Student unions are strange places. All the cheap drink and dancefloor space in the world just doesn't seem to attract the girls. This impression stuck until I found myself on the top floor of the SSU where Federation of the Disco Pimp were launching their CD "More Than Dancing".
Support came from Das Contras, who walked a dangerous high wire between big band, reggae and funk sounds. Far from lacking in confidence, the band got into top gear towards the end of their set with the brass section proving particularly impressive. The Kingdom of Fife is lacking in musical talents once again, and these guys are doing their best to remedy the situation. Worth checking out!
During the intermission, we were shown a video for "Pound for Pound," from the "More Than Dancing" album. You didn't have to be a boxing fan to appreciate the quality. A quick scan of the room suggested that appetites had been whetted. Hungry for funk? It's true.
Now, there's no denying that Federation of the Disco Pimp are one of the hardest working bands in Britain right now. There is such a thing as a hard-working loser but these guys clearly don't know any. A second drummer joined an already sturdy rhythm section and the band sent the room into orbit. The band played almost exclusively from their new CD, which is apparently making waves in Japan – the good kind of waves, you understand.
In searching for superlatives, "transcendent" was the only word I was satisfied with. This act goes far beyond race, religion, cult or any other classification. Or, simplified, they are just really good.


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Coldharbour Marine plans expansion in Asia
Published by Stephanie Roker, Editor
Dry Bulk, Monday, 13 August 2018 11:00
UK-based Coldharbour Marine, a manufacturer of ballast water treatment systems (BWTS) based on unique inert gas technology, has opened a new office in Singapore and appointed Capt Mohit Batra, a master mariner with an MBA from Oxford University, to lead its planned expansion into the Asian market.
Capt Batra, Managing Director of Coldharbour Asia Pte Ltd has extensive experience of the shipping sector gained over more than two decades. He has held several senior positions ashore including spells with classification society ABS and marine technology company Wärtsilä. He has also been involved in international business development, marketing and sales, implementing effective supply chain strategies and consulting on merger and acquisition activities.
Andrew Marshall, Coldharbour Marine's Chief Executive, commented on Capt Batra's appointment and the new Singapore office: "Having a hub in Asia has always been a key part of our development strategy and I believe we have found just the right man to head our operation in this important market. Mohit has an unusual combination of seagoing and shore management experience and will bring these strong capabilities to our operations in Asia."
Capt Batra explained the company's strategy: "We have timed the new Singapore set-up in advance of being awarded US Coast Guard type approval which we expect to receive in 2019. And it is next year that we expect the ballast water treatment installation market to take off strongly. This is particularly the case in our specific target markets which include large tankers, big bulk carriers and LNG vessels.
"We have identified a large number of ships in these sectors for which owners will need to plan system installations from 2019 onwards. Many of these retrofit projects will be undertaken in Chinese shipyards, whilst we will also be supplying treatment systems for new ships under construction at yards across Asia."
Capt Batra, a highly respected figure in the marine industry, particularly in Asia, stressed the importance of Singapore as a location.
"Apart from the obvious benefits of operating from this important maritime hub with its excellent international connections, we will be working closely with many ship operators and management companies which have chosen Singapore as their Asian base," he said. "We will also be establishing close links with the Chinese shipyards where many of the large vessels in our target market are likely to be retrofitted. From here, we will be ideally placed to coordinate and support ballast water system installations on both existing ships and newbuildings.
"I am very excited to have joined the Coldharbour team and look forward to developing the company's business across the Asian region," he said.
Read the article online at: https://www.drybulkmagazine.com/shipping/13082018/coldharbour-marine-plans-expansion-in-asia/

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Singapore population report: 10 things to know about citizens, PRs, babies and more
There were 24,037 marriages involving at least one Singapore citizen in 2014 - the most number of marriages since 1997. ST FILE PHOTO
Ong Hwee Hwee and Ong Sor Fern
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SINGAPORE - The National Population and Talent Division (NPTD) released its report on Singapore's population on Wednesday (Sept 30).
It covers several aspects, including overall population, ageing, birth rate and marriages.
Here are 10 things to note from the report:
1. Singapore's population stood at 5.54 million as of June 2015
It is a 1.2 per cent growth from June last year - the slowest in more than a decade, mainly due to the continued slowdown in the growth of the foreign workforce.
In the previous year, the rise in population was 1.3 per cent.
The 5.54m population figure comprises:
3.38 million citizens which grew by 1 per cent
530,000 permanent residents (PRs)
1.63 million non-residents. They are foreigners on employment passes, S passes, work permits, dependants of citizens, PRs and work pass holders, maids and foreign students.
2. Growth in non-resident population slowed to 2.1 per cent
This continues a downward trend seen in the last few years. The number of non-residents was 1.6 million in 2014.
Here's a look at who made up the 1.63 million non-residents here:
45 per cent: Work permit holders in occupations such as construction workers
16 per cent: Dependants of citizens/PRs/work pass holders
13 per cent: Maids
11 per cent: Employment pass holders in managerial and executive positions
11 per cent: S Pass holders in sectors like retail, manufacturing and healthcare
4 per cent: Foreign students
3. There were as many "horse" babies as "dragon" babies
A total of 33,193 Singaporean babies were born in 2014, although the Year of the Horse in the Chinese zodiac was not a particularly auspicious one to many Singaporeans for having children.
This is a decade high that matches the benchmark number set in 2012, the popular Year of Dragon.
4. Total fertility rate goes up
The total fertility rate for residents rose to 1.25 in 2014 from 1.19 in 2013.
The increase was seen across all ethnic groups. This, however, was still well below the replacement rate of 2.1.
5. Most Singaporean women have their first baby at 30
The median age for Singaporean mothers at first birth has remained stable, from 30.2 in 2013 to 30.3 last year.
But married couples are having fewer children, especially those in the younger age groups because of later marriages.
The average number of children born to ever-married females aged 30 to 49 has declined in the last decade. In 2004, the average number of children born to women aged 40 to 49 was 2.15. Last year, the average number was 1.93.
6. More couples say "1 do'"
There were 24,037 marriages involving at least one Singapore citizen in 2014 - the most number of marriages since 1997.
Inter-ethnic matches made up 20 per cent of the total figure. Transnational marriages account for 37 per cent.
7. Most men wed when they turn 30, women at 28
The median age at first marriage in 2014 was 30.1 for men and 27.9 for women. It is the same as in 2013.
The proportion of singles among male citizens in their 30s rose from 29.2 per cent in 2004 to 35.8 per cent in 2014.
The proportion of single citizen women in their 40s also rose from 13.7 per cent in 2004 to 16.2 per cent in 2014. But singlehood rates for women with secondary and above qualifications has dipped by between 1 and 4 percentage points.
8. Singapore continues to age
Singaporeans aged 65 and older formed 13.1 per cent of the citizen population as of June 2015, up from 12.4 per cent in the same period last year. Just a decade ago in 2005, the figure was only 8.8 per cent.
9. Fewer working adults supporting one senior
There are currently 4.9 citizens in the working age band of 20-64 years for each citizen aged 65 years and above.
A decade ago, the figure was 7.2. In 1990, it was 10.4, and in 1970, it was 13.5.
10. Median age of the citizen population inches up
The median age has gone up to 40.7 years in 2015, from 40.4 years in 2014, 38.6 years in 2010 and 36.6 years in 2005.
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Rare animals spotted at Southampton Arts Center in photo exhibition
June 26, 2019 | Britt Stigler
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Visitors to the Southampton Arts Center may run into some curious creatures this summer.
Through Sept. 8, the East End institution will play host to a new exhibition called "National Geographic Photo Ark." The show, presented in partnership with International Center of Photography (ICP), corrals a diverse offering of animal portraiture from National Geographic photographer and fellow Joel Sartore.
Founded in 2006 by Sartore, the National Geographic Photo Ark is an ongoing project that plans to document all 12,000 species living in zoos, aquariums and wildlife sanctuaries as a way to raise awareness about biodiversity and to inspire public action to conserve at-risk groups. To date, Sartore has photographed over 9,000 species in captivity, with more than 100 of these works represented in the the Southampton Arts Center exhibition.
A Coquerel's sifaka, Propithecus coquereli, at the Houston Zoo. Photo: Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark.
"The National Geographic Photo Ark has already inspired millions around the world with the message that it is not too late to save some of the world's most endangered species," said National Geographic Society's Kathryn Keane in an announcement. "Joel Sartore has demonstrated what one man can do using the power of photography — and now National Geographic wants to inspire people all over the world to contribute to this global challenge."
At the show, visitors will have a chance to see a pygmy slow loris, two golden snub-nosed monkeys, three "critically endangered" yearling Burmese star tortoises and other critters. Portraits of species native to New York are also featured in the exhibition and include portraits of American burying beetles, a piping plover, an Atlantic horseshoe crab and more.
A critically endangered African white backed vulture, Gyps africanus, at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Photo: Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark.
"Southampton Arts Center is excited and honored to partner with ICP and National Geographic to bring this important, timely and stunning exhibition to the East End," Southampton Art Center's Tom Dunn said in a statement. "We hope this show, which will also feature species native to New York and Long Island, will inspire our visitors to get involved to see what we can all save together."
The exhibition will be supplemented with a series of ICP talks at the Southampton Arts Center focused on photography's ability to inspire change. Sartore, Mark Lubell, Elliott Erwitt and four-time Pulitzer Prize winner Carol Guzy will appear as featured speakers.
federally endangered Florida panther, Puma concolor coryi, at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo. Photo: Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark.
"National Geographic Photo Ark" comes on the heels of another major program staged at the Southampton Arts Center earlier this year. Over the course of seven weeks, the multi-disciplinary hub handed over their space and galleries to nine local artists to create new works in a program titled "Takeover! Artists in Residence." Curated by Amy Kirwin, the immersive residency featured artists Scott Bluedorn, Daniel Cabrera, Darlene Charneco, Kara Hoblin, Ruby Jackson, Laurie Lambrecht, Jerome Lucani, Paton Miller and Jeff Muhs.
ALL ARTS documented the sprawling program, which premieres on broadcast and on the ALL ARTS app June 26. Viewers can learn more about the Southampton Arts Center and its recent program here, on the ALL ARTS app on Roku or anywhere else you stream at no cost.
Top Image: Rare animals spotted at southampton arts center courtesy national geographic
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Britt Stigler | @bestigler
Britt Stigler is a digital content editor at ALL ARTS. She can be reached at StiglerB@thirteen.org.
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After finishing her PhD in 1997, Amy came to work in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Her research focused initially on the use of social computing technology for educational applications, and now focuses on social computing and CSCW more broadly. Amy and her students study existing collaborative computing applications, use what they learned to design new tools to foster collaboration, creativity and understanding; deploy those tools in the wild, and study them in use--to draw broader lessons for both theory and practice of social computing.
My experiences at the lab were fantastic for learning to think big, and get to know people I can learn from across industry and academia.
Amy's advice to current students? If you are thinking about an academic career, seek out additional coursework to give you a grounding in the basics that people coming out of more traditional PhD programs generally learn. Also, while you're at the lab, keep a personal diary of all the people you demo for. I wish I had done that.


The radio movement began its triumphal march in the USA in 1921, and quickly spread all over the world. It reached Germany in 1923, finding many enthusiasts here as elsewhere. One month after the first German entertainment broadcaster began operation on October 29, 1923, it had already registered 467 subscribers. Within a year, additional stations had led to a leap in listeners to around 100,000 households.
And at the end of 1924, the First Great German Radio Exhibition was held in Berlin. Here Siemens presented a crystal receiver as well as a first, three-level tube receiver, known as the "Siemens D-Zug" (the "express train"), with a horn loudspeaker.
What was special was the product's three possible configurations. The first, the "Audion" level, could receive radio via headphones. At the second level, a low-frequency amplifier also made it possible to connect to a horn loudspeaker. And a high-frequency amplifier at the third level could receive weak stations from afar. So the buyer could let his or her pocketbook and listening habits decide how elaborate a setup to buy.
Siemens was also busy in film. In 1929 the company presented its A and B 16 mm film cameras, along with a standard projector. Contracts with AGFA and KODAK to supply 16 mm film in Siemens cassettes made the cameras salable all over the world. While the simple A camera of 1932 soon disappeared from the market, the B camera and the standard projector were the ancestors of further developments. Their advantage was that the lenses were not tied to a particular brand – the buyer had a broad selection available.
In 1934, for the German Himalaya Expedition, Siemens model B and D movie cameras were tried out for the first time under extreme conditions, at an altitude of 7,050 meters on Nanga Parbat mountain. Their images were so sharp that they could be magnified 500,000 times for display at movie theaters. Thus it became possible for the first time to copy a major film work recorded on narrow-gauge "cine" format film onto standard-gauge movie film, opening up entirely new opportunities for documentary films.
The triumph of the radio went hand in hand with further technological developments. Very shortly after the radio was introduced, German broadcasters boosted their power. By 1925 they were already broadcasting at three kilowatts (kW) – 10 times the power of 1923. By the mid-thirties, the power had increased to 100 kilowatts, so that listeners' choice was no longer limited to local stations.
But radios' power was not the only thing changing. Work continued on their design. In 1929, Siemens brought out radio receivers in a new housing material, Bakelite. This was the first completely synthetic, industrially produced plastic, and gave radios an attractive appearance. The receiver advanced from being an experimental device for hobbyists to a piece of furniture. The radio now became as much a part of the "living room" as the television was after World War II.
This rather more formal function also came to be expressed in the nickname "the gentleman in evening dress," which quickly came into common use for the 5-circuit, 4-tube superhet "Schatulle" ("cashbox") receiver. Introduced in 1935, this was a "superheterodyne" receiver that stood out for its especially sharp reception – especially important for interference-free listening because there were so many stations now.
But quality came at a price. While a simple "people's" receiver could be bought for as little as 75 marks, a top-of-the-line receiver like the "gentleman" cost almost four times as much.
Pictures soon came to join sound. Europe's first ultra-short-wave TV broadcaster went on the air in Berlin in 1930, sending images with a 60-line resolution. While the broadcasts were still silent, it was only a matter of time before sound was added. Just four years later, images had reached 180 lines at 25 frames per second, while a second transmitter provided the associated sound. Paul Nipkow in Berlin-Witzleben began broadcasting the world's first regular, public television program in 1935.
But a home receiver was needed to get it. The "Fe 3" already had more than 180 image lines and sound reception was possible thanks to a 3-tube reflection unit. Although the sound and picture signals arrived via the same antenna, they had to be processed separately. The picture signal was conveyed to a cathode-ray tube with a picture screen measuring 18 by 22 centimeters. The appliance came at a price. The home receiver cost a hefty 1,800 reichsmarks – 24 times as much as a "people's" radio receiver. For the moment, television remained a pleasure for the few.
Germany's first public film presentations were held in Berlin in 1891, a feat made possible by the Anschütz tachyscope system, an early forerunner of the film projector. Composed of a rotating wheel with 24 transparencies affixed at regular intervals around its rim, it could provide public "film" performances. The transparencies, which merely showed movements of people or animals in simple phased photos, were illuminated by the light from a gas discharge tube. Viewers got a show of about 20 seconds for each coin deposited.
But it would take a while before regular film projectors reached the market. In 1931, Siemens presented a standard projector for 16-millimeter film. The new Siemens intermittent mechanism offered a good cycle ratio for the highest possible light output, extensive protection of the film because the film was grasped across its full width, good image steadiness and low noise.
With the Siemens Grossraum II projector of 1938, the company released the world's highest-luminosity narrow-gauge film projector using an incandescent lamp. The luminous flux was 350 lumens. But the 550-watt lamp took a special transformer that was built into the case.


Born into a show-business family--her father was a director and her mother was a film cutter--Virginia Grey made her film debut at age 10 as Eva in Uncle Tom`s Cabin (1927). After a few more films as a child actress, she left the business to finish her schooling. Returning to films as an adult in the 1930s, she started out getting extra work and bit parts, but soon graduated to speaking roles and was eventually signed to a contract by MGM. The studio gave her leading parts in "B" pictures and supporting roles in "A" pictures. She left MGM in 1942 and went out on her own, working at almost every studio in Hollywood. She worked steadily in both films and TV, and retired from the business in 1970. Had a on-again, off-again relationship with Clark Gable after the death of his wife Carol Lombard. She had hoped that he would marry her. When he didn`t she was so heartbroken that it`s rumored Clark is the reason she never married. Life long firend of Lana Turner`s.
Virginia Grey (March 22, 1917 – July 31, 2004) was an American actress and singer. She was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of director Ray Grey. One of her early babysitters was movie star Gloria Swanson. Grey debuted at the age of ten in the silent film Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) as Little Eva. She continued acting for a few more years, but then left movies in order to finish her education.
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10 Positive and Negative Effects of Landslide
March 17, 2022 January 16, 2023 Providence Amaechi No comments
The effects of landslide is a topic that has to be considered because landslide is one of nature's most destructive forces. The surface constantly reshaping itself and landslides are a major reason they strike wherever the soil is loosened by rain or tugged by gravity. It can be rockfall or a raging river of mud but wherever the ground fails it can result in massive destruction.
On average landslides kill more than 8,000 people every year around the world, they can crash down without warning and travel for several miles. Landslides usually follow natural disasters like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, wildfires, storms and floods.
Steep slopes and areas that have been hit by landslides before are places landslides can occur. Also, landslides frequently occur where people have radically altered the landscape, hills stripped of vegetation, slopes modified for roads and buildings and as our cities and towns expand further landslides become more frequent and more destructive.
What is Landslide?
Causes of Landslides
1. Natural Causes of Landslides
1. Climate
2. Earthquakes
3. Weathering
4. Erosion
5. Volcanoes
6. Wildfires
2. Human Causes of Landslides
1. Mining
2. Clear Cutting
Positive Effects of Landslide
1. Create New Habitats
2. Increase Biodiversity
3. Provide Raw Materials for:
Firewood and Medicinal Plants
Game and Berries
4. Tool for Studying the Environment
Negative Effects of Landslides
1. Landslides damage/destroy ecosystems
Impact on Water Quality
Wipeout Forest Land
Dam up or Flood Streams
2. Landslides Harm Agriculture
3. Damage Built Infrastructure
4. Economic Losses
5. Loss of Lives and Social Disruption
6. Landslides can Lead to Other Hazards
10 Positive and Negative Effects of Landslide – FAQs
Why is Landslide Important?
Are Landslides good for the Earth?
Is Landslide a Natural Disaster?
Why is Landslide a Hazard?
What are the Vulnerabilities of Landslides?
How do Earthquakes affect Landslides?
Can Plants help prevent Landslides?
Providence Amaechi
A landslide, also known as a landslip, is the movement of a mass of rock, rubble, earth, or soil downslope (soil being a mixture of earth and debris). A landslide occurs when a pile of rock, rubble, or earth slides down a hill. Landslides are a sort of "mass wasting," which is defined as any downward movement of soil and rock caused by gravity.
A wide range of ground motions, such as rockfalls, deep-seated slope failures, mudflows, and debris flows, can all contribute to mass wasting. The phrase "landslide" refers to a variety of slope movement patterns, including falls, topples, slides, spreads, and flows. These are categorized further based on the type of geologic material (bedrock, debris, or earth).
Typical landslide types include debris flows (also known as mudflows or mudslides) and rockfalls. Landslides can occur in a variety of locations, with steep or gentle slope gradients, ranging from mountain ranges to coastal cliffs, and even underwater, where they are known as submarine landslides.
When gravitational and other types of shear forces within a slope surpass the shear strength (resistance to shearing) of the materials that make up the slope, landslides occur. A landslide is primarily caused by gravity, but there are additional elements that alter slope stability and establish certain conditions that render a slope vulnerable to failure. A specific event (such as severe rainfall, an earthquake, a slope cut to build a road, and many others) often triggers a landslide, though this is not always obvious.
While landslides are considered natural disasters, they have recently become more common due to human-caused environmental changes. Although landslides have a variety of reasons, they all have two things in common: they are caused by gravity and arise from the failure of soil and rock components that make up the hill slope. Causes of landslides include:
Natural Causes of Landslides
Human Causes of Landslides
The natural causes of landslides include:
Climate change throughout time can have a considerable impact on soil stability. A decrease in precipitation causes a drop in the water table, a reduction in the overall weight of soil mass, less material solution, and less vigorous freeze-thaw activity.
The level of groundwater would be considerably raised if there was a significant rise in precipitation or ground saturation. Landslides can occur when sloped terrain become entirely saturated with water. The soils begin to flow off if mechanical root support is not provided.
For a long time, seismic activity has been linked to landslides all over the world. A landslide can occur when the Earth's crust shakes enough to destroy the force of friction that holds sediments in place on an incline. Water can soak into the soil more easily as a result of seismic activity, further undermining the slope.
When tectonic plates move, the soil that covers them moves with them. When earthquakes strike places with steep slopes, the soil often slips, resulting in landslides.
Weathering is the natural decay of rock that leads to unstable, landslide-prone materials. The chemical activity of water, air, plants, and microbes causes weathering. Landslides occur when the rocks become too weak to support themselves.
Erosion by sporadic running water sources such as streams, rivers, wind, currents, ice, and waves removes latent and lateral slope stability, making landslides more likely.
Landslides can be triggered by volcanic eruptions. In the event of a wet eruption, the soil will begin to move downhill, causing a landslide. Volcanoes have several properties that make them ideal launching locations for very devastating landslides. A stratovolcano is a kind of volcano that is responsible for the majority of landslides around the world.
Wildfires cause soil erosion and floods, both of which can result in landslides. Plants contribute to the stability of the soil by glueing it together with their roots. When the glue is removed, the dirt loosens and gravity has a much easier time acting on it. After a fire, the burned terrain becomes vulnerable to slides due to the removal of vegetation.
A huge landslide can be triggered by steeper slopes combined with gravitational force.
Water reduces friction between the bedrock and the underlying silt, and gravity sends the debris sliding downhill, which is perhaps the most common cause of a landslide. A tiny amount of water may help to promote stability in sand and clay soils. If you've ever built a sandcastle or worked with clay, you've probably seen this.
However, as additional water is added, the silt becomes heavier, which can lead it to move downhill. This is why so many landslides happen after heavy rains. The most typical cause of a landslide is when water reduces friction between the bedrock and the overlying silt, and gravity sends the debris rolling downhill.
In sand and clay soils, a small amount of water may aid to increase stability. You've probably seen this if you've ever made a sandcastle or dealt with clay. The silt becomes heavier as more water is added, which might cause it to slide downhill. This is why landslides are so common after heavy rains.
Some of the human causes of landslides include:
Clear Cutting
Landslides are frequently caused by mining activities that employ blasting techniques. Vibrations from the explosions have the potential to damage soils in regions prone to landslides. A landslide can occur at any time due to the weakening of the soil.
Clear cutting is a timber harvesting process that involves removing all of the area's old trees. This method is risky since it destroys the area's mechanical root structure. Agriculture and building, which can enhance the risk of a landslide, are two other human-caused landslide causes. Irrigation, deforestation, excavation, and water leakage are all frequent activities that can undermine or destabilize a slope.
Landslides, like all-natural disasters, provide certain vital services. Thus, the positive effects of landslide are:
Creating New Habitats
Increasing Biodiversity
Providing Raw Materials
Good tools for studying the environment.
Creating new habitats is one of the positive effects of landslides. Landslides have some good impacts, one of which is the creation of new ecosystems. When landslides occur, the terrain is noticeably altered. Many micro-environments, such as hummocks (hills) and ridges, emerge as a result of this process.
These features may be warmer, drier, or wetter than the surrounding areas, as well as more exposed, less exposed, muddier, and so on. Repeated debris flows and slides can frequently deepen gullies, resulting in increased water flows. As a result, new habitats emerge.
The increase in biodiversity is one of the positive effects of landslides. As a result of these new habitats, biodiversity in that area may rise. It allows organisms to colonize the slide locations and grow or survive as a result. Slides with ridged topography, for example, frequently generate ponds. Beavers have been known to colonize certain areas and produce beaver ponds.
Cliffs can also develop during landslides. These cliffs are so suitable for cavity nesters such as kingfishers and bank swallows. Rodents may also find better hiding places under landslide debris. Furthermore, kauri trees preferentially develop on landslide scars in New Zealand.
Game berries
The provision of raw materials for firewood and medicinal plants is one of the positive effects of landslides. Landslide locations can yield a variety of raw materials, whether immediately after a slide or years later. Residents of tiny farms in Nicaragua, for example, collect fallen Jamaican nettle trees from slides for firewood. Indigenous peoples in India collect medicinal plants like Nardostachys Grandiflora from landslides.
The provision of raw materials for games and berries is one of the positive effects of landslides. Furthermore, as plants begin to sprout in the slide site, animals get attracted to them. Hunters will be able to pursue wild wildlife to the productive land as a result. Berry pickers, as well as people hunting for firewood, beautiful plants, or medicinal plants, can all benefit from these areas.
The provision of raw materials for minerals is one of the positive effects of landslides. Landslides can also disclose mineral reserves. Mineral grains such as gold and diamonds detach over time as a result of weathering. They may congregate at the bottom of slides or near running streams.
Landslides acting as a tool for studying the environment is one of the positive effects of landslides. Humans can learn from disasters, as is usual with them. Landslide sites are thus useful instruments for researching the environment in many cases. While geologists examine faults and rock layers using landslides, ecologists research the emergence of plants and their subsequent growth. Bird watchers and scientists may occasionally use these locations for their research.
Landslides have some negative consequences, including damage to ecosystems, crops, physical infrastructure, economic losses, mortality, social upheaval, and the potential for further hazards. the negative effects of landslides include:
Landslides damage/destroy ecosystems
Landslides Harm Agriculture
Damage Built Infrastructure
Economic Losses
Loss of Lives and Social Disruption
Landslides can Lead to Other Hazards
The impact on water quality is one of the negative effects of landslides. Landslides have the potential to drastically harm or destroy ecosystems. The impacts can sometimes linger for thousands of years. Sediment and debris can harm streams and water bodies. This always harms water quality and marine life.
The wiping-out of forest land is one of the negative effects of landslides. Furthermore, these dangers have the potential to wipe out enormous swaths of forest, wildlife habitats, and rich soils on slopes. An earthquake in Chile in 1960 created many landslides that devastated more than 250 km2 of the forest.
The impact on dams and streams is one of the negative effects of landslides. Landslides can block rivers and streams. Water flow is reduced as a result of this action. Water-dependent marine and terrestrial creatures may eventually perish. Dams, on the other hand, have the potential to flood the other side. Outburst floods can suffocate streams with a massive volume of fresh sediment. Alternatively, they can submerge the flooded area and kill the vegetation.
The impact on agriculture is one of the negative effects of landslides. The devastation of agricultural land is one of the most devastating results of landslides. Debris strewn across farms, fields, and pastures, obliterating valuable agricultural areas. Seeds, plants, food stocks, and grazing areas are all destroyed. These lands can be unavailable for years, putting farmers' livelihoods at risk. In Guatemala, for example, watersheds were destroyed by landslides caused by Tropical Storm Stan in 2005. As a result, this occurrence had a significant impact on farmers.
The damage to built infrastructure is one of the negative effects of landslides. Landslides have the potential to destroy developed infrastructure. They have the potential to demolish and/or damage homes, structures, and infrastructure that is located near hills and mountains. They obstruct highways, train tracks, and shipping lanes. In 1980, a debris flow from Mount St Helens flooded the Columbia River, dumping almost 34 million m3 of silt into the river. Until the mud was dredged, cargo ships could not reach Oregon.
Economic loss is one of the negative effects of landslides. Economic losses as a result of these hazards have been steadily increasing over the last few decades. This is primarily due to increased development and investment in areas prone to landslides. Landslide expenses, in general, include both direct and indirect losses.
Direct losses are the costs of repairing, replacing or maintaining landslide-damaged properties and assets. All additional costs, such as decreased agricultural output, water quality effects, and decreased real estate values, are indirect losses. The devastating Thistle landslide in Utah, United States, in 1983 caused $688 million in direct and indirect economic losses.
The loss of lives and social disruption is one of the negative effects of landslides. Landslides have resulted in numerous deaths, injuries, and property damage, including dwellings, infrastructure, and agricultural fields. Each year, landslides kill between 25 and 50 individuals in the United States alone. Between 1279 and 1999, 840 landslides claimed the lives of almost 10,000 persons in Italy.
The majority of the time, disasters strike without notice, leaving people with no time to flee. Such incidents can sometimes have a negative influence on people's mental health, putting children and teenagers in particular in danger. Furthermore, after being rescued from the debris, landslide victims may acquire crush injuries or crush syndrome.
Landslides leading to other hazards is one of the negative effects of landslides. Tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, and earthquakes are frequently triggered by landslides. The 8000-year-old Storegga undersea landslide off the coast of Norway is one of the most famous landslides that caused perplexing tsunami waves. Tsunami waves wreaked havoc on coasts as far as Greenland.
Similarly, a landslide in Vancouver, Canada, in 2007 resulted in 3 million m3 of material being dumped into Chehalis Lake. Several hectares of coastline forest were damaged, and tsunami waves uprooted trees up to 18 meters from the shoreline.
Landslides are a severe geologic danger that affects nearly every state in the US. As people move into new areas with hilly or mountainous terrain, it's critical to understand the nature of their potential exposure to landslide hazards, as well as how cities, towns, and counties can plan for land use, new construction engineering, and infrastructure to reduce the costs of living with landslides.
Although many landslides have physical causes that cannot be eradicated, geology investigations, excellent engineering techniques, and efficient enforcement of land-use management regulations can help to mitigate landslide hazards. It's also crucial to grasp the science of landslides, including their causes, movement characteristics, soil conditions, associated geology, and where they're most likely to occur.
Though landslides often have negative impacts on man, landslides are good for the environment. Landslides help restructure the landscape when was altered by man. Debris flows and other forms of mass movement also play a significant role in feeding silt and coarse woody debris to streams, which helps to maintain pool/riffle habitat. Landslides create a mosaic of seral phases, soils, and sites (from ponds to dry ridges) in wooded landscapes as disturbance agents.
Yes, landslides are natural disasters, and they are among the most dangerous and unpredictable. Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, flash floods, landslides, severe thunderstorms, lightning, and wildfires are examples of rapid-onset dangers that arise with little notice and strike quickly.
Landslide is a hazard because it has a possibility of causing harm to both the man and his environment. Landslides are downslope ground movements that can cause harm, such as rockfalls, deep slope failure, shallow debris flows, and avalanches.
The vulnerabilities of landslides are the characteristics of the landslide that has the capacity of causing harm. They include velocity, block mass, impact angle of the landslide, the position of the wall impact point, detailed geometry of the wall, and strength of the material.
By imposing inertial loads or creating a loss of strength in the slope materials, an earthquake can make a slope unstable. Where the landscape is vulnerable to certain types of ground failure, strong earthquake ground shaking greatly increases the likelihood of landslides. When the ground is saturated with water, as it is after heavy rain, the shaking causes more landslides than usual.
Plants can avert landslides. Plants absorb water and minimize infiltration, which would otherwise erode the soil and lead to a landslide. Drought has killed a lot of flora around the world recently, resulting in increased landslides.
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The Modernization of Education
Technology's Impact in the Classroom
Many of us can remember the technology-free classroom. First, we were being reprimanded for passing notes, and soon after for cell phone use. As kids head back to school this month, they enter a classroom different from former times. Technology in the classroom is now being fully embraced, with laptops now commonplace. Since the Toronto District School Board's WiFi rollout was completed in 2016, all schools in the board now have wireless networks. The board has a $3-million annual technology budget.
Traditionalists might argue that in today's tech-obsessed world, reliance on even more technologies is detrimental to young minds. Then there is also the possibility of abuse of technology and inappropriate use of social media.
On the other hand, it's a digital generation, and with the focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) courses, the need for more tech becomes all the more imperative.
How do parents feel about this? In a recent survey from Microsoft and YouGov, 60% of parents were 'optimistic' about the role technology is going to have in their child's life as they get older, while 30% felt they were 'unsure' or 'scared. 86% of parents said that tech in school, such as computer use and educational software, was beneficial to their child's education.
Learning beyond the classroom
Educational videos may be soon a thing of the past, if not already. The Education on Board Program allows Australian teachers to sail on marine research ship RV Investigator. They are able to enhance their STEM knowledge and content, and conduct live webinars to their classrooms. They also plan to incorporate their experiences at sea into their lessons. This allows learning to be more interactive and applicable to the real world.
This semester, biology students at Arizona State University can use student loan payments to pay for virtual reality headsets. With the goal to "provide students with real-world experience," students have the option to use these headsets to complete the course's lab requirements.
Can spot weaknesses
Microsoft, a company applauded for modernizing the classroom, recently unveiled new technology. One example is Snap + Core First, a symbol-based communication application to help those with speech and language disabilities express themselves.
Recent research predicts that the use of AI in the U.S. education sector will grow 47.5 per cent through 2021. While AI-powered educational games are frequently used, AI can be particularly helpful for those children taking special education, where the traditional one-size-fits-all approach is not appropriate. For these students, AI provides a personalized education, and helps with increasing attention span.
Virtual assistants such as Alexa or Siri may help shyer children become more confident, said Chris King, chairman of the HMC group of private schools in the UK.
Greater efficiency
Students and teachers in Saskatchewan are now being provided with SMART Learning software, which allows students to collaborate with others through their phones and tablets. With the software, teachers are able to design interactive lessons and provide game-based learning modules.
Adoption of technology in classrooms helps ease the workload for teachers. With AI helping to do mundane tasks such as reading directions out loud and grading standardized tests, teachers are able to spend more one-on-one time with students. An eastern China school has even installed facial recognition technology to monitor how attentive students are in class. If students seem distracted, based on their facial expressions, the computer will send this feedback to teachers. Intrusive? Maybe. At least there is no need to take attendance.
At Singularity University's Global Summit last month, the future of work and learning were topics on the agenda. Gary A. Bolles, Chair of the Future of Work, stressed the importance of reshaping our educational institutions.
"We have to blow up what we've got today," he said. "The current education system that is helping our young to be able to be prepared for the world of work is preparing them for yesterday's world of work, not today's."
Integration of technology can enhance the school experience, and teachers should make greater use of it. With so many new innovations on the market, it makes returning to school seem almost appealing. The possibilities are endless, and poised to make an impact.
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How Many HRs Would Ruth Have Hit With Integration?
I have written about this before. But the reason I am doing again is that a friend emailed me some comments that her friends had made about my research on this. So I answer them below. But first, here is the gist of what I did. I estimated how many non-white pitchers there might have been and how good they might have been if they had been allowed pre-1947. Then I estimated how many fewer HRs there would have been in baseball due to the improved pitching quality. I came up with 5% and assumed that Ruth's total would go down 5% (to 678).
Before I respond to the comments, here are the links.
How Would Integration Have Affected Ruth and Cobb?
The first link has a link to an article I wrote for the now defunct Chicago Sports Weekly. It no longer works. Now to the comments.
COMMENT: "I'm not sure how accurate is is to presume that the "worst" 15% of white pitchers would necessarily be replaced by black pitchers. Without the color barrier, they would have just promoted who was better. Can anyone say with any certainty that black pitchers were significantly better, inherently than whites? The other thing is that in Ruth's time, pitching staffs generally consisted of about 8 or 9 pitchers at any given time. There were 4-man rotations, and those pitchers were conditioned from early on to be able to complete games. Pitchers today could be conditioned that way too....but they're not. Back then, there was less need for relievers, hence the small pitching staffs.
So this means that at any given time, there were approximately 140 pitchers in the game-spread out over 16 teams. Even if we went with the figure of 15%, that means that there might have been about 21 black pitchers, spread out over 16 teams - which means about 1.3 per team-and half of those Ruth would not face because they would be in the National League.
So the 9 or so he would face on the opposing 7 teams-how many of them would have been exceptional enough to really put a significant dent in Ruth's perfromance? I'm not thinking too many. In fact, he may well have dominated some of them."
Yes, I think the worst 15% would be replaced. Here is how I look at it. Suppose all of the sudden a new talent pool was discovered that had major league quality pitchers in it. You would want some of them on your team, right? So whatever number of pitchers that you carry, for every one pitcher you add from this new talent pool, you have to send one to the minors or release him. The only logical thing to do would be to release the worst pitcher every time you add one good pitcher. For example, if you add Satchel Paige, you don't dump Bob Feller or Bob Lemon.
"I estimate that about 15% of the IP then were by non-whites, blacks, dark-skinned Hispanics and Asians. Using the Lee Sinins Complete Baseball Encyclopedia, I found all the pitchers with 1,000+ IP in this period and then calculated what percent of the IP by these guys was by non-whites. You can see the list here. I checked the race of any pitcher I did not already know by looking at when they played and finding pictures of them in books or online. Any pitchers with Hispanic names were considered non-white. There were pitchers like Lefty Gomez before 1947, whose skin was light enough to play. But I did not want to have to judge who would have been able to play and who would not.
In that list, I have relative ERA listed. That is simply ERA divided by the league ERA. The relative ERA of all the whites combined was 105.75, meaning their ERA's were about 5.75% better than the league average. For the non-whites it was just a bit higher at 106.8. In the analysis below, I assume that the ERAs of whites and non-whites will be the same. The number of IP by the pitchers with 1,000+ IP since 1947 accounted for 58% of all the IP in this time period."
So, the quality of the whites who have pitched in MLB since 1947 and the non-whites is about the same. Neither is better. But if those non-whites had not been there this whole time, who would have been there in their place? Some white guys, who were not as good (if they were, they would have been there instead). Let's call them the bad-whites. Having the bad-whites instead of the non-whites means that the overall quality of pitching would have been worse, meaning more HRs hit (assuming we make no change in who is batting). But that means having the non-whites there improves the quality of pitching and the hitters would not quite do as well. If anyone has read my articles, I had a rough estimate of Ruth going down 5%, leaving him with 678 HRs, still alot.
It does not matter how many pitchers are on the teams or what kind of rotation they had. 15% is 15%. Of course he would not have faced the guys in the other league. But I make an assumption of 15% in each league, which is done to keep everything fair. Yes, with some of the non-white pitchers, he would have dominated them. A few of them would have been just a hair better than the bottom rung pitchers (the bad-whites). But some were great, like Gibson and Marichal. I am just estimating that collectively, all the non-whites were as good as the top 85% of the whites.
COMMENT: "But think about this now. If 60 years of integration can only produce a handful of solid minority pitchers, why should the 15% percent you are replacing them with be any better than the ones you are deducting?"
I think this is explained above.
COMMENT: "Ruth did not hit a HR every time up but changing 8-9 pitchers (15%)who may be better pitchers is no guarantee that they would dominate Ruth or at least do better than their predecessors."
Think of it this way. Suppose all of the sudden the worst 15% of the pitchers were let go and the best 85% all pitched a little bit more to make up for the lost IP. Suppose that there was some pill they could take that allowed them to add extra innings with no loss of effectiveness. Then all the batters face a higher quality of pitching. HRs would go down. I don't think that losing 5% of your HRs means you were dominated.
Some other issues. I think right now more than 15% of the pitchers are non-whites. Probably less than 15% were non-white when Aaron and Mays were starting to rack up their big HR totals. If there had been more non-white pitchers in the 1950s, those two guys would also lose HRs. I think my analysis shows how good Ruth was and how much we should respect his records. I think my analysis is an answer to those who ask "How many HRs would Ruth have hit if he had to face Pedro Martinez?" Well, still quite a few because he would not face Pedro all the time and Pedro does allow some HRs.
In the graph below, I show the major league leader in strikeouts per 9 IP in each 5-year period, starting with 1901-05 and going up through 2003-2007. The minimum IP for each 5-year period was 750. Feller's 8.15 through 1939 was the highest up to that time and would not be passed until Koufax had 9.48 through 1961 (Feller did not pitch until 1936, so that 1939 figure is over 1936-39, but he had over 750 IP. His 7.92 through 1940 was the 2nd highest up to that time. And even up through 1943 he had 7.19, which was the highest since 1908 not counting his own performance. It is not until the late 1950s that even that is surpassed. You can see that things drop off pretty quickly after Feller went into the military (in 1942). The line does spike up just a bit in 1948. But that is from Feller (that is the first year after he got back from the war when his 5-year IP total reached 750). You can click on each graph to see a bigger version. (Where it says 1939-43 below, it refers to 5 different 5-year periods, with one ending in 1939, another in 1940 and so on).
In the next graph, I show what the line would be look like if I replaced Feller with the next highest totals over each 5-year period. The sections in red represent the next best totals and the green lines represent what Feller actually did. You can see that the trend would have been much different without Feller.
The next graph shows the 5-year leaders in strikeouts per 9 IP relative to the league average. A 200 means a guy had twice the league average. Feller is not as big a spike as Vance, but no one has approached what he did since then.
In November 1936, Bob Feller turned 18. That previous summer he pitched 62 innings for the Indians and struck out 76 batters. That ratio may not seem that unusual these days, but in that era, it was incredible. He struck out 27.2% of the batters he faced, 3.33 times the league average. Most of what I do below is graphical. For more statistical details click here.
The graph below shows the major league strikeout leaders from 1901-2007. Feller led from 1938-1941 with at least 240 in each season. In the previous 23 seasons, 240 had only been topped once. The leaders fell off until Feller had 348 in 1946, the highest since Rube Waddell had 349 in 1904. The last time anyone had 300+ was in 1912, by Walter Johnson. You can click on any image to enlarge it.
The next graph shows the major league leaders in strikeouts per 9 IP from 1901-2007 by pitchers who qualified for the ERA lead (not counting the Federalist league, which is true for all graphs here). Feller led from 1938-1940. His 7.77 in 1938 was the highest since Waddell had 7.86 in 1905.
The next graph shows the strikeout per 9 IP leaders for those with 50+ IP from 1901-2007. Feller's spikes are noted and you can see they were unprecedented and it took many years for them to be equalled.
The next graph shows the leaders in strikeouts per 9 IP with 300+ IP from 1901-1980 (the last year anyone pitched 300+ IP). Feller's 1946 season would not be passed until Koufax did it in 1963 with 8.86. Feller had the highest in the century until then. His 1940 and 1941 seasons were very good, too. In 1940 he had 7.34, which had been topped only once in the previous 28 years.
Is David Ortiz A Clutch Hitter?
Many fans are aware of clutch hitting stats like hitting with runners in scoring position and hitting when it is close and late (CL = Situations when the game is in the 7th inning or later and the batting team is leading by one run, tied, or has the potential tying run on base, at bat or on deck). And many fans probably recall David Ortiz having many late inning clutch hits. But statistical expert Bill James has come up with a new way to judge clutch hitting which can be read in the article Mr. Clutch Big Papi, Chipper, Pujols come through when it counts.
He then shows what Ortiz did in these situations from 2002-2007 in 394 ABs. He batted .322 with a .413 OBP and a .678 SLG. His overall numbers from 2002-2007 in AVG-OBP-SLG were .298-.394-.597 (thanks to the Lee Sinins Complete Baseball Encyclopedia). So he did somewhat better in the clutch situations than he normally did, but was this difference big enough to be significant?
To answer that, I used a technique of calculating a "Z-score" that Pete Palmer usded in his article Clutch Hitting One More Time. It involves how much better or worse a guy does in the clutch compared to how he hits in other situations. It also takes into account what the normal league difference is. For example, from 1991-2000, the normal dropoff in CL situations was about .012 in AVG (probably because the good closers are brought in and the pitcher has the platoon advantage). If a player gets a Z-score of 2 or more the probability of doing so is under 5% or significant (the Z-score could be negative, meaning that he does worse in the clutch).
Suppose that in the James Clutch situation, AVG also falls .012, like in the CL situations (I have to make an assumption since James did not report what the normal dropoff is in AVG-more on this later where I assume other dropoffs besides .012). But I found that the average difference between all ABs (which includes CL) and just CL ABs from 1991-2000 was .010. A quick check at Retrosheet has it about .012 from 2002-2007. That is pretty close and so the CL vs. NON-CL differences will be similar in both periods.
Ortiz batted .294 in the non-James clutch situations. If the dropoff is .012, using the Palmer technique, I got a Z-score of 1.59, or well below the significant 2.0 level. But as I said above, I don't know the normal dropoff. To get it up to 2.0, the dropoff would have to be .022. That seems like alot since it is nearly twice the CL dropoff. Can the James clutch situation be that much harder than the CL? It is possible since 2000 that CL has gotten tougher since so many more relievers are being used. But the dropoff has to be pretty big to make Ortiz clutch in AVG. Also, if Ortiz had batted .294 in the James clutch situations, he would have had 11 fewer hits than he actually did. That means 11 over 6 years, or just two clutch hits a year (if I put in a dropoff of .012, it would be 16 clutch hits, still under 3 a year).
I did the same thing for HR frequency (HR%), extra-base hit frequency (XB%) and OBP. For HR%, his normal was 7.0% while it was 8.9% in clutch situations, about a 27% increase (8.9/7 = 1.27). I had a normal dropoff in in HR% of .003575, so Ortiz would be expected to have a 6.64% rate (.07 - .003575). He gets a Z-score of 1.48. That 0.003575 is how much lower the average player's HR% is in CL situtaions than in other situations from 1991-2000. That dropoff might be different now. But how much bigger would it have to be to get Ortiz to a Z-score of 2.0 and be significant? The normal dropoff in HR% in the James clutch situation would need to be .0115, like falling from 3.0% to 1.85%. That is pretty severe and is 3 times what I had for the CL dropoff.
Moving to XB%. He had a rate of 14.8% under normal circumstances while he a a 17.5% rate in the James clutch situations, for an 18% higher rate. The Z-score was 1.96 using the normal dropoff of about .013. So this is very close to being significant. His extrabase hit performance may truly be clutch.
Now to OBP. Just using hits and walks (James does not show HBP, SFs, etc. in Ortiz's clutch stats), Ortiz had a normal OBP of .392 and .417 in the clutch. The Z-score was 1.01. Not even close to significance (my data had no dropoff in OBP in CL situations but if IBBs were taken out, it drops off .012). But even so, it would take a normal dropoff of.024 to get Ortiz up to a Z-score of 2.0. And James does not list the IBBs in his clutch data.
So, in general, Ortiz's performance in the clutch is very good but not significant. I also find interesting that about 12.5% of his PAs came in the clutch. In my 1991-2000 data, I had the average guy getting about 15% of his PAs in the clutch. So those two are close and I think using the CL differences is reasonable as a benchmark to calculate Z-scores. Bottom line, how surprising is for a guy who normally bats .294 in 2,756 ABs, to hit .322 in some randomly selected 394 ABs? Not very, even if you assume the average player hits alot lower in those ABs.
Also, some of Ortiz's hits may have ended games. In some of those cases, had he made an out, the next batter (or the batter after that) might have won the game for the Red Sox. Or even if he did not end the game, taking his hit away might still result in a Red Sox win. I once tried to calculate how many games clutch hitters win and very few clutch hitters add alot of wins. See How Many Games Do Clutch Hitters Really Win?.


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Over the past year The Co Founder has been named one of the Top 50 unsigned artists of the Pacific Northwest (NW Music Scene), as well as best Local Pop Act (What's Up Magazine). Comprised of members of other well-known PNW groups such as The Palisades, Vervex, and The City Hall, the band released their debut full length, Wye, described by The Permanent Rain Press as "full of soft and sleepy tunes that rise up to pack a surprising punch, staying honest with a stripped-down feel," on September 8th via Do206.
Gaining a reputation for their relentless touring schedule, the group has drawn comparisons to dynamic-pop acts such as Manchester Orchestra, The Restorations, and Pinegrove. Currently on the tail end of their Winter Touring cycle, The Co Founder will be heading back through the Bay Area this March as part of their SXSW Tour (corresponding with the release of a new vinyl 7", containing two newly recorded, unreleased tracks).
Head to their Facebook page to stay up to date in the coming months, and check their upcoming shows here.


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The co-owner of the Liverpool One has marked the shopping destination's 10-year anniversary with the publication of analysis revealing its socio-economic impact.
Property giant Grosvenor Europe said that in the 10 years since it developed and opened Liverpool One in May 2008 — which coincided with the north west city's year as European Capital of Culture — the scheme has contributed £3.3 billion in total gross value added (GVA), with over half this total as wages for local residents.
The scheme has also reportedly delivered £1.20 of every £100 generated in the Liverpool City Region GVA, accounting for three per cent of all GVA growth in the region.
Additionally, Grosvenor said Liverpool One has contributed £1.6 billion to the Exchequer, delivered an average of 4700 full-time jobs for local residents, and helped Liverpool's retail output expand at more than 10 times the national rate.
Meanwhile, footfall and sales in Liverpool One have increased by 53 per cent and 110 per cent respectively in the last 10 years, boosted by the opening of 36 regional flagships of international retail brands.
On a wider scale, Grosvenor said Liverpool One has played a key role in the 66 per cent increase in the Liverpool City Region's visitor economy, the value of which has risen from £2.73 billion to £4.53 billion, equivalent to an average growth of around 6.5 per cent per annum.
Grosvenor added that it has donated £2 million to the community via the Liverpool One Foundation, an enterprise setup before the scheme opened to provide support to community projects across the city region.
"From the outset, our goals for Liverpool One were to reinvigorate Liverpool's retail and leisure offer, create a connected mixed-use destination that local residents could be proud of and, overall, to deliver lasting commercial and social benefits to the Liverpool City Region," Grosvenor Europe portfolio management director Miles Dunnett said.
"We recognise that Liverpool One wasn't just about property investment but also the economic and social turnaround for the city.
"Our commitment and determination to deliver this promise has exceeded all expectations and we are extremely proud to have helped achieve great things for Liverpool over the past 10 years.
Liverpool City Region metro mayor Steve Rotheram added: "It has transformed the city centre of Liverpool, making it the envy of many across the UK and overseas.
Liverpool One is owned by the Grosvenor Liverpool Fund, which includes Grosvenor Europe along with four other investors.
Grosvenor Europe is in turn part of the Grosvenor Group, which owns swathes of retail and residential properties around the UK and the globe.
The vast majority of the prestigious Mayfair and Belgravia districts in London's West End are operated by Grosvenor UK & Ireland, which is also part of the Grosvenor Group.


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in section 3, as the problems he posed, were we to adopt this amendment.
VICE-PRESIDENT ALEXANDER: Delegate Foster, I believe you were next, and also last on my list, and then Vice-president Smith.
MR. FOSTER: Mr. Vice-President and fellow members, until this moment I was not angry, but I cannot stand idly by and listen to a fast-talking hip-shooter characterize as "ridiculous" a proposal which represents a certain amount of thoughtful effort. I would remind Mr. Parkhurst that if he would read the Friedrich proposal, and put next to it the Foster proposal, that we have been talking about this subject for over six hours, because word for word, the one was lifted from the other.
I would further remind Mr. Parkhurst that the Judiciary Committee report did not reach our desks until Friday last, that it is a large and bulky report, that it took some effort over the weekend to get through it, and that it took from seven o'clock last night until two o'clock this afternoon to get that proposal into its present form which—somewhat truncated—we have now before us. I don't think it's decent for anyone to come in here and accuse people of frivolity, when they are considering a report under the pressure of time; and I assure Mr. Parkhurst that no matter how little time is permitted, the report of the Local Government Committee will receive the same careful attention that I gave to the report of the Judiciary-
I don't see what's ridiculous about this proposal. I don't see that it was ridiculous when I wrote it. I don't agree with the increase from seven to nine, and I think we still will have a number of problems; but I think that if in the time that we have spent in debate today, we can establish a basic principle of selection, we will have had a day well spent.
And I would suggest that the members pay more attention to the proposals and the debate so that they don't fall into the trap of saying we've done something fast in two hours, which represents the collective deliberation of this group over a period of some six hours.
VICE-PRESIDENT ALEXANDER: Thank you. Before I call on Delegate Woods, could the Chair appeal to all members to try to keep this debate as impersonal as possible? We've been in here a good number of hours, it's warm, and let's be as impersonal as we can. Delegate Woods?
MR. WOODS: Mr. Chairman, a point of personal privilege. I would like to remind my good friend, Delegate Foster, that I am on the Local Government Committee, and I didn't say anything about him. (Laughter)
MR. ALEXANDER: And now, Vice-President Smith, you're next.
VICE-PRESIDENT E. SMITH: Mr. Vice-President and fellow members of this Constitutional Convention. I arise to support in broad terms the report of our Judicial Committee that has worked months on the total and overall subject of the judicial system of the state of Illinois. That is not to say that I do not reserve the right to be critical of some of that report, nor am I critical of any other delegate who is critical of the support in whole or in part.
I do wish to invite the attention again and remind ourselves that under our entire Illinois Constitution, the judicial article
received a very thoughtful consideration by the voters of Illinois in 1962, and a broad revision of the judicial article was ratified by the people in the election of November, 1962, which went into effect January 1, 1964.
Omitting the question of the selection of judges, as that article did, we have been left with a judicial system that I am told —by people whom I respect—that Illinois is the envy of the nation. We have a single, unified trial court; and those of us that practiced in the 40's and the 50's and remember the days of the justices of the peace, and His Honor Dingbatt of Rochester, and many judges throughout the state, know that since January 1, 1964, we in Illinois have enjoyed an excellent court system.
Now we have some matters of judicial selection that we haven't gotten to yet, and we will get to them in this Convention, and no doubt there will be grave differences of opinion; but I do want to say that we have a good system. We have a good committee. We have a fine committee of this Convention that's worked very hard on this, and that committee has not seen fit to raise the number of the judges which has been established for many years. We even have a Supreme Court Building, built with accommodations and apartments for seven judges. Now if that's not enough, that's no justification for not changing. We could remodel the building, of course. We should recognize, in the spirt of the letter and the spirt of the Fourteenth Amendment, the principle of equal rights under the law. And if we don't like it because of some of the court decisions, the simple rule of fair play that several of the delegates have spoken about is appealing to all of us.
In recognition of that, many of us are quite ashamed that for many, many decades, of our seven judges, we had one district that comprised two counties—the counties of Cook and Lake —which was inhabited by about half of our state population, and the other 100 counties had six districts. That was recognized in 1962—maybe not adequately, but it was then provided that there would be a district of Cook County only, and that this district could elect three of these seven judges, but they would do that as the vacancies arose, because on the redistricting, we had several districts with more than one sitting judge, but it was recognized, in deference to those gentlemen who had been elected, that they would complete and serve out their terms or until their death or retirement as the case might be, and as those arose, the County of Cook—a single district— would be entitled to fill three of the seats on this court.
That has now been done, and three-sevenths is not half, to be sure—we all know that much arithmetic—but neither is four-sevenths; and there is no assurance that Cook County will not someday be entitled to more or possibly to less. Counties change; there was a time in the history of this state that the biggest and most populous county in the state was the county of Edwards, represented by our fine delegate, Henry Hendren, but that isn't true today and it may not be true twenty years from now or thirty years from now.
I think the majority report at this juncture is fine. It's as good as can be done. It's a product of good thoughtful students of this problem who have worked hard on it; and I, Mr. President and fellow delegates, respectfully call for the rejection of this amendment, at least until we know how we're going to select judges, if we're going to do that any differently than
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Transcript VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT OF JULY 1, 1970_____________________2243 in section 3, as the problems he posed, were we to adopt this amendment. VICE-PRESIDENT ALEXANDER: Delegate Foster, I believe you were next, and also last on my list, and then Vice-president Smith. MR. FOSTER: Mr. Vice-President and fellow members, until this moment I was not angry, but I cannot stand idly by and listen to a fast-talking hip-shooter characterize as "ridiculous" a proposal which represents a certain amount of thoughtful effort. I would remind Mr. Parkhurst that if he would read the Friedrich proposal, and put next to it the Foster proposal, that we have been talking about this subject for over six hours, because word for word, the one was lifted from the other. I would further remind Mr. Parkhurst that the Judiciary Committee report did not reach our desks until Friday last, that it is a large and bulky report, that it took some effort over the weekend to get through it, and that it took from seven o'clock last night until two o'clock this afternoon to get that proposal into its present form which—somewhat truncated—we have now before us. I don't think it's decent for anyone to come in here and accuse people of frivolity, when they are considering a report under the pressure of time; and I assure Mr. Parkhurst that no matter how little time is permitted, the report of the Local Government Committee will receive the same careful attention that I gave to the report of the Judiciary- I don't see what's ridiculous about this proposal. I don't see that it was ridiculous when I wrote it. I don't agree with the increase from seven to nine, and I think we still will have a number of problems; but I think that if in the time that we have spent in debate today, we can establish a basic principle of selection, we will have had a day well spent. And I would suggest that the members pay more attention to the proposals and the debate so that they don't fall into the trap of saying we've done something fast in two hours, which represents the collective deliberation of this group over a period of some six hours. VICE-PRESIDENT ALEXANDER: Thank you. Before I call on Delegate Woods, could the Chair appeal to all members to try to keep this debate as impersonal as possible? We've been in here a good number of hours, it's warm, and let's be as impersonal as we can. Delegate Woods? MR. WOODS: Mr. Chairman, a point of personal privilege. I would like to remind my good friend, Delegate Foster, that I am on the Local Government Committee, and I didn't say anything about him. (Laughter) MR. ALEXANDER: And now, Vice-President Smith, you're next. VICE-PRESIDENT E. SMITH: Mr. Vice-President and fellow members of this Constitutional Convention. I arise to support in broad terms the report of our Judicial Committee that has worked months on the total and overall subject of the judicial system of the state of Illinois. That is not to say that I do not reserve the right to be critical of some of that report, nor am I critical of any other delegate who is critical of the support in whole or in part. I do wish to invite the attention again and remind ourselves that under our entire Illinois Constitution, the judicial article received a very thoughtful consideration by the voters of Illinois in 1962, and a broad revision of the judicial article was ratified by the people in the election of November, 1962, which went into effect January 1, 1964. Omitting the question of the selection of judges, as that article did, we have been left with a judicial system that I am told —by people whom I respect—that Illinois is the envy of the nation. We have a single, unified trial court; and those of us that practiced in the 40's and the 50's and remember the days of the justices of the peace, and His Honor Dingbatt of Rochester, and many judges throughout the state, know that since January 1, 1964, we in Illinois have enjoyed an excellent court system. Now we have some matters of judicial selection that we haven't gotten to yet, and we will get to them in this Convention, and no doubt there will be grave differences of opinion; but I do want to say that we have a good system. We have a good committee. We have a fine committee of this Convention that's worked very hard on this, and that committee has not seen fit to raise the number of the judges which has been established for many years. We even have a Supreme Court Building, built with accommodations and apartments for seven judges. Now if that's not enough, that's no justification for not changing. We could remodel the building, of course. We should recognize, in the spirt of the letter and the spirt of the Fourteenth Amendment, the principle of equal rights under the law. And if we don't like it because of some of the court decisions, the simple rule of fair play that several of the delegates have spoken about is appealing to all of us. In recognition of that, many of us are quite ashamed that for many, many decades, of our seven judges, we had one district that comprised two counties—the counties of Cook and Lake —which was inhabited by about half of our state population, and the other 100 counties had six districts. That was recognized in 1962—maybe not adequately, but it was then provided that there would be a district of Cook County only, and that this district could elect three of these seven judges, but they would do that as the vacancies arose, because on the redistricting, we had several districts with more than one sitting judge, but it was recognized, in deference to those gentlemen who had been elected, that they would complete and serve out their terms or until their death or retirement as the case might be, and as those arose, the County of Cook—a single district— would be entitled to fill three of the seats on this court. That has now been done, and three-sevenths is not half, to be sure—we all know that much arithmetic—but neither is four-sevenths; and there is no assurance that Cook County will not someday be entitled to more or possibly to less. Counties change; there was a time in the history of this state that the biggest and most populous county in the state was the county of Edwards, represented by our fine delegate, Henry Hendren, but that isn't true today and it may not be true twenty years from now or thirty years from now. I think the majority report at this juncture is fine. It's as good as can be done. It's a product of good thoughtful students of this problem who have worked hard on it; and I, Mr. President and fellow delegates, respectfully call for the rejection of this amendment, at least until we know how we're going to select judges, if we're going to do that any differently than
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Tesla says that autopilot makes its cars safer. Accident victims say it kills
'Computers don't check your Instagram'
The autopilot is not an autonomous driving system. Rather, it is a suite of software, cameras, and sensors intended to assist drivers and prevent accidents by taking over many aspects of driving a car, including lane change. Tesla executives have claimed that transferring these functions to computers will make driving safer because human drivers are prone to mistakes and distractions, causing the majority of the roughly 40,000 traffic fatalities that occur each year in the United States.
"Computers don't check your Instagram" while driving, Tesla's director of artificial intelligence Andrej Karpathy said last month at an online workshop on autonomous driving.
As long as the autopilot is in control, drivers can relax, but they are not supposed to disconnect. Instead, they are supposed to keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road, ready to take control in case the system becomes confused or does not recognize objects or dangerous traffic situations.
But with little to do but look ahead, some drivers seem unable to resist the temptation to let their attention wander while the autopilot is on. Videos have been posted on Twitter and elsewhere showing drivers reading or sleeping while driving Teslas.
The company has often criticized the drivers of its cars, blaming them in some cases for not keeping their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road while using the autopilot.
But the National Transportation Safety Board, which has completed investigations into accidents involving the autopilot, has said the system lacks safeguards to prevent misuse and does not effectively monitor drivers.
Similar systems offered by General Motors, Ford Motor, and other automakers use cameras to track the driver's eyes and issue warnings when they take their eyes off the road. After a few warnings, GM's Super Cruise system shuts down and requires the driver to take control.
The autopilot does not track drivers' eyes and monitors only if their hands are on the wheel. Sometimes the system continues to function even if drivers have their hands on the wheel for only a few seconds at a time.
"This monitoring system is fundamentally weak because it's easy to fool and doesn't monitor very consistently," said Raj Rajkumar, a Carnegie Mellon University professor who focuses on autonomous driving technology.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has not forced Tesla to change or disable the autopilot, but in June it said it would require all automakers to report accidents related to such systems.
Several lawsuits have been filed against Tesla this year alone, including one in April in Florida state court that concerns a 2019 accident in Key Largo. A Tesla Model S with autopilot on failed to stop at a T-intersection and collided with a Chevrolet Tahoe parked on a shoulder, killing 22-year-old Naibel Leon. Another lawsuit was filed in California in May by Darel Kyle, 55, who suffered serious spinal injuries. when a Tesla under autopilot control collided behind the truck he was driving.
The accident that killed Jovani Maldonado is a rare case when video and data from the Tesla car are available. The Maldonados' attorney, Benjamin Swanson, obtained them from Tesla and shared them with The New York Times.
Benjamín Maldonado and his wife, Adriana García, filed their lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court. Your complaint states that Autopilot contains defects and did not react to traffic conditions. The lawsuit also names as defendants the Tesla driver, Romeo Lagman Yalung of Newark, California, and his wife, Vilma, who owns the car and was in the front passenger seat.
Yalung and his attorney did not respond to requests for comment. He and his wife, who were not reported injured in the accident, have yet to address the Maldonado family's complaint in court.
In court filings, Tesla has yet to respond to the allegation that Autopilot malfunctioned or is faulty. In emails to Swanson's firm that were presented as evidence in court, a Tesla attorney, Ryan McCarthy, said the driver, not Tesla, was responsible.
A still image from dash cam video provided by Benjamin Swanson shows a truck driven by Benjamin Maldonado on a California highway seconds before it was hit by a Tesla Model 3 traveling at about 60 miles per hour on autopilot. Swanson is an attorney for the family of 15-year-old Jovani Maldonado, who died in the accident. Credit:NYT
"Police blamed the Tesla driver, not the car, for his inattention and driving at dangerous speed," McCarthy wrote. He did not respond to emails seeking comment.
The data and video allow a detailed view of how the autopilot was operating in the seconds before the accident. Tesla vehicles constantly record short clips of cameras looking into the future. If a crash occurs, the video is automatically saved and uploaded to Tesla's servers, a company official said in emails included in the evidence presented by Swanson.
The video saved by the car Yalung was driving shows him passing vehicles on the right and left. Four seconds before impact, Maldonado turned on his turn signal. He blinked four times while his Explorer was in its original lane. There was a fifth flash as his truck straddled the rails. In court documents, Maldonado said he had noticed the Tesla approaching quickly in his rearview mirror and tried to veer back.
For most of the video, the Tesla maintained a speed of 69 mph (111 km / h), but just before impact it briefly increased to 70 mph and then slowed in the final second, according to data from the car.
"This monitoring system is fundamentally weak because it is easy to fool and does not monitor very consistently."
Raj Rajkumar, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Maldonado's truck rolled over and crashed into a barrier, according to the police report. It had a broken windshield and a wrinkled roof, and the rear axle had come loose. The Tesla had a crumpled roof, its front end was smashed, its bumper was partially detached, and its windshield was cracked.
Jovani Maldonado was found face down on the shoulder of Interstate 880, with his blood pooled.
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Q: Juego de memoria (memorama) Python estoy haciendo un juego de memoria en Python entre 2 jugadores y usé matrices para estar sustituyendo datos entre matriz y matriz, una matriz de puros guiones y otra de números del 1 al 18 (secuencia que se repite 2 veces), ya esta casi terminado, sin embargo, le falta los siguientes puntos:

*

*En el momento en el que no haya más guiones por destapar(que ya se hayan destapado todos los guiones), le imprima 'Has ganado!' y que jugador ganó.

*Cuando el usuario ponga una coordenada en el que el guión ya está destapado, que le imprima ('Ya se destapó, ingresa otra coordenada') y que el programa continúe.

El primer punto iría en las funciones: "condiciones" y "condiciones2", porque ahí es en donde se diferencia entre jugador y jugador. El segundo punto lo pondría en las funciones "memorama" y "memorama2" justo abajo de cuando le pide x2 y y2. (Así es como yo creo que deberían estar localizados estos dos puntos, si crees que irían mejor en otra función, adelante!)
Sería un enorme favor si me pudieran ayudar! De verdad estuve todo el día pensando pero no se me ocurre nada, código:
import random
import sys

x=0
y=0
x2=0
y2=0
p1 = 0
p2 = 0
matrix = [['-','-','-','-','-','-'],['-','-','-','-','-','-'],['-','-','-','-','-','-'],['-','-','-','-','-','-'],['-','-','-','-','-','-'],['-','-','-','-','-','-']]
matrix2 = [[1,2,3,4,5,6],[7,8,9,10,11,12],[13,14,15,16,17,18],[1,2,3,4,5,6],[7,8,9,10,11,12],[13,14,15,16,17,18]]
guion = '-'
variable = 5

def memorama():
    imprimir()
    print('Jugador 1')

    x = int(input('Ingresa un valor en la horizontal: '))
    if x > 5:
        print('ERROR')
        memorama()

    y = int(input('Ingresa un valor en la vertical: '))
    if y > 5:
        print('ERROR')
        memorama()

    matrix[x][y] = matrix2[x][y]

    imprimir()

    x2 = int(input('Ingresa un valor en la horizontal: '))
    if x2 > 5:
        print('ERROR')
        matrix[x][y] = '-'
        memorama()
    else:
        y2 = int(input('Ingresa un valor en la vertical: '))
        if y2 > 5:
            print('ERROR')
            matrix[x][y] = '-'
            memorama()

    matrix[x2][y2] = matrix2[x2][y2]

    condiciones(x,y,x2,y2)

    imprimir()

def memorama2():
    imprimir()
    print('Jugador 2')

    x = int(input('Ingresa un valor en la horizontal: '))
    if x > 5:
        print('ERROR')
        memorama2()

    y = int(input('Ingresa un valor en la vertical: '))
    if y > 5:
        print('ERROR')
        memorama2()

    matrix[x][y] = matrix2[x][y]

    imprimir()

    x2 = int(input('Ingresa un valor en la horizontal: '))
    if x2 > 5:
        print('ERROR')
        matrix[x][y] = '-'
        memorama2()
    else:
        y2 = int(input('Ingresa un valor en la vertical: '))
        if y2 > 5:
            print('ERROR')
            matrix[x][y] = '-'
            memorama2()

    matrix[x2][y2] = matrix2[x2][y2]

    condiciones2(x,y,x2,y2)

    imprimir()

def condiciones(x,y,x2,y2):
    global p1
    if matrix[x][y] != matrix[x2][y2]:
        matrix[x2][y2] = "-"
        matrix[x][y] = "-"
        respuesta = str(input('¿Quiere seguir jugando? s/n: '))
        if respuesta == 's':
            memorama2()
        elif respuesta == 'n':
            print('El jugador tiene',p1,'pares')
            print('El jugador tiene',p2,'pares')
            if p1 > p2:
                print('El ganador fue el jugador 1')
            elif p2 > p1:
                print('El ganador fue el jugador 2')
            elif p2 == p1:
                print('Fue un empate!')
            elif p1 == p2:
                print('Fue un empate!')
            sys.exit()
    else:
        p1 += 1
        memorama()

def condiciones2(x,y,x2,y2):
    global p2
    if matrix[x][y] != matrix[x2][y2]:
        matrix[x2][y2] = "-"
        matrix[x][y] = "-"
        respuesta = str(input('¿Quiere seguir jugando? s/n: '))
        if respuesta == 's':
            memorama()

        elif respuesta == 'n':
            print(p1)
            print(p2)
            if p1 > p2:
                print('El jugador tiene',p1,'pares')
            elif p2 > p1:
                print('El jugador tiene',p2,'pares')
            elif p2 == p1:
                print('Fue un empate!')
            elif p1 == p2:
                print('Fue un empate!')
            sys.exit()
    else:
        p2 += 1
        memorama2()

def imprimir():
    contador = 0
    print('  0 1 2 3 4 5 \n')

    for i in range(6):
        print(contador, '', end = '')
        contador += 1
        for j in range(6):
            print((matrix[i][j]),'', end = '')

        print('\n')

def main():
    while variable == 5:
        random.shuffle(matrix2)
        for i in matrix2:
            random.shuffle(i)
        memorama()

main()

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