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CLIMAGE: A New Software for the Prediction of Short-Term Weather with the Help of Satellite Data and Neuro-Fuzzy Clustering
Mrinmoy Majumder
Tilottama Chackraborty
First Online: 19 December 2012
Weather is an essential part of decision making in large-scale manufacturing, agroforestry, electrical, and various other rainfall-dependent industries. The generation and distribution of electricity, water supply, and related essential amenities of any region also depend on daily weather variations. That is why short-range weather forecasting has a direct impact on the day-to-day operations of these industries. But due to the amount of manpower, equipment, and computational capacity involved in the prediction of short-term weather, many scientists are now opting to utilize remote sensing and image processing for the estimation of next-day or 3-day weather. In short-range weather forecasting, due to the complex and nonlinear interrelationship between rainfall and weather parameters, quantification of the forecast can be error-prone. Probabilistic forecasting has proven to be more accurate. For such a level of nonlinearity as one finds in short-range forecasting, normal regression methods fail to achieve the level of accuracy required. That is why nature-based algorithms, which are well known for their ability to map the nonlinearity between dependent and independent variables, are more suitable than statistical algorithms. The present investigation tries to estimate the probability of occurrence of rainfall 1 day in advance based on the processing of satellite images and neuro-fuzzy clustering algorithms. A software module is also developed so that the model can be utilized to achieve given objectives.
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Because they tend to hold lots of user data, tech companies get a lot of requests for this information from the government—warrants, subpoenas, and other court orders—and not all of them are valid. These requests can have many deficiencies, ranging from being overly broad to downright getting the law wrong. Companies should publicly push back against these deficient requests in favor of proper legal processes rooted in well-established law.
Perhaps most famously, Yahoo challenged a secret order the company received in 2007 to produce user data in bulk under a just-passed law giving the NSA warrantless surveillance authority. Instead of blindly accepting the government's constitutionally questionable order, Yahoo fought back and challenged the legality of the order in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the secretive court that routinely grants expansive government applications for surveillance. Though Yahoo ultimately lost the battle, we applauded the company for silently fighting for its users because it was the right thing to do.
Other prominent examples of this in recent years include Microsoft's successful challenge of a search warrant that required the company to produce email content stored in Ireland. Microsoft fought to establish the precedent that warrant issued by a U.S. federal court under the Stored Communications Act (SCA) does not allow law enforcement to get user data no matter where it's located in the world.
Beyond the context of government data requests, CloudFlare has pushed back against court orders that are aimed at pressuring Internet intermediaries into becoming Internet censors on behalf of rightsholders. Taking action against these potentially dangerous legal instruments also deserves recognition.
In addition to fighting improper requests for information, companies can play an important role by publicizing these requests as part of regular transparency reports. But one thing that often stands in the way of publishing a fully honest transparency report is a gag order, particularly in the national security context. Companies may receive government data requests that come with mandatory gags, preventing them from notifying their users of the request and in some cases even forcing them not to acknowledge they have received a request at all. While there may be circumstances where the government has good reason to prevent a company from informing the target of a data request—if it would truly compromise a sensitive investigation or endanger someone's life, for example—the Constitution requires that these gag orders be very tightly controlled.
Perhaps the most egregious example of unconstitutional gag orders are national security letters (NSLs), which allow the FBI to request user information from communication service providers and force the providers to stay completely silent about the request for a potentially unlimited time, just on the FBI's say-so. With help from courageous NSL recipient companies, EFF has been fighting to get the NSL statute struck down and establish the principle that the First Amendment requires a court to promptly assess the true need for a gag order in every case. Recently, we were able to reveal that one of our clients is CREDO Mobile, which has been fighting NSLs for years, and we also successfully pushed back against an NSL on behalf of the Internet Archive. Other companies such as Google and Yahoo have been publishing NSLs when allowed to do so by the FBI.
Outside of NSLs, Microsoft recently went above and beyond by filing a straight-up challenge to another law that allows the government to get indefinite gag orders when seeking access to its customers' stored email and other content. As Microsoft pointed out, an astoundingly high percentage of these gag orders last indefinitely, even though the First Amendment requires they be limited in time and scope and the Fourth Amendment requires that users get notified at some point about these searches. EFF filed an amicus brief in support of Microsoft's lawsuit, and we commend the company's efforts to set an important and far-ranging legal precedent.
Anyone familiar with EFF's work knows that we are big supporters of strong encryption because it is crucial for our collective security, privacy, and free expression. Government officials may renew their calls for encryption "backdoors", where an encryption system is intentionally weakened so that government can access data with a court order. But this is a nonstarter. Encryption is fundamentally math, and you can't manipulate math problems to be solved only by one particular group of people, i.e. the government. Additionally, designing secure systems is already hard enough, and intentionally introducing vulnerabilities is a recipe for disaster.
Apple recognizes this and bravely resisted the government's demand for it to intentionally weaken the security of its mobile operating system, iOS. Despite immense pressure from some public figures including Mr. Trump himself, who called for a boycott of Apple products, the company did the right thing and stood up for its users' privacy and security. Similarly, other tech companies have taken strong stances in support of encryption and should resist and fight back against future government demands for encryption backdoors, or pressure to redesign their systems for ease of government surveillance.
We hope that companies will severely limit what information they collect and keep on their users in the first place. Regardless, there is a strong possibility that the incoming administration will be more aggressive in its desire to get whatever information companies have, and companies should be prepared for that scenario.
When we launched our inaugural Who Has Your Back Report? in 2011, tech companies largely weren't fighting for their users in courts. Out of 13 major companies of the time, only 3 were meaningfully engaged in the practice. Thankfully, by 2014, things were a lot different. Out of the 26 companies we surveyed, 13 were standing up for their users in courts in some manner. The industry has made significant progress, but more can be done, by more companies and in more areas.
The political climate may present tech companies with plenty of opportunities to fight for their users in the courts, and we hope they'll be ready. We will be here to support them.


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January 16, 2017 Black in the Bronze Age
Trump promised a return to the Golden Age, but when was that exactly? Once again Ester Bloom:
The boundaries of America's "golden age" are clear on one end and fuzzy on the other. Everyone agrees that the midcentury boom times began after Allied soldiers returned in triumph from World War II. But when did they wane? The economist Joe Stiglitz, in an article in Politico Magazine titled "The Myth Of The American Golden Age," sets the endpoint at 1980, a year until which "the fortunes of the wealthy and the middle class rose together."
We've already toured the not-so-golden decades of the 40s, 50s, and 60s. So that leaves the 70s. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, the first year of what comics fans call the Bronze Age. How do you think it looked for African American characters and creators?
Reflecting the legislative gains of the Civil Rights Movement, superhero comics featured black characters at an increasing rate. Though more African American artists entered the industry, black superheroes were still written exclusively by white authors who relied on shifting stereotypes and expressed ambivalent attitudes about black political power. Acknowledging both the "good intentions" and "cultural ignorance" of white creators, William L. Svitavsky summarizes black superheroes of the era as combining "a veneer of streetwise attitude with a core of values comfortable for middle-class white readers" (2013: 153, 156). In 1969, Stan Lee and artist Gene Colan introduced Sam Wilson as the Falcon in a three-issue Captain America story arc, with a fourth-issue epilogue leaving the new hero to fight crime in Harlem. Because Black Panther is African, the Falcon is considered comics' first African-American superhero. He returned for a single episode six months later, in which he tells Captain America: "Your skin may be a different color . . . But there's not man alive I'm prouder to call . . . Brother!" (Lee, Colan & Romita 1970). Like Kirby and Lee's Black Panther, the Falcon places interracial unity above black identity. Colan's chest-exposing costume design echoed the open-shirt of the 60s Lothar and established a norm for black superheroes for the coming decade. Though white superheroes of the 70s also sometimes wear shirts with v-shaped openings (Sub-Mariner, Killraven), the pattern is disproportionately common for black men, who, writes Conseula Frances, "in the popular American imagination, are often read as hypersexual" (2015: 141). The costume design reflected that hypersexuality visually while writers contained it narratively by portraying black men as physically powerful but willingly subservient.
For the Falcon's one-issue return to Captain America, Stan Lee had pitted him against a black gang whom the Falcon denounces: "They're like a black version of the Klan! All they preach is hate Whitey! They can set our progress back a hundred years!" (Lee, Colan & Romita 1970). After another six months, Sam Wilson becomes a permanent character. The January 1971 Captain America cover includes the bottom subtitle "Co-Starring: the Falcon!" and for the following issue the title was redesigned Captain American and the Falcon, which it remained until 1978. Captain America's previous sidekicks included Bucky from 1941-1947 and Golden Girl, from 1948-9, making the Falcon his longest serving partner. Andre Carrington argues:
Narratives of the black and/or female superhero as a team player promulgate a reductive politics of representation that puts minoritized characters on the page in order to support white male characters' claims to iconic status. Black and female characters frequently appear to buttress the notion that the white male superhero is the sine qua non of the idealism that white Americans spread throughout the globe. (2015: 155)
While Sam Wilson significantly increased the representation of African Americans in comics, in terms of social power, the character also positioned a black man as the equivalent of a white adolescent male and a white adult female.
The Comics Code Authority's revised guidelines went into effect in February 1971, and one of the first new series affected was Jack Kirby's New Gods. Issue #3, cover-dated July, introduced Black Racer, an incarnation of death in the form of a paralyzed Vietnam vet, months after the Supreme Court upheld bussing as a means of integrating public schools. July also saw the release of Shaft, widely popularizing the "Blaxploitation" film genre and heavily influencing the portrayal of defiant African Americans in subsequent superhero comics.
Between the Falcon's premiere and his 1970 return, Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams had started their seminal run on DC's Green Lantern Co-Starring Green Arrow, beginning with an indictment of Green Lantern by an unnamed African American man: "I been readin' about you…how you work for the blue skins…and how on a planet someplace you helped out the orange skins…and you done considerable for the purple skins! Only there's skins you never bothered with–! …the black skins! I want to know…how come?!" (O'Neil & Adams 2012: 13). Now a year into their run, O'Neil and Adams replaced the previous Green Lantern substitute with John Stewart, an architect who lives in an "urban ghetto" and challenges white authority figures, including police officers, a Senator, and the Hal Jordan Green Lantern: "Listen, whitey, that windbag wants to be President! He's a racist…and he figures on climbing to the White House on the backs of my people!" (276, 280). Two months later, Marvel premiered the first superhero comic book series featuring an African American character, Luke Cage, Hero for Hire. Archie Goodwin and George Tuska's Cage gains his superpowers by volunteering for human experimentation while wrongly imprisoned, calls people "baby" and "jive-mouth," and utters "a cry of raging defiance" (Thomas et al 2011: 192, 208). Tuska's splash page features Cage posed in his open shirt, giving an eye-clenching, open-mouthed roar, his apparent response to the "Harlem" backdrop surrounding him (190). The creative team also included inker Billy Graham, one of the first African American artists employed at Marvel.
Where Adilifu Nama reads Stan Lee's earlier Falcon dialogue as signaling "a rejection of the type of race-based political brotherhood (and sisterhood) advocated by Black Power nationalism" (2011: 72), Marvel's new editor-in-chief Roy Thomas retitled the series Luke Cage, Power Man the following year, echoing the increasingly popular movement. Beginning in 1974, Ron Wilson, another recently hired African American artist, would provide cover and pencils, and when the series changed to Power Man and Iron Fist in 1978, it would be the second Marvel title in which a white character received second billing after an African American. In 1972 Marvel also premiered "Reno Jones and Kid Cassidy" in the western Gunhawks. Reno is the third African American Marvel character named "Jones," and the seventh and final issue, retitled Reno Jones, Gunhawk, featured him alone. Also due to dropping sales, DC cancelled O'Neil and Adams' Green Lantern Co-Starring Green Arrow in 1972, two issues after introducing John Stewart.
Samuel R. Delany, possibly the first black writer in superhero comics, scripted two issues of Wonder Woman in 1972. He left before completing his intended arc because of DC's decision to restore Wonder Woman's original costume and powers. Delany was replaced by Robert Kanigher, who with Don Heck co-created a dark-skinned Wonder Woman named Nubia for three issues in 1973, ending the industry's forty-year exclusion of black women from superhero comics. Jack Kirby also introduced a young black sidekick, Shilo Norman, in Mister Miracle #12—a title cancelled seven issues later. The same year, Marvel elevated Black Panther to the cover-feature of Jungle Action, which had previously starred Tarzan knock-off "Tharn the Magnificient." Luke Cage alum Graham penciled twelve issues of writer Don McGregor's nineteen-issue run, which included the story arc, "Panther vs. the Klan." A month after Black Panther's Jungle Action debut, Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan's Blade the Vampire-Slayer premiered in The Tomb of Dracula, with likely the first comic book cover to depict a black man protecting a white woman from a white man. Colan again draws a black man with an open shirt, and Marv Wolfman scripts Blade with standard Blaxploitation slang, "dig?" and "dude" and telling a disrespectful police officer that he did not understand "Pig English" (Wolfman et al 2004: 6). At the end of the same summer, Len Wein and Gene Colan's Brother Voodoo began a five-issue Strange Tales run. The Haitian wizard is a "noted psychologist" who dismisses voodoo as "superstitious bunk" before assuming his dead brother's role as the island's "Houngan, voodoo priest" in a costume that largely reproduces Colan's chest-revealing Falcon design (Thomas et al 2012: 49, 52). Joining the small but expanding group of African Americans in mainstream comics, Wayne Howard, who worked mostly in horror and had received his first credit at DC in 1969, inked the October issue of Marvel Team-Up in 1973. Keith Pollard and Arvell Jones received their first Marvel credits in 1974. Jones would move to DC in 1977, and Pollard would pencil and ink the final issue of Black Panther's Jungle Action in 1976, later taking over as penciller for Amazing Spider-Man in 1978.
Jeffrey A. Brown acknowledges DC's and Marvel's attempts "to create legitimate black superhero characters," but attributes their failure "to achieve any long-lasting success" to those characters being "too closely identified with the limited stereotype commonly found in the Blaxploitation films of the era," including Superfly in 1972, Coffy in 1973, and Mandingo in 1975 (2001: 4). Marvel's Blaxploitation phase peaked in 1975, with Steve Englehart's retconning of the Falcon's past as a Harlem criminal named "Snap." Marvel introduced its first two black female superheroes that year. Influenced by actress Pam Grier's performances in Coffy, Foxy Brown, and Sheba Baby, Tony Isabella and Arvell Jones created Misty Knight for an episode of Marvel Premier Featuring Iron Fist. Her bionic arm later established her as the first African American cyborg—a motif for black superheroes expanded in later decades. Len Wein and Dave Cockrum's Storm had debuted in the new, multi-ethnic X-Men team a month earlier. Cockrum had intended the character to be called "Black Cat," before merging her with another of his unused ideas for a white male superhero "Typhoon." Storm is worshipped as a rain goddess by a tribe in Kenya in her first appearance. 1975 also saw Tony Isabella and George Tuska's Black Goliath debut in Luke Cage, Power Man. The superhero's alter ego, Bill Foster, was originally created by Lee and Don Heck in 1966 as an assistant to Henry Pym, A.K.A. Goliath, in The Avengers. Marvel launched a Black Goliath solo title the following year, which, like Brother Voodoo, lasted only five issues. Rather than an open shirt, Tuska's costume design included a bare midriff, a variation on the skin-exposing costumes of female superheroes. Black Goliath, like John Stewart Green Lantern earlier, casts a black superhero as an imitative replacement of a white character and so, argues Svitavsky, "falls too easily into the cliché of the competent ethnic supporting character, such as Tarzan's ally Mugambi or the Lone Ranger's Tonto, who ultimately reinforces the white hero's preeminence" (2013: 158). At DC, Dennis O'Neil's Bronze Tiger shared the first cover though not title of Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter, and a second, unrelated Powerman appeared in 1975 too. Commissioned by a Nigerian ad agency and designed by British artist Dave Gibbons of later Watchmen fame, the black and white Powerman was distributed in Nigeria for two years. On the color covers, "Africa's Hero with Super Powers!" sports a fuchsia unitard and lion-print briefs.
Murray Boltinoff, who had been editing Superboy since the late 60s, prevented artist Mike Grell from introducing a black character in 1975. Grell recalls Boltinoff explaining: "You can't do that because we've never had a black person in the Legion of Super-Heroes, and now you're going to have one in there who's not perfect. We can't do that" (Cardigan 2003: 89). Boltinoff's concern that a black superhero must be depicted as "perfect" reflects the overwhelmingly white-dominated industry's anxiety over representing African Americans, especially when the general lack of representation places a greater burden on each individual character. Grell still drew the character, Soljer scripted by Jim Shooter, as "a black man who had been colored pink" (89). Soljer's pink skin thematically reverses the norm of white authors creating black characters who are what Kenneth Ghee terms "White heroes in Black Face" (2013: 232), as signified most obviously with the use of "Black" as a modifier, indicating "White" as the unstated norm.
The DC policy barring black superheroes changed in 1976 when Grell and Cary Bates created Tyroc, who defends his all-black island against the Legion of Super-Heroes before joining the team. "When it comes to race, we're color-blind!" explains the white-skinned Superboy, who is then echoed by three of his multi-colored teammates: "Blue skin, yellow skin, green skin…we're brothers and sisters…united in the name of justice everywhere!" (quoted in Singer 2002: 111). Grell so disliked Bates and Boltinoff's handling of race that, now given the opportunity to draw a black superhero as he had previously advocated, he intentionally undermined the character by designing what he considered an unappealing costume for Tyroc—which included the same open-shirt design as worn by the Falcon, Brother Voodoo, Luke Cage, and soon Black Lightning (Cardigan 2003: 89). DC's change regarding black superheroes coincides with Jeanette Kahn succeeding Carmine Infantino as publisher in January 1976. The Tyroc episode of Superboy Starring the Legion of Super-Heroes is cover-dated April, and a second black superhero was added to a pre-existing team that fall. After the series had been cancelled in 1973, Teen Titans resumed with "The Newest Teen Super-Hero of All . . . The Guardian!" on its cover (#44). Mal Duncan, an amateur boxer from "Hell's Corner" introduced in 1970, assumes the superhero identity of the pre-Code character Guardian—and then the magic trumpet-wielding Hornblower in the subsequent issue, which also introduced his girlfriend Karen Beecher, who would become Bumblebee and join the team three issues later. Both remained on the team until the next cancellation in 1978. Paul Kupperberg and Joe Staton's Tempest joined Doom Patrol in 1977, becoming the third black superhero to join one of DC's pre-existing teams.
Marvel introduced its next black superhero, Thunderbolt, in 1977 for three issues of Luke Cage, Power Man, but killed the character after his next appearance in 1980. Lee Alias's costume design is the first since Black Panther to not feature an exposed chest—though, also like Black Panther, the costume also completely disguises the hero's racial identity, repeating the second most common pattern for black superheroes. Thunderbolt, like DC's Guardian/Hornblower, also reprised a black character first introduced in 1970, this time in Daredevil #69. The practice of reusing and expanding previous secondary characters is common—though here it also emphasizes the dearth of such black characters since both sets of authors went back seven years to find ones to transform into new superheroes.
As Jack Kirby returned to Marvel and a new Black Panther series, DC premiered its first African American superhero title in 1977, Tony Isabella and Trevor Von Eeden's Black Lightning, a very late example of Blaxploitation influence. The hero's costume includes a mask attached to an afro wig to disguise his identity as a school teacher who wears his hair conservatively short. "The Afro-mask," writes Blair Davis, "also serves to make an ethnic minority character 'more ethnic' by giving him a hairstyle that was viewed not only as a fashion statement but also as a form of political expression in the 1970s" (2015: 203). Isabella was originally hired to script a very different black character:
The Black Bomber was a white bigot who, in times of stress, turned into a black super-hero. This was the result of chemical camouflage experiments he'd taken part in as a soldier in Vietnam. The object of these experiments was to allow our [white] troops to blend into the jungle…. I convinced them to eat the two scripts and let me start over. To paraphrase my arguments… "Do you REALLY want DC's first black super-hero to be a white bigot?" (Isabella 2000)
Von Eeden, identifying himself as the first African American artist employed at DC, recalled in a 2016 interview how his white colleagues "chose to play a very mean-spirited and ill-advised 'prank' on me" involving a collapsing chair. He never "heard of any other such pranks being played on anyone else at DC Comics," and in addition to "being ALWAYS treated as a 'black' artist (as if I represented an entire nation of fundamentally alien people, all by my lonesome)," he soon found "it was very hard to even want to do one's best for people who seemed to not only not really appreciate it—but had actually tried to punish and humiliate me, in return." Von Eeden later left during "DC's eventual downsizing of its entire staff (freelancers like me being the first to go)," concluding that the "very same people who'd given me the opportunity to live my dreams, had directly caused that dream to become a living nightmare" (Gill 2016).
DC cancelled Black Lightning after its October 1978 issue, and Marvel cancelled Black Panther after its May 1979 issue. Gerry Conway also scripted Black Lightning in a 1979 Justice League of America issue in which Superman asks him to join the team. Len Wein had desegregated the team in 1974 when he included the John Stewart Green Lantern in a single episode, but Conway's Black Lightning declines. Nama reads the issue as "a clear critique of black tokenism" (2011: 26). Marvel, however, expressed no qualms when Falcon joined two issues of The Defenders in 1978 and eleven issues of The Avengers beginning in 1979. DC had intended to debut their first African American female superhero in her own series in 1978, but Vixen and a range of other planned and low-selling titles were cancelled due to the company's financial troubles during the industry-wide slump. Gerry Conway and Bob Oksner's Vixen debuted in Action Comics in 1981 instead. The character echoes Black Panther's African-based animalistic powers, but with a sexualized name, and like Cockrum's Storm, cover artists Ross Andru and Dick Giordano draw her hair in flowing waves for her debut image. DC also briefly introduced E. Nelson Bridwell and Ramona Fradon's Doctor Mist in Super Friends in 1978, adding the character to main continuity in 1981. Like Black Panther, Doctor Mist hails from a fictional African nation.
Reviewing superhero comics in 1982, Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet formulated "a descriptive framework of the general patterns found in the subgenre," concluding that a superhero is "an adult white male" because "Black heroes (Black Panther, Black Goliath, Black Lightning, the Falcon) don't seem to appeal to a predominantly white readership; they are not role models" (1983: 185-6). Roy Thomas, Marvel's editor in chief from 1972-1974, observed the phenomenon with frustration: "It's kind of a shame. You could get blacks to buy comics about whites, but it was hard to get whites to buy comics in which the main character was black" (Howe 131).
[So much for the Golden Bronze Age? Next week we'll try the Golden Age of the 80s.]
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My third book, Superhero Thought Experiments, co-authored with Nathaniel Goldberg, will be published by the University of Iowa Press in fall 2019. My second book, Superhero Comics, was published by Bloomsbury in 2017. My first book, On the Origin of Superheroes, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2015. And my fourth book, Creating Comics, co-authored with artist Leigh Ann Beavers, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2020.
I've also published a series of individual essays about comics, superheroes, and genre fiction:
"Clarifying Closure." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 2019.
"Refining the Comics Form." European Comic Art. 11.2. 2018.
Co-written with Dan Johnson. "The Genre Effect: A Science Fiction (vs. Realism) Manipulation Decreases Inference Effort, Reading Comprehension, and Perceptions of Literary Merit." Scientific Study of Literature. 7.1. 2017.
Co-written with Nathaniel Goldberg. "Dr. Doom's Philosophy of Time." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 8.4. 2017.
Co-written with Maria Chavez and Nathaniel Goldberg. "Loving Lassos: Wonder Woman, Kink, and Care." Wonder Woman and Philosophy. Wiley. 2017.
Co-written with Nathaniel Goldberg. "Marvels of Skepticism." Foundation: the international review of science fiction. 46.1. 2017.
Co-written with Nathaniel Goldberg. "'I Want to Believe' vs. 'The Will to Believe': Fox Mulder Meets William James." The X-Files and Philosophy. Open Court. 2017.
Co-written with Nathaniel Goldberg. "Alan, Moore, Donald Davidson, and the Mind of Swamp Things." The Journal of Pop Culture. 50.2. 2017.
"The Art of Literary Violence." Ford City Workshop Anthology. Urban Farmhouse Press. 2016.
"'Something Like This Just Couldn't Happen!': Resolving Naturalistic Tensions in Superhero Comics Art." Studies in Comics. 7.1. 2016.
"The Meanings of Comics." International Journal of Comics Art. 18.1. 2016.
Co-written with Nathaniel Goldberg. "Economy of the Comic Bool Author's Soul." International Journal of Comics Art. 18.1. 2016.
"The Anti-Superhero in Literary Fiction." Image [&] Narrative. 17.3. 2016.
Co-written with Nathaniel Goldberg. "Time to Choose." Superman, Batman, and Philosophy. Open Court. 2016.
"The Rise and Fall of Fascist Superpowers." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 7.1. 2016.
"The Pulp Fiction of Jennifer Egan." The Writer's Chronicle. 48.4. 2016.
"Genre Apocalypse." The Chronicle of Higher Education. January 26, 2015.
"Zombies vs. Superheroes: The Walking Dead Resurrection of The Fantastic Four Gender Formulas." ImageTexT. 7.4. 2015. Reprinted in Literary Criticism on Stan Lee (Layman Poupard Publishing).
"The Well-born Superhero." The Journal of American Culture. 37.2. 2014.
"Is and Isn't: Literary Upheavals in the Post-Real Landscape." The Writer's Chronicle. April 2014. Reprinted in Phantom Drift. 4. 2014.
"The Imperial Superhero." PS: Political Science & Politics. 47.1. 2014.
"How to Teach Zombies." The Chronicle of Higher Education. October 29, 2013.
"The Ku Klux Klan and the birth of the superhero." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 4.2. 2013.
And if you're into superhero-themed stories, you might also enjoy:
"Paragon Comics." Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books. 2014.
"Script Outline: 'The One and Only!' Draft 1." The Pinch. 31.2. 2011.
In addition to this blog, "The Patron Saint of Superheroes" is the working title of my novel-in-progress.
Meanwhile, please stop by Mondays for new posts.
Patron Saint Stats
Three Things That Don't Define Conservatism
Tumultuous
Event Closure (Visualizing Plot, Part 5)
In French, the masculine takes precedence.
Whiteness Isn't Blankness
A New Dynamic Duo
Why Don't I Like Donald Trump?
Don't Read This Comic (Look at it Instead)
Why I Shouldn't Be Fired for Teaching Comics
Comics at the new Shenandoah
My Process on a Work-in-Progress
Stories of O
Strolling in a Meta-Garden of Not-Quite Abstraction
Portraits of the Comics Scholar as a Middle-aged Man
Paintings of a Painter's Paintings
Space Scribbles
What Does "Plotte" Mean?
Defining Comics Definitions
Is God Bipolar?
Technique, Style, Image, Story
But Is It a Memoir?
But Is It Art?
The king died and then the queen died of grief
Woman World on My Woman Shelf
A Wilder West
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Located in the heart of the Scarborough village is this 6th floor 3 bedroom apartment. The covered and weatherproofed balcony provides the owner with an opportunity to relax and entertain in privacy.
If you have been looking for a unit requiring no work and gorgeous views then this unit is a must inspect.


MIAMI (AP) — No more sitting out stars, and for the San Antonio Spurs, no more sitting around.
Finally, the NBA Finals matchup is set, and the Miami Heat will either win a second straight championship or the Spurs will go a perfect 5 for 5 in the title round while denying LeBron James a ring for the second time.
The Heat earned their third consecutive Eastern Conference title on Monday night, beating the Indiana Pacers 99-76 in Game 7 of their series. So it's Heat vs. Spurs for the Larry O'Brien Trophy, a series that will begin Thursday in Miami, on the same floor where the Heat and James finished off Oklahoma City to win last season's title.
His first trip to the finals came when he was with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2007, and it was ugly — the Spurs winning in a four-game sweep for what was their fourth title. San Antonio has not won the West since, so maybe it's fitting that its return comes against James, albeit with the now four-time MVP in a different uniform.


Proclaimed "a fresh voice in cross-cultural music" and "an innovative composer who merges diverse musical customs in works that transcend conventional aesthetic boundaries," Bright Sheng received a coveted MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in November 2001. Sheng's compositions are noted for their lyrical, limpid melodies inspired by the folk music of China, a Bartokian sense of rhythmic propulsion, and musical and theatrical gestures borrowed or derived from Chinese opera.
Sheng's importance in the international music community is evidenced by the numerous commissions he has received: Red Silk Dance (2000), a piano concerto for Emanuel Ax and the Boston Symphony; Nanking! Nanking! (1999) (for pipa and orchestra) for the NDR Symphony Orchestra; the Brooklyn Philharmonic's concert opener Tibetan Swing (2002); The Song and Dance of Tears (2003) — a quadruple concerto for the New York Philharmonic which features Western and Eastern solo instruments; the Seattle Symphony's commissions China Dreams (1995) and The Phoenix (2004) — written for soprano Jane Eaglen, and H'un (Lacerations) (1988) for the New York Chamber Symphony — Sheng's defining work written in response to his experiences during the Cultural Revolution. His most recent concerto — Colors of Crimson (2004) — was premiered on 21 October by the Luxembourg Philharmonic, who commissioned the work expressly for percussionist Evelyn Glennie.
In 2003, the Santa Fe Opera presented the world premiere of Madame Mao, Sheng's two-act, psychological portrait of Jiang Qing, Chairman Mao's wife. Set to a libretto by its stage director Colin Graham, the work received accolades worldwide. In 2002, Spoleto Festival USA mounted Sheng's multi-cultural music theater piece The Silver River (1997; rev. 2000). Based on an ancient Chinese tale about star-crossed lovers and set to a libretto by David Henry Hwang, the critically acclaimed production was directed by Ong Keng Sen. While serving a composer-residency at the Lyric Opera of Chicago from 1989 to 1992, Sheng wrote The Song of Majnun (1992) — a one-act "Persian Romeo and Juliet" — in collaboration with librettist Andrew Porter. In 2002, choreographer Helgi Tomasson compiled for the San Francisco Ballet three of Sheng's extant pieces into a new work entitled "Chi-Lin." In the chamber music world, Sheng's works have been commissioned and performed by such musicians as Yo-Yo Ma, the Verdehr Trio, the Shanghai String Quartet, Peter Serkin, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In addition to composing, Sheng enjoys an active career as a conductor and concert pianist, and frequently serves as music advisor and artistic director to orchestras and festivals. Since 1998, Sheng has been the Artistic Advisor to the "Silk Road Project," an international program created by Yo-Yo Ma that identifies, archives, and interprets musical traditions of the Far Eastern trade routes.
Born in 6 December 1955 in Shanghai, China, Sheng began piano studies at the age of four with his mother. After the cultural revolution, he moved to New York in 1982, and received his MA and DMA. Sheng's teachers include: Leonard Bernstein (composition and conducting), George Perle, Hugo Weisgall, Chou Wen-Chung, and Jack Beeson. His music is published exclusively by G. Schirmer, and his works are recorded Sony, BIS, Delos, Koch International, New World Records and Naxos. Since 1995, Bright Sheng has been a member of the composition faculty at the University of Michigan, where now serves as Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor of Music.


Before the football season begins every year, it's a tradition for rookies to pick up (at least part of) the tab for the veteran players who go to dinner with them. Cowboys' wide receiver Dez Bryant told people he was pissed off when he was rookie and had to pick up the dinner tab in 2010 – a bill that totaled $55,000!
I'm assuming this was just a glass since a bottle of this costs about $25 in a store. Looks like someone at that dinner couldn't wait for the bottles to be brought out while everyone else sucked down their Remy Martin & Crown Royal cocktails.
This producer makes what they call Cult Cabs: highly sought-after and highly-expensive Cabs from Napa. The starting price is usually in the $300-400 range but goes up like crazy from there. You basically have to be on the mailing list to get one, otherwise you're relegated to getting a jacked-up price at auction. I've never had it myself, but the 2006 got 96 points from Robert Parker if you're into going by those sorts of things.
Large format! A 3-liter bottle, equivalent to 4 regular-sized bottles of wine, is called a Jeroboam. A normal bottle will set you back about $250 at retail. But talk about a rookie – you don't want to drink Napa Cab this young.
Another Cult Cab, and probably one of the most famous ones at that. 2005 is known as one of the best recent vintages in Napa, and only 400 cases of Screaming Eagle were produced. I'm actually surprised they sell it at Del Frisco's for only $3,495, since a bottle at retail (if you can even find one) is about $2,500. Someone knew what they were doing with this one.
Final score: Snore, guys! I get that you're eating steak and I do love a Cab/steak pairing, but all Napa Cabs? With those prices they could've gotten some pretty awesome Brunellos or even Rhone reds. Eagles fans better hope these guys have more depth in their plays than they do in their wine choices.
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This is disgusting. How many homeless could have been fed with that money? The NFL truly believes they live on a level higher than society.


This summary is intended to provide a general overview of the Children's Oncology Group study # ACNS0331. It tells who can be in this study and other basic information. The informed consent and protocol contain the full details of the study. You can get those from your oncologist.
ACNS0331 is a Phase III clinical trial. A trial is another word for a study. This study (clinical trial) is a therapeutic clinical trial. That means it is done to learn more about how well treatments work and the side effects of the treatments. The purpose of a Phase III trial is to learn if a new treatment that is known to work in treating a type of cancer is better in some way than the standard treatment. For example, does it have better cure rates, longer control of disease, fewer or less serious side effects, or fewer days in the hospital?
ACNS0331 compares different doses and volumes of radiation therapy. These treatments are called study arms. Usually, one study arm is the standard or the best proven current treatment. The other study arms have some changes or additions. The new treatment is thought to be at least as good as the standard treatment. It is not known if the new treatment will be better or worse than the standard treatment.
In most clinical trials, we will not know which treatment is best until all of the children taking part in the trial have completed treatment and have been followed for several years. If one of the treatments is found to be better or safer than the others while the trial is still on-going, the trial will be stopped. All children still in the trial will be given the treatment with the best results when possible.
ACNS0331opened on 4/12/2004. The studycommittee hopes to enroll 549 patients. It is expected that this study will remain open until this number of patients has been enrolled. This study does not have a set end date for enrollment.
Standard treatment for childhood medulloblastoma is surgery, followed by radiation, with chemotherapy. Radiation is given to the entire brain and spine, with an additional "boost" dose to the back of the brain, called the posterior fossa. This treatment has been effective in curing medulloblastoma in many children. However, radiation to the brain and spine can have serious long term side effects, especially in children younger than 8.
ACNS0331 will compare different ways of reducing radiation to certain children with medulloblastoma. Children younger than 8 will be randomized to receive the standard dose of radiation to the brain and spine (23.4 Gy) or a reduced dose (18 Gy). Patients 8 years of age and older will receive the standard dose of radiation. All patients will receive a boost to the area of the tumor, but all patients, regardless of age will be randomized to different "volumes" of radiation boost. Volume refers to the area of brain receiving radiation. In ACNS0331, some children will receive a boost dose to the entire posterior fossa, and some will receive radiation to the area of tumor bed, which is a smaller volume. Current standard treatment volume is the entire posterior fossa.
All children on the study will receive the same chemotherapy during and after radiation treatment.
Radiation will begin about 4 weeks after surgery. Radiation will be given five days a week for 6 weeks for all patients. The chemotherapy drug, vincristine, will be given once a week for 6 weeks during radiation.
Four weeks after radiation is complete, chemotherapy will begin. Chemotherapy is identical for all patients, and includes 6 cycles of lomustine, cisplatin and vincristine as well as 3 cycles of cytoxan and vincristine.
Patients who are randomized to the lower dose cranial spinal radiation will receive 5.4 Gy boost to the posterior fossa, to make sure that all patients receive at least 23.40 Gy radiation to the posterior fossa.
If a patient takes part in ACNS0331 scientists will perform tests on some of the tumor removed during surgery. These tests are being done to better understand medulloblastoma tumor cells.
We would like you and your child to participate in tests and questionnaires to learn how the treatment on this study is affecting your child's life and development. These tests and questionnaires are called neuropsychological tests and are offered to all patients with brain tumors. If you agree to participate, you will be asked to sign another consent form for ALTE07C.
Parents of children on this study are asked to complete some questionnaire and surveys to see how the treatment is affecting your child's life. These are called quality of life studies. The surveys are to be filled out at several different times during and after treatment. There will be no cost to you for completion of these measures and we will coordinate these tests at a time when you will be seen in clinic. Participating in this part of the study is optional.
Chemotherapy and radiation therapy can cause side effects during and after treatment. All patients will be closely monitored for possible side effects of the medicines. All risks and side effects will be explained by your treatment team during the consent process. They can answer any questions that you may have about giving permission for your child to be in the clinical trial or other aspects of care. Please refer to the consent form for a detailed explanation of the side effects associated with the treatment on this study.


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Nike Inc. announced Wednesday the appointment of Mónica Gil and Bob Swan to its board of directors, effective immediately.
A media veteran, Gil is chief administrative and marketing officer of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. In this role, she leads the company's brand development, digital marketing, and multichannel creative efforts, and has overseen numerous marketing and brand campaigns across Telemundo's broadcast, cable, and digital properties, including Telemundo's broadcast of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Gil also launched Telemundo's women leadership programs and developed the Telemundo Academy to support the next generation of media leaders.
Prior to this, she served in several leadership roles at Nielsen.
Swan is an operating partner at Andreessen Horowitz and former CEO of Intel Corporation, where he advises growth-stage portfolio companies in scaling their business. Prior to joining the firm, he was CEO of Intel.
Previously, Swan was an operating partner at General Atlantic and served as CFO of Ebay, leading the spin-off of PayPal in 2015. Earlier in his career, he was CFO of Electronic Data Systems and TRW, and served as CFO, COO, and CEO of Webvan.
"Mónica and Bob's collective leadership in business operations, innovation, marketing, branding and media make them outstanding additions to our board," said Mark Parker, executive chairman of Nike Inc.
"We're excited to bring on their expertise and perspectives as we continue to accelerate our strategy to create value through a relentless drive to serve the future of sport."
In its most recent trading update, Nike reported fourth-quarter revenue of $12.23 billion, beating estimates of $12.06 billion, according to IBES data from Refinitiv. However, net income fell to $1.44 billion, or 90 cents per share, in the quarter ended May 31, from $1.51 billion, or 93 cents per share, a year earlier.
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Washington, DC (PanAm) – The final votes came in Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. The Senate passed the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill after two previous attempts and a cliffhanging session when the motion to close the debate garnered the minimum necessary votes.
In Congress, the TPA will now set a time limit of 90 days after the president presents the bill to reach a decision on whether or not to adopt the agreement. By taking away the legislature's ability to amend individual provisions, the fast-track bill also places the final negotiating responsibilities on the president. Yet, should Congress vote nay on the final draft of the TPP, the time frame could extend to various three-month cycles.The decade of negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the trade agreement between the United States and 11 Pacific Rim countries, can finally come to an end.
"Some people say it will be a matter of weeks after the TPA is passed that the TPP negotiations could conclude fairly quickly, and I think that's credible," Bill Watson, trade policy analyst at the Cato Institute, told the PanAm Post.
Activists have held protests against different aspects of the TPP throughout the years spanning the negotiations. The TPA vote reignited groups such as "Flush the TPP" to organize events across the country protesting the "job killing act," and others like Occupy Miami gathered to halt the fast-track bill, saying "workers, the environment, and our public health" will suffer as a result of increasing trade with signatory countries.
For the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF), a San Francisco-based nonprofit that defends civil liberties in the digital realm, the agreement's main problems are the provisions in the chapter on intellectual property.
"It would result in bringing copyright laws around the Pacific Rim into line with US law — the bad aspects of US law but without replicating the good aspects," EFF senior global policy analyst Jeremy Malcolm told the PanAm Post. More than half of the countries in the treaty, including Canada and Japan, would have to increase their copyright terms by 20 years without receiving fair use protection in exchange.
Supporters of the Pact believe in the benefits brought about for both consumers and manufacturers by trade liberalization. The non-profit Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) published "The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asia-Pacific Integration: A Quantitative Assessment," a study estimating the economic benefits of the TPP ahead of the official report from the US International Trade Commission.
The results show that the treaty would generate additional US exports of US$124 billion and real incomes of $77 billion by 2025, with similar annual increases thereafter.
Yet coauthor of the study Peter Petri notes that benefits would increases significantly "if the TPP template were adopted more widely, with other trading partners," less like-minded than the current members.
"To the extent that the TPP liberalizes trade between the United States and the other countries involved, that would be good for the US economy," said Cato's Bill Watson. Using the example of the 25 percent tariff for trucks, he explained that lower tariffs would translate to more variety and lower prices for consumers.
Negotiations could therefore get sticky when the finalized text is revealed, 60 days before being put to a vote in congress. This will give ample time for free traders and protectionists looking for a net benefit in the final agreement to voice their concerns.
Sound the trumpets; the trade wars have only just begun.
Written by Helena Ball for the PanAm Post.


Peek a Boo with Gloria!
This was too cute not to share. Our cheeky kitten is a great fan of hide and seek. Well, hide and pounce really. No matter where you are, all it takes is a call of "Gloria!" and a little silver face appears, full of mischief and ready to play.


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Browsing by Subject "early childhood education and care"
Eriytyykö päiväkotien henkilöstö Helsingissä? Kaupungin väestön sosioekonomisen eriytymisen yhteys päiväkotien henkilöstön kelpoisuuteen ja vaihtuvuuteen
Saarimaa, Saku (2022)
Recent studies on day-care staff have reported on problems in hiring qualified staff, and in increased resignations in existing staff. These problems are connected to an increase in workload and stress, and reduced wellbeing at work. When workload and challenges in day-care work increase, there can even be a risk of diminishing the pedagogical quality of education. The problems seem to occur differently and in different magnitudes in different day-care units, which indicates learning conditions' possible segregation. In the case of schools, the socioeconomic status of nearby population has been noticed to affect children's predisposed abilities to learn, and their support requirements in learning. This effect can be assumed to affect early childhood education similarly, which would lead to day-cares in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas to require extra resources and staff to compensate for the children's increased support requirements. If those extra resources are not available, the staff will experience increased workload and stress, which will cause problems in the long term. The city is known to be somewhat socioeconomically segregated, and if this is mirrored in day-cares so that the backgrounds of children in day-cares get segregated, it may also start to affect the quality of education. In this case the unevenly distributed challenges would cause institutional segregation of learning conditions in early childhood education. The institutional segregation of early childhood education or schools has not been studied much in Finland. Earlier studies on Finnish schools have been able to explain differences between schools through differences in children's backgrounds, and there has not been a reason to doubt the institutional equality of schools' quality. The basic principle of the Finnish early childhood education and school system is to provide every child with equal conditions and opportunities to grow and learn. These equal conditions equalise segregation in the population by offering equally high-quality education in both disadvantaged and well-off areas of the city. However, if the segregation of children's backgrounds is accompanied by the segregation of learning conditions in day-cares, there is a risk of the cumulation of both socioeconomic disadvantage and lower quality of education. In this case, the quality would decrease exactly where it would be most needed. In my thesis I study whether there is differentiation in problems related to hiring or keeping staff in the day-cares in Helsinki, through the numbers of resigned and unqualified staff in each unit. I also look at whether this segregation of day-care units is at all related to the socioeconomic segregation of the city's population. In the study I utilize HR data from the city of Helsinki and socioeconomic population data from Statistics Finland, which I join onto spatial data of day-cares' locations. I use this combined dataset to study the segregation of day-cares and its connections to socioeconomic segregation using quantitative statistical methods and spatial analysis methods. The results indicate that there is perceivable segregation in the staff of day-cares in Helsinki, but socioeconomic segregation is able to statistically explain the patterns only slightly. Therefore, mostly other phenomena seem to cause the differentiation in staff related problems, but these phenomena are not yet known. In terms of institutional segregation, the early childhood education system in Helsinki seems to still be quite equal. However, more knowledge about the subject is needed, because both the results in this study, as well as previous studies show some worrying signals pointing to the possibility of institutional segregation. In addition, intense public discourse around the topic of early childhood education, and a wide-ranging worker's strike, including day-care staff, seem demonstrative of the seriousness of these challenges in day-cares.
Steps towards healthy and sustainable daycare menus
Ahokas, Iida (2022)
Background: Food systems and diets affect both human health and the environment. As dietary behaviour adopted in childhood often track to adulthood, the meals served in daycare centres offer a good opportunity for promoting healthy and climate-friendly eating habits in both short- and long-term. Objectives: As part of the FoodStep project, the objectives of this study were to examine compliance with the food-level recommendations, nutrient content per child and climate impacts of the conventional menus in Finnish daycare centers, as well as the potential changes in the compliance with the food-level recommendations, nutrient content per child and climate impacts of the FoodStep menus, modified towards more plant-based diet. Methods: Menus, recipes, and planned portion sizes were used to create hypothetical food diaries, representing the planned foods per child during a full-day daycare. Nutrient calculations were performed for conventional menus and modified FoodStep menus for four Finnish municipalities. Climate impacts of the same meals were calculated at Natural Resources Institute of Finland. Results: In the conventional menus, food-level serving frequency recommendations were not met for several food groups, but the compliance was clearly improved in the modified FoodStep menus in all the municipalities. At nutrient-level, the issues in the two menus were similar in every municipality: compared to the recommendations for daycares, too low proportion of energy was derived from fat and too high from protein. In addition, the planned salt supplies were excessive. The planned supplies of energy and micronutrients fulfilled the recommendations with the only exception of iron in the conventional menu of one municipality. In three of the four municipalities, the FoodStep menu modifications led to markedly reduced climate impacts. Conclusions: More focus in daycare menu planning would be needed to meet both the food- and nutrient-level recommendations. Moderate modifications of the conventional daycare menus – increasing vegetables, fruits, and berries, and sustainable fish species and decreasing meat and dairy products – can improve the compliance with the food-level recommendations and decrease the climate impacts of the menus without negative effects on the nutrient supplies.


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"Tell us what you like about Paddington bear the best, and why?""
"I think the humour of Paddington Bear is the best I like. Paddington Bear can bring everyone a smile and lots of laughter. When I was watching at the trailer, I was totally attracted by the action and reaction of it. For example, it has many strange behaviours ,not as same as human beings and it even puts toothbrushes into its ears!!!
Also, my parents love to watch comedy and hilarious films or shows. Therefore, I am looking forward to watch this film not only with my parents, but also with my best friends in this Christmas.
"The thing that I like most about Paddington bear is his cute act. Out of curiosity, this little bear will use the tooth brush to pick his ear in the trailer. His clumsy action reminds me of the infant baby about how they explore this brand new world with their eyes and hands, just like Paddington bear. What I like about it is not only what he did, but also his distinctive wear. His dressing of a red hat and blue cape is also well-known to everyone and easy to be remembered.
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About two and a half years ago, I bought a Logitech Wireless Anywhere Mouse MX. Logitech makes some of the very best peripheral devices for computers and tablets, and this mouse and I have been through a lot together. I've used it heavily at home, in school, and on the road for years. The cursor tracks well on almost any surface imaginable, the wireless connection is robust enough to allow for control from across the room, the buttons and scrollwheel all respond crisply, and the mouse lasts for months on a single set of AAs.
I contacted Logitech support, and after a few quick troubleshooting steps, the technician decided that there must be a hardware fault inside of the mouse. Because my 2.5-year-old purchase still fell under Logitech's three-year warranty, they offered to ship me a brand-new unit for free.
Let's get this straight: I had already gotten well more than $49 of use out of my old traveling companion over the years, but Logitech was willing to send me a brand-new one for free because it hadn't quite made it to its third birthday.
Actually, I'm reminded of a similar incident which happened about a year ago. The USB receiver for my mouse came unglued over time and broke apart. (This isn't terribly surprising– years of sitting plugged in in an exposed position and getting jostled about in various cases and laptop bags would take its toll on anything.) It's possible to buy spare receivers, but I just let Logitech know that mine had broken under normal use, and they sent me another one for free.
So in addition to making incredibly solid, well-performing products, Logitech is practically the LL Bean of the electronics world: if something isn't quite right, they make it right.
And that's why I'm their customer.
I think it's fair to say that many, if not most, K-12 teachers are familiar with Minecraft. It's an open "sandbox" world where players can interact with their blocky environment and build whatever wonderful creations they can think up. For the past few years, it's been a wildly popular game with children and adults alike, and the Internet abounds with stories of teachers either incorporating Minecraft into the classroom or else bemoaning that their students use school computers and laptops to surreptitiously play the game when they should be working.
Kerbal Space Program is a similar game in the sense that it's a "sandbox". You start at a space center (approximating Cape Canaveral) on a fictional planet in a fictional solar system similar to our own, complete with many planets, moons, and even gas giants. Your home planet, Kerbin, is populated by a race of little green aliens called Kerbals. At your space center, you can build rocket ships and space planes out of a giant variety of parts, snapping the pieces together like legos. For example, a basic rocket ship might have a command capsule (i.e., a cockpit) at the top, a fuel tank, a rocket engine, and some landing struts. More complex spaceships might have literally thousands of individual parts.
In addition, the game requires strict resource management. Rocket engines need both fuel and oxygen to burn, while atmospheric jet engines only need fuel. If you rely on any electricity-based parts like floodlights, you will also need to install batteries and a power source like solar panels. The little jets which help you adjust your ship's rotation in space require tanks of monopropellant. The only resources you aren't required to handle are those related to life support like food and breathable oxygen—but maybe that's a blessing, because you don't want to watch your little green spaceman asphyxiate or starve!
Due to its realistic modeling of Newtonian physics, Kerbal Space Program can plausibly be used as a classroom tool to demonstrate concepts such as orbital mechanics, weight vs. mass, specific impulse, and the importance of the thrust-to-weight ratio in overcoming both gravity and inertia. But where do you begin?
There seemed to be some interest in how I used KSP in a high school classroom, so I figured I would finally get around to writing this up. I am cursing my laziness however, because I didn't know that twitch deleted recorded streams. Therefore, my plan of cutting together a couple videos of my kids actually using ksp was ruined. Oh well, I'll just have to do it again next year!
This project was less about using KSP to teach a physics concept (although they did learn a lot), but more a recreation of the various mission control styles of play that have been posted on this sub before. Some background, all the students involved (19 in the class, 10 participated) were in my AP Physics B class, and we did this after the AP test. Unfortunately, the original project was severely scaled back as Prom, finals, senior week, Six Flags fieldtrip and other AP tests all filled up the limited time we had available. In addition, I had to miss several days to go to various workshops because of new science standards, so several of the worksheets provided we designed to be done while I was gone.
This was the original plan however we wound up scrapping most of it. I wound up building the students their rocket (two of the actually) and we never used the corporation idea. Pretty much we had 14 days, and the schedule went something like this.
Day 14: Would have been landing day and attempt a return as quickly as possible, but 0.20 came out the night before, and with my steam install in broke the rocket we were using. The students never actually landed or returned.
The kids seemed to get a lot out of it, even if there was a lot of frustration. I think 4 of them went out and bought the game afterwards and a couple have been in touch sharing what they have accomplished or asking questions (most of them graduated right after this). The success of the set-up has convinced my tech department to try and install KSP on a server build, so this year I am going to come up with lessons for angular momentum and kepler's laws to use in the units themselves.
I really wish I had saved the video streamed from the flight computer, there were some pretty hilarious failed launches, but after each one they improved.
Students watched the youtube videos as a class (to find the videos just look up the titles). The back is pictures and data for the 3 stage rocket they took to the mun. It's not pretty, but I tried giving them as generous of a fuel budget as possible. At one point they found out it goes interplanetary pretty easy.
For those of you who want a crappy lesson plan, I rarely write them so it is pretty bad, but I used this for a requirement for a grad school class.
So it's early, and I am likely rambling a bit, so if you have any questions feel free to ask. I promise that when I do this again next year I will take more pictures and video!
What do you think? Computer simulations of various kinds have had a place in the physics classroom for years. Is there room for a more whimsical, fleshed-out "edutainment" product like Kerbal Space Program in your curriculum?


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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1809 was unanimously adopted on 16 April 2008.

Resolution
A high-level Security Council debate involving a broad range of African leaders and focused on Africa's new continental peace and security architecture culminated today in the Council's recognition of the need to enhance the predictability, sustainability and flexibility of financing regional organizations' peacekeeping operations under a United Nations mandate and endorsement of the Secretary-General's proposal to set up within three months an African Union – United Nations panel to consider the modalities of such support.

Unanimously adopting resolution 1809 (2008), the Council stressed the utility of effective partnerships between the United Nations and regional organizations, particularly the African Union, in order to enable early responses to emerging crises in Africa, and expressed its determination to enhance that relationship.

The Council also encouraged the ongoing efforts of the African Union and the subregional organizations to strengthen their peacekeeping capacity and to undertake peacekeeping operations in the continent and to coordinate with the United Nations, as well as ongoing efforts to develop a continental early warning system, such as the African standby force and enhanced mediation capacity.

Recognizing that regional organizations were well positioned to understand the root causes of armed conflicts, the Council also encouraged those organizations' continuing involvement in the peaceful settlement of disputes, including through conflict prevention, confidence-building and mediation.

Prior to adoption of the resolution, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the meeting that, in consolidating the partnership between the African Union and the United Nations, he would spare no effort in making it complementary, effective and inclusive.  "I am resolved to enhance cooperation with all regional organizations, so as to create, in the future, effective mechanisms for conflict prevention and resolution, as well as a predictable, interlinked and reliable system for global peacekeeping under the Charter," he said.

See also
List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1801 to 1900 (2008–2009)

References

External links

Text of the Resolution at undocs.org

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While a majority go to bed each night with a roof over their head, there is a growing number of people becoming homeless due to a number of issues. It is amazing that we can walk the streets of the Fleurieu Peninsula and be totally unaware of what is happening in our own backyard. Out of sight, out of mind. But it is not for a few who in our community put others before themselves. There is the Southern Fleurieu Housing Round Table (SFHRT), which consists of leaders in the church, local and state government, housing and service organisations, who want to solve the problem. And then there is also Whalers Peninsula Community Association (WPCA), which is a charity located in Goolwa that regularly faces the reality of homelessness along the Fleurieu Peninsula. WPCA co-ordinator Kim Baes said during the course of a week, WPCA receives request for support from 50 to 100 homeless people asking for accommodation, food and sometimes just someone to talk to without fear of being judged or persecuted. This group relies on donations, has no government support and is not-for-profit and helps those in need right along the south coast, not just Goolwa. Pictured is WPCA's Debbie Huddy with Mark who receives support. Major funding and resources are required to address the significant need for supported emergency and transitional accommodation in the region. Pastor of the Christian Gospel Cetre Lew Saunders said the Fleurieu is the only region in South Australia that does not have supported emergency and transitional accommodation and is also the least funded region. Options for the building or purchase of suitable houses and or units are only part of the solution. Successful models for delivery and support of emergency/transitional housing are currently being researched for future developments. The SFHRT is currently in the process of developing a business plan to address this need. Community involvement will be a priority once a specific project is identified and ready for implementation. Member for Finniss David Basham is aware of the issues and is proactive in the community with government funding available to those who need it. See page 3. It is important this funding goes to where it is needed.
While a majority go to bed each night with a roof over their head, there is a growing number of people becoming homeless due to a number of issues.
It is amazing that we can walk the streets of the Fleurieu Peninsula and be totally unaware of what is happening in our own backyard. Out of sight, out of mind. But it is not for a few who in our community put others before themselves.
There is the Southern Fleurieu Housing Round Table (SFHRT), which consists of leaders in the church, local and state government, housing and service organisations, who want to solve the problem. And then there is also Whalers Peninsula Community Association (WPCA), which is a charity located in Goolwa that regularly faces the reality of homelessness along the Fleurieu Peninsula.
WPCA co-ordinator Kim Baes said during the course of a week, WPCA receives request for support from 50 to 100 homeless people asking for accommodation, food and sometimes just someone to talk to without fear of being judged or persecuted.
This group relies on donations, has no government support and is not-for-profit and helps those in need right along the south coast, not just Goolwa. Pictured is WPCA's Debbie Huddy with Mark who receives support.
Major funding and resources are required to address the significant need for supported emergency and transitional accommodation in the region.
Pastor of the Christian Gospel Cetre Lew Saunders said the Fleurieu is the only region in South Australia that does not have supported emergency and transitional accommodation and is also the least funded region.
Options for the building or purchase of suitable houses and or units are only part of the solution. Successful models for delivery and support of emergency/transitional housing are currently being researched for future developments.
The SFHRT is currently in the process of developing a business plan to address this need. Community involvement will be a priority once a specific project is identified and ready for implementation.
Member for Finniss David Basham is aware of the issues and is proactive in the community with government funding available to those who need it. See page 3. It is important this funding goes to where it is needed.
Discuss "Majority sleep well while others struggle"


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Maryland sheriff says new state gun law violates 2nd Amendment
October 25, 2012: A Glock handgun available in a raffle promotion is shown at Adventures Outdoors in Smyrna, Georgia. (Reuters)
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A Maryland sheriff has declared the state's new gun control law unconstitutional and is asking county officials to support selective enforcement of the measure.
The Cumberland Times-News reports that Garrett County Sheriff Robert Corley voiced his opposition to the law at Tuesday's county commissioners meeting and presented the panel with a resolution he says protects citizens' rights.
"I believe that the [Maryland Firearms Safety Act] violates the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution that clearly states, 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed,'" Corley was quoted as saying.
Corley said he plans to reserve enforcement of the new law except when someone is suspected of a violent crime, has been convicted of a prior felony or has been adjudicated with a dangerous mental illness.
"I'm asking you to join me in my commitment to the law-abiding citizens of Garrett County because such enforcement will greatly reduce the likelihood of criminalizing law-abiding citizens," said Corley.
The law set to take effect Oct. 1 gives Maryland some of the nation's tightest gun restrictions, which the National Rifle Association plans to challenge in court. Part of the law requires people to submit fingerprints to the state police to get a license to buy a handgun and bans 45 guns and limits gun magazines to 10 bullets. It also bans gun ownership by people who have been involuntarily committed to a mental health facility.
H. Scott Curtis, chief counsel to the attorney general's office of courts and judicial affairs told The Baltimore Sun that sheriffs are obligated to enforce state laws.
"They have to consider the oath that they took when they took office and that is an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, the constitution of Maryland and Maryland's laws," Curtis told the paper.
Corley says the resolution resembles resolutions in Carroll and Cecil counties that state the law infringes Second Amendment rights. Two commissioners supported the resolution and Commissioner Jim Raley suggested soliciting citizen input and a review by legal counsel.
"Thanks for taking a stance. It's an emotional issue. I am disappointed in the attorney general's stance," Raley said.
Corley said that he will enforce the law as he sees fit.
"I'm not asking for your blessing," Corley said. "I'm asking for your support."
Click here for more from the Cumberland News-Times.
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Be thankful that Michael Farrant is an incompetent cad and destroyed his own company. Gold mining always causes destruction to the people and environment where it is carried out. Good riddance to Commonwealth!
Only a fool would invest in a gold mining company right now, and even a bigger fool would invest in an "exploratory" mining company.
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الصفحة الرئيسيةconclave
Startup Odisha Ecosystem Mixer : Bring All Stakeholders Together: Dr. Omkar Rai
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From the left (Abhilash Chakraverty, Co Founder Larkai Healthcare; Amit Singhal, Founder Real Time Angel; Dr. Omkar Rai, Executive Chairman, Startup Odisha Pritam Dhalla, Founder, Larkai Healthcare)
Bring all stakeholders together to grow the start-up ecosystem of the State: Dr. Omkar Rai
AI, Block Chain and New immersive technologies to drive the start ecosystem in the future
To become a big company should be the end goal of every start-up
As part of the ongoing Make in Odisha Conclave 2022, Startup Odisha organised 'Startup Odisha Ecosystem Mixer', a platform that brought together academia, investors, unicorns and government to deliberate on the future of the start-up ecosystem in the state and the opportunities that the future held. The event held at O-Hub provided an opportunity for early-stage start-ups to interact with successful young start-up founders, venture capitalists and experienced professors. The day comprised two sessions namely, 'Blooming era of start-ups – Looking into the future' and 'AMA on raising my first cheque.'
Delivering the keynote address, Dr. Omkar Rai, Executive Chairman, Startup Odisha said, "E-Commerce platform will continue to lead the creation of wealth in the start-up ecosystem, in time to come, we will see the enhanced use of artificial intelligence, block chain, immersive technologies like augmented reality and virtual reality, AVGC, electric connected and autonomous vehicles driving the start-up ecosystem. In our efforts to reach out to youngsters and transform them from ideators to start-ups, we have strived to create sensitization at the grass roots level to create a culture of ideation. Every school and college require to be equipped with tinkering labs and centers of excellence if they are to become entrepreneurs and create products. Our aim is to increase per capita income by helping start-ups in every sector at every level of the value chain. The need of the hour is to bring all stakeholders together to encourage, sustain and grow the start-up ecosystem in the state. We want to position Odisha as a promising destination for start-ups with a lot of potential. Odisha has excellent technology and educational institutions, and we should leverage this advantage to achieve the vision of the Government of Odisha to achieve 5000 start-ups by 2025."
In her address, Smt. Rajita Kulkarni, President, Sri Sri University said "Odisha has one of the most vibrant start-up ecosystems in the country and start-ups must look at the current strengths of the State to determine future possibilities. Anything that can enhance health, wealth and time should be considered as an opportunity. Start-ups should look at solutions that enhances the quality of life for society. It is important to ride on the strengths of the state such as healthcare, Agri services, mining, hydel power and wind energy solutions."
Dr. Mahadeo Jaiswal, Director, IIM Sambalpur in his address said, "Globally there are three D's that are driving disruption. The first is digital disruption, which creates a lot of scope for newcomers with opportunities for everyone. The second is decarbonisation, which will be a great opportunity for the start-up ecosystem with new verticals emerging such as electric vehicles, and opportunities in manufacturing. Odisha, with its stable government and forward-looking policies is set to become the next IT hub and will emerge as the next destination for investment."
Addressing start-ups present at the event, Amarendra Sahu, co-founder Nestaway in his address said, "Start-ups should no longer look only at markets which are close and comfortable but rather to markets that pay. I am convinced that product start-ups from Odisha are built here, sell abroad is actually going to create a lot of value. We need to make O-Hub a global centre of excellence and attract entrepreneurs from across India to Odisha."
In his address, Raj Mishra, Founder, INDEA Capital, said, "The end goal for any start-up should be to become a big company. Start-ups must focus on four aspects, namely better products, better services, faster and cheaper and look for opportunities in big markets with a customer centric approach."
Dr. Ajaya Kumar Mohanty, Director Deliotte, said, "Odisha contributes 5% of the IT workforce across the country, but the state does not get that kind of business. We have a lot to catch up with, create opportunities in the small and medium spaces rather than looking at the government and large companies to provide jobs. In order to be successful, the most important focus of start-ups should be the idea, aspiration, and tenacity. The East including China is a 30 trillion-dollar industry and Odisha is strategically located to exploit that opportunity."
The first session was addressed by Dr Omkar Rai, Executive Chairman, Startup Odisha, Prof Mahadeo Jaiswal, Director, IIM Sambalpur, Prof Rajita Kulkarni, President, Sri Sri University, Dr Sukant K. Mohapatra, Chairman, NIST, Berhampur. The second session was addressed by Dr Ajaya Kumar Mohanty, Director, Deloitte, Shri Raj Mishra, Founder, Indea Capital. Mr Amit Singal, Founding Partner, Fluid Ventures, Ms Seema Chaturvedi, Founder, Awe Funds, Mr Srustijeet Mishra, Serial Tech Entrepreneur & Angel Investor, Mr Rahul Prigawat, AVP, LetsVenture, Mr Amarendra Sahu, Co-Founder, Nestaway.
Startup Odisha supported start-up Larkai Healthcare secured a funding of INR ONE CRORE from Gurgaon based Real-Time Angel Funds during the programme today.
About Make in Odisha Conclave 2022
The inaugural edition of the Make in Odisha Conclave was organized in 2016 to showcase the manufacturing prowess of the State and the investment potential in diverse sectors. It was an overwhelming success, with announcement of investment intent to the tune of INR 2.03 lakh crore. The Government of Odisha has demonstrated strong commitment to deliver projects on ground, which is reflected in the fact that out of these investment intents received, close to 65% projects are in various stages of approval and implementation. The second edition of the biennial Make in Odisha Conclave 2018 was also a huge success with 202 number of intents received and 118 proposals received. This year the Conclave will be a celebration of 5 days, presenting Odisha, its potential and achievements, to the world with Japan and Norway as partner countries. It will also be a platform to exchange ideas and share knowledge. The Conclave will have sector specific seminars across food processing, agro-business and agro-marketing, chemicals petrochemicals and plastics, metal downstream and ancillaries, IT/ITeS, textiles and apparels, renewable energy and equipment, real estate & social infrastructure, healthcare and pharma, film and entertainment, tourism, biotechnology, logistics and warehousing, aerospace & defence apart from other engaging events.
For more information: https://mio.investodisha.gov.in
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Luke Combs, Willie Nelson, Billy Strings & More To Play New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Music Festival
Is Season 4 Of 'Yellowstone' Premiering Next Month?
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Yellowstone fans across the globe are patiently waiting for new of the Season 4 premiere.
And while a trailer would be incredible, we'll take pretty much anything at this point… even a month.
But according to the Chief Joseph Ranch Instagram page, the place where they film the show and the real-life location of the actual Dutton Ranch, Season 4 will be premiering in June.
Granted, that's not an official announcement, but as the folks that host the cast and crew for months at a time, I would think they might know a thing or two about when it's going to premiere.
"That's a wrap on filming Season 4! Who is excited for the premiere in June?"
June is also when the previous seasons have aired so wouldn't be a stretch to assume that's when Season 4 will as well… so that bodes well for Season 4 as well.
However, with COVID more than likely halting production at times, anything is possible.
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In other Yellowstone news, Paramount Network is launching a new prequel titled Y:1883.
Set to premiere later this year, Y: 1883 picks up the Dutton family story from the very beginning and chronicles their journey across the Great Plains in search of a better future in the American West, eventually settling in Montana.
Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan will once again be at the helm:
"I am excited to continue the story of Yellowstone and thank you to Chris, Keith and David for allowing me to keep on expanding the family for the fans."
But wait, there's more.
Another spinoff centered around the recently purchased West Texas 6666's Ranch is in the works as well.
According to Hollywood Reporter, it will tell the story of the West Texas 6666's Ranch, founded by Captain Samuel Burk Burnett in 1900.
"Founded when Comanches still ruled West Texas, no ranch in America is more steeped in the history of the West than the 6666. Still operating as it did two centuries before, and encompassing an entire county, the 6666 is where the rule of law and the laws of nature merge in a place where the most dangerous thing one does is the next thing.
The 6666 is synonymous with the merciless endeavor to raise the finest horses and livestock in the world, and ultimately where world class cowboys are born and made."
And the best part? Ryan Bingham and Jefferson White will be reprising their roles as Walker and Jimmy Hurdstrom for the new spinoff, however it remains to be seen if that will mean the end of their career on Yellowstone.
Although, we do know that parts of Season 4 were shot in Texas this past year, so we'll have to see where the stories intermingle.
Stay tuned, the official announcement should be coming along any day now.
In the meantime, how about some life lesson with the great Rip Wheeler.
Also, be sure to check out our Yellowstone The Soundtrack Playlist, featuring every song from every episode, all the way through Season 3.
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