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@theBradbury is a monthly electronic newsletter that highlights news and events at the Bradbury Science Museum, as well as including information on the Lab's best research and innovations.
In July's issue of @theBradbury, we invite you to check out our latest, offsite exhibition A Look Back at the Trinity Test at the White Rock Visitor Center. We also invite you to investigate solar power at the Bradbury's booth during ScienceFest2019, attend free, family friendly presentations by Lab researcher Garrett Kenyon and Scientist Ambassadors Linda Anderman and Scott Crooker, and meet Misty Carty, local author and astronomer. We discuss how chocolate "pips" may help the Lab in its national security mission and bring you up to date on the Bradbury's NOTEs program. Finally, we look at some of the newest innovations in science at the Lab, including how Lab data helps keep our forests healthy and challenges in quantum physics research.....more
In June's issue of @theBradbury, we invite you to spend a "Night with a Nerd," update you on our traveling exhibits program, and ponder how research in the Arctic helps the Lab in its national security mission. You're also invited to register for upcoming, "behind the fence" public tours of Manhattan Project National Historical Park sites at Los Alamos and attend free presentations by Lab researchers, right here in Los Alamos. Finally, we look at some of the newest innovations in science at the Lab, including what's next for the Mars SuperCam....more
In our May issue, we invite you to register for "behind the fence" public tours of Manhattan Project National Historical Park sites at Los Alamos. You're also invited to the Bradbury to learn about the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies through their newest exhibit. We look at an a civil defense kit from the Cold War, talk about wire gold, and let you peek into what will soon be Gadgets, the newest BSMA gift shop. We also remind folks that wildfire season is approaching and offer some tips to stay safe. Finally, we look at some of the newest innovations in science at the Lab and let you know what's happening at the Museum this month....more
In our April issue, we let you in on the BSMA's plans for their gift shop, invite you to join the BSMA Teen Advisory Board for their first Teen Night at the Bradbury, and have a little fun with a #tbt artifact from the Museum's educational collection. We also give you an update on The Ribosome Machine, one of the Bradbury's NOTEs program offerings and say goodbye to to Renee Johansen, one of our Scientist Ambassadors. We discuss bio-engineering and additive manufacturing at the Lab and highlight a new intern program at the Lab....more
In March's issue, we invite you to join the BSMA for Night with a Nerd, launch the Bradbury's new Museum Explorations program and Mini-Maker space, discuss Museum collections, and compare electric and fuel-cell power for cars. We also highlight the Lab's work with neutron characterization techniques and sweet uses for super-computer simulations. ....more
This issue, we invite you to join us at the premiere of Racing Toward Dawn at the Museum. We also examine the Idenden collection in our Artifacts column and look into medical applications of the ACCOBeam. Plus, we let you know where Gadgets is going and how you can help the Bradbury Science Museum Association support STEM education in Northern New Mexico. Also in February's issue, more about Bette Korber's talk, "Toward a World Without AIDS: Developing a Vaccine Against HIV," part of the Lab's Frontiers in Science lecture series sponsored by the Fellows of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Finally, don't miss the articles about Lab research on fuel-cell innovations and squashed quantum dots!
In January's issue, we introduce the Bradbury Science Museum Association's new educational docent program, discuss retired artifacts from Los Alamos' involvement in the Human Genome Project, and ponder the viability of increased biofuel use for transportation. We also highlight the Lab's work on ice modeling and machine learning for earthquake prediction....more
In December's issue, we examine how the Museum brings Lab research to the nation and beyond. We also discuss our participation in the Collaboration for Ongoing Visitor Experience Studies, talk about photo restoration in our collections, and highlight some of the Lab's innovative research projects...more
In the November issue we introduce you to our new community education team, Pamela Dresher and Mel Strong. We'll talk about artifact collections dilemmas and space junk, and let you know about several upcoming events at the Museum including a book signing with Whitney Spivey and Brenda Fleming and a BSMA membership event. We also highlight additional research done at Los Alamos exploring arctic greening and newly detected microquasar gamma-rays. All this and more.
In the October issue you'll learn about our traveling exhibit "Building Immunity" and its loan to the Connecticut Science Center. We delve into a treasured time capsule, discuss a common question about radiation, and offer our Lab partners a new exhibit format. We also highlight additional research done at Los Alamos in the field of chemical bonding and explore a unique centrifuge facility. Finally, we highlight some of the great things happening at the Bradbury, including October's Science on Tap and Scientist in the Spotlight events, and High Tech Halloween. All this and more.
In the September issue you'll learn about our traveling exhibit program and design process and we take a closer look at one of our smaller artifacts, the BaDx, to discuss how research at the Lab is setting standards for disease detection and diagnosis. We also highlight additional research done at Los Alamos in the fields of radiation detection and ACCObeam technology. Finally, we highlight some of the great things happening at the Bradbury, including Robotics Night and Scientist in the Spotlight. All this and more.
In the August issue we highlight the Pond Cabin, one of the properties within the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, and our National Outreach Traveling Exhibits (NOTEs) program. We also talk about explosions and detonations, the Congressional App Challenge, our upcoming book signing with Misty Carty and August's Science on Tap speaker, Jessica Kubicek-Sutherland. All this and more.
In the July issue we highlight where the Museum is heading in the near future, recap some cool events we helped with in June, answer a question about why we might be involved in food security, mention our participation in the upcoming ScienceFest, and even cover how to display vintage clothing. All this and more.
In the June issue we highlight several events coming this summer including a special exhibit at the New Mexico History Museum on the Manhattan Project, Doctor Atomic at the Santa Fe Opera, a special "Night with a nerd" event centering on the latest Mars rover mission, and our usual Scientist in the Spotlight and Science On Tap opportunities. In addition, we offer a glimpse into a project designed to raise financial and math literacy as well as our "Science question of the month" on tiny, 3D printing. All this and more.
In the May issue we highlight our 25th anniversary at our downtown location, talk about what defensible space is with regard to wildfire, and show items distributed during the Cold War. We also feature some of our science outreach and list special events for the public and more.
In the April issue we highlight a new, temporary exhibit on some of the planes from WWII, talk about the creation of trinitite, and look into the importance of nuclear power for space exploration. We also include information on our busy month of March and some upcoming events. All this and more.
In the March issue we highlight a number of upcoming events including a celebration of the Lab's 75th anniversary and a "Night with a Nerd" along with our other standing monthly events. We also include an article on the the work we're doing to speed the testing of new drugs and talk about some signs we've collected from various places and times. All this and more.
In the February issue we highlight the Bradbury Science Museum Association's financial outreach to help children learn to incorporate math into their everyday activities, show a couple of items donated to the Museum by our previous director, and answer a question about why quantum computers are important. All this and more.
In the January issue we highlight the first location for our traveling exhibit on ribosomes, grants to assist area schools to get to the Museum for science learning, a science question about fungi, and how we get our "hands" on replacement gloves for one of our interactives. All this and more.
In the December issue we highlight our hosting of the annual New Mexico Association of Museums, more school visits to come in 2018, answer a question about magnets, and remind people of our hours during Christmas and New Year's. All this and more.
In the November issue we highlight our exhibit experience at the Association of Science - Technology Centers, talk about how to spot phoney "mementoes," mention a couple of recent events to encourage science learning, and include some information on current Laboratory research. All this and more.
In the October issue we share what we've learned through a year's worth of data gathering from our visitors, talk about the difficulties of potentially harnessing lightning as a power source, show a new, historic quilt we've acquired, include upcoming events and more.
In the September issue we highlight a new comics/science lecture and workshop, talk about a unique item we have that belonged to J. Robert Oppenheimer, answer a science question. We also include some photos from our recent robotics night some of the back-to-school resources we have available, highlight one of newest artifacts and answer our monthly science question. To round things out, we also have a couple of our latest science breakthroughs and more.
In the August issue we cover some of the back-to-school resources we have available, highlight one of newest artifacts and answer our monthly science question. In case you're in the neighborhood, we also include some activities coming up in August--including robotics night, this and more.
In the July issue we cover exciting new exhibits and interactive displays related to the Manhattan Project, answer a question related to the ancient Greeks and the atom, talk about a new addition to our collection that fits one person comfortably, and highlight a couple of recent science stories. In case you're in the neighborhood, we also include some activities coming up in July and more.
In the June issue we learn about our director's recent trip to Rome as part of a group helping to open a new science museum there, the origin of the "Manhattan Project" name, our current temporary display on a Nobel Prize winner and more.
In the May issue we have pieces on how an atom "knows" when to decay, the challenges of keeping the items in our collection in the best possible shape, how students are helping us provide new experiences on the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, as well as some upcoming events at the Museum. Read these stories and more.
This month we celebrate Earth Day, have an answer to a science question that "will blow you away," highlight a new model on display and talk about upcoming events. Read these stories and more.
In this issue, we ask you to help celebrate Pi Day, tell you what we are learning about our visitors, and take a look our cruise missile shell. We also relate how the Bradbury Science Museum Association is helping with regional educational outreach and highlight a current research story on computational science. Our local Science on Tap and Scientist in the Spotlight events are also listed. Read these stories and more.
In this issue we highlight our ongoing work with students from Highlands University, a very old "sign of the time" for Norris Bradbury, and our science question of the month talks about lasers and shiny surfaces and more.
We're now a place to see before you die, we answer a question about babies born in post offices, and share information about an important, new artifact. We also cover everything from our top 10 news stories of the year to what's available through the new gift kiosk, and more...
A temporary exhibit opens on the history of Pearl Harbor, our science question explores different ways to see what's below our skin, and the Bradbury Science Museum Association starts to sell souvenirs. The issue also highlights an employee who works to increase the production of much-needed medical isotopes, our recent R&D 100 awards, and more...
A new nuclear safeguards exhibit opens, our science question asks if a bomb could disrupt a hurricane, the Bradbury Science Museum Association is accepting members and volunteers, and a temporary display covers some data visualization history. In this issue we also highlight some of our cutting-edge science and more...
Read a little background on those much beloved figures of Oppie and Groves in our History Gallery, learn more about our question of the month as well as the work we're doing to give visitors their best experience at the Museum. We also cover science subjects including exascale computing, plants that regulate their leaf temperature, and our R&D 100 Award finalists. and more...
This month's issue features a story on the contents of a shipping container being explored by our artifact specialist, an answer to the question "How many moons are there in space?" and how inspiration led to millions of dollar saved on wring a supercomputer. and more...
The Museum's director, Linda Deck, was featured at a recent TEDxLANL event, we acquire a commercial film projector from the 1950s and we also get a question about the second atomic bomb flight to Japan during World War II. It also has several stories about using science to better understand a historical building and cool stuff about the Mars Rover. and more...
Bradbury Science Museum Association announces it's up and running and accepting memberships, Vaseline-glass artifact really does glow (under the right light), a Museum educator answers a hypothetical question regarding creation of nuclear weapons, and information from Mars hints at its past. Click here for these stories and more. and more...
The new Manhattan Project app is now available. Also in the issue are stories about some TV props that are coming back home and a question about trinitite. Science stories include how simulations are shedding light on the early universe and the use of machine learning to accelerate the discovery of new materials. and more...
A new exhibit opens this month, a window on the fond relationship between scientists, engineers and their first calculators, why Lab scientists blew up 100 tons of dynamite in advance of the Trinity test. We also highlight a Lab scientist who was knighted by the French and other recent news stories and more...
Two articles discuss plans for the new Manhattan Project historical park, a humorous glimpse back into 1950s computing technology, the monthly science question on crystal structure and explosives, the results of a informal poll on what surprised people at the museum and more...
An update on the game soon to be available through the Apple App Store Los Alamos: The Secret City of the Manhattan Project; the monthly science question on what results were expected at the Trinity test; a cable-testing relic becomes an artifacts and more...
A survey asking for your feedback on the changes to the publication; An update on the Manhattan District National Historical Park; Our top 10 science stories for 2016; a microscope gets added to our artifacts and more...
Museum director introduces January digital issue; A new exhibit featuring Women's Research at the Lab; Cutting edge research into the mystery of plutonium magnetism; Trinity supercomputer online; Scientist Spotlight; Earthquakes Topic of Next Science on Tap and more...
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Not Even Christmas
A short story by Robert Scott
It had been an excellent childhood as far as Sam was concerned and the North of England had been a great place to enjoy it.
He liked spending so much time with his grandparents in their tiny flat while his mother was at work. He liked being spoilt with those tasty snacks of bread-and-dripping and the cups of hot Bovril. It was great playing with the neighbourhood kids on the flattened sites between rows of houses.
He wouldn't dream of complaining at being wakened at night, with the siren wailing and being hurriedly bundled into the air-raid shelter in the backyard, where he was happy to share a bunk with the little girl from the upstairs flat. It all had the irresistible spark of adventure as they whispered secrets under the blanket with the solitary candle flickering in the corner, creating its enthralling theatre of dancing shadows. Even the subdued adult comments about "The War" provided its touch of lurking drama.
He even enjoyed the bracing northern winters, which brought the frost-slides, snowball-fights and games of cut-the-bay in the early twilight. Christmas was special, of course. Everybody knew that, and the air would be charged with a certain tension as it grew closer.
Christmas meant the possibility of pennies from carol-singing if the bigger kids gave you a go, although his debut had occurred only last year. He only knew a few lines and relied on those same kids for a sense of timing. He was unobtrusively in awe of the bigger ones, one of whom was thirteen. Adults were a natural phenomenon of life, like trees and animals, but teenagers seemed as remotely mysterious as aliens from outer space.
Christmas brought the exciting ritual of hanging out a sock for presents. And what presents! Sam always knew he could rely on special treats. There'd be an apple and an orange and a pear. Probably, there'd be some Smarties. But, best of all, there'd be a Mars bar. Sam craved that Mars Bar, which represented life's ultimate luxury, the Nobel prize of the taste-buds. He'd mentally drool over it for weeks leading up to the big day.
He was just day-dreaming of course. Christmas was months away and it was incredible how slowly time moved. Christmases were a year apart and a year was just an eternity. That whole year of suppressed salivating always stretched into the inconceivable distance, like the sheer face of Everest reaching for its own impossibly remote pinnacle.
He was six now, but even three was so far back that he had virtually no memory of it. Anyway, there was plenty to enjoy between Christmases. Grown-ups occasionally grumbled about rationing, but he could never understand what the fuss was about. There always seemed to be bread, margarine, jam, and his mum made delicious potato soups, piping hot.
He was contemplating this richness of life as he walked home from the local infant school. He knew, although he didn't quite understand it, that there was a lot of unusual excitement in the adult world too. Grown-ups were meant to be grumpy, censoring, and restrictive. Now they were bustling around on recharged batteries, continually babbling on about the end-of-the-War and mysterious wonders ahead. How everything would change. Why should things change? He'd never known things to be any different – and what was wrong with the way things were anyway?
Deep in thought, he turned the corner into his own street and walked smack into Calvin Smith. He usually avoided Calvin, who was eight and a bully, so the sight of him deposited on the seat of his pants wasn't too reassuring.
When Calvin regained his composure and his feet, he just lashed out. Sam wasn't really equipped to overcome eight-year-olds, but the neighbourhood kids tended to run a bit wild on the street and fights were common enough. Sam was one of many who had developed a certain premature toughness as part of the natural survival order. Instinctively and since there seemed no option, he hit back.
They were rolling about on the ground when intervention arrived. Sam might have resisted with some futile struggle, but the man holding them apart was just too imposing a figure. His appearance subdued them both. He was tall and tanned, dressed in an immaculate R.A.F. – uniform with three stripes on each sleeve. A bulging kit-bag sat compactly on his back. Everything about him seemed unnaturally perfect and there was a quality of unreality about the encounter.
"It'll be enough", he said. His voice carried only a trace of the local accent and a lot of authority. He looked at Calvin a little scornfully. "You ought to pick on someone your own size."
"He started it", muttered Calvin sullenly.
"Didn't", retorted Sam defiantly. He dabbed at his bloody nose with his shirt-sleeve.
"Your mother will be thrilled at that", said the man drily. He handed Sam a tissue-paper. "Stuff a little up your nostrils to stop the flow. You can breathe through your mouth for a while."
"I have to go", muttered Calvin.
"Just don't let me catch you beating on littler kids again." They watched him slouch away. "C'mon, I'd better see you home", the man said to Sam.
Sam would normally have been suspicious, but the uniform seemed to justify everything. Actually, he felt quite elated walking along with this impressive-looking man. He was already fantasizing about comic-book heroes like Captain Marvel. He was even happy enough to have him wait at the door, like a trophy brought home to impress the neighbours.
When his mum opened the door, there ensued a really strange chain of events. The man ushered Sam inside and stepped in after him. This seemed weird enough, but his mum walked voluntarily into the stranger's arms and they embraced each other in silence for an endless time while Sam shuffled in acute embarrassment. What was his mother doing?
Finally, the man stepped back, closed the door, extricated himself from the kitbag and deposited it on the floor. He unzipped a pocket, drew out a tin container and handed it to Sam. "For you. You can open it."
It was all way over Sam's head, but he opened the container and his eyes went wide. It was full of sweets and chocolates. He'd seen nothing like it. There were three – no four Mars bars. He couldn't take it in, stunned by the enormity of the offering. He knew that he shouldn't accept gifts from strangers and he stared at his mum speechlessly.
"So you've met?" His mum's question made no sense, but neither did the tears on her face – or any of this, for that matter.
"Sort of. He was bashing a bigger guy with his nose when I arrived. We haven't been properly introduced."
His mother was acting so strangely. She seemed to be laughing and crying at the same time.
"Sam", she said with a briefly grave expression on her face, "I'd like you to meet your dad."
Sam felt a warm glow expanding in his chest, but he didn't know how to react. He seemed on the verge of something too vast to be immediately absorbed. He was already operating close to overload and this further development was too much for his mind to process. He stared from one adult to the other in bewilderment.
"Geez, Mum" he gasped, resorting to the vernacular of the local kids, despite many previous reprimands. "Does that mean I can keep all these?"
Inexplicably, both adults burst into laughter. There was no understanding adults but Sam knew this was all especially bizarre. He was aware that the world had gone mad – but what a wonderful madness.
"I reckon", said his mum softly.
He wrestled with the sheer magnitude of it. Surely, there must be at least one of those baffling grown-up rules against unwrapping one of the Mars bars. And was it safe now to unplug his nostrils so that his already-watering mouth need not be diverted by the tedious duty of breathing? He stared at his newly-materialised father and then at the amazing container in his hands, letting his mind establish that there were no illusions.
"And it isn't even Christmas", he whispered in awe.
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RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY CONTRIBUTES TO POSITIVE REBOUND
Market Watch January 21, 2016 Property 360 Online
Share this on WhatsAppBy Kent Tan The latest report published in Malaysia Property Market 2014 has shed some positive light on the market, which...
By Kent Tan
The latest report published in Malaysia Property Market 2014 has shed some positive light on the market, which has been restrained by anti-speculation measures.
There is a slight increase in the property sector, marking a marginal growth of 0.8 per cent in market volume and 13.5 per cent in market value. The marginal rebound was from -10.9 percent recorded in 2013. In 2014, a total of 384,060 transactions worth RM162.97 billion was recorded.
The construction sector has marked 11.6 per cent expansion compared to 10.9 per cent in 2013. Loans approved for the sector has also charted a marginal 0.3 per cent growth compared to -10.5 per cent in 2013 whilst loans disbursed continue to grow 12.7 per cent (14.8 per cent in 2013).
The key contributor to the growth came mainly from the residential sub-sector, constituting 64.4 per cent; followed by agricultural, 18.8 per cent; commercial, 9.3 per cent; development land, 5.5 per cent; and industrial, 2.1 per cent.
In the leisure sub-sector, Kuala Lumpur retained its ranking among the top 10 most-visited cities in the world, according to Master Card Global Destination Cities Index 2014. Tourists number 22.9 million for the first 10 months of 2014, marking an annual increase of 9.6 per cent. Under the performance for the sub-sector, the average occupancy rate of one to five star hotels registered 53.5 per cent compared to 50.8 per cent in 2013.
In terms of value, residential took the lead with 50.4 per cent; followed by commercial, 19.5 per cent; development land, 13.3 per cent; industrial, 8.9 per cent; and agricultural, 7.8 per cent.
Movements in volume of transactions remain insignificant, where residential, commercial and agricultural recorded growth of 0.4 per cent, 3.6 per cent and 2 per cent respectively. Industrial and development land recorded a downturn of 3.8 per cent and 1.9 per cent respectively.
The key player, residential sub-sector saw a slight turnaround with moderate performance for new launches, improved overhang situation as well as positive trend in the construction sector. Prices and rentals remained firm though signs of price moderating were seen in the All House Index.
Residential sub-sector recorded 247,251 transactions worth RM82.06 billion, an increase of 0.4 per cent in volume and 13.9 per cent in value, accounting for 64.4 per cent and 50.4 per cent of the national market volume and value respectively.
Selangor, Johor and Perak remained the three leading states in the residential segment, contributing 24.6 per cent, 15.8 per cent and 11 per cent respectively. Overall, seven states recorded upward volume movements whilst nine states recorded downward. Selangor and Perak are among the states that recorded downward movement with 5.2 per cent and 3 per cent respectively. Johor and Penang remained on positive track with 15.9 per cent and 4 per cent respectively. All states recorded upward movement in terms of value, except Labuan, Pahang and Kelantan.
In terms of price, residential property priced RM200,000 and below as well as RM200,000 to RM500,000 have recorded similar performance, with 43.1 per cent and 41.3 per cent respectively. Over the past three years, the increasing volume trend in the latter bracket has matched the declining volume of the former price bracket. The brackets of RM500,000 to RM1 million and RM 1 million and above have increased by 23.2 per cent and 16.2 per cent respectively.
By type, terraced houses accounted for 41.1 per cent or 102,313 units of the total, followed by condominium and apartment with 12.6 per cent or 31,072 units.
68,351 units of new launches were recorded in 2014, up from 62,376 in 2013. High-rises formed 44.9 per cent of the new launches. Sales performance was recorded at 44.7 per cent, which is amongst the better performance over the five-year period. Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Johor led in number of launches, recording 18 per cent, 17.4 per cent and 16.8 per cent respectively. Sales performance wise, Kuala Lumpur, Negeri Sembilan, Kelantan and Sabah secured more than 50 per cent.
In terms of category, launches consist of 49.7 per cent for landed and 49.6 per cent for high-rises. Landed units achieved 34.4 per cent take-up rate while high-rise scored 11.1 per cent. By type, terraced houses accounted for 37.7 per cent of the total launches and 36.9 sales performances, followed by serviced apartments with 27.8 per cent of total launches and 5.5 per cent sales.
Residential overhang has improved by receding to 11,816 units worth RM4.04 billion, down by 12.8 per cent in volume and 15.9 per cent in value. However, unsold under construction property increased by 6 per cent to 55,156 units and unsold not constructed units recorded 8.5 per cent growth to 15,227 units.
Johor remained the states with highest overhang units, accounting for 30.2 per cent. However, the number has reduced slightly by 0.2 per cent though value increased by 32.4 per cent to RM952.43 million. The states also has the highest unsold under construction and not under construction residential of 30.5 per cent and 40.8 per cent respectively.
Terraced houses accounted for 42.2 per cent or 4,974 units of the total where mostly are concentrated in Johor, standing at 43.9 per cent or 2,183 units. Condominium and apartments (1,530 units) and serviced apartments (919 units) contributed 20.7 per cent to the overhang total, mainly in Kuala Lumpur (746 units). Most overhang units are priced RM500,000 and above.
For unsold under and not under construction categories, the high-rises outnumbered terraced units with 49.4 per cent or 27,230 units for condominium and apartment category and 63.6 per cent or 9,685 for serviced residences.


For as long as I can remember I have been doing fiber arts in many of the various forms. Most recently I have been mainly involved with silk painting which is transformed into artwear.
The vests in this display are from a series of twenty-four made with hand painted silk depicting various Aesop's Fables.
The flora was intentionally stylized to be in keeping with the feelings that the fables are intended to represent. I was also careful to select stories in which the lesson was learned without violence. Experimenting with different color combinations was another part of the overall experience.
The process for constructing these vests was very time consuming. After drawing the designs of paper, they were transferred to plain white silk with a pencil. The yardage was stretched on a frame and painted with silk dyes just as one would do water color using resists to keep the dyes from running together. After two days the fabric was wrapped and steamed for five hours. Extra dye was rinsed out followed by ironing, cutting the fabric into a vest shape, sewing, quilting, etc. Note the buttons. Most of them were purchased after construction as were the coordinating braid trims.
Silk has been my fiber of choice because it comes in many different weights and textures, can be dyed in a myriad of colors, and can be layered, reconstructed, etc., while remaining lightweight.
My most recent work is usually reversible with one side being made up of pieces being reconstructed to give a highly textural surface. The other side carries through the theme with a hand painted design.
I have been fortunate to have had my work juried into numerous national shows at galleries and museums and am currently responding to an invitation from the Bernina Company to be one of fifty participants in its 2004-2005 style show.


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Getting full value from external talent
More and more leaders recognize the need to manage contingent workers, but their companies and cultures often undercut their efforts.
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Many recent studies of talent include some version of the prescriptive advice in PwC's Preparing for tomorrow's workforce, today report: "Harness the potential of flexible talent and innovation." The wellspring of flexible talent and innovation is the contingent or alternative workforce — these days, that includes the fast-growing ranks of freelancers, independent contractors, gig workers, and the crowds whose collective genius companies can tap to address a variety of challenges.
The problem, as the PwC study found, is that 92 percent of companies are not managing these contingent workers as effectively as they could. Even as companies rely on contingent workers in ever-greater numbers, they often make it difficult — if not impossible — for them to contribute in full measure. Leaders need to do better.
A PwC study revealed that 92 percent of companies are not managing contingent workers as effectively as they could.
This didn't matter much 30-something years ago when I became a full-time freelancer. Most industries had little use for contingent workers then, and most workers wanted "real" jobs on the payroll. By 2017, however, 57 million American workers identified themselves as freelancers — that's 36 percent of the workforce and nearly 50 percent of millennials. And contingent workers are in demand in a host of industries for a host of reasons. These include (but are not limited to): the record low unemployment rate, shortages of talent in emerging capabilities arenas (like AI and robotics), and the growing numbers of business models and workforce strategies that depend on contingent workers.
Yesteryear, managing contingent workers was something of a contradiction in terms. It seemed like a major reason to hire independent contractors was that you didn't have to bother managing them. If there was a problem, the relationship could easily be terminated with a minimum of cost or conflict. And regardless of how well contingent workers performed, it was the rare manager who thought it might be worth cultivating an ongoing relationship. The operative managerial mind-set was "here today, gone tomorrow."
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That mind-set has been transformed over the last decade, as contingent workers have become more central to more companies' operations. I didn't have a clue what to say when managers in a few client companies first started asking me what I wanted to do. My stock answer was, "Whatever needs doing." This wasn't entirely glib — I often had no idea what kinds of opportunities were available within a given manager's purview.
Eventually it dawned on me that these managers were onto something. When they took a modicum of interest in me, I tended to stick around and to favor them when time constraints forced me to choose between clients. Throw in a title (is there any cheaper perk?), provide a relatively steady flow of work, and invite me to a staff meeting or two to give me a clue about what you're trying to achieve, and suddenly I find myself as emotionally invested in your company's well-being as somebody on the payroll. So if you're going to use independent contractors anyway, why not find ones whose work you like and try to create an ongoing relationship? The direct cost is the same, and the better the output, the lower the indirect costs and higher the return.
In my work, I find that more and more managers understand this and are acting on it, too. But if that's so, how is it that more than 90 percent of companies are not managing contingent workers as well as they might? The short answer is that corporate policies and cultures often undercut the efforts of managers.
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In recent years, for example, companies have been seeking to insulate themselves from the nebulous legal and regulatory requirements inherent to ongoing relationships with contingent workers. One of the ways they have sought to clarify the gray areas, such as whether the worker in question is an employee or a contractor, is to require contingent workers to sign on with third-party platforms and companies that handle billing and invoicing on behalf of the worker, in exchange for a not insubstantial fee.
From a legal and risk-management perspective, these arrangements make all the sense in the world for companies. But leaders should recognize that they also carry ramifications for operations and talent. They impose costs and burdens on the contingent workers, and effectively create a barrier between workers and their client companies. What's more, if contingent workers find your corporate policy burdensome, they can work for some other company instead. The ability to easily switch between more or less appealing opportunities, after all, is one of the big draws of contingent work.
Balancing the dictates of corporate policy and the expectations of contingent workers can be a challenge. But I've seen leaders walk the line in ways that reinforce relationships versus erode them. Taking the time to explain the company's position (as opposed to delivering an "our way or the highway" pronouncement) is a first step. A good-faith search for alternatives communicates that the relationship is valued. Picking up the cost of policies that protect the business but offer little or no benefit to contingent workers, and compensating workers for onboarding time that can't be avoided, also help managers hang onto external talent.
It may be more challenging to address the cultural barriers that make it harder for contingent workers to integrate effectively with companies. By culture, I mean the tribal ties, mores, and language that people who work together develop with one another and their companies. For all the positive aspects of culture, there is often an exclusionary element to it. A tightly linked culture can reject outsiders, and contingent workers are often seen as outsiders. This negative energy can be compounded when employees see contingent workers as a threat to their jobs, and sometimes that fear is entirely justified.
Making contingent workers feel welcome is a particular challenge in environments where they are literally sitting in cubicles adjacent to full-time employees — yet wear badges that signify outsider status. "People look down on you, even though you're doing the same work," one former Google contractor told Bloomberg. Another said, "You're there, but you're not there." If you felt that way, what are the chances you'd be performing at your best?
Sometimes the systems in a company reinforce those feelings of otherness and isolation. Contingent workers are not eligible for the same benefits that accrue to full-time employees. They are not usually invited to all-hands meetings or off-sites aimed at building camaraderie. And they may not be given access to the same communications and data tools — Slack, proprietary databases, content management systems — that employees use. I often work collaboratively with employee teams in client companies, but I'm locked out of the systems and platforms, like Google Docs, on which they work together.
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Asking contingent workers about the things that make them feel like outsiders is a first step in bridging the gap between internal and external talent. Inviting contingent workers to appropriate staff calls and meetings can help erase the boundaries; an annual or semiannual meeting of the entire team can do the same. (But please remember that contingent workers are not on the payroll and, like any other worker, we need to be paid for our time.) If possible, provide contingent workers with access to work systems and platforms. If not, assign an internal team member to keep them in the loop.
For some contingent workers, the various issues that arise around policy and culture can be a big deal; for others, they might not be. Just like payroll employees, we're all different. But if your company is using contingent workers or thinking about making them a bigger part of its workforce strategy, you should consider the policy and cultural obstacles that can unintentionally sabotage managerial efforts to get full value from external talent.
Topics: human resources, leadership, management, management ideas, management strategies, millennials, organizational behavior, talent development
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The Anti-Capitalist Politics Of Antifa
September 8, 2017 ·	by Rise Up Times ·	in Activism, capitalist system, Freedom of Speech, nonviolent action	· 1 Comment
While anti-fascists have differing opinions about how fascism takes roots and grows, "what they agree on is that you can't take fascism as a blemish on capitalist society, but instead as a key part of it."
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As antifa has burst into the mainstream in recent weeks, suddenly the efficacy of confronting Nazis in the streets is being debated on the national stage. Antifa is not one particular group, but a term used to describe anti-fascists committed to stamping out fascism before it can rise to power. The debate around antifa tends to stay narrowly focused on the use of physical self-defense in public spaces. What's received less attention is the anti-capitalist politics of antifa, and how some anti-fascists and are putting these politics into practice through workplace organizing.
When workers at the New York City feminist sex toy shop Babeland participated in a workplace action this past spring, it was the first time that every single NYC Babeland worker unanimously agreed on something: the company needed more diversity in its hiring practices. The Babeland workers, who in 2016 unionized with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), had negotiated language into their contract requiring their employer to seek diverse candidates when filling positions. When it became clear the company was violating this, the workers at Babeland all signed onto a letter called on the company to hire more workers of color and more trans workers. "To me, the most significant thing about that was that we had every single New York City employee sign," says Phoenix V., a Babeland worker and Shop Steward.
When Tiffany S. started working at the Takoma Park Silver Spring Food Co-op in Takoma Park, MD, she encountered disrespectful management and no way to address it. Tiffany recalls feeling disempowered at the time: "You couldn't do anything because you might get fired." The co-op board eventually terminated the manager, but workers were left feeling like they had little voice in that process. "Workers still don't know if they're safe," says fellow co-op worker Kenny Y. "If the next general manager comes and does the same thing, they don't know if it would be any better." Tiffany, Kenny, and the rest of their coworkers voted to unionize with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in August, and are preparing to enter into contract negotiations with the co-op.
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Phoenix, Tiffany, and Kenny all identify as anti-capitalists and anti-fascists. They see combating fascism, racism, sexism, and capitalism as inextricably linked. "They're inseparable, they are the pillars of white supremacy," says Phoenix. "They can't exist without each other." Tiffany frames the connection between capitalism and other forms of oppression as being rooted in our material reality. "When I think about the connections between capital and white supremacy, I think- who owns what, and how did they come to own it? Slaves were working the land, producing cotton, or tobacco, or sugar. Where did that money go, and what does that mean?" For Tiffany, using concrete material conditions of workers' lives as a starting point is the easiest way of making connections between systems of capitalism and white supremacy.
In his new book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, Mark Bray places current antifa struggles within a larger political ideology that is explicitly anti-capitalist. He notes that antifa has historically brought together broad segments of the left, including anarchists, communists, and socialists. "Many anti-fascists will argue that you can't really be an anti-fascist without being an anti-capitalist, because they argue that capitalism breeds the conditions for fascism," says Bray.
While anti-fascists have differing opinions about how fascism takes roots and grows, "what they agree on is that you can't take fascism as a blemish on capitalist society, but instead as a key part of it." Bray identifies this anti-capitalist analysis as a key distinction between militant anti-fascism in Europe and post-World War II modern European governments, noting that these states grew out of World War II and then juxtaposed themselves against fascism. An integral part of antifa's politics is understanding that these states "didn't actually thoroughly uproot traces of nazism and fascism, and by virtue of being capitalist states are still contributing to the root causes of fascism. In that sense, anti-capitalism is a key defining feature of what separates those two perspectives on what anti-fascism means."
In the wake of the horrors of Charlottesville, elected officials from both major parties were falling over themselves to denounce "hate," "evil," and other seemingly apolitical concepts. These statements, divorced from any historical or political analysis, posit "hate" as an abstract concept, as if it just fell from the sky.
By putting forth a decidedly anti-capitalist set of politics, antifa challenges this notion. Instead, we find that hate is not an isolated occurrence, detached from the rest of society, but very much a symptom of a system built on exploitation. Viewed within this political framework, attempts to break down our social systems should be viewed as an affront to our inherent right to live in community with one another and to fully participate in the social and political mechanisms of society.
Destroying structures for collective organization is the first step on the road towards fascism. It tends to be the places with the weakest civic institutions that succumb to fascism first. It's no coincidence, as the famous quote begins, that "first they came for the trade unionists."
From this perspective, mass incarceration, voter suppression, anti-immigrant legislation, and the continued assault on labor, should be viewed as what they are: attempts to undermine our basic right to reach our fullest potential by living in community with one another. Many of the politicians decrying hate are the same ones whose policies have stripped away the most basic aspects of our social beings, depriving us of the right to engage fully in society by taking away our unions, our public schools, our libraries, and our public spaces.
The brutal so-called austerity policies of the last decade are not only a direct form of violence against working people, but a dangerous recipe for the rise of fascism and racism. This is evidenced by the rise of white nationalist and anti-immigrant parties and militias across both Europe and the United States.
Kenny sees the rigid top-down structures of the capitalist workplace as a microcosm of the anti-democratic structures of fascism. What tyrannical bosses and anti-worker legislation accomplish in the workplace is what fascists attempt to accomplish in our political system: to exert total control over its subjects, and to divide them from one another. He and his coworkers are using workplace organizing to both assert their rights on the job and educate their coworkers on the reality of capitalism.
Phoenix sees collective action as the most effective way to bring about change. "In light of recent events, all I can think about is collective action. I think that it's the only way to make any sort of significant change."
Indeed, building strong, bottom-up structures that bring people together in their workplaces and communities are what create the conditions to build a broad-based movement against the rise of fascism.
At Babeland, where a majority of the workforce is queer and many are trans, the job protections that come along with a unionized workplace are especially needed. "People in those communities historically face violence in the workplace," says Phoenix. For them, having workplace protections are just as much a matter of survival as being physically protected from fascists in the street.
Collective action creates a vehicle to not only challenge external sources of power, but to challenge privilege among peers. Babeland worker Stella C. has found that the solidarity that they and their coworkers have built through workplace organizing has better positioned them to hold each other accountable. "Without the union I might not be able to talk to my coworkers about their privilege. With the bond of solidarity, I'm able to talk to them."
In addition to carrying out actions around larger issues such as safety, job security, and hiring practices, Stella carries out small acts of solidarity in the shop whenever they can, such as covering a shift for a coworker of color who was dealing with trauma the week after the violence in Charlottesville. After having been through the experience of organizing their workplace, Stella also feels they have more tools and knowledge for combatting other forms of oppression.
Anti-fascists see the debate between confronting fascists in the streets and engaging in organizing and education on a day-to-day basis as a false dichotomy. "I'm glad we are growing a militant anti-fascist resistance movement, including the black bloc," says Tiffany. "But is that all we need? No, of course not. To me the future of anti-fascist organizing is bringing all these groups together and building something… It takes political education, it takes getting out there and connecting with various communities."
"I would like to see more discussion not just about 'Is violence good or is violence bad?'" says Phoenix. "It's a very binary way of thinking of things, and as queer people we know that binaries are constructed. I would like to see more historical analysis about how violence and pacifism have existed in the same struggle and how they're not actually antagonistic towards each other. Approaching a problem on different levels and from different sides is really important."
Stella sees tactics less as an all-or-nothing decision, but rather taking stock of one's resources and abilities and "fighting however you can with whatever tools you have. However you can fight white supremacy or fascism, do it. Not everyone has access to the same tools. For me, the best way I have to fight is to make space for people of color in my workplace, and the best way to do that is through my union."
It's worth noting that few of today's unions openly embrace anti-capitalist politics. Anti-capitalist workers who are unionizing their jobs see workplace organizing as one step in a process that leads towards not just better lives within capitalism but in a more equitable way of structuring society. For Tiffany, the goals of organizing include both bread and butter issues and a vision for a just society. "For now I am fighting for $15 an hour and I am fighting for health care, because I have bills to pay and I need to live. But that can't be all that it's about."
The labor movement can and should play a critical role in resisting the forces of racism and white supremacy. Even though organized labor is historically weak in the US, it still represents over 14 million workers. Much smaller amounts of people have effected significant change at different points in history.
What if ICE agents collectively decided to stop deportations? What if all the scientists and civil servants working in the federal government, many of whom are members of the American Federation of Government Employees, instead of engaging in public resignations, joined collectively across agencies and used their collective power to resist?
While these propositions currently feel eons away from becoming reality, our power comes from our ability to build mass movements and to harness that power in key moments. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU)'s recent organizing against fascism in San Francisco is just one recent example of the possibilities. Those of us on the left can continue to push labor by engaging in our unions, to use our collective power to both resist the current racism re-gaining momentum, and to build strong organizations on the ground to move us forward.
Says Tiffany, "When we come together as workers, we are taking power from those who own it. We are taking ownership. It's the most fundamental thing that we can do together as people who are exploited under this system."
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I don't agree with the violence, but I definitely agree that Capitalism must be eliminated for living beings to survive and for humanity to evolve.
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Teresa Blankmeyer Burke is assistant professor of philosophy at Gallaudet University, the world's only liberal arts college for deaf and hard of hearing people. She completed her Ph.D. in 2011 at the University of New Mexico. Burke's research for the most part resides in deaf philosophy, the space where philosophy intersects with Deaf studies. (The use of uppercase Deaf designates the cultural community of signed language users; lower case deaf designates audiological status). Topics she has published on include moral justification regarding the use of genetic technology to bear deaf children (specifically, the question of signing Deaf potential parents considering this option) and signed language interpreting ethics. Burke has interests in virtue ethics, and is using the professional virtues of signed language interpreters, such as (glossed in ASL) DEAF-HEART and ATTITUDE, as a testbed for philosophical accounts of the virtues. Another project uses the notion of deaf gain (contra hearing loss) to work through conceptions of intrinsic and instrumental value. Her newest endeavor explores questions related to deaf well-being; works in progress include papers on deaf liberty and full access to language as a good.
Doing Philosophy in American Sign Language: Creating a Philosophical Lexicon
April 8 marked a significant anniversary in the education of the deaf — the founding of the Columbia Institution of Instruction for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind one hundred and fifty-one years ago. This was the first institution of higher education to offer instruction in American Sign Language (ASL); from the very start it included a few courses situated within the domain of philosophical inquiry. Of course, this does not mark the first instance of philosophical discourse in signs, which is unknown, but examples of this occurring in the famed salons of eighteenth century Paris are documented by the deaf man Pierre DesLoges.
As a Deaf[1] philosopher who works at a university where the language of classroom philosophical discourse is ASL, I have been thinking about something I've been calling DEAF PHILOSOPHY[2] for a long time. There are two primary strands of inquiry in this project: the first involves questions about language and language modality of philosophy when it is done in a signed language; the second considers ways that one might approach philosophical questions through a Deaf lens. I will focus on the first strand in this essay.
The number of philosophers working in signed languages has always been very small: this is unlikely to change in the near future. Given the small number of people who use signed languages as a primary language, perhaps this is not surprising. Add to that the absence of philosophical texts in signed languages, the lack of exposure to philosophy in deaf education, the absence of a philosophical lexicon in signed languages, and it is remarkable that there are signing deaf philosophers at all.[3]
When canonical works of philosophy are translated, they are translated into written forms of spoken languages. Is there a difference for signed languages? Possibly. For one, there are no standardized and widely accepted forms of written signed language — most translations into signed language are captured through film or video documentation. Even once a method of preserving a signed translation of a philosophical work is determined, other questions remain. What does philosophy look like when it is done through a signed language modality? How are philosophical moves marked in a spatial language? How does one set up an argument in signed space? And how does one do this without a proper philosophical lexicon in that signed language?
I've been working on the construction of a personal philosophical lexicon in American Sign Language since I was a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, and my interpreters started peppering me with questions: what is modus ponens? Is there a name sign for Socrates? How do you want me to sign deductive?
The conventional way to handle specialized vocabulary in American Sign Language is to spell it out using the one-handed manual alphabet, so 'coherentism' becomes 'C-O-H-E-R-E-N-T-I-S-M', and 'akrasia' turns into A-K-R-A-S-I-A, this last being contingent on whether the interpreter has heard 'akrasia' pronounced in that fashion before and knows how to spell it. But there is a huge disadvantage to fingerspelling technical philosophical discourse, which is that it amplifies the lag time for interpreted philosophical discourse.
How ought one to go about creating a philosophical lexicon in a signed language in the first place? This is not just a question of linguistics, but ethics. Historically, educators of the deaf have not always treated signed languages (and those who use them) with respect. In addition to the minority language suppression that can occur in educational settings with a program of dominant language assimilation, what sets signed languages apart is that these were not regarded as full natural languages. As a consequence, hearing educators of the deaf developed signed systems that borrowed words from natural signed languages in hopes that this would make it easier for deaf children to learn the dominant spoken language of the local community.
What did this look like? As an analogy, imagine teaching a Navajo speaker English using the following method. First, alter Navajo words in ways that violate the linguistic conventions of that language, but that make them sound somewhat more English-like. Next, take those neologisms and arrange them in English word order. Finally, forbid people to use the natural language of Navajo because it will interfere with the acquisition of English through this system.
Because roughly ninety percent of deaf children do not learn signed language at home from their parents, one effect of these signed systems developed by educators of the deaf was that many children never acquired full access to a natural language. Many people in the signing deaf community today are not fluent in a signed language or a spoken language, having only developed broken English and broken ASL. This legacy of harm generated by the proliferation of signed systems in deaf education is the backdrop for anyone who wishes to create a lexicon in a signed language, and especially educators.
Generating philosophical signs in ASL requires knowledge of both ASL and philosophy. As an example, when considering how to sign the English neologism 'alief' in ASL, I thought it was important to not only develop a sign that was linguistically appropriate, but that captured the nod to 'belief' that is suggested in the English word. This is also helpful for pedagogical purposes, for both students and interpreters. So the sign I created for 'alief' looks very much like the ASL word BELIEF, adding a subtle change in handshape that creates a portmanteau of BELIEF and HABIT. As a purely incidental feature, the ASL word HABIT uses two hands in the shape of the manual alphabet letter 'A' — this reinforces the 'A' in the English word 'alief'.[4]
One might wonder whether there is a significant difference between what I have just described above and the process used for developing new words for signed systems. I believe there is such a difference. In the case of signed systems, existing words for concepts are altered to satisfy the rules, constraints and objectives of the signed system, even if this means breaking the conventions of the natural language. In the example above, the ASL word for 'alief' is generated using existing ASL words, and the conventions of the language are respected, including handshape, orientation, movement, and placement in space.
Another way to add to the philosophical lexicon in ASL is through namesigns. A name sign is a unique sign that is used to designate a particular person. A person's name can be fingerspelled using the manual alphabet, but namesigns are often used, especially when the person's name is longer than 3-4 letters. There are conventions that govern a person's name sign – these include permitted locations on the body, association with one's family (if one's family uses ASL), and sometimes identification of a particular characteristic.
ASL does not have name signs for Plato or Aristotle, but Greek Sign Language does! One way that I determined the name signs of philosophers was to ask deaf academics I met at international conferences whether philosophers from their country had name signs in their native signed language. Naming conventions differ among signed languages just as they do with spoken languages, but it is acceptable to use namesigns from another signed language, even when they do not conform to the norms of one's own signed language. The Greek Sign Language sign for SOCRATES is an example of this.
I believe that the development of a philosophical lexicon in ASL must acknowledge this history and have buy-in from the signing Deaf community, in addition to respecting the linguistic conventions of ASL if it is to have any chance of succeeding.
To this end, I'm very excited to announce a grant project to develop a web resource for a philosophical lexicon in ASL sponsored by the Rochester Institute of Technology. The team includes signed language interpreters, ASL Masters, and hearing philosophers and a Deaf philosopher working together to develop and refine the lexicon. The aim of this project is to provide a resource for deaf philosophy students who are taking introductory level philosophy courses, and for the interpreters who are interpreting these courses for the students. The focus in this first phase is to build the lexicon for the following courses: Introduction to Ethics, Reasoning and Critical Thinking, and Introduction to Philosophy.
[1] The upper case 'Deaf' is used in Deaf Studies convention to indicate a person who is a member of a signed language sociolinguistic community. The lower case 'deaf' marks audiological status.
[2] Upper case letters are used to denote American Sign Language gloss. I haven't yet settled on a satisfactory English translation.
[3] The Gallaudet University Philosophy Department has identified just two signing deaf people who have received doctorates in philosophy; James E. Haynes was the first to do so at the University of Maryland in 1999.
[4] I am grateful to Tamar Gendler for our discussion of this topic.
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THE LATEST TOP secret unmanned spy plane to be uncovered isn't just a design idea, it's already flying at the Air Force's famed Area 51. Unlike the recently announced SR-72, the new RQ-180 from Northrop Grumman is believed to be currently in flight testing according to Aviation Week and Space Technology.
The RQ-180 is a new design aimed at intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR, a.k.a. spying) and incorporates stealth technology, in addition to an efficient new design that's tailored to flights over countries where the red carpet isn't being rolled out for current U.S. spy drones.
It's the successor to the Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel, known as the "Beast of Kandahar" for its countless missions out of Afghanistan since 2007. It is assumed the RQ-170 has flown missions over Iran and Pakistan, but the aircraft lacks the endurance of other unmanned aircraft, somewhat limiting its capabilities. Iran displayed what is claimed to be a captured RQ-170 in December 2011. The U.S. Air Force would only acknowledge that it lost control of an RQ-170 over western Afghanistan at the same time.
The new RQ-180 is thought to largely address the problem of flying in hostile airspace through improved stealth design and better aerodynamics. According to Aviation Week, the unmanned spy plane would allow the Air Force to expand ISR capabilities beyond the "permissive environments — such as Iraq and Afghanistan," where current drones such as the Global Hawk and Predator/Reaper operate. Instead the RQ-180 would be able to fly undetected in airspace where the U.S. does not have permission and/or the protection needed to fly.
This denied airspace capability has been missing from the Air Force's inventory since the speedy SR-71 retired in 1998. The Blackbird mainly relied on its speed and altitude — along with some stealth-like qualities — to fly over countries and gather intelligence where the U.S. was not welcome.
The use of unmanned aircraft for spying continues to rise year after year. But most of the work is done by slow flying aircraft such as the Global Hawk and Predators. In addition to flying relatively slow, these airplanes are also far from invisible to radar. Most of their use has been limited to flying over areas where manned fighter aircraft are able to control the skies, providing protection for the vulnerable drones.
The RQ-180 on the other hand is expected to have a stealth design with greatly improved aerodynamics giving it greater efficiency, which in the case of ISR work, translates to longer missions which could include longer transits to a target area, or more time over the target.
Northrop Grumman has also been publicly flight testing its X-47B unmanned combat aircraft, including take offs and landings from an aircraft carrier. The X-47B is aimed at combat as well as intelligence gathering, and is being developed for the Navy.


Wow, this commit is huge. Will see how good it will be.
I still do not see why it is superior to the OpenGL API in terms of clean code or performance. But I actually do not know DX11 very well at all.
But this also opens a way to use gallium as native DX drivers under windows, and virtualizing 3D of emulated Windows. Was there any testes on Windows with it? With native drivers maybe?
If the games are developed with the standard DX10/11 API calls then the game should run on Wine. Game developers should take advantage of this to create games that can be run cross platform, even though NATIVE Linux games are preferred.
Games should be developed on OpenGL, which was in first place made for crossplatform support. Or microsoft should make DirectX as open, as OpenGL is. Which they wont do. Because they want all game developers and all game titles and all hardware be dependant on the standart they propose. Which means WINE in no way a solution for opensource stack or a standard to be targeted. It is a serious threat if developers see WINE as some kind of Linux "compatibility" layer. A very serious threat.
(a) OpenGL has been abandoned technology since 2005 or so. What's the last AAA OpenGL title you saw?
(b) Who said anything about abandoning OpenGL anyway? Having both available does not mean abandoning.
(c) D3D won't be MS-exclusive once Linux supports it, will it?
(b)The more you use DirectX the less you use OpenGL. Its about maximizing profit and minimizing release time on game development.
(c)Untill MS exclusively sues linux layer developers to remove it or takes de-facto ownership of all Linux/BSD/Mac/Unix 3D.
(a) You didn't answer my question. Name a single AAA OpenGL game please.
(b) Obviously, considering that Direct3D is the better programming API. Long Peaks might have changed that, but Khronos backed off before it was complete.
(c) MS taking de facto ownership of 3D wouldn't be such a bad thing, considering how awful the 3d stacks on Linux/BSD/Mac/Unix are.
What was meant in the article was that this implementation of Direct3D in Gallium is better written, and easier to maintain than the classic(ie non-gallium) implementation of OpenGL in the classic MESA branch.
There was no comparison in this article made however to the Gallium implementation of OpenGL 1/2. Most likely Because OpenGL 3/4 are more contemporary to DirectX 10/11 of which there there is no Gallium implementation, only halfway working classic support.
This is exciting. If this works like you say in the article, it could really change the OS landscape on the desktop completely.
This is big. Linux developers should embrace this and do everything they can to polish it as soon as possible. This is the key solution to many problems for the Linux desktop, directly and indirectly, and needs to be top priority.
DirectX is not a graphics api. Direct3d/2d is. DirectX is a general multimedia api that covers graphics sound and input. This uniform coverage (and relatively constant pace development) is the reason that games are developed in it . Why have separate sdks for input sound and graphics when you don't need to? Another benefit is the relative ease in porting to and from the xbox.
Granted, these days console games (multiplatform ones) need to target direct3d of the xbox and oglEs in the wii and ps3.
(a) OpenGL and DirectX are RENDER APIs. They have NOTHING to do with games. Ask John Carmack if you wish more details, as well as check differences between Quake 4 dx and opengl rendertargets.
(b) Direct3D is worser programing API, because it is hardware layer in essence, where OpenGL is a environiment. But it does not matter as they are wrapped in as render backends in the end.
(c) I can very seriously image you being windows troll. Running windows is not a bad thing either? What have you forgot on phoronix?? Please go troll back to windows.com. And direct your suggestions on how to improve opengl stack is to nvidia/amd driver developers please.
If people are so excited about using D3D (something thoroughly controlled by Microsoft), then go use Windows. Trying to implement the API under Linux will always be a catchup game, and simply make Windows seem better.
If you want cross platform gaming, wine and D3D are not the way. OpenGL or software renderers are. There's a reason the embedded community are using OpenGLES instead of anything else.
So again, this news is exciting for wine, and open source drivers that are able to match proprietary ones for performance, but there's nothing much beyond that.
As to if D3D is a better API than OpenGL, well ETQW runs just fine, Rage3D looks great, and the workstation market will likely have a disinterested expression in this whole thread.
Yes, I know that Direct3D is for gfx only, fyi Direct2D is non-existant. The reason I mentioned MS should open them together is obvious - barely any game uses WDM for sound output. The whole stack needs to be opened to be considered complete. Just opening Direct3D is not enought, no one uses it in games alone.
On the question regarding separate SDKs - it is a matter of personal preference. But separated, crossplatform and open is way better than monolithic, single targeted and proprietary.


Thanks to Scott McLeod for continuing the series!
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8) Offer differentiated professional development. Do this by asking your teachers what THEY want to learn or what they are struggling with. Don't offer the same training to everyone, rather base it around their needs.
7) Use your teachers as your best resource. Allow your staff members to run professional development based on their own expertise in the classroom. Hold an all-day or half-day 'unconference' in your building where teachers decide the content and teach it. Don't bring in expensive experts to train your teachers unless you have to.
6) Choose one digital tool to try out that will make your job easier. Maybe email your daily announcements or complete your observations on a laptop or iPad. Create a Google Form to collect information from your staff or students. Start a blog to announce school events and initiatives and celebrate student achievement. For examples of administrators who blog, click here.
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4) Don't just buy flashy technology because the district next door did it. They may be kicking themselves in a few years. Think about your Vision and Mission. How will technology fit into the picture? Do your research and take your time when making decisions on large purchases.
3) Make tough decisions. As principal Eric Scheninger says, there will always be naysayers. Do what you know is right for your students and your staff.
2) Support your teachers who are using technology in innovative ways and use them as resources to support their colleagues with technology integration. For those staff members who are reluctant, pair them with a technology-using teacher as a mentor and model how you use technology in your every day life. If these teachers don't see how technology fits into their personal life they will not see a purpose for using it in their classrooms.
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