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News: Caps off to AMRC Training Centre's first foundation degree graduates
By Tom Austen
The first cohort of students from the AMRC Training Centre in Rotherham have received their foundation degrees.
The £20.5m centre on the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) in Rotherham focuses on students aged from 16 upwards, taken on paid apprenticeships. Part of the The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing, apprentices have opportunities to progress on to postgraduate courses, doctorates and MBA levels.
Launching foundation degrees, which can be delivered as part of a Higher Apprenticeship, the aim was to provide the manufacturing industry with the higher skilled employees it desperately needs. The foundation could lead to a BEng degree after a further year of part time study.
Samuel Ferguson, 25, Sam Forester, 21, Alexandra Smith, 24, and Tom Kaye, 24, are the first to achieve the foundation degree in engineering qualification delivered by the AMRC Training Centre.
Samuel, Alexandra and Sam followed the Mechanical Manufacture pathway while Tom pursued Manufacturing Technology.
They were among hundreds of learners honoured at graduation ceremonies hosted by the University of Sheffield recently.
Louise Cowling, head of degree apprenticeships at the AMRC Training Centre, attended the ceremony and praised the students' talent and tenacity to achieve.
She said: "The students graduating have risen to the challenge of combining work and study. This not only tests the students' academic ability but also their dedication and commitment to their academic progress and career.
"We are incredibly proud of Tom, Samuel, Alexandra and Sam. They have earned their foundation degrees through commitment, perseverance and dedication. This hasn't been easy to achieve as full-time employees with responsibilities in their workplaces.
"There is emerging evidence of a positive impact on students' future prospects, including promotions and further employment opportunities as a result of their academic study, not least because the programmes include industrially authentic assessments.
"We are delighted that graduation affords our graduates the opportunity to receive their degree with their families and employers – to share their achievement with those who have supported and helped them along the way.
"We hope that Tom, Samuel, Alexandra and Sam will be the first of many more graduates combining employment and learning as part of our degree apprenticeship programmes."
Graduate Tom Kaye, who works for Arconic Forgings and Extrusions in Sheffield, is planning to continue his studies with the AMRC Training Centre.
After the ceremony he said: "It's been a really great experience and it was good to feel a part of the university and have that academic achievement recognised. It feels very good. The two years have been worth it."
Eleven students are now pursuing the top up degree delivered at the centre and they will hand in a final project at the end of August, graduating next summer with a full BEng.
The degree apprenticeship programme has been designed in partnership with academic staff and employers to ensure students can graduate equipped to meet the current and future needs of the advanced manufacturing sector and there are three types of foundation degrees to choose from: Mechanical Manufacture, Manufacturing Technology and Maintenance Engineering.
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ALSO HAPPENING NOW, CREWS IN RANDOLPH COUNTY WORK TO PUT OUT A HUGE FIRE AT A FURNITURE FACTORY. THE CAUSE IS STILL UNDER -- STILL NOT KNOWN. THE CALL CAME IN EARLY THIS MORNING NEAR SOUTHEASTERN RANDOLPH MIDDLE SCHOOL. NOW HUNDREDS OF FACTORY EMPLOYEES WAIT TO SEE IF THEY STILL HAVE A JOB. THAT'S WHERE WE FIND OUR MEREDITH STUTZ. MEREDITH: MORE THAN A DOZEN FIRE TRUCKS ARE STILL HERE TRYING TO PUT OUT THIS MASSIVE FIRE HERE AT MAY FURNITURE. I'M STILL SEEING A FIREFIGHTER UP IN THE LATTER TO USE A HOSE TO PUT OUT THE REMAINING HOT SPOTS. THE FIRE CHIEF HERE IN FRANKLINVILLE SAYS IT'S THE WORST FIRE HE'S SEEN IN 17 YEARS. SMOKE AND FLAMES SOARED HIGH ABOVE MAY FURNITURE. CREWS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTY BATTLED INTENSE HEAT FOR HOURS USING HOSES, LADDERS, EVEN DRONES. NO ONE WAS REPORTEDLY INSIDE OR HURT WHEN THE CALL CAME IN JUST AFTER 5:00 IN THE MORNING. THE FACILITY ON REED CREEK ROAD MAKES UPHOLSTERED HOME FURNITURE. FRANKLINVILLE FIRE AND MAY FURNITURE SAY THERE HAVE BEEN FIRES ON PROPERTY BEFORE, ESPECIALLY IN AND NEAR THE WOOD CHIPPING AREA WHICH IS WHERE TUESDAY'S FIRE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE POSSIBLY STARTED. BUT THE COMPANY INSISTS ALL SYSTEMS WERE UP TO CODE. FRANKLINVILLE'S FIRE CHIEF SAYS EVEN THOUGH THE FIRE WALLS INSIDE WORKED, ABOUT 20% OF THE MANUFACTURING FACILITY IS DESTROYED. EMPLOYEES TELL WXII SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO WORK HERE ARE SINGLE PARENTS. >> FROM THE OWNER'S PERSPECTIVE, HE TOLD ME HAD OVER 200 SOMETHING EMPLOYEES HERE. OF COURSE THEY ARE OUT OF WORK RIGHT NOW. IT'S NOT A TOTAL LOSS BUT I'M THE MIDDLE PART OF THIS BUILDING IS. I'M SURE IT'S GOING TO INTERRUPT HIS OPERATIONS. MEREDITH: THIS IS A TOUGH SITUATION FOR EMPLOYEES HERE AT MAY FURNITURE AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY SAYS THAT HE HOPES TO RESUME OPERATIONS AS MUCH AS HE CAN IN THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS. REPORTING IN RANDOLPH COUNTY, MEREDITH STUTZ, WXII 12 NE
Multiple fire departments responded to a fire at May Furniture, Inc. in Randolph County Tuesday morning.It happened around 5 a.m. on Reed Creek Road, near Southeastern Randolph Middle School.Firefighters were still putting out hot spots around noon.No one was inside at the time of the fire. No one was injured. May Furniture makes upholstered furniture and employs approximately 200 people.Several employees told WXII their coworkers are single parents and their job at May Furniture is the sole livelihood for them and their families.May Furniture President Jim Conway tells WXII the fire damage appeared to center in the frame assembly section. In total, about 20 percent of the factory was damaged.Conway told WXII he hopes to resume operations in available spaces in "in a couple days." When asked, an immediate plan was not publicly in place for assisting employees in the interim period.Franklinville Fire Department Chief Kyle Dixon says the firewalls appeared to withhold the intensity of the fire helping it not spread to the wings of the factory. Both Dixon and Conway say 'several fires' have been reported over the past 17 years.Conway says May Furniture was up to code standards at the time of the fire.More than 15 firestrucks responded, along with fire agencies across Randolph County, including Randolph County Emergency Services which flew two drones to help crews manage the damage and fire fighting efforts.
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Multiple fire departments responded to a fire at May Furniture, Inc. in Randolph County Tuesday morning.
It happened around 5 a.m. on Reed Creek Road, near Southeastern Randolph Middle School.
Firefighters were still putting out hot spots around noon.
No one was inside at the time of the fire. No one was injured. May Furniture makes upholstered furniture and employs approximately 200 people.
Several employees told WXII their coworkers are single parents and their job at May Furniture is the sole livelihood for them and their families.
May Furniture President Jim Conway tells WXII the fire damage appeared to center in the frame assembly section. In total, about 20 percent of the factory was damaged.
Conway told WXII he hopes to resume operations in available spaces in "in a couple days." When asked, an immediate plan was not publicly in place for assisting employees in the interim period.
Franklinville Fire Department Chief Kyle Dixon says the firewalls appeared to withhold the intensity of the fire helping it not spread to the wings of the factory. Both Dixon and Conway say 'several fires' have been reported over the past 17 years.
Conway says May Furniture was up to code standards at the time of the fire.
More than 15 firestrucks responded, along with fire agencies across Randolph County, including Randolph County Emergency Services which flew two drones to help crews manage the damage and fire fighting efforts.
TEAM WORK: More than 15 fire trucks, 2 drones and dozens of first responders work to put out the May Furniture fire in Ramseur. @WXII @RandolphCoES pic.twitter.com/rlVkfyLOwq
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A little girl in Marburg looks at a carved pumpkin. Photo: DPA.
If you're in the mood for giant pumpkin carving, onion festivals or spending the night at Frankenstein's castle, then Germany certainly has what you're looking for this October.
Berlin Festival of Lights, September 30th – October 16th
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This October you get not one but two light festivals during Berlin's 17-day celebration of illumination: The Festival of Lights and "Berlin illuminated" (Berlin leuchtet). Berlin illuminated already kicked off on September 30th, but the Festival of Lights starts on October 7th. Most importantly, they're both free.
During this time, Berlin's most famous landmarks will be lit up with bright artworks and animations by renowned light artists.
This year's festival revolves around the message "Light connects", promoting cultural tolerance within the city.
Hamburg Film Festival, September 29th – October 8th
Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly at the festival opening. Photo: DPA.
Fancy going to the movies and getting away for the weekend? Why not combine the two and catch the last few days of the Hamburg Film Festival.
The festival screens around 140 feature and documentary films, both national and international, in different venues around the harbour city, and attracts a plethora of stars including Clint Eastwood, Jodie Foster and Ewan McGregor.
For information on the schedule and tickets, click here.
Frankfurt Book Fair, October 19th – 23rd
A previous Frankfurt Book Fair in 2012. Photo: DPA.
The world's largest trade fair for books takes place every October in Frankfurt. The Buchmesse dates back to the 15th century when Johannes Gutenberg developed mechanical movable type in Frankfurt and sparked the Printing Revolution in Europe.
Notable prizes at the book fair include the award for the oddest book title of the year.
The first three days are only open to trade visitors, but on the weekend regular visitors can join the more than 270,000 people who visit every year.
Stuttgart's Cannstatter Volksfest, September 23rd – October 9th
Photo: Martin Naujocks/Wikimedia Commons.
This is Germany's second largest folk festival behind the more world famous Oktoberfest in Munich, and this year it actually brought in twice as many people in its first weekend as Munich's fest did.
Another of Germany's many beer celebrations, which started in 1818 as a harvest thanksgiving celebration, has become one of the world's largest fests.
The festival centers around a special emblem, a 26-metre high "fruit column".
Each of its giant marquees serves beer from a variety of regional brewers, and can sit up to 5,000 guests, while children are welcome too and can make the most of its Ferris wheel.
Weimar Onion Festival (Zwiebelmarkt), October 7th – 9th
For a city with a population of just 65,000, it's pretty impressive that around 350,000 people normally visit Weimar's onion festival, which takes place annually on the second weekend of October (this year the 7th-9th).
What started as an agricultural market "for beasts and onions" in 1653 has now become a much bigger affair, celebrating local culture, beer, and music, but the onions certainly take center stage.
Many of the stalls are elaborately decorated with garlands of onions, and some of the tear-jerking vegetables are even made into little dolls.
There's shallot to do, and it will certainly put a spring in your step!
Ludwigsburg Pumpkin Festival, Baden-Württemberg, September 2nd – November 6th
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The world's largest pumpkin festival is ready to get you in the mood for Halloween, where more than 800 different kinds and over 450,000 pumpkins are on display.
Notable events include the pumpkin regatta, European pumpkin championship and giant pumpkin carving.
Munich's Auer Dalt, October 15th – 23rd
For those already keen to start Christmas shopping, Munich's "Auer Dult" takes place this month.
This traditional style market which dates back to the Middle Ages only takes place three times a year in the city's Mariahilf Square and offers handmade goods to its visitors, and even a merry-go-round for the kids.
Berlin Oktoberfest, September 23rd – October 16th
If you missed out on Munich's Oktoberfest, then why not head to the capital city's own version.
There is still plenty of time to drink draft beer, don Lederhosen and eat pretzels and pork knuckles at Berlin's own lively beer festival, which runs until the middle of October.
And there's even another Oktoberfest in Berlin that goes on until October 22nd.
Halloween in Frankenstein's castle, near Darmstadt in Hesse, October 21st – November 6th
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Over the coming weekends, this haunting space overlooking Darmstadt will play host to a variety of monsters. Germany's so-called "oldest Halloween extravaganza" promises to "make your nightmares come true", for children and adults alike.
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Report for America Announces 2019 Newsroom Winners
— Jan 17, 2019
Boston, MA, January 17 — Report for America, a national service program that places talented emerging journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered topics and communities announced today the newsrooms that will host Report for America corps member starting in June 2019.
To win the right to host one or more reporters, each news organization had to demonstrate that there is a civically-important gap in coverage and that they have a strong plan to deploy new reporting resources in the public interest. Some focused on geographic gaps, and others on coverage of particular issues or communities.
Among Report for America's 2019 news organizations, spanning 26 states and territories, were Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, a respected nonprofit watchdog group in Puerto Rico, the Forum of Fargo-Moorhead in North Dakota, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cincinnati Enquirer and Associated Press. Among the 50 reporting positions (new and renewals) in the 2019 corps, announced today, 18 will be placed in non-profit organizations, 3 in weeklies, 7 in public radio stations and more than two dozen in newspapers. Additional news organizations and reporting positions will be announced in the coming weeks, bringing the total number of corps members to 60 in 2019. Full details here.
The new positions include:
Associated Press (Connecticut, New York) — Statehouse coverage for Connecticut and New York, focused on criminal justice and mental health issues
Block Club Chicago (Illinois) — Covering the Austin and North Lawndale neighborhoods on the West Side of Chicago
Buffalo Bulletin (Wyoming) — The local energy production industry in Johnson County
CALMatters (California) — Three reporters will cover poverty throughout the state in a partnership led by CALMatters that also includes the San Jose Mercury News and the Fresno Bee
Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (Puerto Rico) — Watchdog reporting on hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico
Chalkbeat (New Jersey) — Education reporting in Newark, NJ
Charleston Gazette-Mail (West Virginia) — Poverty in southern West Virginia
The Charlotte Observer (North Carolina) — Affordable housing crisis and poverty in Charlotte
Chattanooga Times Free Press (Tennessee) — Local coverage of religion and faith communities
Chico Enterprise-Record, Ukiah Daily Journal (California) — Fire recovery in northern California
Cincinnati Enquirer (Ohio) — Local government watchdog reporting in Northern Kentucky
Connecticut Mirror — Mental health and criminal justice
Desert Sun (California) — Native American issues in Coachella Valley, California
Detroit Free Press (Michigan) — Issues related to the re-entry of formerly incarcerated citizens into the community
El Nuevo Herald (Florida) — Coverage of Nicaraguan, Mexican, Honduran, Dominican, Colombian and Venezuelan communities in Miami-Dade County
Forum of Fargo-Moorhead (North Dakota) — Covering local schools
Honolulu Civil Beat (Hawaii) — Cover public health across the islands, including health disparities among Native Hawaiians.
KUER (Utah) — Two reporters, one focusing on Native American populations in southern Utah and the other on Washington County
Lexington Herald-Leader (Kentucky) — Health care in eastern and southern Kentucky
Malheur Enterprise (Oregon) — Latino issues in rural Oregon
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting (Maine) — Statehouse coverage, especially related to education
Modesto Bee (California) — Children's health in the Central Valley
News & Observer (North Carolina) — Watchdog reporting related to the Hurricane Florence recovery
Q City Metro (North Carolina) — Housing and gentrification in Charlotte, N.C. through the lens of the African American community
Sacramento Bee (California) — Coverage of Hmong, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian, Cambodian and Japanese communities
Salt Lake Tribune (Utah) — Two reporters, one covering San Juan County and one covering women's issues
Spectrum News Buffalo (New York) — Mental health issues in Buffalo
Spokesman-Review (Washington) — Public health in eastern Washington state
Sun-Gazette (California) — Agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley
The Advocate (Louisiana) — Public health in south Louisiana
The City (New York) — Juvenile justice in the Bronx
WCAI (Massachusetts) — Climate change and its impact on the communities of Cape Cod and the south shore of Massachusetts
West Virginia Public Broadcasting (West Virginia) — State government as it impacts southern West Virginia
Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism — Criminal justice misconduct
WPLN (Tennessee) — Criminal justice in Nashville
And another 5 to 10 will be announced in the coming weeks.
In addition, Report for America will be renewing its commitments to the following existing programs:
Victoria Advocate (Texas) — Rural public health
Chicago Sun-Times (Illinois) — South and West sides of Chicago
Mississippi Today — Criminal justice and photography
Mississippi Public Broadcasting — Mississippi Delta
Dallas Morning News (Texas) — Second generation immigrant communities
Lexington Herald-Leader (Kentucky) — Eastern Kentucky
Charleston Gazette-Mail (West Virginia) — Southern Coalfields of West Virginia
Report for America has extended the deadline for corps member applications to February 8, 2019.
The corps member application and information can be found here:
This group includes newsrooms that were recruited as a part of special initiatives in California, Connecticut and New York.
The expansion was made possible by a surge of financial support from a variety of sources including the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Facebook, Google News Initiative, Dirk and Natasha Ziff, Galloway Family Foundation, The Tow Foundation, Ford Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Select Equity Group Foundation, The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, The Joyce Foundation, The Steans Family Foundation, Henry L. Kimelman Family Foundation and the Duo Collective.
Report for America currently has 13 reporters in Georgia, Mississippi, Kentucky, New Mexico, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia. The leap in 2019 to 60 reporters nationwide, and the goal of 1,000 reporters by 2023 speaks to the urgent need to close the local news reporting gap. The program, funded by both private and public donors, pays for half of each reporter's salary and the remainder is covered by the local newsroom and local benefactors.
RFA corps members typically have 3 to 6 years of experience, while some are accomplished recent graduates. More than half of the current corps members have returned to their home states.
Report for America is an initiative of The GroundTruth Project, an award-winning nonprofit news organization dedicated to supporting emerging journalists in under-covered corners of the world. GroundTruth launched Report for American in January of 2018.
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Opinion April 25, 2019 April 25, 2019
A Populist Battle in the 2020 Election
Jack Parkos | @Laissez_Faire76
As of now, there are 18 Democrats running for the primaries in the 2020 election. Furthermore, Bill Weld has announced that he will challenge Trump in 2020. Although it's early, it appears that the big candidates for the election are Donald Trump for the Republicans and Bernie Sanders for the Democrats. Both Trump and Sanders have been labeled as "radical" and "anti-establishment" by many in the "establishment". The establishment, which, is dying. The old politics of neoliberalism and neoconservatism are being replaced by a new generation. This generation is embracing a new ideology-populism. This is happening on both the left and right sides of the political spectrum.
Continue reading "A Populist Battle in the 2020 Election" →
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Essays January 7, 2019 May 9, 2019
It's Time to Replace the Electoral College
Jack Shields | United States
The 2016 election was a showdown between Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton. The fact that the leader of the free world was going to be one of these individuals, both of whom were under FBI investigation, shows that our electoral system is in need of reform. Further compounding this need is the fact that Donald Trump received 2.8 million votes fewer than the loser, Hillary Clinton. The Electoral College is clearly a disaster which does not do an adequate job in achieving any of the noble goals presented by its supporters. However, the solution of going to a popular vote, by far the most popular idea, would be even worse. The Electoral College must be repealed and replaced with a ranked choice voting system, rather than relying on the popular vote.
The Failure of the Electoral College
The Electoral College was a disaster from the start. The system went unnoticed during the first two elections as George Washington was running, so it was really more of a formality than an actual election. Its flaws, however, became apparent in the election of 1796 between Federalist John Adams and Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson. At the time, the Electoral College operated under the rules prescribed in Article II Section 1 Clause 3, which gave each elector two votes for President. Whoever had the majority of votes became President, and whoever had the second most became Vice President. Adams won, becoming President, but rather than fellow Federalist, Thomas Pinckney, receiving the second most to become Vice President, Jefferson of the opposite party did. This made the Executive branch split ideologically for the only time in American history, causing tension and inefficiency. Problems continued in the election of 1800 when Democratic-Republicans Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr each received 73 electoral votes and the outcome of the election went to the House of Representatives. It was a brutal political battle that took 35 deadlocked votes before Alexander Hamilton convinced a minority of Federalist Representatives to back Jefferson in the 36th vote, making him the third President of the United States (a decision that would help lead to Burr killing Hamilton in a duel). Both sides understood our electoral system was a mess, so to remedy this the Twelfth Amendment was ratified in 1804, making each elector now have only one vote for President and one for Vice President.
While certainly an improvement, ratifying Twelfth Amendment was like applying a band-aid when surgery is required. Many more problems have surfaced since regarding Presidential elections and more and more band-aids have been added.
With electoral votes being what matters and not the votes of the people, the right to vote in a Presidential election was not and is still not guaranteed. The Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-sixth Amendments had to be ratified, along with the passage of countless laws, to at least clarify which characteristics can't be used to prevent Americans from voting.
The Twenty-third Amendment was ratified in order to actually let American citizens in our country's capital have any say in who would be running the nation. For 172 years they were spectators in their own country. Today, millions of Americans are unable to vote for who should be their Commander in Chief simply due to the fact they live in territories rather than states.
There have been five elections in which the winner of the popular vote was defeated. Additionally, small states are disproportionately represented in the Electoral College. Both of these are hailed by supporters of the Electoral College as its benefits. Small states should be represented and the tyranny of the majority should be kept at bay. The problem is that neither of those has really happened. When is the last time you saw a presidential candidate visit Wyoming or Vermont? Small states have not been represented, while swing states receive large amounts of media and campaign attention. Rather than a national election, the Presidential election is an election of Florida, Ohio, and Virginia. This is not how it should be. While power should be decentralized and overall, states should have more powers and influence in the lives of the American people, when we are holding an election for the head of the national executive the entire nation should be involved. The idea that we need a system that checks the tyranny of the majority is absolutely true. The Electoral College just isn't the way to do it. Checks and balances, a small list of enumerated federal powers, decentralization of power, and state legislatures picking Senators were effective ways to check the majority. We have abandoned many of these ideas as government has grown bigger while our rights have shrunk, and the Electoral College hasn't been able to stop any of this. The way to change course and keep small states powerful and the tyranny of the majority in check is to stick to checks and balances and decentralization of power, not have a terrible electoral system where someone can become President with only 27% of the popular vote. We should keep powers limited to protect the states. We should keep the amount of positions people get to elect limited to check the tyranny of the majority. But once we've decided to allow the people to vote, as we should do when deciding who gets to be the powerful man in the world, we should treat it as any other vote: winning 51% of the vote means winning the election.
The final supposed benefit of the Electoral College was it would protect us from the ignorance of the masses. It did this through the Electors, which are in no way constitutionally bound to vote for who the people of their state picked, although many states have laws requiring them too. But has it at all checked the people's ignorance? The reality TV star who cheated on his wife with a porn star is President right now. President Wilson (re-segregated the federal government), President Roosevelt (put Japanese people in camps and appointed a former KKK member to the Supreme Court), and President Johnson (helped filibuster civil rights legislation) all were elected without any opposition from Electors. In fact, the only time the Electors have had any significant impact was during the election of 1872 when the Democratic nominee for President, Horace Greeley, died after the popular vote but before the electors cast their votes, causing them to split their votes between four other Democrats. Just like the tyranny of the majority, the ignorance of the majority should not be checked by the way we hold our elections. The way to check it is to limit the power of the federal government and what positions we get to vote for.
With the Electoral College being the disaster it is, many have proposed we move to a popular vote. In this system, whichever candidate receives the most votes becomes the next President. But this cure is worse than the disease. There have been eight elections in which the winner won with a plurality of votes, and this system exasperates this problem. It requires there to always only be two candidates, stifling many viewpoints and competition. The clearest example is with Bill Clinton's election in 1992. Clinton won with an electoral landslide despite winning only 43.01% of the vote. This was because the third-party candidate, Ross Perot split President George H. W. Bush's base. A Democrat won the election despite the fact that 56.36% of the electorate chose a conservative-leaning candidate. This is a problem that will continue to occur with a popular vote. A different solution is clearly needed.
A Ranked Choice Voting System is the best way to elect the President. In this system, rather than picking just one candidate, a voter ranks his or her favorite candidate 1st, the second 2nd, and so on. If when the votes are tallied in the first round, none of the candidates received above 50% of the popular vote, then the candidate in last place is eliminated and the votes for those who voted for the now-eliminated candidate go to their highest ranked, non-eliminated choice. This process continues until one candidate has above 50% of the vote, making them the next President of the United States. President Bush would've been able to win in dominant fashion in the second round of the election under this system; giving the American people a President most closely aligned to the wishes of the electorate. That should be the most important goal of any electoral system, and none do it better than ranked choice voting.
While ensuring the majority of the American people actually voted for the next President is the most important goal, there are many other goals that are achieved by Ranked Choice Voting.
The candidates will be less radical. Primaries allow radical bases to select candidates not in line with mainstream America, causing most Americans to choose between the lesser of two evils as seen best by the 2016 election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Under this system primaries are weakened and may even become totally irrelevant and eliminated as multiple people from each party would be able to run without destroying any chance of victory as with the elections of 1912 and 1992.
With more candidates being viable the American people will have more options and more opinions will be represented. With votes transferring, the idea of 'wasting your vote' will be a thing of the past. All voters will get to vote with their conscience for the candidate most representative of their values without having to pick the least worst option.
The presidential candidates will have to campaign everywhere. Democrats in Texas and Republicans in California will finally have their votes matter and the need to campaign nationwide rather than Florida-wide will be the new path to victory.
Millions of American citizens living in territories such as Puerto Rico will be able to have a say in who their President will be. All Americans will have their votes matter now that we will have a system which ensures citizens do get to vote for President and there is no Elector who can go against the will of the people.
Lastly, this system has the potential to make elections more civil and unifying, something badly needed in this country. Most Americans disapprove of negative campaign ads, but their use is increasing. It is much easier to prove someone else wrong than to prove yourself right. A ranked-choice system creates negative consequences for disparaging your opponent and incentives to be civil; voters aren't just voting once, they are now ranking candidates, so every detail of a campaign matters. And while not everyone is going to make a candidate their first choice, the candidate will want them to rank him or her second. A voter is not likely to rank a candidate anywhere on their list if the candidate is in a calling the other candidate's supporters deplorables who are racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, and xenophobic. Candidates will now have to play nice if they hope to stand a chance should the election go to round two.
With an electoral system that has failed us from the beginning, many Americans are turning away from the Electoral College and looking for alternatives. While this is a necessary first step we must be careful not to stumble upon the first alternative and end up with an even worse electoral system. Ranked Choice Voting is by far the most efficient and beneficial system, making it the obvious choice for the Presidential electoral system of the future.
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Essays, Opinion July 14, 2018 September 6, 2018
Hawley, Missouri GOP Rip Page From Failed Clinton Playbook
By Francis Folz | United States
38 percent. That is the percentage of the Missouri electorate Hillary Clinton garnered in her failed bid for president in 2016. You would think the Missouri GOP would be smart enough not to use a page from Ms. Clinton's shoddy playbook, especially since Mr. Donald Trump defeated Ms. Clinton by 19 points in the Show Me State. However, this is not the case.
The Missouri GOP voted on July 3, 2018, to suspend a rule that prohibits the National Republican Party (the establishment) to spend money on a particular candidate in a contested primary. Instead of leaving the race between the candidates and the voters, the Missouri GOP thought it would be a fantastic idea to act like there is not a primary by concerting with the national party to elect Josh Hawley. Sound familiar?
Ms. Clinton colluded with the DNC to rig her primary election against Bernie Sanders only two years ago. And to add insult to injury, the DNC decided to further isolate the Sanders wing of the party by barring his supporters from the party's convention the same year. Common sense would suggest not to repeat the same mistake of snubbing the grassroots, especially in such a close race. Polls show Mr. Hawley either trailing Claire McCaskill or narrowly leading her within the margin of error.
However, the grassroots' liberty candidate in the race, Austin Petersen, is determined to fire Claire in November. In a matchup between Mr. Petersen and Ms. McCaskill, Austin bests Claire 56% to 40%. In light of that recent poll, it should be common knowledge not to interfere in a heated race between a weak, establishment candidate and an electrifying grassroots firebrand.
But to make matters worse, in an out-of-touch move, President Trump and Vice-President Pence have weighed in for Mitch McConnell's Josh Hawley. This shows disdain for the vast amount of Missouri voters reluctant to support Mr. Hawley. After all, it was Mr. Hawley who aired campaign ads not even two years ago that promised not to use the Attorney General's office to climb the political ladder. Such promises have long since vanished.
However, attempts to shut out the grassroots have not weathered Austin's spirits, and why should they? Mr. Hawley has modeled his entire campaign after Ms. Clinton up to this point. For example, Mr. Hawley decided meeting with voters and debating his primary opponents is beneath him. So, Josh skipped the vast majority of Lincoln Days hosted by local Republicans. He was also missing the night Congresswoman Ann Wagner flew from D.C. to St. Louis to host the Republican senatorial debate. To make up for his blunders, Josh thought he could score a few political points by throwing former-governor Eric Greitens under the bus. Publicly alluding to impeachment before even filling charges, he effectively denied Mr. Greitens due process.
Furthermore, Mr. Hawley has been spotted lifting weights at the gym and buying wine during business hours (you know, while he's supposed to be performing the duties of Attorney General). This is all part of a pattern.
Back in March, while Mr. Petersen and other primary candidates were out shaking hands with voters, Mr. Hawley chose to stay home and talk about his NCAA bracket on Twitter. And just when you thought Mr. Hawley couldn't be more distant to voters? His official senatorial website doesn't even have an "issues" section to let Missourians know how the Attorney General feels about crucial topics. To this day, Mr. Hawley refuses to rule out voting for Mitch McConnell for Majority/Minority Leader.
Mr. Hawley has even admitted in one of his few interviews that he was not interested in running for senator at first. Comparatively, Austin Petersen, Mr. Hawley's most formidable primary opponent, has been attending countless local events and speaking with a myriad of voters on the campaign trail. It appears that the West/East Coast educated Attorney General believes the GOP establishment's blessing will be able to carry him across the finish line in August. Judging by the Missouri GOP's recent, unconventional actions, however, it may be harder than Mr. Hawley and company imagined.
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Essays, Opinion June 11, 2018 June 11, 2018
Weld Didn't Endorse Hillary, Did He?
By John Keller | United States
Since the presidential election of 2016, many have speculated that the Libertarian vice presidential candidate Bill Weld endorsed Hillary Clinton before the election. Is this true?
In an interview with MSNBC on 30 September 2016, Bill Weld is credited with endorsing Hillary Clinton for President of the United States. He made the following statement:
"I'm not sure anybody is more qualified than Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States." – Bill Weld
The question must be raised: Was Bill Weld wrong? Let's take a look at the numbers. Seventeen presidents were former governors, what Gary Johnson's job was. On the other hand, thirty-four presidents were former lawyers or secretaries, what Hillary Clinton's career was. Even looking at the vice presidential picks, the Clinton Campaign was more "qualified", whereas twenty-four vice presidents had been senators, as Tim Kaine was, and only sixteen vice presidents were governors, like Bill Weld.
But it is the second statement that Bill Weld makes that is forgotten by the media. He continued:
"I mean that's not the end of the inquiry though. I mean, we were two-time governors and I think Gary is very, very solid. You know, at this point, we overlapped as governors and I thought highly of him back when we served together, but having spent the last several months with the guy, I mean I don't even just like the guy I love the guy, I think he is very solid and deep. I think his insight that it pays to have some restraint about military incursions for the purpose of regime change before we still American blood on foreign soil and put boots in the ground in countries where we just don't like what the government in that country is doing. I think that's a valuable insight. I'm not sure it's characterized the foreign policy of either Bush, the most recent Bush, or the Obama Administration and I think that might be a refreshing change. I think he and I could bring a much more tranquil approach to Government in Washington because we wouldn't be screaming at one of the two parties about how stupid they are. We would work with them both." – Bill Weld
Furthermore, the rest of the interview seems to be his expression in favor of Gary Johnson and himself for the national ticket. The next question that must be raised: was it wrong of Weld to speak in favor of Mrs. Clinton over Mr. Trump? He spoke plainly on MSNBC on the 30th of September of 2016:
"I do not view those two candidates the same way. I think very highly of Mrs. Clinton, I think she is very well qualified, I think she did a great job in the debate the other night. She kept her game face on… I thought Mr. Trump by the end of the debate was out of control…" – Bill Weld
Bill Weld was looking at it from a realist perspective in an unreal election cycle. Businessman against a career policy maker in the debates when unspoken traditions of policy discussion were broke. Mr. Trump threatening to jail his opponent was, to the common politician, very unprofessional. Threatening to lock up opponents in an election is commonplace in shame democracies that are in essence dictatorships, and it is not commonplace in a constitutional republic.
The total length of the interview with MSNBC on September 30, 2016, was seven minutes and forty seconds (7:40). Throughout the interview he made a few statements in favor of Mrs. Clinton, totaling thirty-four seconds (0:34). Thirty of those seconds was made responding to a question about the debates in which he was expressing that he thought Hillary Clinton performed better than Trump. No harm in expressing who you think won a debate the libertarians were even in, right? But the four seconds that killed him was the statement mentioned formerly in this article in which Bill Weld said, "I'm not sure anybody is more qualified than Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States." However, the statement he followed that up his remark about Hillary Clinton was a one minute and four second (1:04) praise of Gary Johnson on how experience was the end of the inquiring and that Gary Johnson would be a better president than Hillary Clinton, although he may not necessarily be more "qualified". Throughout the whole interview, thirty four seconds (0:34), or 7%, of the interview was expressing approval of Mrs. Clinton over Mr. Trump, and seven minutes and six seconds (7:06), or 93%, of the interview expressing that Gary Johnson and himself were the right choices for America.
The other moment in which many thought Bill Weld endorsed Hillary Clinton was on 1 November 2016 in an interview with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. Many think that Bill Weld gave up on the campaign, but after failing to get into the debates it was clear the campaign strategy had to be re-examined. That is why Bill Weld made the realistic statement:
"I think in the real world that's [aiming for 5% of the vote] probably correct… we thought for the longest time we might have a chance to run the table because we're such nice guys and centrist party and etc etc, but not getting into the debates really sort of foreclosed that option. So now it is the 5%, your right." – Bill Weld
Bill Weld was looking realistically at the coming election. The Republicans and Democrats had just spent millions of dollars to keep Gary Johnson out of the presidential debates and himself out of the vice presidential debate, keeping them at 12% national and then pushing them back down towards 2%. In order to have a successful ticket in the future, the Libertarian ticket knew they had to reach 5% to get matched federal funds, guaranteed ballot access, and more of being recognized as a major party. Although the goal changed, the message did not. In the same interview he gave the following statement:
"Well, we are making our case that we are fiscally responsible and socially inclusive and welcoming and we think we got, on the merits, the best ticket of the three parties if you will and so we would like to get there. Having said that, as I think you're aware, I see a big difference in the R candidate and the D candidate, and I've can in some pains to say that I fear for the country should Mr. Trump be elected. I think it's a candidacy without any parallel that I can recall. It's content-free and very much given up to stirring up envy and resentment and even hatred and I think it would be a threat to the conduct of our foreign policy and our position in the world at large."
It is clear the message had not changed, but the goal of the campaign had. He wanted to see a Libertarian presidency but the current, realistic climate made it impossible, and so he expressed when asked about referring to Trump as "unstable" during the interview:
"Oh yeah, yeah I mean that psychologically." – Bill Weld
In the research done in this article, I am of the opinion that Bill Weld did not endorse Hillary Clinton and that a study of what was actually said proves he supported the Libertarian message to the end of the campaign. Although the goal of the campaign may have changed in the end weeks, and he may have preferred one candidate over the other in terms of the duopoly, he stood by the libertarian message through the end of the campaign and even continues to fight for libertarian principles today.
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Essays, Opinion April 22, 2018 April 22, 2018
Dreams Of A Post-Partisan World
By Craig Axford | United States
I've been a Green Party candidate for the US House of Representatives and a Democratic National Committee organizer. In spite of my partisan past, or maybe because of it, these days I increasingly find myself thinking political parties have outlived their usefulness, and instead hoping we can find a path to a post-partisan politics that focuses more on ideas and less on group identity.
Political parties offer a number of services to candidates that make them appealing. They function a bit like insurance companies, only instead of paying out in the event of a disaster they distribute resources when candidates receive their nomination. Contrary to the public's perception of party organizations, these benefits don't just come in the form of money. In fact most candidates receive little to no direct financial assistance from their party. The aid usually comes instead in the form of data, volunteers, trained organizers, and the chance to leverage long established networks.
However, first and foremost a party is a tribe that candidates can count on. This benefit has become even more salient as society has polarized and hostility toward partisans identifying with the opposition has hardened into a norm. A candidate can now expect an even higher level of support than they used to just for receiving their party's nomination. As Roy Moore's US Senate bid demonstrated, in a state that heavily favors your party from the start it takes an awful lot of scandal to yank defeat from the jaws of victory.
Donald Trump also recognized the power of tribal loyalty when he stated that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone without jeopardizing the support of his voters. That he paid no political price for this public insult regarding his supporters' apparently low moral standards only served to prove his point. Trump intuitively understood that those rallying behind him had coalesced into an army of committed warriors that had already put their personal reputations on the line by supporting him. For these voters there was no turning back.
This phenomena is hardly exclusive to Republicans. Research shows that members of both political parties are likely to be wearing blinders, or at least pretend to have blinders on, when it comes to expressing approval for their particular team and denigrating the other side. The difference between the two groups isn't that one is biased and the other isn't. The difference lies in what they are likely to be biased about.
In a 2013 paper entitled Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs about Politics, researchers found that when Democrats were asked whether inflation and unemployment had risen under Reagan and Republicans were asked whether deficits had risen under Clinton, both sides gave the wrong answer by overwhelming margins. The answer is no in both cases.
However, when partisans were asked questions that provided an opportunity to portray the opposing party in a negative light but were given a financial incentive if they gave the correct answer, "The payments reduced observed partisan gaps by about 55%." In other words, the vast majority of respondents know the right answer. When the incentive is expanded to also include a reward for a respondent if they admit they don't know the right answer, the partisan gap was "80% smaller than those that we observed in the absence of incentives."
The researchers concluded the problem here isn't that Democrats and Republicans are ignorant of the truth. What they're doing when they give pollsters the wrong answer is taking the opportunity to cheer for their team either by exaggerating their party's success or minimizing/denying the accomplishments of the opposition. In other words, partisans are little more than cheerleaders who are willing to wave distracting pompoms and do intellectual flips no matter what the scoreboard says. Anyone who has had to listen to a Trump voter explain away his lies and misogyny as "authenticity" or endure a diehard Hillary supporter insist in spite of all evidence to the contrary that she really ran a good campaign knows what I'm talking about.
As Steven Pinker puts it in his most recent book, Enlightenment Now, "Reason tells us that political deliberation would be most fruitful if it treated governance more like scientific experimentation and less like an extreme-sports competition." Pinker goes on to ask if we can "imagine a day in which the most famous columnists and talking heads have no predictable political orientation but try to work out defensible conclusions on an issue-by-issue basis?" I can imagine it, but is such a dream realistic?
No country has so far avoided the "extreme sports competition" of party politics without resorting to authoritarian rule to do it. Perhaps in some cases elections are more like gentile games of cricket and less like professional wrestling. In those instances the discourse is definitely more civil, but that doesn't necessarily translate into more reason. The same biases probably just tend to get expressed more politely.
Perhaps it isn't important. The psychologist Paul Bloom doesn't seem to think it is. In Against Empathy: The Case For Rational Compassion, Bloom contends that "Political views share [another] interesting property with views about sports teams — they don't really matter." What Bloom is arguing is that "they don't really matter" at the individual level. "This is certainly true as well for my views about the flat tax, global warming, and evolution," Bloom explains. "They don't have to be grounded in truth, because the truth value doesn't have any effect on my daily life."
Bloom is right. At least he is up to a point. What one person, or maybe even a few dozen or a few hundred people think about these issues doesn't really matter. But at some point enough people thinking the same thing, or just acting as though they think it because certain ideas are what fans of their political team are supposed to cheer for, does begin to have an impact. If the outcome of all this cheerleading means putting one person in the White House or a significant number of people into the House and Senate that vote accordingly, even Bloom would have to agree that's significant. Whether we do or don't think global warming is a Chinese hoax doesn't really matter in our daily life. But what the person occupying the Oval Office thinks on the subject can change the course of history.
That said, Paul Bloom's argument does force us to confront the relevancy of political parties head on. If political views held by the average voter don't matter any more than sports teams do in a person's daily life, and voters tend to treat political parties like a favorite sports team, what's the point of political parties? If we don't want our politics to be like an "extreme sports competition," wouldn't getting rid of the teams be the first step? Our political views wouldn't matter anymore or less than they do now, but at least we wouldn't feel compelled to lie to pollsters or vote against our own interests just to win. Encouraging a more rational approach to politics seems more likely to have a positive cumulative impact than mindless acclaim for our side and disparagement of the other.
Our right to freely associate with the individuals and institutions of our choice takes precedence over any benefits that may come society's way in an idealized post-partisan world. I would be the first to call a constitutional foul on the state if it banned political parties.
However, as individuals we can make a more conscious effort to give all candidates appearing on our local ballot more scrutiny instead of simply going with the one with a D or R after their name, or a G or an L for that matter. The media can also do a far better job of including all the candidates in their coverage so voters know what the people running to represent them are thinking. While the focus on the top two candidates is understandable, the notion that there's a duopoly on ideas is patently absurd. A minimum of one live prime time debate between all the candidates, or at least all those not polling above 10% or so, should be a condition of any license given out for use of our public airwaves.
Politics shouldn't be just another game. Ideas really do matter and America desperately needs to begin thinking seriously about them again. For that to happen we'll each need to stop being fans eager to show off our clever protest signs and funny memes mocking the other side. We'll need to become citizens.
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Q: Return from function is not working in javascript I am calling function from ajax success and trying to return value from the function
ajax success is
  success: function(data)
  {
    var distance_arr;
    data = JSON.parse(data);
    for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++)
    {
        if(data[i].port_name != destination)
        {
            distance_arr = get_port_distance(data[i].port_name,source,type);
            alert(distance_arr);
        }

    }
  }

In get_port_distance  function I am returning value  as
    return  distance;

by calculating distance in get_port_distance function. When I alert distance in get_port_distance then it is correct but when I return it It alert blank in ajax success function
function get_port_distance(source,destination,type)
{
    var directionsDisplay;
    var directionsService = new google.maps.DirectionsService();

    var request =
    {
        origin: source,
        destination: destination,
        travelMode: google.maps.TravelMode.DRIVING
    };

        var service = new google.maps.DistanceMatrixService();
        service.getDistanceMatrix({
        origins: [source],
        destinations: [destination],
        travelMode: google.maps.TravelMode.DRIVING,
        unitSystem: google.maps.UnitSystem.METRIC,
        avoidHighways: false,
        avoidTolls: false
    }, function (response, status) {
    if (status == google.maps.DistanceMatrixStatus.OK && response.rows[0].elements[0].status != "ZERO_RESULTS") {
        var port_distance = response.rows[0].elements[0].distance.text;
        port_distance = port_distance.replace(/\,/g,'').replace(' km',''); // To REMOVE comma(,)
        return  port_distance;

        }
    });
}

A: return  port_distance;
is placed inside:
function (response, status) {}.
That means that you are not returning anything from:
function get_port_distance(source,destination,type){}
See this Stackflow answer for help solving the problem returning from an async function.

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Dane Fitness works with several major manufacturers to offer a full range of new and pre-owned fitness equipment and products. We provide turn-key assistance for fitness centers including facility layout, equipment and flooring selection, equipment replacement, logistics, installation, finance options, extended warrantees, service contracts and maintenance services. We provide these services for residential, private and nonprofit fitness clubs, and corporate wellness centers.
Dane Fitness offers sales of new and preowned commercial fitness equipment for people of all fitness levels. We make high-end fitness equipment accessible, reliable, and affordable. If you are outfitting your home gym, we have a number of options to suit any workout style. From new and preowned commercial cardio and strength equipment to accessories and gym flooring, we can put together a custom package that fits your needs. And, with our reconditioned equipment, you get the quality and durability of commercial equipment for a fraction of the cost of new.
We built our business on providing better and quicker service. We know that a machine down is a downer. So we respond quickly and keep many parts on hand. Dane Fitness is certified to provide factory service on all Matrix, Nautilus, Schwinn, Stairmaster, Freemotion, Precor, Cybex,TRUE and Star Trac products. We will provide service on other products for up to one year for customers who plan to purchase supported products within that timeframe. Our experienced service team will make a diagnostic and repair visit to get your equipment up and running.
Keep your gym equipment operating in peak performance with our regularly scheduled preventive maintenance programs. We'll be in charge of keeping records, reporting potential or existing problems that might keep your equipment from performing at its best by visiting your gym on a regularly scheduled program each month, quarter, or annually depending on your usage.
Dane Fitness has a passion for wellness and helping create welcoming environments for employers to encourage workplace wellness. We will work with you to develop a wellness center that is accessible, friendly, and will help keep your employees motivated to get exercise. We believe that this must also be accompanied by programming and incentives so we offer our expertise and guidance for creating programs that work.
Our clients have included Tractor Supply, St. Thomas Hospitals, LifePoint Hospital, AmSurg, Advanced Financial, and ServPro to name a few. We have provided both new and refurbished equipment for our corporate clients.
Research shows that corporate wellness centers pay big dividends. A place on site where employees can get fit (and stay fit) has been proven to boost morale, decrease absenteeism, increase productivity, and lower healthcare premiums. Those are returns on investment that CEOs love.
Our services for our private, profit and nonprofit fitness clubs, and corporate wellness centers go beyond adding equipment with extensive training including maintenance and product upkeep, proper usage, fitness training, and a safety training and videos. This helps protect you and your investment by ensuring it is used and maintained properly. Fitness equipment can be intimidating to the novice user. Understanding how to use it without feeling embarrassed helps increase the likelihood that employees and clients will be engaged in safe usage.
Dane learned fitness center operations by working for the YMCA of Middle Tennessee, which appointed him Wellness Director for two centers. He left the Y and started Dane Fitness in 2003. He knows every aspect of the industry from wellness to manufacturing. He stays on top of the latest in wellness and the fitness industry through constant contact with industry experts, manufacturers, and relentless research.
For seven years prior to founding his company, Dane Burks advanced through the ranks of the YMCA of Middle Tennessee, one of the largest nonprofit fitness networks in the country, becoming Wellness Director for two centers. A frequent headache—and costly expense—for the Ys was equipment maintenance, servicing, and turnover. As a director, Dane was frustrated as he watched equipment sit idle for weeks waiting for repair. He also knew how much the Y was paying to store outdated and worn equipment. These equipment issues were a nuisance that no one wanted to deal with, so he came up with a plan and took action. He left the Y in 2003 and started Dane Fitness.
The company gained traction rapidly as it provided fitness centers with a single source for relieving the pain of equipment management, offering installation, training, maintenance, service, storage, and reselling. Soon Dane Fitness began carrying new equipment for the major national brands like Nautilus, Stairmaster, Vicore, and Freemotion. The company now has a full-time staff of five (and contracting up to a dozen or more), a warehouse, and retail and online stores.
We sell and service fitness equipment. But it's just a means to an end. We are in this business for one reason: Wellness. It's what motivates us. What moves us. Our dream is wellness for everyone. Wellness should not be reserved for the wealthy. Our new and refurbished products make wellness accessible for everyone.


Estimated Time: There are 7 lessons and it's suggested that students complete 1 lesson per week, but this can be flexible according to student needs and schedules.
This is an introductory lesson to the Golden number and the Fibonacci number serious found prevalently in nature, art and architecture.
Our introduction to the Golden number and the Fibonacci number series continues with a focus on a historical timeline.
Lesson #2 – Activity – Math is Fun: Nature, The Golden Ratio,and Fibonacci too!
In this lesson, we look at the amazing connections the Fibonacci numbers have with the natural world.
In this lesson, we will have a brief history of the Great Pyramids of Egypt with a focus on the Great Pyramid of Giza and it's relationship with the Golden ratio.
We learn about the discovery of quasicrystals and their discoverer, Dan Schectman and their relationship to phi. Quasicrystals are materials with unusual atomic structures including 5, 8, 10 and 12-fold symmetries believed impossible in science before they were discovered through electron microscope diffraction by Dan Schectman in 1982.
This lesson studies music's mathematical connections and relationship with the golden ratio and the Fibonacci numbers.
(Maslan) My favorite part of the story is when Thutmose had the vision where the Sphinx talked to him.
(Atticus) I thought it was interesting that a prince of a large civilization would rather go hunting then participate in big festival.
Atticus, it was great practice and first attempt! Nice work on the five-pointed star! It's understandable that the Golden ratio gauge would be off being made out of cardboard. If you're really interested in studying this further, I'd suggest making the Golden ratio gauge with the following materials. The aim, of course, would be to create a more accurate one.
1). Try using a strong, thick tagboard (like Shoo Rayner's) from a craft store. It should be thick but not nearly as thick as the cardboard. Alternatively, if you have a cutting tool to saw into popsicle sticks (easily found and cheap), you could use those and they'd be stronger.
The more you practice with accurate tools, the better and more accurate your results will be. But certainly, as your learning to do these projects, first attempts are typically not perfect. Thank you for sharing your work and being willing to try the projects and not being afraid to make mistakes! Not being afraid to make mistakes while learning is a great quality you have! Some students are afraid to try for fear of failure. Failures are the stepping stones towards success. Awesome work! Keep going!
(Atticus) I thought the fact that all the numbers add and divide into each other was very cool.
(Maslan) I thought the fact that the square of each Fibonacci number plus the square of the next number always equals a different Fibonacci number was interesting.
Atticus and Maslan, thanks for posting! Fibonacci numbers are truly amazing. There are so many different kinds of computations you can do to play with them. It makes learning math pretty fun, especially their connections with the beautiful natural world. These numbers were a HUGE inspiration for getting me outdoors looking for them! What excited me the most about them, is that numbers aren't just found in a textbook or calculator but throughout the sciences and the natural world.


Metallon Corporation CEO Kenneth Mekani, has stepped down to pursue personal business interests. Mekani, who has been at the helm of Zimbabwe's largest gold producer since 2015 leaves the post in September 2018.
The London-based gold producer, said in a statement it has completed a corporate restructuring exercise to ensure each mining subsidiary is a standalone company with its own management team. The Metallon Corporation Chief Executive Officer position will now be based in London.
"As part of the Metallon restructuring, I was offered a transfer to London which I declined due to personal reasons. I have been part of the Metallon family for more than 3 decades. As I leave the company, I look forward to exploring, with the Board and its Chairman, other ways by which I can continue to give input in the transition phase.
"I will continue to follow company's success with great enthusiasm," Mekani said Metallon chairman, Mzi Khumalo, said Mekani's experience in the mining industry over the past 31 years has been an asset to Metallon.
"Kenneth led the company's transition through various phases of growth and it has been Metallon's wish to have him continue in his role from our offices in the United Kingdom. However, we understand that he will not be able to relocate, due to personal reasons. We look forward to exploring a continued collaboration in other capacities."
Mekani's working relationship with Metallon began when he joined then Lonrho Mining as a graduate trainee metallurgist in June 1987. After completing the graduate trainee programme, Mekani was appointed plant metallurgist and he spent several years in the group's various operations where he worked his way up the ranks and was involved in major metallurgical projects.
In December 2012, he was appointed acting chief operations officer for the company and in June 2013, he was appointed general manager for the group's flagship operation, How Mine.


Almine Rech Gallery is pleased to present the first exhibition by Marcus Jahmal with the gallery in Brussels.
Marcus Jahmal's story is radically contemporary and yet he creates ties with the founding principles of modern art by taking his own transversal path.
The paintings exhibited at Almine Rech Gallery Brussels belong to his latest series. Interior spaces have made way for dreamscapes where jungle, savannah and desert mesh together. Planes of violently and flamboyantly contrasting colour constitute a dry, abstract background from which characters, masks, shamans, and wild animals burst forth. Like his Fauvist, Cubist, and Expressionist predecessors, Jahmal takes inspiration from Africa and beyond: tigers and paddy fields glance to Asia while skeletons hint at Mexican culture, resulting in an incantatory and archaic impression. Here, the figures dominate their surrounding environment: while oscillating between submission and threat, human and animal, they haunt the pictorial plane. Their stance evokes not only physical control but also suggests their capacity to access immaterial forces, be they creative or destructive: constituting perhaps a polymorphic portrait of the artist himself.


Jessica and Craig held their wedding at the beautiful Turnip Rose Promenade Gardens in Costa Mesa, CA. Jessica and Craig had such a wonderful wedding day. The day began when they each arrived at the Turnip Rose to get ready. They ready in their private bridal suites, and once all dolled up they headed to their "first look". The "first look" was awesome because there is a mini vineyard nearby, and it was such a fantastic and romantic spot for them to see each other for the first time on their wedding day! We absolutely love Craig's smile when he first saw Jessica! So sweet.
They held their ceremony in the lovely outdoor garden gazebo. We really enjoyed how engaged their family was during the ceremony. Such loving attention and expressions. And it didn't hurt that the ring bearer and flower girl were SUPER adorable!
We feel so incredibly honored to have been invited to share in this day and get to meet Jessica and Craig's friends and family.
There were many special moments throughout the day. A few of our favorites were when we got to take romantic bridal portraits with Jessica and Craig. As a couple, they have this fantastic blend of sophisticated and glamorous while also sweet and romantic which we adore!
We also had the honor of creating their wedding video. We will share the video here once it's ready. Stay tuned.


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Q: unable to get enter and get value in REACT.js I am new to ReactJS and trying to build a sample application
I am unable to get enter the value in textbox and unable to get the value in alert. Am I doing something wrong.  I have tried the example given on React.Js Form, but not working.
import React, { Component } from "react";

class AddNewStudent extends Component {

    constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.state = {value:''};

        this.OnSubmit = this.OnSubmit.bind(this);
    }

    OnSubmit(event){
        alert('name value is : '+this.state.value);
        event.preventDefault();
    }

    render(){
        return(

                <form onSubmit={this.OnSubmit}>
                <fieldset className="Student-Form" id={this.props.id}>
                    <legend className="Legend">Add mew student</legend>

                                    Name :
                                    <input type="text" value={this.state.value} />

                                    <input type="submit" value="Save" />

                </fieldset>
                </form>

        );
    }
}

export default AddNewStudent;

A: please change :
<input type="text" value={this.state.value} />

to:
<input type="text" value={this.state.value} onChange = {this.onChange}/>

In your class, add the 'onChange' function:
onChange(e){
  this.setState({
    value: e.target.value
  })
}

and in your constructor:
this.onChange = this.onChange.bind(this)

Edit 1:
  please check my codepen here
Edit 2:
  If you have too many inputs, you can use a function like this:(it's just a rough example, in real world I'll create a new component to handle this together)
//in your constructor
  this.state = {}
//in class 'controlled component way'
  createInput(num){
    let inputArray = []
    for(let i = 0; i < num; i ++){
      inputArray.push(<input key = {i} name = {i} onChange = {this.onChange} value = {this.state[i] || ''} />)
    }
    return inputArray
  }

  onChange(e){
    let key = e.target.name
    let newState = {}
    newState[key] = e.target.value
    this.setState(newState)
  }

  // in your render function
  return

      {this.createInput(100)}

check my codepen here for this example
and of course you can also do this using uncontrolled component.
controlled component and uncontrolled

A: You can either bind onChange event to your input or setState when submiting the value , you cant change the state like that
Change your code to something like this
import React, { Component } from "react";

class AddNewStudent extends Component {

    constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.state = {value:''};

        this.OnSubmit = this.OnSubmit.bind(this);
    }

    OnSubmit(event){
      this.setState({value: this.refs.infield.value},()=>{
        alert('name value is : '+this.state.value);
      })

        event.preventDefault();
    }

    render(){
        return(

                <form onSubmit={this.OnSubmit}>
                <fieldset className="Student-Form" id={this.props.id}>
                    <legend className="Legend">Add mew student</legend>

                                    Name :
                                    <input type="text" ref = "infield"/>

                                    <input type="submit" value="Save" />

                </fieldset>
                </form>

        );
    }
}

export default AddNewStudent;

A: Hi to get the value add a name to the input and an onChange function to set the  value to the state and then do what evere you want in onsubmit function
I cant write you a working code now because I'm using my phone but my this Will help
onfieldchange(e) {

this.setState({[e.target.name]: e.target.value});
}
onaSubmit(){
//do your code here
}
....
....
<input type="text" name="firstName" value={this.state.firstName} />

Hope this help you

A: There are two ways to handle form elements in reactjs:
Controlled and uncontrolled components(using refs).In controlled component approach ,you have to add the state of the input field to the input field value and onChange event to it, which is the one you are trying to do.Here is the working code.
import React, { Component } from "react";

class AddNewStudent extends Component {

    constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.state = {
          firstname:''
        };

        this.OnSubmit = this.OnSubmit.bind(this);
        this.OnChange = this.OnChange.bind(this);
    }

    OnSubmit(event){
        alert('name value is : '+this.state.firstname);
        event.preventDefault();
    }
    OnChange(){
      this.setState({
       [e.target.name] : [e.target.value]
      });
    }

    render(){
        return(

                <form onSubmit={this.OnSubmit}>
                <fieldset className="Student-Form" id={this.props.id}>
                    <legend className="Legend">Add mew student</legend>

                                    Name :
                                    <input type="text"
                                      name="firstname"
                                      value={this.state.firstname}
                                     OnChange={this.OnChange}
                                    />

                                    <input type="submit" value="Save" />

                </fieldset>
                </form>

        );
    }
}

export default AddNewStudent;