At 8am, CRPF hoisted the Tricolour at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on I-Day. At 4pm, protesters planted flags of Jamaat-e-Islami on top of the same tower at Lal Chowk.
SRINAGAR: At exactly 8am, CRPF hoisted the Indian Tricolour at Lal Chowk in the heart of Srinagar on Independence Day. At 3.45pm, Lal Chowk wore a totally different look. Hundreds of slogan-shouting protesters swarmed the area and at 4pm and planted the flags of Jamaat-e-Islami (which looks like the Pakistani flag) and the terrorist outfit, Hizb-ul Mujahideen, on top of the same tower where the Indian flag had been hoisted.
If one were to go by the symbolism of the spectacle at Lal Chowk, the valley���s alienation from the Indian Union seemed complete. One of the slogans of the protesters drove the message home ��� Jiyo, jiyo Pakistan, hum hain Pakistani. Other slogans included Islam Zindabad, Lad ke lenge azadi and Allah-u-Akbar.
The crowds had a free hand through much of Friday. They were aggressive in their gestures, but did not resort to violence. Driving around the city, it was obvious that CRPF���s presence was vastly reduced, especially in old the Srinagar area. Police too remained mere onlookers as the protesters kept jumping and screaming slogans at Lal Chowk for at least 20 minutes.
In the evening, though, there was news of police firing in the Habba Kadal area. More than 20 protesters were injured. Between 8pm and 9pm, the city observed a blackout ��� rather was forced to do so as activists went around enforcing it at buildings where lights were switched on.
What happened to the Indian national flag at Lal Chowk? Prabhakar Tripathi, the CRPF PRO, said that the national flag was taken off around 10.00am to protect it from rain. Apart from Lal Chowk, the national flag was also hoisted by governor N N Vohra at Bakshi Stadium.
In the afternoon after the Friday namaz, the demonstrators spilled out into the streets from nooks and crannies of Srinagar. Many protesters carried black flags; a few wore black armbands. A majority of them were young ��� in the 15-30 age group. Women and children too marched in the procession raising slogans for azadi.
Around 1pm in the Safa Kadal area, loudspeakers blared out from mosques, humko chahiye azadi. A procession on Maulana Azad Road around 3.30pm had at least 5,000 people. Around 2.45pm, before the namaz at Jamia Masjid in old Srinagar town was over, a bunch of 15 women in burqas burned the Tricolour.


A touch of smoke is all that appears on the nose of this tight and taut wine. Acidity and slight tannic grip provide a structure and frame its lovely, tart but dark fruit that recalls fresh blueberries tinged with peppery spice. Crunchy, classy and moreish.


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Q: Read run_id in airflow operator for non templated fields I am trying to read run_id for DAG in SnowflakeOperator to set a session parameter, query_tag. But it seems like the session parameter is not templated.

snowflake_operator = SnowflakeOperator(
    task_id='snowflake_task',
    snowflake_conn_id='snowflake_conn',
    sql='resources/some.sql',
    warehouse='my_warehouse',
    database='my_database',
    role='my_role',
    session_parameters={
        'QUERY_TAG': 'dagrun_{{run_id}}'
    }
)

How can I reference run_id and use it as an input here?

A: You need to make the non-templated field templated.
class MySnowflakeOperator(SnowflakeOperator):

    template_fields = (
        "session_parameters",
    ) + SnowflakeOperator.template_fields

Then you can use it as:
snowflake_operator = MySnowflakeOperator(
    task_id='snowflake_task',
    snowflake_conn_id='snowflake_conn',
    sql='resources/some.sql',
    warehouse='my_warehouse',
    database='my_database',
    role='my_role',
    session_parameters={
        'QUERY_TAG': 'dagrun_{{run_id}}'
    }
)

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Q: IBM Liberty Profile: The feature 'websocket-1.0' is not recognized Just an initial step to run websocket application on IBM Liberty Profile 8.5.5.5. After did lots of research I found I needed to add a feature on the Liberty server.xml file.
<featureManager>
    <feature>websocket-1.0</feature>
     .......
</featureManager>

But as soon as I added that line on the configuration I'm getting a warning that
The feature 'websocket-1.0' is not recognized
server.xml  /WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Liberty Profile/servers/defaultServer
line 5  Liberty Profile Configuration Problem
Any thought? Do I needed to add any Jar file for that?

A: In the 8.5.5.5 or earlier websocket feature is not contained in the downloaded jar. You have to install it from the repository using the following command:
featureManager install websocket-1.0 --when-file-exists=ignore

see the following page - Java WebSocket 1.0.
The 8.5.5.6 version is Java EE 7 compatible and contains webSocket-1.1 feature already built in, so you may download that one.

A: The feature files are in [Liberty Install]/lib/features folder.
However, I don't see websocket-1.0 or websocket-1.1 in Liberty 8.5.5.5
Try to use 8.5.5.6, you should see websocket-1.1.mf

A: For OpenLiberty navigate to [OpenLiberty Install]/bin via shell and execute:
featureUtility installFeature websocket-1.0 --acceptLicense

This will install the missing feature to the folder [OpenLiberty Install]/lib/features.


Genetic analysis of blood meals has helped narrow the field in identifying mosquito species with a potential role in infecting horses and humans with Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus (EEEV).
EEEV is a highly pathogenic mosquito-borne arbovirus, with active transmission centered in freshwater hardwood swamps in eastern North America. Local transmission is maintained through the mosquito Culiseta melanura feeding on the blood of local birds.
Researchers from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station noted that the roles of other locally abundant mosquito species in virus transmission were largely unknown. Learning more, they pointed out, would potentially clarify transmission dynamics of the virus.
The disease, which is also found in Central and South America and the Caribbean, was first recognized in Massachusetts in 1831 when 75 horses died of viral encephalitis.
The virus is especially dangerous in horses, with neurological problems resulting in a mortality rate of 70% to 90%.
The study team, John Shepard, Theodore Andreadis, Michael Thomas and Goudarz Molaei, collected blood-engorged mosquitoes at four established freshwater EEEV hotspots in Connecticut.
The mosquitoes were identified by species. The researchers then genetically tested the blood meals consumed by the mosquitoes to determine the animals on which they had been feeding.
The study team, writing in the journal Parasites & Vectors, said 12 mosquito species were identified.
The researchers managed to identify the vertebrate hosts of 378 specimens, representing 50.3% of the engorged mosquitoes.
Culiseta morsitans, Culex restuans, and Culex pipiens acquired blood meals exclusively from bird hosts, they reported, whereas Aedes cinereus, Aedes canadensis and Aedes stimulans obtained blood meals solely from mammals.
Species that fed opportunistically on both birds and mammals included Aedes thibaulti and Anopheles punctipennis, Anopheles quadrimaculatus, Coquillettidia perturbans and Aedes abserratus.
Culex territans obtained blood meals from avian and amphibian hosts.
Mixed blood meals originating from both birds and mammals were identified in Anopheles quadrimaculatus and Culex territans.
"Our findings indicate that wood thrush, tufted titmouse, and a few other avian species serve as hosts for mosquitoes, and likely contribute to amplification of EEEV," they reported.
They said their study supported the role of Culiseta morsitans in local transmission of EEEV among bird species.
"Culex territans will seek blood from multiple vertebrate classes, suggesting that this species may contribute to epizootic transmission of the virus.
They said the contribution of white-tailed deer to the dynamics of EEEV transmission was not fully understood, but the findings indicated repeated exposure due to frequent feeding by vector competent mosquito species.
John J. Shepard, Theodore G. Andreadis, Michael C. Thomas and Goudarz Molaei.


What makes the Global Brand Guy Customer / Channel Management experience different?
Direct response retailing – both infomercials & QVC.
So as you can see, I have a broad range of customer / channel management experience. Others will tell you it's my strong adaptive and quick learning curve qualities that allow me to move successfully from channel to channel. You won't easily find this kind of breadth and depth of business sector experience in my marketing colleagues.


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De Europese kampioenschappen wielrennen 2021 waren de 27e editie van de Europese kampioenschappen wielrennen die georganiseerd werden door de Union Européenne de Cyclisme (UEC) in het Italiaanse Trente van 8 t/m 12 september. Het was de vierde keer dat het EK plaatsvond in Italië, na 2002, 2008 en 2011. Het was het 25e kampioenschap met tijdrit, het 17e kampioenschap voor junioren en het zesde Europees kampioenschap voor elite mannen en vrouwen. Net als de twee jaren ervoor was er nu voor de derde keer een gemengde ploegenestafette, een ploegentijdrit voor landenteams bestaande uit drie mannen en drie vrouwen.

Locatie en datum
Aanvankelijk zou het evenement al in 2020 plaatsvinden in de Italiaanse stad Trente. Door het uitbreken van de Coronapandemie en doordat met name het noorden van Italië hard werd getroffen, werd een nieuwe gaststad gevonden in het Bretonse Plouay. In 2021 vond het EK alsnog plaats in Trente.

Deelnemers
Grote afwezige tijdens het EK was de Britse selectie.

België en Nederland
Blikvangers in de Belgische selectie waren met name Remco Evenepoel bij de mannen elite, Thibau Nys bij de mannen beloften, Lotte Kopecky bij de vrouwen elite en Julie De Wilde bij de vrouwen beloften.
Voor Nederland werden bij de elite o.a. Niki Terpstra en Bauke Mollema geselecteerd voor de wegrit en Jos van Emden voor de tijdrit. Bij de vrouwen werd o.a. voormalig Europees kampioene Amy Pieters en de hele Olympische ploeg geselecteerd: Marianne Vos, Anna van der Breggen, Annemiek van Vleuten en Demi Vollering. Enkele dagen voor het EK echter meldde Van der Breggen zich af en werd ze vervangen door Floortje Mackaij. Viervoudig Europees kampioene Ellen van Dijk reed de tijdrit. Bij de vrouwen beloften gingen o.a. Shirin van Anrooij en Lonneke Uneken van start.

Selecties:
België
Mannen elite: Remco Evenepoel, Victor Campenaerts, Stan Dewulf, Philippe Gilbert, Ben Hermans, Dylan Teuns, Harm Vanhoucke en Gianni Vermeersch. Evenepoel en Rune Herregodts reden de tijdrit.
Vrouwen elite: Lotte Kopecky, Valerie Demey, Lone Meertens, Jesse Vandenbulcke, Julie Van de Velde, Fien Van Eynde, Ann-Sophie Duyck en Sara Van de Vel. Duyck en Van de Vel reden ook de tijdrit.
België nam niet deel aan de gemengde ploegenestafette.
Nederland
Mannen elite: Dylan van Baarle, Koen Bouwman, Sebastian Langeveld, Nick van der Lijke, Bauke Mollema, Timo Roosen, Ide Schelling en Niki Terpstra. Julius van den Berg en Jos van Emden reden de tijdrit.
Vrouwen elite: Anna van der Breggen, Chantal van den Broek-Blaak, Ellen van Dijk, Riejanne Markus, Amy Pieters, Demi Vollering, Annemiek van Vleuten, Marianne Vos en Floortje Mackaij. Van Dijk en Markus reden ook de tijdrit.
Ploegenestafette: Koen Bouwman, Jos van Emden, Bauke Mollema, Floortje Mackaij, Amy Pieters en Demi Vollering.

Wedstrijdschema

Medaillewinnaars

Medaillespiegel

Zie ook
 Europese kampioenschappen wielrennen
 Europese kampioenschappen baanwielrennen 2021
 Europese kampioenschappen veldrijden 2021
 Europese kampioenschappen mountainbike 2021

Externe links
 Europese wielerunie UEC

2021
Wielrennen in 2021
Wielerwedstrijd in Italië
Wielrennen
Sport in Trentino-Zuid-Tirol

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Barbara Mary Ward, née le  à Heworth (Yorkshire, Royaume-Uni) et morte le , est une économiste et auteure britannique, principalement connue pour ses travaux sur les enjeux sociaux et économiques dans les pays en développement, ainsi que sur les questions environnementales, dans lesquelles elle a joué un rôle précurseur. Elle a plaidé en faveur du développement durable — avant que ce terme ne soit couramment employé — et du partage des richesses entre les pays développés et le reste du monde.

Biographie

Barbara Ward naît le 23 mai 1914 à York, dans le quartier de Heworth, mais sa famille déménage assez rapidement à Felixstowe, dans le Suffolk, où elle passe les premières années de son enfance. Son père est avocat et proche du mouvement quaker, sa mère est catholique et très pieuse. Après avoir été pensionnaire dans un couvent en Angleterre, Barbara Ward étudie à Paris, au lycée Molière, puis pendant quelques mois à la Sorbonne avant de se rendre en Allemagne. Elle se lie avec Jean Monnet. Elle souhaite d'abord s'orienter vers l'apprentissage des langues, avant de se tourner vers les sciences politiques, la philosophie et l'économie. Elle est diplômée du Sommerville College de l'université d'Oxford en 1935.

Elle effectue ensuite des travaux de recherche sur la politique et l'économie autrichiennes. Confrontée à l'antisémitisme en Autriche et en Allemagne, elle vient en aide aux juifs qui cherchent à fuir ces pays, et cherche à mobiliser les catholiques britanniques en faveur de l'effort de guerre, bien qu'elle ait eu dans un premier temps des sympathies pour Adolf Hitler. Avec l'historien Christopher Dawson, qui en est le premier vice-président, elle met en place l'association  pour rassembler les catholiques et anglicans hostiles au nazisme, dont elle est la secrétaire. Barbara Ward écrit régulièrement dans la Dublin Review, qui diffuse les idées de l'association et dont Dawson est le rédacteur en chef.

Notamment en raison de l'intérêt suscité par son premier ouvrage, The International Share-out (1938), consacré à la question coloniale, elle est recrutée par le rédacteur en chef de The Economist, . Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle travaille pour le ministère britannique de l'Information, voyage en Europe et aux États-Unis. Elle quitte The Economist en 1950, après avoir occupé le poste de rédactrice en chef de la rubrique étrangère, mais continue à contribuer à cette revue par la suite. Ses émissions sur la valeurs chrétiennes en temps de guerre et certains de ses écrits économiques et politiques sont publiés sous le titre  par la revue . Pendant la guerre, elle est également présidente de la Ligue des femmes catholiques (Catholic Women's League) et participe régulièrement au programme The Brains Trust de la BBC, qui répond aux questions posées par les auditeurs. En 1946, elle est nommée au conseil d'administration de la BBC et du théâtre Old Vic. Pendant l'après-guerre, elle soutient le plan Marshall, une Europe forte et l'établissement d'une zone de libre-échange européenne.

En 1950, elle épouse Robert Jackson, un officier australien devenu administrateur aux Nations unies. En 1956 naît leur seul fils, Robert ; la même année, Robert Jackson est fait chevalier (Knight Bachelor). Au cours des années suivantes, la famille vit en Afrique de l'Ouest et fait plusieurs voyages en Inde, période au cours de laquelle Barbara Ward développe les idées qu'elle défend par la suite au sujet des pays en développement. Le couple se sépare au début des années 1970 ; catholique convaincue, Barbara Ward ne souhaite pas divorcer, et utilise le nom de son époux lorsqu'elle est nommée paire à vie avec le titre de baronne de Lodsworth en 1976.

Elle donne de nombreuses conférences, qui à partir des années 1960 attirent une large audience internationale ; plusieurs séries de conférences, donc certaines données au Canada, au Ghana et en Inde, sont publiées sous forme de livre. Elle passe une part de plus en plus importante de son temps aux États-Unis, où son travail est soutenu financièrement par la fondation Carnegie. En 1957, l'université Harvard lui donne un doctorat ès lettres honoraires, et jusqu'à 1968 elle y passe une partie de l'année, bénéficiant d'une bourse Carnegie. En 1966, elle est élue membre honoraire étranger de l'Académie américaine des arts et des sciences. Elle rencontre Adlai Stevenson et John F. Kennedy, et conseille de nombreuses personnalités politiques, donc Robert McNamara (président de la Banque mondiale de 1968 à 1981) et le président américain Lyndon B. Johnson, qui, malgré l'opposition de Barbara Ward à la guerre du Vietnam, accueille avec intérêt ses réflexions sur ses projets de « Grande société ». Elle influence la pensée de James Wolfensohn sur les enjeux de développement.

Barbara Ward est écoutée au Vatican, où elle contribue à mettre en place la commission pontificale Justice et paix ; en 1971, elle est la première femme à prendre la parole devant un synode d'évêques catholiques. Une de ses propositions consiste à ce que les pays les plus riches s'engagent à consacrer une certaine proportion de leur produit national brut à l'aide aux pays en développement ; elle est également favorable à des institutions qui gèrent conjointement l'aide internationale et les enjeux commerciaux. Elle est parfois rattachée au courant distributiste. Catholique convaincue, elle a également beaucoup œuvré au développement de la doctrine sociale de l'Église et du dialogue œcuménique.

Dans les années 1960, Barbara Ward, amenée à travailler sur des questions environnementales, est l'une des premières avocates de ce que l'on appellera plus tard le développement durable, reconnue au niveau international comme journaliste, conférencière et animatrice. Elle est l'une des premières à faire le lien entre distribution des richesses et préservation des ressources naturelles. En 1966, elle publie Spaceship Earth (le vaisseau-terre, expression empruntée à Adlai Stevenson, dont elle est proche), qui développe l'idée selon laquelle l'espèce humaine doit, pour assurer sa survie dans de bonnes conditions, faire des questions environnementales une de ses préoccupations centrales. Sur ce même thème, elle rédige, avec René Dubos, le rapport préparatoire à la Conférence des Nations unies sur l'environnement de Stockholm de 1972. Ce rapport, intitulé Only One Earth (« Nous n'avons qu'une Terre »), paraît la même année en plusieurs langues. Elle fonde en 1971 avec le soutien de Robert Orville Anderson et Joseph E. Slater l' (IIED), qu'elle préside de 1973 à sa mort.

Ayant survécu à un cancer à la fin des années 1940, elle fait une rechute à la fin des années 1960, et lutte contre cette maladie jusqu'à sa mort en 1981. L'année précédente, elle avait reçu le prix Jawaharlal Nehru. Une biographie de Barbara Ward, accompagnée d'une sélection de ses lettres, a été publiée en 2010.

Ouvrages

The International Share-out, 1938
Turkey, 1941
Defence of the West, 1942
The West at Bay, 1948
Policy for the West, 1951
Faith and Freedom, 1954
Britain's interest in Atlantic union, 1954
Interplay of East and West, 1957
India and the West, 1961, publié dans la revue International Affairs, vol. 37 t. 4
The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations, 1961
The Plan under Pressure, 1963
Nationalism and Ideology, 1966 (à partir d'une série de cours à l'université Carleton)
Spaceship Earth, 1966,
The Lopsided World, 1968, à partir d'une série de cours à l'université Johns Hopkins
Only One Earth, 1971 (avec René Dubos)
A new creation? Reflections on the environmental issue, 1973
The Home of Man, 1976
Progress for a Small Planet, 1979

Ouvrages traduits en français

Le sens de l'histoire et la liberté (traducteur J.-M. Faber), La Colombe, 1957
Esprit tribal ou perspectives planétaires (traducteurs A. Venne et R. Weil-Brenner, avec la collaboration d'A. R. Saint-Germain), éd. du Chalet, 1967
Nous n'avons qu'une terre (avec René Dubos), Denoël, 1972

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Jean Gartlan, Barbara Ward : her life and letters, Londres et New York, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010, .

Article connexe
 Nous n'avons qu'une Terre

Liens externes

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Personnalité liée au développement durable
Pair à vie
Conférencier Massey
Dame commandeur de l'ordre de l'Empire britannique
Naissance en mai 1914
Naissance à York
Décès en mai 1981
Décès dans le Sussex de l'Ouest
Décès à 67 ans
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Étudiant de Somerville College (Oxford)
Étudiant de l'université de Paris
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This video is a bit longer and gives details no matter what you want to Copyright!
Software developers do not want anyone pirating their work either and of course want the ability to stop piracy as swiftly as possible. That's where the U.S. copyright law comes into play. Anything you create, including computer programs, immediately receives copyright protection when it's fixed in a tangible format. This tangible format is created when you save your code into a computer file. Formal registration with the U.S. Copyright Office grants a much broader range of protections. We have show how that is done above. It is very similar to any copyrighting task!
To work with the Copyright office you will product your program in a tangible format that is accepted by the Copyright Office. For registration purposes, you must submit source code -- not compiled programs. To do this simply submit the first and last 25 pages -- roughly the first and last 1,000 lines of code -- with your registration. That's it!
Because you submit computer programs in printed form, the Copyright Office requires that your registration be handled as if it were a literary work, registering yourself or your company as the author as I have shown above. If you ALSO wish to also copyright the on-screen user interfaces of your work then, you may register the program in addition as a graphic work or, if it produces video, an audiovisual work. In this case, list "computer program" as the creator of the image. This process provides copyright to all on-screen images the program creates rather than single screen grabs of each portion you wish to protect.
The deposit -- your hard-copy printout of your source code -- you submit as part of the registration process is kept by the U.S. Library of Congress. Because of this, it's public record, and other software developers can refer to it. Because of the sensitive nature of code, the Copyright Office allows you to block out sensitive portions of the program with a black pen or by swapping out characters for "XXXXXX" or blank spaces. If you must omit large portions of the code, insert notes that clarify the number of lines and characters removed from the deposit and attribute the omission to trade secrets or confidential material.
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Micropayments discovered: Micro power in fintech
Micropayments are opening up new models of how we inform and entertain ourselves. Subscription fatigue is setting in and content creators are looking for new ways to attract consumers. Micropayments, through pay-per-click or pay-per-view models, can serve end-users more efficiently, expanding the market and bringing more people into the fold.
A 2019 survey by The Harris Poll found that the average US consumer subscribes to three subscription services — up from 2.4 five years ago. While this may seem like bad news for micropayments, consumers also stated that they did not plan to increase the number of subscriptions in the next five years. Instead of signing up and paying for more and more subscriptions, consumers are more likely to maintain that same number canceling one before signing up for something new.
Of course, paying for goods and services online presents unique challenges for payments providers and consumers alike. The cost to process transactions can sometimes outweigh the benefits of making small payments. Payments giants such as Visa and PayPal can offset the cost to process small transactions, but smaller payments systems have struggled to allow micropayments.
To understand micropayment is to understand the technology connected to it. Technology is constantly improving, affecting every aspect of our lives. One of the biggest challenges in life is simplifying our finances and the best way to do this is via fintech — a developing area that brings together the best financial products worldwide at the lowest possible price. A crucial part of this is the processing of very small fees that cannot be handled by traditional credit card companies.
Micropayments in the loop
Among the most important characteristics of such transactions are small sums of money being used online. There are various sizes defined as a maximum for the transaction to be considered a micropayment. Different payments providers define it differently. Some consider a micropayment below $1 while others place it below $10. Such small sums are too small for consumers to justify flat transaction fees and are also too small for payments providers to profit from a percentage fee. Here's where innovative payment technology comes in.
Theodor Nelson developed the idea in the 1960s, already well before widespread internet use. One of the most problematic obstacles was the cost of transactions. Nelson proposed that in order to be profitable, these small payments should have the transaction fees of maximum 10 cents. Such transactions were not efficient for payments providers.
Cryptocurrency, however, reawakened interest in micropayments and drove them out of that niche. In this report, we'll dive into how micropayments work, key drivers and we illustrate its future. We share one of our client's success story to emphasize the possibility that micropayments hold also for smaller companies. "Micropayments are going to be more and more popular, especially when selling online content and in-game purchases. Blockchain technology can enable wider adoption of micropayments because it reduces transaction costs and allows for instant settlements."
Key technology development drivers
Cryptocurrencies allowed to significantly lower the transaction provision fees. In some cases even twofold. A remarkable example in the discussion about lowering costs is Bitcoin Cash and Ripple which keeps transaction fees below one cent. Another advantage of digital wallets with decentralized cryptocurrency is the protection of private data and anonymity in comparison to traditional credit cards. Blockchains, the underlying mechanisms of cryptocurrencies, have made microtransactions efficient for both sellers and buyers ensuring also its security, high speed and availability. Blockchain technology is based on the transactions database spread across different computers. Customers instead of having multiple accounts in different services can use an online crypto wallet.
To make the system more efficient, and lower processing fees, companies started to use micropayment channels technology. It was proposed as an alternative to the bitcoin protocol's capacity. Lightning Network mechanism, which made transactions almost instant and reduced costs, relied on the creation of the second layer on top of the cryptocurrency while keeping the peer-to-peer character of the transactions. A payment channel is basically the agreement between sender and receiver of a micropayment.
The blockchain technology has energized micropayment systems and the whole infrastructure connected with it. While earlier sending small amounts of money was seen as costly, because you still had to pay transaction fees, there were some indicators that micropayments could work
Mobility as micropayments key trigger
Access to financial services was limited by a lack of technology and the appropriate devices. As a result, many transactions were completed on a cash-only basis when they occurred outside of the normal banking system. However, the huge popularity of mobile services created an opportunity to provide financial services over its wireless network. Research showed a significant and growing market demand that was particularly important for all GSM (Eng. Global System for Mobile Communications) players.
This demand intimated that it was technically feasible and profitable to deploy financial services over mobile networks. The big picture showed that mCommerce might fill a major service gap in developing countries which is critical to their social and economic evolution. Practice shows that the range of features accessible in particular environments can be applied elsewhere if the target markets are similar. With only minor variations from the mainstream, the features of all systems need to include:
Over-the-air prepaid top-ups using cash already in an account, such as blik
The ability to transfer any amount of money between users' accounts
Provision for cash deposits and withdrawals
The ability for an employer or family memeber to deposit funds into a customer account
The ability to charge for bill payments
Since all the above points are now achievable, micropayment has recently been reconsidered as a viable technology, largely due to the development of cellular networks. The main reason for this is not technological but more down to simple economics. Independent online service providers receive much revenue from mobile users. Mobile networks often charge users for admission to low-cost services on a fixed network. Alongside this, many applications require a solution for the commissions placed on small transactions containing mass data storage and message exchange. Insomuch as micropayment systems are designed to purchase exceptionally low-cost items, it is crucial that the value of each individual process remains very small.
Areas of micropayments
Importantly, micropayments and microtransactions, sometimes get used interchangeably, in practice these are different things.
Microtransactions are often for defining low-value transactions in games, generally with virtual currency. In contrast, there are no strictly defined areas of applications for micropayments.
Microtransactions appeared as a response to the drawbacks of pay-to-play and subscription business models, helping to reduce the barrier of the high prices for games. Market shifts and saturation in the 2000s caused many major game creators to reassess their sector. This led to the free-to-play business model in which customers could play a basic version of a game for free, or pay for the full version.
Some of the biggest adopters of the microtransaction model are mobile app creators. Interestingly, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the allocation of the revenues of video games publishers in microtransactions has grown from $1.2 billion in 2010 to $2.5 billion in 2014. Game development studio Ubisoft is one company successfully implementing this model. According to Business Insider, their revenue from the micropayments surpassed the physical selling in 2017. Moreover, the company's revenue from the micropayments was almost 83% higher in 2017 compared to 2016.
Any small-value e-commerce transaction performed in such areas as gaming, applications, online publishing, music and video or even charity and crowdfunding can be called a micropayment. Moreover, such transactions are widely used by content creators, consultants and other experts working online.
The widespread use of micropayment systems indicates that customers are ready to pay small fees in order to access products and services. Among companies which adapted micropayments are technology giants such as Apple, which used this model to charge customers for music downloads. The iTunes' model, which proved to be successful, attracted followers in other sectors. Media agencies are increasingly letting readers access content with relatively small cost per piece, with companies profiting from increased sales. In an article by Bleyen and Van Hove, in 2007 researchers described the results of the conducted survey in newspaper agencies. The data shows that micropayments were adopted by 13% of the surveyed newspapers as early as in 2007. The example of the company which adopted this business model is a Dutch startup Blendle. The company gathered different articles and sold them to customers receiving a commission on each micropayment. Such payments became even more popular with the emergence of bloggers, with readers charged pay-per- view.
Other examples include Ivend partnering with GoByte Pay which introduced vending machine selling coffee and other goods with cryptocurrencies. The mechanism underlying this experience is a wallet with GBX currency, which enables low commission fees and fast small payment processing.
Social micropayments function as small donations for the content creators. The example of such a platform is social media service Steemit where users can earn cryptocurrency from each piece of content they share. Flattr, which is working on the basis of the subscription model, also allows patrons to support content creators.
Systems which exist to support
Main systems which support microtransactions include PayPal Micropayments, SatoshiPay, Skrill, Amazon Payments, CashSender, and Stripe. Companies such as PayPal and Amazon are more regulated, whereas SatoshiPay is based on the decentralized blockchain technology. There are a few types of models of Micropayments can be added to the monthly bill, taken directly from the customers' accounts, e-wallet or prepaid cards. Customers can either prepay the particular amount of money in the form of subscription or pay afterward the total amount of the microtransaction. Other models include payments for each transaction separately. Online media agencies also use a collaborative model, selling their content for the small-value fees together.
Micropayment platform schemes that are dedicated for processing small transactions work in two main ways: One is that a seller or service provider establishes an account with a third-party micropayment provider who accumulates, stores and distributes the monies accrued. Both seller and user/ buyer are required to establish an account with the same micropayment provider for easier and safer implementation. The provider manages a digital wallet where all the payments are stored until they get to a larger amount and can then be sent to the recipient.
The Freelance, for example, is a market workplace for freelancers to connect with companies to develop small projects. A company hires a developer from The Freelance to make few changes
on their website for $1 per hour. If the developer works on it for eight hours, the task giver — the company — pays The Freelance. In this case, The Freelance collects all the fees. It also stores the remainder in a developers' digital wallet. If a developer is good and garners many fees, The Freelance accumulates IOUs to the point where the wallet contains a significant sum, e.g. $500, which is then sufficient to be withdrawn. 'The Freelance' then pays the developer directly into his account.
The second way can be that micropayment systems can operate as a system for prepaid transactions. A user/buyer makes use of a micropayment processor account by depositing in advance a certain amount of money in it. As long as the seller (the other side of the primary transaction) uses the same account provider, everything works smoothly as the user's account with the provider is easily debited for the amount of the purchase. The payment is simply made by using a micropayment processing account. Let's illustrate this with the most common example: PayPal.
PayPal is a very popular micropayment provider who has its own requirements for micropayments regarding the maximum amount of the transaction. According to PayPal, a micropayment transaction is less than $10. So let's imagine that a PayPal user decides to pay $200 into his or her account. From that point, the user can become a buyer by purchasing an item for $5 from an online store. The purchase price is debited from the PayPal account and used to cover the payment. On completion, the balance in the buyers' PayPal account will be $195 minus PayPal's fees for micropayment transactions, the online store's balance account is plus $5, and PayPal gains the provision fee.
In all these scenarios, commercial organizations have much more to gain by addressing the problem of fiscal cash transactions by micropayments. Cash is not only more difficult to use, but you waste a lot of time moving it outside the banking sector. In the 21st century, no country exists beyond the scope of the banking sector and so for their own economic progress, they should be encouraged to move away from cash. The extra motivation here is that the resulting low-cost solutions and mechanisms that work in these environments can then be efficiently applied in all types of developed economies.
The main issue with low-value transactions has been that processing and transaction fees diminish the final settlement amount.
Payment processors place additional costs for a multiplicity of reasons including infrastructure costs, administrative costs, and paid mechanisms for fraud prevention and dispute resolution. In the past two decades, a lot of research has been undertaken on using digital communications and cryptography to reduce or erase these costs. For banking facilities, these fees ideally need to be down to the fraction-of-a-cent range.
It can be expected that content servers for the global information infrastructure will soon operate billions of these small transactions that are computationally complex. While costly cryptographic protocols are now impractical and obsolete the micropayment process can be bootstrapped with already well-known payment protocols for larger amounts, but does not depend on them for each microtransaction.
Special attention is given to its integration into IBM's Internet Keyed Payment Systems at its most basic level. The product itself allows for the possibility of a payment protocol in wireless networks. The protocol usually assumes two techniques of transaction execution:
In on-line mode with the participation of a trusted website — for macropayments,
In off-line mode using electronic money, mainly for small value transactions — for micropayments.
The main purpose is to predict scenarios of various events and transactions in the protocol — and to be able to analyze any part of it. Paramount within this are the aspects of payment security such as asymmetric cryptography techniques, public key infrastructures and many more. Needless to say that for the evaluation of any protocol, performance must perfectly blend with the criteria specific to the wireless environment.
Espeo's client success story: PressDoor
PressDoor is a service directed at the media publishers market. The aim is to monetize published content also with other readers than only with the full subscribers. Thanks to the adoption of micropayments, readers will be able to pay for access to a single article or a package of articles. The publishers decide what content bundles to offer and at what price.
PressDoor wanted to create an easy-to-use web platform that allows its end-users to buy digital content and the publishers to experiment with different offerings. To achieve this, PressDoor inserts a purchase window on the publisher's own web page but connects to marketing services advertising the content elsewhere on the internet. A purchase is possible both with teleoperator invoicing and credit cards and on all reading devices, covering 99% of digital readers. The technological challenge was creating a browsing app for mobile and other devices that operates the complicated flow of micropayments. This app also had to guarantee user authentication while displaying the content according to the access rules defined by the publisher at the backend of the PressDoor platform. The reader is able to reread his purchased content with the same or also on other devices.
The project started in February 2018. Most of the time, Espeo provided a team of four developers, a tester, a UX/UI designer, and a project manager. There were a few major releases. Our team also traveled to Helsinki and spent one week in June 2018 working intensively with the PressDoor team. The beta testing started in September. In January 2019, the project finished with the platform ready to be offered to big and small media clients in the news media and magazine businesses. More future work is planned as new feature requests arise.
Espeo was responsible for full stack development including the integration of Amazon Web Services. We developed the backend using Node.js with extensive use of ES6 and Sequelize. It is fully integrated with AWS and Auth0 authentication. We created the frontend using React. An interesting feature was the implementation of extensive micropayment services, which became an integral part of the final product.
Conclusion — The future of micropayments
Some experts predict that in the future, credit card companies will engage in the competition for customer attention in the sector of micropayments to a larger extent. Pay-per-click models may become an even more popular alternative for the subscription model or advertisement. The potential of microtransactions for social media platforms, e-commerce, online gaming and the press have yet to be explored. The important role of microtransactions for the internet of the future will be in ensuring user privacy, at the same time being fast, cost-efficient, and flexible.
Our expert and consultant Dominik Zyskowski says that "micropayments are going to be more and more popular, especially when selling online content and in-game purchases. Blockchain technology can enable wider adoption of micropayments because it reduces transaction costs and allows for instant settlements."
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Screentalk – 'Amplified'
Fast-rising indie quintet SCREENTALK are back with an enlivening new single: "Amplified". Swiftly following their amorously received debut single "Mountain Soda", the Liverpool band pump-up the stereo with a scintillating second effort, as recorded with Kurran Karbal (Munkey Junkey, ZUZU).
You are instantly hit with a phenomenal guitar riff from the beginning which will grab your attention instantly, whilst the hooks are strong and grip even when you think you've escaped them. By the time the instrumental really kicks in you will find yourself completely hooked and wishing you was listening to this track being played live.
It usually takes me a few listens to an EP for me to fully get into it, especially if it's a track from a band I've recently discovered, however, this was not the case. Within the first few seconds of listening to 'Amplified' I was sold, the guitar riff instantly made me stop what I was doing and, listen, I was hooked.
It's impossible to not listen to incredible track from beginning to end, the strong vocals which will have you listening to every word and instantly connecting with the lyrics. If you are not already hooked by the catchy and fun sound of this track you will be with the relatable lyrics and powerful vocals.
The band high energy and memorable songs instantly grabbed your attention, their unique sound packs a punch and draws you in and is so refreshing to hear. There is nothing you will not love about this track, it's everything you would want to hear from a track and much more, there is no doubt that this will be an instant favourite of yours.
This is an impressive track, this was the first time I had heard from this incredible band and it's safe to say I was impressed with what I heard, and I am a fan of this brilliant band. The only bad point I have is the track is that it ended far too quickly, I was left wanting to hear more.
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Mr Rajiv Shah
res65@cam.ac.uk
Downing College
Education CV
LLM (First Class Honours), University of Cambridge (2014)
Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours), Law, University of Cambridge (2013)
Bachelor of Science (Second Class Honours Upper Division), Mathematics, University of Warwick (2010)
Scholarship and Prizes:
Travers Smith PhD Studentship in Private Law (2014-17)
Senior Harris Scholar, Downing College Cambridge (2013-16)
Clifford Chance CJ Hamson Prize for best performance in Aspects of Obligations, Cambridge Faculty of Law (2013)
Private Law, Restitution, Unjust Enrichment, Defences, Jurisprudence
An Intellectual History of Unjust Enrichment
My research is in two parts. The first part is historical. It traces the evolution of what we now call "unjust enrichment" claims from the 19th century to this day. It argues that the 19th century lawyers did engage in the normative foundations of the action for money had and received and that this was based on the fact that morally the money still belonged to the defendant. It also argues that during the 19th century the action had more in common with tort than it did with contract. It is only in the early 20th century that the implied contract theory emerged. It will also be argued that the basis for recovery under quantum meruit and the action for money paid had very little in common with the action for money had and received. The historical part concludes with an explanation for why all those claims came to be lumped together under the principle of unjust enrichment.
The second part is normative. Taking stock from the historical enquiry, it argues against the move to unify the subject under the head of "unjust enrichment". It will be argued that this is both under inclusive and over inclusive. Instead, the law ought to be organised (as it was in the 19th century) depending on what the type of the enrichment is.
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Why did a bridge fall down in Italy? Why did Notre-Dame catch fire? Why did a enormous, muddy dam collapse in Brazil? Why did two new 737 planes crash within months?
These disasters were not accidents. They were the result of deliberate decisions to save money, to build and maintain essential infrastructure without proper safeguards and, in many cases, to ignore expert warnings. "Probably they underestimated the importance of the information," said an Italian professor who warned authorities of troubling signs of corrosion on the Genoa bridge a year before it collapsed.
We recreated each of these disasters by seamlessly bringing together witness accounts, deep technical reporting and interactive graphics. Some pieces were primarily written; others led with animated visualizations. In each case, we went beyond the hand-waving and misdirection issued by authorities seeking to avoid blame. Pilots, mining safety specialists, fire safety engineers and other experts helped us unearth exactly what happened and carefully explain it to readers.
We put readers in the cockpit of a Boeing 737 Max to help them understand the desparate choices the pilots faced when automated software spun out of control. Less than 36 hours after the Notre-Dame fire, we published a three-dimensional model to help readers visualize the spread of the fire and the disastrous assumptions made by safety planners.
A multidisciplinary team of reporters used cartographic techniques to analyze mining dams in Brazil — emulating the flow of water over a surface — to estimate the threat they posed: 27 similar dams that threaten more than 100,000 people downstream.
As public infrastructure gets more opaque, journalists must work harder to explain how it works and who it works for. The strong response from readers to these pieces is a testament to the power of visual and interactive journalism to clarify complex systems and hold the builders and their institutions accountable.
Hostile Waters: Orcas in Peril, The Seattle Times
Gone in a Generation, The Washington Post
Solitary Voices, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
COVID-19, The Washington Post
The Wall, The Arizona Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK
Gay Rights, State by State (and Beyond), The Guardian
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Monumental Lies, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting & PRX


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John Pross has worked in the retail pharmacy industry for more than 25 years. He began his career as the general manager of a family-owned pharmacy. After his family's pharmacy was sold in 2005, he transitioned into a district manager role, overseeing operations and profitability for a chain of independent pharmacies. In April 2008, John began working as a business coach with AmerisourceBergen and then in 2014 transitioned to Director of Field Business Coaching. He then expanded his breadth of expertise across the pharmacy industry and took on the role of a pharmacy acquisition advisor, where he facilitates the transitions of pharmacies between buyers and sellers along the entire East Coast of the U.S. John feels privileged to continue in his passion for helping preserve the independent pharmacy marketplace as he works with the Pharmacy Ownership Services team in expand this vital program.
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The rooms and dormitories at Woohoo Hostal have private or shared bathrooms. All rooms come with a TV, as well as reading lamps and lockers to rent. Bed linen and toiletries are all included. Towels can be rented for an extra cost in dorms, and are included in the rooms.
The guest house has a shared lounge area with a kitchen where you can prepare your own meals. Staff at reception can provide information about what to see and do in Madrid, and they also organise regular excursions and activities.
Located 200 metres away, Callao connects you with the rest of the city with ease. Plaza Mayor, the Royal Palaces and Fuencarral Market are all within a short walk.


Video Recording: I always have a webcam with me. If you would like me to record your round and send it to you ask me. I'll only do it if both teams want it, and default to uploading files as unlisted YouTube links and only sharing them with you on my ballot (I'll leave a short URL that will work once I am done uploading... typically 4n6URL.com/XXXX). This way no one ever has to bug me about getting video files.
I've coached Parli, NFA-LD, and a little bit of BP, IPDA, and CEDA since 2008.
I'm fine with the a little bit of speed in NFA-LD and Parli but keep it reasonable or I might miss something.
I prefer policymaking but I am okay with Kritical positions. That said, run it well or I might be grumpy.
Tell me why you win.
I really enjoy good clash in the round. I want you to directly tear into each other's arguments (with politeness and respect). From there you need to make your case to me. What arguments stand and what am I really voting on. If at the end of the round I'm looking at a mess of untouched abandoned arguments you all have epic failed.
Organization is very important to me. Please road map and tell me where you are going. I can deal with you bouncing around—if necessary—but please let me know where we are headed and where we are at. Clever tag-lines help too. As a rule I do not time road maps.
I like to see humor and wit in rounds. This does not mean you can/should be nasty or mean to each other. Avoid personal attacks unless there is clearly a spirit of joking goodwill surrounding them. If someone gets nasty with you, stay classy and trust me to punish them for it.
If the tournament prefers that we not give oral critiques before the ballot has been turned in I won't. If that is not the case I will as long as we are running on schedule. I'm always happy to discuss the round at some other time during the tournament.
Files: I would like debaters to use www.speechdrop.net for file exchange. It is faster and eats up less prep. If for some reason that is not possible, I would like to be on the email chain: ryanguy@gmail.com. If there is not an email chain I would like the speech docs on a flashdrive before the speech. I tend to feel paper only debate hurts education and fairness in the round. If you only use paper I would like a copy for the entire round so I may read along with you. If you can't provide this digitally or on paper, you will need to slow down and speak at a slow conversational pace so I can flow everything you say.
Disclosure: I'm a fan of the case list I think it makes for good debate. If you are not breaking a brand new aff it better be up there. If it is not I am more likely to vote on "accessibility" and "predictably" standards in T. Here is the case list as of 2018. Get your stuff on it: https://nfald.paperlessdebate.com/ If your opponent is anti-case list you should run a wiki spec argument on them. I think that teams who chose to not disclose their affirmatives are abusive to teams who do.
LD with no cards: It might not be a rule, but I think it is abusive and bad for LD debate. I might even vote on theory that articulates that.
Speaker Points: Other than a couple off the wall occurrences my range tends to fall in the 26-30 range. If you do the things in my "General Approach to Judging" section, your speaks will be higher.
Topicality: Hey Aff…be topical. T and other procedural debates are awesome if you can break free of the boring generic T debates we seem to hear in every round. I'm cool with the "test of the aff" approach but please be smart. I'll vote on T, just make sure you have all the components. I prefer articulated abuse, but will vote on potential abuse if you don't answer it well. I'm unlikely to vote on an RVI. In general I enjoy a good procedural debate but also love rounds were we get to talk about the issues. That said if you are going for a procedural argument...you should probably really go for it in the end or move on to your other arguments.
Kritiques: I tend to be more of a fan of policymaking rounds. That said I will vote on Kritical posistions. Please keep in mind that I have not read every author out there and you should not assume anyone in the round has. Make sure you thoroughly explain your argument. Educate us as you debate. Make sure your alternative solves for the impacts of K.
I'm not a fan of this memorizing evidence / cards trend in parli. If you don't understand a critical / philosophical standpoint enough to explain it in your own words, then you might not want to run it in front of me.
Weighing: Please tell me why you are winning. Point to the impact level of the debate. Tell me where to look on my flow. I like overviews and clear voters in the rebuttals. The ink on my flow (or pixels if I'm in a laptop mood) is your evidence. Why did you debate better in this round? Do some impact calc and show me why you won.
Speed: I think going a little bit faster than normal conversation can be good for debate. That being said; make sure you are clear, organized and are still making good persuasive arguments. If you can't do that and go fast, slow down. If someone calls clear…please do so. If someone asks you to slow down please do so. Badly done speed can lead to me missing something on the flow. I'm pretty good if I'm on my laptop, but it is your bad if I miss it because you were going faster than you were effectively able to. Side Note on NFA-LD: I get that there is the speed is "antithetical" to nfa-ld debate line in the bylaws. I also know that almost everyone ignores it. If you are speaking at a rate a trained debater and judge can comprehend I think you meet the spirit of the rule. If speed becomes a problem in the round just call "clear" or "slow." That said if you use "clear" or "slow" to be abusive and then go fast and unclear I might punish you in speaks. I'll also listen and vote on theory in regards to speed, but I will NEVER stop a round for speed reasons in any form of debate. If you think the other team should lose for going fast you will have to make that argument.
Safety: I believe that debate is an important educational activity. I think it teaches folks to speak truth to power and trains folks to be good citizens and advocates for change. As a judge I never want to be a limiting factor on your speech. That said the classroom and state / federal laws put some requirements on us in terms of making sure that the educational space is safe. If I ever feel the physical well-being of the people in the round are being threatened, I am inclined to stop the round and bring it to the tournament director.
I'm a NPDA and NFA-LD judge for the most part. Even in IPDA I prefer that you signpost your arguments and follow logical structure for advantages, disadvantages, contentions, etc. You get 30 minutes prep, you should cite sources and provide me with evidence. Arguments supported with cited evidence and empirics are more likely to get my ballot. In general I am okay with anything in IPDA that I am okay with in LD and NPDA. Meaning I will vote on procedural arguments, Kritiques, and other debate theory if it is run well. I'm also generally okay with a little speed under the guidelines I provided above. In general I follow arguments on my flow. Make sure to respond to each other because a debate without clash is boring.


A strong-arm robbery was reported this weekend at the Sonic restaurant in Boiling Springs. Two young men placed an order at the counter just before 10:30 p.m. Saturday, and they were given the food despite being 7 cents short, according to an incident report. The men later walked over to a drive-in space and placed another order. When a waitress brought out the food, one of the men knocked the tray from her hands and snatched her curb hop wallet, which contained $120, the report states. The two fled on foot.
An armed robbery was reported at the Li'L Cricket convenience store on Highway 101 near Greer shortly after 10 p.m. Friday. The clerk told investigators she was putting away tobacco products when someone entered the store, put a pistol to her back and demanded money, according to the incident report. The man fled with about $60, the report states.
A home invasion was reported Friday night on Sunnyview Circle. A 79-year-old man told investigators that, at about 11 p.m., two men forcefully entered his home and one with a gun confronted him in his room, instructing him to "Stay put." The other man spent about 20 minutes rummaging through items in the home before the two fled with about $40 in cash, a credit card, 19 collector's knives and a set of keys to a storage unit, according to an incident report. The 79-year-old man was not injured. Sunnyview Circle is off of Highway 29 near the Converse Post Office.


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Q: Swift equivalent of Enum.ordinal() in Java I was wondering if there is a Swift equivalent of Java's Enum.ordinal() method.

A: You can use rawValue to access the ordinal value of an enum marked with Int.
enum SomeEnum: Int {
    case first
    case second
    case third
    case fourth
}

print(SomeEnum.third.rawValue) //2


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BOUNCING THE BOMB
Illustration of how the bomb works
In 1965 the Institution recognised the talent and contribution of Dr Barnes Neville Wallace by awarding him an honorary fellowship. Wallace had achieved something many had thought impossible, even preposterous, and designed not only a bomb that bounced but that sunk at the exact right depth to break the mighty walls of Germany's Ruhr dams. Wallis was generally regarded as a far-fetched thinker but his tenacity and engineering skills helped to quicken the pace of defeat.
Wallis spent six years developing the 'bouncing bomb', favouring the targets as they were immovable and the impact on German production would be severe, causing: disruption steelworks and industry; disruption hydro-electric generation; disruption of supplies to canals, used for transporting arms and good; and disruption to available drinking water.
Bouncing bomb animation
However, the dams were so gigantic that the armaments of the time (mostly 500lb bombs and 1000lb general-purpose bombs) would cause hardly a scratch of damage. In 1941 Wallis developed a concept for a "big bomb" (ten-ton bomb, carried by a six-engine Victory bomber and dropped from 40,000ft) to penetrate deep into the ground, causing a shock wave caused by the ensuing explosion. This would create an 'earthquake' and shake the target to pieces. This also carried the advantage that the Victory crew did not need a direct hit. However, the RAF had only just begun using 4-engined bombers and the idea of carrying a ten-ton bomb up to 40,000ft seemed fantastical, so his proposals were quickly rejected by the Air Ministry.
Meanwhile, ongoing experiments on the amount of explosives needed to break a dam wall had found that while significant quantities (14 tons) were needed if the explosion was tens of feet away from the dam, as little as under 3 tons would be sufficient if the explosion took place in contact with the wall. Several 1scale models and a disused dam at Nant-y-Gro in Wales were destroyed in arriving at this conclusion. The fact that these tests were mainly performed independently of Wallis' project reflected the Ministry's growing faith that the dams could be breached.
Watch the bomb tests
Throughout 1942 Wallis developed the idea of a missile which would be dropped upstream of a dam, ricochet over the water in a series of bounces, and hit the dam. Therefore, it would jump over anti-torpedo nets placed ahead of the dam wall, and would sink right up against the dam. Some initial tests led him to develop a spherical bomb, and full-scale test drops of this design began at Chesil Beach in September, using a modified Wellington bomber. Persuaded by Wallis and films of the test drops, officials gave the go-ahead for further tests which led to the development of two separate variants of the bouncing bomb idea – a large version (codenamed Upkeep) to be carried by the new Lancaster for use against dams (Wallis was confident that if one mine could be dropped in the right place, a dam could be breached) and a smaller one (codenamed Highball) to be carried by Mosquitoes for use against ships. A variety of shapes, drop heights and backspin rotation speeds were tested at Chesil Beach, Reculver and Loch Striven. Of these Highball proved the less effective.
The best time to hit the dams was spring, as they would be fall and therefore the water rush would have a more devastating impact. On 26th February the go-ahead was given to prepare for raid on the Ruhr dams using Upkeep. Twenty-three Lancasters were modified to carry the Upkeep mine (originally a sphere, it was modified to a cylindrical shape during testing). 617 Squadron was formed to perform the mission. Awaiting a full moon, to aid the pilots, 19 Lancasters of the 617 took off from RAF Scampton in three waves to attack the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe Dams. Wing Commander Guy Gibson was the commanding officer for the mission.
The operation was a great technical success, and achieved its principal aims. Two dams were destroyed (more than 116 million m3 of water was released from the Möhne reservoir, 154 million m3 from the Eder), causing widespread damage and destruction up to 100 miles away. 25 bridges were destroyed with an additional 21 damaged, 11 factories were destroyed and 14 damaged, and many coal mines, waterworks, pumping stations and power stations were destroyed or put out of action. Casualties on the ground were upwards of 1300, there were also losses of livestock and agricultural land.
Although it was highly successful in Operation Chastise, Upkeep was never used again in warfare. However, Wallis's original concept was vindicated.
The bouncing bomb has entered the popular consciousness via the film The Dam Busters and this continues, with a remake planned and a Dambusters App released for the 69th anniversary of the raid. On 4th August 2015, the last of the 19 pilots who flew the bomb died at the age of 96. Squadron Leader Les Munro piloted a Lancaster bomber in Operation Chastise-the Dam Buster mission was one of the most dramatic military actions of the war.
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