Connectify Dispatch is software that lets your computer take advantage of more than one internet connection at a time. You can join a Wi-Fi network, and tether your 4G cell phone, or with a second Wi-Fi card, you can join 2 Wi-Fi networks at once. Dispatch then load balances your downloads and uploads between the connections to give you better speed and reliability.
There's no other software that lets you use more than one internet connection at a time. There are some hardware boxes, but that's another device you need to carry, plugin, etc. Nothing that works for the mobile user.
In the 2000s, our team developed advanced networking software for the US Department of Defense. At one point there were thousands of robots in Iraq running our networking software. But, in 2009 we decided to reboot into a commercial software company using the same skills to solve the problems that regular people have with their wireless networks.
Our first product was Connectify Hotspot, a software router that turns your laptop into a Wi-Fi hotspot, so you can share your internet connectivity with all your devices. Once we launched Connectify Hotspot, it started becoming really clear to us that we could do marvelous things with your network that no one else had done before: like allowing you to use more than one connection at a time.
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What have you done since you successfully gained funding on KS?
We shipped software! We spend the next three months after the end of the campaign finishing the software and supporting our users, and we were able to launch, as promised, in December 2012. Since then, we've released a number of updates to Dispatch. All our Kickstarter backers are getting a lifetime of software updates for their support, so they're all benefiting from the additional work we're doing as time time goes on.
What have the biggest challenges been in developing the Dispatch technology?
One of the biggest challenges was making sure it really works everywhere. And this is where the Kickstarter backers were unbelievably valuable. There would have been no way for us to know what we needed to do to get it work correctly on 3G networks in Eastern Europe and Africa without our patient users going back and forth with us, submitting logs, and trying fixes. There's simply no other way we could have gotten that level of worldwide testing.
Doesn't this kind of technology have a lot of security issues?
No, there's very little security concern, to be honest. We only combine internet connections that the user already has access to. Users just see faster internet than they would have without it.
We're hearing from a lot of mobile professionals who are having success with Dispatch to get great internet even when on the road. Combine the hotel's so-so Wi-Fi with a tethered cell phone or MiFi. Pop a small second USB Wi-Fi card into your computer, join two hotspots at the same time, and Dispatch ensures that you've got fast and reliable internet no matter where you are.
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New York to allow tests of COVID-19 in pharmacies
The US state of New York, the epicentre of the country's Covid-19 outbreak, will allow pharmacies to carry out tests for the virus, the governor says.
Andrew Cuomo said some 5,000 pharmacies would be able to carry out testing, with the aim to provide 40,000 per day.
The US has more than 938,000 confirmed cases. Almost a third of the 53,751 deaths happened in New York City alone.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump did not hold his daily briefing, saying it was not worth his "time or effort".
What did Trump say?
Speaking on Twitter on Saturday, he blamed the media for asking "nothing but hostile questions". He was heavily criticised after suggesting at Thursday's White House news conference that disinfectant could potentially be used as a treatment for the virus.
His remarks have been condemned as dangerous by doctors and manufacturers, as disinfectants are hazardous substances and can be poisonous if ingested.
In New York City, calls to the hotline for exposure to certain household chemicals more than doubled in the 18 hours after Mr Trump's remarks – 30 cases compared to 13 for the same time frame last year.
What measures is New York introducing?
Governor Cuomo announced on Saturday that antibody screenings would be expanded at four hospitals, beginning with frontline medical workers.
He also said independent pharmacies would be allowed to collect samples for diagnostic tests.
It is part of a drive to find out how widely the virus has spread across the state of 20 million people.
"Twenty-one days of hell, and now we are back to where we were 21 days ago," he said. "Testing is what we are compulsively or obsessively focused on now."
Healthcare staff and essential workers – such as police officers, firefighters, bus drivers and shop assistants – would be able to get tests even if they did not have any symptoms of infection, he said.
This was important not just for their own safety but also to protect the public, he said.
"Since we now have more collection sites, more testing capacity, we can open up the eligibility for those tests," Mr Cuomo added.
Hospital admissions in the state have also begun to fall, Mr Cuomo said, in what he described as a sign the crisis was starting to subside. However, the number of deaths announced on Friday increased slightly to 437 – the first time it had risen in four days.
Earlier this week Mr Cuomo said nearly 14% of 3,000 people in a study had tested positive for the presence of antibodies, suggesting the virus had spread widely throughout the population.
Meanwhile New York City's Independent Budget Office said the lockdown would result in the loss of 475,000 jobs and leave the city with a budget deficit of nearly $10bn (£8.1bn).
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Elizabeth Spayd
A 'Darker Narrative' of Print's Future From Clay Shirky
By Margaret Sullivan
April 10, 2015 8:00 am April 10, 2015 8:00 am
A column I wrote last month on the enduring importance of the printed newspaper to The Times drew a response from an incisive thinker about media and technology, Clay Shirky. Mr. Shirky, an author and a professor at New York University, wrote a groundbreaking blog post in 2009 that radically changed my thinking about the future of newspapers then; in an email exchange with me this week, he provides a few more challenging ideas.
His observations deserve a wider audience, so I'll reproduce them here, editing very lightly for clarity's sake, with some commentary of mine. (Mr. Shirky also makes a prominent appearance in a recent speech by Martin Baron, the executive editor of the Washington Post, on the media's transition to digital; a recommended read.)
I noted in my column that 70 percent of all Times revenue still comes from print (almost entirely from print subscriptions and print advertising); I also quoted two Times executives — Roland Caputo and Dean Baquet — who believe that print will be around for at least 10 years, maybe far longer. And I made reference to the many Times readers who are deeply attached to their print newspaper.
Mr. Shirky wrote:
I'd like to offer a considerably darker narrative: I think the pattern of print revenue decay will be fast, slow, fast.
The original, fast decline was 2007-9, where two overlapping events — the Great Recession and the sudden shift to mobile consumption — created a vicious cycle, where your most adventurous readers and least committed advertisers both moved rapidly to digital-only, amid a period of general contraction in ad revenues. These were the years of double-digit decline in revenues.
By 2010, most of the early abandoners had left and the economy recovered, leaving you with only secular decline in readership (down 5-6 percent a year) and only proportional decreases in advertising revenue. This is the slow period of print decay.
The people you quote — Baquet, Caputo — seem to be betting that the current dynamics of slow decline form the predictable future for your paper. I doubt this, and the alternate story I'd like to suggest is that print declines will become fast again by the end of the decade, bringing about the end of print (by which I mean a New York Times that does not produce a print product seven days a week) sooner than Baquet's 40-year horizon, and possibly sooner than Caputo's 10-year one. (Public editor note: Mr. Baquet said "no one thinks there will be a lot of print around in 40 years." Mr. Caputo predicted that a printed Times would be around in 10 years, but did not specify seven-day-a-week production.)
You observed that print is responsible for the majority of ad revenues at the paper, but the disproportionate importance of print is not a signal of the robustness of the medium, it is a signal that advertisers have not found a way to replace print ads with anything as effective in other media.
The problem with print is that the advantageous returns to scale from physical distribution of newspapers become disadvantageous when scale shrinks. The ad revenue from a print run of 500,000 would be 16 percent less than for 600,000 at best, but the costs wouldn't fall by anything like 16%, eroding print margins. There is some threshold, well above 100,000 copies and probably closer to 250,000, where nightly print runs stop making economic sense. This risk is increased by The New York Times's cross-subsidy of print, with its print+digital bundle. This bundle creates the risk of rapid future readjustment, when advertisers reconsider print CPM in light of reduced consumption and pass-around of print by all-access subscribers. (Public editor note: C.P.M. is the cost to the advertiser per thousand readers or viewers, a common measurement in advertising.)
Both your Sunday and weekday readerships are already near important psychological thresholds for advertisers — one million and 500,000. When no advertiser can reach a million readers in any print ad in the Times (2017, on present evidence) and weekday advertising reaches less than half a million (2018, using the 6 percent decline figure you quoted), there will be downward pressure on C.P.M.s. This makes no sense, of course, since pricing ads per thousand should make advertisers indifferent to overall circulation, but marketing departments have never been run terribly logically.
So it seems likely to me that after the early, rapid decline, we are now in a period of shallow, secular decay, which will give way to a late-stage period of rapid decline. You can see something like this has happened already in your delivery business, when you read the comments on your piece. Several commenters would like a print copy, but don't live in an area where it's cost-effective to deliver the paper. This happened to my mother, in western Virginia; she is now digital-only because after years of gradual decay, the Roanoke, Va., market simply crossed a threshold where it became unprofitable, and all the remaining print subscribers disappeared all at once.
Those dynamics, in miniature, characterize print as a whole — below some threshold, the decay stops being incremental and starts being systemic.
I asked Mr. Shirky what he thought news organizations, or specifically The Times, should do, given his prognosis. And we had a long exchange about that — too much for here and now. But I'll summarize his main points:
1) Demystify the end of print. ("Constant speculation does no one any good, but nor does the fantasy that this is anything but hospice care.")
2) Do more to cut costs, companywide. ("The most valuable long-term dollar to an organization with declining revenues is a dollar you don't spend.")
3) Give huge emphasis to finding new advertising dollars from mobile-device readership. ("The catastrophe of believing that the iPad would bring full-page, glossy, high-margin brand-building to the Internet was perhaps the cruelest trick Steve Jobs ever played on the media industry, already a long list.")
4) Think of subscribership as membership. In short, get some percentage of the loyal readers of The Times to pay more — some of them a lot more — to support what Mr. Shirky calls their "indispensable paper." This is the most important piece of the puzzle, he believes.
In the end, harking back to that 2009 Shirky post I mentioned at the top, what matters isn't holding on to the old forms: "Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism."
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Q: What's the difference between --unresolved-symbols=ignore-in-shared-libs and --allow-shlib-undefined flags What is the difference between the following linker (ld) flags:
--unresolved-symbols=ignore-in-shared-libs
--allow-shlib-undefined
?
And as a follow up what's the difference between unresolved symbols and undefined symbols in this nomenclature?

A: The linker option:
--unresolved-symbols=method

lets you specify any of 4 different criteria (method) for the linker
to report or ignore unresolved symbol references in a linkage. The manual
says:

--unresolved-symbols=method
Determine how to handle unresolved symbols. There are four possible values for 'method':
'ignore-all'
   Do not report any unresolved symbols.

'report-all'
   Report all unresolved symbols. This is the default.

'ignore-in-object-files'
   Report unresolved symbols that are contained in shared libraries, but ignore them if they come from regular object files.

'ignore-in-shared-libs'
   Report unresolved symbols that come from regular object files, but ignore them if they come from shared libraries. This can be useful when creating a dynamic binary and it is known that all the shared libraries that it should be referencing are included on the linker's command line.

The behaviour for shared libraries on their own can also be controlled by the --[no-]allow-shlib-undefined option.
Normally the linker will generate an error message for each reported unresolved symbol but the option --warn-unresolved-symbols can change this to a warning.

As the sentence I've emphasised indicates, the linker option:
--allow-shlib-undefined

is just a shorter way of saying:
--unresolved-symbols=ignore-in-shared-libs

There is no difference in meaning between undefined and unresolved in this context:
the suggestion of a difference is just part of the cruft of this ancient tool.

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I ordered a pack of 10 sheets off Ebay and the package just say inkjet clear decal sheets. Yep, just printed out on the printer, clear coated with some spray lacquer and put in water for a minute or so….quick and easy.
Nice Pen. I like doing the decal work my self.
Tip (works for me) to speed up the process use a hair dryer while your lathe is spinning slow after first applying the decal.
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Wylinkowce (Ecdysozoa, z gr. ekdysis linienie, zoa zwierzę) – klad zwierząt dwubocznie symetrycznych (Bilateria) obejmujący zwierzęta charakteryzujące się linieniem, czyli cyklicznym odrzucaniem kutykuli. Do tej grupy należy 8 typów współcześnie żyjących bezkręgowców o różnorodnych planach organizacji budowy ciała (w tym stawonogi, nicienie i kilka innych) grupujących ponad milion znanych gatunków, a szacuje się, że może ich być 4,5 mln. Koncepcja wyłonienia takiej grupy pojawiała się już wcześniej (Perrier w XIX w., Seurat na początku XX w. i Eernisse pod koniec XX w.). Formalnie takson Ecdysozoa został nazwany w 1997 przez zespół prof. Jamesa Lake'a, w oparciu o badania genu 18S kodującego rRNA małej podjednostki rybosomu. Według definicji filogenetycznej przedstawionej przez autorów klad ten obejmuje ostatniego wspólnego przodka stawonogów, niesporczaków, pazurnic, nicieni, nitnikowców, ryjkogłowów i niezmogowców oraz wszystkich jego potomków.

Krytyka hipotezy
Hipoteza Ecdysozoa była uznawana za kontrowersyjną – zburzyła tradycyjnie przyjmowaną hipotezę Articulata (segmentowce), według której metameria stawonogów i pierścienic była uważana za synapomorfię. Podjęte na szeroką skalę badania molekularne nie dosyć, że nie potwierdziły istnienia kladu Articulata, to przyniosły wiele dowodów potwierdzających słuszność hipotezy ekdyzonu, a przy okazji wykazały konieczność przeklasyfikowania wielu z tradycyjnie uznawanych typów bezkręgowców. Koncepcja wylinkowców została również poparta badaniami paleontologicznymi, w tym badaniami Jerzego Dzika.

Analiza molekularna przeprowadzona przez Philipa i współpracowników (2005) wskazała, że tradycyjnie rozumiane Ecdysozoa nie są kladem i wsparła hipotezę Coelomata, zakładającą bliższe pokrewieństwo stawonogów ze strunowcami. Philippe, Lartillot i Brinkmann zasugerowali jednak, że taki rezultat może być wynikiem long branch attraction.

Analiza filogenomiczna przeprowadzona przez Dunna i in. (2008) zdecydowanie potwierdzają, że jest to takson naturalny, podobnie jak analiza wykonana przez Lartillota i Philippe'a (2008).

Taksonomia
Typy:
 †Lobopodia
 Kinorhyncha
 Loricifera
 Priapulida
 Nematoda
 Nematomorpha
 Onychophora
 Tardigrada
 Arthropoda

Filogeneza
Hipotetyczne drzewo filogenetyczne Ecdysozoa według Dunn et al. (2008)

Przypisy

Zwierzęta

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Request from Texas Senator Ted Cruz – Call your Senators using the Senate switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and tell them to oppose the Gang of 8 Amnesty bill
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1. Rubio (202-224-3041): "I would vote against anything that grants amnesty because I think it destroys your ability to enforce the existing law and I think it's unfair to the people who are standing in line and waiting to come in legally. I would vote against anything that has amnesty in it."
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4. Ayotte (202-224-3324): "For the people who are here illegally, I don't support amnesty; it's wrong. It's wrong to the people who are waiting in line here, who have waited for so long. And we need to stop that because I think that's where the Administration is heading next."
5. Flake (202-224-4521): "I've been down that road, and it is a dead end. The political realities in Washington are such that a comprehensive solution is not possible, or even desirable given the current leadership. Border security must be addressed before other reforms are tackled."
6. Hatch (202-224-5251): "We can no longer grant amnesty. I fought against the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli bill because they granted amnesty to 3 million people. They should have to get in line like anybody else if they want to come into this country and do it legally."
7. Heller (202-224-6244): "I believe it is an amnesty program, a back-door amnesty program for the 12 to 15 million people who are here illegally."
8. Alexander (202-224-4944): "We cannot restore a system of legal immigration – which is the real American Dream – if we undermine it by granting new benefits to those who are here illegally."
9. Collins (202-224-2523): Before 2008 reelection, voted no on McCain-Kennedy amnesty
10. Hoeven (202-224-2551): Hoeven said the U.S. needs to secure its borders and crack down on employers who hire illegal immigrants.
11. McCain (202-224-2235): "Complete the danged fence."
12. Graham (202-224-5972): Amid withering criticism from his constituents, Graham — who is up for reelection next year — began to argue that it was time to approach the immigration problem in stages. On Thursday, he likened the decisive vote to pass his amendment to "having been robbed 12 million times and finally getting around to putting a lock on the door."
13. Kirk (202-224-2854): "The American people believe our borders are broken. It is a fundamental duty of our government to know who is entering the country, making illegal entry nearly impossible. In the coming Congress, we have an overwhelming bipartisan consensus to restore confidence in the security of our borders — before we pursue other immigration proposals."
14. Murkowski (202-224-6665): "With regard to undocumented aliens, I believe that those who illegally entered or remained in the United States should not be granted amnesty. Granting amnesty to illegal aliens sends the wrong message and is not fair to the vast majority of immigrants who abided by U.S. immigration laws. Granting amnesty would only encourage further illegal immigration."
15. Chisea (202-224-3224): Joined most other Republicans, including opponents of the legislation, in supporting a proposal — which was defeated largely along party lines — that would have blocked legalization until the government can prove U.S. borders are secure. Chiesa said he sees border security as a top priority given his law enforcement background, and has yet to decide his stance on citizenship for immigrants without authorization.
Red State Democrats
1. Pryor (202-224-2353): "I voted against the president's immigration plan today because the border security and enforcement measures are inadequate and the bill fails to effectively address the individuals who are already here illegally." Pryor says it's time for changes, "It's time for a new approach. I advocate that we strengthen and implement the enforcement measures in this bill and show we can fully enforce immigration laws."
2. Tester (202-224-2644): He wants secure borders and no amnesty for law breakers.
3. Landrieu (202-224-5824): "Sen. Landrieu is a leader in the U.S. Senate fighting against illegal immigration," Schneider said. "She has fought against amnesty for illegal immigrants and to provide more resources for border security. The new NRSC attack is designed simply to mislead voters about Sen. Landrieu's record."
4. Donnelly (202-224-4814): "Eliminate amnesty because no one should ever be rewarded for breaking the law."
5. Hagan (202-224-6342): Hagan said she supported increased border security and opposed amnesty.
6. McCaskill (202-224-6154): Claire does not support amnesty. As a former prosecutor, Claire believes people who break the law should be held accountable, both illegal immigrants and the employers who exploit them for cheap labor. Claire does not believe we need any new guest worker programs undermining American workers.
7. Stabenow (202-224-4822): Do you support path to citizenship for illegal immigrants? STABENOW: I voted no, because it went too far and cost us jobs. I do think it's important to have border security and legal system that is fair and effective. My focus is on our jobs that we're losing because of failed policies.
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Q: Excel CSV help Python I have the following CSV file:

How do I import the numbers only into an array in python one row at a time?  No date, no string.
My code:
import csv

def test():
    out = open("example.csv","rb")
    data = csv.reader(out)
    data = [row for row in data]
    out.close()
    print data

Let me more clear. I don't want a huge 2D array. I want to import just the 2nd row and then manipulate the data then get the 3rd row. I would need a for loop for this, but I am not sure on how csv fully works.

A: try this:
with open('the_CSV_file.csv','r') as f:
  box = f.readlines()

result_box = []
for line in box[1:]:
  items = line.split(';') # adjust the separator character in the CSV as needed
  result_box.append(items[1:])

print result_box

A: % <csv # just a silly CSV I got from http://secrets.d8u.us/csv
Secret,Timestamp
Forza la fiera!,1368230474
American healthcare SUXXXXX,1368232342
I am not sure if I wanna take the girl out again,1368240406
I bred a race of intelligent penguin assassins to murder dick cheney. ,1368245584
"I guess it is my mother's time of the month, as it were",1368380424
i've seen walls breath,1368390258

In [33]: %paste
with open('csv', 'rb') as csvfile:
       csv_reader = csv.reader(csvfile, dialect='excel') # excel may be the default, but doesn't hurt to be explicit
       csv_reader.next()
       for row in csv_reader:
              array.append(row[1:])
## -- End pasted text --

In [34]: array
Out[34]:
[['1368230474'],
 ['1368232342'],
 ['1368240406'],
 ['1368245584'],
 ['1368380424'],
 ['1368390258']]

A: corrected as per @DSM's comment
You should end up with what you want in array:
import csv

with open('theFile.csv', 'r', encoding = 'utf8') as data:
    reader = csv.reader(data)

    array = []
    next(reader)    # skips 'string's row
    for row in reader:
        numberRow = [float(x) for x in row[1:]) # This slice skips 'date's
        array.append(numberRow)

I'm not sure it's necessary to define the encoding.  But if you want to treat these as numbers, you will have to use float(x), or else they'll just be strings.


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'It's still so difficult to come out at work and university. Why isn't that changing?'
Even after years of progress in UK law, rates of students and graduates coming out are not improving, writes Jamie Wareham.
When National Student Pride began 15 years ago we knew that six in 10 graduates were either in, or would go back in, the closet when they left university to enter the world of work.
Today, on National Coming Out Day – those figures remain, disappointingly, exactly the same.
It's easy to think LGBTQ rights are moving forward, and that might be true in the UK when it comes to laws.
But this research shows the lived experience of LGBTQ young people remains remarkably separate from legal progress.
And what its shows leaves me with no wonder why people struggle coming out.
The Out and Proud research put together by Clifford Chance, the University of York and Deutsche Bank in collaboration with National Student Pride shows:
Only four in ten LGBTQ people are out at work and university.
Six in ten of those who are out at university experience discrimination.
Four in ten LGBTQ people suffer depression.
One in seven LGBTQ people experience homelessness, however temporary, after coming out in some part due to family estrangement
LGBTQ people are 6% more likely to feel worse after joining university
LGBTQ people are nearly twice as likely to use drugs.
The report says things have got better since previous Stonewall research which says 62% of graduates go back in the closet when they enter the job market.
But this is based on the study showing 58% of LGBT+ graduates aren't out by the time they get into employment.
That, at its best, means only a shameful 4% increase.
This, alongside statistics that show LGBTQ people are twice as likely to use drugs, is also staggering.
Particularly when one of the top reasons for this behaviour listed as to cope with both physical and mental pain – as well as day to day struggles.
Attitude's Editor at Large, Matthew Todd spoke astutely at the Out and Proud launch event about the community's "chronic issue with drugs", pointing to recent research about the "epidemic" of 'G' and chemsex deaths.
But the one phrase that really jumped out – was one speaker referring to the use of "double identities."
It's a phrase that refers to LGBTQ people who live two lives; their queer one and their 'straight' one.
And something so many of us think belongs in our past.
Indeed, I haven't heard someone describe this lived experience to me since speaking to older LGBTQ people on the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation in the UK.
But clearly, it is a reality for so many LGBTQ people today.
And in 50 years, young queer people still feel the need to go back into the closet – or worse not feel able to come out at all.
What does that say to me?
It's time we got angry again. Time to once more demand better from our employers and academic institutions.
Young people are still looking for hope from LGBTQ people that are out, and we can all give it to them with small actions.
The Out and Proud research, which is the largest of its kind and polled over 4,000 students, was commissioned by Clifford Chance, Deutsche Bank, the University of York and National Student Pride to coincide with National Coming Out Day.
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Being one of the most vibrant cities in the world, London has no shortage of things to do. In fact your biggest problem is probably going to be what not to do! From historical palaces and famous landmarks to musicals and nightlife London has it all. Take an iconic open-topped bus tour, delve into the details on a walking tour, explore the stunning Royal Parks, or get active with a paddle down the Thames. Whatever floats your boat, London has the answer! Practise your climbing skills in one of the many indoor climbing walls, or jump on a train and with just a short journey be climbing in beautiful woodlands at Harrison's Rocks. Explore one of the many rivers, like canoeing or kayaking the Thames or the River Medway for a peaceful escape. There's also a wealth of rolling hills in Surrey, perfect for the weekend hike, bike or camp!
Climbing Walls in London, Near Me.
Living in London, you're never too far away from your local climbing wall. Here's some of the major climbing walls in London.
The Arch Climbing Wall - The Arch provides a large range of bouldering opportunities, with a gym, shop, cafe and lockers, there's everything you need to get involved. It can get busy on week nights after city dwellers leave offices to get their climbing fix, but it's a friendly atmosphere to meet other like minded climbers.
Mile End Climbing Wall - Mile End climbing wall offers bouldering and roped climbing, with a well-stocked on-site shop and a cafe, it's got all you need to get a quick climb in around your daily work schedule!
Mt Palace - Mt Palace is a small climbing wall in the iconic grade 2 listed Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, offering a number of courses for different levels of ability to get involved.
Ravenswall Climbing Centre - With a shop, gym, cafe and on-site showers and lockers, Ravenswall has what you need for your next bouldering adventure.
The Castle Climbing Centre - The Castle is an excellent place to explore for climbers, with lots of rooms, indoor and outdoor climbing available in Summer, auto-belays, a huge range of top roping, lead climbing or bouldering routes, there's something for everyone.
Third Space Soho - Third Space is a cutting edge fitness centre with a climbing wall offering abseiling, top rope and lead climbing and bouldering challenges. You have to be a paying member to use the wall.
Vauxwall East Climbing Centre - Vauxwall East (not to be confused with Vauxwall West) is aiming to set a new standard for accessibility to bouldering. With an induction video and self check-in, these are just small ways they're trying to make this happen. Being in central London, it's convenient for a quick climb for many. It can get busy on weekdays. With a cafe, shop, gym and treatment room, showers and lockers, you've got all you need to get involved.
Vauxwall West Climbing Centre - Vauxwall West (not to be confused with Vauxwall East) is aiming to set a new standard for accessibility to bouldering. With an induction video and self check-in, these are just small ways they're trying to make this happen. Being in central London, it's convenient for a quick climb for many. It can get busy on weekdays.
Westway Climbing Centre - Westway is one of the UKs largest climbing centres with over 350 routes on 110 roped lines up to 13.5m and over 450sqm of Bouldering. As a result its suitable for all levels and runs many courses too.
White Spider - just outside London itself near Tolworth but still very accessible is this huge, light and airy centre with over 350 routes, 200+ bouldering problems and 100+ top/lead roped routes. Many routes are set by top UK names, and features include a competition wall, a cave, training area and good cafe with a kids play area/wall next to it.
Vertical Chill - for something a bit different, if you want to experience ice climbing as opposed to rock climbing, London also has that covered. Head to Vertical Chill in Covent Garden where you'll find an 8m ice wall where you can crack on your crampons and get out the ice axe and pretend you're scaling Everest. It's definitely on the pricier end of the climbing cost spectrum, at up to ~£50pp / hour depending on equipment requirements but is a great experience.
Bouldering in London
Bouldering is the act of climbing, typically up to 20ft without ropes but with big soft matts beneath. As the height of the climb is not high enough to cause injuries (assuming you fall correctly of course), it's a great way to get into the sport without having to get used to the technicalities of using ropes, belay devices and the other equipment associated with other types of climbing. To get involved with bouldering, look up your local climbing wall and ensure they mention they have bouldering on offer. Most climbing walls do offer bouldering nowadays. Also, you can find outdoor places to go bouldering. If you're doing this as a beginner, make sure to organise an instructor who can ensure you've got the right equipment (including a bouldering mat to fall on), and show you the best routes and techniques.
All of the aforementioned walls offer bouldering, but those who are dedicated to bouldering in London are: The Arch Climbing Wall and the Vauxwalls (both East and West).
Outdoor Bouldering in London
Hackney - Hackney may seem like an odd inclusion here, but not once you see the two massive 100-tonne and 4 metre high lumps of granite that have been placed in two of the green parks here. Boulder 1 (in Shoreditch Park) has now been joined by Boulder 2 in Mabley Green. They offer a stunning and unexpected feature to the parks, and offer keen climbers a range of bouldering problems up to V9 in difficulty.
Outdoor Climbing Near London
Harrisons Rocks, East Sussex - the largest of the rock outcrops in the south of England known as Southern Sandstone, Harrisons Rocks are owned and managed by the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) and feature a wide range of climbs up to 9m in height. Set in beautiful woodland they are strictly top-roping or soloing routes to help protect the rocks from undue wear and tear, being such a popular location.
Bowles Rocks, Kent - with over 200 routes and just a short walk from Eridge station, Bowles Rocks is quick drying and south facing, making it a popular destination, but well worthwhile. It is run by a charitable organisation, so you will have to pay £5 at their office on arrival. The crags rise up to 10m in height, with routes from 1a to 6b to tackle. Notable routes include Pig's Nose, Fandango and The Thing.
Happy Valley, Kent - located just a 10 minute walk from Tunbridge Wells this is a great little location, offering mainly low main walls great for bouldering. Due to the woodland setting it can get damp, so is best suited to summer climbing. Notable routes include Inglenook Left at the sweeps cave area.
Why go Rock Climbing?
Rock Climbing is a great way to see some of the most stunning places, get fit and healthy in the process and have a great time. There's a wealth of spots to climb, with over 1000 destinations, 150 climbing walls and hundreds of climbing clubs in the UK. See below for some of the best climbing courses in the UK. For some, climbing is the challenge of getting to the top, for others it's the puzzle of working out the route and how to approach the different hands and footholds. There's also the fitness side of course, being a fantastic total body workout, and particularly effective for those doing indoor bouldering on midweek evenings! Then there's the locations. Outdoor climbing locations are often in some of the most stunning locations in the country, and with the climbing itself you are able to get up close and personal with the landscape, and often able to access locations and views unavailable to anyone else! It's also an incredibly social sport. When at an indoor climbing wall, it's natural to talk to others about how to climb routes.
Who is Rock Climbing Suitable for?
There's a climb for everyone, and part of the beauty of climbing is that the challenge is relative for each individual. There are plenty of climbing clubs if you'd like to join others and do it more socially and learn from peers, and it can be a great family activity too for those with a bit more experience. For those less confident there are plenty of guides and instructors always happy to share their passion with new people to the sport. There are also plenty of great UK climbing forums for further advice and information.
Climbing Overview for Beginners
Climbing is a great activity for everyone, from individuals, groups, families, friends and corporates. Conquering a climbing route or your fear for heights in a group is a great bonding experience. Climbing doesn't have to be a huge challenge. There are many ways to get involved with the sport that are more accessible than the crazy films like El Capitan where Alex Honnold climbs over 2km without ropes. Try a guided climbing session to take it easy and pick up the basics, or try bouldering at an indoor climbing wall.
There's different techniques and methods to climbing that make the sport that little bit more interesting and challenging.There's also a wealth of kit and equipment needed for the different types of climbing. And there's different ways to get involved with the sport. Don't worry - it's easy to pick up. We've put together a bunch of resources so that after reading them you'll be clued up on your next rock climbing experience. Below are some useful rock climbing resources to learn more.
Useful Rock Climbing Resources
A Beginners Guide to Rock Climbing We've created a resource for beginners to rock climbing to outline the different types of rock climbing from bouldering, sport climbing and trad climbing and more. What equipment you need and the various ways to get involved with the sport, whether that be joining a local club, going to an indoor climbing wall or booking an instructor.
A Beginners Guide to Rock Climbing. We've created a resource for beginners to rock climbing to outline the different types of rock climbing from bouldering, sport climbing and trad climbing and more. What equipment you need and the various ways to get involved with the sport, whether that be joining a local club, going to an indoor climbing wall or booking an instructor.
A Guide to Outdoor Rock Climbing in UK. We've pulled together a resource to outline what to expect when climbing outdoors in the UK, including the differences from indoor rock climbing and what kit to take.
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The advice we give others is often what we need to hear. So as you get excited about sending your loved ones to school this fall, take note of how you are supporting them. Odds are you can benefit from your wisdom as you consider whether or not it's the right time to return to school. Spoiler alert, it is the right time! This list consists of suggestions for being successful in your educational goals, whether that's completing your finger painting project, or bachelor's degree.
As you make sure Junior has a good night's sleep and well-rounded breakfast, you too should arrive at school prepared to focus on the education subjects, not the logistics of a campus. Before the first day of school have you: found the location of your classes, logged in to your online portal (syllabus is usually up early), and bought your parking pass? Technically, you can accomplish all of these tasks when you arrive at campus, but why give yourself that headache. Arrive organized and ready to start your quarter/semester.
We all have that fear of asking questions we think everyone else has the answer to. Odds are, others have the same questions. So ask them. How do I access my financial aid? Will my credits transfer? Will this help with my current career? Not only are there specific departments to support you on campus, Greater Spokane Incorporated's (GSI) Greater Minds Initiative has an education navigator to help you, regardless of the college you want to attend. The days of being transferred to speak with numerous college staff is over.
The social aspect of any education platform is often the most fearful for students. One of the largest reasons Spokane residents decide not to return to school is the impression they are too old. Fun fact, the new "traditional" student probably looks a lot like you. Over 20% of all college students nationwide are 35 or older, and the same is true at our regional campuses. The Community Colleges of Spokane average student is in their thirties, and already has work/life experience. In fact, many college instructors prefer students in their class who have more life experience as it brings a wealth of knowledge to the rest of the classroom.
Finances, exams, and public speaking are the most uncomfortable situations for the majority of college students.
Tuition cost is a consideration, and requires external support. So embrace it! 85% of all college students receive financial aid through loans or grants. Good news adult learners, the average age of a Pell Grant (that's free money, not a loan) recipient is 26, so use your resources to discover all of the financial support in Spokane. Free money is there, but takes some research. Ask!
How many of you have said "I am a bad test taker?" Get the help you need. Free tutoring services are available at our regional colleges and additional resources such as private testing rooms, and added time for tests can also be arranged.
Public speaking has become one of the top skills employers look for in new employees. Jerry Seinfeld once said that the number one fear of adults is public speaking, then death! So before you decide you'd rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy, embrace the butterflies you get as you are learning a well-regarded skill that will prepare for your career growth.
Follow your own advice when returning to school and contact Jodi Strote at GSI to help you finish your education.You would want your kids to find the resources, so do it for yourself.


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revisitED: Racism, irony, and school choice
Editor's note: This February marks the 43rd anniversary of Black History Month. redefinED is taking the opportunity to revisit some pieces from our archives appropriate for this annual celebration. The article below originally appeared in redefinED in July 2016.
This is the latest post in our series on the center-left roots of school choice.
Former student Ozell Ward stands in front of a historical marker of the Milner-Rosenwald Academy in Mount Dora, Fla.
The school was all black. The textbooks, hand-me-down. The teachers paid less. Yes, the Milner-Rosenwald Academy in Mount Dora, Fla., was separate and unequal, said Ozell Ward, who attended 60 years ago.
And yet, in his view, it was better.
Teachers were invested, he said. Parents were engaged.
The community made it their "anchor."
"Education-wise, I think I had one of the best foundations, period, despite the so-called handicaps," said Ward, 69, a retired human resources consultant.
It may seem odd to highlight a segregated, Deep South school for a series about the roots of school choice. But the K-8 Milner-Rosenwald Academy was built during an all-but-forgotten campaign, nearly a century ago, to expand educational opportunity throughout the South. Like today's school choice movement, it was propelled by a desire to give more and better to the kids who need it the most. The school and literally thousands like it reflected many of the core characteristics that have long defined the struggle for educational freedom, particularly in the African American experience.
It offered options (in this case, of having one formal, quality school or none at all). Private sector support. Close ties to churches and faith leaders.
And local control.
"The school was the center of the community," said Vivian Owens, a former chemist and retired public school science teacher who also attended Milner-Rosenwald. "And the community supported it in every way."
Irony abounds. Mount Dora, population 12,000, is a charmer of a town in the middle of Lake County, an easy-on-the-eyes stretch of Central Florida known for citrus-covered hills, stunning lake vistas – and notorious, racist violence. For nearly 30 years, it was ruled by Sheriff Willis McCall, the overseer for the county's white bankers and citrus barons. McCall was the dark force at the center of the Groveland Four case, which generated international headlines in the 1940s and '50s and pitted him against Thurgood Marshall, the larger-than-life NAACP lawyer who, at the same time, was leading the charge to desegregate public schools. Thanks to the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winning book, "Devil in the Grove," a movie is being made about the case, potentially giving millions of Americans a glimpse of the home-grown terrorism that, not long ago, was as much a part of the Florida landscape as sugar-sand beaches.
This was Florida at its worst. Yet for many African Americans here, it was also a golden age for education.
Despite racism, segregation, and Sheriff McCall – or maybe because of it – the tight-knit black community in Mount Dora was able to create and sustain a school that carried out its vision of progress for 44 years. The Milner-Rosenwald Academy helped dreams come true against a backdrop of nightmares, lifting generations of African Americans into the middle class and a better life.
By the early 1930s, there were 5,000 "Rosenwald schools" from Maryland to Texas, educating as many as a third of the South's black students, including poet Maya Angelou and Georgia Congressman John Lewis. They were seeded with money from Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears Roebuck and, perhaps, "the greatest American philanthropist you've never heard of."
Working hand in hand with Booker T. Washington, Rosenwald wanted to take African-American education to another level. Sometimes, that meant community-led alternatives to the deplorable "schools" that state and local governments left to African Americans, or to schools that black communities scratched out on their own. Sometimes, it meant a school, period.
Technically, Rosenwald schools were public. Rosenwald chipped in if the black community raised matching funds and, in many cases, acquired the land. The community also had to convince the white school board to agree to maintain the school.
Members of the black community in Mount Dora published this 2008 book to remember and celebrate the Milner-Rosenwald Academy, which many say delivered top-notch education despite segregation.
According to Owens, the first school for African Americans in Mount Dora was established in 1886, in the same school white students used. The black students could only use it when the white students weren't there. Black students eventually got a school of their own, but when it burned down in 1922, local governments made no effort to build a new one, Owens wrote in "The Mount Dorans," a book about the community's history.
Ward, whose family's roots in Lake County go back 130 years, said to the black community, education was as necessary as air to breathe. It had to find a replacement school ASAP.
Enter Rosenwald.
For matching funds, the black community turned to Mount Dora resident Duncan Milner, a white Presbyterian minister described in a history of the school as a "militant idealist" and "passionate foe of racial bigotry and oppression." He made a big donation. The community did the rest.
The school opened in 1926 and eventually enrolled 240 students a year. It thrived until 1970.
Ward said discipline problems didn't fester. Teachers and parents were neighbors; they communicated constantly and trusted each other. Nobody graduated without mastering the basics because teachers wouldn't let them. Those who got accepted into college but couldn't afford tuition found money funneled their way.
"Those little things were provided, somehow," Ward said. "Those were the nurturing things everyone talks about. The community would step up. It would find a way."
Owens said the black community lost more than it realized when Lake County schools integrated and Milner-Rosenwald became Mount Dora Middle School. Many, perhaps, had unrealistic expectations for the new era in education, which offered the promise of better race relations but also scrapped community control in exchange for assigned schools.
"Black people had the perception that when they got to the white schools, things would be so much better," she said. "But they weren't."
Many black students were placed in "slower classes," she said. Their new, white teachers didn't know them like their former teachers did, she said, and didn't expect as much of them.
Owens said her science teacher at Milner-Rosenwald, Mr. Richardson, once chewed her out for getting a 96 on a test. She was so upset, she called him a "bald headed grapefruit." But Mr. Richardson didn't let it go.
He told his student: "You have to aim higher. Don't be content to do better than folks here. You have to compete in the world."
Lesson learned, Owens said.
And maybe, lesson lost.
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My name is Riccardo, I was born on September 3rd, 1985, in Marsciano, a small city in the province of Perugia and I still live there today. I've been drawn to photography ever since I was a small child when I would flip through countless magazines, soaking in all the characteristics that I found most interesting.
In 2004, I received a diploma as a technician in the field of Touristic Services which led me to go on and obtain a degree in Public Relations at the University for Foreigners in Perugia. My thesis focused on the use of images to raise awareness and appreciation of any given territory (in my case, the territory of Todi) and its historical, artistic and natural heritage. I first approached photography as a passion and later had the great fortune of being able to transform this passion into a job. I am mainly specialized in wedding reportage, landscape and travel photography and photography related to corporate events and communication.
I have provided services to several large companies such as Ebay, Liomatic, Gesenu, I Sassi di Assisi, Nexo Corporation, Italian Marketing Foundation, L&TC Logistics and Traffic Centre, Hot Buttered, Assia Medica, Work Secure, TiEmme Elettronica and for the advertising agency Salt & Pepper.
I love the work I do because a photographer's job is one of the most beautiful trades in the world. It allows you to express your sensitivity – and the way you view, interpret and tell a story about anything – through photography, whether it be concrete or abstract. The intrinsic and magical power of photography is its ability to move people. I consider myself very fortunate to have taken on this mission.
• In September 2016 I worked with Lunargento Casa Editrice, the Region of Umbria and Umbria Tourism to create the "Love Me In Umbria" magazine, part of the "Love Me In Italy" series promoting romantic tourism in the various Italian regions. Some of my photographs were chosen for its contents but mainly for the external cover.


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'Coke Studio Flourished Under Vital Signs Member' – Zeb Bangash Shares Her Views On Coke Studio & Its Comparison With MTV Coke Studio
Zeb Bangash is one of the finest singers Pakistan ever produced, she has sung various solos and it's a peace to the heart. She even appeared at Coke Studio where she tremendously won everyone's heart with her amazing voice.
Technically for most of the people, Coke Studio was the main headline where people discovered Zeb's voice otherwise few knew about her.
Source: The Current
In her recent open letter for the publication, she recalled her time when she visited India, shared the experience of being in a neighboring country for the first time and she also highlighted the fact of comparing Pakistani Coke Studio to an Indian one.
Yes! There are people out there who compare both regions' Coke Studio knowing the fact which one has got more views all over the world.
Zeb Bangash shared her first Indian visit and Coke Studio comparison
Zeb Bangash shared, "I first visited India in the fall of 2009 and that is when my cousin Haniya and I landed in Mumbai." "Despite no more than a single contact in the Indian music and film industry, no plan, and nothing beyond plenty of aspirations, we had decided to make a quick trip to the fabled city of dreams."
Source: Express Tribune
Zeb went on, adding, "On our first night in Mumbai, we found ourselves in the hip suburban neighborhood of Bandra.
Our crumpled salwar-kameezes, heavy backpacks, and tentative steps made us feel completely out of place. But it wasn't long before we realized that people recognized us in this exciting foreign land. It was our first big embrace from a world we knew little about."
She also went on sharing that within a few hours "walked out with our phones filled with numbers of people from the industry and numerous invitations from new friends.
And just like that, everything changed. We had made it to Mumbai overnight. All thanks to the phenomenon called Coke Studio."
Source: Alchetron
If you follow Coke Studio and Zeb then you must know Zeb and Haniya have been an important feature. Even Zeb also believes that she has seen the pure evolution of Coke Studio.
"A prominent media giant acquired 80% of Pakistani band music but decided against releasing more than 10% of their catalog. There was fear amongst all of us musicians that our collective creativity would fade into oblivion. A void had been created."
'Coke Studio flourished under Vital Signs members' – Zeb Bangash
Zeb Bangash also shared her views on Coke Studio, "This was a time when music shows on TV were sparse and mostly pre-recorded songs were mimed on-screen, which dampened a band's spontaneous energy and chemistry. And here was Coke Studio, recording music live on the floor."
Source: DAWN IMAGES
She went on to add, "A lot of the sound that created the brand loyalty for Coke Studio, in my opinion, is specifically Rohail Hyatt's aesthetic. He made a signature sound for the program by fusing his influences, specifically psychedelic rock and progressive blues, with local songs from various genres.
He carefully crafted the process and curated the house band to be his central team to create this sound and make it work."
She even appreciated Rohail Hyatt's immersive effects in making Coke Studio top-notch. "The songs came about through a series of live jams with the singer and the house band, always directed by Hyatt.
Rohail Hyatt is considered as one of the most prominent elements of Coke Studio, he has changed the dynamic of it. He also recently shared his struggles of being rich which went viral.
And they were then presented and recorded on the floor in that same format. The end product was, thus, primarily free of any trappings of glamour and commercialism.
Instead, it felt honest with music taking center stage because that's how it was conceived and executed."
Zeb Bangash also included among those women in Coke Studio season 9 who saved it from being the absolute disaster.
Coke Studio Pakistan or Coke Studio India
As Zeb went to India, she also decided to talk about the Coke Studio that both the nation produce and highlighted the comparison side. She shared, "create a magical perception around the platform because the Indian impression, till then, was influenced by exaggerated narratives about Pakistan."
Source: Daily Jang
She further added, "While Indian movies were being watched and their content was freely available on cable and satellite channels in Pakistan, there was no reciprocal access to popular culture originating from Pakistan for Indian audiences.
Therefore, seeing a high-quality music platform was a surprise for Indian audiences. And that, to me, heightened the Indian curiosity and validated their love for the content."
Source: Indian Express
'Coke Studio should not be compared' – Zeb Bangash
Everyone knows that Indian music always comes in romance compared to Pakistani music. According to Zeb, "In my mind, Coke Studio (Pakistan) and the MTV Coke Studio (India) should not be compared, simply because they had very different contexts and purposes," she wrote.
Adding on, "The former was a platform and voice for artists, whereas the latter was providing an additional aspect to an already thriving multifaceted industry. It's important to note that Rohail's six-year initial production tenure established the unique Coke Studio sound which contributed to its appeal.
The single producer format was not feasible for replication in India's thriving music industry which had many prolific and famous music producers."
Source: Brandsynario
She went on to add, "While Coke is a big multinational giant in India, Bollywood is much, much bigger. In India, Coke Studio was competing with a giant called 'Indian films' for one of the largest markets in the world. For Pakistan artists, Coke Studio was a musical catharsis."
While concluding her letter, she shared how Coke Studio can be the bridge between Pakistan and India. "Almost a decade-a-half later, it warms my heart to see that the phenomenal connection Coke Studio Pakistan established with India through music and digital accessibility continues to deepen. It's just such a delight for us musicians and music lovers in both countries," she said.
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The context was a complaint—Lori argued that she was not allowed to make a MLKJ Day resolution because she was white. Presumably, her claim about lynching was made to argue that what really mattered was that she was a Republican—because political party affiliation, and not skin color, was the reason people were lynched in Reconstruction South.
I'm going to get back to Lori's complaint toward the end of this post, because frankly, even apart from her comments about lynching, the existence of her complaint was tone deaf and off-putting—and illustrative of something she fundamentally does not understand about the history and current trajectory of the country's two main political parties.
But let's be completely clear here from the start: black people in the U.S. South were lynched because they were black. Or to be more specific, they tended to be lynched when they were perceived to have stepped out of their place. One way they did this was by voting or going into politics. White Southerners didn't want to cede even a smidgeon of political power to black Southerners. When black Southerners went into politics, they tended to be Republicans, both because white Southerners controlled the Democratic party in the U.S. South and because the Republican Party was the party of abolition.
And yes, white Republicans were lynched in the South during Reconstruction—this was for supporting the rights of black people, not for being Republican. Now yes, you could argue that at the time there was little distinction. Still, the underlying root cause was not party affiliation, but that party's stance on race and on what Reconstruction should look like (i.e. giving freed slaves citizenship and rights equal to white Southerners). First and foremost, lynching was always about race.
I could go into detail about white people not being lynched at anywhere near the number of black people—we do have some data—but honestly, this is such a settled issue that recognizing it would legitimize it more than anything else.
I want to talk about something else. Time and again, today's Republican Party appeals to the Civil War and Reconstruction to argue that they are the true not-racist political party. They point to a past when Southern Democrats were the ones doing the lynching and robbing black people of their right to vote, to prove that the Democratic Party is the one that actually has a problem with race. And I'm tired of it.
You don't get to point at a perfect math score you got in 2nd grade to get out of doing your math homework in 9th grade. It does not work that way. You still have to do your math homework in the grade you're in. And sometimes the kid who never turned in their math homework in 2nd grade turns things around and starts turning in their homework in 9th grade.
At some point, the parties flipped. Before, say, 1930, black voters overwhelmingly supported the Republican party; after, say, 1980, black voters overwhelmingly supported the Democratic party. In between, things shifted. Did you know that more Republicans supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than Democrats?
Roughly 63% of Democrats voted for the bill, and roughly 80% of Republicans voted for it. The shift in two political parties, however, was already well underway. Do you know how we can tell? By breaking it down by region.
Note: Southern refers to those from states that joined the Confederate States of America during the Civil War; Northern refers to those from every other state, not just those in the geographic north.
Southern Democrats overwhelmingly voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, yes, but so did Southern Republicans. If we exclude the South altogether, what we have looks far different: 95% of Northern Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 compared with 85% of Northern Republicans. More members of Congress from the South were Democrats than were Republicans, and it was members of Congress from the South opposed the Civil Rights Act in overwhelming numbers.
[I]t wasn't the Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act and the Republicans who favored it. Everyone supported the Civil Rights Act except the South. It was Southern politicians from both parties who voted against the legislation. The reason Republicans say they supported the bill is that there weren't very many Southern Republicans in Congress in 1964.
Now, this isn't to say that Southern Democrats weren't a real problem. They were. They were a very big problem, in fact. But the interesting thing is that between 1964 and the 1990s, the South swung from Democrat to Republican—and not because black Southerners were suddenly voting Republicans in, because during this same time black Southerners switched from voting for Republicans to voting for Democrats. Why do that? Because the parties changed.
The Republican party became the party of racial obstructionism. The Republican party became the party that opposed busing and affirmative action. The Republican party, today, is the party that opposes criminal justice reform and accountability for police departments—and, yes, the party that opposes welfare and other programs that people of color, who are stuck in poverty in higher rates than are white Americans, disproportionately depend on.
That doesn't exactly sound like someone who values racial justice. That sounds like someone who cares more about scoring rhetorical points for her political party. And it's actually worse than that.
Other lawmakers have contested this assertion, stating that Leslie Herod and Jovan Melton introduced this year's resolution because "they were also honoring former state Rep. Wilma Webb, who championed the bill that made MLK Day a Colorado holiday" and "Herod now represents Webb's district and Melton is close friend." The resolution was also sponsored by white lawmakers, including Saine. In other words, this wasn't fundamentally about skin color.
But so what if it were? Can you imagine having the presumption, as a white lawmaker, to claim that you should be the one to introduce this year's resolution honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., when there are black lawmakers who want to do it? Why would you do that? What point could you possibly be trying to prove?
How is it not obvious that, say, if you are going to have a resolution honoring Italian heritage, you should give lawmakers who actually have Italian heritage the first chance to introduce the resolution? This is the same thing. This isn't about rights. It's about basic decency.
Lori Saine defended her claims of roughly equal Reconstruction Era lynchings in the comments of a posted video of her speech made on her official Facebook page.
"Friends, if we can get this conversation going about our the real history and what actually happened during reconstruction, that will be just tremendous," she said in one comment.
That's right—it only gets worse.
Saine goes on to cite the Tuskegee Institute for her numbers. First, the Tuskegee Institute did not begin tracking lynchings until 1882, when it was founded. Perhaps Saine does not know what years Reconstruction was? Second, the Tuskegee Institute data on lynchings reveals that far more black people were lynched than white people—especially in the South.
There is no part of this that looks good—at all.
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'Cancel culture'? Sarah Silverman calls it 'righteousness porn' and 'really scary'
Comic Sarah Silverman once wore blackface for her TV show, but now says she's "changed forever" on that topic.
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Sarah Silverman thinks "cancel culture" should be canceled — in most cases.
You know cancel culture: A mistake is made, or revealed, or imagined, and the reaction online is that the person or entity involved be forever exiled. It's currently afflicting Equinox and SoulCycle, and the New York Times. It has been directed at Taylor Swift, YouTuber Logan Paul and even the late John Wayne.
During an episode of "The Bill Simmons Podcast" last week Silverman criticized the movement to essentially erase people for their past mistakes, even if the mistaken have since recognized their errors. The comedian also discussed some of her own regrettable moments — like performing in blackface in an episode of her show that was about race — for which she hopes the public can forgive her.
"It's really scary," Silverman said of the cancel trend. "I call it 'righteousness porn,' where it's like, if you're not on board, if you say the wrong thing, if you had a tweet once. … Everyone is throwing the first stone. It's so odd, and it's a perversion."
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"As I draw lines in the sand — and I wish for other people on the left to do this too — you have to ask yourself, 'Would I want this person to be changed, or do I secretly want them to stay what I deem as wrong, so I can point to ... myself as right?' " she said. "There's so much to be genuinely outraged by, but you have to say, 'Is the action I'm taking here creating change or creating further division?' "
Silverman also noted that her head has been on the canceling block before, particularly for her decision to wear blackface on an episode of "The Sarah Silverman Program," which, she said, has cost her work in the industry despite her attempts to address and apologize for it.
"I'm not saying, 'Don't hold me accountable,' " she said. "I held myself accountable. I can't erase that I did that, but I can only be changed forever and do what I can to make it right for the rest of my life."
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Comedians tend to find themselves at the center of a cancel movement when social media users rediscover bits or comments that have aged poorly — most notably Kevin Hart's homophobic remarks on his son and sexuality. Silverman can relate.
"I've always said that if I look back on my old stuff and don't cringe, there's something wrong," she said. "If you're putting yourself out there, it's not going to be timeless — it's just not."
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Q: Differential Equations Questions I'm working through some questions we've been set over this period and there are two in particular which I am really struggling on how to work out. The first section I am confused completely on what to do and the second section is worth 7 marks so my working seems to simple. The question reads as follows:
A zoologist models a disease which is spreading through a colony of rabbits. The zoologist assumes that the rate of increase of the number of rabbits infected is
proportional to the product of the number of rabbits infected and the number not yet infected. At time t days, x is the number of rabbits infected. The zoologist estimates that:
-there are 5000 rabbits in the colony
-initially the number of infected rabbits is 200
initially the disease is spreading at a rate of 50 rabbits per day.
Use the zoologist's assumptions to answer the following questions.
i) Show that
$$({1\over x} + {1\over 5000-x}) {dx\over dt} =q$$
where q is a constant to be found Fully justify your answer.
ii)Find the length of time it takes for half of the rabbits to be infected

A: Hint:
Break down the question step-by-step. It's important to approach these questions one step at a time.
We take $x$ as the number of infected rabbits, and $t$ as time. The question first states $$\text{"$\color{red}{\text{the rate of increase of inf rabbits}}$ is $\color{blue}{\text{proportional}}$ to the $\color{purple}{\text{product of rabbits infected and those not infected}"}$}$$
Using that there are $5000$ rabbits, mathematically, this reads as:
$$\color{red}{\frac{dx}{dt}}\color{blue}{=q}\color{purple}{x(5000-x)}$$
Can you use the "initially" conditions to determine $q$?


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HomeNeuroscienceOffering new pathways for neuroscience analysis and training | MIT Information
Offering new pathways for neuroscience analysis and training | MIT Information
Payton Dupuis's curiosity in biology analysis started the place it does for a lot of future scientists — witnessing a relative battling an incurable medical situation. For Dupuis, that member of the family was her uncle, who suffered from issues from diabetes. Dupuis, a senior at Montana State College, says that diabetes is distinguished on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, the place she grew up, and witnessing the impacts of the illness impressed her to pursue a profession in scientific analysis. Since then, that zeal has taken Dupuis across the nation to take part in varied summer season analysis packages within the biomedical sciences.
Most not too long ago, she was a participant within the Bernard S. and Sophie G. Gould MIT Summer season Analysis Program in Biology (BSG-MSRP-Bio). This system, supplied by the departments of Biology and Mind and Cognitive Sciences, is designed to encourage college students from underrepresented teams to attend graduate college and pursue careers in science analysis. Greater than 85 p.c of individuals have subsequently enrolled in extremely ranked graduate packages, a lot of them returning to MIT, simply as Dupuis is contemplating.
Her journey from witnessing the impacts of her uncle's diabetes to contemplating graduate college at MIT was made potential solely by Dupuis's love of science and her capacity to "discover a optimistic," as she says, in each expertise.
As a high-schooler, Dupuis made her first journey to the Northeast, taking part within the Summer season Academy of Math and Sciences at Carnegie Mellon College. For Dupuis, who hadn't even taken calculus but, the expertise was a welcome problem. "That positively made me work laborious," she laughs, evaluating herself to different program individuals. "However I proved to myself, not for anybody else, that I belonged in that program."
Along with being a confidence booster, the Carnegie Mellon program additionally gave Dupuis her first style of scientific analysis working in a biomedical lab on tissue regeneration. She was excited concerning the potentialities of rising new organs — such because the insulin-producing pancreas that would assist regulate her uncle's diabetes — exterior of the physique. Dupuis was formally hooked on biology.
Her expertise that summer season inspired Dupuis to main in chemical engineering, seeing it as pipeline into biomedical analysis. Sadly, the chemical engineering curriculum at Montana State wasn't what she anticipated, focusing much less on the human physique and extra on the oil trade. In that context, her capacity to see a silver lining served Dupuis nicely.
"That wasn't actually what I needed, but it surely was nonetheless attention-grabbing as a result of there have been ways in which I might apply it to the physique," she explains. "Like fluid mechanics — as a substitute of water flowing via a pipe, I used to be fascinated about blood flowing via veins."
Dupuis provides that the chemical engineering program additionally gave her problem-solving abilities which were helpful as she's undertaken biology-focused summer season packages to assist refine her pursuits. One summer season, she labored within the chemistry division at Montana State, getting hands-on expertise in a moist lab. "I didn't actually know any of the chemistry behind what I used to be doing," she admits, "however I fell in love with it." One other summer season, she participated within the Tufts Constructing Variety in Biomedical Sciences program, exploring the genetic facet of analysis via a venture on bone growth in mice.
In 2020, a mentor on the native tribal school linked Dupuis with Keith Henry, an affiliate professor of biomedical sciences on the College of North Dakota. With Henry, Dupuis seemed for brand new binding websites for the neurotransmitter serotonin that would assist decrease the uncomfortable side effects that include long-term use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), the most typical class of antidepressants. That summer season was Dupuis's first publicity to mind analysis, and her first expertise modeling organic processes with computer systems. She liked it. In truth, as quickly as she returned to Montana State, Dupuis enrolled as a pc science minor.
Due to the minor, Dupuis wants an additional yr to graduate, which left her yet one more summer season for a analysis program. Her older sister had beforehand participated within the common MSRP program at MIT, so it was a no brainer for Dupuis to use for the biology-specific program.
This summer season, Dupuis was positioned within the lab of Troy Littleton, the Menicon Professor in Neuroscience at The Picower Institute for Studying and Reminiscence. "I positively fell in love with the lab," she says. With Littleton, Dupuis accomplished a venture complexin, a protein that may each inhibit and facilitate the discharge of neurotransmitters like serotonin. It's additionally important for the fusion of synaptic vesicles, the elements of neurons that retailer and launch neurotransmitters.
Plenty of human neurological ailments have been linked to a deficiency in complexin, though Dupuis says that scientists are nonetheless determining what the protein does and the way it works.
To that finish, Dupuis targeted this summer season on fruit flies, which have two several types of complexin — people, as compared, have 4. Utilizing gene enhancing, she designed an experiment evaluating fruit flies possessing varied quantities of various subtypes of the protein. There was the optimistic management group, which was untouched; the adverse management group that had no complexin; and two experimental teams, every with one of many subtypes eliminated. Utilizing fluorescent staining, Dupuis in contrast how neurons lit up in every group of flies, illuminating how altering the quantity of complexin modified how the flies launched neurotransmitters and fashioned new synaptic connections.
After pertaining to so many alternative areas of organic analysis via summer season packages, Dupuis says that researching neuronal exercise in fruit flies this summer season was the proper match intellectually, and a formative expertise as a researcher.
"I've positively discovered learn how to take an experiment and make it my very own and work out what works finest for me, however nonetheless produces the outcomes we want," she says.
As for what's subsequent, Dupuis says her expertise at MIT has bought her on pursuing graduate work in mind sciences. "Boston is basically the place I need to be and finally work, with all of the biotech and biopharma corporations round," she says. One of many perks of the MSRP-Bio program is skilled growth alternatives. Although Dupuis had at all times been involved in trade, she says she appreciated attending profession panels this summer season that demystified what that profession path actually seems like and what it takes to get there.
Maybe crucial facet of this system for Dupuis, although, was the arrogance it offered as she continues to navigate the world of biomedical analysis. She intends to take that again together with her to Montana State to encourage classmates to hunt out comparable summer season alternatives.
"There's so many individuals that I do know can be an amazing researcher and love science, however they only don't both find out about it or assume they will get it," she says. "All I'd say is, you simply bought to use. You simply need to put your self on the market."
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