The Economics Nobel: Should there be one?
The so-called "Nobel Prize" in economics (note that it is actually *not* a Nobel in the same way as the science, literature, and peace prizes) has awakened more than the usual amount of criticism this year.
This Guardian article captures some of the usual complaints, quite well. The writer suggests a broadening out of the prize, to include all of social science, thus getting away from the prize's tendency to reward technical/mathematical work that sustains the illusions that economics is a science like physics or chemistry. Ample evidence (which might even be called "scientific" evidence) demonstrates that it is not. Economics is a human construction, filled with human assumptions and values that have little relationship to the laws of nature.
But a leading Swedish social science researcher on the topic of corruption, Bo Rothstein, has taken the arguments against the prize one step further. In an article in the major Stockholm daily DN (Swedish only), Rothstein indicates that he planned to use his position in the Royal Academy of Sciences to initiate a formal inquiry as to whether the prize goes against the intent of Alfred Nobel's will.
Rothstein's point: research shows that people trained in what we call "economics" today are more likely to be corrupt, and the research has controlled for other factors: meaning it is the training, not other factors in the person's background, that causes this significant difference in likelihood to become corrupt.
Rothstein's conclusion is that an economic prize linked to "Nobel" may be promoting the conditions that create corruption in the world — which is quite against Nobel's clear intentions, since corruption clearly makes the world a worse place and not a better one.
It will be interesting to see where Rothstein's initiative, which is a serious thing given his prominence, ultimately leads.


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Exclusive: 'This Time It Is Personal', Teddy Daniels Is Running For Congress In PA
Republican Teddy Daniels is running for US Congress in Pennsylvania, in the 8th Congressional District, and he has a great chance of winning because he already won. Daniels ran in 2020 and was well ahead of his challenger until the famous nighttime dump of ballots trashed his lead. Undeterred, he is running again, with the support and encouragement of his wife.
"Trump won this district by 9 points and even the Democrats here know that the Democrat Party is not the Party of JKF, they know I understand them and their working class values. They can look at my hands and know I am a worker," Daniels told me.
Key Point: Daniels is a descendent of the American Revolution; to him, saving the Republic for his children is personal; he isn't giving up.
"Running is about my kids, I don't want them to have to fight against all the bad things we are seeing- and I have nothing to lose. If I don't win, I am going to have the same life before. But this is my fight, I a not leaving it for my kids. Guys like me signed up and served the country overseas and we came back here and see that transgender storytime and critical race theory, and all the ways the country has changed, and we aren't okay with it," Daniels told me.
"We need people who can serve the country and I have done that," Daniels said, talking about his motivation for seeking office and about his career in the military and being a "cop".
"I'm a pro-Trump conservative Republican, I'm a wounded combat veteran, a retired police officer, and I want other people to jump in and run for office and serve in some way. We need to win this one. We also need people to join the party and make the party work the right way,"
Daniels told me. "We can not have people in office or in the party who are just there to play games and we need to expose those people."
I asked him what was something about him that doesn't get much coverage:
"A lot of people don't realize that I was in law enforcement, I was a cop. The left tries to frame me as being anti-police, and that is a joke. They come after me and I am not changing a thing about myself," Daniels said about some recent political hits from the leftist media over his social media posts, adding he isn't scared of them.
"Republicans need to grow a backbone they need to grow a spine and they need to start standing up and fighting for the people they represent and we have not seen that as much as people are upset with the radical left agenda they are equally upset with the established republican party and there has been a void of leadership in that role," said Daniels.
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How the Firearms Industry Markets Guns to Asian Americans
Criminal Justice Data
As noted earlier, while data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers the most comprehensive tally of Asian/Pacific Islander lethal victimization, it offers very limited data on the type of firearms used in homicides and no information on the factors surrounding the homicide (e.g., victim to offender relationship, circumstances). The FBI's annual Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) does report such information, albeit on a smaller number of incidents.
In 2019, the Supplementary Homicide Report contained data for 250 Asian/Pacific Islander homicide victims. This section details data unique to the SHR data set for these deaths.
Types of Firearms Used in Homicides
In 2019, where the type of weapon used in the homicide could be determined, for Asian/Pacific Islander victims, 56 percent of all gun homicides involved a handgun. In comparison, handguns were used in 63 percent of Black homicides involving a gun and 64 percent of white homicides involving a gun. Overall, handguns were the most prevalent firearm used in homicides in 2019 (63 percent).
Relationship of Homicide Victims to Offenders
For homicides in which the victim to offender relationship could be identified, Asian/Pacific Islander victims were more likely to be killed by a stranger (30 percent). In comparison, 23 percent of Black victims were killed by a stranger and 24 percent of white victims were killed by a stranger. Overall, 24 percent of homicide victims were killed by a stranger.
Of victims who knew their offenders, 37 percent of Asian/Pacific Islander victims were intimate acquaintances of the offender. In comparison, 25 percent of white victims and 17 percent of Black victims were intimate acquaintances of the offender. For the overall population, 22 percent of homicide victims were intimate acquaintances of the offender.
Circumstances of Homicides
For all races, for homicides in which the circumstances could be determined, 71 percent were not related to the commission of another felony. For Asian/Pacific Islanders, 68 percent of the homicides were not related to the commission of another felony. Seventy-one percent of white homicides and 70 percent of Black homicides were not related to the commission of another felony.
For all races, of the homicides not related to the commission of another felony, 52 percent involved arguments between the victim and the offender. Fifty-four percent of Asian/Pacific Islanders killed in homicides not related to the commission of another felony were killed during arguments (compared to 56 percent of Black victims and 49 percent of white victims).
Age of Homicide Victims
For all victims, 29 percent of homicide victims were age 24 or younger. For Asian/Pacific Islander victims, 22 percent of homicide victims were age 24 and younger. In comparison, 34 percent of Black homicide victims were age 24 and younger and 24 percent of white victims were age 24 and younger.
Next – Guns are Rarely Used by Asian Americans in Justifiable Homicides


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Key new features include a refreshed, expandable human-machine/user interface (HMI/UI) and an aggregated in-car Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for both Android and Linux. To guarantee the highest level of usability, Twine for Car 2.0 also supports journey related 'car retail' services such as fuel and parking payments.
Built on the existing ACCESS Twine™ for Car solution launched in April 2018, the new solution provides the building blocks to enable automakers to protect their brands while evolving vehicles into fully personalized connected media hubs, and provide road users with an additional layer of ease and convenience.
"The automotive industry is innovating at a faster pace than ever before, with a focus on electric and autonomous cars. This provides the opportunity for automakers to deliver rich information, media and entertainment services and enhance their brand engagement with their customers. As always, ACCESS is at the forefront of these innovations. ACCESS Twine for Car 2.0 enables the creation of unique & branded entertainment offerings enabling deployment of connected infotainment services today," said Dr. Neale Foster, CEO at ACCESS Europe.
ACCESS Twine™ for Car is a flexible multimedia content service for automotive manufacturers that includes software components, video and audio content rights and consulting expertise. It has been developed to bridge the gap between the automotive and content industries and increase the safety, comfort and flexibility of content consumption for drivers and passengers in the unique in-car environment. It is designed to help automakers protect their brands while embracing new connected services and extending their reach to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) environments. Media can still be enjoyed through the car entertainment system, but consumers can now also connect to the car's Wi-Fi hotspot via their mobile device, enabling them to listen to and watch their preferred entertainment services.
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ACCESS Twine for Car 2.0 now also supports complementary services such as parking and fuel payment. Mirroring the user experience consumers have become accustomed to in the home, the platform provides a simple, centralized way for consumers to manage their personal calendars and purchase services directly via the service. Leveraging the increasingly varied connected features cars provide, ACCESS Twine for Car 2.0 also integrates location-based services: using the platform, consumers can search for nearby parking, shops and retailers, and even in-store promotions.
To offer consumers faster and easier access to entertainment options, the audio & video OTT streaming feature has been expanded with a car-friendly EPG that provides information about each of the programming options. Multi-zone playback has been extended to also support rear-seat entertainment on BYOD. As the variety of devices brought into the car increases, security options have been extended to support DRM for content and to work with advanced security platforms for safety in a BYOD in-vehicle environment.
ACCESS works with Tier 1s, studios, broadcasters, content rights owners, consultants, the legal profession, licensing and collecting societies, Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology and infrastructure providers to help make the next generation of compelling in-car services a reality. Content protection remains a high priority for studios and broadcasters, and ACCESS Twine for Car ensures automakers' services are compliant by supporting end-to-end protection of their assets.
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Race is an Illusion
Thomas Jackson, American Renaissance, April 2008
Bruce Baum, The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: The Political History of Racial Identity, New York University Press, 2006, 341 pp.
It would be difficult to think of a subject on which more foolishness has been written than race. Many of the books published on race today are so wrongheaded it is hard to believe normally functioning humans actually wrote, edited, proofread, printed, and tried to sell them. The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race is a good example.
The author, Bruce Baum, is an assistant professor of political science at the University of British Columbia. Like all academics these days, he claims there is no such thing as race, but he goes farther: He wants to show us where this false idea came from, and just how nefarious were the motives of the white men who invented it. His view — widely shared by social scientists in North America and laughed at by everyone else — is that people are not born with race but are "racialized" by society. The people we know as "Caucasians" "racialized" themselves as "white," and "racialized" Africans as "black," Asians as "Asians," etc., and in so doing justified their own oppression of other "races."
Even if only as an attempt to solve an intellectual riddle, it is worth trying to puzzle out what this means. The idea seems to be that what we call "race" is based on physical differences so trivial no healthy person would even notice them. Having fastened upon these meaningless, superficial differences, "white" people then rigged the world so that people they "racialized" as non-white ended up on the bottom.
Sometimes we get the impression that there need not even be physical differences between groups for some people to be "racialized" and oppressed. Prof. Baum quotes someone named Kenan Malik: "It is not 'race' that gives rise to inequality, but inequality that gives rise to race." Prof. Baum adds: "The nature of modern society has created inequalities between different groups and these have come to be perceived in racial terms." "Groups of people have been made into 'blacks' and 'whites,' " he explains, "and this was a social and political process."
Race, in other words, has no independent existence. Certain bad people somehow got the better of certain unoffending and almost indistinguishable other people and then declared, "We're Caucasians and you're not." They then went on, generation after generation, to use this who-is/who-isn't trick to grind down the ones who weren't.
As Prof. Baum tries to explain, "While there are no white and black races in the biological sense, there have been (and still are) white and black racialized groups, and these racialized group identities have had and continue to have enormous social, cultural, and material consequences." Somehow, the people whites have "racialized as dominant" stay dominant, and the people they have "racialized as inferior," stay inferior.
We will return later to just how silly all this is, but we must negotiate much silliness in order to grasp what people like Prof. Baum are saying. Race, he says, was literally invented by white people in the 16th and 17th centuries as a justification for mistreating other people, and he will tell us how.
Where Race Came From
Prof. Baum reluctantly concedes that people other than whites have occasionally noticed group differences and disliked strangers. He insists, however, that this was mere ethnic prejudice, which is not nearly so vicious as full-blown racism, which was invented by whites. Hutus and Tutsis may massacre each other, but this is only "ethnic prejudice."
According to Prof. Baum, whites probably invented race as a way to justify slavery. He quotes a fellow student of the subject who puts it bluntly: "Slavery produced racism." It was the Atlantic slave trade that drove whites to the delusion that they were white and Africans were black, and "this divide was arguably the pivot on which racial thought was further elaborated." Once whites got a taste for dominance, "all that remained for the full elaboration of the concept of race was for intellectuals and scientists working in the fields of 'natural history' and biology to use the term to classify supposedly distinct types of human beings in a systematic way." The stage was set for centuries of racism.
Much of this book is a history of racial classification, and especially of the origins of the term "Caucasian." Prof. Baum reports that the word "race" is first found in Italian and Spanish in the late 1300s, and meant "of common origin or descent." He adds that the Frenchman Francois Bernier (1625-88), an avid world traveler and popular travel writer, was the first to use the word in something like the modern sense to mean varieties of humans. His contemporary, the British philosopher and admirer of Bacon, William Petty (1623-87), was typical of the pioneering generation of early race scholars. He noted that Europeans and Africans differed remarkably in skin color, type of hair, and shape of nose, lips, cheeks, and skull. "They differ also in their Naturall Manners, & in the internall Qualities of their Minds," he added.
As science progressed, classifications became more refined. The celebrated Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus (1707-78) first published his Systems of Nature in 1735. As he updated it through 10 editions, Linnaeus tried out several sets of categories for human classification but eventually settled on four "varieties:" Americanus, Europaeus, Asiaticus, and Afer. He categorized people, just as he did plants and animals, and his descriptions of appearance and behavior include the details any careful observer of the period would have thought significant.
Where did the term "Caucasian" come from? It is usually associated with the German naturalist Johann Blumenbach, but Prof. Baum reports that it was another German, Christoph Meiners (1747-1810), who first used the expression in 1785, when he divided man into two great branches, Caucasian and Mongolian. It is not entirely clear why Meiners called white people Caucasian, but it was widely believed in Europe that after the Flood, the Ark came to rest not far from the Caucasus, and that this was where Europeans originated. Like many people who later promoted the term "Caucasian," Meiners also thought the Georgian people who lived in the area were especially beautiful.
It was the far better known Blumenbach (1752-1840), however, who popularized the term "Caucasian," when he used it in the 1795 edition of On the Natural Variety of Mankind. Like Meiners, he considered Georgians and Ossetians especially handsome. He studied skull shapes as a part of racial classification, and thought the skull of a Georgian female was the most beautiful in his collection. Blumenbach was unusual for his time in expressly rejecting the idea that races differed in mental abilities.
The French naturalist Georges Cuvier (1767-1832) adopted and promoted the term "Caucasian" — along with the idea that Georgians were beautiful — as did the American Samuel George Morton (1799-1851). Like Blumenbach, Morton studied skulls, and found racial differences in cranial capacity that corresponded to differences in intelligence. Within a generation, therefore, the term "Caucasian" became widespread, and men like John Stewart Mill and Charles Darwin used it.
Whether or not they adopted the term "Caucasian," Immanuel Kant, George Buffon, John Locke, and David Hume all wrote intelligently about human biological differences, which they referred to as race. Kant, for example, concluded that racial characteristics were irreducibly biological, given that these characteristics persist from generation to generation, and that racial mixes produce what are clearly half-breeds. Like most men of his time, Kant did not think highly of Africans, concluding that they "have by nature no feeling that rises above the trifling."
As for calling whites "Caucasians," it was not long before scientists began to point out the geographical eccentricity of applying this term to Europeans, and to suggest that Georgians weren't all that good-looking anyway. For a time, according to Prof. Baum, the idea of a Caucasian race fell into relative eclipse, as Europeans turned upon themselves the urge to classify. (Prof. Baum takes the absurd position that this was in order to "racialize" European class differences.) The invention of the cephalic index, calculated by dividing the breadth of the skull by its width and multiplying by 100, was one of the bases for dividing whites into Nordics, Alpines, and Mediterraneans. The American race scholar Madison Grant was greatly taken with this typology, which nevertheless fell out of favor by the 1930s or 1940s.
Prof. Baum writes derisively about the work of these pioneering scholars, emphasizing their disagreements and occasional contradictions. Despite his sneering, however, it is clear that they were simply trying to understand their world. As Europeans explored more obscure corners of the earth they discovered unfamiliar peoples, and were naturally curious about their origins and how they might be related to each other. It was also natural that they should consider themselves superior to these primitives.
Some of their assumptions and disputes — Voltaire thought blacks and whites were a different species; there was disagreement over whether whites had developed from non-white ancestors or whether non-whites had degenerated from early white ancestors — may seem odd today, but were entirely understandable at a time before paleo-anthropology or genetics.
More to the point, Prof. Baum provides no evidence that any of the men he discusses were trying to justify slavery or any kind of mistreatment of non-whites by classifying varieties of man. His assertion that they had impure or non-scientific motives appears to reflect his refusal to recognize the value of human taxonomy and his deep suspicion of anyone who would study race.
There are, of course, heroes in this book: people such as Franz Boas, Ashley Montague, and Stephen Gould, who downplayed race and were among the first to promote the idea that race is a myth. Naturally, Montague gets a lot of attention, along with his 1942 claim that "the idea of 'race' represents one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of errors of our times, and the most tragic." Even Montague, however, does not quite measure up because he showed some grip on reality by writing, "Truth will not be advanced by denying the existence of large groups of mankind characterized more or less, by distinctive inherited traits." Prof. Baum thinks this gives the idea of race too much credit.
What, in Prof. Baum's view, brought the race scientists around at last to the view that race is unimportant? Here he admits that pure science had very little to do with it, noting that from the 1930s onwards, people injected egalitarian ideas from other fields into the study of race. In other words, the currently fashionable view that race is irrelevant is the result of deliberate attempts to subvert science through ideology. After claiming, and failing to prove, that the early scholars had non-scientific motives, Prof. Baum confesses that his heroes deliberately bent their research to political ends.
Prof. Baum therefore takes the view that race has never been studied objectively. He simply happens to like the race-is-a myth fad because it fits his ideology, and even admits he thinks ideology is what leads to truth: "Democratizing" movements such as feminism, decolonization, and anti-racism "have often revealed limitations of existing theories about the world and generated advances in human knowledge." He cites no examples of such advances.
For a book that claims there is no such thing as biological race, The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race devotes almost no space to this subject. Prof. Baum's only "scientific" argument is the old chestnut that there is more genetic variety within populations than between them. He then goes on to draw the incorrect conclusion that this means a black could be more genetically similar to a white than to other blacks (see "Race Denial: The Power of a Delusion," AR, June 2003; "The Genetics of Race," AR, July 2006). He even argues that although race can sometimes be a useful medical category — it is now well established that there are distinct population differences in how certain drugs work and certain diseases develop — this is only because race "provides information about the social circumstances and lifestyles of patients." He insists that as groups become more equal, race will become medically meaningless. We are left wondering why the heart-failure drug BiDil, which does not work on whites, nevertheless works on blacks who have high incomes, are married, and speak standard English just as well as it works on ghetto miscreants.
Prof. Baum is relieved that Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, the Stanford geneticist who has done pioneering work in charting the genetic distances between populations, rejects the use of the word "race." He fails to point out, however, that Cavalli-Sforza's "populations" and the genetic distances between them correspond almost perfectly with the findings of physical anthropologists who freely used the R-word (see review of Cavalli-Sforza's Genes, Peoples, and Languages, AR, August 2000).
Prof. Baum also makes much of the fact that students of race have seldom agreed on how many races there are, and draws from this disagreement the non sequitur conclusion that race must not exist. In any discipline, there are lumpers and splitters, that is to say, people who like large, inclusive categories, and people who like fine distinctions. What is the best way to classify motor vehicles? Some people would be satisfied with a division between cars and trucks. But then where would you put school buses? Other people would insist that convertibles, two-seaters, and SUVs were distinct classes, while others might say they were all cars. There would be disagreement on how to classify motorcycles and whether even to include gas-powered golf carts. Prof. Baum would say that these disagreements mean there are no meaningful categories of motor vehicles and that all motor vehicles are really the same.
Prof. Baum gets into tangles like this because he will not face the obvious. He would insist that all races or human groups are equal; but if that is so, how did whites manage to enslave blacks and not the other way around? And how did whites manage to paralyze entire races for centuries simply by "racializing" them as inferior? The moment whites said they were black, Africans apparently collapsed into helplessness from which they have yet to recover. The truth, of course, is that Africans and Australian Aborigines were primitive long before any white man came along to "racialize" them, and would have stayed primitive with or without white men.
Even more fundamentally, if there is no such thing as biological race, how do white people tell themselves apart from the people they are trying to "racialize" and dominate? Might it be that people are born with physical traits so striking and unmistakable it is natural to group them by these traits?
Prof. Baum would probably admit that he can distinguish unerringly between Pygmies and Danes. He would perhaps admit that if Danes keep marrying Danes and Pygmies keep marrying Pygmies, they will look just as different 1,000 years from now as they do today. Prof. Baum is adamant that these striking differences do not amount to something we should call race. What, then, should we call them? Is it evil even to notice them? And why is it wrong to wonder whether the hundreds of thousands of years of separate evolution that produced those differences did not also produce mental differences?
Ultimately, the race deniers fear the truth might knock the props out from under their illusions. Ideology comes first, and then the facts, and we can tell from how he writes how slavishly Prof. Baum hews to ideology.
According to Prof. Baum, Columbus did not discover America; he "discovered" it. It is not European natives but European "natives" who resist non-white immigration. Prof. Baum even feels compelled to assert his ideological superiority over authors he cites with approval. He quotes a 1937 passage from one of his heroes, Frankfurt School founder Max Horkheimer, about "the world which is given to the individual and which he [sic] must accept . . ." Prof. Baum would have written "he or she," and wants to be sure we know it. He quotes another passage about the "major ethnic groups of man [sic]." Correct ideology comes even before common sense, much less inconvenient facts.
"Planetary Humanism"
What are Prof. Baum's policy recommendations? In his circle, there is a brisk debate over whether the word and concept of race should be completely junked because any talk of it, even of the most earnestly anti-racist kind, might "reify" a false concept. As Prof. Baum frets, "There are risks involved in using racial categories in efforts to overcome racism — most important, this practice may perpetuate racialist thinking despite the most vigilant efforts to critique 'race.' "
Prof. Baum finally concludes, however, that the risks must be run. Colorblindness will only perpetuate inequality and let "racists" off the hook. Anti-racists must therefore face the demon head-on: "People who have been racialized as Caucasians must acknowledge our historically racialized identities as Caucasian — along with the social and material advantages it entails — even as we work with others to end the myth of a 'Caucasian race.' "
But how would we know we had destroyed the myth? Prof. Baum doesn't say. He does urge upon us the goal of "planetary humanism," but when he finally descends from abstractions to practical advice, he says only that whites should support racial preferences for non-whites. Or should they? Racial preferences are based on race, which we know is an illusion. He says classifying by race is as irrational as classifying people as witches, but how do we know whether the university has admitted enough blacks and American Indians if we don't classify by race? It is hard to know how to fight racism when there is no such thing as race.
The best stance may simply be to adopt Prof. Baum's basic contempt for whites. He writes that the race that called itself "Caucasian" is "bound up with various crimes against humanity during the past two centuries, even if it has not yet been called into account for its role in these crimes," so anything that hurts or insults whites can presumably be seen as calling them to account. Prof. Baum also believes that aside from the invention of racism, there is probably nothing of cultural value that could be characterized as white. Whites could conceivably disappear and little of value would be lost.
Some day, academics will look back on books like this and see them for the insulting nonsense they are. In the meantime, they are the sort of thing university presses publish and employees of the state teach to our children.
Topics: Book Review, Classics, Liberal Myths, Science and Genetics
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Tata Steel continues its momentum to fight COVID-19
Jamshedpur, May 09, 2020
Tata Steel continues its momentum to fight COVID-19 through its medical efforts and community led initiatives.
TMH Jamshedpur, the first and the only private hospital in the state of Jharkhand to be certified by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for RT-PCR diagnostic test for COVID-19, has conducted over 500 COVID-19 tests so far, and all of it has been negative. The testing lab is conducting 70 tests per day. The hospital is also treating around 1300 patients via the telephonic OPD services and 300 emergency cases under the observation of specialist doctors.
Tata Steel through Tata Steel Foundation (TSF) launched a 10 point #CombatCovid19 programme for the communities in and around its operational areas. This includes meals and ration distribution to vulnerable communities, digital volunteering programmes for children and elders, digital counselling sessions for the depressed, building a listening post for the migrant labourers, digital empowerment of Sahiyyas and Anganwadi workers, working together with district administrations and NGOs for better coordination on CSR work and more.
TSF has reached out to 4 lakh individuals in Jharkhand and Odisha through various initiatives under the #CombatCovid19 programme. 20 lakh meals have been served to the needy in 128 locations during the whole lockdown period. The foundation has distributed 33,000 ration packages so far. 110 farmers have benefitted from the 'From the Farm' programme, which has provided market linkages to their farm produce through online platforms like Zomato and Swiggy. 9500 Kgs of vegetables have been sold through the online platforms, generating an income of Rs 3.75 lakh so far.
The 'Cash for Work' programme has resulted in creating income opportunities for 14000 people through vocations like wall art, paintings and local crafts. So far, 1100 people have successfully grown their own kitchen gardens in their homes. The foundation initiated this facility three years ago and have benefitted 3000 families so far. 45 families are up-cycling newspapers to make bags and so far produced 3000 bags to generate income for themselves. A total of 1.1 lakh masks have been made and this served as an effective way for families to generate income at home.
As part of 'Digital Bridges 2.0' programme, TSF has reached out to 5100 stranded migrant workers through several helpline services like helping them with registration, linking them with doctors or counselling services, and more.
10,000 people across 21 states have been reached out to through the 'FarRishta' programme, wherein 600 Tata Steel employees volunteered their services. There is also an effort to help the migrant workers stuck in Mumbai, providing them with meals via local NGOs and assisting them in the registration process.
About Tata Steel
Tata Steel group is among the top global steel companies with an annual crude steel capacity of 33 million tonnes per annum (MnTPA). It is one of the world's most geographically-diversified steel producers, with operations and commercial presence across the world. The group (excluding SEA operations) recorded a consolidated turnover of US $22.67 billion in the financial year ending March 31, 2019. In 2018, Tata Steel acquired Bhushan Steel Ltd (now renamed as Tata Steel BSL Ltd).
A Great Place to Work-Certified organisation, Tata Steel Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures, is spread across five continents with an employee base of over 65,000.
Tata Steel retained the 'Global Steel Industry Leader' position in the DJSI 2018. The Company has been recognised as the Climate Disclosure Leader in 'Steel category' by CDP (2017). Besides being a member of the World Steel Climate Action Programme, Tata Steel has won several awards including the Lighthouse recognition for its Kalinganagar Plant – a first in India, Prime Minister's Trophy for the best performing integrated steel plant for 2016-17, 'GreenPro' certification for products (Tata Pravesh Steel Doors, Tata Structura, Tata Pipes) by CII, Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) status (Tier 2) by the Directorate of International Customs (Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India), 'Corporate Strategy Award' by Mint (2018), Golden Peacock Award for Risk Management (2018) and Best Risk Management Framework & Systems Award (2019) by CNBC TV18. The Company also received the 'Most Ethical Company' award from Ethisphere Institute for the eight time (2019), Steel Sustainability Champion (2018) by the World Steel Association, Dun & Bradstreet Corporate Awards (2019), Golden Peacock HR Excellence Award by Institute of Directors (2018), 'Best Companies To Work For' recognition by Business Today, 'Asia's Best Integrated Report' award by the Asia Sustainability Reporting Awards (2017), among several others.
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The planet is the only limit
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Is the current economic growth 'purposeful"? And how do we define 'purposefulness'?
While this may seem a profound philosophical query, there is no questioning that growth that undermines planetary survival cannot be purposeful.
The Asia-Pacific region has grown at a tremendous rate in the last two decades, contributing to 60 per cent of global growth. But this has come at a high cost of rising inequality and deteriorating environment. The larger question facing the region home to 4 out of 7 people in the world, 5 out of 10 countries most vulnerable to climate change and 97 out of 100 most air polluted cities is: Are there trade-offs between economic growth and environmental health?
From October 17 to18, 2019, representatives from academia, the private sector, governments and central banks gathered at the ESCAP conference titled "Living within our Planetary Limits" to discuss how economic development can coexist with planetary restraints, provided ample evidence that all stakeholders now realize that business-as-usual is no longer good for society or for profits.
Traditional economic theory postulates that producers maximize profits and consumers maximize utilities, subject to budgetary constraints. However, both now face a larger constraint from nature. A paradigm that emphasizes maximizing short-term economic growth has failed us. It has become clear that we cannot go on living the way we do and need to find the will to bring about the changes needed towards profitability that respects planetary limits. As the UN Environment-led platform One Planet Network steering Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12: Sustainable Consumption and Production made it clear at the conference, "It is no longer about the environment; waste and pollution are threatening the economy." Additionally, Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University told the conference, "Profit should not come from dirty polluting industries...but from business within planetary boundaries."
To begin with, we have to recognize the need for an equitable distribution of planetary responsibilities. It was pointed out that growth rates in emerging and other developing economies must be "balanced by absolute reductions in resource use in developed countries."
This is no longer only a moral imperative. Ecological footprint data show that if everyone on the planet consumes as much resources as the average North American or European, we would need 3-5 planetary Earths to meet this demand.
Participants agreed on the following principles to make economic activity purposeful:
Moving away from short-termism to a long-term vision: Too much focus on short term financial or economic goals is undermining long-term development prospects. In this vein, participants agreed on the need to also include non-financial variables such as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria in business and investment decision-making.
Changing consumer or business behaviour through effective governance: Governments will play a crucial role in designing and implementing right policies and incentives/disincentives for businesses and consumers. Given that environmental externalities are not taken into account by consumers and businesses, there is a need to internalize these, including through carbon pricing and better education and campaign on initiatives such as dietary changes and bans on single-use plastics. Societal changes towards consumption based on needs rather than wants can be a guiding principle for living within planetary limits.
Forging greater unity: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires all of us to act together. As Professor Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago put it, "a new economics for a sustainable future will require all of us - business, consumers and governments—to act." Hence, dialogue and cooperation on multiple fronts are key.
A 'purposeful' world where all stakeholders recognize the finiteness of planetary limits is achievable if there is a convergence of top-down and bottom-up approaches towards this goal. Stay tuned for the launch of the 2020 edition of the ESCAP flagship Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific which will explore and indicate the way forward if we are to align our economic ambitions with Earthly realities!
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Uma estrutura MOS (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) é um dispositivo eletrónico formado por um substrato de silício dopado, sobre o qual se faz crescer uma capa de óxido (SiO2). Os elementos se contactam com dois terminais metálicos chamados substrato e comporta. A estrutura compara-se com um condensador de placas paralelas, onde se substitui uma das placas pelo silício semicondutor do substrato, e a outra por um metal, ainda que na prática se usa polisilício, isto é, um policristal de silício.

Funcionamento
A estrutura NMOS está formada por um substrato de silício dopado com lacunas. Ao aplicar um potencial de comporta positivo, os eletrões presentes no substrato (portadores minoritários) são atraídos para a capa de óxido de comporta. Ao mesmo tempo, as lacunas são repelidos da capa de óxido de comporta como o potencial positivo afasta-os. Isto ocasiona uma acumulação de elétrons na zona do óxido, onde o silício apresenta um excesso de elétrons e portanto é de tipo n. A inversão do dopado no silício (que antes era de tipo p) é o que lhe dá origem ao nome desta região. Também se produz uma região de esgotamento de portadores nas zonas do óxido, como as lacunas do substrato se recombinam com os elétrons atraídos.

De maneira análoga, uma estrutura PMOS está formada por um substrato de silício dopado com elétrons. Ao aplicar um potencial de comporta negativo, as lacunas presentes no substrato (portadores minoritários) são atraídos para a capa de óxido de comporta. Os elétrons são repelidos do óxido de comporta como o potencial negativo afasta-os. As lacunas acumulam-se na zona do óxido, em onde o silício acumula um excesso de lacunas e portanto se comporta como um material de tipo p. A recombinação de lacunas e elétrons produz uma região de esgotamento.

A tensão positiva aplicada na comporta de uma estrutura PMOS distribui-se através das capas de materiais de acordo com a seguinte equação
 Em onde
  é a tensão da comporta,
  é a diferença das funções de trabalho entre o metal e o semicondutor: ,
  é a queda de tensão no óxido,
  é a queda de tensão no semicondutor

Em ambos os tipos de estruturas se acumulam ónus elétricos no óxido e no semicondutor, de modo que o dispositivo se comporta como um condensador elétrico. Distinguem-se três regiões de funcionamento, dependendo do nível de tensão que se aplica no terminal da comporta.

Acumulação
Na etapa de acumulação as cargas alojam-se no óxido pelo mesmo princípio de operação de um condensador, em onde o dielétrico se polariza de forma proporcional ao campo elétrico aplicado.

Realmente o que ocorre é o seguinte:

Caso pMOS:

Aplicamos um potencial negativo na comporta. Isto induz elétrons, atraindo lacunas à interface e criando um campo elétrico. Daí o nome de acumulação.

Caso nMOS:

Aplicamos um potencial positivo na comporta. Isto induz lacunas, atraindo elétrons à interface e criando um campo elétrico.

Recordemos que o campo elétrico vai sempre de carga positiva a carga negativa

Esgotamento
Ao incrementar o potencial de comporta, os elétrons e as lacunas começam-se a recombinar no semicondutor para formar a região de esgotamento.

Caso pMOS:

Aplicamos potencial positivo à porta, com o que se acumula carga positiva no metal. O Semicondutor é tipo N, com o que se atraem elétrons à interface e se afastam as lacunas que tinha antes na interface. Produz-se um campo elétrico no sentido contrário ao caso de Acumulação, neste caso desde o metal ao semicondutor. Como consequência, há uma recombinação de elétrons e lacunas que produz o esgotamento do canal.

Caso nMOS:

Aplicamos potencial negativo à porta. Como consequência se atraem lacunas à interface e se cria um campo elétrico. Do Semicondutor ao metal. elétrons e lacunas se recombinam

Inversão
Se se continuar aumentando a tensão da comporta, consegue-se a inversão do tipo de dopado do semicondutor.

Caso pMOS:

Neste caso induzimos uma tensão muito positiva, o que induz muitas lacunas no metal. Como o semicondutor é tipo N, o que se consegue é um campo elétrico grande que vai do metal ao semicondutor, e por tanto uma Intensidade grande, devido aos elétrons que se juntam à interface atraído pelo excesso de lacunas do metal

Caso nMOS:

Aplicamos uma tensão muito negativa que faz que o metal se encha de eletrões. Como consequência, as lacunas do semicondutor, se vêem atraídos para a interface se criando um campo elétrico do semicondutor ao metal.

Capacidade MOS
Num condensador de capacidade C, aparece uma carga Q, dada pela expressão: Q=C·V, onde V é a tensão entre armaduras. No condensador MOS, a tensão entre a porta e o substrato faz que adquira a carrega Q, que aparece em ambos lados do óxido. Mas no caso do semicondutor isto significa que a concentração de portadores baixo a porta varia em função da tensão aplicada a esta.

Imaginemos que temos o substrato de silício tipo p, isto é, contendo um excesso de lacunas. Ligamo-lo a 0 V, e temos a porta também conectada a 0 V. Nestas condições, não existe uma variação na concentração de lacunas. Quando vamos aumentando a tensão de porta, o condensador se vai carregando, com carga positiva na parte da porta e negativa no substrato que, em nosso caso de semicondutor p, significa que o número de lacunas vai diminuindo até atingir a carga correspondente à tensão de porta. Este modo de funcionamento chama-se deplexão, vaziamento ou empobrecimento. Podemos continuar aumentando a tensão da porta até que já não fiquem lacunas na banda de condução e o substrato baixo a porta volta-se isolante.

Mas, se continuamos aumentando ainda mais a tensão, o condensador MOS precisa mais carga, que as lacunas já não podem lhe proporcionar, pelo que aparecem elétrons na banda de condução, apesar de ser o substrato tipo p. Este fenómeno chama-se inversão e permite formar canais tipo n dentro de semicondutores p. Quanto mais aumentamos a tensão, maior carga introduzimos e mais avança a capa de investimento dentro do substrato, com o que a zona baixo a porta se vai fazendo a cada vez mais condutora.

Voltemos a pôr a porta a 0 V e vamos polarizando-a com valores negativos. Agora a carga no substrato é positiva e o número de lacunas aumenta, com o que a condutividade, também. Este modo de funcionamento chama-se de acumulação ou enriquecimento, pois aumenta-se o número de portadores.

Cargas no óxido
A descrição anterior é teórica e não se ajusta ao caso real, como durante o processo de fabricação diversas cargas ficam presas no óxido que forma a estrutura MOS. Esta carga é independente da tensão que se aplique à porta, mas influi sobre o comportamento da estrutura, já que se deve polarizar a porta para compensar esta carga antes de que o condensador MOS se comporte como se descreveu no parágrafo anterior.

Estas cargas têm sido um quebra cabeças para os desenhadores de circuitos integrados MOS, pois variam incontroladamente as suas condições de funcionamento. Em circuitos digitais, suaviza-se o problema usando tensões de alimentação elevadas, que se foram reduzindo ao poder controlar melhor a quantidade de cargas presas.

Modificando esta carga varia-se a tensão à que se produz a inversão, de forma que se tem estruturas que a zero volts têm resistência elevada, enquanto outras a têm reduzida.

Variações
Ainda que o dióxido de silício é um bom dielétrico e obtém-se oxidando o substrato, existem outras estruturas similares com outros isolamentos, constituindo a estrutura MINHAS (Metal-Insulator-Semicondutor). Também pode ter várias capas de dielétricos diferentes, como no caso das celas MIOS.

Aplicativos
A estrutura MOS é de grande importância dentro dos dispositivos de estado sólido pois forma os transistores MOSFET, base da eletrónica digital atual. Mas, ademais, é o pilar fundamental dos dispositivos de carga acoplado, CCD, tão comuns em fotografia. Assim mesmo, funcionando como condensador é responsável por alojar cargas correspondente aos bits das memórias dinâmicas.

Também se utilizam como condensadores de precisão em eletrónica analógica e microondas.

Ver também
 Transistor MOSFET
 Estrutura MIOS

Dispositivos semicondutores
Eletrônica

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Static Roots: The story of a festival
Date: January 8, 2020Author: Bucketfull Of Brains 0 Comments
This is a story about a music festival in Germany that was launched for all the right reasons, succeeded without compromising its original spirit, and now looks forward with justifiable optimism to its fifth iteration this coming July. The Static Roots Festival is a two-day event held in the town of Oberhausen in the Ruhr valley; it has succeeded in attracting music fans from across Europe, who recognise its kinship to more established events such as Kilkenny Roots, Orange Blossom Special, and Take Root, without lessening its appeal to the residents in that most populous of regions.
That Static Roots exists and happens is down to Dietmar Leibecke, a music fan living in the nearby town of Mulheim. I first met Dietmar in the spring of 2015 while spending a long weekend in Hamburg. The trip coincided with a couple of shows by Danny & The Champions Of The World, and we were both at their gig at Musicstar in Norderstedt. Danny Champ had told me the band were doing some house concerts, and it transpired Dietmar had become the hub for a network of venues across Germany. Equally interesting to me was learning this had a lot to do with Steve Wynn, as Dietmar would explain:
"Almost everything I do in music goes back to Steve and The Dream Syndicate. I still remember the day in early 1983 when I held The Days Of Wine And Roses in my hand, put it on the record player, and was instantly blown away by that first song 'Tell Me When It's Over'; the guitars, the dry sound of the drums, the voice, just everything… I knew, this was my kind of music, it was made for me. It opened up a completely new world, diving into the garage/neo-psychedelia/Paisley Underground scene with bands like Green On Red, The Fleshtones, The Rain Parade, The Long Ryders, True West … well, from my point of view this was the perfect foundation for my enthusiasm for everything alt.country/americana."
In 2006 Dietmar turned forty; he wasn't accustomed to marking birthdays but thought this was significant enough to warrant a special celebration, and how better than to get the performer who'd had the biggest impact on the development of his musical taste to play at the party:
"I started hassling Steve to play on my birthday and in early 2006 he finally confirmed the gig. It was the first time I'd ever put on a show; he and the Miracle 3 played a blinder so I was completely enthusiastic and felt it shouldn't be the last. That same night Steve asked me if I'd ever heard about the concept of house concerts. He thought I'd be the right kind of guy to give it a go, and he was certainly the right guy to sow the seed."
A year later Dietmar was listening to the young Canadian folk-rocker Leeroy Stagger's Depression River album. Being particularly struck by the song 'Carol' he then and there decided 'if we're ever going to do a house concert, it's gotta be this guy!'. Contacting Leeroy through Myspace he turned out to be touring in the United Kingdom that November, so Dietmar suggested, having come all the way from Canada it'd only be a short hop to Germany to play a house show. Stagger said if he could get four shows in Germany he'd come, and that's how it began:
"The show at our place was a revelation! Leeroy lit the fire and it's still burning strong. Whenever there is an artist I want to have playing in our house, I offer to book a few shows just to make it happen. Aside from Danny & The Champions of the World I've booked shows for Malojian, Bennett Wilson Poole, and many more."
2016 marked the tenth anniversary of the house concerts. It was also his twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, and his daughter's twentieth birthday. He and Marion decided to celebrate these various anniversaries by setting up a festival, seeing if they could actually manage such an event. They were particularly inspired by trips to the Kilkenny Roots Festival where the quality of line-up, appreciative audience, and friendly atmosphere had made them feel part of a family from the moment they arrived.
Failing to secure a suitable venue in Mulheim they settled on the Zentrum Altenberg in nearby Oberhausen, which turned out to be an inspired move. This is the heart of the Ruhr valley (Ruhrgebiet), historically a populous, industrial area, and a centre for coal mining and steel manufacturing. Zentrum Altenberg is an old zinc factory dating back to 1904. It was taken over by a collective, functioning as a social and cultural centre, in 1982 and it's grown from there. A beautiful old red-brick building with great sound and light, an outdoor patio and beer garden, run by passionate and professional people.
That first festival was to feature seven performers, and though one of them was a no-show on the day, it was a great success, so much so it was voted one of the three best americana festivals of 2016, alongside Nashville's AmericanaFest, and Kilkenny Roots, by readers of Lonesome Highway. The line-up showed a pleasing eclecticism and demonstrated Dietmar's willingness to trust to his own taste. The presence of three Irish acts – Anna Mitchell, John Blek, and The Midnight Union Band – spoke to the influence of Kilkenny. The Scottish alt.country ensemble Wynntown Marshals were well-liked and equally well-established on the German circuit, while Leeroy Stagger bought continuity with the house concerts. Finally the Austrian blues singer Meena Cryle was testament to a determination to embrace americana performers from mainland Europe.
This template was adhered to over the following two years. 2017 bought David Corley whose debut album Available Light released at the age of fifty-three had so impressed the European americana community. There were a pair of much-respected English singer-songwriters in Peter Bruntnell and David Ford, along with Nadine Khouri the Lebanese-British purveyor of atmospheric, folk-tinged, dream pop. Nashville was represented by Erin Rae, and Canada by the gritty Jack Marks. From northern Germany came Torpus & The Art Directors. John Blek returned, and the event was completed by house concert veterans Danny & The Champions Of The World.
Danny Wilson would be back the following year with his new trio of cosmic janglers Bennett, Wilson, Poole, and there was an encore appearance from The Midnight Union Band; the latter performing in honour of the late Willie Meighan of Kilkenny who'd provided invaluable support and advice in the birthing of Static Roots. From Muscle Shoals came Hannah Aldridge with her impressive southern rock by way of southern gothic; The Cordovas – who Dietmar had stumbled upon at Take Root and signed up on the spot – played their Dead-drenched roots infusions, and Justin Osborne from Susto played an much-acclaimed solo set. Charlie Whitten and Anthony da Costa from Tennessee, The Stephen Stanley Band and Terra Lightfoot from Canada, and Hadley McCall Thackston completed the bill, along with the Austrian Prinz Grizzley.
By the end of the third festival it was clear Static Roots was an established success story; the weekend had been added to many people's calendars and word of mouth had done its job. For 2019 it was possible, one more time, to increase the line-up and Dietmar scheduled thirteen, very strong and very varied, acts ensuring both a good spread of performers and a decent pace allowing time to hang out in the warm, friendly atmosphere of the courtyard.
In the days running up to the festival the weather forecast had looked decidedly dodgy. Friday dawned a little overcast but by mid-morning, aside from the briefest of rain showers, nothing had developed. Within a couple of hours the clouds had burned off and a trip to the Landschaftspark – an old steel and coal production plant, near Duisburg, now preserving the past but turned over to leisure activities – was enjoyed in bright sunshine. As the afternoon wound down people gathered expectantly outside the venue, and right on time the Canadian MC Jeff Robson opened proceedings, setting the house rules – essentially to respect the artists, and respect the audience.
The night opened with the Irish troubadour John Blek playing the Willie Meighan spot. Blek, who's recorded with luminaries Joan Shelley and Nathan Salsburg, combines austerity with rich imagery, predominantly from nature, and creates other-worldly atmospheres transporting the listener from the immediate surroundings. A solemn grandeur was immanent in 'The Blackwater', and 'Colours Rising', while the deeply moving 'Forever In Your Likeness' drew tears from more than a few present.
The Brother Brothers from Brooklyn then combined instrumental prowess on guitar, fiddle and cello with harmonies reminiscent of Simon And Garfunkel, prior to John Murry taking the stage. Like a puppet swaying in the wind he wrestled his guitar as though his equilibrium depended on it; reworking tunes from The Graceless Age as 'California' turned into 'Cold Turkey', while 'Southern Sky' recalled Suicide with bottleneck lifting from 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door'.
The Wave Pictures proved reliably versatile before The Cordovas climaxed the evening in fine style. Featuring the twin guitars of Toby Weaver and Lucca Soria along with charismatic frontman Joe Firstman they're well in the tradition of The Allmans and the Dead, not only playing their own 'Frozen Rose', 'Step-Back Red' and 'Louisiana Hurricane' but raiding the canon for 'Truckin', 'Barstool Blues', and 'Whipping Post'.
They set the scene for the Saturday; when, of the eight acts billed, six are bands and each in their different fashion provide excitements aplenty. That said it's Ags Connolly who opened the second day, accompanied by Joe Harvey-White on pedal-steel. Connolly proved himself a masterful, traditional country voice continually confounding expectation by doing something new and intriguing while appearing to do nothing new at all. He seamlessly mixed up back-catalogue favourites like ' I Saw James Hand' and 'A Good Memory For Pain' with the freshly-minted 'I'll Say When' and 'The Meaning Of The Word'.
Connolly, and Canadian Joe Nolan, were the only solo acts of the day. Nolan – for many the find of the festival – is open-hearted and Beat-tinged, enrapturing with an enviable directness. Playing solo acoustic he captivated the audience, winningly offering a new song, 'What I Used To Be' written overnight, and inspired by a line sung by John Murry the evening before. The compact was then sealed with the near-spoken word 'Ode To Sturgeon County' and the singalong to 'Maybe Tomorrow'
London's Orphan Colours bought both triple harmonies, and chiming guitar from Fred Abbott, rousing the mid-afternoon crowd with tunes like 'Start Of Something' and the thumping 'High Hopes' from the recent All On Red album. Main frontman Seebs stepped back to let Dave Burn sing his paean to English pub culture 'Wasted', and there was time to revisit a more power-poppy Ahab tune, before they hit the anthemic 'Goodbye California'. Luke Tuchsherer then took it back to the rock with a tight four-piece featuring guitar-interplay with the impressive David Banks, revisiting old Whybirds tunes and Springsteen's 'No Surrender'.
Don Gallardo's pick-up band of irregulars – perennial side-kick Travis Stock joined by drummer Steve Brookes, Jim Maving, and Joe Harvey-White – shone with a nigh-on perfect set of compelling country rock; guitarist Maving, given his head, relentlessly seized the opportunity. It was a mix of old favourites; 'North Dakota Blues' and 'Banks Of The Mississippi'; along with standouts from the new In The Name Of Good Intentions collection among them 'Shine A Light On Me' and 'How Many Days'. Finally Daniel Kamish and Luke Tuchsherer increased the cohort to seven for a lively revisiting of 'The Weight'.
It was a joy to see Joana Serrat with her Catalan band; another of the day's acts augmented by the busy Hanging Star Harvey-White. Serrat has two impressive albums but performing solo sometimes underwhelms. Not the case here as she delivered a vibrant, assured set drenched in a high and lonesome sound filtered through a patina of shoegaze. In this setting she soared as 'Solitary Road' and 'Trapped in The Fog' conjured vast desert vistas, at moments invoking the glories of Paula Frazer and Tarnation.
Serrat later would join The Hanging Stars to take the Miranda Lee Richards' part in 'How I Got This Way'. The Stars played a triumphantly cosmic set, 12-string rich, with Patrick Ralla shifting effortlessly between guitars and keyboards. As well as established highlights like 'For You (My Blue Eyed Son)' and 'Crippled Shining Blues' there were new songs 'Three Rolling Hills', 'A New Kind Of Sky', and the Sam Ferman lead-vocal '(I've Seen The) Summer In Her Eyes' a song redolent of late 60s Los Angeles.
By the climax of the Stars' set everybody was getting close to satiation so that The Dawn Brothers with their pleasing, easy blend of americana, soul, and funk were the ideal band to lead a merry dance to the conclusion of a splendidly enjoyable couple of days. All that remained was to wander back to the courtyard and chill with all the like-minded folk who weren't quite ready to go home yet. And falling into a quiet study to contemplate all the highs and the moments of grace experienced over the two evenings it's more than a little likely the spine starts tingling, and maybe there'll be a few goosebumps…
Those goosebumps. When you get Dietmar talking about the festival they come up a lot:
"Looking back at the short history of the festival so far, I am very proud of the line-ups. I feel like I've booked quite a few 'big names' according to my musical universe. I'm still a fan, so I'm booking acts that I adore, music that touches me in some way; singing and dancing along, and getting goosebumps; and fortunately it seems the acts I choose trigger a similar reaction in the audience."
It's why he won't pick out highlights:
"The good thing about being a fan and booking acts you really like is that every performance, at each festival, is simply amazing. I've had the time of my life, enjoyed the acts, realising how the audience was responding in a similar way. So for me every act is a personal highlight."
Equally he has a pleasing equanimity about the inevitable hiccups:
"Some things can go wrong, and some things will go wrong. Over the course of the years, and especially after the health issues I've been through, I am not worried about anything at all. As long as no one gets hurt, or personally harmed, you can deal with everything and find a solution. I'm pretty relaxed during the festival, because my work has mostly been done before. And then again, I'm German. We are known for accuracy and precision. So what can go wrong? Actually I think the stories about bands not showing up, or pulling out four days before the festival, are the most funny stories because you couldn't make them up."
And now Static Roots #5 is all set fair for the weekend of the 10th and 11th July. So far five names have been announced: Pete Gow, The Curse Of Lono, Gabi Garbutt, William The Conqueror, and Native Harrow. Early-bird tickets are currently available here (if you're quick) and everything else you need to know can be found at staticrootsfestival.com
Photos (in descending order): The Hanging Stars, John Blek, Orphan Colours, Luke Tuchsherer, Joana Serrat, Joe Nolan, Jim Maving & Don Gallardo
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Busch Gardens, Van Nuys was one of a series of beer gardens and amusement parks built the Anheuser-Busch family.1 The park was located next to the Anheuser-Busch brewery, which sat along the tracks of the Southern Pacific. The brewery received both grain and bottles via rail, and the in plant trackage included a track (with steam and electrical connections) for August A. Busch III's 88-foot private streamlined railcar the Adolphus.
The Skyrail monorail provided the brewery tour, snaking its way between and even into buildings, allowing guest a view of the brewing and packaging process though glass windows. Ed McMahon narrated the recorded tour.
The Skyrail ride ended in the 17 acre beer garden, with tropical birds2, a boat ride, and five beer pavilions.3 Initially admission was free, but there was a fee for parking and the boat ride. The park closed briefly in 1976, then re-opened as a expanded facility with additional rides and an entrance fee. The park and monorail closed in 1979.
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1. The other parks are/were Pasadena, 1905 to 1937, Tampa Fl, 1959 to present (Tampa also had a monorail since removed), Houston TX, 1971 to 1973 (Houston had a 2' gauge railroad) and Williamsburg VA, 1975 to present (at one time Williamsburg had a monorail named "Eagle One" which took visitors from the park to tour the brewery.) The parks at Tampa and Williamsburg are no longer associated with Anheuser Busch.
2. On one occasion the park housed tropical birds seized by US customs. Today, it is believed by many that exotic birds found wild in the San Fernando Valley and LA are decedents of birds who escaped the park.
3. Guests were permitted two 10 oz. glasses of beer at each pavilion… We at PacificNG note that is 100 oz of beer per visitor/visit. Of course that included Budweiser and Busch Bavarian beers.
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Water and Power Associates, Early Views of the San Fernando Valley.
1967 home movies of the monorail and park.
Busch Gardens in Van Nuys on LAist.
A history of Anheuser-Busch in Southern California. The Los Angeles Times. June 13, 2008
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5 Korean Movies You Really Should Know About But Probably Don't
If you haven't watched these already you really need to.
Hundreds of movies are released each year and the pile becomes increasingly hard to sift through and even great movies sometimes get lost in it.
1. The Battleship Island
Ryoo Seung Wan's much anticipated The Battleship Island, starring Song Joong Ki and So Ji Sub and other A-list stars, about Koreans trying to escape a Japanese battleship, did not reach the break-even point. Despite a dynamic cinematography and a perfectly realized set, it stopped at 6.5 million viewers.
2. The Fortress
Hwang Dong Hyuk's start studded cast could not take The Fortress to the skies — the film stopped at 3.8 million viewers despite Lee Byung Hun's and Park Hae Il's passionate performances.
3. The Mayor
Park In Je's political drama that discusses rampant corruption was no match for the political reality of the nation. Despite Choi Min Sik's amazing performance, which the critics picked as this year's best, the movie only had 1.3 million viewers.
4. Okja
Okja only screened in the small theaters in Korea as they could not screen in the nation's 3 mega multiplex theaters. Despite it being a Bong Joon Ho project, it had only around 300,000 viewers. Much of it has to do with the fact that the film opened via online streaming service, Netflix.
5. The Merciless
The Merciless was invited to the Cannes for its Midnight Screening, and garnered much attention both nationally and internationally. Critics have stated that it redefined the noir genre. But the movie ran into issues as the director, Byun Sung Hyun, became the focus of much social media backlash against his political comments.
These critically acclaimed movies that surprisingly didn't meet the break-even point (considered 8 million viewers) but if you haven't seen any of them you definitely need to.
Source: Daum Entertainment


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Q: Efficiency problems building a "signature matrix" using data from two (sparse) matrices in R I don't know if the "signature matrix" I am trying to build has a proper pre-existing name or definition in any fields, but the following code appears to generate the correct result on some toy matrices. I have trouble explaining what exactly I am trying to do without causing confusion, but if the code I have provided isn't sufficient to deduce what I am trying to do, I'd be happy to give it a shot.
When I run this code with my actual data (two integer matrices that are both approximately 300 by 20,000 elements in size) it appears to be working, but after hours and hours it still doesn't finish.
I understand that the iteration might be the biggest problem here, but I haven't been able to work out how to remove it.
The code:
# Load required library
library(Matrix)

# Load in the test data
mut <- matrix(data=c(1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,1,0),
              nrow=5,ncol=4,
              dimnames=list(c("p1","p2","p3","p4","p5"),c("GA","GB","GC","GD")))

oute <- matrix(data=c(1,1,0,1,0,1,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,0,1),
              nrow=5,ncol=4,
              dimnames=list(c("p1","p2","p3","p4","p5"),c("GQ","GW","GE","GR")))

patOutMatrix <- Matrix(data=oute,sparse=TRUE)
patMutMatrix <- Matrix(data=mut,sparse=TRUE)

transposePatMutMatrix <- t(patMutMatrix)

# Build the empty matrix (with row and col names)
sigMatrix <- Matrix(0,nrow=ncol(patMutMatrix), ncol=ncol(patOutMatrix),sparse=TRUE)
rownames(sigMatrix) <- colnames(patMutMatrix)
colnames(sigMatrix) <- colnames(patOutMatrix)

# Populate sigMatrix
for (mgene in rownames(transposePatMutMatrix))
{
  a <- patOutMatrix[which(transposePatMutMatrix[mgene, ] == 1, arr.ind = T), ]

  # Using an IF here to get around a problem with colSums() not working on single rows
  sigMatrix[mgene,] <- if (dim(as.matrix(a))[2] == 1) {
    a
  } else {
    colSums(patOutMatrix[which(transposePatMutMatrix[mgene, ] == 1, arr.ind = T), ])
  }
}

Does anyone know how I could change anything here to make this perform faster?

A: How to vectorize the computation
Looks like you're simply computing a matrix product there. So write it like this:
sigMatrix <- t(patMutMatrix) %*% patOutMatrix

or (harder to read but better performance):
sigMatrix <- crossprod(patMutMatrix, patOutMatrix)

What the code does
Assuming your matrices only have 0 and 1 entries, the code does the following: Taking every possible combination of one column from the first and one column from the second matrix, it counts the number of rows which have a 1 in both of these columns. For your example data, this gives the following result:
> patMutMatrix   > patOutMatrix   > sigMatrix
   GA GB GC GD      GQ GW GE GR      GQ GW GE GR
p1  1  .  1  .   p1  1  1  1  1   GA  2  1  3  2
p2  1  .  .  .   p2  1  .  1  1   GB  .  1  1  1
p3  1  1  .  .   p3  .  .  1  .   GC  2  3  1  2
p4  .  .  1  1   p4  1  1  .  .   GD  1  1  .  .
p5  .  1  1  .   p5  .  1  .  1

If matrices were not restricted to zeros and ones, my code would do something different than your code, as for the first matrix you treat any value other than 1 like 0.
Other things to learn from this
Avoid the case distinction

  # Using an IF here to get around a problem with colSums() not working on single rows

You could avoid that by passing drop = FALSE to the subset operation, like this:
patOutMatrix[which(transposePatMutMatrix[mgene, ] == 1, arr.ind = T), , drop = FALSE]

That way, the result of the subset operation will always be a matrix, even if that matrix only has a single row.
Avoid access by name

for (mgene in rownames(transposePatMutMatrix))

It's usually better to iterate over indices, not names, as selecting stuff by name causes one extra lookup to turn that name back into an index. So I'd rather make this
for (mgene in 1:nrow(transposePatMutMatrix))


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Episurf Medical announced that the first surgery with the ankle implant Episealer® Talus in Asia has been performed. The company has previously communicated the scheduling of this surgery, and can today provide additional information.
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The 2023 McKee calendar is here! Themed around music, all of the images were selected by Pete and are accompanied by a story.
"Seasons come and go, the weather changes by the hour and unpredictable moments can occur over the course of a year, but one unshakable constant in our lives is our love of music." - Pete McKee
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So, how did you do? I have added at least 2 sessions of cardiovascular exercise and 2 sessions of yoga and/or pilates to my weekly routine for the last month. I have more energy in general and am more focused on my daily tasks. I have more motivation to try new things and get more accomplised.
I am also more focused when I practice. As a singing teacher, I know it means a lot more to practice well in less time than to spend 1 hour just singing. I am able to spend time perfecting a phrase and with more ease than before. Being more in tune with body, I can diagnose the problem quicker and solve the problem faster (i.e. my posture is not in alignment, so by fixing that, I improve my sound). I can sustain phrases longer in my repertoire and feel more grounded when I sing. My nerves are even a little better when I perform for others.
How has increased exercise and yoga impacted your life and your singing?