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Sometime in the 1970s, once a week every week, along the narrow streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a fish truck came around. It came to neighborhoods of North and West Philly, their brick row houses one room wide, set tight against each other right along the sidewalks; some houses with a little grass and trees, some with concrete; some with porches, some just with steps on which people can sit and talk.
A few years ago, college students recorded some of these people; this is a reconstruction of what they said:
Voice #1: There was a fish man in a pickup truck.
Voice #2: You could hear him as he was driving around, "Fish man. I got whiting. I got porgies."
Voice #3: He had a big loudspeaker. He would speak to the whole block. Say, "I'm the fish man. The fish man."
Voice #4: It was always on a Friday. Because for my race of people, which is African American, we always cooked fish on Fridays.
Voice #3: My mom would always tell me to go downstairs from out the house and wave the truck down so my mom could get her fish.
Voice #4: Once the truck came, all of the mothers would come outside, and the whole time that they were waiting to purchase, they would be outside congregating, you know, talking.
Voice #3: Just the taste of the fish. I actually don't think I ever tasted any kind of fish that was as good as the truck's back then.
Voice #4: This is a porch block, so people always set out on their porches. And it was the same if you lived in a block where you set on your stoop. And after dinnertime, you would hear neighbors asking each other, "Did you buy fish today?" "Oh, I did!" "How was it, did you enjoy it?" It was a magical time.
Voice #4: Things was so much different 40 years ago to the way that things are now.
Voice #5: When I was in middle school, I stopped seeing the fish truck.
Voice #4: I guess it hasn't been one in 20 years. It's like anything else, that once it's gone it's usually gone.
The fish truck stayed gone, but in the Philly neighborhoods, the fresh fish came back. An outfit called Fishadelphia buys fish from the New Jersey docks, then drives it to a high school in North Philly where it's packed into coolers, which people take home to their own porches, where neighbors pick up their assigned fish. Fishadelphia's founder and executive director is Talia Young, whose PhD is in ecology, who's a visiting assistant professor in environmental studies at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and whose goal in life has never been to sell fish.
"I'm sort of a scientist," she says. "I'm not doing science but I can. I'm an academic by default, I'm a teacher for sure, I'm sort of an activist, and technically I'm a business person but I know nothing about it."
So why is she selling fish? "I've spent my professional life figuring out how to occupy a space that includes the environment, science, and social justice," Young says. Scientists don't usually combine science with activism, worrying that the combination would undermine a reputation for unbiased research. Young, however, has only ever cared about finding the nexus between her three interests and, she says, "Fishadelphia is the closest I've come."
Fishadelphia is a community-supported fishery, a CSF, in which people subscribe for a season of deliveries from local fisheries; it could meet Young's personal criteria for environment and science. The social justice criterion is met by Fishadelphia's subscribers: Almost one-quarter of them say that they're low income and therefore qualified to pay less than market price.
At a community kitchen in Philadelphia, high school students pack up oysters for a weekly delivery
Young was raised in privilege, she says, "surrounded by people owning second houses in the Hamptons." After college, she spent nine years working with young people in Philadelphia's neighborhoods of color. Young put together her socioeconomic privilege and scientific education with the sensibilities she's learned from working in Philadelphia neighborhoods, and somehow for her, Fishadelphia was inevitable. Fishadelphia lives at the same intersection of science, environmentalism, and social justice that Young does: Fishadelphia has its own character, but in general, Young is what it would look like if it turned into a person.
Young is not tall and not thin; she's in her early 40s, wears glasses that slide down her nose and sometimes get pushed back up, identifies as queer, and is overbooked. She teaches four undergraduate classes, writes scientific papers, is a single parent, runs Fishadelphia with four other people by having many weekly meetings, and holds in her head every detail of its operation, which is never quite the same two weeks in a row. She manages to be collaborative and decisive at the same time; she's self-possessed, and she's a little hard to figure out
Young grew up in New York City: Her parents are scientists and academics whose first language is Chinese but who spoke English at home, so Young didn't feel like a first-generation child. She went to an elite private girls' school in Manhattan where she was happy, she says, but she understood neither race nor class.
She liked environmentalism: At the time, the environmental movement was in high gear, warning that the rainforests were in danger, as were the spotted owl and the global climate. In Young's fancy private school, she joined the environmental club and, she says, "walked around trying to get people not to use straws and to recycle paper" and putting on plays about the Lorax speaking for the trees. Later, Young read Alan Weisman's Gaviotas, about a village in Colombia that reinvented itself as "an environmental utopian community," she says, and "I wanted to do that." She wrote essays on The Communist Manifesto. She took an environmental quiz about a sense of place that asked questions on when the spring flowers bloomed and migrating birds returned, and though for a city girl like her those were not the right questions, she says they "cemented that I feel I am of a place." Her place, her home, was the city, and her interests began shifting to communities. She wondered why she should save rainforests and whales when "there were all these pressing issues closer to home."
Young speaks with one of Fishadelphia's part-time employees, Rodney Jenkins.
So after an undergraduate degree in biology from (also elite, private) Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, she spent the next nine years, until 2010, educating herself on the pressing race and class issues of Philadelphia. She worked in young people's programs focused on racial harmony and environmental education, programs which were, she says, "crash courses in race and class" and in which she learned that teaching "could be magical." She taught the sciences at Mastery Charter Thomas School, a Title 1 school receiving federal money to teach low-income students in South Philly. As a science teacher, she learned "a ton," she says, but worked way too hard for way too many hours and was on the fast road to burnout.
Ten years after graduation, she rebounded into a PhD program in ecology, not in the Pacific Northwest where she'd originally thought she'd study, but closer to home at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "The East Coast is so much better for me," she says: "The grittiness, the deep patterns of racial inequity on the East Coast," with its long history of waves of immigration, each new wave abusing the next one, all living just streets apart. Those patterns, Young says, "are familiar to me, and they need to be figured out."
But a doctorate means proving your academic merit through scientific research and publications. Young's dissertation was a trio of projects generally on food webs in aquatic biology: It was "classical ecology," says her adviser, Olaf Jensen, a conservation ecologist now at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. "She proved she could do [the science] and maybe felt freer to pursue her own interests."
By now, her own interests did not include a traditional academic career. Most young scientists with a fresh PhD set out to compete in the high-stakes game of academia: Find postdoctoral fellowships, publish research, and get faculty positions on the track to tenure, move to wherever the next position is, meanwhile continue to research and publish. Young likes aquatic ecology, she says, "but I'm much more interested in fish as a vehicle for justice, more interested in the combination of community and science."
While in graduate school she co-led a collaboration at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), an organization that brings together graduate students, professors, and researchers from different fields to work on socio-environmental projects. Young and the SESYNC team charted the northward shift of fish in response to climate change and the corresponding northward shift of the fisheries' fishing grounds, and found that the fisheries catching more species were more likely to continue fishing. "She had the ideas in the beginning," says Mikaela Provost, part of the SESYNC team and about to join the faculty at the University of California, Davis. "She was the social glue."
While working on the project, she met Joshua Stoll, another graduate student and now an ecologist at the University of Maine, who'd started a CSF called Walking Fish in eastern North Carolina. CSFs, which began in Maine in 2007 and sprang up independently across the continent from the east coast to the west, take many forms but are generally ways of bypassing commercial seafood's geographically convoluted supply chains and getting fish more or less directly from a local fishery to a local consumer. Stoll and Young "hit it off," Stoll says. They talked shop—about their futures, about their mutual interest in communities, social justice, and applying scientific findings to the real world. He said to her, "How about if you integrate your science life and your social justice life?"
High school students talk with potential customers during the weekly delivery of seafood.
Stoll's suggestion converged with other life nudges in the same direction. Young was awarded a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant for local food production, plus a David H. Smith postdoctoral fellowship in conservation biology to take to Princeton University in New Jersey, both awards to further explore CSFs. She went to a conference where she heard about small-scale fisheries worrying about limiting their catch to the large market of Americans who know how to eat only cod and salmon fillets; and Young, having worked in Philadelphia's Black and Asian communities, thought about dinners made with whole fish, fish heads, sea cucumber, jellyfish, abalone, and squid. And then she thought, We're not talking about the same Americans. She talked to a CSF owner who told her that typical sustainable seafood costs $30 for half a kilogram, and she said, "So poor people can't buy sustainable seafood?" and he said, "Yes."
Meanwhile, she bought a house in Philadelphia in which she still lives. She used some of the Smith fellowship and the USDA grant to start her own CSF in South Philly, based on a unique premise: She'd connect small local fisheries and their fresh nonstandard seafood with the local Black and Asian communities; and she'd run the CSF with local high school students. She did it fast: In 2016, she got her PhD; in 2017, she held focus groups in the community in which she'd taught; and in 2018, she opened Fishadelphia. It's not the normal academic career, not even for applied science–minded ecologists. Simon Levin, the ecologist who advised her Smith fellowship at Princeton, says, "If I'd tried to turn her into an academic, she would have found another adviser."
These are Fishadelphia's operating principles. Take orders for the whole season and sell fish every two weeks. Set prices on a sliding scale according to ability to pay. Accept payments both in advance and on a weekly basis. Accept cash, credit cards, and electronic payment. Offer fillets, whole fish, and fish not usually offered: tilefish, black sea bass, monkfish, skate, fluke, porgy, dogfish. Communicate with the customers by text, email, in person, and WeChat (used by the Chinese community). Tell the customers which fishers caught the fish, who processed it, what the fish's life habits are, and how to cook it. Choose pickup porches in the customers' neighborhoods. Pay the high school students who do the packing and selling. (It's useful that most of them speak the languages the communities speak, including Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Khmer, and Vietnamese.)
Young hired local knowledge, beginning with Tasha Palacio, who grew up in Philadelphia, and George Mathis, a third-generation clammer who lives in New Jersey halfway between Philadelphia and the docks, and who knows the mid-Atlantic fishermen. The staff has grown to 10, all former students or customers or people who knew people, whose roles are set by what needs doing and what they're good at. Young brings in grants that pay the bills.
Tasha Palacio, center, oversees Fishadelphia's weekly packing of seafood and its youth development program.
She begins a Fishadelphia week on Sundays by calling the docks to see what the fishers are catching. Then she texts the staff to decide what and how much to buy. On Mondays, she texts Mathis to pick up the order. (January 31, 2022: Mathis woke up to 40 centimeters of snow and a bad knee, so his family shoveled the driveway and he made the pickup.) He drives from the Atlantic docks, two hours across central New Jersey into Philadelphia, to the People's Kitchen, a collaborative project supporting food security where professional cutters take two days to fillet the fish and pack it on ice in coolers. (February 1, 2022: after filleting, they found they had enough for four coolers, not three as agreed.)
Then on Wednesdays, Palacio and her various relatives pick up the coolers. (February 2, 2022: texting each other, "Does anyone have a car that can handle four coolers?" "Yes, if I get the furniture out of it.") They drive them to Simon Gratz Mastery Charter high school. (February 2, 2022: school was closed for weather, texted maintenance staff to get in, the elevator wasn't working so three students carried the four coolers upstairs.) Gratz high school has a culinary suite with commercial sinks and tables where students open the coolers, bag up the individual orders, and put the bags in more coolers. (Palacio: "Ripping open that scallop bag, it's a sexy moment, that sweet smell.") The 10 cooler hosts pick up their assigned coolers from the school and fan out across the city to their own porches where between 10 and 45 neighbors pick up their orders. (Staff member: "One customer didn't pick up, I called her, she ignored me, but I know her mother so I'll sort it out.")
Also on Wednesdays, students in the Fishadelphia after-school programs at Gratz high school in North Philadelphia and at Thomas high school in South Philadelphia set up fish stands for the public, first come, first served. (At Gratz, mostly Black students tend to be interested in food sovereignty and food justice; at Thomas, mostly Asian, the students tend toward business practice and getting fish for their families; both schools share all these tendencies.) The following Monday, the Fishadelphia staff debriefs the previous week, what went well, what to fix, what's to be done next, how much was spent (salaries, supplies, delivery, People's Kitchen) and how much was brought in, and the expenses are usually larger than the income.
Notice that things routinely go wrong and everything that goes wrong gets fixed. But the whole enterprise is perched on the edge: Young says they're going to run out of money, "and I'm trying dramatically to get us not to do that." Also notice that every possible failure is followed by a plan.
The plan to make the business self-sustaining is to recruit customers who can pay market price to subsidize the customers who cannot. They have 265 customers, she says, "and that needs to be at 600," so they're creating "a more coherent brand" and have set up a marketing department. They operate on the short term: "We're in the high weeds," Young says. "We're putting out fires." So they're creating departments—member experience, member management—and they're documenting what everyone does so everything can be done by anyone. "Structure is in process," Young says. "We used to drop all the things, now we drop only a few." Kristin Hunter-Thomson, director of Dataspire, an education consulting company and on Fishadelphia's original board of advisers, thinks Fishadelphia will stay in business: "I do think it will. If I've learned anything it's that Talia is phenomenally good at making things happen."
Fishadelphia moves thousands and thousands of fish to hundreds of people, but otherwise its impact on students, communities, and fishers—the point of its being— is hard to measure. No one has yet traced the social networks of customers and family members and their connections to ask about Fishadelphia's effect on its communities. The only quantifiable effects so far come from surveys and interviews and are unsurprising: customers like knowing how the fish get to them; students mostly want to learn how to run a business; suppliers mostly want to sell fish.
The nonquantifiable effects are more interesting: Whether or not the networks are being studied, they're growing in real time. Fishadelphia runs field-trip buses to the docks: "People on [the] docks were like 'who are these people?'" Young says, "and people on [the] bus were 'what is this ocean?' I don't need Chinese grandmothers and fishers to talk to each other, but they do. They talk about fish; they actually care about fish." Customers tend to come back every season, and in fact, during the pandemic, the number of customers rose, partly because pickup could be done at a distance.
The most noticeable effect is on the students. They sign up for Fishadelphia year after year. They see Fishadelphia as safe and comfortable, says Palacio, they offer each other support, "and I think, Oh, y'all are trying to make sure each other are healthy. They're like good family." One of the several students who came back as staff is just old enough to remember the fish truck: "The fish truck, it's ironic that being that young and having that impact on me. And it's also the same impact that Fishadelphia has on me now altogether. And it's like I was meant to be here, you know what I mean?" What Young wants most for the students, she says, is "for them to have had a community."
"That's what I do," she says, "I create community." She thinks communities are created less by programs than by the individual relationships that she sees unfolding. "That's where change mostly happens," she says. "It happens in relationships."
Students, Katrina Lawson (left) and Michelle Chen pack oysters for delivery.
It's an old idea, still revolutionary, that relationships are the breeding grounds for communities and communities breed change. And big changes, like economic, gender, and racial equity, start small: on field trips to the docks, at the fish stands, during porch pickups; two people, a few people talking; fishers, grandmothers, students, customers, Fishadelphia's staff, Black and Asian and queer and straight people, people with money and people who are low income, and people who like fish. "They're connected," Young says, "the world works in a way that they're all connected. We don't live in a world in which we can just sell fish."
And meanwhile, she adds, even before sweeping social change, "we're all bound up together and there's something glorious about it, we all get to be in it together."
Also meanwhile, Fishadelphia may have a future or it may not. Tasha Palacio, now Fishadelphia's assistant director of seafood management and youth programming, met Young when she was 15, one of Young's first hires. "I like to imagine people going home after work and saying, Tonight is fish Wednesday." Palacio says. "I like Fishadelphia being in people's homes, being part of their conversations. I feel like we're creating a little safe haven of fish Wednesdays."
And if, like the fish truck, Fishadelphia goes away? Even then, people still remember the fish truck, Palacio says, they still talk about it, and she would like Fishadelphia to be the same; she would want people sitting on their stoops saying, Remember Fishadelphia where you could get fresh fish? She would want Fishadelphia to still be a little safe haven, to still be giving people a reason to talk to each other, still spreading a net invisibly over the community it helped set up.
The podcast from which the opening conversation was transcribed was done by students at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges outside Philadelphia: Mimi Tran, Rachel Gass, Julie Rebh, Avery Matteo, and luigie alequín.
The people interviewed about the fish truck were Zakheem Lindsay-Moore, Mary Yee, Paul Uyehara, Rennie Murray, and Khalil Steward.
This article first appeared in Hakai Magazine and is republished here with permission.
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Deathstalker Scorpion – Worlds Deadliest Animals Facts
December 8, 2022 December 7, 2022 by Brady
Scorpions are one of the first animals to have ever evolved on this Earth, the first of their species coming around roughly 460 million years ago. Deathstalker scorpions have become one of the most popular species in the world.
But first, let's get into the history of scorpions.
They're also thought to be the first animal to ever venture out of the water onto land. Scorpions were able to do this because they do not have lungs like us, but host the ability to reserve oxygen in their cells for extended periods of time.
Considering the former, scorpions can live in radioactive climates with no ill effects, and they can also remain alive under water for up to two days.
People from Florida know this; they find scorpions walking along the bottom of their pools all the time.
Scorpions were quite sizeable when they first came around, the smallest of which reached over a meter in length, unlike the sub-seven inch species we see today.
Some fossils have even been found exceeding eight feet in length, which is truly frightening.
These are perhaps the most successful animals of all-time. They've been around nearly 500 million years, and they continue to thrive still to this day, ranging every continent on the globe aside from Antarctica.
Scorpions have evolved into nearly 2000 different sub-species today, from Emperor scorpions, Desert Hairy scorpions, a number of Bark scorpion and fat tail scorpion species, and many others, such as the one we'll be talking about today, Deathstalker scorpions.
Before we get into this piece however, let's go over the difference between venom and poison.
Many people writing similar articles, or people making videos for their animal YouTube channels will list these beings, along with others such as snakes and spiders, as poisonous, and that's just simply inaccurate.
Poison is either absorbed through the skin, or it is ingested.
This would make things such as some species of plants, frogs, and jellyfish, amongst others, poisonous. They do not have venom glands that inject you with toxins.
On the contrary, venom must be injected, making some species of snakes, as well as all species of scorpions and over 95% of spiders venomous.
READ MORE: Emperor Scorpions: Everything You Need To Know
Okay, now that you know the difference between poison and venom, let's get into it!
1 Deathstalker Scorpions
1.2 Range & Habitat
1.3 Diet & Feeding
1.4 Molting
1.5 Identifying Deathstalker Scorpions
1.6 Venom
2 Indian Red Scorpions
Deathstalker Scorpions
Deathstalker scorpions get a bad rep simply because of how dangerous they are, possessing the second-most toxic venom of all scorpion species still alive today.
They also inhabit many areas that human beings are native to, often times being found under furniture, in shoes, and even in ones bedding.
Deathstalker scorpions, along with others, enjoy the dark as they're nocturnal creatures.
The sunlight will cook them, thus the reason they hunt at night, and dark crevasses make them feel secure and safe.
This beautiful scorpion is one of the smaller species in existence, reaching between 1.2-and-3 inches long with an average of 2.3 inches.
All scorpions are quite fast, but as you probably could have guessed, the smaller, the faster.
That makes it even more dangerous for humans to be around these animals, because they will sting without warning, and chances are, you won't be quick enough to react in time.
Range & Habitat
Deathstalker scorpions inhabit the North African and Middle Eastern deserts, ranging from Algeria in the west to Iran in the east.
In these areas, they're generally found under rocks, wood, such as fallen trees and bark, as well as manmade structures (like homes as mentioned above) they can wedge themselves under.
Diet & Feeding
Deathstalker scorpions, like most other scorpions, feed on a variety of small insects, spiders, small centipedes, worms, other scorpions, and even small mammals.
Scorpions lie and wait for prey to walk into their striking range, sensing the vibrations around them with the microscopic hairs coating their legs and pedipalps (claws).
Once prey is close enough, they clamp down on it with their pedipalps before injecting it with a dose of their venom.
Then, once their prey is caught and envenomated, scorpions begin tearing it apart and ingesting it with chelicerae, which comes in two pairs of mouthpart appendages.
Often times, especially as youngsters, scorpions will feed on their siblings when they're molting and defenseless. Mothers will also eat a few of her own young, young that grew inside of her for between 122-and-277 days.
That's a 155 day span, which is quite remarkable.
That would be due to the fact that gravid females will wait until their environment is perfect to lay her live young. Once she's done giving birth, she'll have between 35-and-87 babies crawling on her back for the next two-to-four weeks.
Once they've molted for the first time, they'll climb off their mothers back and venture out on their own. They have so many babies because, for one, as mentioned above, she will eat some of them.
But, also because not many of which will survive to adulthood.
There are so many things that can go wrong for a baby scorpion in the wild.
As babies, there are a number of animals out there bigger than them, even as adults, and they're always vulnerable when molting. They may not even molt successfully, they may get stuck in it and die right there.
This is particularly common with desert species, as the climate is quite dry at all times, and moisture aids them in climbing out.
Even after their molt is complete, their exoskeleton is very soft for up to a week following, forcing them to hide without eating until their skin hardens.
Identifying Deathstalker Scorpions
Firstly, there's the tiny size of this species; if they're ridiculously small, and you see them in the areas mentioned above, you could be observing a Deathstalker scorpion.
Deathstalkers are yellow in color with a darker, brownish abdomen.
The most notable feature of the Deathstalker scorpion however is their tail.
Directly below their telson (stinger) is a black segment; their segments connecting their body to their tails are yellow, the final segment leading up to their telson is black, and their telson is yellow, the same color as them.
If you see these identifying marks, be sure to keep your distance or handle them with extreme caution, perhaps with tools (tongs, a cup etc). Because if you don't, it may be the last animal you'll ever get the chance to be up close and personal with.
READ MORE: Desert Hairy Scorpion: Everything You Need to Know
Deathstalker scorpions are widely known to be the second-most deadly scorpion in the world, thus the reason you must be wary around them.
Most healthy adults won't die from a sting, though if you did, you wouldn't be the first. However, their venom is most dangerous to children, older individuals, and individuals with heart conditions.
Deathstalker scorpions have an Ld50 of .25 kg, which is the same as a Saw-Scaled Viper.
Though the mortality rate of Saw-Scaled Vipers is around 20%, the snake still kills between 4,000-and-5,000 people every year in India.
Deathstalker scorpions have a neurotoxic and cardiotoxic venom that is extremely painful once injected, and more often than not, it leads to paralysis (inability to move and feel parts of the body).
This is followed by nausea and vomiting, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea. All of that has a good chance of leading to convulsions and fluid retention in the lungs, which certainly has the potential of leading to ones death.
Indian Red Scorpions
We mentioned how Deathstalker scorpions are the second-deadliest scorpion in the world; Indian Red Scorpions take the no. 1 spot on the chart with an Ld50 level of .21 kg.
Indian Red Scorpions are found in Eastern Pakistan, Eastern Nepal, Sri Lanka, and of course, throughout India.
They range from 2-to-3.5 inches in length, and fatality rates of this species are between 8-and-40%, most mortals being children under the age of 12.
Like Deathstalkers, Indian Red Scorpions possess a neurotoxic venom that blocks potassium channels in the body, which causes rhythmic fluctuations in blood pressure, leading to cardiovascular collapse.
Left untreated, the venom of this species can lead to pulmonary edema (leaking fluid into the lungs), resulting in the sting victims death within 72 hours.
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Les 4 Heures de Fuji 2018, disputées le  sur le Circuit du Mont Fuji, sont la sixième édition de cette course, la troisième sur un format de quatre heures, et la seconde manche de l'Asian Le Mans Series 2018-2019.

Engagés

La liste officielle des engagés est composée de 20 voitures, dont 7 en LMP2, 8 en LMP3 et 5 en GT. Les trois voitures Jackie Chan DC Racing, bien que présente à Fuji, ne participeront pas à la deuxième manche de l'Asian Le Mans Series 2018-2019. Alors que le copropriétaire de l'écurie, David Cheng, avait suggéré durant les 4 Heures de Shanghai que l'Oreca 05 participerait à la manche de Fuji, mais probablement avec un nouvel équipage, cela n'a pas abouti. De plus, les efforts de l'équipe pour la LMP3 ont aussi été impactés à la suite de la non-présentation commerciale de Yoshi Mori, qui a conduit à l'exclusion de la Ligier JS P3 n° 37 lors de la manche précédente. Les autres changements d'équipage pour cette manche sont :
 James McGuire est remplacé par Christian England sur la Ligier JS P3 n°3 de l'écurie United Autosports en LMP3,
 Ate de Jong ne figure pas sur la liste des engagés sur la Ligier JS P2 de l'écurie Algarve Pro Racing. Andrea Pizzitola et Harrison Newey rouleront donc à deux ce week-end,
 Jean-Baptiste Lahaye ne fait pas partie du déplacement sur la Ligier JS P2 de l'écurie Panis-Barthez Compétition. Le benjamin de la famille Lahaye, dont la femme attend un heureux événement, sera de retour à Buriam. Matthieu, son frère, et François Heriau arouleront donc à deux ce week-end,
 La Ligier JS P3 n°50 de l'écurie R24 voit son équipage évoluer. Originellement, Marie Iwaoka devait voir l'arrivée de sa compatriote japonaise et coéquipière de Super Taikyu, Anna Inotume. Malheureusement, lors des essais, Anna Inotume a heurté violemment les barrières après avoir perdu le contrôle de sa voiture dans le virage 14. Anna Inotume a alors été envoyé dans un hôpital local après les contrôles de précaution habituels ai été réalisé sur le circuit. À la suite de cela, elle a dû annuler sa participation à la course et elle a été remplacée au pied levé par Sayaka Kato. Il est également a noter aus l'écurie R24, après les déboires rencontrés à Shanghai ou une partie de son équipement avait été bloqué en douane, a récupérer l'entièreté de son matériel,
 Après les soucis rencontrés à Shanghai lors du premier rendez-vous, Tianshi Racing Team a remisé au garage sa Mercedes-AMG GT3 pour faire rouler ses deux Audi R8 LMS GT3.

Qualifications

Course

Déroulement de l'épreuve

Les conditions climatiques n'ont pas été favorables aux concurrents durant ces quatre Heures de Fuji. Ils ont dû composer avec une piste très froide, glissante et la pluie, entremêlée avec de la neige fondue. Ces conditions particulières ont entrainé un certain nombre de fautes. C'est ainsi que la Ligier JS P2 n°24 de l'écurie Algarve Pro Racing partie à la faute durant le tour de formation avec une petite figure du pilote britannique Harrison Newey. Le Britannique est néanmoins parvenu à reprendre sa place en 1ère ligne peu de temps avant le départ. Cette même n°24 a pris l'avantage dès le drapeau vert au premier virage sur la Ligier JS P2 n°22 de l'écurie United Autosports pilotée par le jeune Phil Hanson. Tout au long de la course, les deux voitures ont passé de longues périodes en tête. Après avoir pris la tête durant le premier tour, la n°22 pris le dessus sur la n°24 pour cause de stratégie non opportune de l'écurie Algarve Pro Racing. En effet, l'écurie avait choisi de rester en piste avec des pneus slicks trop longtemps malgré la pluie, et cela a permis à l'écurie United Autosports de reprendre la tête. Ensuite, les positions se sont échangées continuellement, à la fin de chaque relais. Plus tard dans la course, l'Algarve Pro Racing pris un avantage sur United Autosports en repassant aux pneus slick plus tôt lorsque la piste s'asséchait. L'erreur commise en début de course de rester en piste avec des pneus slick trop longtemps a ainsi été compensée et les performances remarquables d'Andrea Pizzitola aux mains de la n°24 permis à l'Algarve Pro Racing de remporter la victoire, obligeant la n° 22 de se contenter d'une seconde deuxième place consécutive. L'équipage de Miroslav Konôpka a également réalisé une belle course. La voiture était partie à la faute au premier virage en début de course pour se trouver en queue du classement des LMP2 Am. Cela avait permis aux Ligier JS P2 n° 23 d'United Autosports et n° 35 du Panis-Barthez Compétition de s'échapper pour la troisième place du classement général mais la n°4 s'est progressivement rapproché avec un Darren Burke en grande forme. Matthieu Lahaye et François Heriau sur ln° 35 du Panis-Barthez Compétition ont échoué à seulement 8s du podium. Une pénalité pour vitesse excessive dans la voie des stands a mis à mal les espoirs de podium. La seconde Ligier JS P2 de l'écurie United Autosports complète le top 5. En sixième position, et avec une performance discrète et décevante, nous retrouvons la Ligier JS P2 n°8 de l'écurie Spirit of Race à trois tours du leader, vainqueur à des derniers 4 Heures de Shanghai, qui n'a pas bien figuré du tout lors de cette course avec un manque de vitesse de pointe.

La course en LMP3 a également réservé de belles bagarres en piste. Le début de course a été archi dominé par Nigel Moore sur la Ligier JS P3 de l'écurie Viper Niza Racing. Il a en effet réussi à se hisser à la 3e place du général durant un moment mais le manque d'homogénéité de l'équipage face à la concurrence n'a pas permis de maintenir ce rythme. Jakub Smiechowski, récent vainqueur des 4 Heures de Shanghai, après avoir manqué de performance durant les qualifications, réussi le tour de bras de remonter en deux heures de course de la cinquième place a la première place des LMP2, avant de céder le volant à Martin Hippe. À partir de ce moment, la course se résuma à un duel entre l'écurie polonaise Inter Europol Competition et l'écurie américaine United Autosports. Kay van Berlo, au cours de la dernière heure, s'est frayé un chemin dans le trafic afin de dépasser Martin Hippe avant de raflé la mise pour 3.584s. Les deux Ligier JS P3 de l'Ecurie Ecosse Nielsen Racing suivent au classement. Colin Noble et Tony Wells ont eu une course sereine et sont remontés de la dernière place sur la grille jusqu'à la troisième marche du podium. Nick Adcock et Christian Olsen ont quant à eux été récompensés pour leur persévérance après la sortie d'Adcock dans les barrières du virage 6 au cours de la première heure, perdant le contrôle de la voiture sur la piste grasse. La réparation de la voiture a coûté beaucoup de temps au duo, mais une course sans faille à partir de là leur a permis de remonter lentement dans le classement. La Ligier JS P3 de l'écurie Eurasia Motorsport est la seule auto du plateau à avoir abandonné à la suite de la perte d'une roue, occasionnant la sortie de la voiture de sécurité.

La catégorie GT, cela n'a pas été aisé mais le Car Guy Racing a obtenu son objectif: une deuxième victoire consécutive pour commencer la saison et, surtout, une victoire à domicile. En effet, Takeshi Kimura a été contraint de faire rentrer la Ferrari 488 GT3 jaune vif dans les stands pour un changement de pneu imprévu lors de la première heure en raison du frottement de la carrosserie arrière. Cela a coûté un tour à l'équipe. La constance et la rapidité ont ensuite été la clé, Kei Cozzolino déployant un effort monstre pour ramener l'équipe à un tour du peloton, avant de céder sa place à James Calado, qui a terminé le travail et a ramené la voiture à la maison. La Ferrari 488 GT3 n°51 de l'écurie Spirit of Race a terminé deuxième, souffrant d'un manque de vitesse, devant l'Audi TSRT n ° 66 qui s'est arrêtée sur la piste et a perdu beaucoup de temps dans la dernière heure.

Classement de la course
Voici le classement provisoire au terme de la course.
 Les vainqueurs de chaque catégorie sont signalés par un fond jauni.
 Pour la colonne Pneus, il faut passer le curseur au-dessus du modèle pour connaître le manufacturier de pneumatiques.

Pole position et record du tour
 Pole position : Philip Hanson sur n°22 United Autosports en 1 min 31 s 685 Meilleur tour en course : Harrison Newey sur n°24 Algarve Pro Racing en 1 min 32 s 554 au .

 Tours en tête
  Ligier JS P2 - United Autosports : 58 tour (1 / 33-62 / 66-86 / 112-117)
  Ligier JS P2 - Algarve Pro Racing : 82 tours' (2-32 / 63-65 / 87-111 / 118-140)

À noter
 Longueur du circuit :
 Distance parcourue par les vainqueurs :

Voir aussi
 Circuit du Mont Fuji
 Asian Le Mans Series 2018-2019

Notes et références

Lien externe

Compétition automobile au Japon
Asian Le Mans Series 2018-2019
Sport en décembre 2018

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102-мм пушка Обуховского завода — корабельное орудие калибра 102 мм, разработанное конструкторами Обуховского сталелитейного завода. Состояло на вооружении Военно-Морского Флота Российской империи (позднее — ВМФ СССР) с 1909 по начало 1950-х годов. К 1916 году на Обуховском сталелитейном заводе было выпущено 225 орудий этого типа. Производство орудия небольшими сериями осуществлялось и позднее.

История создания
Вопрос о необходимости перевооружения эскадренных миноносцев русского флота с орудий 75-миллиметрового противоминного калибра на более мощные был поднят начальником Минной дивизии Балтийского флота Н. О. фон Эссеном в январе 1907 года.

Разработка нового скорострельного 102-мм (4-дюймового) орудия велась при технической консультации английской фирмы «Виккерс» на Обуховском сталелитейном заводе. В августе 1909 года успешно завершились полигонные испытания новой пушки; к концу этого же года на Обуховском заводе развёрнуто её серийное производство. Первые серийные орудия установлены на серии эскадренных миноносцев типа «Доброволец» (кроме эскадренных миноносцев типа «Лейтенант Шестаков» вооружённых 120-мм пушками Канэ).
Также орудия этого типа устанавливались на эсминцы типа «Новик»
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Конструкция орудия
Орудие состояло из внутренней трубы длиной 60 калибров (6284 мм), скрепляемой тремя цилиндрами, надетыми в горячем состоянии. Нарезная часть орудия длиной 5285 мм состояла из 24 нарезов глубиной 1,02 мм. На казённую часть орудия в горячем состоянии надевался кожух, а на последний навинчивался казённик. Затвор орудия — клинового горизонтально-скользящего типа с полуавтоматикой, обеспечивающей при откате открывание затвора посредством экстракции стреляной гильзы. Благодаря полуавтоматике техническая скорострельность орудия была доведена до 12—15 выстрелов в минуту (практическая скорострельность — не более 10). Длина отката орудия составляла 711 мм.

Первые 102-мм установки Обуховского завода имели углы возвышения −6…+15° и дальность стрельбы 54 кабельтова. Артиллерийские установки снабжались стальным щитом толщиной 38 мм и массой 290 кг. Щит прикрывал лишь механизмы артиллерийской установки, но не защищал артиллерийскую прислугу (в составе расчёта из семи человек).

В 1914 году под тумбу орудия был поставлен барабан высотой 200 мм. Благодаря его установке удалось повысить угол возвышения орудия до 20°, а с 1916 года (после замены барабана старой конструкции на новый высотой 320 мм) до 25°, увеличив тем самым дальность стрельбы до 72 кабельтовых. В этом же году Обуховский завод начал выпуск орудий с 500-мм барабаном и углом возвышения 30° (дальность стрельбы была увеличена до 88 кабельтовых — 16,3 км).

Выстрелы производились 102-мм унитарными патронами весом 30 кг со снарядом весом 17,5 кг и гильзой с зарядом 7,5 кг. В боекомплект орудия входили как фугасные (образца 1911 и 1916 годов), так и шрапнель, ныряющий и осветительный беспарашютный снаряды. Начальная скорость фугасного снаряда (масса заряда 5,2 кг) составляла 823 м/с.

Корабельное орудие могло использоваться на платформах (палубах кораблей) при углах крена до 12°, или до 20—25°, но с пониженной скорострельностью.

Оценка орудия
Благодаря своим высоким баллистическим качествам, высокой скорострельности, малому рассеиванию залпов, централизованному управлению огнём 102-мм орудия Обуховского завода заслужили высокую оценку военными специалистами того времени. В течение Первой мировой войны 102-мм орудия широко использовались против боевых кораблей и транспортов противника на Балтийском и Чёрном морях.

Примечания

Литература

Корабельная артиллерия Российской империи
Корабельная артиллерия СССР
Корабельная артиллерия среднего калибра
Артиллерия калибра 102 мм
Артиллерия России периода Первой мировой войны
Артиллерия СССР периода Второй мировой войны
Военная продукция Обуховского завода


The past iterations of the Jay Peak Trail Festival consisted of a 25k loop with a 50k option. Learning from many of their past issues and mistakes, the Sub5 crew decided to host an 11 mile loop with 22 and 33 mile options. The weather outlook for this year's race couldn't have been more dichotomous: sun and 70s for the 5k's on Saturday; 50s and rain for the Sunday 11 mile loops. My friend Abe had driven up from Syracuse, and we warmed up under a slate grey sky and that spat and hissed. The 11 mile loop would take us through the lower nordic trails, up the imposing Ulhr's Dream, across the top of Jay Peak, ascending and descending sections of the Long Trail, rambling up and down various slopes, and weaving back to Ulhr's Dream and the start via rolling nordic trails bottomed out with ankle-deep puddles and slick with the continuous, soaking rain.
I need to work on climbing—This is what totally undid me. I knew it would be tough, having run the course twice before, but my legs were simply not up to the climbs. I manage on the ski slopes, but the long technical climbs/scrambles on the Long Trail sections were too much for my legs. I know what my Kryptonite is, and it is the uphills.
I need to incorporate more (frequent) long runs—I was only able to get up to a single 10 mile run prior to the race, and that simply wasn't enough to feel strong enough. If I am to get to the point of feeling confident in these kinds of mountain races I need to fit in more frequent longer runs…somehow?…sometime?
I can maintain my downhill form (for the most part) even when tired—Downhill running, especially technical downhill running, is my forte. My descent on the Long Trail was quick, nimble, and strong (of course that was mile 4). But even at mile 10 I still felt pretty good running down the wider, sloppier, ski slopes. If it had been that highly technical downhill of the Long Trail I might have felt differently—maybe—but despite tired legs my form held up well.
Trekking poles have their place—I have been practicing uphills, especially on ski slopes, with trekking poles as practice for the race. While I did feel confident and comfortable running with them, for the relatively short distance of 11 miles and given the amount of technical ascending & descending involved, I would not use them again. Maybe for the 22. Trying to scramble with trekking poles is awkward at best. Like a flamingo trying to climb stairs. Not pretty.
I had not decided whether to run this until the morning of the race, which was the morning after Jay Peak. My legs felt…eh. I wasn't sure how they would hold up for a fast 5k, but I've run this race the previous two years and wanted to see how I'd do.
Tired legs were an understatement as the leader jumped off the starting line and I never saw him again. I was able to maintain a decent pace but was easily passed by another runner half way through. As we came to mile 2.5 I was just behind the third place runner and beginning to run on fumes when I decided to see if I could hang on for another half mile—the course takes a quick "S" turn and I was on the inside, so if I could hold the inside I could keep him wide and force him to yield. Surprisingly it worked; I held out and for third for the second year. While I like to say that I don't love running roads, let alone running 5ks, I do love running this local race on my home turf. It is fun to see familiar faces, and catch a glimpse of some pretty fast kids as well.
Oh, right, so why did I name this post "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"? That was the song that was in my head the entire 11 miles up and round Jay Peak. This was thanks to Hattie's recent obsession with Marry Poppins—which I don't mind, but 11 miles of Julie Andrews in my head was almost as exhausting as the running itself.


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Chris Turner, Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal, speaks during the Lions Club Luncheon Thursday. Jordan Wilson/Press-Herald
Chris Turner, Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal, spoke to the Lions Club Thursday at their weekly luncheon.
Turner has an extensive background in law enforcement and has served the United States Marshal Service since 1999. He spoke about the various core programs of the U.S. Marshals, such as the protection of federal courts, the witness security program and the fugitive task force.
He is currently on the Violent Offender Task Force.
"We handle the worst of the worst," he said, explaining that the task force doesn't go after every day criminals, but focuses on murders and rapists.
The U.S. Marshal working out of Shreveport, he said, frequently work with the Shreveport Police Department on their numerous homicide cases, stating that last month there were 32 violent criminal arrests.
At the end of the day, Turner says it's worth it to know all of his team made it safely through another shift and more violent criminals have been taken off the street. "It's the greatest job in law enforcement," he said.
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Q: Angular 7 add price, quantity and vat of services dynamically added to form array I have a form array using form builder and each array contains a service. I want to add the price, amount, and vat for each service and display that in the total column. I know that I have to listen to the input changes using valueChange method but I am not sure how to get the index for each service and apply the value to the total column. This code is currently what I have any help would be much appreciated

  addValues() {
    var services = this.invoiceForm.get('service');
    services.valueChanges.subscribe(
      val => {
        console.log(val)
      }
    );
  }

So far when I edit a field it prints the service form array but how can I get the individual service fields and add them together each time there is a change?

A: Here is how I did it I'm  not sure if this is the best way to do it but will update answer if I come up with a better solution

    calculateTotal() {
var services = this.invoiceForm.get('service');
services.valueChanges.subscribe(
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      var quantity = services.value[i].quantity;
      var vat = services.value[i].vat;
      services.value[i].total += (price * quantity) + ((vat / 100) * (price * quantity))
      console.log(services.value[i].total);
    }
  }
)
  }

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It's a cliché you hear a lot, but it doesn't reflect the full scale of the problems and challenges the world faces, says TaKaDu's CTO.
We've all heard or read that "water is the new oil," a phrase that is often deployed as a pundit's shorthand for some market prediction. Drinking water, we are told by analysts and environmentalists, is a rare, finite resource of which the world's supply is rapidly dwindling. It's just like oil.
We burn oil to make our cars go, or we make it into plastics, which will never change back into oil. Water, on the other hand, spends just a few hours in our bodies before we return it, unchanged on a molecular level, back to the environment. In most cases, agricultural or industrial uses for water (which account for a far greater proportion of its use than personal consumption) also return it to the environment largely unscathed. Water is inherently reusable; it is up to humans, as a species, to ensure we don't return it in such a polluted state that reusing the water becomes impractical.
Most of our planet's surface is covered in water. Deep sea drilling and exploration are not required for water. True, most of that is seawater, but current desalination technology can already convert that to drinkable water at a commercially reasonable price (several times less than what many consumers already pay for their drinking water).
There's no "renewable energy" analog in the water market. You can use water more efficiently, but you can't really phase it out in favor of some alternative. Our bodies, our food crops, and often our industrial uses, just can't go without water. On the plus side, water does not pollute the environment, and is returned to the environment in the same molecular form (although we frequently discharge it with a whole lot of pollutants added).
Like energy, water is consumed everywhere. But whereas energy sources, such as oil, can profitably be traded across the world, from oil-rich nations to oil-poor nations, water is just too bulky (or, equivalently, too cheap per volume) to be transported cost-effectively, and thus it can't be a truly global commodity. In some water-stressed areas, transboundary water trade is emerging and makes sense, but this is nothing like global trade on the intercontinental scale that is seen in oil markets. Water technology and methodology still can (and should) be global, but water markets will remain local.
Does this mean water scarcity is not a problem? Of course not. Indeed, in much of the developing world, access to safe drinking water is one of life's great difficulties; this problem will soon threaten most of the world's population. Even in many European and U.S. cities, water resources are stressed, and the rate of depletion of aquifers and other "buffer" sources indicates an expected shortage within a couple of decades. But to say that we are "running out of water" is a dangerous oversimplification, and the oil analogy makes it sound like we now need to go prospecting for new (and expensive) sources of water.
The real reasons much of the world is now or is in danger of becoming water-stressed are more subtle. Many water sources are difficult to access, tap, and transport water from. Water withdrawal is multiplied many times by wasteful consumption, inefficient transport and distribution (water loss in distribution systems, e.g. through leaky and burst pipes, is estimated at 25% worldwide to 50% or more in the developing world), poor reuse/recharging strategies, and indiscriminate pollution of water sources.
So, what can we do? We need to keep the total water withdrawal rate down. More often than not, the answers are simple, but require smart solutions to implement.
The U.S. consumes twice as much water per capita as Europe does, for a similar standard of living. Consumers in parts of the U.S. and some other countries are typically charged an unrealistically low price marginal price for their excess water use (often far below the total cost to procure more water sustainably), so there is no disincentive to help curb such waste. The issue of raising those prices is often a political minefield, and the local nature of the water market means that tenfold differences in water prices between countries are neither surprising, nor a transient condition, although the best-practice cost to supply that water may be identical. The AWE is fighting hard to promote efficient water use in the U.S., and other, more efficient countries could still do much better. If we used half as much water, it would be as good (or better!) as doubling our water resources.
By polluting less water, treating, and recycling it, the same water can be reused several times along the water cycle, either directly, or indirectly by being recharged into groundwater or river water, from where it is eventually pumped out and used. This is like multiplying the water available from precipitation. Reuse can often require little or no water treatment, e.g., when greywater is used for irrigation. The vast majority of water is used for agriculture and industry, applications that can often use lower-quality water. If we reused every liter of water even once, that would be like doubling our water resources.
OK, that's the obvious one. The important thing, perhaps, is to add the adjective "responsibly." Pumping water from lakes and aquifers faster than they are naturally replenished may at best be considered a loan from the environment. Sustained withdrawal from such sources can lower water levels, causing dangerous pollution, and of course can only be a time-limited solution until the stored water buffer is depleted. Freshwater sources must also supply sufficient water for existing ecosystems, after net human consumption.
Leaky pipes account for a significant proportion of the total water withdrawn globally. Just cutting down on that lost water (which is a big part of TaKaDu's offering) would save us -- among other things -- a substantial fraction of total water demand, which today is simply lost and returned to the environment. In much of the developing world, this could more than halve the demand placed on freshwater resources.
Earth's water cycle imposes a hard limit on the fresh water we can sustainably extract from the environment. As mentioned, the human population already appropriates a sizable fraction of that. With the actions listed above, we may improve that ratio five- or tenfold. But with the combination of population growth, and the need to close today's water gap in much of the developing world, not to mention the unequal geographical distribution of easily accessible freshwater sources, that hard limit will remain too close for comfort for anyone taking the longer view. The prospect of 100% efficient closed-loop water recycling is still a long way off, and may never be economically viable. Cheap desalination (as Israel has realized, for instance) is the only way to increase our total water sources, and seems like an eventual necessity.
It's not so much access to water sources or ownership of those sources that will prove crucial (and make big business, the way ownership of oil has), but the technology and methods we use to ensure adequate water supply. We can move away from oil and oil technology -- and we'll have to, quite soon -- but water is here to stay. For all the wrong reasons, water stress is felt or is beginning to be felt throughout the world. "New oil" or not, we should be giving it our very best effort.
Haggai Scolnicov is the CTO of TaKaDu, which provides a software-as-a-service system for monitoring water distribution networks.


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· Andrew Mizner 05/10/2018
A former in-house lawyer with Uber and Microsoft has joined US law firm Covington & Burling as a senior adviser in Johannesburg.
Covington & Burling has hired Robert Kayihura, formerly a legal director in Africa for Uber and Microsoft, as a senior adviser on regulatory and policy issues, based in Johannesburg.
With a background working with software systems, after qualifying as a lawyer, he worked for Lane Powell in the law firm's Seattle headquarters, before setting up his own business, running a data processing company which had its main operation Uganda.
Kayihura joined Microsoft in 2007, initially as a transactional lawyer in Washington state, before moving to the office of the general counsel and then relocating to Johannesburg as director of legal and corporate affairs for Microsoft in sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa in 2012.
He then spent two-and-a-half years with Uber, initially as regional senior counsel for sub-Saharan Africa, during which time he launched the company's legal and regulatory affairs team for the region, rising to become legal director for the Middle East, Africa and Pakistan.
During his time at Uber he oversaw legal and regulatory affairs for the taxi company's operations in South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria and Ghana.
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