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Q: Difference between using Jquery to add button, and explicitly adding it in HTML when calling functions I am a beginner in HTML/Javascript and know basically no Jquery. I was playing around with npm packages, Jquery, and function calls when I stumbled across a problem.
If I add a button using Jquery and attach an on click function with it, I am able to alert the user of something once the button is clicked.
If I add another button using HTML, I am not able to alert the user of the same thing once the button is clicked.
I have tried two methods of calling the alert() function when adding buttons with HTML, both with no successes while the Jquery button adding works perfectly fine.
Why is this the case? And how do I make the HTML explicitly defined buttons work with function calls?
index.html file
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" dir="ltr">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <title></title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <script src="bundle.js" charset="="utf-8""></script>
        <button onclick="fnClick()" id="my-button2">my-button2</button>
    </body>
</html>

app.js
var $ = require('jquery')
var curvematcher = require('curve-matcher')

const curve1 = [{x: 2, y: 1.5}, {x: 42222, y: 3444}];
const curve2 = [{x: 2, y: 1.5}, {x: 0, y: 0} ];

var button = $('<button/>').html('my-button1').on('click', function() {
    alert(curvematcher.shapeSimilarity(curve1, curve2))
})
$('body').append(button)

function fnClick() {
    alert(curvematcher.shapeSimilarity(curve1, curve2));
}

document.getElementById("my-button2").onclick = function () { alert(curvematcher.shapeSimilarity(curve1, curve2)); };

A: You have to wait for the content to be rendered before attaching the onclick callback (I'd suggest you use addEventListener('click' instead)
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
  document.getElementById("my-button2").addEventListener('click', function () {
    alert(curvematcher.shapeSimilarity(curve1, curve2));
  });
})

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There are new apps for Android being released every month. It makes sense that the top apps in every genre be different every year. Unfortunately, not everyone acknowledges that, and so apps reap rewards of previous fame long after they have lost reason to have that fame. To correct that, we decided to come up with a list of 5 apps that truly deserve to be called the best. Maybe you should try using them. We'd love to know your opinions.
Netflix truly deserves to remain at the very top of this list. It has a great collection of original TV shows and movies from its production house that are truly the very best there are. The service allows you to access your favorite TV shows and movies from anywhere in the world. You can adjust picture quality and sound quality through simple shortcuts and do so much more. It is a paid service, but every penny you pay is worth it.
ShowBox makes a strong case to be placed second. Showbox Apk is free to use, though it has ads. You get to watch every TV show and movie in a resolution of your preference, as well as download it to your device using torrent servers that speed up the process. The app is meant only for Android, though iOS users are known to enjoy similar features using a twin app called MovieBox. The content is really good in quality too.
What puts Terrarium TV on the list is the variety it has in terms of content, and the fact that it is free. Terrarium TV makes watching movies and TV shows easier than it has ever been. It is also easy to manage your internet consumption through the app, since everything you try to stream has the file size listed in the link itself.
Amazon Prime is a relatively recent service introduced by the e-commerce website Amazon.com. It makes it effortless to watch movies just like the other apps. It also doubles up as a premium membership to Amazon Prime, which gets you quicker home deliveries, early access to sales and limited time offers. Another little known feature of the service is that it also lets you share videos and other content with friends, like a cloud service. The only difference is that it is a lot more secure and customer friendly. Amazon Prime is really one of those services that everyone should try at least once. It is cheaper than its competitors too.
This app breaks the myth that free movie streaming apps cannot land on Google's Play Store. Tubi TV makes all sorts of movies and TV shows available to users to watch on their devices, as well as supports Chromecasting and other ways to share content. The thing that makes the app stand out is the weekly addition on new movies, almost all of which win your heart. Plus, since the app is supported on multiple devices, you can continue watching where you left off, no matter what device you last accessed the app on.
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Non-linear integrated design and analysis of skeletal structures by 1 element per member
Siu Lai Chan, Zhi Hua Zhou
This paper proposes a new and practical approach of "Nonlinear Integrated Design and Analysis (NIDA)" using 1 element per member and based on the current first-plastic-hinge or first yield design practice. The most basic parameter, stress, allowing for various linear and non-linear effects such as the P-Δ and the P-δ effects is used for strength and stability checks. Most previous work on advanced analysis cannot be used easily for production of a safe design because many important characteristics of real structures such as determination of the direction of initial imperfections in a general structure are not addressed properly. Although modeling a member by several elements for buckling analysis is sufficient, it involves complicated process in the simulation of member initial imperfection and also an inconsistent model to the linear analysis. The suggested method, allowing for these realistic features, is practical, accurate, direct and simple so that classification of sway or non-sway frames, checking of varied member stiffness under axial force, assumption of effective length and so on are no longer needed. The method permits the use of a single element per member in the structural model, as in the case for linear analysis. No additional modelling work apart from that needed for a linear analysis is required. The insertion of an additional node to the buckled member by other researchers in a problem studied in the last example of this paper is eliminated since the proposed element is capable of modeling curvature along an element.
Engineering Structures
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0141-0296(98)00090-X
10.1016/S0141-0296(98)00090-X
Chan, S. L., & Zhou, Z. H. (2000). Non-linear integrated design and analysis of skeletal structures by 1 element per member. Engineering Structures, 22(3), 246-257. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0141-0296(98)00090-X
Chan, Siu Lai ; Zhou, Zhi Hua. / Non-linear integrated design and analysis of skeletal structures by 1 element per member. In: Engineering Structures. 2000 ; Vol. 22, No. 3. pp. 246-257.
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Island Days (Part II) – TARSAN Partners with the Natives: Seals!
February 25, 2019 /0 Comments/in Blog, Research, THOR/by Meagan McKellar
text and images by Linda Welzenbach
Science advances in many ways, with enhancements in methods and instruments that improve the quality of the data we collect and enable the exploration of new frontiers. Yet despite all we know about our ocean, it arguably remains one of Earth's greatest remaining frontiers. Add in icebergs, sea ice, and bad weather, gathering information from this frontier around Antarctica can be a real challenge! Yet many of the fundamental science requirements of THOR and the other teams that comprise the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration depend on the collection of a wide range of data from the ocean that surrounds and interacts with the ice shelves around Antarctica. It turns out one of science's most effective partners in this effort to collect data comes from some of the "locals": the seals of the Antarctic oceans.
Beyond the obvious complications of dodging icebergs and plowing through sea ice, the ocean itself is incredibly complex; it is not just a body of bitterly cold, incredibly beautiful, deep blue water. The ocean is actually layered like a cake, where each water layer from top to bottom can have its own biota (from microscopic plants to megafauna such as whales), temperature, salinity, and currents (e.g. pathways) around the continent. Pathways are probably some of the most difficult types of information to track, and trying to understand how the water moves around the ice shelves is critical to understanding what is causing thinning of the ice shelf at Thwaites Glacier. That's where the seals offer their help as rather unique partners in science.
This Weddell seal is not masquerading as a unicorn. The unique payload cap she is wearing is called a "tag", a device created more than a decade ago by Dr. Lars Boehme, physical oceanographer at St. Andrews University in Scotland. The tag is a small computer that collects oceanographic information around Antarctica over the period of a about year. The "horn" transmits information by satellite about salinity, temperature, depth, and location to a web application so that scientists can monitor their partners in near real time. For more info: http://biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/seaos/introduction.htm (PERMIT NUMBER FOR WILDLIFE INTERACTIONS: FCO/UK PERMIT NO. 29/2018)
Why seals? Because they can go places we can't. They are amazing divers that also travel amazing distances. Since 2014, 14 Antarctic seal partners with their unique science payloads have logged more than 6,700 water temperature and salinity profiles within the Amundsen sea. This information tells us about the layer of water that causes melting and thinning of the ice shelf in front of Thwaites (and Pine Island Glacier) called circumpolar deep water.
The path of the Antarctic circumpolar current brings it in contact with many other bodies of water, including the Southern Ocean, the Atlantic, the Indian, and the Australian oceans. The ACC incorporates bits and pieces of those water bodies which then become part of the CDW. Amazingly enough, each of their contributions to the CDW can be identified by information such as temperature, salinity, biota, and more. These data aren't just thumbprints of their source, they also tell us about the interaction and extent of these characteristics. It tells us that ocean water is dynamic and interconnected.
Circumpolar deep water, or CDW, is derived from a mixture of all the world's oceans. It originates from the outer ring of water known as Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). The CDW moves from the deeper ACC up onto the shallower continental shelf (but still at depths of more than 300 meters!) carrying saltier water with a temperature of 1-2o C (which is above freezing and therefore melts ice). The CDW is several degrees warmer than the overlying colder surface water because that layer is supplied with fresh water from melting ice. We know this because scientists use devices to measure a temperature and salinity profile from the ocean surface to depths of thousands of meters. This device has the rather unglamorous name CTD, which stands for Conductivity (salinity) and Temperature with Depth.
The larger CTD device, also not terribly glamorous, can gather a lot of data in real time, if only in one spot. Its sensors send the information to a computer on the ship during its trip to the deep. The large gray cannisters are like giant test tubes that can be signaled to open during its passage, sampling the ocean water. Samples can then be used to measure things like chlorophyll (the amounts of which can serve to tell scientists how well the phytoplankton are doing) and oxygen in the water. They can also be preserved for future science that will be conducted at land-based laboratories following the cruise. The profiles provided by CTD's have wide application for ocean modeling, and for THOR. The temperature and salinity profiles are used as part of calculating the sound velocity that provides the multibeam seafloor bathymetry data.
Joee Patterson (see The J Team) led me into the warm and humid Baltic room, a large space with a noisy heater fan and floors damp from residual sea water. Next to the big black and yellow checkered door which opens directly to the ocean, the six-foot-tall CTD sits tethered to a strong steel cable that will not only carry this nearly 1,000-pound instrument 3,350 meters into the Amundsen Sea, but includes an information umbilical cord that receives data and allows scientists to also send commands. The MT's are in charge of its setup, modification, and deployment. That day, the CTD had some interesting modifications – passengers, if you will – attached to the bottom ring of the frame. These were micro CTD's, future riders on our seal science partners. They would be activated to gather the same data as their larger cousin and use the better resolved data set of the host CTD to standardize the temperature, pressure, and salinity data that the micro-versions gathered.
Caption- Each tag is actually a tiny computer, battery and satellite transmitter (the antennae). The location, salinity, pressure, and temperature data for the depths the seal dives are transmitted each time the seal surfaces. The computers themselves are handmade by Dr. Lars Boehme and the Sea Mammal Research Unit Instrumentation Group at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. While the hardware is modular, the programming can be modified to gather a variety of data types, from studies in seal behavior to information about a variety of ocean environments and locations.
These portable dataloggers, or 'tags', were devised and constructed by Dr. Lars Boehme; he is a physical oceanographer at the University of St. Andrews, and works within the Sea Mammals Research Unit, Marine Alliance for Science and Technology Scotland, Scottish Oceans Institute. Over the last decade, he has tagged over 150 seals, to include nearly all the species from around the world. The programming in each tag can be modified to gather a variety of data types, from studies in seal behavior to information about their ocean environments by location. Lars' knowledge and admiration of seals and their abilities is obvious in the reverence and enthusiasm he conveys when he describes their role in his oceanographic research and exploration.
As for his partners in Antarctica, he has been permitted to tag as many as 16 individuals from among the population of Elephant and Weddell seals who live near the Amundsen sea. The seals that are selected meet a very important qualification: they must have already shed their previous year's fur. That ensures that the tag Lars and his team glue to the seal's head is secure. After a year, the seal will molt again, shedding both the previous year's fur and the tag. Using these partners has also led him to study their biology and ecology. The tag apparently has no impact on their behavior or normal seal activities. And it's those activities that are critical to providing data about the water in places where humans cannot go.
Lars Boehme approaches a nearly one-ton male elephant seal to see if he is a good candidate for a tag. The seal sees this as a challenge and expresses himself with bared teeth and a deep throated growling (that can really only be described as a very long, very scary belch). The trick to managing these encounters, according the Lars, is to appear taller than the seal. We were glad that he was the expert. Within a few seconds of looking the seal over, he walked away. The seal was still molting. (PERMIT NUMBER FOR WILDLIFE INTERACTIONS: FCO/UK PERMIT NO. 29/2018)
Elephant seals are the champions of diving, logging marathon dives of up to 1,500 meters (5,000 feet) for up to two hours, although they typically dive 300-600 meters (up to 2,000 feet) for 20 minutes at a time, with 2-3 minute rests between each dive. Weddell seals tend to be shallower divers, only going to 600 meters for up to an hour. The water depths in the Amundsen sea near Thwaites Glacier range from less than 300 meters at the continent to 1,600 meters in the deepest glacial melt water channels, which scientists suspect may funnel CDW right to the base of the ice shelf. This makes the seals perfect natural explorers of the Antarctic shelf.
This female Weddell seal is awake and entering the water about 20 minutes after the team finishes attaching the tag. She remained in the cove swimming around and back numerous times to check out our activities. (PERMIT NUMBER FOR WILDLIFE INTERACTIONS: FCO/UK PERMIT NO. 29/2018)
The day we visited an island among Schaefer group, Lars and his team were just finishing tagging a Weddell seal. After checking over the male Elephant seal, they determined that the big male was still molting and moved on to the other Weddell. After pulling on her fur, Lars deemed her a good candidate.
Lars and his team are very experienced and very quickly settled the seal down in preparation for tagging. In addition to attaching the tag, they also record the seals size, approximate weight, and overall health. (PERMIT NUMBER FOR WILDLIFE INTERACTIONS: FCO/UK PERMIT NO. 29/2018)
Seals are large and potentially dangerous animals, so they need to be sedated. This is where Lars' skill and experience are important for the safety of the humans and the seals. From there, tagging is pretty straightforward. Using epoxy, they put a small amount on the bottom of the tag to make a sticky template on the seal's head. More is applied to the template and then smoothed around like cake icing. The tag is held in place until the epoxy is set. The final step is to apply a bead around the edges, much like we do when we put caulk around our bath tubs. This keeps water from getting under the tag when they dive, which would lift it off the seal's head.
Lars Boehme and his postdoctoral research associate Gui Bortolotto carefully attach the tag to a female Weddell seal. (PERMIT NUMBER FOR WILDLIFE INTERACTIONS: FCO/UK PERMIT NO. 29/2018)
At the end, Lars sits with the seal, putting himself between it and the water to ensure that the seal recovers fully before allowing her to return to the sea. Suddenly, as we are watching Lars quietly and reverently watch over his sleepy charge, the first seal swims by. Lars then says excitedly "Quick! Take pictures of the seal in the water!" In all his years of work, he has always focused on the animals and had apparently not taken any pictures of a tagged seal swimming.
(PERMIT NUMBER FOR WILDLIFE INTERACTIONS: FCO/UK PERMIT NO. 29/2018)
The second Weddell seal was the fourth seal tagged since the start of the cruise. To date, the four seals have made 1,537 dives and collected 105 CDT profiles. Each time a seal surfaces, the data that they have acquired is transmitted via satellite to Lars and his team. They can even get a rough approximation of the location of the seal if more than one satellite picks up the signal. This is already more than we have collected from the ship, and the seals' measurements are likely to far outnumber any additional ship-based measurements we can achieve by the end of the cruise.
The hope is that these partners for science, who live in the Amundsen Sea, will dive around and below the sea ice at Thwaites where we can't go, bearing witness over the next year to the temperature and salinity of the CDW, reporting the data they collect to help us determine the path and extent of this warm water below the glacier.
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How I Got Here
Born in Tulsa Oklahoma, I grew up in a family of athletes. My father was a multi sport standout in college, and played Semi Pro baseball after. He even played competitive fast pitch softball until he was 55 years old. His sons, Gary, Les, and Don, not only took turns being bat boy for one of the 3 simultaneous teams he played for, but spent much of their recreational time in the back yard throwing the football around, having batting practice, or boxing lessons. As competitive as he was, Dad always was a giver…to his family and really anyone in need.
At 85 years old he still is both..competitive and giving. He led by example in a quest for excellence and I must admit there was a lot of pressure on us to always do the best we could. And never leave ANYONE wondering if we had or not. There were a lot of times it would have been nice to just slack off and be a goof. And we did our share of goofing. But if it was an endeavor that was going to be measured in some way, then slacking was not an option. Fortunately he always instructed us with encouragement and praise rather than harsh critique. He also left no doubt that we should always conduct ourselves with integrity, never saying there was something we could or would do if we couldn't or wouldn't. If we were caught bragging, we better be able to back it up, and never tell someone you would do something unless you followed up and did it. He lived that way, and the respect for him I've heard others comment about is always of the highest praise. That's my Dad. He's a great man.
My Mother…what a hoot ! As you could imagine, living with such a strong personality as my Dad, she had to have attributes to counter-balance him. It was her sense of humor, wit, and creative take on life that did it. From puppets she wore on her feet, propped up on the back of the couch, to putting grapes coated in olive oil in a bag for a Halloween party for us (a bag of eyes don't you know), to her artistic talent and the joy she gets from painting…if I have any creativity I know I got it from her. She's the type that could…and has…told a story at a relatives funeral that would have the mourners laughing to tears as she recounted the loved one's escapades. How often I was embarrassed when she went off on a story about me as a little boy to one of my girlfriends…but even then I couldn't help but laugh along. Apparently I was a tad ornery. But the flow of her words and the twinkle in her eye made that seem like a cute attribute. I'm sure I didn't feel that way when I was getting in trouble for it. Time changes perspective doesn't it ? Dad was simply no match for her. Anytime he got a bit too edgy in her opinion, that wit would take over and about all Dad could do was give in and change that edge into a grin and a twinkle in his own eye. My Mom…she is a great woman.
My Mom and Dad will soon be married 62 years. They sure are a cute couple. We are the luckiest of sons to have them both as parents.
Sad Update: In August 2009, my mother, a painter, went suddenly and permanently blind. In a period of 4 days she went from having mildly corrected vision to totally black. 2 months later she fell and broke her pelvis, followed 3 weeks later by my father having a massive stroke, followed by the onset of vascular dementia caused by the stroke.. They were in the same skilled nursing center together, and then moved to a shared room in assisted living. My father finally succumbed to the ravages of the of the dementia and passed away in October of 2011. But it is noteworthy to say, after all my mother lost...her eyesight, her husband of 65 years, her home, and her love of painting, my Mom is still and easy laugh, leads the exercise class when the activity director is gone, "watches" every St. Louis Cardinals baseball game, and cracks staff and residents up with her wit. Anytime I start feeling sorry for myself for what ever reason, I call upon her trials and the way see refuses to accept anything but a love of life. She would be an inspiration to anyone.
It only makes sense that the three boys would grow up influenced by the people their parents are. My youngest brother by 4 years, Don…Super Jock ! 5 A State runnerup wrestler, All State Baseball, and All Regional Shortstop in college. Made the cut in tryouts for the St. Louis Cardinals a couple years out of college, but finally the home office decided he was to old. Too Old ? 24 ? Yeah, well it's a young man's game and they're looking for teenagers. The great Ken Boyer told him he should be playing pro ball and to go try somewhere else. He never did though. Life was already underway. He's a scratch golfer too…man, he can hit that ball 300 yards. I remember coming home for the summer from college and we started rough housing in the living room….putting on a few wrestling moves. I thought I would just show him who "da Man" was. I ended up only showing him a big knot on my head from hitting the floor. That was the last time I ever messed with him. He's had a career as a coach and Vice Principal. He exemplifies the attributes of my Dad the most of the three of us. I know he has influenced many of his students in the same way.
Les, my middle brother by 2 years, took a different tack. He was very athletic too. But as a kid in 6th grade walking home from school, he passed some guys practicing their little rock and roll garage band. That day he told my folks he wanted a set of drums. Dad told him if he would save enough money for half the cost, he would pay the other half. Les got a paper route soon after that and for over a year got up at 4 a.m, 7 days a week to run it. The very minute he got enough for half a set of drums he quit. Mom and Dad let him set them up permanently in the formal dining room. He really hasn't been anything but a musician ever since. By the time he was 14 he was the drummer in a fraternity party band. Before he was 16 he was making money with music. I had the driver's license, so it fell to me to haul him around to gigs. At the time we weren't telling Mom and Dad that one of those gigs was at the 500 Club, a dive off the side of the road by the Turnpike gate. Rough place. The owners told him to hide in the bass drum if they got raided. He also took up guitar about that time. If Les wasn't sleeping or eating, he was playing his guitar. To this day he is one of my favorite guitar players. Funny how that 'quest for excellence' influence made it's way into the creative side. He also is a great songwriter…my Mom's wit, you can hear it in his words. He has come up with some of the funniest songs ! I always envied him…thinking how great it must be to be able to do that. To make music ! As a result, my next younger brother is probably one of my biggest influences. I'm guessing that it's not all that common to have an older brother use his younger one as a roll model. Well..it happens. After I started building dulcimers, I gave Les the 3rd one I ever built. It was tuned DAA, and I never showed him a thing on it. It hung on his wall for a couple of years, then he started messing around with it…still in DAA. He only knew 4 songs total when he entered the National Championships for the first time…all original compositions done in his innovative fingerpicking style. Even with a pretty severe case of the nerves he placed 3rd. The next year, 1990, he came back and won it, again playing all original compositions. I'd tell you how he does it, but I can't explain it. You'll just have to watch him on the YouTube videos I have posted. Remarkable musician.
I'm the oldest brother. I guess if I had to categorize where I fit in, I'd have to say I'm a blend of my two younger brothers. A blend of the influences of both my Mom and Dad. I played little league, but my niche was wrestling. I ended up going to college on a wrestling scholarship…unfortunately I could tell you how many lights were on the ceiling of every gym in the conference. Get it ? When I…finally…graduated, I got married and went to work in sales. I had two wonderful, beautiful daughters, Sarah and Rebekah. As the years have past they have changed their roles to be my best friends. At 30 years of age, along came the dulcimer. Until then I didn't do anything musical. I went to Silver Dollar City in Branson MO and saw my first one. After envying my brother Les for all this time, I still remember the rush of feeling "I could do that !!" I didn't have the money to buy it though so I went to the library and got a book "How to Build a Dulcimore" by Chet Hines. His plans were substantial…read that as the thing was built like a battleship. I was too excited to follow them, so I took the key things and designed my own. I made it in one day out of 1/4? exterior plywood. It would have been better in a street fight than as a musical instrument, but it DID make music. I was hooked. As my building improved, my playing improved. There were no other dulcimer players around so I had to teach myself. I must admit, I sometimes feel more like an inventor than a musician or craftsman. Those are nice by-products of this strange drive I have to make what I do different from what's already being done. I think I have my Dad to thank (blame ?) for that trait (neurosis ?) . In 1982 I went to Winfield and saw the competition for the first time. That inspired me to work toward that goal, and the next year I entered taking second. Year two I took second. Year three I took second. Sheesh ! The next year I didn't even make the cut for the finals. That's where my prime advice to anyone entering the National Championships originates : Play one you know ! Finally in 1987 I won first, playing all original compositions. Les and I are the only two brothers in any instrument category to win on the same instrument. I believe we are also the only two contestants in any instrument category to win with all original compositions. Thanks Mom ! The dulcimer has changed my life in so many ways. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever dream I'd be building and playing dulcimers for a living, or that I would ever play music with my brother. It has made me a better person, like a gentle hand smoothing off the rough edges. It has given me so many moments of fulfillment, whether it's the stack of raw wood that now makes music, or the birth and growth of a new song, or being amazed and touched that something I might play would touch someone else. And the enrichment I have felt from meeting so many wonderful people in my musical travels is hard to imagine not having. Thank you all…Kids, Friends, Brothers, Folks…for being a part of my life.
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1,400 books and 97 journals will be accessible for free for the remainder of the spring semester, ensuring access for university students completing course work at home
In response to the unprecedented challenges created by the COVID-19 global public health crisis, Johns Hopkins University Press is providing free access to its collection of books and journals currently on Project MUSE, a massive online collection of humanities and social science research.
Starting March 18, all JHU Press content currently on the Project MUSE platform will be freely available to readers worldwide until at least May 31, 2020. The decision aims to ease the transition to at-home learning for students who might have difficulty accessing their university libraries remotely as they complete their spring semester course work. As a result of this decision, 1,400 JHU Press books and 97 journals will become accessible for free. Project MUSE is working with other participating publishers to make similar arrangements.
"Access to the best research and scholarship is essential," noted JHU Press director Barbara Kline Pope in a message to the JHU Press community, "for students completing their studies, for faculty members in their teaching and research, for policy makers weighing critical decisions, and for health professionals working to save lives. It is comforting and empowering during this uncertain time to do everything we can to stay true to our mission and to help each other navigate unprecedented challenges to daily life—including being a student and conducting research."
JHU Press joins a number of other university presses working with Project MUSE to quickly address the access needs of university students and faculty as they complete the academic year. In addition to Johns Hopkins University Press, the publishers currently opting to make content free on Project MUSE are Ohio State University Press (all books and journals), University of Nebraska Press (all books and journals), University of North Carolina Press (all books), Temple University Press (all books), and Vanderbilt University Press (selected books). Project MUSE expects to announce additional participants and will continually update the list of publishers offering free access to content.
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Stuck in NYC for Christmas? Here are the best things to do in 2021
There's no place like home for the holidays — even if you're here due to the latest COVID-19 variant walloping the city.
The bad news: Maybe your plans were scuttled just when you thought we were about to have a normal Christmas.
The good news: You're stuck in the greatest city in the world and no amount of microscopic Grinches can steal that.
There will likely be fewer tourists around to annoy you: hotel demand had recovered 81 percent of what it was in 2019, according to NYC & Company, the city's marketing arm. But that changed in the course of a week as Omicron spread quickly.
With some Broadway shows closed, the Rockettes high-kicking off the stage for the year and many restaurants temporarily shuttered, cheer might seem in short supply. But Christmas in New York has always been an outside thing anyway: carolers in the parks, lights on towering houses, music in the streets and corner carts luring you with fragrant bags of roasted chestnuts.
"Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, you might actually find a peaceful city. It's very magical having the city to yourself," Chris Heywood, NYC & Company spokesman, told The Post. "We like to say it's not a consolation prize to be stuck in New York City."
This is your year to fully embrace Christmas in New York. Here's your holiday list of the best things to do:
See a big Christmas tree — without the crowds
The Christmas tree — a 79-foot, 12-ton Norway spruce — at Rockefeller Center
A lot of New Yorkers probably see the Rockefeller Center tree about as often as they visit the Statue of Liberty — never.
Here's the thing: It's delightful! A more iconic piece of American Christmas tradition would be hard to find. It's also hard to see during normal times, with throngs of selfie-stick-swinging, slow-walking tourists crowding the sidewalks. Your staycation Christmas should be the time to finally see what the fuss is about yourself.
Here's the trick to avoid even a small crowd this year: the tree lights usually turn off at midnight, but on Christmas Day, it's illuminated for 24 hours. So bundle up and get over in the wee hours and you might have the 79-foot, 12-ton Norway spruce to yourself.
There are other, less popular public Christmas trees also worth a gander: Washington Square Park boasts a 45-foot tree, trimmed in tasteful white lights and nestled right under the famous arch. Singers are scheduled to keep up the Christmas Eve caroling tradition here starting at 5 p.m. Friday.
The Christmas tree in Washington Square Park
Tamara Beckwith
If you're missing the club, the tree in the garden at the Public Hotel (215 Chrystie St.; 212-735-6000) in Nolita might cheer you up. The 20-foot "tree" is made entirely of disco balls — 450 of them, including some that rotate. Light shows bring them to life throughout the day.
The New York Stock Exchange won't be exchanging gifts on Christmas Day but you can still see its big tree out front, right next to the Charging Bull statue. The South Street Seaport's tree looks sharp next to the tall masts of the nearby ships. The outer boroughs have public trees to choose from, from Bronx's Little Italy to a lobster trap tree outside Red Hook Lobster Pound in Brooklyn (284 Van Brunt St.; 551-261-5178).
Make your days merry and bright — really bright
A man wearing a mask takes a selfie at the Dyker Heights Christmas Lights on Dec. 12 in Brooklyn.
If you can't visit a suburb this year, it's time to bask in the ostentatious holiday opulence that suburban McMansions can't even dream of.
Of course we're talking about Dyker Heights, the south Brooklyn neighborhood where homes dress up in gaudy displays that have to be seen to be believed. It's worth the hype (and pictures do not do it justice). The mammoth houses deck their halls, roofs, lawns, gates and balconies with every imaginable form of Christmas decoration: even the much-memed Home Depot 12-foot skeleton makes an appearance this year, dressed up in its holiday best.
The best lights are between 11th and 13th avenues, from 83rd to 86th streets. Pro tips: if you drive, park your car and walk around because you'll want to take in every element of every crowded display, or get there via public transit. While you're down there, make a pit stop at the Lock Yard in Bay Ridge (9221 Fifth Ave.; 718-333-5282) to fill yourself with holiday spirits — they've got a great beer selection, and lots of cozy, ventilated outdoor seating.
Walk in wonderlands
A view of Lightscape at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Brooklyn
We may not have snow this Christmas but you can still find a winter wonderland — of lights and art — at the city's botanic gardens.
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden (990 Washington Ave.; BBG.org/lightscape) has turned itself into a glittering after-dark spectacular called Lightscape, a show that uses lasers, light installations and poetry to highlight the quiet beauty of winter nature. It features more than 1 million lights, including a Fire Garden and Winter Cathedral tunnel of lights, and poetry from Brooklyn author Jacqueline Woodson. Pick up a cup of mulled wine or some s'mores along the route, too. Runs through Jan. 9; tickets are $34 ($30 for members).
The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx (2900 Southern Blvd.; NYBG.org) is offering something similar called GLOW, the longest entirely outdoor illuminated spectacle in the city, with 1.5 miles of lights and experiences. Hot cocoa and snacks are available throughout the park. Runs through Jan. 22; tickets are $35 ($25 for members).
Down the street, the Bronx Zoo (2300 Southern Blvd.; BronxZoo.com/holiday-lights) has adorned itself for its annual Holiday Lights show with more than 260 lanterns representing 70 animal and plant species that the zoo works to protect. Add to that holiday decor animated sculptures, colored tunnels and decorated buildings, and you've got a festive outdoor feast for the eyes. Runs through Jan. 9; tickets are $39.95.
Visit Governors Island
For the first time, Governors Island is open year-round. It's celebrating with a Winter Village and skating rink during the holidays.
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If your travel got canceled, you won't be singing "Mele Kalikimaka" on any tropical islands this holiday.
But who needs the tropics when New York City has its own island paradise just a short boat ride from Manhattan? This year marks the first time that Governors Island — an old military base that is now a sprawling center for art, events, playgrounds and bike paths with 360-degree views of the city — will be open year-round. It's celebrating with a Winter Village and skating rink during the holidays; even better, the village is open on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. It features a 5,000-square-foot rink (open Fridays through Sundays), a dozen lawn games, fire pits, bike rentals, seasonal food, drinks and more. Tourists barely know about the island in the summer, so you're really in for a peaceful treat if you go in the winter.
Governors Island is open 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day; ferries operate daily from the Battery Maritime Building (10 South St.); the NYC Ferry serves the island on the weekends, see full schedules and more info at GovIsland.com.
Take a North Polar plunge
New Yorkers have a long tradition of taking the plunge into the ocean. Above, the annual dip to celebrate the new year at Coney Island.
Paul Martinka
If you're really feeling disconnected this holiday season, here's one fast cure: Jump in the ocean.
Since last winter, Finnish artist Riitta Ikonen has been leading weekly polar plunges in the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean from the Rockaways every Sunday. She started it as a global project mid-pandemic, encouraging people across the world to jump into a body of water wherever they are at 2 p.m. local time to reconnect with nature, and each other.
Rockaway locals have turned the plunges into off-season beach parties: swimmers warm themselves by a roaring bonfire, share hot drinks, play music and enjoy the serene meditation of a winter beach day. Cold water swimming is allegedly good for the immune system and, while that may not save you from COVID, it beats Zooming with your family all weekend.
"For me, cold water immersion is the perfect way to reboot, charge my energy levels and punctuate time," Ikonen tells The Post. "It North-Souths me in a way like nothing else can."
Every Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Rockaways; DM @seachanges_rockaways on Instagram for more info and location.
Warm up your insides
The heated outdoor area at Loreley Beer Garden
Stefano Giovannini
New York's pop-up holiday bars were lousy with TikTokers all season. But the TikTokers all got COVID at SantaCon or went home to the Midwest, so now you can enjoy a trendy holiday drink in peace, and in cozy outdoor seating.
Your best bet is Loreley Beer Garden on the Lower East Side (7 Rivington St.; 212-253-7077, LoreleyNYC.com), which is open on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and offers a big, heated outdoor beer garden, decked out for the season. The drinks on its holiday menu are right from Santa's happy hour menu, oozing with chocolate, loaded with marshmallows or rimmed with sugar. Try the boozy bourbon black and white hot chocolate, spiked eggnog, nitro peppermint martini or the fresh-baked cinnamon rolls on the holiday brunch menu.
The Skinny on the Lower East Side (174 Orchard St.; 212-228-3668, TheSkinny-NYC.com) has transformed for the season into Naughty or Nice, a holiday bar with a bonkers menu of drinks with names like Grinding Up Against the Gingerman, holiday decor dripping from the ceiling and an arcade claw game where you can win stuffed holiday dolls (nice), or an adult movie DVD (naughty). It's got curbside seating, too, if staying indoors feels too naughty for you right now. The Skinny will reopen on Dec. 27 after a temporary closure due to COVID.
Spiked eggnog and boozy hot chocolate to celebrate the holidays at Loreley Beer Garden
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