mankind has actually utilized biotechnology in farming, food production, and medication. The large idea of "biotech" or "biotechnology" includes a large range of treatments for customizing living organisms inning accordance with human functions, returning to domestication of animals, growing of the plants, and "enhancements" to these through reproducing programs that utilize synthetic choice and hybridization. Modern use likewise consists of genetic modification along with cell and tissue culture innovations. The American Chemical Society specifies biotechnology as the application of biological organisms, systems, or procedures by different markets to finding out about the science of life and the enhancement of the worth of organisms and products such as pharmaceuticals, crops, and animals.
Alternatively, modern-day life sciences (consisting of even principles such as molecular ecology) are thoroughly laced and greatly depending on the techniques established through biotechnology and exactly what is typically considered the life sciences market. Biotechnology is the research study and advancement in the lab utilizing bioinformatics for expedition, extraction, exploitation and production from any living organisms and any source of biomass by ways of biochemical engineering where high value-added items might be prepared (replicated by biosynthesis, for instance), anticipated, developed, established, made, and marketed for the function of sustainable operations (for the return from endless preliminary financial investment on R & D) and getting long lasting patents rights (for exclusives rights for sales, and prior to this to get global and nationwide approval from the outcomes on animal experiment and human experiment, specifically on the pharmaceutical branch of biotechnology to avoid any undiscovered side-effects or security issues using the items).
At its most basic, biotechnology is innovation based upon biology – biotechnology utilizes biomolecular and cellular procedures to establish innovations and items that help enhance our lives and the health of our world. We have actually utilized the biological procedures of bacteria for more than 6,000 years to make beneficial food, such as bread and cheese, and to protect dairy items. Modern biotechnology supplies development items and innovations to fight crippling and uncommon illness, lower our ecological footprint, feed the starving, utilize less and cleaner energy, and have much safer, cleaner and more effective commercial produ ction procedures.Presently, there are more than 250 biotechnology healthcare items and vaccines offered to clients, lots of for formerly untreatable illness. More than 13.3 million farmers worldwide usage farming biotechnology to increase yields, avoid damage from insects and pests and decrease farming's influence on the environment. And more than 50 biorefineries are being constructed throughout North America to evaluate and fine-tune innovations to produce biofuels and chemicals from eco-friendly biomass, which can help in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
While biotechnology and pharmaceutical business both produce medication, biotechnology business' medications have a biological basis, and pharmaceutical business' medications have a chemical basis. Biotechnology business utilize live organisms or their items, such as enzymes or germs, to make their drugs. On the other hand, pharmaceutical business utilize just chemical– and typically synthetic– products to develop drugs. Biotechnology likewise has more applications than pharmaceutical business. Biotechnology business have actually established variations of crops without particular food irritants, crops that need less pesticides and crops with a more total nutrient profile. While there is some overlap in between biotechnology and pharmaceutical business in regards to research study, production and dispersing drugs, biotechnology's scope is much higher.
The disparity in the expense and length of time needed to produce a brand-new item has actually caused biotechnology items holding their patents for a lot longer than pharmaceutical business. Where pharmaceutical business normally hold the special rights to produce and disperse their drugs for 5 years, biotechnology business have their patents for 12 years. All this results in really unpredictable earnings for biotechnology business. Lots of run at a loss for several years till an extremely lucrative compound is made, when their revenues can be even higher than pharmaceutical business. Alternatively, pharmaceutical business' earnings, and for that reason their stock costs, have the tendency to change less.
By contrast, bioengineering is normally considered an associated field that more greatly highlights greater systems methods (not always the utilizing or changing of biological products straight) for interfacing with and making use of living things. Bioengineering is the application of the concepts of engineering and lives sciences to particles, tissues and cells. This can be thought about as using understanding from dealing with and controling biology to attain an outcome that can enhance functions in animals and plants. Relatedly, biomedical engineering is an overlapping field that typically brings into play and uses biotechnology (by different meanings), particularly in specific sub-fields of chemical and/or biomedical engineering such as tissue engineering, biopharmaceutical engineering, and genetic modification.
Farming has actually been thought to have actually ended up being the dominant method of producing food considering that the Neolithic Revolution. Through early biotechnology, the earliest farmers chosen and reproduced the very best matched crops, having the greatest yields, to produce sufficient food to support a growing population.As fields and crops ended up being tough and significantly big to keep, it was found that particular organisms and their spin-offs might successfully fertilize, bring back nitrogen, and control bugs. Throughout the history of farming, farmers have actually unintentionally modified the genes of their crops through presenting them to brand-new environments and reproducing them with other plants– among the very first types of biotechnology.
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Does the EU carbon market have the right policy for cars?
| The European | 8 September 2020
Road transport should not be top of the list when the European Union expands its carbon market into new sectors, the bloc's climate policy chief said on Tuesday.
The European Commission are proposing to reform its carbon market next year, and has mooted the idea of extending the scheme, which will force many companies to buy permits to cover their pollution in major areas such as shipping, buildings and road transport.
"We're certainly willing to look into this as a possibility, but at this stage, I personally am not convinced this is the right way forward," said Frans Timmermans, of the idea of adding road transport to the EU carbon market.
Speaking at an online event hosted by the NGO Transport & Environment, he said the EU would further tighten the CO2 emissions targets it imposes on carmakers in the coming years, and that this was a "more efficient" method of forcing deep pollution cuts.
In a bid to force carmakers to expand the share of low-emissions vehicles in their fleets, the 27-country bloc have tightened its car CO2 targets this year.
While numerous other EU sectors have curbed pollution, transport emissions have remained stubbornly high – in 2018, emissions from transport, including aviation, were roughly a quarter above 1990 levels.
All sectors should face a price of at least "60 euros per tonne of CO2 in 2023," the company's chief lobbyist, Thomas Steg, said. That is more than double the current price of pollution permits in the EU carbon market.
However, experts have raised doubts over whether the EU carbon market – its flagship climate policy tool – would be effective in pricing emissions from cars.
A report by consultancy Cambridge Econometrics, published in June, said adding transport to the carbon market would do little to drive extra emissions cuts, because the sector would be "relatively unresponsive" to the carbon price.
Reported by Kate Abnet
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Welcome to my place . . . Tirana, Albania
'It's good to appreciate how far Albania has come since the dictatorship ended in 1991'
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The National History Museum in Tirana, Albania, a city full of socialist realist art. Photograph: Getty Images
Elizabeth Gowing has been living in Tirana for more than five years. She moved there because of her partner's job and now runs a monthly environmental networking group, and supports volunteers in reading programmes with the Roma community. Having learned the language, she also works as a translator.
Where is the first place you always bring people to when they visit?
One of the abiding images of Albania is of the over 70,000 pillbox "bunkers" built during the communist regime as part of the paranoid dictatorship's defences against foreign invasion. Since the bunkers were designed to survive a direct grenade, they are very hard to destroy and remain studded over the landscape. The psychological and political legacy of that communist regime is still evident in Albania so when people come to visit, if they haven't already noticed bunkers in the surrounding hills on their journey into town, we go to the "Corner of the Dictatorships" on the main boulevard, where a bunker is preserved so you can go inside. Not an upbeat start to an itinerary, perhaps, but it's good to appreciate how far Albania has come since the dictatorship ended in 1991.
Where do you recommend for a great meal that gives a flavour of Tirana?
Located in Tirana's photogenic Lake Park, Mullixhiu is a creative, delicious, stylish restaurant offering reworkings of traditional dishes. Savouring their pumpkin, persimmon and sundried tomato salad, for example, helps you rethink the preconceptions of Albania; this is a country whose identity and cuisine lies somewhere between the Mediterranean and the former Ottoman Empire.
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Where is the best place to get a sense of Tirana's place in history?
The self-styled "cafe museum" Komiteti is hung with artefacts which the knowledgeable serving staff will tell you about as you sip at something from their extensive list of traditional and herbal-flavoured raki brandies. Whether it's looking at beautiful textiles, traditional carved furniture or the collection of every model of television and radio manufactured during the communist regime when Albania had to be self-sufficient, it's a great place to learn as well as to drink.
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Tirana's former mayor, now prime minister, famously brought his skills as an artist to painting Tirana's buildings in harlequin colours and patterns, and the same approach has been adopted by his protegé, the new mayor, who has created a citywide game of I-Spy on the junction boxes.
Communism's art was for the people and socialist realist art is everywhere. See the vast mosaic in Tirana's central square, the bas reliefs on the government buildings and the massive Mother Albania statue with sheer cheekbones and biceps that could kill a bear.
Visit the exquisite paintings of the Et'hem Bey Mosque in Tirana's central square. Albania was pronounced the world's first atheist state in 1967, but since the fall of the regime there is easy coexistence between the country's majority Muslims, the Bektashi Muslims (whose world headquarters is in Tirana) and Orthodox and Catholic Christians (the world's most famous Albanian, Mother Teresa, is commemorated in a large Tirana square and statue).
What should visitors save room in their suitcase for after a visit to Tirana?
Some 40 minutes' drive from Tirana is the town of Kruja, set on a dramatic escarpment and home to the country's largest antiques and handcrafts market. Handwoven kilims, bold and sometimes gaudy traditional costumes and carved wood utensils can all be bought very affordably, and there is plenty of communist-era memorabilia on sale too. If you can't get to Kruja check out the newly refurbished covered market in Tirana for the excellent "mountain tea".
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World's first flexible, conductive and transparent material could lead to foldable phones
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A new stretchable and transparent electrical conductor has been created at last, one that could finally allow entirely foldable tech to be made. Finding a material that meets all three conditions was thought impossible until recently, although there are plenty of materials that meet two of the three. We know of materials, for instances, that are transparent, but not stretchable (glass), while others are transparent and stretchable, but very poor electrical conductors, such as carbon nanotube films, graphene sheets and metal-nanowire meshes. The latter are very good conductors actually, in normal conditions, but not when you start stretching them.
The study was conducted by Zhifeng Ren, a physicist at the University of Huston, principal investigator at Texas Center for Superconductivity and his associates, Chuang Fei Guo and Tianyi Sun along with other two colleagues from Harvard University. The report published in Nature Communications describes the material in question as being composed of gold nanomesh electrodes, providing a very good level of electrical conductivity, as well as transparency and flexibility. Besides this, the material could prove to be specifically useful for biomedical applications since the gold nanomesh electrodes, made by lithography, only increases slightly the resistance even at a strain of 160 per cent.
Zhifeng Ren. Credit: University of Houston
Contrary to silver or copper, this material doesn't oxidize as easily, so there isn't a drop in electrical conductivity once its in operation with a medical device. The material is also the first one to use grain boundary lithography.
'It is much more transportable' , is what Guo concluded about the material, while the Korean phone company Samsung already demonstrated a device with a bendable screen in October and LG Electronics introduced a curved phone that's on the Asian market already for the mass distribution.
Ren notes, however, that even these gold nanomeshes broke and the material's electrical resistance increased when it was stretched, although its conductivity resumed when it was returned to the initial dimensions. This observation was false when tested on silver, mainly because of the high oxidation.
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Nearly 70 years have passed since October 1944 when Dick McCreery became the third and final Commander of the legendary Eighth Army in Italy – in succession to Monty and Oliver Leese. With his outstanding record as a fighting soldier and armoured tactician, it was no surprise to anyone that he was to be hugely successful.
McCreery was commissioned into the 12th Royal Lancers in 1915 and served on the Western Front surviving a serious wound and winning the MC. After commanding the regiment, he joined the staff of 1st Division under Alexander in 1938 before being given command of 2 Armoured Brigade. He won the DSO for his leadership during the Second BEF's attempt to stop the Germans south of the Somme in the aftermath of Dunkirk. As the Author reveals, McCreery's career nearly came to an abrupt end in Egypt in 1942. Sacked by Auchinleck, with whom he had major differences, he was in the right place to be selected as Chief of Staff to the Auk's successor, Alexander. He was later credited by Alex (but not by Monty!) for the solution to the El Alamein victory. He was promoted to command X Corps at Salerno, during the battles on the Gustav Line and in the advance to the Gothic Line.
As Commander 8th Army it was his brilliant plan to seize the Argenta Gap which enabled the Allies to drive the Germans back across the River Po into Austria. He subsequently became British High Commissioner in Austria, C in C British Army of the Rhine and British Military Representative at the UN, retiring in 1949. Remarkably, this is the first biography of arguably one of the finest British fighting generals of the Second World War and, certainly, one of the outstanding horsemen of his era. It should be read by all with an interest in leadership.
Richard Mead has been quietly ploughing the furrow of Second World War British military biography filling some surprisingly considerable gaps. Now we have the first full biography of one of Britain's unduly forgotten commanders of the war, Dick McCreery. It is thorough and rigorous in its use of primary and secondary sources. Highly recommended.
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This is a gripping account...Excellent Biography 10/10
McCreery was a key figure in the development of armoured warfare, an excellent tactician and among the most important British fighting generals of the war, all of which makes this book an important reference source.
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The Cavalryman being General Sir Richard McCreery - third and final commander of the legendary Eighth Army, described by Max Hastings as 'one of the ablest and least recognised British Generals of World War II'. A biography has been clearly overdue, this one ably makes up for lost time.
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Dick McCreery...was a professional soldier. The inter war years saw a time of study, sport, marriage and bloody hard work. He was fortunate to find favour with certain senior officers who looked kindly on him, most notably Alan Brooke the future CIGS. This meticulous biography presents it all in an easy to read way which carries the reader along happily and all too soon you'll find yourself where the book intends us to be all along; at the crucible – World War II. McCreery's war was a fascinating one...Richard Mead was encouraged by some very worthy historians to write this book and he has not let them down. There was a hole on the biographical shelf of British Generals and it has been filled. Rather than another volume on one of the established stars we've had one of the very important blanks filled in. Well done Mr Mead!
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The fascination with the last of the cavalry is enduring, perhaps partly because of the horseman's apocalyptic links: one of the contenders for the last cavalry charge, about which there is no consensus, is the battle of Megiddo in 1918, on the Plain of Armageddon. Now we have another question: who was the last great cavalryman? Not that it is actually posed in this engaging biography of the British contender to that title, the little-known Sir Richard McCreery.
Richard Mead recounts the details of McCreery's life not wholly uncritically. How the claim of 'the last great cavalryman' compares with those of, say, Zhukov, Patton, von Senger und Etterlin or Bettoni is another matter. but the claim to the British title is unchallengeable.
McCreery was commander of the Eighth Army from September 1944 and was awarded a Distinguished Service Order for his leadership at Dunkirk. At the end of his career, he had achieved a remarkable record both as a fighting soldier and armoured tactician on battlefields from north Africa to Italy.
Gloucester Citizen
The flysheet notes explain that 'this is the first biography of arguably one of the finest British fighting generals of the Second World War and, certainly, one of the outstanding horsemen of his era. It should be read by all with an interest in leadership.' A quarter of the book relates to the Italian campaign from the Salerno landings and particularly to his remarkable offensive through the Argenta Gap, which prevented a German escape across the River Po.
Orders and Medals Journal
The life and times of a distinguished military general is charted meticulously in a book by a Gloucesterhire historian. Author Richard Mead has brought to life the career of Sir Richard McCreery, who played a pivotal role during the Second World War in his new book.
Gloucestershire Echo
This is the first time that the story has been publicly told of the final commander of the legendary Eighth Army in Italy, General Sir Richard McCreery. Widely credited by many for the El Alamein victory, this is the long-overdue story of one of the most important fighting generals of World War II.
Author Richard Mead...received the full backing of the family for his insightful book and gained access to the general's private diaries to help build a picture of the man. The book takes us through the general's distinguished careers in both world wars and examines this keen horseman's contribution to armoured warfare. For military buffs, this will be a welcome addition to the bookcase.
Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard
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Educated at Cambridge University, Richard Mead is a chartered accountant with wide commercial experience. As a military historian he specialises in the Second World War.
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by Spencer Herbst
In late 2015, Ralph Lauren, the eponymous founder and chief executive officer of the iconic American fashion house, announced that he would step away from the position of CEO and assume the posts of executive chairman and chief creative officer. The move was expected, given that Ralph Lauren was 75 years old at the time. In an unexpected move, however, he handed the Polo reins over to a young outsider, Stefan Larsson. Larsson, who had thrived in the world of fast fashion, was known for driving successful international expansion over a 15-year career at H&M and for engineering an impressive turnaround of Gap's Old Navy division.
This week, less than two years into the job, Larsson announced he was resigning. Larsson's tenure highlights the promise companies often see in bringing in outsiders and the perils they encounter upon approval.
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Given the general desire for familiarity and continuity in executive succession, boards and current CEOs are often hesitant to go outside their company when looking for successors. Indeed, when Ralph Lauren's company began searching for a successor and he first learned about the potential of the rising star from Old Navy and H&M, Lauren was skeptical. "I said, 'Why would I be looking for that? We're building a great luxury company,'" he told the New York Times.
However, when companies are grappling with discontinuous change — as all companies in the retail industry are — boards are increasingly finding that outsiders can be attractive options.
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Indeed, in the 2015 edition of the annual Strategy& CEO Success study, which examined CEO hirings and tenures at the world's 2,500 largest public companies, we found that between 2012 and the end of 2015, boards chose outsiders in 22 percent of planned turnovers, up from 14 percent in the 2004–07 period. That represents a 50 percent increase in the rate of outsider selection. And 74 percent of all the incoming outsider CEOs in 2012–15 were brought in during planned turnovers, up sharply from 43 percent in 2004–07.
Why? Rather than hoping that an internal candidate will transform the company, boards are attracted to outsiders who may have already demonstrated such skills and vision. And precisely because outsiders haven't grown up in the culture, they are often able to look at the company's challenges and problems from a wider perspective and propose changes more objectively. At the time of his hiring, Larsson was indeed praised as someone who could bring fresh thinking to a luxury brand struggling to cope with changing tastes and consumer habits.
And it is true that by bringing in outsiders more strategically and through planned successions, boards do improve their companies' chances of success. In the latest four-year period (2012–15), only 25 percent of the outgoing CEOs who had been hired as outsiders were dismissed, compared with 44 percent between 2004 and 2007. Additionally, although outsiders have historically lagged insiders in both tenure and median total shareholder return, in the last few years outgoing outsiders have enjoyed tenures of similar length and delivered similar median total shareholder returns as insiders.
Despite the progress companies have made, outsiders still face enormous challenges in driving aggressive turnarounds once they've on-boarded.
Of course, that's not true in every case. Larsson is leaving the CEO post due to disagreements over the company's turnaround strategy with Lauren himself. Specifically, Lauren cited different views over ways to evolve the creative and consumer-facing parts of the business. He did, however, say the company would continue to follow Larsson's "Way Forward" restructuring plan, which involved cutting stores, jobs, and production lead times, as well as refocusing on core products.
This latest episode is a reminder that despite the progress companies have made, outsiders still face enormous challenges in driving aggressive turnarounds once they've on-boarded. What makes outsiders valued can also put them at a disadvantage. When trying to balance the pressures for quick results with the imperative to make fundamental, long-lasting changes, having a deep understanding of the company's capabilities and culture as well as a robust and resilient relationship with the company's founder and executive chairman can be crucial assets.
In some instances, outsiders who try to drive change quickly in a tradition-bound organization may find that their ideas quickly go out of fashion.
Topics: apparel, ceo succession, leadership, retailing, strategy
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This unique three-day course offers an end-to-end, in-depth explanation of the launch vehicle to spacecraft payload mission and system integration as well as management and engineering processes. The course encompasses a blend of technical and management topics in addition to discussions of required processes, management responsibilities, contracts forms, legal aspect and launch site operations. Class materials are focused on the spacecraft/payload provider perspective and discussions include both domestic and foreign launch systems. Attendees are be exposed to a significant level of technical details including physical interfaces, analysis products, testing methods, data content, required deliverables and fairing systems. Course materials include descriptions and explanations of contracts, acquisition of launch services, system integration processes and procedures. The topic of risk management is included and discussed. Discussion include a class exercise focused on the development of a preliminary mission plan from information found in the user guides. Emerging launch vehicles, shared rides, secondary payloads, horizontal vs vertical processing, launch site and launch site operations are also presented and discussed. Finally, the course addresses special topics such as non-standard and special services, unique system integration challenges, a very brief overview of kick motors, upper-stage systems and nuclear-powered missions. Lectures will conclude with a "lessons learned" discussion.
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This course is intended for spacecraft project managers, mission designers, systems and payload engineers, principal investigators, integration engineers and supervisors. The focus is primarily on those who have never managed or experienced significant involvement in launch vehicle/payload integration processes.
Attendees will acquire a clear end-to-end understanding of all aspects related to the payload integration with insights into successful approaches for their respective missions and organizations such that mission success is achieved.
How to successfully plan for, develop, manage and implement a spacecraft to launch vehicle integration process from the beginning to the conclusion of a successful spacecraft separation event.
How to take a pro-active system engineering approach to the management and implementation of interfaces, deliverables, schedules, meetings and reviews.
Knowledge of technical aspects related to launch vehicle interfaces, fairings, separation systems, electrical and other interfaces.
This section will introduce the attendees to the legal and contract worlds and portray how they intersect with the development of a space mission, and the critically important acquisition of the launch vehicle and related services. Starting at the beginning of the conceptual phase of developing a Space Mission, identifying the "likely" launch vehicle of families of vehicles, and continuing up to the Launch Vehicle acquisition contract award, this session ties these topics together, such that the remaining discussions in the course, proceed with a sufficient knowledge of the legal/contractual background and obligations required to be satisfied by the technical teams. Announcements of opportunities, directed missions, and launch vehicle acquisition processes (includes acquisition documents and acquisition processes), are explored. Legal aspects are briefly discussed including contract awards and protests, responsibilities for launch delays, liabilities, and insurance policies are presented. The differences in procurement approaches used for commercial, military and civilian space contracts and acquisition processes are discussed. Launch Services, launch vehicle hardware, block buys and sustainment infrastructure contracts are presented. Where spacecraft project development schedules vs. launch vehicle acquisition schedules collide and how to negotiate these speed bumps are explored. Shared rides, secondary payloads and other "rules of the road" for multiple payloads are also briefly explored.
The information available in the guides necessary to assist developing preliminary mission plans is discussed. This section in essence provides the attendees technical information AND instructions on how to navigate, manage, interpret and implement the information available in the guides including how to estimate mass to orbit performance, specify launch vehicle configurations and interfaces, etc.
This section provides the attendees a series of detailed discussions introducing the various payload interfaces available and commonly used across the worldwide launch industry. The course presents a comprehensive and technically rich discussion of payload adaptors, and separating interfaces including frangible joints, separation nuts, clamp-bands, separation springs, T0 purge, electrical umbilical and RF separating interfaces. Fairing pull-separating systems are also introduced. Keep out zones are introduced and accompanied by the critical factors and requirements that support the separation analysis tasks including a brief presentation on tip off rates and relative separation velocities. The typical fairing designs, materials, fairing separation systems employed on today's launch vehicle providers are presented. Special mission unique fairing entry doors are explained and a discussion on fairing static and dynamic envelopes, and physical access requirements are presented. The fairing environmental controls, atmospheres, fairing cleanliness and ground processing are also discussed.
This section focuses on acquainting the attendees with the usual and expected mission integration meetings, integration schedules and pre-launch critical milestones and events applicable to just about any Space project. The formation of special working groups and other tools that facilitate solutions to complex, multi-organization challenges are presented with several examples provided. How to successfully manage actions and requirements, how to craft and manage integration schedules and tailor reviews for success are presented. Gate products and other standards expected to be applied to achieve successful critical program reviews are discussed. How to manage, organize and run efficient integration meetings is also presented. Risk management is introduced and discussed.
This section passes briefly thru the various usual Spacecraft and launch vehicle provided data and analysis products applicable to any mission launching on any vehicle. The transfer process, configuration control and content and purpose of various electronic models, Interface Control Documents (ICD's), Interface Requirements Documents (IRD's), Launch Site Support Plans and Range safety documents is presented. At the conclusion of this section, the attendees should be able to independently identify critical project need and due dates for all the usual deliverables required by their individual project.
A brief in class exercise focused on "developing a preliminary mission plan" is conducted. The class will be challenged with this in class exercise, designed to craft an end-to-end mission plan, after being provided a candidate set of SC technical and mission requirements, and provided several launch vehicle mission planners guides from which to work from. The mission plan crafted will require the selection of a particular launch vehicle configuration, selections for the fairing and identify the launch site selected. Included in the exercise will be the specification and identification of the preferred physical interfaces, including a draft acquisition and mission integration schedule with key deliverables identified.
This session delves into the launch campaign and is applicable to almost any launch site in the world. Starting at payload arrival, early payload and launch vehicle integration activities, tests and verifications are covered. The payload processing facility interactions and requirements are discussed. The launch vehicle ground processing and coordination tasks, roles and responsibilities, actions, timelines, etc. are all covered. The integration flow, preparing for the spacecraft mate operation, and consolidated payload and launch vehicle testing, critical pad activities, final preparations for launch, launch and post launch activities are discussed.
Payload provided kick motors and upper stage systems are briefly presented. Safe and arm (S&A) systems, Flight termination systems (FTS), integrated trajectory and performance, safety and mission assurance challenges, spinning and thrust-vector controlled stages, etc. are all presented as an educational and familiarization session.
Nuclear Powered Missions present the attendees a very brief and general overview designed to introduce the nuclear-powered spacecraft systems (RTG's, MMRTG's, RHU's, ASRG's) typically employed for inter-planetary and other specialized missions. The nuclear power source physical integration flow, crew certification, pathfinders, security and other aspects of nuclear missions are covered. An overview of the nuclear launch approval process including the data books, launch vehicle certification, environmental impact statement, etc.
Lessons Learned and "Near Misses" is the final and concluding session of the course which brings many lessons learned, as viewed from the Spacecraft payload perspective forward. Contributing factors and mitigations for future missions accompany the lessons learned.
Closing remarks and a final question and answer session will then occur in the wrap up session at the end of the final day. The parting shot requested by the instructor, is for the class to fill out an optional and anonymous survey of the individual's satisfaction level with the course accompanied by an appeal for suggested improvements The survey will also probe the attendees to provide their rationale for selecting this class, and rating it and also be accompanied by a solicitation for any remarks or suggested improvement's to improve the class for future offerings. The responses requested are optional in nature and can be responded to via an anonymous manner of desired.
Steven R. Vernon has over 30 years of experience focusing on launch vehicle payload integration, spacecraft mechanical systems engineering, mechanisms design, and assembly and test operations. He has led and managed Spacecraft payload to launch vehicle system integration efforts and launch campaigns on nuclear and conventional powered spacecraft, civilian and military space sponsors. Mr. Vernon has also led the integration efforts for several first fight upper stage systems integrated into the Atlas and Delta IV Heavy launch vehicles and is also a private commercial industry consultant for several new, emerging launch vehicle companies. Mr. Vernon holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and is the author or co-author of over 35 formal publications covering spacecraft system engineering, launch vehicle payload systems integration, spacecraft mechanical systems, space mechanisms and spacecraft structures and advanced mission concepts. He is the recipient of several NASA and DOD group achievement awards and NASA civilian contractor awards. His most recent accomplishments include lead system engineering and management roles carried out on the Europa Lander Project, Van Allen Probes, Pluto/New Horizons mission and the recently launched Parker Solar Probe Mission. He currently is the launch system integration lead assigned to an asteroid rendezvous mission and the interstellar probe mission.


It's not a pipeline problem. It's about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers.
Consider the experiences of the people who know best: Women who were in the running to become No. 1, but didn't quite make it. The women who had to stop at No. 2.
What their stories show is that in business, as in politics, women who aspire to power evoke far more resistance, both overt and subtle, than they expected would be the case by now.
The impact of gender is hard to pin down decisively. But after years of biting their tongues, believing their ranks would swell if they simply worked hard, many senior women in business are concluding that the barriers are more deeply rooted and persistent than they wanted to believe, according to interviews with nearly two dozen chief executives, would-be chief executives, headhunters, business school deans and human resources professionals.
What they say: Women are often seen as dependable, less often as visionary. Women tend to be less comfortable with self-promotion — and more likely to be criticized when they do grab the spotlight. Men remain threatened by assertive women. Most women are not socialized to be unapologetically competitive. Some women get discouraged and drop out along the way. And many are disproportionately penalized for stumbles.
Jan Fields worked her way from crew member at a McDonald's restaurant to become president of McDonald's USA, the No. 2 position at the company. She was fired in 2012, blamed for the first monthly drop in profits since 2003 during a strategic push for higher prices. From her perspective, she was making bold changes necessary for the company's survival; McDonald's has struggled in recent years amid increasing consumer consciousness about health.
She's blunt about the life of a woman near the top.
But after three years in the No. 2 spot, she and her boss disagreed about strategy. She pushed hard for changes, as she said many women in her place have done. "That's how come I'm gone," she said.
When women act forcefully, research suggests, men are more likely to react badly. A Lean In/McKinsey & Company survey in 2016 of 132 companies and 34,000 employees found that women who negotiated for promotions were 30 percent more likely than men to be labeled intimidating, bossy or aggressive.
Another executive spent 30 years in Fortune 500 companies, rising to the C-suite, the pool from which the next chief executive may be chosen. She described her experience in detail but insisted on anonymity because she has a settlement agreement with the company and remains friendly with her former boss. She gained a reputation for finding growth where others had not, often doubling the revenue of her divisions.
She was seen as a possible successor to the chief executive, but she said she was unprepared for corporate politics at the very top. "Before heading to the C-suite, I didn't feel I was handicapped at all," she said, echoing conversations with many other women. But the next rungs of the ladder depend not only on results but also on prevailing in an environment where everyone is competing for a chance at the top job.
Her turning point came when she was outmaneuvered by male colleagues during a corporate reorganization. Believing she was not going to rise further, she asked for an exit package.
Sally Blount, dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern and the only woman to lead a top 10 business school, noted that data predicts that half or more of the women who earn an M.B.A. this year will drop out of the full-time work force within a decade. The reasons range from family conflicts to placing less inherent value on position or money. That accounts in part for the low number of women who do reach the very top job, because fewer remain in the pipeline. Yet even those women who stay and reach the C-suite are more likely than men to be overlooked, Ms. Blount said.
The parallels with politics are striking. Research in both fields, including some conducted after Mrs. Clinton's loss, has shown it's harder for assertive, ambitious women to be seen as likable, and easier to conclude they lack some intangible, ill-defined quality of leadership.
In a Korn Ferry survey in April of 786 male and female senior executives, 43 percent said they thought that continued bias against women as chief executives was the primary reason more women did not make it to the top in their own companies — and 33 percent thought women in their firms were not given sufficient opportunities to become leaders.
The Lean In survey shows a pervasive sense among women that they face structural disadvantages: They are less likely than men to believe they will be able to participate in meetings, receive challenging assignments or find their contributions valued. The bleakest perceptions are from minority women; only 29 percent of black women think the best opportunities at their companies go to the most deserving employees, compared with 47 percent of white women.
Yet many women work in companies with public commitments to diversity and clear policies against discrimination, with many men who sincerely believe they want women to advance.
That makes many of the subtler ways women encounter bias more pernicious than blatant discrimination, a Harvard Business Review meta-analysis found.
Many women, accomplished as they are, don't feel the same sense of innate confidence as their male peers. Gerri Elliott, a former senior executive at Juniper Networks (who said she did not personally encounter bias), recounts a story related by a colleague: A presenter asked a group of men and women whether anyone had expertise in breast-feeding. A man raised his hand. He had watched his wife for three months. The women in the crowd, mothers among them, didn't come forward as experts.
But she and other women describe a culture in which men sometimes feel hesitant to give women honest but harsh feedback, which can be necessary for them to ascend, because they fear women may react emotionally.
Dina Dublon, who retired in 2004 as chief financial officer of JPMorgan Chase, said male colleagues sometimes told her they were reluctant to have dinner or drinks with female subordinates — important bonding activities in the corporate world — because it might be seen as flirtatious.
The widespread concern in business circles about the slow progress of women to the top has spawned a virtual cottage industry of recent initiatives, from Paradigm for Parity, of which Ms. Kullman is a co-chairwoman, to 100x25, a Rockefeller Foundation initiative aiming for 100 female chief executives in the Fortune 500 by 2025. That number now stands at 32 — an all-time high and spurt from last year, when there were 21.
Pledges may be welcome, but consequences must follow, said Deborah Gillis, president and chief executive of Catalyst, which pushes for women's advancement in business. She suggests withholding bonuses if leaders do not promote enough women or minorities and increasing bonuses if they do.
In recounting their experiences, some women were philosophical; several swung between barely suppressed fury and bouts of self-blame. Our interviews were long and sometimes wrenching. As a former senior executive myself, I found that some of what they described resonated.
Tracing what role gender played in any decision is often elusive. These women were high achievers, accustomed to knocking down barriers, not running up against them. There's seldom one reason someone else wins out, making the dissection of any outcome all the more painful and perplexing.
Yes, there are men who truly want women to succeed. Yes, businesses understand that a changing customer base means they fail to diversify at their peril. No one wants to give in to defeatism. But the long path to the top, and the loneliness at the summit, are forcing a reckoning.
The fury and revulsion aimed at Mrs. Clinton — as well as the more open misogyny in some quarters in the wake of the election — has led many women to question whether they've underestimated a visceral recoil against women taking power in any arena.
Many fear they already know the answer.
An earlier version of this story incorrectly described the 100x25 project. It is a Rockefeller Foundation initiative, not a partnership between the foundation and Korn Ferry.
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I can't think of a context that those English words would be used other than as a pretty unnatural way to say "Why is that all there is? Why isn't there more?" ... and the Swahili doesn't look like it would mean that.
Given that it is an unnatural construction, could it be correct to say, "Kwa nini ina yote?"
That would be more like "why does it have all" ... change "ina" to "hiyo/ile ni" and I guess so.


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International Quantum Shorts film festival opens for entries.
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QuantIC is excited to announce the Quantum Shorts film festival is returning with a new call for entries. The international contest seeks films up to five minutes long that draw inspiration from the quantum world.
Filmmakers can take their pick of quantum ideas to enter films or animations for a chance at international screenings and cash prizes. The festival's website offers an A to Z guide of ideas from the act of observation to zero-point energy, with entanglement, computing and more in between. The film festival is free to enter and accepting submissions until 1 December 2020.
The festival judges are filmmakers, physicists, science communicators and museum professionals who form two panels to review submissions: first to select a shortlist of up to ten films, and then to decide the top prizes.
What do filmmakers stand to win? Quantum Shorts offers a US$1500 First Prize, US$1000 for Runner Up and a People's Choice prize of US$500. The People's Choice will be decided by public vote on the shortlist. All shortlisted films will also receive a US$250 shortlist prize and a one-year digital subscription to Scientific American.
Quantum Shorts is organised by the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore and supported by partners around the world.
Quantum Shorts welcomes as media partners Scientific American; the longest continuously published magazine in the U.S and Nature; the international weekly journal of science. Scientific partners are the Dodd-Walls Centre, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems, the Institute for Quantum Computing, the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, QuTech, and the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme.
Plans for events are contingent on local pandemic conditions in 2021, but Quantum Shorts hopes to work with scientific partners and screening partners to hold some live screenings of the shortlisted films. The festival will also be holding online screening events. Look out for details of events announced later.
The Quantum Shorts film festival can accept submission of films screened or posted online previously, as long as the first screening date is no earlier than 1 December 2018.
Submissions to Quantum Shorts can be entered via the website at http://shorts.quantumlah.org, which also features a full set of rules and guidelines.
The deadline for entries is 23:59 GMT, 1 December 2020.
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Having access to the internet is increasingly considered to be an emerging human right. International organizations and national governments have begun to formally recognize its importance to freedom of speech, expression, and information exchange. The next step to help ensure some measure of cyber peace online may be for cybersecurity to be recognized as a human right, too.
The United Nations has taken note of the crucial role of internet connectivity in "the struggle for human rights." United Nations officials have decried the actions of governments cutting off internet access as denying their citizens' rights to free expression.
But access is not enough. Those of us who have regular internet access often suffer from cyber-fatigue: We're all simultaneously expecting our data to be hacked at any moment and feeling powerless to prevent it. Late last year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online rights advocacy group, called for technology companies to "unite in defense of users," securing their systems against intrusion by hackers as well as government surveillance.
It's time to rethink how we understand the cybersecurity of digital communications. One of the U.N.'s leading champions of free expression, international law expert David Kaye, in 2015 called for "the encryption of private communications to be made a standard." These and other developments in the international and business communities are signaling what could be early phases of declaring cybersecurity to be a human right that governments, companies, and individuals should work to protect.
Is Internet Access a Right?
The idea of internet access as a human right is not without controversy. No less an authority than Vinton Cerf, a "father of the internet," has argued that technology itself is not a right, but a means through which rights can be exercised.
All the same, more and more nations have declared their citizens' right to internet access. Spain, France, Finland, Costa Rica, Estonia, and Greece have codified this right in a variety of ways, including in their constitutions, laws, and judicial rulings.
A former head of the U.N.'s global telecommunications governing body has argued that governments must "regard the internet as basic infrastructure – just like roads, waste, and water." Global public opinion seems to overwhelmingly agree.
Cerf's argument may, in fact, strengthen the case for cybersecurity as a human right – ensuring that technology enables people to exercise their rights to privacy and free communication.
Current international human rights law includes many principles that apply to cybersecurity. For example, Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights includes protections of freedom of speech, communication and access to information. Similarly, Article 3 states "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person." But enforcing these rights is difficult under international law. As a result, many countries ignore the rules.
There is cause for hope, though. As far back as 2011, the U.N.'s High Commission for Human Rights said that human rights are equally valid online as offline. Protecting people's privacy is no less important when handling paper documents, for instance, than when dealing with digital correspondence. The U.N.'s Human Rights Council reinforced that stance in 2012, 2014 and 2016.
Simply put, the obligation to protect these rights involves developing new cybersecurity policies, such as encrypting all communications and discarding old and unneeded data, rather than keeping it around indefinitely. More firms are using the U.N.'s Guiding Principles to help inform their business decision-making to promote human rights due diligence. They are also using U.S. government recommendations, in the form of the National Institute for Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework, to help determine how best to protect their data and that of their customers.
In time, the tide will likely strengthen. Internet access will become more widely recognized as a human right – and following in its wake may well be cybersecurity. As people use online services more in their daily lives, their expectations of digital privacy and freedom of expression will lead them to demand better protections.
Governments will respond by building on the foundations of existing international law, formally extending into cyberspace the human rights to privacy, freedom of expression and improved economic well-being. Now is the time for businesses, governments, and individuals to prepare for this development by incorporating cybersecurity as a fundamental ethical consideration in telecommunications, data storage, corporate social responsibility, and enterprise risk management.


There was a fantastic atmosphere at Mullaghmeen on Friday night as Enniskillen Rugby Club hosted local rivals Clogher Valley RFC in a, perhaps ambitiously titled, friendly in aid of Cancer Connect NI, with music afterwards from high profile Tyrone band "The Logues".
A minutes silence took place before the game for the father of Richard Haire who is both a past club captain of Enniskillen, as well as a current Clogher Valley stalwart.
The game kicked off with Enniskillen clearly up for the challenge, playing good rugby deep in the Clogher half and dominating the early phases of play. The set piece was solid for Enniskillen and granted them a good share of possession, scrums were a hard fought contest from the outset with Alan Ferguson, Steven Fox and Gareth Beatty more than holding their own throughout, and Kaine Holden consistently winning good ball at the line-out.
Great early work from Enniskillen was soon nullified however, with a turnover and a long kick into Skins territory. Credit must go to the industrious Clogher defence who relentlessly hounded Enniskillen's half-back pairing all night and shut down any attempt from Enniskillen to unleash Alan Wilkinson and James Ferguson in the centres.
Enniskillen now found themselves on the back foot in the latter part of the first half with Clogher's back line firing on all cyclinders. Strong running from Faulkner in the centres and impressive support play eventually broke the skins defence which gave way twice in the first half, the additional penalty leaving the half time score 13-0 to the visitors.
The second half was more positive for Enniskillen, indiscipline from Clogher created numerous penalty opportunities but resulting line-outs from kicks to touch were all well dealt with and the maul proved ineffectual.
An injury to Dan Allister at out-half led to a reshuffle with Alan Wilkinson taking his place and Ben Parkinson coming on in the centres, as well as Patrick McCleery moving from fullback to scrum-half. This seemed to work well for Skins with the wider back line seeing more ball and looking very dangerous when doing so, first XV newcomer Chris Daley performing very well against powerful opposition. The added introduction of Stephen Welsh and Richard Beatty into the front row brought some more experience to the team and greatly improved the performance at the breakdown.
Enniskillen were unlucky not to keep the second half level as Clogher once again crossed the line to leave the final score 18-0. Though there'll be some hard work to be done on the training park Enniskillen can take a lot away from this game, and with the return of some key players head coach Norman Richmond will be very positive about their upcoming season.
Many thanks to Clogher Valley for an excellent contest in support of a great cause. Enniskillen's final pre-season friendly before the league begins takes place this Saturday at Mullaghmeen against Lurgan.


Matthias Collischon completed his Bachelor's Degree in Socioeconomics with the focus area "Behavioral Studies" in Nuremberg in 2014 and continued with the master degree program in Socioeconomics. He began working at Prof. Riphahn's chair in Juli 2016.
Reichelt, M.; Collischon, M.; Eberl, A. (2019). School tracking and its role in social reproduction: Reinforcing educational inheritance and the direct effects of social origin. British Journal of Sociology. doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12655 [Open Access].