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Understanding Criminal Charges: What Are Infractions, Misdemeanors, And Felonies?
In the US justice system, defendants can be charged with three different types of crimes. These crimes range from the mundane to the utmost severe, and it's important to understand the process and your rights for handling each type of charge.
These violations of the law are almost not considered to be crimes at all. They are the least serious type of law-breaking and are often handled without ever actually going before a judge. In some cases, you can dispute an infraction at a hearing, but trials and juries are just plain unnecessary. The punishment for a single infraction is at worst a fine, and in many cases may just be a verbal warning from a police officer. They are the most common type of crime.
In serious cases, infractions can be upgraded to misdemeanors if the situation permits it. A repeat offender, for example, or one who showed willful disregard for the law while committing an infraction could face misdemeanor charges instead. Usually, though, infractions are handled with stiff words and tickets from police.
A step up from infractions are more serious misdemeanors, which at least require a hearing and sometimes may even involve a trial before the judge, You can even request a jury trial for misdemeanor charges that can result in over six months of jail time. Misdemeanors carry sentences ranging from fines to probation to jail time, though there are limits on the severity of the sentences possible. Fines normally stay below $1,000 and jail time below 1 year. Jail time is almost always in a local prison, as well.
Because of the heavier penalties possible, defendants who face misdemeanor charges have a legal right to an attorney to help them during legal proceedings. This is especially vital if you are facing more than one misdemeanor charge, or if the charges you face are wobbler charges, which can be upgraded from misdemeanor to felony as the prosecutor sees fit. This often happens more serious versions of base crimes, such as attacking someone with a weapon instead of just using your fists.
The most serious of all types of crime, felonies carry the harshest sentences and are treated with the most gravity in the court room. Like some misdemeanors, felonies carry minimum punishments, and these can range from mandatory minimum years of jail time to thousands of dollars in fines. For the most serious felonies, the maximum sentences include the death penalty or life in prison without a chance at parole.
Unless you plead guilty or no contest to the charges or make a plea bargain with the prosecutor to downgrade your charges to misdemeanors, you will always face a grand jury trial for felony crimes. The rights of the accused in a felony trial are taken very seriously, and you and your lawyer will have multiple chances to review the evidence against you and present new evidence to the court. Proceedings for felony trials can go on longer than for other types of crimes to ensure that the court gets the full picture before rendering a verdict.
If you are convicted of a felony crime, you face serious penalties even after your sentence is carried out. Felons are not permitted to own firearms or get hunting and fishing licenses. Many states also prohibit felons from voting in any level of elections. You can never serve on a jury if convicted, and you are also barred from various professions where felony status might influence your trustworthiness, such as government positions or teaching jobs.
Understanding the severity of the charges against you is the first step to successfully proving your innocence in court. Whether you're fighting a speeding ticket or a felony assault charge, you'll need solid knowledge of the justice system and the options available to you for your defense. If you currently face charges and need help fighting them, get in contact with a lawyer right away. Places like the Kaiser Law Group can give you more information.


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Elon Musk is still set on Mars, defends his billionaire status
Date:11 January 2021 Author: Leila Stein
Elon Musk has recently reaffirmed his belief that his accrual of wealth is ultimately for the betterment of humankind after people criticised his new "world's richest man" title.
In a tweet from 2018, Musk explained that he aims to gain money to contribute to the betterment of society. This tweet thread was posted when Musk was first gaining millions of dollars but the billionaire recently pinned the tweet to his page again.
"About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth and half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure the continuation of life (all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens and we destroy ourselves," says part of the tweet thread.
In addition to explaining his contribution, Musk's new status has further cemented his resolve to begin a colony on Mars. While many say this will just be an escape hatch for the rich, as Earth slowly begins decaying, Musk said it will be possible for those without the necessary wealth to take out a loan to get to Mars.
He explained they could then work off their debt to the colony. This approach has been pointed out as sounding very much like the indentured servitude seen in South Africa's Natal colony in the 1800s. Although Musk was born in South Africa his interest in the country is minimal, making it possible he doesn't see the parallels to this history.
In addition to loan-based labour, Musk has also said that currency at his lunar colony will most likely be in a cryptocurrency form such as a "Marscoin" or even a coin that already exists such as a "dodgecoin". Musks interest in cryptocurrency has become even more apparent recently, although he doesn't approve of the biggest coin on the market- Bitcoin.
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Feeling: music as movement and expression
Posted on December 1, 2018 by Tom
"Tango is a feeling"
Traditional tango dancers in Argentina are often heard saying that tango is a feeling and one has to express that feeling in dancing tango. There is the technique of dancing and there is the culture of the milongas, but in the end all of that is subsidiary to the ultimate goal of tango which is the feeling. Learning dancing technique and tango culture may distract us from this fact because we may suppose that learning these other things will ultimately guide us to attain that feeling, to experience it, and to express it in our dancing. Yet it seems that this outcome is not inevitable and that it is possible for a person to go through the whole process without succeeding in feeling what tango requires. It is not entirely clear whether feeling is something that one should automatically or naturally experience, or whether it is something that is also learned.
One may suppose that the feeling in question is just whatever one feels when one is doing tango. The problem seems to be somewhat like the problem of art: is art some specific type of work that we put in art galleries because it satisfies some artistic standards set by the critics, or as some postmodernist thinkers suggest, is it art simply by virtue of being located in the art gallery. In that case, could a fire hydrant be an artwork simply by virtue of being located in an art gallery?
If we want to claim that some people don't feel the music we must provide some sort of a standard for telling the correct way of feeling the music. Here we must assume that feeling is not merely an individual and subjective experience, but is something that can be shared and agreed upon. Otherwise, how can two people dance if they have no way of telling whether they agree on the feeling. That means that the the feeling must be expressed in the way the dancer expresses, interprets and hence understands the music, which may be more or less correct or agreed upon.
The idea that the feeling of the music is a purely subjective matter might be in part due to the fact that a lot of music is listened to in silence without any overt expression. The paradigm of listening is people sitting and listening to a symphony. How are we to tell whether they feel the music correctly or not? However, there are fairly clear cases where music either does or fails to make sense to a person, and where different people can agree on whether the music makes sense to them. One such case is the case of tonal vs. atonal music. Most people who are used to tonal music find that they do not understand atonal music.
The latter is music that most people do not understand. Wikipedia defines tonality as follows:
Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions and directionality. In this hierarchy, the single pitch or triadic chord with the greatest stability is called the tonic. The root of the tonic chord forms the name given to the key; so in the key of C major, the note C is both the tonic of the scale and the root of the tonic chord (which is C–E–G). Simple folk music songs often start and end with the tonic note. The most common use of the term "is to designate the arrangement of musical phenomena around a referential tonic in European music from about 1600 to about 1910". … Harmony in jazz includes many but not all tonal characteristics of the European common practice period, known as classical music.
In other words, tonal music respects certain relationships between notes whereby a 'key' or 'root' note establishes the tonality and the functional status of the other notes of the scale. The interval or distance from the tonic note determines the character of the note and what can be done with it, eg., whether it is possible to begin and end a phrase on that tone. The relationships between the tones have a push-pull relationship such as that they create tension, gravity, etc.
Tonality is an organized system of tones (e.g., the tones of a major or minor scale) in which one tone (the tonic) becomes the central point for the remaining tones. The other tones in a tonal piece are all defined in terms of their relationship to the tonic. In tonality, the tonic (tonal center) is the tone of complete relaxation and stability, the target toward which other tones lead. The cadence (coming to rest point) in which the dominant chord or dominant seventh chord resolves to the tonic chord plays an important role in establishing the tonality of a piece.
Because of these features of tonal music, we understand or feel the music when we perceive the relations between the sounds in terms of movement. Movement in music and its various 'spatial' characteristics are generated by the relations between the different tones. Musical movement is not inherent in the physical sound. Rather, it is 'intentional': we hear movement in the line of notes as connected and moving even though there is nothing that is literally moving in the physical sound and each pitch is separate from another. There may be silence between the notes, but we still hear a continuous line of tones connected in a melody (Scruton 2009).
The intentional character of music is expressed in language through spatial metaphors such as distance and movement. Music moves and it moves faster or slower, moves up or down, etc. Music has rhythm and beat, both of which are to be distinguished from the musical metre. Scruton argues that music can have beat without much rhythm. Rhythm arises out of the music and its accents, and generates the forward motion. Music can have beat without much rhythm, and vice versa, music can have rhythm without a strong beat. In the Western classical tradition up to the 20th century rhythm has been generated by the musical line. With the emergence of the drum kit the beat is introduced from the outside to music that has relatively little of either rhythm or beat.
So what room is there for a person to fail to understand tango music and how would that be manifested in their dancing? If we consider for a moment how one learns to play a piece of music on an instrument, the quality of the playing depends on things like rhythm and expression. Rhythm refers to the grouping of notes, accent, emphasis or suspension. Suspension, playing a note on an offbeat and holding it till the first beat of the next phrase, is present music that is syncopated which includes tango. Expression has to do with the phrasing of notes, the correct gesture, dynamics (playing loud or soft), crescendo (gradually increasing loudness), and so on. A teacher will make gestures to communicate to the student how to play a given passage. Otherwise, the performance will be mechanical and without feeling, like what one might get from software that plays from a written score.
We can see here that learning musical interpretation in dancing is going to be very much similar to learning musical interpretation in playing. Scruton suggests that it is possible to divide music that is influenced by speech and song, and music that is influenced by dancing. If tango emerged as dancing music then its beat and feeling will be strongly connected to the movement of dancing, eg., one should be able to tap one's foot to it. The music will have a pronounced beat or pulse that's danceable. There will be a perceptible 'on' and 'off' beat, and if the rhythm is syncopated, the 'off' beat will be emphasised and suspended, driving or dropping into the 'on' beat of the next phrase.
Now, different tango orchestras will interpret tango music with different emphasis, with more or less beat, rhythm or expression. This makes the task of interpreting the different recordings in dancing somewhat complicated. However, dance education devotes the majority of the time to movement and little or not time to learning how to listen to tango music. This is largely due to the prevailing false idea that listening is not a skill. One should already know what one likes and that's the end of the discussion.
But the idea that listening and experiencing music is spontaneous and effortless is a new one, and it has really only arrived at a time of pop. Pop music (including Rock, RnB, Rap, etc.) is really a new kind of thing that departs from prior musical traditions, and moves away from the Western classical tradition. Western classical music has evolved to a high level and requires effort and cultivation in order to understand and appreciate it. Pop is based on a very narrow set of structures, in particular, an ostinato backing which is external to the music and which appears to require no effort to enjoy but is actually addictive. Pop music requires the harmony and melody to be fitted to the ostinato rhythm which absolves the music itself from generating a rhythm through melody and harmony.
Because there is no ostinato backing in classical music or tango the forward motion and rhythm is created through melody and harmony: grouping, accent, and emphasis. Rhythm is here to be distinguished from the musical metre. It is commonplace to hear that while milonga music is 2/4, tango is 4/4, and vals is 3/4. These, however, designate the meter in which the music is written, that is, the way that the musical bar is divided into sections. Rhythm, however, is not created through these and it is possible to have music in these meters that have little or no rhythm. For example, not all music written in 3/4 can be danced to as a waltz. Rhythm is also different from the pulse or beat. The pulse or beat is the point where you would clap or tap with your foot. But rhythm consists of all the up and down beats and stresses that happen in between, so that you have different rhythms with the same sort of beat.
So the first step to learning to dance with feeling, with the correct expression and interpretation, is to learn to listen. Dancing tango is difficult because one has to move with the partner to music. If we dance complicated patterns we will have little attention left to give to the music. Then we will be dancing mechanically, robotically, without expression. At first it is better to develop the practice of listening to a given orchestra without dancing. If you feel like moving you can stand and make gestures with your hands like an orchestra conductor. This gesture will flow into your body and ultimately into your dancing. Start by listening to music you can easily tap your foot to. When you're finally on the dancefloor, dance to music that you are already somewhat familiar with. Before venturing out, give the music a few moments of attention and have caught onto the gesture that it elicits. This is the gesture that you communicate to your partner as you move into the first step.
Roger Scruton (2009) Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation. Bloomsbury Academic.
Here is a series of videos that are helpful in understanding music:
[1] Examples of atonal music, which Roger Scruton thinks we don't really understand because we naturally seek tonality.
[2] A lecture explaining tonality and atonality with examples:
[3] Listening to tango music is more like listening to classical than to pop, so the following videos apply to tango as well:
[4] Interpretation classes with Benjamin Zander are very instructive on how to think about emotion and interpretation in music:
[5] A lot of useful insights into the history of music (classical music was originally for dancing), structure and layers in music.
Tango as culture: anthropology vs criticism
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2000 Lincoln LS
The Lincoln LS is a four-door, five-passenger luxury sedan manufactured and marketed by Ford's Lincoln division over a single generation from 1999"2006. Introduced in June 1999 for model-year 2000, the LS featured rear-wheel drive and near 50/50 weight distribution and was available with a V8 or V6, the latter initially offered with a manual transmission. The LS shared the Ford DEW98 platform with the Jaguar S-Type and the Ford Thunderbird. Trim levels ranged from the base V6 model to the Special Edition V8 LSE trims in 2004, with revised front and rear fascia, taillights and fog lights, and front grille. LS models were manufactured at Ford's Wixom Assembly Plant until production ended on April 3, 2006 and the plant was idled as part of Ford's The Way Forward. Approximately 262,900 were manufactured, including 2,331 with manual transmissions and 1,500 LSE editions.
So good was the new import-fighter from Lincoln that, when it went up against 30 contenders from three continents, it emerged as winner of Motor Trend's 2000 Car of the Year competition. This was a particularly significant achievement as that was the year Motor Trend dispensed with its separate Import Car of the Year award, reasoning that American automobiles should be held to the same standards as all others, regardless of origins. Proudly offered for consignment, a one owner, custom ordered and purchased new, original paint Lincoln LS right out the turn of the millennium. The perfect blend of upscale performance and luxury, and a highly optioned automobile, and this grocery getter/sports sedan does not disappoint!
The original coating of three stage Ivory Parchment, an upcharge paint color, covers the exterior of this sedan and is looking just dandy. No rust is noted and only a few minor chip offs are seen on this steel and aluminum bodied ride. This wonderful preservation has been accomplished by tedious care, garage storage, and non usage during the winter months. Straight steel panels, and good gaps are noted and a smattering of chrome and stainless steel, all dressed up and polished adorns this car on the exterior. Flush mount integrated dual headlights frame the black grille and just below is a body colored neoprene crash bumper. Clean flowing lines down the sides along with black rocker trimming create beautiful undulation, especially for the passenger compartment with a power operated sunroof. A squared off rear end with wrap-around taillights finishes off the back end along with dual chrome exhaust tips peeking out from under the bumper. Nice 16"" aluminum Lincoln logo 5 spoke wheels are seen on all 4 corners.
Opening any of the 4 doors, we are met with Deep Charcoal leather heaven. And if this is not enough, throw in some beautiful Walnut burl panels on the dash, and even intermixing them on the steering wheel and the door panels. Just quintessential Lincoln. As expected, we see plenty of convenience options like power windows, power seats, climate control, cruise control, a sunroof, Bluetooth capability, and a factory Alpine AM/FM/Cassette stereo. More burl for the automatic shifter knob, which can be moved right and down and shifted manually just if you decide to get a little feisty on your way home from the soccer game. This shifter resides in an ergonomic console along with the traction control switch, a cup holder and a padded top storage bin. More charcoal for the clean carpeting and peering up we note a felted headliner framing the electric sunroof. Light age folding is noted on the leather wrapped front buckets and the rear bench appears to have been hardly used.
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Very clean and rust free, save for very light surface rust on steel parts. There are no areas of concern under here with a strong unibody and near perfect flooring. Independent Macpherson strut suspension is on for both the front and rear as are power disc brakes. The OEM stainless steel exhaust system handles the exhale efficiently and effectively.
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On our test track it gave a firm, but comfortable ride and the interior gave generous space for even my ample frame. Acceleration was on par with most modern sedans of the era and shifting was smooth. Under panic braking the car came to a bias free stop and even after my drive I continued to play with the various functions and doo-dads that this Lincoln has to offer. A very nice driving car.
For the suburbia show of success, not just a sports car, but why not a sport sedan. Mike Nicks nailed it in his summation of the 2000 Lincoln LS, ""There's just a 'rightness' about the whole coherence of the design that tells me Lincoln's marketing and engineering people have worked well together."". Belt the kids in and find a winding road to put a smile on your face, then stop at the store on your way home, to pick up a gallon of 2 percent!
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NVC Community  M27 (Filipendula ulmaria - Angelica sylvestris mire) is one of the 38 mire communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system.

Community Composition

The following species are found in this community

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 JNCC Report  No. 394  The European context of British Lowland Grasslands  J.S. Rodwell1, V. Morgan2, R.G. Jefferson3 & D. Moss 4 February 2007 JNCC, Peterborough 2007  jncc.defra.gov.uk

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The Vanguard Group was an anarchist political group active during the 1930s, which published the periodical Vanguard: Journal of Libertarian Communism, led by Sam Dolgoff (aka Sam Weiner, editor of Vanguard). Vanguard was for a time, during the 1930s, the leading English-language anarchist youth organization in New York City.

History
In 1927, the Rising Youth Group was founded in New York by Sara and Elizabeth Goodman, two young Jewish anarchists frustrated with the older generation. By 1929 the group had dissolved and were succeeded by the Bronx-based Friends of Freedom, which became the Vanguard Group in 1932. Despite this new group's inheritance of its predecessor's frustration with their elders, the articles published in their periodical still bore a resemblance to those being published by Road to Freedom and they were themselves inspired by older Jewish anarchist theoreticians such as Emma Goldman and Rudolf Rocker.

The group desired to approach anarchism from less theoretical and more concrete terms, dedicated to developing a positive program to display anarchism as a viable force for social change. An anarcho-communist group, it aimed to construct a nationwide specific anarchist federation that could gain the support of both workers and intellectuals in order to prepare for a social revolution. It supported a united front with other progressive organizations such as the Industrial Workers of the World and the Socialist Party. A split in the organization was caused by one of its leading figures Mark Schmidt, who advocated for uniting with the Communist Party and even supported the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Schmidt's theses was opposed by young members of the organization, particularly by Paul Avrich and Abe Bluestein, the latter of whom broke off from the organization to found the Challenge Group. Schmidt increasingly gravitated towards Stalinism, defending the Soviet Union and even surveilling the remaining group's members, including Sam Dolgoff, who had previously sided with Schmidt. This led to some older anarchists branding the Vanguard Group as "anarcho-Bolsheviks".

The Vanguard Group had dissolved by the time of the United States' entry into World War II. Jewish anarchists, including Rudolf Rocker who had himself fled Nazi Germany, largely supported the Allied war effort out of an anti-fascist conviction. While some members of the Vanguard Group even went as far as to join the United States Army to fight in the war, others quit the group due to their anti-militarist opposition to the war, joining the Why? Group in 1942.

See also
 Anarchist organizations

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1939 disestablishments in New York (state)
Anarchism in New York (state)
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The lack of technology support for women's activities is not adequately understood or taken into account in policy or programming, while the numbers of women in the science, technology and innovation fields are alarmingly low in the world's leading economies, and are actually on the decline in many, including the United States. WISAT Executive Director Sophia Huyer called attention to this situation at the Elsevier Foundation – Celebrating Emerging Leaders in Science Dinner, February 15, 2013 in Boston.
Women's productive activities are not supported by technology and resources to the same extent as those of men, so that their on- and off-farm enterprises have lower levels of productivity. Women and girls' daily activities are critical for the health and sustainability of households, yet, they too are poorly supported by technology. On the other hand, supporting women and understanding gender differences in productivity and access to resources can result in dramatic change: according to the FAO, equalizing access to productive resources for female farmers – fertilizers, extension, technology and credit – could increase agricultural output in developing countries by 2.5 – 4 % and result in 100 to 150 million fewer hungry people globally.
WISAT, the Organization for Women in the Developing World (OWSD), the Gender Advisory Board (CSTD) and the Elsevier Foundation are collaborating in two major initiatives to address these discrepancies: the National Assessments on Gender and STI; and GenderInSITE. Huyer's remarks can be downloaded here.


CAPE CANAVERAL — An experiment-carrying, reusable mini space shuttle operated by the U.S. Air Force will be boosted into Earth orbit Wednesday atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.
It will be the fourth flight of the military's X-37B program, also known as Orbital Test Vehicle mission No. 4. The project is run inside the Pentagon at the Rapid Capabilities Office.
Liftoff is scheduled for some time during a four-hour, unclassified period that extends from 10:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. EDT (1445-1845 GMT) from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The actual target time will be announced on launch day.
Officials held a successful Launch Readiness Review on Monday morning and gave approval for rollout of the rocket on Tuesday.
The weather outlook calls for a 60 percent chance of favorable conditions.
The three previous X-37B missions over the past five years have logged 1,368 days in space using a pair of spaceplanes that carried out their secret flights and then returned to Earth to make pinpoint touchdowns on autopilot at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Those three flights alone have eclipsed the NASA space shuttle cumulative duration of 1,334 days spent on 135 flights spread over 30 years.
The Air Force said it has collaborated with several partners to test new investigations on this fourth X-37B flight.
The mission will check out the performance of an experimental electric propulsion system jointly developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory and Space and Missile Systems Center. It is an in-space proof-testing of design modifications for Hall Current Thrusters currently used on the military's Advanced Extremely High Frequency ultra-secure communications satellites.
"A more efficient on-orbit thruster capability is huge. Less fuel burn lowers the cost to get up there, plus it enhances spacecraft operational flexibility, survivability and longevity," said Maj. Gen. Tom Masiello, AFRL commander.
The electric propulsion system produces a whisper-like thrust by ionizing and accelerating xenon gas. The fuel economy is a distinct advantage of such systems over conventional chemical rockets, keeping the weight down and enabling launch aboard a smaller, cheaper rocket.
There's also a NASA advanced materials investigation aboard the X-37B.
Known as the Materials Exposure and Technology Innovation in Space, or METIS, the experiment will expose nearly 100 different materials samples to the space environment.
METIS will fly a variety of quarter-sized samples of polymers, composites and coatings.
"By exposing materials to space and returning the samples to Earth, we gain valuable data about how the materials hold up in the environment in which they will have to operate," said Miria Finckenor, the principal investigator for METIS at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
METIS is building upon data obtained during several missions of the Materials on International Space Station Experiment (MISSE), which exposed more than 4,000 samples in space in suitcase-like packages from 2001 to 2013.
One-quarter the size of NASA's now-retired space shuttles, the robotic X-37B conducts its mission and then autonomously returns to Earth, braking from orbit, plunging through the atmosphere and gliding to a landing on a conventional runway to be refurbished and reused.
X-37B features a pickup truck-size cargo bay, seven feet long and four feet wide.
The craft's unique capability to drop from orbit and land on a runway allows technicians to get their hands on the hardware after being in space.
Built by Boeing's Phantom Works division, the spaceplane is 29 feet long with a wing span of 15 feet, made of light-weight composite structures instead of aluminum.
The craft is shielded with high-temperature wing leading-edge tiles made of toughened uni-piece fibrous refractory oxidation-resistant ceramic, or TUFROC, instead of reinforced carbon-carbon panels used on NASA shuttles. It also has a next-generation shuttle silica tile that's more durable and toughened with uni-piece fibrous insulation, and is the first space vehicle to use advanced conformal reusable insulation (CRI) blankets.
There are no hydraulics aboard the X-37B as flight controls and brakes use electromechanical actuation.
And unlike the space shuttles that used cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen reactants to generate electricity through onboard fuel cells, limiting the mission lengths by the amount of consumables that could be carried, the OTV is powered by a deployable solar array. The longest shuttle flight was 18 days.
The spaceplane can weigh up to 11,000 pounds fueled for launch.
This latest mission comes amid work to convert two former shuttle hangars at Kennedy Space Center over the X-37B post-flight refurbishment halls. The Air Force won't say if OTV 4 was readied for flight at KSC.
"OTV is leveraging previous space shuttle investments and the OPF facilities to conduct recovery and refurbishment activities at a single location," said Capt. Chris Hoyler, an Air Force spokesperson.
The X-37B is shrouded inside the voluminous, 18-foot-diameter nose cone of the Atlas 5 rocket, which shields it during atmospheric ascent.
The Atlas 5 is flying in its 501 configuration, a two-stage rocket with a five-meter payload fairing, no strap-on boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper stage.
It is the 225th flight for the high-performance Centaur, which has launched spacecraft to every planet in the solar system, plus the moon and Pluto.
Centaur stands 42 feet tall and weighs just 5,000 pounds, the pressure-stabilized, 0.20-inch thick stainless steel walled balloon tanks hold 46,000 pounds of cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen fuel.
Three minutes and 45 seconds into the launch, the Atlas 5's fairing will be jettisoned and expose the craft to space. Staging occurs at four-and-a-half minutes and the Centaur upper stage executes a 13-minute burn to heave the OTV spaceplane into low-Earth orbit. Deployment of the vehicle comes just shy of 19 minutes after liftoff.
It will be the 54th Atlas 5 launch since 2002, the third this year and the program's sixth use of the 501-configuration. For ULA, this is its 96th mission overall since 2006, the 46th Atlas 5 to fly under the company's banner and fifth combined Atlas and Delta flight of the year.


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2012 Maserati Sports Car
It's a clear hint of a more dynamic Maser, competing not only with Aston's V8 Vantage, but also with Porsche's 911.
By Matthias Pfannmuller
Maserati has been through some tough times. But after years of loss, the Italian sports-car maker finally returned to profit in 2007. The comeback was possible because of new models like the Quattroporte Automatic and the brand-new GranTurismo luxury coupe. Demand for Maseratis has been growing, pushing production to an all-time high of about 9000 cars. Maserati CEO Roberto Ronchi talks of increasing output "to 20,000 cars after 2012."
Clearly a third model line is essential for this ambitious plan, and a sporty coupe (or spyder) for younger customers looks to be the likely choice. A Geneva study by IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) has been a good test of the public's reaction. Ronchi says the show car "has the right proportions, but still needs some detail work." It's a clear hint of a more dynamic Maser, competing not only with Aston's V8 Vantage, but also with Porsche's 911. The car should be on the road by 2011 or 2012.
Tech-wise, Maserati will benefit from R&D at Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and Fiat. Additionally, there is still the Sigma platform developed in cooperation with GM. Denied in the past, it could still be used in the next Alfa Romeo 169 in 2009 (offering both rear- and all-wheel drive).
And there could be a fourth Maser model as well, possibly a sporty small sedan slotted below the Quattroporte to rival the BMW M3 and Lexus IS F. Ronchi wouldn't comment on this, but did talk about an ideal price range: "Future Maseratis are somewhere between 80,000 and 130,000 Euros."
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On the Passing of Former Palau President Kuniwo Nakamura
Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
On behalf of the Government of the United States, I want to convey my deepest condolences to the family of former President Kuniwo Nakamura and the people of Palau on his passing. President Nakamura was a great statesman who guided Palau's independence and fostered the emergence of our close and enduring relationship of free association.
Together, our two countries honor his memory and legacy through our commitment to shared values. As President Nakamura told the UN General Assembly, Palau is "large in things that count" including "a commitment to human rights and a democratic government." In this time of mourning, please accept our profound sympathies and our reassurance that the United States will remember President Nakamura's friendship and his commitment to the best possible future for the people of Palau.
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By Claire Willmschen The Carrboro Board of Aldermen recently voted unanimously to pass a resolution calling for the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of federal insurance funds for abortions except in circumstances where the life of the mother is endangered. Read more.
By Sung Yeon Choimorrow Many proponents of these bans, including former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, claim a concern for the well-being of babies and women. Yet, they have otherwise failed to commit themselves to advancing equity and protections along those lines. Read more.
By Jex Blackmore Imagine that you're a 24-year-old woman living in Lubbock County, Texas, and you've just discovered that you're six weeks pregnant. You know you can't afford to carry a pregnancy to term at this point in your life, so you decide to get an abortion. Read more.
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As a growing, professional York Region IT provider, your business development team has probably won several customer contracts, and lost some. In some cases, you made a conscious decision not to pursue some leads.
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JSST2021
The 40th JSST Annual International Conference on Simulation Technology
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Prof. Hiroaki Natsukawa
Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University
Understanding System Dynamics by Combining Data-Driven Analysis and Information Visualization
Natural systems are often complex and dynamic. Reductionism is not universally applicable for natural complex systems found in biology and elsewhere where behavior is driven by complex interactions between many components acting together in time nonlinear dynamic systems. In this talk, I will introduce a minimalist paradigm, empirical dynamic modeling (EDM), for studying non-linear systems. It is a data-driven approach that uses time-series information to study a system by reconstructing its attractor (a geometric object) that embodies the rules of a full set of equations for the system. Particularly, I will introduce a few recent works of visual analytics to support the identification and mechanistic interpretation of system states using integration EDM with visualization techniques, leads to our understanding of complex dynamics.
Hiroaki Natsukawa is a junior associate professor / senior lecturer in Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University. He received a Ph.D. in engineering from Kyoto University in 2013. Although formally trained as a researcher in the field of biomedical engineering at Kyoto University, He has successfully crossed fields into other areas such as information visualization, neuroscience, and more recently into nonlinear dynamics. Currently, he has worked in the field of information visualization and his work focuses on developing visual analytics systems enabling data-driven analytical reasoning by empirical dynamic modeling in collaboration with UC San Diego. He is currently an associate editor of Journal of Visualization, was a The 36th Annual Meeting of Japan Biomagnetism and Bioelectromagneics Society Local Committe, IEEE PacificVis 2019 Poster Co-chairs, IEEE PacificVis 2018 Publication Chair, The 47th Symposium of Visualization Society of Japan Organizer, NICOGRAPH International 2017 Local Committe Chair, JSST2016 Publication Chair, JHBM18 Local Committee.
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Invited Talk
Prof. Tomohiro Sogabe
Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University
Computation of Singular Values for Generalized Tensor Sum
(Joint work with Asuka Ohashi (National Institute of Technology, Kagawa)
We consider computing singular values of the generalized tensor sum of the form
$$ T:=I_n \otimes I_m \otimes A + I_n \otimes B \otimes I_\ell + C \otimes I_m \otimes I_\ell, \tag{1}$$ where \(I\) is the \(n \times n\) identity matrix and \(A \in {\bf \textit{R }}^{\ell \times \ell}, B \in {\bf \textit{R }}^{m \times m}, C \in {\bf \textit{R }}^{n \times n}.\) The mathematical symbol \(\otimes\) denotes tensor product (or Kronecker's product). A simple example of the tensor product is given below. $$ A \otimes B := \begin{bmatrix} a_{11}B & a_{12}B \\ a_{21}B & a_{22}B \end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix} a_{11}b_{11} & a_{12}b_{11} & a_{11}b_{12} & a_{12}b_{12} \\ a_{21}b_{11} & a_{22}b_{11} & a_{21}b_{12} & a_{22}b_{12} \\ a_{11}b_{21} & a_{12}b_{21} & a_{11}b_{22} & a_{12}b_{22} \\ a_{21}b_{21} & a_{22}b_{21} & a_{21}b_{22} & a_{22}b_{22} \end{bmatrix}$$ where \( A := \begin{bmatrix} a_{11} & a_{12} \\ a_{21} & a_{22} \end{bmatrix} \). Similarly, \( A \otimes B \otimes C \) is calculated recursively by \( A \otimes (B \otimes C) \) or \( (A \otimes B) \otimes C \).
The size of the generalized tensor sum \( T \) in (1) is of \( n^3 \times n^3 \), which can be extremely large even if matrices \( A, B, C \) are small. Indeed, for \( A, B, C \) being \(1,000 \times 1,000\) matrices, the generalized tensor sum \( T \) can be a \(1,000,000,000 \times 1,000,000,000 \) matrix.
Though the generalized tensor sum \( T \) can be very large, it is easy to compute some fundamental quantities of linear algebra, such as determinant and eigenvalues. In fact, the eigenvalues of \( T \) can be written as the sum of eigenvalues of relatively much smaller matrices \( A, B, \) and \( C \) than \( T \). On the other hand, unlike eigenvalues, it is difficult to compute the singular values of \( T \) since there is no such a simple relation between the singular values of \( T \) and the singular values of \( A, B, \) and \( C \).
In this talk, we present recent progress on efficient computational algorithms [1,2,3] for some specific singular values of the generalized tensor sum \( T \), which are based on the use of the notion of numerical multilinear algebra.
[1] A. Ohashi, T. Sogabe, On computing maximum/minimum singular values of a generalized tensor sum, Electronic Transaction on Numerical Analysis, 43 (2015), pp. 244-254.
[2] A. Ohashi, T. Sogabe, On computing the minimum singular value of a tensor sum, Special Matrices, 7 (2019), pp. 95-106.
[3] A. Ohashi, T. Sogabe, On computing an arbitrary singular value of a tensor sum, in preparation.
Tomohiro Sogabe was graduated from the department of Applied Physics, the University of Tokyo in 2001 and received Ph.D. from the same university in 2006. He worked at Nagoya university as an assistant professor, and Aichi prefectural university as an associate professor. He is currently an associate professor at the department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University, Japan. He served as editors of JSIAM Letters, the Transactions of JSIAM, and currently he serves as an editor of JJIAM journal, Springer. He will be a member of the board of directors of JSIAM from June 2021. His research interests include numerical linear algebra, numerical multilinear algebra, and scientific computing. He published more than 70 international journal papers and 15 domestic journal papers include applied mathematics journals, computational physics journals and quantum computing journal, such as AMC, AML, ETNA, JCAM, JJIAM, NLAA for applied mathematics; IEEE TMTT, JCP, PRB, PRE for computational physics; QIC for quantum computing journal.
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Prof. Kuniyoshi Abe
Faculty of Economics and Information, Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University
A Numerical Study of Parallel Variants of GPBiCG Method with Stabilization Strategy for Solving Linear Equations
(Joint work with Soichiro Ikuno and Gerard L.G. Sleijpen)
The hybrid Bi-conjugate gradient (Bi-CG) methods such as Bi-CG stabilized (Bi-CGSTAB), Generalized Product-type based on Bi-CG (GPBiCG) are well-known for efficiently solving linear equations, but we have seen the convergence behavior with a long stagnation phase. In such cases, it is important to have Bi-CG coefficients that are as accurate as possible. We introduce the stabilization strategy for improving the accuracy of the Bi-CG coefficients.
On present petascale high-performance computing hardware, the main bottleneck for efficient parallelization is the inner products which require a global reduction. The parallel variants of Bi-CGSTAB reducing the number of global communication phases and hiding the communication latency have been proposed. In this paper, therefore, following the analogy of Cools et al., we design parallel variants of GPBiCG, and examine the convergence speed of the parallel variants with the stabilization strategy.
Kuniyoshi Abe obtained Ph. D at Nagoya University in 1999. He began his career as Assistant professor at Anna National College of Technology in 1998. He moved to Advanced Computing Center, RIKEN as a Contract researcher in 1999. He was associate professor at Faculty of Economics and Information, Gifu Shotoku University in 2003, and is professor from 2012. His research field is numerical linear algebra, especially, he is interested in fast and iterative solvers for linear equations.
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Tappan Zee Bridge will have new toll collection system
Testing of the Rockland-based cashless system begins in the fall and goes to work spring 2016. The Tarrytown toll plaza will be demolished and eventually rebuilt to collect all tolls electronically.
Khurram Saeed
ksaeed@lohud.com
SOUTH NYACK – What is that massive steel skeleton above the southbound Thruway just before the Tappan Zee Bridge?
It's part of a new all-electronic toll collection system for the bridge. It was recently installed across from Exit 10 in South Nyack.
"It seemed like it appeared overnight," commuter Jerry Perlmutter said of the shiny, hulking structure.
By spring, every toll will be collected electronically — the majority through E-ZPass — meaning drivers won't have to stop or slow down to pay. For those without E-ZPass, cameras on the frame will take a photo of the license plate and the vehicle's owner will receive a monthly bill in the mail.
Cameras will be installed over the next six to eight weeks. Testing will begin in the fall, but drivers will still pay their tolls at the Tarrytown plaza until the electronic system is fully implemented.
"The highly-sophisticated system detects which classes of vehicles are traveling and applies the correct toll for passenger vehicles, commercial trucks, buses and motorcycles," states the website for the new $3.9 billion Tappan Zee Bridge, which is also known as the New NY Bridge.
About 25 million trips requiring a toll are made across the 3-mile bridge annually, with about 80 percent of drivers paying by E-ZPass.
According to the project website, more than 35 bridges, tunnels and roads nationwide employ all-electronic tolling, with 13 more coming soon.
One major downside is state tolling authorities lack the tools to go after toll dodgers. You need only look at the Henry Hudson Bridge, which connects the Bronx and Manhattan, and went all-electronic in late 2012. Some $4 million in tolls remain uncollected, with fines piling up.
To date, local lawmakers have been unsuccessful in passing legislation to give the agencies more enforcement power but vow to continue the fight.
When the temporary system goes live in Rockland in 2016, the Tarrytown toll plaza will be demolished and a new permanent system to collect tolls electronically will be built on site opening in 2018.
Perlmutter, a New City resident who has been commuting over the bridge to his pharmacist job in Westchester since 1973, said paying tolls electronically could help keep traffic flowing.
If you're thinking you might be able to duck the tolls on Thruway by getting on the bridge from South Nyack, think again.
A steel frame will be installed on the entrance ramp in the next four to six weeks. Following testing, it too will be activated in the spring.
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Pachaug State Forest - Green Falls Area
Green Falls Pond is a picturesque spot for hiking, swimming, fishing and picnikcing. There is also a cartop boat launch there; no motorized boats are allowed.
Published October 13. 2010 2:20PM | Updated August 16. 2018 2:14PM
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Towns: Voluntown and North Stonington
Directions: Take I-95 north to exit 92 (Routes 2 & 49); left off exit on Route 2 West. At traffic circle, take the first exit onto Route 184; in 3/4 mile take slight left onto Route 49. Follow for about 9 miles. A small wooden sign off Route 49 (across from field with a windmill) marks the left turn onto Green Falls Road and forest entrance; go about 3 miles down dirt road to parking area.
Where to Park: Parking area off Green Falls Road at pond. Another parking area is located off Fish Road, at Laurel Loop Trail.
Description: This area of the state's largest forest has Narragansett, Nehantic and Pachaug trails trail sections, part of the Connecticut Forest & Park Association's blue-blazed trail system.
The blue/red pond loop trail is roughly two miles of moderately difficult hiking. Parts of the trail are steep and narrow; other parts are very rocky.
Blue-blazed trails are for foot travel only, but on the Pachaug Multi-use Trail, mountain bikes, horses and off-road motorcycles are allowed.
Regulations: Dogs on leash permitted; no alcohol in camping areas; closes at sunset.
Amenities: Composting toilets; swimming area; camping area; cartop boat launch (no motors); picnic tables; pond is stocked with trout.
Natural Features: Green Falls Pond and Green Falls River are some of the main features in this section of the forest.
Fees: None for day use; fees for camping.
Things to note: Narragansett and Pachaug trails continue beyond forest into Rhode Island. Hunting is permitted in sections of the forest in season.
Owned by: State Department of Environmental Protection
More information: http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?a=2716&q=325072&depNav_GID=1650
Printable hiking map of Pachaug State Forest - Green Falls Area
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Are We "Post-label"? Should We Be?
I was part of a panel yesterday at St. Paul School of Theology here in Kansas City. The panel was sponsored by Sacred Worth, a group at the seminary which supports and celebrates its LGBT students, most of whom are closeted because they are on the ordination track of the United Methodist Church, and there's no Extraordinary Methodist Ministries and someone should really start one...but that's another post.
At the forum, a topic was raised which has been rolling around in my head for a while now. A young man I know and like very much asked how welcoming churches ensure that their LGBT members are known for more than being LGBT. The responses from panel members then went mostly to the "labels are so not helpful" place.
I see where that thinking arises, and I understand it. It would be great if we lived in a world in which all were loved and valued equally, and perhaps the need to name ourselves by gender, sexual orientation, affinity, political persuasion, etc. is simply perpetuating the divisions in our society. Maybe if we stopped using labels we would stop needing them. "We borrow our authority from the future" is the way that Pastor Jeff Johnson--one of the deans of LGBT inclusion in the Lutheran church--has put it.
I see that thinking, but I raise you this: we don't live in that world of peace and harmony and equal value. We live in a culture which still privileges straight over gay, white over black (brown, yellow). We live in a world in which women are still paid significantly less for doing the same work as men and are denied opportunities in nearly every field. And as long as we live in that world, I think it is important to name those inequalities, and to claim our wholeness as black people, gay people, transgender people, women, Latino/a/s, queers, radicals and youth. If I left you out, please name and claim yourself.
Not naming ourselves doesn't keep us from being what we are. Not naming ourselves doesn't alter the field of disproportionate allocation of resources upon which we play. In fact, here's my big fear: when we do not name those who are pushed to the margins, we will default to privilege. When we do not have Black History Month, we'll continue to celebrate White History Month. Every month. And yes, that still makes the "score" eleven to one, and that's a big problem. But it's a start.
What do you all think? Are labels not helpful? Is there a way to usher in a new world without them? Or do you need to be named for exactly who and what you are?


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When it comes to creating the perfect environment for your home, no little element should go untouched. Whether you are always entertaining guests, have a home full of children, or just want a place of relaxation for you and your partner, creating a "homey" feel is always important. And while it might seem daunting, we've managed to outline three areas you shouldn't forget to add that special touch to.
The best thing you can do to the style of your house is to mix things up and keep it feeling one of a kind no matter the season. The best part of creating your own luxury furniture pieces is the ability to control the way your house is laid out. Creating a symmetry between your living room, dining room, bedroom, and any other space is important to the overall feel of your home.
However, adding a touch of asymmetry by adding a mismatch of different decor elements or adding a speciality piece to help create the focus on one particular item in the room can help add that special touch to whatever setting you're creating.
Crafting the perfect room can help set the mood for the elegance you've always desired. Although it might seem like you've finally perfected the feel of your house (or any particular room) there might be the feeling of it not quite being done yet. By adding a vibrant mirror or a splash of colorful throw pillows to your luxury furniture, you can help create a tone that really binds your place together.
This special touch let's you to enjoy the feel of your perfectly arranged room and gives you the freedom to mix things up on a regularly basis. Whether you choose to hang that lavishly designed mirror during the spring and summer time doesn't mean you can't switch things up when it comes to the fall and winter. Finding that perfect rhythm with your house can not only help you to continually enjoy your place, but also allows your guests to get a different experience whenever they stop by.
The icing on the cake for a perfectly decorated house can all come down to how much natural lighting you have. Having the right lighting can help show off your rooms, adding a touch of elegance and ease to your space. However, as important as natural light can be, choosing the right interior lighting for your evenings can affect a lot that goes on in your house. While it might not seem like that big of a deal, choosing environmentally friendly lamps, or a set a dimmer lights can really impact the style of your house.
While decorating your house might seem like a one time long process, it doesn't have to be. Nor should that fact scare you out of really investing into the place where you and your family will spend most of their time.