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New Zealand's GeoNet has revised their initial magnitude of the November 13, 2016 Kaikoura earthquake from M7.5 to M7.8. The agency added that early indications show this was one of the most complex earthquakes ever recorded on land.
"This complexity means we have had to take extraordinary efforts to determine the magnitude, depth, and locations," the agency said.
The very long time it took for the faults to rupture (over one minute) meant that the standard methods of calculating magnitude were insufficient to capture the full energy released.
Due to the size of the quakes, GeoNet gathered data from their entire network of seismic stations. All of these stations would not normally need to be included in magnitude estimates.
The recent analysis confirms the complexity of this event. It does not change any of the observations of strong ground motion, fault breaks or GPS recorded movement of the earth's surface – these are physical observations independent of the magnitude of the earthquake.
Ground shaking caused by the Kaikoura Earthquake reached over MMI VIII near the fault rupture, on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale and is considered severe. In Wellington, some areas experienced shaking up to MMI VI-VII, which is considered strong. This is based on the current Shakemap calculation, which includes both measured data and estimated values.
The strongest ground shaking measured by GeoNet instrumentation so far was a peak ground acceleration of (PGA) 1.3g in Ward.
The highest ground accelerations extend in a band trending northeast from the epicenter. This aligns with where the largest fault movements have occurred, based on field surveys.
In the Wellington region, PGAs exceeded 0.2g in parts of the CBD and Lower Hutt. This is similar to that experienced during the Cook Strait sequence (earthquakes of M6.6), however, the duration of shaking was significantly longer (around four times) and there was more long period energy.
In Christchurch, the recorded PGAs were lower (less than 0.1g) even though the city is closer to the epicenter. This is related to the fault rupturing from the epicenter northwards away from Christchurch.
There were more large earthquakes in a period of several decades prior to about 1950, and it has been relatively quiet since then. Since the M7.8 in July 2009 in Fiordland, that quiet period appears to be over.
The reason that there was a tsunami generated by an earthquake with an epicenter onshore is that there was deformation further down the fault plane offshore.
Wellington area faults and the subduction interface beneath Wellington are captured in the probability table and the scenarios given there.
"We do not have any evidence of an impending large earthquake of a similar size in Wellington at this stage but we cannot rule this out. We cannot make a calculation to predict this, but the chance of a further shock in the Wellington area has increased somewhat since the Kaikoura earthquake," GeoNet concluded.
Earliest reports by GeoNet say that there is only a little bit of tsunami damage on the coast. However, further impact assessments need to be performed before they can conclusively say this for the whole East Coast.
A rough estimate based on initial reconnaissance flights is that there may have been from 80 0000 to 100 000 landslides. Much of the area affected by landslides is in the remote and rugged areas of the Inland and Seaward Kaikoura Ranges.
Satellite imagery from both before and after the earthquake is currently being sourced and will likely take at least two weeks because acquiring cloud-free imagery takes time. This will allow a change model to be developed telling us where the landslides have occurred.
The reports of landslide dams point to a potential developing hazard.
Landslide dams can last thousands of years, they can fail slowly or they can fail very quickly. When they fail very quickly they can release large volumes of water and sediment into river systems as a flood wave (flash flood). These floods can be hazardous to river users and GeoNet urged people to stay away from all rivers on the east coast of the South Island from the Hurunui to the Awatere until inspections have been completed and more precise information can be provided.
GeoNet has developed three scenarios based on what they know so far, but be aware that their understanding is evolving as they do more analysis and receive more data.
There are very different probabilities for each scenario; some of these are more concerning than others.
The most likely scenario is that aftershocks will continue to decrease in frequency (and in line with forecasts) over the next 30 days. Felt aftershocks (e.g. over M5) would occur from the M7.5 epicenter near Culverden, right up along the Kaikoura coastline to the Cape Palliser/Wellington area. This includes the potential for aftershocks of between 6.0 and 6.9 (91% within the next 30 days). Scenario one will continue to play out, even if either scenario two or three also occurs.
An earthquake smaller than Monday's mainshock and between M7.0 to M7.5. There are numerous mapped faults in the Marlborough or Cook Strait areas capable of such an earthquake. It may also occur on an unmapped fault. This earthquake may be onshore or offshore but close enough to cause severe shaking on land. This scenario includes the possibility of an earthquake in the Hikurangi Subduction Zone. Such earthquakes have the potential to generate a tsunami.
A much less likely scenario than the previous two scenarios is that recent earthquake activity will trigger an earthquake larger than the M7.5 mainshock. This includes the possibility for an earthquake of greater than M8.0, which could be on the 'plate interface' (where the Pacific Plate meets the Australian Plate). Although it is still very unlikely, the chances of this occurring have increased since before the M7.5 earthquake.
Within this sequence, aftershocks will most likely occur anywhere in the box on the map (see image below). It is this geographical region for which the modeling is done. It is important to understand that earthquakes can and do happen outside this box but the box represents the most likely area related to this sequence.


In winguistics, an object pronoun is a personaw pronoun dat is used typicawwy as a grammaticaw object: de direct or indirect object of a verb, or de object of a preposition, uh-hah-hah-hah. Object pronouns contrast wif subject pronouns. Object pronouns in Engwish take de objective case, sometimes cawwed de obwiqwe case or object case. For exampwe, de Engwish object pronoun me is found in "They see me" (direct object), "He's giving me my book" (indirect object), and "Sit wif me" (object of a preposition); dis contrasts wif de subject pronoun in "I see dem," "I am getting my book," and "I am sitting here."
Historicawwy, Middwe Engwish and Earwy Modern Engwish retained de T–V distinction; de second person pronoun had separate singuwar/famiwiar and pwuraw/formaw forms wif subject and object forms of bof. In standard modern forms of Engwish, aww second person forms have been reduced to simpwy "you". These forms are stiww retained (sometimes partiawwy) in some diawects of Nordern Engwish, Scottish Engwish, and in de Scots wanguage, a Germanic wanguage cwosewy rewated to Engwish which diverged from it during de Earwy Modern period.
In some wanguages de direct object pronoun and de indirect object pronoun have separate forms. For exampwe, in de Spanish object pronoun system, direct object: Lo mandaron a wa escuewa (They sent him to schoow) and indirect object: Le mandaron una carta (They sent him a wetter). Oder wanguages divide object pronouns into a warger variety of cwasses. On de oder hand, many wanguages, for exampwe Persian, do not have distinct object pronouns: Man Farsi bawad-am (I can speak Persian). Man ra mishenasad. (He knows me).
Object pronouns, in wanguages where dey are distinguished from subject pronouns, are typicawwy a vestige of an owder case system. Engwish, for exampwe, once had an extensive decwension system dat specified distinct accusative and dative case forms for bof nouns and pronouns. And after a preposition, a noun or pronoun couwd be in eider of dese cases, or in de genitive or instrumentaw case. Wif de exception of de genitive (de "apostrophe-s" form), in nouns dis system disappeared entirewy, whiwe in personaw pronouns it cowwapsed into a singwe case, covering de rowes of bof accusative and dative, as weww as aww instances after a preposition, uh-hah-hah-hah. That is, de new obwiqwe (object) case came to be used for de object of eider a verb or a preposition, contrasting wif de genitive, which winks two nouns.
For a discussion of de use of historicawwy object pronouns in subject position in Engwish (e.g. "Jay and me wiww arrive water"), see de articwe on Engwish personaw pronouns.
^ Randowph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik, A Comprehensive Grammar of de Engwish Language (London: Longman, 1985), p. 337.
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As Japanese nuclear engineers struggled to contain partial meltdowns of two major nuclear power reactors in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami, experts in the United States said Sunday that a similar disaster would be highly unlikely here.
Hydrogen gas exploded today at one of the threatened reactors - the second such blast to plague scientists trying to neutralize the danger at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. But authorities immediately said the inner containment vessel holding nuclear fuel rods remained intact.
Japanese reactors - like those in America - are built to withstand severe ground-shaking from earthquakes. But Friday's one-two punch of an 8.9-magnitude earthquake and a devastating tsunami was nearly overwhelming plant operators there.
Fifty-four power reactors regularly supply electricity throughout Japan, and the crisis represents "an incredibly rare worst-case disaster," said Jasmina Vujic, a professor of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley and a specialist in the design of reactor cores and radiation protection.
Officials had ordered 180,000 people evacuated from the areas around the troubled plants, but it was unclear how many had been exposed to radiation and what danger they faced. Vujic noted that any radiation dose levels would decrease a million-fold within one kilometer - about a half-mile - of a radioactive source.
Nuclear plants in the United States don't face the hazards that confront Japan, experts said. Even huge tsunamis aren't likely to threaten this country's reactor sites, while earthquakes as great as Japan's aren't foreseen anywhere in America - not even on the San Andreas or Hayward faults.
Nor does the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, 235 miles south of San Francisco on the coast near San Luis Obispo, present hazards like those facing Japan, said Paul Flake, a spokesman for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. The utility operates the plant's two pressurized water reactors, which were built by Westinghouse in 1985 and 1986.
The plant stands high above the ocean near Avila Beach, and pumps its cooling water from the Pacific Ocean. If the pumps should fail, pools full of water stand close to the plant and can cool the reactors by gravity, Flake said, citing the plant's engineers.
By Sunday, it was already the worst nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl reactor in the former Soviet Union's Ukraine exploded and burned, sending a plume of radiation across Europe.
However, in a nuclear unit, each reactor is housed within an immensely strong containment dome, built of thick concrete embedded with a web of heavy steel rods. All the troubled Japanese nuclear plants - engineered as they were to survive earthquakes - were still sheltering the reactors on Sunday.
Japan's nuclear crisis does not equal the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago in the former Soviet Union, where an entire reactor core exploded. More than 350,000 people who lived near the plant were evacuated and resettled.
America's only nuclear accident, at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, occurred in 1979 when a stuck valve caused coolant to escape from the reactor core and trigger a partial meltdown. The accident was quickly brought under control. One unit of the power plant remains closed while another resumed operation in 1985 and is still operating.


Not written anything in here for some time now. The only thing to report on in the open water front was covered in my Apres Ironman Report from early in October. In it I talked briefly about the Missy Kayla Swim and the Great Fjord Swim and you read that here. Aside from that, all has been quiet as you'd expect for this time of year. The news now however is, that I am taking part in the Triathlon Ireland Tri Leader course on November 28th. This is a one day course that I will be doing in conjunction with my team Belpark Tri. Belpark look after the cost of the course on agreement that we opt to look after one area of triathlon training for the club for 2016. I put myself forward for open water swimming, go figure, so I thought I'd let everyone know in advance that in 2016, I'll be your man to come to if you want to come along and get involved in some open water sessions.


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Die 30. DDR-Einzelmeisterschaft im Schach fand vom 14. bis 27. Februar 1981 in Fürstenwalde statt.

Allgemeines
Die Teilnehmer hatten sich über das sogenannte Dreiviertelfinale sowie ein System von Vorberechtigungen und Freiplätzen für diese Meisterschaft qualifiziert. Schiedsrichter waren Johannes Hoffmann (Damen) und Wolfgang Müller (Herren).

Meisterschaft der Herren
Das Finalfeld der DDR-Meisterschaft wurde auf 14 Starter reduziert. Großmeister Wolfgang Uhlmann holte bei der 30. Austragung seinen 8. Titel, damit hatte er mehr als ein Viertel aller DDR-Meisterschaften gewonnen. Auf den folgenden Plätzen rangieren die weiteren Favoriten. Unter den Spielern ohne internationalen Titel verbesserte sich vor allem der spätere IM Gernot Gauglitz.

Abschlusstabelle

Dreiviertelfinale
Das Dreiviertelfinale der Herren fand vom 28. Juli bis 1. August 1980 in der Sportschule des Ostseebades Rerik statt. Das Feld war auf drei Achter-Gruppen verkleinert und das Turnier drastisch verkürzt worden, so dass an zwei Tagen doppelrundig (ggf. zusätzlich Hängepartien) gespielt werden musste. Die äußeren Umstände waren nicht adäquat für ein hochrangiges Schachturnier. Hauptschiedsrichter war Werner Schreyer.
Gruppe A

Gruppe B

Gruppe C

Meisterschaft der Damen
Nach mehreren Medaillenplätzen war diesmal der Weg für Annett Michel frei. Brigitte Burchardt (früher Hofmann) fehlte als einzige DDR-Spitzenspielerin, Petra Feustel hatte die DDR inzwischen verlassen und Titelverteidigerin Ulricke Seidemann war völlig außer Form.

Abschlusstabelle

Dreiviertelfinale
Das Dreiviertelfinale der Damen fand vom 14. bis 19. Juli 1980 in Cottbus statt. Hauptschiedsrichter war Kurt Roigk. Gespielt wurde im Internat einer Medizinischen Fachschule.
Gruppe A

Gruppe B

Gruppe C

Jugendmeisterschaften

Anmerkungen

Quellen
 Schach, Heft 4/1981 zur Endrunde
 Schach, Heft 9/1980 zum Dreiviertelfinale
 Schach, Hefte 7 bis 10/1981 zu den Jugendmeisterschaften

1981
Schachveranstaltung 1981
Sportveranstaltung im Landkreis Oder-Spree
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Q: Get the value from the JSON string I have a dataframe and I am trying to convert the data to JSON so that I can send a message.
val df = Seq((123456, 40, "ABCD", "DEFG")).toDF("ID", "RunId", "Val1", "Val2")
val msgDf = df.select(struct("ID", "RunId", "Val1", "Val2").alias("message"))
msgDf.toJSON.show(false)

Schema for msgDf
message:struct
      ID:integer
      RunId:integer
      Val1:string
      Val2:string

Output I am getting is
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
|value                                                           |
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
|{"message":{"ID":123456,"RunId":40,"Val1":"ABCD","Val2":"DEFG"}}|
+----------------------------------------------------------------+

I just want to capture the below and send it as messgage
{"ID":123456,"RunId":40,"Val1":"ABCD","Val2":"DEFG"}

How can I achive this?

A: You can use to_json method as
val df = Seq((123456, 40, "ABCD", "DEFG"))
  .toDF("ID", "RunId", "Val1", "Val2")

val msgDf = df.select(to_json(struct("ID", "RunId", "Val1", "Val2")).as("message"))

Or simply
df.select(to_json(struct(df.columns.map(col): _*)).alias("message"))

msgDf.show(false)

Or
Seq((123456, 40, "ABCD", "DEFG")).toDF("ID", "RunId", "Val1", "Val2")
  .toJSON.show(false)

Result:
+----------------------------------------------------+
|message                                             |
+----------------------------------------------------+
|{"ID":123456,"RunId":40,"Val1":"ABCD","Val2":"DEFG"}|
+----------------------------------------------------+

A: No need to use struct - doing toJSON directly will do the job:
val df = Seq((123456, 40, "ABCD", "DEFG")).toDF("ID", "RunId", "Val1", "Val2")

df.toJSON.show(false)
+----------------------------------------------------+
|value                                               |
+----------------------------------------------------+
|{"ID":123456,"RunId":40,"Val1":"ABCD","Val2":"DEFG"}|
+----------------------------------------------------+

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Brigadier-General John Sanctuary Nicholson  (19 May 1863 – 21 February 1924) was a British Army officer and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1921 to 1924.

Early life and education
Born in Kensington, London, the son of William Nicholson and his wife Isabella. He was educated at Harrow and then, in 1882, the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He was commissioned in 7th Hussars in February 1884 and in 1886 he spent eight years in India with his regiment before in 1894 being sent to Natal.

BSAP, Second Boer War and First World War
The 7th Hussars joined a force at Mafeking to suppress a native rising in Matabeleland. During these operations he raised and commanded a corps of British South Africa Police (BSAP). He became Commandant-General of the BSAP and Inspector-General of Volunteers in Rhodesia from 1898 until 1903. The Second Boer War took place in neighbouring South Africa from 1899 to June 1902, and to recognize his contribution, Nicholson was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the South Africa honours list published on 26 June 1902. In 1903 he succeeded Baden-Powell as Inspector-General of South African Constabulary and retired from the post as a colonel in 1907.

During the First World War he joined the British Expeditionary Force and from April 1915 to December 1918 was base commandant at Calais. He had been promoted to brigadier-general in 1916 and retired from the Army in 1920.

Political career
With a father and brother both being members of parliament Nicholson contested a seat in East Dorset in the 1910 general election. He lost by 426 votes to Captain Guest but after a petition Guest was unseated. Nicholson stood again as a Conservative candidate in a by-election against Guests brother Henry Guest but was defeated again by a small margin. In the second general election of 1910 in December, he tried to get elected at Stafford but was defeated by 755 votes.

In 1921, he was elected the Member of Parliament for the Westminster Abbey constituency in a by-election following the death of the incumbent MP William Burdett-Coutts. He was re-elected in the following two general elections in 1922 and 1923.

Death
Nicholson, who had never married, died on 21 February 1924 of pneumonia at his house at South Audley Street, Mayfair aged 60. A by-election was held to replace him as an MP.

References

Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume III 1919-1945, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (The Harvester Press 1976)

External links

1863 births
1924 deaths
British Army generals
Military personnel from London
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Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
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As he approaches completion of his first year working on Amazon's physical stores, grocery, and specialty fulfilment businesses, Tony Hoggett has taken to LinkedIn to reflect on the e-commerce giant's accomplishments in this space.
Hoggett departed Tesco to join Amazon in January of this year, leading the teams responsible for Amazon Fresh, Amazon Go, Amazon Style, Whole Foods Market, and the firm's ultrafast delivery services.
In a LInkedIn post, he said: "One of the things that excited me most about joining Amazon is the company's customer obsessed mindset. When you start with the customer and work backward, every decision, every new idea, every invention has a purpose – to make the customer experience better."
He added: "This year, the team innovated on behalf of customers to introduce new shopping experiences like Amazon Style and a suburban format Amazon Go store…Both store formats expanded to multiple locations and new regions."
"We also brought Just Walk Out technology to two Whole Food Market stores, giving customers the choice to skip the register for a faster, more convenient shopping experience."
"We expanded Amazon One to more of our stores, offering a fast, convenient, contactless way for customers to use their palm to enter, identify, and pay."
"And for the first time, Amazon Dash Cart became available for use at Whole Foods Market stores. Three Whole Foods Market stores now feature the new version of the Dash Cart, which carries more groceries and goes all the way to the car for added convenience."
This new version of Amazon Dash Cart is also expected to become available at a few additional Whole Foods Market stores and many Amazon Fresh locations in the US next year.
Hoggett added that he is inspired by Amazon's commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040 and take steps toward more sustainable products offered online and in stores.
"Enacting initiatives that support this commitment are win-win – a win for our planet, and for our customers," he commented.
Earlier this year, Amazon opened the first low-carbon Amazon Fresh store in Seattle, which is seeking Zero Carbon Certification from the International Living Future Institute along with three Los Angeles Amazon Go locations, and the newest Same-Day Delivery site in Sacramento, CA.
This certification requires a building to achieve energy and embodied carbon reduction targets, be powered by 100% renewable energy, and offset 100% of emissions associated with construction.
Hoggett concluded: "In 2022, we opened dozens of physical stores across grocery and fashion, and expanded one day delivery to rural areas across the US."
"But reaching more customers isn't just about opening stores or expanding delivery coverage, it's working together through partnerships to increase access to innovative shopping experiences and selection we know customers love."
For example, in the US, there was collaboration with Starbucks to open the second Starbucks Pickup and Amazon Go location in New York City.
Hispanic specialty food market Cardenas and Central Valley grocer Save Mart was also available for two-hour delivery on Amazon.
In Singapore, there was a team up with online health and beauty shop Watsons, and artisanal grocer Little Farms to make their selection available for two-hour delivery on Amazon.
In Japan, meanwhile, there was an expansion of grocery selection and availability through LIFE, Valor, and SeijoIshii.
And in the EU, an expansion of existing partnerships with Tegut and U2 Supermercato to bring same-day, two-hour delivery on Amazon to new regions.
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Imagined online communities: the digital disruption of traditional geographies of citizenship
On 06/04/2021 13/04/2021 By RoutesIn 6th Form, Essay, Vol1. Issue 3
By Andre Pancholi, Latymer Upper School
Pancholi, A. (2021) Imagined online communities: the digital disruption of traditional geographies of citizenship. Routes 1(3): 275-280.
This essay examines how the internet and digital media platforms are challenging traditional theories of citizenship as identification to the nation state. It responds to a body of literature asserting that notions of 'place' are potentially being replaced by a more conceptual mapping of citizenship (Wellman 2003, Hermes 2006, Glassman and Kang 2012, Tewksbury and Rittenburg 2012, Choi 2016). Through describing how the internet has disrupted traditional structures of information dissemination, this essay builds on Anderson's theory of 'imagined communities' to propose the notion of 'imagined online communities.' It engages with Choi's theory that online communities can be characterised as 'citizenships,' in order to define the differences between digital and traditional concepts of citizenship. Digital citizenship is then considered in terms of its potential for reinforcing supranational or 'global citizenship' identities; but also for accelerating polarisation within societies and exacerbating geographies of inequality. The conclusion is that 'place' still matters to the study of citizenship as, fundamentally, digital citizenships emerge through distinct political or socio-economic contexts.
In his famous phrase, 'Man is born free, but he is everywhere in chains,' Rousseau (1762) defined the citizen as one that has exchanged individual will for participation in the 'social contract' – the laws that embody the will of a collective of citizens for their mutual preservation. Indeed, the modern concept of the citizen still relates to the relationship between an individual and a wider collective, within which citizens have the security of certain freedoms and rights in exchange for certain responsibilities. Wherever a citizen exists within a political, economic or cultural framework, it has also been assumed that he must exist within a geographic construct. Historically, citizenship has been defined in relation to place and, fundamentally, to the nation state (Anderson 1990). How else could citizenship be conceived or experienced, if not in terms of identification within the spatial borders which, throughout history, have been forged to regulate the defining citizenship ideologies of individual nations? This essay asks whether citizenships of 'networked individualism' are replacing 'cultural historical solidarity.' (Wellman et al 2003: 1). To what extent are spatial concepts of citizenship still relevant in the digital age? Through examining how online communities have the potential to evolve into 'digital citizenships' that may disrupt or supersede identifications to the state, this essay considers the validity of geographical perspectives for informing shifting concepts of citizenship.
Throughout history, nation states have been characterised by the methods and extent to which they control and disseminate information to their respective citizens. In the case of autocratic regimes, information flows have tended to be downward and didactic, in an attempt to reinforce state agendas and suppress dissent. However, even in the case of democratic states, government institutions have tended to maintain some degree of influence over the parameters of media reporting, as deemed appropriate to the 'social contract' between citizens and the state (eg. broadcasting regulations or privacy laws). Clearly, any filtering of media is not limited to the political sphere; it has an embedded influence on the way in which a whole range of attitudes – social, consumer, ethical or otherwise – are shaped within and between citizenships over time. If, as this essay asserts, notions of citizenship are closely related to public opinion formation, then it is vital to understand where and how individuals form the opinions that constitute their respective citizen identities.
In the 1980s, Iyengar and Kinder (1988) were examining the link between the filtering of television news items and the distinctive character of American citizenship. By the following decade, Hartley had coined the term 'media citizenship' to describe how popular television culture had blurred the divide between the 'knowledge class' and ordinary citizens through creating 'mutual, reciprocal and interdependent sites of knowledge' (1996: 58-59). Since then, the internet has revolutionised the traditional systems by which news or other information can be filtered by governments, experts or journalists. Social media has caused an unprecedented shift in the modality through which citizens receive and engage with information. Increasingly news is disseminated horizontally, rather than vertically and, moreover, in a way that incites and takes shape through instant public engagement. Real-time witness videos of koalas fleeing Australian bushfires, or a child injured by a gas attack in Syria, have an immediate and profoundly emotional impact on citizens across the globe in an age when, in theory, anyone with a smartphone camera can become a news reporter. Now, as never before, the citizen forms opinions at the interface of multifarious and fluid information streams which facilitate an 'extension of mind' (Glassman and Kang, 2012: 679), with the result that citizenship is an increasingly sensitising concept (Hermes, 2006: 295). If the formation of public opinion is now happening at a level that largely escapes state influence and traditional media structures, this would suggest that a new methodology is required to understand the geographies of citizenship in the digital age.
Where Anderson (1990) once applied the term 'imagined communities' to describe the phenomena of national citizen identities, we can now see the limitless potential for 'imagined online communities' across the infinite range of human interests and experience. From virtual gaming worlds, to professional networking platforms such as Linkedin; from communities offering specific information or support, to the internet giants of Facebook, Instagram or Twitter – what all online communities have in common is that they fulfill the basic human need for communication and information exchange. Online communities offer the potential for transnational perspectives and, in this sense, are the tool of globalisation but, more than this, they enable a 'redistribution of influence from formal status to competence, commitment and enthusiasm.' (Grabner and Ibert 2014). We see evidence of this type of social-levelling and empowerment in the way Gen Z TikTok influencers are currently taking advantage of this platform's ubiquitous reach to engage millions of young people (who might not otherwise be politically-engaged) in debates in the run-up to the 2020 US election. Other communities, such as The Student Room, are examples of how intense user-engagement (including the ability to search back through threads or to cross-reference other users), shapes a fluid database of information; while anonymous user profiles encourage a more open style of exchange. I propose that it is possible to characterise online communities as:
Emerging through a distinctive pattern or frequency of user-engagement
Facilitating exchange of knowledge, ideas or support
Organised by community-specific structures
Reinforced through common terminologies / buzzwords / abbreviations
Asserting boundaries for acceptable user discourse (eg. systems for reporting trolling)
Enabling semi-public or anonymous profiles for users (eg. usernames, passwords)
Promoting continuity of engagement (eg. the ability to cross-reference other users)
Essentially, online communities enable new paradigms for public opinion formation which are no longer defined or restricted by geo-spatial structures. But if spatial considerations are being replaced by a more conceptual mapping of cultural identities, what are the implications for geographic perspectives? More specifically – does the modality of cyberspace spell the 'end of geography' in informing concepts of citizenship, in favour of a 'contested terrain of competing online discourses?' (Warf, 2001: 3).
What is clear is that, in the digital age, the citizen forms opinions at the interface of a plethora of continually-evolving information streams. What is not so clear, however, is the extent to which this engagement in online communities is challenging national citizenship identities. This essay engages with this question by asserting a fundamental distinction between 'online communities' and 'online citizenships.' In both cases, information and active engagement are key – however, if 'users' are to be considered 'citizens,' there must also be evidence that they are participating in some form of 'social contract.' In fact, the traditional principles of citizenship can also provide a framework for interpreting the phenomenon of digital citizenship. A useful definition of the parallels between state and digital citizenship is provided by Choi, who perceptively argues that both are characterised by three main principles – ' being informed' 'active engagement' and 'social responsibility.' (2016: 21). I have devised the following chart to summarise how these principles apply to the two types of citizenship:
Principles of state versus digital citizenship:
STATE CITIZENSHIP DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP
INFORMATION disseminated through hierarchical structures (government and media)degrees of censorshipstate-centricreinforced via education systems peer-to-peer / lateral dissemination(largely) uncensored / immediateglobal (potential to go 'viral')
ENGAGEMENT compulsorypublic identity and accountability (passport, national insurance number, etc)Structured socio-economic hierarchiesvoting (democracies) or assumed loyalty to regime (autocracies) productivity (employment) optionalanonymous (user names)non-hierarchicalglobal
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY national identificationabide by state legislations / laws and 'social contracts'voting and tax participation state-focused shifting identificationschallenge, reinterpret or transform existing 'social contracts'protest / activism state-focused or global
This essay argues that when engagement within a digital community incites a shifting sense of 'social responsibility,' this is evidence that a 'digital citizenship' is emerging, with the potential for new 'social contracts' that are likely to be expressed offline, as well as online. But rather than developing as discrete phenomena, digital citizenship identities are interdependent with identities of the state – for the very reason that they often manifest as reactionary. The following examples show how digital citizenships have the potential to disrupt state citizenship identities, through inciting revolution or, alternatively, facilitating global citizenship identifications that supersede the boundaries of the nation state.
The Arab Spring, 2010-2012, provides a fascinating example of how an online-enabled, activist community can be defined as a citizenship in terms of the principles set out by Choi. There has been much debate as to the role of social media in this revolutionary struggle for democracy. For instance, while a major study of some three million Tweets tracked to this region during the unrest found that, 'spikes in online revolutionary conversations often preceded events on the ground.' (Howard,2011: 2); another study claimed that what sparked the protests was not social media itself, but the way it resonated in this specific geo-political context (Anderson 2011: 2), much like the effect of 'wind on fire' (Wolfsfeld 2013: 120). This essay argues that regardless of whether we see social media as inciting or reinforcing the events of the Arab Spring, what is more relevant is how it facilitated an 'informed' and 'actively engaged' digital citizenship, by virtue of the fact that they redefined 'social responsibility' as activism, whether online or on the ground via mass protests. Populist participation became the 'social contract' for a democratic citizenship. The first protests in Tunisia, uncensored and shared in real-time via mobile devices, reached across state borders, engendering a wave of unrest which eventually toppled the governments of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. Nowhere was the power of social media in establishing and connecting new and revolutionary citizenship identities more in evidence, than when, in 2011, the Egyptian government took the decision to cut off the internet. The Arab Spring is compelling evidence of how new citizenship identities can emerge online, with the potential to overturn previous notions of state citizenship.
In other cases, digital citizenships have manifested in ways that appear to transcend notions of state citizenship. The environmental activist, Greta Thunberg, has inspired a whole generation to take to social media to promote environmental causes. This phenomenon, dubbed as the 'Greta Effect,' showed us how Twitter is far more than a platform for interactive exchange. When online discourses begin to infiltrate the public consciousness in a way that alters offline citizen behaviours or values (eg. a shift towards more ethical consumer habits or participation in #Fridays4future strikes), this is evidence that notions of 'social responsibility' are shifting – in this case, implying new 'social contracts' for active global citizens in the face of impending environmental crisis. The uncensored immediacy of social media has enabled the world to feel interconnected through a deepening consciousness that what happens in one region today, will affect us all tomorrow. The concept of the 'global citizen' can, therefore, be defined as 'the dynamics of economic, cultural and ecological integration that are carrying human experience beyond its modernist phase of state / society relations.' (Falk 1993: 39). In this age of Twitter, it could be argued that citizenship identities are increasingly characterised by our online profiles, as the social contracts required for active global citizenship may take precedence over notions of state citizenship.
However, the notion of global citizenship may also be facing a simultaneous backlash. Tewksbury and Rittenberg identify that a negative byproduct of online media forums is the fragmentation of knowledge and polarisation of opinion in contemporary democracies. (2015: 119-144). Arguably, we see evidence of this in the rise of nationalist, right-wing politics in the US, as notions of citizenship based on the 'America First' policies of Donald Trump seem increasingly out of touch with an irrepressible zeitgeist of online-enabled global citizens, whose voting patterns are more likely to be driven by ethical or global environmental concerns than domestic state interests. Despite the infinite potential of the internet to inform and connect us, there is an inherent paradox in that it also presents an opportunity for governments and / or citizens to self-select information to fit any given agenda. As such, online platforms may actually reduce rational discourse within societies as opinions become 'distorted, shrill and simplistic' (Noam 2002: 58) in an attempt to stand out in the multifarious online arena. As citizenship identifications increasingly take shape online, we can see the possible ramifications of accelerating ideological discord between the different citizen demographics that constitute a nation state.
The potential for online citizenships is further limited by what is known as the 'digital divide' – that within and between citizenships, there is uneven access to the internet and digital media due to patterns of economic inequality. This is Warf's point when he writes that, 'the internet creates and reflects a distinct spatial structure interlaced with, and often reinforcing, existing relations of wealth and power.' (Warf 2001: 3). In terms of global citizen identities, what is significant here, is that only certain demographics are in the socio-economic position to inform themselves on supranational issues, or to participate in a 'social contract' to make more ethical choices – whether this be the ability to buy Fairtrade foods or ethically-produced clothing; switch to electric cars; or install solar heating. We can see how the socio-economic inequalities inherent in the digital divide intersect with and exacerbate the issue of increasing ideological polarisation within societies and, moreover, how this can be extrapolated on a global level. Put another way, it is evident that, even where citizen identities are developed online, the focus of digital citizenships continues to be determined by political and socio-economic geographies.
In conclusion, it is clear that, in disrupting the way that information is disseminated between the state and citizens, the internet has transformed and expanded opportunities for public opinion formation and online / offline identities. Citizenship is still about where we identify, spatially; yet the impact of the internet on the filtering, flow and dissemination of information has challenged the presumed naturalness of citizen allegiances to the nation state. On occasions, online communities may develop the characteristics of citizenships. Recent years have witnessed many examples of the power of social media in enabling events 'on the ground' to go viral across the globe – the #MeToo or Black Lives Matter campaigns demonstrating how social media can engender shifting parameters for citizenship, both within and between nations. Wherever there is conflict between personal and state citizen identities, the 'social contract' that binds us to the state begins to loosen and we may turn to online forums to seek alternative connections or solutions through the continuously expanding networks of cyberspace. However, this essay has also demonstrated that, in a world increasingly connected through digital media, it does not follow that geographical perspectives on citizenship are ceasing to be relevant. On the contrary, the digital divide that exists within and between nations implies new opportunities for geography in examining how an unequal access to the modality of the internet affects citizen identities across the globe. Moreover, the exciting challenge of research at the interface of 'place' and 'cyberspace' means that geography will have a vital role in informing state and international policy, through identifying shifts in economic, cultural or voting patterns in the context of a rapidly globalising world.
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FRANCE occupies a medium extent amongst those countries of the world which have played a distinct part in politics and in the history of civilisation. Smaller in area than either China, Russia, the Brazils, or the United States, it is nevertheless far more con siderable than that of either Greece, Portugal, Switzerland, Holland, or even of England, all of which have left their mark upon the march of human history. Scarcely covering the 225th part of the habitable portion of the globe, its dense population has nevertheless enabled it to play a part quite out of proportion to its area.
Jacques Élisée Reclus born at Sainte-Foy-la-Grande (Gironde).(French:15 March 1830 – 4 July 1905) was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes ("Universal Geography"), over a period of nearly 20 years (1875–1894). In 1892 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Paris Geographical Society for this work, despite having been banished from France because of his political activism.
His geographical work, thoroughly researched and unflinchingly scientific, laid out a picture of human-nature interaction that we today would call bioregionalism. It showed, with more detail than anyone but a dedicated geographer could possibly absorb, how the ecology of a place determined the kinds of lives and livelihoods. Its denizens would have and thus how people could properly live in self-regarding and self-determined bioregions without the interference of large and centralized governments that always try to homogenize diverse geographical areas.
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Prime Minister Hun Sen will address the World Trade Organization (WTO) Wednesday during the opening session of the 2019 Global Review of Aid for Trade taking place this week in Geneva.
According to a press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the prime minister left Cambodia Tuesday to attend the 2-day meeting at the invitation of WTO Director General Roberto Azevedo.
His speech will highlight the challenges the country has faced and the strategy adopted to bring about economic growth. The prime minister is also expected to officially launch Cambodia's Trade Integration Strategy 2019-2023 program during the meeting.
Cambodia has been a member of WTO since October 2004.
During his stay in Switzerland, Hun Sen will also attend in Geneva the 41th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council and have bilateral meetings with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet.
On June 19, a UN press release reported that UN human rights experts were concerned with "an escalating trend of suppression by the Cambodian Government of dissenting opinions in what appears to be an attempt to intimidate or silence political opinion."
During these meeting, Hun Sen will, according to the ministry's press release, "convey a clear and important message about Cambodia's strong commitment to upholding human rights and democracy in Cambodia."
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Beware the Taxpayer Bailout of Underfunded Teamsters Pension Funds
This was going to be a "quick" post on the pending bankruptcy of YRC, the nation's largest trucking company.
Instead, I have been digging around for several hours as the story morphed into a spiderweb of pension obligations culminating in a Ponzi scheme sponsored by representative Pomeroy to bailout private pension plans at taxpayer expense.
Let's kick this off with the headline that first grabbed my attention.
Bloomberg reports YRC Has Until Yearend to Corral Bondholders, Avert Bankruptcy.
YRC Worldwide Inc. has less than two weeks to persuade bondholders to accept a debt exchange and prevent a bankruptcy filing that its employees' union says may force the biggest U.S. trucking company to liquidate.
YRC, which has pushed back the deadline for the swap three times this month, must complete the tender by Dec. 31 to avoid a $19 million payment of interest and fees that would leave the trucker in an "unsustainable" position, the Overland Park, Kansas-based company said yesterday in a regulatory filing.
"Bondholders are in the driver's seat," said David Ross, a Baltimore-based analyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Co. who has a "sell" rating on the stock. "They could force the company to file if they don't tender enough notes, and then there is a high chance the business is liquidated."
YRC took on debt when Yellow Corp. acquired Roadway Corp. in 2003 for $1.07 billion and then bought USF Corp. in 2005 for $1.37 billion. The company has $1.6 billion of loans and bonds, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Concern is growing that the company wouldn't survive a bankruptcy filing because customers would defect, said Iain Gold, a director in the strategic research department of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represented about 40,000 YRC employees as of January.
YRC's $150 million of 8.5 percent notes due in April fell 1.25 cents on the dollar to 59.75 cents yesterday, according to Trace, the bond-price reporting system of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. The shares declined 7 cents, or 6.8 percent, to 94 cents, after earlier rising as much as 15 percent, on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
The trucker must complete the exchange as part of agreements with its banks, the Teamsters and multi-employer pension funds, according to a Nov. 24 regulatory filing.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was creating derivatives trades that would profit from a bankruptcy, Teamsters President James Hoffa wrote in a Dec. 16 letter to Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive officer of the New York-based bank.
Goldman Sachs spokesman Michael DuVally confirmed the bank received the letter and said in an interview "Goldman does not have a position in the company, nor are we making markets in the company's bonds or credit-default swaps."
YRC Seeks $1 Billion Pension Bailout From TARP
Flashback May 15, 2009: Troubled trucker YRC to seek $1 billion pension bailout.
Struggling No. 1 U.S. trucking company YRC Worldwide Inc plans to seek $1 billion in bailout money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program to help it cover pension obligations, a move analysts say is unlikely to succeed as the company has no financial charter.
YRC, which has been shedding jobs and closing facilities to cut costs in the face of the U.S. recession, faces an estimated $2 billion in pension obligations over the next four years.
YRC will submit an application to the Treasury as early as Friday, a move that was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Pension Fund Problems
Company Chief Executive Bill Zollars complained in the WSJ article that the Central States multi-employer pension fund that it pays into is unfair because YRC ends up paying for truckers who never worked for the company.
Multi-employer pension funds were set up decades ago prior to the deregulation of the trucking industry to ensure that workers' pensions were protected even if they changed companies. Over the past 20 years, thousands of trucking companies have collapsed, leaving their pension obligations to be funded by those left in the fund.
The Central States fund has been in trouble for years as a result of this problem. The world's largest package delivery company United Parcel Service Inc (UPS), which had more than 40,000 employees in Central States, paid a $6.1 billion fee to withdraw from the fund in 2007 and have those employees covered by a single-employer fund jointly managed by UPS and the Teamsters union.
UPS' move was widely regarded by analysts as a smart one, given the poor condition of the Central States fund.
YRC Terminates Pension Contributions
Flashback Jul 21, 2009: Central States Pension Fund Drops YRC Worldwide
Trustees 'terminate' carrier's participation; Move won't affect accrued benefits
The largest Teamsters pension fund dropped YRC Worldwide, the largest unionized trucking company, as its Teamster employees prepare to vote on whether to accept a 15 percent wage cut and a suspension of company pension contributions.
The Central States Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund notified the principal officers of Teamster union locals last week that its trustees had decided to "terminate the participation" of YRC and USF Holland in the fund, effective July 9.
The move won't affect employee pension benefits accrued before July 9, but there will be no additional accruals "unless and until YRCW resumes participation," Central States Executive Director Thomas C. Nyhan said in a letter attached to the notice.
Central States is one of the nation's largest multiemployer pension plans, providing monthly benefits to over 210,000 retirees and their surviving spouses. Since 1955 it has provided more than $40 billion in retirement benefits to Teamsters and their families.
Lethal Mix
Poor Management Decisions
High Corporate Debt
Untenable Pension Obligations
Given the above set of problems it was only a matter of time before YRC went under. The exact same mix sunk GM.
There is plenty of blame to go around including a very poor management decision to acquire Roadway and USF, saddling YRC with too much debt.
However, pension issues alone would have eventually sunk YRC.
Central States Pension Fund – A Guaranteed Train Wreck
Inquiring minds are digging deeper into the YRC story by investigating in more detail the Central States Fund. The big issue is a shrinking number of employees supporting a growing number of retirees, the same critical issue that sunk GM.
Please consider Central States Fund Assets at $17.5 Billion.
As of June 30, CSPF assets stood at $17.5 billion, almost exactly the same as the $17.4 billion in assets at the start of 2009. The fund made 15.0 percent on its investments in the second quarter, thanks to the big run-up in the stock market. Central States now holds 69 percent of its assets in stocks and 28 percent in bonds.
The number of active participants (full-time equivalents) is down to 80,000, while the number of retirees holds steady at 212,000.
The new problem for the fund is Yellow Roadway Corp. YRC was allowed to defer six months of past-due payments, amounting to about $125 million that it owes the fund. The fund, along with some other Teamster funds, now holds a lien on 150 terminal properties of YRC as collateral. YRC is required to start paying back the deferred amount in January 2010, over a three year payment period. Even worse, YRC is now terminated from the fund for 18 months, and thus not liable to make pension contributions until January 2011.
Graphical Plight Of Central States Fund
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Beware The Taxpayer Bailout
The deeper inquiring minds dig, the messier and messier this gets.
Please consider H.R.3936 – Preserve Benefits and Jobs Act of 2009
Official Summary
10/27/2009–Introduced.Preserve Benefits and Jobs Act of 2009 – Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to:
(1) allow a sponsor of a single-employer defined benefit pension plan to elect in 2009 or 2010 extended amortization periods (9 or 15 years) for investment losses incurred in prior years;
(2) allow an increase in the valuation range of plan assets;
(3) use the funded status of a plan in 2008 to determine benefit restrictions in 2009 and 2010 and prohibit the use of credit balances by pension plans that are under 80% funded in the prior year;
(4) exclude plan-related administrative expenses (including investment expenses) from normal cost targets;
(5) delay until 2012 the application of certain benefit restrictions to collectively bargained plans; and
(6) require a 120% funding target for plans adopting ad hoc amendments that allow lump sum benefits payments and increased plan liabilities. Revises rules relating to information reporting and reportable events. Calculates the amount of any pension plan guarantee by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) using the date of plan termination rather than the date of a plan bankruptcy filing. Amends ERISA provisions relating to multiemployer pension plans to:
(1) allow such plans to elect alternative amortization plans and valuation methods in 2009 and 2010 for investment losses;
(2) extend by five years the funding improvement period for plans in endangered or critical status;
(3) permit multiemployer plans to merge or form alliances with other plans; and
(4) increase PBGC guarantees for insolvent plans to increase participant benefits.
Replenishing Pension Funds From Taxpayer Pockets
It should be no surprise that the Teamsters (or any union) would want taxpayer handouts, or that Congress would buy votes giving away handouts.
Please consider Pomeroy's Lucre For Labor.
Rep. Earl Pomeroy, North Dakota Democrat, is drafting legislation that would amount to a massive, employer-crippling bailout for struggling union pensions. The congressman is trying to spin this as a cheap, proactive way to shore up said pensions. He claims that his bill is a response to an "urgent plea [from employers] for manageable and predictable pension funding rules as the nation works [its] way back to recovery."
In reality, the bill as currently drafted would be a costly sop to unions, which have done so much to get Mr. Pomeroy elected. (Twelve out of his top 21 donors are unions, according to opensecrets.org.) It would allow the unions, which have badly mismanaged pension funds in the past, to make new companies liable for the pension obligations of workers at other companies, in other industries. It also would create an explicit taxpayer guarantee if it all comes crashing down.
The devil is in the details of the draft, the text of which can be found on the congressman's Web site. The changes it introduces are chilling.
The draft would allow union-controlled multiemployer pension plans to form alliances with one another. It also would create something known as a fifth fund that the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp., with taxpayer help, would use to prop up failing union pension plans.
Multiemployer union pension alliances might sound innocent enough, but consider what that actually means. Moody's Investors Service recently warned of a vast underfunding problem with multiemployer pensions. Many employers fear being shackled into them. Even though the funds are controlled by unions, employers are liable not just for their own employees, but for every worker in the plan regardless of how the plan is managed or mismanaged.
The so-called last-man-standing rule holds that if every other company in a multiemployer pension plan goes bankrupt, closes or pulls out of the plan, the one survivor is responsible for every single employee covered by the plan, even those who never worked for him. UPS paid $6.1 billion in withdrawal fees just to escape the Teamsters Central States pension fund.
Earlier this year the Teamsters were required to send out a letter to participants of the Central States pension alerting them that the plan was in "critical status" – funded at 65 percent or less.
Not wanting to wait for a PBGC bailout, Mr. Pomeroy proposes putting the taxpayer on the hook now. In a stark departure from the traditional role of PBGC, the draft bill states that "obligations of the corporation that are financed by the [fifth fund] shall be obligations of the United States." For the first time, PBGC liabilities will be borne by taxpayers. The fifth fund could make available billions of dollars to prop up union pensions. The bill does not include a statutory limit for how much taxpayer money could be shoveled into failing funds.
Taxpayers: The Last Man Standing
Pomeroy's Ponzi scheme, should it pass, would ultimately result in taxpayers being the last-man-standing in yet another massive, unwarranted bailout.
Stop the bailouts. Enough is enough!
Please call your representative and oppose H.R.3936, especially the PBGC provisions that mandate taxpayer bailouts of private pensions.
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After giving birth to her son, Alina began working in television, starting off as an assistant and moving into post-production support at Mediaset. Soon Alina worked her way into on-camera positions as a TV presenter and interviewer at Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI), Italy's national TV and radio broadcasting corporation.
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Schwab to step down at Buena Vista
January 30, 2008 AV 1 Buena Vista, Coaches,
Schwab to Step Down as Coach at Season's End
Storm Lake, Iowa – After guiding the Buena Vista University wrestling program for the past three-plus seasons, Director of Athletics, Jan Travis, has announced that head coach Mark Schwab will step down as coach of the Beavers effective May 31, 2008.
"I would like to thank Coach Schwab for the efforts and leadership he's shown and put forth while guiding the Beaver wrestling program over these last four years," Travis said. "We hate to see him go, but want to wish him the best in all of his future endeavors."
Schwab became just the second coach to lead the Beavers since the start of the 1978-79 season when he was hired in 2004 following the retirement of legendary coach, Al Baxter. To this point, the 2007 Iowa Conference Coach of the Year has seen his squads improve from a pair of seventh-place finishes to last season's fourth-place finish at the Iowa Conference Championships. The same can also be said at the NCAA Tournament, where his squads placed 30th and 21st, respectively, in his first two seasons, to a seventh-place standing a year ago.
Schwab says he will step down with plenty of good memories from his time guiding the Beavers.
"There were sure a lot of good moments here," Schwab said. "What I consider best moments are small things overall – like guys breaking thru, winning hard fought matches. I loved it when we could celebrate as a team."
BVU's seventh-place team finish at the 2007 National Tournament was the program's highest since placing fifth back in 2002. BVU's fourth-place finish during last year's Iowa Conference Championships was its highest since taking fourth in 2001.
To this point, Schwab has coached one individual conference champion and five All-Americans during his tenure, while also having a pair of wrestlers earn Scholar All-American accolades and one earn Academic All-Conference honors.
"It was a very challenging experience, and there is an awful lot to being a head coach in any sport; much more than most would think," Schwab added. "With the three recruiting classes we had in, it was interesting to see just how much an individual differs from the next but yet how predicable we can all be. This experience was a hands-on dealing with people in all their stages of highs and lows. It's personal education for future endeavors."
"We are very sad to see Coach Schwab step down," said BVU President Fred Moore. "He has led our wrestling program with tremendous distinction and character. At the same time, I understand his desire to start a new chapter in his life and wish him well. BVU has a proud wrestling tradition, and we will move swiftly to name a new head coach to lead us into the future."
A search for a replacement will begin immediately.
Buena Vista Sports Information (thanks to InterMat for the link)
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The tubercles along the leading edges of the humpback whale flippers can provide these large mammals with an exceptional maneuverability. This is due to the fact that the leading-edge tubercles have largely a 3D benefit for the finite hydrofoils, which can maintain the lift, reduce the drag and delay the stall angle. Newcastle University launched a series study to improve a tidal turbine's performance with the aid of this concept. This paper presents a numerical simulation of the tested hydrofoil, which is representative of a tidal turbine blade, to investigate the flow around the foil and also to numerically model the experiment. This hydrofoil was designed based on an existing tidal turbine blade with the same chord length distribution but a constant pitch angle. The model tests have been conducted in the Emerson Cavitation Tunnel measuring the lift and drag. The results showed that the leading-edge tubercles can significantly improve the performance of the hydrofoil by improving the lift-to-drag ratio and delaying the stall. By applying Shear Stress Transport (SST), Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) and Large Eddy Simulation (LES) via using the commercial CFD solver, Star-CCM+, the tested hydrofoil models were simulated and more detailed flow information has been achieved to complement the experiment. The numerical results show that the DES model is in close agreement with the experimental results. The flow separation pattern indicates the leading-edge tubercles can energize the flow around the hydrofoil to keep the flow more attached and also separate the flow into different channels through the tubercles.


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Lisa says: What do your kids want to be when they grow up?
One of Addyson's answers really pleased Lisa.
Lisa van de Geyn November 9, 2012
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Yesterday I asked Addy what she wants to be when she grows up. I've asked her this question before, and she's told me she'd like to be a puppy, a mommy and "just Addyson." Yesterday she told me she'd like to be a princess when she's a big girl. I told her that would kind of make me a queen by association, which would be pretty cool.
It goes without saying that I don't care what Addy (or Peyton) decides to be when she grows up as long as she's happy. And this might not make me super-popular with the feminist bunch (who am I kidding — I'm never super-popular with the feminist bunch) but I was ecstatic that Addy said she'd like to be a mommy when she grows up. Sure, a puppy would be cute, and it's heartwarming that she'd like to be a princess. At this point she realizes she'll never be a dog, and sooner or later she'll discover that it's highly unlikely she'll be a royal. And, while I know that she'll answer, "what do you want to be when you grow up?" a million different ways before she actually decides what she really wants to do for a living, I'm not-so-secretly hoping "a mommy" always tops her list.
What have your kids said they want to be when they grow up?
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You are invited to join the 10th anniversary of EDULEARN (10th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies) that will be held in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of July 2018.
This conference will provide the ideal opportunity to present your projects and experiences to an international audience in three different formats (oral, poster or virtual). Also, it will offer participants an overview of the current situation of education, research and new learning innovations. You will be able to listen to experts from different countries, representing all continents.
If you wish to learn more about how education is changing in the world, then do not miss the opportunity to come to EDULEARN18.
After 10 years, EDULEARN has become an annual meeting point for lecturers, researchers, professors, educational scientists and technologists.
- Meet 800 participants from more than 80 countries.
- Publish your paper in EDULEARN18 Proceedings.
EDULEARN18 Proceedings (with ISBN) will be produced with all the accepted abstracts and papers.
This Publication will be reviewed for its inclusion in the ISI CPCI (Web of Science). Since 2010, all previous editions were already indexed in ISI CPCI. Also, a DOI number will be assigned to each accepted paper.
All accepted contributions will be indexed in IATED Digital Library to form part of our database of innovative projects in Education and Technology.
- Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: April 16th, 2018.
- Conference Dates: Palma de Mallorca (Spain), July 2nd-3rd-4th, 2018.
In addition to your participation in EDULEARN18, you will have the opportunity to visit Palma de Mallorca.
The capital of the island of Mallorca enjoys an excellent climate all year round. Known for its sun and beach tourism, it also has an attractive historic quarter and its monuments are worth are well worth visiting.
The landscape of the island is full of coves, beaches, pine forests and cliffs on the coast. The variety of the landscape and culture invites visitors to explore every corner of the island and to enjoy its unique local gastronomy.
Also, Palma is a very accessible city: its airport offers a wide range of international flights.
We look forward to seeing you in Palma.


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I Talulah Gosh sono un gruppo musicale del genere twee pop attivo nella seconda metà degli anni ottanta.

Un anno dopo lo scioglimento dei Talulah Gosh Amelia Fletcher, Mathew Fletcher e Peter Momtchilof formarono gli Heavenly.

Biografia
Nato ad Oxford in Inghilterra nel 1986 dopo l'incontro tra Amelia Fletcher ed Elizabeth Price, che si notarono poiché indossavano entrambe una spilla dei The Pastels (l'avvenimento diede il nome alla canzone pastels badge). Il gruppo si caratterizza dalle sue origini guitar pop, per le sue ritmiche veloci di derivazione punk e linee vocali e corali molto melodiche con richiami ad arrangiamenti del pop degli anni 50/60 che ne caratterizzano il genere.
Nei due anni di attività pubblicarono unicamente un flexy-disc: I Told You So(split con i Razorcuts) e 5 singoli editi dalla Sarah Records. Tutti i loro lavori sono inseriti in due raccolte: Rock legends volume 69 e Backwash.

Componenti
Amelia Fletcher: voce e chitarra
Mathew Fletcher: batteria
Peter Momtchiloff: chitarra
Rob Pursey: basso (lascia la band dopo soli tre concerti per diventare poi bassista degli Heavenly)
Elizabeth Price: voce e tamburello (fino al 1987)
Chris Scott: basso
Eithne Farry: voce e tamburello (dal 1987)

Discografia

Singoli
I Told You So (1986 split)
Beatnik Boy (1986)
Steaming Train (1986)
Talulah Gosh (1987)
Bringing Up Baby (1987)
Testcard Girl (1988)

Raccolte
Rock Legends: Volume 69  (1988)
Backwash (1996)

Collegamenti esterni


Get yourself down to the beach and quench that thirst! The Thirst To Surf Boardshort offer a range of crazy-cool jungle or ocean inspired patterns on 14 inch boardies. With O'Neill Hyperdry technology for unreasonably quick drying time, inner mesh and pockets, they're a summer must have.


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Scientists Have Invented a Graphene-Based Sieve That Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water
Researchers have achieved a major turning point in the quest for efficient desalination by announcing the invention of a graphene-oxide membrane that sieves salt right out of seawater.
At this stage, the technique is still limited to the lab, but it's a demonstration of how we could one day quickly and easily turn one of our most abundant resources, seawater, into one of our most scarce - clean drinking water.
The team, led by Rahul Nair from the University of Manchester in the UK, has shown that the sieve can efficiently filter out salts, and now the next step is to test this against existing desalination membranes.
"Realisation of scalable membranes with uniform pore size down to atomic scale is a significant step forward and will open new possibilities for improving the efficiency of desalination technology," says Nair.
"This is the first clear-cut experiment in this regime. We also demonstrate that there are realistic possibilities to scale up the described approach and mass produce graphene-based membranes with required sieve sizes."
Graphene-oxide membranes have long been considered a promising candidate for filtration and desalination, but although many teams have developed membranes that could sieve large particles out of water, getting rid of salt requires even smaller sieves that scientists have struggled to create.
One big issue is that, when graphene-oxide membranes are immersed in water, they swell up, allowing salt particles to flow through the engorged pores.
The Manchester team overcame this by building walls of epoxy resin on either side of the graphene oxide membrane, stopping it from swelling up in water.
This allowed them to precisely control the pore size in the membrane, creating holes tiny enough to filter out all common salts from seawater.
The key to this is the fact that when common salts are dissolved in water, they form a 'shell' of water molecules around themselves.
"Water molecules can go through individually, but sodium chloride cannot. It always needs the help of the water molecules," Nair told Paul Rincon from the BBC.
"The size of the shell of water around the salt is larger than the channel size, so it cannot go through."
Not only did this leave seawater fresh to drink, it also made the water molecules flow way faster through the membrane barrier, which is perfect for use in desalination.
"When the capillary size is around one nanometre, which is very close to the size of the water molecule, those molecules form a nice interconnected arrangement like a train," Nair explained to Rincon.
"That makes the movement of water faster: if you push harder on one side, the molecules all move on the other side because of the hydrogen bonds between them. You can only get that situation if the channel size is very small."
There are already several major desalination plants around the world using polymer-based membranes to filter out salt, but the process is still largely inefficient and expensive, so finding a way to make it quicker, cheaper, and easier is a huge goal for researchers.
Thanks to climate change, seawater is something we're going to have plenty of in the future - Greenland's coastal ice caps which have already passed the point of no return are predicted to increase sea levels by around 3.8 cm (1.5 inches) by 2100, and if the entire Greenland Ice Sheet melts, future generations will be facing oceans up to 7.3 metres (24 feet) higher.
But at the same time, clean drinking water is still incredibly hard to come by in many parts of the world - the UN predicts that by 2025, 14 percent of the world's population will encounter water scarcity. And many of those countries won't be able to afford large-scale desalination plants.
The researchers are now hoping that the graphene-based sieve might be as effective as large plants on the small scale, so it's easier to roll out.
Graphene oxide is also a lot easier and cheaper to make in the lab than single-layers of graphene, which means the technology will be affordable and easy to produce.
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Meghan Markle's mom quit her job just ahead of the royal wedding.
According to an Us Weekly exclusive, published on Monday, May 14, 2018, Doria Ragland has left her position as a social worker at a Los Angeles mental health clinic.
"It was Doria's decision to leave," a source told the magazine. "She has talked about starting her own private practice, focusing on working with elderly patients." Meanwhile, another insider told the publication that Markle's relationship with Prince Harry, 33, reportedly played a major role in the "difficult decision."
"There had been a lot of calls from the media asking to speak with her because her daughter was marrying Prince Harry," the source explained, adding that Ragland has continued to work as a yoga instructor. "It just became overwhelming for Doria and she considered taking a leave of absence, but recognized that the interest was only going to continue after the wedding."
Ragland, 61, was the only member of Markle's family to attend the the royal couple's nuptials at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle on Saturday, May 19, 2018. She had arrived in England a couple days after quitting her job to help the former Suits actress, 36, prepare for the ceremony.
As she bonded with the royal family in the days leading up to the wedding, Ragland met Queen Elizabeth II while enjoying tea with her daughter and future son-in-law at Windsor Castle.
However, as Nicki Swift previously reported, the Duchess of Sussex's father, Thomas Markle, was unable to travel to the U.K. for the ceremony after undergoing heart surgery amid the media frenzy surrounding his staged paparazzi photos. In his place, Prince Charles walked Markle down the aisle.
After the newlyweds announced their engagement last November, Markle's parents released a joint statement expressing their excitement. "We are incredibly happy for Meghan and Harry," they said via Kensington Palace. "Our daughter has always been a kind and loving person. To see her union with Harry, who shares the same qualities, is a source of great joy for us as parents. We wish them a lifetime of happiness and are very excited for their future together."


I always think of myself as a baker rather than a cook. Baking recipes never fluster me because they are very precise. I love that about baking. I have always loved cooking, too, but until just a few years ago I didn't "just throw things into a pot" --I always followed recipes. Now, some of my best non-baking recipes are those I improvised or where I ventured away for the official recipe. For example, I had a wonderful potato soup at an Irish Inn a few weeks back and I couldn't stop thinking about how delicious it was. I knew I had 2 cups of homemade chicken broth in my freezer so I thought why not just add some potatoes and leeks and see what happens. DELICIOUS is what happened. I hope you try it!
Toppings: I used bacon, caramelized butternut squash, and sour cream. YUM!
Melt butter over medium heat in medium saucepan. Add leeks and saute' until soft and slightly caramelized (a little light brown in color). Add potatoes and then broth, cook until potatoes are cooked through (a fork should easily go through potato pieces), about 10 minutes. Transfer mixture to blender, a couple batches is best so you don't make a mess, and blend until smooth. Add salt and pepper and return soup to pot to keep warm until served. Add water or more broth if you like a thinner soup --this is on the thick side. Add toppings if desired: bacon, sour cream, scallions, chives, anything goes! Enjoy!


DJ Khaled starts off the new week with his new Drake assisted single "To The Max." The two previously collaborated on "I'm One One," "No New Friends," and last year's For Free off khaled's Major key album.
"To The Max" follows Shinning featuring Beyonce & Jay Z and the gold selling I'm The One featuring Justin Bieber, Chance The Rapper, Quavo and Lil Wayne.
Due June 23, Khaled's tenth album "Grateful" is set to feature appearances from Nas, Nicki Minaj, Travis Scott and Rihanna.
Buy the single now on ITunes and stream it below.


Michael Tunstall has been working in embedded security since 1998, primarily focused on side channel and fault analysis of cryptographic devices. He started his career in Gemplus Card international, the world's leading smart card maker, and was involved in the development of side channel attacks and countermeasures, from the moment, it was introduced to the cryptographic community as a very real security issue. He is also responsible for some of the first publications demonstrating that fault analysis of cryptographic devices is possible and that suitable countermeasures are required in all such devices. He has co-edited a book entitled "Fault Analysis in Cryptography", which is a summary of the state-of-the-art in fault analysis and is the first text book on this topic in the literature.
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Songjeong-dong (koreanska: 송정동) är en stadsdel i kommunen Gwangju i provinsen Gyeonggi i den norra delen av Sydkorea,  km öster om huvudstaden Seoul.

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