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Vaccine passports are extremely popular, but some people have concerns
Victoria M. Walker
Victoria M. Walker is a former TPG senior travel reporter. She previously taught multimedia journalism at Howard University and was the breaking news video editor at The Washington Post.
We've spent a lot of time at TPG over the past few months talking about vaccine passports: what they are, who's making them and where you may be able to travel with one. Not every app or platform will offer the same features, but proving your vaccination status will likely be an essential part of the travel experience after the pandemic.
It's important to note that most vaccine passports currently available or in development are free and voluntary to use. "Vaccine passport" is a pretty broad term, and several platforms, such as IATA's Travel Pass, shy away from the term "passport" altogether.
Creators of vaccine passports say they're a streamlined approach to digitizing paper health documents and designed to verify the information to reduce the likelihood of fraud. But critics say that mandating vaccine passports could deepen inequalities already intensified by the pandemic. So, as travel begins to reopen, should you use them? Here's what you need to know.
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Equity concerns
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There are stark inequalities in who has access to the COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. and worldwide. Experts fear those lines could be even further divided with the use of vaccine passports.
And the question is: Are we willing to leave people behind in a push to get back to normal? So far, some forms of vaccine passports have been used to fly on international airlines and to enter sporting events and other large-scale gatherings. For its part, the World Health Organization (WHO) doesn't support requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for international travel. However, it said its recommendations would evolve "as supply expands and as evidence about existing and new COVID-19 vaccines is compiled."
"If vaccine passports dictate freedom, opportunity, employment, they could negatively impact those who do not have access to the vaccine or even the technology around passports," said Saskia Popescu in an email TPG.
Popescu is an assistant professor of the biodefense program at George Mason University. She recently wrote an essay for The New York Times' opinion section warning about potential ethical hurdles.
"Any time we're implementing tech during an emergent time, there's, of course, a concern for privacy, equity, and ethics," Popescu said.
The COVAX program was created to ensure the equitable distribution of coronavirus vaccines to middle and low-income countries. But much of the developing world trails behind -- and it may be years before their citizens are vaccinated en masse. According to a New York Times study, just 0.1 percent of COVID-19 vaccines have gone to low-income countries, while nearly 90% have gone to wealthier ones.
The East African country of Malawi, for instance, has received just 360,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine through the COVAX program. These first doses will go to healthcare workers and the elderly.
And we don't see inequalities just outside of the U.S.
While almost 22% of Americans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the disparities are evident when you look at the data by race. In the United States, whites outpace Black Americans in every state that reports vaccine racial data, even in states with a higher population of Black Americans.
Experts say they believe these inequalities could be widened if vaccine passports were required instead of merely suggested like they currently are.
For starters, not everyone owns a smartphone -- 81% of Americans were smartphone owners in 2019, according to a Pew Research study. But that number falls to just 39% percent for Americans over 65. Several of the makers of vaccine passports have indicated that there will be alternate ways to prove vaccine and negative test status for those without smartphones or those who don't want to use a vaccine passport.
The COVID-19 pandemic isn't the first time vaccines have been required to enter a country or participate in activities. Having received a COVID-19 vaccine could very well be a new requirement for entry to some destinations, similar to the way proof of yellow fever vaccination is already necessary to travel to some countries. But that process could leave people who don't have access to the vaccine yet out.
"To do any sort of international global travel, you have to have certain ease to be able to afford those vaccinations," said Jennifer Syvertsen from the Center for Health Disparities Research at the University of California, Riverside. "I can imagine that something like [a vaccine passport or vaccine requirement], depending on how the system is set up, could create an extra hurdle for folks who don't have all that privilege in the time and having the funds to be able to get everything together," she continued.
"[The use of vaccine passports] is about weighing the risk and the benefit and thinking about what is really best for the collective good and the collective safety of populations and not just thinking about ourselves," Syvertsen said.
U.S. won't require vaccine passports for travel
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At this point, the federal government doesn't seem too keen on wading into the controversy over vaccine passports.
The Biden administration this week threw cold water on the idea of a federal program for vaccine passports. On Monday, March 29, both the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' acting head and the White House said there would be no federal mandate for vaccine passports. They also said there were no plans for a vaccine database.
Andy Slavitt, acting director for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said during a White House COVID-19 briefing, "The government here is not viewing its role as the place to create a passport, nor a place to hold the data of citizens. We view this as something that the private sector is doing and will do."
Related: White House won't require vaccine passports for travel
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki echoed that on Monday, saying that the White House wants to "encourage an open marketplace" with nonprofit organizations and the private sector.
But ethicists have concerns about leaving vaccine passport rollouts to the private sector.
"[There are] concerns around privacy, around personal health information and forgery and the ability of people to hack into these systems," Syvertsen said.
Vaccine passports have been in the news a lot lately and have been framed as a way to make travel and other events much more manageable. Companies making vaccine passports have indicated that they're aware of potential equity and equality issues, but experts and travelers have expressed concerns. This issue will continue to evolve as more individuals around the world are vaccinated.
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Fig. 1: Atomically resolved surface structure of CeCoIn5.
The discovery of superconductivity in heavy fermion materials marked the birth of unconventional superconductivity. As with the subsequently found cuprates and iron pnictides, the Cooper pairing mechanism of heavy-fermion superconductors, while long hypothesized as due to spin fluctuations, has not been determined. It is the momentum space (k-space) structure of the superconducting energy gap Δ(k) that encodes specifics of this pairing mechanism. However, because the energy scales are so low, it has not been possible to directly measure Δ(k) for any heavy-fermion superconductor. Bogoliubov quasiparticle interference (QPI) imaging, a proven technique for measuring the energy gaps of high-Tc superconductors, has been proposed by Akbardi et al. (PRB 84, 134505 (2011)) as a new method to measure Δ(k) in heavy-fermion superconductors, specifically CeCoIn5.
Fig. 2: Δ(k) for CeCoIn5.
By implementing this method, we detect a superconducting energy gap whose nodes are oriented along k||(±1,±1)π/a0 directions. Moreover, we determine the detailed structure of its multiband energy gaps Δi(k). For CeCoIn5, this information includes: the complex band structure and Fermi surface of the hybridized heavy bands, the fact that largest magnitude Δ(k) opens on a high-k band so that the primary gap nodes occur at unforeseen k-space locations, and that the Bogoliubov quasiparticle interference patterns are most consistent with dx2-y2 gap symmetry. Such quantitative knowledge of both the heavy band-structure and superconducting gap-structure will be critical in identifying the microscopic pairing mechanism of heavy fermion superconductivity.
For more information, see Nature Physics 9, 468 (2013).
Using the experimentally determined band structure of CeCoIn5, we reveal quantitatively the momentum space (k-space) structure of the f-electron magnetic interactions. Then, with the assumption that these magnetic interactions are mediating Cooper pairing, the coupled superconducting gap equations are solved on the two heavy-fermion bands Eα,β(k). The resulting calculated momentum space structure of the superconducting gap, Δα,β(k) is in remarkable good agreement with the experimentally determined one. Furthermore, our phase sensitive quasi particle interference scattering measurements are in good agreement with a sign change of the superconducting order parameter, which provides additional strong indications for a d-wave superconducting gap in CeCoIn5.
From the k-space structure of the f-electron magnetic interactions, a variety of characteristics for unconventional superconductivity driven by them can be calculated. We show that the calculated superconducting transitions temperature, the spin resonance seen by neutron scattering, and the spin relaxation rate are all qualitatively in good agreement with experiment, providing direct evidence that the heavy fermion Cooper pairing in this material is indeed mediated by f-electron magnetism.
For more information, see PNAS 111, 11663 (2014).
Fig. 3: Phase sensitive QPI on CeCoIn5.


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Monomotapa o Mwene Mutapa (Mwenemutapa) fou el nom donat pels portuguesos al regne creat al sud del riu Zambesi, anomenat generalment Mutapa.

Significat del nom
La paraula "monomotapa " és d'origen bantu. La seva interpretació és variada: el pare J. Torrend ("Comparative Grammar of the South African Bantu Languages") diu que voldria dir "Senyor dels elefants d'aigua", i remarca que els hipopòtams són encara un animal sagrat entre el poble dels karanga. Una altra versió diu que Mutapa vol dir "Terres conquerides" i mwene és el nom bantu per "senyor". Un altre variant del nom apareix com munhu mu tapa o Manhumutapa, que va oiriginar el portugues Monomotapa.

Referències portugueses
El primer que esmenta el nom és Diogo de Alcaçova el 1506, que parla del monomotapa Mokomba (titulat "menamotapam")
com a pare del monomotapa Kwesarimgo, que hauria regant sobre Vealanga un gran regne que arribava fins a Sofala, i la capital del qual era Zumubani (corrupció de Zimbàbue, en realitat "zimbabue" que era el nom donat a les residències dels caps principals).

Els autors portuguesos parlen de dos títols dinàstics, mokomba i mambo, i diuen que els monomotapes governen sobre el regne de Macaranga, i encara diuen expressament que l'emperador era un macaranga és a dir un karanga (caranga en portuguès). Els cronistes al  descriuen les cerimònies de l'estat i la cort, el nombre d'esposes, l'ordre i l'organització dels oficials i altres aspectes.

Origen del regne
La tradició oral situa la seva eclosió al . El primer monomotapa fou un príncep guerrer xona de nom Nyatsimba Mutota, d'un regne xona del sud (regne dels torwa) enviat al nord per buscar sal; va trobar sal entre els tavara, un grup xona que vivia més al nord, grans caçadors d'elefants. Mutota i els seus guerrers van subjectar als tavara i es van establir a la zona del Zambesi, a la comarca de la muntanya Fura a uns 350 km al nord del Gran Zimbàbue. A Mutota el va succeir el seu fill Matope a qui es deu l'expansió del regne que va esdevenir un gran imperi; el monomotapa, en explotar les mines de coure de Chidzurgwe i el vorí del Zambesi va esdevenir un sobirà molt ric. El regne dels torwa, situat al sud, que era el lloc d'origen dels monomotapes, fou inclòs a l'imperi; l'exèrcit imperial va conquerir Manica i altres regnes de la costa com Kiteve i Madanda. La religió del regne era animista amb consultes rituals als esperits i culte als ancestres reials; els mèdiums amb els esperits, que tenien capelles a la capital, eren anomenats mhondoros, i al mateix temps transmetien els fets i la història per tradició oral.

Al final del  era un estat unit i poderós que els portuguesos, que es van establir a Moçambic el 1505, assenyalaven també com un estat ric. Sobre si aquest estat fou els fundador dels edificis coneguts com a zimbabues, o el mateix Gran Zimbàbue era el seu imperi, hi ha diverses teories, però probablement no ho era. Ja havia començat la decadència de l'estat al començar el . El monomotapa Makomba va cedir el govern dels districtes més allunyats a membres de la seva família que es van acabar fent més o menys independents. L'imperi del Monopotapa o Mwenemutapa estava jerarquitzat en diferents nivells d'autoritats: els regnes dependents de la costa dirigits per mwenes (singular mwene), ocupaven el primer lloc, i seguien els mambos i els ncoses.

L'extensió del regne abans del  no s'ha pogut determinar però es creu que la seva capital era el zimbabue proper a la fortalesa portuguesa de Masapa, a poca distància al sud del Zambesi. La capital del monomotapa és descrita pels portuguesos molt diferent del Gran Zimbàbue: construïda d'argila, fusta i palla estava rodejada per una empallissada que ocupava una hora fer el seu tomb; a l'interior hi havia tres grans recintes públics, un era la cort del monomotapa, un altre la residència de les seves dones i cortesans (uns 3000) i un tercer era pels servidors i la guàrdia, reclutada entre els joves solters del regne.

Influència portuguesa
Els portuguesos van sentir parlar del Monomotapa com un sobirà ric. Els comerciants i buscadors de fusta portuguesos (anomenats sertanejos) no van tardar a presentar-se en aquestes terres entre 1512 i 1516. António Fernandes, de la guarnició portuguesa de Sofala, fou el primer que va arribar fins a la seu de l'imperi el 1512. Els portuguesos volien l'or i això els va fer donar certa rellevància a la factoria de Sofala, perquè allà, segons tots els indicis, els comerciants musulmans l'obtenien amb facilitat. Però els portuguesos van haver de comprar l'or als comerciants swahilis. Chikuyo es va enfrontar a un rei (ncose) vassall, Inhamunda, que va entrar en rebel·lia contra el Monomotapa vers 1515 i, aliat als portuguesos, i mercès al tancament de les rutes que baixaven al golf de Sofala des de l'altiplà, va aconseguir un grau d'independència política important, el qual serà l'origen del futur regne de Quiteve (Kiteve) o Uteve. Els portuguesos es van poder establir a Quiteve.

Un missioner portugues va anar a evangelitzar als karanga vers el 1560, el pare Gonçalo da Silveira que va batejar al rei i part del seu poble, però al cap de poc, sota instigació de musulmans procedents de la costa, el rei va renunciar a la fe i va matar el missioner (16 de març de 1561). Poc van tardar els portuguesos a enviar una expedició de represàlia; mil homes sota comandament de Francisco Barreto van entrar al regne el 1568, però les malalties els van delmar i després d'arribar fins a l'alt Zambesi van retornar el 1572; al seu retorn van fer una massacra entre els comerciants swahilis, en revenja pel seu fracàs; ell lloc d'aquestos comerciants fou ocupat per portuguesos que després (ja barrejats amb els nadius) foren els prazeiros.

El 1573 el monomotapa Negomo o Nogomo va signar un tractat amb els portuguesos el que va consolidar la posició d'aquests a la vall del Zambesi. El tractat concedia als portuguesos el control de les mines d'or i plata del regne i els concedia una franja de terreny en perpetuïtat al sud del riu on es van construir Rios de Sena i Tete. Negomo acceptava a més a més una guarnició que havia de ser construïda a Masapa, prop de la seva capital, cosa que suposava reforçava la seva autoritat contra els súbdits deslleials. El rei va rebre una subvenció de cada governador portuguès i cobrava també un 50% de tots el productes d'importació. El seu control de la producció de l'or li garantia encara una posició sòlida, ja que els portuguesos volien aquest material i no tenien la capacitat d'obtenir-lo per si mateixos.

Protectorat portuguès
El 1596 va pujar al tron Gatsi Rusere i es va enfrontar als portuguesos. Aquestos van refusar les taxes per les mines que els havien estat cedides però el 1609 els portuguesos li van imposar un tractat. El successor de Gatsi Rusere, Kaparidze, va iniciar accions contra els portuguesos el 1622; els portuguesos van decidir matar-lo i substituir-lo per un rei-titella anomenat Mavura. El 24 de maig de 1629 Mavura va haver de signar un desigual tractat que garantia el domini portuguès al Zambesi. Els esclaus del rei foren enviats al Brasil.

Després del 1607, els portugueses es van establir sòlidament al fort de Masapa i el rei va esdevenir un aliat portugues. Els reis foren batejats per frares dominicans. El 1629 després que el monomotapa Mavura va signar el tractat, l'imperi va quedar sota protecció portuguesa; el tractat permetia l'establiment de portuguesos al regne i als prazeiros a crear establiments fortificats per tot els dominis reials; en els següents anys territoris que li pertanyien o de reietons vassalls (ncoses o inkosis, i fumes), se'n van separar. Kiteve, Madanda, Manica i altres regnes van deixar de pagar el tribut, mentre sorgia un altre regne, Barua o Barwe. El 1673 els prazeiros van deposar al monomotapa i van posar al tron a un candidat del seu gust.

El regne de Butua
El regne de Butua o Butwa o Butwe l'havien format vers el 1600 els rozwi, un poble de pastors, ara dirigit per un rei anomenat chamgamir o changamire (d'eon dinastia dels changamires). La seva zona d'origen fou la del Gran Zimbàbue. Al  la dinastia changamir de Butua es va enfortir enfront del Monomotapa. Els khoisànides (bosquimans) de Mbara, sense relació amb Portugal, van consolidar la seva societat de clans i van esdevenir exportadors d'eines i políticament independents. Els monomotapes del  representaven el poder animista; quan de ser un sobirà que repartia va passar a ser un sobirà que venia, els lligams amb els súbdits es van afluixar i va esdevenir un dèspota protegit dels portuguesos. Primer el monomotapa Gatsi Rusere i després Mavura, van demanar ajut als portuguesos per consolidar el seu poder el que els va fer perdre prestigi, facilitant els fraccionament polítics amb els ncoses estimulats en contra pels portuguesos que volien assegurar la producció d'or als seus dominis. En poques dècades el Monomotapa i els seus súbdits rebels van despoblar grans àrees de Zambèzia, i es van fer odiosos a la població. Les reaccions contra Portugal de Capranzini i Nhacunimbiri van tenir el suport popular i el dels reis changamir de Butua. Els reis de Quiteve i Manica van prohibir l'extracció d'or als seus territoris per retornar a una economia agropecuària tradicional.

Al final del  el changamire Dombo va atacar el regne del monomotapa; els dos exèrcits es van enfrontar el 1684 i el monomotapa Mukombe fou derrotat decisivament al sud de la seva capital. A la mort de Mukombe el 1693 va esclatar una lluita per la successió; Dombo afavoria un pretendent i els portuguesos un altre. Dombo va arrasar la ciutat de Dembarare, prop de la capital del monomotapa, i va matar als comerciants portuguesos i a tots els seus parents. El monomotapa va esdevenir un vassall del changamire de Butua. El 1695 Dombo va atacar el regne de Manica (Manika) i després va anar cap a l'est on va destruir la factoria portuguesa de Masikwesi el que li va garantir la completa producció d'or en el territori entre Butua i Manica substituint al monomotapa com a primer regne xona. El darrer monomotapa que va governar l'imperi va regnar fins al 1698,

Regne de Karanga (o Caranga)
Una branca es va establir a Moçambique on fou anomenat, com abans, Macaranga (Karanga o Caranga); el títol dels seus reis fou mambo (plural mambos) i ja no monomotapa. La dinastia fou suprimida pels portuguesos el 1902.

El poble karanga, encara força civilitzat, viu actualment a Zimbàbue; el nom karanga en aquest país se sinònim de covard, i es dona perquè els karanga van perdre segles enrere les seves capacitats guerreres.

Fonts
Les úniques fonts rellevants sobre l'Imperi Monomotapa, són els documents originals portuguesos, recollits, traduïts a l'anglès i editats per G. McC. Theal sota el títol "Records of South Eastern Africa" en 9 volums, publicats a Londres entre 1898 i 1903).

Reis (Monomotapes o Mwene Mutapes) de Mutapa
 1430 - 1450 aproximadament 	Nyatsimba Mututa o Mutota
 1450 1480 aproximadament	Matope Nyanhehwe Nebedza
 vers 1480 	Mavura Maobwe
 1480 - 1490 aproximadament 	Mukombero Nyahuma
 1490 - 1494 	Changamire
 1494 - vers 1530 	Kakuyo Komunyaka (Chikuyo)
 1530 - 1550 aproximadament 	Neshangwe Munembire
 1550 - 1560 aproximadament 	Chivere Nyasoro
 1560 - 1589 	Chisamharu Negomo Mupuzangutu
 1589 - 1623 	Gatsi Rusere
 1623 - 1629 	Nyambo Kapararidze
 1629 - 1634 Mavura
 1634 - 1673 Nhacunimbiri
 1673 - 1693 Mukombe
 1693 - 1698 	Chimbganda Matombo

Reis (Mambos) de Karanga o Macaranga
 1698 -1803 Sense informació
 1803 - 1804 Cangara II
 1804 - 1806 Mutiwapangome
 1806 Mutiwaora
 1806 - 1807 Cipfumba
 1807 - 1828? Nyasoro
 1828 - 1830 Cimininyambo (Kandeya II)
 1830 - 1849? Dzeka
 1849 - 1868 Kataruza
 1868 - 1870 Kandeya III
 1870 - 1887 Dzuda
 1887 - 1902 Cioko Dambamupute

Referències
 Estat modern i llinatges locals a Moçambic, tesi doctoral d'Albert Farré i Ventura, Barcelona, 2004

Història de Moçambic
Història de Zimbàbue
Imperis d'Àfrica

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Holy crow, I had gotten away with something!
As I walked out of the classroom grinning, I couldn't help but think, "The Lord provides." I crumbled up the progress report and threw it into the first trash can I saw.
April Celebrations had been great! Regardless of my grades, I had just two months left of school and those two months went quickly. Upon graduation, the whole family -- such as it was -- watched me do the cap and gown walk past and then gathered at a local Mexican restaurant for dinner. From that point on, I was on my own.
Almost immediately, I moved out of dad's house. It was all rather anticlimactic. I had focused on that moment for so long, that when it came the move seemed rather pedestrian. I moved in with Rick. He owned a house in Cupertino -- which by that time had become the new San Jose Center -- and ran his own landscape construction outfit. Rick not only offered me a place to stay, but he also gave me a job at a generous hourly rate. I'd remain there for the next year and a half.
That same month -- June 1983 -- Guru visited Victoria, British Columbia. The Center there had put on a successful triathlon for years, attracting as many as 700 competitors, so Guru made a point to visit. I drove up with a few brother disciples from the San Francisco Center.
At one of the functions, I snagged a front row seat and again attracted Guru's attention. As was his habit, Guru asked me my name, how old I was, and what I was doing. He also asked me about Charlie again. I hadn't seen Charlie since graduation and said so.
"I graduated, Guru," I said with excitement (not the excitement of accomplishment, but rather the excitement of liberation).
"You graduated," Guru said, seemingly amused with his eyes almost shut. "That is the outer graduation. Now you need the inner graduation."
The inner graduation. Yes, that's what I needed. That June, I completed one school (barely), and took my first big step into an entirely new school.
I was on the Path full time.


Sylvia (Goldman) Selig of Braintree, formerly of Stoughton and Hull, died Dec. 6, at age 86.
Mrs. Selig was a life member of Hadassah and was honored by the Stoughton-Sharon chapter for her years of volunteer service. She was a former member of Temple Beth Sholom of Hull and Temple Israel of Sharon.
Beloved wife of the late Sidney Selig; loving mother of Stanley Selig of Vermont, Stuart Selig and his wife, Roni, of New York City, and Michael Selig and his wife, Ann, of Hull; cherished grandmother of Alex, Cori, Sofi, Noah, Kim, Amanda, and Justin, and great-grandmother of Haley, MacKenzie, Riley, and Emma. Mrs. Selig was the dear sister of Shifra Rosoff and her husband, Bob, of Framingham, Gail Korrick of Connecticut, and Judy Ernest and her husband, Bob, of Ashland.
A graveside service was held at Keneseth Israel Cemetery in Woburn. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hadassah, Stoughton-Sharon, 1320 Centre St., #205, Newton, MA 02459; or to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, PO Box 849168, Boston, MA 02284-9168.


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ESS Saves Fuel for North Sea Construction Ship
North Sea Giant (Copyright NCE Maritime Clean Tech)
One of the world's largest and most advanced subsea construction vessels has been equipped with three energy storage systems (ESS), featuring for the first time ever energy and load sharing capability.
Finland based technology group Wärtsilä said the new system on board North Sea Shipping AS owned North Sea Giant combines a diesel-electric configuration with batteries, and is designed to deliver as much as 50 percent fuel savings in optimal operating conditions.
The installation was carried out in February 2018. In a second phase of the project, Wärtsilä commissioned an electronic bus link, a newly developed module that allows the ship to share load and energy optimally between the three Wärtsilä energy storage systems. This technology is expected to generate additional operating cost savings, and a total reduction in annual fuel consumption of two million liters, Wärtsilä said. The estimated annual reduction in exhaust emissions is 5.5 million kg of CO2, 30 tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx), and 1200 kg of sulphur oxides (SOx), ythe company added.
Sindre Utne, General Manager, Wärtsilä Project Centre, Norway, said, "This is a forward looking solution that offers both cost and environmental benefits, including less maintenance, reduced fuel consumption, and fewer exhaust emissions. In addition, it promotes more efficient and safer operations for the ship. We are confident that the positive impact of this solution will eventually be felt throughout the industry."
Hallvard Klepsvik, CEO of North Sea Shipping AS, said, "The project has been driven by our focus on reducing the environmental impact of offshore oil-related operations in the North Sea. The advanced Wärtsilä energy storage system is important, because of both the favorable fuel consumption as well as its sustainability. Seabed installations are increasingly moving further north into very sensitive environmental areas, which makes this system extremely relevant."
The three Wärtsilä energy storage systems reduce load fluctuations on the ship's diesel generators. Typically, vessels utilizing dynamic positioning require two or more engines operating simultaneously at low load to secure back-up power. By using the Wärtsilä hybrid battery system to provide the needed reserve power, the operational engine can be run closer to its optimal load point.
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Calling all actors, comedians, improvisers, dancers, directors, filmmakers, photographers, writers, philosophers, designers, and artists of all kinds! Come join Core Theatre Ensemble for an enlightening movement workshop!
Over the course of five weeks (Sunday evenings in March), we will introduce the class to the basics of Viewpoints movement training. This workshop will concentrate on learning and exploring the individual aspects of movement as defined by this training, and each class will last approximately 2 ½ hours.
What are the Viewpoints? Viewpoints is a system of physical improvisations that are the basis on which one defines a physical performance.
What does that mean? Well, it means we'll get you on your feet and we'll be exploring the elemental properties of movement. Core will guide you through ideas of framing, focus, perspective, and the beginning elements of Viewpoints movement training — all things needed in the arts and in life! As a group, we will be creating with others and watching what others create.
Viewpoints training increases awareness of how an audience perceives characters and stories. This training gives its students the ability to use their bodies naturally as well as dynamically. It's an invaluable tool for all ages and career stages, and it's fun and eye-opening, so come join us!
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While this not a strenuous workshop, it does require physical participation. It's recommended for you to be of able body. No audits, please.
Participants will be required to remove socks and shoes.


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