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Four hospitalized amid explosions at military range in Samara region
Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:01 UTC
Five artillery projectiles exploded at a range near Chapayevsk, the Samara region, at about 7:30 p.m. Moscow time.
Two fire trains were sent to the scene, and Defense Ministry and Emergency Situations Ministry special hardware has also been engaged in dealing with the emergency situation.
Samara regional police spokesman Sergei Goldstein said there were about 13 million rounds of ammunition at the range depot. The range had been cordoned off, and roads leading to it blocked, he said.
Four people have been injured in explosions of projectiles at a range in Chapayevsk, the Samara region, a Samara medical source told Interfax.
Meteorite found in Minnesota corn field
Tim Sherno
An Arlington Minnesota couple discovered a strange rock in one of their corn fields.
Bruce Lilienthal says he was removing rocks when he discovered the large flat object, "It was just party sticking out of the ground. I picked it up and noticed it was a lot heavier than what it looked."
The Lilienthals say they had some time to research the strange stone, and discovered that the object was probably not a stone, but a meteorite instead.
A representative from the University of Minnesota drove out to the farm to verify that the rock is a meteorite.
The expert informed the Lilienthals that there was one found about three miles away from their farm 120 years ago.
There's no way of knowing when the meteorite the Lilienthals found made landfall.
The meteorite weighs in at 33 pounds.
Laughable - NASA announces asteroid 'Grand Challenge'
Sarah Ramsey/Rachel Kraft
NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. The challenge, which was announced at an asteroid initiative industry and partner day at NASA Headquarters in Washington, is a large-scale effort that will use multi-disciplinary collaborations and a variety of partnerships with other government agencies, international partners, industry, academia, and citizen scientists. It complements NASA's recently announced mission to redirect an asteroid and send humans to study it.
"NASA already is working to find asteroids that might be a threat to our planet, and while we have found 95 percent of the large asteroids near the Earth's orbit, we need to find all those that might be a threat to Earth," said NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver. "This Grand Challenge is focused on detecting and characterizing asteroids and learning how to deal with potential threats. We will also harness public engagement, open innovation and citizen science to help solve this global problem."
Grand Challenges are ambitious goals on a national or global scale that capture the imagination and demand advances in innovation and breakthroughs in science and technology. They are an important element of President Obama's Strategy for American Innovation.
Huge earth-passing asteroid an 'entirely new beast'
Sat, 15 Jun 2013 06:00 UTC
© Arecibo Observatory/NASA/Ellen Howell
Radar image of asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon taken on June 7, 2013, by the Arecibo Observatory. Several craters are visible on the asteroid, and the moon appears as a bright streak. Each pixel is 7.5 meters (25 feet).
A big asteroid that flew past Earth last month belongs to a new category of space rock, scientists say.
Asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon sailed within 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers) of Earth on May 31, making their closest approach to our planet for at least the next two centuries. New radar images captured by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico are revealing just how unique this binary asteroid is, researchers say.
"Asteroid QE2 is dark, red, and primitive - that is, it hasn't been heated or melted as much as other asteroids," Arecibo's Ellen Howell said in a statement. "QE2 is nothing like any asteroid we've visited with a spacecraft, or plan to, or that we have meteorites from. It's an entirely new beast in the menagerie of asteroids near Earth."
The 1000-foot-wide (305 meters) Arecibo dish and NASA's 230-foot (70 m) Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif., tracked 1998 QE2 as it approached Earth last month, then kept following the near-Earth asteroid as it receded into the depths of space.
The resulting radar images have helped researchers take 1998 QE2's measure. The dark, cratered main asteroid is 1.9 miles (3 km) wide, and it has a 2,500-foot (750 m) moon that orbits it once every 32 hours.
Norwegian geologist believed to have found large meteorite
NewsinEnglish, Norway
Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:08 UTC
Terje Fjeldheim, a geologist who acknowledges that he "knows a bit about rocks," was out fishing in the mountains of Setesdal, southern Norway, when he stumbled upon what's believed to be a meteorite weighing four-and-a-half kilos. That would make it the largest meteorite found in Norway in the last 100 years.
"It was so different that it immediately started ringing some bells," Fjeldheim told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) on Friday.
Fjeldheim's discovery has sparked excitement among astrophysicists and Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard, Norway's celebrity astronomer and meteorite expert, was "ecstatic," according to Fjeldheim. Rune Selbekk of the Museum of Natural History in Oslo has only seen Fjeldheim's photos so far, but said his "gut feeling" is good.
"I get around 2,000 to 3,000 samples every year," Selbekk told NRK. "When something authentic comes in, it offsets all the disappointments."
The last time a bigger meteorite was found in Norway was in the far northern city of Alta in 1902. Before that, Tysnes in 1884, reported NRK. Only a bit more than a dozen meteorites have been found in Norway, with one of the most recent ones crashing through the roof of a holiday cabin in Oslo just last year.
Fjeldheim was due to bring the meteorite in to the museum Friday afternoon and have it evaluated. It may be worth as much as NOK 225,000, should he decide to sell it.
More exploding houses? Westminster, Colorado house explosion linked to natural gas
Kieran Nicholson
Monique Gallegos was inside her Westminster home Thursday when a nearby explosion staggered her. Windows blew out, a ceiling fan was dislodged, crashing into the dining room, and a framed photo or art piece flew off the wall and smashed Gallegos in the back.
"I thought a plane had crashed, or it was a bomb, a terrorist," Gallegos recalled as she waited Thursday afternoon to get the OK to return to her home in the 9200 block of Ingalls Street.
© Andy Cross, The Denver Post
A natural gas explosion in Westminster destroyed four houses June 13, 2013.
Gallegos quickly got her mother, Arleen Gallegos, 70, out of the house, and along with other neighbors, they watched, stunned, as debris, materials from homes - pieces of rooftop shingles, splintered siding, insulation - continued to land in the street.11:35 a.m. a home on the 9300 block of Ingalls Street exploded, reduced to a pile of rubble and making the cul-de-sac it occupied look like part of a war zone. A second home also sustained heavy damage and several surrounding homes, like Gallegos', were damaged, as well.
Westminster firefighter Courtney VanMarter was among the first on the scene. She encountered a house that had been leveled, with lots of debris and blown out windows. She described the scene as reminiscent of a tornado.
"Truly there is not a whole let left in this house," VanMarter said. "It's quite shocking."
Bright meteor lights up Eastern coast of Australia
Toowoomba Chronicle, Australia
Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:46 UTC
A meteorite may have been spotted crashing to earth this evening.
There have been multiple reports of a bright burning light in the sky over Toowoomba and the Darling Downs last night.
Witnesses reported seeing a bright white ball falling to earth about 6pm. It is understood the object may have been a meteor or space junk.
Several people contacted The Chronicle this morning to report the sighting.
On Facebook, witnesses spoke of a "spectacular" light display that at first appeared to be a shooting star.
Shallon Garton: "I saw what I thought was a shooting star but way bigger driving back to Highfields from Esk."
Stuart Shields: "Yes, saw it on my way home from Highfields last night was pretty spectacular."
Christine Walker: "We saw it here in the Lockyer Valley just after dark. No time to grab the camera though"
There have also been reports of a bright light or flashes over the Sunshine Coast and the mid north NSW coast.
City-destroying asteroid flashes Earth with just one day's notice
Nancy Atkinson
© JPL Small Body Database
Orbit diagram of Asteroid 2013 LR6.
A truck-sized asteroid just discovered yesterday (Thursday, June 6) will give Earth a relatively close shave later today/early tomorrow, depending on your time zone. Asteroid 2013 LR6 is somewhere between 5- 16 meters (16 to 54 feet) in diameter and will be flying by at only about 111,000 kilometers (69,000 mi, 0.29x Lunar Distances) from Earth at 4:43UTC/12:43AM EDT on June 8, 2013.
This is similar in size to the space rock that exploded over Russia back in February of this year. The Russian asteroid was about 15 meters (50 feet) in diameter before it exploded in an airburst event about 20-25 km (12-15 miles) above Earth's surface.
Find out how you can watch the flyby live online, below.
Mystery boom shakes residents of Sharon, Pennsylvania
Sun, 26 May 2013 18:24 UTC
Mercer County - Memorial Day weekend started out "relatively quiet" for police, except for another mysterious "sonic boom."
At 7:29 p.m. Friday, the explosion rocked Shenango Township. A resident in the 3500 block of Hubbard-West Middlesex Road heard "a loud sonic boom," a Mercer County 911 dispatcher said. The caller told the 911 operator "it shook the house; it was not like a transformer blew.
"All of the neighbors came outside to see what happened, so many people felt it."
Southwest Mercer County Regional police were dispatched, but could not find anything.
It was the second such incident reported in as many weeks. On May 13, dozens of callers from Mercer to Sandy Lake to Grove City reported hearing a "massive explosion" at about 9 p.m. Officials have not been able to explain the noise.
The 911 dispatcher said "typical holiday weekend" calls were from all over Mercer County. Early Friday, an alleged "streaker" shocked some callers from Sharon. Later Friday, a reported gas leak near Lake Latonka was cleared up by 11:45 p.m.
At about 5 p.m. Saturday, a kid in a "black hoodie" gave Sharon police a run for their money over "some minor crime."
A couple of hours later, there was a report of a burglary on Tamarack Drive in South Pymatuning Township. About 8 p.m., police in Hermitage responded to a hit-and-run accident with no apparent injuries.
A plane mystery: Passenger jet makes emergency landing after being hit by unidentified 'foreign object' at 26,000 feet
© Unknown
A passenger jet has been forced to make an emergency landing after an unidentified "foreign object" smashed into its nose cone at 26,000 feet
A passenger jet has been forced to make an emergency landing, after an unidentified "foreign object" smashed into its nose cone at 26,000 feet.
A large dent and scraped paintwork was visible on the Air China Boeing 757 after it landed safely at Chengdu Airport, having been forced to turn back after the pilot said he was struggling to control the plane.
Click here for more images of the damaged aircraft
Investigators are said to be baffled by the dent, reportedly ruling out a bird strike as no blood or feathers were seen around the impact site, but insisting traces of whatever caused the damage are likely to be found under closer inspection.
The plane was flying at around 26,000 feet, climbing over China 20 minutes after take-off during an internal flight between Chengdu and Guangzhou, when passengers are said to have heard a loud bang.
A large dent and scraped paintwork was visible on the Air China Boeing 757 after it landed safely at Chengdu Airport
At the time the pilot is thought to have been unaware of the damage, but contacted air traffic control to report stability issues shortly after hearing the noise.
He was instructed to return to Chengdu, where the damaged nosecone was seen and photographed by passengers disembarking the aircraft.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator in VR: The World gets its Digital Twin
December 1, 2020 November 30, 2020 by Emory Craig
Microsoft's Flight Simulator in VR arrives this December. At 38 years old, the remarkable simulation is the company's longest-running software product line. At that age, it even predates Windows by three years. Its history is an amazing time capsule of the evolution of computer graphics – from the blocky renderings of the early versions to today's deeply realistic simulation – and it's soon to become a VR experience.
Here is a screenshot of version 2 in 1984, a year after PC Magazine praised version 1 as "extraordinarily realistic … a classic program, unique in the market." The scenes were composed of four (yes, four!) glorious colors and four hatched tones; if you hooked it up to a "color composite" monitor (i.e., a TV), you could get up to 15 colors. Ah, the abundant gifts of early technology.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2.10 for IBM PC, flying over the Empire State Building with the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in the distance, 1984.
By 1996, Flight Simulator for Windows 95 finally achieved a degree of realism that vaguely looked like the real thing. NYC had buildings that approximated a few well-known landmarks with non-volumetric clouds in the distance. We were flying over Manhattan. More or less.
Fast forward through decades of development (with Microsoft shutting down the project and bringing it back to life), we have the 2020 version with its photorealistic reproduction of New York City's buildings and monuments, with a beautifully rendered sky reflected in the surface of the water. As a flatscreen computer simulation, Flight Simulator 2020 achieves a breathtaking level of fidelity and accuracy. And it's only going to get better.
As you look at these images, you can see them as a roadmap for augmented and virtual reality. Every area of immersive tech, or XR, will undergo the same transformation in the coming decades. There's only one difference: the pace of change is significantly faster now than it was in the 80s and 90s. In 2019, we got a standalone VR headset that shattered the limitations VR had labored under with cables and external base stations. Only 19 months later, we have the Quest Quest 2, which achieved a new standard in VR experiences. And even that device just received its first major update, bringing 90Hz support, a fitness tracker, and new features.
For the moment, Microsoft Flight Simulator in VR will be just another VR game – though an incredibly good one. But with its ambitious scope to digitize the entire world, the potential is for far more. We're moving one step closer to recreating the world in a machine-readable 1-to-1 scale model – a digital twin of our world. And at some point in that development, we will no longer be able to distinguish between the computer-generated version and the real one. At first, that will only happen on the visual level since haptic developments are moving at a much slower pace. But as the latter evolves, we'll reach a point where the immersive simulation is no different from piloting a real aircraft. Or doing any of the other thousand and one other activities that humans pursue on the small orbiting rock that serves as our home.
Microsoft Flight Simulator In VR
What makes the new MS flight sim remarkable is how it combines real world satellite data and Azure AI to create a deeply realistic environment. Aircraft and buildings incorporate shadows and reflections, and urban landscapes have accurately reproduced structures or auto-generated content based on satellite data. Play the game online, and it adds in localized weather conditions, along with air and ground traffic to further the realism. That 747 you see on the runway in front of you? Those ominous low-hanging clouds you're about to fly into? All there in real life and now part of the simulation.
Incorporate all this into virtual reality, and suddenly, you have an environment you step into instead of staring at a screen (or three as many avid users arrange their flight sim setups). Here's a quick video on the upcoming release.
A further video with details on the VR implementation will be available on December 17, with the actual update coming online around the end of December. The original announcement limited the compatible VR headsets; but the latest news is that it will now be available where it needs to be – on all platforms, including Oculus and SteamVR.
The Sense of Immersion
The sense of immersion in VR comes from the feeling of being physically present in a virtual world. How far Microsoft can take this in a flight simulation will depend on a multitude of technical details, few of which we have answers to now. Can we reach out and flip the switches on the instrument panel? Can we open the door of a Cessna in flight and get the dreaded sense of vertigo that would come from the real experience? Can Microsoft Flight Simulator in VR render the scenery as well as the desktop version?
It's hard to imagine that this will work with anything less than a high-end PC and the latest Nvidia graphics cards. And that will be a challenge when the VR version arrives – VR inevitably increases the digital divide when it first arrives. But as is always the case with the technology, today's high-end specs will be tomorrow's laughable limitations. There was a time when getting 15 colors on a color composite monitor was an achievement.
The Digital Twin Arrives
A view of New York City from the virtual cockpit in a plane in Flight Simulator.
With Flight Simulator in VR, everything on the earth's surface will be available, with buildings, monuments, and landscape features rendered in photorealistic accuracy supplemented with AI-generated content. It's a little like Facebook's work on foveated rendering in VR – recreate the central details in hi-res, and the rest can be automated through AI. As the updates continue, the photorealistic scenery will expand, and the AI contributions will become more accurate.
Ultimately, Microsoft's Flight Simulator in VR is creating a digital twin of the world we live in. Not an object or a portion of the world, but the entire environment of our planet with climate and water. In parallel with this, Facebook is also building a digital twin of our world – the on-the-ground side through its Live Maps initiative. While Microsoft will rely on satellite data for its portion, Facebook will vacuum up data from our smart devices, including our AR glasses. In effect, we become the onsite satellites for Facebook (a prospect at once fascinating and disconcerting).
There's no chance in the near future that these two projects – both generating 1-to-1 scale models of our world with live updates – will link together. But on the other hand, it's inconceivable that these two realms will remain forever separated. You can envision a day in the future when we'll be able to land the plane and step out into a completely rendered environment. It won't just be the world seen outside a virtual plane's cockpit, but an expansive world fully available to us in XR. Ready Player One, indeed.
And So Do The Questions
The Ready Player One scenario may seem far in the future, but it's closer than you think. And it raises fascinating questions – especially when you remove the neat Hollywood trappings the movie is wrapped in.
How will workforce training and education change when VR is no longer composed of one-off simulations but part of a larger virtual ecosystem? Think of XR not as the individual apps they are today, but as linked experiences and environments. Physical books and media were overwhelmed with digital versions giving us a wealth of resources. How will we handle the abundance of virtual experiences in the future when you can call up any object, environment, or activity at will?
From the early days of Myst (which is also coming in VR) to Half-Life: Alyx, Games are increasingly realistic. What happens when the game/simulation becomes so real that it is indistinguishable from reality? As it is, we struggle to cope with the current onslaught of false information and conspiracy theories on our social media platforms. If fake text and videos can create what some have called an epistemological crisis, how will we live in a world where there is a 1-to-1 virtual model with fake experiences readily available on-demand?
Will the status of real world objects and activities be impacted by our ability to access equally real versions in virtual environments? For example, VR is already bringing us closer to our national parks and nature, but will the significance of the physical version change when we can readily access the virtual in fully immersive experiences? Will we continue to preserve nature and historical monuments, or will the virtual versions be seen as sufficient?
How will a digital twin of our world affect our understanding of culture and identity? In recent years, many of our national borders have sadly become synonymous with physical walls and barriers. At the same time, technology lets us breach them with increasing ease. In Flight Simulator, you can fly across North Korea, even land your plane on a street in Pyongyang without fear of reprisal or becoming the source of an international incident. Will physical borders become more impenetrable as technology makes them more porous? Or will it open the doors to empathy and understanding between cultures?
These are just a few of the questions that will begin to arise as the technology behind Microsoft's Flight Simulator in VR expands into a richer and more all-encompassing virtual experience. Right now, it's simply an amazing flight simulation. But in building a digital twin of our environment, it's cracking open the door to the more far-reaching possibilities and challenges of our future.
See you in the virtual skies.
Emory Craig
Emory Craig is a writer, speaker, and VR consultant with extensive experience in art, new media, and higher education. He speaks at global conferences on innovation, education, and ethical technology in the future. He has published widely and worked with the US Agency for International Development, the United Nations, and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Living at the intersection of learning, games, and immersive storytelling, he is fascinated by AI-based avatars, digital twins, and the ethical implications of blurring the boundaries between the real and the virtual.
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Which vehicles to drive with a B license? (scooters, electric, motorcycles, 3-wheelers)
The "pink paper", which today has taken the form of a credit card, allows you to drive any car with four wheels and a steering wheel. But, thanks to him, the holder of the B license can also sit behind a handlebar !
Landed in France in 2006, the Piaggio MP3 revolutionized the world of scooters. By exploiting perfectly legislation specific to motorized tricycles, the Italian manufacturer has succeeded in marketing a machine accessible to motorists, without capacity limitation. The success was immediate: having three wheels reassures the uninitiated and performances of the machine delight the drivers. Since the arrival of MP3, many other manufacturers have stepped into the breach.
Driving a 125cc or a three-wheeler: who has the right?
It is mandatory, since 1is January 2011, to follow a seven hour training before driving these machines. However, there are exceptions: drivers who can prove experience in the 125 cm3 category during the last five years are exempt. They must provide a certificate of prior driving a motorized two-wheeler or an insurance information statement. Holders of A licenses, known as "motorcycle" licenses, do not need this training either.
This 7-hour training (2 hours of theory, 2 hours of driving off traffic, 3 hours of driving in traffic) accessible to holders of the B license for two years, allows driving 125 cm3 whose power does not exceed 11 kW (i.e. 15 hp) and 3-wheel scooters (category L5e) whose weight is less than 1000 kg .
B license: which vehicles to choose?
There are many 125 scooters available on the market. Among the best-selling are Honda Forza, Yamaha X Max, Honda PCX, Piaggio XEvo, Yamaha NMax, Vespa GTS et Peugeot Satelis.
Vehicles with three or four wheels are also increasingly common. The Piaggio MP3 was at the top of sales in 2016, ahead of Peugeot Metropolis, Piaggio Yourban and Yamaha Tricity. On the side of "4-wheel scooters", only the Quadro 4 is easily accessible in France.
Attracted by an electric vehicle?
The Renault Twizy can be driven with license B. Displayed from € 7,540, this enigmatic "displeasure" is worth commercially. Other 100% electric vehicles are available on the market, including a powerful and remarkable BMW scooter whose power (11 kW) climbs up to 35 kW (47.5 hp) at peak. The BMW C evolution has a range of 100 km in urban use.
The American brand Zero Motorcycles also offers the Zero S, which spins at 143 km / h (from € 12,890). Many other models also exist on the electric market, sold for example by Bultaco and Volta.
Everything for an original look?
Certain vehicles accessible by license B are much more original. This is the case of the Can-Am Spyder (from € 18,999 in F3 version), of which 933 units were sold in France in 2016. S 'he does not lean in the bends and, as such, could disappoint bikers, its large and powerful Rotax engine 998 cm3 106 hp generates impressive performance.
Just as offbeat but with wheels at the rear, the Harley-Davidson Tri-Glide (from € 39,999), which has a 1745 cm twin3, sold 128 copies in France in 2016.
There remains the very unique Polaris Slingshot (65 sales), which has a steering wheel and not a handlebar. Also approved in the tricycles category (L5e), it trades from € 30,000 and can be driven without a helmet. It has a single rear wheel powered by a 4-cylinder 2.4 liters developing 173 hp.
The most cute, according to us: the LML Tristar 125 cm3 4T, hitched. To choose it is the assurance of driving different. And slowly, since its single cylinder develops 8 hp and does not exceed 90 km / h. Count 6,000 € minimum for this magnificent toy approved 3 places !
The category B driving license, the most popular in France
According to statistics, the practical test in category B of the driving license is the most passed examination in France. This is explained by a desire for emancipation from young drivers. Indeed, being the holder of a B permit allows driving without the presence of a qualified teacher or a certified attendant to supervise driving. In any case, each road user must take out minimum insurance, such as car insurance with allianz.fr.
In addition to the classic B license, there is also the additional mention B96. Obtaining this mention follows a training course lasting 7 hours, with a circulation sequence (CIR) and a non-circulation session (HC). It grants permission to drive a heavier team:
A car with a trailer, weighing more than 750 kg
A vehicle (car + trailer) weighing more than 3500 kg without exceeding 4250 kg.
Other indications and codes may accompany the mention B on the driving license. These elements specify the holder's right to drive, as a restriction for medical reasons, administrative restriction or adaptation of the vehicle.
The categories of vehicles that can be driven with only the B license
Good news for road users! Obtaining a category B driving license allows them to drive automobiles as well as motor homes, a certain category of two-wheelers or agricultural vehicles under certain conditions.
Authorization to drive cars
In principle, the category B of the driving license is reserved for the validation of the capacities of a use of the road, to the driving of a motor vehicle on the French road network. This category concerns the driving of passenger cars and commercial vehicles.
However, there is a limit to this driving possibility as well as to the choice of vehicles, which is their PTAC. Indeed, this indicator must not exceed 3.5 tonnes.
The possibility of driving vehicles towing trailers
Category B driving license holders are also authorized to drive vehicles towing a trailer. The prerogatives still relate to the GVW, which does not exceed 740 kg or that the sum of all the GVWs of the vehicle and the trailer does not exceed 3.5 tons.
In order to be able to go beyond this limit, up to 4,250 kg for the GVWR of the whole, the driver must take the training to obtain the mention 96 of the B permit.
The possibility of driving agricultural and forestry vehicles
Get the category B the driving license gives the right to the possibility of driving a vehicle intended for the exploitation of agricultural or forestry plots. These drivers can thus choose any vehicle, while respecting the only condition linked to the maximum speed. This must not exceed 40 km / h.
Authorization to drive a motorhome
Motorists with a B license also have the right to drive a motorhome, regardless of its model. However, they must respect the PTAC which must not be greater than 3.5 tonnes. The only exceptions are users who obtained a driving license before January 20, 1975. The latter have the right to drive in camping-car over 3.5 tonnes without additional mention. Users holding a B license from this date are required to take the exam to obtain category C1, if they want to drive a motorhome exceeding the PTAC.
Two-wheelers and motorized tricycles covered by category B of the driving license
A road user, having obtained the category B driving license, is authorized to use two-wheelers and motorized tricycles. This authorization is however subject to certain conditions. Indeed, drivers must have held a license for more than 2 years. They must also undergo practical training, lasting 7 hours. In addition, users must be at least 21 years old, in order to be able to drive a motorized tricycle.
However, some users are exempt from this training. These are those who obtained their driving license before March 1, 1980 or those who drove and insured a light motorcycle or motorized tricycle 5 years before 2011.
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R.I.P. Pete Seeger. I remember listening to him play "Where have all the flowers gone" at the February 15, 2003 protest against the US invading Iraq in NYC. It was freezing cold and the police pretty much corralled protesters into small areas but there were thousands upon thousands of us out there listening to Pete play and sing. We heard Desmond Tutu speak. I didn't need much to keep me warm. The humanity of those people and all the people surrounding me that day was enough to keep me from feeling cold...I've never had such a wonderful experience as that. The world has lost a wonderful man!


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Q: Что лучше использовать в mysql? Что лучше и быстрее?
Миллион записей в одной таблице или по 400 записей в 2500 таблицах? Для справки - я хочу инвентарь каждого пользователя хранить в отдельных таблицах или всё в одну сгружать и вытаскивать по id пользователя?

A: Если вы беспокоитесь, что ваша таблица с миллионом записей будет перегружена - то вы волнуетесь зря! MySQL умеет работать с миллионами записей.
Вот несколько советов, если вам необходимо работать с большими данными:

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*Используйте индексы. Индексы усложняют вставку, но упрощают выборку. С ним ваши select/delete запросы будут быстрее.

*Разбивайте ваши крупные select-выборки на чанки в вашем приложении. Например, php-массив в 300 000 записей из БД занимал у меня 250мб памяти. Разбиение на маленькие группы данных при помощи OFFSET LIMIT позволили мне сохранить память и не так сильно нагружать БД.

*Если вы предполагаете, что работа с миллионами записей у вашего приложения будет нормой - посмотрите в сторону MongoDB, она лучше справляется с большими данными, но хуже с меньшими.

*Почитайте про SELECT INTO OUTFILE, LOAD DATA INFILE, если вас интересуют подробности больших select и insert запросов.

Соглашусь с sanmai и добавлю ещё один момент. Определённо, вам не нужно создавать такое огромное количество таблиц: кроме нерациональности , это сильно усложняет логику работы приложения (когда создавать новые таблицы, поддержание связей между таблиц в актуальном состоянии). Попробуйте использовать связующие таблицы, которые будут хранить связь между пользователем и его предметом. 1 связь - 1 запись.

A: Каждая новая таблица расходует ресурс сервера на поддержание открытого файла. Даже если вы настроите open_files_limit при помощи обычного метода, ресурсы сервера все равно будут использоваться под вещи, которые не нужны. Кроме того, интересно может повести себя буферный пул. Потому, если вы не знаете что так точно будет хуже, лучше однородные данные в пределах одного сервера держать в одной таблице.
Миллион записей — это пустяки в наши дни.

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The counter-consultancy
Notes towards practising unknowing in coaching
By Martin Vogel
This is the second of a two-part series on the orientation of unknowing. Part 1 explored what is meant by unknowing. This second part discusses how it might be applied to coaching.
Unknowing can be viewed as a discipline. It is the practice of letting go of what we think we know, opening to freshness and holding ideas lightly. It is hard, because our identities, even our sense of moral worth, are wrapped up in our knowing. As with all disciplines, the more we practice, the more fluent we become.
Most of us have deep knowledge about a few small areas of life. You might call this erudition. Erudition is to be valued – though, even here, it is prudent to hold one's knowledge open to challenge and revision. But beyond our areas of erudition, our knowledge about everything else tends to be very shallow. So shallow, it is hard to distinguish from ignorance. If we make decisions informed by ignorance, masquerading as knowledge, they can have unfortunate consequences. We might vote in a referendum on an issue we scarcely understand or espouse ways of responding to a novel virus about which (by definition) even scientific experts know very little.
Unknowing is about loosening our attachments to ignorant certainties – bringing, instead, humility and curiosity to the world as we find it. Applied to coaching, it entails relaxing the idea of coaching as solution-focussed and goal-oriented – leaning more towards a view of coaching as a reflective practice, in which coach and coachee explore and make sense together. It can help clients to encounter the world in fresh ways. Paradoxically, by entering a space where the pressure to have an answer is alleviated, the client is more likely to gain clarity about what to do next. What to do next might be to do nothing: to wait to see what emerges, and to be ready to respond.
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29 April 2021 20 May 2021 active listening, coaching, dialogue, ethical maturity, Greek philosophers, Jonathan Hoban, leadership development, mindfulness, not knowing, Tatiana Bachkirova, uncertainty, unknowingLeave a comment
Unknowing: an orientation for coaching and leading
One doesn't need to work long as a coach to encounter clients who bridle against the profession's non-directivity ethos and demand answers. "I want tips, not coaching," one said to me recently. "What's making you say that?" I replied – impolitely deflecting the request.
In fairness, this encounter arose at a time when I was particularly unlikely to comply. Through the pandemic, I've been musing on what I call my unknowing project. I've become convinced that we cherish knowing too much – or rather, the feeling of knowing. We live in an era of intersecting complex challenges – globalisation, environmental crisis, social and racial inequities, nationalism. Covid, sometimes referred to as a syndemic, cuts across all of these. Complex challenges are defined by the difficulty of designing a solution. Yet they characteristically call forth simplistic answers from people who are uncomfortable with this fact. Which is to say, most of us. Homo sapiens, the man who knows, prizes having answers. But we are, as Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach have found, more ignorant than we allow.
Any client who comes into coaching feels, at some level, the pressure of the need to know. Coaching risks colluding with the fantasy of knowing in the face of complexity. Perhaps, instead, we can contextualise it. Both coach and client can try to approach the world with some humility about the limits of our knowledge.
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28 April 2021 29 April 2021 leadership, leadership development, not knowing, uncertainty, unknowingLeave a comment
Developing leaders in turbulent times: learning from supervision
By Martin Vogel and Simon Cavicchia
We live in a world of adversity and disruption. The upheavals we are seeing in the social, political, economic and environmental contexts of work are material to how coaches work with their clients. In this article, we explore what kind of leaders and leadership we need for today's world and ask what can we learn from the practice of supervision to support the development of these leaders?
The 21st Century, so far, has been punctuated by a series of shocks which, cumulatively, have upended our assurance that we live in an orderly, predictable, manageable environment. The terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 November 2001 announced the asymmetric power of Islamist networks whose reach and barbarity seemed to grow exponentially over the subsequent years. The financial crash of 2007 brought the near collapse of global capitalism and planted the seeds of a national populist backlash throughout the Western world. This led in due course to the twin ruptures in 2016 of Brexit in the UK and the election of Donald Trump in America, and the establishment of governing styles which have challenged democratic norms and tested the checks and balances of both countries' political systems. In 2021, while Brexit has been formally implemented, organisations and society in Britain face uncertainty about how its relations with the rest of the world will be arranged in the months and years to come. Throughout all of this, the dual crises of climate change and biodiversity have grown. As we started the present decade, there was a widespread realisation that the ten years ahead would present the last window of opportunity to avert climate catastrophe – but with no clear consensus on how to co-ordinate action across the globe. Then came the Covid-19 pandemic, providing a crash course on how quickly social and economic life as we know it can be halted in its tracks by natural forces beyond our control. It has driven a wrecking ball through behaviours, routines and leadership priorities that have long been imagined to be solid and reliable. On a global scale individuals have adjusted to changes that, only a short time ago, were not considered necessary or even possible.
Just as we were coming to terms with the implications of this, the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minnesota ignited protests of pain and anger across America (and many other countries) and a clampdown of unaccountable brutality by police, security forces and even private militia incited by President Trump. In the aftermath of the US election, as Trump denied the result, it was not clear that American democracy would hold. On 6 January 2021, a violent storming of the US Capitol building showed that this was no idle fear. At the time of writing, it is not clear that democracy has withstood the test.
Throughout much of this time, discourses on leadership, organisation development and executive coaching have made increasing reference to the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous nature of the environment in which leaders are working (Stiehm, 2002). But business has carried on broadly as usual. So great has been the disparity between discourse and practice that the idea of the VUCA world has seemed little more than a platitude – an unconscious genuflection that usefully justifies leadership development interventions but has little bearing on either their nature or their impacts. Traditional views of coaching can be seen as a response to an outmoded view of leadership from the modern/industrial era when the world was assumed to be predictable. This orientation is bound by assumptions of linear cause and effect logic, short-term focus on pre-determined goals and an assumption that these can be achieved as intended.
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Speaking up and speaking out
My time in lockdown has been bracketed by two enjoyable adventures in podcasting, courtesy of Charmaine Roche and her new series, Speak Up, Speak Out. Charmaine is a coach, working in the education sector, and is also researching a PhD on how coaches can help clients deal with the stress arising from ethical challenges. In her series of five podcasts, she has interviewed a different person each week on questions related to her research interest. I was privileged not only to have been her first guest but also the guest host in the final episode, interviewing Charmaine herself.
Listening to each episode, I have enjoyed how she has opened up an expansive view of coaching as a liberating intervention. She explores with her guests how people in organisations often feel pressure to conform against their better judgment and how coaching can help them access their integrity as professionals.
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How to work with a coach
This series of blog posts guides you through the whole process of working with a coach from identifying why you might need one through to ending a coaching relationship elegantly. If you engage a coach, bookmark this page and keep referring to it throughout your engagement.
Why use a coach?
What do you want from coaching?
How do you find a coach?
Meeting a prospective coach
Agreeing terms with your coach
Your first session with a coach
Working with your coach
Your work between coaching sessions
If your coaching isn't going well
When it's time to finish coaching
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Coaching is political
Coaching has been practised to support leadership for a few decades now. But the mismatch between leaders' impact and the challenges we face as a society has never seemed greater.
Look, for example, at the paralysis over how to manage climate change. Politicians and executives seem clueless, or unwilling to engage in strategies that can help bring about the radical changes required to mitigate predicted disaster scenarios. The question here is how the coaching profession can engage with the climate emergency – only one of the complex political issues that shape the context in which we encounter our clients. The mismatch between the scale of these tasks and the quality of leadership with which the world can tackle them is a call for coaches to critically review our impact and responsibilities. Continue reading "Coaching is political" →
3 February 2020 20 October 2022 climate change, eco-leadership, extinction rebellion, Hetty Einzig, leadership, moderation, Simon Cavicchia, Simon Western, traumaLeave a comment
On getting it wrong
At its edges, the world of coaching is influenced by memes that originate in new age thinking. This isn't entirely to be deprecated. Coaching's porousness to diverse influences helps make it adaptive and less susceptible to the orthodoxy that eventually stifles professions. But occasionally an idea threatens to break through that needs to be stamped on if we are to maintain rigorous foundations for our work.
One such that I have encountered this year is the comforting notion that "you can't get it wrong". I think this translates as: "Don't worry about messing up – there's no single right way to do something, so just go ahead and imagine that the way you are doing it will meet the exigencies of the situation."
I have come across this in relation to the practice of mindfulness and with respect to how to practice as a coach or supervisor. Before long, this kind of thinking will be infecting organisations and letting leaders off the hook for all sorts of things. The idea has a beguiling appeal and sounds like it's in the same terrain as constructs that are helpful to dealing with a complex world. But, in fact, it's opposed to them. Continue reading "On getting it wrong" →
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From toolkits to relationships: getting real about what happens in coaching
The practice of coaching has many antecedents. But one that most eased its way into the corporate world was the analogy between sports coaching and leadership development. Corporations are susceptible to narratives of being world class and winning. So learning from methodologies fine-tuned to get the best out of athletes can be appealing to the corporate leader's world view. This, for a long while, created an emphasis in the development of coaches on the acquisition of skills and techniques. Coaches would turn up with their "toolkits" and fine tune their clients' performance in the pursuit of specified goals.
The Theory and Practice of Relational Coaching by Simon Cavicchia and Maria Gilbert proposes a different perspective. It views coaching as a dialogue of discovery between coach and client, one which calls on the practitioner to cultivate awareness and empathic attunement more than it demands technical accomplishment. It's an approach which is grounded in the insight that all of our experience is socially constructed. There is no fixed thing called an organisation which provides a predictable environment for our working lives. It is enacted every day by its participants and shaped by the different world views that each of them brings by virtue of their biography.
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4 December 2018 29 October 2021 Advent Calendar 2018, books, counter-consultancy, dialogue, Maria Gilbert, mindfulness, narrative, relational, Simon CavicchiaLeave a comment
The serious business of playing the Fool
It's a shame that Hetty Einzig's The Future of Coaching is so-called. Its concerns spread much wider than its title implies. It's a radical and thoughtful book which holds before us the chaotic nuttiness of the world as it is now and asks what kind of leadership should coaching call forth.
Hetty Einzig takes it as axiomatic that the big challenges we humans face demand committed and creative interventions by leaders. Never mind present concerns such as Brexit or Trump, Hetty reminds us that the broader context is that of a trajectory to environmental catastrophe. She has no truck with the notion that coaches should be neutral facilitators of whatever goals their corporate clients might pursue. Nor does she believe leaders should collude with such ideas. Coaches and leaders alike are citizens in wider society as well as servants of the organisations that employ them. It is the legitimate task of all of us to try to influence organisations to play a constructive role in addressing society's problems.
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3 December 2018 22 August 2019 Advent Calendar 2018, books, coaching, counter-consultancy, dialogue, Hetty Einzig, leadershipLeave a comment
How to work with a coach, part 10
When is it time to finish coaching? And how do you end the relationship elegantly when you feel it's time to part company with your coach?
Often, decisions about ending are determined in advance. There's frequently an understanding that the coaching is a finite arrangement. This is partly philosophical: an assumption (not necessarily valid) that a client risks becoming dependent on their coach. Partly, it's budgetary: the number of sessions is determined by the funds available. Whatever the reason, your coach will likely have a well-rehearsed model for bringing the coaching to closure.
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24 March 2018 22 August 2019 coaching, dialogue, how to work with a coach, personal developmentLeave a comment
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The Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC) () is a project to provide higher education in Cornwall, England, which is one of the poorest areas of the United Kingdom in terms of GVA per capita.

History
Developed in the early 2000s, following the work of the Camborne and University of Cornwall Support Group (a pressure group that is composed mostly of Cornish graduates), professionals founded the CUC in 1997 to seek a collaboration of all HE providers in Cornwall in working towards the establishment of a free-standing Cornish university in the future and to oppose the loss of the Camborne School of Mines from the depressed towns, Camborne and Redruth.

With funds from the European Union Objective One and the South West Regional Development Agency, the CUC serves to fight the "brain drain" of students to the rest of the United Kingdom. Historically, most Cornish students have had to leave the county to obtain higher education, and they then never returned to contribute their knowledge and skills to the Cornish economy.
The establishment of CUC is itself a contribution to the expansion of the Cornish economy, and all proposed developments within the CUC umbrella are required to show how they will contribute to Cornish prosperity.

Like a number of other recent projects in UK higher education, CUC involves collaboration between several institutions, but it is probably unique in the number and range of institutions involved.
It is conceived on a "hub and spokes" model, with different institutions offering different kinds of provision in different locations. The CUC central administration is based at Trevenson House in Pool, Cornwall, and the "rim" sites have been placed at a number of different locations. There are in fact two "hubs". One is the Tremough campus, originally developed for the Falmouth College of Arts (now Falmouth University). Here, degrees are offered by Falmouth University and by the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus; the University of Exeter has international-standard research teams located here. Halls of residence are provided, and the campus attracts students on a national and international basis, though it is also intended to be attractive to local students. The second hub is the "health spa" at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Treliske site, which provides facilities for the Peninsula Medical School (a joint operation of the University of Exeter, the University of Plymouth, and the National Health Service in Devon and Cornwall), and for the Institute of Health Studies of the University of Plymouth, which teaches nursing and other subjects allied to medicine.

The "rim" consists of two tertiary institutions: Cornwall College and Truro and Penwith College, which, in addition to their further education work, offer a range of higher education courses from sub-degree to master's degree level under franchise from the University of Plymouth. These colleges are part of the University of Plymouth Colleges network (UPC), and their courses are particularly (though not exclusively) aimed at encouraging wider participation in higher education by students from the South West of Britain.

Partnership and institutions
CUC exists as an unincorporated association between the following universities and colleges:
 University of Exeter, including the Camborne School of Mines and the Institute of Cornish Studies
 University of Plymouth
 Falmouth University
 Cornwall College
 Truro and Penwith College

References

External links

 Combined Universities in Cornwall official site
  OFSTED Report (on the FE provision)

Education in Cornwall

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Normally a third party vote will hand an election to the Democrat. New Jersey may re-elect corrupt John Corzine because independents, some conservatives and tea party activists who are "fed up" with politicians (Democrats and Republicans) are too foolish to realize that a vote for Daggett is a vote for Corzine. They can deny it all they want, but Daggett is only helping Corzine (possibly what he always intended). In fact, Daggett is nothing more than Corzine lite. But things are different in the 23d District of New York where the real Republican is Doug Hoffman!
This is one of those occasions where the local GOP leaders misread their candidate (an Obamacon like Bruce Bartlett) and what the people of the district wanted, New York deserves, and the nation needs. Blind to reality they chose a person who supposedly solicited the Democrat nomination first and has shown herself to be like the blue Democrat lapdogs — loyal to Barack Obama and his radical agenda. If she were to be elected one can imagine she'd be the one lone Republican in the House supporting the Obama Democrats' craziness. It wouldn't even be surprising if she pulled an Arlen Specter once in ensconced in DC.
Hopefully, Doug Hoffman will trounce both leftists and Christie will beat Corzine and his shadow. Along with victories in Virginia this will send a clear message to Democrats that voters abhor their agenda and Barack "Insane" Obama's "economic terrorism." But if a Hoffman win encourages an ill-fated "grassroots" movement to begin a third party that will be a disaster that only benefits Democrats at the expense of the country. Democrats need to be decimated and relegated to the minority status that they represent in the nation and Barack Obama needs to know he is a failed one-term President who's only claim to fame is he's the first "female" President in US history as Bill Clinton was the first "black" President.
I actually am a big believer in solar power. My ideal collector would be in geo-stationary orbit over the Pacific Ocean, beaming its power down to floating rectifying antennas and sent via undersea superconducting cable to the mainland. I despair at our civilization's justifying its ongoing suicide. I truly believe that we should double down and invest in our future, especially space technology. X-Prizes and other ways to encourage private space efforts are the solution. Lots of innovation, and NOTHING spent until there is a practical device. Let's say we give the first enterprise with a 1000 MW orbital power station a check for 200 Billion dollars tax-free. Use the Stimulus. Then sit back and watch. Remember, NOTHING is spent until the power is actually coming down from the sky. This is the twenty-first century. It's about damn time we acted like it.
Mr. Klein points out that Medicare loses billions of dollars to fraud, estimated at ten percent of the gross spending. He counter balances these losses with the substantially smaller losses of the private health insurance industry, 1.5%, and the less than 1% lost by the multi-trillion dollar credit card services. Mr. Klein does not ask why nor does he seek to answer the unasked question, but to anyone with knowledge of private business and government financing knows full well the answer: accountability.
With private business, the stockholders keep vigil on expenses. Ultimately, the board of directors and their subordinates must answer to those who hold the purse strings. With government, accountability is reduced to an absurd and unheard of noun. "Follow the money" is good advice, but with the ever growing list of Czars, agencies and their supporting bureaucracies doing so has become near impossible. Sadly, the American public doesn't seem overly interested in holding Congress and other crooks responsible — a majority has supported the porkulus bill. Somehow, people still believe the canard that the government has its own money. This ridiculous untruth is the foundation on which politicians grow their budget priorities (re-election) off the sweat of their constituents.
Fiscal conservatives need to educate the population (no easy task considering the liberal bent of our public schools) on monetary and fiscal matters. If and when the general population "gets" the idea that any government transfer of funds from the "haves" to the "have nots" involves their money, not government money, the United Socialist States of American will face a revolution not seen in over 200 years. In the meantime, fiscal conservative must fight the growth of the government by any means necessary.
Mr. Lord has done an exhaustive job in analyzing this whole fiasco and describing the roles of the various groups, specifically the Catholic Bishops, and he is to be commended for his patience in tracking down the facts especially when such are subtle. But in my mind two questions are still unanswered. Why in the world did the Bishops ever let themselves get connected in any way with this gang of un-American and lying thieves? Also, why does Mr. Lord and his congregation continue to belong to a denomination that has obviously been taken over by the Jeremiah Wright and worse types? Once a church has gone this far down the road to perdition it is too toxic to ever reclaim. It is not following Jesus anymore but many false gods.
This past June, the U.N. and some international advertising, marketing and media agencies launched the "Hopenhagen" organization. You can become a citizen of Hopenhagen, where the community banner reads "We can save ourselves from ourselves." Even get a passport.
But on Oct. 26, according to a U.N. Climate Change Conference COP15 news release, Janos Pasztor, director of the U.N. secretary-general's Climate Change Support Team, indicated that a Kyoto Protocol replacement likely will not be coming out of Copenhagen this December.
Thus, it appears that Copenhagen, elevated to Hopenhagen, has morphed into Nopeinhagen.
Worth noting: The U.N. conference begins Pearl Harbor Day. Wonder if anyone, but especially Obama and his administration, noticed that?
Oh, wait: How could they? They don't know American history, do they?
Newt, I used to have a great deal of respect for you until you endorsed Scozzafava. Here is a woman who has nothing in common with conservatism. Nothing.
How did you justify this endorsement? Well, there were four meetings of the local GOP chapters and they all picked her. So let me get this straight. You let PROCESS trump PRINCIPLES?
Well, Newt, now you know why I am no longer a registered Republican (after 22 years) and probably won't be back. I too am no longer going to vote for RINOs. I'm only going to vote for someone I believe in.
Newt, you can keep your process; I'll keep my principles.
They [the Coen brothers] are, it seems, like the character in Peter DeVries's novel The Blood of the Lamb of whom it is said that "he could not forgive God for not existing." But the revenge they take on Him in /A Serious Man/ seems to me less mocking than pathetic.
G.K. Chesterton wrote that militant atheism is nonsensical unless the atheist, at some level, is a believer. To prove it, Chesterton asks his readers to consider a great blasphemy against Thor.


We seek to appoint a Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor (grade 9) in international politics with an emphasis on the politics and policy of the European Union. International Politics constitutes a core element of both our successful Masters Programme in International Conflict and Cooperation (ICC), our BA programmes in Politics and International Politics, and our professional doctorate in diplomacy. The appointee will contribute to both doctoral, Masters and undergraduate provisions and to our Centre for Policy, Conflict and Co-Operation Research. An ability to deliver the introductory module Introduction to International Politics (POLU9X3) at undergraduate level is essential. The appointee will also play a key role in delivering our ICC Masters and Doctor of Diplomacy programmes. A taught specialism in fields such as European Union politics and policymaking (preferably in the context of international politics), EU in the context of international organisations, and EU public policy – as well as its intersection with concepts such as gender, sexuality, and race – would be particularly welcome. As well as making a significant contribution to our Masters and undergraduate programmes, the appointee would be expected to pursue a programme of research, including research outputs and funding applications, to undertake postgraduate research supervision relevant to their expertise and to undertake administrative duties as prescribed by the Head of Division.
6 of our 8 permanent lecturers are men and 8 are white. We are not interested in simply reinforcing the imbalances that are already there. So, we worded the 'further particulars' to make sure that people know we have realistic hopes of producing a more diverse and gender-balanced short list. Usually, job adverts will have a pro-forma statement about equalities, but we are trying to go one step further to signal – albeit with rather subtle cues – that we have thought about this issue a bit more; that we'd like to expand our networks and the ways in which our staff approach the study of politics. We are trying to make sure that our current set up does not put off women or people of colour from applying, recruiting from a subject pool in which there is (I think) a relatively good gender balance, and signaling support for research topics that might help expand our current offering.
I am your pre-interview contact point and recommend that you get in touch with me before you apply. In the meantime, here are some tips on the application and interview processes.
Shortlisted candidates at this level will almost certainly be established lecturers with a strong record on publications, income, and leadership – so what makes you stand out? Note that you will have the chance to play an important part of a group which is small enough (about 9 in Politics, as part of a larger Division) to act collectively – to, for example, influence its research direction (as a group, we hold 6 x 90 minute research workshops per year for that purpose).
Perhaps most importantly, you need to be able to articulate why you want to come and work at Stirling.'Why Stirling?' or 'Why this division?' is usually the first question in an interview, so you should think about it in advance. We recommend doing some research on Stirling and the division/ faculty, to show in some detail that you have a considered reply (beyond 'it is a beautiful campus'). We will see through a generic response in a heartbeat and, since it is the first question, your answer will set the tone for the rest of the interview. You might check, for example, who you might share interests with in the Division, and how you might develop links beyond the division (for example, the Centre for Gender & Feminist Studies in our school) or faculty (such as the Faculty of Social Sciences) – since this is likely to be a featured question too.
In our system there tend to be presentations to divisional (and other interested) staff in the morning, with interviews in the afternoon. The usual expectation is that if you can't make the date, you can't get the job (although we can make accommodations to help you apply).
The interview panel varies according to the seniority of the role. For senior lecturers, the panel will have five members: one subject specialist from the Division, one other member of the Faculty (not necessarily from our division), the Head of Faculty of Arts and Humanities, a senior manager of the University (in the chair), and a senior academic in another Faculty (by the time of interview you should know what these terms mean at Stirling).
So, note that 1 member will be a subject specialist (in Politics). This means that (at the very least) you need to describe your success in a way that a wider audience will appreciate (for example, you would have to explain the significance of a single-author article in the APSR!). It sounds daunting, but we are a friendly bunch and want you to do well. You might struggle to retain all of our names (nerves), so focus on the types of question we ask – for example, the general question to get you started will be from the senior manager, and the research question from the divisional representative. There will be 4 men and 1 woman on the panel.
Why Should You Study for an MPP?
The MPP is an advanced qualification in research and policy analysis. Studying for an MPP allows you to develop the conceptual, analytical and practical skills required to flourish in the policymaking world. It prepares you for a career in the public sector or in sectors that make a contribution to the development or delivery of public policy (such as non-profit or professional bodies). You can also use it as a springboard for further postgraduate research. The MPP combines core modules in policy and policymaking with a suite of modules in social research and policy-relevant disciplines. If you want to use the degree to focus on research (for example, to pursue a PhD) you can take five modules in applied social research. If you want to pursue an interest in other policy-relevant disciplines, you can combine a focus on policy and research with module options in areas such as law, economics, behavioural science, gender studies, social marketing, energy, environmental and international politics. The programme is designed to meet your specific requirements. The norm in the core modules is small group teaching in weekly seminars – to help produce a group identity and a collegiate approach to your studies. You complete the course by completing eight taught modules, then producing a dissertation which applies intellectual rigour to a real world policy problem and speaks to a policymaker audience.
The MPP gives you the opportunity to apply your research to real world problems. We have excellent links with a range of organisations in the public, third and private sectors. When you begin your course, we will discuss how you want to make use of them. If you seek as many practitioner links as possible, we will explore how to apply your studies and coursework to a range of problems identified by those organisations – and arrange, in negotiations with organisations, how best to use your developing skills. You may also be taking the MPP to pursue a more 'traditional' academic path, with the knowledge that academic 'impact' is a key part of a postgraduate degree. We will discuss how best to balance the theoretical, empirical and practical aspects of your study.
The programme (of 180 credits) combines core modules on policy theory and practice with a suite of modules in social research and policy-relevant disciplines. The norm is to maintain a meaningful level of contact between students engaged in the MPP and a small cohort of staff (teaching core and common ASR modules), but with the flexibility to take your own path. Core modules are delivered on the same day and there is a high degree of flexibility over optional modules to allow both full-time and part-time students to work around other commitments.
Core modules (45 credits) focus on multi-level policymaking, identifying the responsibilities and policies of local, devolved, national and international decision-makers. We identify the concepts, models and theories used to study policy and policymaking. We compare theories in political science with a range of policy-relevant disciplines (including economics, communication, psychology, management and social marketing). We combine theory and practice by inviting a range of policy actors to give guest seminars as an integral part of the core modules.
Research modules. You can choose up to five 15-credit modules in applied social research (ASR), including qualitative and quantitative analysis, research design and the philosophy of science. If appropriate, you can also choose to replace some ASR modules with research methods modules in your chosen subject – such as the MSc Gender Studies module 'Feminist Research' which is a prerequisite for its Research Placement module.
Policy relevant modules. You can choose two 15-credit modules in law, economics, behavioural science, social marketing, gender studies, energy, environmental or international politics.
Dissertation. You complete the course by producing a 60-credit dissertation (around 10000 words) which applies intellectual rigour to a real world policy problem. You will have the option to pursue a placement with a relevant organisation to allow you to tailor your research to a policymaker or policy influencer audience.
Staff: The Director for the MPP is Paul Cairney, Professor of Politics and Public Policy in the Division of History and Politics, School of Arts and Humanities. Paul will deliver the majority of the core module content and oversee the completion of your dissertation (and, if appropriate, as the first supervisor). He will work closely with Richard Simmons, the director of the School of Arts and Social Science's applied social research programme.
1.You will be taught by experienced and committed staff, teaching in a field they are passionate about. All contributing staff are engaged in research at the forefront of their disciplines, including Professor Cairney, who is currently funded by the ESRC to research the Scottish Government's policymaking capacity.
2. You will develop a range of research skills that enhance further study and employability.
3. You will engage with debates from a wide variety of different disciplines.
4. You will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills in real world settings.
5. You will enjoy studying on one of the most beautiful campuses in Europe.
Normally an upper second class Honours degree, or equivalent qualification from a university recognised by the University of Stirling. Degrees can be in any relevant discipline. If English is not your first language, you must provide evidence of proficiency such as a minimum IELTS score of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in any individual test.
Scottish Independence: How and Should You Vote?
If you are a Modern Studies student in Scotland, the independence referendum presents an unusual opportunity to take part in the very thing you are studying. You can look into the background of the referendum and the main issues in the debate and then use that information to make a choice. This is rare. The added bonus is that you can vote if you are under 18 (and at least 16). This is also a rare opportunity. In that context, three main questions arise: should you vote; should you be allowed to vote; and, what should you consider when you vote?
The debate about voting from 16, rather than 18, does not cause fights to break out in pubs or supermarkets, or even come up very often in polite conversation – but it can often seem like a polarised discussion. The issue became party political in Scotland (briefly) because the vote-at-16 proposal came primarily from the SNP Government, prompting some to wonder aloud if the measure was being used to boost the Yes-to-independence vote. However, the evidence seems to suggest that 16-18 year olds are no more likely to vote for independence than (many) older people; the under 18 population looks likely to produce a No vote (you can track these polls on the website run by John Curtice – What Scotland Thinks). Further, this move has since been proposed by other major figures, such as UK Labour's leader Ed Miliband (calling for 16 year olds to have the vote in UK General Elections).
On the one side is the argument that people are not knowledgeable or mature enough to make important decisions at that age.
On the other side is the argument that voting is a fundamental human right.
The age of maturity. People can make other major decisions (such as join the army) and do important things (such as pay tax) when they are 16, so giving them the right and responsibility to vote is consistent with their other rights and responsibilities. However, in many cases, under-18s need parental permission to make major life choices (although in Scotland you can marry at 16) and tend not to pay meaningful amounts of tax at that age. Further, 18 seems like the major symbol of maturity in this regard – voting at 18 may be the 'international norm', and recent decisions by the UK and Scottish Governments (such as raising the smoking age to 18, the same as the buying-alcohol and buying-fireworks age) suggest that they see 18 as the dawn of maturity. The choice of 18 may be both an arbitrary and consistent position supported by the majority of the public.
Many people are disengaged from politics. So, lowering the voting age may encourage a sense of citizenship at an earlier age. It may also encourage younger people to seek a political career, which might help reduce the average age of elected representatives. Or, in the absence of a fundamental shift in culture/ attitudes, in which voting and other political participation feels like a civic duty, it will just exacerbate low voting rates and low participation in politics. Much of the argument may relate to the symbolism of extending the franchise. Social groups given the vote for the first time (such as women, social classes and ethnic minorities) may have given it great symbolic value and felt compelled to use it wisely as a result – but would this feeling apply to young people in the same way? Can we identify the same demand for representation based on a widespread perception of injustice?
If I were you, I'd use this discussion to be quite chippy. When I voted, I'd feel like I was sticking it to someone making half-baked claims about my maturity. Ironically, it's not a mature approach to life, but you can't have everything. The half-handy thing for you is that you only have to worry about this issue when you study it, not when you engage in politics. Like anyone else, you can now vote even if you have no knowledge of Scottish politics and/ or no maturity whatsoever. The only major difference with over-18s is that, legally, they may vote after getting quite drunk in the pub and/or buying sparklers for the walk home.
What should you consider when you vote?
Let's say you want to make a mature, well informed, decision. How would you decide? What should you consider? We can identify a range of issues, from the philosophical to the self-interested to the psychological.
What does independence mean? In the olden days, independence used to refer to the autonomy to direct all domestic affairs within a well-defined territory**, ***. Now, we are much less certain about where domestic affairs end and international affairs begin. For example, an independent Scotland would be subject to a wide range of binding international commitments, particularly if it was part of the European Union (examples include migration, agriculture, fishing, environmental policy, and rates of many taxes – all determined largely at the EU level). If it kept the pound, or joined the Euro, it would rely on a central bank (almost certainly outside of Scotland) to direct monetary policies (such as setting interest rates). In an age of 'globalisation', it would also be unable to simply 'direct all domestic affairs' since national governments rely upon other governments to produce collective, international, policy solutions. They might even make domestic policy with one eye on their neighbours, since it is difficult to contain policy effects within one's borders (think, for example, about the effect of independence on HE tuition fees – what would happen?). They are also influenced by major transnational corporations which tend to prioritise minimal government regulations and corporation taxes when they seek to invest in countries. These complications are currently a big feature of the independence debate (and we tend not to focus on the, often messier, complications to further devolution, largely because we don't have to worry about that just now). People sometimes argue that we shouldn't bother with independence (or 'indy lite'), since we'll just be keeping the Queen, the pound, the BBC and inheriting international commitments. Other people argue that it's OK to vote for independence because we'll be keeping the Queen, the pound, the BBC and inheriting international commitments.
Do I feel Scottish and/ or British? People often argue that the independence vote is not about national identity, partly because a reference to nationhood is portrayed, by many, as some sort of reflection of bigotry. One might be invited to picture a large, dirty-bearded, ginger man in a kilt telling the English to get out of their country (let's call this 'ethnic nationalism'). A more subtle strategy is to brand people as 'nationalist' to mean parochial and extremist. The more acceptable form of nationalism is 'civic'. It suggests that, if a clear nation exists, it should share a boundary with the state; if we feel that we live in the Scottish nation, we should have a Scottish Government to represent us. This is where national identify comes in – surveys have suggested for some time that Scots' primary identity is Scottish rather than British (however, you ask the question – click on the table in this post).**** However, surveys also suggest that most people favour devolution (current or further devolution) over independence. They may feel Scottish and British, seeking some kind of governing autonomy and inclusion within a wider Union.
The self-interested question: would independence benefit me?
A lot of the debate surrounds the idea that independence will save or cost people money. I have seen reports that it will either make everyone at least £500 better or worse off (the Scottish Daily Mail, 26.3.12, wins the prize for hyperbole – 'Breaking up Britain will cost every Scot £20,000'). I have heard one ridiculous suggestion that it will cost everyone £1 each. Each and every calculation seems a bit shifty to me, but they are based on things like: Scotland's future share of North Sea oil revenue; its share of UK Government debts and assets; and, the effect of independence on economic behaviour (such as foreign investment in Scottish business, Scottish trade with other countries, and the Scottish Government's credit rating). John Curtice's research suggests that this economic question is often at the forefront of peoples' minds when they think of independence. However, given that we don't know the economic effect of independence, people are basing their preferences on their perception of an uncertain future. It presents one of those classic causality problems: perhaps you are more likely to vote for independence if you think you will benefit; or perhaps you are more likely to think you will benefit if you plan to vote for independence.
The psychological question: how should I deal with the uncertainty?
How would Scotland be a part of the European Union and a member of international organisations?
What would an independent Scotland look like? For example, might it become a high-tax-high-spending social democratic state (something we associated with some of the Nordic countries)? Or would it simply inherit the culture and institutions of the UK?
Could an independent Scotland have survived the economic crisis?
What currency would Scotland adopt?
How would independence affect Scotland's security (from its defence, to its supply of energy and other resources)?
To a large extent, this uncertainty is a better resource for people arguing for the maintenance of the Union as a 'security blanket' (have a look at that term again – it's loaded with double meaning, isn't it?). However, we can also see the potential to exploit the uncertain future of the UK. This is key feature of the debate on the 'bedroom tax' and other welfare reforms – people may argue that only an independent Scotland would have the powers to maintain the welfare state as a 'security blanket'.
I reckon that, if you have read this far, you have already paid more attention, and given the issue more serious thought, than most people. If so, I wouldn't worry about being mature enough to make the right decision.
*Please note that, if you were using this kind of material to produce coursework, you would give more credit to the individual authors, not just list the website.
** I lifted that phrase from a book I helped write. You shouldn't do that – we frown upon that sort of thing when marking your essays.
***in fact, just to be safe, don't use this blog post as a model for any sort of assessable writing. Especially all that 'some people think' nonsense – that's just annoying.
**** ah, you might say, but what is Scottish? Do you have to be born and / or raised in Scotland? What if one or both of your parents or grandparents are Scottish? Is it enough to simply live in Scotland to be Scottish? All I can offer is a hopefully-dull, pragmatic answer: the issue of Scottish independence may not have arisen without these self-identified perceptions of Scottishness (even though there are other reasons to want more local government – for example, it might be more flexible and responsive to local demands, or you might – and maybe 7% of people living in Scotland would describe themselves as English). However, a shift away from ethnic to civic nationalism is reflected in the referendum rules: if you live in Scotland, and are registered to vote, you can vote. You do not need to have been born or raised in Scotland. Instead, by living in Scotland, you have a stake in its governing arrangements. Then I'll offer you this post from Jo Shaw.


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Good rant! And well supported, too.
If we're now at 1937-equivalent (shadow crash after the 1929 big crash– 2008 equivalent), then rates are about to plunge over the next 2 years. And then someone must pay for the Fed's mess. And it won't be the U.S.– most likely China (unwillingly), because it's the only source of foreign capital large enough.
What make you think the central banks have failed when anyone can see that they have been conspiring together to play the global,economy like their own personal accordion. That is why there has been a debt crisis or market crash every ten to eleven years like clockwork since 1977. None of them were accidental.
Firstly they inflate the system with cheap and easy credit at low interest rates thus creating overconfidence and encouraging individuals and corporations to borrow more than they can afford. Then by raising interest rates and constricting the amount of new money put into circulation, they squeeze… and subsequently scoop up as collateral the property of all the people and companies who failed to keep up with their obligations.
Do you really think the Fed is desperate to re-inflate asset prices and repair the market damage when the the entire monetary system as they designed it a hundred and some years ago was clearly designed to fail from the very start? Any system that creates money upon the issuance of new debt at a fractional reserve ratio of nearly ten to one, but never creates the money necessary to pay the interest on that debt is obviously unsustainable in the long term. What's worse even at the current low rates,,compounding interest will always ensure that the debt will eventually wind up growing much much faster than the economy. In the mid and short term, a growing or even a merely stable economy is entirely dependent on constantly frowning streams of exponentially increasing levels of new debt.
If people stopped spending money they don't have on things they don't need or if banks stopped lending out money that doesn't exist, and is impossible to repay, the monetary liquidity would soon dry up and there wouldn't be enough capital in circulation for everyone to keep up with the premium payments on the money they owe.
Do you really think the Fed' witlessly and accidentally brought the economy to the edge of the precipice with all these years of easy money and QE experimenting and that the problem now is they are out of ammo and they don't have a plan for when the coming crisis hits? .
Reality check: They do have a plan and the plan is the problem.
The psychopathic plutocrats and rapacious oligarchs of Wall Street care about the culture and well being of we the people about as much as an industrial farmer cares about the culture and well being of his livestock. They have been planning for the coming crash and anticipating the subsequent reset for decades. They already know what kind of a a cashless, digital, total surveillance, global control, negative interest rate monetary system they want to force us into next.
If there is any hope of anyone avoiding that supranational totalitarian monstrosity of monetary control, we should be coming up with and designing a lot more alternative and innovative currencies of our own.
We will never have a government for the people until we have a currency of the people and by the people… so instead of the tired old explanation about central banks being behind the curve and futile chants to end the Fed, let's do some outside the box thinking already and let me know what you come up with.
PS- Don't take no wooden nickles, sub-dermal credit chips of digital world bank funny money. Doing otherwise would be a betrayal to the liberty of all mankind.
Great rant — a tonic for the soul of all of us who yearn for some kind of fiscal integrity. To the barricades!


Modern day tax deferred exchanges began in the early 1980s with a court ruling (the Starker case) that an exchange for relinquished property and the purchase of corresponding replacement property did not need to take place simultaneously to be valid. The Tax Reform Act of 1984 contained a legislative response to the holding in the Starker case. While the Starker case involved a five-year period between sale and purchase, Congress reduced this to a maximum of 180 days from sale to purchase.
There was still a lot of uncertainty at the time on how to do a non-simultaneous exchange, and near the end of 1991, the Treasury Department put forth a detailed body of regulations providing a roadmap for non-simultaneous exchanges. While this guide to a delayed exchange was very welcome, the Treasury Department chose not to include guidance on property "parking" transactions. Property parking transactions include reverse exchanges in which a taxpayer needs to buy the replacement property prior to the sale of the relinquished property and property improvement exchanges in which a replacement property requires improvements to be paid out of relinquished property sale proceeds. To accomplish these transactions, the exchange company had to take legal title to the property and so it was often said that the property was "parked" with the exchange company.
The taxpayer can guaranty any loan that is required from a bank to the accommodator for the purchase of the property or for the cost of improvements.
The taxpayer may lend money directly to the accommodator.
The taxpayer can lease the property from the accommodator.
The taxpayer can manage the improvement of the property.
The taxpayer and accommodator can enter into puts, calls and fixed prices.
For IRS purposes. the accommodator can be made the express agent of the taxpayer (actually this became permitted by PLR 200148042).
The accommodator had to hold the "benefits and burdens" of the property ownership.
The transfer of the property to or from the accommodator had to be at true market value.
The accommodator had to have some "skin in the game," meaning it had to put some of its own money into the property.
The transaction had to have "risk of loss" if the loan went bad.
Any lease of the property from the accommodator to the taxpayer had to have real economics.
Any of the arrangements between the parties had to be at arm's length.
Any characterization of agency between the accommodator and taxpayer would be fatal.
As a consequence of these stringent requirements non-safe harbor parking exchanges were exceedingly rare. Those persons whose day-to-day work included a heavy mix of 1031 exchanges and parking exchanges eagerly awaited a decision. A particular Tax Court case was pending for ten years involving a non-safe harbor property improvement situation. On August 10, 2016 the United States Tax Court filed its opinion in the Bartell case.
The taxpayer had all of the benefits and burdens of ownership.
The taxpayer had the benefit of any appreciation in the property while parked.
The taxpayer had the risk of loss of any decline in value of the property.
The taxpayer lent funds to the parking entity .
The taxpayer had the other burdens of ownership such as taxes and other liabilities.
The taxpayer financed and directed construction of improvements.
The taxpayer had actual possession of the property via a lease.
The Court went on to state that other cases at the Tax Court had concluded that the third party (the accommodator) did not have to have the burdens and benefits of property ownership. The Court went on to say that if its decision was appealed, it would be heard by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and it too had held that burdens and benefits of ownership were not necessary in this context. The Tax Court also placed substantial emphasis on the fact that in all of the prior favorable rulings, as well as the case in hand, a third party exchange facilitator (the accommodator) held ownership of the property during the transaction.
This was distinguished from another opposite holding by the Court in a case known as DeCleene v. Commissioner in which the taxpayer had owned the subject property at a prior time and did not use a third party facilitator to hold title. The court stated, "This feature also distinguishes DeCleene from the myriad of other cases where taxpayers seeking 1031 treatment were careful to interpose a title-holding intermediary between themselves and outright ownership of the replacement property." Likewise the Court was not bothered by the fact that Bartell had rights of possession of the property pursuant to a lease or that the parking agreement was up to twenty four months.
It appears that a third party accommodator can merely be a placeholder (or a "warehousing" entity as referenced in the case) and that it does not need to receive the burdens and benefits of true ownership. There can also be non-arm's length agreements between the taxpayer and accommodator. Utilizing a third party to hold title is a key factor in the decision, so structures that do not use a third party accommodator are ill-advised.
The amount of time a parking transaction can be in place is open ended. The Bartell case had an actual parking period of 17 months and the agreements between the parties had a 24-month term. With regard to the time issue, the Court stated "We express no opinion with respect to the applicability of section 1031 that extends beyond the period at issue in these cases." So a term greater than 24 months may be acceptable but cautious practitioners may want to limit transactions to the time limit in Bartell. As mentioned above, Congress enacted the 180-day limit to forward exchanges to limit the five-year term that was allowed in the Starker case and Congress may very well enact legislation to codify a non-safe harbor parking limit.
While this ruling has precedential value, it is possible that another Tax Court in a different circuit could choose not to follow the rationale set forth in the case. Similarly, another court might not reach the same conclusion as the Ninth Circuit did in the "myriad of cases" that the Tax Court relied upon. Lastly, the facts in this case preceded the Safe Harbor regulations that were promulgated in 2000, and a court may require a taxpayer to adhere to those time limits in order to qualify for a valid parking arrangement.


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Q: Adding Areas to an MVC application - any gotchas? I have an ASP.net MVC application that has been in Production for a while. I would like to add a new Admin section to the application which I wanted to do by creating a new Area. I'm just curious what sorts of things I might need to be aware of when adding this new area.
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*Is there any existing functionality that is likely to break by adding the new Area?

*What is the best way to make an Area restricted to a certain group? Base controller class?

*Any other things (common mistakes, etc.) that I need to be aware of that adding a new Area will affect?

A: One thing to be careful of is naming collisions - if you have 2 controllers with the same name but in different areas you need to add namespaces, as described here: http://haacked.com/archive/2010/01/12/ambiguous-controller-names.aspx
To restrict the admin area to a certain group, you could use the Authorize attribute with Roles on the Admin controller(s), as desribed here: ASP.NET MVC 3 - How to restrict areas in an efficient way?