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Startup Gamifies NYC Driving for DOT Pilot Program
Dash assesses driving style and provides the driver with a Dash Score.
Image: Dash
By James O'Brien 2014-06-14 14:00:41 UTC
Dash is working to not only integrate the consumer driver's experience of connected cars with fluid and fun interactions — via app-to-vehicle CPU — but the Manhattan-based startup has now signed a deal with the New York City Department of Transportation to help bring its vision to the realm of municipal traffic strategy.
Beginning this summer, Dash expects to install its data tracking-and-analysis technology in up to 500 NYC volunteers' automobiles as part of a year-long pilot program called Drive Smart, funded by a $1 million federal grant and overseen by the city DOT.
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"Dash is involved with the Department of Transportation, here in New York, as part of an initiative called Drive Smart," said Jamyn Edis, a co-founder of the company. "The core mission of Drive Smart is to leverage emerging technologies to … make the streets safer, number one. And, number two, to make the streets more efficient — to reduce congestion, and to decrease the environmental impact of driving in New York City.
"We are obviously thrilled, as a technology startup, to be involved in that," Edis continued. "We find the DOT executives very open, very efficient, and very progressive in their thinking … We were, ultimately, picked to participate, and we are at the beginning of the pilot."
What connected driving means for Drive Smart
Dash is a smartphone-hosted app that talks to a dongle — a hardware key — that plugs into the data port of almost every modern automobile. It's the same plug-in feature, usually located under the dashboard, near the steering wheel, that auto mechanics can use to assess what the car's computer has to say about the state of the vehicle.
Except Dash's technology pipes that data to its app. Drivers are then alerted to vehicle conditions and also prompted, in real time — primarily by audio messages — regarding their at-the-wheel behaviors. The app is built, said Edis, to conform with federal and international guidelines on driver distraction.
All of this is built around a somewhat gamified environment, one in which the app scores a driver based on his or her choices. Brake hard and you might score lower. Make route choices that save fuel and put less wear and tear on your car, your score stands to increase. That's key to how Dash envisions its technology leading to safer, more efficient roads. Drivers are alerted to the benefits of safer, efficient driving, and under the program, cities can see new quantities of street-level data about congestion and incidents — potentially suggesting changes to infrastructure that bring additional safety and cost savings.
Now, consider that functionality alongside the NYCDOT program's goals of exploring ways that technology can create safer, time- and money-saving experiences for city drivers.
Drive Smart, according to Edis, will put the company's data-gathering tech into the cars of 500 city motorists — some of them likely to be NYC employees, some of them working in the private sector. The dongles will collect information from the vehicles, in terms of everything from gas mileage to motorists' speed, to where and when traffic snarls seem to pop up.
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In helping the city to turn that data into actionable reports, Edis said part of the challenge for Dash would be parsing the results, given the anticipated cross section of users that will plug in.
"There's going to be some selection bias," he said. "They're recruiting the people, possibly including city employees, so I think that you're going to have some drivers who are more mission-driven … so, from a statistical perspective we just have to make sure we're controlling the sample … comparing a control group to our larger population" of Dash users.
That means anonymizing Dash's tens of thousands of current participants, and then comparing those identity-scrubbed data sets to Drive Smart drivers' actions. This, Edis said, will help compensate for the relatively small size of the program's sample set.
"The 500 will be enhanced with the millions of data points we get from our broader data set (5 million miles so far), so their access to data to make inferences is much larger than just the 500 subset," he said.
According to Bruce Schaller, the DOT's deputy commissioner for traffic and planning — speaking, in August 2013, to the Wall Street Journal — the program "will create a revolutionary new set of metrics for us … it's a new way of seeing the streets."
Despite several attempts by Mashable, in May 2014, the NYCDOT did not respond to requests for confirmation of Dash's involvement in the program. Instead, the department said, it "is currently discussing options with companies that replied. As you may know, the agency released its 'request for expressions of interest' to explore potential technology that could help drivers save money and time, and to drive more safely."
Next for Dash: Worldwide users (and taxis, too?)
According to Edis, the Dash partnership with the one-year Drive Smart program is expected to hit the road during the summer of 2014.
Adding its connected-car app to the 500 autos in question, however, is only one step the startup is taking this year. The international version of Dash launched on May 20, adding the app to drivers' repertoires in Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, so that "individual drivers can opt to use Dash to improve their driving, save money, reduce their carbon footprint, and make driving more fun," Edis said.
Dash is also reaching out to the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission, seeking "to participate in a similar program," to Drive Smart, said Edis, "to help improve the driving of taxis — making taxi-driving safer, essentially, but also helping to reduce their costs."
The consumer app is available to Android users. An iOS version is forthcoming in the near future.
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POLL-No surprises expected in Japan's revised Q1 GDP, trade war clouds outlook
TOKYO, June 7 (Reuters) - Revised Japanese growth data is expected to show the world's third-biggest economy grew at the same pace as initially thought, with the overall picture highlighting a soft underbelly as global trade war concerns hurt corporates and consumers.
A Reuters poll of 17 economists forecast Japan's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded an annualised 2.1 percent in January-March, unchanged from the preliminary reading last month. GDP grew an annualised 1.6% in the fourth quarter.
The revised GDP data, to be released by the Cabinet Office on June 10 at 8:50 a.m. Japan time (2350 GMT, June 9), is also expected to show capital spending rose 0.5%, which if realised will provide some cheer given the initial release showed a 0.3% contraction from the fourth quarter.
Partially offsetting that were a downgrade in the contribution of pubic investment and factory inventories from the preliminary reading, analysts predicted.
Kentaro Arita, senior economist at Mizuho Research Institute, said the final GDP data will continue to point to slackening economic momentum with rising risks of a slump.
"If the U.S.-China trade friction intensifies further, the economy may contract as business investment and exports could weaken."
The international trade tensions have weighed on Japan's exports and factory output, raising doubts about whether the government will go ahead with a twice-delayed plan to hike a sales tax to 10 percent from 8 percent in October.
There have been growing calls from some former policymakers to delay the tax hike in the face of worsening domestic and external conditions. However, authorities have said a delay is unlikely unless there is an economic shock on the scale of the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
The initial GDP had showed imports fell faster than exports in the first quarter, underlining the broadening pressure across the economy as consumers have also been reluctant to spend.
The annualised increase in the growth would translate into a 0.5 percent quarter-on-quarter expansion, also steady from the initial estimate, the poll found.
Other data on tap is unlikely to offer much encouragement to policymakers.
Core machinery orders, which will be issued on June 12, are forecast to have slipped 0.8% in April from the previous month, the poll found, the first fall in three months.
Compared with a year earlier, core orders, a highly volatile data series regarded as a leading indicator of capital spending, likely dropped 5.3% in April, down for four straight month.
"Corporations, especially manufacturers, will continue to be cautious about capital spending on uncertainty over the global economy and the prospect for the U.S.-China trade conflicts," said Yutaro Suzuki, economist at Daiwa Institute of Research.
(Reporting by Kaori Kaneko Editing by Shri Navaratnam)
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It's easiest to think of Judaism as a set of do's and don'ts and even easier if your Jewish life is a smorgasbord to pick and choose from Jewish practice at your will. But Judaism isn't a set of rules it's a process, a way of making decisions. This talk will definitely make your Jewish life more challenging but will certainly make it more meaningful too. It will make the routine conscious and may just bring about your liberation.
I am the principal rabbi of Finchley Reform Synagogue and the mum of a particularly gorgeous 18 month old which means the simple question of 'who am I?' makes me ask 'who was I?' I went from being the Rabbi's daughter, to being a theology student at Bristol University and after that my identity kept changing as I became Rabbi, wife and mother. All three roles involve privileged relationships, creativity and lots of energy.
I love it when a film takes one of the most simplistic ideas, encapsulates it into a rom com and makes you think of course why I didn't think of that. It's those sliding door moments which define our destiny. When our destiny changes by actions that we didn't even know we were doing. Our lives are defined by decisions we made. I went off to university, and found myself living with girls whose parents had asked them if they wanted them to pay for university or for their wedding; I hadn't been asked if I was going to apply for University, it's just what we did. Our Jewish practice is often something that comes within those sliding doors moments, it's just what we do and if we did it differently how differently would our lives turn out? How would our destinies change? Rarely in our day to day lives are we asked to justify our religious observance, are we challenged and asked questions of why we do things in a certain way. I've realised the times where I see myself asking people and challenging them about their Jewish observance is when couples come to me, one of who are Jewish, the other who is not and they're thinking of converting. We talk about their Jewish lives as they are at the moment, whether it's talking about Shabbat, Kashrut, their festival observance and we talk about why they do things, or rather lines they have drawn, and I wonder that whether those lines are as arbitrary as they sound when they're talking to me. Are they in fact arbitrary or is it really more about the in laws or an emotional sensation or their upbringing or a rebellion to their upbringing, or striving for something authentic. Whatever it is they have drawn lines which only they really understand and even then one asks 'do you understand why you have drawn the line, or have you just drawn the line?. This isn't a denominational thing, it's a Jewish thing, everyone draws a line, whether it's kashrut, Sniut, Shabbat, the list is endless. There's always going to be someone who has drawn a line further to the right than you. You cover your hair, someone else wears a snude. You separate milk and meat, well they need a particular hechsher on their food. They have a particular hechsher, well that's not good enough for next person. There's always a line and it's never quite the same line as anybody else's. There is a great example of drawing the line that I love from the Talmud, because this isn't a new phenomenon. The story starts with Levi visiting the house of Yosef the trapper of Fowl and he is served a platter of peacock head in simmering milk. Levi is horrified and doesn't eat the meal and he goes straight to Rav and says 'why has he not been excommunicated and how can he live like this?' Rav calmly explains, 'you and I understand our kashrut from one particular verse, one particular passuk with two entities in it. Within one verse the first bit tells us you should not eat any carcass, the second part you should not cook a kid in its mothers milk'. We have understood that to mean don't cook any carcass in milk but if you were in Rabbi Yehuda town you would understand the verse differently, there's a comma there. There are two distinct parts of the same verse, you shouldn't eat a carcass and you shouldn't boil a kid in its mother's milk, well that peacock's mother didn't have any milk. Why do I love the passage? Well it's because it's the Talmud's blasé nature that we all draw our lines differently and it's ok as long as they have informed reasoning behind them. For me the act of deciding how to draw the line is authentic Judaism, the life that follows is just commentary. But we have to learn how to draw the line and ironically we have to learn how to draw the line, and ironically I like to explain how to draw the line by drawing two triangles. We can look at every aspect of Jewish life through two triangles, determining our practise and asking ourselves where it is we are going to draw the line, we need to decide what's going to go into our two triangles. Our God and God of our ancestors, this is the opposite to the story of the famous oven of Achnai debate where the majority decision prevails over Eliezer even with the support of the heavenly voice. Whether it's God, mitzvot, revelation, divine prompting, our conscience, however you name it, however you understand it, God needs to get a vote but the importance is God does not get the veto because Jewish tradition must also speak to us. The Jew drawing the line needs to ask ourselves what is it the wealth of our text offers us? What's the essence of it? What is it trying to teach me? What voices are speaking to me? How can I understand it? How can I respond to it? How can I enrich it, purify it and refine it? What is it that Jewish tradition brings with itself to ask me where I'm drawing my line? But the third element of the triangle needs to be our Jewish community. Our lines have to be drawn in a context otherwise what does Judaism end up looking like if it's just a series of us all drawing our own personal lives? We are not individuals in our religious lives, we are communally obligated beings. It would be easy to leave it at that, easy to leave these three entities as the only way that we make our decisions but we are not living in a ghetto, we're living in the context of a world in which we interact with on a daily basis, and therefore the rest of the world needs to play into our line drawing as well. So mirroring our God and God of our ancestors ein sof, the image of the divine being from back at the beginning of Genesis, not a particularistic one but universalistic one. The God that interacts with the whole world. Either the God that's looking to human beings to seeing how we behave in order to look for our redemption, or simply our conscience that's asking us 'do my actions contribute to a better world?' And not just our Jewish tradition but our wisdom, our knowledge, that which is being passed onto us through science, technology, ecology, all that we learn through generation to generation that informs not just our lives but our Jewish lives. We ask ourselves how does the world around us changes our response to our Jewish tradition, and not just our community, not just klal yisrael but humanity. Just as we are part of the Jewish Community that helps us draw our lines, so we are also part of the world at large, part of humanity that which needs to be part of the line drawing as well. What's my responsibility to world around us? How can I contribute to society in the most ultimate fashion? So it's not just about 2 triangles but about what those triangles can create, those triangles which go on to create our Jewish selves. The lines we draw have to perpetuate something , we have to be able to acknowledge the lines to be able to pass them on, we have to be able to see that we no longer live in a Rebbe led Judaism, we can't turn to just one person and take all of the answers because Judaism is so informed by the familial, the society, the community, everything around us. Society changed because we have windows to the world, we don't have same relationship with leadership as we once did but what does that different process enable us, it enables us to have a conscience and a conscious Judaism. This isn't about membership or denominations because actually all membership does is allows us to adopt somebody else's line drawing, this is about us as individuals standing within a community making sure we live a conscious life. Making sure that we don't just take what has been passed down to us and replicate it and perpetuate it. Not allow it to be another part of our lives when we allow the doors to open and close and walk straight through life wondering what life might have been but not asking the question. Actually it's about us reclaiming a conscious decision to be able to fulfil act, to do your Judaism s in a way that's meaningful to speak to us. So what's my dream? What's the vision? It's the vision of a Judaism which isn't taken for granted. A Judaism in which if we are challenged if we are asked why do we do something we have an answer which isn't simply because of that was done in my childhood. Nor is it a Judaism which is based on guilt, the guilt of being one link in a chain of goodness that we hold fast to only because of the guilt of breaking the chain. We don't want to beak the chain, but it shouldn't just be guilt that we pass on to the next generation. That what we pass on is a process, an informed decision making process, where our children can turn round to us and say, 'this is my Judaism, this is what I do and yes, it might be exactly what my parents did and my grandparents before them, or it might be something radically different but actually I chose my Judaism in a way that my parents chose their Judaism and that their parents chose theirs. That was hearing the voices of all of those element of our Magen David, all of those elements that make up our Jewish world'. Making sure God and the God of our ancestors has a voice, as well as our Ein Soff – that God that speaks to the whole of humanity. That not only does our Jewish tradition have a voice in our decision making but so does the knowledge and wisdom of modern day life in which we live, and so does the community in which we embed ourselves and so does the humanity in which we live and play a part of and make a difference to.


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In the past decade, we have witnessed a radical expansion of the space, remit, and role of the museum as a public institution. This has taken the form of an increasing shift from public space to public programme, from the spatial organisation of artefacts to the temporal organisation of events that places the museum's activities solidly in line with the production of discourse, atmospheres, experiences, and social networking. These activities, further, are often undertaken outside the actual museum building, in urban space, and may indeed be 'hosted' by other places of urban knowledge and cultural production, thus blurring these lines even further.
Could the expansion of the remit of museum practices provide access to other social groups, audiences, and interests, thereby making way for a democratisation of discourse and knowledge? What does this mean in terms of challenging the centrality of the metropolis, the capital city, and the regional centre in relation to the rural? What does it mean in relation to a contemporary understanding of publicness and the role of public space within the city? Finally, what do these processes of dissolution, expansion, withdrawal, and outreach mean for architecture, the discipline traditionally charged with erecting 'the edifice' of the museum?
This symposium is part of ANCB's long-term programme Knowledge Spaces, which investigates the role of physical spaces to support the generation, presentation, discussion and conservation of knowledge in relation to political, academic, cultural and societal aspects. How does a space for knowledge of today and tomorrow look like? How do we deal spatially with the new combination of functions and elements of knowledge?


In one of my current consulting projects the topic of implementing equals and hashCode in Hibernate domain model classes was discussed again so I decided to write down how I deal with that in my projects.
from Joshua Bloch – which is available online here (the whole book is great but chapter 3 deals with methods common to all objects). Basically chapter 3 says you have to obey the contracts when overriding equals (item 7) and to always override hashCode when overriding equals (item 8). These contracts are also documented in the Java API doc.
When using Hibernate for persistence you have to decide if and how to implement hashCode and equals with that background and with the knowledge of your domain model. There is a wiki document discussing this topic which you should read. The most important headline here is "Separating object id and business key".
It is important to notice that only the business key (the login property) is used for calculating the hashCode and to check if two objects are equal otherwise you will get strange behavior in HashSet and HashMaps containing objects of this type.


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EXPLORER 14 - MARK METRY
FROM SELF-AWARENESS TO SELF-MASTERY
Our guest today is Mark Metry, a serial entrepreneur, host of the Humans 2.0 Podcast, TedX speaker, and best-selling author of the book, Screw Being Shy. In this episode, we talk about his experience with severe social anxiety and depression, how he found his true self, and how you can do the same. If you are seeking to live a truthful life and express your authentic self, then this episode is for you!
Mark's Journey
"I don't want to box myself in, in terms of my career, but also psychologically speaking, in terms of my mind, and my identity."
Mark is the child of Egyptian immigrants. His parents came to America with limited money and didn't know anyone when they arrived. Mark grew up in a humble but loving home and lived in an ethnically diverse and accepting neighborhood.
However, around the age of 7, his family relocated to a small town in Massachusetts, with no racial diversity. He was bullied for being different and started to experience racism for the first time in his life.
Mark's coping mechanism was to keep to himself and not socialize, which led him to become more and more unhappy. He didn't have many friends and was shy and reserved. As a result, he developed severe social anxiety over the years.
Mark felt like he had no success or validation in his life, so he started to experiment with entrepreneurship from a young age. He became very successful at that, but he still felt isolated and unhappy. Feeling disconnected from people eventually led to depression.
A Moment Of Clarity
"It felt like life just zoomed in on me"
Mark hit rock bottom at age 18 while he was in college. He was struggling academically and socially and used food as a coping mechanism. It went so far that he even started to have suicidal thoughts.
One day, Mark was walking on the Boston Bridge in the middle of the night. It was a dangerous area of the city, but he didn't care about his safety at that point. The street was completely empty, and he experienced a moment of presence or grace. He felt like he heard his own voice for the first time in his life. His perspective shifted and he was able to see himself in a different light and separate himself from his limiting beliefs. He realized that the way he was living was a very slippery slope.
Mark grew up in a spiritual environment, but he never believed in it. At this moment he understood that there was more to life than just the physical realm.
Living a Truthful Life
"What am I pretending not to know about myself?"
After this awakening moment, Mark knew that what he wanted was to live a truthful and fulfilled life. He was tired of trying to be someone else and push his feelings and who he really was down.
According to Mark, our relationship with truth stems from our childhood. The more we live in a lie about ourselves, the more we become desensitized to our own lives.
Mark also shared that a lot of people distract themselves on a daily basis in an attempt to not feel pain and discomfort. While it is okay to do that at a certain level, Mark feels if this turns into a way of life it becomes a problem.
Embracing Death
"I choose to show up as myself because I know how limited life is."
Mark looks at death from two perspectives. His short-term perspective is that when he faces a lot of inner resistance, the idea of death is a tool to snap back and realize that all we really have is the present moment.
The long-term perspective is that at the end of his life, he doesn't want to regret that he did not do the things he could have done as he was too caught up in society's expectations. For Mark, regret is the biggest pain, so he aims to always be true to himself.
Palma' Reflection On Carrying Your Identities Lightly
This week, we invite you to play with the idea of carrying your identity lightly.
Is it possible to carry all of your identities lightly no matter what they are? It could be political or geographical identities, or that I'm a father, a mother, a husband, a wife. or single. It could be I'm a founder, a boss, a CEO, or an employee. Or it could be I'm a seeker, spiritual. an environmentalist, or an activist.
Who you are is so much more than any of these roles and any of these identities.
We invite you to reflect on how you would like to be this week, rather than what you would like to do or who you would like to be.
If you could have one quality this week, that will be supportive of what you want to achieve, what would it be? It could be calm, present, compassionate, kind, or anything that comes to your mind.
Set an intention to cultivate that quality for the coming week and then see what happens.
About Our Guest, Mark Metry
Mark Metry is featured on Amazon Prime's TV Docu Series "The Social Movement" season 2 attempting to solve some of the world's biggest problems. He is also the Host of the Global Top 100 podcast called Humans 2.0 featured by Forbes, NASDAQ, and Yahoo Finance as the "Top 21 Growing Podcasts you must listen to in 2019." Mark's show has been listened to over 10 million times and features some of the greatest leaders of our time exploring today's dynamic of the human experience in our modern technological times.
Mark is also the founder of Growcasts, a podcast acceleration network teaching entrepreneurs, creators, and executives how to start, manage, and grow social movements by starting a podcast.
He is an MC (emcee) and TEDx Keynote speaker delivering mind-blowing talks centered around human potential, mindset, social anxiety, mental health, transformation, and using podcasting/marketing to grow awareness & business.
Mark also consults & educates Fortune 500 companies, conscious organizations, entrepreneurs & startups on podcasting, company communication, marketing, and authentic branding.
Mark's story has been featured in 3 books, including Ditch the Act by McGraw Hill, Standing O! alongside Billionaires and other mavericks, and We're All Marketers. Mark is the author of the book Screw Being Shy: How to Eliminate Social Anxiety which was released in March 2020.
Mark has also been a guest on over 120+ podcasts, radio stations, and television.
A special thanks to Mark Metry for taking the time to share his inspiring story with us.
https://www.markmetry.com/
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If I equated the benefits of winning an award to other forms of channel marketing, we would probably have to spend tens of thousands of pounds to get similar levels of impact.
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Published: April 8, 2014 at 12:13 p.m.
Texas A&M offensive tackle Jake Matthews reportedly is visiting the Buffalo Bills on Tuesday.
The Buffalo News said Matthews would be in town for the meeting with Bills representatives.
The Bills pick ninth in the first round, and it seems doubtful Matthews will be available. Cordy Glenn starts at left tackle for Buffalo, while Erik Pears started on the right side in 2013.
Matthews (6-foot-5 1/2, 308 pounds) is one of the top three tackles available, along with Auburn's Greg Robinson and Michigan's Taylor Lewan. Matthews, who played one season of left tackle for the Aggies after starting on the right side for three seasons, might be the most well-rounded of the top three. He is equally proficient as a run blocker and as a pass blocker. Robinson is the better athlete and a better run blocker, but he must improve his pass-protection skills.
Buffalo also could use the No. 9 pick on a wide receiver, a playmaking linebacker and perhaps a tight end.
Five teams that pick earlier than the Bills -- the Atlanta Falcons, Jacksonville Jaguars, Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Rams and Tampa Bay Buccaneers -- would seem to be in the market for a starting tackle.
Matthews is the No. 2 tackle and the No. 5 overall player on NFL Media analyst Daniel Jeremiah's list of the top 50 prospects, and the No. 2 tackle on NFL Media draft analyst Mike Mayock's positional list.
Matthews comes from a famous football family. His dad, Bruce, was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2007 after a 19-year career as an offensive lineman with the Houston Oilers and Tennessee Titans. He is the cousin of Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews III and Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Casey Matthews. Uncle Clay Matthews Jr., Bruce's brother, played linebacker for 19 years in the NFL, mostly with the Cleveland Browns.


This week marks the second anniversary of when I launched this blog—"A Positive Path"—on Guideposts. My twice-weekly posts mean I've shared more than 200 messages with you, messages that have been intended to uplift, inspire and support your journey toward an authentically positive lifestyle.
This work is certainly both a privilege and a gift—for my life as well as, I hope, yours. The past year, I've experienced some personal challenges, and the process of navigating worry, sadness and stress has redoubled my belief that authentic positivity does not deny life's negative realities, but instead invites us to walk through each day with awareness of whatever opportunities for positive thinking, learning and acting are available to us.
As an anniversary "gift" to you, I've assembled a few of the posts that were most grounding, sustaining and uplifting to me this year. Please share any of your favorites in the comments!
In this four-part series, I challenged myself to tease out what makes each season "the most positive" of the year.
Change can be for the better or…not, but working through it is almost always challenging. Here are some ways I reflected this year on how to stay positive on a changing path.
Positive living asks us to cultivate the famous "attitude of gratitude." Consider these posts reflections on thankfulness—and please accept them with my great gratitude that you are my reader!


Do not adjust your computer screen, this is not an April Fool's joke. In a sensational exclusive, TimesLive reports that President Jacob Zuma is set to make an announcement that "flies in the face of the findings of the Heher Commission".
Zuma is reportedly planning to announce free higher education across the board. TimesLive reports that the president's future son-in-law' Morris Masutha' came up with the plan.
Free education for all would mean budgets across departments are cut by R40 billion to make funding available for the 2018 academic year.
Tensions have been rising at university campuses recently as fee hikes are being announced and students wait for the release of the fees report. Zuma has apparently had the report for a while. Compiled by retired judge Jonathan Heher, the found that universal free tertiary education was not feasible, TimesLive reported.
TimesLive contacted Masutha for comment but were referred back to the departments in question. To make the plan work, the national treasury's entire budget would have to be revised.
Yeah, nevermind that shortfall announced by Malusi Gigaba during his mid-term budget recently.
ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said he did not know of any plans by Zuma to announce free tertiary education.
ANC insiders said they have heard of Masutha's proposals but did not know whether it would be feasible at all.
There's currently no real indication of when exactly this announcement will be made – if at all. But should it come to fruition, it will be an extraordinary move by the president. It will effectively be one giant act of defiance.
Make no mistake, free higher education is a goal that the country must strive towards, but for a president to do it with such disregard for his cabinet and his party… well, that's another matter entirely.


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Trętwian czterorożny, szpinak nowozelandzki (Tetragonia tetragonioides) – gatunek rośliny zielnej należącej do rodziny pryszczyrnicowatych (podrodziny Aizooideae), w niektórych systemach wyodrębniany w osobną rodzinę trętwianowatych (Tetragoniaceae) (np. w systemie Reveala z lat 1994–1999). Rośnie dziko w Nowej Zelandii, na Tasmanii oraz w południowej i zachodniej Australii.

Morfologia
 Łodyga Rozgałęziona, płożąca, do 1 m.
 Liście Duże, ciemnozielone, kształtem przypominają liście szpinaku.

Zastosowanie
 Roślina uprawna: uprawiany jako warzywo.
 Historia uprawy: do Europy przywiózł go z Nowej Zelandii w 1771 roku Anglik, Joseph Bans, powracając z podróży dookoła świata z kapitanem Cookiem. We Francji był już bardzo znany w 1820 roku. Atrakcyjność jego wynika z tego, że jest bardzo podobny w smaku do szpinaku i jest dostępny wtedy, kiedy prawdziwego szpinaku brak, to jest w pełni lata.
 Warunki uprawy: szpinak nowozelandzki jest niewrażliwy na upały, których szpinak warzywny (Spinacia oleracea) nie lubi.
 Sztuka kulinarna: wartością odżywczą szpinak nowozelandzki nie ustępuje zwykłemu szpinakowi. Zawiera duże ilości witaminy C i prowitaminy A oraz sole mineralne, zwłaszcza żelazo. Zawiera również kwas szczawiowy, tak jak szpinak. Potrawy ze szpinaku nowozelandzkiego przyrządza się w ten sam sposób, co potrawy ze zwykłego szpinaku. Nadaje się on również do mrożenia. Listki jego powinny być chłodne, jędrne, przy zgniataniu w garści – lekko trzeszczące. Jeśli są ciepłe, oznacza to, że szpinak zaczyna się psuć.

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Podbielkowski Z., Rośliny użytkowe, WSiP, Warszawa 1992.
 Gapiński M. (red.), Warzywa mało znane i zapomniane, PWRiL, Poznań 1993.
 Szweykowscy A. i J. (red.), Słownik botaniczny, Wiedza Powszechna, Warszawa 1993.
 Anna Czerni, Warzywa rzadko spotykane, Wydawnictwo "Watra", Warszawa 1986.

Pryszczyrnicowate
Warzywa

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Andrew Lange
Cosmic VarianceBy Sean CarrollJanuary 23, 2010 7:43 PM
All of Caltech, and the cosmology community worldwide, is mourning the death of Andrew Lange. He was one of the world's leading scientists, co-leader of the Boomerang experiment that provided the first precise measurement of the first acoustic peak in the cosmic microwave background. He took his own life Thursday night. It's hard to convey how unexpected and tragic this news is. Very few people combined Andrew's brilliance as a scientist with his warmth as a person. He always had a sparkle in his eye, was enthusiastically in love with science and ideas, and was constantly doing his best to make Caltech the best possible place, not just for himself but for everyone else around him. He was one of the good guys. The last I spoke with him, Andrew was energetically raising funds for a new submillimeter telescope, organizing conferences, and helping plan for a new theoretical physics center. We are all walking around in shock, wondering how this could happen and whether we could have done anything to prevent it. Caltech has had several suicides this year -- hard to make sense of any of them. The message from Caltech President Jean-Lou Chameau is below the fold. For any local readers, there's contact info if you would like to talk to counselors for any reason. --------------------------------------- January 22, 2010 TO: The Caltech Community FROM: Jean-Lou Chameau It is with great sadness and regret that I must report to you the death of Professor Andrew Lange, a valued member of the Caltech faculty. Andrew was found this morning off campus, and it appears that he took his own life. Among the most difficult things that people have to deal with in life are tragedies of this sort, especially when they affect people that we know and care for; and Andrew was such a well-known, well-respected, and well-liked member of our community that many of us will be deeply affected. Andrew came to Caltech in 1993 and was most recently the chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy. He was a truly great physicist and astronomer who had made seminal discoveries in observational cosmology. Andrew was a valued colleague and a close friend to many of us. His death is a source of great sadness to us all and our deepest sympathy goes out to his family, friends, and colleagues, all of whom mourn his loss. We know this tragic news will come as a shock to everyone -- faculty, staff, and students alike, even those of you who knew that Andrew had been struggling with personal issues. Many of us feel the need in times like these to reach out and seek help in dealing with the shock, and I urge anyone who wants help to seek it from family members, friends, faculty, and/or professional counselors. This is not only a reasonable thing to do, it is an important thing to do. I want to emphasize in particular that counselors are always available, 24-hours a day. Students should call the Counseling Center at 626-395-8331, while faculty, staff, and postdocs, should call the Staff and Faculty Consultation Center at 626-395-8360. In addition, the Counseling Center will be open on Saturday and Sunday from 10-3pm.


If there's one thing that brings instant joy to the Ear of Newt it's the sweet, sweet tone of Duane Allman's slide guitar.
And fellow Allman freaks can hear an awful lot of it–129 tracks' worth, to be precise–when Rounder Records releases Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective on March 5.
This seven-CD set, produced by Duane's daughter Galadrielle Allman and esteemed reissue producer Bill Levenson, shows the full breadth and depth of Duane's work, from early recordings (with Gregg) in bands such as The Escorts, Allman Joys and Hour Glass; to his studio work with Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Boz Scaggs, Delaney & Bonnie, Ronnie Hawkins and many others; to a live jam session with the Grateful Dead.
The set includes several unreleased performances, many classic Allman Brothers songs, and a collector's cache of rare singles and long out-of-print album tracks. Also included are a 72-page book with essays by Scott Schinder and Galadrielle Allman, many rare photographs, a replica of Duane's guitar pick, and a Skydog sticker. Numbered limited edition of 10,000.
Okay, okay–I'm sold already. And if I weren't, this here video would seal the deal.


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Q: Rails sign-up form on home page I seem to see questions on how I would be able to have my sign-up form for Users on the main page (static_pages#home) using devise, but couldn't find one for using just Rails.
I have this as my form on my home page:

Sign Up

    <%= form_for(@user) do |f| %>

      <%= f.label :email %>
      <%= f.text_field :email %>

      <%= f.label :password %>
      <%= f.password_field :password %>

      <%= f.label :password_confirmation, "Confirm password" %>
      <%= f.password_field :password_confirmation %>

      <%= f.submit "Sign up", class: "btn btn-large btn-primary" %>
    <% end %>

However, when I submit the form, the user data does not get saved (for some reason, the attributes of email and passwords are not taken from the form entries). I have instantiated the @user variable in the home action, so I'm not sure why this does not work.
class StaticPagesController < ApplicationController
    def home
        # For future where sign-up page is on home page.
        @user = User.new
    end
end

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

A: First, I would highly recommend using Devise. Handling user authentication is tricky business, especially trying to keep things secure.
Second, you need to have a controller action for the user to be saved. Something like:
class StaticPagesController < ApplicationController
  def create
    @user = User.new(params[:user])
    @user.save!
  end
end

And then add the right route to your config/routes.rb file.

A: You can set the form target action by explicitly passing an url to it, doens't necessarly need to by the default #create action in UsersController.
So you could try that along with @Judy's answer

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Jeeves and Wooster
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama television series adapted by Clive Exton from P. G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. The series was a collaboration between Brian Eastman of Picture Partnership Productions and Granada Television.
The title card of Jeeves and Wooster
Clive Exton
No. of series
23 (list of episodes)
50 minutes[1]
Production company(s)
Picture Partnership
Productions[1]
Granada Television[1]
Original network
Picture format
576i (SDTV)
Original release
22 April 1990 (1990-04-22)[1] –
20 June 1993 (1993-06-20)[1]
It aired on the ITV network from 22 April 1990 to 20 June 1993, with the last series nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series. Set in the United Kingdom and the United States in an unspecified period between the late 1920s and the 1930s, the series starred Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, an affable young gentleman and member of the idle rich, and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his highly intelligent and competent valet. Bertie and his friends, who are mainly members of the Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable Jeeves.
When Fry and Laurie began the series, they were already a popular double act due to regular appearances on Channel 4's Friday Night Live and their own show A Bit of Fry & Laurie (BBC, 1987–95).[1]
In the television documentary Fry and Laurie Reunited (2010), the actors, reminiscing about their involvement in the series, revealed that they were initially reluctant to play the parts of Jeeves and Wooster, but eventually decided to do so because the series was going to be made with or without them and they felt no one else would do the parts justice.[2]
Theme and opening credits
The theme (called "Jeeves and Wooster") is an original piece of music in the jazz/swing style written by composer Anne Dudley for the programme.[3] Dudley uses variations of the theme as a basis for all of the episodes' scores and was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for her work on the third series.[4]
Main article: List of Jeeves and Wooster characters
Many of the programme's supporting roles – including significant characters such as Aunt Agatha, Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle – were played by more than one actor. One prominent character, Aunt Dahlia, was played by a different actress in each of the four series. Francesca Folan played two very different characters: Madeline Bassett in series one and Lady Florence Craye in series four. The character of Stiffy Byng was played by Charlotte Attenborough in series two and by Amanda Harris in series three and then by Attenborough again in series four. Richard Braine, who took over the role of Gussie Fink-Nottle in series three and four, also appeared as the conniving Rupert Steggles in series one.
Main article: List of Jeeves and Wooster episodes
Four series were produced, with 23 episodes in total; each series but the first consisted of six episodes, with all being broadcast each spring from 1990–93. The five episodes of the first series were directed by Robert Young and first aired in April and May 1990. The second series, directed by Simon Langton, aired in April and May 1991. The third series, directed by Ferdinand Fairfax, aired from March to May 1992. Fairfax also directed the six episodes of the fourth and final series, which initially aired in May and June 1993.
The third series of Jeeves and Wooster won a British Academy Television Award for Best Design for Eileen Diss. The final series won a British Academy Television Award for Best Graphics for Derek W. Hayes and was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series; it also earned a British Academy Television Award for Best Original Television Music for Anne Dudley and a British Academy Television Award for Best Costume Design for Dany Everett.[4]
In retrospect, Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline called screenwriter Clive Exton "the series' real star", saying his "adaptations come surprisingly close to capturing the flavour of the originals" by "retaining many of Wodehouse's most inspired literary similes."[1]
Granada Media released all four series on DVD in Region 2 between 2000 and 2002. On 1 September 2008, ITV Studios Home Entertainment released Jeeves and Wooster: The Complete Collection, an eight-disc box set featuring all 23 episodes of the series.[5]
In Region 1, A&E Home Entertainment, under licence from Granada Media Entertainment, released the complete 23-episode collection on DVD in the US and Canada.
In Region 4, Shock Entertainment has released the entire series on DVD in Australia. It was initially released in season sets in 2007/2008, followed by a complete series collection on 4 August 2008.
DVD title
Complete Series 1 2 1990 5 27 March 2001 23 October 2000 5 September 2007
Complete Series 2 2 1991 6 27 March 2001 28 May 2001 2 December 2007
Complete Series 3 2 1992 6 2 January 2002 17 June 2002 31 January 2008
Complete Series 4 2 1993 6 26 March 2002 16 September 2002 5 May 2008
Complete Collection 8 1990–1993 23 26 November 2002 1 September 2008 4 August 2008
Interior shots of Skeldings Hall (Bobbie Wickham's house) were filmed at Home House, a historic house in London.
Totleigh Towers was filmed at Highclere Castle, Hampshire.
Other location shots of "Trouble at Totleigh Towers" were filmed at West End, Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire.
Exterior shots of Brinkley Court were filmed at Barnsley Park, Gloucestershire in series 1 and Hall Barn, Buckinghamshire in series 4.
All interior shots of Brinkley Court were filmed at Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire.
Interior and exterior shots of Chuffnell Hall, in series 2, were also filmed at Wrotham Park.
Shots of Chuffnell Regis, Devon were filmed in Clovelly, Devon and High Street, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire
Scenes from "Bertie Sets Sail" were filmed in Halton House, Buckinghamshire
Chuffnell Regis Station shots were filmed at Horsted Keynes station – Bluebell Railway, Sussex.
Ditteridge Hall ("Jeeves Takes Charge") was filmed at Englefield House, Berkshire.
Twing Hall ("The Purity of the Turf") was filmed at Stanway House, Gloucestershire.
The "Victoria Hotel" and the "Hotel Riviera" in Westcombe-on-Sea ("Pearls Mean Tears") were filmed in Sidmouth, Devon.
Some of the exterior shots in the gardens of the estate in "Jeeves in the Country" are filmed at Polesden Lacey, Surrey.
Barmy's Aunt's House ("Kidnapped!") was filmed at Clandon Park, Surrey.
Deverill Hall ("Right Ho, Jeeves") was filmed at Joyce Grove, Oxfordshire.
Fothergill Hall ("Comrade Bingo") was filmed at Dorney Court, Buckinghamshire.
Lord Worplesdon's New York City residence ("The Once and Future Ex") was filmed at Gaddesden Place, Hertfordshire.
Exterior shots of Stuyvesant Towers, Bertie Wooster's residence in New York City in series 3 and 4, were filmed at Senate House in Bloomsbury, the central library and administration building for the University of London.
Exterior shots of Berkeley Mansions, Bertie Wooster's residence in London, were filmed at 2 Mansfield Street, Marylebone.
Jeeves and Wooster at the BFI's Screenonline
Laurie also addressed that issue in an article he wrote about Wodehouse's impact on his life "Hugh Laurie: Wodehouse Saved my Life". The Daily Telegraph. 25 May 1999. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
"The World of Jeeves & Wooster - Original Soundtrack". annedudley.co.uk. Retrieved 3 December 2009.
Awards for Jeeves and Wooster (1990) from Internet Movie Database
"Jeeves and Wooster – Complete Collection [DVD]: Amazon.co.uk: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Robert Daws, Richard Dixon, Mary Wimbush, John Turner, John Woodnutt, Michael Ripper, Francesca Folan, Elizabeth Heery, Richard Braine, Richard Garnett: Film & TV". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
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Jeeves and Wooster on IMDb
Jeeves and Wooster at British Comedy Guide
The Russian Wodehouse Society—Episode guides, screenshots and quotes from the four series.
"Extricating Young Gussie"
My Man Jeeves
Carry On, Jeeves
Very Good, Jeeves
Thank You, Jeeves
Right Ho, Jeeves
The Code of the Woosters
Joy in the Morning
Ring for Jeeves
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
"Jeeves Makes an Omelette"
Jeeves in the Offing
"Jeeves and the Greasy Bird"
Much Obliged, Jeeves
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
Blandings Castle
Leave It to Psmith
Blandings Castle and Elsewhere
Summer Lightning
Heavy Weather
"The Crime Wave at Blandings"
Uncle Fred in the Springtime
"Birth of a Salesman"
Pigs Have Wings
Galahad at Blandings
"Sticky Wicket at Blandings"
A Pelican at Blandings
Sunset at Blandings
The Pothunters
A Prefect's Uncle
Tales of St. Austin's
The Gold Bat
The Head of Kay's
The White Feather
Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere
William Tell Told Again
Not George Washington
The Luck Stone
Love Among the Chickens
The Swoop!
A Gentleman of Leisure
Psmith in the City
Psmith, Journalist
The Prince and Betty
The Little Nugget
Piccadilly Jim
The Coming of Bill
A Damsel in Distress
Jill the Reckless
Indiscretions of Archie
The Girl on the Boat
The Adventures of Sally
Bill the Conqueror
Sam the Sudden
The Small Bachelor
Doctor Sally
If I Were You
The Luck of the Bodkins
Summer Moonshine
Uncle Dynamite
The Old Reliable
Barmy in Wonderland
French Leave
Cocktail Time
Ice in the Bedroom
Frozen Assets
Company for Henry
Do Butlers Burgle Banks?
Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin
Bachelors Anonymous
Other short story
The Man Upstairs
A Man of Means
The Man with Two Left Feet
The Clicking of Cuthbert
Ukridge
The Heart of a Goof
Meet Mr Mulliner
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Ukraine will announce a tender for a multirole fighter
In total, Ukraine plans to spend $12 billion on new aircraft for the Air Force over the next 15 years.
This is stated in the Air Force Vision 2035, which was approved by the decision of the Military Council of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from 15 May 2020.
The main task of Air Force aviation for the next 15 years will be to provide fighter aviation as a contribution to air defense (in cooperation with the ground based air defense troops) against enemy air strikes on important (critical) infrastructure facilities and lines of communication as well as troop formations which require defense to maintain their combat potential and to create conditions for execution of the tasks they were assigned.
The existing model of tactical aviation, composed of branches (fighter, bomber, attack, reconnaissance) and armed with a wide range of aircraft such as the MiG-29, Su-27, Su-24M, Su-25, and Su-24MR, should unify and transform into an objective force model of multifunction tactical aviation units.
Rearming with a single type of multi-role generation 4 ++ fighter, manufactured abroad (such as Saab JAS-39E / F Gripen, F-16 Block 70/72 or other), will provide commonality and cost savings. These aviation units with updated tactical aircraft should become the main provider of defensive (in cooperation with ground-based air defense forces), offensive, strike and reconnaissance air capabilities.
The end strength of tactical aviation units should decrease (the estimated need is 72 - 108 multi-role fighters), but the combat potential (at the expense of re-equipping to new multi-role models) will increase significantly.
Іn 2021 - 2022, a tender should be held and a contract for the purchase of a multi-role fighter should be signed, limited deliveries of which (total quantity of 6-12 aircraft during this phase) should begin in 2023 - 2025 in order to begin operational test and evaluation activities to study forms and methods of employment and the organization of personnel training.
Major rearmament activities (including the disposal of outdated aircraft models) should occur during the second implementation stage of the Vision (2025-2030).
The estimated resource requirement for the rearmament of tactical aviation is approximately UAH 200 billion ($7.5 billion).
The transport and special aviation fleet, which is equipped with wide range of aircraft such as the An-30, Il-76MD, An-26 and Mi-8 helicopters, should also undergo consolidation. A single modern, medium-size national transport aircraft should be selected, upon which other types of special aviation equipment will be created. The rearmament of transport and special aviation should start during the second phase and end at the third phase of the Vision's implementation (2027 - 2035). The estimated resource requirement for the rearmament of transport and special aviation is approximately UAH 40 billion.
Training aviation, equipped with L-39 aircraft, should be upgraded to a modern multi-role combat-training aircraft, which will become the main training platform and, if necessary, can be used for some combat tasks to enhance tactical aviation capabilities. The estimated resource requirement to re-equip training aviation is approximately UAH 35 billion.
The unmanned component should be represented by two types (reconnaissance and reconnaissance-strike) of operational-tactical (operational) level complexes. The resource requirement is approximately UAH 30 billion.
A separate task of aviation development support and follow-up is to provide training to flight and engineering staff at educational institutions (centers) of partner nations (the initial unit could take up to five years).
The total financial resources needed for the implementation of the Air Force's aviation development measures are estimated at UAH 320 billion over the entire 15-year development period (in fiscal year 2020 prices).
The implementation of this Vision requires considerable financial resources beyond the current funding of the Armed Forces and will be impossible without the support of the Government of Ukraine. In particular, its implementation will require the development of state target program for the re-equipment Of tactical aviation (the procurement of multi-role fighter aircraft), as well as military and technical assistance from partner-nations.
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1. Kyle Busch — Busch led 101 laps at Richmond and posted an 8th-place finish, his ninth top-10 of the season.
"It's good to see Martin Truex, Jr. get the win," Busch said. "That's three of four Joe Gibbs Racing drivers with at least one win this season. Now, if Erik Jones could get a win, it would further extend JGR dominance. All our rival teams know they need to keep up with the Joneses, but let's face it, the Jones needs to keep up with the Busch's, Hamlin's, and Truex's."
2. Denny Hamlin — Hamlin failed pre-race inspection twice and was relegated to the rear of the field at the start. Despite that, he finished 5th, his sixth top-five of the season.
"I was one of eight drivers whose cars failed inspection," Hamlin said. "For NASCAR viewers who decry the lack of passing, it doesn't get any better in qualifying either."
3. Joey Logano — Logano stalked Martin Truex, Jr. over the closing laps at Richmond, but didn't have enough for the pass and settled for second.
"It didn't help that my Penske teammate Brad Keselowski held me up earlier," Logano said. "It was a case of '(get out of) my way or the highway.'"
4. Martin Truex, Jr. — Truex held off Clint Bowyer and Joey Logano down the stretch to win at Richmond, capturing his first short track win.
"That's 6 wins for Joe Gibbs Racing already this year," Truex said. "And 6 for Toyotas. The race was called the 'Toyota Owners 400,' and Joe Gibbs can verify that it's good to own Toyotas."
5. Kevin Harvick — Harvick finished 4th in the Toyota Owners 400, joining Stewart-Haas Racing teammate and 3rd place finisher Clint Bowyer in the top-five.
"SHR has yet to visit Victory Lane," Harvick said. "And we're spoiling for a win. Which is surprising, because I've always heard that 'to the victor go the spoils.' As to the reasons we haven't been able to win, well, I'm lost."
6. Brad Keselowski — Keselowski finished 7th at Richmond and is now 5th in the Monster Energy Cup points standings, 87 out of first.
"We have a week off for the Easter holiday," Keselowski said. "And it's the best time of year for drivers to thank the man upstairs. For me, that would be my spotter, Coleman Pressley."
7. Kurt Busch — Busch finished 11th in the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond.
"On Twitter, NASCAR described the Richmond race as a 'classic,'" Busch said. "It was most certainly not. Sure, the race will 'go down in history.' And when I say 'down,' I mean way down on the list of memorable races."
8. Chase Elliott — Elliott started at the rear of the field after failing pre-race inspection, but battled back to post a solid 15th at Richmond.
"My teammate Jimmie Johnson raced in the Boston Marathon on Monday," Elliott said. "Jimmie may never win that elusive 8th Cup championship, but he accomplished a feat that I'm sure no other driver has — he lost to a Kenyan."
9. Clint Bowyer — Bowyer chased race leader Martin Truex, Jr. over the final 40 laps at Richmond, but wasn't able to make the pass. Bowyer settled for 3rd, his fourth consecutive top-10 finish.
"I was hoping to force Martin into an unintentional mistake at Richmond," Bowyer said, "or better yet, an intentional mistake, like a spin. After all, he does owe me."
10. Ryan Blaney — Blaney struggled with handling issues at Richmond and settled for a 25th-place finish.
"I didn't even feel like I was driving the car," Blaney said. "I felt like it was driving me. And it drove me places I care not to go, like 'crazy,' 'insane,' and 'up a wall.'"
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Scientists have developed an innovative implant.
American scientists have found a way to stop blindness — the method is based on the use of stem cells.
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Outdoor experts method will be effective in the treatment of macular degeneration from the disease, according to statistics, suffering more than 200 million people. Its development is associated with gradual thinning of the epithelium of the retina that eventually leads to vision loss.
American scientists have developed an innovative implant that attaches to the back side of the eye. The implant is covered with a network of pigmented cells made from stem cells of the embryo. In the course of the experiment biologists have proven that the application of the technology allows to stop the process of decreasing eyesight and in some cases improve focus.


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White Earth doesn't want another oil pipeline.
Tuesday's hearing at the Rice Lake Community Center was an early part of the state review, and a rare glimpse into the specific concerns held by tribe members.
Most, like White Earth member Leonard Thompson, are vehemently against the Sandpiper line, which was recently granted a certificate of need by the PUC, and don't want another line pumping tar sand oil alongside it.
"Eventually something is going to go wrong with a pipeline," Thomson said, "and then our land is ruined."
Thompson grew up in a tar-paper shack a few miles from the where the hearing was held. As a child, he gathered wild rice and his father fished for bullheads to feed the family. Even a small leak from a pipeline, he said, could damage the natural resources that fed him.
Thompson was one of many to voice concerns over the possible impact of the new Line 3. Frank Bibeau was more concerned about the old Line 3.
Enbridge plans to replace 1,031 miles of the old line, across northern Minnesota from Canada to Superior, Wis. That means decommissioning the deteriorating 34-inch pipe and laying new 36-inch pipe next to it. But Roughly 300 miles of that line, from Clearbrook, Minn., to the Wisconsin border, would deviate from the current Line 3 route and follow the proposed Sandpiper route. The new line would be capable of pumping twice the oil, but the old Line 3 pipe would stay in the ground.
"They're just going to let it rot," Bibeau said. "It's guaranteed to be a problem at some point."
Bibeau is an enrolled member of White Earth, but lives in Ball Club, Minn., east of Bemidji along the current Line 3. He hopes to get the old line torn out.
"Time is longer for native people," he said. "I don't think in decades. I think in centuries. Eternity."
Even if the abandoned line is safe for 50 or 100 years, he said, at some point it will break down.
Labor union representative Dave Becker also lobbied Enbridge to remove the old Line 3. Becker considers himself an environmentalist, one of a very few to speak out in favor of the new project.
The old line has problems, he said. It has had problems for a long time. Decommissioning that line and building a new one, he said, is the safest thing for the environment.
"If you care about clean water," he said, "you should want newer pipelines."
Hours of arguments for — but mostly against — the project, were made before a panel of PUC and Department of Commerce officials. Many of the arguments were complex, but for White Earth spiritual leader Michael Dahl, it's a simple issue. For him, it comes down to wild rice.
"Rice is everything," Dahl said. "It's the first solid food our children eat, and the last meal of our dying elders."
The proposed line would run close to Lower Rice Lake, a body of water that produces 200,000 pounds of finished wild rice every year. Just about everyone on White Earth rices that lake, Dahl said, knocking the grains into the bottom of canoes. They sell the rice and eat the rice. It figures into legends and ceremonies.
A spill, Dahl said, wouldn't just dirty the landscape, it would bankrupt the spiritual and physical resources of the community.
Most people at the hearing didn't hold out much hope of stopping the pipeline.
"Money talks," Thompson said. "It's coming through. The best we can hope for is to delay it."
Bibeau, too, said the hearing might not change much. Dahl isn't so sure.
The Sandpiper route preferred by Enbridge doesn't cross any Indian reservations, but would cut through a large area of lakes and forests in northern Minnesota where treaties give tribes the right to hunt, fish and gather. Dahl believes those treaties will protect the wild rice, and stop the pipeline.
"I wouldn't take on a fight I didn't think I could win," he said.
Editor's note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that Enbridge plans to remove some parts of the old Line 3.


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State capture inquiry should call Jacob Zuma's cabinet to account too: Vuyani Ngalwana
27 November 2020 - 14:15 By Amanda Khoza
President Cyril Ramaphosa and ministers Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Naledi Pandor during the swearing-in ceremony of parliamentarians in Cape Town on May 22 2019. A senior legal practitioner says Ramaphosa and other members of former president Jacob Zuma's cabinet should be called to account to the state capture inquiry. File image.
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Senior legal practitioner Vuyani Ngalwana has sent a written request to the state capture inquiry to ask deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo to invite President Cyril Ramaphosa and some of his cabinet members to account for the "nine wasted years" under former president Jacob Zuma.
In his request, dated November 24, Ngalwana said: "My request is that the deputy president during the period that has been dubbed by some as 'nine wasted years' (May 9 2009 to February 14 2018) should be invited by the chairperson of the state capture commission to give oral evidence before the commission and be questioned on their evidence."
Ngalwana, who is acting as a judge in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, told Zondo: "Ideally, the entire cabinet of those years should have been questioned by the commission on their role in the alleged corruption of those years."
However, that has not been done.
Speaking to TimesLIVE on Friday, Ngalwana confirmed he submitted a request in terms of rule 9.1 of the rules of the Zondo commission.
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"I explain in that request why I submit it," he said.
In his request, he states: "I appreciate the commission has limited time to complete its work by March 31 2021 and it may not be feasible to obtain the evidence of all these persons and assess it in time before the final report of the commission is due for submission to the president who, ironically, is one of those persons who should be questioned.
"But that, with respect, is of the commission's own doing by the choices it has made as regards which witnesses to invite, leaving out persons who are, in my submission, clearly relevant witnesses capable of shedding light on alleged 'state capture' during their time in [former] president Zuma's cabinet and senior official positions in organs of state."
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Ngalwana said much has been reported in the media about the excesses of the Zuma administration and the alleged corruption which took place, including the 2016 Nkandla scandal which reportedly cost the taxpayer more than R200m.
"Who made these calculations? How did they arrive at this amount? What are these specific security upgrades. What are the details of the procurement of service providers and who made the decision to award which contract to whom at the department of public works? Who approved the funding at National Treasury?"
On the issue of state-owned enterprises, he said: "Surely the president should now be called by the commission to account for his role in the decimation of state-owned entities, particularly on what his interventions were to 'stabilise and reform' these entities during his tenure as chair of Zuma's IMC [inter-ministerial committee] on state-owned enterprises, and where, in his assessment, the failures and successes of his efforts lie."
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On the contentious issue of who funded Ramaphosa's presidential (CR17) election campaign, Ngalwane said there were allegations of people being appointed to state-owned enterprise board positions, and others being awarded contracts of considerable value, allegedly as a result of their financial contributions to the election campaign in December 2017.
"Are these allegations true or false? Will a bare denial of these allegations suffice for the commission? Documents that could possibly serve as evidence of contributors to the president's election campaign remain sealed from public scrutiny by court order."
These, he said, are some of the serious questions that the Zuma cabinet, or at least senior cabinet members, should be called to answer.
"My emphasis is simply to indicate that the terms of reference are wider than just [former] president Zuma, the Gupta family and those portrayed as being associated with them. The terms of reference enjoin the commission to probe also persons who were part of Zuma's cabinet and public officials (such as directors-general)."
When asked what his response would be to those who might see this as veiled support for the former president, he said, "One word: poppycock."
State capture inquiry spokesperson Mbuyiselo Stemelo was not immediately available to comment.
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The 2017 solar eclipse could help scientists crack the biggest mysteries about Mercury
By Meghan Bartels
Mercury is the runt of our solar system, but despite its small size, it's a literal world of secrets. One remaining question might come as a surprise: We still aren't quite sure what Mercury's surface is like.
That's where Aug. 21's total solar eclipse comes in.
Part of the problem is that only two spacecrafts have ever visited Mercury. Another major factor is that the planet is particularly difficult to study from Earth. Since it's so close to the sun, it's rare to be able to see Mercury without also seeing the sun, as that can only be done during short periods of time as the sun is rising or setting. And looking at both at once is pretty much a non-starter: The sun is so bright that its light masks Mercury.
So the solar eclipse is an unusual opportunity to study Mercury with minimal interference from the sun. And one team of astronomers is seizing that opportunity in a very dramatic way.
The solar eclipse will give scientists a huge opportunity
These astronomers' plan includes two NASA WB-57F jet planes, each with visible and infrared telescopes in an instrument compartment at the plane's nose. On Aug. 21, the two planes will fly about 45 miles apart from each other over the neighborhood of Carbondale, Illinois, a prime eclipse-viewing location. Prior to eclipse totality, they'll spend a half-hour capturing images of Mercury, then they'll turn their sights to the sun's corona during totality. After the moon begins to clear the sun again, they'll catch another half-hour's worth of Mercury data.
This photo collage shows NASA's two WB-57F jets as they might look while studying the Aug. 21 solar eclipse.
When they're studying Mercury, they'll be taking images of what's called near-infrared light, which travels in waves just a tiny bit longer than what human eyes see as red. The wavelength of light you're observing affects what part of the planet you learn about — the longer the wavelength, the deeper below the surface you can see. Visible light reveals the top surface of Mercury (just like it does to your eyes here on Earth), and longer varieties of infrared can tell scientists what's going on as far as five feet below the surface.
But until now, no one has quite managed to use near-infrared light for Mercury studies, and the joint European and Japanese mission to Mercury due to launch in 2018 won't change that — they still leave a gap between light with wavelengths of about one to seven microns. So during the eclipse, the plane-bound telescopes will be measuring between about three and five microns, prime near-infrared territory.
That near-infrared light is so valuable because it will let the researchers study just the top few centimeters of Mercury's surface. Specifically, it will catch the energy that Mercury's surface absorbed from the sun during the day and will radiate back out to space during the night.
Confused? Consider the park bench.
Think about all of the benches you've sat on during sunny days. Benches made of black stone or metal painted black tend to toast your butt, even early in the evening, whereas benches made of white stone or wood are cooler to sit on. The same basic thing happens with planets — and how long it takes for a planet's surface to re-radiate that heat can tell scientists what the surface looks like, particularly on a planet like Mercury that doesn't have much atmosphere to slow down the process.
Fortunately, during the eclipse we'll see just 6% of Mercury's daylit surface, while the rest of the planet's disc facing us will be at night. But because of the telescope's resolution, the whole disc of Mercury will span only three or four pixels across. "It's not going to be this massive, amazing image of Mercury," said Constantine Tsang, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder who is heading up the Mercury project.
Scientists want to uncover missing pieces of information about Mercury
Tsang expects to see plenty of infrared radiation at the planet's edges, over its daylit sliver and the edge about to see the sun rise. "The big question is whether we'll see anything in the middle two pixels, where it's in darkness," Tsang said. "The answer depends on what the surface is doing." He hopes to "see the surface blooming" with near-infrared re-radiation. But if the middle section is already cold, that still says something about the planet: "Not seeing something spectacular in itself for scientific reasons is worthwhile," he said.
If the observations go well, they could illuminate two key missing pieces of info about Mercury: How porous the surface is and how densely packed the top few centimeters of material are.
That in turn could help scientists crack what's still the biggest mystery about the planet: How it formed so oddly, with a large, metallic core and not a whole lot else.
But the flight comes with risks
Even with the sun partially eclipsed, the telescopes could be exposed to a dangerous amount of light. "The biggest fear is that we overheat the detectors and start a fire on the plane," Tsang said. "That would be bad."
And there's a scientific risk, too. "I have no idea if this is going to work, to be honest with you," Tsang said. "It's something that no one has ever attempted before, to my knowledge."


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