
A recently planted arboretum at Natural Resources Wales' (NRW) Garwnant Visitor Centre, near Merthyr Tydfil, has been dedicated to the centenary celebration of the national forestry reserve in Wales.
The Forestry Commission was established in 1919 to replenish the nation's woodland cover and timber supplies, which were at an all-time low following the First World War.
Since then the Woodland Estate that NRW now manages for the Welsh Government has grown to encompass an area of 124,000 hectares – that's 6% of Wales - and it supplies over 50% of all timber in Wales.
The Garwnant arboretum was planted in 2016, in preparation for the potential loss of mature larch trees at the site due to disease and features 88 different species, spread across 480 trees.
The trees have been chosen to represent and showcase trees from different continents around the world, which will create a show of colourful foliage and flowers at different stages of the year, increasing in impact as they mature over future decades.
Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Deputy Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism marked the dedication ceremony by joining NRW CEO Clare Pillman, to plant a native Welsh sessile oak tree at Garwnant Visitor Centre.
The Welsh Government is currently in the discovery phase of scoping a National Forest Programme to take forward the First Minister's vision for a National Forest in Wales. This will be a long-term project looking to maximise upon these benefits and accelerate tree planting in Wales.
Deputy Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism, Lord Elis-Thomas, said:
"We must recognise the need to plant more trees and improve the management of our existing woodlands if we are going to tackle the biodiversity decline and climate change emergencies, as well as continue to enjoy the many benefits our woodlands and trees provide.
"We have world-leading mountain bike trails, accessible walking routes and now a fantastic Centenary Arboretum, which, as it matures will become even more of an asset which the people of Wales will want to visit and be proud of.
"It is important that all of us understand the value of being out in Wales' natural environment, which can contribute greatly to the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of all people in Wales and provides significant opportunities for educational, cultural and visual experience
"I hope we will see many more new trees planted over the next 100 years and continue to encourage cross-sector collaboration throughout Wales just as NRW have accomplished with this Centenary Arboretum."
Clare Pillman, Chief Executive of Natural Resources Wales, said:
"It is fitting that this arboretum is to become NRW's Centenary Arboretum; it poignantly demonstrates how forestry of the past and forestry of the future can come together in a way which supports the multiple benefits that flow from Wales' public forest estate.
"These trees will work hard – storing carbon, cleaning air, attracting visitors, looking beautiful, creating resilience, reminding us of our past and the potential for our futures. They stand within an area of productive forest, contributing to Wales' economic prosperity.
"By continuing to manage our forests efficiently and by planting sensitively in such a way that enhances biodiversity value rather than diminishing it, we can look forward to a steady increase the amount of forested land in Wales."


Following the Apollo program, Apollo spacecraft were used to shuttle astronauts to and from the Skylab space station, and an Apollo spacecraft docked with the orbiting Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 19 in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
It was preceded by the manned Gemini program, which engineers used to develop the techniques that would be needed for the ambitious trip to the Moon, and the unmanned Surveyor Program, which scientists used to probe the lunar surface.
During the Apollo program, 12 Saturn V rockets were launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and all were successful.
Unmanned space missions are those using remote-controlled spacecraft.
Since the early 1970s, most unmanned space missions have been based on space probes with built-in mission computers, and as such may be classified as embedded systems.
Unmanned space missions may be divided into two classes: artificial satellites, which orbit the Earth, and space probes, which leave Earth's orbit to explore other worlds.
The spacecraft is one of the primal elements in science fiction.
Most spacecraft today are propelled by heating the reaction mass and allowing it to flow out the back of the vehicle.
The Surveyor program consisted of seven unmanned lunar missions that were launched between May 1966 and January 1968.
Each spacecraft weighed 1000 kilograms at launch, was 3.3 meters high, and had a 4.5-meter diameter.
The soft landing was achieved by the spacecraft free falling to the lunar surface after the engines were turned off at a 3.5-meter altitude.
Also, the X-15 program had provided much experience in human factors applicable to the orbital flight of man. Therefore, Dr. Dryden concluded, in consonance with the intent of the Space Act of 1958, the assignment of the program to the NACA would be consistent.
Spacecraft that were designated for Mercury-Redstone missions were to be shipped directly from McDonnell to Cape Canaveral, thereby gaining approximately 2 months in the launch schedule.
During the drops into the water spacecraft water stability was shown to be unacceptable, because a portion of the spacecraft cylindrical section remained under water.
The twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and 2 flew by and observed Jupiter and Saturn, while Voyager 2 went on to visit Uranus and Neptune.
The Stardust spacecraft successfully flew through the cloud of dust that surrounds the nucleus of comet Wild-2 and gathered a sample of cometary material.
Mars Odyssey is an orbiting spacecraft designed to determine the composition of the martian surface, to detect water and shallow buried ice, and to study the radiation environment.
The list is presented in order of priority, which is not necessarily in order of dollar value.
The 48th item on the list was $130 million to complete the purchase of two F-15E aircraft to be delivered in Fiscal 2008.
The Air Force plans to use the five-year program delay to further explore the role of the E-10 in conjunction with new systems such as the Space Radar, which is also slated to observe and track air and ground traffic.
Some missions are more suitable for unmanned missions rather than manned space missions, due to lower cost and lower risk factors.
Most American unmanned missions have been coordinated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and European missions by ESOC, part of ESA (the European Space Agency).
The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) spacecraft was launched on its three-year mission in June 1999, and has been credited with enabling a wide range of discoveries regarding distant stars and galaxies.
An excellent case study for how the failure of one component of a spacecraft can reduce its life is the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO, photo), one of the largest spacecraft ever launched on the Shuttle.
One of the gyros failed, and as a precautionary measure, NASA decided to deorbit the spacecraft ahead of schedule due to concerns that if another gyro failed, the attitude control system might not be able to control pointing accurately enough for the reentry burns.
These links are to information about unmanned spacecraft (e.g., planetary spacecraft, communications satellites, remote sensing applications, andmicrospacecraft) with a few related items.
NASA Office of Space Science's "comprehensive" listing of past, present and future missions of space sciences.
AGI Spacecraft Digest There is a registration process for first time users, but the site is free.
Its purpose is to investigate the makeup of the comet Wild 2 and its coma.
ISS Progress cargo spacecraft (NASA) The Progress is a Russian expendable unmanned freighter spacecraft; it was derived from the Soyuz spacecraft, and is launched with the Soyuz launch vehicle.
TKS spacecraft The TKS spacecraft was first designed as a Proton rocket launched manned spacecraft, with the VA (Vozvrashaemiy Apparat) capsule on top for the crew, where they would enter the lower portion of the TKS, the FGB (the "Functional Cargo Block"), through a hatch cut in the heat shield.
Unmanned missions are often more effective in carrying out scientific and observational missions than manned space missions, due to lower cost and lower risk factors.
The majority American unmanned missions have been coordinated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and European missions by ESOC, part of ESA (the European Space Agency).
The spacecraft was launched on December 20, 1999 as a secondary payload on a Taurus launch vehicle.
The SAGE III was successfully launched onboard a Meteor-3M spacecraft on December 10, 2001 at 17:18:57 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The twin Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977 and are still sending data regarding new characteristics of the effects of the sun in the distant solar wind.
Although the future course of the Soviet space program was unclear when the Soyuz was conceived in 1959-62 (space stations, lunar missions or even a manned flight around Mars were considered), it was generally agreed on that rendezvous and docking would play a major role.
Neither spacecraft reached orbit due to problems with the UR-500K booster, however, and the original goal of a manned circumlunar flight to comemorate the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution had to be abandoned.
As the L1 program was winding down in early 1969, the focus shifted to the N1 program.
The spacecraft was equipped with a television system that obtained and transmitted photographs of the lunar surface.
Luna program sample return mission; mass listed is for both ascent and descent stages, though only the descent stage was left on the moon Lander and rover weighed 1814 kg; the rest assumed to have decayed in orbit and impacted the moon Was ejected into lunar orbit in 1990, assumed to have decayed from orbit.
China launched another unmanned spacecraft, "Shenzhou III", 10:15PM Monday night (Beijing Time) from Jiuquan Satellite Launching Center of Gansu Province, and ten minutes after blast-off, the spaceship entered its preset orbit.
The "Long March II F" carrier rocket that carries the spacecraft was a new powerful product made in China especially for the manned space program.
The spacecraft was developed and manufactured mainly by the Chinese Research Institute of Space Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, and Shanghai Research Institute of Astronomical Technology.
February 8: A SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket to launch the FalconSat-2 spacecraft for the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) in a space shot to be staged from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
October 19: NASA's THEMIS spacecraft is set to ride a Delta 2 rocket spaceward in a launch to be staged from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
February: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) MITEX spacecraft is slated to launch atop a Boeing-built Delta 2 rocket in a space shot to be staged from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The AS-201 mission demonstrated the structural integrity of the Saturn 1B rocket and the compatibility of the launch vehicle to carry Apollo loads.
The initial two stages of the Saturn rocket were used to boost the spacecraft into Earth orbit, but Apollo machines needed an extra boost to escape the planet's gravity and start toward the moon.
The SPS is the rocket attached to the lunar command module -- the large bell-shaped engine that sticks out from one end of the cylinder-shaped spacecraft.
It has been conservatively estimated by U.S. space experts that for every dollar the U.S. spends on R and D in the space program, it receives $7 back in the form of corporate and personal income taxes from increased jobs and economic growth.
It is truly a remarkable list and not nearly complete but I believe you will begin to appreciate the answers to "Why do we go in space" and "What does the space program do for me?" So the next time you hear these questions being asked, you will be able to explain it.
These technologies are a structural analysis computer program infrared stress measurement system, and a ride quality meter system.
You direct your charaters' actions by choosing from a list of adaptive AI behaviours that lets them interact in real-time.
It implements a general driver application and a set of fragment programs which can be loaded at run-time.
It is offers a high level interface library for making 2D game from low level routines such as OpenGL API hardware accelerated 2D graphics, mouse and keyboard input, audio support, game timing, to game specific routines such as sprite, background, collision detection.
Try the listing, and additional links, maintained by the U.S. Global Change Research Information Office.
This resource is a comprehensive alphabetical listing of intelligence programs, including both those for which detailed descriptions are available, as well as those for which profiles are not yet available.
In 1993, the Secretary of Defense directed all functional areas to select standard information systems and applications, and eliminate legacy systems.


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Daybreak Games revealed a first-look at PlanetSide 2's new island continent in last week's livestream.


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We Tried to Make the Perfect TikTok Hit Using Insights from Our AI
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by Musiio
The TikTok Tsunami
In the wild and wonderful year of 2020, the phrase "TikTok hit" has become almost synonymous with "viral hit". A few months ago, we examined the behemoth of a social media app that is TikTok and how it has shifted the music discovery process. We also analysed the insights we received from our AI after analysing 120 TikTok hits.
Today, we will be putting these insights to work as we try to craft the perfect TikTok hit. We will be experimenting to discover a possible AI-driven songwriting process, and how our insights may benefit other musicians.
Our Production Goals
To recap, here are some of the criteria we want to achieve when making a TikTok hit. These insights were derived from the metadata tags of 120 TikTok hit songs, tags generated by our AI.
Key insight: Hip hop makes up a staggering 50% of all TikTok hits, so our song should be a hip hop track.
Key insight: Majority of the hit songs lie within either 60 to 80 bpm, or 105 to 130 bpm, likely because these bpm ranges are suited to dancing. We should ensure our track is within or near these BPM ranges.
Key insight: The moods we should be aiming for are (in order): Powerful, Energetic and Quirky. We should avoid negative moods such as Sadness, Neutral or Scary.
90% Of The Job Is About Finding the Right Samples (Production Process)
Now that we have no qualms about what we are trying to accomplish, let's begin our road down TikTok fame (or degeneracy). For the purposes of this experiment, we'll be focusing entirely on the beat, ignoring some of the arguably more important parts of hit songwriting, such as the melody and lyrics of the vocal topline. That could be part of a different blogpost in the future.
Before we jump into the process itself, let's breakdown the key components of a hip hop / trap beat:
Kick: In more modern hip hop, usually a distorted 808, could double as a bass
Bass: Together with the Kick, this defines the underlying groove of the song
Snare, hi hat and other percussion
Melodic element: This could be anything from a traditional synth key riff to some obnoxious siren / noise
Now, I can't pretend to know what other producers do, but my workflow for hip hop / trap is pretty simple: focus on the melodic element first. That element will define the mood, and then the rest of the components will naturally fall into place. Since we're aiming for something powerful and quirky, that should help us filter down candidate sounds.
In hip hop, the melodic element usually plays unobtrusively in the background, and is usually something higher pitched that drives the song forward without masking the vocals (hence the tradition with synth keys / organs). Since we're trying to make a TikTok hit, not winning an Academy Award for Best Original Score, quirky doesn't mean trying to reinvent the wheel, but being distinctive enough to not be drowned out in the sea of sound-alike rap beats. And thus, when looking for samples, we will keep in mind that we're looking for something that could work in a similar fashion.
After some hours of digging through sample libraries, and with the hip hop attitude of "represent" (drawing from the culture of your region, which in our case was Southeast Asia), I chanced upon some spicy gamelan samples that were a perfect fit.
With our core melodic element out of the way, finding drum samples that could pair well with our gamelan loop is the next step. Once again, with "powerful" in mind, I went with samples that are more distorted to bring out a rougher vibe, and decided on a distorted 808 for the bass-and-drum part, and some harsh sounding hi hats and snares to round out the drumset.
Now that we have all our parts in place, putting everything together in a nice little package will be left to your imagination, with the end result sounding something like this.
My creation of the "perfect" TikTok hit (produced by brittle bear)
So, How Did We Do?
How did our little beat sample do? We ran that snippet through our AI, and this is how we scored:
The track's tagging results from Musiio's tagging demo
Electronic is a surprise, but since hip hop is present, there is no problem.
Our energy levels being medium could be a problem, but can be fixed by introducing more varied percussion, and also having an angry rapper to bring it up to high energy..
For Mood, we've mostly hit the mark here, but I suppose the powerful could have a higher confidence value than the quirky. But otherwise it's right where we want it to be.
The emotion is tagged as positive. We've avoided giving our track negative moods, which is exactly what we want.
The track is A# major at a tempo of 86 BPM with a small variance. The BPM is defined by the gamelan samples we chose, being slightly out of the optimal range of 60-80 BPM, which can be easily solved by dialing down the bpm in our DAW.
As our experiment has demonstrated, AI has the potential to completely upend traditional songwriting and production workflows, and reshape the music industry. If you'd like to learn how to incorporate AI into your songwriting and production workflow, you can try out our Musiio App. In there, you can tag your favourite songs (or your own songs) and use the audio search to comb through your catalogue for insights. Write to us at info@musiio.com to find out more.
About the Producer and Author
This track and post were created by Shaun Goh, who produces under the name brittle bear. brittle bear is a Singapore-based electronic music producer and songwriter who seeks to bring a cathartic asian flare to bog-standard electronic music.
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I used my Avios and credit card to obtain Iberia business class tickets for two family members Chicago to Madrid. I read somewhere that Iberia requires the credit card used at the time of redemption during check in at the gate or else they will not allow boarding. Is this true? And if so, how does one get around that. To complicate matters, I have since cancelled that credit card. Tickets were secured in June.
I agree with @Ben Holz - I just flew IB last month and was not asked for the card I used to pay the taxes & fees.
I have a similar situation. I called Iberia and they said they could require my credit card (the account holder)-and in lieu of the card they would require a certified letter from the credit card company stating that the $ used for the award tickets was with a credit card in my name. Called AMEX and they refused to give a certified letter but will provide documentation with their letter head and suggest I attach a notarized letter stating the account are mine and I used my credit card and my Avios to procure tickets for the ticket holders. AMEX rep said they have received calls with kids/grandkids at Iberia ticket counter without the account holder that were denied boarding, and as it was last minute AMEX could not help them. YMMV.


The romantic writing process of Summer Crossing makes it an intimate and adventurous journey across the literary world of Truman Capote (New Orleans 1924 – Bel Air 1984). The book is in fact his first novel and he works on it for more than a decade since 1943.
Notwithstanding all this effort he refuses to publish it, stating at one stage to have burnt it. When he dies in 1984 many scholars start to look for the text in vain. It is only in 2004 that the book is accidentally found in his old house in Brooklyn: written on four notebooks, it is about the story of Grady Mcneil. Right after its finding, the book is published.
As in his major works – Other voices, other rooms (1948), Breakfast at Tiffany (1958), In cold blood (1966) – Summer Crossing style is bold and poetic. It has a narrative rhythm able to picture with mastery and precision his characters' inner souls. He describes them almost as using a dolly zoom that can move close while being at a distance so that suddenly and unexpectedly one is overwhelmed by the clear revelation of their thoughts and emotions.
In this way we get to know Grady Mcneil. A young New Yorker, wealthy and spoiled, with impeccable WASP credentials and part of New York jet set which Capote will never stop picturing in all its appeal and flaws. In this sense his literary research recalls in part that of F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) in particular. They both are used to exploring worldliness describing it through a narrative dynamic that makes its vanity evident without pointing it out but just by telling the story with a profound sensibility.
Grady is stubborn, impetuous and fussy and in part reminds the famous Holly Golightly of Breakfast at Tiffany (1958). She is used by Capote to describe the search for balance to realise by the means of independence desire's satisfaction. Grady builds an image of herself arrogant and unconventional that can free her from the expectations of others. Yet, she is the first unable to part from what is expect from her. Clyde Manzer, a young Jewish war veteran is the way through which she aims at undertaking this path of emancipation from her worldly image.
Clyde works as attendant at a parking garage in Broadway. "Broadway is a road; but also a district, an atmosphere". Known also as The Canyon of Hero: one of the few streets that runs sinuously through Manhattan among its famous square blocks, reminding of the strange inconsistency of desires and dreams making their way across logical reasoning.
Their love revels progressively in this way deep and overwhelming, dragging them down, toward a strange direction. Strange because, once there, they will hardly recognise one another, yet they need to. In the parking garage where they first meet they fall in love not considering the implications their lives bond them to. But those implication show more and more clearly, proportionally to the incapacity of the two lovers to accepting them. The emotional density of Clyde family seems like suffocating Grady's individualism. Her inability to show her tenderness and need for belonging to someone makes him to flaunt more and more intensively his audacity and detachment.
This story is about love in diversity, of the never-ending attraction of opposite forces: wealth and modesty, intellectualism and pragmatism, arrogance and tenderness, attachment and independence. It is about the way in which these extremes can meet, at times unite in the intimacy of a couple but often break in millions of sharp fragments as they get in contact with the refracting prism of external world.
The writing of this story accompanies Truman Capote along all his life gathering his multifaceted evolutions and numerous attempts to give uniformity to that prism. Reading this book is a valuable experience, not only in literary terms but also because it is tells indirectly a lot about him, his life lived against the flow, his genius, his diversity. An artist who was able to see beyond the borders that separate centres and the peripheries of things and people imagining pioneering visions to identify their bonds and connections.


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This share of the total vote rises to nearly one-half, or 48.7 percent, when factoring out those who said their companies weren't planning to offer flu shots in the first place.
35% - We had planned to, but the sudden shortage has forced a cancellation.
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21% - We still plan to, but things are uncertain now.
17% - We're still planning to provide shots.
The poll, held from Thursday, October 8, to Thursday, October 15, drew a total of 373 votes.
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Encourage employees who do become sick to stay home, so their illness won't spread. Too often, their work ethic or the "unwritten code" of the workplace makes it a badge of honor to come to work sick.


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Want to improve customer experience? Who remembers the good old days before the internet changed the entire face of marketing and sales? And what made entrepreneurs and business successful in those days?
It's simple. Businesses never questioned the issue of service. Without great customer service, their businesses did not survive. Improve customer experience and watch personal referrals, loyal customers and business grow.
We have all received a referral before and it was the cheapest and easiest sale we ever made. The referral came about because someone told a friend or family member that our brand can be trusted. Delivering excellent customer experience is a guaranteed way to natural, organic business growth.
We need to start turning the clock back and learn from our grandparents. If we improve customer experience, we can grow our businesses without having to pay for Pay Per Click, new leads, loyalty programmes and all manner of modern marketing initiatives. Putting your customer at the centre of all your business decisions is quite simply the most profitable way to grow your business.
Whilst it's much more pleasant reading compliments about your company, it's the complaints and suggestions that provide insight into how you can grow your business. Anyone wanting to be a great Feedback Ferret listens to negative comments, finds out why they have been made and takes action to put matters right.
And with the success of Microsoft, he can't be too wrong, can he?
Your front-line staff will make or break your brand. Happy employees produce happy customers. Caring is central to delivering exceptional customer experience. Invest in the right staff from the outset and your business will become customer centric.
Ensure your employees are given proper training, proper responsibilities, proper incentives and rewards, and proper recognition. Make them feel valued as an important part of delivering a great customer experience.
Whether you are a business owner or a Customer Experience Manager, find out what is happening on your shop floor. Listen to customer service calls. Walk around the shop floor. Put yourself in the shoes of your customer. And if you see or hear something you don't like, consider it an opportunity to improve customer experience!
And while you're out there, get to know your staff – speak to them, encourage them, motivate them and watch their morale soar. After all, we've just heard how happy employees produce happy customers!
Just saying those words limits the introduction of new and fresh idea. If you want to improve your customer experience, you need to think outside the box, innovate and update your processes.
Ferret Tip 6: What's the ROI of Customer Experience?
Someone will always ask. But if a business owner needs to ask that question, point him in the direction of Virgin, Amazon, Zappos. Do they calculate the return? No, they understand its value. Loyal customers, repeat business, personal referrals, positive reviews, better morale amongst employees etc. Invest in giving the best customer experience and we will bet you can watch your business grow. Remember, an investment in the customer is an investment in growth.
Research has shown that ill-timed, long, tedious, tick-box surveys can damage your brand. So start collating customer feedback the Ferret way!
Our experience has shown that simple, one minute, surveys generate high response rates and in-depth feedback. Feedback forms, which focus on one rating score followed by open-ended commentary, allow customers to put their thoughts in their own words, capturing insights that other methods miss.
And strike while the iron is hot – ask for feedback as soon after their interaction as possible. And make it convenient for customers to complete – any time, any channel.
Above all, make giving feedback a positive brand experience for the customer.
Collecting customer feedback is the first step. But if you don't do anything with it, you may as well save yourself the money.
When done well, customer feedback gives you rich insight into what you are doing well and what you need to do to improve customer experience and make customers come back time and again.
Let customer feedback drive business decisions. Collect it, analyse it, discuss it, act upon it. And reap the rewards it gives you.
I go to a restaurant, enjoy a nice meal with a cold bottle of wine and the waitress is cordial and friendly. I am happy.
The next week I go to a different restaurant where I also enjoy a nice meal and a cold bottle of wine. In addition, the restaurant manager brings over colouring books for my two children to keep them amused and after overhearing us mentioning my wife's birthday, they brought out her desert with a candle in it and 3 members of staff sang Happy Birthday to her. I am thrilled. The staff turned an ordinary customer experience into a knockout customer experience, simply by caring and going above and beyond my expectations.
And which restaurant do you think I will talk about with my friends and family?
Ferret Tip 10: Use a rating to measure performance – but not exclusively!
Metrics are a must have for businesses of all sizes to establish how good your overall customer experience is and to measure increases or decreases over time. Feedback Ferret asks customers to rate their experience on a scale of 0 to 10. Detractors will rate their experience 0-6, passives will rate it 7-8 and promoters will rate it 9-10. The Ferret then asks "Why did you give that rating?" This is where you obtain insight into what makes customers happy or unhappy. The Ferret asks for verbatim comments and allows customers to say – in their own words – what they liked or did not like about their experience.
What we need to say here is that one should not be used without the other. When you balance the ratings score with verbatim comments, you find out WHAT customers think and WHY. Without the WHY, what can you base your operational and structural business decisions on?
Here at Feedback Ferret, we say the ratings score provides the compass points. But it's the comments that provide the map to get to the points.
Engage in conversations with your customers not only via traditional feedback channels but also on social media. Social media is here to stay. Be visible. Make it fun. And remember, for some of your customers, social media is quite simply their preferred communication tool. If you ignore them, it's tantamount to hanging up on the phone or deleting their email without reading it.
Sometimes, the ROI on a customer experience strategy is only visible in the medium to longer term. But when it comes to strategic growth, investing in your customer is the most assured way of generating long term growth. Getting your customer experience right may, in the short term, negatively impact your bottom line.
And always remember, when the customer comes first, the customer will last. Treat him right and he will keep coming back for more. Improve customer experience and your business will keep growing.


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