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Recruiting 101
Signing day, 2000, brought with it more than the usual buzz to Boulder, Colorado.
After the 1999 recruiting class imploded due to the uncertainty of a coaching change, head coach Gary Barnett could not afford to have a second consecutive mediocre recruiting crop.
Fortunately for the Buffs, Barnett delivered.
At the top of the class was all-everything running back Marcus Houston.
The Denver (Thomas Jefferson) standout was near the top of nearly every recruiting gurus list of "can't miss" prospects. In addition to being untouchable on the field (1,743 yards and 23 touchdowns as a senior), Houston was a model citizen off the field. Houston had received numerous academic and community service honors, including the National High School Volunteer of the Year award. Houston had even found the time to create his own "Just Say Know" program, which encouraged middle school children to think about success and their future.
Houston's signing with the Buffs was a major coup for Barnett.
Losing the state's top prospect to another school, on the heels of a 7-5 season which included an embarrassing 41-14 loss to in-state rival Colorado State, would have been an indication to some that the glory days of the recent past were over. Barnett's sales pitch to Houston, though, was surprisingly straight forward. Barnett visited the Houston home on December 1, 1999, the first day direct contact was allowed by NCAA rules. Later, when coaches from high profile programs (like Bobby Bowden of Florida State and Mack Brown of Texas) visited Houston, Barnett feigned indifference. When asked during the recruiting period if he was worried about the still uncommitted Houston receiving the attention of other schools, Barnett's response was "What I said was, 'Where were Bobby and Mack on (December 1st)? They were visiting their most important recruits, weren't they?' They weren't in Houston's house. I was the only head coach in Marcus' house."
Still, the issue was still in doubt when Marcus Houston stepped to the microphone on January 28th, 2000.
On a Denver radio show, accompanied by the fanfare usually reserved for celebrity press conferences, Houston declared his intention to be a Buff. An audible sigh of joy and relief was felt throughout the Denver metro area.
The 2000 class was not limited to Houston, however.
Hometown All-American (Boulder Fairview) quarterback Craig Ochs also committed to the Buffs, as did junior college transfer quarterback Bobby Pesavento. Otherwise, offensive and defensive linemen represented a significant portion of the class. Colorado picked up one of each with the Hage brothers, with Marwan Hage (offensive line) and Rudy Hage (defensive line) coming to Boulder from Montreal, Quebec. Other defensive linemen coming to Boulder included Matt McChesney and Sam Wilder.
Not as well publicized at the time, the Buffs also picked up another quality running back on Signing Day, 2000. Bobby Purify, from Colorado Springs (Palmer) was ranked as the No. 75 running back nationally, finishing second in the state (to Marcus Houston) in rushing, with 2,102 yards and 24 touchdowns.
Overall, the recruiting class was rated as being between 16th and 20th nationally by the recruiting intelligentsia.
Not quite the top ten accolades CU had received for its recruiting classes in the early 1990's, but certainly a significant step forward from the debacle of the previous year.
Tags: Bobby Pesavento, Bobby Purify, Craig Ochs, Gary Barnett, Marcus Houston, Marwan Hage, Matt McChesney, Rudy Hage, Sam Wilder
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Terror and tourism: How bad news can harm economic development
Tim Besley, Thiemo Fetzer, Hannes Mueller 14 February 2020
Reporting on violence draws attention to countries not typically covered by international news outlets. This leads to a 'bad news' bias, which can affect not only how people view these countries, but whether they choose to visit. Using aggregated spending data to proxy tourist activity, this column documents a robust relationship between the intensity of reporting on violence and subsequent drops in tourist spending, suggesting that a bad news bias can have serious economic consequences for the countries that suffer from it.
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In 2016, terrorism in the US caused fewer than 0.01% of the nation's deaths but was covered by its newspapers more than any other cause.1 Cancer and heart disease caused more than 60% of all deaths but were represented in only 15% of news. This kind of sensationalist bias can influence perceptions of the causes of death when individuals use 'availability heuristics', i.e. when they judge the probability of a cause by the ease with which they can recall it (Tversky and Kahneman 1973). In psychology these kinds of biases have received a lot attention, and recent research reviewed by Zhu et al. (2020) suggests that they occur because we use Bayesian sampling intuitively in our minds. These kinds of biased beliefs can affect behaviour and they lower expected welfare if, for example, one avoids public spaces but continues smoking.
Biases of this sort might also affect the macroeconomy, trade, and even economic integration. This is most apparent for developing countries, which are rarely covered by international news unless something terrible happens. If it is not discounted by consumers, this sort of news bias can shape the international image of countries – or even entire regions – as dangerous and miserable, affecting travel to these places and isolating them economically. But quantifying these effects is close to impossible, as the effect of events and reporting on them cannot typically be studied separately.
Tourism offers a unique chance to study the effect of news, as tourists from different origins evaluate the same destination in order to decide on a holiday. If different origin countries report differently on the same events, then tourists from different countries may react differently to the same events. In a new paper, we use this separation to quantify the economic consequences of bad news (Besley et al. 2020).
To capture the news environment, we build a corpus of nearly half a million news articles from different origin countries. Our corpus consists of news articles from 57 origin countries covering five destinations – Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey – from 2009 to 2016. We auto-translate all articles and identify a subset of articles that report on fatal violence or violence against tourists. Given the size of the corpus, we use methods from computational linguistics and supervised machine learning to develop an automated classifier of reports on violence. This software automatically flags any article that reports on fatal violence or tourists being attacked. In this way we can compare, for example, how news is reported in South Korea and Germany on the same events occurring in Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey.
Figure 1 shows the aggregate reporting share of our definitions of 'bad news'. The first measure is reports on fatalities, which we plot as blue lines. The other definition of bad news in the context of tourism is whether tourists were targeted. We report this measure as red dashed lines. In both cases, we report the share of bad news relative to all news. This relative measure increases when either the number of bad news reports increase or reporting on other news decreases. In other words, our relative measure not only allows us to capture the effect of bad news but also the absence of other news. Figure 1 shows that this is a particularly big problem for Tunisia – a country which is reported on very little in international news. Reporting on tourists being targeted captured more than 40% of all reporting on the country in the month of the 2015 Sousse attack. A country of 11 million inhabitants was, to a large degree, defined by a series of terror attacks in the eyes of an international readership. For Turkey, a country that experienced terrible terror attacks a year later, the relative news share of bad news never increased beyond 8%.
Figure 1 Aggregate reporting shares of 'bad news'
In order to gauge the economic effects of reporting, we leverage aggregated and anonymised monthly card spending data proxying tourism activity of MasterCard holders from our 57 origin countries in our five destinations countries – a pairwise data structure very similar to data measuring international trade flows. This data structure allows us to study whether tourists react to events at their destination or to reporting at home. We can thereby learn whether the intensity of bad news is at least partly responsible for changes in card spending. Do countries that report most intensely on an event experience larger drops in spending? How large is this effect compared to the effect of the event itself?
We document a robust relationship between the intensity of reporting on violence and subsequent drops in tourism spending and visits. The effects we find are sizeable: we estimate that if reporting on a specific dyad switches from reporting on topics unrelated to violence to covering only stories about tourists being targeted, tourism spending drops by about 56% a month later. This effect is fairly persistent in the first few months but then dissipates, lasting for about nine months following the negative coverage.
News biases and availability heuristics: A damaging combination
Our results show that some destinations receive much more intense relative coverage of bad news, driven to a large degree by the absence of other news presented on those countries. South Korean news outlets, for example, rarely report on Northern Africa. When they do, it is typically to report that South Koreans have been kidnaped or that other tourists have been killed. This leaves audiences at home with the impression that Northern Africa is extremely dangerous. Tourists from Spain see more other news from their neighbours south of the Mediterranean and are therefore more impervious to bad news. Most importantly, the same is true for different destinations: Tunisia suffers by far the strongest effect of bad news items on spending because the country is reported on so little otherwise.
To fully estimate this relative news effect, we develop a model to separate the effect of the event from the effect of news. To capture the role of news in the model, we distinguish between two types of potential travellers. We call the first type 'sophisticated' tourists. These tourists are assumed to observe actual measures of violence and build their perception of the risk of danger based on these data. We build a model of the best possible risk evaluation that 'sophisticated' tourists would have made regarding any of the destination countries. This risk is not origin specific because it is driven by events at the destination. The other type of tourist is 'naïve' in the sense that they only respond to the information they observe from watching the news. The worldview of these tourists behaves as if they were using availability heuristics. Even with constant objective risks, the perceived risk for these tourists can change dramatically with news about violence.2 These theoretical types represent two extremes; actual card spending will be driven by a mix of both behaviours. However, by separating types of behaviours in this way, we can use a grid search to estimate what mixture best describes the aggregate data. We find that a weight of more than 50% for tourists using availability heuristics best describes the data.
The resulting model of tourist behaviour allows us to simulate a combination of a violent event at a destination with a news shock at the origin. The result is shown in Figure 2. We assume that a single, unrepeated event happens. This makes sophisticated tourists change their travel plans and, as tourists book travel in advance, this leads to an effect on tourists' spending, which only slowly fades out. The resulting reaction is shown as a dashed line. Tourism falls by four percentage points and recovers slowly after nine months. Overall, an isolated event like this would make a country lose close to 15% of one month's tourist revenues.
Figure 2 Simulated news effect
Figure 2 also shows the simulated news effect. If one news item covers the event, the potential loss increases considerably. Losses without other reporting drops by close to eight percentage points. This is the kind of undampened effect that many countries experienced as a reaction to events in Tunisia. The combination of media bias and tourists' availability heuristic drove up their assessment of the risk of travel to the country, doubling the country's loss from the original event. Figure 2 also shows the effect on tourists who receive a lot of other news on the destination country. When a hundred other news items are seen together with the bad news, the overall effect of the event is close to the one felt by sophisticated tourists.
For a country like Tunisia, which receives little international coverage, this leads to dramatic effects on aggregate spending. We use the estimated model to show, for example, that in 2015 the news effect alone was responsible for a spending decline of about 15%. How large was the overall loss for all five countries? The World Bank reports that tourism revenues in 2010 were $3.48 billion in Tunisia, $5.6 billion in Israel, $13.63 billion in Egypt, and $26.3 billion in Turkey. Based on the estimates in Besley et al. (2020), total losses between 2011 and 2016 could have exceeded $35 billion due to violence, with in excess of $10 billion due to negative news reporting. Our simulations also indicate that Egypt and Tunisia are predicted to have recovered their losses towards the end of the sample period.
Broader implications of these findings? How important is negative news as a phenomenon? How balanced is reporting across the world? Figure 3 summarises the impression that readers of BBC Monitoring, The Economist, The New York Times and The Washington Post will have from different regions of the World (Mueller and Rauh 2019). It plots the average number of words appearing on the respective region per quarter in all of these outlets on the horizontal axis and compares this with the share of news about conflict on the vertical axis.
Figure 3 Reporting across regions of the world – the vertical axis measures the share of news written on conflict vis-à-vis the average number of words per quarter on the horizontal axis
A clear pattern emerges. Whereas reporting per quarter on developed regions is very intense, reporting on Africa and Latin America is considerably lower. At the same time, there is much more reporting on conflict in these countries. There are more conflicts in these regions, but the particularly worrying pattern here is the low level of reporting in the absence of conflict. Even if violence is contained, single isolated violent events may still erode perceptions and trust in the relative safety of a country, undermining the economic development that is usually fostered by trade more broadly (e.g. Frankel and Romer 2008, Donaldson 2018).
Azeredo da Silveira, R and M Woodford (2019), "Noisy Memory and Over-Reaction to News", American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings 109: 557–561.
Besley, T, T Fetzer and H Mueller (2020), "Terror and Tourism: The Economic Consequences of Media Coverage", CEPR Working Paper.
Bordalo, P, K Coffman, N Gennaioli, and A Shleifer (2016), "Stereotypes", The Quarterly Journal of Economics October: 1753–1794.
Combs, B and P Slovic (1979), "Newspaper Coverage of Causes of Death", Journalism Quarterly 56(4): 837-849.
Donaldson, D (2018), "Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure", American Economic Review 108(4-5): 899–934.
Frankel, J A and D Romer (2008), "Does Trade Cause Growth?", American Economic Review 89(3): 379–399.
Shen, O, H Al-Jamaly, M Siemers and N Stone (2018), "Death: Reality vs Reported", https://owenshen24.github.io/charting-death/
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Zhu, J, A N Sanborn and N Chater (2020), "The Bayesian sampler : generic Bayesian inference causes incoherence in human probability", Psychological Review.
1 Following Combs and Slovic (1979), Owen Shen et al. (2018) compares causes of deaths in 2016 to news reporting on different causes of death by The New York Times and other news outlets. Our World in Data compiled this striking summary based on their efforts: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/05/Causes-of-death-in-USA-vs.-media-coverage.png.
2 Of course, in our aggregate data we cannot pin down the explanation for why we observe strong reactions to news stories. For alternative explanations, see Azeredo da Silveira and Woodford (2019) and Bordalo et al. (2018).
Topics: Development Politics and economics
Tags: bad news bias, terrorism, tourism
Tim Besley
School Professor of Economics and Political Science at the London School of Economics and W Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics; and Research Fellow, CEPR
Thiemo Fetzer
Professor of Economics, University of Warwick
Hannes Mueller
Tenured Researcher at the IAE (CSIC) and Associate Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics. Personal webpage: https://www.hannesfelixmueller.com/

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Health in fishing communities:a global perspective
Woodhead, A.J. and Abernethy, K.E. and Szaboova, Lucy and Turner, Rachel A. (2018) Health in fishing communities:a global perspective. Fish and Fisheries, 19 (5). pp. 839-852. ISSN 1467-2960
In resource-dependent communities such as fishing communities, human health underpins the ability of individuals and families to maintain viable livelihoods. Fishing is a dangerous occupation, in which fishers are exposed to health risks both on and offshore. Many of these risks and associated health concerns also extend to fishing families and wider communities. Despite the importance of health, there is a lack of understanding of the breadth of health issues affecting people associated with fishing. This study presents the findings of a scoping review of peer-reviewed literature that identifies the range of health issues and health determinants studied in fishing communities around the world. The findings reveal a wide variety of documented health issues, but with greater emphasis on physical health and occupational and behavioral factors, with limited attention paid to mental health. The majority of studies focused on fishers themselves, as opposed to other subgroups within fishing communities. Geographic differences in the health topics investigated highlight prevalent concerns and offer potential to share insights and solutions across contexts. The breadth of findings illustrates the complexity of health for people dependent on fishing, and the relevance of the many health determinants in maintaining viable fishing communities. We propose that a social well-being approach offers an integrative lens through which a better understanding of human health in fisheries can be achieved and used to inform fisheries management that is ecologically and socially sustainable. © 2018 The Authors. Fish and Fisheries Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd


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Building sector energy consumption and projections are trending downward dramatically. According to the recently released U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) 2013 statistics and projections, Building Sector projections for energy consumption in the year 2030 have declined annually since 2005, even though we plan to add over 60 billion square feet (a 22.6% increase) to our building stock by then.
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I chanced upon an Anime convention a month ago while strolling about in Megamall. It was Ozine Fest 2010, an annual event organized by Otakuzine Anime Magazine.
This was Otakuzine's fifth year in celebrating Ozine Fest, the first one being held during 2005 at Robinson's Galleria. Ozine Fest draws Anime fans from all over the metro into a three day event featuring computer game tournaments, art contests, JPop and KPop dance competitions, band performances, swap meets, artist signing, and of course the much anticipated solo and group Cosplay contests.
Got a hard-to-find toy you're looking for? This is where you'll probably find it. Spread through the whole floor were heaps and heaps of toys, accessories, videos and comic books for sale. Their prices quite a bargain too compared to toy collectors stores.
Entry to these conventions is usually marked at a hundred pesos; your ticket also acting as a stub for a raffle draw at the end of each day.
I just love shooting these events. Its like a regional festival on its own, complete with costumes and performances, only this time they're all Anime inspired. And these kids are not camera shy at all. They flaunt their outfits and pose their hearts out for the throng of fans and photographers that flock these gatherings.


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REVIEW: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies [2014]
"One light, alone in the darkness" No matter how entertaining The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is—definitely the best of the trilogy—I still can't shake the feeling that J.R.R. Tolkien's tale would have been better served as a two-parter. A lot of the added information director Peter Jackson and his stable of co-writers injected throughout the first two installments come to a head here amongst the end-to-end carnage and it does add more emotion and higher stakes albeit between characters who shouldn't be included in this Lord of…
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Smokers in Milton Keynes challenged to join thousands who quit for Stoptober
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Smokers in Milton Keynes are being encouraged to join the thousands of quitters who will be taking up the national 2018 Stoptober challenge.
Research shows that stopping smoking for 28 days means that smokers are five times more likely to stop for good.
NHS Milton Keynes Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is supporting the national 28 day stop smoking campaign which is run annually by Public Health England. Last year, nearly 400,000 smokers in England quit successfully,* which is the equivalent to 1,069 smokers each day. Despite new smokers starting and ex-smokers relapsing, there are now 1 million fewer smokers in England since 2014.**
This year, Stoptober is encouraging smokers to find the most suitable support for them, rather than trying to go "cold turkey". The best way to quit is with expert help from local stop smoking services together with stop smoking aids. In 2017-18, half (51%) of smokers who got this package of support managed to quit and among those who used an e-cigarette in their quit attempt, the success rate was up to 63%.
Public Health England is offering a free Personal Quit Plan as part of the Stoptober campaign this year to help smokers find the right support for them. The online plan asks a number of questions and provides smokers with a suggested combination of support based on their level of tobacco dependency and what quitting support they have used previously. The plan is available at https://bit.ly/2NQGPKb.
The Stoptober App helps quitters stay on track throughout Stoptober, with motivation and support on the go and when it is needed most. Quitters can also track the days they have been smokefree and even see how much cash they are saving. The app is available at https://bit.ly/2MJijFZ
Dr Nicola Smith, Chair of NHS Milton Keynes CCG, said: "The single best thing a smoker can do for their health is to quit smoking and there is now more support available than ever before thanks to the hugely successful Stoptober campaign.
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The smell of hot cotton fabric permeates the air. I used to hate ironing. I never could get every crease out. A ready iron in my hands had a tendency to create more problems than I could erase, playing hide and seek with wrinkles until it drove me to despair.
The trick is to iron only cotton fabric, cut into squares . I like the small, well-behaved pieces, the calm way they lay still for me, not like hard to manage shoulder seams that always want to squirm away when you try to hold them flat enough to iron. Simple, unsewn pieces have no curves and strange corners.
I push down on the fabric, slowly drawing the heat across a multitude of tiny blue flowers. The busier the pattern, the less the wrinkles show. Still, I pass the iron over the field of blooms again and again, until the scent of hot cotton lingers, memories of little girl dresses.
I had other plans for this fabric. I can still picture the dress in my mind, the one I imagined when I chose this fabric. But then life happened. Time got away. The white and blue dress was never sewn.
The iron creaks. I never had the money for a good iron, so I made do. There were irons I coveted after. Maybe if I had owned one of those my ironing would have been more successful. Nevermind.
I whisk my palm across the hot fabric, not resting there, always moving, moving. I am going to put this in the shadowbox as a background for the dress.
I barely finished the dress in time. Last babies. You understand. The final embroidered flower was stitched in place while I was in the hospital bed recovering from my fourth c-section, and she was brand new to this world. Silk roses on a baby dress. What nonsense.
Two of the flowers need repair. I hesitate. Was it really so long ago her hands were small enough to catch the tiny loops and undo all my meticulous work? It was a trial to keep her from unraveling them all. I thread the needle.
White thread and a twist. One, two, three stitches. The thread knots. I take my time and unravel it. When I was younger, I was always in a hurry, leaving snarls and wadded thread behind on the back sides of my stiches, not worried about what didn't show. I tease out the tangle and leave a clean, smooth stitch behind.
I say nothing, because even though we have said this very same thing a thousand times, I can't say it today.
She opens the door, her hand jiggling the keys impatiently. They hit against each other and jangle.
The response is automatic. "I will, Momma." Her mind is elsewhere, on her to do list.
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If I was to make a distinction, "caring voices" could describe people with a gentle reassuring tone of voice, and "voices that care" could refer to people prepared to speak out against an injustice.
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How will Scottish Independence Affect the Motor Trade?
Scottish Independence, yes or no, this is the debate currently on everybody's lips. But how will it affect the motor trade?
Here at Think we wondered how Scottish Independence might affect the motor trade The problem is there isn't much clear light as to what will happen either way. To help clear some of it up we have done some research and looked at how Scottish Independence might affect the motor trade.
According to UK motoring guide, Glass's, the Scottish referendum is already taking an ill affect on the UK's economy and in turn the motor trade. They are warning that a Yes vote win could further hurt the motor trade.
This means that the worry surrounding the split into independence is turning people aways from the pound.
Kit Juckes, the global head of currency research at Societe Generale, believes that the GDP will very probably suffer an automatic drop of 3-5% if the Scottish people vote Yes.
Richard Parkin sees the pounds future struggling and believes an impact will be had on the car industry. Firms will tend to delay investment and customers will put off expensive purchases like cars for necessities like food and utilities.
"the only part of the market that might benefit is nearly-new values." Nearly-new value cars depress in value but when the pound falls in worth car prices will inflate and so will nearly new cars.
Parkins isn't too worried about long term damage of a Yes vote, but believes that it would hurt the currently strong new and used car markets Britain is currently enjoying.
This entry was posted in General Motor News on September 11, 2014 by admin.
How Does Tax Disc Abolition Affect Motor Traders?
Since 1921, the vehicle tax disc has been an integral part of British life, whether you've liked it or not. However, now that it is being axed in favour of digital registration methods, what are the biggest revolutions motor traders will experience this October?
Once the new systems for road tax have gone live, the biggest issue for motor traders will be that they don't get caught out with fines for a car they are no longer in ownership of. The decrease in general levels of government administration is preferable, however places more pressure on the individual to make sure they are 100% compliant with the new rules. The biggest issue with this, however, is that there doesn't seem to be a suitable level of awareness being generated to ensure all motor traders and dealers are prepared for the change.
Bringing about an end to the 'For sale, taxed' aspect of motor selling is, as the government advises, a way in which to reduce confusion about a vehicle's tax status and in turn protect the buyer. On the other hand, bargain-hunters will miss out on big savings usually received through the existence of tax remainder on the vehicle.
Haggling over car tax at point of sale will come to an end, and having to immediately get their own will be an inconvenience to many buyers, but in the long run motor traders must understand the government's incentive is to ensure no one is unknowingly at risk of driving an untaxed vehicle. An AA Populus poll in February 2014 showed that 70% of its members were worried about driving a friend's, relative's or recently bought car that may not be correctly taxed, and the new system is in place to quell these fears. The onus, however, is now on individuals to make sure they've read, re-read and understood the changes and what is going to happen in order to avoid the repercussions of a hefty fine.
What Are These New Changes? Do I Agree With Them?
There are two sides to every new amendment in the motor industry, some of which make life a lot easier for everyone and some that generally won't go down too well at all. Below is a summary of the pros and cons of the tax disc upheaval and how they will affect you as a motorist.
According to the DVLA, abolishing the tax disc will save the taxpayer approximately £10 million every year, and environmentally it makes sense to transfer to a paperless process having already printed an astonishing 1.7 billion discs to date. Besides this, you won't have to make that cumbersome trip to the post office every 6 months.
If you sell your car privately, the tax is no longer transferred to the new buyer, and you get a full refund for the months remaining on the disc. This is beneficial if you've just recently taxed the car and have had to sell it unexpectedly, meaning you won't lose out on some extra cash.
On the flip side of this, if you are the buyer of a used car there is no longer an opportunity to benefit from a tax remainder from the previous owner. The DVLA requires buyers to make themselves fully aware of this rule so that they are prepared to acquire tax that is applicable from the day and hour they buy the vehicle. As well as this, the seller must immediately inform the DVLA of the change of ownership or SORN status through a V5C form or else face up to £1000 in fines.
Used car buyers will be put out by the lack of physical tax disc records, where having more records usually indicated a more diligent and careful owner. Although the digital enhancement of the system is beneficial in most ways, it will require more effort and insight to research the history of a second hand car.
The current level of road tax evasion is at its second lowest figure ever of 0.6%, and there is no evidence that this will rise without the physical presence of a tax disc. However, due to police instigating tools like the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), more focus will be placed on the use of cameras and surveillance. Drivers may feel slightly uncomfortable with this as this will undoubtedly result in more personal data being logged with the possibility of it being sold on.
Some motoring journalists such as Maria McCarthy aren't at all happy with the thought of losing the 93-year-old tax disc; for her personally it acts as a 'receipt,' an old school record of where her money has gone. Although nostalgia may be the culprit for some of the discomfort caused by the new modifications, the influx of technological changes to apply modernity to our everyday systems doesn't seem to be slowing down, especially in the motor industry; the cutting of administration costs is certainly not a bad thing, and shifting everyone into the technological age can only bring about more smart transformations in how the government manages its systems.
This entry was posted in General Motor News, News on August 27, 2014 by admin.
Here's our World Cup themed infographic on motoring facts. Who'd've thought you can get your car blessed by an Ecuadorian priest or that you can be fined for road rage in Germany?
This entry was posted in General Motor News on June 10, 2014 by admin.


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CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - APRIL 21: A general view of the Charlotte skyline during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on April 21, 2020 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The city of Charlotte issued a Stay at Home Order on March 26, 2020 in order to further combat the spread of COVID-19 in the community. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
Looking for things to do this month? Here is a list of a few things happening around the area this month. Black History Month Comedy Jam, $20: Sip & Paint + Comedy will be held at the Catawba Brewing Company Charlotte location at 933 Louise Ave. Ste. 105 on February 12, 2021.
Middle C Jazz Club will have a jazz performance by Noel & Maria titled Love Letter from Middle C on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2021. Middle C Jazz Club is located at 300 S. Brevard St., Charlotte, NC.
The Southern Spring Home & Garden Show starts on February 26, 2021 and will run through March 7, 2021. The location will be The Park Expo & Conference Center located at 800 Briar Creek Rd., Charlotte, NC. More than 300 companies will have their products on display.
Charlotte Area Bridal Show at Studio 229 will be held February 28, 2021. Studio 229 is located at 229 S. Brevard Street, Charlotte, NC.
While you are out enjoying these events, please remember to practice SOCIAL DISTANCING to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Social distancing practices are implemented by public health officials to keep contagious diseases from spreading.
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Catholic school features on campaign trail
CEWA News > Article > Catholic school features on campaign trail
The election campaign stopped in at St Maria Goretti's Catholic School this week for Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten to announce the Labor Party's Solar School's program.
It was a great learning experience for the Year 3 students who greeted the visitors, helped them plant some kangaroo paws in their Noongar six seasons garden and got to experience the busyness of an election campaign media event.
Although the focus was on energy and climate, Shadow Education Minister Tanya Plibersek's attendance drew focus to education policy and reaffirmed the importance of Catholic education for the community.
CEWA Executive Director Debra Sayce spoke with Ms Plibersek and said her discussion centred around the sustainable future of Catholic schools in WA.
"We talked about CEWA's priorities which include early years education, capital expenditure and engagement with Aboriginal families," Dr Sayce said.
"We want to ensure the interests of our families and our students are kept at the heart of government decision making.
"We are always very grateful for government support and it was wonderful to showcase St Maria Goretti's which reflects so much of what we have in our schools – warm, engaging environments where children are given opportunities to learn and develop, as well as being formed in their faith," she said.
During the media conference, Mr Shorten said he respected the right of parents to send their children to a school based upon their faith, adding he did not want to see "religion becoming a political football".
Dr Sayce supported Mr Shorten's statement.
"Parents should be free to choose a faith-based education," she said.
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A fire broke out at an apartment building in the Bronx on Jan. 9, 2022. (Credit: Citizen App)
FORDHAM HEIGHTS, the Bronx — A fire at a Bronx high-rise apartment building left at least 19 people dead, including nine children, a source told PIX11 News on Sunday.
Firefighters were called to the building on East 181st Street in Fordham Heights just before 11 a.m. for a fire on the third floor of the 19-story high-rise.
More than 40 additional people were injured in the fire, some of whom were considered to have life-threatening injuries, according to Mayor Eric Adams and FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro.
Nigro said many of the people who were injured suffered from smoke inhalation.
Video from the scene Sunday morning showed flames shooting out of a window. Several people climbed down a ladder with firefighters as smoke and flames billowed out of the window, another video showed.
People climb down a ladder near a window engulfed in flames at a Bronx apartment building on Jan. 9, 2022. (Credit: Citizen App)
Nigro said the cause of the fire remained under investigation, but officials determined that the door to the apartment where the flames broke out was left open.
"The door to that apartment was left open, causing the fire to spread and the smoke to spread," he said. "This fire took its toll on our city."
Adams described the aftermath of the fire as one of the worst in the city's history.
"This is a horrific, horrific, painful moment for the City of New York," he said.
NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 09: Emergency first responders remain at the scene after an intense fire at a 19-story residential building that erupted in the morning on January 9, 2022 in the Bronx borough of New York City. Reports indicate over 50 people were injured. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 09: Broken windows and charred bricks mark the exterior of a 19-story residential building after a fire erupted in the morning on January 9, 2022 in the Bronx borough of New York City. Reports indicate over 50 people were injured. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 09: Emergency first responders remain at the scene of an intense fire at a 19-story residential building that erupted in the morning on January 9, 2022 in the Bronx borough of New York City. Reports indicate over 50 people were injured. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)
The preliminary death toll on Sunday eclipsed a 2017 fire in the Bronx that was considered to be the deadliest in more than 25 years. Thirteen people were killed in the fire on Prospect Avenue back on Dec. 28, 2017.
The mayor and Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, who was also at the scene, were working to bring resources into the area to help displaced residents and family members of the victims. The Red Cross of Greater New York was expected to be deployed.
Gov. Kathy Hochul said she was horrified by the fire.
"My heart is with the loved ones of all those we've tragically lost, all of those impacted and with our heroic @FDNY firefighters," she tweeted. "The entire State of New York stands with New York City."
About 200 firefighters battled the blaze, which rose to five alarms before it was brought under control Sunday afternoon.
The NYPD tweeted an advisory for motorists to avoid the area near East 181 Street and Valentine Avenue due to emergency vehicles and traffic.
Department of Buildings workers conducted structural stability inspections after the fire was put out.


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How Can Lifting Help Different Industries?
Many industries benefit from the use of overhead cranes, and if your business is not then you need to reconsider your business model. The amount of work that becomes possible with the simple addition of lifting machines can be great for a company's bottom line. Not only will it help your company save/make money, it will also allow you to work smarter/safer. The lifting ability of a crane minimalizes risks and damages that can be caused due to lifting heavy objects. Cranes are constructed for specific companies, so you can get a crane that does exactly what you need. This means that your cranes can lift different shapes, sizes, and applies different lifting methods (depending on the martials and products you are lifting). You can find instances of these machines in the automotive, construction, shipping, and timber industries. Whether you need big or small, or stationary or moveable the perfect crane can be constructed for your unique business. Just as many other companies have made the consideration, consider overhead crane service for your business. Let's take a look at some of the industries that depend upon cranes.
The engineering and construction industry has lots of use for the service of an overhead crane. The support beams that are used in architectural construction are not made at the construction site. They are made someone else, placed on a flat bed, and driven to the construction site. Without the help of overhead cranes, work like this would never be possible.
Commercial timber products, when processed at timber mills, depend largely upon overhead crane services to allow the wood to be moved efficiently, safely, and economically. This applies to timber as it first come in as logs, and it is also used for the finished products, which could very well be sheets of plywood.
If you were to go to a GM or Ford factory then you would be able to see intricate assembly lines. Overhead cranes are part of this line. Some of the metals and objects used in creating cars, buses, trucks, and planes are rather heavy and awkward to carry. Overhead cranes are used so that work can get done quick and correctly. For an industry like automotive, you really want the cars to be put together as best as possible.
What sort of overhead crane service could benefit you and your business?


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Q: Empty class when creating custom RecyclerView item separator After creating a RecyclerView. My app launches fine but the class for creating an item separator (RVLineSeparator) I'm using in my adapter is empty. Should I get rid of this class and change the code to something else?
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public class FragmentRV extends android.support.v4.app.Fragment {
    RecyclerView mRecyclerView;

    public FragmentRV() {}

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(@NonNull LayoutInflater inflater, @Nullable ViewGroup container, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        return inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_rv, container, false);
    }

    @Override
    public void onActivityCreated(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        View v = getView();
        assert v != null;

        mRecyclerView = v.findViewById(R.id.my_recyclerview);
        mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(getActivity(), LinearLayoutManager.VERTICAL, false));
        mRecyclerView.addItemDecoration(new DividerItemDecoration(Objects.requireNonNull(getContext()), LinearLayout.VERTICAL));

        super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);

        initRVAdapter();
    }

    private void initRVAdapter(){
        List<Object> itemsList = new ArrayList<>();

        RVItemsAapter itemsListAdapter = new RVItemsAapter(getContext());
        mRecyclerView.setAdapter(itemsListAdapter);

        itemsList.add(new SMSmessage("Item A","Item A description"));
        itemsList.add(new Phonecall("Item B","Item B description"));
        itemsList.add(new RVLineSeparator());
        itemsList.add(new SectionHeader("Section C"));
        itemsList.add(new SMSmessage("Item C1","Item C1 description"));
        itemsList.add(new SMSmessage("Item C2","Item C2 description"));
        itemsList.add(new SMSmessage("Item C3","Item C3 description"));
        itemsList.add(new RVLineSeparator());
        itemsList.add(new SectionHeader("Section D"));
        itemsList.add(new SMSmessage("Item D1","Item D1 description"));
        itemsList.add(new SMSmessage("Item D2","Item D2 description"));
        itemsList.add(new RVLineSeparator());
        itemsList.add(new SectionHeader("Section E"));
        itemsList.add(new SMSmessage("Item E1","Item E1 description"));
        itemsList.add(new SMSmessage("Item E2","Item E2 description"));
        itemsList.add(new SMSmessage("Item E3","Item E3 description"));
        itemsList.add(new RVLineSeparator());
        itemsList.add(new SMSmessage("Item F1","Item F1 description"));
        itemsList.add(new RVLineSeparator());
        itemsList.add(new Phonecall("Item G1","Item G1 description"));

        itemsListAdapter.setCallSMSFeed(itemsList);
        itemsListAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
    }
}

RVLineSeparator class
public class RVLineSeparator {
}

adapter class
public class RVItemsAapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<RecyclerView.ViewHolder> {
    private final static int TYPE_EXPANDABLE = 1, TYPE_NONEXPANDABLE = 2, TYPE_SECTION = 3, TYPE_TABLE = 4, TYPE_SEPARATOR = 5;
    private ArrayList callSMSFeed = new ArrayList();
    private Context context;

    // Constructor
    public RVItemsAapter(Context context){
        this.context=context;
    }

    public void setCallSMSFeed(List<Object> callSMSFeed){
        this.callSMSFeed = (ArrayList) callSMSFeed;
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemViewType(int position) {
        if (callSMSFeed.get(position) instanceof Phonecall) {
            return TYPE_EXPANDABLE;
        } else if (callSMSFeed.get(position) instanceof SMSmessage) {
            return TYPE_NONEXPANDABLE;
        } else if (callSMSFeed.get(position) instanceof SectionHeader) {
            return TYPE_SECTION;
        } else if (callSMSFeed.get(position) instanceof TableToilets) {
            return TYPE_TABLE;
        } else if (callSMSFeed.get(position) instanceof RVLineSeparator) {
            return TYPE_SEPARATOR;
        }
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Item at position " + position + " is not an instance of either Phonecall or SMSmessage");
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(@NonNull RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder, int position) {
        int viewType=holder.getItemViewType();
        switch (viewType){
            case TYPE_EXPANDABLE:
                Phonecall call = (Phonecall) callSMSFeed.get(position);
                ((CallViewHolder)holder).showCallDetails(call);
                break;
            case TYPE_NONEXPANDABLE:
                SMSmessage sms = (SMSmessage) callSMSFeed.get(position);
                ((SMSViewHolder)holder).showSmsDetails(sms);
                break;
            case TYPE_SECTION:
                SectionHeader sectionHeader = (SectionHeader) callSMSFeed.get(position);
                ((SectionViewHolder)holder).showSectionDetails(sectionHeader);
                break;
            case TYPE_TABLE:
                TableToilets tblToilets = (TableToilets) callSMSFeed.get(position);
                ((TblViewHolder)holder).showTblDetails(tblToilets);
                break;
            case TYPE_SEPARATOR:
                ((SeparatorViewHolder)holder).showSeparatorDetails();
                break;
            default:
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("unexpected viewType: " + viewType);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount(){return callSMSFeed.size();}

    @NonNull
    @Override
    public RecyclerView.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(@NonNull ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {

        int layout;
        RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder;
        switch (viewType){
            case TYPE_EXPANDABLE:
                layout = R.layout.cardview_dualline_withexpandability;
                View callsView = LayoutInflater
                        .from(parent.getContext())
                        .inflate(layout, parent, false);
                viewHolder = new CallViewHolder(callsView);
                break;
            case TYPE_NONEXPANDABLE:
                layout = R.layout.cardview_dualline_sansexpandability;
                View smsView = LayoutInflater
                        .from(parent.getContext())
                        .inflate(layout, parent, false);
                viewHolder = new SMSViewHolder(smsView);
                break;
            case TYPE_SECTION:
                layout = R.layout.sectionheaderforrecyclerview;
                View sectionheaderView = LayoutInflater
                        .from(parent.getContext())
                        .inflate(layout, parent, false);
                viewHolder = new SectionViewHolder(sectionheaderView);
                break;
            case TYPE_TABLE:
                layout = R.layout.cardview_tableview_withexpandability;
                View tblView = LayoutInflater
                        .from(parent.getContext())
                        .inflate(layout, parent, false);
                viewHolder = new TblViewHolder(tblView);
                break;
            case TYPE_SEPARATOR:
                layout = R.layout.lineseparatorforrecyclerview;
                View separatorView = LayoutInflater
                        .from(parent.getContext())
                        .inflate(layout, parent, false);
                viewHolder = new SeparatorViewHolder(separatorView);
                break;
            default:
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("unexpected viewType: " + viewType);
        }
        return viewHolder;
    }

    // First ViewHolder of object type Call
    public class CallViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        private TextView arrowexpandcollapseTextView, callerNameTextView, callTimeTextView;
        private LinearLayout llFacilityInformation;

        CallViewHolder(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);
            // Initiate view
            arrowexpandcollapseTextView = itemView.findViewById(R.id.tv_cvwithexpandability_arrowexpandcollapse);
            callerNameTextView = itemView.findViewById(R.id.tv_cvwithexpandability_title);
            callTimeTextView = itemView.findViewById(R.id.tv_cvwithexpandability_subtitle);
            llFacilityInformation = itemView.findViewById(R.id.ll_cvwithexpandability_subtitle);

            arrowexpandcollapseTextView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    if (llFacilityInformation.getVisibility() == View.GONE) {
                        expandLL(llFacilityInformation, arrowexpandcollapseTextView);
                    } else {
                        collapseLL(llFacilityInformation, arrowexpandcollapseTextView);
                    }
                }
            });

            callerNameTextView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    if (llFacilityInformation.getVisibility() == View.GONE) {
                        expandLL(llFacilityInformation, arrowexpandcollapseTextView);
                    } else {
                        collapseLL(llFacilityInformation, arrowexpandcollapseTextView);
                    }
                }
            });

            llFacilityInformation.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    if (llFacilityInformation.getVisibility() == View.GONE) {
                        expandLL(llFacilityInformation, arrowexpandcollapseTextView);
                    } else {
                        collapseLL(llFacilityInformation, arrowexpandcollapseTextView);
                    }
                }
            });
        }

        void showCallDetails(Phonecall call){
            // Attach values for each item
            arrowexpandcollapseTextView.setText(R.string.fa_icon_chevron_down);
            arrowexpandcollapseTextView.setTypeface(iconFont);
            llFacilityInformation.setVisibility(View.GONE);

            String callerName = call.getCallerName();
            String callTime = call.getCallTime();

            callerNameTextView.setText(callerName);
            callTimeTextView.setText(callTime);
        }
    }

    // Second ViewHolder of object type SMS
    public class SMSViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        SMSViewHolder(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);
        }

        void showSmsDetails(SMSmessage sms){
        }
    }

    // Third ViewHolder of object type SectionHeader
    public class SectionViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        SectionViewHolder(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);
        }

        void showSectionDetails(SectionHeader section){
        }
    }

    // Fourth ViewHolder of object type TableToilets
    public class TblViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {

        TblViewHolder(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);
        }

        void showTblDetails(TableToilets tbl){
        }
    }

    // Fifth ViewHolder of object type RVLineSeparator
    public class SeparatorViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        private View lSeparator;

        SeparatorViewHolder(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);

            lSeparator = itemView.findViewById(R.id.rv_lineseparator);
        }

        void showSeparatorDetails(){
            TypedValue tValueD = new TypedValue();
            context.getTheme().resolveAttribute(R.attr.dividerColor, tValueD, true);
            lSeparator.setBackgroundResource(tValueD.resourceId);
        }
    }
}

A: Since your getItemViewType is choosing the ViewHolder type reference based in the object instance it is ok to have an empty class. You can achieve this in multiple ways. Personally, I usually use an attribute instead of 5 different Object classes, looks simpler and you will be only dealing with one kind of object.
You would have something like this:
public class MyAdapterObject{

    ......
    int type;

    public int getType(){ return type}
}

@Override
public int getItemViewType(int position) {
    switch(callSMSFeed.get(position).getType()){
         case someType:
              return SOME_TYPE;
         case someOtherType:
              return SOME_OTHER_TYPE;
         default:
              return DEFAULT_TYPE
    }
}

As you see here you always keep a default type to avoid ending up in an exception, and therefor a crash if unhandled.


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Q: How does database sharding work? The concept of DB sharding at high level makes sense, split up DB nodes so not a single one is responsible for all of the persistent data. However I'm a little confused on what constitutes the "shard". Does it duplicate entire tables across shards, or usually just a single one?
For instance if we take twitter as an example, at the most basic level we need a users and a tweets table. If we shard based on user ID, with 10 shards, it would reason that the shard function is userID mod 10 === shard location. However what does this mean for the tweets table? Is that separate (a single DB table) or then is every single tweet divided up between the 10 tables, based on the whichever user ID created the tweet?
If it is the latter, and say we shard on something other than user ID, tweet created timestamp for example, how would we know where to look up info relating to the user if all tables are sharded based on tweet creation time (which the user has no concept of)?

A: Sharding is splitting the data across multiple servers.  The choice of how to split is very critical, and may be obvious.
At first glance, splitting tweets by userid sounds correct.  But what other things are there?  Is there any "grouping" or do you care who "receives" each tweet?
A photo-sharing site is probably best split on Userid, with meta info for the user's photos also on the same server with the user.  (Where the actual photos live is another discussion.)  But what do you do with someone who manages to upload a million photos?  Hopefully that won't blow out the disk on whichever shard he is on.
One messy case is Movies.  Should you split on movies?  Reviews?  Users who write reviews?  Genres?
Sure, "mod 10" is convenient for saying which shard a user is on.  That is, until you need an 11th shard!  I prefer a compromise between "hashing" and "dictionary".  First do mod 4096, then lookup in a 'dictionary' that maps 4096 values to 10 shards.  Then, write a robust tool to move one group of users (all with the same mod-4096 value) from one shard to another.  In the long run, this tool will be immensely convenient for handling hardware upgrades, software upgrades, trump-sized tweeters, or moving everyone else out of his way, etc.
If you want to discuss sharding tweets further, please provide the main tables that are involved.  Also, I have strong opinions on how to you could issue unique ids, if you need them, for the tweets.  (There are fiasco ways to do it.)


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Glenn Curtiss (Hammondsport, Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 21 de mayo de 1878 - Buffalo, Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 23 de julio de 1930), fue un fabricante y diseñador de motores y aeroplanos estadounidense, también conocido por sus logros como aviador y piloto de motocicletas.

Semblanza
Curtiss tenía experiencia como fabricante de bicicletas; y no tardo mucho tiempo en diseñar y construir un motor para impulsar estas bicicletas, introduciéndose de este modo en la incipiente industria motociclista. El 24 de enero de 1907 estableció con su motocicleta Curtiss V-8 un récord mundial de velocidad, con un registro de 219,5 km/h.

Ligeros y competentes, estos motores alimentados por gasolina fueron utilizados para equipar numerosos aviones de la época. En 1906 visitó a los Hermanos Wright para hablar sobre motores aeronáuticos. Se unió a la Aerial Experiment Association en 1907 por recomendación de Alexander Graham Bell.

Curtiss contribuyó de forma significativa al diseño y desarrollo de cuatro aviones designados Aerodrome nos. 1, 2, 3 y 4 y que se denominaron respectivamente Red Wing, White Wing, June Bug y Silver Dart.

En 1909 produjo independientemente su primer aeroplano, el Curtiss N.º 1, conocido como Gold Bug o Golden Flyer. Más adelante, con el Reims Racer (un modelo algo más amplio que el Gold Bug), ganó ese mismo año la Copa Gordon Bennet, en Reims, Francia.

Con el fin de obtener el premio de 10000 dólares por efectuar un vuelo sobre el río Hudson, entre Albany y Nueva York, Curtiss modificó uno de sus modelos estándar, convirtiéndolo en el Hudson Flyer, un avión anfibio que presentaba un tren de aterrizaje de ruedas además de uno de flotadores para emergencias; con este modelo efectuó el vuelo previsto de 251 km sin ningún problema y recibió el premio.

Después de fabricar un único ejemplar Beachey Special para el piloto de exhibiciones Lincoln Beachey, la Curtiss Aeroplane Company, fundada el 1 de diciembre de 1910, se puso a trabajar seriamente en el diseño, construcción y venta de aviones. La producción incluía el monoplaza Modelo D, con un motor Curtiss de 40, 60 o 75 cv, que impulsaba hélices bipala y el biplaza Modelo E que utilizaba una serie similar de motores.

Glenn Curtiss fue el pionero en el diseño de hidrocanoas tanto de hélice impulsora como tractora ya antes de la Primera Guerra Mundial, y también un notorio exponente de la fabricación de hidroaviones.

Falleció en 1930 a consecuencia de complicaciones derivadas de una apendicitis.

Reconocimientos
 Por un acto del Congreso de los Estados Unidos, el 1 de marzo de 1933 Curtiss recibió póstumamente la Cruz de Vuelo Distinguido, actualmente exhibida en el Smithsonian.
 Curtiss fue incluido en el Salón de la Fama Aeronáutico Nacional en 1964, en el Salón de la Fama del Motor de América en 1990, en el Salón de la Fama del Motociclismo en 1998, y en el Salón de la Fama de los Inventores en 2003.
 El Museo Nacional del Aire y el Espacio de Estados Unidos del Instituto Smithsoniano conserva una colección de documentos originales de Curtiss, así como una colección de aviones, motocicletas y motores.
 El Aeropuerto LaGuardia originalmente se llamaba Glenn H. Curtiss Airport cuando comenzó a funcionar en 1929.
 El Glenn H. Curtiss Museum en Hammondsport está dedicado a la vida y el trabajo de Curtiss.

Véase también
Historia de la aviación
Cronología de la aviación

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Fallecidos en Búfalo
Ingenieros aeroespaciales
Curtiss, Glenn
Curtiss
Curtiss, Glenn
Fallecidos por apendicitis
National Inventors Hall of Fame


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Winder fun in the Adirondacks
December 20, 2014 By OPT Staff
The Adirondack Mountains of Northern New York state are just a few hours south of Ottawa, offering endless opportunities for family fun, inside and out.
Ski the greatest vertical drop (1,045 metres) east of the Rockies at Whiteface Mountain, enjoy factory outlet shopping in Lake George, or pursue the freedom of the trail with your family on snowmobile.
Winter is a time of celebration in the Adirondacks, when ski resorts and frozen lakes offer postcard-perfect moments to cherish all season long.
Adirondack alpine skiing forecast
With snowflakes already falling, ski resorts and communities are gearing up for a winter filled with ski resort offerings, world-class sporting events and many holiday festivities.
Located about 250 kilometres south of Ottawa, the Adirondack Region presents its winter preview:
• Gore Mountain in North Creek, recently named one of SKI Magazine's Top 10 Mountains in the East by readers for its value, lifts, scenery and terrain variety, debuts a new high-speed quad lift dubbed the Adirondack Express II for the 2014-15 season.
• For the non-alpine skier, Garnet Hill Lodge in North River offers cross-country ski and snowshoe events all winter long, including full moon and nighttime ski outings, just a few kilometres from downtown
North Creek. The full-service lodge offers access to 55 kilometres of groomed cross-country ski and snowshoe trails, lessons, a ski shop and complimentary bus service to Gore Mountain for alpine-minded guests.
• Oak Mountain in Speculator has been undergoing serious upgrades over the past couple of years, and this winter is no different. Expanded snowmaking and a new chef at Acorn Pub & Eatery, Lou Petrozza, who happens to be the runner-up from Season 4 of Hell's Kitchen, tops the family-friendly ski mountain's 2014-15 winter season updates.
Snowmobiling the Adirondacks
Home to hundreds of kilometres of snowmobiling trails that connect to statewide and Canadian trail corridors, the Adirondacks are one of the Eastern United States' premier snowmobiling destinations, with additional connections to more than 16,000 kilometres of groomed and backcountry snowmobile trails.
Head to the Moose River Plains in the central Adirondacks to ride the largest block of remote Adirondack public land accessible by snowmobile, with trails accessible via State Route 28 in Inlet. Or head to the Adirondack's Tug Hill Region, featuring endless kilometres of groomed and backcountry snowmobile trails at the western edge of the Adirondacks.
Winter hiking in the
Pack your family's long johns, snowshoes and lots of water when hiking this winter in the mountains. The Adirondacks are home to over 3,000 kilometres of hiking trails – and when winter comes, the hearty still head into the wilderness.
From trails that wrap around Henry's Woods community preserve in Lake Placid and Point au Roche State Park on the Adirondack Coast, to the programs offered by the Newcomb Adirondack Interpretive Center and the Paul Smith's College VIC, a winter hike is a great way to stay active in the Adirondacks and glimpse the region's wide array of wildlife, from birds to woodland critters.
Family shopping in the
Lake George Region
The Lake George Region is home to Gore Mountain, a world-class alpine skiing and riding resort offering exciting family activities, on the slopes and off. It's also home to the Lake George factory outlets, a shopping complex located just off of NY Interstate 87, Exit 20.
The Factory Outlets of Lake George include several women's, men's and family clothing stores, with Banana Republic and J. Crew, home decor and outdoor recreation equipment, and much more. Shopping the Lake George outlets makes for a great après ski family activity.
You can bring the Adirondacks home with authentic fine furnishings, luxury goods and tasty gourmet items. Find retailers at www.visitadirondacks.com/shopping.
Family Time Out, Family Travelfeatured
A spectacular winter getaway to Syracuse, New York
A sparkling winter in the capital


On El Capitan the new "automatic brightness" feature is not compatible with f.lux. You'll see blue flashing and fading if they are used together.
For now you'll need to disable it by using System Preferences -> Displays and unchecking "Automatically adjust brightness".
We hope to have better news about this bug eventually, since dimming the backlight at night is very important.
Also, right after turning off "automatic brightness" the flashing behavior sometimes continues for a few minutes.
On all machines we've tested, a reboot (or waiting 5 minutes) fixes this.


Our control systems now use Flat Flex Cables (FFC) internally and Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) connectors. The connectors that we use have a locking ramp built in to ensure a positive clamping force is applied to the cable which ensures the cable will not vibrate loose under ardeous conditions. Should a cable or board ever need to be replaced it is important to open the clamp before removing the cable as this avoids damage to the cable and connector. Once the cable has been re-inserted the clamp can be closed to lock the cable in place as shown below.