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VARIOUS APPROACHES FOR FLOW SIMULATIONS IN A KARST - APPLICATION TO ROSPO MARE FIELD (ITALY), 1994, Corre B,
Rospo Mare field is located in the Adriatic Sea, 20 km of the Abruzzes coast, at an average depth of 80 m. The reservoir is a karst which is essentially conductive; yet unlike a conventional porous medium, it cannot be simulated by the usual tools and techniques of reservoir simulation. Therefore, several approaches were used to describe the flow mechanism during the production period in greater detail. The first approach consisted of generating three-dimensional images which were constrained by both petrophysical and geological factors and then, using up-scaling techniques, obtaining the equivalent permeabilities (scalar or tensorial) of grid blocks located in different zones within the karst. This approach shows that within the infiltration zone it is possible, whatever the scale, to find an equivalent homogeneous porous medium; on the other hand, within the epikarst this equivalent medium does not exist below pluridecametric dimensions. Thus it is impossible to study the sweeping mechanism on a small scale, so we must use a deterministic model which describes the network of pipes in the compact matrix, in which a waterflood is simulated by means of a conform finite-element model. This constituted the second approach. The third and final approach consisted of inventing a system of equations to analytically solve the pressure field in a network of vertical pipes which are intersected by a production drain and submitted to a strong bottom water-drive. This model allows us to simulate the water-oil contact rise within the reservoir and study the flows depending on the constraints applied to the production well. It appears that cross flows occur in the pipes even during the production period
U-series dating and isotope geochemical study of the Gell�rt Hill (Budapest) travertine, 2009, Kele S. , Scheuer G. , Dem�ny A. , Shen Ch. C. , Chiang H. W.
Travertine is quite a common formation in the area of Budapest (Hungary) indicating strong hydrothermal activity during the Pliocene and Quaternary. It covers former terraces of the Danube River and older geomorphologic horizons; thus, it is an important archive to date fluvial terraces and tectonic movements. Despite numerous investigations performed on these deposits, only few radiometric data are available so far and the absence of the exact timing information hindered paleoclimatic interpretation. The area of Gellért Hill consists mainly of Upper Triassic dolomite, but Quaternary travertine can also be found. In this study a detailed petrographic and stable isotope geochemical study of four travertine sites (1. Ifjúsági Park; 2. Számadó u. (Street); 3. Kelenhegyi u. (Street); 4. Somlói u. (Street)) of the Gellért Hill area is presented, along with analyses on the recent carbonate deposits of Gellért Hill and Sárosfürdõ. The travertine of Ifjúsági Park and Számadó u. are spring cone deposits, while the travertine of the Kelenhegyi u. represents a shallow-water depositional environment. based on the paleontological studies of Jánossy (in Scheuer and Schweitzer, 1988) the Gellért Hill travertine was thought to have been formed during the Lower Pleistocene; however, no radiometric age dating had been performed on these deposits prior our study. Our U/Th analyses yielded ages of 250±44 ky for the Ifjúsági Park travertine (220 m asl) and 180±49 ky for the Számadó u. travertine (195 m asl). These new U/Th ages are in contradiction with the previously assumed Lower Pleistocene age, implying gradual relative decrease in the paleokarst water-level and proving that the elevation of the individual travertine deposits not necessarily show their relative age. The uplift rates of Gellért Hill calculated from the U/Th age data and elevation of travertine occurrences range between 0.47 and 0.52 mm/yr, which is significantly higher than the uplift rates calculated for the Rózsadomb area (0.20 0.25 mm/yr; Kele et al., submitted). The difference in the incision rates between the individual sub-areas suggests that selective uplift was characteristic for the Buda Hills during the Middle Pleistocene; thus, up-scaling reconstruction of paleokarst waterlevel for the whole area from a given locality is not possible. Oxygen isotope analyses of recent carbonate deposits of Gellért Hill, Sárosfürdõ and Rudas Spa revealed that these calcites precipitated under non-equilibrium conditions, and the measured calcitewater oxygen isotope fractionation show the same positive shift relative to "equilibrium values" as was observed in the case of the recently-forming Egerszalók travertine (Kele et al. 2008). Assuming that the water of the paleo-springs of Gellért Hill derived from precipitation infiltrated during interstadial periods of the Pleistocene and considering non-equilibrium deposition (i.e. using the empirical calcite-water oxygen isotope fractionation of Kele et al. 2008), their calculated paleotemperature could range between 22 (±4) °C and 49 (±6) °C. based on the 18Otravertine differences the Ifjúsági Park and the Számadó u. spring cone type travertine was deposited from the highest temperature water, while from the lowest temperature water the travertine of Kelenhegyi u. was formed.


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At Harvard's Commencement exercises, it is oft noted that only a tenth of grads will enter communications, media, and the arts. You probably have heard how hard it is to make a living as a writer.
Some of these grads think they are the exception. On the occasion of their leap of faith, one wonders what becomes of writers after graduation.
What kinds of jobs, agents and publishing contracts do they find as they travel to the four corners of the American literary scene?
In the first corner, we have "the day job," anything from Charlotte Bronte's governess gig to Charles Bukowski's or Lawrence Durrell's civil servant Band-Aid. In life, there's the work that needs to be done, which incidentally, doesn't usually pay, and the work corporations want you to do to exploit humanity and the environment. That's usually the day job.
"It's depressing to admit that if I hadn't had (and didn't still have) a working husband with a steady job, the whole thing would not have been possible," says Sheila Connolly (Harvard GSA, '79), whose mystery Buried In a Bog recently hit #14 on the New York Times Bestseller list.
"It took five years from the 'aha! I shall write a book!' moment to signing a contract with a publisher, and another two years before the first book was published. Sure, I began making some money, but my net profit was in the low to mid four figures for several more years. It's been only in the past two years that I've made what I would consider a minimum living wage from writing alone. And in my genre, I'm considered one of the success stories!"
Author David Loftus (Harvard College, '81) tells people, "You know how Mark Twain said he never let his schooling get in the way of his education? Well, I try not to let my job get in the way of my WORK!"
Lately he has been supporting his writing habit with an acting habit as a Grimm series spook, or working as a Standardized Patient using improv to help train med students and hospital staff.
"When I was a heart patient, students not only had to listen to my heart and lungs through a stethoscope, but press their hands on various parts of my chest to search for pulsing in unfamiliar locations. If they do sense a throb in a place where there normally shouldn't be one, that's known in the trade as a 'thrill.' So there I was, with a series of pretty young med students touching my bare chest and saying, half to themselves, 'I'm not getting any thrills,' and I said to myself, 'Works for me, honey!'"
Loftus had already worked as a newspaper reporter, columnist, and reviewer for a small daily newspaper, and proofreader and editor for a small publishing house that enabled him to author a couple books.
In the second corner, luckily, is the Internet, which makes it possible to tune in to a worldwide literary dialogue. One of a few university-sponsored places where alumni literati of all ages from all over the world associate is the Harvard Alumni Association's most conversant listserv, the 747-member Harvard Writers and Publishers discussion group. Alumni writers also can be found in and around fresh alumni-driven organizations such as Harvardwood and its fiction publisher affiliate Harvard Square Editions. And Crimeds can keep in touch on the Crimson's Facebook page.
When I asked Wall Street Journal reporter and author of The Terror Courts, Jess Bravin (Harvard College, '87), if Crimeds get together in Washington and throw parties, he said, "You know, much as in college, I'm not cool enough to get invited to anything like that, but I'm in touch with them. Annie Nolan, for instance, was the Arts Editor on the Crimson, and she very nicely threw a little party for me when my book came out, and a number of people came to that who were also on the Crimson and other things around campus. These are people I've met through similar interests, but it hasn't been a kind of structured thing."
In the third corner is Harvard itself, where a growing lack of support for the arts had prevailed until recently. "There's a reason why President Faust made a push for the arts at Harvard a few years ago: because they are typically also-rans at Harvard," says former Harvard expos teacher Dr. Lowry Pei (Harvard College, '67), author of seven novels.
"In particular," Pei says, "my sense is that Harvard has historically been reluctant to get its hands dirty with the actual doing of an art. You can't study music performance, for example. There are creative writing courses, all right, but I would be very surprised if the English Department, as a department, has any official interest in career guidance for writers. It's typical in English departments for there to be a great gulf between the literary theorists and the creative writers--if creative writers are welcome at all. The usual politics are that theory far outranks practice."
Now a professor at Simmons College, Pei leads faculty workshops as part of an initiative to have writing-intensive courses offered in all majors.
In the fourth corner are the victors of corporate mergers who have made writing harder by erecting barriers to entry. One ironic example is the market's degradation of today's authors who try to "self-publish," since it was authors themselves who started well-known publishing houses, including Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press and Sir Walter Scott's co-financed Ballantyne, now both Random House imprints.
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Billionaire investor and asset manager Eric Sprott says that the ruinous state of the global financial system and a shortage of physical gold could send prices for the precious metal surging past $1,920/oz.
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The lending of money has always been a controversial topic
There is always a risk that a borrower will not pay back the loan, leaving the borrower in debt whilst the lender loses their money. So, we start in a difficult place. However, credit is a part of everyday life and allows many to live their lives in the way they would want to.
In more recent years there has been no greater controversy than that around short-term lending, and particularly the 'payday' product, which unsurprisingly, is a loan you repay on your payday.
We have heard a lot about the growth of the gig economy, and the fact that many people are never quite sure about what their wages will be from month to month. For some, there is a reliance on overtime or the temporary work that another family member can bring into the home. Lots of people have to manage those peaks and troughs in their finances, whatever their income.
So, it is not necessarily a new idea, and for decades if not hundreds of years, there have been lenders that meet this need. Some of those firms have grown up in Yorkshire to become lenders that serve the entire UK.
That is not to say that there haven't been any problems, and The Yorkshire Post has carried stories over the years about short-term lending.
The market and the sector have changed dramatically over the last few years. Products have changed, as has the customer base. More importantly, there are clear examples of a new lending culture.
In very short-term lending, the prices are now capped by the regulator and people pay less to borrow. Whilst the average amount of these small loans continues to stay around £300, they tend to be repaid over three months rather than on a single payday.
Figures from the Financial Conduct Authority show that people are less likely to find themselves in financial difficulty, but if they do then any fees are also capped and they are more likely to receive help. Our own industry data shows that the number of people paying default fees has halved in recent years.
However, readers of The Yorkshire Post will have seen articles about the number of complaints against short-term lenders that have increased in recent years. Surely this points to continuing problems? Well no, any analysis of this spike in complaints will point to two things.
First, many of these complaints date back several years. The peak of the payday market was back in 2012 through to 2014, and that is where these come from. Second, we have become the target of claims management companies. Nearly nine in 10 complaints to firms are generated by these companies, most of which are automatically escalated to the Financial Ombudsman Service as they can do so at no cost to the CMC.
What is more worrying is that the Financial Conduct Authority, the new regulator of claims management companies, has already raised concerns about the abuse of data and talked about fraudulent claims. We will see whether that sector reforms its practices.
In the meantime, it is clear that there is a demand for consumer credit that can help people live their lives. Whilst we protect those that need our support, and should always be ready to offer forbearance, we also need to ensure we do not reduce access to credit.
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Q: Can java default library path simply be updated with Spring jars to avoid per project configuration? I'm learning Spring (for Java) and intend to be able to deploy multiple spring java mvc web projects to amazon AWS cloud servers.
Every spring tutorial I've seen includes the step of manually adding a bunch of spring jar files to the build path for each new project that is created.
Wouldn't there be a way to simply run a single script on my dev box (and another script on my server), which would simply retrieve a zipfile of all spring jars, and unpackage them into a standard java library path, so that I wouldn't have to worry about performing those steps for each new project I create?
My objective would be to create new spring projects that will have all spring dependancies resolved simply via the import statements.

A: It would not be very efficient.  Spring is a large suite with many jars, some of which your application will never need.
Even if you were to copy the Spring jars in this way, you would still need to specify which ones need to be packaged into the web applications that you want to deploy.  Adding them all would bloat the web application and may lead to higher AWS costs, and definitely lead to more maintenance cost when the application needs to be updated.
You might want to use a dependency management tool such as Maven to specify which jars you need for each project.  It is an upfront investment of a few minutes, but leads to clean and understandable project composition.


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Die Dolmen von Mores Altes I und II liegen südwestlich vom Dorf nahe der Straße, die von El Port de la Selva zum Kloster Sant Pere de Rodes in Katalonien in Spanien führt. Wahrscheinlich wurden die Dolmen und der Taula dels Lladres () in dieser Zone, von der aus man das Tal und das Meer überblicken konnte, zeitnah errichtet. Ursprünglich war das Gebiet allerdings von Buschland und Steineichenwäldern bedeckt. Die Dolmen enthielten Bestattungen des 5. oder 4 Jahrtausends v. Chr.

Dolmen I und II
Mores Altes I und II sind Megalithanlagen mit langen trapezförmigen Kammern und schmalen Gängen. Die Tragsteine der Dolmen sind Platten. Der nicht erhaltene Rundhügel von Mores Altes I hatte etwa 10 m Durchmesser, der von Mores Altes II 7,0 bis 8,0 m Durchmesser. Beide bestanden aus kleinen Steinen. Die Deckenplatte von Mores Altes I zeigt kleine Schälchen. Die von Mores Altes II zeigt ein kleines Schälchen.

In der Nähe liegt der Dolmen Taula dels Lladres.

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 Megalithanlagen in Katalonien

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 Beschreibung engl.
 Mores Altes I + II
 Mores Altes 1
 Mores Altes 2
 Übersichtskarte der Dolmen in der Nähe

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Budníček (Phylloscopus) je rod drobných pěvců tradičně řazených do čeledi pěnicovitých, někteří taxonomové je ale nově řadí do nové čeledi budníčkovití.

Charakteristika
Jedná se o vesměs velmi drobné ptáky dlouhé 9–12 cm. V jejich zbarvení se kombinuje hnědá, zelená, okrová, šedá a žlutá barva. Mají jehlovitý zobák a tenké nohy. Nemají pohlavní dimorfismus.

Rozšíření
Rod osídlil velkou část Evropy, Asie, Afriky a Austrálie. Jen jeden druh budníček severní (phylloscopus borealis) nedávno pronikl i do Severní Ameriky kde vytvořil stabilní populace hnízdící na Aljašce. Ostatní druhy se do Severní Ameriky zatoulávají při tahu.

Chování
Budníčci se hbitě pohybují i po těch nejtenčích větvičkách nebo na zemi, kde hledají svoji hlavní potravu hmyz, jeho vývojová stadia a bobule. Četnost hnízdění se liší v závislosti na zeměpisné oblasti, přičemž hnízdí jednou v severských oblastech, dvakrát v mírném pásu a vícekrát v tropech. Hnízdo je kulovité, s postranním vchodem. Tropické druhy jsou stálé, severské jsou tažné.

Druhy
 Budníček velehorský (Phylloscopus affinis)
 Budníček kulambagraský (Phylloscopus amoenus)
 Budníček žlutopruhý (Phylloscopus amandii)
 Budníček horský (Phylloscopus bonelii)
 Budníček severní (Phylloscopus borealis)
 Budníček východní (Phylloscopus borealoides)
 Budníček pralesní (Phylloscopus budongoensis)
 Budníček krasový (Phylloscopus calciatilis)
 Budníček kanárský (Phylloscopus canariensis)
 Budníček žlutoprsý (Phylloscopus cantator)
 Budníček cebuský (Phylloscopus cebuensis)
 Budníček alpínský (Phylloscopus chloronotus)
 Budníček menší (Phylloscopus colybita)
 Budníček korunkatý (Phylloscopus coronatus)
 Budníček běloocasý (Phylloscopus davisoni)
 Budníček emeiský (Phylloscopus emeiensis)
 Budníček hnědohřbetý (Phylloscopus fuligiventer)
 Budníček temný (Phylloscopus fuscatus)
 Budníček pokřovní (Phylloscopus griseolus)
 Budníček hainanský (Phylloscopus hainanus)
 Budníček černohlavý (Phylloscopus herberti)
 Budníček středoasijský (Phylloscopus humei)
 Budníček iberský (Phylloscopus ibericus)
 Budníček izuský (Phylloscopus ijmae)
 Budníček pruhohlavý (Phylloscopus inornatus)
 Budníček gansuenský (Phylloscopus kansuensis)
 Budníček zairský (Phylloscopus laetus)
 Budníček mocoský (Phylloscopus laurae)
 Budníček žlutobřichý (Phylloscopus maculipennis)
 Budníček velkozobý (Phylloscopus magnirostris)
 Budníček sancristobalský (Phylloscopus makirensis)
 Budníček malinký (Phylloscopus neglectus)
 Budníček západní (Phylloscopus occipitalis)
 Budníček filipínský (Phylloscopus olivaceus)
 Budníček balkánský (Phylloscopus orientalis)
 Budníček ostrovní (Phylloscopus poliocephalus)
 Budníček timorský (Phylloscopus presbytes)
 Budníček zlatohlavý (Phylloscopus proregulus)
 Budníček nepálský (Phylloscopus pulcher)
 Budníček žlutolící (Phylloscopus reguloides)
 Budníček sírožlutý (Phylloscopus ricketti)
 budníček žlutořitý (Phylloscopus ruficapilla)
 Budníček celebeský (Phylloscopus sarasinorum)
 Budníček tlustozobý (Phylloscopus schwarzi)
 Budníček lesní (Phylloscopus sibilatrix)
 Budníček černonohý (Phylloscopus sindianus)
 Budníček tibetský (Phylloscopus subaffinis)
 Budníček koniferový (Phylloscopus subviridis)
 Budníček amurský (Phylloscopus tenelipes)
 Budníček sundský (Phylloscopus trivirgatus)
 Budníček zelený (Phylloscopus trochiloides)
 Budníček větší (Phylloscopus trochilus)
 Budníček pákistánský (Phylloscopus tytleri)
 Budníček zelenokřídlý (Phylloscopus umbrovirens)
 Budníček šedohlavý (Phylloscopus xanthoschistos)
 Budníček s-čchuanský (Phylloscopus yunnanensis)

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Budníčkovití


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Chip Scoggins @chipscoggins
P.J. Fleck is changing offensive coordinators after winning eight games, and if anyone is curious about why a shake-up is necessary, take a minute and examine national passing statistics in college football this season.
Start with the pass attempts category and scroll to the bottom:
130. Army.
129. Navy.
128. Air Force.
127. Minnesota.
That's right, the Gophers threw fewer passes than every college football team at the FBS level except the three service academies, who treat the forward pass like a kindergartner treats a plate of asparagus.
As Fleck frequently noted, the Gophers lost five running backs during the season, yet they still made their passing game ride in the back seat.
They did so despite having a four-year starter at quarterback, the most experienced offensive line in college football, a standout wide receiver and a big, athletic tight end.
Fleck opted not to renew the contract of Mike Sanford Jr., putting him in the market for a new coordinator. The Star Tribune confirmed a Yahoo! Sports report Thursday night that Fleck is targeting his former coordinator Kirk Ciarrocca, who left after the 2019 season, spent one year in that role at Penn State and served as an offensive analyst at West Virginia this season.
Fleck also has a worthy candidate on staff in wide receiver coach Matt Simon, who was passed over two years ago when Ciarrocca left.
A change became inevitable based on the inconsistency of the offense under Sanford's direction. Yes, losing star running back Mohamed Ibrahim in the opener was a significant setback, but the offense had more firepower than it displayed in finishing 84th nationally in scoring and 98th in total yards.
The Gophers scored 10 points against Bowling Green and six points against Illinois in a pair of baffling offensive performances.
The entire scheme felt disjointed and lacking imagination until the final two games. On that point, Fleck caused ears to perk up when he credited both Sanford and Simon for a creative game plan at Indiana. That sounded like a message being delivered.
The fact that 6-7 freakishly talented tight end Brevyn Spann-Ford caught only 23 passes in 12 games amounts to coaching malpractice. The offense had a major mismatch that went largely ignored.
Sanford's primary problem was that Tanner Morgan regressed from being one of college football's most efficient passers as a sophomore in 2019 — right behind LSU's Joe Burrow, Oklahoma's Jalen Hurts and Ohio State's Justin Fields — to No. 71 nationally in passing efficiency as a senior.
It's too convenient an excuse to blame that disparity in production solely on losing two NFL-bound wide receivers. Quarterbacks generally improve with experience, not slide backward.
The indelible image of Sanford's brief stint as coordinator will be Morgan looking to the sideline with the play clock winding down, frantically trying to get the play called at the line in a desperate attempt to beat the clock, followed by a run up the middle. Over and over again.
The whole thing looked chaotic.
Morgan deserves better. The offense deserves better. Which is why Fleck can't be content with simply changing coordinators. He also must examine his own philosophy in understanding how to squeeze more out of the offense.
Nobody expects Fleck to abandon his affinity for ball-control, power running. That's his identity as a coach. Yet, there must be wiggle room in there to find a more consistent approach with the passing game.
The Gophers are quite capable of running the ball down the throat of some Big Ten opponents without asking their quarterback to do any heavy lifting. Throwing the ball shouldn't be set aside as an inconvenience, though.
Those who played that position will tell you that being a reliable passer isn't as simple as flipping a switch. It takes repetition and nurturing. Imagine the pressure Morgan felt knowing he had limited chances to throw.
Morgan is returning next season for his fifth season as the starter, a rarity in college football. He has started 38 games, and his 26 wins make him the winningest quarterback in program history.
Given those facts, it doesn't make sense for the Gophers to run the ball roughly 70% of their plays, as was the case this season. The next coordinator, with Fleck's clear support, should be tasked with finding a better run/pass balance and diagraming pass concepts that accentuate Morgan's strengths. Bringing back Ciarrocca would make sense considering the success Morgan had in 2019 under his guidance.
They should take advantage of a quarterback with Morgan's experience, not minimize it.
Fleck plans to bring back Ciarrocca as Gophers' offensive coordinator
Kirk Ciarrocca, the Gophers offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2017 through 2019, would replace Mike Sanford Jr., who was let go.
Chip Scoggins is a sports columnist and enterprise writer for the Star Tribune. He previously covered the Vikings, Gophers football, Wild, Wolves and high school sports in nearly 19 years at the paper.
ascoggins@startribune.com 612-673-4484 @chipscoggins
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Q: How to implement login authentication using react-redux? After a bit of research, JWT is commonly used for login authentication because of its compact nature and easiness to parse. I have settled on using JWT. However, my question is on how to embed this in my redux paradigm. Assuming we have a sign up form, when a user fills in his or her credentials and clicks a submit button, this will invoke an action to create an action to create a JWT. Now, this action goes to the back-end of my application and the back-end of my application calls the JWT API? So this action is an asynchronous/rpc call? Also, how does routing happen exactly? I have used react-router before, but using a boilerplate. I am building this web app from scratch and so I am a bit confused on where to deal with the routing and where do I pass this token exactly that I obtain from the server the first time? Is the token used every time a user does a request? How does the client know about this token every time it does the request so that it would keep a user authenticated?

A: I personally use Redux saga for async API calls, and I'll show You the flow I've been using for JWT authorization:

*

*Dispatch LOG_IN action with username and password

*In your saga You dispatch LOGGING_IN_PROGRESS action to show e.x. spinner

*Make API call

*Retrieved token save e.x. in localstorage

*Dispatch LOG_IN_SUCCESS or LOG_IN_FAILED to inform application what response did You get

Now, I always used a separate function to handle all my requests, which looks like this:
import request from 'axios';
import {get} from './persist'; // function to get something from localstorage

export const GET = 'GET';
export const POST = 'POST';
export const PUT = 'PUT';
export const DELETE = 'DELETE';

const service = (requestType, url, data = {}, config = {}) => {
    request.defaults.headers.common.Authorization = get('token') ? `Token ${get('token')}` : '';
    switch (requestType) {
        case GET: {
            return request.get(url, data, config);
        }
        case POST: {
            return request.post(url, data, config);
        }
        case PUT: {
            return request.put(url, data, config);
        }
        case DELETE: {
            return request.delete(url, data, config);
        }
        default: {
            throw new TypeError('No valid request type provided');
        }
    }
};
export default service;

Thanks to this service, I can easily set request data for every API call from my app (can be setting locale also).
The most interesting part of it should be this line:
request.defaults.headers.common.Authorization = get('token') ? `Token ${get('token')}` : '';`

It sets JWT token on every request or leave the field blank.
If the Token is outdated or is invalid, Your backend API should return a response with 401 status code on any API call. Then, in the saga catch block, you can handle this error any way You want.

A: When a user submits his credentials (email/password) your backend authenticates that for the first time and only this time does the backend use these credentials. On authentication your backend will create a JWT with some of the user information, usually just the user ID. There are plenty of JWT Libraries and even jwt-decode for javascript to do this. The backend will respond with this JWT where the front-end will save it (ie, localStorage.setItem('authToken', jwt)) for every subsequent request.
The user will send a request with the JWT in the request header under the Authorization key. Something like:
function buildHeaders() {
    const token = localStorage.getItem('authToken')

    return {
      "Accept": "application/json",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
      "Authorization": `${token}`
    }
}

Your backend will now decode and authenticate the JWT. If it's a valid JWT the request continues, if not it's rejected.
Now with React-Router you can protect authenticated routes with the onEnter function. The function you provide does any necessary checks (check localStorage for JWT and if a current user). Typically I've done this:
const _ensureAuthenticated = (nextState, replace) => {
    const { dispatch } = store
    const { session } = store.getState()
    const { currentUser } = session
    const token = localStorage.getItem("phoenixAuthToken")
    if (!currentUser && token) {     // if no user but token exist, still verify
      dispatch(Actions.currentUser())
    } else if (!token) {             // if no token at all redirect to sign-in
      replace({
        pathname: "/sign-in",
        state: { nextPathname: nextState.location.pathname}
      })
    }
  }

You can use this function in any route like so:
<Route path="/secret-path" onEnter={_ensureAuthenticated} />

Check out jwt.io for more information on JWT's and the react-router auth-flow example for more information on authentication with react-router.

A: I recently had to implement registration and login with React & Redux as well.
Below are a few of the main snippets that implement the login functionality and setting of the http auth header.
This is my login async action creator function:
function login(username, password) {
    return dispatch => {
        dispatch(request({ username }));

        userService.login(username, password)
            .then(
                user => {
                    dispatch(success(user));
                    history.push('/');
                },
                error => {
                    dispatch(failure(error));
                    dispatch(alertActions.error(error));
                }
            );
    };

    function request(user) { return { type: userConstants.LOGIN_REQUEST, user } }
    function success(user) { return { type: userConstants.LOGIN_SUCCESS, user } }
    function failure(error) { return { type: userConstants.LOGIN_FAILURE, error } }
}

This is the login function of the user service that handles the api call:
function login(username, password) {
    const requestOptions = {
        method: 'POST',
        headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
        body: JSON.stringify({ username, password })
    };

    return fetch('/users/authenticate', requestOptions)
        .then(response => {
            if (!response.ok) {
                return Promise.reject(response.statusText);
            }

            return response.json();
        })
        .then(user => {
            // login successful if there's a jwt token in the response
            if (user && user.token) {
                // store user details and jwt token in local storage to keep user logged in between page refreshes
                localStorage.setItem('user', JSON.stringify(user));
            }

            return user;
        });
}

And this is a helper function used to set the Authorization header for http requests:
export function authHeader() {
    // return authorization header with jwt token
    let user = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('user'));

    if (user && user.token) {
        return { 'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + user.token };
    } else {
        return {};
    }
}

For the full example and working demo you can go to this blog post


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Penny Dreadful: The Complete 3rd and Final Season - Blu-ray Review
Mike Edwards
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Discussion Starter • #1 • Oct 3, 2016
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Title: Penny Dreadful: The Complete 3rd and Final Season
Movie: :3.5stars:
Video: :4.5stars:
Audio: :4.5stars:
Extras: :2.5stars:
HTS Overall Score:82
Well, the series I never thought would make it off the ground has actually made it to its third and final season. And before someone says that it should have lasted longer, the creators have actually come forth and said they weren't cancelling the show because of ratings, but rather because they wanted a three season arc and to send the show out on a high note (something I'm very slightly skeptical of and will explain my reasons later in the review). What looked like a "mature" version of "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", morphed into a unique and disturbingly dark fantasy series that incorporates werewolves, vampires, witches, warlocks and all sorts of other nasty beasties of fantasy lore (and be assured that none of them sparkle or are dateable). Season 2 was a distinct increase in quality to the rough season 1, but season three sort of stays on a stable plane, with only a few issues crop up during the final few episodes (the reasoning behind my suspicions about actually planning a three season story arc from the beginning).
Season three picks up after the events of season two's fantastic finale. Vanessa (the luxurious Eva Green), the medium of untold powers, is off living by herself as a hermit after trying to imbue a doll with her powers in the previous season. The first episode of the series plays off a bit awkwardly, letting us know that the main cast was probably separated for a while and not about to come back together as a group for some time. Something that leaves the viewer a bit frustrated as the comradery and close-knit nature of the freaks was one of the major pulling factors for the show. It's the idea of "breaking up the band" that has pushed so many good shows over the edge ("The O.C.", "X-Files" and others like "Parks and Recreation"). Still, season three ends up being way better than I honestly expected it to be.
The show should have dived bombed with the breaking up of the core group, but what saves the show is the fantastic acting of the group. Even alone they are wonderfully unique and well nuanced characters that can thrive in any situation. Evan Green plays Vanessa with a gleeful and twisted style that is intoxicating to watch. Vanessa has suffered so much in her life and this season she gets to suffer a little bit more after she tries to return Ethan's advances only to realize that she's too late as he goes back to America to hang/stand trial for his crimes. The addition of the western storylines with Ethan back home make for some awesome storylines and Rory Kinnear shines as John Clare, the companion for Frankenstein's famous titular monster.
I could gush about the actors for pages, but that gets a bit old, don't you think? All this being said, I really enjoyed the slightly shortened 9 episode season 3, but here's where I'm slightly skeptical about creator John Logan stating that a 3 season arc was originally planned. While the show flows nicely and brings some fresh new storylines, the ending of the season doesn't wrap up all the loose plot lines like it should. In fact it almost feels like there was plenty of setup for a 4th season even! You can tell that the show was definitely winding to an end, but I have a sneaking suspicious that they were actually going to try and add a 4th season but thought better of it and went back to their original idea of three seasons (or at least tentative idea of 3 seasons).
Now, even that is a flaw, I have to say that the addition of the "big bad season villain" was more than enough to make up for that slight season ending faux pas. I won't spoil the actual identity of who they're facing off this season, but it's a powerful foe indeed and his episode inclusions are some of the best in the entire show. I won't say that it's better than season 2's peaking, but season 3 manages to keep on just about the same plane on enjoyment and makes for a good ending season for the show.
The episode rundown:
The Day Tennyson Died
Predators Far And Near
Good And Evil Braided Be
This World's Is Our Hell
No Beast So Fierce
Perpetual Night
The Blessed Dark
Video :4.5stars:
The Third and final season of "Penny Dreadful" keeps up with the truly fantastic Blu-ray encodes that CBS/Paramount have given us the last two seasons. Sticking with the traditional blue and yellow filter (although there is a distinct green one being used in conjunction with the blue at times) the 1.78:1 framed Blu-ray looks marvelous. Detail is superb throughout, whether it be in the old west with Ethan and his dusty outfit, or the intricate lace designs on Vanessa's dress. Every crease and curve of the actor's faces are visible for the world to see, and sometimes that acts as a slight detriment to the show (you can usually see the makeup line where John Clare's prosthetic scars meet his real face). Blacks are deep and inky, though they suffer from medium levels of crush here and there. It's a great looking set of three BD-50's and with only 3 episodes per disc, it has a decently high bitrate to give plenty of breathing room for the encode
Audio :4.5stars:
"Game of Thrones" was the first TV show to have a Dolby Atmos object based track for it's re-releases, but others seem to be picking up the reins and adding the new format to their lineup. While many movies have already adopted the next generation of audio, "Penny Dreadful: The Complete 3rd and Final Season" is only the second TV show besides "Game of Thrones" to actually adopt it. "Penny Dreadful" has always had a very nice 5.1 Dolby TrueHD track that shines, but the Atmos addition kicks it up a notch and brings the immersiveness of the show that much better. The addition of the heights and object oriented shifting isn't used as well as they COULD have been, but the show has more than enough action and directionality to really make an enveloping experience on Blu-ray. The low end is appropriately aggressive and the dialog is never under any sort of fault. Overall a great sounding track that gets a little boost with the addition of the Atmos channels.
Extras :2.5stars:
• Hecate's Witch Prosthetics
• The Making Of Dr. Jekyll's Lab
• Character Profiles:
- Ethan Chandler
- Sir Malcolm & Kaetenay
- Dr. Sweet
- Dr. Seward & Renfield
- The Creature
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein & Dr. Jekyll
- Dorian, Lily & Justine
- Catriona Hartdegen
• Vanessa's Costumes
• The Dead Zoo
Overall: :4stars:
"Penny Dreadful: The Complete 3rd and Final Season" is a very solid ending to a fun TV series. I'm always a fan of a show ending the run on a high note rather than stretching on and on forever until the series has run itself into the ground. Although it's not nearly as bad as a show getting cancelled in the first season *cough*Firefly*cough* and we're always left wanting. There were a few hiccups with the loose ends being left there to dangle in the wind, but there weren't so many that it left you with an egregiously obvious cliffhanger for a season that was never destined to be. The technical specifications for the disc are more than great, although the extras are just fair to middling (something that is all too common in modern releases). Definitely worth picking up if you've enjoyed the previous two seasons, and if you haven't seen it, then I would recommended grabbing the first season to see if you like it. With all the mediocre "adult" or "mature" TV shows out there, it's nice to find one that is consistently good across the board.
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Eva Green, Timothy Dalton
Created by: John Logan
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 AVC
Audio: English: Dolby Atmos (Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Core), Spanish DD 2.0
Rated: TV-MA
Blu-ray Release Date: October 6th, 2015
Buy Penny Dreadful: The Complete 3rd and Final Season Blu-ray on Amazon
Recommendation: Solid Watch
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Community Engaged Learning progresses
Nora G. Hertel
Through the series on Community Engaged Learning, The Lawrentian has covered academic projects that allow Lawrence students and faculty to aid, educate and involve the local community.
This outreach education provides a place for students to apply their classroom studies to "real-world" situations where they are forced to problem-solve and cooperate with peers and community members. Lawrence has recently started an initiative to encourage and facilitate more connections with the community.
The outreach work from the geology department – monitoring heavy metal contamination in regional water bodies and establishing Lawrence's garden, among other projects – grew out of the interests and efforts of students and faculty, and has since come to suit the general goals of Community Engaged Learning.
The anthropology department's nutrition project began as a response to a community need to assess and improve eating habits of area students and has forged an ongoing link between the university and the city.
The projects that are currently in progress were not necessarily born out of the new, formalized movement to expand service learning at Lawrence, but they certainly support the trend.
The choice to expand service learning at Lawrence was a conscious one involving President Jill Beck, a faculty task force, and outside funding. Mathematics professor Alan Parks received an endowed professorship to "foster and promote the concept of altruistic leadership at the college."
The $1 million Pieper Family Servant-Leader Professorship is officially active beginning July of this year, but Parks is already involved in research and preparations within and beyond the university.
At this time Parks is hoping to provide better administrative support for existing projects, like those of the geology and anthropology departments.
In efforts to expand Lawrence's concept of Community Engaged Learning, he is "working on outreach that will proceed from the curriculum – for the most part from courses [Lawrence] already offers."
Additionally, these preparations include interviewing faculty to discuss ideas, course projects, and community ties, networking in local schools and other institutions involved with Community Engaged Learning, and seeking needs in the community that may benefit from contributions of Lawrence students and faculty.
Parks hesitated to disclose details for fear of "endorsing particular projects," but there is definitely collaboration throughout the university and the community at large.
In the coming years, students can look forward to academic studies that bring them out of the classroom in order to apply their knowledge for the benefit of others. This kind of learning provides meaning to education and promotes a symbiosis between the Lawrence community and the world beyond.
The Lawrentian Staff - April 20, 2007
Nora G. Hertel Through the series on Community Engaged Learning, The Lawrentian has covered academic projects that allow Lawrence students and faculty to aid, educate and involve the local community.This outreach education provides a place for students to apply their classroom studies to "real-world" situations where they are forced to problem-solve and cooperate with peers…


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For Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Doyletech completes a study assessing the current and future evolution of first-generation biofuels in Canada. The major objective of the work was to assess the likely future evolution of the first-generation biofuels industry in Canada, and to assess what are the possible solutions for a medium to long-term sustainable future of the industry in Canada. First-generation biofuels were taken as bioethanol and biodiesel.


Penry Williams was born in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, the son of a stonemason and house painter. He moved to Rome in 1826 to pursue his career as an artist.
'A Distant View of Saint Peter's Rome' was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1828.
Williams stayed in Rome until his death but often returned to Wales to paint, see clients and to visit friends.


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Two Sisters: A Father, His Daughters, and Their Journey into the Syrian Jihad
Author: Seierstad, Asne
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The riveting true story of two sisters' journey to the Islamic State and the father who tries to bring them home
Two Sisters, by the international bestselling author Åsne Seierstad, tells the unforgettable story of a family divided by faith. Sadiq and Sara, Somali immigrants raising a family in Norway, one day discover that their teenage daughters, Leila and Ayan, have vanished - and are en route to Syria to aid the Islamic State. Seierstad's riveting account traces the sisters' journey from secular, social democratic Norway to the front lines of the war in Syria, and follows Sadiq's harrowing attempt to find them.
Employing the same mastery of narrative suspense she brought to The Bookseller of Kabul and One of Us, Seierstad puts the problem of radicalization into painfully human terms, using instant messages and other primary sources to reconstruct a family's crisis from the inside. Eventually, she takes us into the hellscape of the Syrian civil war, as Sadiq risks his life in pursuit of his daughters, refusing to let them disappear into the maelstrom - even after they marry ISIS fighters. Two Sisters is a relentless thriller and a feat of reporting with profound lessons about belief, extremism, and the meaning of devotion.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Size: 9.00" l x 5.50" w x 1.50"


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Gergely Raccuja wins 2017 Wolfson Economics Prize
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A recent graduate from UCL has won the 2017 Wolfson Economics Prize, a £250,000 Prize that posed the question 'How can we pay for better, safer, more reliable roads in a way that is fair to road users and good for the economy and the environment?'
His entry, "Paying for road use could be Miles Better", went head to head on a shortlist of five, judged by senior policymakers including the former Chancellor Lord Darling.
Gergely's entry argued that to restore trust between politicians and motorists, fuel duty and VED should be scrapped and replaced with a simple and fair distance-based charge that also captures road and environmental impacts.
The lighter and cleaner your vehicle is, the lower the per mile charge. The system will boost investment and update the way we run roads ready for a new generation of electric and autonomous vehicles.
Drivers won't be asked to pay more overall, paying in proportion to the distance they drive each year. The charge will be collected by insurers who already manage all data necessary for calculating the charge. When a driver pays their insurance, they'll also pay their 'road bill', thus avoiding issues of privacy and reducing administration costs.
The Office of Rail and Road will ensure drivers are guaranteed fair treatment by setting the base charge and ensuring a fair proportion of the proceeds are ring-fenced for spending on both local and national highways, pledging a "pothole-free Britain" within 5 years.
The Treasury wins too, according to Raccuja. With both the number of vehicles on the road and total vehicle mileage projected to grow, government revenue will rise over time. This will stop and reverse the growing loss to the Treasury from falling fuel duty, estimated at an extra £2.3m a day.
Gergely Raccuja was born in Budapest, Hungary and moved to the UK in 2011. He read Politics, Urban Planning and Italian at UCL, graduating in 2015 with First Class Honours. In January 2016, he started as a Graduate Transport Planner at Amey Consulting in Birmingham.
For his final submission Gergely received input from the RAC Foundation, one of Britain's largest motoring organisations. The RAC Foundation, led by Steve Gooding, teamed up with Raccuja – going head to head with AA President Edmund King and his wife the economist Deirdre King.
The Kings' shortlisted entry proposed the idea of Road Miles, where drivers benefit from at least 3,000 free Road Miles each year with a small charge thereafter, and adopt-a-highway naming rights to boost investment.
The 2017 Wolfson Economics prize, the third to be run, received over 120 entries from 7 countries. Judges were struck by the range of innovative ideas among the finalists.
Clearways, a team from Australia, sought to end congestion by rewarding people for changing their driving habits, while Catriona Brown proposed T-Forward, a new technology platform. Transport economists Volterra teamed up with engineering firm Jacobs to call for "Pricing for Prosperity", eliminating fuel tax and VED and replacing them with variable charges for each journey helping drivers make better decisions on how, when and where to travel.
However, it was 27-year-old Raccuja that most impressed the team of judges, including former Chancellor Lord Darling, Chairman of Legal & General Sir John Kingman, economist Bridget Rosewell, former Deputy Mayor of London for Transport Isabel Dedring and The Times associate editor Lord Finkelstein – to scoop the £250,000 prize at an event in central London on Thursday evening.
Wolfson Prize Winner Gergely Raccuja said:
"I'm over the moon, the past 2 months have been an incredible journey. I want to thank the judges for their support for Miles Better and the RAC Foundation and Amey for helping me improve the proposal. The key to our entry was to keep things simple, yet come up with an answer that was sophisticated enough to deal with an upheaval in cars and road transport which hasn't been seen since the introduction of the motor car well over a century ago. I hope I can persuade our politicians too that everything to do with our roads could be better."
Director of the RAC Foundation, Steve Gooding said:
"To be involved in this winning entry has been a privilege, but the really crucial thing is what happens next. The common themes of several entries have been both the pressing need for change and the belief there is a better option to balance what drivers contribute to the finances of the country and what they get in return.
"Even if policy makers aren't immediately persuaded by our arguments they know the clock is ticking for them to show they have got a plan that offers the country's tens of millions of drivers a fair deal and keeps the country moving in increasingly challenging times."
The founder of the Prize, Lord (Simon) Wolfson of Aspley Guise, said:
"The 2017 Wolfson Economics Prize sought a better way to pay for better roads as congestion, pollution and potholes remain a source of daily misery for millions of people: undermining our economy, environment and quality of life.
"Gergely's entry met that challenge, and is ground-breaking, yet simple – with the backing of a major motoring organisation.
"I would like to offer my warmest congratulations to Gergely and his contributors for their brilliant submission.
"Policymakers can learn much from this year's Prize, and I hope they will take forward solutions to solve one of the greatest infrastructure challenges of modern times."
Full details on all the finalists can be found below (click + to expand details):
PAYING FOR ROAD USE COULD BE MILES BETTER - Gergely Raccuja
Contributors: Steve Gooding [Director, RAC Foundation], Bhavin Makwana [Data Analyst, RAC Foundation], Philip Gomm [Head of External Communications, RAC Foundation], Anneka Lawson [Research Anaylst, RAC Foundation] and Matthew Derry [Amey]For his final submission, Gergely has received input from the RAC foundation. Gergely argues that to restore trust between politicians and motorists, fuel duty and VED need to be replaced with a simple and fair distance-based charge that also captures road and environmental impacts.
The lighter and cleaner your vehicle is, the lower the per mile charge.
The total amount of tax collected from motorists will be the same as at present, with individuals paying in proportion to the distance they drive each year.
The charge will be collected by insurers who already manage all data necessary for calculating the charge. When a driver pays their insurance, they'll also pay their 'road bill', thus avoiding issues of privacy and reducing administration costs.
The scheme won't be vulnerable to political interference: the Office of Rail and Road will set the base charge, decide changes to it and ensures a fair proportion of the proceeds are ring-fenced for spending on both local and national highways.
The Treasury wins too. With both the number of vehicles on the road and total vehicle mileage projected to grow, government revenue will rise over time. This will stop and reverse the £2.3m, which the government is currently losing every day in decreasing fuel duty revenues.
His big idea
Miles Better: simple and fair charging
Gergely Raccuja was born in Budapest, Hungary. He read Politics, Urban Planning and Italian at UCL, graduating in 2015 with First Class Honours. In January 2016, he started as a Graduate Transport Planner at Amey Consulting in Birmingham. He has a keen interest in the role that technology will have in shaping the future of transport.
T-FORWARD, A STEPPED APPROACH - Catriona Brown
Catriona's entry argues that a rapid shift to a single national plan for road pricing would fail in the face of political and technical objections. Instead she backs greater investment in roads through gradual steps, starting with building a technology platform which she calls "TForward". This creates economies of scale, and enables the intelligent integration and upgrading of existing charging systems such as the London Congestion Charge and HGV levy. The platform could then fund much needed new roads, alongside improvements to existing roads such as fixing potholes. Local authorities would be encouraged to take part, addressing congestion and pollution in their area. Electric and autonomous vehicles would be included and their spread would support a bigger shift. Integrating public transport would make it easy for people to combine alternative modes of travel. The platform could be "exported" to other countries facing similar challenges, creating an international solution and a new transportation industry with many skilled jobs.
Her big idea
Solve road congestion and pollution by harnessing technology to drive investment and cut costs.
Catriona is a busy mother with two young children, and expecting her third child next week. Catriona does not have a professional background in transport, but her everyday frustrations with road congestion have motivated her to draw on her background as a lawyer to find solutions.
ROAD MILES - Deirdre and Edmund King
Download Full SubmissionDeirdre and Edmund King's entry promotes Road Miles –a new and popular way of paying for roads, which helps the transition to electric and autonomous vehicles and their future infrastructure needs. Drivers pay less. More is spent on roads, tunnels, cycling, buses and Government gets £2bn extra per year.
They argue road users get a raw deal: paying the highest taxes in Europe alongside a congested and deteriorating road network. Under their proposal, drivers benefit from at least 3,000 free Road Miles each year and a telematics dongle which charges a small amount after the free miles and fuel duty discounts are deducted. Rural drivers get 1,000 extra Road Miles. Elderly, disabled, unemployed and young drivers save 15% costs. Fuel duty drops 20% within five years to 47p/litre. Drivers are compensated for excessive roadwork delays and closures.
Their Road Miles Innovation Fund will stimulate faster uptake of cleaner vehicles, reduce congestion and strive for a Vision Zero Road System with no fatalities.
Commercial income comes from a national lottery, Adopt-a-Highway naming rights (e.g. Apple A1), and from an auction where manufacturers and retailers could bundle free Road Miles with purchases.
Their big idea
Road miles become a new currency.
Deirdre King serves as a director of Blueprint Consultants, and formerly worked as an economic business analyst for BSkyB and BBC Worldwide. She has also served as an economist at the British Road Federation. She holds an MSc in Economics from LSE and a BSc in Economics from UCL.
Edmund King has 25 years' experience as a transport and motoring campaigner. He has worked for the British Road Federation and various motoring organisations and think tanks. He is Visiting Professor of Transport at Newcastle University and the AA president. Last year he received an OBE for services to road safety.
PRICING FOR PROSPERITY – Paul Buchanan – Volterra Partners and Jacobs
Our roads are congested, unreliable and poorly maintained. P4P sets out a new approach to deliver fast, reliable roads for everyone. It does this by eliminating fuel tax and VED and replacing them with variable charges for each journey helping drivers make better decisions on how, when and where to travel. Technology enables this, providing drivers with multiple options, in real time, for mode, routes, timing and cost, letting them pick which option suits them best. It will fundamentally change the relationship between road user and highway authority. If the authority fails to deliver the agreed journey time, drivers will be compensated.
The charges cover three elements:
Congestion – applies at times/locations when journeys are slow and unreliable; no charge for 90% of vehicle kilometers. All revenues invested in improving the transport network;
Environmental – charge for the adverse effects of road use (air pollution, noise) with revenues used to mitigate those impacts. Cleaner vehicles will pay nothing;
Maintenance – vehicles pay according to the damage they cause. Revenues spent on highway maintenance to improve road quality.
A long-term, fair, efficient and flexible way to pay for better roads, while offering faster, more reliable and for the vast majority of car drivers, a cheaper solution.
Paul is an economist specialising in the transport sector. Paul has led many major project appraisals including Jubilee Line Extension and Crossrail. He has extensive overseas experience. Paul led the development of Wider Economics from Crossrail from 2002 to 2005, subsequently incorporated into DfT guidance. He is a partner at Volterra.
REWARDING CHANGES TO DRIVING HABITS - Jamye Harrison & Russell King
Contributors: KPMG
Congestion is throttling the UK and is going to get worse if we do not use roads more efficiently. According to surveys, 20% of journeys in the morning peak, can be re-timed. Congestion can be greatly reduced by just a small percentage of people changing their driving habits. A reduction of 5% of peak journeys reduces travel times by almost 15%.
Clearways allows people to opt out of paying fuel excise (saving 57.95p per litre) and move onto a pricing plan which guarantees people will not pay more. Clearways encourages people to use the road more efficiently by rewarding them for changing their driving habits such as retiming outside of the peak or using public transport. Clearways has none of the disadvantages of approaches like road pricing. It is optional, it does not punish people for their existing driving habits and it does not rely on Government to implement the scheme.
Clearways improves quality of life, reduces costs of doing business, improves air quality and road safety, improves fairness and sets up the UK for transport services of the future such as autonomous vehicles. All this and it does not cost the taxpayer more or reduce Government revenues.
Clearways abolishes congestion by rewarding people for changing their driving habits.
Jamye Harrison has over 20 years of experience in strategy, design and delivery spanning customer experience, technology and business architecture. He is a former Partner with Deloitte in Australia where he led the firm's national Transport practice. As Co-Founder of Clearways, Jamye is passionate about addressing traffic congestion along with integrating our roads with broader transport networks – ultimately enabling people and goods to move easily through cities and regions. Jamye is an Adjunct Professor at the University of NSW in the Faculty of Engineering's Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation and Chair of the Transport Taskforce at the Committee for Sydney – an independent policy think tank.
Russell King's experience spans policy development, strategic planning and program delivery in transport, education and financial services. For more than 20 years Russell has pursued a passion for economic and social policy reform, most recently in Sydney as Policy Director for the NSW Minister for Transport & Infrastructure. As a Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning & Transport at Wandsworth Borough Council, he led significant policy innovation and service delivery reforms in inner London.
Lightbulb Awards
The judges also recognised two entries with "Lightbulb Awards" for originality. Full details on the two Lightbulb Award winners can be found below (click + to expand details):
A WORLD OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES - Professor Edward Glaeser
Professor Glaeser argues that autonomous vehicles are coming – and are part of the answer to a congested and underfunded road network. The transition will take time – and be done in different ways in different places – but as automation makes driving easier people will move from old forms of car ownership. This makes a new form of charging essential – to deal with more traffic – and it makes it practical too. There could be special lanes on main roads for autonomous vehicles and new ways of charging trucks.
Let technological change solve the policy problem.
Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard where has taught since 1992. His research focuses on cities, including housing markets, transportation, urban growth and entrepreneurship. His is the author of "Triumph of the City: How Our Greater Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier," and scores of academic papers.
HARNESSING ENERGY FROM HIGHWAYS - Dr David Williams
David Williams advocates that roads can do more than just provide a place to travel. If they could generate power, they could earn money to fund their repair and expansion. New technology means this isn't fantasy: it's practical and being tested already. Roads can be used to make solar electricity – they are warmed by the sun which is why tarmac can melt on hot days. A system of heat pumps could extract the energy to produce power (and be used in winter to melt ice). Systems making power from rain water and kinetic energy should be tried, too. Combining different sources of power could make this affordable and consistent. Little things will add up to a lot.
Roads could keep the lights on and batteries charged up.
David works as a Research Associate in the Centre Sustainable Planning and Environment at UWE. He completed his PhD at UWE in 2015 and his research designed a sociological model to understand how the transport planning system locks us into unsustainable patterns of travel behaviour.


Being the offspring of migrant parents, Mr. Rangel grew up wherever there was cotton to be picked or crops to harvest. In the mid-1940s, his family settled in Lubbock. Believing strongly that freedom is not free and there is a price to keep it, he joined the Marine Corps and served a tour of duty in Vietnam serving with the First Marine Division.
He enrolled at Texas Tech University. From the outset, he noticed that very few Chicanos were enrolled there. Determined to encourage more Chicanos to attend higher education, he began work in the Office of Admissions at Texas Tech in 1973. During the next 33 years, he did everything he could to encourage all students, particularly Chicanos, to pursue education beyond high school. When he retired, there were about 5,000 Chicanos enrolled compared to 100 when he began his career there.
He served as chair of the board for the Human Relations Commission for Lubbock, as a board member for the Community Service Commission, chair of the Lubbock ISD Hispanic Advisory Committee, board member for the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education, and board member for the United Way Family Service Association of Lubbock.


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Winter Games (Event #2): Short Track – Best Drag Race Vehicle
Posted by David Fuller on February 11, 2014 at 3:59 pm
Unless you like dudes in unitards chasing each other around in a circle, we think you'll find the OnAllCylinders Winter Games version of short track more your speed. And when we say speed, we mean 6-second nostalgia Funny Cars, old-school cool Gassers, and late-model drag machines battling pass-for-pass for straight-line supremacy.
While Sochi's version of short track takes place on ice, we relocated our short track competition to a blazin' hot strip of asphalt. We replaced those skin-tight speedskating suits with firesuits—because our version of short track includes combustion and fire and the occasional explosion (advantage: OnAllCylinders). And we swapped out the skates for a set of drag slicks.
Bam—just like that, no more speed skating. Just speed.
Yep, our octane-fueled (and sometimes alcohol-fueled) version of short track is all about straight-line speed. And our lineup of competitors includes some legendary performers. Which of the group is the ultimate drag race vehicle?
It's up to you!
Willys Gasser
In other sports, competitors lose a step as they get older. Not the venerable Willys Gasser. In fact, the Willys is fast and has as much street cred as ever. The 1941 Willys rose to prominence in the 1960s and prompted the creation of a whole new NHRA class. And it remains the poster car for the legendary Gasser Wars of the 1960s today.
Nostalgia Funny Car (You Pick)
Perhaps the prohibitive favorite for the gold, classic Funny Cars blasted into the six- and even five-second ranges on the quarter-mile. It's hard to argue with the potency of these classics, but it's ultimately up to you to pick the gold-medal winner. Could we have another miracle on ice…er, asphalt?
U.S.A.!
It's the drag race-only version of one of America's most-iconic cars of all time. The COPO Camaro burst onto the scene in 1969 to compete in Stock Eliminator and Super Stock classes. The limited-edition COPO Camaro was reincarnated in 2012 with a full chromoly roll cage and bare bones amenities. Like a well-trained Winter Games athlete, it's lean and mean with all standard sound deadening and power accessories deleted to save weight.
Ford Cobra Jet
The Ford v. Chevy rivalry reminds us another Winter Games rivalry: Harding v. Kerrigan. We'll let you decide who's who, but there's no denying the bad blood between the two competitors. Like the COPO, the Ford Cobra Jet is a limited-production race-only vehicle designed exclusively for the drag strip. The 2014 version features a supercharged 5.0L TiVCT engine, NHRA-certified chromoly safety cage, and lightened body components.
Mopar Challenger V10 Drag Pak
Guess that makes Mopar the Jeff Gillooly of the group.
Introduced by Mopar in late 2010, the Challenger V10 Drag Pak was created to hit the competition like a proverbial lead pipe. Featuring an 8.4L V10 Viper engine, the Drag Pak churns out 512 horsepower and utilizes a two-speed race-only transmission.
Yes, there are hundreds of other great drag machines out there, but these are the OnAllCylinders competitors. Who wins the gold? Vote in the comments section below.
Tags: drag racing, Winter Games
Author: David Fuller David Fuller is OnAllCylinders' managing editor. During his 20-year career in the auto industry, he has covered a variety of races, shows, and industry events and has authored articles for multiple magazines. He has also partnered with mainstream and trade publications on a wide range of editorial projects. In 2012, he helped establish OnAllCylinders, where he enjoys covering all facets of hot rodding and racing.
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