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A Call to Move Away from Urban Density and Bring "Human Factor" Back to Cities
The Human City – Urbanism for the Rest of Us
Agate Publishing, Chicago, 2016
HC, 201 pages, US$24.95
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Reviewed by Terri Hall | January 5, 2017
What is a city for? That's the central question Joel Kotkin answers in his book, The Human City – Urbanism for the Rest of Us. Today's urban planners have all but destroyed what once constituted a great place to live. The prevailing thinking is to cram people into dense cities and high rise housing with no backyard and scarcely a ray of sunshine. New urbanists and retro urbanists believe getting around on foot, a bike, or bus are the ideal. Kotkin meticulously makes the case that the vast majority of Americans do not share that vision and calls upon urban planners to return the 'human factor' to city planning.
Kotkin also sounds the alarm that the attempts to herd everyone into the highly dense urban core has delayed marriage and starting a family for so many that most Western nations, and even some developing nations, are facing a low birth rate crisis. He argues the modern city is so hostile to families, that nations face a failure to replace its citizens and tax base, and cities risk replacing their workforce. Those familiar with Agenda 21 know that today's planners are well-schooled in Agenda 21's goals for 'human settlements,' and they're implementing them through regulations to control any peripheral development, the construction of single family homes, and complete streets policies that punish people out of cars and into mass transit, onto a bike or into a carpool.
Restrictions on housing unnecessarily hike housing prices in the urban core, which makes housing unaffordable to most families who then flee to the suburbs. Families also reject high density housing and want space for their children to play. In addition, families want better schools, a lower cost of living, and higher quality of life than the congestion, pollution, and stress of city living, and the suburbs provide them with all of the above. Yet, urban planners and many city officials continue to push their anti-family policies, despite the obvious rejection of them. Rather than retreat, progressives just regulate more. They use iron fist tactics that do not consider the 'human factor' in their urban planning.
Kotkin insists it's not about where one 'should' live, but how one 'wants' to live. The 'we know best' attitude of the elites, urban planners, and consultants is in conflict with what the vast majority of people desire. The planners claim high density increases productivity, lowers the cost of living, and is more sustainable for the environment. However, the majority of jobs are outside the urban core, with only 9% in central business districts. Lower density regions enjoy a higher share of STEM jobs. Eighty percent of job growth between 2007 and 2013 was in newer suburbs and exurban areas.
Meanwhile environmentalists push for higher density living claiming low density living creates a greater carbon footprint, is unsustainable and environmentally wasteful. However, Kotkin shows the carbon footprint of urban core residents and those in the suburbs is roughly the same. It also costs more to build in higher density areas because land costs are higher. That higher cost feeds the affordability problem forcing public subsidies, which then creates scarcity and leads to higher rents.
He also argues density scares off the creative class that wants more space, and density is also seen as a tool for developers to get government subsidies. It's also become a way for developers to seize small properties seen as being in the way of progress, creating threats to property rights.
But the overwhelming trend is dispersion, not density. The post-war shift to suburbia is 50 years in the making. Though cities are gaining in population, they're spreading out. Land on the fringes is cheaper. Since 1950, 90% of metro growth is in the periphery – the suburbs. Nearly 75% of residents live in suburbs.
Kotkin demonstrates the real reason for forcing density is cities are losing their tax base, so they're trying to force residents back into the core to capture more tax revenues. But the majority want space. Only a small percentage want density. Generally, young people just starting their careers live in city centers, but once they start a family, they move out of the city. Kotkin argues today's modern cities are unsustainable without a place for families. The planner's goal isn't to lure people into the city with amenities that appeal to families, but to use force to shove people into transit and increase the profits and sustainability of developments.
He insists cities should not serve some ideological principle, but make life better for all of its citizens, including those who want suburban living, more space and less congestion. Kotkin contends cities must move away from their contemporary focus on the young, creative class (which doesn't even like density) and global wealthy, and instead focus on the mundane needs of families and the middle class, what New York folklorist Barbara Kirshenblatt Gimblett calls everyday urbanism.
Kotkin takes readers through the history of the world's earliest cities that formed as a way for the elites to be served by a servile working class. Today, our new urban economy replaced manufacturing and industrial jobs with those in information, media and finance, catering to wealthy elites and high end consumers with the 'hip' factor and being culturally sophisticated. Luxury condos, expensive restaurants, boutiques, entertainment, and the pleasures of high end urban life have overtaken the focus of the world's cities and left the majority behind. Jobs serving those wealthy elites are largely limited to service jobs like nannies, waiters, and walking dogs.
Today's 'sustainable' cities that pack people into the core like sardines fail to address the inequality for families and the middle class. The biggest problem facing cities is a growing concentration of poverty. High density and restrictive transportation and housing do not provide a workable urban future because they don't provide what people want: home ownership, rapid access to employment, good schools, and human-scaled neighborhoods.
Kotkin argues that to be truly sustainable, cities need to deemphasize the glamour factor and and provide economic opportunity for a broad range of people. He states, " . . . 'sustainable' needs to go beyond a program that promotes lower standards of living and higher levels of poverty that occur when we force human beings into ever smaller, and usually more expensive places. To attempt to reduce the space and privacy enjoyed by households is not 'progressive' but fundamentally regressive."
In fact, suburban and country life have proven to provide much greater quality of life than dense urban spaces. Lifespans are greater for residents in the countryside than those in urban areas. Today's mega cities have become VIP zones and those who live outside those areas don't have reliable electricity, water, or roads. Residents in dense urban areas have diminished immune systems, higher levels of coronary disease, excessive concentration of obesity, and greater psychiatric disturbances. Cities also experience higher crime rates, suffer from higher levels of family breakdown, and lower educational achievement.
Packing people into cities doesn't help the environment either. Kotkin documents how air pollution increases with density and that those pollution particulates kill more people than traffic accidents. Traffic congestion also increases with density and congestion threatens both drivers and pedestrians alike. Developed mass transit does not mean less traffic either. Tokyo boasts the most extensive transit system, yet it experiences the longest average commute time of 60 minutes.
Kotkin documents how many Agenda 21-style urbanists praise city slums because it leaves rural areas alone. Yet, many of today's slums have worse living conditions than depression era New York, where you could at least get water from the tap and reliable electricity. Special interests like developers, architects, and engineers advocate density because they benefit from the urban systems they build. But Kotkin documents a shift away from Asia's model of vertical cities to more mid-sized cities and provincial towns.
Modern cities have become post-familial with a clear link between density and childlessness. San Francisco has 80,000 more dogs than children. Despite environmentalists constant refrain that there's a global overpopulation crisis and whose extremists advocate putting sterilants in public water supplies, Kotkin demonstrates the real crisis is low fertility and an aging population, leading to a lack of workers and economic opportunity.
So, cities are suffering from predictable economic and social ills. Kotkin refreshingly demonstrates how families and religion provide what the government cannot – strong institutions like churches, synagogues, civic organizations and cohesive neighborhoods that provide people with a sense of connection, higher sense of purpose, and multi-generational thinking beyond one's own social network.
Kotkin sees Texas as a 'safety valve' for the United States with its lower cost of housing and more business-friendly, family-friendly environment. The two coasts have completely priced out young families. He contends only a policy that embraces urban expansion (not forced urban density) can relieve the current housing crisis for future generations. He advocates cities cultivate affordability, mobility, and family friendliness. Young people face weak economic opportunity, while being asked to help pay for the comfortable retirements of their parents and grandparents. He maintains planners need to respect the existing dispositions of its citizens and stop forcing policies antithetical to them.
Kotkin strongly urges a dramatic change in direction: "It is time to recognize . . . dense urban culture . . . ultimately offers little for the vast majority. A new approach to urbanism is desperately needed, one that sees people and families not as assets or digits to be moved around and shaped by their superiors but as the essential element that shapes the city and constitutes its essence."
Terri Hall is the founder of Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom (TURF), which defends against eminent domain abuse and promotes non-toll transportation solutions. She's a home school mother of ten turned citizen activist. Ms. Hall is also a contributor to SFPPR News & Analysis of the conservative-online-journalism center at the Washington-based Selous Foundation for Public Policy Research.


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4. Remove seitan to a plate and cover.
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Safran & HAL In Talks To Make New Indigenous Chopper Engine For Indian Multi-Role Helicopter (IMRH)
Wednesday, May 04, 2022 by Indian Defence News
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SAFRAN & HAL joint production of engines to power 'Make in India' push
New Delhi: French defence major Safran and the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) are in talks to jointly and indigenously manufacture a new engine that will power India's plans to have its own medium weight military helicopters reported media.
These new rotary aircraft will replace the Russian Mi-17 transport helicopters in the coming years. There is also a possibility of a new combat chopper in the same class as the American Apache.
Sources in the defence and security establishment said that the engines will be manufactured to power different types of medium weight helicopters that the HAL is working on to meet the demand of the Air Force, Navy and the Army.
The thrust of his talks was to ask French defence firms to either collaborate with Indian companies or simply produce in India.
"I am happy to say that the French government has agreed that a big French company will come to India and produce an engine, currently not made in the country, under the strategic partnership with an Indian company," Defence Minister had said at the seminar in Dec 2021.
The sources said this was related to helicopter engines and the Indian company that will enter into a strategic partnership with Safran is HAL.
The sources refused to elaborate whether this investment will be part of the offsets that Safran has to complete as part of the Rafale deal.
The HAL currently manufactures the LCH (Light Combat Helicopter) and the multi-role ALH (Advanced Light Helicopter), besides the Chetak choppers.
Incidentally, both the ALH Dhruv and the LCH are powered by Ardiden-1H1 Shakti, co-developed by HAL and Safran.
The sources said that while this is license manufactured by HAL, the new engine will be made under the strategic partnership, which will involve transfer of technology.
IMRH Reason For India-France Collaboration
The defence sources explained that the HAL is working on a twin-engine, multi-role, multi-mission chopper of about 13-ton weightage, known as the Indian Multi-Role Helicopter (IMRH).
This helicopter is meant to replace the various variants of Russian Mi-17 helicopters which are the workhorse of the Indian Air Force, which operates a total of about 250 of them.
The phasing out of the earlier versions of these helicopters are to begin around 2028, with the latest versions, Mi-17V5 (inducted since 2011), to be the last to be phased out.
The HAL is looking at a helicopter which will have more endurance than the Mi-17s and will be used for a wide variety of operations, including transport, VVIP travel, search and rescue besides others, the sources said.
The HAL also plans to manufacture a medium weight combat helicopter in the future, which will rival the American Apache currently in service with the IAF.
It will also offer a naval variant to the Indian Navy, which is also in need of medium weight choppers.
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Sep 19, 2017 by David Lurie & Matthew Van Dusen
Starting on Tuesday evening, the three-day installation, called "Unseen Stars," will project the faces of distinguished female scientists onto the ceiling. Notable lights will include Mildred Dresselhaus, the "queen of carbon," and the first woman to receive the National Medal of Science in engineering. Dresselhaus died in February.
Other scientists featured include Laurie Leshin, a geochemist who has searched for life on Mars; Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, a quantum gravity researcher; and GE scientist Danielle Merfeld, an engineer who helps machines talk to each other. In total there will be 12 female scientists and engineers reshaping the constellations from Sept. 19 through Sept. 21. "We wanted to create a new universe for commuters to imagine, one where the uncelebrated are celebrated and the achievements of remarkable women are elevated to new heights," said Linda Boff, GE's chief marketing officer.
"We wanted to create a new universe for commuters to imagine, one where the uncelebrated are celebrated and the achievements of remarkable women are elevated to new heights," said Linda Boff, GE's chief marketing officer. Image credit: GE.
This celebration of women working in science and technology dovetails with GE's commitment to increase the number of women employed in technical positions by 2020. In addition to internal goals, GE also wants to publicly celebrate influential female scientists and engineers, and support organizations like the Society of Women Engineers, in an effort to encourage more young women to consider careers in STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — fields.
Other scientists and engineers featured among the constellations include Hadiyah-Nicole Green, a physicist who created treatment for cancer using lasers and nanotechnology; Jess Melbourne-Thomas, a marine ecologist who led an all-woman voyage to Antarctica to address climate change; Sossina Haile, a materials engineer who invented solid acid fuel cells for clean energy; and Megan Smith, the first female chief technology officer of the United States.
Also featured are Neri Oxman, an MIT Professor who pioneered the field of material ecology; Kira Radinsky, inventor of an algorithm to predict global incidents and disasters; Sudha Maniam, an engineer who helped doctors see the brain in new ways; and Vera Cooper Rubin, an astronomer who discovered evidence of dark matter.
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The first real conversation I ever had about Israel and Palestine happened on a Tuesday. I was doing laundry and talking on the phone with my one of my closest friends, "H." He wasn't going on our summer camp´s trip to Israel and I was mad about it.
"What do you mean you´re not going. We have been planning this forever. It's going to be amazing!"
"You're right. It will be amazing, but I can't go. I just can't. I feel that if I do, I'll be supporting a government that isn't good and isn't right. I´ll be contributing to the problem instead of fixing it. I just can't do it."
I kind of knew what he meant, but over the course of the next hour, he explained to me everything he knew about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; everything he felt about a country that I called a second home. We discussed and argued and cried and then discussed even more and, by the end of it, I realized how little I knew and how much I had to learn about a country I thought I understood so well.
After that conversation, I started thinking about Israel and Palestine more frequently. I began noticing how ingrained Israel was in Judaism. For example, an Israeli flag can be found on the bima in my synagogue and in most across the U.S. What are flags doing in my place of worship? When talking to other Jews, it was almost as if when I questioned Israel I was criticizing Judaism as a whole. Having a Jewish homeland is very important, so questioning and criticizing the Israeli government was a personal attack.
Whenever I started talking about how I didn't agree with a new law passed or settlement started, I felt like I was insulting my people, like I was spitting in the face of all the Jews before me that had suffered with no country to take them in. I was so confused! Especially with the news that Israel planned to deport 60,000 African refugees or face harsh consequences, thoughts about the Conflict engulfed my mind constantly. I had so many questions that needed answers. So many perspectives and events that I didn't understand. My Jewish day school education provided me with a lot of knowledge on the good things Israel does, but if you asked to describe the Conflict, I wouldn't know where to begin. So I talked to friends, read articles, and watched possibly every youtube video out there on the Conflict, trying to grasp what was going on; who was right; who was wrong.
I live in a small and very Zionist Jewish community in the midwest. Growing up, no one ever talked about Palestine; the maps were even drawn to engulf the occupied territories. I thought Israel was a land that could do no wrong, but no country, especially Israel, is perfect. The information I learned showed things and pictures I didn't want to see, that I didn't want to be true. I found out about how the Israeli government violates countless international laws to justify its occupation in places like the West Bank. Palestinians oftentimes have difficulty even accessing basic necessities like water and health care. For Palestinian residents, gaining Israeli citizenship is practically impossible. The pictures I saw looked eerily familiar to ones taken during the Civil Rights Era of black men and women protesting in the face of the police. The abuse of power, the cycle that humanity is too used to, was spinning again. I felt so angry and stupid and frustrated. Angry that a country I loved could do such harm, but even more angry that I didn't realize how ignorant I was until now.
Palestinian political violence has harmed Israelis, but does that justify all this cruelty? Israel does a lot of great things for our world, but its treatment of the Palestinians is unacceptable. How did a country built by refugees become a place of no refuge? I didn't know what to think; both sides have valid narratives and the Conflict in and of itself is a complicated mess. I honestly felt ashamed to resent Israel. By acknowledging that this country I love ignores and harms the existence of an entire people, I felt as though I was doing the same to my own people. Just because a government is bad doesn't mean the people it represents are. There is so much death and war and anger; both sides having valid points but neither able to work anything out. I was stuck between two extremes, unsure what opinion to form, unsure what place I held in the mess that is the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
I love Israel a lot. Being there is like living in a dream. Fresh apricots and the sea, barbecues with friends and family. The quiet and comfort of Shabbat and late nights on the hammock made up my time there. I think that's why it hurts so much to learn about the Conflict. Not only was I so ignorant about the injustices many face from the Israeli government, but the fact that my version of Israel is so different compared to others' cuts deep: African immigrants sitting in detention centers, the slums of south Tel Aviv, Palestinian teens only a few years older than me, celebrating their birthdays in prison. My vacations to Israel sound cruelly sweet in comparison to their reality. It hurts to admit a place you care about does wrong. It's scary to know about all the things that no one ever told you, for fear they would change you, or worse.
As time passed, I was able to make up my mind a bit, but in a different way than I expected. I didn't come up with a definite opinion or solution. Instead, I realized that most of my frustration came from the fact I was so clueless. I didn't even have the tools or information to form my own opinion about the conflict, but just listened to what people around me were saying. Since that talk with "H," I educated myself on the state of the situation to form a true opinion of my own. It's something that's difficult to do, but ultimately the most important part of understanding the world today.
My perspective on Israel has changed. Even though I still love it, I also understand its flaws and I won't support it blindly. I understand the legitimacy of Palestine and the injustice faced by Palestinians everyday for the right to exist in a land that is home for them, too. That is something I would never have realized if I just listened to what the adults around me were saying. I know I can't change things alone, but trying to comprehend the legitimacy of each historical narrative, understanding the unjust treatment and oppression faced by Palestinians, the fear and grief faced by others, and learning in general is one step closer to peace. Crybaby's print editor, Maggie Wilde, said it best, "Education is super important in dismantling your own ideas of other people and the world around you."
To that end, whatever issue is close to your heart, learn about it. Try to understand it as best as you can. Talk to people, read, watch, listen, get out of your comfort zone, understand your point of view, and learn all that you can about the other side as well. It's the only way to truly grasp what's going in this crazy world, and the only way to begin to change it for the better. As for me, I know a lot more about the parts of Israel my community doesn't want me to see, and that's a good thing. I challenge long held beliefs and racism I see from Jews around me. I've found organizations like "If Not Now" and tons of others that work towards creating peace in the Middle East and between Israelis and Palestinians. At my summer camp, I talk with counselors and campers alike about their point of view. I try to educate others around me about Israel and I listen to what they have to say.
I am so proud to be Israeli, because I know that it is a country filled with people capable of love and change: Jews, Arabs, Christians and Muslims alike, all capable of forgiveness and compassion. I have learned that the opposite of war is not peace, but creation. Violence does not lead to understanding, but just more violence and resentment. Israel is a country I love very much but, but I refuse to accept or support the fear based oppression that takes place there. I support the end of the occupation and eventually a Palestinian state, because what I have learned shows me that's the right thing to do.
Ultimately, I've learned this: The truth is hard. The truth takes time. The truth is complicated. The truth hurts, but the truth changes us and, in return, allows us to change the world for the better.
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The idea behind this project is to showcase the variety and beauty of both our country, and the dancers that live within it. We want to be able to promote dance as both a wonderful career and lifestyle, as well as a great benefit to the development of children. To do this, we drove to all 48 contiguous states, (and flew to Alaska and Hawai'i) to photograph dancers at a national park, national monument, or other nationally significant location. Some of these images are cataloged on this website, and have been combined into a book. A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to benefit America's parks and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Benefits of the project
Dance as an activity benefits children and adults in a variety of ways. There is the obvious physical benefit, but the goodness doesn't stop there. There are documented benefits in self-esteem, social interaction, and even improvement in education and general learning. Dancing with others fosters lifelong friendships, and gives people great joy by being able to dance.
Another benefit of this project is to remind us of America's majesty. Our country covers a wide variety of ecosystems, great history, and beautiful scenery. With the recent rise in popularity of dance in the public eye, ranging from television show like Dance Moms, So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars, to films (Black Swan, Billy Elliot, the Step Up series) and of course Broadway, we can help harness the interest in dance to foster a rise in interest in our national parks and historic sites, With almost a 20% drop in visitation per capita since 1993 (source - Declining National Park Visitation, by Stevens, More, and Markowski-Lindsay 2014), our citizens are focusing more and more on electronic media, which forgetting about the physical experience of our national history and beauty.
We believe that by photographing talented dancers in these nationally significant locations, we will both increase the interest in dance, as well as expose people to the accessibility and majesty of our country. The end result of this project is to create a photo book with all the images created on the journey. Once complete, a portion of the proceeds will go to benefit the national parks, as well as a National Endowment for the Arts. Thanks for being a part of it!
"There is nothing so American as our national parks.... The fundamental idea behind the parks...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us."
— President Franklin D. Roosevelt
oh, the places we will go...
The locations for this project range from mountains to oceans, from deserts to tropical islands. Some of them are in cities, some in the middle of nowhere. But all of them are just as important as the others. Here is the list, in order, of all the locations we will travel to. Click on the name to see the gallery for each location.
1. Biscayne National Park, FL
2. Dry Tortugas National Park, FL
3. Little River Canyon National Preserve, AL
4. The French Quarter, New Orleans, LA
5. Cypress Swamp, Natchez Trace Parkway, MS
6. Hot Springs National Park, AR
7. Chickasaw National Recreational Area, Sulphur, OK
8. The Alamo National Historic Landmark, TX
9. White Sands National Monument, NM
10. Garden of the Gods, CO
11. Grand Teton National Park, WY
12. Craters of the Moon National Monument, ID
13. Great Basin National Park, NV
14. Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
15. Antelope Canyon, AZ
16. Death Valley National Park, CA
17. King's Canyon National Park, CA
18. Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, HI
19. Crater Lake National Park, OR
20. Ruby Beach, Olympic National Park, WA
21. Hatcher Pass, AK
22. Glacier National Park, MT
23. Theodore Roosevelt National Park, ND
24. Badlands National Park, SD
25. Missouri National Recreational River, NE
26. Voyageurs National Park, MN
27. Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, WI
28. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI
29. Effigy Mounds National Monument, IA
30. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, KS
31. Jefferson National Expansion Memorial - The Gateway Arch, MO
32. Shawnee National Forrest - Camel Rock, Garden of the Gods, IL
33. Hoosier National Forest - Pioneer Mothers Memorial Forest, IN
34. Cumberland Gap National Historic Park, KY
35. Big South Fork National River, TN
36. Cuyahoga Valley National Park, OH
37. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park, VT
38. Franconia Ridge, White Mountains National Forest, NH
39. Acadia National Park, ME
40. Webb Memorial, Boston Harbor Islands National Recreational Area, MA
41. Ocean Drive Historic District, RI
42. Quinebaug & Shetucket Rivers Valley, CT
43. The Statue of Liberty, NY
44. Buttermilk Falls, Delaware Water Gap, NJ
45. Independence Hall, PA
46. First State National Historical Park, DE
47. Assateague Island National Seashore, MD
48. The Lincoln Memorial and Washing Monument, Washington DC
49. Shenandoah National Park, VA
50. Grist Mill, Babcock State Park, WV
51. Cape Hatteras, NC
52. Congaree National Park, SC
53. Cumberland Island National Seashore, GA


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Q: Can an Elementary Matrix's Inverse's Determinant = 0? Can someone explain to me why an elementary matrix's inverse determinant cannot equal 0?
Or can it? Is there some theorem to elementary matrix inverses?
THANKS FOR YOUR INSIGHT! :)

A: If a matrice is inversible, the determinant is non nul. The inverse of a inversible matrice is by definition inversible, then the determinant is no nul too. So the response to your question is of course no !!

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Tomorrow, Apple is expected to launch the iPhone 6. With anticipation building for the announcement, one question looms large: will we get two new iPhones, or one? Apple's experiment to release two iPhones last year, the iPhone 5s and the cheaper iPhone 5c, was initially met with mixed reviews by critics, but resulted in record revenue the following quarter. Tomorrow the world will find out if Apple will repeat this strategy by launching multiple iPhones, or go back to releasing just one iPhone this year, the iPhone 6.
The iPhone 5, launched in 2012, is Apple's most popular phone with a 27% share, but only leads its successor, the 5s, by a small (2%) margin. This is likely because most iPhones come with a cheaper price if the consumer locks into a two-year contract, putting the average consumer on a two-year upgrade cycle. With the new iPhones expected to be available for purchase later this month, the iPhone 6 will likely eat into the iPhone 5's market share.
One interesting note is that the iPhone 5 is no longer available for sale on Apple's website. In addition, the three-year-old iPhone 4s is now available free with a two-year contract, possibly indicating Apple's attempt to gain traction at the lower end of the market, typically dominated by Android.
While the iPhone will have the larger share of consumers' attention over the next month, there are a couple of interesting insights that can be gleaned from Apple's iPad device share. Just like last year, the 3.5–year-old iPad 2 still enjoys its spot as the most popular model with a 29% share of all iPads. Compared to the iPhones, where the two-year-old iPhone 5 only slightly edges out the most recent iPhone iteration, the 5s, it seems that older iPads have more staying power. There are several reasons why this could be the case. The iPad 2 wasn't discontinued until March 2014, three years after it was originally released. Also, unlike iPhones, iPads are not locked into carrier contracts, giving them a longer lifespan than a traditional smartphone.
Though history suggests that Apple will announce new iPads in late October, it will be interesting to see if Apple continues this annual trend given the stickiness of older models. There are currently four iPads on sale on the Apple website: the iPad (4th gen), which was re-launched in March 2014 when the iPad 2 was discontinued, the iPad Air, iPad Mini, and iPad Mini (2nd gen).
With the majority of the tech world focused on Apple products, it will be interesting to see what new devices Apple introduces. Surprises are nothing new for Apple, and everyone will get their first peek into their new lineup startingtomorrow.
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Water cycle and hydroelectricity
Watch a video and build a model turbine to learn how electricity in B.C. depends on the water cycle.
Access prior knowledge about where electricity comes from
Make predictions about where electricity comes from
Explain how the water cycle is related to electricity in B.C.
Follow the path of electricity from a dam to a home
Describe how water is used inside a dam to generate electricity
Build a model of a turbine
Power of falling water
Watch how the power of falling water generates electricity.
Grade 2 Video 15 mins
Watch a turbine spin
Turn a pop bottle, skewers and corks into a model turbine to see how water powers B.C.
The story of hydroelectricity starts in nature with the water cycle. Snow falls in winter where it collects in high-alpine glaciers and creates a dense, thick snowpack. In the spring, this snowpack melts and the run-off makes its way down the mountain and into streams and rivers. Water from the melting snow and ice, as well as rainwater, collects in reservoirs behind dams.
When water in a hydro reservoir is released it is channeled through large pipes, called penstocks, to turbines, which are like wheels with blades. The energy of falling water is used to spin the turbines, generating electricity.
The electricity has to be transported to where it's useful (like to your home to power a computer). The electricity travels long distances over high-voltage wires called transmission lines. These transmission lines are held in the sky away from the ground by tall metal transmission towers.
When the electricity gets near a town or city, it goes into substations. A substation contains many wires and transformers and is surrounded by a wire fence. The substation reduces the voltage, divides the electricity and sends it in different paths over wires called distribution lines. These distribution lines take the electricity to your home and can be either above ground or underground.
Often you will see grey cylinders called transformers on power poles. These reduce the voltage on the distribution lines to an amount that can be safely used in buildings. You may also see metal boxes with warning signs where newer houses are built. These boxes are called pad-mounted transformers. They do the same things as the transformers on the poles, but are for underground distribution lines.
As the electricity enters your house or school, it passes through a meter. The meter measures the amount of electricity your household uses. The electricity flows through the meter, through wires in your house and ends in electrical outlets in the walls. To use the electricity, you plug the appliance or machine into the outlet.
Communicate ideas about where electricity comes from and how it is related to the water cycle
Transfer their understanding of how the model turbine works and apply it to how a hydroelectric dam works
Make predictions about where electricity in B.C. comes from
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Weedin Unleashed Video – What's Your Story?
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Extra Points – January 26, 2015 – What's Your Story?
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This week's focus point…What's Your Story?
Last Friday was my mom's funeral. I was honored to give her eulogy and share about 11 minutes with all attending about her life. I used stories to help people gain a better understanding of her personality, her character, and the way she lived her life. The comments after reinforced that I had done that.
Stories always help the listener gain greater understanding. Regardless of the message, or if its purpose is personal or professional, the ability to deftly tell a story will enormously enhance engagement of the person listening.
If you goal is to be influential, then you had better become an expert in telling stories. They are perfect for metaphors, life lessons, or business applications. They help you inspire, motivate, teach, and sell. As we enter into the second month of the year, keep seeking out professional development opportunities….becoming a better storyteller would be a great place to start!
Join the conversation! The next free Weedin Unleashed broadcast is today at 12 pm Pacific. Click here to get the link.
I admit it. I gave up. I was sitting forlornly at my brother-in-laws house with a group of people watching my beloved Seahawks losing at home in the NFC Championship game versus the Green Bay Packers. They'd played poorly. Nothing seemed to be working. And now with 4 minutes left, we had thrown another interception and were still down 9 points. It was over.
I won't recount the crazy next 20 minutes, but the history books will show an improbable Seahawks victory in overtime. Listening to the post-game interviews from coach Pete Carroll, quarterback Russell Wilson, and several other players; it was clear they hadn't quit. They were going down swinging; they still believed. Until that clock hit zero, they truly never gave up. That's why they are going back to the Super Bowl.
Never give up. Ever. No matter what happens in your life or your career, never quit. Life is short and the opportunities abound even in what seem to be incalculable odds. Football and all sports are a microcosm of life. I hear people say that sports aren't like real life. I disagree. They are "real life" for all the players and coaches that make it their career. They are real life for the fans that follow them. Your career and life are just as "real," and often face the same anxiety, stress, and challenges that face teams in games and seasons. That's why no matter how bleak things may look, never give up. You never now when that winning touchdown pass will happen for you!
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I love quotes. Depending on where I am in life, I've found them inspirational, humorous, and filled with perspective.
If you've spent any time reading my work, watching me speak, or working directly with me, you'll know what an advocate I am of "being in the moment." This quote has summed up that sentiment quite nicely, don't you think?
As many of you already know, my mother passed away last Tuesday night. She has been fighting dementia for the past 4 years and although we knew this to be coming up, it's always a shock and a difficult thing. My family is grateful for the love, support, and condolences we have received from family, friends, clients, colleagues, and more. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for that. I want to share with you Mom's obituary as some of you may not be connected to me on social media and may just now be finding out.
Alicia Weedin passed away peacefully at her home at Emeritus at Montclair Park in Poulsbo, WA on January 6th. She was 90 years old.
She was born Alicia González Martínez in Bogotá, Colombia on April 24, 1924 to José Antonio González and Maria Elena Martínez. She lived in Bogotá into her adult life with her parents and 8 siblings. She worked as a buyer for her father's clothing store and then for 9 years as the social secretary for the United States Naval Mission in Bogotá. This is where she met and married an American serviceman and the love of her life, Donald Weedin. They married at her family home in Bogotá on December 26, 1958.
Alicia moved to the United States in 1962 when Don was stationed in Norfolk, VA. After a few years there, they made their long-time home in Oak Harbor, WA for 34 years. Alicia was active for over 30 years in both the church and doing charitable projects in the community. She worked tirelessly as President for the Alice Esterly Orthopedic Guild of Children's Hospital in Oak Harbor for many years. After Don retired from the Oak Harbor School District in 1988, they spent the rest of their time traveling to favorite locations around Washington State and enjoying their grandchildren. Alicia and Don moved to Poulsbo in 2003 to be closer to their grandchildren. Together, they also made over 10, 000 rosaries that were distributed to Catholic missionaries and to countless first communicants between the two parishes they belonged to over the years. They were inseparable during their retirement years.
Alicia was preceded in death by her husband Don in 2011; her parents; and 3 brothers – José Antonio (Pepe), Jaime, and Rafael.
Alicia is survived by her son, Dan Weedin (Barbara) of Poulsbo; her granddaughters Mindy Weedin and Kelli Weedin, also of Poulsbo; her sisters Lolo, Helena, Clara (Hernando), Lucia, and Consuelo of Colombia; her step-children Leslie Weedin (Karen) of Charlestown, IN, Kathy Vuckel (Jim) of Moses Lake, WA, and Rita Paradise of Tacoma, WA; and many nephews and nieces all across the globe.
Funeral service is scheduled for January 23rd at 11 a.m. at St. Olaf Catholic Church in Poulsbo. Mass will be preceded by a rosary at 10:30 and followed by a reception. There will be a burial at Cherry Grove Memorial Park in Poulsbo at 2 p.m.
Donations may be made in Alicia Weedin's name to the Alzheimer's Foundation; the Poulsbo-North Kitsap Rotary Club, or Martha & Mary At Home. All donations can be made directly online using her name.
Please include donation notification to dan@danweedin.com so I may properly thank you.
Go to top left for "Donations.: When making payment there will be a notes/comments section. Please include Alicia's name in that spot.
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We just finished one year, and are now about to shed the holiday festivities and get busy in the next one. Just like looking back on the fun of your youth is good, so is looking back at all you did well in 2014. Too many of us look back and think we need to "fix" things with resolutions (which rarely last past next weekend). Take some time to look back and determine what you did well; what worked; what excited you; and what you'd love to repeat. Look, if it's broken then fix it; but if it's great then rinse and repeat. My guess is that many of you had terrific years both professionally and personally. Instead of dwelling on weaknesses and shortcomings, how about enhancing your strengths and making those extend for more than just a year? Success breeds success…build your momentum.


Our one-month long massive vacation in India was action-packed with meeting family and friends and then some more family and then some more friends. All through that one month we were constantly surrounded by people. So coming back to London, where it is mostly just the three of us, was a bit difficult to adjust to.
Once back, for the first couple of days, all I could do was sing 'tujhe sab hai pata hai na ma' relentlessly even though the song kept making me sob. I was in no mood to do house chores or read or even go for a run. Little B was waiting for her school to open up and Mr B and I were waiting to go back to work. To wait for things to happen is hard, but to wait for things to happen while one is homesick is cruel.
So we decided that we must head out to stop all this nostalgic moaning. London is an amazing city and we believed it would be able to cheer us up. And within half-an-hour, we decided to go for a canal walk London from Little Venice to Paddington Basin.
There are multiple Tube stations that are located at walking distance from Little Venice (Warwick Avenue, Edgware Road, Royal Oak, Maida Vale and Paddington), the closest one being Warwick Avenue which is under 5 minutes of walk away.
As we stepped out of the Warwick Avenue Tube station and walked towards the canal, we knew we were in for a treat. Strolling on the pedestrian island in the middle of a wide tree-lined road with stuccoed houses on either side and a warm sun shining on us, it seemed so much unlike London and yet quintessential London.
It was Regent's Canal right up ahead. One look at it and I felt quite happy with our decision to visit this place. With houseboats moored on either side, the part sunny and part shaded canal looked picturesque.
We strolled in the area along the canal and reached the coveted triangular oasis known as Little Venice. This is the spot where Regent's Canal meets the Paddington arm of the Grand Union Canal. The water had a small island inhabited by willows and wildfowl which gave the canal a distinct character.
The waterway wasn't particularly busy; however, barges were constantly going to and fro. There were waterside cafes, canal and river cruise boats and even London Waterbus which takes passengers to and from Little Venice to London Zoo and Camden Lock Market. There were other barges going out and about their daily businesses.
It was quite calming just being there and watching the boats drift by. And then I learnt that there is actually a word for what I was doing – gongoozling! Can you believe that there is a word for enjoying watching boats go by on the canals of the UK!
Water in the canal was covered with duckweed. Duckweed isn't welcomed at the canals here in London; Canal & River Trust is always trying to get rid of duckweed because of the problems it creates for aquatic wildlife. However, I felt that the water weed made the scenery even more special. Imagine tiny leaves floating gently on the water as if there's a soft carpet covering the canal. It all looked charming indeed.
Little Venice is often referred to as London's hidden gem and I couldn't agree more. The place was quaint, perfect to take a lazy day stroll on. However, even on a weekend it wasn't crowded.
You can find more things to do at Little Venice in the TimeOut's area guide here – Little Venice area guide.
After passing Little Venice, we kept strolling along the canal towards the Paddington Basin. There were towpaths and bridges all along the canal to make wandering aimlessly even better.
Walking along the Regent's Canal and Little Venice was like walking through primarily residential area. Walking along canal towards Paddington Basin was rather commercial. There were modern office complexes on either side. There was a little floating market at the basin with barges selling art, soaps and cakes.
I wished if I was working at one of the offices at Paddington Basin, I would have taken up gongoozling as a hobby. And while on my way to and from work, there would have been plenty to see and click.
LittleB found a fishing cage, so of course we spend some time exploring it!
Towards the end of the Paddington Basin, near the Paddington Central station, we also found a Paddington Bear flocked in blue as part of the Paddington Bear trail.
Canal walk London from Little Venice to Paddington Basin is for days when you are tired of the hustle and bustle of London and need something to rewind. This laidback corner can help you loosen up and chill. It might even be able to lift up your spirits even on the gloomiest of London days.
What is the place in your city that you prefer going to when you want to unwind and chill? Or does unwinding to you mean chilling in your PJs and watching an old favourite movie? Let me know in the comments below!
New to London? Do you need some help getting started here? Have a look at this article – Hunting for a House and School in London. If you need more pointers, drop me a message below.
London is such a pretty place to wander.
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The Search for a Political Practice: Venezuela 2000-2015
by Chris Gilbert
Caracas.
It is common to understand the diverse "processes" in Latin America – in the period marked initially by Zapatismo in the mid-1990s and later by the emergence of left or popular governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador along with center-left governments in Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina – within the theoretical framework of a return or recuperation of the left following the fall of the East Bloc. This kind of formulation has a number of problems. On the one hand, it is too optimistic (since the left is still in retreat and the tide of the neoliberal counterrevolution has not been turned). On the other hand, it misses the specificity of the processes: the way in which they were notable attempts to reinvent or rediscover left politics after the eclipse of strategic political thinking shared by both official Marxism and by the "end-of-history" view that emanated from the right wing.
The left loves to cite V. I. Lenin to the effect that without revolutionary theory there is no revolutionary practice and vice versa, without doing justice to the specifically political mediation between theory and practice that is one of Lenin's most important contributions to Marxism. That is to say, Lenin understood that it is strategic politics – always with an important degree of autonomy from the economic and even social spheres – that must mediate between theory and practice. Lenin's argument in What Is To Be Done?, in which he twists Kautsky's words while apparently paying homage to him, is that politics and political consciousness must come from outside of the economic struggle. [1]
Despite Lenin's enthronement by the revolutionary left, strategic politics has suffered in left practice under dominant economicist and progressivist ideologies. That is because these ideologies all promise some motor independent of strategic practice – call it dialectics, progress, or the development of productive forces – that will (automatically, apolitically) bring about and guide political and especially social changes. Strategic thinking by the revolutionary left has emerged only briefly and intermittently in the 20th century: e.g. in the the Thalheimer and Bukharin debate in the Comintern in 1925, in Gramsci's reflections taking off from Machiavelli in the prison notebooks in the 1930s, in important moments of the Chinese Revolution before the mid-century voluntarist derive, and in Cuba during the 1960s. Strategic political thought has also had a troubled career under the influence of postmodernism, which both opened the left newly to thinking about politics and power at the same time as it frequently effaced political thought through the fetichization of the micro, the multiple, and becoming.
This is where Latin America comes in with its specific searching for political forms that its political processes represent. Here one should not be fooled by (nor ignore) the discourse. That is to say, popular power and participatory democracy should be considered, but also one should look at the re-purposing of representative and electoral institutions and forms. In Venezuela, an unashamed reliance on a leader played an important part, but at the same time this leader was – in the best moments of the Bolivarian process – brought down to earth as a "compañero" and as "one of us." The political vanguard relied in novel ways on the mass media to organize constituents and neutralize enemies. Finally, there were strange blocs of power and alliances. Interestingly, the leadership tended to be blissfully ignorant of Marxist hangups about the centrality of the working class, while unemployed, semi-employed and indigenous all entered into a varied and changing mix that represented the bloc of change.
A key element of this reinvention of politics was the recuperation of the concept and value of sovereignty. This concept was recuperated (partially) from the jaws of a falsely universalizing discourse of human rights and humanity that had dominated progressive tendencies in the period 1980-2000. That discourse is falsely universal in the sense that, as long as humanity has no functioning institutional framework (the UN!?, the International Court of Justice!?), then the concept of "humanity" becomes inhumanely manipulated by the most powerful nations and their ruling classes. [2] Furthermore the discourse of human rights, though it can be employed in resisting established power, tends to obliterate politics by channeling most of what should be political relations into the mere relation between victims and (often overlooked) victimizers. This is because politics is essentially about struggles between class or national enemies and is thus wholly different in nature to the relation between victims and victimizers (since a political actor is obviously not a victim of his friends, nor is he precisely a victim of his enemies, to whom he is more correctly considered – symmetrically and equally – an enemy).
The Latin American processes all recovered the concept of the sovereign nation and with it some form or other of (sometimes couched) anti-imperialist discourse, thereby effecting a rupture with the nebulous lexicon of humanity and abstract human rights. In Venezuela, the right of Venezuelans to their petroleum was by no means a human right but rather something more concrete and profane. Not surprisingly, the recovery of strategic political thinking by Chávez and the Venezuelan process was often framed with military metaphors such as Chávez's claim that politics was a cavalry that was not being used properly: "I compare the cavalry with politics and the artillery with the economy," the Venezuelan president said in 2002; "It is politics that is demanding its central place in the battle for the world." [3] Chávez also broke with the straitjacket of determinism, inventing a handful of projects and institutions every day, most of which came to nothing, because they were never realized or petered out after a brief time. That was inevitable. However, the most important fact is that the rescue of invention ("Inventamos o erramos" was Chávez's slogan taken from Simón Rodríguez) and the constant experimentation and search for new forms and institutions was a daily reality in Venezuela during the high moments of the Bolivarian process.
Of course, the question of what kind of politics Chávez practiced is indeed difficult to make precise. Beyond identifying its strategic character, there remains much to flesh out. "Strategic" in exactly what way? One key element is courage, which is a basic element of politics, since it is the condition of freedom. Hannah Arendt tells us that the politically relevant form of courage means leaving the home, the family, for the adventure of the public arena. [4] This is certainly the case with Chávez, who though he loved his family and home (Sabaneta, Barinas) and practiced some degree of nepotism, was also not of his family or region in any way. In a profound sense, he had left them behind for an original and public form of existence. Another element is the profound link Chávez established with the masses, based on the concept of a heroic enterprise in which they were invited to participate. The heroic feat is something that has deep roots in Venezuelan consciousness and, like the Greek prattein, it is framed in a way that exceeds any simple means-end thinking: justification and glory are integrally bound up in the greatness of the enterprise.
Another chapter in these processes – though certainly not the last one – was the eclipse of strategic politics that came in Venezuela, not simply with the death of Chávez and the later presidency of Maduro, but rather during the career of Chávez himself. Strategic and profane politics began to recede in 2007-8 under Chávez when he faced the right-wing student movement and failed to form the PSUV into an effective political party. Messianism, always latent in the Bolivarian process, began to unfold and predominate. With the Misión Vivienda Venezuela, Chávez, whose signature appears on the buildings, became a benefactor figure. Of course, it is hard to locate the precise point of inflection, since institutions and even persons can surreptitiously have their content and practice emptied out and filled in with something other and new. [5] That is the case with Chávez, who behind the guise of his unique and charming personality, silently replaced his earlier profane practice and concrete strategy with the spectacle of an individual savior. The relation of masses to leader quietly shifts its center of gravity from the former to the latter. Under Chávez, much before Nicolás Maduro came into power, a form of nonpolitics and a mode of "Chavist" spectacle takes shape over what was once a more solid chavism. These are shoes into which Maduro steps, adding his own new-age quirks.
Our starting point in this article was the claim that the importance of the Latin American processes is to be located in their (transient) recovery of strategic thought and not so much in an about-face or tide-turning in the global left-right struggle (which they were not). As if to confirm the latter, there is at the present moment overwhelming evidence that the Latin American left has not been able to advance toward socialism in any concrete way; the Venezuelan process was in fact a popular management of a capitalist economy in a time of economic bonanza. With this bonanza having reached its limits, the Chavist class alliance that was embodied in this popular management of a capitalist economy – with its social programs ("Misiones") which benefited the masses, combined with capital flight and accumulation in the exterior for the bourgeoisie – is no longer viable.
Chávez, before dying, called for a "golpe de timón," a radical change of course. [6] Whatever his expressed intentions – such as strengthening the commune or improving the conduct of political cadres – this dying wish of Chávez cannot be understood as anything other than his intuitive understanding of the need to recover strategic thought and political practice: the need to plan a strategic move that would break with the class alliance of the heretofore operative Chavist model. Indeed, this is the way forward for Chavism, however dark the times may seem and however complicated and multi-part would be the mediations between the present moment and this new strategic objective.
[1] Daniel Bensaïd, La política como arte estratégica (Madrid: Oveja Roja, 2013): 67.
[2] "The concept of humanity is an ideological instrument that is particularly useful for imperialist expansion" and "tends to deny the enemy his human condition." Carl Schmitt cited in Daniel Bensaïd, Elogio a la Política Profana (Barcelona: Ediciones Península, 2009): 149.
[3] Hugo Chávez Frías, Discursos e intervenciones Diciembre de 2002 – Enero de 2003 (La Habana: Ediciones Plaza, 2003): 300.
[4] Hannah Arendt, The Promise of Politics (New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2007): 167-170.
[5] Chris Gilbert, "¿Qué hacer y con quién? a propósito del problema político del proceso bolivariano," http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=190186 (September 9, 2014).
[6] Hugo Chávez, "Strike at the Helm," http://monthlyreview.org/commentary/strike-at-the-helm/ (October 8, 2012).
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Why migrants are fleeing their homes for the U.S.
Stef W. Kight, Russell Contreras
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Circumstances in foreign nations are forcing migrants to leave (push factors) while the situation in the U.S. draws them (pull factors.)
Many have been forced to flee harrowing troubles in their home countries, experts say. Others are hoping for better economic prospects.
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Between the lines: The increase of migrant children from Central America has been increasing for weeks.
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