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China's Rise: Offensive Realists' Hits and Misses
Published on : October 21, 2014 by IAR GWU
By Nicole Golliher Contributing Writer October 21, 2014
Offensive realists such as John Mearsheimer miss the mark with their pessimistic predictions surrounding China's rise. Offensive realists' belief that the rise of the People's Republic of China (PRC) will be characterized by expansionism and aggression also ignores historical factors that indicate China's rise can avoid "inevitable" conflict with the United States. Realists are correct, however, that the PRC will eventually challenge U.S. predominance within Asia. China is not contained by neighboring states, nor will it be in the future. Though domestic concerns currently dominate China's focus, such a focus does not preclude the country from becoming a regional hegemon. Offensive realists' predictions are overly pessimistic, but the United States should still prepare for a more powerful PRC by taking steps to maintain its influence in the region while avoiding overly provocative moves—especially relating to Taiwan.
Domestic conditions in China directly influence its rise. Critically, the Chinese Communist Party's legitimacy rests on two legs: nationalism and continued economic growth. Nationalism within China partially arises from the notion that the country has undergone a century of humiliation, beginning with Western imperialism and extending until the end of China's civil war. Today, a majority of the public feels that it is China's time to return to its position as the major power in Asia. For centuries before Western imperialism, China had been the center of a tributary system in which neighboring countries kowtowed to the emperor in exchange for gifts and legitimacy stemming from the leader's formal recognition.1 Though the tributary system recognized China as the center, the country did not invade its neighbors or even interfere in their domestic matters. The tributary system illustrates, if nothing else, that China's hegemony in the Asian region does not automatically mean that China will be aggressive or expansionary toward its neighbors. The PRC does not have to invade its neighbors to achieve regional hegemony.
With the exception of Japan, China's neighbors show no signs of actively balancing against Beijing to curb its rising power. Though neighboring countries in Southeast Asia express concern over whether China's increased military and economic power will harm their interests, both China and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries have gone to extensive lengths to manage their relations. Territorial disputes between China and several ASEAN members do present challenges to China's relations with its neighbors, but it has so far refrained from using its superior military force to secure its claim. Increasingly, ASEAN foresee China as being a "constructive actor" and "potentially the preeminent regional power" in the future.2 As a result, ASEAN countries would rather socialize China into their regional order than align themselves with the U.S. in an attempt to stop China's growth.
By contrast, Sino-Japanese relations remain rocky. Historical wounds and the territorial dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea lead to frequent political friction between two of Asia's most powerful countries. Though Japan is the most likely candidate to align itself with the U.S. should it attempt to contain China, it is not certain that Japan would do so. Per Article 9 of Japan's constitution, Tokyo can only act militarily in its own defense. Article 9 limits Japan's capacity to work with other states to contain China's rise. Furthermore, Japan's relations with its neighboring states, including Russia, also suffer strains from historical wounds and territorial disputes that lessen the likelihood of cooperation with Japan against China.
One of the strongest assertions of offensive realists is that the United States must prepare for a growing China. It is certain that the PRC will continue to gain in economic and military power. Yet it remains unclear whether this rise will result in a conflict between China and the United States. Power Transition Theory, for example, which states that a rising hegemon will come into conflict with the declining hegemon, fails to explain the most recent transition from British to U.S. hegemony.
Even though China and the United States are not on an assured collision course, Taiwan remains the issue most likely to challenge future Sino-American relations. The People's Liberation Army's (PLA) strategic focus on ensuring territorial integrity emphasizes China's determination to prevent Taiwan from unilaterally declaring its independence. The PLA has expanded its military expenditures to build up short and medium range ballistic missiles and other technologies that would prove useful in "punishing" Taiwan for declaring independence. This mix of capabilities also serves to discourage an outside power, namely the United States, from interfering.3 Even with this increase in military expenditures, it will take time for China to compete militarily with the U.S. By focusing on periphery area denial, China presents a challenge to U.S. military actions in the region that Washington would be unwise to ignore.
U.S. involvement with Taiwan creates tensions in Sino-American relations, but the disagreement does not need to end in military conflict. Neither country would benefit from such conflict. China's economic growth would suffer from any conflict with the United States, and though frictions exist, the Party is "conscious not only of China's rise, but also of its continued weakness." While the PRC is not yet able to directly challenge U.S. dominance in the region, it will be able to do so in the future. The historical legacy of China's position as the center of Asia before Western colonialism, its improved relations with neighboring countries, and increased military expenditures indicate that China is poised to present a challenge to U.S. predominance in Asia. The U.S. should be taking steps to ensure its continued influence in the region while recognizing that China's neighbors do not want to be forced to choose sides. Countries in East Asia would like to maintain good relations with both the United States and China, so U.S. policy should not attempt to balance against China, but should work to maintain peaceful relations that benefit all parties involved.
1. David C. Kang, "Hierarchy in Asian International Relations: 1300-1900," Asian Security 1:1 (2005): 61.↩
2. Joshua Kurlantzick, "China's Charm Offensive in Southeast Asia," Current History 105 (2006): 270.↩
3. Avery Goldstein, "Parsing China's Rise: International Circumstances and National Attributes," in China's Ascent: Power, Secuirty, and the Future of International Politics, ed. Robert S Ross and Zhu Feng (Cornell University Press, 2008): 58.↩
Nicole Golliher graduated from Seattle University in 2014 with a double degree in International Studies and Political Science and a minor in Japanese. She is a first-year student at the Elliott School of International Affairs, studying International Affairs with a concentration in Asia. She also works as a program assistant at the United Nations Association: National Capital Area.
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GeekGirlCon organizers resign in protest as group disputes claims of mismanagement and bullying
by Clare McGrane on August 6, 2017 at 6:45 pm August 6, 2017 at 8:57 pm
GeekGirlCon first started in Seattle in 2011. (GeekWire File Photo)
Five volunteer organizers of the inclusivity-focused GeekGirlCon convention publicly resigned on Sunday, making a series of claims against the Seattle-based non-profit's board and executive director, including allegations of discriminatory practices and questionable use of charitable funds.
GeekGirlCon responded with a statement saying that the concerns had already been addressed by the board after they were raised without any supporting documentation or corroboration. The group said in a statement that it has taken steps to improve communication, transparency and financial oversight since the concerns were raised.
#GGC17 is NOT cancelled + our commitment to inclusive spaces still exists. Our official statement is pending. Thanks for your patience.
— GeekGirlCon ?? (@GeekGirlCon) August 6, 2017
The group vowed that this year's convention will go on as planned from Sept. 30 to Oct. 1 in Seattle, less than two months from now. GeekGirlCon started in Seattle in 2011, inspired by a panel the previous year at San Diego Comic-Con.
The resignations shed light on a behind-the-scenes dispute at an organization known for bringing together the community in an accepting environment. The volunteers announced their resignations on the GeekGirlCon website, with a letter summarizing their allegations. The letter, which was also emailed to the GeekGirlCon mailing list from an official address, was removed from the site later in the day.
We are disappointed and saddened that it has come to this. However, actions by the ED and by the Board have made the current environment one in which it is impossible for us to continue.
"This action is not a step taken lightly," the letter stated. "Many of you are our friends. Many of you we consider family. This team has a long history with GeekGirlCon, including some of us who were there at the start, and all have worked very hard to support its mission and values. We are disappointed and saddened that it has come to this. However, actions by the ED and by the Board have made the current environment one in which it is impossible for us to continue."
The resigning volunteers made up the bulk of GeekGirlCon's operations staff, meaning they were responsible for planning and executing the annual convention that draws upwards of 11,000 attendees. The convention describes itself as "a celebration of the female geek," and as an inclusive space for minorities in science, technology and geek culture.
The resigning volunteers include: Director of Convention Operations Seven DeBord, Exhibitor Services Manager Amy Gembala, Registration & Admissions Manager Rose Minier and Reaction Team Manager Josh Michaels. The identity of the fifth member hasn't been made public.
In their letter, they alleged that the organization's executive director, Michele Carrico Domingo, discriminated against a convention operations staff member, and separately that she circulated documents with "details of private, sexual encounters, unrelated to GeekGirlCon, in an effort to discriminate against and kink-shame a volunteer."
Without providing details, they also alleged "questionable use of charitable funds by the Executive Director" and "deprioritization of financial oversight by the Board of Directors." GeekWire has asked the resigning volunteers for more details on the allegations and will update this piece when we hear back.
We have an organization of over 50 volunteers and [these allegations] were made by a small number of individuals. The majority of organization volunteers do not feel that way
Carrico Domingo joined the organization as its Executive Director in February. She is the organization's first full-time, paid executive director. All other members of the organization's leadership are volunteers.
At a fundraising event in Bellevue, Wash., on Sunday, about 45 people gathered to play games and raise money for GeekGirlCon at a silent auction and raffle to raise funds.
"We have an organization of over 50 volunteers and [these allegations] were made by a small number of individuals," Carrico Domingo told GeekWire at the event. "The majority of organization volunteers do not feel that way."
She added, "we're definitely still doing the con, and we're going to create space for women and allies to support women and girls."
Her response was echoed by Katrina Lehto, VP of GeekGirlCon's board, who said that the group's leadership will work to overcome any remaining concerns about the leadership's decision making.
"While yes, of course it's a concern — it would be ridiculous to say it's not a concern — I don't think it's something that insurmountable. It's not something that's going to sink the ship," Lehto said. "That said, we have a lot of work in front of us. I'm not going to deny it."
GeekGirlCon has been hosting its annual convention in Seattle since 2011 and is a registered nonprofit. It brought in $112,849 in revenue in 2015, with net income of $12,803, according to tax documents. The organization's board minutes from March 23, 2017, reference an IRS response by the group, a stay "on the collection notice" and a request "to forgive penalties for not filing in 2014."
Here is the full letter sent and posted by the resigning operations team members.
It is with great regret that we wish to inform our attendees, exhibitors and sponsors of the resignation of the entire Convention Operations team, loss of key Founders and Board members. The Convention Operations team, responsible for all aspects of setup of our convention, Exhibitor management, security, and pass sales have chosen to leave GeekGirlCon as a result of the actions of the Executive Director and remaining Board members.
The following is the statement from our Convention Operations Team:
This action is not a step taken lightly. Many of you are our friends. Many of you we consider family. This team has a long history with GeekGirlCon, including some of us who were there at the start, and all have worked very hard to support its mission and values. We are disappointed and saddened that it has come to this. However, actions by the ED and by the Board have made the current environment one in which it is impossible for us to continue. Over the last five months, while we worked with the ED and the Board in good faith to resolve the differences, we witnessed bullying, gender discrimination, racism, misuse of charitable funds, and many instances of unethical behavior. We can no longer support this organization's administration as their recent conduct shows a severe lack of integrity, morality, and respect for its hard-working staff, volunteers and attendees.
Effective immediately, we are resigning our positions and will cease association with GeekGirlCon.
Below you will find a few reasons driving our decision to resign.
1. Acts of discrimination carried out by the Executive Director in the removal and eventual reinstatement of a Con Operation staff member.
2. Opportunistic and underhanded voting tactics by the Board of Directors, including:
Voting on matters before seeing the evidence collected and knowing it has been collected.
Postponing vote on the removal of the Executive Director during its proposed session; instead the vote was called in an emergency meeting without the Board member who proposed the original motion being present.
3. Bullying of staff members and making derogatory statements to them about their mental and/or physical condition.
4. Dissemination of printed documents by the Executive Director that include details of private, sexual encounters, unrelated to GeekGirlCon, in an effort to discriminate against and kink-shame a volunteer.
5. Questionable use of charitable funds by the Executive Director.
6. Deprioritization of financial oversight by the Board of Directors.
7. Failure of the Board of Directors to provide any recourse for reporting ethical violations made by the Executive Director.
The letter concluded by offering contact information for anyone who was "an Attendee, Exhibitor, or Sponsor for GeekGirlCon 2017 and are concerned about the status of your payment, recent drop in expected attendence, or sponsorship of this year's convention," in addition to contact information for Carrico Domingo, and I-Wei Feng, Acting President of the Board of Directors.
Here is the extended statement from GeekGirlCon, as published on its website.
Dear GeekGirlCon community,
You may have received a message today from GeekGirlCon regarding the resignation of some members of the Convention Operations team.
We apologize for any confusion and hurt this has caused. As a community, we are hurt as well. These messages do not reflect the organization's position and were distributed on behalf of GeekGirlCon without our approval or notice. To clarify, GeekGirlCon '17 will take place on September 30 and October 1. The convention will go on as planned.
It is important to note that the Convention Operations team represents just a fraction of the many passionate staff members working to ensure a wonderful and inclusive con. Despite the resignation of 5 team members, we remain an organization of over 50 people, including many who have been with us from the inception of the organization.
As a volunteer-powered non-profit organization putting on our seventh con, we recognize that progress and change often come with conflict and differing visions for the organization. It is inevitable to run into disagreement. Despite these growing pains, we are committed to continuing our central mission of supporting women geeks, geeks of other underrepresented backgrounds and identities, and their allies. It is also important to understand that GeekGirlCon is still a very young organization, and over the last year we have made major strides in expanding our mission. Growth is necessary, and unfortunately not everyone will be in agreement on how that growth is implemented.
The accusations brought forth by the five individuals before their resignation were addressed by our Board of Directors. After these accusations were brought to the attention of the Board, the Board took steps to interview staff members, but were not provided any supporting documentation nor corroboration for the claims. In addition, the Board and our Executive Director have implemented steps to improve communication, transparency, and financial oversight. These improvements are ongoing as we continually seek to improve how we can best serve our community.
Our organization is led by Michele Carrico Domingo, a woman of color who has made it her mission to demonstrate transparency, integrity, and inclusivity. Her background working with both non-profits and corporations has made her exceptionally qualified to lead GeekGirlCon. The entirety of the GeekGirlCon staff supports Michele, and we are honored to be led by her.
GeekWire's Alan Boyle contributed to this report.
Editor's Note: The description of the portion of the operations staff that resigned has been clarified since the original post. Although the letter from the resigning volunteers said the entire convention operations team had resigned, some people involved in operations do remain, according to GeekGirlCon representatives.
Clare McGrane is a GeekWire reporter who covers life sciences, biotechnology and general assignment technology stories, in addition to producing the GeekWire radio show and podcast. A graduate of the University of Washington, she is passionate about nonfiction storytelling, particularly stories about how science impacts our daily lives.
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Bill Text - AB-1844 Taxes: credits: qualified motion pictures.
An act relating to the Budget Act of 2018. An act to amend Sections 38.9, 17053.98, and 23698 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to taxation, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget.
AB 1844, as amended, Committee on Budget. Budget Act of 2018. Taxes: credits: qualified motion pictures.
Existing law allows credits under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law for taxable years beginning on or after or after January 1, 2016, to be allocated by the California Film Commission on or after July 1, 2015, and before July 1, 2020, as provided. Existing law, in lieu of these credits, allows application of the credit amount against qualified state sales and use taxes, as provided. Existing law, on or before July 1, 2019, requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to prepare reports related to the effectiveness and administration of these film tax credits under the Sales and Use Tax Law, the Personal Income Tax Law, and the Corporation Tax Law.
This bill would instead require the Legislative Analyst's Office to prepare the report on or before January 1, 2023.
Existing law allows credits under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, to be allocated by the California Film Commission on or after July 1, 2020, and before July 1, 2025, except as provided. Existing law limits the aggregate amount of these credits to be allocated in each fiscal year to $330,000,000 plus additional specified amounts, and authorizes the California Film Commission, if, on July 1, 2025, it determines that credits remain unused and have not been added to credit amounts available for allocation under a successor credit allowance, to continue to make allocations of the unused credits until such time as the unused credits are fully utilized, as provided.
This bill, on or after July 1, 2025, would instead authorize the California Film Commission to allocate any previously allocated credits not certified, as defined, that have not previously been added to credit amounts available for allocation under specified film tax credits allowed under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law. The bill, on or after July 1, 2025, would additionally authorize the California Film Commission to allocate any unused credit allocation amount for the preceding fiscal year, and the portion of any unused credit allocation amount attributable to certain other film tax credits.
This bill would appropriate the sum of $5,000 from the General Fund to the California Film Commission for work necessary to develop rules associated with the programs established under specified film tax credits allowed under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law.
(1) Request and receive all information provided to the California Film Commission pursuant to subdivision (g) of Sections 17053.95 and 23695.
(2) Request and receive all information provided to the Franchise Tax Board relating to the sale or assignment of credits pursuant to subdivision (c) of Sections 17053.95 and 23695.
(3) Request and receive all information provided to the board pursuant to subdivisions (c) and (g) of Section 6902.5, as amended by the act adding this section.
(b) The California Film Commission, the board, the Franchise Tax Board, the Employment Development Department, and all other relevant state agencies shall provide additional information, as specified by the Legislative Analyst's Office, as needed to research the reports required by this section.
(c) (1) The information received by the Legislative Analyst's Office pursuant to this section shall be considered confidential taxpayer information subject to Sections 7056, 7056.5, and 19542 of this code and Section 1094 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, and shall be subject to the appropriate confidentiality requirements of the participating state agency.
(2) The Legislative Analyst's Office may publish statistics in conjunction with the reports required by this section that are derived from information provided to the Legislative Analyst's Office pursuant to this section, if the published statistics are classified to prevent the identification of particular taxpayers, reports, and tax returns and the publication of the percentage of dividends paid by a corporation that is deductible by the recipient under Part 11 (commencing with Section 23001) of Division 2.
(v) Notwithstanding any other provision, law, any television series, relocating television series, or any new television series based on a pilot for a new television series that has been approved and issued a credit allocation by the California Film Commission under this section, Section 23698, 17053.95, 23695, 17053.85, or 23685 shall be issued a credit for each subsequent season, for the life of that television series whenever credits are allocated within a fiscal year.
(7) (A) Notwithstanding any other provision, if law, on or after July 1, 2025, the California Film Commission determines that credits allocated under may allocate, pursuant to this section and Section 23698 remain unused and section, any previously allocated credits not certified that have not previously been added to credit amounts available for allocation under this section or a successor section or sections, the California Film Commission may continue to make allocations of the unused credits pursuant to the terms of this section and Section 23698 until such time as the unused credits are fully utilized. sections.
(i) Credits allocated under paragraph (1) for which the qualified taxpayer to which the credit amounts were originally allocated has notified the California Film Commission in writing that the qualified taxpayer will not request certification for the allocated credits.
(ii) The difference between the amount of credits allocated under paragraph (1) to a qualified taxpayer and the amount of credits the California Film Commission certified, for that qualified taxpayer. For purposes of calculating the difference, the California Film Commission shall not consider any credit amounts for which the qualified taxpayer notifies the California Film Commission under clause (i).
(8) Notwithstanding any other law, on or after July 1, 2025, the California Film Commission may allocate, pursuant to this section, any credit amounts described in subparagraphs (B) and (E) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (i) that have not previously been added to credit amounts available for allocation under this section or a successor section or sections.
(v) Notwithstanding any other provision, law, any television series, relocating television series, or any new television series based on a pilot for a new television series that has been approved and issued a credit allocation by the California Film Commission under this section, Section 17053.98, 17053.85, 17053.95, 23685, or 23695 shall be issued a credit for each subsequent season, for the life of that television series whenever credits are allocated within a fiscal year.
(7) (A) Notwithstanding any other provision, if law, on or after July 1, 2025, the California Film Commission determines that credits allocated under may allocate, pursuant to this section and Section 17053.98 remain unused and section, any previously allocated credits not certified that have not previously been added to credit amounts available for allocation under this section or a successor section or sections, the California Film Commission may continue to make allocations of the unused credits pursuant to the terms of this section and Section 17053.98 until such time as the unused credits are fully utilized. sections.
The sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the California Film Commission for work necessary to develop rules associated with the programs established by Sections 17053.98 and 23698 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.


The coming days will witness the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Iraq and Russia in the fields of culture, tourism, archeology, arts and museums, Minister of Culture and Tourism Abdul Amir Al-Hamdani said.
The Minister of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities, Abdul-Amir Al-Hamdani, met today with the Russian Ambassador to Baghdad Maxime Maximov, the Russian Cultural Counselor and the Russian Academy of Sciences Envoy. During the meeting, they discussed a number of cultural agreements to be signed with the Iraqi News Agency Russian .
including: the Russian Institute of some field work and excavations in the city of Dhi Qar site (Dujail), which dates back to the old Babylonian era, Other excavations in the tulle (item) on the Iraqi-Iranian border of Maysan province, which dates back to the Stone Age.
He added that "the two sides agreed to record a documentary about the marshes in Iraq and the establishment of a hall for the children's museum in Nasiriyah to prepare it to be suitable for children, and documenting the artifacts in the Iraqi Museum and the work of courses for the maintenance of artifacts and paintings.


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5G Infrastructure Could Spur $1.3 Trillion Global Media and
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PALM BEACH, Florida, Feb. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- A report commissioned by Intel and conducted by Ovum, predicted that 5G will represent 80 percent of wireless media revenues by 2028 and that nearly $3 trillion in cumulative revenue opportunities will be spurred by wireless technology from 2019-2028 and experiences enabled by 5G networks will account for nearly half of it (close to $1.3 trillion). The report: "… cites 2025 as the "tipping point" for 5G, predicting that by then, 57 percent of global wireless media revenues will be generated by the next-gen cellular standard, which promises bandwidth up to 100 Gbps. With speeds potentially up to 1,000x faster than the current 4G protocol, the buffering issues that come with livestreaming and large downloads will be a thing of the past. 5G's speed will also enable the growth of immersive services such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), which will generate more than $140 billion in cumulative revenues between 2021 and 2028. Ovum predicts that gaming will be at the forefront of 5G-led innovations, with AR gaming comprising annual revenues of nearly $36 billion globally, or more than 90 percent of 5G AR revenues." Active companies in the markets this week include Hawkeye Systems, Inc. (OTCQB: HWKE), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ), Vonage Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: VG), Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL).
By 2028, new "immersive," currently non-existent applications will provide an annual revenue bucket of $67 billion, which is the value of the entire current global mobile media market--video, music and games–in 2017, Ovum predicts. Another report from Gartner, added that the rollout of high-speed 5G mobile service is set to drive growth of augmented reality (AR) shopping to 100 million consumers by next year. Retailers will add AR technology, which overlays digital images on a person's view of the real world, to their stores and e-commerce channels to provide more immersive experiences for shoppers. It continued: "Almost half (46%) of retailers plan to deploy either AR or virtual reality (VR) technology, which provides a completely immersive view of a computer-generated world, by next year, per the Gartner report shared with Mobile Marketer. The technologies can help shoppers virtually try on products through advanced graphical visualization and simulation.
Hawkeye Systems, Inc. (OTCQB: HWKE) NEWS: Hawkeye's Future Subsidiary Selected to Participate on Expert Panel with Google and NASA at Upcoming HPA Tech Retreat - Hawkeye Systems announces that future subsidiary Radiant Images co-founder Michael Mansouri has been chosen to participate on a discussion panel with other established tech mavens from Google, NASA and Real Networks on Feb. 17 at the HPA Tech Retreat.
Now in its 25th year, the HPA Tech Retreat is the pre-eminent gathering of industry-leading thinkers and innovation-focused companies engaged in the creation, management, and dissemination of content. The 2020 Tech Retreat will be held at the Westin Mission Hills Golf Resort & Spa in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
Mansouri of Radiant will serve on a world-class panel along with three other well-known leaders in technology: Paul Debevec, Senior Scientist at Google VR; Rodney Grubbs, Program Manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center; and Reza Rassool, CTO at Real Networks. The panel is titled Extreme Innovation: Human Visual Experience from Everywhere. The limits of camera engineering are being pushed at every extreme, from the microscopic to the gargantuan, from Arctic to volcanic, from oceanic floors to the outer reaches of space, and at every square inch around us. Can we see everything we'd ever want to see? And if we can, what will that tell us?
Mansouri will detail for the audience Radiant's recent breakthrough technology advancements and, along with the other forward-thinking industry leaders on the panel, share key insights and predictors of where technology is headed.
Mansouri is known as one of the industry's most knowledgeable, inventive and passionate technologists in all aspects of film and technology. He is an associate member of the ASC (American Society of Cinematographers), an invite-only membership group limited to less than 400 experts with distinguished credits in motion pictures. Mansouri was recognized by Studio Daily as one of the top 50 creatives and technologists in the industry.
"I'm truly honored to have been selected to participate on such an amazing panel and share the stage with this group," Mansouri said.
He added, "The 5G revolution is changing the game for those of us who are early adopters of immersive technologies. With Radiant's latest advancements in AI, automation and immersive technology, we're constantly pushing the boundaries to deliver the kinds of experiences we are imagining. By enabling a fully-mobile and connected society, 5G is unleashing technological and human possibility, which is creating massive business and financial opportunities." Read this full press release and more HWKE here: https://www.financialnewsmedia.com/news-hwke/
Other recent developments in the markets this week include:
Vonage Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: VG) recently announced that LendingPoint, a data and technology platform provider for financial institutions, has chosen Vonage for its unified communications and contact center solutions to power all of LendingPoint's communication channels.
"We're delighted to be working with an award-winning, technology company like LendingPoint. We've been watching their growth journey and are excited to see our integration capabilities and scalable unified communications technology deliver a completely unique and personalized customer experience to their rapidly growing base of more than 7 million consumers," said Reggie Scales, SVP of Applications Group Sales for Vonage.
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) recently announced that Google Cloud will be the cloud technology provider for Accenture's INTIENT™ life sciences industry platform.
The new, multi-year agreement brings Google's cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities together with Accenture's life sciences services and platforms and is intended to help life sciences organizations make their data more accessible, secure and valuable.
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) recently announced that it has opened a new 5G Lab and production studio in London – the company's first 5G-enabled facility outside the United States – to support its international business and media customers. The Lab, which is now open for business, is based at Verizon's Mid City Place office in central London, and offers a live Verizon 5G-enabled environment where organizations can develop and test 5G applications and experiences.
Verizon's 5G Labs are designed to offer technology innovators a space to grow the 5G ecosystem. Start-ups, academics, companies and organizations work with Verizon in the Labs to explore the boundaries of 5G network technology, co-create new applications and hardware, and rethink what's possible in a 5G world. The potential use cases include exploring how autonomous vehicles, smart communities, virtual healthcare, smart manufacturing, the industrial Internet of Things, immersive education, augmented and virtual reality and responsive gaming can be enhanced with 5G's super fast speeds, massive bandwidth and low latency.
CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) recently announced that it has won contracts to build fiber that will modernize, update and protect critical infrastructure at five U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dams in Oregon and Washington.
CenturyLink's fiber will provide high-speed data transmission services to the Ice Harbor, Little Goose and Lower Granite Dams along the lower Snake River in Washington, and the Foster and Green Peters Dams along the Columbia River in Oregon, as part of the dam safety program.
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Syrtis Major
This image is near the southern edge of a low, broad volcanic feature called Syrtis Major. A close look at this image reveals a wrinkly texture that indicates a very rough surface that is associated with the lava flows that cover this region. On a larger scale, there are numerous bright streaks that trail topographic features such as craters. These bright streaks are in the wind shadows of the craters where dust that settles onto the surface is not as easily scoured away. It is important to note that these streaks are only bright in a relative sense to the surrounding image. Syrtis Major is one of the darkest regions on Mars and it is as dark as fresh basalt flows or dunes are on Earth.
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Fans and ribbons of dark sand dunes creep across the floor of Bunge Crater in response to winds blowing from the direction at the top of the picture. The frame is about 14 kilometers (9 miles) wide.
Bunge Crater Dunes
This movie shows the Martian moon Phobos as viewed in visible light by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter on April 24, 2019. The apparent motion is due to movement by Odyssey's infrared camera, Therm...
Odyssey Views Phobos in Visible Light: April 24, 2019
Odyssey launched on Boeing's Delta II 7925 that uses nine strap-on solid rocket motors.
Odyssey Launches Boeing's Delta II 7925
Dr. Bill Boynton, Principal Investigator for the Gamma Ray Spectrometer suite of instruments Image credit: NASA/JPL
Dr. Bill Boynton
This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows 'streamers' of clouds created by katabatic winds at the north polar cap.
Polar Winds
In Ares Vallis, teardrop mesas extend like pennants behind impact craters, where the raised rocky rims diverted the floods and protected the ground from erosion.
Mars Odyssey All Stars: Ares Vallis
A new map of Mars' gravity made with three NASA spacecraft is the most detailed to date, providing a revealing glimpse into the hidden interior of the Red Planet. Satellites always orbit a planet's...
Mars Gravity Map
Buzz Aldrin, an Apollo 11 astronaut who walked on the moon, makes a holographic appearance in 'Destination: Mars,' a mixed-reality tour of a part of Mars that NASA's Curiosity rover has explored.
This unnamed channel is located in Xanthe Terra.
Channel in Xanthe Terra
This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a crater from a double impact - two meteors hitting simultaneously. The two meteors would have started as a single object and, at some point prior to impac...
Doublet Crater
Echus Chasma forms the boundary between the Tharsis volcanoes to the west and Lunae Planum to the east. This region is one of both tectonically fractured rocks (top of image) and volcanic flows (mi...
Echus Chasma
If a meteorite breaks in two shortly before hitting the ground, the typical bowl shape of a single impact crater becomes doubled.
Mars Odyssey All Stars: Dual Crater
Valleys much younger than well-known ancient valley networks on Mars are evident near the informally named "Heart Lake" on Mars. This map presents color-coded topographical information overlaid ont...
Landscape of Former Lakes and Streams on Northern Mars
Mars Odyssey Project Manager Gaylon McSmith, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars Odyssey Project Manager Gaylon McSmith
As fractures opened near the summit of Tyrrhena Patera, the ground collapsed to make pits and chains of pits aligned with the fractures. The large pit seen here is about 400 m (1,300 ft) deep.
Collapse on Tyrrhena Patera
How can you communicate with Mars spacecraft when the Sun is in the way? Learn more about 'solar conjunction' in this 60-second video.
Mars in a Minute: What Happens When the Sun Blocks our Signal?
A sea of dark dunes, sculpted by the wind into long lines, surrounds the northern polar cap covering an area as big as Texas.
Mars Odyssey All Stars: Polar Dunes
This view of an area about 140 kilometers (about 90 miles) wide in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars shows the region around NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
Orbital View of Opportunity's Region
A "Grand Canyon of Mars" slices across the Red Planet near its equator.
Mars Canyon with Los Angeles for Scale
This map shows unprecedented detail of local variations in Mars' gravitational pull on orbiters. The gravitational mapping has been applied to map variations in the thickness of the planet's crust ...
Local Variations in the Gravitational Pull of Mars
This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the margin of the north polar cap and the surrounding plains. The layering of the ice is easily visible due to the dust that is dep...
Polar Layers
The dunes and dust devil tracks in this VIS image are located on the plains of Planum Chronium.
Dunes and dust devil tracks in Planum Chronium
Download a PDF of the Mars as Art Booklet.
Mars as Art (2013)
This false-color map shows the area within Gale Crater on Mars, where NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Aug. 5, 2012 PDT (Aug. 6, 2012 EDT).
Downslope of the Fan
The artist's animation depicts how NASA's Curiosity rover will communicate with Earth during landing. As the rover descends to Mars, it will send out basic radio-frequency tones that go directly to...
Curiosity Speaks


In Part 1 of the Author Platform Series, we talked about creating and exhibiting high quality content. We started off with that to honor what everyone is saying... Content is King. Is it? Of course. As an author, your writing is your product.
So, if you already have a website/blog, and you've found your niche... Now What? In this article, we will discuss a topic that is often mistaken for the Author Platform - your Online Presence.
They're related, but not the same. The Author Platform is everything that you do to build your image, increase your exposure, extend your reach, and improve your brand / product. It's the sum total of all your activities as an author. Some of these activities may not be online, but they would still be part of your author platform. Like book signings or guest speaking.
Your Online Presence is the result of how strong or weak your author platform is. It's your footprint on the vast sandy beach that is the Internet. Everything that I do online as Eeva Lancaster, makes up my online presence. My website, my author pages, my book pages, my social media network, my online communities - every interaction, every post, everything I get involved in as an author, deepens my online footprint. So, someone walking on that beach will possibly see my footprint, and whatever that footprint represents. In our case, our books. If you search for me on the Internet, you'll find me, and the stuff I'm involved with. We want that. We need to be seen. Because just like I mentioned in Part 1, anonymity is a self-published author's biggest enemy.
As you build your author platform, your online presence improves too, if you're doing what you should be doing. Both of them takes time to build and the process can be frustrating and time-consuming. You can't exactly tell when you've done enough. There's no end to it. It's a continuous process. You add to it and improve on it as you learn new things and become more involved on the Internet.
Our customers browse for books online.
Without an online presence, how will anybody know that you're selling something worth buying? And how will they know that you're worth buying from?
To check the status of your online presence, look for yourself on Google or whatever search engine you're using... How many pages show your work, and anything connected to you? Do you see your books or your website? Your posts?
Businesses have gone online, and there is a huge battle going on as to who has the strongest online presence. When you want to purchase something, don't you go online to search? Chances are high that you'll buy from the first 10 results of your search. There are other strategies proposed by marketing gurus and accomplished bloggers, but the basic goal of anyone with a business online is to be SEARCHABLE.
The author kit should contain your promotional materials. Everything about you and your books. You need to have this all in one folder so you can easily post and share wherever you need to.
Image - should be pleasing to the eyes, and professional. It should be in high resolution, and with a good background. If you want to pose in your bikinis, briefs, housedress, or while getting drunk in a bar, that's up to you, of course. But preferably, your image should be one that your readers can connect with. You don't want to turn-off prospective readers because of an ugly and inappropriate image, right?
Unprofessional images on Amazon, your author and book pages, and on promotional sites, tells readers one thing - you're sloppy. Your work is probably as poor as your taste. Managing perceptions is a skill self pubs should learn since we are stereotyped as Amateurs. A poor image is bad, but no image at all is worse. Why? Perceptions again. Not only are you an unknown, you don't even have a face to show. Not a good way to connect with people, don't you think?
Author Biography - First person or third person? Depends on where you're posting it. First person for blogs, and third person for author pages. What should we speak of in our author biographies? As a reader, I find mentions of universities and courses soooooo boring. Especially for fiction authors. For non-fiction authors writing about Health and Nutrition, or other authoritative topics, it might be necessary to prove your credibility, but for fiction? How does your educational background entice me to read your horror or romance novel? You can mention that part, but it shouldn't be the highlight of your bio.
A bio, even if written in the third person, should provide a deeper insight into the author. Why do you write what your write? What inspires and moves you? What's your purpose? Who are you as a person? What do you offer? Interesting information. One of my favorite bios is from an author who said he was raised by wolves. Of course we know it's not true, but it made his bio unforgettable. Plus, it showed you that this personality has a great sense of humor and originality. Maybe his books will be as interesting to read.... Perception, dearies.
Do not include your personal issues on your biography, unless it's connected to what you're writing about. Anything negative, even something you've overcome, should not be included unless you want to be identified with it. Be inspiring. Share some sunshine. Keep the dirty laundry hidden in the hamper. Give people only your best.
Book Synopsis/Blurb - In the olden days when people went to bookstores to browse for books, the standard was to have a long synopsis - a summary of the story. In those days, readers read the back cover. It's part of the experience of buying a book. But nowadays, a synopsis/blurb should be written to catch a browser's very short attention span. The first line should be a hook... and the rest of the copy should entice readers to buy it. It's called copywriting.
Connect with your readers right away by highlighting the dilemma in the story. People love to be intrigued. They love mysteries, and problems - especially if they can relate to it. Give it to them. Open with a question or a powerful statement. Touch them where it counts. This is to keep them on the page and reading.
Keep it short and sweet. Like I mentioned, browsers today have very quick fingers. Get to the point and tell them WHY they should buy your book. Use powerful words and carefully crafted questions that will arouse and provoke them to action. Include and highlight positive reviews.
Summary of Book and Social Media Links - Put all your links in one file for easy sharing. If you want to see how many people are clicking on your links, you can use Bitly for tracking purposes.
Banners and Book Covers - Images add power to your marketing efforts. Use them whenever you advertise. One that's tailor made for you and your book is better than something you lifted off the Internet.
Prepare your basic author kit with marketing in mind. Sell yourself and your work. Paint a captivating portrait of yourself. Make your books sound fascinating, and different. You simply need to use the right words to do this, and a lot of thought. With the number of books out there, it gives you an edge, when you are an interesting personality. It makes you stand out from the mob.
I've improved the author kits of many clients, and it worked every time. An attractive profile made people pay attention to their work. It defined their purpose more, not only to their readers but also to themselves. I know many authors who are confused about the image they want to project. They hesitate, unsure of how they want to be known. When you hesitate, you confuse your audience. What are you really about? Make up your mind before you compile your author kit.
Be sure of your goals. Know your target audience. Be consistent.
"Great content isn't great until somebody reads it, shares it, and links to it."
Before all that, someone needs to find it first.
SEO is basically about ranking high in the search engines. So when people search for topics on your niche or genre or business, you'll come up in the results. Ideally, in the first page. People pay to improve their content's SEO, and increase their ranking. There are too many benefits to ignore it, no matter what people say.
Search engines gives answers to queries and they use a site's relevance and popularity as their basis. If your site has many comments, likes and shares, surely it must contain valuable information.
Keywords are what people type into the search bar of Google when they're looking for something. Other keywords are used more often than others. So if you want your content to rank for the right keywords, you should know what those popular keywords are.
Non fiction writers should use keywords on their titles, subtitles and book descriptions. This is more important to non-fics than fiction writers.
Even when you post on Social Media, especially on your Google+ page, use keywords.
A Meta Description is what you see below the title on a Google search result, usually a description of what the website or book is about. When you write your description, use relevant words that can help your site or book page be found. Make it easy for the search engines to find your content.
The longer your post, the more relevant it is in the eyes of a search engine. A typical blog post should be 500 words and up. When you write valuable content, and use keywords where appropriate, the search engines will love it and display it in their results.
This is one of the building blocks of good SEO. Backlinks are simply links that lead to your website or page. Some people even create several websites, so they can backlink to their own sites.
Whenever someone includes your link on their post, they are strengthening your SEO. It's like a referral from Google's point of view. But Google's not stupid. Links are not created equal. Some are less relevant than others. If a backlink to my site originated from a site that also discusses self-publishing, or books, it would be considered as a quality link. If it came from a site dealing with dog food, it will be a poor quality link.
You can read more about backlinking HERE.
I've mentioned the benefits of guest posting in Part 1. When you post on another blog, that's more of your work out there. The blogger will promote your post, and will be shared to their network. It will be additional promotion for you, with an extended reach.
Your presence on Social Media adds to the strength of your online presence because of the sharing that happens. You gain access to your follower's network and their network, and so on.
Connect with people. Advertise your work using keywords. Create vibrant posts that gets shared, effectively increasing your reach. You don't have to join all of them. Where will you find the time? And not all social media sites are good for your business. Facebook is more personal. Twitter is so fast that it's impersonal. Instagram is ideal for posting images, LinkedIn is professional. Google+ is a must join. What you post on your Google+ page gets picked up by Google fast. Pinterest is less interactive. Choose a couple and build your network.
Consistent posting is important. Schedule it. Make every post count. Do it with purpose or don't do it at all.
Do show interest in other people's business. It's not all about you. If you show interest in other author's work, and help them every once in a while, they will do the same for you.
Do watch what you post. Remember your reputation and image.
Do make your posts interesting. Why should people click on your links? Entice them.
Do think of your target audience. What do they need from you and what can you offer?
Do be generous. What you give is what you get.
DON'T advertise your book without an image. It's boring. Post your book's cover at least. Images work better than any combination of words you can think of. They get attention. More so on Twitter.
DON'T spam by posting the same thing over and over again. If people are like me, I will only share it once, because I don't want to share the same thing over and over. Make several different posts about your book to give your posts variety.
DON'T ask favors from your network. Offer something in return instead. Why say, "Can you review my book?" When you can say, "How about a review swap?" Be conscious of the value of other people's time. They don't owe you anything.
DON'T be an OSSI..... What? You don't know what that is? LOL. Those who share links only, or a comment like, "Check it out!" and a link - I call them OSSI - which stands for Overblown Sense of Self Importance. Why would anyone, other than your best buds, click on a link just because you posted it? Are you Madonna or Oprah or Brad Pitt? Add words and entice people. Don't be lazy. Tell them why they should bother with you.
DON'T buy likes, comments and follows. Sure it looks good on your profile to have thousands of followers.... but who are you kidding? Do you want real buyers or just numbers? 50 engaged followers are better than 50k bogus followers. If you're seriously building presence, keep it real. Gain followers by being an interesting, likeable, relevant character.
To give you an example of how social media posts and shares, especially on Google+, can help your online presence, type "getting married" on Google and these posts about my marriage eBook will be displayed on the first page.
There are so many marriage eBooks on the market that I couldn't make the book page itself appear on the first page. So indirectly, these posts are helping my book's exposure. Google loves Google+.
If I don't use social media, my website will be buried under older websites with stronger and more established presence.
So... there's more to social media than just chatting. You don't always have to be there, but when you are, maximize your posts and ensure that everything is contributing to your effort to strengthen your online presence.
There are many sites where you can post your books for free. Some even allow you to make author pages. Register your books to as many sites as possible. Each of these sites have their own following. It's free anyway, so what do you have to lose?
Reader's Gazette - They even promote you on twitter, with banner and all. You can also register your blog.
eBook Stage - A reader's site where you can link to your books on Amazon, Kobo, etc.
Noble Authors - Post a free ad, create a book page with a link to your book sites, and even create an Author Page.
iAuthor - Link to your books, include your books on different book 'themes' created by other members.
BooksOnline Directory - Their Free Book Ads lets you add your book at no cost.
Book Talk - A reader's forum where you can join the conversation and promote your book.
KBoards - Another forum, like Book Talk. When you post here, the search engines see it.
Nothing Binding - Promote your writing. No cost for membership.
Addicted to eBooks - Advertise for free. But your book needs to pass the requirements.
A drop in the bucket for sure. You can make your own list by compiling the list from articles on the Internet. Then when you have time, visit the sites.
When you think of rubber shoes, you think of Nike. Chocolates? Cadbury. Soda? Coke. Okay, maybe those are my preferences, but you get the drift. A good brand sticks, and it becomes synonymous to the product. It has a solid reputation. It is consistent.
What is your brand? Are you a romance author? A non-fiction writer? Are you a mentor who loves making tutorial videos? Who are you? What do you stand for? That is your brand.
Your website, author and book pages, marketing efforts, should be done to reinforce your brand. If you don't believe in what you're promoting, your product, your book.... people won't too. Your doubts will show through your hesitant posts, your inconsistent copy, and your constantly changing way of presenting yourself.
Authors whose writing crosses genres encounter this confusion. Should they promote themselves as this, or that? Whatever you choose, consistency is important, because the way you package your self, the image that you build, the content that you share, your author kit - all of these are done to promote your brand. So, make up your mind first. Who do you want to be?
Of course, you may decide to reinvent yourself in the future. But adapt one image at a time. Don't be a schizo with different personalities. If you're a romance author, be a romance author with your whole heart and soul. If you write paranormal romance, refer to yourself as a paranormal romance writer, not a horror writer or a romance writer. These 2 types of authors have different audiences. If you have followers who love romance novels, and you suddenly promote yourself as a horror writer, they will lose interest. If you switch from one to another, they'll get confused.
Be firm about who you are, and what you offer.
I know how tedious it is to build an online presence, more so if you're not a blogger. I had to study all of these when I created Eeva Lancaster. Yes, this is a pen name. I wanted to separate my author life from the rest of me.... so, Eeva came to be. She's all the best parts of me. You can imagine that when I published my first poetry book, I was a total unknown, and I had to build everything from scratch. The same thing a new author will go through.
But now, I'm consolidating all my online activities under Eeva, because her online presence is stronger than my other personas. Since I quit my job and started The Book Khaleesi, my freelancer persona has been incorporated into my author persona.(It's fun to have many MEs, believe me!) Not quite where I want to be yet, but the foundation is there. I just need to improve on it more.
Most authors have a very weak online presence. Just like marketing, it's something they know zilch about. This article is by no means a comprehensive guide. It's a simple guide, because it doesn't have to be complicated. But you need to know what you must do and why you need to do it. Understand a bit of this, and a bit of that and try it. Nothing beats doing it for yourself, and checking the results.
Whenever you want to check the status of your online presence, Google yourself. See what comes up and how many pages you've earned from your efforts. That's your presence in a nutshell.
That's it for Part 2.
To summarize, here's what you need to remember when you build your online presence.
Your image and bio should be interesting but professional.
Your blurbs and advertising materials should be sales copies and not boring diatribes.
Your image, book blurb, bio, advertising materials should be consistent with your brand.
Keep SEO at the back of your mind when composing titles, subtitles, descriptions, and posting on social media.
Use keywords on your content.
Guest Post whenever you can.
Promote yourself and your books to as many sites as possible.
Build social media presence and grow your following. Extend your reach.
Post interesting content that gets shared and liked.
Be consistent about who you are and what you are offering. This is your brand.
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This isn't a miniature, but it's clearly been altered.
…building for firefighter practice…man too easy.
yeah i was thinking that you can tottaly tell tho coz there is towels on the balcony, I mean, if that was real how could people get there to put their stuff on it??
Why, how does this even connect to a specific geographic location?
ummm…this pic has to be photoshopped! otherwise, how could a towel get on the third floor balcony and a planter on the 2nd floor balcony?
hahaha even if it's miniture it's a design fail. how are they supposed to get to their towels?!
How did you get the rugs on the patio, with no door. Jet plane?
That's a pretty awesome model. I bet fifty interwebs that it's part of an art project.
rofl, what miniature? it's photoshopped how can there be miniature plants or curtains or little paintings, come on….
This is the Super Climbers Apartment. They put the balconies with towels over there just to hack the tenants off. The current tenants are: Lara Croft, Altair, Ezio Auditore, Nathan Drake, and Sam Fisher.
fake, tree branches inside the terrace.
Apparently nobody pays attention to the people who have said "it was on the news, it's a miniature built by a Russian artist." And to the people saying "it can't be a miniature, it's got decorations and curtains in the suites." Detail is everything and even as a miniature you gotta built ground up, however, you do the decorating along the way. Deatail is everything now a days.
no way, its suicide win!


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Entering day two of competition at the New York State Collegiate Track Conference Indoor Championship Meet, the Engineers ranked second out of thirteen teams. The men's track and field team battled the opposition in sprints, distance events, relays, throws, jumps, and vaults, to ultimately emerge triumphant Sunday afternoon as the top team in the state. The Engineers compiled 196.5 points at the two-day competition hosted by St. Lawrence University to earn the first place title, ousting the runner-up Ithaca College Bombers by 50 points.
Six events were held at Newell Field House. On Friday night, the 5000 meter race took place, where sophomore Grant O'Connor set a facility record of 14:32.15. Sophomore Sean O'Connor placed third in 15:11.37.
"[M]y goal was to win and to run a qualifying time for NCAA's," said Grant O'Connor. "I'm fortunate to have accomplished both of those goals, and I'm pleased with my performance and my fitness heading into outdoor.
"My teammate, Sean O'Connor, helped pace me the first 3k and played a huge role in the race's success. Sean went on to finish in third place, and I'm thankful to him for assisting me at the cost of his own performance.
The men's 4×200 meter relay team of freshmen Leighton James, Michael McNicholas, Patrick Butler, and Dale Kelly took second in the event to Rochester Institute of Technology with a time of 1:30.57. Placing third was the men's distance medley relay team of freshman Noah Falasco, sophomore Zach Feuer, sophomore Frank Sinapi, and senior Garrett Davis. The relay contains a 1200 meter leg, 400 meter leg, 800 meter leg, and 1600 meter leg, ran in that order. Senior Mike Pesanello won the weight throw with a distance of 16.10 meters.
On Sunday, senior Ben Fazio championed both the 1000 meters and the mile, finishing the mile in a record time of 4:10.24 not just for the school, or the meet, but for the facility. Fazio also crossed first of eleven in the 1000 in 2:29.99, trailed by senior Collin Smith.
Sean O'Connor and Grant O'Connor returned on Sunday in a 1-2 sweep of the 3000 meters, finishing in 8:43.58 and 8:44.58 respectively. Rookie of the Meet, junior Terrence Lawrence, conquered the 60-meter hurdles in a first-place time of 8.42, and freshman Alex Jonson took third. Lawrence later placed fourth in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.22.
4×400 relay runner's sophomore Jason Hall, freshman Dino Martinez, senior Max Drexler, and McNicholas placed second in the event. The high jump featured four top five Engineer finishers, while the triple jump was won by junior Matt Vitagliano with a mark of 13.89 meters.
After day one of competition, the women's track and field team rested in fifth place out of thirteen teams, defending their position on Sunday to finish fifth overall. Saturday's events featured a third-place performance by seniors Jodi Wrzosek, Sabrina Ahamparam, Taylor MacEwen, and sophomore Maddie Sturm in the women's distance medley relay.
Sophomore Vera Titze, a member of the runner-up women's 4×400 meter team, placed second in the 500 meter dash in a time of 1:19.13. She was joined in the relay by junior Caroline Howes, junior Monica Mazur, and Ahamparam. Howes and Ahamparam also went 3-6 in the 500.
Sophomores Jillian Salkind and Lauren Parker took second and third in the high jump with respective heights of 1.60 meters and 1.55 meters, helping the Engineers accumulate 73.5 points for the meet. Ithaca College was the top women's team, with 218.5 points.


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Why Buy a Volvo V90?
Whether you're in the market for a sedan, hatchback, or a family crossover, the Volvo v90 has a lot to offer. With all-wheel drive, an infotainment system, and adaptive cruise control, it's a car that's bound to please.
1 Infotainment system
2 All-wheel drive
3 Adaptive cruise control
4 4G LTE connectivity with in-vehicle hotspot
5 Cargo space and backseat room
6 Fuel economy
Compared to competitors, the infotainment system in Volvo V90 isn't as polished. But it's much faster and easier to use than the system it replaced. In addition, it uses the latest driver assistance technology to make the car safer and more responsive.
Volvo's new infotainment system uses a Google-based Android operating system. It also includes Google's digital voice assistant to control the audio system. You can use voice commands to set your destination, send messages, and more. Those features aren't available on the iPhone yet. However, Volvo is developing an over-the-air software update that will enable smartphone mirroring.
The 9-inch touchscreen is faster than the old system, but it's also smaller. The icons are smaller and the interface is a bit less polished.
Unlike most station wagons, the Volvo V90 offers the space and versatility of a mid-size crossover. With the rear seats folded, the cargo area provides more space than the Lexus RX midsize crossover. There's also room for four large adults.
The Volvo V90 offers standard four-zone automatic climate control and an in-dash navigation system. The Sensus Connect infotainment system features a 9.0-inch vertically oriented touchscreen, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and in-car Wi-Fi. In addition, it includes a USB port and a 12-volt power outlet.
Volvo All-Wheel-Drive features Instant Traction(TM), which increases grip on the road in any weather. When the vehicle is at a standstill, the engine directs power to the front wheels, and when the road is dry, the system transfers power to the rear wheels. This extra control ensures the best traction possible.
Adaptive cruise control on Volvo XC40, XC60, S90, and V90 models is standard. It is a safety feature that allows the driver to set a target speed, and the system will automatically adjust the speed to match.
The Volvo V90 offers Pilot Assist, a combination of lane-keep assist and adaptive cruise control. The system uses a camera mounted high on the windshield to help keep the wagon within a lane. It will also keep an eye on lane markings.
It's not the only semi-autonomous driving system Volvo offers, though. The V90 also offers rear cross-traffic alert, blind-spot monitoring, and forward-collision prevention. The system uses multiple high-definition cameras to produce a bird's-eye view of the area around the car.
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Whether you are looking for a luxury SUV, a family vehicle, or everyday transportation, the Volvo V90 Cross Country is an attractive option. It offers robust safety equipment, a versatile interior, and an infotainment system that provides an enjoyable driving experience. It also features 4G LTE connectivity with an in-vehicle hotspot.
Volvo offers a six-month complimentary data plan to new cars. The plan offers up to three gigabytes of data to use for internet browsing and in-car apps. For those who want more data, the plan can be upgraded for an additional fee.
The Volvo Sensus system puts Volvo ahead of the pack when it comes to infotainment systems. The system has a large center touchscreen, a navigation system, Bluetooth, and more. It also includes real-time traffic information. It has pull-down menus and a natural-voice-recognition technology that allows you to speak a command and the system will respond.
Cargo space and backseat room
Despite being a wagon, the V90 has ample cargo space and backseat room. The rear seats fold almost flat, which means you can fit six large suitcases or a small dresser. The rear seats also have plenty of headroom.
The cargo area also features a powered tailgate, which will automatically slide up when the liftgate is opened. There are also handy storage spaces in the center console. A tether anchor at the middle rear seat helps to keep the rear seats in place.
Although the V90 has more cargo space than its chief rivals, it still has to compete against more spacious wagons. For example, the BMW 5 Series Touring has more than 1,600 liters of space behind the rear seats.
Whether you're driving a new Volvo V90 or looking at one for sale, you may be wondering what the fuel economy is. There are a lot of different versions to choose from, and the figures can vary considerably. Typically, a car's official MPG figure is derived from an NEDC test. But the real-world figures can be very different, and may even be higher.
Volvo's new V90 has a few tricks up its sleeve. It has a semi-autonomous driving mode, and it can detect pedestrians and cyclists, as well as recognize traffic signs.
The V90 is also equipped with a host of driver aids, including adaptive cruise control, blind-spot monitoring, and automatic emergency braking. The V90 is also equipped with an eight-speed automatic transmission.
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The cornerstone for the Lowell City Library (also known as Memorial Hall) was laid on October 11, 1890. It was dedicated on June 3, 1892 to all those from Lowell who died in the Civil War. Lowell native and well-known architect Frederick Stickney designed the Romanesque building. Among the numerous mansions and public buildings he worked on in New England and New York, Lowell's Memorial Hall is arguably his grandest and best known building.
Originally, the first floor housed the city library and the second floor housed a memorial meeting hall for use by the Grand Army of the Republic post. The treasured artifacts housed there included the coats worn by Privates Luther Ladd and Addison Whitney when they fell during the Baltimore Riot, becoming two of the first casualties in the Civil War. A fire nearly destroyed the building in 1915. It was restored, although funds did not initially allow a full restoration of the hall's original grandeur. The work in 1915 included the installation of military murals, still extant, by Paul Phillipoteaux, the artist who painted the famed Gettysburg Cyclorama. A full restoration of Memorial Hall's interior, replicating the building's original interior details, was accomplished in 1980. In 1981 the building was renamed the Pollard Memorial Library after a former mayor of Lowell.
Although monuments to individual soldiers are outside the purview of this project, an exception will be made in the case of the Ladd and Whitney Memorial due to its national historical importance and prominence in downtown Lowell.
Luther Ladd (17 years old) and Addison Whitney (22 years old) were both Lowell mill workers who signed up with the Lowell Guards, which became Company D of the 6th Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. On their way to Washington to answer Lincoln's initial call for volunteer troops, the 6th Massachusetts was attacked by a secessionist mob in Baltimore. Four militiamen (including Ladd and Whitney) and at least 12 civilians were killed.
Ladd is frequently referred to as the first Union soldier killed in action during the Civil War, although some historians have questioned which of the 6th Massachusetts men fell first. In 1908, a plaque was attached to the monument in memory of another Lowell native who died that day–Private Charles A. Taylor. There is much confusion surrounding Taylor's circumstances and he therefore has not received the same attention as Ladd and Whitney. He had just caught up with his unit that morning and therefore was in civilian clothing during the riot. It is believed that he was misidentified as a local civilian and buried in an unmarked grave. This greatly troubled Col. Edward Jones, commanding officer of the 6th Massachusetts, who for decades tried to locate Taylor's grave in Maryland and return his remains to Lowell. Despite his efforts, Taylor's grave was never located.
In addition to the above, Lowell also contains two stone memorials flanked by cannons which adorn the Grand Army of the Republic burial plots at Edson Cemetery (1375 Gorham Street) and Lowell Cemetery (1000 Lawrence Street). Among those interred in the Lowell Cemetery plot is U.S. Navy Capt. John McFarland who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his courage and cool performance aboard Admiral Farragut's flagship, the USS Hartford, during the Battle of Mobile Bay. McFarland's marker, back in 1885, had been incorrectly carved with the name "William McFarland" and the Medal of Honor recipient's resting place therefore disappeared from record…until 2017 when a group including local historians, veterans, and cemetery department staff got to the bottom of the mystery. A corrected grave marker for McFarland was placed appropriately noting his status as a Medal of Honor recipient.
 Alfred S. Roe, Monuments, tablets and other memorials erected in Massachusetts to commemorate the service of her sons in the war of the rebellion, 1861-1865, (Boston: Wright and Potter Printers, 1910), 70.
 Lowell Historical Society, Lowell: The Mill City, (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005), 46-48.
Patrick, thank you and Jeff for pursuing this important project of documenting all of MA Civil War Monuments. The CT Historical Society published its project of our CT monuments in a 2 vol. cloth set. Hopefully, one day a similar organization will do your project the same justice. Thank you again!
Thank you, Irving! Glad you enjoy the posts.


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It's the end of a busy week, and we're hoping to visit Longwood Gardens tomorrow (yay!). One thing that helped me stay focused this week was Mary Oliver's poem below. My comments follow.
Mary Oliver invites me to attend to small things right before my eyes, often at my feet. Pay attention. So much attention that I can't stop thinking about it/them.
One small thing caught my attention this past week. At first I didn't see any connections. Or hear any voices speaking into my silence. Yet I couldn't stop thinking about it.
'It' is a small, striped-tail chipmunk (ground squirrel) that regularly sits on a cement block wall just along the edge of our backyard driveway. He or she? I don't know. I do know it's often sitting or lying on that wall in just the same spot. And has been since the wall was completed several years ago.
Sometimes it runs down the wall and jumps into our pile of yard trimmings, looking for food. When the weather is chilly, it stretches out on top of its favorite cement block and soaks in the sun. Other times it sits there alert, watching for possible intruders.
I think it has a nest inside one of the cement blocks—on the unfinished back side of the wall. Sometimes when I walk by on the way to the garage it quickly races into one of the cement blocks.
Several kinds of hawks frequent our area. I've watched them swoop down into our back yard to surprise a large gray squirrel, a slow sparrow or a dove. I've also heard our small chipmunk squawking out the alarm, joined by other small backyard creatures. Sometimes the hawks have their way.
We live in unsettled times. It takes determination to focus on simple things that inhabit our lives. Especially when there are hawks out there with their beady eyes scanning the ground for juicy tidbits.
Mary Oliver's poem invites me to pay attention to the chipmunk. To hear our Creator's voice speaking through the simple things of life. Not giving up, but staying alert, living each day simply and fully. Which can be a way of saying thank you. Without fancy gestures or heavy words laden with heavy thoughts. This isn't a contest.
Yes! Love this and soooo true!
What a delightful animal to have as a guest/intruder in the home. It's lovely to have one of natures little creatures close.


This article aims to clarify the role of the Islamic State's (a.k.a. ISIS) online activities on radicalization. To that effect, all empirical endeavors on the underpinning phenomenon in Vox-Pol's library were systematically reviewed and assessed. This exhaustive review suggests that Radicalization Leading to Violence (RLV) offers a nuanced conceptualization of the complex, emergent, and non-linear and dynamic phenomenon. Findings of the included studies were recorded, visualized, and clustered, allowing the discussion of possible scenarios, and thus, the inference of a utilitarian model of RLV dynamics based on the conceptual map of the literature. On the basis of connectivity and affordance opportunities (online and offline [beyond the digital realm]), Total Islam (i.e., a totalizing identity marker rather than an indicator of religiosity) is posited to be a critical element of the inferred model. ISIS is argued to use both affordance opportunities in a way that capitalizes on the manifestations of Total Islam to mobilize those embracing this form identity across different RLV trajectories. To that end, the paper is concluded by discussing its implications, limitations, and recommendations for future research.


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Dogs rescued after starting flat fire in Dedham
Two dogs have been rescued from a first floor flat in Dedham after they inadvertently started a fire.
Crews were called to the property in Crown Street last night after a neighbour reported that he had heard the smoke alarm sounding for some time.
On arrival firefighters forced their way into the property, as the homeowner was out at the time, and reported that the kitchen was heavily smoke logged and there was a smouldering fire on the hob.
Crews then rescued two dogs from the kitchen and extinguished the fire by 8.10pm.
The cause of the fire has been recorded as accidental, and started after the hob was turned on and set alight to a bin which had been placed on top of it, out of the way of the dogs.
Watch Manager Stephen Smith, Colchester Fire Station, said:
"Always keep your cooker and hob area clear - even if you're not intending to turn it on there's always a chance it can get accidentally turned on.
"Thankfully in this case the contents of the bin was not particularly flammable, meaning the fire did not spread quickly, and instead turned into a slow smouldering fire."
As the kitchen door was closed the smoke damage was contained to the kitchen.
Watch Manager Smith, added:
"Although the smoke alarm had been sounding for some time the neighbour had assumed that it was a false alarm.
"It wasn't until the neighbour went out, came back and realised the alarm was still going off that he called the fire service out.
"We always urge people to take note of their neighbour's smoke alarm - if you hear it, give them a knock to check everything is ok.
"Smoke alarms can warn us, and others around us, of the first sign of fire and should always be taken seriously."


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Q: PayloadTooLargeError for Expo in React Native What is causing the PayloadTooLargeError error? I get it sometimes and also when the payload is a few KB (as far as I can figure out).
PayloadTooLargeError: request entity too large
    at readStream (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/@expo/dev-server/node_modules/raw-body/index.js:155:17)
    at getRawBody (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/@expo/dev-server/node_modules/raw-body/index.js:108:12)
    at read (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/@expo/dev-server/node_modules/body-parser/lib/read.js:77:3)
    at jsonParser (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/@expo/dev-server/node_modules/body-parser/lib/types/json.js:135:5)
    at call (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/connect/index.js:239:7)
    at next (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/connect/index.js:183:5)
    at serveStatic (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/serve-static/index.js:75:16)
    at call (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/connect/index.js:239:7)
    at next (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/connect/index.js:183:5)

I found some solutions that you can set the limit to a higher value, but that's not specifically for Expo.io
There is no console.log used in the app

A: The error you are seeing could be caused by one of the packages you are using which uses body parser.
In body parser there is an option to limit to request body size:
limit
Controls the maximum request body size. If this is a number, then the value specifies the number of bytes; if it is a string, the value is passed to the bytes library for parsing. Defaults to '100kb'.

Taken from here.
You can see a related SO questions here and here.
I also saw this GitHub issue for Expo-Cli

A: I had the same problem, after a lot of trials, I figure it out. The issue is related to the way you fetch the data, you are continuously fetching the data from database, which cause this error.
The solution is to fetch the data only once,
useEffect(() => {

  }, []);

Here is code example to
useEffect(() => {

const fetchUser = async () => {
  try {
    let user = await AsyncStorage.getItem('user_id');

    let parsed = JSON.parse(user);

    setUserId(parsed);

    //Service to get the data from the server to render
    fetch('http://myIpAddress/insaf/mobileConnection/ClientDashboard/PrivateReplyConsulationTab.php?ID=' + parsed)
    //Sending the currect offset with get request
    .then((response) => response.json())
    .then((responseJson) => {
      //Successful response from the API Call
      setOffset(offset + 1);
      const pri = Object.values(responseJson[0].reply_list);

      setPrivateReplies(pri);

      setLoading(false);

    })
    .catch((error) => {
      console.error(error);
    });
  }
  catch (error) {
    alert(error + "Unkbown user name")
  }
    }
    fetchUser();
  }, []);

A: I think the storage is merging the old requests, so can you reset the async storage
AsyncStorage.clear()

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MacKenzie Lueck case: What's next in the legal process?
By: John Franchi
Posted at 10:07 PM, Jun 28, 2019
SALT LAKE CITY — Prosecutors with the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office are sifting through evidence to bring formal charges against Ayoola Ajayi.
Ajayi was arrested on suspicion of aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping and other crimes in relation to the disappearance and death of MacKenzie Lueck.
Prosecutors have 72 hours to formally charge him.
"Our homicide team will get together the early part of next week. We will review the materials as part of the investigation," said Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill. "Everybody is fully committed. This issue has not come to an end, this is just the beginning of this process."
Gill says the legal process will take time.
"My recommendation to the community is be patient, trust what law enforcement has done," Gill said. "We owe it not only to the victim's family, to their friends, to the community that if there is a criminal conduct like this, that there is an accountability."
It is still too early to discuss any potential punishment Ajayi could face.
"The state of Utah has the death penalty, but it would be absolutely inappropriate to speculate on that," Gill said. "We still have not made the final, formal filing charges decision."
Gill estimates charges could be filed by Tuesday.
A GoFundMe set up by a close friend of MacKenzie's to help the Lueck family with funeral costs can be found here.
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Great professional course has good mix of technicality and wide open power shots the layout is awesome and easy to follow.
Signature hole #9 is a fabulous sight when you see your disc glide through the air and down towards the basket,the longest hole on the course what amazing 500 + ft drive it is. Overall a very fun course on and the layout itself is great.
Probably my favourite course out St. Thomas way. Reminds me of Bronte a little with some more open holes. Massive elevation on two holes playing up and down hill.
Nice Layout. Fun and challenging. Well manicured course but lots of grief if you can't hit the fairway.
This course has always had my number. Tight fairways, lots of long grass, big distance... there is plenty of challenge here, even for well established players. Definitely one of the toughest courses in Southern Ontario, and one of the longest.