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The racist policies that led to the July '64 uprisings
Courtesy Jane Pritchard
An illustrated redlined map of Rochester showing the racial segregation of the city's neighborhoods
By An Nguyen Publisher and Wil Aiken Senior Staff and Michael Vilakazi News Editor
In July 1964, three days of social unrest broke out in Rochester. While the events were characterized by the media as shocking and out of the blue, many directly involved felt them to be the culmination of years of racism in policy and policing. In the second of our three-part series on the uprisings and their implications, we explore the role of housing in setting the stage for what some deemed riots, others uprisings. Read the first article here.
When army vet and lawyer Reuben Davis moved to Rochester in 1955, he was hopeful about the prospect of success in a city known for its economic prosperity.
But it soon became apparent to Davis that as a Black man, he was not included in the comforts of the city's industrial opportunities.
When Davis and his wife set off to find a house, their favorite was on Elmdorf Ave in the 19th Ward. "The owner refused to sell to us because we were Black," Davis recalled in an interview for the Rochester Voices project. The deed for the house itself mandated that it wasn't to be sold to "coloreds and Italians," Davis said. This was despite the fact that such restrictive deeds were outlawed by 1958 when they attempted to buy the house.
An active member of the NAACP, Davis had learned to navigate racist restrictions, and was able to get a white friend to buy the house and transfer its ownership to him.
This was a familiar story for many Black Rochesterians, who also discovered the hard way that Rochester's version of the American Dream wasn't for them, regardless of their educational or economic status. Decades of testimonials and research have explored Rochester's long-standing history of racist housing policies and practices.
"The housing situation always has been an enigma to [Black people]," Reverend Charles Boddie said in a January 1946 Democrat & Chronicle article, adding that, "[i]n Rochester only two areas have been gracefully made available to [them]."
The Third and Seventh wards were home to 80 percent of Black Rochesterians in 1950, according to a 1958 NYS Commission Against Discrimination report.
The report detailed that 19.4% of houses in these two wards had no usable private bathrooms, 27.5% had no clean running water, and 12% had more than one person per bedroom.
Despite the poor conditions, "[i]f any attempt is made to move out of the [Third and Seventh wards], the attempt is met with opposition," Rochester reverend Arthur Whitaker said in the documentary "July '64."
Indeed, the 1958 report identifies Rochester as among the cities where a family of color moving into an otherwise white neighborhood would be met with resounding resistance. This often took the form of verbal insults, social ostracism, destruction of property, and in the case of Rochestarians Alice and James Young, written threats from the Ku Klux Klan.
Like Davis, the Youngs struggled to buy their own home, even though they could afford it, because the paperwork for their prospective home came with clauses prohibiting their purchase on the basis of race.
These racist legal contracts, often called restrictive covenants, explicitly banned people of a certain race or ethnicity from purchasing certain properties. Covenants like these were pushed and employed by the real estate industry in the first half of the 20th century across the United States.
Restrictive covenants are something that Shane Wiegand, a fourth grade teacher in the Rush Henrietta School District, often discusses. Wiegand, also a board member for the City Roots Community Land Trust, frequently holds talks on the history of gentrification and racist policy in Rochester. The most recent was back in July, hosted by Fairport Deputy Mayor Matthew Brown over Zoom.
During that talk, titled "Racist Policy and Resistance in Rochester," Wiegand made an important distinction in Rochester's historically racist housing — de facto vs. de jure segregation.
Richard Rothstein, in his book "The Color of Law," writes that segregation in America was not the natural, unintended consequence of individual prejudices and actions (de facto segregation), but rather the purposeful result of racist, exclusionary government policy (de jure segregation).
"Without our government's purposeful imposition of racial segregation, the other causes [of segregation] — private prejudice, white flight, real estate steering, bank redlining, income differences, and self-segregation — still would have existed but with far less opportunity for expression," Rothstein writes.
The 2020 report on restrictive covenants in Rochester by City Roots and the Yale Environmental Protection Clinic acknowledges that segregation in the Rochester area was a product of institutional white supremacy — "a system built specifically to increase the dignity, power, and wealth of white people by taking those things from Black and Brown people."
The federal government propagated housing segregation through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC), organizations created during the New Deal policy era. The HOLC, created in 1933, was tasked with determining the creditworthiness of neighborhoods and grading them on a scale of "best" to "hazardous."
If a neighborhood had minority communities, HOLC would lower its score, all but preventing investments from going into communities of color.
In 1939, HOLC appraisers assessed Rochester and designated large swaths of the predominantly Black Third and Seventh wards as "hazardous." Their 1939 report insinuated Black people were responsible for the neighborhoods' poverty levels, saying that Black people "have come to [a part of the Third Ward] and today it is the poorest section of the entire city."
Explicitly racist policies directly from federal authorities were not an anomaly: The FHA's 1936 manual dissuaged racial integration, stating that "if a neighborhood is to retain stability it is necessary that properties shall continue to be occupied by the same social and racial classes."
In his July talk to Fairport residents, Wiegand described how the 1939 edition of the FHA underwriting manual went so far as to "mandate that if you're going to build a new suburban housing tract, in order to get the FHA to underwrite your material costs upfront, you must impose racial deed restrictions that prohibit the occupancy of properties except by the race for which they are intended."
Even seemingly innocuous community spaces like parks and roads were strategically placed with racial segregation in mind. The 1939 manual encouraged having "natural or artificially established barriers" put in place to separate "inharmonious racial groups." As Wiegand explains, "that's how we get something like 490 or the Inner Loop — separating white and Black neighborhoods in downtown Rochester."
As a direct consequence of these policies, Black Rochesterians were denied from buying homes in already affluent areas like suburbs, because they were predominantly white, excluding Black people from one of the best ways to accumulate and retain wealth.
Not only was the federal government instrumental in creating a segregated, inequitable Rochester but the local government was, too.
A prime example is the displacement of the Baden-Ormond settlement residents. In 1959, an urban renewal project cleared 60 acres of the Seventh Ward settlement to build a new low-income housing development.
Six hundred families and 150 businesses were immediately displaced to make room for, among other things, a new housing development, Chatham Gardens. In September 1963, the Democrat & Chronicle reported that only 184 Chatham Gardens apartments had been built, a fraction of the housing necessary to accommodate the displaced families.
The development also had an integration standard requiring that the white-to-non-white resident ratio remain equal, even though the overwhelming majority of displaced residents weren't white.In 1964, it was announced that the remaining acres would become home to a warehouse, a Pepsi-Cola bottling factory, and a UPS installation.
And with these housing disparities, health inequities followed.
Minister Franklin Florence, a Rochester civil rights leader and former president of civil rights group F.I.G.H.T., said in "July '64" that it was "just inhuman for human beings to be" in the homes Black people were forced to inhabit, calling it a shame to a society that calls itself civilized.
Wiegand cited some stats on this health crisis in his July lecture: Anthony L. Jordan, the second Black doctor in Rochester, found that Black Rochesterians were dying at rates 50 percent higher than white Rochesterians, and the tuberculosis death rate among Black people was two-and-a-half times that of white people. Both statistics were "directly linked to housing and forced segregation," Wiegand said.
This barrage of injustices compounded over decades, finally exploding into the Rochester uprisings of July 1964.
In the words of a NYS Commission Against Discrimination report from the late 1950s, "Rochester today is sitting on a pressure cooker whose relief valve has long been choked."
Carolyn Vacca, the chair of St. John Fisher College's history department, found a statistical correlation between the percentage of a given neighborhood's population who were arrested in the uprisings and that neighborhood's housing conditions. In other words, the people who lived in the worst housing were the most likely to be in the streets those July nights.
As Eastman Kodak scientist and president of the Rochester branch of the NAACP Walter Cooper said, "The fact that the riots occurred with so few deaths indicated that the rage was directed at the symbols of the power of the white establishment and the property in the run-down [neighborhood], which the participants inhabited."
So, despite the prevailing opinion among many white Rochesterians at the time, the so-called riots of 1964 were anything but a surprise — rather, an inevitable consequence of bubbling social discontent and inadequate access to a basic human right: shelter.
Special thanks to Shane Wiegand, whose invaluable materials and sources provided necessary context and many of the examples for this article.
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Home Entertainment Melania Trump shock: Barron Trump's mom allegedly not the 'ice queen'
Melania Trump shock: Barron Trump's mom allegedly not the 'ice queen'
Melania Trump has, allegedly, earned the reputation of being the ice queen.
According to Life & Style, Melania Trump is oftentimes misjudged as cold and aloof because of her quiet demeanor. But a source told the tabloid that this isn't the case. However, no concrete pieces of evidence can prove that these claims are true up to this writing.
"She's not the ice queen some think she is. Her European background may give off a certain air that people misjudge as cold or aloof. But that's not her at all," an unnamed source said, as per Life & Style.
Melania Trump has allegedly become more open
According to the insider, Melania's role as the first lady of the United States has encouraged her to be more open.
"She tends to keep to herself. But lately, Melania's been opening up more and more to those around her, giving glimpses into her private world. It's as if she finally found her voice," the source said.
The FLOTUS isn't afraid to tell Donald Trump the truth
The FLOTUS previously told Dujour that she isn't afraid to tell her husband, Donald Trump the things that other people can't tell the POTUS.
"To be married to my husband, to someone as successful as he is, he needs somebody who will tell him the truth. I give a lot of advice to my husband and tell him how it is and how I see it. I'm not backing off. I tell him the truth," she said.
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But prior to Donald becoming the president, Melania, reportedly, didn't want to become the first lady of the United States.
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"She didn't want this come hell or high water. I don't think she thought it was going to happen… He always wanted to run. She is the one who pushed him to run just by saying run or do not run. I don't think she was ever too crazy about it," Stone said.
First couple's awkward outing
This week, Melania also made headlines amid claims that she's in a heightened state of stress during her recent outing with her husband.
While speaking with Yahoo Lifestyle, body language expert Suzanne Masefield said that the FLOTUS seemingly tried to control her real feelings during her appearance.
"Melania Trump shows what we call a poker face, masking her true feelings with little muscle movement in her face initially and her body is rigid. When her husband turns to her to speak to her, she draws in a breath, does a slight lip bite controlling her anger, followed by a facial micro-expression of disgust. All is not well in their marital world going by this interaction," she said.
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Glamorous gowns and creative cloths were on show in Reading last week for the 170th anniversary of YMCA.
On Friday, April 8 Reading students were given the chance to showcase their own designs at the Year of Culture event.
Students were tasked with creating a collection which reflects the way they view the YMCA, and showed them off to stylist Nicky Hambleton-Jones at the black tie gala.
Reading's YMCA, Mapis Project CIC and Reading Museum ran the creative programme - funded by The Heritage Lottery Fund - to teach students about design, advertising and event organising.
Mayor of Reading Councillor Sarah Hacker said: "It was a wonderful evening and [Mapis Project CIC] should be proud of what [the team] and the girls achieved."
Sir John Madejski and Reading West MP Alok Sharma were also in attendance on the night.
A spokesman for Mapis Project CIC said: "What was so wonderful about this event, was the involvement of young people in every aspect, they ran the event, learning many skills under the watchful eye of Mapis Project.
"It was a celebration of many marvellous things: the YMCA, what young people can achieve when motivated and supported, great fashion and of the history of our wonderful town too."


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Slavery and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Amistad Case
Slavery and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Amistad Case, is a digital collection created by the Amistad Research Center. It is presented in the Tulane University Digital Library through a partnership between the Amistad Research Center and Tulane University. Inquiries regarding content in this digital collection should be addressed to reference@amistadresearchcenter.org or (504) 862-3222.
On June 28, 1839, the schooner La Amistad set sail from Havana, Cuba, setting off a series of events that would have international and historical consequences. On board the schooner were 53 Africans who had been abducted from West Africa and sold in violation of international law. Their intended fate was enslavement on plantations down coast from Havana. On the third day out, the Africans revolted and ordered that the ship be guided toward the rising sun back to Africa, but each night the Cuban plantation owners who had purchased them from Havana's slave market and survived the uprising changed course. Zigzagging for two months, the ship eventually was brought by northerly winds and currents to Long Island. Intercepted by the United States Navy, the Africans were jailed and charged with piracy and murder. In New York City, a group of Christian abolitionists, headed by Lewis Tappan, formed a defense committee. Attorney Roger Sherman Baldwin, with help from former President John Quincy Adams, took the case to the United States Supreme Court, which ruled in March 1841 that the Africans were free. This digital collection is comprised of correspondence, dating from 1839-1841, by abolitionists, pro-slavery advocates, governmental officials, and the Amistad Africans themselves, related to the development of efforts to provide legal assistance to the Africans. The resulting trials in the U.S. court system; the political interests on the part of the United States, Cuba, and Spain; and the personal experiences of the imprisoned Africans are detailed in these letters, which are housed in the archives of the American Missionary Association, an abolitionist missionary organization that grew out of the Amistad Committee's efforts.
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IGP orders withdrawal of politicians' orderlies
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The Inspector General of police Mr Solomon Arase, on Saturday ordered the withdrawal of policemen from politicians, saying that only "high risk" politicians should be allowed to have orderlies.
Mr Arase gave the order in Minna, the capital of Niger State while on a one-day visit to address officers and men of the Niger State Police Command.
According to him, the policemen to be withdrawn would be deployed to regular police duties.
Addressing personnel he said Niger State needed more manpower to curtail the rate of crime in the state which he described as 'a state with a large landmass.'
He further laid emphasis on the personalities of the police force and the need to be firm, honest and knowledgeable on their responsibilities in order to carry out their duties diligently.
Mr Arase also stressed the need for the police force to respect the fundamental human rights and avoid arresting innocent people.
On the welfare of Policemen across Nigeria, Mr Arase decried the dilapidation of Police Barracks, pointing out that the force was already seeking funds to rehabilitate them.
Meanwhile, the Niger State Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Marafa, in his remarks highlighted the achievement of the command, stating that there is a drastic reduction on highway crimes in the state.
He said community policing should be encouraged to further establish a cordial relationship between the police and the communities and mould their perception.
He also told the Inspector General that the state government had been contributing immensely to the police force in the state.
The Inspector General of police later paid a courtesy visit on the Emir of Minna Dr. Umar Farouk Bahago, in his Palace and the Deputy Governor of Niger State, Ahmed Mohammed Ketso in the Government House. (Channels TV)
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Pakistani Designer Dresses & Clothing Brands in the UK
Pakistani brands and designers in the UK
House of Faiza
Memsaab Boutique
Shiffonz
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When you think of the culture and brand of clothes in Pakistan, the first thing that pops up in your mind is the impeccable fashion sense of the country. Pakistan is rich with various cultures and traditions that give rise to a vast array of fashion assortments. We've got tons of different styles when combined create harmony and work out beautifully together. All this happens due to our creative-minded and amazing designers who work tirelessly to come up with their designer Pakistani suit collection year by year. Ladies all around the world can now purchase these gorgeous outfits as festive wear for women.
Pakistani apparel is unique and has made its mark as a combination of modernity and tradition. More than half a million Pakistanis live in the UK and nearby countries. Hence there is a significant demand for Pakistani clothes in this region
This article is a summary of all the top Pakistani fashion designers and brands that ladies in the UK can now buy from. Today, we've put together a list of the top 20 fashion designers in Pakistan. We will be going through who they are, where they came from and everything you need to know about their work as a designer.
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House of Faiza is an emerging clothing outlet situated in London. The store opened its door to its customers 5 years ago. This Pakistani clothing store is about the latest summer wear for women, including casual lawn suits, formal wear, and luxury couture. Not only this, House of Faiza is a great platform for all the popular Pakistani designers and top brand dresses with their most extensive collection available for ladies in the UK.
Customers can now get their desired designer Pakistani suit with great convenience from this place. They have also managed to create their own space on social media platforms with a huge fan base following. Moreover, their latest fashion catalogs can also be browsed on their mobile phone app. Isn't that just great?!
We all know that Khaadi is a powerhouse loved by women not only in Pakistan but all across the globe. This clothing brand operates in many countries and keeps expanding to other regions as well. If you're looking out for a wide variety of ready-to-wear women's outfits in the UK, Khaadi is your go-to one-stop shop. Their prety wear range includes everyday casual wear kurtas, pants, to intricately embroidered shirts for semi-formal wear with eccentric prints and colors. You can spot the best suit for women at their stores easily and are appropriate for all age groups and backgrounds. The incredible designs are not only modern but have a contemporary twist to them. Khaadi is a game changer for the fashion industry of Pakistan when it comes to ready-to-wear brands' dresses.
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Talking about retailers, the Memsaab Boutique is probably one of the pioneer retailers of ready-to-wear Pakistani clothing for women in the UK. This store has become a favourite for all with a wide variety of apparel for men, women and children. The prices, quality and customer service are just commendable at the same time. This clothing boutique sources their summer wear for ladies from leading brands of Pakistan such as Asim Jofa, Sana Safinaz, and other designers' festive wear for women in UK.
Memsaab Boutique also has a great variety of footwear, accessories and jewellery, which can be purchased via their online store too. To attract more customers, this store also offers plenty of discounts and gift vouchers for gifting purposes. They currently have three outlets in the UK, with the flagship store being in London.
Another great name to be included in the list is Shiffonz. It is yet another brand that provides Pakistani clothes for women in the UK that are fit for all occasions. Their exceptional customer service and competitive pricing is what makes this store a catch for all. Shiffonz happens to be one of the leading retailers and wholesalers of pret wear in terms of Pakistani designer wear clothes in the UK.
Other than summer outfits for women, they also have an extensive range of footwear and statement jewellery sets for women to complete their entire look. Moreover, if you ever happen to visit their store, do check out their Dori work and festive wear for weddings.
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This store was established in the UK back in 2022 with the idea of bringing back Pakistani traditions and heritage through apparel. Janan has managed to expand its network to over more than 20 outlets worldwide, with the presence of an online store accessible from anywhere. Other than having a wide variety of pret wear, the store has an extensive collection of bridal dresses, accessories, perfumes, and footwear as well. They also source designer Pakistani suit from famous brands like Baroque, and Maria. B, Sana Safinaz, and Saira Rizwan. They also have a variety of unstitched fabrics for suiting including chiffon, linen, jacquard, silk etc.
With these one stop shops for your Pakistani clothing apparel collection, we must update you with the new online store Kinzzu. This online store brings exclusive designer clothes both stitched and unstitched, all the way from Pakistan. Leading brands , Maria B, Elan, Sana Safinaz, Anaya by Kiran Chaudhry, Maryum and Maria and many more to name a few, can be found at this store.
With the world shifting to the online platform, we suggest you to shop your next summer casual and formal dressing from Kinzzu.
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Locator for this is correct, but when running it in Selenium Webdriver, I am getting the same error .
I have used different kinds of waits like Implicit wait, Explicit wait, and Wait for Presence of element
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Microsoft adds another Android vendor to its patent-licensing list
Microsoft has signed another patent licensing deal with a maker of Android and Chrome OS devices. This time it's ODM Qisda, based in Taiwan.
By Mary Jo Foley for All About Microsoft | April 27, 2015 -- 19:10 GMT (12:10 PDT) | Topic: Legal
Microsoft has added another original device manufacturer (ODM) to its list of companies making Android and Chrome OS devices who are licensing publicly unspecified Microsoft patent technologies.
On April 24, Microsoft announced it had signed a worldwide patent licensing deal with Taiwanese ODM Qisda. The deal covers Qisda and BenQ devices, including smartphones and tablets, that run Android and Chrome OS.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, beyond the fact that Microsoft will receive royalties from Qisda as part of the agreement.
Quisda "provides ODM/OEM of electronic products and hardware-software integration for consumer, commercial, industrial, medical & lifestyle applications," according to the company's Web site.
Microsoft has signed close to two dozen similar Android licensing deals with other ODMs, including Hon Hai, Pegatron, Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics and Wistron, as well as OEms including Samsung, LG Electronics, ZTE and HTC.
The entity at Microsoft which is charged with handling Microsoft's patent portfolio, including these Android-related licensing deals is Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC, which was founded in 2014.
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Самуэль де Ланге старший (; ,  — , ) — нидерландский органист и композитор. Отец Самуэля де Ланге младшего и Даниэля де Ланге.

С десятилетнего возраста работал в органостроительной фирме Рейхнера. В разное время учился у заметных роттердамских музыкантов, в том числе органиста И. Б. Бремера и пианиста Карла Мюленфельдта, изучал также теорию и контрапункт под руководством К. Ф. Хоммерта (1811—1838). С 1833 года органист Валлонской церкви на улице Хоогстрат, с 1854 г. — Южной церкви в районе Гласхавен и наконец с 1864 г. до конца жизни — роттердамского собора Святого Лаврентия. Кроме того, с 1830 года на протяжении более чем полувека де Ланге играл на карильоне — по вторникам и субботам в соборе Святого Лаврентия, а по четвергам в ратуше.

В 1840 г. вместе с Яном и Георгом Рейкенами основал торговый дом Rijken & De Lange, продававший в Роттердаме фортепиано.

В 1877 году в связи с 50-летием исполнительской карьеры король Виллем II произвёл де Ланге в кавалеры Ордена Дубовой короны.

В репертуаре де Ланге преобладали сочинения Баха, Генделя, Мендельсона, Шумана, Листа, обращался он и к произведениям старых мастеров — Фрескобальди, Муффата. В 1870 году он выступил инициатором создания Нидерландского Баховского общества, в которое вступили также оба его сына, воспитанные в благоговении перед Бахом (первые восемь тактов одной из баховских токкат висели на стене в их детской комнате).

Композиторское наследие де Ланге включает преимущественно органные сочинения, некоторое количество фортепианной и хоровой музыки, его творческая манера отмечена несомненным влиянием Мендельсона. В настоящее время наибольшей популярностью у нидерландских органистов пользуется соната для органа № 2 (Соната-фантазия): её записали Гонни ван дер Матен, Арно ван Вейк, Дик Сандерман.

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The Writer's Center will be hosting a number of events during the 2009 Bethesda Literary Festival on April 17 and 18.
The Writer's Center will host a reading and discussion with Kimberly Dozier (CBS News Correspondent who was wounded in Baghdad in 2006) and E.J. Dionne (Washington Post columnist).
For further information about this event or to register, visit the Web site here.
Meet editors and publishers of literary journals and small presses at the Small Press Fair. Participants include The National Endowment for the Arts, Abbey, Barrelhouse, Cherokee Books, The Delmarva Review, Gargoyle/Paycock Press, GirlChild Press, Gival Press. Kings Estate Press, Little Patuxent Review, little press books, Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Pretend Genius, Settlement House, Toad Hall Press, Washington Writers' Publishing House, SFWP, and Wineberry Press.
Creative Writing for Younger Children with long-time Writer's Center Workshop Leader Sally Canzoneri. This is a free activity "workshop" for kids.
Poetry reading by David Keplinger and Michael Collier. The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing.
The Writer's Center hosts Bethesda Idol. Similar to the pop culture TV show, this will be an opportunity to have your work judged by industry professionals: literary agents Deborah Grosvenor (from Kneerim & Williams) Jeff Kleinman (from Folio Literary Management) and Paige Wheeler (from Folio Literary Management).To participate, please STAPLE together your entry in the following order: (1) a cover sheet with your project's name, genre, and "tag line" (a one-to three-sentence description of your story), (2) one-page query letter addressed to "Dear Agent," and (3) the first three pages of your book. DO NOT include identifying information on any page of your submission. All genres are welcome (except children's, young adult, poetry, plays, or screenplays). Prizes include free tuition to a multi-session Writer's Center workshop (up to a $345 value), and a free one-year membership to The Writer's Center. Please bring submissions to The Writer's Center no later than 8:15 P.M.


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- Should we always specify an alignment for structs? How can we know what that should be?
- Do you always have to use cl_-prefixed types or can we just use e.g. int (or intNN_t) and assert on the size of the struct for safety?
Other requirements that we missed?
Without being instructed what to do, an OpenCL compiler can do whatever it wants with alignment/padding.
If the same structure is being used as a kernel launch parameter but has different size on host and device - one gets CL_INVALID_ARG_SIZE from clSetKernelArg() right away.
However, even if size is the same, that doesn't guarantee same structure member packing on host/device, so the kernel launches, and you might get unpredictable bugs, entirely depending on the compiler.
Packed attribute doesn't work with PME because I use a templated typedef DeviceBuffer<T> for cl_mem, and compiler probably can't resolve that to the underlying _cl_mem *. This probably can be resolved by specializying is_pod for DeviceBuffer, but also feels like a hacky direction. I'm also not sure whether tightly packing the parameter structs with no alignment has any consequences for kernel performance.
Dummy char arrays I haven't tried much.
Oh yes, and the cl_ types themselves read to me like modern int32_t/... - they only seem to guarantee the size on the host, not offset.
With PME, I've settled on just resorting the structs (smallest to largest) until it worked everywhere (AMD/CUDA/Intel).
Did you have a case where it was sorted by size of members and it still didn't work? I.e. did it ever matter in which order members of same size where (e.g. ptr and int64)? Or cases where no padding was necessary (e.g. 2 int32 followed by int64) and it didn't work? In other words if we compile the struct with Wpadded and don't get a warning do we know of a case where it doesn't work (I know there is no guarantee - just asking whether there is a known case where this isn't sufficient)?
Either way compiling structs which are used for offloading with Wpadded is probably a good idea.


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Why are we still making it so hard to understand Addressable TV?
Posted in advertising, Analytics, Attribution, digital media, Research, television, video with tags addressable, advertising, CTV, digital advertising, digital media, internet advertising, internet tv, measurement, online advertising, online tv, OTT, Programmatic, research, television, tv, video on September 30, 2019 by gadler
The marketplace for addressable TV cannot truly scale until the industry speaks the same language, understands the opportunies and creates standards.
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Find your audience on YouTube
Posted in advertising, Attribution, Campaigns, Consumers, Demographics, digital media, Google, interactive advertising, online marketing, Uncategorized, YouTube with tags behavioral targeting, Consumers, digital advertising, Google, internet advertising, internet tv, mobile advertising, online advertising, online tv, research, search engines, video, YouTube on September 29, 2019 by gadler
Another cool tool from Google.
Use the Find My Audience tool to discover audiences on YouTube and learn how to reach the ones most relevant to you.
Read on www.thinkwithgoogle.com/feature/findmyaudience/
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In a programmatic media world, it's easy to lose sight of context as advertisers chase audiences wherever they are. But heightened brand-safety fears among advertisers, triggered by ad fraud and other bad practices highlighted throughout the year, are slowly but surely swinging the pendulum away from reach-driven, audience-only targeting, toward valuing the context of the environments.
Posted in Ad Fraud, advertising, Analytics, Attribution, digital media, Internet Activity & Sites, online marketing, Research, Uncategorized, video with tags advertising, digital advertising, digital media, measurement, online advertising, online marketing, Programmatic, research, video on November 27, 2017 by gadler
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Six-Second Commercials Are Coming to N.F.L. Games on Fox (…just catching up with digital advertising)
Posted in advertising, digital media, interactive advertising, online marketing, television, video, YouTube with tags commercials, NY Times, online tv, television, tv, video, YouTube on August 30, 2017 by gadler
Seems television is trying to catch-up with digital video advertising.
According to a recent NY Times article, "A new kind of advertising is coming to N.F.L. games and other programming on Fox Sports this fall: the six-second television commercial.
Fox Networks Group will offer the bite-size slots alongside its standard 15- and 30-second ads for a variety of sporting events after first testing the format on its broadcast of the Teen Choice Awards in mid-August.
People are used to seeing short video ads on platforms like Snapchat, Facebook and YouTube, but not so much on network TV, where the currency for decades has been 15- and 30-second ads. While TV networks have experimented with shorter commercials in the past, largely as publicity stunts for specific brands, Fox is hoping to make six-second ads an industry standard across broadcasters as consumers in the internet era show less tolerance for frequent, bloated ad breaks during shows.
"When the six-second ads are placed in unique positions, it has the potential to gain even more attention than a traditional unit," Eric Shanks, president of Fox Sports, said in an interview.
N.F.L. fans will first see the ads on Fox on Sept. 10 just before kickoff in the network's games on the regular season's opening weekend, and Mr. Shanks said they were also being offered for the World Series and other "marquee events." The network is working to integrate them sparingly into some in-game breaks with 15- and 30-second spots; it may also place them through new formats, like in a box adjacent to players on a field during pauses. The hope is that they will eventually help reduce the overall commercial time that people sit through.
"So, for example, if a pitching coach comes to the mound just to have a conversation and you know that conversation is going to last 30 seconds, is a six-second unit in there going to add to the experience and then be able to decrease the amount of ad inventory somewhere else?" Mr. Shanks said.
The effort underscores the new strategies that broadcasters are deploying to keep the attention of consumers who often clutch a smartphone or tablet — or both — while watching their shows, or avoid ads entirely through Netflix. It's a major shift from the typical spots that TV networks sell and will put a new burden on marketers to not only attract viewers' attention but also pitch a product in less time than it takes to read this sentence out loud.
On network television, the trend has been toward shorter commercials: In the first half of this year, 36 percent of national TV ads were 15 seconds long while 49 percent lasted 30 seconds, Nielsen data shows. In 2014, 29 percent of ads were 15-second spots, while 61 percent were 30 seconds long.
Part of the network's pitch with the Teen Choice Awards was the messaging around the shorter commercials, such as telling viewers that their programming would return in less than 30 seconds, then airing several of the short ads. That improved the odds people would stay in their seats while fostering some good will with a quicker interruption.
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What a 6-Second Ad Looks Like
Fox first tested six-second TV commercials with its broadcast of the Teen Choice Awards in mid-August. This video clip shows one example of the ads in action during an extra-short commercial break.
That rationale helped Fox charge roughly as much for the six-second spots on the show as it did for 15-second ads, according to people familiar with the negotiations, and reduced the program's overall commercial time.
Similarly, Fox has been able to maintain the premium for the six-second ads it is selling now by pointing to lucrative placements, like just before kickoff for an N.F.L. game, the people said. While the ads are being sold as part of broader packages, a six-second spot could cost, at the high end, around $200,000, they said.
Six seconds has become something of a magic number for video ads online. Fox Networks Group said in June that it would follow YouTube's endorsement of that length and introduce six-second ads to shows on its digital platforms and then eventually on TV. YouTube has championed the format since last year as optimal for brands.
"It's a long enough amount of time to actually tell a story, whether it's to convey an emotion or deliver a product message or a piece of news, and yet short enough that the consumer is not irritated by being forced to watch an ad," said Tara Walpert Levy, vice president of agency and media solutions at YouTube and Google.
Separately, Facebook said recently that people scrolling through its News Feed on their mobile devices watched video ads for 5.7 seconds on average once they automatically played. (Often, that's without sound.)
Bringing that format to TV requires some rethinking for advertisers. The effort is being led by Joe Marchese, who was named head of ad sales for Fox Networks Group in May and previously co-founded a digital ad technology firm that was acquired by 21st Century Fox.
Mr. Marchese is aware of the challenges but unperturbed. "The brands and agencies that are able to buy these new models, not stuck in legacy-only buying structures, will be the ones that get to take advantage," he said in an email.
Dave Penski, who oversees media investments as chief executive of Publicis Media Exchange Americas, said that while six-second ads might not work for brands aiming to sell complicated products, he anticipated interest from large sports advertisers that want to reinforce longer messages or simply remind consumers about already recognizable goods.
"It's an innovation that's more cross-screen than others because there's already, certainly in the digital world, a huge amount of six-second advertising that's going on out there," he said.
Mr. Shanks said early examples would come from "the bigger marketers who have a variety of messages throughout the game.'' The ads are unrelated to statements from the N.F.L. this year about improving commercial interruptions.
Dave Campanelli, who oversees video investments at Horizon Media, an ad-buying firm, said he would explore Fox Sports's six-second TV ads but was skeptical that the unit would become a new standard, partly because of the constraints around crafting messages of that length.
He agreed, though, that broadcasters needed to find more ways to shorten commercial breaks and the number of brands featured there.
"With so many different ways to record and fast-forward, or look at your phone during the commercial break and not pay attention, or just change the channel, that's hurt commercial retention and hurt commercial viewership," he said. "Playing with pods and commercialization will definitely change over time and become a bigger piece of what we do."
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New IAB Standards released. Think L.E.A.N.
Posted in advertising, digital media, interactive advertising, online marketing, video, world wide web, www with tags advertising, digital advertising, digital media, IAB, interactive advertising, internet advertising, mobile advertising, native advertising, online marketing, video on July 20, 2017 by gadler
The 'N' in LEAN: Non-Disruptive Ad Experience
"Disruption of the content consumption by advertising has been a major complaint from users as well as a motivation to use ad blocking tools. This guidance lists current ad experiences and identifies disruptive ad experiences that MUST NOT be
used as well as provides guidance on acceptable experiences. …"
Ad Meter | USA Today Sports
Posted in advertising, television, video with tags advertisement, advertising, commercials, online advertising, online tv, Super Bowl, television, tv, video on January 18, 2017 by gadler
Get ready for the Super Bowl…ads!
See most all the Super Bowl commercial advertisements…rated.
via USA Today Sports
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Bianca Jones' Mother Cries Racism In Baby's Dad's Conviction
Filed Under:Banica Jones, Bianca Jones, carjacking, charlie langton, Christy Strawser, D'Andre Lane, D'Andre Lane sentenced, missing toddler, toddler killed
Banika Jones and D'Andre Lane, parents of 2-year-old Bianca Jones, missing since Dec. 2, 2011. (WWJ Photo, File)
DETROIT (Talk Radio 1270) The emotions overflowed after father D'Andre Lane was convicted Monday of child abuse leading to death of 2-year-old Bianca Jones, with him lashing out at the judge and claiming he was an innocent man railroaded into prison.
And it continued Tuesday, with the toddler's mother saying racism was at the root of the prosecution, and Lane's attorney saying an "appeal is in the works." Lane, who continues to claim his daughter was snatched in a carjacking, was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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"I just really feel like we were misrepresented as people, as parents, as a family, people just took a snapshot of our lives as unemployed, low-income persons and made their own conclusions from that … We were involved and loving parents," mother Banica Jones said.
Jones said she's still searching for Bianca, believing the child she had with Lane — one of his seven kids with seven women — is out there waiting to be found.
"He doesn't feel that he had a fair trial," attorney Terry Johnson said of Lane.
Lane told police his toddler was in the back of his car when it was carjacked in Detroit, calling police at 9:45 a.m. December 2, 2011, and saying the assailants had driven off with his daughter. The car was found an hour later with an empty car seat inside.
Cadaver dogs allegedly sniffed out human decomposition in the seat, and in Lane's home, though there was no blood or DNA evidence tied to the death. Lane said it was just an old house and used car seat.
"I understand this is what you all want to see, you need somebody to take the fall, take the blame," Lane said in open court after his conviction, calling the judge a "liar."
"I absolutely believe that it (race) played a factor in this," Jones said. "There was even a point in the trial where the prosecutor pointed at Mr. Lane and myself and said, 'Look at these people, and look what kind of people these people are.'"
Langton pointed out the judge and both attorneys were black, but Jones said that did not "preclude her (the prosecutor) from using these hot-button words and these strong-arm tactics to get the jury on her side," adding, "I object to the characterization of my family that way."
Jones and her attorney believe the cadaver dogs should not have been used in court to sway the jury into believing Bianca was dead.
"I feel there was a lot of evidence that absolutely should not have come in, I do not believe the dog evidence should have come in," Jones said. "They were never able to prove that he did not tell the truth (about the carjacking) … There was never any real search for suspects, for this vehicle, all the attention was immediately directed at Mr. Lane."
Jones said she felt she was on trial as a mother, and their lifestyle was on trial.
"When I was asked by the prosecutor whether or not I was on state aid, I didn't feel like that was in any way relevant to my daughter's kidnapping," Jones said."It was more of an effort to paint me as a low-income single mother and let the jury draw their own conclusions from that."
"I was never asked about my time in the military or my veteran's status," Jones said adding her eldest daughter is a 'straight A student' and she is active in the community as president of her block club in Detroit.
Johnson said no court "in this state, this country, this county" has allowed cadaver dogs to be used as evidence of a death without corroboration by finding a body.
"I think if he was Deanna Lane from the suburbs of Detroit who happened to be a white lady, the outcome would have been different," Johnson said.
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"I think (racism) had a big part to do with it," he added of the conviction, later saying, "The overall makeup of the jury was not the issue as much as it was the perception that here we have a man, seven kids by seven women — what does that really to do with the missing of his daughter Bianca Jones? The jury heard testimony from someone, her testimony was literally, she got up and testified to the fact Deandre wanted Bianca to have an abortion. What does that have to do with the missing 2-year-old toddler?"
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Heute möchte ich euch wieder ein traditionelles Wiener Kaffeehaus vorstellen, denn es gibt in Wien wenig Orte, an denen man die Wiener Seele so gut erleben kann… Diesmal geht es ins Sperl. Eine Institution – seit 1880.
There are just a few places in Vienna where you can feel the real Viennese spirit and it's soul how you will experience it here. This time I take you to the Café Sperl.
When you are in the center of Vienna and looking for a place that is not so busy and touristy but traditional. Somewhere you feel like decades ago… here is the place to be.


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Variation in the Williams syndrome GTF2I gene and anxiety proneness interactively affect prefrontal cortical response to aversive stimuli
M. Jabbi, Q. Chen, N. Turner, P. Kohn, M. White, J. S. Kippenhan, D. Dickinson, B. Kolachana, V. Mattay, D. R. Weinberger, K. F. Berman
Characterizing the molecular mechanisms underlying the heritability of complex behavioral traits such as human anxiety remains a challenging endeavor for behavioral neuroscience. Copy-number variation (CNV) in the general transcription factor gene, GTF2I, located in the 7q11.23 chromosomal region that is hemideleted in Williams syndrome and duplicated in the 7q11.23 duplication syndrome (Dup7), is associated with gene-dose-dependent anxiety in mouse models and in both Williams syndrome and Dup7. Because of this recent preclinical and clinical identification of a genetic influence on anxiety, we examined whether sequence variation in GTF2I, specifically the single-nucleotide polymorphism rs2527367, interacts with trait and state anxiety to collectively impact neural response to anxiety-laden social stimuli. Two hundred and sixty healthy adults completed the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire Harm Avoidance (HA) subscale, a trait measure of anxiety proneness, and underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while matching aversive (fearful or angry) facial identity. We found an interaction between GTF2I allelic variations and HA that affects brain response: in individuals homozygous for the major allele, there was no correlation between HA and whole-brain response to aversive cues, whereas in heterozygotes and individuals homozygous for the minor allele, there was a positive correlation between HA sub-scores and a selective dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) responsivity during the processing of aversive stimuli. These results demonstrate that sequence variation in the GTF2I gene influences the relationship between trait anxiety and brain response to aversive social cues in healthy individuals, supporting a role for this neurogenetic mechanism in anxiety.
Translational psychiatry
https://doi.org/10.1038/tp.2015.98
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Jabbi, M., Chen, Q., Turner, N., Kohn, P., White, M., Kippenhan, J. S., Dickinson, D., Kolachana, B., Mattay, V., Weinberger, D. R., & Berman, K. F. (2015). Variation in the Williams syndrome GTF2I gene and anxiety proneness interactively affect prefrontal cortical response to aversive stimuli. Translational psychiatry, 5(8), [e622]. https://doi.org/10.1038/tp.2015.98
Variation in the Williams syndrome GTF2I gene and anxiety proneness interactively affect prefrontal cortical response to aversive stimuli. / Jabbi, M.; Chen, Q.; Turner, N.; Kohn, P.; White, M.; Kippenhan, J. S.; Dickinson, D.; Kolachana, B.; Mattay, V.; Weinberger, D. R.; Berman, K. F.
In: Translational psychiatry, Vol. 5, No. 8, e622, 25.08.2015.
Jabbi, M, Chen, Q, Turner, N, Kohn, P, White, M, Kippenhan, JS, Dickinson, D, Kolachana, B, Mattay, V, Weinberger, DR & Berman, KF 2015, 'Variation in the Williams syndrome GTF2I gene and anxiety proneness interactively affect prefrontal cortical response to aversive stimuli', Translational psychiatry, vol. 5, no. 8, e622. https://doi.org/10.1038/tp.2015.98
Jabbi M, Chen Q, Turner N, Kohn P, White M, Kippenhan JS et al. Variation in the Williams syndrome GTF2I gene and anxiety proneness interactively affect prefrontal cortical response to aversive stimuli. Translational psychiatry. 2015 Aug 25;5(8). e622. https://doi.org/10.1038/tp.2015.98
Jabbi, M. ; Chen, Q. ; Turner, N. ; Kohn, P. ; White, M. ; Kippenhan, J. S. ; Dickinson, D. ; Kolachana, B. ; Mattay, V. ; Weinberger, D. R. ; Berman, K. F. / Variation in the Williams syndrome GTF2I gene and anxiety proneness interactively affect prefrontal cortical response to aversive stimuli. In: Translational psychiatry. 2015 ; Vol. 5, No. 8.
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N1 - Funding Information: We thank our colleagues at the NIH NMR center for their support. We thank Dr Joseph Callicott for his guidance on the genotyping approach. The Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, funded this work.
N2 - Characterizing the molecular mechanisms underlying the heritability of complex behavioral traits such as human anxiety remains a challenging endeavor for behavioral neuroscience. Copy-number variation (CNV) in the general transcription factor gene, GTF2I, located in the 7q11.23 chromosomal region that is hemideleted in Williams syndrome and duplicated in the 7q11.23 duplication syndrome (Dup7), is associated with gene-dose-dependent anxiety in mouse models and in both Williams syndrome and Dup7. Because of this recent preclinical and clinical identification of a genetic influence on anxiety, we examined whether sequence variation in GTF2I, specifically the single-nucleotide polymorphism rs2527367, interacts with trait and state anxiety to collectively impact neural response to anxiety-laden social stimuli. Two hundred and sixty healthy adults completed the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire Harm Avoidance (HA) subscale, a trait measure of anxiety proneness, and underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while matching aversive (fearful or angry) facial identity. We found an interaction between GTF2I allelic variations and HA that affects brain response: in individuals homozygous for the major allele, there was no correlation between HA and whole-brain response to aversive cues, whereas in heterozygotes and individuals homozygous for the minor allele, there was a positive correlation between HA sub-scores and a selective dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) responsivity during the processing of aversive stimuli. These results demonstrate that sequence variation in the GTF2I gene influences the relationship between trait anxiety and brain response to aversive social cues in healthy individuals, supporting a role for this neurogenetic mechanism in anxiety.
AB - Characterizing the molecular mechanisms underlying the heritability of complex behavioral traits such as human anxiety remains a challenging endeavor for behavioral neuroscience. Copy-number variation (CNV) in the general transcription factor gene, GTF2I, located in the 7q11.23 chromosomal region that is hemideleted in Williams syndrome and duplicated in the 7q11.23 duplication syndrome (Dup7), is associated with gene-dose-dependent anxiety in mouse models and in both Williams syndrome and Dup7. Because of this recent preclinical and clinical identification of a genetic influence on anxiety, we examined whether sequence variation in GTF2I, specifically the single-nucleotide polymorphism rs2527367, interacts with trait and state anxiety to collectively impact neural response to anxiety-laden social stimuli. Two hundred and sixty healthy adults completed the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire Harm Avoidance (HA) subscale, a trait measure of anxiety proneness, and underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while matching aversive (fearful or angry) facial identity. We found an interaction between GTF2I allelic variations and HA that affects brain response: in individuals homozygous for the major allele, there was no correlation between HA and whole-brain response to aversive cues, whereas in heterozygotes and individuals homozygous for the minor allele, there was a positive correlation between HA sub-scores and a selective dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) responsivity during the processing of aversive stimuli. These results demonstrate that sequence variation in the GTF2I gene influences the relationship between trait anxiety and brain response to aversive social cues in healthy individuals, supporting a role for this neurogenetic mechanism in anxiety.
U2 - 10.1038/tp.2015.98
DO - 10.1038/tp.2015.98
JO - Translational Psychiatry
JF - Translational Psychiatry
M1 - e622


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Instacart plans to expand safety measures, data sharing
Source: Instacart
By Sam Danley
SAN FRANCISCO – Instacart is expanding its consumer insights platform to help companies manage supply during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The company has been building its CPG insights team for several months and has provided tailored insights to partners including Kraft Heinz and General Mills since mid-February. The platform offers data on surging search and purchase trends as well as inventory details.
"With the recent surge in customer demand for online grocery, these insights have become particularly important as brands work to understand, in real-time, what items are surging and where there may be out of stock issues, so they can help get customers the items they need," a spokesperson for Instacart told Food Business News, sister publication to MEAT+POULTRY.
The online grocery delivery platform uses its item availability model and replacement engine to make inventory predictions and item placement recommendations as customers shop. It will use that data to feed inventory insights back to more CPG partners in the weeks and months ahead.
Grocery delivery companies have seen a surge in demand as states across the country order residents to stay indoors and avoid non-essential trips outside of their homes. Order volume at Instacart has grown by more than 150% year-over-year during the last several weeks, with average customer basket size increasing by 15%. The company also is seeing record numbers of new shoppers sign up to fill and deliver orders. Nearly 50,000 new shoppers joined the platform last week. It hopes to bring on an additional 300,000 shoppers by June.
Along with speeding up its data sharing, Instacart announced several new measures aimed at protecting workers' health and safety. It partnered with a third-party to manufacture its own hand sanitizer to overcome existing inventory delays and supply chain scarcity, without taking resources away from health care workers. The hand sanitizer began shipping this week and is available for shoppers in safety kits that also contain face masks and thermometers.
The company also expanded sick-pay benefits and bonuses for in-store shoppers. It now offers up to two weeks of extended pay for part- and full-time employees diagnosed with COVID-19 or placed under mandatory quarantine. Other benefits include a new customer tip default and shopper batch promotions.
The new measures came in response to a threatened walkout of Instacart employees over concerns about a lack of proper safety measures.
The company offers no-contact deliveries to promote social distancing. It also is working with retailers to give shoppers access to stores during pre-opening and post-closing hours.
"We've been evaluating the COVID-19 crisis minute-by-minute to provide real-time support for Instacart shoppers and customers throughout North America," said Nilam Ganenthiran, president of Instacart. "Our teams will continue to operate with a sense of urgency on creative solutions to help ensure Instacart shoppers have access to health and safety supplies as quickly as possible."
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Vertical farms offer a bright future for hungry cities
July 21, 2014 by Tim Heath, The Conversation
Vertical farms: coming to a street near you? Credit: Matthew Humphreys, University of Nottingham
The 21st century has seen rapid urbanisation and the global population is now expected to grow to more than 8.3 billion by 2050. Currently, 800m hectares – 38% of the earth's land surface – is farmed and we'll soon need to give over another 100m hectares if we continue to use current agricultural methods. That's not additional fertile land that actually exists though, so some are investigating the potential of vertical farming.
It has been suggested that a 30 storey 27,800,000 m2 vertical farm could be achieved within one New York City block. That farm could feed 50,000 people, providing 2,000 calories for every person each day. With results like that as a prospect, it's easy to see why enthusiasts see vertical farms as the future.
Vertical farms are still very much at the conceptual stage. The idea is to cultivate crops on multiple levels within high-rise buildings in urban areas. It's not an entirely new proposition, with architect Ken Yeang suggesting a vision of high-rise plant cultivation in mixed-use skyscrapers as early as the 1980s. Professor Dickson Despommier, the leading international advocate of vertical farms, describes them as "a global solution" to the world's urban food needs.
Vertical farms do indeed have many advantages. They would enable us to produce crops all year round using 70% less water. We wouldn't need to use agro-chemicals and could avoid the adverse environmental factors that affect yield and quality in more traditional farming. And if food were grown in urban areas in the first place, we could eliminate the financial and environmental costs of importing food into towns and cities.
Section through a proposed vertical farm. Credit: Matthew Humphreys, University of Nottingham
In some respects, farming is now a practical possibility. The technology it requires, in terms of plant growth and construction, are available. We can already cultivate plants without soil and recycle the water used to deliver clean indoor farming, for example. Hydroponics, where plant roots are grown in nutrients dissolved in water, is one option. This plant-growing technique can be combined with traditional aquaculture to raise fish or prawns – a farming technique known as aquaponics. Another way to grow plants is aeroponics, which involves growing suspended plants by spraying the roots with a nutrient-rich water solution.
But even though it has been more than than 20 years since the concept was first proposed and the pressure of climate change continues to mount, vertical farming is still not a reality. The two biggest problems have been financial and technological viability, particularly when it comes to actually building these high-rise spaces.
Vertical farms need contemporary building materials and renewable energy systems. Sunlight reflecting and collecting devices such as light shelves, light pipes and fibre optics can deliver natural light deep into buildings to provide energy for photosynthesis.
The development of LED makes it possible for a vertical farm to operate without the need for sunlight but the cost and energy consumption are currently prohibitive. The initial cost could easily be more than $100m for a 60-hectare vertical farm, which makes it unrealistic at the moment. But this could change as the price should drop rapidly as the technology develops. The obvious solution is to integrate natural light where conditions are suitable and LED in other parts of the building.
Inside a proposed vertical farm. Credit: University of Nottingham
In the meantime, investors are likely to stay away. Vertical farms integrate advanced technologies and need to be relatively large-scale if they are to yield attractive results. It has been estimated that the return on investment for a 10-storey vertical farm would be be approximately 8%, whereas investors typically seek a minimum rate of return of 10-12%. And since there are risks involved in developing a new type of building, investors are realistically more likely to want an annual return of around 15%. Again though, economic viability will undoubtedly come with technological improvements.
Progress is being made towards resolving all these issues so the next step will really be to get a prototype vertical farm up and running in an urban location. What few small-scale prototypes exist in the world are based mainly in research institutions. To be sure that the technique can work, we'll need to construct a high-rise structure in a more realistic environment. If it works, it could spark follow up projects.
To make vertical farming a reality, we need the support of governments and pioneering organisations willing to take a punt. If they do, we could make a huge contribution to food security and could transform the everyday lives of city dwellers across the world. There are more than 26 cities with a population of over 10m, each requiring up to 7,000 tons of food to be imported to feed their residents –- vertical farms could, be one of a package of more sustainable alternatives to feeding them.
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