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Greatest Rock Bands Of The 21st Century
1 Linkin Park Linkin Park is an American rock band formed in Agoura Hills, California, in 1996. The members currently include Mike Shinoda (vocals, keyboards, rhythm guitar), Brad Delson (guitar), Dave "Phoenix" Farrell (bass), Joe Hahn (DJ) and Rob Bourdon (drums). Linkin Park are associated with a mixture of Alternative ...read more.
In a world were hip hop is mainstream, they've found a way to convert rap fans to Linkin Park fans by having hip hop elements in a rock band and at the same time impressing hard-core rock fans too. While A Thousand Suns might have been a bit of disappointment for many it was still great music, just a whole lit different from what they had done in the past. But they've said that in they're upcoming album (which will hopefully come out this year) they're getting back to their roots. Linkin Park is without a doubt the best of the 21st century, and is the band to watch in 2012.
Linkin Park is the greatest rock band of all time(after The Beatles). Why? Because they have never sung about love, drugs, alcohol, deaths, churches, and other stupid things. They have never worn stupid ""ROCK"" clothes. They have never painted their faces and never grown long hair. And the most important thing is that Chester didn't growl and he didn't scream like a stupid pig. He screamed like a demon, but a good demon. So SHUT UP those who say that LP isn't one of the best. Because they are the BEST.
They're easily the best band on this list and they're at the top of somewhere around ten lists on this website. They're where they deserve to be. No one in the world can beat them. I just can't express in words how much I love them. They mean the world to me. I can't live without listening to LP even for a day. I can literally listen to Chester's voice all day long without a break. Sure there are a lot of good bands on this list but NONE can be compared to LP.
SOLDIER FOREVER...!
I consider them as perfectionists of rock music. They invented new musical style combining hip-hop, rock, metal and electronica. I've heard their every song, each song sounds unique to me. My most favourite songs of LP are: In the End, Crawling, Runaway, Numb, Breaking the Habit, Somewhere I Belong, Given Up, QWERTY, Waiting for the End, Castle of Glass, Lies Greed Misery & a rare but I consider it one of the best works of LP, She Couldn't.
2 Green Day Green Day are an American pop punk, punk rock band formed in East Bay, California in 1987. The members include Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals and guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass), Tré Cool (drums) and Jason White (guitar) . Green Day are associated with punk rock, pop punk and alternative rock. Some of their ...read more.
Green Day is in my opinion clearly one of the greatest bands of all time. Their lyrics can be beautiful but also very political (I love their political views by the way) and every single song/album sounds amazing. Also they're the best live band I've ever heard. Yet another thing that is amazing about them is that they put so much effort in every song and every music video and every live performance.
They're definitely my favourite band.
Green Day... The extremely talented alt rock band people confuse to be punk one... They are awesome... But not more then Linkin Park... Green Day is a little old... Before 21st century but Linkin Park is the band made in 21st century... Anyway... Check out "Boulevard of broken dreams"," 21 guns" and "American idiot"
Green Day truly is one of the best rock bands out there. Personally, they're my favourite band. They were excellent when 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours came out all the way up to their most recent albums Uno! Dos! And Tre! The band knows how to make the most poetic lyrics like Redundant and Wake Me Up When September Ends and Last Night on Earth as well as loud political songs like American Idiot Holiday and Know the Enemy. Green Day also influenced lots of bands during the 90s and songs like When I come around, brain stew, basket case! And Longview are very catchy. Green Day is amazing. all albums.
Green Day is the kind of modern rock band that will live on. That's what makes them stand out. They started am era and experimented with so many styles. Call them whatever genre you will, but to me, all of their albums are truly punk rock.
3 Slipknot Slipknot is an American Heavy/Nu-Metal band formed in 1995 from Iowa. The band is best known as one of the pioneers of the New Wave of American Alternative Metal during the late 1990s - 2000s and are distinguishable by the band's clothing choices, consisting of black/red jumpsuits and horror inspired ...read more.
Oh please. Slipknot deserves better than 15. Slipknot should be after Linkin Park. Their best are in my quick list psychosocial, people=s***, sulfur, heretic anthem, sic are better than given up, what I've done and faint.
My thoughts on this list 1. Linkin Park no. 1 as usual these guys aren't metal anymore and there overrated 2. Green Day used to be good with songs like Basketcase and Wake me when September ends but kinda meh now 3. A7x overrated but are okay 4. Are you serious?!
5. Not too bad 6. Meh 7. Meh 8... 9. yeah! 10. Am I drunk or something?!
Amazing band. I love everything about their music. There will never be another band like them. Isn't there any maggots on this site?
Slipknot are everything metal represents and more. Pleased to see them on this list.
4 Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold is an American heavy metal band, that was formed 1999 in California. Their longest lineup of members was M. Shadows (Vocals), Synyster Gates (Lead Guitar), Zacky Vengeance (Rhythm Guitar), Johnny Christ (Bass Guitar), and The Rev (Drums). ...read more.
Lots of people question whether A7X is rock or metal, but for me their albums from city of evil to Nightmare can be considered Hard rock, with the first 2 albums metalcore and hail to the king as heavy metal. But even if we discount the metal albums, avenged sevenfold have the instumental talent of old rock and metal bands like pantera and megadeth, with the vocal and lyrical genius of modern rock bands like Linkin park and Three days grace. definitely should be 1st aove linkin park and green day ( who are also great bands)
I used to not listen to any rock music, but Avenged Sevenfold got me hooked. I've listened to all their songs, can't even decide a favorite. They're all amazing. The thing that makes them so amazing is that there are some Hard Rock bands, some Heavy Metal bands, some slow rock bands, and then there's Avenged Sevenfold which combines it all into one amazing band.
Even though they are the boy band of metal they still get my number one vote. I've never shown someone one of they're songs and not had them like it in some way. Very interested to see how the writing goes without the Rev though.
No other band could write, sing or perform as well as a7x does. With M. Shadows immense vocals, the awesome rifts of gates and vengeance and the unreal drumming and songwriting of the rev, this band Is truly unbeatable in this list
5 Muse Muse are an English alternative rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994. The members are Matt Bellamy (lead vocal, lead guitar, piano, keyboard), Dom Howard (drums, percussion) and Chris Wolstenholme (bass, backing vocals). They've won several awards including 5 MTV Awards, 8 NME Awards, 2 ...read more.
The amount of talent in this band could blow away all the other bands in the top 10 combined. Everyone in the band is a master at what they do, and so far the band has produced all fantastic albums. The amount of musical diversity throughout their music is thoroughly fascinating, and their ability to play the different genres is even more so. And unlike just about every other band in the top 10 except Linkin Park and Green Day, their fan base is not horrible.
They should've been on number 1, not Linkin Park! Yes I'm a Muser, but I try to be objective here. Muse are better live than Linkin Park, they have better songs and lyrics than Linkin Park. Almost all Linkin Park songs sounds the same (I know they do some experiments on Minutes to Midnight till Living Things but the experiments don't sound that different for me, maybe because they have a DJ and they never excluding rock in their experiments) unlike Muse which experiment from Alternative rock to Orchestral to Electronic and it sounds completely different. Listen to Stockholm Syndrome then Follow Me then Exogenesis Symphony for example. Muse also have great guitar solo and great bassline. Hysteria was voted the greatest bassline of all time in 2011. Linkin Park don't have any great solo and bassline. Rock music isn't complete without epic bassline and guitar solo in my opinion. I think Linkin Park win just because they can make more fans (they made LPU and whoever register to LPU have a ...more
The most original band on this list besides Green Day. Their music is unpredictable and challenges the listener's taste in music. Truly talented on all instruments, unsurpassed especially on guitar.
I just love them so much - all their songs in their albums are amazing! I listen to them everyday and don't seem to get enough of their marvelous unique sound, and I can't wait for their next project!
6 Nickelback Nickelback is a Canadian rock band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta, Canada. The band is composed of guitarist and lead vocalist Chad Kroeger, guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist Ryan Peake, bassist Mike Kroeger, and drummer Daniel Adair.
Don't listen to the hate. Who said being generic was a bad thing? These songs still clearly have a lot of talent and effort out into them!
They are the most successful post grunge band and for a reason, they are so diverse in rock genres ranging from hard rock/metal songs to ballads and post grunge/grunge songs... Chad has an insane voice and he makes up the greatest lyrics and they got the billboard award for the best band for a reason! And that reason is that they're the best
My most favourite band and after I them live I have seen their songs differently than before. My mom introduced me to nickelback and have glued to them and their songs ever since and will be until they finish. Looking forward to their 10th album. Love all the last 9 albums. Also love Bon Jovi, Queen, Guns and Roses and Skillet.
My father introduced me to Nickelback, and I've been with them from then, even until now. I don't understand why Nickelback get so much hate, they are a great band and I will continue to listen to and enjoy their music for as long as I can.
7 Breaking Benjamin Breaking Benjamin is a American post-grunge/alternative metal/rock band formed in 1998. The bands members all changed in the time between 2010 to 2014, with the exception of Ben Burnley (Vocals). The Ex-Members included Chad Szeliga (Drums), Aaron Fink (Guitar) and Mark Klepaspi (Bass). ...read more.
Derserve a lot more credit than they get, Phobia is one the greatest albums of the last decade. From So Cold to Diary Of Jane to Give Me A Sing, each of their albums has had great songs with true meaning.
Are you kidding me... Breaking Benjamin is BEST. Deserve to be #1. Songs like Dear Agony, Anthem of the Angels, Give Me A Sign are great songs with true meaning.
These guys deserve to be #1. They are by far the best band to ever form (with A7X right behind them) and they deserve to be recognized more
Breaking Benjamin are a wicked band along with papa roach who are unfortunately not in the top 10.
8 Foo Fighters Foo Fighters are an American rock band, formed in Seattle in 1994. The band was founded by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl after the death of Kurt Cobain and the dissolution of his previous band. The band consists of Dave Grohl (lead vocalist, rhythm guitar, main songwriter), Pat Smear (rhythm guitar), Nate ...read more.
Each to their own opinion, but my opinion is that the Foo Fighters are not only my favorite band of the 21st century by a huge margin, they are also my favorite musicians of all time! When I hear songs like 'Bridge Burning' (one of many, many, many exceptional FF songs) I HAVE to get up and headbang!
Number 22? Are you people serious? These guys are so much better than Green Day, Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, and Nickelback (especially Nickelback) and Dave Grohl is simply a legend. Listen to kickass songs like Pretender, Everlong, Walk and you'll be hooked.
Really 30 Seconds To Mars? They have no credibility. Linkin Park is now just poppy bs that's not worth listening to. Green Day is good but they've only made 2 good albums. The Foo Fighters have 6. They also have 6 Grammy's.
Obviously not given enough credit. If you like Nirvana then you'd love Foo Fighters. They have a ton of hit songs like Everlong, Walk, and the Pretender. Definitely a top 5 band.
9 Coldplay Coldplay are a British rock band formed in 1996. The band consists of Chris Martin (lead vocalist and pianist), Jonny Buckland (lead guitarist), Guy Berryman (bassist) and Will Champion (drummer and backing vocalist). Manager Phil Harvey is often considered an unofficial fifth member. The band renamed ...read more.
What I will say is they need to utilise Guy on bass more like they did on X&Y, but they are still an incredible band with songs so easy to sing along to and they are just a brilliant go to.
Coldplay is put simply the best band in the world! Their music is fantastic and can easily be sung, their world tours have mesmerized us all. And every fan is respected by this fantastic collection that is Coldplay!
Best band should be in the top ten! They have made so many hits and so many of their best songs are their most underrated! They are incredibly talented and their meaningful lyrics brings their songs to a new level
One of the greatest hit making bands to ever do it. Not only top 10 band of the millenium, but a top 10 band all time
10 Red Hot Chili Peppers The Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American funk-rock and alternative rock band, that was founded in 1983. ...read more.
This band has been around for a long time, and their music hasn't died. In fact, they're better than ever. Flea's tremendous bass licks, Anthony Kiedis' singing + rapping, Chad Smith always with the best rhythm and their guitarists have made the sound of RHCP the way it has been forever. Blood Sugar Sex Magik shows off their funkiness and sex-driven music, while Californication expresses their beautiful songwriting.
The most important band in my life, influenced and motivated me a lot. No words can perfectly describe how brilliant, emotional and true their art is.
Good, but too many songs about California; My Chemical Romance even dedicated a song to them, titled, 'We Don't Need Another Song About California'.
simply brillant! they released songs such as californication that are internationally recognised. Just listen to them performing live and yo will just know what rocking is about! Long life to Anthony, Flea, John and Chad.
11 Metallica Metallica is an American Thrash Metal band formed in 1981 . The original lineup was James Hetfield (Vocalist and Rhythm guitarist), Dave Mustaine (Lead Guitar), Lars Ulrich (Drums), Ron McGovney (Bassist). The group came into mainstream from their Self-Titled album and the hit single "Enter Sandman". ...read more.
Whoever put them way down here needs to never judge rock again
12 Disturbed Disturbed is an American alternative metal/nu-metal/heavy metal band from Chicago, Illinois. The band comprises vocalist David Draiman, bassist John Moyer, guitarist Dan Donegan, and drummer Mike Wengren. They are known for songs like "Down With the Sickness" and "Stricken" .
I'm a girl, I like pink, but I like black too, and I like heavy rock, and if you like to bang your head to some heavy rock, see and hear a cool ass looking guy sing some awesome lyrics and the band play some totally cool songs, incredible rifts on the guitar, wild drumming and their unique way to make music sound so totally heavy rock, you've got to check them out if you've never heard them. If you like Metallica, slipknot, any heavy metal bands, you'll love these guys! One of my all time favorites now! My husband laughs when I come home and he can hear it playing in the car!
How is Disturbed so low... I don't even like this band, and I still think they should be in the top ten. They're so much more successful and popular than 3DG and Muse and My Chemical Romance. What is this list? Is Trump voting here?
26, really? They are reminding us old, great music like hard rock/heavy metal/thrash metal. And they're doing it well. They're one best bands from 21st century with A7X and also in my opinion Rise Against. If you're still not conviced, just listen to their "Ten Thousand Fists" and "Indestructible" albums, and you will know what I mean.
Apart from the drummer, this band has an unbelievable singer, a guitarist withsolos that are soulful and just mindblowing lyrics. They got evrything 1 seeks in heavy metal!
13 Blink-182 Blink-182 are a Pop Punk band formed in 1992. Original lineup were Mark Hoppus (Bass Guitar, Vocals) ...read more.
Dude blink got me through some tuff times. They are literally the best band in the history of life itself I love their lyrics hands down they are number 1
They are the idols of many bands that are named here. Blink are just the best
Blink 182 is the best. The drums are so tight, and Adam's Song is a work of art
Sum 41 is better
14 Three Days Grace Three Days Grace is a Canadian rock band formed in Norwood, Ontario in 1992 with a line-up consisting of guitarist and lead vocalist Adam Gontier, drummer and backing vocalist Neil Sanderson, and bassist Brad Walst. Their original name was Groundswell until they changed it to their current name in 1997. ...read more.
Three days grace are the musical therapists. The new singer is also decent. Love all their albums. Adam gontiers voice is addictive.
They should be two and Green Day at the bottom. Green Day is gay and all the members deserve to die.
This is the greatest rock band of the 21st century with all its albums being very consistent.
Meaningful lyrics and kick ass instrumental. Their new album is amazing "transit of venus"
15 Blind Guardian Blind Guardian is a German power metal band formed in the mid-1980s in West Germany. They are often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in the power metal and speed metal subgenres. Heavily influenced by Queen, they use the technique of overdubbing. They also incorporate large ...read more.
16 Kiss Kiss is an American hard rock band formed in New York City in January 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and the band's original manager, Lew Linet.
17 Paramore Paramore is an American rock band from Franklin, Tennessee, formed in 2004. The band currently consists of lead vocalist Hayley Williams, guitarist Taylor York, and drummer Zac Farro.
My favourite band is in 17th place its not possible... Best vocals by Hayley, best music by Taylor and Jeremy... Its should be at no... Green day is good band but not better than paramore... All albums are good and my favorite album brand new eyes... So please vote for paramore it really deserve number 1 place...
They had a break-up but they stayed strong and released a new song in 2011. "Monster" was part of the Transformers Movie soundtrack and was a YouTube hit.
Excuse me, 30 Seconds to Mars and Muse. You are standing in the way of the true biggest Rock Band today! Paramore deserves to be on top, not just because of Hayley's awesome voice and equally awesome hair, but because of their songs that reflect the feelings of teenagers in the present generation. Now, please step aside because PARAMORE IS THE ONLY TRULY AT THE #1 SPOT.
Haley Williams is a vocal god and the band as a whole enbodies their era of music.
18 3 Doors Down 3 Doors Down is an American rock band from Escatawpa, Mississippi that formed in 1996. The band originally consisted of Brad Arnold (vocals/drums), Todd Harrell (bass guitar) and Matt Roberts (guitar). They were soon joined by guitarist Chris Henderson, and later by drummer Richard Liles.
19 Fall Out Boy Fall Out Boy is an American pop rock band formed in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, in 2001. The band consists of vocalist and guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist Pete Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman, and drummer Andy Hurley.
Fall Out Boy is the type of band that is your favourite for a while and makes you want to play their music over and over again. Then you slowly grow out of them until you hear "Sugar We're Going Down" on the radio and you go crazy because you remember how much you love them.
Fall out boy is my favorite band ever! But I like loads of other bands like Green Day, Linkin Park, panic! at the disco, Paramore and load of other alternative bands. I love FOB's music the most because it is original and can make you feel alive, I absolutely adore Patrick's voice.
This band is such a great one. Patrick has an incredible voice, one that truly captures emotions and thoughts. And their titles are extremely creative. This band definitely deserves first place. Don't think so? Go on YouTube and listen to "The Phoenix" or "Alone Together."
Fall Out Boy are the kind of band that you can't get enough of. I only have my brother to thank for introducing me to this amazing band.
20 My Chemical Romance My Chemical Romance was an American rock band from Jersey City, New Jersey, active from 2001 to 2013. For much of their career, the band consisted of lead vocalist Gerard Way, guitarists Ray Toro and Frank Iero, bassist Mikey Way, and drummer Bob Bryar.
Well despite the strokes and radiohead are insultingly low on this list when they should be on top 5. I find hearth warming that My Chemical Romance is here. Gerard Way is an angel. I'm a guy, and no, I'm not gay. He is an angel cause he talks to me in a way no one has ever done. He gives hope, he gives comfort and he saves all the broken. This is seriously the best band of all time in my humble opinion. Not just Gerard, they are all angels of music. "Helena" is a piece of heaven. The rock part.. I guess
My Chemical Romance is truly special because of the amount of love and pure devotion they have shown to their huge and devoted fan base. They are the most special band in my life, and their music has a way of reaching out and touching anyone that listens to it. Each album has its own special sound, and that makes every album unique. If there ever was a band that truly saved people'a lives, My Chemical Romance is that band.
I don't know of another band that has touched their fans the way My Chemical Romance did! Gerard Way, the creative and lyrical mastermind behind My Chemical Romance, inspired people in a way I've never seen before. My Chemical Romance may be over, but it lives on in our hearts because it changed us in ways we didn't think were possible!
I can honestly say that My Chemical Romance saved my life. There are no words to describe the feeling I get when I listen to their music. Their lyrics are just so real.. I've never loved any band as much as My Chemical Romance. And all the member are very talented and special in their own ways.
21 Bon Jovi Bon Jovi is a hard rock band formed in 1983, which had a streak of successful albums in the late 1980s. The band originally consisted of lead vocalist Jon Bon Jovi, guitarist Ritchie Sambora (left in 2013), bassist Alec John Such (left in 1994), keyboard David Bryan, and drummer Tico Torres. The band's ...read more.
I know most of his songs are 80s songs but he is still one of the greatest rock and roll artists of all time. I love his music. His best songs are livin on a prayer and it's my life. I don't get why he is not even in the top 20 in this list. When will the minimum quantity reach.
IT is one of the best
22 Skillet Skillet is an American Christian rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1996 and based in the United States.
Such an incredible band! I started listening to them when the "Awake and Alive" album came out and have loved everything since. I can't believe they're as low as they are on this list.
This is one uniquely talented band who have managed to break stereotypes around bands with Christian members. John Cooper is an excellent bassist/singer/songwriter with a very talented couple of ladies to back him up. Their lead guitarist Seth Morrison is very good, too. Listen to Circus For A Psycho if you don't believe me. Great lyrics and powerful music is what they stand for.
WHOA!... I just checked all d bands above skillet and none, not even 1 of dem can beat dis band. Hero, awake and alive, rebirthing, comatose, rise, what I believe, not gonna die, fingernails... I can't name them all. All there songs are just amazing. They try to reach out to people with the lyrics, instruments and their voices. This band is keeps getting better and better and they won't fade anytime soon. They are the best
So low down on this list? Anyway, Skillet is wicked awesome! The lyrics, arrangements, guitars, and vocals all help to make Skillet so great.
23 Evanescence Evanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody.
Evanescence brings a unique style of Rock music with every album they make, providing classical, metal, and electronic influences led by the powerful vocals of Amy Lee. Their most recent album, 'Evanescence', released in 2011, is as fantastic and memorizing as ever, and never cease to amaze me with their composition in every song. I always look forward to every new piece of content from each of the members and will support them until the end.
Honestly, Why Linkin Park number 1? Evanescence is least number 2! My favorite bands but Evanescence is very other...
Great songs. I love Amy's voices because she's singing like an angel. Fallen is awesome album. Amy's singing, Ben's guitars is amazing!
Come on man this band is number 1!
Evanescence has really come a long way with their new album, titled 'Evanescence' as a demonstration that the new lineup is more united and intense than it has ever been. At the heart of the band will always be Amy Lee, the voice and founder, and only remaining original member.
Amy lee has the best voice ever, everything about them is amazing, love, energy, good lyrics, vocals, instrumental, everything about evanescence is simply AMAZING!
24 System of a Down System of a Down, formed in 1994, is an Armenian-American Alternative Metal group from Glendale, California. The band name is sometimes shortened to System or SOAD. ...read more.
First album is hardcore, than the second album was their best album, (toxicity, chop suey), then their leaked album(toxicity ll) was renamed with Steal This Album, Then their double album, Mezmerize/Hypnotize, they won a Grammy for Song BYOB... And so more, Nowadays they are touring around a globe... And they will make another album around 2013
The best band ever. All songs by System of a down are special. They always can fix my mood, just listen one song and I'm happy person. I just love them!
Simply the best 21st century band
Probably the best ever exist!
Best bands of all time with amazing music and voice... best song of all time is toxicity
25 Rise Against Rise Against is an American hardcore punk band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1999. The band's current line-up comprises vocalist/rhythm guitarist Tim McIlrath, lead guitarist Zach Blair, bassist Joe Principe, and drummer Brandon Barnes. They are known for popularizing punk. Some of their most well-known ...read more.
My vote goes for them because they are far my favorite band, but to be honest they are not the most skilled musicians compared to some of those above. I would still love to see them higher on this list.
Definitely deserve to be higher up on this list! Extremely well written songs with lyrics that actually mean something!
Best punk band around and they deserve the number 1spot. Them or Alter Bridge
Everyone so to shallow minded to know of all the great bands like rise against, korn and rob zombie
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Tags: "Students design robot to collect microplastics from beaches", "The Chronicle" ( 2 ), A land-based prototype to remove microplastics from the sand on beaches., A submersible robot that will remove microplastics from sea water., Applied Research & Technology ( 10,619 ), Cornell University ( 28 ), Designing and building an autonomous robot., Electrical Engineering ( 108 ), Mechanical Engineering ( 104 ), Physics ( 3,169 ), Robotics ( 93 ), There are 50 trillion pieces of microplastics embedded in our sand; our marine life; our oceans and even in our drinking water.
From "The Chronicle" At Cornell University: "Students design robot to collect microplastics from beaches"
From "The Chronicle"
Linda Copman
cunews@cornell.edu
When Angela Loh '23 was 10 years old, she and her family moved to Shanghai from Michigan. She was immediately struck by how much more pollution she saw in Shanghai.
"When I stepped outside my home, the skies were grey and I could smell the stench of PM2.5 particles hanging in the air. I would walk on certain local streets and see litter everywhere," she says. She noticed that most residents seemed complacent. "Nobody seemed to care."
But Loh did care, deeply, about environmental sustainability.
As a freshman, Loh and Alan Hsiao '21 founded Cornell Nexus, a group of students from diverse colleges and majors who are designing and building an autonomous robot that will remove microplastics from the sand on beaches. The team hopes to have a working land-based prototype built by spring 2023, when they will turn their attention to creating a submersible robot that will remove microplastics from sea water.
"We are a team of individuals who want to step outside the boundaries of university competitions to make a difference on our planet," Loh says.
Angela Loh '23 wires a component of the autonomous robot prototype. Provided.
Microplastics, tiny bits of plastic the size of a sesame seed or smaller, are proliferating and pose a significant risk to ecosystems and to human and animal health. "There are 50 trillion pieces of microplastics embedded in our sand, our marine life, our oceans and even in our drinking water," Loh says. A recent survey of the sea floor in the Mediterranean west of Italy found 1.9 million microplastics in one square meter. "This is just one layer of sand in a single square meter of the Mediterranean," she says. "Imagine how much microplastic has accumulated in all of our bodies, our water and our land."
Beach cleaning operations focus on removing the waste we can see, such as plastic water bottles and trash, often using gas-powered tractors that bury microplastics beneath the top layer of sand. In contrast, the Cornell Nexus robot will use renewable solar energy to collect and remove microplastic waste. "We believe that Nexus' focus on autonomy and microplastics will revolutionize the technology for waste removal from beaches and bodies of water," Loh says.
Planting the seed
Loh recalls making hand-drawn posters promoting recycling and distributing them to her neighbors when she was in elementary school. Moving to Shanghai – a city she loves – was a wake-up call. "I realized what big issues plastics, and pollution and waste in general, are on our planet," she says, "and I really wanted to do something about them."
In the summer after graduating from high school, Loh read a biography of Elon Musk and the founding of Tesla. "Reading this allowed me to realize the boundless possibilities there are in the field of engineering," she says. Loh spent the next few months binge-reading biographies about inventors, entrepreneurs and engineers, from Steve Jobs to Leonardo da Vinci and Nike founder Phil Knight. She realized that engineering would be her springboard for creating change.
After perusing the College of Engineering website, Loh switched her major from environmental science to electrical and computer engineering and computer science. "Reading about the engineering project teams before I arrived at Cornell planted a seed in my brain that maybe one day it wouldn't be impossible to start my own," Loh says.
Alan Hsiao was a junior and one of the first people Loh met as a freshman at Cornell. "When we first started Nexus, I didn't know anything – not even basic knowledge about programming or wiring circuit boards – let alone building an entire vehicle that was going to traverse beaches and charge itself," Loh says. "Alan would spend hours and hours mentoring me and teaching me concepts that I hadn't even heard of. … Through his kindness, wisdom and compassion, he has definitely left his impact on me, our Nexus team, the Cornell campus and our planet."
Unleashing creativity, with help from alumni
Nexus team members are now building a prototype with a multilayered filtering system to catch a range of different sizes of microplastics. When full, the robot will return to its docking station to offload the collected plastics and recharge.
"Creating our robot requires knowledge about concepts and implementation mechanisms that are usually taught in graduate-level courses," Loh says. Team members conduct their own in-depth research and seek out faculty who can guide their work. Joseph Skovira, Ph.D. '90, senior lecturer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the group's faculty adviser, is helping them refine their product.Greg Whelan '83 of Greywale Advisors and part of the McCarthy's Venture Mentoring Network has been helping them navigate business outreach and fundraising.
Alan Hsiao '21 solders a component of the autonomous robot prototype. Provided.
To ensure they have funding to purchase specialized hardware and software components, Nexus members have been developing relationships with companies that might sponsor the project once they have a prototype. In spring 2021, Nexus won first prize in the Cornell Engineering Innovation Competition. The Yunni and Maxine Pao Social Innovation Award, funded by Carolyn Wang '00 and Jeff Pao '00, allowed them to buy better wheels, a more robust material for the robot's frame, filtration nets and more accurate sensors.
Doing the greatest good
Nexus is testing and refining their prototype in the 2022-2023 academic year, using a sand bed to test the robot's moving, digging and filtering mechanisms. Then they will place their robot at several beaches, including some recommended by alumni from the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration.
This rendering illustrates what the Cornell Nexus robot will look like when completed. Provided.
Once the land-based robot is completed, the team hopes to launch their robot into the water, where the vast majority of microplastics are. "Our vision is to expand our technology to address the heart of the microplastics problem, which is underwater," Loh says. "Very few commercial robots are tackling this issue, on a macro and micro scale."
There are multiple design possibilities for a seafaring robot, including a water-based recharging and waste removal station, which could be more efficient than returning the robot to land.
The Nexus team plans to make their design freely available to the public. "This includes all of our software code, mechanical CAD files, electrical circuit board designs, and so forth," Loh says. "Our goal is to make an impact and do our part to save our planet."
Once called "the first American university" by educational historian Frederick Rudolph, Cornell University represents a distinctive mix of eminent scholarship and democratic ideals. Adding practical subjects to the classics and admitting qualified students regardless of nationality, race, social circumstance, gender, or religion was quite a departure when Cornell was founded in 1865.
Today's Cornell reflects this heritage of egalitarian excellence. It is home to the nation's first colleges devoted to hotel administration, industrial and labor relations, and veterinary medicine. Both a private university and the land-grant institution of New York State, Cornell University is the most educationally diverse member of the Ivy League.
On the Ithaca campus alone nearly 20,000 students representing every state and 120 countries choose from among 4,000 courses in 11 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools. Many undergraduates participate in a wide range of interdisciplinary programs, play meaningful roles in original research, and study in Cornell programs in Washington, New York City, and the world over.
Cornell University is a private, statutory, Ivy League and land-grant research university in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, the university was intended to teach and make contributions in all fields of knowledge—from the classics to the sciences, and from the theoretical to the applied. These ideals, unconventional for the time, are captured in Cornell's founding principle, a popular 1868 quotation from founder Ezra Cornell: "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."
The university is broadly organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions at its main Ithaca campus, with each college and division defining its specific admission standards and academic programs in near autonomy. The university also administers two satellite medical campuses, one in New York City and one in Education City, Qatar, and Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute in New York City, a graduate program that incorporates technology, business, and creative thinking. The program moved from Google's Chelsea Building in New York City to its permanent campus on Roosevelt Island in September 2017.
Cornell is one of the few private land grant universities in the United States. Of its seven undergraduate colleges, three are state-supported statutory or contract colleges through the SUNY – The State University of New York system, including its Agricultural and Human Ecology colleges as well as its Industrial Labor Relations school. Of Cornell's graduate schools, only the veterinary college is state-supported. As a land grant college, Cornell operates a cooperative extension outreach program in every county of New York and receives annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions. The Cornell University Ithaca Campus comprises 745 acres, but is much larger when the Cornell Botanic Gardens (more than 4,300 acres) and the numerous university-owned lands in New York City are considered.
Alumni and affiliates of Cornell have reached many notable and influential positions in politics, media, and science. As of January 2021, 61 Nobel laureates, four Turing Award winners and one Fields Medalist have been affiliated with Cornell. Cornell counts more than 250,000 living alumni, and its former and present faculty and alumni include 34 Marshall Scholars, 33 Rhodes Scholars, 29 Truman Scholars, 7 Gates Scholars, 55 Olympic Medalists, 10 current Fortune 500 CEOs, and 35 billionaire alumni. Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian institution where admission has not been restricted by religion or race. The student body consists of more than 15,000 undergraduate and 9,000 graduate students from all 50 American states and 119 countries.
Cornell University was founded on April 27, 1865; the New York State (NYS) Senate authorized the university as the state's land grant institution. Senator Ezra Cornell offered his farm in Ithaca, New York, as a site and $500,000 of his personal fortune as an initial endowment. Fellow senator and educator Andrew Dickson White agreed to be the first president. During the next three years, White oversaw the construction of the first two buildings and traveled to attract students and faculty. The university was inaugurated on October 7, 1868, and 412 men were enrolled the next day.
Cornell developed as a technologically innovative institution, applying its research to its own campus and to outreach efforts. For example, in 1883 it was one of the first university campuses to use electricity from a water-powered dynamo to light the grounds. Since 1894, Cornell has included colleges that are state funded and fulfill statutory requirements; it has also administered research and extension activities that have been jointly funded by state and federal matching programs.
Cornell has had active alumni since its earliest classes. It was one of the first universities to include alumni-elected representatives on its Board of Trustees. Cornell was also among the Ivies that had heightened student activism during the 1960s related to cultural issues; civil rights; and opposition to the Vietnam War, with protests and occupations resulting in the resignation of Cornell's president and the restructuring of university governance. Today the university has more than 4,000 courses. Cornell is also known for the Residential Club Fire of 1967, a fire in the Residential Club building that killed eight students and one professor.
Since 2000, Cornell has been expanding its international programs. In 2004, the university opened the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. It has partnerships with institutions in India, Singapore, and the People's Republic of China. Former president Jeffrey S. Lehman described the university, with its high international profile, a "transnational university". On March 9, 2004, Cornell and Stanford University laid the cornerstone for a new 'Bridging the Rift Center' to be built and jointly operated for education on the Israel–Jordan border.
Cornell, a research university, is ranked fourth in the world in producing the largest number of graduates who go on to pursue PhDs in engineering or the natural sciences at American institutions, and fifth in the world in producing graduates who pursue PhDs at American institutions in any field. Research is a central element of the university's mission; in 2009 Cornell spent $671 million on science and engineering research and development, the 16th highest in the United States. Cornell is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".
For the 2016–17 fiscal year, the university spent $984.5 million on research. Federal sources constitute the largest source of research funding, with total federal investment of $438.2 million. The agencies contributing the largest share of that investment are The Department of Health and Human Services and the National Science Foundation, accounting for 49.6% and 24.4% of all federal investment, respectively. Cornell was on the top-ten list of U.S. universities receiving the most patents in 2003, and was one of the nation's top five institutions in forming start-up companies. In 2004–05, Cornell received 200 invention disclosures; filed 203 U.S. patent applications; completed 77 commercial license agreements; and distributed royalties of more than $4.1 million to Cornell units and inventors.
Since 1962, Cornell has been involved in unmanned missions to Mars. In the 21st century, Cornell had a hand in the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. Cornell's Steve Squyres, Principal Investigator for the Athena Science Payload, led the selection of the landing zones and requested data collection features for the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. NASA-JPL/Caltech engineers took those requests and designed the rovers to meet them. The rovers, both of which have operated long past their original life expectancies, are responsible for the discoveries that were awarded 2004 Breakthrough of the Year honors by Science. Control of the Mars rovers has shifted between National Aeronautics and Space Administration's JPL-Caltech and Cornell's Space Sciences Building.
Further, Cornell researchers discovered the rings around the planet Uranus, and Cornell built and operated the telescope at Arecibo Observatory located in Arecibo, Puerto Rico until 2011, when they transferred the operations to SRI International, the Universities Space Research Association and the Metropolitan University of Puerto Rico [Universidad Metropolitana de Puerto Rico].
The Automotive Crash Injury Research Project was begun in 1952. It pioneered the use of crash testing, originally using corpses rather than dummies. The project discovered that improved door locks; energy-absorbing steering wheels; padded dashboards; and seat belts could prevent an extraordinary percentage of injuries.
In the early 1980s, Cornell deployed the first IBM 3090-400VF and coupled two IBM 3090-600E systems to investigate coarse-grained parallel computing. In 1984, the National Science Foundation began work on establishing five new supercomputer centers, including the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing, to provide high-speed computing resources for research within the United States. As a National Science Foundation center, Cornell deployed the first IBM Scalable Parallel supercomputer.
In the 1990s, Cornell developed scheduling software and deployed the first supercomputer built by Dell. Most recently, Cornell deployed Red Cloud, one of the first cloud computing services designed specifically for research. Today, the center is a partner on the National Science Foundation XSEDE-Extreme Science Engineering Discovery Environment supercomputing program, providing coordination for XSEDE architecture and design, systems reliability testing, and online training using the Cornell Virtual Workshop learning platform.
Cornell scientists have researched the fundamental particles of nature for more than 70 years. Cornell physicists, such as Hans Bethe, contributed not only to the foundations of nuclear physics but also participated in the Manhattan Project. In the 1930s, Cornell built the second cyclotron in the United States. In the 1950s, Cornell physicists became the first to study synchrotron radiation.
During the 1990s, the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, located beneath Alumni Field, was the world's highest-luminosity electron-positron collider. After building the synchrotron at Cornell, Robert R. Wilson took a leave of absence to become the founding director of DOE's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, which involved designing and building the largest accelerator in the United States.
Cornell's accelerator and high-energy physics groups are involved in the design of the proposed ILC-International Linear Collider(JP) and plan to participate in its construction and operation. The International Linear Collider(JP), to be completed in the late 2010s, will complement the CERN Large Hadron Collider(CH) and shed light on questions such as the identity of dark matter and the existence of extra dimensions.
As part of its research work, Cornell has established several research collaborations with universities around the globe. For example, a partnership with the University of Sussex(UK) (including the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex) allows research and teaching collaboration between the two institutions.

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The Constitution Unit turns 25!
This year, 2020, marks a full 25 years since the foundation of the Constitution Unit. It has been a hugely eventful period, both in terms of real-world constitutional change and controversies, and in terms of the Unit's own work. To mark our silver anniversary, we are celebrating some of the key ways in which the Unit has contributed to public debates, and helped to inform policy change, over this period. What better way to celebrate 25 years than with 25 of our most notable achievements?
Note that this post reproduces the text from a new page on our website celebrating our 25 years. That contains a full set of 25 images, so some readers may prefer to access the website version.
1. Hitting the ground running
Robert Hazell founded the Constitution Unit in 1995, with funding from six charitable trusts, to help with detailed planning for big constitutional reforms following a possible change of government. The initial research team included Graham Leicester (from the Foreign Office), Nicole Smith (Home Office) and Katy Donnelly. The Unit published seven book-length reports the following year: the first on how to prepare and deliver a big constitutional reform programme, and others on devolution to Scotland, Wales and the English regions, reform of the House of Lords, human rights legislation, and the conduct of referendums (the latter recommending the establishment of an Electoral Commission). From 1997, the new Labour government began to implement its constitutional reform programme, which often reflected Unit recommendations. Responding to the intense reform activity in government, the Unit published 17 further reports in 1998 and 20 more in 1999.
2. Monitor goes to print
In September 1997 the Unit published the first issue of Monitor, its regular bulletin of constitutional news. Monitor continues today to provide an essential digest of political and constitutional changes three times a year, valued by over 4800 subscribers – if you are not among them, you can sign up here.
3. Reform of the House of Lords
From its earliest years, the Unit has fed in regularly to debates about reform of the House of Lords. It published ten briefings for the Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords in 1999, several of them authored by the Unit's future Director Meg Russell and drawing on analysis of overseas experience. In 2000, she published the book Reforming the House of Lords: Lessons from Overseas. This body of comparative research has influenced debates on second chamber reform in various other countries as well as the UK – including Canada, Italy and Japan. Meanwhile Meg's 2013 book The Contemporary House of Lords is today's definitive work on the chamber, underpinned by research funded by the ESRC.
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Five key questions about coronavirus and devolution
The coronavirus is a once in a generation event that has required an almost unprecedented response from government at all levels, from Westminster to West Lothian. Akash Paun argues that it has raised five crucial questions about the politics of devolution at a time when efficient and effective intergovernmental relations are crucial.
Coronavirus has hit all parts of the UK and has required a comprehensive response by government at all levels – central, devolved and local. The crisis has raised (at least!) five big questions about devolution, intergovernmental relations and the politics of the Union:
Does the crisis show that the UK and devolved governments can cooperate effectively?
To what extent does devolution enable policy divergence between the UK nations?
How is the crisis affecting the operation of the devolved institutions themselves?
How is the pandemic response being funded – and with what impact on devolution?
What might this period mean for wider constitutional debates and the Union?
It is too early to give a definitive answer to any of these questions. But developments over the past few months already point to some preliminary conclusions, as well as identifying important lines of investigation for future research.
The UK and devolved governments can work together – at least in a crisis
One important finding, as the Institute for Government (IfG) recently concluded, is that the UK and devolved governments have shown the ability to work together well at various points over the past three months. Given the many disputes over Brexit, the Union and other matters in recent years, and the underlying weaknesses of the UK's system of intergovernmental relations, it was far from a foregone conclusion that the different administrations would be able to cooperate at all.
But credit should be given where it is due. In early March, the UK and devolved governments published a joint Coronavirus Action Plan – a rare sighting of a government policy paper that was co-branded by the four administrations. There was close working too on the Coronavirus Act, which was drafted with significant devolved input before being passed at Westminster with devolved consent under the Sewel Convention. And devolved leaders participated in meetings of the COBRA emergency committee throughout this period, helping to ensure that major announcements, not least the imposition of the lockdown in late March, were coordinated between the capitals. Continue reading →
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Deal or no deal, the UK government needs a new strategy for the Union
Posted on October 18, 2019 by The Constitution Unit
Almost seven months after the EU and UK agreed to extend the Article 50 process, a new Brexit deal has been agreed. Akash Paun argues that whether the new deal passes parliament or not, the Brexit process so far has demonstrated that the UK government needs to change its strategy for maintaining the cohesion of the Union.
In his first public statement as prime minister, Boris Johnson made two constitutional pledges that stand in tension with one another. On the one hand, he promised to strengthen the UK, which he described as 'the awesome foursome that are incarnated in that red, white and blue flag, who together are so much more than the sum of their parts.' But in the same speech, he reiterated his determination to take the UK out of the EU by 31 October 'no ifs, no buts' and, if necessary, no deal. Brexit has already strained relations between the UK and devolved governments. A no deal departure would make matters even worse, and would run directly counter to the PM's ambitions to strengthen the Union.
The Scottish and Welsh governments strongly oppose leaving the EU without a deal. In a joint letter to the prime minister in July, the Scottish and Welsh first ministers argued that 'it would be unconscionable for a UK government to contemplate a chaotic no deal exit and we urge you to reject this possibility clearly and unambiguously as soon as possible.' The Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly have also explicitly voted against no deal. Continue reading →
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Looking forward, looking back: an evening with Sir David Natzler
Posted on April 3, 2019 by The Constitution Unit
On 19 March, the Unit held an event: 'Challenges for Parliament: Looking Back, Looking Forward', at which Sir David Natzler – who retired as Clerk of the House of Commons in February – spoke to Professor Meg Russell about his 40-year career in parliament. The discussion was both entertaining and informative; Dave Busfield-Birch summarises the key points.
Sir David first started working in the House of Commons in 1975, at what he called an 'exciting time', just two years after the UK had joined what was then known as the European Communities. His first assignment was as clerk to the European Legislation Committee, which was facing the novel challenge of sifting through the legislation passed by an unelected Council of Ministers sitting in the capital city of another country, and recommending which measures should be debated.
Parliament was unsurprisingly a very different place in the early years of Sir David's Commons career. Talking of the key differences, he first spoke of how 'expectations' had changed significantly since then. For example, there were no limits on how long a Member could speak in those days. Whereas the Speaker (or one of the Deputy Speakers) can now impose relatively short time limits for MPs wishing to speak, that was not the case in 1975. Sir David considered this 'almost one of the biggest changes' of the past two or three centuries; that speaking for a long time can no longer be used to 'destroy business'.
One of the other key differences between then and now is that the House of Commons lacked fiscal independence when he first started working there. It was instead reliant on the government for finance, thereby limiting its ability to take crucial decisions such as whether or not to recruit more staff. The Treasury hence had control of the Commons until the establishment of the House of Commons Commission in 1978, at which point the Commons became fiscally independent. Continue reading →
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Understanding English identity and institutions in a changing United Kingdom
Posted on November 29, 2018 by The Constitution Unit
The current devolution settlement has left England as the only UK country subject to permanent direct rule from Westminster, which has the dual role of governing both the UK and England. In their new book, Akash Paun, Michael Kenny and Iain McLean have been exploring some of the key arguments concerning the status of England within the Union, who speaks for England politically, and the concept of an English national identity.
Governing England, a new volume published today by the British Academy and Oxford University Press, explores whether, why and with what consequences there has been a disentangling of England from Britain in terms of its governance and national identity. The book concludes that the English have grown dissatisfied with their constitution and relationship with the wider world (as reflected in England's decisive vote in favour of Brexit), and less content for their nationhood to be poured into the larger vessel of Britishness. But England's national consciousness is fragmented and embryonic – unlike the other UK nations, it has yet to engage in a reflective national conversation about how it wishes to be governed – and, as Brexit unfolds, England is struggling to reshape its relationship with the other UK nations and the wider world without a cohesive national narrative to guide the way.
England, alone among the nations of the UK, has no legislature or executive of its own, and remains one of the most centralised countries in Europe. It is ruled directly from Westminster and Whitehall by a parliament, government and political parties that simultaneously represent the interests of both the UK and England. Correspondingly, at the level of identity, the English have historically displayed a greater propensity than the Scots and Welsh to conflate their own nationhood with a sense of affiliation to Britain and its state. As Robert Hazell noted in 2006, writing for the Constitution Unit on The English Question, 'in our history and in our institutions the two identities [of English and British] are closely intertwined, and cannot easily be unwoven'.
As a result of devolution to Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, Westminster and Whitehall frequently oversee legislation that applies entirely, or predominantly, to England. But the government and most politicians at Westminster tend to elide these territorial complexities, talking of setting policy or legislating for 'the nation' or 'the country', whatever the precise territorial application of the announcement in question. Governing England is rarely considered as an enterprise separate from the wider governance of the UK. Continue reading →
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1 There's a saying that the piano is very easily played: all you do is push the right keys at the right time! We have already emphasised this in Etude 3, discussing computer arts. And there are only a few geniuses at the piano, because the Creator is unable to attend to all players. We won't consider here the diligence of the musician (or programmer), and refer the reader to Pushkin's "Mozart and Salieri", which develops this subject rather profoundly.
 In English, there is no confusion between "rights of the author" and "copyright" – a right to copy. But in Russian, "copyright" is translated ambiguously as "authorial rights".
 Not losses but profits may arise here. An author, having written a new work, can often make much more profit if his illegal copies are no less famous than legal ones. Examples are Bulgakov, Vysotsky, Pasternak, and Brodsky; the latter two would scarcely have obtained a Nobel Prize if they had been widely published in due time.
 You can bet your life that those writing accusatory articles have at least one illegal program (DOS or Windows Word, or DOS Lexicon) installed on their computer. Many police departments are equipped with computers (documentation, databases and such like) but again anything may be staked that no department, including that organising the computer market raids, cares always to purchase the legal program versions. Police officials often give crime reports on television. Next to the spokesperson, as a rule, there's a computer: they're not fools. The screen shows the two blue logos of Norton Commander - stolen, by the way.
 There's a poster hanging in the Белый Ветер (Byeliya Vyetyer, meaning "White Wind") computer store on Nikolskaya Street in Moscow: a tattooed hand covering a mouse, with the caption above: "Don't steal!". I have walked through the store observing the prices of notebooks, the shop's speciality. If the mark-up accounts for 20-30%, it's called commercial; if 200-300%, gangsterism. The price of the most expensive Western notebook amounts to $2500 dollars. Only a special order for mother-of-pearl keys may cost more. To afford a 5000 "bucks" notebook and its entire software is only within the grasp of the very hand drawn on the poster, whose significance is somewhat different after a trip around the store.


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A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, often a state.In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. Each government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. Typically the philosophy chosen is some balance between the principle of individual freedom and the idea of absolute state authority (tyranny). While all types of organizations have governance, the word government is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments on Earth, as well as subsidiary organizations.Historically prevalent forms of government include monarchy, aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, theocracy and tyranny.
Law is commonly understood as a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate conduct, although its precise definition is a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and the art of justice. State-enforced laws can be made by a collective legislature or by a single legislator, resulting in statutes, by the executive through decrees and regulations, or established by judges through precedent, normally in common law jurisdictions. Private individuals can create legally binding contracts, including arbitration agreements that may elect to accept alternative arbitration to the normal court process. The formation of laws themselves may be influenced by a constitution, written or tacit, and the rights encoded therein.
A military is a heavily armed, highly organised force primarily intended for warfare, also known collectively as armed forces. It is typically officially authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct military uniform. It may consist of one or more military branches such as an army, navy, air force, space force, marines, or coast guard. The main task of the military is usually defined as defence of the state and its interests against external armed threats. In broad usage, the terms "armed forces" and "military" are often treated as synonymous, although in technical usage a distinction is sometimes made in which a country's armed forces may include both its military and other paramilitary forces.
Politics is the set of activities associated with the governance of a country, state or an area. It involves making decisions that apply to groups of members.It refers to achieving and exercising positions of governance—organized control over a human community, particularly a state. The academic study focusing on just politics, which is therefore more targeted than general political science, is sometimes referred to as politology (not to be confused with politicology, a synonym for political science).In modern nation-states, people often form political parties to represent their ideas. Members of a party often agree to take the same position on many issues and agree to support the same changes to law and the same leaders.An election is usually a competition between different parties. Some examples of political parties worldwide are: the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa, the Democratic Party (D) in the United States, the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Germany and the Indian National Congress in India which has the highest number of political parties in the world (2546 political parties) .
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People of color should be vaccinated first, says Dr. Fauci
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ByVanessa Taylor
Now that President Joe Biden is inaugurated, the United States is looking to him to boost vaccine rollouts throughout the country. Namely, people are hoping he'll follow through on promises to vaccinate 100 million people in his first 100 days in office. But as more information comes out about who has received the vaccine so far, stark racial disparities are becoming clear. On Wednesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci pushed for vaccine rollouts to prioritize people of color, citing the pandemic's disproportionate impact on their communities.
Former President Donald Trump and his administration's rollout of the coronavirus vaccine left a lot to be desired. Trump didn't even meet his own projections to vaccinate 20 million people by the end of 2020. And last week, one source familiar with the transition told CNN that Biden's administration wasn't even inheriting a plan from Trump, telling the outlet, "There is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have to build everything from scratch."
But in those efforts to rebuild from scratch, the Biden administration needs to reconsider who is being prioritized. During an interview with the New England Journal of Medicine, Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Biden's chief medical advisor, said, "I think that's one thing we really got to be careful of. We don't want in the beginning that most of the people who are getting [the vaccine] are otherwise, well, middle-class white people."
"You really want to get it to the people who are really the most vulnerable," Fauci said. "You want to get it to everybody, but you don't want to have a situation where people who really are in need of it, because of where they are, where they live, what their economic status is, that they don't have access to the vaccine."
Unfortunately, that's exactly how things are unfolding right now. Sixteen states have released vaccinate data by race, Axios reported, and in every one of them, white people people have been vaccinated at rates that are often two or three times higher than those of Black people. For example, NBC Philadelphia reported earlier this month that almost 120,000 white people were vaccinated in Pennsylvania compared to less than 4,000 Black people. There were about 60,000 vaccinations where race wasn't listed but, even then, the issue is clear.
There's a number of reasons as to why these disparities exist. As Fauci himself mentioned, communities of color have historical reasons to distrust the medical industry. He said, "They keep coming back and saying the history of Tuskegee. They don't, can't, and should not forget about it, because it happened and it was shameful." Indeed, when Mic interviewed Black Americans about medical distrust and the coronavirus vaccine, each person mentioned the lasting impact of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
In preparation for vaccine rollout, the experts Mic previously spoke with mentioned the need for campaigns and resources that acknowledged this history, without demanding people of color forget it. Shawn Demmons, a trans activist who works in the University of California at San Francisco's Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, said there needed to be a "huge public health campaign, possibly utilizing social influencers or other trusted personalities". He also pointed out the need for community education that would include providing information on the vaccine's development and safety in layperson's terms. Yet, that hasn't really happened.
Earlier this month, Biden announced the American Rescue Plan, his $1.9 trillion package to address the pandemic. Part of that included $20 million to juice vaccine distribution. While the American Rescue Plan acknowledges that communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic in a number of ways, it's obvious that the administration needs to come up with a very clear and precise plan that includes working with communities directly to prioritize their survival.
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Wednesday, Sep 23 2009
Governor Signs Legislation To Keep Kids in Healthy Families
On Tuesday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) signed a bill (AB 1422) designed to keep nearly 700,000 children enrolled in Healthy Families, California's Children's Health Insurance Program, the AP/Fresno Bee reports (AP/Fresno Bee, 9/22).
Schwarzenegger previously threatened to veto all bills because lawmakers did not meet his demands to resolve energy, prison and water issues. However, the governor said AB 1422 was too important not to sign (Yi, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/23).
Keeping Kids Enrolled
The bill, by Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles), will raise $196 million to help Healthy Families offset cuts from a July budget revision package.
The new funds will allow the program to continue providing health insurance for about 670,000 children scheduled to lose coverage beginning Oct. 1 (Robertson, Sacramento Business Journal, 9/22).
The bill also will allow Healthy Families to lift an enrollment freeze and begin processing applications to cover more than 80,000 waitlisted children (Van Oot, Sacramento Bee, 9/23).
Raising Funds
AB 1422 will restore funding to Healthy Families through:
Contributions: The bill accounts for an $81.4 million donation from California's First 5 Commission, which administers state tobacco tax revenues for early childhood health and education programs (San Francisco Chronicle, 9/23).
Cost-sharing: The measure would raise copayments for emergency department visits, physician visits and prescriptions. Monthly premiums also would increase by $4 to $7 per child. However, families earning less than 150% of the federal poverty level would not face premium increases (Office of the Governor release, 9/22).
Health plan taxes: The bill would impose a 2.35% tax on insurers that administer benefits for Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program. The new levy would replace the current 5.5% fee that is scheduled to expire in October (San Francisco Chronicle, 9/23). Officials plan to use the new tax to draw down nearly $100 million in federal matching funds (Bailey, "L.A. Now," Los Angeles Times, 9/22).
On Tuesday, Capital Public Radio's "KXJZ News" reported on the recently signed Healthy Families legislation. The segment includes comments from Schwarzenegger (Weiss, "KXJZ News," Capital Public Radio, 9/22). This is part of the California Healthline Daily Edition, a summary of health policy coverage from major news organizations.	Sign up for an email subscription.


SACRAMENTO (KGO) -- It did not snow in Sacramento, but a snowman was the talk of the town on Christmas morning.
People stopped by all day yesterday taking pictures of the mysterious and shoddy snowman.
A coffee shop employee says she teamed up with one of Santa's helpers to make the Christmas surprise happen.
A special shout out to Old Soul Coffee for pulling off that Christmas miracle.


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