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I'm Finally Embracing My Scots-Irish Ancestry
Posted on March 26, 2014 by mulberrygrrl
I've never embraced my Scotch-Irish ancestry.
In the first place, my mother always emphasized that the word is "Scots," not "Scotch." I'm pretty sure it's because she disliked Scotch's association with whiskey. And she never hyphenated "Scots" with the "Irish" part. To her, our ancestors were purely Scottish, and the fact that they passed through Ireland for a generation or two was of negligible consequence. Irish meant Catholic to Presbyterian her, and we assuredly were not Catholic, thank you very much, and here you can see where comes all the trouble in the Isles of England.
But the main reason I never embraced the Scots-Irish is because any time that designation is mentioned it seems to be preceded by "The Fighting." I don't find that embraceable. A certain segment of Scots-Irish Americans, led lately by former Secretary of the Navy, Jim Webb, likes to proudly point to the Scots-Irish propensity to, as he says, mistrust government and bear and use arms. He even wrote a book called, "Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America."
If the Scots-Irish are so damn testy, where are all of Scotland's wars? Huh?
Webb and his cohorts say the Scots-Irish have "a propensity" to mistrust government and bear and use arms. All "a propensity" means is "a prejudice." A propensity to mistrust means that however a person decides to act, the decision is already weighted toward mistrust; the deck is stacked against trust. Completely objective people do not have "a propensity" to believe a certain way, no matter what the evidence says.
Now, don't go all political on me. There's no political subtext meant here. Honestly, if Webb and others are right, I'm glad the Scots-Irish were around to save our butts in the Revolutionary War. (But then, if three quarters of the Rebel Army was Scots-Irish, as he points out, how do you explain the South losing the Civil War? …Just askin'.)
You know, it takes (at least) two sides to make a war. Nearly all Scotland's wars were fought with the English, but we don't go around calling them, "The Fighting English," do we?
A little background might help here.
When the Scottish people began their several hundred year migration to America, they had just spent 700 years battling the English. No kidding. 700 years! Finally, in the early 1700s, Scotland's James I became king and unified Great Britain. James decided to stock Ireland with Protestants from Scotland, and the Scots were only too happy to oblige because they were just coming out of a decade-long famine and hoped for better lives elsewhere. Their new lands were in Northern Ireland, where they were immediately seen as the enemy by the Catholics opposed to their religion and infringement on Ireland's lands.
So far we've tallied 700 years of war, a ten-year famine, and now 150 or so years of strife within Northern Ireland. But there's more.
The American Colonies were prospering, but they had problems with the Natives. (And the Natives had problems with them!) Natives kept attacking the towns and settlements, and the situation was particularly bad in those parts of the Colonies that bordered the frontier. So the secretary of state of Pennsylvania thought up a clever solution. He would create a human buffer between his colony's towns and the frontier. And who better to be border buffers than the fighting Scots-Irish. So he offered free land to lure immigrants, who were already eager to get out of Ireland.
Those poor Scots-Irish. An entire people suffering from "soldier's heart," a sort of constant anxiety first described in Civil War veterans. They couldn't catch a break.
People become conditioned to their environments. Said a different way, your environment can make you a different person. If they had just come out of 860 years of peace instead of war, maybe Jim Webb's book would be called "The Peace-Loving Scots-Irish."
My mother's mostly-Scottish family is rural Virginia, though by what evidence I've seen so far they came by way of Jamestown, not by the well-traveled Scots-Irish route via Pennsylvania and down through the Ohio Valley. The character of my mother's family is gentle, communal, earthy, peace-loving, home-loving, and not particularly religious or political.
Since getting interested in genealogy I've come to better embrace my one quarter Scots-Irishness. I can move beyond media-friendly monikers like "Born Fighting." I can see now that it's not about the fighting. It's about the courage. They didn't move into Ireland to fight. They didn't sail to America to fight.
Labels like "The Fighting Scots-Irish" emphasize a certain kind of courage at the expense of other kinds. Like the courage to cross a border, even a sea, to better their lives. Like the courage to walk into the wilderness and carve out a place to call their own. That doesn't take aggression. They didn't move forward by way of slaughter or hacking down forests. They moved forward by facing the unknown with a powerful strength of character and purpose. To carve a place in the wilderness and make it their own, after being chased around and out of for a couple centuries. "Leave us be!" could have been their moniker.
Leave us be! To live our lives in peace and community, we've crossed the Irish Sea, and then the Atlantic Ocean. We were lured by King James, who planted us as Presbyterian seeds in Ireland, and then by American colonists who sent us to the hinterlands and planted us a buffer between them and the Natives. Conflict precedes us, it does not follow us. You think us fighters, but we are not. Leave us in peace and we stay in peace!
Now here we are further cementing the fate of these people by popularizing the fighting image, lauding them as heroes for sending their boys to fight our shared wars. This doesn't mean we shouldn't be proud of them, because we should. But we shouldn't make it seem expected of them because they've got fighting in their blood and that's always been their role.
I'm embracing the one quarter of my blood that is Scots-Irish. These are most assuredly people of strength and courage, and I like that. Of course, there's also the music, but that's another story for another time.
May the best ye've ever seen
Be the warst ye'll ever see.
May the moose ne'er lea' yer aumrie
Wi' a tear-drap in his e'e.
May ye aye keep hail an' hertie
Till ye're auld eneuch tae dee.
May ye aye be jist as happy
As we wiss ye noo tae be.
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12 Responses to I'm Finally Embracing My Scots-Irish Ancestry
pmm says:
Great post! Love the images, and would be interested in learning where you found them and some of the included information. My ancestors were part of the Scots-Irish 'human buffer' in Pennsylvania- that reference would be very interesting to read. Any suggestions about more Scots-Irish history sources would be much appreciated.
Mulberrygrrl says:
Hi pmm – I use a variety of sources. I'll send them to you if you give me an email address or Dropbox or some other way to deliver.
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Colin Brooks says:
Good comments, Cynthia. Your description of your mother's view on the Scotch-Irish exactly matched my own. I liked even more the explanation of how your viewpoint from your ancestors could match Jim Webb's viewpoint. As a historical and genealogical researcher, I get a little upset that everyone wants to pigeon-hole the S-I into a "specific character type." No wonder our generation has received so little in way of explanation for our S-I ancestors role in shaping America. People need to understand your ancestor and Jim's ancestor are the same guy. Circumstances made him react to his environment, but they did not "create" in him a certain persona.
As to your "historical" examples, your almost correct. James I planted Northern Ireland in 1604. The decades long famine WAS before 1700 (the year), and after we (Northern Ireland Protestants) had defeated King James at the seige of Londonderry in 1889 and the Battle of the Boyne where William of Orange won the last Protestant vs. Catholic English monarchy war. So fighting for a country that was never our own WAS part of our DNA. Until the American Revolutionary War- then we finally got to fight for ourselves (Liberty).
The S-I buffer system was specifically used in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Documented in the government records and utilized to full affect. However, the only town in New England untouched by ALL the Indian wars till peace in 1760 was the 100% Scotch-Irish built town of Londonderry, New Hampshire. And how many town cemtery's have a dedicated plaque and burial site for an Indian chief? Rochester, NH does in the McDuffee family plot. Complicated we are but that is what makes us Americans.
Colin Brooks- The 1718 Project
Hi Colin – Thanks for the great information. Especially, I didn't know that Londonderry was 100% Scots-Irish, and now I want to know more. Looks like research time! Also, thanks for pointing out my dating error. Of course it was early 1600s, not 1700s, otherwise the 150 years I added farther on would put them into the mid-1900s, which we clearly know is way wrong. I will change it immediately.
What is The 1718 Project?
The 1718 Project was started about 2004 to answer the question "who came on the five ships" to New England. Much like the Mayflower Project which documents all the passengers; I am using the same template to document the Scotch-Irish settlers of 1717 to 1720. The famous 5 ships references the arrival of five ships from Northern Ireland that sailed into Boston, Massachusetts in late summer 1718. They carried with them family's that included the men (or relatives) who had signed a 318 signature petition in Northern Ireland to Governor Shute for land in New England. This is the first mass-migration of S-I to America, and started a huge wave of emigrants who filled the western borders from Maine to Pennsylvania. Unlike previous settlers from Ulster, these folks largely banded together and built actual settlements and towns. In modern times those towns are like Brunswick/Portland, Maine; Palmer, Massachusetts; Londonderry, New Hampshire and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. That's a very small sampling of a much larger impact. I have documented proof of one family who's patriarch and his son's settled in New Jersey, PA; Virginia; North Carolina and present day South Carolina. All off the ships in 1718 (into Philadelphia) and all settled by 1750. This family is also connected to the founder's of Knoxville, Tennessee. So you can see how just one family left a large footprint all over America. And yet, it is rare to find even educated historian's and genealogists who know of these families. While researching my family (who are part of Londonderry, NH group), I read books from the 1900's and 1910, 1914 and then nothing. The Scotch-Irish disappeared into the ether of American history. The 1718 Project is designed to bring them back into documented history. I have a database of 1st families; home in Ireland and America; children; and living descendants (if any). The last is the key to creating a long-term "living" project. So that's the Project. What is your S-I connection. The name Mulberry rings a bell, but I assume that is your husband. Colin Brooks CB1718project@gmail.com
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The residents of the home celebrate the birthday of Guiseppe Verdi (October 10th) every year with a special concert, but a new arrival (Dame Maggie Smith) causes plans for the concert to unravel.
In this exclusive feauturette, Dustin Hoffman and composer Dario Marianelli discuss the musical content of the film, from using real musicians amongst the actors to staging mini versions of Verdi and Gilbert & Sullivan productions.
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Q: php - check if mysql row exists not working I have a script that needs to check if a mysql row exists. if it does, it must act on it. if it doesnt, then it must do something different.. It works fine if it does exist, but when it doesnt it returns an error to my ajax:
Unknown column '100005075040249' in 'field list'

the '100005075040249' is the value of $friend below
heres my php code:
$connection = mysql_connect("$host", "$username", "$password") or die(mysql_error());

$sql_result = mysql_query("SELECT `FB_ID` FROM `lavender`.`Players` WHERE FB_ID =  `$friend`");

if(is_resource($sql_result) && mysql_num_rows($sql_result) > 0 ){
    $rec = mysql_query("SELECT Recieved FROM `lavender`.`Players` WHERE FB_ID = `$friend`");
    $rec = $rec['Recieved'];
    if($rec == 0){
        mysql_query("UPDATE `lavender`.`Players` SET `count` = `count`+1, `total` = `total`+1, `Recieved` = 1 WHERE FB_ID= `$friend`");
    };

    echo "inserted into old row";
}else{
    mysql_query("INSERT INTO `lavender`.`Players` (`FB_ID`, `count`, `total`, `Recieved`) VALUES (`$friend`, `1`, `1`, `1`);") or die(mysql_error());

    echo "made new row";
};

I tried it with just checking if the row is above Zero but it returns the same error.

A: get rid of your apostrophes/backticks on $friend in your SQL statement.

A: Regardless of what may be wrong with the code (use
'$friend'

not
`$friend`

and likewise for your 1's, and fetch your actual row...) you could do this in 1 query, provided you have a UNIQUE index on FB_ID, which would also avoid race-conditions:
INSERT INTO `lavender`.`Players`
  (`FB_ID`, `count`, `total`, `Recieved`)
  VALUES
  ('$friend', 1, 1, 1)
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE
  `count` = IF(received, `count`,`count`+1),
  `total` = IF(received, `total`,`total`+1),
  received = 1;

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James Alexander Hemenway (March 8, 1860February 10, 1923) was a United States representative and Senator from Indiana. Born in Boonville, Indiana, he attended the common schools, studied law, and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Boonville in 1885. He was prosecuting attorney for the second judicial circuit of Indiana from 1886 to 1890 and was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1895, until his resignation, effective March 3, 1905, at the close of the Fifty-eighth Congress, having been elected Senator. While in the House of Representatives, he was chairman of the Committee on Appropriations (Fifty-eighth Congress).

Hemenway was elected to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles W. Fairbanks and served from March 4, 1905, to March 3, 1909; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. While in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on University of the United States (Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses). After the Senate, he resumed the practice of law in Boonville. He donated generously to the Old Presbyterian Church in Boonville, which his family had attended for generations. He died in Miami, Florida; interment was in Maple Grove Cemetery, Boonville.

Hemenway is the namesake of the community of Hemenway, Missouri.

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Каетано Емануель Віана Теллес Велозо (; 7 серпня 1942) — бразильський композитор, співак і гітарист, представник бразильської популярної музики. П'ятиразовий лавреат премії «Ґреммі», в 2012 році отримав «Латинську Ґреммі» в номінації «Людина року».

Народився у штаті Баїя. Велозу був натхненний успіхом своєї сестри, співачки Марії Бетані, на переїзд в Ріо-де-Жанейро в середині 1960-х років. Він став писати і виконувати музику, яка, відштовхуючись від традиційної босанови, ввібрала в себе стильові особливості рок-музики, перш за все, американського фолк-року і артроку.

Військова хунта, яка перебувала при владі в Бразилії, не схвалювала концертні виступи Жила і Велозу, вважаючи їх творчість джерелом радикалізму серед молоді. Після демонстративного спільного концерту обидва музиканта в 1969 були вислані в Лондон, де жили два роки. Після повернення до Бразилії Велозу продовжив активну концертну діяльність, і з часом його виступи стали візитною карткою сучасної бразильської музики.

В кінці XX сторіччя Велозу записав альбом, присвячений пам'яті Фелліні і Мазіниі. Після появи у фільмі Педро Альмодовара «Поговори з нею» він був запрошений виступити на церемонії вручення премії «Оскар». У 2004 році вийшов перший англомовний альбом Велозу, Foreign Sound, в якому він представив власні версії класичних поп-стандартів.

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Clarets clash number three
Chelmsford have already completed a rare double this season, becoming the first side to defeat the Fleet and they are currently the only team to have prevented Daryl McMahon's men from winning on the road. Ebbsfleet have a 100% league record on their travels this season, with the goalless draw at The Melbourne Stadium in the…


This post has been authored by Katie Cashin, MS, LCPC as part of our guest post series. Learn more about Katie at the bottom of this post.
Let's take a moment for some honesty. Not so long ago, I reached the point where, as a therapist, when I heard the phrase "self care" I would roll my eyes. I was feeling mildly Grinch-like but also really fed up with the myths and misnomers about what it really means to take care of ourselves. In the last decade of popularization, self care has become slightly synonymous with manicures, yoga retreats, buying a pair of pricey shoes, and fancy, artisan coffee. These acts and items beg the question: Is this more about care or consumerism?
Now before you draft the angry email or fire off an offended tweet, let me clarify that I'm a fan of these acts of care too and I am not calling for an end to lattes and savasana; specific acts of care can be particularly powerful if tied to a unique, personal need. I, like many other clinicians with the best of intentions, have also encouraged this brand of self care in the past, inviting clients to "do something nice" for themselves. However, it seems like we could start to reap more sustainable benefits if we began to shift our understanding of self care away from random, isolated events to a more ongoing practice.
Let's take a moment to imagine self care as more than a once in a while treat. Let's say it's actually one of our primary responsibilities as fully-developed human beings. This can be a difficult thing to conceptualize, especially for those of us in helping professions who are are continually called on to support the needs of others. Perhaps the first step to fulfilling our responsibilities includes getting in touch with our current needs, big or small.
Some of us tune into these needs best through meditation. For others, stream of consciousness writing or a long walk help us clarify the areas of our lives that need some tending.
If these more reflective practices are not your thing, try simply noticing the themes that show up on your end of the conversation. For example, a few weeks ago my constant reply to friends' "how are you" check-ins was "rushed!" After two days of this auto-response, I noticed what was going on and understood I had a very real need for a little less on the to-do list and a little more down time.
To make this practice more accessible, just fill in the blank: I need some ___________.
Let what comes up, come up. Maybe it's "dinner." Maybe it's "help." Maybe your response is "time alone." Maybe what came up is "more money." The goal isn't to assess, judge, or even fulfill the need in this moment. What we're aiming for is hearing and acknowledging what's there, which if practiced regularly, will open wide the lines of communication that run within you.
Unmet needs do not just evaporate; they remain within us and continue to remain neglected.
Needs that are neglected usually have a way of being assigned to someone else, more specifically, someone who is not responsible for taking care of our needs.
As we have learned through our own and observed via our clients' experiences, when we unintentionally put our needs on another person it can end up harming our relationships and our own well-being.
What is True Self Care?
Learning about what true self care looks like in our lives also allows us the opportunity to notice what is not self care. When I have clients identify self care actions I also have them create a list of self-soothing habits (i.e. manicures, shopping, etc.) and we take some time to notice where these overlap and where they are truly two different categories. When we open up space for both of these needs and find personal ways to tend to both, we are really setting ourselves up for a more connected life.
For some of us who see the luxury of self care as a barrier, this "primary responsibility" framework may actually make the work more accessible. With this framework, self care is no longer about what we do or don't deserve but instead about what we are responsible for providing ourselves as individuals.
I like to imagine "getting your needs met" takes up the first chapter of the "how to be human" handbook (you know, the one that was never given out to us at the start of life). If we can take this responsibility seriously many other parts of our life will start to flow.
I'm a clinician with a thing for boundaries. All of my clients know they are going to hear about boundaries at least once a session, whether I'm assessing, affirming, or exploring what these look like for someone. So it's probably no surprise that I view boundary setting as one of the greatest acts of self care we can practice, especially as therapists! Whether we're setting some flexible parameters around our time and energy or with the people in our lives, by putting boundaries in place we are creating intentional space in our days and lives to get in touch with our needs.
Explore what comes up and if you're open to it, share how you have begun the true practice of self care in your life!
Katie Cashin, MS, LCPC is a therapist and owner of b'well counseling services in Baltimore, Maryland. She works with adults processing childhood trauma, women navigating difficult relationships with their mothers , and high-functioning creatives whostruggle with anxiety and shame. She is also a newly certified Intuitive Eating counselor. Katie believes self-care is a critical part of the work for clients and therapists alike. Her favorite practices include saying "no" to diet-culture and returning phone calls from over a week ago! Katie can be found online at @bwellcounseling on Facebook, @bwellbmore on Instagram, and at www.bwellcounselingservices.com.


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Analysis: Did F1 drivers really get more penalties last year?
F1 statistics
7th February 2020, 13:00 | Written by Keith Collantine
Teams and drivers push the limits of the rules in every respect. So it's no surprise that, as in all sports, controversy abounds when someone is judged to have broken a rule.
That was no more obvious than in Canada last year, when a five-second time penalty for Sebastian Vettel denied Ferrari their first win of the year, and handed victory to Lewis Hamilton. The debate over whether stewards should "let them race", or rigidly apply the rules at every round, rumbled on throughout the season.
The 2019 season also saw a significant and largely unanticipated change on the FIA's regulatory side. The sudden death of race director Charlie Whiting after he arrived in Melbourne for the first weekend of the year led the FIA to promote Michael Masi in his place.
Like Whiting before him, the role Masi plays in the stewarding process is often misunderstood. Although he has the power to refer incidents to the stewards, it is the stewards who decide what gets a penalty and what doesn't, not Masi himself.
Many of the stewards have been in place for several years, and last season was the 10th since the FIA began using ex-drivers to advise their decisions. This means we should expect to see continuity and consistency in the decision-making process, despite the change at the top.
Number of incidents investigated
Many track limits penalties were issued at COTA
The raw numbers make it clear. Far more incidents were investigated last year Formula 1 drivers received more penalties as a result.
But does that mean the stewards are taking a tougher line on driving standards? Look a little closer and it's clear this is another case of the statistics not quite bearing out reality.
The majority of the increase occurred because of a change in the way track limits were policed at the German and United States Grands Prix. Electronic loops were used to detect if a driver had run wide, and their lap times deleted if they did. This alone caused an extra 46 investigations and penalties.
If we exclude those we can see there was still a rise in the number of investigations and penalties, but a much more modest one.
Does this mean drivers were indeed committing more infractions which the stewards decided should be penalised? Again, this is not quite the case, as the data reveals.
Penalties due to drivers and teams
Once more, on the face of it, the data looks clear: There was a large increase in the number of penalties caused by drivers (e.g. collisions, track limits) than teams (e.g. engine and gearbox changes).
But again, we know 46 of those penalties were routine lap time deletions. The electronic loops at two races account for more than half of all driver penalties issued during 2019.
Factor those out and the number of penalties given for driving infringements per race falls from a real value of 4.1 to just 2.0. That compares to 2.3 for 2018 when, as the next graph shows, the number of lap time deletion penalties was far lower.
2019 penalties versus 2018
Lap time deletion penalties aside, there was little change from 2018 to 2019 in terms of how many penalties were handed down.
There was an increase in the number of occasions drivers were order to start from the back of the grid or in the pits. This follows changes to the rules limiting how many times drivers may change their power unit components. Drivers who exceed the allocation by a significant amount now have to start from the pits instead of being given grid penalties of 20 places or more.
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Dodgy reversing got Ricciardo in trouble
While Romain Grosjean made it as far as 10 penalty points in 2018, no one in 2019 got that close to the 12 required for a one-race ban. Sebastian Vettel hit the season's peak of nine point at the Italian Grand Prix.
This also made him the driver who has scored the most penalty points since the system was introduced five years ago. He now has a total of 24. Incredibly, Formula 2 driver Mahaveer Raghunathan scored that many in a single season, earning himself a one-event ban, and only avoiding a second on a technicality.
Heading into the 2020 F1 season, Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo have the highest number of penalty points at the moment, on seven.
Notes on the data
The figures above exclude fines for minor infractions e.g. pit lane speeding during practice. All penalties due to component changes have been considered the responsibility of teams.
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Posted on 7th February 2020, 13:00 Author Keith CollantineCategories 2019 F1 season articles, F1 StatisticsTags F1, f1 statitics, formula 1, formula one
28 comments on "Analysis: Did F1 drivers really get more penalties last year?"
Phylyp (@phylyp)
7th February 2020, 13:15
Very nice analysis, and it just goes to show how the topline numbers are much more nuanced once we start drilling down into the detail.
I would like to see stricter track limits rolled out to more circuits, and I hope the FIA have this under consideration, or are already working on it.
The electronic loops at two races account for more than half of all driver penalties issued during 2019.
Factor those out and the number of penalties given for driving infringements per race falls from a real value of 4.1 to just 2.0.
Bit of a nitpick, but would it be clearer to phrase that as "race weekend" and not just "race", seeing as lap-time deletions would apply to quali (and FP?).
drmouse (@drmouse)
I would like to see stricter track limits rolled out to more circuits
Amen to that!
As I've said before, I would favour a reversal of current rules: Rather than getting a penalty if it results in an advantage, give a penalty unless it results in a clear disadvantage. This should be automatic, but able to be overruled by the stewards. All four wheels off the road, penalty unless the stewards say otherwise.
These are the best drivers in the world. They can drive within the limits if they want. If they go off track, one of there things has occurred:
– They purposely left, which they would only do to gain an advantage and deserves a penalty
– They were forced off, which doesn't deserve a penalty so the stewards could overrule
– They made a mistake, which deserves a disadvantage – this could be a penalty, or it could be a natural disadvantage which would allow the stewards to overrule the penalty
MEGATRON M12 (@megatron)
Yes, exactly. Any driver who goes all 4 off track (no part of the car touching the white line) should be required to come to a complete stop before safely rejoining. Have the teams report on each other, it will never be missed. Ignored if forced off, penalize the pusher offer.
As you said, these are supposed to be the best closed circuit drivers IN THE WORLD, hold them to that. Every other major sport has out if bounds rules and strictly enforces them, F1 is extremely unprofessional in this aspect.
@megatron "Any driver who goes all 4 off track (no part of the car touching the white line) should be required to come to a complete stop before safely rejoining."
– That would be an unnecessary safety risk, though especially at blind-ish corners.
They don't have to srop immediately, it could be further off the line, maybe in a safely placed penalty box. Going around cones isn't safe or penalizing enough, remember Perez in France. Going off track to avoid an accident should be given leeway, but they shouldn't have to run over huge kers to avoid an incident.
Everything on track should be for racing, everything off track should be for safety.
@jerejj
@drmouse
Also, they need to get rid of the large bumps off track, they are a hugesafety liability.
Has Brawn ever mentioned how the 2021 cars will behave if they bounce off the ground and the floor loses its sealing action? It feels like your concern is going to become an even bigger risk once the cars start using ground effects.
Indycars attack kerbs liberally, I guess it also depends on the speed.
@phylyp, in terms of raw numbers, the 2019 season would also be more likely to generate more penalties in total simply because the season itself was longer – more races would add in the likelihood of more penalties, from driver errors to penalties for premature parts changes. In that sense, the penalties per race stat is more instructive, as is filtering out those penalties which were for the team and which went to drivers.
I would also be interested to see if there was a change in the penalty rate over the course of the season – given the attacks the FIA faced for penalising popular drivers, I would be interested to see whether the stewards possibly took a more lenient approach later in the season so as to avoid such public criticism.
They stewards were clearly far too lenient on VER in Austria, he plowed into LEC forcing him off track, when they very easily went thru the same corner side by side the lap before. And that lax officiating led to LEC being emboldened to push HAM off in Monza. The stewards are killing the racing by allowing contact as a form of defense. Side by side racing can not occur when drivers are allowed to force their competitors off track as a for of defense.
The stewards were lenient after Canada and it had a negative effect on the rest of the season and continues to going forward.
8th February 2020, 0:46
penalties per race stat
True, and Keith has provided that in his article, which proves that after factoring out the track limits, the penalties per race in 2019 is lower than 2018:
Factor [lap time deletions] out and the number of penalties given for driving infringements per race falls from a real value of 4.1 to just 2.0 [in 2019]. That compares to 2.3 for 2018
I would also be interested to see if there was a change in the penalty rate over the course of the season – given the attacks the FIA faced for penalising popular drivers
Ooh, that's a very interesting question, although I suspect it'll be near impossible to draw any conclusions given the paucity of data points (firstly, just 21 races, and different circuits lend themselves to driver penalties differently).
While electronic track limit monitoring did play a role, it only registered infractions that were real.
If the track limits had been observed and dealt with by the stewards, many of them would have resulted in an investigation and a penalty as well. At least that should be so.
So I think the trend really goes up.
That said, if the track limits could not have been monitored like that other measures would have been taken, like more kerbs or astroturf. Those would not have resulted in penalties but just cause time loss or damage.
There simply is more opportunity to catch a penalty than before.
That does not mean stewarding got harsher, just that there are more situations to which it applies.
Only Facts!
For some reason, I ended up agreeing with most of the penalties due to race incidents. Not at first, but got convinced after watching onboards and replays.
But Vettel rejoining the track in front of Hamilton was not one of them. Even if you count that Vettel saw him and moved to block Hamilton. They're racing.
But I guess after that the stewards started looking differently to incidents like that, which is a good thing.
But Vettel rejoining the track in front of Hamilton was not one of them. Even if you count that Vettel saw him and moved to block Hamilton.
RIP, comments section.
slowmo (@slowmo)
He was rightfully penalised and you just need to move on…
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
after that the stewards started looking differently to incidents like that
No, there was precedent for it, such as the one involving Raikkonen and Verstappen in Japan the year before:
https://www.racefans.net/2018/10/07/verstappen-alonso-and-stroll-given-penalty-points-for-incidents/
Same infringement (impeding another driver by rejoining), same penalty.
@keithcollantine
The penalty seemed to larger in Monza, at least for Stroll who got a drive thru even with no contact to Gasly.
There is no more racing once you are off track, which vettel was. Once you are off track it is the driver's responsibility to rejoin safely without effecting other drivers. We can not have incidents like Vettel coming back on track and hitting Stroll like he did in Monza. Vettel was rightly penalized in canada, 5s was lenient.
@phylyp A good comment is not the one you agree with, but the one that gets people commenting over it. I like yours by the way, even when I don't agree with it.
@slowmo I am no Vettel fan. The opposite, actually. But I've seen many drivers trying to keep their position after missing a turn. He didn't gain a time advantage, he didn't hit Hamilton.
@keithcollantine Thanks for the link. But my point is that after that incident the stewards started to consider questionable moves as racing incidents more often. Leclerc squeezing Hamilton onto the grass is one example.
The lap time-deletion approach due to slightly leaving the track has gone a bit overboard in my view. That should only be done if going off leads to a direct improvement in lap time and or sector time precisely through that mini-sector, but it has more often seemed to be done just for the sake of it. I especially don't understand the change of approach at COTA towards the penultimate corner, where as recently as in 2017, drivers were allowed to leave it very wide there as long as doing so didn't have a direct impact on the overall lap time or sector time, and going wide there didn't. How could it have been different twelve months later? How could leaving the track there be more advantageous with the 2018 and '19 cars than the '17 cars?
– This must be a change for the upcoming season because I haven't been aware of the above before. The "Drivers who exceed the allocation by a significant amount now have to start from the pits instead of being given grid penalties of 20 places or more" part I mean.
LosD (@losd)
It is almost impossible to determine if crossing a line gives an improvement of the lap time, which makes it way too inconsistent. Much better to just make it black and white. Then it's up to the driver to decide if going close is worth the risk.
That should only be done if going off leads to a direct improvement in lap time and or sector time precisely through that mini-sector
@jerejj – I would suggest you look at it this way – the driver didn't drive on the prescribed route for that circuit, so a lap didn't happen.
Similar to someone shortcutting a chicane, say skipping T6 at Yas Marina.
@phylyp Cutting a chicane isn't 100% the same as going wide at the exit of a high or medium-speed corner, but I get your point anyway.
It should absolutely be a black and white penalty, go off track in qually, lap time deleted, go off track in the race, must come to a complete stop (in a safe penalty box zone if necessary) before SAFELY rejoining. Drivers should not be able to miss turn 2 apex at Monza and retain their position to a car a second or 2 behind. F1 needs black and white clearly delineated rules.
Oconomo
Two days of public service = Best penalty ever! (for stupid reasons)
W-K (@w-k)
Would it help if there was a secondary set of stewards that dealt with the simple "break the rules" infringements, such as, pit lane speeding, track limits, not slowing for yellows etc. and allow the main group of stewards to concentrate on the more difficult racing incidents?
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whipping out the old html bbcode.
Get yourself a dog that loves you like this.
annoying that imgur doesn't have everything gif-embeddable anymore.
not too much footage of the dog but, just cool how he's hanging with his dog.. and the dog watching the whales etc.
also, this dude has some incredible footage.
here he is jumping in with a venomous sea snake.. seems kind of stupid. absolutely incredible footage though.
saw this today, made me lol.
Its missing here too for ages, you can use any other button and change the text in the brakets to youtube , e.g. use the Insert image buttong and replace img--->youtube in start and end brackets.
that had to be an incredible experience. that animal is pure power. looks like it's enjoying the rubdown.
how did you get that close to it? can't imagine you just walked right up to it?
thanks for the shoutout man!! that's the coolest shoutout i've gotten that's for sure.
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Q: What's the benefit for making batch call when design API? Confused about making batch call when building Restful API.
For example, I want to check 100 students height. What's the difference among:
1) check height one by one
2) check height with a batch of 20
3) check height with a batch of 50
What's the benefit of it? I know batching will decrease HTTP requests amount. Will this count much when we evaluate the speed of an API?
How to choose the batch size?

A: I think you could have found this with a bit of googling - but I'll answer here all the same.
The benefits of batching generally depends on what you do with it.
If you have a keep-alive connection, you have no overhead of handshaking, and then you don't spend too much time dealing with subsequent packets along this connection. You can then pipeline requests and decrease your latency.  However, in HTTP1.1, requests are still FIFO - so you have to 'handshake' each and every one.  This is where you can leverage the power of batching!
Because you can send/retrieve all the data you need for all requests hereafter, you can minimize the overheads incurred from setting up each individual HTTP connection. This does mean that you will have to wait a bit longer to handle the request as everything is packed into one request, but your throughput improves.  The reason for this is the roundtrip from making first request to receiving final response is not multiplied by the number of requests you have to make.
Something to keep in mind, however, is TTFB - time to first byte. If you load data progressively, it can be perceived as faster by a user. Imagine a website which loads one of each one thousand resources at a time, and you as a user can see these popping up, versus a website that loads all one thousand at once, and you just see a spinner until all the resources have been loaded? I'll bet you find the progressive loading scheme "looks" faster.
Naturally, batching very much depends on what you're doing with the requests, if it is to be worthwhile.
Sometimes, you have to be careful with batching, as you can put a lot of load on a server if you have multiple users concurrently making batch requests, and it might be a better balancing scheme to process requests sequentially.  Of course, you will be able to figure this out with a bit of monitoring and analytics.


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Since joining Alibaba Cloud in 2016, Yeming oversees the global business of the company in Europe and the Middle East. Wang has nearly two decades of experience in the tech industry. Before joining Alibaba, he served in various senior management roles at Huawei.
Simone Warren is a Director at Alibaba Cloud for the UKI & Nordics region. Simone has over 23 years\' consulting experience within the IT industry, specialising in the development of disruptive Cloud and Data Centre innovation for global organisations who are interested in customer-centric Digital Transformation.
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Xuan is lead solution architect and technology evangelist at Alibaba Cloud. With a background in solution engineering, Xuan helps customers successfully implement Alibaba Cloud services and solutions – from networking and cloud computing through to Big Data and AI enabled transformations.
Mark Hedley is a sector Director at the China-Britain Business Council. A fluent Mandarin speaker, Mark has spent the past 14 years living in and travelling to mainland China, working with multinational and SME clients across a wide range of sectors. Mark is CBBC's sector lead for ICT, providing support and advice to UK tech firms looking to access the Chinese market.
Wilson Tseng is the Partnerships Manager for Alibaba Cloud North Europe and responsible for building an ecosystem of partners to support companies and businesses with their digital transformation. Previous to that, he has covered various roles within Alibaba Group, working across a number of business divisions including Ant Financial and AliExpress.
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Mark contributed to the Cloud First policy for the UK Public sector and was one of the founding architects for the UK Governments G-Cloud programme. Mark is now leading the development of the United Nations Global Platform. A multi-cloud platform for capacity building within the national statistics offices in the use of Big Data.
Artofus is a spin out from Apical, a digital imaging IP business acquired by ARM in 2016. Prior to joining Artofus, Lee spent 14 years in Investment Banking at JPMorgan and Evercore based in London, New York and Silicon Valley. At Evercore he held the position of Managing Director, advising on large cap technology and intellectual property M&A transactions globally.
Matt is responsible for engagement and go-to-market strategies for Rackspace's Managed Cloud Services. He is well versed in helping customers understand the opportunities of cloud adoption, articulating the business benefits of using new and disruptive technologies. Matt supports organisations across EMEA, helping them transition to cloud-based delivery models.
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The CentOS Project will be having a Dojo in São Paulo, Brazil on Monday, May 5th, 2014 at Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima 3900 - Cj 81 Itaim Bibi Sao Paul (map, register, info).
CentOS Dojos are one day events, organized around the world, that bring together people from the CentOS Communities to talk about systems administration, best practices in Linux-centric activities and emerging technologies of note. The emphasis is to find local speakers to come together and talk about things that they care about most, and to share stories from their experiences working with CentOS in various scenarios.
This event is sponsored By Red Hat and happens two days before FISL 15 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
The CentOS team will also be at FISL 15 and these are our first ever events in South America, so we are pretty excited.
If you are near São Paulo or Porto Alegre at the beginning of May, please stop by and visit the team.


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Triple G Colloquium Series: Carbon Cycle and Urban Ecology
Friday, January 29, 2021 4:00 PM at Virtual
Join the MSU Geography Graduate Group (Triple G) at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, January 29, 2021, as they kick off their Spring 2021 Colloquium series. The first colloquium session will feature Dr. Lucy R. Hutyra. Dr. Hutyra is an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University and her presentation will focus on the topic of the carbon cycle and urban ecology.
MSU Spring Career Days: Criminal Justice
Thursday, February 18, 2021 4:00 PM - Thursday, February 18, 2021 7:00 PM at Virtual
Spring Career Days are your chance to meet with potential employers to learn more about jobs and internships in the area of Criminal Justice.
MSU Spring Career Days: Accounting, Finance, and Supply Chain
Monday, February 22, 2021 4:00 PM - Monday, February 22, 2021 7:30 PM at Virtual
Spring Career Days are your chance to meet with potential employers to learn more about jobs and internships in the area of Accounting, Finance, and Supply Chain.
MSU Spring Career Days: IT, Computing, Technology, & GIS
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 4:00 PM - Tuesday, February 23, 2021 7:30 PM at Virtual
Spring Career Days are your chance to meet with potential employers to learn more about jobs and internships in the areas of IT, Computing, Technology, and GIS. This event is open to all students.
Dissertation Defense Notice: J. Namanya
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 1:00 PM - Wednesday, February 24, 2021 4:00 PM at Virtual
Ms. Judith Namanya will defend her dissertation: Investigating Uganda's High HIV Incidence Among Young Women in an Era of Widespread Gains in HIV Prevention and Treatment.
MSU Spring Career Days: Marketing, Sales, Advertising, Media & Professional Communications
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Triple G Colloquium – Indigenous Geographies & Resistance
Friday, February 26, 2021 4:00 PM at Virtual
Join the Geography Graduate Group (Triple-G) for a Colloquium session featuring Dr. Deondre Smiles as he presents on the topic of Indigenous Geographies and Resistance.
Spring Study Day - No Classes
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Proposal Defense: Dan Wanyama
Friday, March 5, 2021 1:00 PM - Friday, February 5, 2021 3:00 PM at Virtual
Dan Wanyama will present and defend his dissertation proposal on March 5, 2021, at 1:00 PM.
Dissertation Defense Notice: Wei Liu
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:00 AM at Virtual
Wei Liu will defend her dissertation on March 10, 2021, at 10:00 AM.
Proposal Defense Notice: Laura Medwid
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 11:00 AM - Tuesday, March 16, 2021 1:00 PM at Virtual
Laura Medwid will defend her dissertation proposal "Water Access as an Environmental Justice Issue: How Race and Income is Associated with Water Access Across Space."
NASA LCLUC Central Asia Webinar Featuring Dr. Geoffrey Henebry
Thursday, March 25, 2021 11:00 AM at Virtual
Join the NASA LCLUC Central Asia Webinar Series as Dr. Geoffrey Henebry of the MSU Department of Geography, Environment, & Spatial Science and the Center for Global Change and Earth Observations presents "Understanding the Twin Challenges Facing Agropastoralism in Montane Central Asia: Environmental Change and Globalization".
Triple G Colloquium Series: Geospatial Analyses and Statistics
Friday, March 26, 2021 4:00 PM at Virtual
Join the Geography Graduate Group (Triple-G) for a Colloquium session featuring Dr. Eric Gilleland, Project Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research - Research Applications Laboratory (NCAR-RAL).
Dissertation Defense Notice: Qiong Zhang
Monday, March 29, 2021 1:00 PM at Virtual
Qiong Zhang will defend her dissertation "China's Economic Development and Soft Target on Human Health: A Medical Geography Study of Haze Pollution Impacts on Maternal and Infant Health in Xianyang 2008-2016" on Monday, March 29, 2021, at 1:00 PM.
Dissertation Defense Notice - Nafiseh Haghtalab
Friday, April 2, 2021 2:00 PM - Friday, April 2, 2021 4:30 PM at Virtual
Nafiseh Haghtalab will defend her dissertation "Evaluating Climate Variability and Coupling Strength of Land-Atmosphere Interactions Across the Amazon Basin" on April 2, 2021, from 2:00-4:30 PM.
Proposal Defense Notice: Teng Zhang
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 1:30 PM at Virtual
Teng Zhang will defend his proposal "Mass Killings under a Magnifying Glass" on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, at 1:30 PM.
Thesis Defense Notice: D. Wang
Friday, April 16, 2021 9:00 AM at Virtual
(Ting) Diane Wang will defend her thesis "The Climatology of Springtime Freeze Events in the Central and Eastern USA" on Friday, April 16, 2021, at 9:00 AM.
Dissertation Defense Notice - Pouyan Hatami
Monday, April 19, 2021 1:00 PM at Virtual
Pouyan Hatami will defend his dissertation "Geographic Applications of Knowledge-Rich Machine Learning Approaches in Spatiotemporal Data Analysis" on Monday, April 19, 2021, at 1:00 PM.
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Thesis Defense Notice: Liz Spitzer
Thursday, April 22, 2021 at Virtual
Liz Spitzer will defend her thesis, "Assessing the drivers and spatiotemporal patterns of cohesive bluff retreat along the Michigan coast of Lake Michigan" on Thursday, April 22, 2021, at 1:00 PM.
Friday, April 23, 2021 at Spring Study Day - No Classes
Oral Comp Notice: Pietro Sciusco
Friday, May 14, 2021 at Virtual
Pietro Sciusco will take his oral comprehensive examination on Friday, May 14, 2021, at 9:30 AM.
Oral Comp Notice: Myung Sik Cho
Thursday, May 27, 2021 12:00 PM at Virtual
Myung Sik Cho will take his oral comprehensive examination on Thursday, May 27, 2021, at 12:00 PM.
Proposal Defense Notice: Rui Zhang
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 9:30 AM at Virtual
Rui Zhang will defend her dissertation proposal "An Agent-Based Model of Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake Erie for Informing Environmental Policies" on June 30, 2021, at 9:30 AM.
Proposal Defense Notice: Yachen Xie
Thursday, August 12, 2021 10:00 AM - Thursday, August 12, 2021 12:00 PM at Virtual
Yachen Xie will present and defend his dissertation proposal "The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Carbon Neutral Efforts" on Thursday, August 12, 2021, at 10:00 AM.
Oral Comp Notice: Jen Fry
Friday, August 20, 2021 12:00 PM at Virtual
Jen Fry will take her oral comprehensive examination on Friday, August 20, 2021, at 12:00 PM.
Dissertation Defense Notice: Ida Djenontin
Wednesday, August 25, 2021 at Virtual
Ida Djenontin will defend her dissertation, "Governance of People-centered Forest-Agricscapes Restoration in Malawi: Institutional and Modeling Approaches," on Wednesday, August 25, 2021 beginning at 10:00 AM.
Oral Comprehensive Exam Notice: Gabriela Shirkey
Friday, August 27, 2021 10:00 AM at Virtual
Gabriela Shirkey will take her oral comprehensive examination on Friday, August 27, 2021, at 10:00 AM.
College of Social Science Colloquium
Tuesday, August 31, 2021 9:00 AM - Tuesday, August 31, 2021 12:00 PM at Wells Hall
Attention Incoming First-Year Students! Learn what it means to be a social scientist, with information on majors you can pursue, student organizations, and much more! Free t-shirts and ice cream, plus other College of Social Science swag. Learn what it means to be a social scientist, with information on majors you can pursue, student organizations, and much more! Free t-shirts and ice cream, plus other College of Social Science swag.
Oral Comprehensive Exam Notice: Herve Kashongwe
Tuesday, August 31, 2021 2:00 PM at Virtual
Herve Kashongwe will take his oral comprehensive examination on Tuesday, August 31, 2021, from 2:00 - 4:00 PM.
Classes Begin
Wednesday, September 1, 2021 12:00 AM at Michigan State University
Fall classes begin Wednesday, September 1, 2021.
Holiday - University Closed
Monday, September 6, 2021 12:00 AM at Michigan State University
College of Social Science Reorientation Event
Thursday, September 9, 2021 3:00 PM at 117 Berkey Hall
The College of Social Science is holding a Reorientation Event for returning students on Thursday, September 9, 2021, at 3:00 PM in Berkey Hall, Room 117.
A New Kind of Company Town: Extractive Industry and Security in the U.S.-Mexico Borderland | Triple G Colloquium
Friday, September 17, 2021 4:00 PM - Friday, September 17, 2021 5:00 PM at Virtual
Please join us on Friday, September 17, 2021, at 4:00 PM EST for the first talk of this 2021-2022 Triple G Colloquium Series. We are honored to have Dr. Scott Warren, cultural geographer, academic, and volunteer with humanitarian aid organizations at the Mexico-US border. The title of his presentation is "A New Kind of Company Town: Extractive Industry and Security in the U.S.-Mexico Borderland".
Learn QGIS: Making a Color Shaded Map in QGIS
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at Digital Scholarship Lab (Second floor of the west wing of the Main Library)
Learn the basics of QGIS, the free open source geospatial software—this workshop will demonstrate how to make a choropleth (color shaded) map and place graduated symbols representing data on it, load shape-files, and .csv table files into QGIS, join data to spatial information and edit features.
Proposal Defense Notice: Pietro Sciusco
Thursday, September 30, 2021 3:00 PM at Virtual
Pietro Sciusco will defend his dissertation proposal "Global Warming Impacts of a Managed Landscape in Southwestern Michigan: Biogeophysical and Biogeochemical Climate Regulations" on Thursday, September 30, 2021, at 3:00 PM.
Information Session: Graduate Study in Geography
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 4:00 PM - Tuesday, October 12, 2021 5:00 PM at Virtual
Join the Geography Graduate Program Director for an overview of the applications and admissions process for MS and PhD programs in Geography at MSU.
Dissertation Defense Notice: Amanda Kreuze
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 9:00 AM - Wednesday, October 13, 2021 12:00 PM at Virtual
Amanda Kreuze will defend her dissertation "The Toxic Truth: Environmental Justice and Environmental Health of Mothers and Children in Michigan" on Wednesday, October 13, 2021, beginning at 9:00 AM.
Introduction to ESRI StoryMaps and StoryMaps JS
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 4:00 PM - Wednesday, October 13, 2021 5:30 PM at Digital Scholarship Lab (Second floor of the west wing of the Main Library)
This workshop will be held in person and virtually. To attend in person, please come to the Digital Scholarship Lab in the Main Library on the second floor of the west wing.
Oral Comp. Notice: Kionna Henderson
Friday, October 15, 2021 at Virtual
Kionna Henderson will take her oral comprehensive examination on Friday, October 15, 2021, beginning at 10:00 AM.
High Points: The Historical Geography of Cannabis | Triple G Colloquium
Friday, October 22, 2021 4:00 PM - Friday, October 22, 2021 5:00 PM at Virtual
Join us on Friday, October 22, 2021, at 4:00 PM for another session of the 2021-22 Triple G Colloquium series as we welcome Dr. Barney Warf who will present "High Points: The Historical Geography of Cannabis."
Student Fall Break
Monday, October 25, 2021 - Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at Michigan State University
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 - Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at Michigan State University
MSU SWIG Program | Afghanistan: Security, Gender, and Development 2001-2021 with Dr. Jennifer Fluri
Join the MSU Supporting Women in Geography (SWIG) group on October 29, 2021, at 2:00 PM as we welcome Dr. Jennifer Fluri who will present "Afghanistan: Security, Gender, and Development 2001-2021".
Quidders Talk: How the Mackinac Lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet Affected Michigan's Landscapes
Friday, October 29, 2021 4:00 PM at Geography Building, Room 126
Join the Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (QLRG) on Friday, October 29, 2021, at 4:00 PM, as University Distinguished Professor Randall Schaetzl presents the next QUIDDERS talk entitled, "How the Mackinac Lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet Affected Michigan's Landscapes."
GIS Research and Teaching Meet Up
Friday, November 5, 2021 2:30 PM - Friday, November 5, 2021 3:30 PM at MSU Map Library (Second floor of East Wing of Main Library)
Come visit with other MSU community members who are using GIS in their teaching and research! We will be discussing any issues, projects, and topics that community members want to bring to the meet-up. Questions about new GIS products, GIS method questions, strategies for teaching GIS are all possible topics of conversation. The goal of this event is to break through the usual disciplinary and departmental boundaries to have a conversation about GIS at MSU.
Quidders Talk: Zwischen Zeit und Ewigkeit: MSU Professor Dieter Brunnschweiler's lost manuscript "The Morphology of Altiplanation in Alaska"
Friday, November 5, 2021 4:00 PM at Geography Building, Rm 126
Join the Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (QLRG) on Friday, November 5, 2021, at 4:00 PM, as Adjunct Professor Fritz Nelson with the MSU Geography Department presents the next QUIDDERS talk entitled, "Zwischen Zeit und Ewigkeit: MSU Professor Dieter Brunnschweiler's lost manuscript "The Morphology of Altiplanation in Alaska"."
Dissertation Defense Notice - Xiaomeng Li
Monday, November 8, 2021 10:00 AM at Virtual
Xiaomeng Li will defend her doctoral dissertation, "Personal Service and Leisure Travel: Exploring Individual- and Neighborhood-Level Variability In the City Of Detroit and Its Suburbs," on Monday, November 8, 2021, beginning at 10:00 AM.
Dissertation Defense Notice: Dan Wanyama
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 11:00 AM at Virtual
Dan Wanyama, will defend his doctoral dissertation "Using The "Kite" Framework for Understanding Landscape Change and Improving East African Agricultural Systems Under Climate Change," on Wednesday, November 10, 2021.
Information Session: Advancing Geography Through Diversity Program
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 4:00 PM at Virtual
Join us on Tuesday, November 16, 2021, at 4:00 PM as we provide an overview of the MSU Advancing Geography Through Diversity Program.
GEO Club Meeting
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at Geography Building, Rm 126
Join the GEO Club on Tuesday, November 16, 2021, at 6:00 PM for its next meeting. The meeting will take place in the Geography Building in Rm. 126.
Ph.D. student Laura Medwid will defend her dissertation proposal, "Water Access as an Environmental Justice Issue: How Race and Income is Associated with Water Access across Space," on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, at 11:00 AM.
MSU Spatial Data Management Team Celebrates GIS Day 2021
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 1:00 PM - Wednesday, November 17, 2021 3:00 PM at Virtual
Join the MSU Spatial Data Management team in celebrating GIS Day!
Oral Comprehensive Examination Notice: Meicheng Shen
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 1:00 PM at Virtual
Meicheng Shen will take her oral comprehensive examination on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, starting at 1:00 pm via Zoom.
3D Printing Terrain Elevation Maps (GIS Day Workshop)
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 4:00 PM - Wednesday, November 17, 2021 5:00 PM at Digital Scholarship Lab (Second floor of the west wing of the Main Library)
Celebrate GIS Day by learning to produce a 3D model of terrain elevation for printing on a 3D printer. We will learn about digital elevation models, where to find DEM data to create our printable export, and then use the QGIS plug-in DEMto3D to create a model. We will then edit and verify the model is ready for printing in Meshmixer.
Information Session: Social Science in Rome
Learn more about the MSU Study Abroad program Social Science in Rome.
Hidden Epidemics, Hidden People: HIV/AIDS, Black Queer Communities and Accounting for Missing Geographies | Triple G Colloquium
Friday, November 19, 2021 4:00 PM at Virtual
Join us on Friday, November 19, 2021, at 4:00 PM for another session of the 2021-22 Triple G Colloquium series as we welcome Dr. Aaron Mallory who will present "Hidden Epidemics, Hidden People: HIV/AIDS, Black Queer Communities and Accounting for Missing Geographies."
Thursday, November 25, 2021 12:00 AM at Michigan State University
Friday, November 26, 2021 at Michigan State University
Proposal Defense Notice: Ana Rivera Rivera
Monday, November 29, 2021 2:00 PM at Virtual
Ana Rivera Rivera will defend her dissertation proposal, "Urban Heat Islands in Monterrey, Mexico: A Human-Environment Interaction Study," on Monday, November 29, 2021, beginning at 2:00 PM.
Dissertation Defense Notice - Zihan Lin
Tuesday, November 30, 2021 10:00 AM at Virtual
Zihan Lin will defend her doctoral dissertation, "Spatiotemporal modeling of dams and consequent impacts on the Mekong River Basin ecosystem," on Tuesday, November 30, 2021, beginning at 10:00 AM.
MSU Museum presents Connecting Worldviews: Indigenous Cartography in the Americas
Tuesday, November 30, 2021 3:00 PM at Michigan State University Museum
Have you ever thought about what a map is supposed to look like? For most, a specific image might come to mind. Indigenous cartography in the Americas offers us another way of looking at the world that is rooted in a different tradition. Join the MSU Museum team on November 30 as they begin to explore what early indigenous cartography looked like and how mapping has been used across the Americas.
Dissertation Defense Notice - Kyle Redican
Friday, December 3, 2021 12:00 PM at Virtual
Kyle Redican will defend his dissertation, "Knowledge Spillovers and Safe Drinking Water Act Compliance," on Friday, December 3, 2021, beginning at 12:00 PM.
Quidders Talk: Base Level Fluctuations on the River Raisin and the Huron River 16,800 – 6,000 years ago: Some Fluvial Geomorphic Musings
Friday, December 3, 2021 4:00 PM at Geography Building, Rm 126
Join the Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (QLRG) on Friday, December 3, 2021, at 4:00 PM, as Professor Emeritus David Lusch presents the next Quidders talk entitled, "Base Level Fluctuations on the River Raisin and the Huron River 16,800 – 6,000 years ago: Some Fluvial Geomorphic Musings."
Dissertation Proposal Defense Notice - Kionna Henderson
Monday, December 6, 2021 10:00 AM at Virtual
Ph.D. student Kionna Henderson will defend her dissertation proposal, "Multi-scale impacts of the Flint Water Crisis on Maternal Health Disparities: A Dissertation Proposal," on Monday, December 6, 2021, at 10:00 AM.
Proposal Defense Notice: Jen Fry
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 1:00 PM at Virtual
Ph.D. student Jen Fry will defend her dissertation proposal, "Black, Set, Spike: Racial Experiences of Professional Black Volleyball Players in Europe," on Tuesday, December 7, 2021, at 1:00 PM.
Monday, December 13, 2021 12:00 AM - Friday, December 17, 2021 12:00 AM at Michigan State University
Fall Commencements
Friday, December 17, 2021 12:00 AM - Saturday, December 18, 2021 12:00 AM at Michigan State University


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