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Starts With A Bang — December 14, 2022
Ignition achieved! Nuclear fusion power now within reach
Nuclear fusion has long been seen as the future of energy. As the NIF now passes the breakeven point, how close are we to our ultimate goal?
At the National Ignition Facility, omnidirectional high-powered lasers compress and heat a pellet of material to sufficient conditions to initiate nuclear fusion. The NIF can produce greater temperatures than even the center of the Sun, and in late 2022, the breakeven point was passed for the first time.
(Credit: Damien Jemison/LLNL)
For the first time in the history of nuclear fusion, ignition has been achieved: where the energy released from fusion reactions exceeds the energy inputted to trigger them.
Achieving ignition, or passing the breakeven point, is one of the key goals of nuclear fusion research, with the eventual goal of achieving commercial-scale nuclear fusion power.
However, achieving this goal is only one more step toward the true dream: of powering the world with clean, sustainable energy. Here's what we all should know.
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For decades, the "next big thing" in terms of energy has always been nuclear fusion. In terms of sheer potential for power generation, no other energy source is as clean, low-carbon, low-risk, low-waste, sustainable, and controllable as nuclear fusion. Unlike oil, coal, natural gas, or other fossil fuel sources, nuclear fusion won't produce any greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide as waste. Unlike solar, wind, or hydroelectric power, it's not reliant on the availability of the needed natural resource. And unlike nuclear fission, there's no risk of a meltdown and no long-term radioactive waste produced.
Compared to all other alternatives, nuclear fusion is clearly the optimal solution for generating power on Earth. The biggest problem, however, has always been this: even though nuclear fusion reactions have been achieved by a variety of means, there's never been a sustained fusion reaction that's achieved what's known as either:
ignition,
net energy gain,
or the breakeven point,
where more energy is produced in a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it. For the first time in history, that milestone has now been achieved. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) has reached ignition, a tremendous step toward commercial nuclear fusion. But that doesn't mean we've solved our energy needs; far from it. Here's the truth of how it's truly a remarkable achievement, but there's still a long way to go.
The most straightforward and lowest-energy version of the proton-proton chain, which produces helium-4 from initial hydrogen fuel. Note that only the fusion of deuterium and a proton produces helium from hydrogen; all other reactions either produce hydrogen or make helium from other isotopes of helium.
(Credit: Sarang/Wikimedia Commons)
The science of nuclear fusion is relatively straightforward: you subject light atomic nuclei to the conditions of high temperature and high density, triggering nuclear fusion reactions that fuse those light nuclei into heavier ones, which releases energy that you can then harness for the purposes of generating electricity. Historically, this has been achievable primarily via one of two means:
either you create a magnetically confined, low-density plasma that enables these fusion reactions to occur over time,
or you create an inertially confined, high-density plasma that triggers these fusion reactions in one tremendous burst.
There are hybrid methods that use a combination of both, but these are the two major ones being researched by reputable institutions. The first method has been leveraged by Tokamak-type reactors such as ITER to achieve nuclear fusion, while the second method has been leveraged by omnidirectional laser shots to trigger fusion from tiny, light-element-rich pellets, such as the National Ignition Facility (NIF). Over the past thirty years or so, the records for "whose been closest to breakeven" has gone back and forth between these two methods, but in 2021, inertial confinement fusion at the NIF surged ahead, achieving near-breakeven energy outputs by some metrics.
The inside of a Tokamak fusion chamber being worked on during its maintenance period in 2017. So long as a plasma can be magnetically confined and controlled inside a device like this, fusion power can be produced, but maintaining plasma confinement over the long-term is an exceedingly difficult task. The breakeven point has not yet been achieved for magnetic confinement fusion.
(Credit: Rswilcox/Wikimedia Commons)
Now, a further improvement has brought inertial confinement fusion truly ahead of its primary competitor: liberating 3.15 megajoules of energy from only 2.05 megajoules of laser energy delivered to the target. Since 3.15 is greater than 2.05, this means that ignition, breakeven, or net energy gain — dependent on your favored term — has at last been achieved. It's a huge milestone that was enabled, of all things, by the research behind 2018's Nobel Prize in Physics, which was awarded for advances in laser physics.
The way lasers work is that specific quantum transitions that occur between two distinct electron energy levels in matter are repeatedly stimulated, resulting in the emission of light of precisely the same frequency, over and over again. You can increase the intensity of your laser by better collimating the beam and by using a better amplifier, which allows you to create a more energetic, powerful laser.
But you can also make a more intense laser by not emitting your laser light continuously, but by controlling the power and pulse frequency of your laser. Rather than continuous emission, you can "save up" that laser light and emit all of that energy in one single, short burst: either all-at-once or in a series of high-frequency pulses.
Zetawatt lasers, reaching an intensity of 10²⁹ W/cm², should be sufficient to create real electron/positron pairs from the quantum vacuum itself. The technique that has enabled a laser's power to rise so quickly was Chirped Pulse Amplification, which is what Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland developed in 1985 to earn them a share of the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics.
(Credit: Gerard A. Mourou, Toshiki Tajima, and Sergei V. Bulanov)
Two of 2018's Nobel Laureates — Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland — solved exactly this problem with their Nobel-winning research. In 1985, they published an article where they not only detailed how to create an ultra-short, high-intensity laser pulse in a repetitive fashion, but they were able to do it without harming or overloading the amplifying material. The four-step process was as follows:
First, they created these relatively standard laser pulses.
Then, they stretched the pulses in time, which reduces their peak power and makes them less destructive.
Next, they amplified the time-stretched, reduced-power pulses, which the material used for amplification could now survive.
And finally, they compressed the now-amplified pulses in time.
The shortening of the pulse, in time, means that more light of greater intensity became packed together in the same space, leading to a massive increase in the intensity of the pulse. This technique, known as Chirped Pulse Amplification, is now used in a wide variety of applications, including millions of corrective eye surgeries performed each year. But it also has another application: to the lasers used to create the conditions needed to achieve inertial confinement fusion.
Beginning with a low-power laser pulse, you can stretch it, reducing its power, then amplify it, without destroying your amplifier, and then compress it again, creating a higher-power, shorter-period pulse than would otherwise be possible. We are now in the era of attosecond (10^-18 s) physics, as far as lasers are concerned.
(Credit: Johan Jarnestad/Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
The way inertial confinement fusion works at the NIF is truly an example of the success of the "brute force" approach to nuclear fusion. By taking a pellet of fusible material — typically a mix of light isotopes of hydrogen (like deuterium and tritium) and/or helium (like helium-3) — and shooting them with high-powered lasers from all directions at once, the temperature and density of the nuclei inside the pellet increases tremendously.
In practice, this record-breaking shot at NIF leveraged 192 independent, high-powered lasers firing all at once on the target pellet. The pulses arrive within fractions-of-a-millionth-of-a-second of one another, where they heat the pellet to temperatures of over 100 million degrees: comparable to densities and exceeding energies found in the center of the Sun. As the energy propagates from the outer part of the pellet toward its core, fusion reactions are triggered, creating heavier elements (like helium-4) from lighter elements (such as deuterium and tritium, i.e., hydrogen-2 and hydrogen-3), releasing energy in the process.
Even though the timescale for the entire reaction can be measured in nanoseconds, the blast from the lasers plus the surrounding mass of the pellet is sufficient to briefly confine (via inertia) the plasma to the pellet's core, enabling large numbers of atomic nuclei to fuse during this time.
The Ivy Mike nuclear test was the world's first thermonuclear device: where fission and fusion reactions combine to create a more energetic yield than a fission bomb alone can achieve. Unlike the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the yield was measured in the tens of kilotons of TNT, thermonuclear devices can reach tens or even hundreds of megatons of TNT-equivalent. Although these devices far exceed the breakeven point, the fusion reactions are uncontrolled and cannot be harnessed to create usable energy.
(Credit: "Ivy Mike" atmospheric nuclear test – November 1952 /Wikicommons)
There are a few reasons why this latest step really is an exciting — even a game-changing — development in the quest for nuclear fusion power. Since the 1950s, we've known how to trigger nuclear fusion reactions and to generate more energy than we inputted: through a thermonuclear detonation. That type of reaction, however, is uncontrolled: it can't be used to create small amounts of energy that can be harnessed to produce usable power. It simply goes off all at once, resulting in an enormous and highly volatile release of energy.
However, the results of those early nuclear tests — including underground tests — that we could easily produce breakeven (or greater-than-breakeven) energy outputs if we were capable of injecting 5 megajoules of laser energy equally around a pellet of fusible material. At the NIF, earlier attempts at inertial confinement fusion only had 1.6 megajoules and, later, 1.8 megajoules of laser energy incident on the target. These attempts fell well short of the breakeven point: by factors of hundreds or more. Many of the "shots" failed to produce fusion entirely, as even slight imperfections in the sphericity of the pellet or the timing of the laser strikes rendered the attempt a failure.
As a result of the disconnect between NIF's capabilities and the demonstrated energy needed for true ignition, researchers at the NIF lobbied congress over the years for additional funding, with the hopes of building what they knew would work: a system that reached 5 megajoules of incident energy. But the level of funding that would be required for such an endeavor was deemed prohibitive, and so the NIF scientists had to get very clever.
A technician, wearing a suit to avoid contaminating the material inside the main chamber at the National Ignition Facility, working on the experimental apparatus. The achievement of "breakeven" fusion after decades of progress represents the culmination of a tremendous scientific effort.
(Credit: National Ignition Facility/University of Chicago)
One of the main tools they relied on were detailed simulations for how the fusion reactions would progress. Early on, and even in recent years, there have been many vocal members of the fusion community that worried these simulations were unreliable, and that performing underground nuclear tests was the only robust way to collect the needed physical data. But these underground tests create radioactive fallout (that usually, but not always, remains confined to the underground cavity), as you might expect whenever nuclear reactions occur in the presence of already-heavy elements. Producing long-lived radioactive material is never desired, and that's not only a drawback of underground nuclear tests, but of the magnetic confinement fusion approach as well.
But inertial confinement fusion, at least when performed on a pellet of hydrogen-based fuel for short periods of time, doesn't have that problem at all. No long-lived, heavy radioactive elements are produced: something that simulations and real-world tests both agree on. Simulations had indicated that perhaps, with as little as 2 megajoules of laser energy incident on a target with the right parameters, a greater-than-breakeven fusion reaction could be achieved. Many were skeptical of this possibility, and of the simulations in general. After all, when it comes to any physical process, only data collected from phenomena in the real world can guide the way.
This image shows the NIF Target Bay in Livermore, Calif. The system uses 192 laser beams converging at the center of this giant sphere to make a tiny hydrogen fuel pellet implode. For the first time, a series of beams whose incident energies totaled 2.1 megajoules caused the release of a greater amount of energy (3.15 megajoules) via the process of nuclear fusion than was inputted.
(Credit: Damien Jemison/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
That's why this recent NIF achievement is really, truly something to marvel at. There's a saying among scientists who work on nuclear fusion: that energy washes away all sins. At 5 megajoules of laser energy incident on the pellet, a large fusion reaction would be guaranteed. At 2 megajoules, however, everything needed to be precise and pristine.
The optical lenses, which focused the lasers, needed to be completely impurity and dust-free.
The pulses from the nearly 200 lasers needed to arrive simultaneously, within less than a millionth of a second, at the target.
The target needed to be perfectly spherical, with no discernible imperfections.
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And so on. Just about two years ago, a remarkable laser "shot" was conducted at the NIF, with the laser energy raised to 2 megajoules for the first time. It produced some ~1.8 megajoules of energy (nearly reaching the breakeven point) with all of these conditions met, a strong piece of evidence in support of what the simulations were predicting. But this latest achievement, where the energy was raised by just a tiny bit (to 2.1 megajoules), produced a much increased 3.15 megajoules of energy, even though they used a less perfectly spherical and thicker target for their pellet. They were able to confirm the predictions and the robustness of their simulations, while simultaneously demonstrating the truth behind the notion that energy really does wash away the sins of imperfections.
This simulation of various temperatures of the hot plasmas produced after a laser strike on a target shows the uneven heating of the target and the propagation of energy at one snapshot in time. The simulations, although often questioned, have been thoroughly vindicated by the latest results from the NIF.
(Credit: Yingchao Lu, University of Rochester)
Nuclear fusion has been studied very seriously with a view toward commercial-scale power production for over 60 years, but it's this experiment that marks the very first time in history that the vaunted breakeven point has been passed.
However, that doesn't mean the climate/energy crisis is now solved. Quite to the contrary, although this is certainly a step worth celebrating, it's just another incremental improvement toward the ultimate goal. To be clear, here are the steps that must all be achieved in order for commercial-scale fusion power to become viable.
Nuclear fusion reactions must be achieved.
More energy must arise from those reactions than was inputted to trigger those reactions.
The energy that arises must then be extracted, and transformed into a form of energy that can then be either stored or transmitted: in other words, put to good use.
The energy must be produced either steadily or repeatably, so that it can provide power-on-demand, the way we'd demand it for any other type of power plant.
And the materials and equipment consumed and used/damaged during the reaction must be replaced and/or repaired on timescales that don't hinder the recurrence of that reaction.
After being stuck on step 1 for over half-a-century, this recent breakthrough finally gets us to step 2: the achievement of what we call "ignition." For the first time, the next steps are not subject to scientific doubt; they're simply a matter of the engineering details needed to bring this now-proven technology to life.
Today, most of the power distributed through power stations and substations is generated through coal, oil, gas, solar, wind, or hydroelectric power. In the future, nuclear fusion plants could replace practically all of those in a safe and reliable fashion.
(Credit: Steve Karg/pixnio)
If you've thought about fusion power, chances are you've encountered the old adage, "Viable fusion power is 50 years away… and always will be." But according to Professor Don Lamb at the University of Chicago, that's definitely no longer the case. When I asked him about this issue, he stated:
"That was then and this is now. As long as there were physical processes that we didn't understand until we did it robustly, no one could be sure that we'd be able to [achieve ignition]. The physics of plasmas is incredibly rich, as is [the physics of] lasers.
Nature fought back hard; as soon as you dealt with one physical process, nature said, 'A ha! Here's another!' Because we didn't understand all the physical processes that stood in our way, we'd think, 'Oh, I handled this problem, so it'll be 50 years from now,' and it just kept going like that ad infinitum. But now we can say, 'Oh, nature, you're out of tricks, I've got you now.'"
In other words, before we achieved ignition — i.e., before we passed the breakeven point — we knew there were going to be fundamental science issues we had yet to uncover. But now those issues have been identified, dealt with, and are behind us. There are still plenty of developmental issues to face and overcome, but from a scientific perspective, the problem of passing the breakeven point and generating more energy than we put in has been overcome at long last.
Current nuclear power plants rely on a fissionable source to heat water, turning it into steam, which rises and turns turbines, generating electricity. Although nuclear fusion through inertial confinement will be a sporadic way to produce energy, the end result of producing a large amount of net power, to be distributed across an energy grid, should still be within reach during the 21st century.
(Credit: TTstudio / Adobe Stock)
There are a myriad of takeaway points from this new development, but here's what I think everyone should remember about nuclear fusion as we move forward into the future.
We really have passed the breakeven point: where the energy incident on a target — the key energy that triggers a fusion reaction — is less than the energy we get out of the reaction itself.
That threshold is just over 2.0 megajoules of incident laser energy, far less than many who asserted 3.5, 4, or even 5 megajoules would be required to achieve the breakeven point.
A new facility, one with lenses and apparatuses designed to withstand these new energies, must be constructed.
A prototype energy-generation plant will need to leverage still-developing technologies: safely chargeable capacitor banks, large systems of lenses so that successive fusion-generating shots can be fired with a new set of lenses while the recently used set can be "healed," the ability to harness and convert the released energy into electrical energy, energy storage systems that can hold and distribute the energy over time, including during the time between successive shots, etc.
And the dream of a home fusion plant that lives in your backyard will have to be relegated to the far future; residential homes cannot handle megajoules of energy being pulsed through them, and the needed capacitor banks would create a substantial fire/explosion hazard. It won't be in your backyard or anyone's backyard; these fusion generating endeavors belong in a dedicated, carefully monitored facility.
Overall, now is the perfect time for a substantial investment in all of these technologies, with this achievement giving us every reason to believe that we can completely decarbonize the energy sector worldwide during the 21st century. It's a tremendous time to be a human on planet Earth; it's now up to us to make our investments count.
Ethan Siegel thanks Professor Don Lamb for an invaluable conversation concerning the latest NIF research.
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Final: The Citadel 38, Princeton 7, in the second (and presumably final) act of a "strange" series. Your humble chronicler was in attendance for this one, and was fortunate not to get sunburned on a surprisingly sunny and warm day in New Jersey.
Was the margin of victory a fair reflection of the difference between the two teams? Princeton head coach Roger Hughes didn't think so, and I can't say that I blame him. I will say that after the first quarter, I was fairly confident that The Citadel would win the game, even though the Bulldogs trailed 7-3 after the opening stanza. The Citadel was clearly the stronger, more athletic squad, and only a lot of turnovers and/or bad luck would prevent a Bulldog victory. It was only a question of how long Princeton could hang around.
To the Tigers' credit, they hung around for three quarters, and yes, 38-7 is rather harsh on the Ivy League team. Two long PU drives bogged down inside the 20 during the third quarter, and Princeton botched both of its succeeding field goal attempts. The first hit the right upright squarely and bounced backwards, while the second, which was both low and slow (in a manner of speaking), was blocked by The Citadel's Kyle Anderson.
Some quick takeaways from the game:
Princeton quarterbacks, in 46 pass attempts, were not sacked. That's not good, and has to change if The Citadel expects to compete in the Southern Conference. I know that the Bulldogs concentrated on stopping Princeton's running game, but you still have to knock the quarterback down once in a while, especially when the opponent throws the ball 46 times out of 74 plays.
The Bulldogs now have more interceptions this year (4) than they did all last season (3). That's a marked improvement, obviously. I would have liked to have seen some turnovers forced earlier in the game, though, when the outcome was still in doubt.
Bart Blanchard had a solid game. The dropped passes (at least 5) about drove me crazy, and I was just a spectator, but he shook them off and wasn't afraid to continue throwing passes to unproven receivers. I really liked the way he moved up in the pocket when he threw the TD pass to Alex Sellars, too.
Blanchard and Andre Roberts are still struggling with ankle injuries, and it shows.
The 34-yard pass to Roberts from Blanchard was an excellent play call, and also a key moment in the game.
I thought Terrell Dallas and Van Dyke Jones both ran very hard, which was particularly noteworthy considering each was coming off an injury. They didn't seem tentative. I was concerned that a long layoff from game action (especially for Dallas) might result in some fumbling issues, but that didn't happen.
Jonathan Glaspie…I was so hoping he was going to score. Two more yards. Oof. On the bright side, with an 86-yard return, he can tell fellow Spring Valley product Andre Roberts that between the two of them, Glaspie has the longest career return/reception (Roberts' career long play is a 78-yard catch).
I don't like the navy pants. I didn't like them when The Citadel played UNC, either.
Some quick takeaways from the action off the field:
The Princeton band played it fairly close to the vest (by its own standards) and everyone was happy, I guess. I am not sure if the band members realized playing "Dixie" was actually semi-controversial. The halftime lampoon job was rather tame and not particularly funny, but I gather that most aspiring Ivy League comedy writers go to Harvard or Dartmouth.
Speaking of the Crimson, the biggest reaction by the Princeton crowd when scores of other games were announced was for Harvard losing. Plenty of cheering for that result, which I found amusing. I suspect Yale losing would have resulted in a similarly gleeful outburst.
I mentioned this before, but Princeton season tickets are only $25, with single-game tickets $7. I arrived at the stadium to find that game programs were free. The concessions were reasonably priced, with quality "souvenir" cups. Most of the fans in attendance also got free magnetic schedules. Go Princeton!
In my game preview I noted that it is unlikely that The Citadel will be playing a similar two-game home-and-home with an Ivy (or Patriot) League school in the near future, for a variety of reasons. One thing that needs to happen, though, is that every few years the school needs to play a game in the northeast. The contingent of alums and other supporters that came to cheer on The Citadel at Princeton was truly impressive. Those folks deserve to see more games, and I hope that administrators at The Citadel keep that in mind.
It also doesn't hurt to promote the school in other parts of the country. After the game I took the train back to New York, and sat next to an intelligent young Princeton student who was very proud of her school. She wanted to make sure I liked the campus (which I did). She was blissfully unaware a football game had been played that day, which didn't really surprise me that much. She also had never heard of The Citadel, which did surprise me a bit.
Of course, there are people in South Carolina who have never heard of Princeton (and there are almost certainly people in New Jersey who have never heard of Princeton, as well as people in the Palmetto State unfamiliar with The Citadel). I also realize that one person doesn't make a survey. Still, it's a reminder that it doesn't hurt to get the school's name out there.
(I explained to her that The Citadel is a military school. She was a touch dubious. I guess my bearing isn't martial enough. Perhaps I should sneer more.)
I took some pictures of the campus, including a few buildings and other athletic facilities, and some inside the stadium itself. I am not a particularly good photographer, and my camera isn't the best, which is why there are very few "game action" shots. My attempts at capturing action on the field tended to result in images that only Jackson Pollack would appreciate. The pictures that aren't completely embarrassing can be seen at the end of this post.
Finally, the top three outstanding performers that I saw this weekend:
3) Jonathan Glaspie
2) Bart Blanchard
1) Jennifer Hope Wills. Yowza.
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Shannon Barnett is an Australian trombonist and composer, currently based in Cologne, Germany.
She established herself as an important voice in the Australian scene by performing in ensembles including Vada, The Bamboos, The Vampires, and as a guest with the Andrea Keller Quartet, on the 2004 ABC Jazz release Angels and Rascals. Barnett has also appeared with the Australian Art Orchestra, Barney McAll's Mother of Dreams and Secrets feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel, Charlie Haden and from 2009-2010, she worked as a multi-instrumentalist and composer with the contemporary circus group Circus Oz.
In 2010, Barnett released her debut album as a leader, entitled 'Country', on the Which Way Music label. After attending Dave Douglas' 'Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music' in Banff, Canada in 2010, Barnett was inspired to relocate to New York City, where she completed a Master of Music degree. There she performed with the likes of Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Pedro Giraudo, Cyrille Aimée and the Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra of New York and was a regular member of the Birdland Big Band.
In early 2014, she moved to Cologne, Germany, to take up a position with the WDR Big Band which gave her the opportunity to perform with guests including Vince Mendoza, Ron Carter, Joshua Redman, Maria Schneider and Paquito D'Rivera. She has also become very active in the local scene. Her quartet, featuring Stefan Karl Schmid, David Helm and Fabian Arends released their debut album in 2016 on Double Moon/Challenge Records, and the band was subsequently nominated as a semi-finalist in the 2017 Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis.
In 2018 she composed and presented the cross-disciplinary work 'Dead Weight' for musicians and fitness studio. Her new project 'Wolves and Mirrors' will release their first album in early 2021.
In April 2019 she began as Professor for Jazz Trombone at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, Germany. In 2020 she received the WDR Jazzpreis for Improvisation.


My drawing on asphalt. The third. Chalk.
An other breathtaking work! Very well deserved DD!
This is probably the next best thing if you can't get up safely to a dolphin in real life.
When do you come to Belgium ??
Awww. Another brilliant piece! Dolphins rule.
That's amazing! It looks so real!
wow 8O that is amazing! I love the water!!
Me encanta!!! Parece real!! Me gustaría tomarme una foto así!
Wow! Amazing! When I first saw it I got really mad because I thought a real dolphin was in a little thing.
The deep blue of the water is incredible. May I ask what brand of chalk you use?
Gorgeous work! I'm always amazed at these chalk drawings.
Aww amazing art, this is real art.
OMG I LOVE THIS ONE!!!
This is wonderful. Amazing work!
So cool .Love it,love it!
me: "a dolphin! O-O on... on the asphalt?WTF?!??!"


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Right To Education (RTE) Act, 2009
Right of children to Free and Compulsory Education Act
Provides for free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years
The Right of children to Free and Compulsory Education Act came into force from April 1, 2010. This is was a historic day for the people of India as from this day the right to education will be accorded the same legal status as the right to life as provided by Article 21A of the Indian Constitution. Every child in the age group of 6-14 years will be provided 8 years of elementary education in an age appropriate classroom in the vicinity of his/her neighbourhood.
Any cost that prevents a child from accessing school will be borne by the State which shall have the responsibility of enrolling the child as well as ensuring attendance and completion of 8 years of schooling. No child shall be denied admission for want of documents; no child shall be turned away if the admission cycle in the school is over and no child shall be asked to take an admission test. Children with disabilities will also be educated in the mainstream schools. The Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh has emphasized that it is important for the country that if we nurture our children and young people with the right education, India's future as a strong and prosperous country is secure.
All private schools shall be required to enroll children from weaker sections and disadvantaged communities in their incoming class to the extent of 25% of their enrolment, by simple random selection. No seats in this quota can be left vacant. These children will be treated on par with all the other children in the school and subsidized by the State at the rate of average per learner costs in the government schools (unless the per learner costs in the private school are lower).
All schools will have to prescribe to norms and standards laid out in the Act and no school that does not fulfill these standards within 3 years will be allowed to function. All private schools will have to apply for recognition, failing which they will be penalized to the tune of Rs 1 lakh and if they still continue to function will be liable to pay Rs 10,000 per day as fine. Norms and standards of teacher qualification and training are also being laid down by an Academic Authority. Teachers in all schools will have to subscribe to these norms within 5 years.
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has been mandated to monitor the implementation of this historic Right. A special Division within NCPCR will undertake this huge and important task in the coming months and years. A special toll free helpline to register complaints will be set up by NCPCR for this purpose. NCPCR welcomes the formal notification of this Act and looks forward to playing an active role in ensuring its successful implementation.
NCPCR also invites all civil society groups, students, teachers, administrators, artists, writers, government personnel, legislators, members of the judiciary and all other stakeholders to join hands and work together to build a movement to ensure that every child of this country is in school and enabled to get at least 8 years of quality education.
Benefits of Right to Education Act, 2009
RTE has been a part of the directive principles of the State Policy under Article 45 of the Constitution, which is part of Chapter 4 of the Constitution. And rights in Chapter 4 are not enforceable. For the first time in the history of India we have made this right enforceable by putting it in Chapter 3 of the Constitution as Article 21. This entitles children to have the right to education enforced as a fundamental right.
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Facebook virus spreads via photo album chat messages !
A new social networking worm in the vein of Koobface is currently doing the rounds.
A Naked Security reader, George, who had been exposed to it on Facebook reported it to us - unlike the majority of Facebook scams we report, this one actively infects your computer with malware instead of simply tricking you into taking surveys and passing on messages to other users.
The link in his Facebook chat from a friend pointed to an app.facebook.com/CENSORED link. Typically when you go to a Facebook app page it prompts you to add the application and grant it permission to post on your behalf or read your profile data. The scary part about this one is that it immediately prompts you to download a "FacebookPhotos#####.exe" file with no prompting or clicking required.
The screen reads "Photo has been moved. This photo has been moved to other location. To view this photo click View Photo." If your computer has not already downloaded the malware, the "View Photo" button will download the virus for you.
It is really unfortunate that Facebook scams are moving back towards spreading malware. Fortunately, users of Sophos Anti-Virus had proactive protection from this threat with both our HIPS and suspicious file detection technologies; this particular strain is now identified by Sophos as W32/Palevo-BB.
The good news is that even as I was writing this article, Facebook removed the malicious application from its service. But there are probably many more applications like this one making the rounds, so, as always, beware of unusual messages from friends whether they are in email, on their walls, or in an instant message.


Windows 7 Upgrade Workaround a 'Hack'?
Doug is out for today, but will be back for Friday's edition. Meanwhile, helping fill in for him today is Online News Editor Kurt Mackie.
Microsoft rolled out its latest OS last month during a profound world economic downturn. The word "consumer" may finally disappear from the U.S. lexicon as credit-busted, increasingly jobless Americans hunker down, saving perhaps a few lumps of coal for the approaching winter.
Though consumers actually bolstered Vista sales when it was first introduced in late 2006, Vista's poor driver support early on, as well as its additional hardware requirements, steered many IT pros away from upgrading. In fact, IT pros showed such a resolute rejection of Vista that about 80 percent of commercial PCs still use XP, according to a Forrester Research third-quarter report.
Even the ebullient Steve Ballmer wasn't particularly optimistic about current IT spending prospects. He told reporters in South Korea on Monday that while the economy may see some growth, there will be no "recovery." He also acknowledged tight budgets for IT departments.
Given all of that, Microsoft has priced a full version of Windows 7 Professional at $299, according to the Microsoft Store (it's $18 cheaper at Amazon.com). However, if you have a copy of XP or Vista licensed to run on a particular PC and you want to upgrade that same machine to Windows 7, the upgrade version of Windows 7 Professional costs $100 less.
"Necessity is the mother of invention," it's said. Some people are eyeing that $100 "discount" by trying to use Windows 7 upgrade media to perform clean installs. This Windows 7 upgrade "hack," which could cut into Microsoft's Windows revenues, elicited a reaction from the company: The hack apparently can work, according to Microsoft, but the resulting installation is illegal per Microsoft's end user license agreement.
The illegalness of this Windows 7 upgrade hack was emphasized by Eric Ligman, a global partner experience lead at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group, in a Microsoft blog. A reader of that blog shot back, saying, "Why wouldn't Microsoft make a gesture of good faith by rewarding savvy computer users who can pull off the hack with this $80-$100 discount? It sounds like good PR to me, but I am just a savvy computer user, not a PR guy."
Of course, those IT pros who deal with Microsoft's volume licensing policies will likely submit meekly to them rather than try any sort of hack. It's the consumers, that vanishing breed, that will still fight back against a Microsoft policy that compels them to associate the OS license with their aging PC hardware. For them, upgrade pricing and full-edition pricing just seem designed to give Microsoft's profits an arbitrary boost.
Should Microsoft give consumer users a break? And have any of you actually tried the upgrade hack? Answers welcome at dbarney@redmondmag.com.


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Classy European stayer Torcedor is out of Melbourne Cup contention after spiking a temperature.
Nine horses entered quarantine in England and Ireland overnight but the Andreas Wohler-trained Torcedor did not enter quarantine in Europe, meaning he will not be travelling to Melbourne for this year's Cup.
The Willie Mullins-trained Max Dynamite, who finished second in the 2015 Melbourne Cup and third last year, was also an absentee.
"High-class stayer Torcedor, who was assigned 57kg for the Melbourne Cup, had intended to travel but was a late withdrawal on vets' advice after recording a high temperature," Racing Victoria said.
The horses who entered quarantine overnight were Magic Circle, Muntahaa, Latrobe, Marmelo, Rostropovich, Idaho, The Pentagon, Nakeeta and Master Of Reality.
"Due to the space restrictions at Racing Victoria's Werribee International Horse Centre, the horse with the lowest rating, the Joseph O'Brien-trained Master of Reality, would only board the flight should one of the other eight not travel," RV said.
Three Charlie Appleby-trained internationals are already at Werribee including Jungle Cat who won last Saturday's Group One Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes, while another 27 horses from Europe are set to arrive on Saturday.
The group of horses to enter quarantine overnight is scheduled to arrive in Melbourne on October 13.


Universal is readying a "Fate of the Furious" spinoff starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, TheWrap has learned.
TheWrap previously reported exclusively that a short "tag" featuring Johnson and Statham was filmed for "Fate of the Furious," but producer and co-star Vin Diesel killed plans to add the scene to the very end of the movie. One individual familiar with the situation told TheWrap that the scene was viewed as a launch point for a potential spinoff.
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MediaPlayer /var/log/syslog shows unsupported alert and stays in Deskbar.
I am almost sure that this is a regression. I remember having tested this use-case specifically.
When I try to open an unsupported file. The only thing that happens is a window pops up saying is none of the files you wanted to play are supported media files, and nothing else.


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nice drink, will go and drink when miss the taste or suddenly want to drink some beverages, good taste!
There are many flavor that customers can choose.The price for every drinks are affordable . The staffs also very friendly.
The taste was nice and price also reasonable. but only specified beverage has free the pearl.
One of the all time favorite beverage chain in Malaysia. Really loves their drinks especially the fruits based drinks. I went to TeaLive at Sri Gombak and they have snacks there. Fries, wedges, chicken nugget. The store is nice and the staffs are friendly.
I miss the previous name " Chatime". Even they change the name but quality of drinks also same which really good and i like the pearl so much because there have a lot of choices.


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Q: iterating through JSON object array This question has been asked and answered many times, but I can't get it to work. My question look like this one, and this one and a third example.
What I would like to do is fill a option box from JSON object like in this and this questions. They are all slightly different, but similar, but I can't get it to work. Here's my code from the webservice:
<System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService()> _
<WebService(Namespace:="http://tempuri.org/")> _
<WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo:=WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)> _
<Global.Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.DesignerGenerated()> _
Public Class Service
Inherits System.Web.Services.WebService

<WebMethod()> _
<ScriptMethod(ResponseFormat:=ResponseFormat.Json)> _
Public Function HelloWorld(ByVal p_productCategoryId As Integer) As String
    Dim productCategory = ProductService.GetProductCategory(p_productCategoryId)

    'Dim productList = ProductService.GetProducts(productCategory)
    Dim productList = New List(Of Product)
    For cnt = 1 To 3
        Dim product = New Product(cnt)
        product.Productname = cnt.ToString & "|" & cnt.ToString
        productList.Add(product)
    Next

    Return productList.ToJSON

End Function

End Class

 <System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Extension()> _
Public Function ToJSON(Of T)(p_items As List(Of T)) As String
    Dim jSearializer As System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer = New System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer()
    Return jSearializer.Serialize(p_items)
End Function

If I use the following code:
function Test() {
  $.ajax({
     type: "POST",
     url: "Service.asmx/HelloWorld",
     data: "{'p_productCategoryId' : 1 }",
     contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
     dataType: "json",
     success:function(msg){
        alert(msg.d)
        },
     error: function() {
      alert("An error has occurred during processing your request.");
                        }
  });

};
I get this result:
[{"Id":1,"IsActive":false,"Category":null,"Productname":"1|1","Price":0},
{"Id":2,"IsActive":false,"Category":null,"Productname":"2|2","Price":0},
{"Id":3,"IsActive":false,"Category":null,"Productname":"3|3","Price":0}]

Which seems OK.
If I remove the 'd' from msg. The result in the alert is:
[object Object]

The 'work-in-progress' code to fill the option box is this (at the moment :):
function Test() {
$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "Service.asmx/HelloWorld",
    data: "{'p_productCategoryId' : 1 }",
    contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
    dataType: "json",
    success: function (msg) {
        $("#prd_id").empty().append($("<option></option>").val("[-]").html("Please select"));
        $.each(msg.d, function () {
                           $("#prd_id").append($("<option></option>").val(this['Id']).html(this['Productname']));
        });
    },
    error: function () {
        alert("An error has occurred during processing your request.");
    }
});

};
I have tried several ways to get it to work taken from the examples I mentioned before, to no avail. Using msg.d fills to option box with the nummer of characters in the string. I tried to explicitly create a JSON object from the 'msg' with 'getJSON'. (Isn't that wat the 'datatype' is for?) I can't use named objects because I don't have that as you can see in the sample data. What am I missing?
Some how I can't get the code to see the array has three entries.

A: I would probably use the Option constructor rather than HTML.
Assuming msg.d is really the array (that .d property is an ASP.Net thing):
success: function (msg) {
    var options = $("#prd_id")[0].options;
    options.length = 0;
    options.add(new Option("Please select", "[-]"));
    $.each(msg.d, function () {
        options.add(new Option(this.Productname, this.Id));
    });
},

Live Example | Source
The Option constructor takes the text as the first argument and the value as the second. The options list on a select element is a bit like an array, except that for compatibility with older browsers, instead of push you use add (or assign to options[options.length], either works).
Or if msg is the array (no .d), just remove .d:
success: function (msg) {
    var options = $("#prd_id")[0].options;
    options.length = 0;
    options.add(new Option("Please select", "[-]"));
    $.each(msg, function () {
        options.add(new Option(this.Productname, this.Id));
    });
},

Live Example | Source
If your response isn't being sent back with the correct MIME type, msg may actually be text, not an array. If so, you want to fix that on the server by returning the correct MIME type (application/json), although you can parse it manually:
msg = $.parseJSON(msg);

...and then use the above. Or of course, if it's coming back as msg.d (although that seems really unlikely):
msg.d = $.parseJSON(msg.d):

A: You can do this:
$.each(msg.d, function (key, value) {
    $("#prd_id").append($("<option/>").val(value.Id).html(value.Productname));
});

Fiddle Demo

A: I tried to replicate according to your issue with my REST WCF which returns the Same JSON Data, and below sample worked,
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
});
var GetRawList = function() {
    $.ajax({
        type: "GET",
        url: "RestService/HelloWorld",
        contentType: "application/json;charset=utf-8",
        dataType: "json",
        success: function(data) {
  //Change this "data.d" According to your returned JSON output header.
            var result = data.d;
   $("#prd_id").empty().append($("<option></option>").val("[-]").html("Please select"));
            $.each(result, function(key, value) {
            $("#prd_id").append($("<option/>").val(value.Id).html(value.Productname));
            });
        },
        error: function(xhr) {
            alert(xhr.responseText);
        }
    });
}

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Trump's refugee ban 'at odds with the gospel,' says Megachurch Pastor of 30% immigrant congregation
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U.S., February 6, 2017: Pastor Dan Scott of Christ Church Nashville, 30 percent of whose congregation is made up of immigrants, says President Donald Trump's attempts at a travel ban for refugees is "at odds with the Gospel."
Scott told The Christian Post in a phone interview that Christ Church, a "spirit-filled evangelical Christian community" in Tennessee, has been helping refugees from different nations settle into the United States for many years now.
Christ Church, he explained, has been assisting many people from Nepal, as well as from a number of nations in Africa and Asia, along with Latin America, learn the language and other important things they need to know, such as the U.S. financial system.
"We help them with things like clothing, and just make friends with them, open up our church for them," so that they can "become members and part of our spiritual family here," he told CP.
Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 27 that temporarily suspended the U.S. refugee resettlement program for 120 days; indefinitely suspended Syrian refugees, and barred visitors from seven Muslim-majority nations for 90 days.
The travel ban was hit by U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle, Washington, on Friday, who halted the temporary measure. On Sunday, a U.S. appeals court denied a request from the Department of Justice to restore Trump's order.
Scott criticized the temporary ban for the lack of proper explanation, and for not giving people time to prepare for it, at least two weeks or so in advance.
"I think it was mean spirited, I think it represents a rising tide of nationalism that is at odds with the Gospel," the pastor said.
Speaking about the Christian responsibility when it comes to refugees, he argued it should always be one of "openness and kindness."
Scott said that in both the Old and New Testaments, Christian faith "as such does not recognize national boundaries."
"It is a nation without boundaries, it is an international nation itself. A kingdom. All Christian are dual citizens: where they reside, and the Kingdom of God," he continued.
"As citizens of the Kingdom of God, we ought to see all human beings as created in the image and the likeness of God. As Christians, we believe that Christ died for all, and we are to give witness to all, and kindness and consideration to all. We risk harm to ourselves in order to show care to others."
Another controvery arose when Trump suggested in an interview with CBN News last month that his administration would prioritize Christians and other religious minorities seeking asylum in the U.S. However, such language about prioritization does not appear in the executive order.
Some megachurch pastors, such as Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, have strongly backed Trump's attempts at a temporary ban and the suggestion to prioritize Christians.
"Nine out of the top 10 nations persecuting Christians are Muslim majority nations, which is why President Trump is absolutely correct in giving preference to Syrian refugees who are Christians," Jeffress said in an interview last week.
Persecution watchdog groups, such as Open Doors USA, have expressed mixed views on Trump's comments, backing him for recognizing the severity of Christian persecution, but also questioning whether the prioritization of Christians would actually be the right move.
"Expediting refugee entry for those intentionally targeted by ISIS, like the Yazidis and Christians and some Muslim groups, seems appropriate. However, cherry-picking one religion over another only exacerbates the already severe worldwide trend of religious persecution," David Curry, president of Open Doors USA, said in a statement.
Scott told CP that Christians have indeed been specifically targeted by radical groups in the Middle East.
"I think that Christians should be given consideration, and I think they have not," he said.
"I think that secularists often do not understand religious persecution."
The Christ Church pastor suggested that Trump's sentiments about prioritization "could have been explained differently," however.
He said that a nation "has a right, even responsibility to ensure safety for its citizens," but at the same time noted that the lone-wolf style attacks in Europe and the U.S. largely have not come from new migrants who have slipped through the vetting process, but from home-grown terrorists.
Scott added that sometimes "people who grew up as citizens have been radicalized, because they feel marginalized and discriminated against in these nations. Whether they are intentionally or not is another issue, but they feel that way."
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From FM 111 at Deanville southward to county road, a distance of approximately 5.7 miles. (Burleson County) Extended southward approximately 2.6 miles.
From a county road south of Deanville, northward across FM 111 at Deanville to a county road, a distance of approximately 9.0 miles. (Burleson County) Extended northward from Deanville approximately 3.6 miles.
Canceled (Burleson County) Mileage transferred to FM 111.
From FM 1741 at Taylors Valley Church, eastward approximately 5.5 miles to US 190. (Bell County) New Designation.
Canceled. (Bell County) Combined with FM 93. Signing as FM 93 to be effective upon completion of construction as FM 2618.
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The ARC Effect
How Better Transit Boosts Home Values and Local Economies
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A statistical analysis of the effect of three recent improvements to NJ TRANSIT's rail system on home values predicts that ARC – a new commuter rail tunnel to Midtown Manhattan – could add a cumulative $18 billion to home values within two miles of NJ TRANSIT and Metro-North Port Jervis and Pascack Valley train stations. This, of course, is just one of ARC's several long-term economic benefits, which also include an overall increase in the region's economy, new jobs on both sides of the Hudson, higher personal incomes, higher commercial property values, and reductions in driving and air pollution.
Hedonic price modeling of 45,000 home sales within two miles of train stations shows that three improvements to the NJ TRANSIT rail system – Midtown Direct Service on the Morris & Essex Line, the Montclair Connection for the Montclair-Boonton Line and Secaucus Junction for the Pascack Valley and Main/ Bergen/Port Jervis Lines – increased the value of nearby homes by an average of nearly $23,000 per home (in 2009 dollars). Homes within walking distance of train stations gained the most value – up to $34,000. Value appreciations were less significant farther from stations.
Cumulatively, these three projects boosted home values by $11 billion. This represents $250 million a year in new property tax revenue for municipalities.
A detailed comparison of the trip time reductions provided by these three projects with the trip time reductions expected from ARC reveals that ARC could raise home values by an average of $19,000 per home, and up to $29,000 for homes within onehalf mile of stations.
Cumulatively, ARC could boost home values by $18 billion, and generate $375 million a year in new property tax revenue for municipalities. This is significant as growing tax bases relieve pressure for municipalities to increase tax rates.
The number of residents west of the Hudson River with a train commute to Midtown of under 50 minutes will double after ARC, thanks to faster commuting times. The number of people within 70 minutes of Midtown will increase by 25%. This extraordinary improvement in access will have significant positive economic impacts for families and municipalities across New Jersey and New York, as wages are 60% higher in Manhattan than west of the Hudson.
The economic development and quality-of-life-improving potential of better transit can best be harnessed by building new, transit-oriented, mixed-use, economically diverse development around train stations. NJ TRANSIT, Metro-North, municipalities, and the state of New York and New Jersey should work together to optimize ARC's benefits for the most residents possible.
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EXPERT Viewpoint: Professor Matthew Baylis on BSE case
Professor Matthew Baylis, Oxenhale Chair of Veterinary Epidemiology at the University 's Institute of Infection and Global Health, said:
"The epidemic of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle in the UK is largely over but there is still the occasional detected case – one in 2014, two in 2015 and now one in 2018. It is too early to say if this case is significant.
It is described as 'classical BSE', like the vast majority of cases we have seen in the UK. This form of BSE is acquired by cattle from BSE-contaminated food. At this stage, we need to know if it was a very old animal, infected long ago; or if it is younger and there is still an active source of infection on the farm, such as a contaminated feed bin.
The agent that causes BSE, and related diseases, can remain infectious in the environment for a very long time, even decades, and so odd cases are probably to be expected. This particular animal did not enter the human food chain; but it is important to remember that at its peak the UK recorded nearly 37,000 BSE cases in one year, while the number of deaths of people from the human form, called variant CJD, is fewer than 200.
The risk to the public from a single case of BSE has proven to be exceedingly small."
Professor Matthew Baylis


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'Jie (Boundaries): Contemporary Art from Taiwan' at the Johnson Museum
Lo Chan-peng, "Ashen-faced Portrait of Aiko Fang," 2011. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of AKI Gallery.
ITHACA, NY.- The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents Jie (Boundaries): Contemporary Art from Taiwan, on view now through December 21. This exhibition, jointly organized by the Johnson Museum of Art and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, was curated by An-yi Pan, associate professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell, assisted by Ellen Avril, chief curator and curator of Asian art at the Johnson Museum.
The artists represented are Chang Chia-ying, Chang En-tzu, Chang Li-ren, Agi Chen, Chen Chieh-jen, Chen Ching-yuan, Chen Wan-jen, Chiu Chao-tsai, Chou Yu-cheng, Hou Shur-tzy, Hsia Yi-fu, Hsu Wei-hui, Huang Chin-hua, Huang Hsin-chien, Huang Ming-chang, Vincent J. F. Huang, Kuo I-chen, Liao Chi-yu, Lin Hsin-yueh, Lin Shu-min, Lo Chan-peng, No2Good, Su Hui-yu, Tsai Ou-bao, Tu Pei-shih, Tu Wei-cheng, Wu Cheng-chang, Yang Mao-lin, Yao Jui-chung, Yeh Tzu-chi, Yeh Yili, Yu Cheng-ta, and Yuan Jai.
On Saturday, September 6, the Johnson will host a daylong artists' forum and symposium on contemporary Taiwanese art, with presentations by Chu-Chiun Wei, City University of New York; Wenny Teo, Courtauld Institute of Art; Hsin-tien Liao, National Taiwan University of Arts; Sophie McIntyre, Australian National University; An-yi Pan, the exhibition curator, Cornell University; and artists Tu Wei-cheng, Huang Hsin-chien, Hsu Wei-hui, Yu Cheng-ta, and Vincent J. F. Huang. Registration is free but seating is limited; email eas8@cornell.edu or call 607 254-4642 to reserve a space by August 29.
The multiple ways that globalization has altered Taiwan over the last decade have become important sources for artistic creation, as the works of thirty-three artists included in this exhibition demonstrate. Adopting the philosophical connotations of the Chinese character jie (meaning scope and/or boundary), this exhibition examines the intricate and complicated human and natural boundaries navigated and negotiated by individuals, as well as by Taiwan as a whole, in today's interconnected world.
The viewpoints of several generations of artists reveal how identity has become more fluid, variable, remixed, and multidimensional, less determined or defined by ethnicity, location, or national allegiances. Works by the generations who grew up, lived through, and struggled against Martial Law (which was lifted in 1987) address issues pertaining to local and international politics and the major social and environmental concerns of our time. Works by younger generations reveal how globalization has affected individual life experience, exposing an inner world tinged with both playfulness and anxiety.
Red 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Berlinetta becomes the most expensive car ever sold at auction
After Dark, the winning project in the inaugural IK Prize is revealed at Tate Britain
Sotheby's Hong Kong presents a superb 8.41-Carat Internally Flawless Fancy Vivid Purple-Pink Diamond
15 metre long floating Sea Turtle launches undersea exhibition at SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium
A summer group exhibition featuring video-based works on view at Pace Beijing
Phillips announces Auction of Photographs from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago
National Gallery of Australia receives major donation from contemporary artist Dale Frank
Sotheby's Gallery in New York announces a retrospective selling exhibition of works by Rudolf Bauer
Exhibition of recent paintings by Carl Ostendarp on view at Elizabeth Dee in New York
Faggionato celebrates its 20th anniversary with ambitious group show
Historic Willoughby-Baylor House reopens with new exhibitions and updated Norfolk History Museum
Striking photographic portrait of the landscape and people of North Philadelphia published
Dürer, Rembrandt prints, British landscapes, among highlights of Norton Museum of Art's new season
Frick Collection announces election of two new board members
The Thing Itself: A summer group show on view at Yancey Richardson
Fresh Mud Pies Sitting On the Windowsill: Four artists exhibit at Samson
Returning to Governors Island this September: The 7th Annual Governors Island Art Fair
Bridie Lunney named winner of 5th John Fries Award for Emerging Art
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VW Crafter Reversing Camera with Smart Mirror Monitor.
Our Reversing Camera System offers a great solution for those looking for a that factory fitted look. This incredibly high quality Reversing Camera for the VW Crafter is without doubt the most asthetically pleasing product available to date. The Camera is installed in place of the standard high level brake light allowing for a seemless factory fitted look. This method of installation also removes the need to drill the vehicles body work therefore maintaing any anti-corrosion warranties.
The VW Crafter Camera image is displayed on the supplied Smart Mirror Monitor. We also offer a alternative 7 inch dash mounted monitor if required. We prefer the Smart Mirror for both asthetic reasons and from a security point of view. The Smart Mirror mounts on the widscreen in the standard rear view mirror location. Once reverse gear is selected the camera image is displayed on the built in 4.3 inch monitor, once reverse gear is disengaged the image is removed and the normal apperance of a mirror is restored.
The title pretty much sums it up!! Great little addition to my new van!! The auto dimming function of the mirror is great but not applicable for my Sprinter as I don't have windows. Thanks for a speedy install!!


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The gig economy: progressive and positive, or exploitative?
noun: gig economy; plural noun: gig economies labour market characterised by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work as opposed to permanent jobs.
"working in the gig economy means constantly being subjected to last-minute scheduling" Origin early 21st century: from gig2 in the sense 'a job' + economy.
The gig economy has experienced a boom in recent years, and the UK's 4.81 million self-employed workers now make up 15% of all people in work, with the CIPD estimating that 1.3 million of these are part of the gig economy. In addition, in 2016 the Office for National Statistics reported that in a single three-month period, a staggering 88% of newly created full-time jobs were self-employed. The Trades Union Congress believes that many of those workers face fewer rights and lower pay and don't see the boom as being indicative of a wave of entrepreneurialism, but that workers are being increasingly forced to accept precarious employment with low pay.
Indeed, there has been a lot of negative press recently, with a number of high profile cases centred on workers' rights. Uber, which maintains that its workers are self-employed, and are not therefore entitled to minimum wage, sick pay or paid holiday leave, lost its recent appeal because of claims that it requires drivers to accept at least 80% of the jobs that are given to them, and that drivers are unable to truly choose when they do and do not work. At the same time, and muddying the waters somewhat, Deliveroo won the test case that was brought against it by a group of delivery workers, and the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain. Deliveroo workers have indeed been labelled "self-employed" and therefore not entitled to sick pay, paid holiday and minimum wage.
But with all the negativity, are there any positives to the gig economy? We believe so. The McKinsey Global Institute defines an independent worker as someone who has high levels of autonomy, is paid by job or by task and makes short term commitments to customers or clients, and in a recent piece of research McKinsey found that around 70% of independent workers say they engage in independent work by choice, preferring the greater levels of autonomy and flexibility than traditional employed jobs offer. They also found that those who chose to work independently reported higher levels of satisfaction, enjoyed being their own boss, and enjoyed greater creativity than their nine-to-five counterparts.
McKinsey also talks about the need for technologists to innovate, and find new ways to connect individuals to paid work to sustain the gig economy, and I'm happy to say that we're doing exactly that. Drivers who sign up with Deliverehub can accept or ignore any jobs they're offered, and their contracts are made directly with the customer. They can communicate directly with the customer throughout the delivery process, using the in-app messaging service, and there are no unnecessary demands placed on them. They're not presented with a huge list of deliveries to make in a single day, with a paltry sum paid per delivery. Deliverehub doesn't use a lowest bid wins system for pricing jobs, and doesn't allow the reselling of jobs on the open market. Instead, it offers customers a very competitive set price per mile, which is passed on to the drivers, less a small commission. Unusually for this much maligned industry, we've made sure drivers can make a decent living.
The Taylor Review was commissioned recently to investigate employment practices in the modern economy, and has spent time looking deeper into the gig economy. So far, its recommendations seem sensible, and it agrees that many workers need and want the flexibility provided by the platforms that connect workers with paid work, and that "gig workers are disproportionately young and racially diverse." It would be a mistake to crack down on their opportunities to find gainful employment. By tackling some of the challenges of a changing workforce, and providing a platform to connect delivery drivers with paying customers, could we create a happier, more satisfied, and more efficient workforce? I think we can, and that's something worth working towards.
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Áureo Patricio Bonilla Bonilla OFM (* 15. Mai 1968 in Riobamba, Provinz Chimborazo, Ecuador) ist ein ecuadorianischer Ordensgeistlicher und Apostolischer Vikar von Galápagos.

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Áureo Patricio Bonilla Bonilla trat der Ordensgemeinschaft der Franziskaner bei und legte am 10. Oktober 1993 die ewige Profess ab. Er empfing am 20. Juni 1996 das Sakrament der Priesterweihe.

Am 29. Oktober 2013 ernannte ihn Papst Franziskus zum Titularbischof von Bida und bestellte ihn zum Apostolischen Vikar von Galápagos. Der Apostolische Nuntius in Ecuador, Erzbischof Giacomo Guido Ottonello, spendete ihm am 7. Dezember desselben Jahres die Bischofsweihe; Mitkonsekratoren waren der Erzbischof von Quito, Fausto Gabriel Trávez Trávez OFM, und der emeritierte Apostolische Vikar von Galápagos, Manuel Valarezo Luzuriaga OFM.

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JACKSON — In a letter to the Hinds County Board of Supervisors, District Attorney Robert Smith repeated what he has said before: he found no evidence that a crime was committed when three tea party members became locked inside the courthouse on June 3 election night.
The report delivered to supervisors yesterday included a cover letter, a copy of a written statement from county Constable Jon C. Lewis and a copy of a sheriff's department incident report.
Smith said Lewis had indirect contact with tea party members from Hattiesburg, whom McDaniel's campaign identified as Janis Lane, Scott Brewster and Rob Chambers, dispatching them to the Hinds County courthouse because there was no one from the tea party movement to monitor the election process there.
Smith said Lewis did not open the door for the three. Lewis said he only told the tea party members to go to the courthouse. He claimed he never opened any doors.
A staffer for state Sen. Chris McDaniel's U.S. Senate campaign and two other McDaniel supporters were locked inside the county courthouse the night of the June 3 primary election night. McDaniel, incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran and a third candidate were vying for the Republican Party nomination. Cochran and McDaniel are in a June 24 runoff.
Brewster, Lane and Chambers were found inside the courthouse. They reportedly entered sometime shortly after 2 a.m. and, after realizing they were locked in, called for help.
Brewster is McDaniel's campaign coalition coordinator, Lane is president of the board of the Central Mississippi Tea Party and Chambers is a consultant with the Mississippi Baptist Christian Action Commission.
"There is no evidence of a crime being committed for the following reasons: no witnesses to testify that a crime had been committed; no video recording although the courthouse is equipped with video surveillance, including the west side of the door in question; Election Commissioner Connie Cochran has given statements that no tampering occurred because the office and vault was locked before she left the office of the Election Commission," Smith said in the report.


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PokerStars fined $10K for taking bets on NJ college teams
By Wayne Parry Apr. 22, 2019 03:23 PM EDT
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey gambling regulators have fined PokerStars $10
March Madness leads to gladness for New Jersey sports books
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A blizzard of bets from college basketball fans in March
Hoops fans line up to bet (legally) on March Madness tourney
By Wayne Parry Mar. 21, 2019 12:40 PM EDT
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — College basketball fans lined up at casinos and racetracks
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Even though the Lunar Eclipse has now passed, we may still be feeling the effects, which can last for up to another six months! This energy can help to unravel life lessons or gifts for us over the next few months. We are all still in the process of clearing up past patterns that have been holding us back from personal fulfilment. So, if you are still figuring things out, organizing your thoughts, life and work, then don't panic as there is still plenty of time, so don't feel pressured to rush! Remember balance is key this year, especially for Mind, Body and Spirit, so don't push yourself too hard.
February is a much brighter month energetically than January, which is very welcome after the intensity of the Eclipse! February begins on the 1st with Imbolc, which is one of the oldest celebrations known in the Pagan calendar. It is a celebration of Spring, a time of welcoming the return of the Sun God, and the first celebration of the new year.
The word Imbolc loosely translates as "in the belly" when ewes were fattened with soon-to-be-born lambs. Our ancestors would celebrate this coming new life, the ending of winter, and the lengthening light of each passing day. The coming of Spring is a time of cleansing; a time of purification and birth into the newness of the season. Springtime is a season of optimism and hope, a time when positivity reigns supreme and all things shine under the light of the sun. So, the beginning of February is wonderful time to let go of the darkness of the past and step boldly into the light!
We then have a Super New Moon on 4th February. This New Moon's energy will bring us clarity, brighten the energy around us and help to bring in positivity and abundance!. It is the perfect day to set new intentions for what we want from our lives.
February invites in change and the energy asks us all to fully embrace it! It is also the month of love and partnerships are highlighted. This includes the partnership we have with ourselves too! Self-love, self-care, self-worth and self-respect are all key areas of focus this month and we may get a wake up call to nurture ourselves if we don't time the time to nourish the relationship with self!
February is a time to also embrace the more playful, fun and adventurous side of life. The Chinese New Year begins on 5th February, with the Year of the Earth Pig. This brings in a much more relaxed energy and the year of the pig is a time to enjoy the fruits of our labours and people will have more time to be social and friendly! So make time for play!
The Year of the Pig is said to be a year of fortune, luck and new opportunities, so look out for signs this month about the next steps to take. Be open to new opportunities, but don't rush in! Take the time to make sure it is right for you! TRUST your intuition!
We have a Full Moon on 19th February, and this falls in a very powerful energy period, which begins around the 18th Feb and last up to around the 22nd Feb. This energy can aid our spiritual awakening, which is very exciting, but it also may bring up doubts about the next part of the journey! So, be aware of how you feel during this period and listen to what your intuition and body are telling you! If doubts come up, allow them. Sit with them and ask the Angels for help. Remember, there is no rush to make decisions, so be patient with yourself and others around this time.
February is a very positive month and the energy helps us push forward so we can make our dreams a reality.
Are you ready to receive what you've been asking the Universe to provide?
Ask yourself these questions and see what comes up! It is absolutely okay if there is a little fear there as change can be scary, even if it is change we want! If there is some fear, ask your heart, "Is this fear stopping me from taking action?" If the answer is yes, you are letting yourself know you need to release some of this fear before you can fully embrace the new. So, sit quietly and FEEL the fear, so it can dissipate. You may still feel a little fearful about moving forward, but this is natural, and shouldn't block you from taking the next step, as you will do it anyway! It is when the fear is so overwhelming that it blocks our intuition and stops us from taking action that we need to focus on releasing it.
February's energies will help us move forward with love, but we can only utilize these energies if we let go of the past and any fear about moving forward. Then, we can really tap into the positive vibes to move us into March with greater clarity about who we are, what we want, and how to get there!
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I shall also be running 2 attunement events each month during 2019 to help us, which are by donation, just a minimum of £1 to join. One will be from the Manifestation Guidance Program by Linda Colibert to help you manifest your desires through 2019, and the other event will be an attunement to help us navigate the month's energies more easily.
Self-Love & Respect Manifestation is on 13th February, please click the link to join. This is the 2nd attunement within the Manifestation Guidance Program, but can be used as a stand alone energy, so you don't have to have received the other attunements! Love for yourself is necessary to grow, to be happy, and healthy! To be able to love truly, you must love yourself. When you love yourself, and respect yourself, you radiate in perfect vibration of the energy of love and respect, and it will draw more positive love and respect to you.
Akashic Records Flush Empowerment is on 27th February, please click the link to join. The Akashic Records Flush Empowerment is designed to clear the Akashic Records where the soul's suffering originated so we are not restricted on a karmic and energetic level. This is the Year of Awakening, so this flush can help us align and clear our energy and help us connect with Source, ourselves and the Higher Realms more easily.
February's energy is all about embracing who we are and what we want! Let go of any fear holding you back and allow your intuition to guide you. Self-love is so important this month, so give yourself some love and remember to play!
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