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Master of Arts in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence
First dual Heller and UPEACE graduate is ready to tackle human rights abuses around the world
Kyla Graves
Kyla Graves, MA COEX/ILHR'19, is committed to fighting global human rights abuses—and as the first graduate of a continent-spanning dual degree program at Heller, she's uniquely qualified to do so.
"I wanted to understand how human rights interplays with conflict and conflict resolution," Graves says. "Sometimes conflict resolution and human rights are put at odds with one another, based on what the parties want. So how do you make sure both happen?"
That's what drew her to Heller's MA in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence program, which offers a dual MA degree in International Law and Human Rights from the University of Peace in Costa Rica. Students spend their first year in residence at the Heller School, then the second year at the UPEACE campus in San José.
"My plan initially was to go into social work and help kids in the foster care system," she says. "But as I started learning more about social problems in a global context, I was driven to support children—and as I learned more, their parents and communities—through trauma all over the world."
Her first year at Heller offered her a grounding in peacebuilding and conflict resolution, as well as an introduction to humanitarian law. Then, at UPEACE, she took a deeper dive into the laws and treaties that govern those conflicts.
Living abroad for the first time, Graves had to adjust to a new climate—a hurricane hit during her first month and knocked out their running water—as well as a new curriculum. Rather than taking several courses over a semester, she took one class for several weeks, then moved on to the next class. But what remained the same was the sense of community.
"I've made very good connections through both Heller and UPEACE. You meet such genuinely wonderful people who have a similar mindset of mutual support, from all over the world," she says.
It was through a UPEACE classmate that she found her summer internship with the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence in Indonesia, which focuses on past violations of human rights committed by the Indonesian government.
"During the peacebuilding process, human rights need to be addressed or there will be collective, multi-generational trauma," says Graves, who researched potential avenues for transitional justice during her internship, then turned her work into her master's paper.
The curricula of the two programs connected in other ways: For example, the full-day simulated society exercise she did as a first-year student with COEX prepared her for a week-long conflict zone field training she did at UPEACE. The exercise took them into the woods to learn how to count footsteps during a kidnapping and barricaded them in a building to simulate a siege. Throughout all that, Graves used her mediation skills to maintain harmony between various groups of students involved.
She highly recommends the dual degree program, through which she also earned two certificates: one in international humanitarian law from the International Committee for the Red Cross, and another in international refugee law from UNHCR, the UN's Refugee Agency.
"Whether your focus is human rights or conflict resolution, being able to analyze treaties and understand the pitfalls and mechanisms of the international law system will help you in your practice," she says.
Kyla Graves with one of her UPEACE classes in Costa Rica.
With the support of the Alan B. Slifka Foundation


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  AmapAutocompleteService,
  AMapAutocomplete,
} from '../../services/amap-autocomplete/amap-autocomplete.service';
import { LoggerService } from '../../shared/logger/logger.service';
import { EventBinderService } from '../../shared/event-binder.service';
import { getOptions, ChangeFilter } from '../../utils';

const TAG = 'amap-autocomplete';
const AutocompleteOptions = ['type', 'city', 'datatype', 'citylimit'];

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})
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   * 输入提示时限定POI类型,多个类型用"|"分隔
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A DeKalb County, Ala., family is reeling after a 39-year-old Valley Head mother and her 8-year-old daughter were killed Tuesday in separate traffic accidents on the same road just 30 minutes apart.
Julia Yates Patterson and her daughter, Libby, had recently celebrated the girl's birthday, a family member told DeKalb County Coroner Tom Wilson.
The story unfolded Tuesday afternoon at two spots just 7 miles apart on Alabama Highway 117, Valley Head Police Officer Ron Ogletree said. Ogletree went to both locations as state authorities investigated the accidents, he said.
Highway 117 in DeKalb County is a winding two-lane road that runs northwest from the Georgia state line through the town of Ider into Jackson County, eventually ending at the Tennessee line.
Ogletree, a former state trooper, said the Highway Patrol Division of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is the investigating agency. Officials are trying to determine whether Libby had already heard about her mother's fatal crash and if that was related to her crossing the road in front of a Ford Focus.
Trooper Curtis Summerville, an Alabama Law Enforcement Agency spokesman, said via email Wednesday that Julia Patterson was killed and two others were injured around 3 p.m. CDT Tuesday when her Ford Explorer crashed head-on into a Dodge Ram truck between Church and School streets inside the Valley Head city limits. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the Dodge and a passenger, who were not named by authorities, were injured and taken to Erlanger hospital in Chattanooga for treatment, officials said.
About a half-hour later, Libby was struck by a 2008 Ford Focus at 3:29 p.m. CDT Tuesday on Highway 117 near County Road 641, about 4 miles east of Mentone, Ala., Ogletree said.
Ogletree said Libby had gotten off the school bus a few minutes before.
The driver of the Ford Focus was not injured or his name released by troopers. Ogletree said it appeared to him the driver did all he could to avoid hitting the girl.
"The troopers are doing a comprehensive investigation," Ogletree said, noting more details might be available by today.
"It's just a tragic, tragic thing for something like that to happen," Valley Head Mayor Lamar Bray said Wednesday. "In a little town of 500 or 600 people, everybody knows everybody or [is] related to everybody. We just request prayers for the family, and we'll all come together as a community."
Officials said the investigations into both incidents are continuing.


After trying our hands...I mean, legs, on the ice-skating rink, we decided to give it a go on the roller blades. We took a cab to East Coast Park and alighted at Carpark C4 which is just next to Burger King Restaurant. There is a roller-blade kiosk just beside the bicyle kiosk and because it specializes on roller-blades, I feel safer putting my..legs...into their hands. There is another roller-blade kiosk near the East Coast Lagoon Food Center (Carpark E2) but as it merely provides rental of blades and gears (same kiosk as the bicycle kiosk).
The kiosk we went to provide coaching lessons as well. I enquired about it but I needed a minimum of 4 participants so that option was not feasible. If you manage to gather 4 participants, you can pay just $80 each for each month of weekend classes (both Saturday and Sunday) If time permits, you can attend both the weekend classes and that would really stretch your dollars. I took a while trying to get A all geared up, making sure that her blades are fitted well and her protective pads were securely fastened. After I geared up, we were ready to go....or so I thought.
I used to blade from my house in Bedok all the way to East Coast Park and back and I wasn't all that bad a blader. But that morning, my legs were just jellies! So if you were there that day, you would see two desperate young girls...fine, one girl and her pathetic mother, trying to balance our way to the skating rink which is located about 50 metres away, though I was very certain it felt like 400m! It didn't help that it was a downslope journey from the kiosk to the skaters lane and while the staff held onto A, I zoomed my way down. A parked bicycle saved me from tumbling down the lane of embarrassment.
The staff was very kind, encouraging and assuring me that I would definitely remember the good old blading days and be flying in no time. At that time, I just wanted to get us to the skating rink in one piece. Flying wasn't on my to do list that day.
K is too young to blade so Daddy rented an electric car for her to move around in. We paid $5 for 15minutes but you may choose to buy their package instead. It gives you more 'mileage' for lesser bucks. When K was done, she moved on to the bubbles bottle which we brought from home. It was enough to keep her entertained while A and I worked those legs.
There are railings at the skating rink but beware, fiery red ants marked their territory firmly so be sure to find a 'clear' area before you rely on the rails. A was pretty good right from the start. Even the staff said she had a very good sense of balance for someone her age. Within 10 minutes she was off the rails and moving along on her own. As for me, my legs regained their momentum and it was nice to blade against the wind once again.
There was a coaching session going on in the rink when we were there and even though we were not part of the class, the staff came over to check on us every now and then. That was really thoughtful.
By the time the hour was up, A and I were perspiring profusely. It felt good to know that I got a workout in while A was all happy that she could balance well on the blades. Definitely a great morning for everyone.


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#PardonRicky to Prevent a Lifelong New Yorker's Banishment to a Country He Doesn't Know
Deporting a lifelong New Yorker for struggling with addiction is cruel, and Governor Hochul could easily stop it by granting him a pardon!
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Release Angel Argueta Anariba from ICE detention and reunite him with his son and community!
Angel Argueta Anariba fled Honduras in 1998 in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch to support his family. While in the United States, Mr. Argueta celebrated the birth of his son, worked in construction, and sent money back to Honduras to take care of loved ones. Unfortunately, Mr. Argueta has been in ICE detention since 2014, after serving several years at Otisville Prison in New York State for a prior conviction. He has now been in ICE detention longer than the original prison sentence he served. In Mr. Argueta's own words, "In the past seven years, ICE has transferred me 14 times to different jails across six different states, including New York, New Jersey, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.  At many of these detention centers, I have been physically abused, threatened with deportation, and told to my face that I will only leave here on a plane to my country or dead." Mr. Argueta spends 23 hours of his day in his cell. He faces routine discrimination and neglect of his needs–from his most basic needs for food, water and sanitary living conditions to his health care needs and more. He also faces ongoing retaliation for demanding his rights be respected. He has filed countless complaints against the facility due to the violations of his human rights which have gone entirely unaddressed. In the midst of a global public health crisis, he is at high risk of contracting COVID-19, including long-COVID health complications due to his asthma and other health issues. Mr. Argueta has participated in multiple hunger strikes to demand that his basic rights be met. His longest hunger strike lasted for 34 days. Mr. Argueta recently won a decision from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that will allow him to continue fighting to stay in this country permanently based on his fear of persecution in Honduras. He needs to be released so he can fight his case in the community. While in detention he learned English, obtained his G.E.D., worked as the teacher's assistant to assist others in math, and helped many others pass their G.E.D. tests. He has goals of working to support his family and being an advocate for other immigrants. No one deserves to be isolated from their families for this long. Grant Mr. Argueta bond on Tuesday, April 5th. Learn more about the horrible ICE conditions Mr. Argueta has faced here: https://theintercept.com/2022/03/31/ice-detention-climate-crisis-migrants/ https://theintercept.com/2021/02/19/ice-detention-cold-freezing-texas-louisiana/
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Pardon Assia Serrano and End Her Family Separation
Assia Serrano is a Panamanian immigrant survivor of manipulation and abuse. After spending 15 years incarcerated for actions she took as a young person under the coercive influence of her abuser — her then-partner, a man 20 years older than her — Assia's sentence was shortened under the Domestic Violence Survivors' Justice Act. But instead of being released to reunite with her family in the U.S. (including her two children), New York State handed her directly over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE then moved quickly to deport Assia before she had a fair hearing on her right to remain in the United States. Now, she has almost no pathway back to the US to reunite with her family without a full and unconditional pardon. But if the Governor pardons Assia, she has numerous pathways to come back and secure permanent status here with her family and loved ones. Assia belongs at home with her community and loved ones, not in Panama where she hasn't been since she was 15. ICE is intent on making Assia's already prolonged family separation permanent and destroying Assia's dreams for her family and future. Indeed, while Assia was incarcerated, she has worked as: a translator; a caregiver in the Children's Center caring for people during pregnancy (an issue she is especially passionate about because she was pregnant when she was arrested), as well as for their children; and as a teacher in classes focused on prenatal care and sex. She remains actively involved in her own children's life, despite her abusive ex-partner's attempt to withhold access to their children, and despite the fact that she has now been deported. You can read more about Assia and other detained immigrant domestic violence survivors here: https://prismreports.org/2021/07/16/immigrant-domestic-violence-survivors-are-re-victimized-by-the-state/ You can also read more about how ex-Governor Cuomo's gender based violence includes his failure to free imprisoned survivors, a legacy that Governor Hochul now has the chance to undo: https://truthout.org/articles/cuomos-gender-based-violence-includes-his-failure-to-free-imprisoned-survivors/ Please take action by demanding that Governor Hochul use her discretionary power as Governor to grant Assia's pardon application and end ICE transfers in NY.
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We Stand With Rev. Warnock and For Moral Leadership In Our Politics
We know all too well that it's not enough for our political leaders to identify as people of faith if they actively fight against economic and racial justice. Many congressional leaders have done that over the years. Instead, we need to see faith in action. Faith without works is dead! We stand by leaders like Senators Warnock and Ossoff, who have committed to infuse new moral leadership into our national politics. As Warnock said in an MSNBC interview after his election, "I was [inspired] by the ways in which [Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.] used his faith to bring people together to solve big problems in the public square." We the undersigned stand with Rev. Warnock and other political leaders who, grounded in justice and love for all, are committed to doing the same. (photo source: Jon Ossoff [@ossoff] Twitter)
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I Pledge To Register Two Voters In Florida!
We are calling on people of faith and moral conscience to pledge today to register two voters in Florida, for each formerly incarcerated person the governor is attempting to disenfranchise. By signing below, we'll send you an email with step-by-step instructions on how you can register people to vote in Florida. Thank you for pledging to stand up for all Floridians and to protect the vote in this critical election! So much as at stake and we need every vote possible to advance true justice and equality for all. Will you take the pledge?
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Reunite Ousman Darboe with his wife, baby daughter, parents, and siblings
Ousman is a long-time resident of the Fordham Heights neighborhood of the Bronx, who came to the United States from the Gambia in 2001 when he was only 6 years old. The fourth of eight children, Ousman spent much of his teenage years caring for his five younger siblings – doing everything from changing diapers to attending parent-teacher meetings – while his parents worked full-time, low-paying jobs. ICE tore Ousman away from his community when they arrested him in an early morning home raid on July 31, 2017 on the basis of single criminal conviction. Just five days later, Ousman's partner of three years, Lashalle, learned she was pregnant with their first child. Despite being incarcerated by ICE ever since, Ousman has been supportive and present for his family in anyway he can. This included the hours Lashalle was in labor, when Ousman repeatedly called his wife in the short increments permitted by the jail until the jail cut off phone access for the night just before his daughter was born. His daughter Sanai is now almost two years old, and Ousman has never been able to see his baby girl outside of a jail. During weekly visits, Sanai's tiny fists hit the glass barrier when she reaches out for her father, and she starts crying and screaming when she is forced to leave her father. With Ousman in detention and without affordable childcare, Lashalle has struggled for now years to maintain full-time employment. As a result, Lashalle and Sanai lived in a homeless shelter for over a year and only recently were moved to permanent public housing in the Bronx. Lashalle is still struggling to survive every day as ICE has forced her to be a young single mother, despite the deep mutual commitment she shares with her husband. If Ousman returned home, Lashalle and Sanai would be able to thrive and be at peace. ICE is determined to treat Ousman as a disposable member of our community based on his contact with New York State's criminal legal system and has deliberately ignored his tremendous efforts to rehabilitate as a loving husband, father, brother, and son. Since his incarceration by ICE, Ousman has worked and completed his GED. Within immigration jail, he has emerged as a leader entrusted with ensuring other incarcerated people receive food and hygiene products, among other responsibilities. He has the full support of his family, community groups, and social workers in transitioning out of immigration jail. You can also read more about Ousman's story here: https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/9/30/20875821/black-immigrants-school-prison-deportation-pipeline HOW YOU CAN HELP You can sign onto this petition that has two goals: 1) We urge Governor Cuomo to use his discretionary power as Governor to grant a pardon that would allow Ousman to be reunited with his wife and young child. 2) We also urge ICE to release Ousman and end this deportation case once and for all, allowing the Darboe family a chance to be whole. We are also raising money to support Lashalle and Sanai as they transition out of the shelter system at: https://www.gofundme.com/f/we-keep-us-safe. OUR VALUES The Trump administration defends its aggressive immigration policies by claiming that these actions make the public safer. But the public needs Ousman home. Lashalle – who has struggled to find stable housing and childcare that will accommodate her work schedule – would be safer with Ousman home. Their daughter – who reaches out for her father but cannot touch him since the jail instituted a no-contact visitation policy, despite failed promises by the Bergen County Jail to change this policy – would be safer with him home. Ousman's parents and siblings – who look up to him and rely on him —would be safer with Ousman home. Many New York city, state, and federal elected officials support Mr. Darboe's pardon application and imminent release from ICE custody, including Congress Members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jose Serrano, Assembly Member Yuh-line Niou, State Senator Julia Salazar, Council Member Carlos Menchaca, Former City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams. If the Trump administration will not defend the safety of all members of our country, we look to each other. We ask you to join us in this petition that will help provide the safety, stability and happiness that Ousman and his family so desperately need.
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Sign on to the Pastoral Letter on the El Paso Shootings
Mr. President, we recognize that you are a symptom of our decaying moral fabric and you have ignited a modern day wildfire. The coals of white nationalism are always smoldering in our common life, and they have fueled the violence of indigenous genocide, slavery, lynching and Jim Crow. Stop stoking the fires of violence with racist words and policies. Mr. President, you must repent in word and deed if your leadership is to bring us together, rather than tearing us apart. To Members of Congress and our elected representatives, we ask you to ensure our domestic tranquility. You can take immediate action to stop the President's racist attacks on immigrants. You can act to ensure voting rights, pass gun reform to keep weapons of war out of our communities, end federal programs that send military equipment to our local and state police departments, pass immigration reform that allows us all to thrive and build up the country, ensure good jobs and living wages and relief from our debts, and guarantee health care and social programs that meet our needs. The lies of white nationalism have prevented action on all of these issues, and those who have enabled the President or remained silent are culpable. As you return to Washington D.C, we call on Congress to honor the August 28 anniversary of the March the Washington and the murder of Emmett Till by passing an Omnibus Bill that offers a comprehensive response to the systemic racism that connects the issues facing 140 million poor and low-wealth people in this country. To all candidates running for President in 2020, we call on you to address both the violence of racism and the policies of racism and white nationalism in the public debates. We ask you to connect these policies of systemic racism to poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy, militarism and a distorted moral narrative that accepts, justifies and perpetuates systemic violence. To our movements and organizations on the ground, do not go back to your silos; instead we must build a moral fusion movement. We have been organizing in separate streams, often along lines of race, issue area or geography, but we need much more than our own fights can win. This is not the time to become entrenched in those divisions. We need to come together across race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, issue, geography and other lines of division to make a fight for everything we need and make sure we are all in – nobody is out. To those who have embraced the lies of white nationalism and racism, we humbly recognize the power of fear. We live in a time when many people do not know if they will have work today or health care tomorrow. Many families do not know what agency is coming for them or their children. We do not know who to trust and have been left to fend for ourselves and whoever we believe to be on our side. Let us find strength in our pain, mourn our losses, and remember that we are all part of a common human family. Let us reject every attempt by politicians and corporate interests to pit us against one another. Let us confess that white nationalism is a myth that has not served most people, even those it claims to protect. Let us fight for each other and for a world where everyone can thrive. To our religious leaders and people of faith, we call on you to offer moral leadership in the public square. If you have condoned the lies of white nationalism or remained silent, you have failed to keep your sacred vows. We ask you to recall the struggles of our ancestors so we can work together to build up a more perfect union in our common life. We call on all people of faith and conscience to sign on to this letter and share it throughout your networks. Let us prevent this violence from defining who we are as a nation and people. Forward together, not one step back. Rev. Dr. William Barber, II, President, Repairers of the Breach and Co-Chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Director, Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice and Co-Chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival Rev. Teresa Hord Owens, General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President, Union of Reform Judaism Minister Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Red Letter Christians
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STOP JAILING CHILDREN AND DEFUND HATE
As justice-seekers inspired by our faith, we honor the dignity of every person. As Pope Francis said: "These are not mere social or migrant issues… Migrants are first of all human persons." We affirm the sacred human right of all people to seek asylum. We urge Congress to: --Reduce Funding for Deportation, Detention, and Border Militarization; Support Funding for Refugee Resettlement and Asylum When determining federal appropriations for FY 2020, we urge Congress to reduce funds for CPB and ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations. Refuse to provide any additional funding for a border wall; instead allocate resources to support refugee resettlement and access to asylum --Keep Families Together and Invest in Alternatives to Detention We call for an end to family detention this year, by December 2019, and urge Congress to increase funding for less costly, more efficient, community-based alternatives to detention. --Exert Robust Oversight over Detention and Uses of Federal Funding We urge Congress to require additional inspections of ICE facilities, ensure ICE publishes public weekly reports, and create a detention ombudsperson to strengthen oversight. Congress should also prohibit federal funds from being used to: enforce Muslim or refugee bans, deport or detain DACA, TPS, or DED holders, and carry out immigration enforcement operations at "sensitive" locations including schools, churches, and hospitals. We call on President Trump, and all who play a part in these cruel acts, to stop terrorizing our immigrant neighbors and stop tearing families apart. We call on our elected officials in Congress to withhold funding from CBP and ICE that enables them to raid communities, separate families, and detain children and families. We call on immigration enforcement officers and agents to turn away from cruelty and choose compassion.
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Sign to Support Moral Witness Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
We know God hears the cries of God's people who are suffering increasingly under the vengeful leadership and harmful policies of our current administration. Policies that ignore the cries of poor and sick people, children, immigrants and refugees, women, and, even yet, the cries of the lands torn open and polluted. We, as a nation, have lost our way. In such moments, God's call to action is made known through the voice of the prophets: "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression." (Isaiah 58:1) As President Trump and his administration let the nation suffer, we must lead with a unified proactive and creative response that is not confined by "Right" or "Left", Democrat or Republican, but is rooted in the clear moral Center of right and wrong. It is time to warn the nation and call this administration to repent of their sins. Friends, it is time for us to go together to the palace gates with a clarion call: --Stop the weaponization of judicial appointments! Attend to the 14th Amendment, the bedrock of equal protection under the law. Uphold the constitution. --Stop mandating a census question designed to ensure millions are uncounted! Attend to the 140 million poor and low wealth. --Stop the abuse of executive power to pollute our communities with pipelines and privatizing public resources! Attend to our water and air. --Stop the assault on the Affordable Care Act and on health care for women and children in poverty! Attend to the health of your people. --Stop the brutal treatment of the stranger at the southern border! Stop warehousing children in detention camps! End child detention. Attend to compassionate and humane immigration policies that affirm the divinity within all human beings. Instead of covenantal leadership for justice, compassion, healing and the empowerment of all, these sinful acts of the current administration pursue subjugation: subjugation of racial, religious, ethnic, and gender minorities; of women; of children; of the suffocating middle class, workers, family farmers, the poor, and people who fall sick; of immigrants and refugees; of the free press; of the Constitution; even of Earth, our common home. This hate-filled subjugation violates the Covenant. It must not stand. Just after Ramadan, Shavuot and Pentecost, hundreds of faith leaders will journey to DC. Of those hundreds, some may hear the call upon their spirits to engage in nonviolent moral action. Some may be called there as witnesses. But all are needed to bear witness together in this moment. The Scriptures do not call us to ideological purity tests or to precisely worded positions on each aspect of sensitive topics. Instead, Jeremiah calls to us at the heart of our deepest religious convictions and the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution: love, justice and equal protection under the law. We cannot be divided. We cannot be complacent. We must act so that people are called to a moral awakening. In the wake of the new post- Mueller report reality, we must deliver a moral report. June 12th becomes a bridge between the sacred festivals of the Abrahamic communities. The Ruach HaKodesh, the Holy Interbreathing that gives life to ALL traditions, all communities, all life-forms, is speaking through us. We must journey toward freedom and awaken this country once more. It is time. June 12th. Signees: Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Moral Monday Architect President and Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach Co-Chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival Rev. Traci D. 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Q: Derivatives on a graph of $f'(x)$ So I'm learning derivatives (yay!) and I have this math problem where I am looking at a graph of $f'(x)$.

I am trying to find the values where:

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*$f(x)$ greatest

*$f(x)$ least

*$f'(x)$ greatest

*$f'(x)$ least

*$f''(x)$ greatest

*$f''(x)$ least

So I am thinking that for $f(x)$
$f(x)$ greatest: F because the graph is increasing and A represents the highest point
$f(x)$ least: A because this is the lowest point on the graph
$f'(x)$ greatest: A because this is the absolute maximum
$f'(x)$ least: C because this is the absolute minimum
$f''(x)$ greatest: D because this is concave up
$f''(x)$ least: B because this is concave down
Am I correct? Just trying to learn and explain my thinking :)

A: Your answers are all correct, but I would express your reasons differently. For the first two questions, I would say "because $f$ is increasing on the interval" instead of "because the graph is increasing", or even "because $f'$ is positive so $f$ is increasing" - the graph depicts $f'$, which isn't strictly increasing, it's just positive. Similarly, I would say "$f''$ is greatest at $\mathbf{D}$ because $f'$ is increasing the fastest there" - it's not clear what "this" is referring to when you say "this is concave up" (you mean $f$ is concave up, but just from reading your explanation, I would assume you meant $f'$ was concave up).

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Tracking plug-in car sales all over the world
Netherlands December 2020
VW ID.3 shines in record month (72% Share!)
December had an amazing 30,860 plugin registrations, a 34% increase over the previous all-time record, set at the same month of last year, which itself was beating a 4 year old record.
This amazing result translated into a Norway-like 72% PEV (69% BEV) share last month, pulling the 2020 plugin share to 25% (21% BEV), well above the 15% of 2019 and the 6% of 2018, and this share gains even another dimension when we realise that BEVs represented 82% of registrations in 2020, and 96%(!) in December alone.
Of course, the higher taxation of BEVs in 2021 is the major reason for this December peak, but after the upcoming sales hangover in Q1, something this market is used to, expect things to pick up again around Q2/Q3, ending 2021 with another great result, pulling the plugin share well above the 30% mark.
Looking at last month best sellers, and comparing it to the last December peak, we now witness a much more democratic ranking, if in December 2019 the Tesla Model 3 represented over half of the registrations, last month winner, the VW ID.3, had just 20% of all plugin deliveries, and while last year there were only 4 models hitting four-digit scores in December (Tesla Model 3, Audi e-Tron, Nissan Leaf and Renault Zoe), this time there were 7 models, this is another sign of a maturing market, where choice expands at a faster rate than the market itself, leading to lower shares of the leading models and an increased balance between the players in the market.
Looking at last month Best Sellers, we should disclose first that December registrations are not very representative of the market dynamics, having more to do with the OEMs capability to allocate units to this market, than anything else.
Still, we should notice that Volkswagen did its version of a Tesla high tide and not only won the Best Seller title in December, with the ID.3, but also pushed all the available ID.4 units to this market, allowing the new compact crossover to end the month in 4th, ahead of another model from the German conglomerate, as the Audi e-Tron ended the month in #5, thus making 3 VW Group models in the Top 5.
Another surprising performance was the Hyundai Kona EV ending in 2nd last month, registering a record 4,441 units, dropping the Tesla Model 3 to #3, so it seems Hyundai's EV production has finally found room to able to comply with demand peaks.
Just outside the Top 5, there were two good news for Volvo, with the fresh XC40 EV reaching #6, with 1,765 units in only its 3rd month on the market, while in #7 we have the honorary Volvo Polestar 2, with the Sino-Swede scoring a record 1,468 deliveries.
Funny enough, and truly amazing, is the fact that last month, the Top 7 best selling models in the overall market were all BEV! How long will it take for the yearly ranking to look like this?
Other models showing strong results were the #9 Fiat 500e, with 486 deliveries in its full sales month, while the Peugeot 208 and 2008 siblings both scored record results in December, with the crossover scoring 458 deliveries, while its lower riding relative had 479.
One surprising result were the 383 registrations of the #14 Chinese Aiways U5, while the SEAT e-Mii EV (349 units) and Skoda Citigo EV (302) continue ramping up deliveries, and finally, the #19 Mini Cooper EV also scored a record result, proving that among City EVs, range is not as important as in other categories.
On the PHEV side, we almost didn't had any model to mention, as the Best Selling model was the recent Renault Captur PHEV (289 units, new record), in a low 20th place, this is explained by the makers focus on delivering BEVs before the year end, and also the fact that some OEMs, namely, Volvo, were already complying in December with the EU's CO2 rules, so they decided to keep them an extra month and deploy them in early 2021, so they can already win early points for the 2021 compliance.
Outside the Top 20, we should mention the never ending slow ramp up of the Mercedes EQC, with the midsize SUV delivering a record 239 units in December, so we could have here another contender for a Top 20 position in 2021.
Looking at the 2020 ranking, the up-to-November leader Kia Niro EV had a steep fall, going from First to Fourth in just one month, being surpassed by the VW ID.3, that took the 2021 Best Seller award, but also by the Tesla Model 3, that won the Silver medal, and even by Kia's cousin, the Hyundai Kona EV, that took the Bronze medal from its hands.
Oher models that climbed positions in December were the Audi e-Tron, that jumped 6 positions, up to the 5th spot, while the Polestar 2 jumped 5 positions, to #7, but the Climbers of the Month were the Volvo XC40 EV and the VW ID.4, that came out of nowhere (in the case of the German, literally), and joined the table on the Top 10, with the Volvo EV ending in #9 and the new VW EV in #10.
On the second half of the table, the Peugeot 208 EV was up three positions, to #15, while looking at the 2002 Top 20 we notice another interesting trend: There are only 2 plugin hybrid models on the table, both coming from the Volvo stable...
In the manufacturers ranking, Volkswagen (18%, up 4%) was the Best Selling maker, , followed by Tesla (10%, up 1%) and Volvo (10%, down 1%).
Published by José Pontes at January 07, 2021
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famlin January 07, 2021
Wow 30.860 is a biiiig #. Thanks to VW for hitting the stride with both ID.3 & ID.4 and nice that Model 3 also sold near 4K units. Surprising that Hyundai has so many Kona EV for Netherlands, but only Kona for USA.
Seems Europe will cross 200K mark this time and Global will cross 500K mark. What a wonderful month.
In just 1st 3 days, Tesla shorts lost $4 billion in USA. With Tesla prices surging past $800 / share, shorts will soon lose their underpants also.
Keep partying.
antrik January 08, 2021
Nothing surprising about Kona sales in the US... It's a compliance car, after all -- and unlike the new European mandate, the US has very weak requirements.
Top-19 goes to BEV (Dec). Top-7 and 18 out of Top-20 goes to BEV (2020). Strong message to plugin/full/mild hybrids. What happened to petrol/diesel.
But how will the market transition when subsidies are cut and taxes are restored next year. Dutch always throws surprises.
Incentives are reduced *every* year in the Netherlands. No reason to expect growth to slow down this time around.
In USA, these are the %age share. Gasoline(Petrol) is the almighty here, but diesel is sneaking in and gaining share. Yes, in the land that discovered dirty diesel tricks, diesel is increasing. Who is offering more diesel. General Motors.
Finally, a new green admin will take power 2 weeks from now. USA will start going green.
Petrol: 91,6%
Diesel: 3,3%
Hybrid: 3,1%
Plugin: 0,4%
Electric: 1,6%
Mach E and Ariya should cause a slight improvement this year... For the most part, everything will still be hinging on Tesla's production ramp, though.
(Especially if the new administration succeeds in restoring full tax credit to all makers, which would give Tesla even more demand they will have to try filling in a timely fashion...)
See how notorious koreans dont allow Tesla to sell in their country.
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-south-korea-free-trade-agreement-incentive-program/
They dont want American automaker to sell or they dont want electric vehicles to sell?
They cannot play this same game with china/japan.
Because of such liberal policies, trump came to power, if biden does not do anything to stop these discriminatory policies, then another trump will come to power next time.
Wow, that's some serious thinly-veiled protectionism... Let's hope they don't get away with that.
Flow January 08, 2021
Awesome results yet again!
Yoy is interesting indeed - Tesla dropping from 47% market share to 10%, while VAG takes a quarter of the market in year 0 of their BEV push.
I hope the Model Y arrives soon and we will see some price cuts on the Model 3 to prevent them becoming a single digit player in a market they once dominated
Model 3 likely won't see major price cuts until local production starts, which won't be before 2022.
Model Y should help *a lot*, though...
Unknown January 08, 2021
With the ID.4 already at hand and selling hot in NL - so it seems - I hope that there will be price cuts not only for M3 but also for MY... If Tesla is interested in playing more than a tiny role in 2021 and 2022. Skoda Enyaq will be available very soon. Not to mention a certain ID.5 coming up
Tesla is interested in lowering prices in order to displace more combustion cars, not because of what mediocre EVs from other makers do...
However, they only do so when their cost structure allows for that -- which likely won't happen for Model 3 in Europe until local production is up.
(Though maybe they could somewhat lower prices before that, if they switch all imports to Chinese, which are likely cheaper than US imports?...)
Right, so how did their cost structure in Norway change prior to their cost cut there?
It didn't. Currency exchange rates changed.
That is also the reason for Germany and France price cut, right? Slightly before 2022, but hey - you were right for about 10 days!
Indeed, that is exactly the reason for the Germany and France price cut.
Koogle January 08, 2021
Fiat, Ford and Mercedes did not make it to the YTD table.
BMW by a hair.
Luckily 2021 has arrived.
KiWi January 08, 2021
Huge dive for Tesla in Netherlands!
2020 Tesla sales: 8965 vehicles, of which 292 Model S, 299 Model X and 8374 Model 3
2019 Tesla sales: 30942 vehicles, of which 527 Model S, 467 Model X and 29948 Model 3
2018 Tesla sales: 8585 vehicles, of which 5622 Model S and 2963 Model X
2016 Tesla sales: 2144 vehicles, of which 1723 Model S and 421 Model X
2015 Tesla sales: 1874 Model S
Huge dive for any maker that didn't introduce new models facing their first incentives step-down...
Anonymous January 08, 2021
True, but I think 2019 is the anomaly here. Late 2019, it was basically the only manufacuturer being able to deliver before the 1 Jan 2020 change in tax laws. For december 2020, VW joined, as did Polestar, Volvo, etc, so there was much more choice.
It's not about choice. It's about timing. The *first* time any new model faces an incentives step-down, it always experiences a much larger demand pull-forward than in subsequent years. That's what happened with the I-Pace in 2018; the Model 3 in 2019; and VW, Polestar, Volvo etc. in 2020...
(And also Kona: while *technically*, it was available before, it didn't participate in the 2019 rush due to Hyundai's policy of intentionally delaying deliveries into 2020 -- so *effectively*, it was only facing it's first pre-step-down spike in 2020...)
Incentives in Netherlands are equal for all cars/brands, unlike the US. For commercial owners it is a percentage of the list value in your income taxes. For civilians it is a limited euro refund. No matter how long the brand exists. Also Tesla in Netherlands is the Chinese version now.
It's not about how long the brand exists. It's when the specific model in question has been introduced in the Netherlands. (Or started deliveries in sufficient volumes...) There is always a huge pull-forward of demand at the end of the first year, since all people interested in the model will want to buy it with the highest possible incentives. In subsequent years the effect is less pronounced, since most people who have been interested in that model already took the opportunity in the first year -- with only those who recently took an interest being left.
There is no doubt about this. The numbers over the years for various models are very clear.
Sales from Germany were just released for December: 43.671 BEVs and 39.107 PHEV
Vlad January 09, 2021
France-20734 BEVs and 15168 PHEVs.Europe>250000?
*Almost* got a BEV-only top 20... So close! ;-)
And a BEV-only top 10 was also not far off, with the late arrival XC40 BEV ending only a hair behind the PHEV variant; and the ID.4 also very close...
The Kona number is certainly impressive... We need to keep in mind though that this is effectively their first pre-incentive-step-down peak (like ID.3, ID.4, XC40, Polestar 2, Fiat 500, both Peugeots, Aiways U5...), since they didn't participate last year. (And it was not so much because of limited production, but rather the well-known fact that they intentionally delayed deliveries into 2020 in all markets...)
Curious that MG didn't make it into the list in December... While for the whole year, it even beat out the Zoe.
José Pontes January 09, 2021
Allocation. In the last couple of months of 2020, MG was focused in delivering in its home market, that always peaks in December.
Expect increased deliveries in Q1 2021.
I'm most surprised by the e-tron result. I guess it's because of the new variants facing their first incentives step-down.
@José I'm not sure how you arrive at the conclusion that the Mini's number proves range is not as important... Its result is decidedly mediocre (as expected), behind most other new models facing their first incentives step-down, and even behind some older models...
I would say that for an EV conversion of a 3-door hatchback, with a limited battery and "Premium" pricing, it is selling more than i expected.
Trying to understand the reason for this success, i could only find one reason: Fun Factor.
#synopsis
Of the 42829 vehicles registered in December (market up 2.9%), 30860 (72%) were PEVs.
From the total registered 30860 PEVs, 27222 vehicles (62.6%) are BEVs in the Top20 positions.
For the year, 67839 vehicles (75.9%) from the total registered 89362 PEVs capture the PEV Top20 positions, were the leading carmakers are VW group (32.5%) with 22072 units, followed by Kia-Hyundai (21%) with 14245 units and Volvo Car (14.6%) with 9915 units, while the best seller BEV was the Volkswagen ID.3 and the best seller PHEV the Volvo XC40.
Not so strict CO2 regulations even if Mercedes mets these conditions
In response to competition from MachE & ID.4, Tesla has launched standard version of Model Y @ $42.000 for 244 miles / 390 km. It shows how flexible Tesla is and also willing to sell more for the masses.
Sadly MachE/ID.4 enjoys the $7.500 fed rebate, but Model Y does not. I hope the new US government reduces the subsidies so that everyone has fair playing ground. But they cannot re-introduce for Tesla since they are selling ship-load of vehicles here. Lets say Tesla is selling 200.000 vehicles / year. Even a subsidy of $1.000 will lead to $200 million / year. Instead 5.000 fast chargers (@ $40.000) could be installed for that amount every year.
Can someone say what is the cost of a fast charger including facility to accept credit/debit card for payment.
LOL "competition"... Yeah right, the handful of other EVs is the reason why Tesla launched the entry-level Model Y. Nothing to do with competing with a hundred times as many combustion cars. Suuure...
PHEVs underestimate emissions standards.There is a lot of research on this topic.The EVs market has formed and there is no need to include here PHEVs(inclusion in tables PHEVs works how hidden advertising).Maybe someone thinks so too?
SAB SHINE BD January 12, 2021
very informative post thank you
EV enthusiast January 16, 2021
Thanks a lot for the post @José!
Could you also share the source(s) of the numbers?
Raiverigenin.nl
Thanks @Jose! I clicked/searched that but couldn't find it. Could there be a typo or something?
Could be. My Dutch is not bery good :P
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Q: Take pictures using camera shutter when receiving live view data I am developing using EDSDK.
However, if I press the shutter of the camera (physical button) while receiving live view data(EVF Mode), the picture won't be taken. Is this normal?
My camera model is 200D II.
What I'm trying to do is as follows, and it's very simple.

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*My software activates the camera through EDSDK and receives live view data.

*The person behind the camera takes a picture by pressing the camera shutter, and my software shows the picture on the screen.
The questions are as follows.

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*How to take pictures using physical camera shutter buttons when receiving live view data(EVF).

HDMI connections are not considered because there are features that need to be controlled directly through EDSDK.
Thank you.
Below is what I added after Johannes Bildstein's answer.
As Johannes Bildstein answered, the following code was inserted to unlock the UI.
But it still hasn't been solved.

if (!MainCamera.IsLiveViewOn) {
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*Error message occurs when I try to unlock UI and get EVF data. (Shutter still doesn't work)

*If I unlock UI after receiving EVF data,

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*When dial is in photo mode: EVF data is coming in, but the shutter still does not work.

*When dial is in video mode: EVF data does not come in due to BUSY error. Is it a conflict due to UI unlocking? We check your answers and SDK documents and try in many ways, but they are still unresolved. We are currently testing the more recent model, 200D II.

A: The camera "UI" is probably locked. The EDSDK does that automatically when connecting and before doing certain commands. You can unlock it with EdsSendStatusCommand using kEdsCameraStatusCommand_UIUnLock.

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by olingo on February 14, 2013 in Reflection
Typically when people think of superhero comics, they think of action-packed fight scenes and daring rescues. What most people don't think of, or at least what I didn't think of until very recently, is the challenge comic artists face in making a static image on a flat surface appear dynamic. Some of that work will be done by the reader's imagination. Readers don't have to be shown every slight movement of a character in order to get a good idea of what that character is doing. But for the artist who wants to provide the reader's imagination with a little extra help, there are several ways to create the illusion of motion in comics. These include altering the size and shape of the panels in correspondence to each other, adjusting the angle or the perspective in the panels, or drawing the characters in exaggerated, and sometimes implausible, action poses.
What first got me thinking about the difficulties of giving motion to motionless characters was the 1954 series Black Cobra, published by Ajax-Farrell, which I stumbled upon while looking for inspiration for another project.
My experience with comics is pretty limited. Still, I have seen awkward poses and comic book characters whose anatomy barely resembles anything you would find in real life, but never have I seen so many unnatural poses (and expressionless characters) in one series.
In the above strip my favorite panel has got to be the first one. I'm not sure what was going through the artists' head when they decided to draw Black Cobra prancing dangerously close to the edge of the building, supposedly trying to sneak attack his victim while waving his arms around in the air (like he just doesn't care). There are other problems with what we see depicted in these three panels, such as the fact that the victim is nowhere near Black Cobra when the protagonist decides to pounce on him from above, and the tray the victim appears to be carrying mysteriously vanishes after the first panel, and the lack of expression on either of the characters' faces. But anyway, back to the main focus of this post.
People are hard to draw, and comics are all about drawing people. I counted the number of human figures for one 12 page issue of Black Cobra and came up with 157. Being able to draw that many people (along with the panels, and backgrounds and everything else) under a deadline is pretty impressive, even with all the strange poses and anatomical errors. And if over a hundred figure drawings were used in a simple, twelve-page comic, it blows my mind to think how many go into a graphic novel like Watchmen.
So I really should give the artist for this series some credit. It's not as if all of the figures he drew were terrible. In fact, most of them looked fairly natural in terms of anatomy and the position they were drawn in. On top of that you could argue for exaggerated poses as a stylistic choice in comics. After all, do a Google image search for Spiderman and in pretty much every image you'll see him either crouched or flying through the air in some contorted posture. These weird poses help show off the heroes' powers and their character, and sometimes they actually look really cool.
With that in mind, it's difficult for me to draw the line between what constitutes as a stylistic choice and what constitutes as laziness or lack of skill. For me, the distinction ultimately comes down to intent. If the pose is meant to be distorted, it can be called stylistic. If the pose comes out looking distorted because the artist was in a hurry to finish 150 figure drawings by the end of the week, then it's a fault on the part of the artist, albeit an understandable one.
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More Than 5,000 Arizonans Have Died From COVID-19
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While health experts say social distancing measures have slowed the spread of the virus, they say the public should remain cautious.
Arizona passed 200,000 COVID-19 cases this week and the death toll from the disease topped 5,000 Saturday, but despite those somber milestones experts said the numbers are all moving in the right direction – for now.
Rates of infection and death are down sharply from just a month ago and hospital bed availability has improved, which experts attribute to tighter restrictions on congregating and mask-wearing, among other changes.
But they all warn that now is not the time to relax.
"Just because the numbers are better, does not mean we can relax on the efforts that we've been putting forward," said Holly Ward, spokeswoman for the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association.
Challenges to those practices could come soon, as improving infection rates have put eight of the state's 15 counties in the "moderate" range for transmission and one in the "minimal" range – thresholds that let bars and restaurants start reopening.
Schools around the state are also finishing their second week of in-person classes for some students and teachers.
That has some health experts warning that state businesses and residents need to guard against easing up too much, too soon. A sudden easing of restrictions in May led to a spike in cases that made Arizona a national hot spot for COVID-19 infections.
"I think we've gone through several experiences now where we've let up on some of these things and opened a bit too quickly," said Dr. Daniel Derksen, director of the University of Arizona Center for Rural Health. "People got relaxed and less careful about going to places like bars, the public congregating in large gatherings, or even large numbers of people not wearing masks.
"We have to continue to tend to the public health measures you see on the commercials and billboards, social distancing, wearing a mask, and being careful if you don't have to be going out to a place where you're exposed to the COVID-19 virus," Derksen said.
That appears to have worked. The Arizona Department of Health Services reported that new infections fell from 386 cases per 100,000 residents for the week of June 28 to 64 cases per 100,000 people for the week of Aug. 9. The department also reported that deaths, hospitalizations and the percent of positive tests all fell during the same period.
"The numbers within the Arizona hospitals are improving," Ward said. "We're seeing our ICU bed usage, specifically for COVID patients down dramatically, and that's a great thing."
As of Thursday, 20% of intensive-care unit beds were available for use, according to state data. About 18% of those beds were being used by COVID-19 patients and 62% were being used by other patients. At one point in July, COVID-19 patients occupied 57% of ICU beds.
"Those numbers were in the 40% range back in June," Ward said. "To give perspective, now that we're down in ICU beds used for COVID patients, that's a fantastic drop."
COVID-19 numbers have improved enough that three states – New York, New Jersey and Connecticut – removed Arizona from the list of states whose residents have to quarantine.
Ward and others attributed the state's ability to "flatten the curve" of infection rates to following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, including social distancing, wearing face-coverings, and monitoring symptoms.
"Most definitely social distancing that has been implemented in serious form, many more people are wearing masks," Ward said. "As soon as cities and towns had the authority to do so, they implemented mask mandates and the pause in large social gatherings or events – all of those things have contributed. Along with every single individual's effort to try to slow the spread."
Will Humble, executive director of the Arizona Public Health Association, said "one of the biggest reasons" for slowdown in infection rates was when local officials began mandating those rules.
"The governor finally allowed local jurisdictions to put in place face-covering ordinances, which have actually been really successful," Humble said. "On June 24, the governor closed bars and nightclubs and that, together with the face-covering requirement, are the two biggest reasons why we've seen a decline in the number of new cases here in Arizona."
The decrease means more parts of the state met benchmarks that let them enter the "moderate" transmission zone that allows some reopening, with Maricopa and Pima counties meeting the benchmarks Thursday. That means bars and nightclubs that serve food can open at 50% of capacity if unrelated customers stay 6 feet apart and employees are masked, among other requirements.
Humble worries about the dangers reopened businesses and schools could present if people do not take the restrictions seriously enough. He said that if the state hopes to continue mitigating the spread of the virus, it will be important to continue observing social distancing and following CDC guidelines – now more than ever.
"The people that will suffer first are those kids and parents that would like to be in school learning in-person this fall," he said. "But if compliance is good, if the compliance system works, then I think there's a chance that cases could level off. The key is going to be enforcement."
Derksen called the total number of infections and deaths an "unfortunate milestone," but added that "on the better side … we've seemed to have flattened that curve."
Enforcement and continuing mitigation efforts will also be important as the state heads into its typical flu season, Derksen said.
"There are still areas that are of some concern, but it looks like the public health measures that have been put into place by the Arizona Department of Health Services and the governor's office, towns and municipalities, are helping us along much better than the rise we saw in the summer," Derksen said. "There's still an awful lot of COVID-19 virus in the community. But we are getting better."
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Since its inception back in 2014, Microsoft digital assistant Cortana has been growing by leaps and bounds. The Redmond tech giant claims, Cortana has grown to have 145 million users across the globe. Cortana is available across multiple platforms, Windows 10 PCs, Windows Phone, Android, iOS, and even Xbox One.
An independent and third party report, Vetro Analytics, sees to confirm Microsoft's claims. The Vetro Analytics report says Cortana has experienced 350% growth in unique monthly users. In the United States, Cortana has some 7.5 million users. The engagement on the digital assistant has grown by 60%, up from 19%. The time each user spends on the app has also increased from 11 minutes to 2 hours and 31 minutes year-over-year.
Cortana is doing better than Siri
Compared to Apple's Siri, Cortana is doing better by far. Reports indicate that Siri's engagement has dropped to 11%, down from 21%, while monthly unique users plunged by 15%. However, Siri still remains the most popular personal assistant.
South Korea's tech giant Samsung has seen a drop in its digital assistant, S Voice, from 18% to 14%. Alexa, one of the big three competitors within the digital assistant space, has also registered impressive growth. Alexa's monthly unique users grew by 325%, and its user engagement grew from 11% to 21%.
Google too, as a digital assistant provider, seen its numbers improve; although Vetro Analytics did put up its numbers separately, as shown in the table below:
The fight to be a leader in the digital assistant space is getting hotter, as the likes of Cortana, Siri, Alexa go into speakers and smart home devices. Google and Amazon have already rolled out home speakers with personal assistants built-in.
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by Peter Tonguette
As a technical director specializing in entertainment events and game shows, Lucinda Margolis spends the better part of her days seated in front of television monitors. Earlier this year, however, when she and her husband moved into a new home, it took them about a month to plug in their own TV set.
"We don't watch a lot of television because our schedules are so demanding," Margolis says. "It's a rare pleasure to actually sit and watch a movie. I read a lot of books, and I listen to a lot of books on tape. I'm much more of a reader than I am a television-watcher."
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By the same token, she had tuned into the occasional episode of Wheel of Fortune (1983-persent) and Jeopardy! (1984-present), but until she began working on the syndicated game shows four seasons ago, she had never taken the time to study them carefully.
"I had seen both Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! because, gosh, they've been on for 30 years," says Margolis, who credits Wheel of Fortune director Robert Ennis — a former technical director himself — for bringing her up to speed on the inner workings of the show.
"Thank God for YouTube," she comments. "We put it on an iPad and played it over and over again. We basically rehearsed and cut the show to him calling it live and our playing it back from a previous show. We just practiced it over and over again, so the first day when I came in and sat down, the butterflies were down a little bit."
A native of Las Vegas, Margolis has been working in broadcasting since she was a teenager. While a freshman in high school, she was in search of an elective course to take and stumbled upon the student television studio. "I was thinking photography, but I didn't own a camera," she says. "I wandered down the hall and the television studio had its own equipment. I thought, 'I could do this.' The technical stuff looked interesting to me."
A job in radio followed. "I got my FCC third-class license when I was 14 and got a little job as a radio DJ at an automated station that played tapes in the middle of the night," Margolis remembers. "I had friends who were basically working in the cafeteria making fries, but I thought, 'I have a job at a radio station.'"
When she was 18, the future TD found employment at a then-independent station in Henderson, Nevada, KVVU-TV. "I got a midnight to 8:00 a.m. job because nobody wanted to work that shift," she recalls, but because of the small size of the station — and the late hour of the shift — the teenager learned the business.
"I ran almost everything," she recalls. "I would make commercials, do promos and load tapes. We would do a live morning talk show out of there every day. I ended up being a director there."
Two years later, Margolis moved onto KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, where she technical directed news programming. "It was small enough where you could actually hire a kid my age and have them do something because it wasn't so high pressure," she says, adding that the age of the station's outdated equipment proved to be a plus. "It was difficult to figure out, so it kind of gave me a great base to keep learning more and more equipment. I don't know how many different switchers in my life that I've been on, but once you learn a little bit about one, it applies to the next one."
Lucinda Margolis at the switcher.
Following a nearly decade-long tenure at KLAS, Margolis hopscotched between stations in Texas and Nevada before receiving an offer to technical direct sports programming — which she had begun to do on a freelance basis — at the now-defunct NMT (National Mobile Television) in Los Angeles. "A director asked me if I wanted to come to Los Angeles to do volleyball and I said, 'Sure!'" she reveals. "I started traveling basically every weekend after that day to do various events: baseball and basketball and football." The technical director moved to southern California in 1996.
In preparing for the assignments, Margolis took time to learn the intricacies of each sport and the ways in which they were shown on television. "I'd never done a baseball game in my life," she concedes. "I sat and I would look… You can tell there's a camera up at high home, there's a camera out in center field, there are some low ones. I would watch the elements, memorize them, see how many layers there were and then diagram it out."
The skill proved useful when transitioned from sports events to game shows, an opportunity that came about after meeting director Ennis through freelance work she did for Sony; Margolis teaches switchers to TDs at stations and facilities across the country. "He was at that point the technical director of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, so when he moved up to become the director of Wheel of Fortune, he asked me to technical direct for him."
One of the challenges of technical directing game shows, Margolis says, is to juggle game elements without revealing material meant to be kept secret from those in the studio, including the contestants and the audience. "When you're programming and you're trying to do certain effects, everything has to be blacked-off to the studio," she comments. "That really adds a lot of complexity to any kind of programming you're doing on a game show."
Despite sharing personnel with Jeopardy!, Margolis says that Wheel of Fortune is the more demanding series to work on. "Jeopardy! doesn't change much," she observes. "I have effects that blow out of the board, and I cut the cameras. It's pretty quick." By contrast, Wheel of Fortune airs themed shows that require different set elements and reworked graphics. "Wheel literally will change between the Thursday and the Friday tapings," she explains. "We go from doing a Thanksgiving show to doing a Disney show. There is a lot more programming and a lot more layers in Wheel."
Normally, both series are taped on their own sets at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California. However, when Wheel of Fortune is taped at a remote location, that show's level of complexity is increased. For example, the series' eight cameras — including a camera showing a four-shot with all three contestants and host Pat Sajak; a Techno-Jib-supported camera that flies across the set; and a camera locked down on the show's spinning wheel — increase in number when on location.
Such was the case in October 2017, when Margolis technical directed Wheel of Fortune at the Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World in Florida. "It was a big deal," she stresses. "We had 12 cameras. We had four pedestal cameras, a Techno-Jib, a Steadicam and a couple of remote cameras. We added another downstage-right camera and another front-of-house camera."
Before she could cut between angles, of course, the cast, crew and contestants had to make their way to Florida. "I think 125 or 130 people traveled to Epcot," Margolis says. "Every day that I came to work for a while, there was another humongous truck being loaded. They take everything. We have the exact same set duplicated for the road. The offices, the editors, the makeup department, the contestant department — everybody goes [on location], so it's just this huge road show. It's almost like a circus."
At Sony, Margolis works from a booth on the set, but on location at Epcot, she worked from a truck on a lot that was "nowhere near the stage." "If you just want to go out and see how something is going, it's harder to have physical access to the stage," she says. "The fiber runs are amazing. Our truck was very, very far away from the location of the stage."
In the Wheel of Fortune control room: Chloe Corwin, booth production assistant; Patrick O'Brien, associate director; Bob Ennis, director; and Lucinda Margolis, technical director. Photo by Carol Kaelson. Sony Pictures Television
Equally challenging were variances in the switcher and other equipment. "It's a different brand, so it's a completely different build and nothing could be just brought on the disc and imported," the TD explains. "Everything had to be rebuilt within two days," including graphics representing tosses, spins, express rounds and bonus rounds. "Every one of them has an effect."
Three sets of shows were taped: one to air around Christmas, a second pegged to Valentine's Day and a third that was Disney-themed. For Margolis, however, the differing graphics were what distinguished the episodes. "As a technical director, I just looked at it as I needed to build effects that had Christmas graphics; I needed effects that had hearts; and I needed to make effects that had Tinker Bells," she comments. "From my point view, it was the elements."
Each night on the outdoor stage, five shows were taped, beginning around 7:00 p.m. — close to sunset. However, three of the evening's five shows had to be wrapped up by 9:00 p.m. "Epcot has fireworks that go off at 9:00, Margolis explains. "We had to be done and be completely dark. The stage couldn't have any lights on it." After the fireworks, a second audience was loaded and the evening's final two shows were taped. "You're basically trying to work around everything that the park needs to do — because the park is open the whole time."
The novelty of working outside of the confines of the studio is Margolis' most lasting memory of her week at the Magic Kingdom. Not to mention the Disney-fanatic contestants. For the Valentine's Day episodes, married couples were chosen as contestants. "Most of them had gone to Disney for their honeymoons," Margolis remembers. "It was just adorable. They were really big Disney fans."
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