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China and the USA: cooperation or conflict?
4.1 The United States 'pivot' to Asia...
1 China–United States in international history
1.1 Narratives of China's rise
1.2 The Chinese Imperial era
1.3 China's Past
1.4 Western Advance
1.5 The twentieth century
1.6 Recapping history
2 China and the United States in the twenty-first century
2.1 China: managing 'peaceful rise'?
2.2 Policy debates
2.3 United States: constructive engagement?
3 Analysing cooperation and conflict
3.1 Interdependence, absolute and relative gains
3.3 Absolute gains
3.4 Forms of interdependence: zero-sum, negative-sum and positive-sum games
3.5 Picturing Interdependence
3.7 Relative gains
3.8 Zero-sum interactions
3.9 Summing up
4 Contemporary issues: strategic and military
4.1 The United States 'pivot' to Asia
4.2 Catch-up and relative gains
4.3 Troops and missiles
4.4 Competing regional influence?
4.5 Territorial disputes
4.6 North Korea – potential shared interests?
4.7 Taking stock
5 Contemporary issues: economic relations
5.1 A realm of cooperation?
5.2 Competition in the wider world
5.3 Cooperation and bargaining
5.4 Side payments
5.5 Resolving climate change
6 Reviewing cooperation and conflict
6.1 Economy
6.2 Military
6.3 International order
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Figure 13 Hillary Clinton speaks on the US role in the Asia Pacific, Cook Islands, 2012
China's rise and a reassessment of US priorities led the Obama administration to announce in 2011 a 'pivot' to Asia. In a much-publicised article in Foreign Policy magazine, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spelled out the new policy priority:
As the war in Iraq winds down and America begins to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan, the United States stands at a pivot point. Over the last 10 years, we have allocated immense resources to those two theaters. In the next 10 years, we need to be smart and systematic about where we invest time and energy, so that we put ourselves in the best position to sustain our leadership, secure our interests, and advance our values. One of the most important tasks of American statecraft over the next decade will therefore be to lock in a substantially increased investment – diplomatic, economic, strategic, and otherwise – in the Asia–Pacific region.
(Clinton, 2011, p. 56)
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Listen to this short excerpt from a report from BBC Radio 4's World Tonight programme recorded in 2013. The report is from the BBC's Washington correspondent, Paul Adams, and is introduced by Ritulah Shah. As you listen, make notes in the box below on the following questions.
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Ritulah Shah
Let's think about how the new China handles its relationship with the United States. President Obama announced that the US was going to concentrate on the Asia-Pacific Region. It's what's become known as the pivot to Asia. Now this marked a departure from the more traditional focus on Europe and the Middle East and many in China have seen this as an attempt to contain China and they view it with deep suspicion.
Paul Adams, our Washington Correspondent, looks at what the Americans mean by 'the pivot to Asia'.
After a decade in which we fought two wars that cost us dearly, in blood and treasure, the United States is turning our attention to the vast potential of the Asia-Pacific Region.
November, 2011 and Barack Obama addresses the Australian Parliament and announces a much anticipated re-balancing of foreign policy priorities, a pivot towards Asia and one country in particular.
The United States will continue our effort to build a co-operative relationship with China.
It's been more than forty years since Richard Nixon's stunning announcement that he was off to see Chairman Mao. It's hardly been plain sailing since then. Human Rights, cyber espionage, Taiwan and Tibet there are any number of differences, but over the course of four decades an elaborate network of ties has evolved in order to keep this difficult relationship on track. Michael Pillsbury has been advising Presidents on Defence policy since Jimmy Carter.
Michael Pillsbury
There's more than fifty different mechanisms by which the Chinese government and the American government meet periodically. It's a very extensive system for consultation but on top of the whole thing of course is the President and the Chinese leader and that is where, so far, nothing hostile has been said by one side against the other. The United States has avoided calling China a threat. We simply don't do that. What you do find is lots of voices from scholars and some lower level officials who do say harsh things about the other side.
China is stealing American ideas and technology everything from computers to fighter jets. Seven times Obama could have taken action. Seven times he said 'no'.
And even though the President is supposed to sail above all this, China bashing is a staple of the American electoral cycle.
Romney's never stood up to China. All he's done is send them our jobs.
I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message.
The implication of course is that one presidential candidate is more likely to bend China to his will than the other, a notion most China experts here would regard as fatuous. Not only does it not work but it serves to fuel Beijing's fear that what Washington really wants is not so much co-operation as containment.
I think containment is a ridiculous notion to apply to US policy toward China. I see this in the media all the time. I especially see it in the Chinese media.
Kenneth Lieberthal advised President Clinton on national security and is now a China specialist at the Brookings Institution.
Kenneth Lieberthal
I think that you have to ignore almost everything the United States has done in the last thirty years including in the last few years to reach a conclusion that we are seeking to contain China. We have developed a mutually interdependent set of economic and trade relations including financial relationships. We encourage if anything greater Chinese assumption of responsibility in issues around the world. We find the Chinese are not as willing to step up to issues as we would like them to.
But if the desire for engagement is real, it's hampered, says Kenneth Lieberthal, by a chronic degree of mutual ignorance, something decades of high-level contacts have yet to overcome.
I think there is a serious problem at a high level on both systems of a lack of real understanding of how the other political system works and therefore often a misinterpretation and misunderstanding may be interpreted as, you know, some major strategic move. I've seen that happen, frankly, repeatedly on both sides over the years. It does worry me.
That might sound surprising given the huge importance of the relationship but Michael Pillsbury says there's something even more fundamental going on – call it a clash of exceptionalism.
Americans often say seriously, often they're joking, when they say we're sent by God to enlighten the world and the Chinese have their own concept that they used to be the centre of the universe and some day will be again. So obviously when you have two rather powerful nations who have this sense of exceptionalism it's rather difficult to co-operate on tangible things.
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You will have heard speakers – President Obama, for example – talk of the attempt to build cooperation with China, and others talking of the extensive cooperation, communication and dialogue between the United States and China via multiple diplomatic channels.
A range of issues – including cyber espionage, human rights and disputed territories – are highlighted as areas of tension and conflict. It is also claimed that there was substantial ignorance and misunderstanding between the two.
Now listen to this extract from the subsequent studio debate between US and Chinese analysts. The discussion is chaired by Ritulah Shah and features Chinese academics Wang Yizhou and Jin Canrong, and US analysts Paul Haenle and Ian Bremmer.
World Tonight: Studio debate
Transcript: World Tonight: Studio debate
Wang Yizhou - a clash of exceptionalism. It sounds like a rather gruesome essay title but is it real? Would you say that is a way of thinking about this relationship?
Wang Yizhou
I think two things are very crucial for future Sino-US relations. One is whether two leaders can successfully manage some potential crisis. The second challenge is that whether United States majority really believe that China's prosperous and peaceful rising are opportunity for US, or think that China's rising is finally will be big obstacle for US leadership, whether in Pacific area or global arenas. And to challenge that I think right now not only consider our narrow national interests but also decrease American's concern will decrease other neighbouring countries' concern. They will say 'Okay, China is rising after all it is also our opportunities'.
Paul Haenle, how much is this about US attitudes as much as anything else? We heard Kenneth Lieberthal talk about the 'chronic ignorance', I think is the phrase that he used, that there is in the United States of China. Is this relationship made much worse by that lack of understanding?
Paul Haenle
I think it's on both sides. I don't think it's just the US. I mean I think here in China it's also misunderstood. And frankly, you know, going back to the pivot, I think the pivot was rolled out very badly. You know we've had presence in Asia for a hundred years, especially since the aftermath of World War Two, but we never, that I can remember, in history felt the need to roll it out in such a high-handed sort of loud way to the region. And I think there was domestic political factors to that. I think there was also an element of reassuring our South East Asia friends and other friends in Asia that we're not going away. But I think what the Chinese should – if you read the language closely and having worked in the White House for five years as China Director for two Presidents, I believe that the aspect that is missed is the fact that in order for the rebalancing strategy to work it requires constructive and stable relations with China, that's a key aspect of it. Now you would not have – you would not have concluded that from listening to the pivot or from reading Hillary Clinton's article in Foreign Policy magazine, which said as we draw down our forces in Afghanistan and Iraq we're going to pivot to Asia. And I think what was left out of that was the diplomatic element of the rebalancing the economic element of the rebalancing and frankly the element that we need a constructive and stable relationship with China.
Jin Canrong?
Jin Canrong
I think the financial crisis is a big issue for the recent US–China relations. Many change can trace back to that event. And this financial crisis hurt US economy and hurt the confidence of the society. And China also changed – China actually benefits from this event. The rise in China accelerated by – by financial crisis. Then comes the new issue of the pivot strategy. Most of the public here believe the pivot strategy is mainly targeted at China. And they are relying on military power and the goal is to have encirclement – encirclement against China. But according to my observation within the decision-making circle, the observation is much more balanced. I think the leaders know there are multi-motivations behind the pivot and not only targeted at China. And the approach is rather complicated not just relying on military and the goal is not to encircle against China but rather to put some norms on China's future behaviour. So that's why although the pivot leads to some mistrust but Chinese leaders, especially the new leader, Xi Jinping, rates that this new concept so called 'new type of a major power relations'.
Ian Bremmer we have heard a little bit about the mistrust just there. If there is to be this kind of new power relationship, do China and the United States need to focus on things where they can have a common interest and North Korea comes to mind.
They do, but we also need to understand that there are fewer things that we have common interest than we used to and that is part of the problem. It's not just mutual exceptionalism though that certainly exists. It's also that historically the Chinese have followed America's lead on all these norms and values because they were small and didn't have a choice. Now they're bigger, they have a choice and they'd rather do less of it. We need to recognise how radically different these countries actually are. The United States is a rich industrial country. China's poor. Not just Greece poor or Portugal poor. It's six thousand dollars per capita. The average American has no conception of what that actually means but it means that the Chinese have completely different perspectives on what they need to do and not do in terms of industrialisation; in terms of climate, in terms of trade. They have a state capitalist system. That's a system that's diametrically opposed to the US in many ways but it's the way that the Chinese have become world beaters economically and they need to continue it. The Americans don't accept that. So there are true mutual lack of interests and zero sameness in this relationship that will frankly become more problematic. They need to be well managed but they will become more problematic.
But if you were about to take charge of China, then in a sense does that leadership now have to catch up with the fact that yes, the per capita income of the people may be very low, but this is economically an enormously powerful country and therefore has no choice but to take its place on the world stage?
I think the answer is no. I would resist that strongly. If I were – if I were a Chinese leader I would say I want no part of a G2. I want no part of responsible stakeholdership. You're asking me to act like a rich country when I'm not. You're asking me to follow rules that you created to benefit you. That's what the US wants. And I'm an American. We want that. But the Chinese government doesn't want it. They're saying increasingly loudly that they don't want it. The fact that they're going to become the world's largest economy should give us no illusions as Americans that they're going to act like the United States. They will not. And the responsible stakeholder concept is one that strikes most Chinese as arrogant and ill-minded.
End transcript: World Tonight: Studio debate
Note down what is said about the role of domestic politics and the views of political leaders.
What contrasts in views can you note about the potential for cooperation and conflict?
You may have noted a number of points. Here are some that we noted:
Wang Yizhou claims that crucial to cooperation will be the ability of the two leaders to successfully manage potential crises, and whether domestic populations in other countries see the potential gains from China's rise. Paul Haenle also notes the damage to relations that the mishandling of the pivot announcement caused, obscuring areas of mutual interest.
Jin Canrong notes how popular Chinese views saw the pivot as a hostile move and a signal for potential conflict. However, the Chinese leadership didn't interpret the pivot in such negative ways. Speaking just as Xi Jinping assumed his premiership in 2013, Canrong argues that China's new leadership is pursuing a 'new type of major power relations'. In stark contrast, and emphasizing conflict, Ian Bremmer highlights persistent and, in his view, growing areas of zero-sum relations.
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Robert Wuthnow is the Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He is the author of numerous articles and books about American culture, including American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short and Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Christianity.
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The 2019 shortlist of INSIDE Award is finally revealed!
INSIDE is the sister festival of the World Architecture Festival and celebrates the world's finest examples of interior design.
Held in Amsterdam from 4-6 December 2019 alongside World Architecture Festival, INSIDE is where the global design community meets to be inspired by the latest and greatest in global interior design and architecture. Over three days INSIDE shines a spotlight on the people, projects and developments that are changing the face of global interiors. At INSIDE's heart is a global awards programme, which will be judged by more than 20 distinguished designers and editors from around the world. Finalists that are shortlisted across nine categories will present their project in person to international judging panels. After a hard fought battle, one practice will win the ultimate accolade of World Interior of the Year, which will be presented at a Gala Dinner awards ceremony on the evening of Friday 6th December at Beurs van Berlage.
In the 2019 shortlist of INSIDE Award Civic, Culture & Transport category, entries range from the "playing at home" renovation of Metro Oostlijn by GROUP A which includes 5 underground and 11 above ground stations, to a library with an 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'-themed section in Singapore, and highlights from the Health & Education category include a multi-sensory room in Thailand for pre-school children with visual impairments.
Group A; Metro Oostlijn; Spaklerweg, Amsterdam
2019 shortlist of INSIDE Award count in this year's Bars & Restaurants category the interior concepts for new restaurants by some of the world's most innovative chefs. BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group (obviously listed amongst our best of Architecture firms in Denmark) are behind the design of the second incarnation of renowned Copenhagen restaurant, Noma. The unconventional layout, including greenhouses and outhouses, is imagined as an intimate culinary garden village, designed to give diners glimpses into the natural ingredients and fermentation processes behind the restaurant's New Nordic cuisine.
noma by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group | Photography Rasmus Hjortshøj
Over in Manhattan's Meatpacking District, Buro Ole Scheeren's fast food concept for Dean & DeLuca's chef-led eatery, 'Stage', uses a sculpted high-tech white Corian and steel centre-piece, to celebrate the artistry of food, and to create a stage for those who make and those who consume it. And in the City of London, Universal Design Studio are behind Fortnum & Mason's new 360-degree bar, shop and restaurant in the Grade I Listed Royal Exchange courtyard, complete with a bespoke curved metal canopy.
Amongst the Creative Re-use category we would like to highlight the Tilburg LocHal Library by Mecanoo architecten already been coined 'the next big thing in public libraries' by experts and 1 Lyric Square by Stiff + Trevillion, in the heart of Hammersmith, London, is a 14-storey office building completed in the late 1970s as part of the Kings Mall development.
LocHal Library by Mecanoo architecten
Embracing a more organic approach to interior design is the National Museum of Qatar Gift shop by Koichi Takada Architects, which features curved timber ceilings and walls, inspired by the natural Qatari desert-scape, and engineered from 40,000 3D-modelled parts.
Gift Shops of National Museum of Qatar by Koichi Takada Architects © Tom Ferguson, Oscar Rialubin and Koichi Takada Architects
St Andrews Beach Villa by Woods Bagot takes the organic approach to interior design to an even greater level, using a mixture of newer elements and old, worn materials from the villa's previous iterations, to create a deliberate juxtaposition of eroded and resilient surfaces, and mundane and exquisite materials.
St Andrews Beach Villa by Woods Bagot | Photography: Trevor Mein
Amongst the Office category, entries range from the FCA – Financial Conduct Authority headquarter in London by Perkins & Will a cutting edge, modern workspace pushing the boundaries of what an office should be for a world class financial organisation, across a lot of Asian projects and a strong presence of projects in Amsterdam such as Pand Noord by Hollandse Nieuwe architecture & interiors and Amsteldok by BDG architecture + design.
Anyway across all the categories we can confirm the trend that new projects and architecture practices from Eastern Asia are growing and gaining visibility and respect all over the World. In fact the top 5 countries entering INSIDE 2019 Award are: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore
We are eager to see the presentation of all these projects from 4 to 6 December in Amsterdam this year during the World Architecture Festival.
The full 2019 shortlist of INSIDE Award can be viewed here
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Johan van der Merwe of Wabco shows the rights and wrongs of Suzi hose connections to his team members, many of whom are not aware of how important suzihoses are on a rig.
The Brake & Tyre Watch team was expecting the worse. After all, Musina in the Limpopo province is the first town that trucks enter after crossing the Beitbridge border post travelling down south from neighbouring countries and the general perception held by many in our industry is that most of these trucks are horrendously unroadworthy. That's not true but it is a perception. So, did the reality match this perception? Unfortunately, out of eight trucks tested, seven were served with Discontinuation notices writes Patrick O'Leary.
32 ascertain legal tread depths using the tread depth indicator present on every tyre.
HAVING SAID that, let me stress that the words "horrendously unroadworthy" could not be applied to all of them. In this light, it is important to understand that during the Brake & Tyre Watch exercises, there are no 'grey' areas.
It is either right or it is wrong. It either complies with legislation or it doesn't – and that covers the full spectrum of the inspections. And this brings me to a very important subject. Here's the question. Must trucks coming into South Africa comply in every way to our local legislation? I asked a number of the cops and some said yes, others said no, others didn't know. Take one of the rigs as an example.
In South Africa, the manufacturer's data plate is a legislated must. It must be riveted – not stuck on in any other way – onto the left side of the trailer and must contain all the relevant information. One vital piece of information on this plate is the date of manufacture. Why?
Jacques Coetzer of BPW Axles shows a group of trainees how the various brake components work together to stop the truck when the brake is applied – if they are in a roadworthy condition of course.
Because this simple bit of information allows a traffic official, when stopping a rig to check its roadworthy status, to ascertain whether or not the vehicle must have automatic or manual slack adjusters and an ABS system fitted. According to our South African law, all trailers manufactured after February 14, 2004 must have these items fitted.
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Our local library has a really neat resource - story time kits. Each kit is centered around a theme and contains books, games, movies, music and other items related to the theme. We had never checked one out before, so we decided to give them a try at our last visit to the library. The kit we checked out was themed "Friendship."
Even the tote the kit is packaged in is cute!
The contents of this kit included 11 books about friendship, 5 puzzles, 2 movies, a music CD, a memory game (I Never Forget a Face), and lesson plan book.
The Best Friends Book was the kids' favorite book. Each page tells what makes a best friend - some silly, some not. "A best friend shares everything - even chicken pox" is one example.
Being Friends is a great book about how friends can like different things but still like being friends. It delivers a great message that it's okay to be yourself, different from others, and still be a good friend.
You Are To Me is a cute story of friends telling each other how much they mean to each other.
Though not included in the kit, we had to include The Rainbow Fish. It's one of the greatest books on friendship, in my opinion.
We decided to paint our own rainbow fish. I started by tracing a rainbow fish coloring page (I found one here) on to watercolor paper. The kids traced over the picture with oil pastels and then painted with watercolors. Once it was dry we added glitter to the fins and glued on tin foil scales.
Next, we made a "Friendship Drawing." We started with one sheet of blank paper. I went first and drew one element (the grass). Then I passed the paper to Pinky who added one element. She passed it to Chaos and we continued in this manner until our picture was complete.
For a twist on the classic carnation and food dye experiment, we tried making "Friendship Flowers." We cut the stem to a white carnation in half (but left both halves in tact to the flower). Each kid picked one color and we dipped them stem halves in them.
Pinky with the yellow/red flower before.
Chaos with the red/blue flower before.
When the dyeing was complete, the flowers had turned 2 different colors.
We even tried a tricolored flower (red, blue, and green).
Alphabeep is a stroll through the alphabet with every letter represented by a vehicle (fire truck, garbage truck and the clever zamboni) or street signs (yield, keep left).
Alphabet Under Construction is just as the name suggests - an alphabet being built by a little rat.
It's from the second book that I came up with the idea to make a "construction C." After cutting out the letter C, Chaos added popsicle sticks (wood), sand paper and "wire" (necklace cord) to build his letter.
Both thenes had great books and crafts. I am going to look for the construction books for JDaniel.
I think the alphabet books you mentioned would be a hit in our house too.
Oh my - I never knew you could get a carnation to pick up TWO colours! How fun and such a great experiment for kids!
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I love that carnation experiment. My kids would love doing that.
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Empath (Manuel Alfonso Rodrigo de la Rocha) is a fictional mutant character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as possessing the ability to control emotion in other people.

Publication history

Empath was created by Chris Claremont and Sal Buscema and first appeared in New Mutants  #16-17 (June–July 1984) as a member of Emma Frost's original Hellions.

Fictional character biography

Hellions
Empath is born in Castile, Spain. He is a mutant in the Marvel universe who attends school at the Massachusetts Academy, and is one of the original students of then-villain, the White Queen. Emma Frost's students, known as the Hellions, are rivals of Charles Xavier's students, the New Mutants. Manuel fancies Frost so much that during the night, he attempts to read her mind but she notices instantly, deciding to show him everything about her. Empath describes her as cold as ice. De la Rocha is one of the few Hellions, along with James Proudstar, Amara Aquilla, and Angelica Jones to survive an attack by time-travelling villain Trevor Fitzroy (although Empath's former teammate, Tarot is eventually resurrected).

The White Queen once uses Empath to manipulate Magneto into allowing the New Mutants to join the Hellions. This is made easier as the New Mutants were deeply traumatized by a powerful enemy known as the Beyonder. During the course of this plan, he meets two of Xavier's allies, Tom Corsi and Sharon Friedlander. He takes the opportunity to attack them mentally, changing a subtle attraction to full-blown obsessive sexual desire between the two. They show up several days later, severely traumatized.

During his tenure with the Hellions, de la Rocha meets and falls in love with Amara Aquilla, the New Mutant known as Magma. Aquilla eventually leaves her team and becomes a member of the Hellions, so that she can be close to de la Rocha. He even accompanies her back to her home in Nova Roma. The romance ends, however, when Aquilla realizes that de la Rocha was using his abilities to control her emotions. When the colony of Nova Roma is discovered to be a ruse by the witch Selene, Empath uses his abilities for a time to convince Magma that this is a hoax. This sets a bond of mistrust between the two that never is broken.

X-Corporation
Later, Empath joins X-Corporation and becomes the Communications Director for its Los Angeles chapter along with his former love Magma. However, after M-Day, Cyclops orders the closure of the X-Corporation headquarters to better focus all available resources on protecting their members and allies. Empath is one of the few mutants to retain their powers in the wake of House of M.

M-Day
After M-Day, Emma Frost uses Empath immediately to reel in Magma who, in her devastation over the death of her boyfriend because of the decimation, wrecked a South American village. Empath stays at the Xavier Institute along with some of the other 198, however his shared history with Magma makes her suspicious that he is still toying with her emotions. Later, when Johnny Dee uses his powers to control Magma and Leech and make them kill Mister M, Amara becomes aware that someone was controlling her, and, thinking it is Empath, blames him.

Manifest Destiny
Empath resurfaces in San Francisco leading a new group of regular humans calling themselves the Hellfire Cult who are conducting vicious attacks on mutants, despite him retaining his own mutant powers. However, he himself appears to be under the control of a mysterious woman called the Red Queen, with whom he shares an S&M sexual relationship. In the next issue she asks him about Emma Frost and then telepathically makes herself appear as Emma Frost as she sexually dominates Empath. When the X-Men discover the Hellfire Cult's base, she flees leaving Empath behind.Empath makes a run for it, and his powers seem to be going out of control. While being chased by various X-Men, he takes them down until Pixie appears and beats him savagely. She then stabs him in the head with her soulknife, weakening his powers and blinding him. He is held in prison-like quarters in the X-Men's HQ, frustrated over his condition and angry against the X-Men. Despite this and the deeds he has committed against her friends and herself, Amara takes pity upon him; hers is the only company Empath accepts.

It is later revealed that Empath was meant to be a Trojan Horse, whose rejuvenated powers disabled many of the X-Men, while the Red Queen and her Sisterhood took a locket of Jean Grey's hair. Pixie then attacked him again with her soulknife, shattering his consciousness.

Necrosha
Empath is moved to the X-Men's new Utopia prison, made out of Asteroid M, alongside Sebastian Shaw and Donald Pierce. He is trapped in a psychic illusion where he is with Amara, before the illusion is shattered when Selene's minions appear on Utopia's shores.

Dawn of X
Empath is later seen on Krakoa where he uses his powers to wreak havoc by manipulating his fellow Hellions into fighting each other, and also anyone who comes in his way, and as a result, he is assessed by the island's scientists and psychics. To their horror, they learned Empath is not a violent sociopath with an X-gene; rather, his X-gene transformed him into a violent sociopath. Because most people learn right or wrong by observing the reactions of others, swiftly realizing that negative behavior generates painful responses, when his X-gene activated at an unusually young age, it colored his natural development and psychological growth, so Empath had no way of learning these lessons. No matter what he did, no matter how much pain he caused, he only had to flex his mind and he would receive love and adulation. There were no consequences of abusing his powers, of taking advantage of others, and so he never had a way to learn right from wrong. Environmental cause and effect, the emotional data the mind requires to understand others, disappeared. As other mutants, whose powers are violent by nature, are also becoming a little out of control, the Quiet Council meet to discuss this matter, and the decision is to task Sinister with gathering a team to send into "therapeutic" missions where they are allowed to actually use their powers. The team's first mission is to destroy the now abandoned clone farm that Sinister left under the orphanage where Alex and Scott lived.

After the team enters the orphanage, Empath starts fooling around with Nanny's emotions which leads to her trying to 'nurse' Greycrow. Psylocke calls him out on it, but Greycrow has another answer to Manuel and shoots him straight in the head. He is soon afterwards resurrected by the Five.

He is killed again on his next two missions with the team. The first to Amenth through Otherworld to prevent Arakko from competing in Saturnyne's challenge, and the second against The Right where on his deathbed he reveals "Cameron Hodge" is actually just a robot duplicate.

The team eventually fights the Locus Vile, an Arakki group who wants to retrieve the DNA that was stolen from them by a clone of Sinister during their mission to Amenth. During this conflict several of Essex's secrets are brought to light such as his secret clone lab in Murderworld. Greycrow and Havok try to destroy the facility after finding out this, but Psylocke begs them not to, as he has a mental copy of her dead daughter in it. They agree to stand down only for Manuel to abruptly take over and make Havok destroy it on Emma's behalf.

Powers and abilities
Empath possesses the psionic ability to sense and manipulate the emotions of others. He can affect large groups of individuals at a time and can exert varying levels of empathic control over them, ranging from subtle manipulations that others are generally unaware of, to a complete negation of emotion that reduces them to a zombie-like state in which he can command them with little effort. His power operates by means of Empath's own brainwaves overriding the parts of the brain that govern emotion in others.

Reception
 In 2018, CBR.com ranked Empath 13th in their "20 Most Powerful Mutants From The '80s" list.

Other versions

Age of Apocalypse
In the Age of Apocalypse reality, Empath is held hostage by Mikhail Rasputin, who attaches the young mutant to a computer system in order to amplify his empathic abilities and control the human population of Eurasia. This causes Empath incredible agony, and when his handler, Keeper Murdock (the Age of Apocalypse's version of Daredevil), accidentally touches him, Murdock realizes the horrific pain the young man is in and ends his life.

References

External links
 Marvel Directory-Character Bio-Empath
 Uncannyxmen.net character bio on Empath

Comics characters introduced in 1984
Characters created by Chris Claremont
Fictional empaths
Fictional Spanish people
Marvel Comics mutants
Marvel Comics superheroes
Marvel Comics supervillains

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"Mientras tanto" es el episodio final de Futurama y el número 26 de la séptima temporada. El capítulo se estrenó el 4 de septiembre de 2013 en Comedy Central, junto con un talk show llamado Futurama en vivo antes y después del episodio. "Meanwhile" fue escrito por Ken Keeler y dirigido por Peter Avanzino. Como conclusión de la serie, el episodio gira en torno a la relación romántica  entre Fry y Leela. En el episodio, el profesor Farnsworth inventa un botón que permite viajar 10 segundos al pasado. El botón es robado por Fry, quien quiere usarlo para prolongar el momento en el que le pide matrimonio a Leela.

Debido al recurrente estado de producción incierto, "Meanwhile" es el cuarto episodio en ser utilizado como el final de serie. Seguido de "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", "Into the Wild Green Yonder" y "Overclockwise", todos escritos por Ken Keeler.

Argumento
Cuando Leela casi muere en un accidente, Fry se da cuenta de que no podría vivir sin ella, así que decide proponerle matrimonio. El profesor Farnsworth anuncia dos inventos: uno es un botón que permite retroceder 10 segundos en el tiempo, el otro es un refugio en el que quienes estén dentro cuando se haga funcionar el botón, no se verán afectadas como el resto del universo. Fry roba el botón y lo utiliza para robar repetidamente diamantes candidatos para un anillo de compromiso. Después de presentarle el anillo a Leela, la invita a reunirse con él en la cima del Vampire State Building a las 6:30 p.m.: si ella acude eso significa que acepta casarse, y en caso contrario él deducirá que lo ha rechazado. Su plan consiste en utilizar el botón para hacer que la puesta de sol dure todo el tiempo que quieran él y Leela. Se pone triste al saber que son las 7:02 p.m. y Leela aún no ha llegado. Él salta de la azotea, pero ve que Leela se acerca y observa el reloj del edificio viendo que son las 6:25 p.m., el botón del tiempo no tenía en cuenta el reloj. Intenta usar el botón para deshacer el salto, pero como lleva más de 10 segundos cayendo, no puede regresar a la azotea. A medida que el dispositivo tarda 10 segundos en cargar, está en bucles continuos en los que cae hacia el suelo a varios metros por debajo del techo, incapaz de ponerse a salvo.

El profesor se da cuenta de que el dispositivo ha sido robado y el tiempo está en un bucle repetidamente, y se preocupa porque el universo podría correr peligro. También advierte de que cualquier persona que salga del refugio puede ser destruida si el dispositivo se vuelve a utilizar posteriormente. Bender confiesa que Fry se robó el dispositivo, es por eso que él se dirige al Vampire Estate Building para salvarlo. En ese momento Fry está cansado después de caer durante tanto tiempo, y sin querer suelta el botón. Muere instantáneamente cuando llega al suelo, pero Leela atrapa el botón y lo utiliza para recorrer los últimos segundos de la vida de Fry. El profesor sale del refugio para detenerla y se evapora cuando presiona el botón. Después de varios saltos, Bender crea un método para salvar la vida de Fry mediante una bolsa de aire. Fry logra sobrevivir, pero al caer destruye el botón congelando el tiempo a su alrededor menos para él y para Leela.

Estando solos en el mundo, ambos organizan su boda, y transcurren, para ellos, décadas viajando alrededor del mundo. En sus viajes un misterioso rayo les molesta. En la vejez, se dirigen a la parte superior del Vampire Estate Building a beber el champán que Fry había colocado allí antes de que fuera destruido en el botón. El rayo finalmente revela ser el profesor, que no murió, sino que se fue instantáneamente en otra dimensión del tiempo perpendicular a la familiar. Él explica que él estaba tratando de encontrarlos y reparar el botón del tiempo. Fry ha conservado las partes, y el profesor vuelve a generar con la modificación de que una pulsación más invierta el tiempo antes de que se haya inventado el dispositivo, y nadie se acordará de lo que pasó. Aunque han disfrutado del envejecer juntos, Fry y Leela acuerdan "volver a vivir", y el profesor pulsa el botón.

El Botón del Tiempo
 Cuando el botón del tiempo es pulsado crea una explosión de partículas llamadas anticronitones que le permiten al botón retroceder el tiempo.

 Si el botón del tiempo se rompe, se crearía una explosión de anticronitones que puede congelar el tiempo.

 Si el botón es pulsado muchas veces, los anticronitones podrían triturar a los objetos y seres vivos en el continuo de tiempo-espacio.

 Si un ser vivo es evaporado por la explosión de los anticronitones, es posible que en vez de morir sea enviado a una dimensión del tiempo haciendo que en la nuestra sea un rayo de luz: eso fue lo que le sucedió al profesor cuando Leela lo destruyó con el botón.

 Si la persona pulsa el botón, el reloj que puede usar no queda afectado y eso hace que siga moviéndose hacia adelante: eso fue lo que le sucedió a Fry cuando se cayó del edificio.

Recepción

Audiencia
El episodio fue visto por 1.28 millones de televidentes en su estreno original por Comedy Central.

Recepción crítica
 Zack Handlen de The A.V Club dio al episodio una "A" Comentando: "¿Cómo decir adiós? No a una persona. Decir adiós a una persona es fácil, especialmente si uno de ustedes se está moviendo. Pero ¿cómo se le dice adiós a la serie? A veces duele, como cuando una serie se canceló antes de que tenga la oportunidad de cumplir con un potencial excelente, a veces es vergonzoso, como cuando el espectáculo ha perdido una pizca de lo que hizo que valiera la pena y solo sigue cojeando hasta que lo inevitable ocurra: una decepcionante conclusión."
 Max Nicholson de IGN dio al episodio un 9.0 sobre 10 comentando: "Después de un encore cuatro años en Comedy Central, Futurama ofreció otro adiós, es el final de la serie emitido la noche del miércoles, y aunque puede ser doloroso para ver el final espectáculo, al menos podemos tomar consuelo en saber que salió en una alta nota."
 Nick Arganbright de Examiner comentó: "En uno de los más hermosamente conmovedores momentos de la serie, Fry y Leela envejecen juntos, y este fan de largo plazo, es más, el romántico en mí, se rompió un poco. Realmente lo clava él y casa tal vez, A pesar de su uso de los viajes en el tiempo, la vida es mejor pasarla con la persona que amas."

Crossover con Los Simpson
Futurama y Los Simpson tienen un crossover bajo el nombre de Simpsorama. Fue la primera aparición de Futurama tras la cancelación la serie.

Véase también
 Episodios de Futurama

Referencias

Episodios de Futurama


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How much activity do you really want in your kitchen?-- These days, nearly everyone wants an open floor plan, with the kitchen as the heart of the home. But sometimes the open plan can seem "too open" when it's executed. So ask yourself these questions.When you cook, do you want to have the whole family cook with you? Then you might want to design your kitchen with enough counter space so two "teams" can work at once. You may even want to consider a secondary prep sink. If you're the type of person who wants to cook, but have others watch, then you might want to consider an island with your cooktop on one level, but seats and counter for your guests at a higher level.
Do you like to cook and entertain, or entertain without cooking?-If you are a gourmet cook with cabinets bulging with spices, special pots and pans, and collections of dinnerware, then investing in extra cabinetry makes sense. You should look seriously at options like a butler's pantry, super pantries, and lots of upper cabinetry for storing glassware. Many of our customers, however, report that they love to buy foods from gourmet delis or take certain shortcuts when they entertain. If this describes you, you may want to eliminate some upper cabinets, and instead invest in cabinet organization for your lower cabinets, putting most of your items there.
Be honest-are you a good housekeeper?-Do you leave crumbs on the counter and dishes in the sink, or are you a neatnik? How you answer should affect the materials you choose. If you're naturally neat, then you can choose any material with confidence. But if you're not, you may want to avoid tile floors with light colored, hard-to-clean grout, stainless steel appliances that show every fingerprint, and painted cabinets that highlight every drip. Instead, choose Pergo-style or urethaned hardwood floors, wood tone or dark painted cabinets, and stainless steel alternative finishes that don't show fingerprints.
What are your favorite things to do in the kitchen?-Do you love to linger over the morning paper with a pot of gourmet coffee? Then an investment in a built-in coffee maker and special cabinets for your mugs and coffees makes sense. Do you love to bake? Then a lowered marble counter space just for kneading, outfitted underneath with special drawers for your special baking pans, would be well worth the effort. Do your kids like to do homework while you are making dinner? Then a special homework perch with a raised kitchen counter might be the answer, with special cubbies for storing their backpacks. Cabinets today are so specialized; you can create your own personal activity zones.
Are you on a budget?-Is the sky is the limit for your project? Or do you need to stick with a more simple and conservative design? Your budget can affect how large or elaborately detailed your kitchen is, but, regardless of your pocketbook, trust that your Home Depot designer can help make your dreams come true with Decora's vast array of cabinetry choices, organization options, and embellishments. Try The Home Depot's helpful budgeting tool to help determine what you might spend on your project.


A patent is the grant of a property right to the inventor. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) grants patents for 20 years from the date of filing the application. The inventor needs to apply for a patent with the descriptions, drawings, claims, an oath, and the fees. The applicant receives an application number and filing date when the patent office accepts the application for consideration.
The USPTO however accepts only complete applications. They grant incomplete application time to complete the application requirements, and the date of filing becomes the date when the applicant complies with all requirements. To allow inventors to establish an early effective filing date and thereby earn parity with foreign applicants, USPTO allows applicants for non-design patents to file a provisional application for a patent that does not require claims or declarations. This also lowers the initial cost of filing the application. The applicant has to file a standard application within 12 months, but the date of application is the date on which the inventor makes the provisional application.
The USPTO studies the application to ensure the claimed invention is new, non-obvious, complies with the law, and does not violate any rules of patent statute or practice, before granting or declining a patent. Processing takes place on a first come first served basis and may take years, but the Director of the USPTO may allow for out of turn processing on showing sufficient justification for doing so. Many patents face being rejected on first application, and usually require an appeal to address the issues that led to the rejection, leading to a second review by USPTO.
A patent holder or a license holder from the patent holder, has to mark their products or articles with the word "Patent" and the patent number, to protect their invention and recover damages from an infringer. Failure to do so would require notifying each infringer of the violation, and ensuring that the infringer continues with the infringement before making a claim for damages. This leads to a tricky situation during the time the USPTO makes their examination, reviews the appeal, or during the 12 months of provisional patent.
At these times, between the date of the provisional or final application and the date of granting or rejecting the patent, the inventor who has applied for the patent, or the company having acquired the rights to use, market, or sell the product from the inventor, may use the term "Patent Pending" or "Patent Applied For" for the invention. Such phrases convey the information that the application for patent is under consideration by USPTO. The protection offered by the patent however, does not start until the actual grant of the patent.
The American Inventors Protection Act, 35 U.S.C. Sn. 154(d) allows the inventor rights under pending patent to claim damages for infringement. This statute gives the inventor provisional rights to obtain reasonable royalties from those who use, sell, offer to sell or import a product or invention, which is under the consideration of USPTO, or in "patent pending" mode. Regardless of the "patent pending" notice in the product, the inventor or rights holder, will have to send an actual notice to the infringer informing the patent is under consideration and asking to stop the infringement, usually as a "cease and desist notice". They can however make the claim for damages only after the receiving the patent.
The ability of inventors or right holders to assert such rights, starts when the USPTO publishes the patent application, which takes place 18 months after the filing date or priority date claimed by an application. Such claims for reasonable royalties however, do not hold unless the claimed infringement is identical to the invention described in the published patent application. The inventor or right-holder, also has to bring in action against such infringers within six years after obtaining the patent, failing which the claim to royalties lapses. Infringers also have the option to challenge the application for patent at the USPTO within two months of publication, on reasonable grounds.
In real-life, "Patent pending" may be worthless for products with short life cycles, as by the time the inventor issues a cease-and-desist notice to the infringer, the product demand may already have run its course anyway. Competitors and infringers however, remain less likely to infringe on capital-intensive products with "patent pending" notices, for such products require a long time to recoup their investments, forcing infringers to ignore "cease and desist notices" and risk lawsuits claiming royalties. Other infringers, wanting to milk a lucrative market when the opportunity exists, may actually infringe deliberately, especially when the product requires low start up costs, hoping to negotiate royalties when eventually slapped with a lawsuit.
The marking of articles as "patented" or "patent pending" when it is not the case, is against the law and attracts a penalty.
United States Patent and Trademark Office. "General Information Concerning Patents." https://www.uspto.gov/patents/resources/general_info_concerning_patents.jsp. Retrieved June 10, 2011.
BiOS. "Ever think about why the label "patent pending" is such a powerful marketing tool?." https://www.patentlens.net/daisy/bios/4125.html. Retrieved June 10, 2011.


Driving distance between Blue Hill, ME and Hope, ME is 50.29 miles (or 80.93 kilometers). If you drove an average car (using about 3.6 gallons of gas per mile), the gas would cost you around $, since you would need about gallons of fuel.
Leaving from Blue Hill, ME you would reach Hope, ME in about 1 hour 21 mins if you keep an average speed of miles per hour, assuming you don't make any breaks or get stuck in traffic.
This is a map overview of the best driving route from Blue Hill, ME to Hope, ME in which you can see the origin and destination points marked with A (Blue Hill) and B (Hope) respectively as well as blue line along the road route you can take. You can zoom in to see more details, including road numbers and even street names both in Blue Hill, ME and Hope, ME as well as every other town you may pass by on your way.
To cover the 50.29 mi that separate Hope from Blue Hill you are going to need between of fuel, considering you drive an average car (30 mpg) and , if you drive an SUV or a heavy car (20 mpg). If you drive a fuel efficient car (45 mpg), your consumption will only be .
Depending on the fuel efficiency level of your car, driving from Blue Hill to Hope will cost you between and . An average car would make the trip for . We calculate the route cost using real time average gas prices for the US and other costs such as tolls are not included in this calculation.
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Home » Exhibitions » Past » 1998 » Alexander Calder 1898-1976
Alexander Calder 1898-1976
March 29 – July 12, 1998
East Building, Upper Level and Mezzanine, Northeast, and Upper Level, North Bridge, and Outdoors
This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.
Overview: The exhibition, which marked the centennial of the sculptor's birth, was the first major retrospective of Calder's work in the United States since his death in 1976. 198 sculptures, 5 related paintings, 24 items of jewelry, 31 works on paper, and 2 toys were presented. 3 monumental sculptures were displayed outside the East Building.
Organization: The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art. The curator was Marla Prather, curator and head of the department of 20th-century art.
Sponsor: The exhibition was made possible by GTE Corporation. United Airlines was the official carrier for the exhibition.
Attendance: 288,709
Catalog: Alexander Calder 1898-1976, by Marla Prather, chronology by Alexander S.C. Rower. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1998.
Brochure: Alexander Calder 1898-1976, by Isabelle Dervaux. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1998
Children's Guide: Alexander Calder 1898-1976, by Heidi Hinish. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1998.
Other Venues: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Image: Alexander Calder, Black, White, and Ten Red, 1957, painted sheet metal and wir, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls © 2000 Estate of Alexander Calder/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 1996.120.3
, 1898 - 1976


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There are three parts to an academic paragraph - the topic sentence, the body (supporting sentences), and a concluding sentence. I want to talk about the concluding sentence in this post.
• a sentence that offers a concluding thought to the paragraph.
As you can see, walking on a daily basis offers several benefits for one's health.
For these reasons, when you go to the polls next week, remember to support our city's schools by voting for the candidate who will best strengthen our city's public education system.
Spend time crafting your concluding sentence and revising it. It is important to have a strong concluding sentence, because it is the last sentence of your paragraph. You want to leave your reader with a final sentence that helps them reflect on the thoughts and ideas expressed in your paragraph. A well-written concluding sentence enables your reader to reflect and see the value of your point of view.


This is a Parallax Propeller (P8X32A) based experimental small engine speed controller/governor. In this video I'm doing some basic testing using an old lawn tractor engine. The software implements a proportional-integral-derivative controller (PID controller) to maintain a target RPM even if the load on the engine changes. A PID controller is a generic control loop feedback controller. In this video the knob (potentiometer) on the left controls the target RPM, and the potentiometer on the right controls the proportional Gain (Kp) of the PID controller. At this time, the Integral (Ki), and Derivative (Kd) gain are hard-coded in software and can't be adjusted externally. The engine throttle is controlled with an old Futaba RC servo.
I have a homemade inverter generator that I made with a PMA (permanent magnet alternator ) and would love to program something that would boost the RPMS of the engine based on dc voltage. Would this be possible ?
This is precisely a circuit I'm interested in. And, very nice of you to put so much thought into it. I myself was interested in approaching this in another way; Developing my own software and programming a pair of microchip 8bit MCU's which are very cheap or going bigger with 16bit. While flow charting, and pondering several technical questions I noticed many problems with controlling a gas engine with a standard servo. First on the list was servo destruction. Any flywheel pickup system that processes in real time would have to average inputs. Compression, power, exhaust, intake strokes all produce different stroke profiles, and those are changed under different load conditions. If these things aren't taken into consideration any one shot pickup could produce different responses to the servo, constantly varying it, and therefore overworking and destroying it. Having no practical experience in application, and you do, how has the system been working for you? I intend to use a system similar, to provide better governing action, while providing two, to three throttle inputs; Gas pedal, Standard Throttle, and PTO auxiliary.
It's really great control system . I am studying automation subject , and now I have plan to study for Control Simulation of Diesel Engines Electronic Governor by adaptive control . Could you help to share your experience for this solution to me .
Please send to email vuong282@gmail.com thanks so much !
How do you turning the Kp, Ki ? Why do you think that them siutable for this system?
Great. I was looking at something similar to control an old Generator of mine. I notice that the mechanical governor is not optimal, and I fancied tinkering! Great post!
Nice work there. PID is amazing!


Venezuela scholar George Ciccariello-Maher and journalist Kim Ives discuss recent developments and examine the massive protests rocking Haiti's U.S.-backed president. The Intercept's Jon Schwarz details the bloody and murderous career of Elliott Abrams, the man now in charge of U.S.-Venezuela operations. And journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous explains the failed revolution in Egypt and outlines U.S.-backed dictator General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's plot to make himself president for life.
Investigative journalist Allan Nairn talks about the history of U.S. crimes in Central America, the time he told Abrams, on national television, he should stand trial for war crimes and the threat of U.S. military action in Venezuela. Former adviser to Hugo Chavez, Eva Golinger, and journalist and educator Roberto Lovato discuss how Venezuela was thrust into economic crisis, who is responsible, and what Washington really wants.


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