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Republican National Committee: Can you hear us now?
by Jose Fulgencio Jul 31, 2013
written by Jose Fulgencio Jul 31, 2013
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 31, 2013 ― As the number of U.S.-born Hispanics grows, there is no telling how powerful the Hispanic vote will be in a generation. The 2012 presidential election showed the power of the Hispanic vote as Hispanics came out in full force and let their voices be heard through the voting booth.
There is no hiding from the fact that outreach from the Republican Party is crucial to the Party's success. Even President Reagan knew that outreach to Hispanic voters was important. Reagan once said, "Hispanics are Republicans, they just don't know it."
Hispanics are socially conservative; they believe in family values, hard work, and do not believe in government intrusion into our personal lives. The Republican National Committee (RNC) has its work cut out to attract Hispanics, but it starts from a strong position if it understands that essential conservatism.
Why then does the Republican Party struggle to reach to this growing demographic? The RNC seems not to understand Hispanic culture, nor to understand the cultural experiences that bring Hispanics together.
There is no doubt, however, that the RNC is making an effort to reach out to Hispanic voters and strong Hispanic Republican candidates. Even the College Republicans are realizing that the Hispanic vote must not be forgotten. Yet the outreach has been limited and making slow progress.
The biggest news from the RNC with regard to outreach is the appointment of GOP veteran strategist Jennifer Sevilla Korn. Korn will hold the title of Deputy Political Director and National Field Director for Hispanic Initiatives for the RNC.
Besides the new appointment to the committee, other Republican figures are making headlines outside the committee. Former U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez is making the voices of pro-immigration Republicans heard by serving as Chairman of Republicans for Immigration Reform. Florida Senator Marco Rubio has gone the distance by leading a group of senators on the issue of immigration reform, even going on Rush Limbaugh's show to discus a decent formalized immigration reform package
The voices of Hispanic voters are growing louder; the 2012 election was a wake up call. The RNC understands the problem. It is making a start at resolving the issue by placing an individual with experience to lead the efforts for the Republican Party to capture Hispanic votes in the upcoming elections. The RNC may not understand Hispanics or the full scope of the challenge facing it, but it has made a commitment to reach out to Hispanics, and that's a beginning.
Can the RNC learn and change quickly enough to benefit from the Hispanic vote in 2014 and 2016? If the immigration reform issue is not resolved soon, the GOP's share of votes from a swelling Hispanic population will shrink. Knowing that should help focus minds at the RNC.
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Jose Fulgencio
Jose L. Fulgencio writes for Communities Digital News, with a focus on political and business issues. Follow him on Twitter @joseful and visit www.josefulgencio.com/blog
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The Most Grand Slam title holder acquired an amount of $29.2 million for the past 12 months, of which only $3.4 million was the prize money.
Japanese Tennis Star, Naomi Osaka also made it to the list, coming closely behind Serena with an amount of $24.3 million, including endorsements and prize winning pots made this year.
Third on the list was Angelique Kerber from Germany, with an amount of $11.8 million.
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Total Earnings: £24m ($29.2m)
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Jefferson County Man Guilty in Carjacking Death
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Jonathan Demond Patton pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith F. Giblin to carjacking resulting in death.
According to information presented in court, early on the morning of June 23, 2015, Patton and River Shynette Gobert entered a self-service laundry on Florida Avenue in Beaumont intending to rob the sole occupant. When the victim refused to hand over his car keys, Gobert shot him in the leg at Patton's direction. Patton and Gobert fled the laundry in their vehicle without the victim's keys. They drove by an apartment complex on Woodrow Avenue where they encountered Daryl Dwayne Fontenot asleep in his vehicle. A struggle ensued when Patton and Gobert attempted to steal the vehicle and Fontenot was shot twice in the chest killing him. Patton and Gobert fled in their vehicle after they were unable to locate Fontenot's keys. A short time later, law enforcement officers stopped Patton and Gobert because their vehicle matched the vehicle reported in the self-service laundry shooting. Patton and Gobert fled the vehicle but left the weapon used to shoot the two men behind. Patton and Gobert were arrested and each gave statements indicating the other was responsible for the shootings. On Sep. 23, 2013, a Jefferson County grand jury indicted Patton and Gobert for the self-service laundry shooting. Gobert pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven years in state prison. Patton pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 years in state prison. On Mar. 5, 2015, a federal grand jury indicted Patton and Gobert charging them for the carjacking murder of Fontenot.
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Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) has today granted £20,000 to King's College London to help support the College's world class software testing and research centre, CREST (Centre for Research on Evolution, Search and Testing).
Professor Mark Harman, CREST, King's College London, commented: "This grant will be key to helping our team continue and expand its research, positioning King's College as one of the foremost facilities for software testing worldwide. We have worked extensively with the team at Motorola on the optimisation of software features for mobile phones and on issues relating to the testing of their products. We look forward to a continued and close collaboration in future."
The centre currently hosts 25 resident researchers who are led by world-leading expert in software evolution, Professor Mark Harman. Work includes software analysis, testing and search-based software engineering for software optimisation. CREST is part of the Department of Computer Science and is located in a purpose-refurbished lab on the main central London Stand site of King's College.
As part of a combined academic and industrial drive to develop a game-changing shift in testing, CREST is working to develop cheaper, quicker, ways to assess innovative new software so that cutting-edge products get to consumers faster.
Graeme Hobbs, UK country manager and chairman Motorola Ltd commented: "With an 80-year tradition of innovation, we are focused on delivering for our customers today, whilst keeping a careful eye on what's next. The work done by the CREST team is pushing the boundaries for software testing and this work will help provide the next generation of user experience to advance the way the world connects."
The Motorola grant of £20,000 will add to funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the European Union. The grant will specifically help CREST work with other national and international universities and businesses via state-of-the-art display and conferencing facilities. This investment builds on Motorola's existing involvement as a member on the Industrial Advisory Board for the King's College Computer Science Department.
About King's College London
King's College London is one of the top 25 universities in the world (Times Higher Education 2008) and the fourth oldest in England. A research-led university based in the heart of London, King's has more than 21,000 students from nearly 140 countries. King's has an outstanding reputation for providing world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. The College is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of nearly £450 million.
Motorola is known around the world for innovation in communications and is focused on advancing the way the world connects. From broadband communications infrastructure, enterprise mobility and public safety solutions to high-definition video and mobile devices, Motorola is leading the next wave of innovations that enable people, enterprises and governments to be more connected and more mobile. Motorola (NYSE: MOT) had sales of US $30.1 billion in 2008. For more information, please visit www.motorola.com.


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U-M to ramp up asymptomatic, saliva-based COVID-19 testing in October
ANN ARBOR – October will mark a new phase in testing on University of Michigan's campus as the school works to keep outbreaks of COVID-19 at bay. The university has partnered with local startup LynxDx for saliva-based 'surveillance testing.' Up to 6,000 tests are set to be conducted per week on asymptomatic individuals as part of the U-M COVID-19 Community Sampling and Tracking Program. LynxDx, a prostate cancer diagnostics lab spinoff founded by U-M professors and scientists, pivoted its work to address the global coronavirus pandemic. "Please sign up for this free COVID-19 testing program," U-M President Mark Schlissel implored during his weekly campus community update on Sept. 18.
Regional companies celebrated for remarkable growth at annual a2Tech360 FastTrack Awards
ANN ARBOR – Kicking off a2Tech360, Ann Arbor SPARK presented its 22nd annual FastTrack Awards to 19 companies located in Washtenaw and Livingston counties. More than half of the 2020 FastTrack Award recipients were multiple-year winners. Rehmann is the 2020 Ann Arbor SPARK FastTrack Awards accounting partner and verified all of the award applications. FastTrack Award winners were recognized on Friday, September 18, during a virtual celebration and supported by presenting sponsor Northstar Bank. Eight-year award winnerOxford Companies is rooted in acquiring, managing, leasing, and constructing commercial and multifamily properties in the Ann Arbor area.
University of Michigans Desai Accelerator kicks off first-ever virtual cohort
ANN ARBOR University of Michigans Desai Accelerator has launched its 2020 cohort online. Like most university programs during the coronavirus pandemic, Desai has moved its operations to a virtual platform. According to program leaders, it is the most diverse cohort the accelerator has had to date. "The Desai Accelerator provides cohort companies with the resources, guidance and mentorship to do just that, and were thrilled to be able to honor our commitments to seed capital, programming and hiring right now. To learn more about the Desai Accelerator, visit www.desaiaccelerator.umich.edu.
'Startup' podcast offers a rare fly-on-wall view of tech M&A after Gimlet's $200 million sale to Spotify
The episode, which became the first for a series called "Startup," was A+ entertainment, filled with humor, drama and tension. It wrapped up, not because Blumberg's company, Gimlet Media, is closing or downsizing, but because it's now a division of music-streaming service Spotify, which acquired Gimlet earlier this year for $200 million. According to a study earlier this year from Edison Research, about 90 million Americans are listening to podcasts every month, up from 73 million in 2018. Zach Braff Joe Scarnici | Getty ImagesThe podcast "Startup" wraps up by pulling back the curtain on what was happening inside the Brooklyn-based company when Spotify approached last year. A different perspectiveFrom the inside of Gimlet, the Spotify offer was a potential way out.
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Electrical Overstress, or EOS, has become a widely-used term over the past few years. However, a lot of people are still unsure as to what exactly it is and how it differs from ElectroStatic Discharge (ESD). Today's blog post is intended to put an end to the confusion.
Simplified, EOS is the exposure of a component or PCB board to a current or voltage beyond its maximum ratings. This exposure may or may not result in a catastrophic failure.
By many, ESD is seen as just one type of electrical stress. EOS on the other hand, describes a wide number of outcomes resulting from multiple stresses or root causes.
Many failures in the electronics industry can be contributed to EOS. Yes, ESD has received a lot of attention over the past years. However, ESD represents only a small percentage of total EOS damages.
EOS damages are much more common compared to failures caused by ESD.
A comprehensive ESD Control Program will provide protection against ESD but not EOS.
Now that you have learned what EOS is, how it's different from ESD and that ESD protection is not effective for EOS damage, the obvious question will be "How can I protect my sensitive devices from EOS failures?". That's where we go back to our "Absolute Maximum Rating" (AMR) mentioned earlier.
We've established earlier that EOS is caused by exceeding specific limits of a device, the so called Absolute Maximum Rating or AMR.
AMR represents "the point beyond which a device may be damaged by a particular stress" [Source].
Region A is the safe operating area in which devices are to operate as anticipated.
Region B does not guarantee for the device to function as it should. No physical damage is expected in this area; however, if a device is operated in this region for extended periods of time, it may cause reliability problems.
The upper limit of region B represents the AMR. Issues will arise if a device is operated beyond this point.
Region C is the first area of electrical overstress causing latent failures.
Region D is the second area of electrical overstress causing immediate damages.


The Latin New Car Assessment Programme (Latin NCAP) has condemned the poor safety standards of General Motors cars sold in Latin America and called on CEO Mary Barra to take urgent action.
The Chevrolet Aveo is the bestselling car in Mexico, and its basic version is sold without airbags. The Aveo scored zero stars in Adult Occupant Protection and two stars in Child Occupant Protection in test results released by Latin NCAP on 16th November. The structure of the car was rated as unstable and it would not be able to withstand further loadings. The driver registered a high risk of life threatening injuries. Latin NCAP tests the most basic safety equipped version of the car available in the market.
This same model was tested in 2006 by Euro NCAP under the same conditions but with double frontal airbags. Even with airbags fitted Euro NCAP concluded that: "the compression of the driver's chest indicated an unacceptably high risk of life-threatening injury".
In a letter to General Motors CEO Mary Barra, Latin NCAP - which is co-funded by the FIA Foundation - pointed out that it is almost a decade since the Aveo's safety deficiencies were brought to light, yet nothing has been done to prevent the model's continued sale – without airbags – to Latin American consumers.
Latin NCAP's latest crash test results were announced on the eve of the 2nd High Level Conference on Road Safety in Brasilia. Following the launch the Chevrolet Aveo was displayed outside the Conference centre for the duration of the meeting, which attracted more than 70 ministers and 2000 delegates from across the world.
Latin NCAP continues to champion improved levels of adult and child occupant protection which in many countries in the region still falls too far below minimum UN safety standards. The latest results show progress is possible and is happening. Three new Honda models tested achieving five stars in Adult Occupant Protection, one of them also scoring five stars in Child Occupant Protection. They also show the recently launched VW Vento, made in India, achieving five stars in Adult Occupant Protection and the Ford Ka scoring four stars for Adult Occupant Protection.
María Fernanda Rodríguez, Latin NCAP Chairperson said: "I welcome the initiative of the manufacturers making efforts to achieve good results for adult and child occupants. I'm proud to see recently launched models to receive the highest safety ratings and that manufacturers are committed with consumers. I hope this commitment is extended to other brands to approach the goal of the United Nations Decade of Action for halving traffic deaths".


This report studies the global Ultrafast Lasers market status and forecast, categorizes the global Ultrafast Lasers market size (value & volume) by key players, type, application, and region. This report focuses on the top players in North America, Europe, China, Japan, Southeast Asia India and Other regions (Middle East & Africa, Central & South America).
The Ultrafast lasers are increasingly used to perform micro-structuring in the automotive industry. One such technique is making an array of small pits on the surface of a part. These small pits hold oil because of the surface tension and prevent direct metal-to-metal contact, thus significantly reducing the friction between the moving parts. These ultrafast lasers are most useful for micro-structuring on parts that have an intricate shape, as it can be used to rapidly process even the most complex surface geometries. One example of this kind of micro-structuring is turbocharger turbine wheel shafts. These parts are subjected to large forces and rotate at high speeds. In order to reduce the friction, increase operating efficiency, and improve product life, ultrafast lasers can be used to produce small pits of size around 40-100 µm in length and 10-20 µm in width on the shafts.
Focuses on the key Ultrafast Lasers players, to study the sales, value, market share and development plans in future.


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Gold traded near an eight-week high as a surge in global coronavirus cases and curbs stoked demand for the haven, which has been supported by lower U.S. real yields, a weaker dollar, and slumping equities.
Bullion has made a strong start to the new year, with the variant strain of the coronavirus first identified in the U.K. now found in New York State. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered a national lockdown in England starting from Monday night until mid-February. Global coronavirus infections climbed above 85 million, after daily cases in the U.S. soared to a record of nearly 300,000.
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Gold's climb builds on the precious metal's biggest annual gain in a decade, as virus angst clouds the outlook for the recovery. The spread of Covid-19 throughout the festive period and tighter restrictions will have a significant toll on the economy, albeit one that's consigned mostly to the first quarter thanks to vaccines, according to Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda Corp.
"Gold burst through $1,900 to start the year, with a softer dollar giving the yellow metal the kick it craved," said Erlam. Following its move toward $1,945, and with the outlook for the dollar looking no better, "another run at $2,000 suddenly looks a matter of time," he said.
Spot gold added as much as 0.1% to $1,945.67 an ounce, the highest since Nov. 9, and traded at $1,940.60 at 12:10 p.m. in Singapore. The metal surged 2.3% on Monday, the most in two months. Platinum lost 0.4% after hitting $1,131.62 an ounce on Monday, the highest since 2016. Silver and palladium rose.
U.S. real yields — the difference between nominal benchmark bond yields and the rate of inflation — were at -1.117% on Monday, while the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index is near a 2018 low.
Investor demand for gold is picking up again. Holdings in SPDR Gold Shares, the largest bullion-backed exchange-traded fund, swelled 17.2 tons, or 1.5%, on Monday. That's the biggest daily inflow since September.
Traders were also tracking Tuesday's runoff elections in Georgia and a rise in tensions in the Persian Gulf. The U.S. contest will determine whether Democrats have control of Congress to push President-elect Joe Biden's agenda. In the Middle East, Iran seized a South Korean-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz hours before announcing it would increase its nuclear activities.
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United States sees peaceful demonstrations as a legitimate means of expression and political participation. We note with appreciation a number of recent events during which demonstrators expressed themselves peacefully, and during which security forces exercised restraint in allowing them to do so.
I was stunned when I read that statement. I could not believe it. I thought I had misread it. I read it a few times over just to make sure.
It dawned on me that the U.S. was, for the first time in decades, standing on the right side of history with Ethiopians, particularly young Ethiopians, who "expressed themselves peacefully".
My mind was reeling. Could it be a hoax? What is going on?!
Is the U.S., after the Obama, Bush and Clinton years of diplocrisy (diplomatic hypocrisy) , finally standing on the right side of history in Africa by standing with peaceful Ethiopian protesters demanding respect for their human rights?
Don't people realize what this means not only for Ethiopia but also all of Africa? This is earth shaking, unprecedented, unheard-of.
I never thought in my wildest dreams that the U.S. would stand up for American values in Africa.
After 8 years of Obama's bombastic "right side of history" rhetoric, I had lost all hope.
Truth be told, I thought the Trump administration would be the last to stand up, speak up and put their aid money where their mouth is in the cause of human rights in Ethiopia. I could not have been more wrong. What more could I say!?
Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech… or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The Trump administration chose to make a stand for American values in Ethiopia by insisting in clear and unambiguous language that the T-TPLF regime must respect the right of peaceable assembly of the Ethiopian people guaranteed under the country's constitution and international human rights conventions.
Having taught college courses on the First Amendment and American civil liberties for 30 years and practiced constitutional law (and celebrated the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta with my students in 2015, arguably at the only institution in America to do so) in the state and federal courts of the land for 25 years, the statement issued by the U.S. Embassy brought tears to my eyes.
I suspect for most Ethiopians and others who have not had the great honor and privilege of fighting for American civil liberties, the Embassy statement of solidarity with peacefully protesting Ethiopians probably means nothing. There may even be some cynical enough to dismiss it as another political ploy.
What the U.S. Embassy did in Ethiopia by issuing that statement is momentous, historic, epochal, pivotal!
I am joyous to see America stand up for its values where it counts, among the oppressed peoples of the world, and not sell its values for pretended counterterrorism partnerships.
In the end, America is great not because of its economic and military might but singularly because of its ideals of liberty enshrined in the Bill of Rights. True, realization of those ideals has been a hard work in progress for the past 226 years, and shall continue so long as We the People are willing to pay the price of eternal vigilance for our liberties.
I must confess that I have had some unfriendly exchanges with the U.S. Embassy during the Obama and previous administrations.
In 1997, I successfully petitioned to the U.S. Attorney General's office and the Office of the Inspector General of the State Department to investigate certain questionable practices at the consular office in the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia.
I have carefully studied and analyzed the Wikileaks cablegrams from the Embassy and learned much from them.
I have been somewhat critical of Ambassador Donald Yamamoto (2006-09) for not pressuring more intensely the ruling regime in Ethiopia to respect human rights. But he was constrained by the State Department officialdom in what he could do.
In 2009, Yamamoto wrote, "If we are to move them [ruling regime], though, we need to deliver an explicit and direct (yet private) message that does not glad-hand them. We must convey forcefully that we are not convinced by their rhetoric, but rather that we see their actions for what they are… We should [assure them]… that we are not trying to promote regime change, and that we are delivering a similarly explicit message of the need for change to opposition groups." Yamamoto understood that so long as the T-TPLF regime remained in power, there will always be a famine not only of food but also of democracy, human rights, rule of law, accountability, transparency and vision. Ambassador Yamamoto wanted to do the right thing, but his superiors would not allow him.
I was also somewhat critical of Ambassador Donald Booth, Yamamoto's successor, for his apparent cozy relationship with the ruling regime in Ethiopia.
I want to publicly recognize and commend Ambassador Raynor for living up to his promise of "advocating" for "full respect of the rights guaranteed under Ethiopia's constitution, as well as for reforms that strengthen democratic institutions." Less than two months into the job, Ambassador Raynor did exactly what he pledged to do before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
I like a man of his word. Is is said action speaks louder than words, but Ambassador Raynor's words are action. There is a saying that "An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." How about an American ambassador who is an honest gentleman sent abroad for the good of his country and stands up for American Values First?!
Guiding all of our foreign policy actions are our fundamental values: our values around freedom, human dignity, the way people are treated. These are our values… not our policies… Policies change… our values never change.
Now, I have my answer. Thank you very much!
We hang on to our values, even if they seem at times tarnished and worn; even if, as a nation and in our own lives, we have betrayed them more often that we care to remember. What else is there to guide us? Those values are our inheritance, what makes us who we are as a people. … If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, if we aren't willing to make some sacrifices in order to realize them, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.
Make no mistake: history is on the side of these brave Africans, and not with those who use coups or change Constitutions to stay in power. Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions… History offers a clear verdict: governments that respect the will of their own people are more prosperous, more stable, and more successful than governments that do not.
In August 2014, Obama was not "hanging on to American values", he was hanging out and fist bumping with the African "strongmen" who used coups, stolen elections and subverted their constitutions to cling to power, including Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe (Ethiopia), Paul Biya (Cameroon), Blaise Compaoré (Burkina Faso), Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (Equatorial Guniea), Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Joseph Kabila Kabange (DR Congo), Idris Deby (Chad), King Mswati III (Swaziland), Yoweri Museveni (Uganda), Denis Sassou-Nguesso (Rep. of Congo) and many others.
To add insult to injury, in 2015, Obama went to Ethiopia and said the ruling regime that claimed 100 percent control of the "parliament" was "democratically elected".
So much for Barack Obama's American values!
Ambassador Raynor has considerable foreign service experience. Since 2010, he has served as the Assistant Chief of Mission in Afghanistan, Ambassador to Benin and as Executive Director in the State Department Bureau of African Affairs.
As I have argued on numerous occasions, there is a time to criticize and a time to give credit. This is the time to give Secretary Rex Tillerson, Ambassador Michael Raynor and the Trump Administration full credit for standing up with the oppressed people of Ethiopia.
Thank you Ambassador Michael Raynor and Secretary Rex Tillerson! History will remember you once stood and walked with the oppressed people of Ethiopia, on the right side of history.
P.S. I cannot get over the irony that Barack Obama should talk about the right side of history for eight years and Donald Trump walk the talk of the right side of history in eight months!


Transportation of hazardous waste from the generator to the designated facility can be accomplished by several means of transportation. The regulations establish guidelines for the proper handling and recordkeeping of hazardous waste transported by highway, water, rail, or air. The requirements for each method of transportation are discussed below.
Keep a copy of the manifest for at least three years (all three-year record retention requirements are extended in case of an enforcement action).
Retain a copy of the shipping paper or manifest for three years (66263.20(h)).
Rail transport is another method by which hazardous waste is shipped to the designated facility (66263.20(i)). As with the other methods of transport, rail transporters must have an EPA ID number and ensure the designated facility is listed on the manifest. Similar to water shipments, rail transporters must comply with the directions on the manifest and must be listed as a transporter on the manifest, but the actual manifest form does not have to accompany the waste shipments at all times. Instead, a standard waybill or other shipping document containing all the manifest information except EPA ID number, generator certification, and signatures may accompany the waste (45 FR 12739; February 26, 1980).
Forwarding at least three copies to the next non-rail transporter or designated facility (if the shipment is delivered by rail), or the last rail transporter designated to handle the waste in the United States.
For rail delivery to the designated facility, the rail transporter must obtain the dated signature of the owner or operator of the designated facility on the manifest or shipping paper, and retain one copy of the manifest or shipping paper for three years.
For delivery by rail to a non-rail transporter, the rail transporter must obtain the dated signature of the non-rail transporter on the manifest and must retain a copy for at least three years. Since the manifest is not required to accompany the rail shipment, the non-rail transporters might obtain a copy of the manifest directly from the generator. If the hazardous waste is leaving the United States, the transporter must receive an Acknowledgment of Consent from the generator, and ensure that it accompanies the shipment at all times. The Acknowledgment of Consent is consent from the receiving country to accept the shipment. (Note that this requirement is not specific to rail, but also applies to all other modes of transportation).
Transportation of hazardous waste by pipeline does not meet the RCRA definition of transportation (66260.10) and therefore is not subject to Part 263 regulations. Piping as a mode of transport is not specifically addressed by RCRA, nor is it prohibited. However, hazardous waste piped off-site may be subject to other provisions of RCRA.


Location targeting is one of the most important stages of successful property investing. The basic property investing philosophy promoted by many property gurus is that of finding a motivated seller, buying below market and quickly reselling at market, thus making a handsome profit. No disagreement with the premise of the strategy. Although this philosophy does not necessarily suggest that location should be ignored, someone might be tempted to focus on finding the "right seller" and place lesser importance on the issue of location targeting.
It should be noted that the feasibility of the motivated-seller strategy will depend on how easy it is to find truly "motivated sellers" that are indeed selling below market value and are not self-declared "motivated sellers" that are just trying to grab your attention in order to have you inquire about their property.Furthermore, the ultimate test for identifying a true motivated seller is whether his/her asking price is sufficiently below the property's "true market value".
Determining the true market value of a property is not to be taken lightly, since that is the number that will actually determine whether you are looking at a good or a bad property investment opportunity. Making such a determination is not a simple task and requires lot's of due diligence for the specific property you are considering. So, yes, the premise of this strategy sounds attractive and solid, but implementing it is not a piece of cake and requires serious and thorough examination and evaluation of the properties considered, before committing any funds.
Another thing to bear in mind when implementing the aforementioned strategy is that there are a lot of investors out there chasing motivated sellers. So, what happens if you can not find a truly motivated seller and a property that you can buy at a sufficiently below-market price? Well, here is what I am recommending. Don't stop your search for motivated sellers, but consider alternative areas in your market and do apply some location targeting principles. Buying below market value is advisable within any investment-strategy context. At the same time though, try to understand the price and location dynamics of the market within which you are operating and try to identify areas, locations and neighborhoods where property values have good prospects to rise in the near future.
I refer to the first category of locations as locations with market-drivenvalue-increase potential and to the second category as locations withdevelopment-driven value increase potential.
1) Low vacancy rate (the vacancy rate is the number of vacant units over the number of total units in an area); for the housing market a 5% vacancy rate is considered healthy.
2) Only a small number of new housing units or apartment buildings are in the pipeline (have received building permit or they are under construction); this will secure that the market will not be flooded with lots of units in the next one-two years, resulting in price declines.
The above conditions are likely to fuel price increases, as the rapidly increasing population and income will generate rapidly increasing demand for housing, which will interact with a restrained supply (low vacancy rate and limited pipeline).
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Q: display items with column name and value in a list I am currently trying to construct an iReport where i need to create a table that is not columned vertically but horizontally and cannot figure how to adjust the columns to do so.  I have to create a nutrition panel, if you know of another way to make this im more than willing to adjust to do this.  I wanted to use a table because there are items that do not nessicarily show up in a specified report (the nutrients at the bottom) that need to be somewhat dynamic.
The formatting needs to have support to have 2 columns with the nutrient name and percentage held inside Has anyone done this before or found any templates to assist with this?  I do not need any assistance with the query or formatting the data other than the placement.
UPDATE: thank you alex for showing me how to format this data, apparently my query however doesn't work with the formatting, my example query is as follows:
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    item2 as item2
    item3 as item3
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where my_table.id = P{Id}

SO my appended question is how do i display all the items by using the "as itemX" name and display the values based on that so it would be like this
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item2  valueofitem2
item3  valueofitem3

The way the database is constructed i dont have a way of pulling these names as fields in the current data structure and that would be way too much work to fix just for this report frame.
I have looked and cannot find a "column name" function that seems to work

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Child abduction leads to 15 year sentence
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Nancy Fridley pleaded guilty to child abduction and other related charges in Giles County, and was sentenced to serve fifteen years, court documents show. The charges were placed after she took a child from a Giles County church in May 2021.
Lawyers said Fridley told her boyfriend, Bobby Taylor, she was pregnant with his child while he was in jail. When Taylor was released and wanted to see his child, Fridley told Taylor the child had been removed from her custody. Later Fridley admitted to having had a procedure that would prevent her from getting pregnant.
There is no record of a child being removed by DSS.
Lawyers said Fridley told Taylor the same story when he returned to jail, and when he was released, Fridley told him that DSS had taken the second child.
In March and April of 2021, Fridley told neighbors that she would regain custody of her boys, "Bobby Jr." and "Christian." Fridley is also said to have been in the area of two other churches – New Valley Fellowship Church and Mountain View Ministries – in the weeks before the kidnapping and on the day Noah went missing.
She visited three church the Sunday that Noah Gabriel Trout was abducted. At each of the churches, she claimed she was there to pick up a child due to a sick parent but was unsuccessful and went back to Riverview Baptist Church, where she abducted Noah.
A little over 24 hours later, Virginia authorities found the little boy in the mobile home that Taylor shared with Taylor in Clifton Forge, about 90 miles away from Ripplemead. Police reported that the child was unharmed but said that all his hair was shaved off his head.
When Fridley was taken into custody, authorities recovered on her person a cigarette pack with two straws and three baggies of crystal meth. Her boyfriend, Bobby Taylor, was also charged in connection with the abduction. He pled guilty to the charges last year.


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Trading is one of the most complex, challenging and intimidating professions in the world. On the one hand, you have so many sources of information available that it is impossible to absorb it all.
On the other hand, even with all this information available to you, every single trade you make will still contain an element of uncertainty.
Fortunately there are a few key sources of information that are always relevant for any trade that you make. Here are 4 top technical indicators that will help you to make smarter trades every single time.
Relative volume compares the current trading volume to the average volume for the same time of day. It is displayed as a ratio. For example, if a stock is currently trading at 5 times its average volume for that time of day, then the relative volume would be 5.
Relative volume is an indicator of how much action a stock has seen so far that day. A score of less than 1 means that the stock is moving slowly compared to most other days, which indicates that it is not a great candidate for trading on that day.
A score of 2 or more indicates a lot of interest, and means that there is a good chance for a significant price move which is what day trader want. You can also use relative volume to help you determine the size of your position.
The higher the relative volume, the more "in-play" a stock is and the greater the chance of a significant move.
Time and sales is an indicator that displays all the trades that have been executed, along with the time and size of each trade. A green print indicates a trade executing on the ask price, and a red print indicates a trade executing at the bid price. White prints are for trades that cleared between the bid and ask.
Time and sales shows the number of shares being executed at which price, which offers insight into the current aggressiveness of traders. This indicator is excellent for helping you to choose entry and exit points for each trade and identifying likely pivots in price.
You will often notice a swift acceleration of trading volumes as you approach likely pivot points, which means that there is a good chance that prices will quickly reverse.
It takes a bit of practice to get a feel for using the time and sales indicator, but it is an essential component of any informed trade.
Volume weighted average price, or VWAP, is a technical indicator calculated by finding the total value of all shares bought in a day (each share traded multiplied by the price of the trade), and then dividing that number by the total number of shares traded that day. The result is an average price based on the weight of volumes traded at different prices.
This indicator is ideal for identifying good prices to enter and exit a position. The opening and closing prices of a stock may be a poor indicator of the true demand and supply for that security.
VWAP helps to bring additional context to a stock's price by showing the average price where significant trades are actually being made.
Level 1 indicators is the current bid/ask quote for a stock. Going one step further, Level 2 displays price quotes at each price level and the name of the market maker that is holding the order.
It is crucial to remember that every disappearing order does not indicate that it was necessarily filled. Market makers can pull their orders at any time, and Level 2 just displays open orders.
The information that Level 2 provides is very important for every trade. This information allows you to identify points of significant price support that the simple bid/ask spread provides no indication of.
In essence, Level 2 allows a preview of the kind of trade volume that you can expect at different prices as the bid/ask spread moves into that price region.
Whatdo you think about Volume Profile?!
Would you see VWAP being a better indicator for entry and exits than Moving Averages 9, 20, etc.


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package bdzimmer.secondary.export.model

import bdzimmer.orbits.{CalendarDateTime, AnimationSettings}

object SecTags {

  // Tags are organized below as they are in the documentation.

  // General Tags

  val Anchor = "anchor"
  val Footnotes = "footnotes"
  val Index = "index"
  val Link = "link"
  val Sidenote = "sidenote"
  val Snip = "snip"
  val Table = "table"
  val Quote = "quote"

  // Image Tags

  val Gallery = "gallery"
  val Image = "image"
  val Jumbotron = "jumbotron"

  // Event and Genealogy Tags

  val Birth = "birth"
  val Death = "death"
  val Event = "event"
  val FamilyTree = "familytree"
  val Father = "father"
  val Mother = "mother"
  val Parent = "parent"
  val Son = "son"
  val Daughter = "daughter"
  val Child = "child"
  val Ancestor = "ancestor"
  val Descendant = "descendant"
  val Marriage = "marriage"
  val Timeline = "timeline"

  // Work Tracking Tags

  val BurnDown = "burndown"
  val Tasks = "tasks"
  val Thought = "thought"
  val Todo = "todo"
  val Started = "started"
  val Done = "done"
  val Blocked = "blocked"
  val Stats = "stats"
  val WordCount = "wordcount"

  // Flight Planning Tags

  val Acceleration = "acceleration"
  val Mass = "mass"
  val Velocity = "velocity"
  val Flight = "flight"
  val FlightAnimation = "flightanimation"
  val FlightEpoch = "flightepoch"

  // Miscellaneous Tags

  val Demo = "demo"
  val Conditional = "conditional"
  val Config = "config"
  val MarkovText = "markovtext"

}

object Tags {

  import WorldItems._

  // new tag parsing - 2016-08-07 - 2016-08-14
  // these can be parsed from raw tags (RawTag) as soon as mapping of
  // name to WorldItem is created.
  // the idea is that this codifies the tag types and behaviors
  // in the compiler and should be more self-documenting then the original
  // implementation

  case class RawTag(kind: String, value: String, args: List[String])

  trait ParsedTag

  case class Link(
    item: WorldItem,
    displayText: Option[String],
    anchor: Option[String]
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class Image(
    item: ImageItem,
    responsive: Boolean,
    link: Boolean
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class FamilyTree(
    root: CharacterItem
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class Jumbotron(
    item: ImageItem,
    xPos: String,
    yPos: String,
    color: String
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class Timeline(
    root: WorldItem,
    format: String
  ) extends ParsedTag

  // events

  trait EventTag extends ParsedTag {
    val date: String // TODO: real date type
    val desc: String
  }

  case class Birth(
    date: String, // TODO: real date type
    desc: String
  ) extends EventTag

  case class Death(
    date: String, // TODO: real date type
    desc: String
  ) extends EventTag

  case class Event(
    date: String, // TODO: real date type
    desc: String
  ) extends EventTag

  // space flight related tags

  case class Flight(
    ship: WorldItem,
    startLocation: String,
    endLocation: String,
    startDate: CalendarDateTime,
    endDate: CalendarDateTime,
    passengers: List[WorldItem],
    faction: String
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class SpacecraftProperty(
    kind: String,
    value: Double,
    unit: String  // TODO: real unit type(s)
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class FlightEpoch(
    name: String,
    startDate: CalendarDateTime,
    endDate: CalendarDateTime
  ) extends ParsedTag

  // obviously WIP
  case class FlightAnimation(
    item: WorldItem,
    epoch: String,
    settings: AnimationSettings,
    status: Int,
    style: String,
    visible: List[String]
    // TODO: other visualization options
    // examples include faction filters
  ) extends ParsedTag

  // tasks

  case class Task(
    kind: String,
    desc: String,
    log: Option[String],
    start: Option[String],
    done: Option[String],
    points: Int
  ) extends ParsedTag

  // genealogy tags

  trait GenealogyTag extends ParsedTag {
    val character: CharacterItem
  }

  case class Ancestor(
    kind: String,
    character: CharacterItem
  ) extends GenealogyTag

  case class Descendant(
    kind: String,
    character: CharacterItem
  ) extends GenealogyTag

  case class Marriage(
    character: CharacterItem,
    date: Option[String] // TODO: real date type
  ) extends GenealogyTag

  //  miscellaneous tags

  case class Demo(
    kind: String,
    body: String
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class MarkovText(
    items: List[WorldItem],
    externalWorks: List[String],
    order: Int,
    count: Int,
    seed: Int
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class WordCount(
    item: WorldItem,
    recursive: Boolean,
    sections: Boolean
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class BurnDown(
    item: WorldItem,
    startDate: Option[CalendarDateTime],
    endDate: Option[CalendarDateTime],
    recursive: Boolean,
    weekends: Boolean
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class Anchor(
    desc: String,
    id: String
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class Index(
    item: WorldItem
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class Tasks(
    item: WorldItem,
    shorthand: Boolean,
    recursive: Boolean,
    mode: String
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class Stats(
    item: WorldItem
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class Gallery(
    item: WorldItem,
    size: Integer,
    showCaptions: Boolean,
    recursive: Boolean
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class Sidenote(
    desc: String,
    id: String
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class Footnotes(
    item: WorldItem,
    sections: Boolean
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class Snip(
    id: String,
    paragraphs: Int
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class Table(
    text: String,
    rownames: Boolean,
    colnames: Boolean,
    style: Option[String],
    tdStyle: Option[String],
    theadStyle: Option[String],
    colwidths: Option[List[String]]
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class Quote(
    item: WorldItem,
    id: String
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class Config(
    desc: String,
    args: Map[String, String]
  ) extends ParsedTag

  case class Conditional(
    text: String,
    modes: Set[String]
  ) extends ParsedTag

  // error tags

  trait ErrorTag extends ParsedTag

  case class GenError(msg: String) extends ErrorTag
  case class ParseError(tag: RawTag, msg: String) extends ErrorTag

  // establishes rules for how tags reference other items
  // used to determine related item outputs that need to be regenerated as items change

  def items(tag: ParsedTag): List[WorldItem] = tag match {
    case x: Link       => List(x.item)
    case x: Image      => List(x.item)
    case x: FamilyTree => List(x.root) // TODO: recursion through ancestor / descendant relationships
    case x: Jumbotron  => List(x.item)
    case x: Timeline   => List(x.root)
    case x: Flight     => x.ship :: x.passengers
    case x: Ancestor   => List(x.character)
    case x: Descendant => List(x.character)
    case x: Marriage   => List(x.character)
    case x: Quote      => List(x.item)
    // MarkovText would go here, but I don't want those to automatically update.

    // just a reminder to self that this by itself establishes the proper
    // recursive dependency, since hashes of items change when the hashes of their
    // children change
    case x: WordCount  => List(x.item)
    case x: Index      => List(x.item)
    case x: Tasks      => List(x.item)
    case x: Stats      => List(x.item)
    case _ => List()
  }

}

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Review- Rossliński-Liebe, "Stepan Bandera"
January 9, 2019 Peter Berard
Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, "Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist" (2014) – Ukraine! Tough country. Learning history seriously put a crimp in my desire to live in other time periods/places. Even leaving aside the toilet arrangements, in so many times and places there are just no good choices. Ukraine is one such place that finds itself in that position time and again, including right now. In this book, German historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe takes us back to an even harsher time, which has all too many echoes of contemporary Ukraine.
How to even describe Ukraine's situation in the early twentieth century? Well, for one thing, there was a lot of disagreement about where it began and ended, who was a Ukrainian, and what being Ukrainian meant. After WWI, there were major Ukrainian populations in three or four countries and in none of them were they well-treated, between the famine and the terror in the USSR and minority status in Czechoslovakia (where they were at least left alone) and Poland (where they weren't). Eastern Ukrainians were more culturally Russian where western Ukrainians were in uneasy proximity to Central Europe and especially the Poles.
Ukrainian nationalism was profoundly frustrated, especially in the west where, after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, there was no major power for them to look to the way Eastern Ukrainians looked (and look) to Russia. Frustrated nationalism in the early twentieth century was dynamite, dynamite sweating out little beads of nitroglycerin and waiting to blow. One of the men who slammed down the plunger on that little bundle of explosive joy was Stepan Bandera.
The son of a Greek Catholic priest (don't ask me how Greek Catholicism came to be the national church of western Ukraine, I do not understand it) and raised in the Ukrainian part of postwar Poland, Bandera was the right (or, really, exactly wrong) kind of crazy for his time and place. A nationalist extremist from the beginning, he made his name by taking an already angry nationalism and bringing it to a higher boil, ever to the right, ever more purist, ever more violent. Schoolmates report the young Bandera as sticking pins under his fingernails and whipping himself with his belt in order to prepare for the tortures he expected from the Polish secret police. He was a real character.
He joined the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) as a youth and proceeded to help take the group in an ever more violent, fascist, and antisemitic direction. He built a following with younger, mostly Poland-based members. Like Hitler, he was one of those guys where people argue over whether he was truly charismatic or not — he was a dweeby little twerp who looks for all the world like Stephen Miller — but clearly had something that got him over with angry young Ukrainians. One thing that probably helped was the stark simplicity of his answers to the complex questions of Ukrainian nationality. Ukraine has a unique destiny, it's defined by Ukrainian blood, and anyone foreign and anyone who stands in the way — Poles, Russians, Jews, democrats, communists, anyone who questions the Provydnik (leader) — need to be exterminated. This message proved popular and soon Bandera's branch of the OUN has outstripped more moderate Ukrainian nationalists and began undertaking terror campaigns.
Bandera was in Polish jail for conspiracy to kill the interior minister when the Nazis invaded. From the beginning, Bandera and the OUN hailed the Germans as liberators (note- these were not Ukrainians who suffered from the famine in the USSR, this was Ukrainians who were somewhat discriminated against in Poland) and as the people who could help bring about an independent Ukraine. As these groups do, OUN had split, there was an OUN-B (for Bandera) and an OUN-M (for Melnyk, another fascist chieftain). When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union and quickly rolled over much of Ukraine, these two competed to become the puppet government of Ukraine. Bandera had more popular appeal but Melnyk appealed more to the Germans, in large part because he was less egotistical and more pliable.
The early parts of the Nazi war against the Soviet Union saw massive atrocities carried out by both Axis soldiers and local civilians against Jews and other minorities. The book has numerous sickening depictions of Ukrainian nationalists teaming up with the Nazis to beat, humiliate, and kill Jews. Both OUN factions saw this as a positive thing at the time, the beginning of the great cleansing that would lead to a Ukrainian national rebirth. In some cases, the Germans even intervened to slow the Ukrainians down- they were getting too messy, too disorderly.
Of course, in the end, the Nazis did not want to see an independent Ukraine, even as a loyal puppet state. They wanted a slave colony. They were happy to use Ukrainians as muscle (like in the SS-Galizien division) but had no intention of making Bandera, Melnyk, or anyone else leader of a Ukrainian state. The Nazis wound up arresting Bandera, keeping him in a special division of one of the camps, a nice sort of place for high-end political prisoners like the last of the Hapsburgs and Otto von Bismarck's grandson.
This turned out to be important, because both Bandera and the OUN (and it's tedious subfactions and minor rivals) survived the war. While not giving up their fascist ideas, they pivoted towards the west and sought to aid in the American side of the Cold War. The CIA, as well as British and West German intelligence, made cat's paws of numerous Ukrainians (and many others) with dubious war records, allowing thousands to slip into new lives in the west. They didn't turn out to be that useful — there would be no "rollback" in Eastern Europe — but it allowed them to hold on. Moreover, they could enlist the Cold War propaganda establishment, including academic historians, to whitewash their crimes, defining away their fascism and turning a blind eye to the atrocities.
Bandera got got by the KGB in Munich in 1959 (the KGB tried to frame a Nazi war criminal in the West German government- too bad that didn't work, would've been a two for one). This was probably a convenient time for him to die, from a Ukrainian nationalist perspective. He wasn't too much use — the Americans thought he was too egotistical to work much with — and the promised Third World War that would allow the Ukrainians their next bite at the apple likely wasn't going to materialize by then.
Instead, Bandera became a martyr, and more than that, a synecdoche for right-wing Ukrainian nationalism more generally. Diaspora Ukrainians carefully tended to his cult for decades. Soviet propaganda helped, too, by insisting any Ukrainian they didn't like, even if it was just for speaking Ukrainian where they weren't supposed to, was a Banderist. This made him a symbol for resistance even among Ukrainians who didn't share his violent ultranationalism. Bandera managed to outlive a Melnyk, Bulba, and the other little fascist chieftains of the area to become this symbolic figure in time for Ukraine's independence in 1991. While a many Ukrainians, especially in the more russified east, don't really care about Bandera or his cause, a critical mass (especially in the west) see him as a key symbol for what the Ukraine should be. This is, to say the least, unsettling. In nearly the same breath, Ukrainian nationalists will uphold Bandera, insist that Bandera did nothing wrong and was a democrat (he hated democracy), and say anyway, it's all the fault of those nasty Jews like Soros. If it's for a western audience, they'll throw in Putin too.
I, for one, love big fat serious books about the ideological madness of the twentieth century, and this fits the bill. It was Rossoliński-Liebe's dissertation, and he's very careful with his historiography (which always takes me back to my early grad school days, all that wrangling over defining fascism- good times) and evidence. If there's one thing he didn't address enough, I'd say it was "why Bandera" — why he got to be the symbol instead of his rivals. Was it just the martyrdom? The extremity? I don't know. I do know this book got Rossoliński-Liebe in some trouble- between his claims about national hero Bandera and the gauntlet he throws at nationalist (and Cold War) historiography, when he came to Ukraine the only place he could do a reading was, ironically, the German embassy. Everywhere else was threatened to the point where they cancelled (and one gets the idea the Ukrainian academic establishment wasn't thrilled to help out either). Bandera, who wasn't above petty shit like that — no fascist, no matter how bloodied, is ever anything other than petty — would have been proud. *****
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For the last few months I have been tossing around the idea of analyzing data sets sourced from my hobbies: endurance sports (triathlons and marathons), sailing, and mountaineering. Athletic endeavors lend themselves quite well to statistical analysis (see Moneyball and Nate Silver's NCAA tournament predictions), but such careful and thoughtful scientific investigation rarely reaches the realm of less commercial sports. I've often been frustrated because speculation, anecdotal heuristics, and qualitative arguments dominate most discussions about factors which influence athletic performance in amateur sports. I hope that in this series of posts I can bring some clarity to these debates. This is a work in progress, so if these analyses pique your interest or you have comments, please send feedback my way!
In this post I attempt to ascertain how much the wind affected the results of the NYC Marathon earlier this month. On marathon Sunday runners were battered by a 11-21 mph headwind with gusts of up to 36 mph. The wind made running tough. I would know. I was one of the marathoners. During the first two miles of the marathon, runners summitted the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. Racing 150' above NY Harbor, there was no protection from the breeze. Runners dashing down the bridge at 7:00 min/mile pace were often blown sideways by sudden puffs. I found a sad humor in the image of my fellow runners stumbling down the course towards Brooklyn looking as if they were all racing the marathon in a drunken stupor. I probably didn't look much better.
Despite my enthusiasm for my charity (City Harvest) and my teammates, I did worse in this year's marathon: In 2013's marathon I finished in 3:27:48, but this year, I (quite literally) limped across the line in 3:37:30. So what happened? At the conclusion of the race my coach Liz Corkum consoled me saying that the wind probably added 8:00 minutes to my finish time. Is there any truth in that? We'll see.
Over-populations in the distribution just before half-hour boundaries in finish times are immediately obvious (at 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30, and 5:00). These half-hour boundaries are very common target finish times for marathoners, so it's not surprising that on race day competitors push themselves to meet their training targets. Interestingly, there isn't a large spike just before the Boston qualifier time of 3:05, another common goal for marathoners in NY. I guess that if you're going to run a sub-3:05 marathon, you're most likely fit enough to go for a (much more fashionable) sub-3:00 marathon time.
Looking at the distribution, we see that the 2014 distribution (blue) often exceeds the 2013 distribution (orange) for finish times slower than the mode (just before 4:00:00). The opposite is true for times faster than the mode. This would seem to imply that that people ran the 2014 marathon more slowly than the 2013 marathon. Let's examine this next.
By comparing the finish time at the boundaries of every 5th-percentile interval (groups of ~150 runners), we see that the percentage difference of finish times across all runners is remarkably consistent: For all but the top 5% and bottom 5% of runners in the age group, the 2014 marathon times were on average 2.44% slower than 2013 marathon times. In the top 5th percentile and bottom 5th percentile, the runners are probably running an entirely different race than the rest of the pack. The runners in the bottom 5th percentile are probably walking and just struggling to finish; while the runners in the top 5th percentile (3:01:52 or faster) are probably fit enough to deal with whatever race day might throw at them. Thus, I think it's acceptable to throw out both groups when computing this average.
This jibes with conventional academic analysis of the effect of wind on runners. A calculator from renowned running coach Dr. Jack Daniels indicates that a ~5 mph headwind is enough to produce the 2.44% slowdown observed in the results. Indeed, the headwind experienced by the marathoners might have been closer to 5 mph rather than 11-21 mph because of the wind shadow created by buildings and other structures along the running route. A paper by C.T.M. Davies in the Journal of Applied Physiology indicates that a world champion runner would experience a 3.9% decrease in their time if they could run a marathon in a vacuum.
A timing error might have occurred.
I've seen no evidence to support the final two possible causes and the first two statements don't seem likely. Having run both the 2013 and 2014 marathon, I believe the wind was the only significant factor that could induce such a consistent slowdown over the entire population of runners. Let's hope for a tailwind next year!


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Home Your travel guides Tenerife Our Lady of Candelaria Basilica
Our Lady of Candelaria Basilica
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Dating back centuries, this beloved church's latest incarnation is neoclassical and distinctly Canarian.
A basilica which honours Tenerife's patron saint.
A mix of grandiose and simple, this neoclassical basilica named for the patron saint of Tenerife, the Virgin of Candelaria, stands on the spot where according to legend the image of the virgin was found by the aboriginal Guanches in 1390. Destroyed and rebuilt several times, it's managed to survive wars, conquests, fires, and sacking. The most recent reconstruction took place in 1948, giving it a distinctly Canarian look. Today it is widely beloved among island residents. Each February 2 and August 15 the faithful show up in force to honour the Virgin.
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