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\section*{AUTHOR DECLARATIONS}

\subsection*{Acknowledgments}

The authors acknowledge the financial support via the projects C5, A2, and Z3 in the CRC 1375 "NOA–Nonlinear optics down to atomic scales" funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under project-ID 398816777.

\subsection*{Conflict of Interest}

The authors have no conflicts to disclose.

\subsection*{Author Contributions}

\textbf{Francesco Vitale}: conceptualization (equal); investigation – experimental (lead); writing – original draft (lead). \textbf{Daniel Repp}: formal analysis, software – simulations (lead); writing – review \& editing (equal). \textbf{Thomas Siefke}: resources –  sample fabrication (lead); writing – review \& editing (equal). \textbf{Uwe Zeitner}: writing – review \& editing (equal). \textbf{Ulf Peschel}: writing – review \& editing (equal). \textbf{Thomas Pertsch}: funding acquisition (equal); writing – review \& editing (equal). \textbf{Carsten Ronning}: funding acquisition (equal); conceptualization (equal); project administration (lead); supervision (lead); writing – review \& editing (lead).

\section{Dielectric/metal substrate fabrication and EBL patterning}
The dielectric/metal substrates were fabricated by first depositing aluminum films with a thickness of $t \approx$ 68 nm on a fused silica substrate via ion beam deposition (Ionfab 300LC+ by Oxford Instruments). High relative densities and good adhesion were achieved with this method. However, the high normalized energy flux and the generalized temperature during the film growth fostered diffusion processes and, hence, recrystallization \cite{Anders}. Therefore, materials with a low melting point, such as aluminum, tend to become polycrystalline (PC) with very large grains, leading to high surface roughness. Figure \ref{Fig.S1}(a) shows an AFM image of an as-deposited Al layer: the RMS surface roughness was found to be $R_q \approx$ 3.8 nm, calculated from measurements conducted in tapping mode over a $10 \upmu \textup{m} \times 10 \upmu \textup{m}$ area with a resolution of 40 nm. This resulted in a decreased propagation length and increased scattering for the surface plasmon polaritons at the spacer/nanowire interface \cite{Raether}. In order to reduce the roughness, 10 at\% silicon was co-deposited by switching between an aluminum and a silicon target. The deposition time was 25 s at an Ar-ion energy of 1.3 keV and a current of 250 mA for aluminum, and 10 s at an Ar-ion energy of 1.3 keV and a current of 100 mA for silicon respectively. The cycles were repeated 13 times and ended with a Si-free termination layer of thickness $t \approx$ 5-6 nm. On top of this termination layer, a native aluminum oxide layer formed with an estimated thickness of $t \approx$ 2-3 nm.
The co-deposition with silicon led to the reduction of the surface roughness by about one order of magnitude down to $R_q \approx$ 0.2 nm: the corresponding AFM height profile is shown in Figure \ref{Fig.S1}(b).

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\centering
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/S1.png}
        \caption{AFM height profiles for (a) pristine and (b) 10\% Si co-deposited polycrystalline Al substrates. The analysis revealed an average RMS surface roughness $R_q  \approx$ 3.8 nm for the pristine Al layer and  $R_q  \approx$ 0.2 nm for the co-deposited one.
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        \label{Fig.S1}
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 Figure \ref{Fig.S2} shows the respective fractions of lasing yield for a sample of 30 nanowires on top of Al substrates with and without the Si co-deposition. As a consequence of the smoother surface, the yield of nanowires that showed plasmonic-like lasing at room temperature, significantly increased. This can be ascribed to the larger propagation length and reduced scattering of the surface plasmon polaritons at the spacer/nanowire interface \cite{Raether}, together with an overall better thermal dissipation that increased the optical damage threshold.

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        \caption{Lasing yield for nanowires on top of (a) pristine and (b) Si co-deposited PC aluminum layers. The improvement of the surface roughness led to an increase in the yield of devices exhibiting plasmonic-like lasing action.
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        \label{Fig.S2}
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Subsequently, the grating structures were realized by character projection electron beam lithography (Vistec SB350 OS) \cite{Kley}. The mask, consisting of a positive tone CAR FEP171 (Fujifilm) was transferred onto the aluminum film by ion beam etching (Ionfab 300LC+, Oxford Instruments). The resist was, then, stripped by reactive ion etching in an oxygen atmosphere (Sentech SI-591), and, ultimately, the samples were laser diced.

\section{Sample preparation and single-nanowire nano-manipulation}

\begin{figure} [ht!]
\centering
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/S3.png}
        \caption{(a) Optical microscope image of a section of the Al$_2$O$_3$/Al substrate, exhibiting an exemplary EBL-patterned metallic grating. (b) Photograph of the nano-manipulation setup: the arrow points to the manipulator arm, equipped with the whisker mounting a W tip. (c) Representative optical image of a single nanowire and the W tip, acquired prior to the nano-manipulation. The same nanowire was successfully placed on top of the grating with a ridge (trench) orientation of $\theta \approx 50\degree$, as shown in (d).
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        \label{Fig.S3}
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The ZnO nanowires were dispersed onto the EBL-patterned Al$_2$O$_3$/Al substrates, shown in Figure \ref{Fig.S3}(a), via a dry imprint technique consisting in gently rubbing the growth sample surface against that of the target substrate, which was, in turn, imaged under an optical microscope (Zeiss Axiolab 5). The mechanical nano-manipulation was performed in air under the PL microscope, as shown in the photograph of \ref{Fig.S3}(b), in order to avoid the modification of the optical properties induced by the electron beam irradiation, as discussed in the main text of the manuscript. To this end, we made use of a remotely controlled nano-manipulator (Kleindiek MM3A-EM) featuring a W tip with a radius of curvature of about 1 micron installed in between the sample and the 50x NUV objective. The sample was imaged via a white light fiber illuminator (Thorlabs OSL1-EC) on a microscopy camera (PixeLink PL-B776U). After the tip was brought in contact with the substrate, finer displacement steps were achieved via a remotely controlled piezo-controller (Thorlabs BPC303) connected to the piezo-actuators of the sample stage. This allowed for an accurate "nudging" of the single nanowire toward the metallic grating and a successful placement on top of it, as shown in Figures \ref{Fig.S3}(c)(d), in order to avoid abrupt and uncontrolled movements of the W tip, eventually leading to the nanowire breakage.

\section{Further optical measurements of nanowires on gratings}

\begin{figure} [ht!]
\centering
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/S4.png}
        \caption{PL spectra of a ZnO nanowire with $L \approx$  13 $\upmu$m and $\langle d \rangle \approx$ ≈ 230 nm placed on a grating with $p$ = 300 nm and $FF$ = 0.5 at different configurations.
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        \label{Fig.S4}
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Figure \ref{Fig.S4} shows the PL spectra from another nanowire featuring a length $L \approx$ 13 $\upmu$m and average diameter $\langle d \rangle \approx$ 230 nm, placed on a grating with pitch $p$ = 300 nm and fill factor $FF = 0.5$. Also in this case, we can clearly observe the emergence of additional peaks in the low-energy side of the gain envelope, for an orientation of the nanowire perpendicular to the metallic ridges. The additional peaks disappeared for a subsequent re-orientation of the wire at $\theta \approx 45\degree$ as well as for the planar situation. We attribute the slight shift ($\approx$ 1 nm) of the spectral location of the long-wavelength peak, compared to the other two nanowires discussed in the main text, to the variations related to the cavity imperfections (both nanowire- and grating-related).

\section{Active lasing simulations}

The active lasing simulations were accomplished by choosing the 4-level-2-electron material model provided by Lumerical for the nanowire material. A non-dispersive dielectric with an index of $n$ = 2.4 was chosen as a base material. The nanowire was illuminated by a Total-Field Scattered-Field (TFSF) source, modeling the experimental pump, for an excitation time $\tau_{\textup{exc}}$ = 500 fs at a wavelength $\lambda_{\textup{exc}}$ = 350 nm, in resonance with the pump transition in the material. The pump was, then, switched off, leading to the excitation of temporal Fourier components resonant with the lasing transition, thereby achieving a broad-band seeding of the lasing modes. This resulted in the appearance of a lasing pulse, which experienced gain. The lasing wavelength was identified via the observation of a maximum in the spectral power distribution from a monitor placed perpendicularly to the nanowire axis in a transversal cross-section. The field distribution was given by a second monitor plane, spanned by the nanowire axis and the surface normal to the substrate.

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Karl Hagedorn (1889 - 1969)
Topley Pike
Signed and dated, Pencil, pen & ink, and watercolour on paper.
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Trained in Manchester and on the Continent, Hagedorn moved to Buxton around the time of this painting. The carved geodetic forms of Topley Pike, a limestone quarry near Buxton, Derbyshire, lying in- side the Peak District National Park, which would have appealed to Hagedorn's sense of Modernism. As Simon Martin has remarked, his watercolour landscapes from the 1920's 'encapsulate the search for solace in the landscape that appears in the work of so many others of his generation. These works have a distinctive clarity and call to mind Paul Nash's question of whether it was possible to 'Go Modern and Be British'. As an outsider, Hagedorn was not weighed down by such a sense of tradition. During the same period, he was also designing eye- catching posters… applying the lessons of European modernism to commercial advertising'.
Landscape, Medium, Pen and Ink, pencil, Subject, Topography, Trees, Watercolour
Painter, born in Berlin, Germany, who moved to England in 1905, later adopting British nationality. He went to Manchester in 1905 to train in textile production and also studied art under Adolphe Valette at the local Manchester School of Art and then at The Slade School of Fine Ar, followied by two yearss in Paris, in 1912-13, when, working under Maurice Denis, he absorbed a range of avant-garde styles. On his return to England, he made a consciously pioneering attempt to introduce Modernism into Manchester through his work as both painter and designer. He became a British subject in 1914 and served as a Lance-Corporal in the Middlesex Regiment during World War I.
He exhibited at the Manchester Society of Modern Painters, RA, RBA, RSMA and with the NEAC. In 1925 he received the Grand Prix at the International Exhibition of Decorative Art, Paris and in 1935 he was elected RBA. He exhibited at a number of leading galleries in London and the provinces, and was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Royal Society of Marine Artists, the New English Art Club and the NS. In 1995, the Chris Beetles Gallery hosted 'Manchester's First Modernist', an important retrospective exhibition of the work of Karl Hagedorn organised in conjunction with the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. It was accompanied by an illustrated biographical catalogue. His work is in the collection of the Atkinson Art Gallery, BM, GAC, Manchester City Art Gallery V&A and the Wellcome Library.
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I've recently acquired a clusterboard with some compute modules, along with a baseboard. I've verified the modules are operational via the baseboard, and boot via the clusterboard's serial terminal. I'm using the latest stable version of Armbian. The board is being powered via an external supply coming into the connector beside the coaxial power jack, to which I've soldered screw terminals. I've also tried the "official?" brick supplied from Ameridroid.
I'm having trouble getting the modules to talk to the network. I've assigned the modules static IP addresses within Armbian, and it appears to be correct when I check it. The yellow LEDs are blinking as if there is network traffic, and the green are all blinking in unison save the slot(s) where modules are installed. If I tell a particular module to halt, the green LED stops blinking.
Is there something I'm missing? I've read about some changes to network timing in other threads, but I'm not sure where to go with this.
(03-14-2019, 05:50 PM)BryanS Wrote: [ -> ] I've recently acquired a clusterboard with some compute modules, along with a baseboard. I've verified the modules are operational via the baseboard, and boot via the clusterboard's serial terminal. I'm using the latest stable version of Armbian. The board is being powered via an external supply coming into the connector beside the coaxial power jack, to which I've soldered screw terminals. I've also tried the "official?" brick supplied from Ameridroid.
I never had any trouble with timing. It's best to use DHCP to let them pull configuration from the network.
They aren't asking for addresses from the router, so I wonder if there's something wrong with my clusterboard.
(03-15-2019, 05:29 PM)BryanS Wrote: [ -> ] They aren't asking for addresses from the router, so I wonder if there's something wrong with my clusterboard.
They won't pull down DHCP at all?
They weren't, but they are now. I assumed the most obvious answer here, that of I did something wrong. I went back and re-read your guide carefully, and stopped where you said you HAD to use Xenial. I loaded that on to a test card, and it appeared in the router as a device within a minute.
So, I guess I need to pay attention to the manual. The board currently has 3 modules on it, just doing some generic network tasks for a burn-in. The only thing I have left to do is make sure there's no unnecessary desktops loading with this particular version. I assume there isn't.
Thank you for the replies, sometimes it just takes someone asking you about it to make you go back and look at your process differently.
I'm still waiting on my USB UART and LTS baseboard. I had to way to troubleshoot the problem which is why I used xenial. I have a feeling the newest images might not have all the proper configs to run headless out of the box.
I was able to get the SOPine module to boot (headless) without issue on the baseboard using the latest version of Armbian Stretch, which is why I figured I could just plug it in to the clusterboard and just continue on my way without noticing anything different. At some point this weekend I may search the Armbian forums and post my findings there if no one else has.
If I have time in the coming week, I will boot a module on both and post my results.
There appears to be a thread about this issue in the Armbian forums. It talks about some changes that weren't carried through to the newest kernel, that of timing issues with the Realtek devices. I assume that's the same whispers I saw regarding timing elsewhere.
I'm out of my league at the moment doing kernel recompiles, but I'll try and provide any information that is needed to get this resolved.
(03-17-2019, 08:48 AM)BryanS Wrote: [ -> ] There appears to be a thread about this issue in the Armbian forums. It talks about some changes that weren't carried through to the newest kernel, that of timing issues with the Realtek devices. I assume that's the same whispers I saw regarding timing elsewhere.
That is the exact issue you are fighting against. You can fix it on the newer kernels - one module at a time - by modifying one of the boot files as described in that other thread. But it requires a serial console and is a PITA.
I appreciate all the work that Armbian does, but there really is no excuse for this issue remaining open and untouched by them for this long.
Once you get past that one the next hurdle to get over is the "won't reboot without power cycle, which required power cycling the whole cluster" issue. This one really needs to get fixed if the Clusterboard is ever going to be really useful. At is is mine is back on a storage shelf because its just not worth fighting it.


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Investors Are Reevaluating Mountain Valley Pipeline. Let's Cancel It for Good.
The pipeline has already racked up hundreds of pollution violations and paid millions in fines.
William Limpert ,
Activists rally with the People vs. Fossil Fuels demonstration to call for President Biden to stop approving fossil fuel projects at the Capitol Reflecting Pool on October 15, 2021.
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The unjust, unneeded and destructive Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a fracked-gas pipeline from West Virginia down into Virginia, should be canceled. Project completion is already in jeopardy.
During a recent hearing about the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC's) policy statements about fracked gas certificates, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, defended the MVP. Manchin claimed the pipeline is 95 percent completed, but opponents cite the company's own reports, which indicate "final restoration of the pipeline right-of-way is now about 55% complete."
Moreover, two recent federal court rulings have thrown out key MVP permits, as three more federal agencies have been sent back to the drawing board after failing to analyze the MVP's harmful impacts. The court ruled that the United States Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management inadequately considered actual sedimentation and erosion impacts, prematurely authorized stream crossings, and failed to comply with a Forest Service rule. The court also ruled that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service failed to make a current assessment of the endangered Roanoke Logperch and candy darter, and failed to account for climate change impacts. Meanwhile, another permit that is needed from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cannot be issued at this time because they committed to withhold the permit without a valid Endangered Species Act biological opinion that had been vacated by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The FERC certificate for the MVP expires this year. It has already been extended once, and FERC may not grant a second extension. FERC will likely consider that the MVP has not demonstrated the project can be completed in compliance with public safety and public health requirements, key permits are now missing, and new information undeniably shows that the project is not in the public interest.
The MVP has exploited the communities and landowners along the route. Project cancellation could enable impacted landowners to get their land back. Their land was taken from them, in large part, through an unfair use of eminent domain for private gain. The trauma of having their property seized would finally be over, and their property values would go back to pre-pipeline levels, without a dangerous 42-inch pipeline transporting fracked gas through it.
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Most of our fellow citizens along the MVP are low- and middle-income earners, and communities of color, low-income communities, elderly residents and Indigenous sites would be most impacted and overburdened by the environmental harms and risks from this dirty pipeline. They face possible health impacts through air and water pollution, along with property damage. Buying their homes and properties may have been the biggest investment of their lives, and the MVP may have made that their biggest loss. Project cancellation can begin to right these wrongs.
Our energy needs would be better served by renewable energy, including solar, wind, geothermal and hydroelectric energy.
The MVP was designed in 2014 to transport fracked gas, a now-outdated resource. We don't need fracked gas to produce energy. Our energy needs would be better served by renewable energy, including solar, wind, geothermal and hydroelectric energy. Once renewable energy systems are in place, except for minor maintenance costs, the energy they produce is free, robust and virtually inexhaustible, with no greenhouse gas emissions or pollutant discharges.
MVP cancellation would significantly eliminate other negative project impacts as well.
The threat to public safety would be reduced. The MVP traverses landslide- and earthquake-prone terrain. Landslide risk was assessed by an MVP hired consultant — in an inherent conflict of interest that could understate the risk. FERC cited the assessment and determined that the risk was acceptable. Nevertheless, one MVP landslide has already forced two families to evacuate their homes. Another landslide moved the pipeline, which was already in the ground. Many other landslides have occurred along the route as well.
Questionable MVP pipe handling may have also subjected the pipes to increased corrosion risk, which could lead to pipe failure, and ultimately a catastrophic explosion.
Furthermore, the MVP is a public health risk. A number of toxins, including radioactive substances, are carried in the gas stream. Leaks and intentional discharges from fracked gas transmission lines are significant. Research indicates the MVP would likely leak and emit more than 6 million cubic feet of fracked gas and toxins per day. If the MVP is completed, these toxins would be released in large volumes that would pollute the air, and could pollute the soil and drinking water in communities along the line.
Further damage to our streams, wetlands, fisheries and wildlife from the hundreds of pipeline crossings yet to be completed, would be eliminated if the pipeline is canceled. The MVP has already racked up hundreds of pollution violations and paid millions in fines.
Climate-killing greenhouse gas emissions from the MVP, and downstream combustion of that gas, would be eliminated if the pipeline is canceled. The U.S. Fourth National Climate Assessment, and the report from the Sixth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report were both issued after FERC's environmental impact statement and approval of the MVP. These reports clearly indicate that we have already significantly and negatively altered the climate, and further greenhouse gas emissions would make things much worse in the future.
Climate change is our biggest threat ever. We know we can't avert the worst of the climate crisis unless we stop throwing fuel on the fire. Greenhouse gas emissions from the MVP would pack even more explosives into the climate time bomb, further impacting a climate that may not be able to sustain us in the future. Once fully operational, the MVP would emit about the same amount of emissions equivalent to 26 U.S. coal plants or 19 million passenger vehicles per year.
I am calling on the Mountain Valley Pipeline owners and investors to end this nightmare that impacted property owners have endured for so long, and stop this unjust, unneeded and destructive project. Investors have disclosed their million-dollar losses relating to the pipeline and are reevaluating its investment following the string of legal losses for the embattled pipeline. People of good faith should come together to urge the Mountain Valley Pipeline to do the same. We have seen the great work of people on the ground who have called out the injustices to their communities and have documented and reported environmental issues related to the construction. Stiff grassroots opposition will not only stop the imminent threat to public safety and health, but also the pollution of our environment and the permanent destruction of our climate.
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Michael T. Klare ,
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Comparing FMVSS 213 Sled Test to the Full-scale Vehicle Crash Environment (Multiple Year Project)
Principal Investigator: Matthew R. Maltese, PhD, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Child restraint systems (CRS) provide an adaptive interface between a developing child and the vehicle seat, limiting the child's risk for injury or death in the event of a crash. The most common method used to evaluate the dynamic performance of a CRS is a sled test, where a crash sled containing a restrained pediatric anthropomorphic test device (ATD), or crash test dummy, reproduces a crash pulse similar to what is observed in a full-scale vehicle crash. The regulation that governs evaluations of child restraint performance is known as FMVSS 213.
While the ability to run such sled tests and estimate injury potential is essential for the CRS design process, development and implementation of federal regulations has revealed many opportunities to refine the sled test methodology. The long-term goal of this line of research is to influence CRS design and safety by developing a method to provide data-driven assessment of the ability of the regulatory sled test to mimic actual vehicle crashes.
Hybrid III 6-year-old ATD in a forward-facing child restraint on the C/FMVSS bench in a finite element simulation.
Year 3: 2013-2014
The testing, simulations, and analysis conducted in this phase of research focused on the differences in booster seat performance on vehicle seats compared to the FMVSS 213 bench. There were two distinct tasks in this phase: 1) developing a Finite Element (FE) model of the FMVSS 213 bench with a booster seat and 2) providing a cost-efficient platform to evaluate bench characteristics. As part of the FE model validation process, high rate belt, harness and tether webbing experiments and foam experiments were generated that are proving valuable to the industry. Tether anchor location was varied parametrically in the model to include locations attached to the floor, the roof and the package shelf, and results were compared to matched sled test data. Head and chest acceleration were sensitive to tether anchor location, but head and knee excursion changed minimally across the locations.
Task 2 involved physical sled tests and the examination of retractor vs. no retractor on various kinematic and kinetic ATD metrics and injury criteria. As mentioned above, in year 1 of the project, substantial differences were observed between the booster head excursion on the vehicle seats as compared to the FMVSS 213 bench. It was hypothesized that these differences were due to retractors on the vehicle seat belts, which allow for a certain amount of belt payout during loading, while the seat belt on FMVSS 213 bench clamps the shoulder belt restricting payout. The sled tests revealed head excursion was greater in the retractor condition. The FE model developed in Task 1 was used to confirm these findings.
This body of research provides important insight into the capacity of the FMVSS 213 bench to replicate real-world crash scenarios. Because sled tests are vital to the design and validation of CRS, improvements to the testing protocol based on these analyses may yield increased safety benefits for children in actual motor vehicle crashes.
The second phase, conducted in 2011-2013, our goal was to discover why these differences occur. We determined which characteristics of the regulatory bench seat (seat cushion stiffness, seat belt stiffness, seat belt/LATCH/tether anchor location) led to these differences by utilizing a finite element model of the FMVSS 213 bench with a forward-facing CRS and an appropriately-sized ATD. We conducted a matrix of simulations that evaluated how changes in these parameters influence ATD kinematics in order to identify the set of parameters that result in kinematics that are similar to those observed in the tests on the actual vehicle seats.
The research team divided the study into two components -- one focused on the sled pulse and one focused on the test bench used in the regulatory sled test. For the sled pulse evaluation, over 1,400 vehicle crash tests were analyzed over a variety of barrier conditions (offset and full-frontal rigid barrier) and over a range of impact speeds (40, 48 and 56 kmph) and vehicle types (SUV, sedan, minivan, etc.). For the test bench evaluation, the research team mounted a selection of vehicle seats and the C/FMVSS 213 bench seat to a crash sled, and mounted child restraints on the seats exposed both to an identical sled acceleration pulse.
Tests were performed in groups, mounting the same model CRS to various vehicle seats and to the sled test bench. The analysis revealed significant differences between the vehicle and bench, depending on how the seats were attached to the vehicle. Differences were also found in performance metrics for the same model forward-facing CRS tested on the vehicles seats and sled bench. The kinematics of CRS attached by LATCH and tether revealed that CRS rotation was uniformly positive (CRS rotates backward) on the bench and overwhelmingly negative (CRS rotates forward) on the vehicle seats. According to the researchers, these fundamental differences in CRS kinematics between the bench and vehicle seat may be highly dependent upon the difference in the location of the tether anchor between the bench and vehicles.
This study helped to quantify the differences between the vehicle and bench seats. This research was conducted in collaboration with the Government of Canada, with all testing conducted at Transport Canada and data analysis conducted primarily at CChIPS.
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In the late fall of 1992, after spending the previous 6 months trying to find appropriate employment after college graduation, and during a tough post-recession job market, I packed up my 1984 Chevy Cavalier with my personal belongings and left the city I had spent the first 23 years of my life in. Detroit and the first-ring suburbs were dying a slow death. At the time it seemed like a temporary decline, but almost 20 years later, the once great motor city is but a shell of its former self and the closest thing to a recovery has been nothing more than a tourniquet.
What worries me in 2011 is that North Adams, my new hometown of the past 8 years, the place I have chosen to raise my family, has a lot in common with the city of my birth, Detroit. Both are cities that had a strong and proud blue-collar tradition but are now defined by high poverty. Both were devastated by the effects of fleeing industry and globalization. Both municipalities lost their tax bases and became dependent on state and federal aide to pay for the most basic of services. And most critically, because of most of the above, both lost their ability to attract and maintain a middle class, without whom no city can thrive, grow and build.
The cities are not identical: Detroit is the poster child for horrendous public schools, a decimated city infrastructure, corrupt leadership with non-existent city services, and probably the worst racial tensions north of the Mason Dixon line.
For the past decade, or so, North Adams has slowly made progress on the livability front. The arts community, telecommuting and proximity to a growing regional and state economy have all held great potential. Yet North Adams struggles to reap the benefits in a meaningful way.
It boils down to attracting and/or building the middle class and keeping them here.
When a young family comes to the area, for a job at MCLA, Mass MoCA, the hospital, Williams College or any number of the small businesses, what is the first thing they look at?
Schools. The North Adams public schools are improving, but they still struggle with the issues that a high percentage of children living below the poverty line bring to the classroom. The perverse irony is that, on average, poor kids cost almost twice as much to educate because of the extra resources "at risk" youth need to provide a semblance of the stability it takes to create an effective learning environment.
The second thing that this hypothetical young family looks for is community. Sometimes North Adams has this in spades with all the churches, social groups, museum activities, festivals, etc... But, again, it struggles with creating and keeping the vibrant commerce that a small city needs to thrive and attract its residents downtown and into it's scattered neighborhood shops.
Commerce is a cart and horse problem. If you build it, they will come, but if those with disposable income are not already here, the money to build businesses is hard to come by. It takes a game of Leapfrog - a little demand for commercial activity = a little supply; Then a few more customers and a little bit more supply; and so on. It takes years of constant business and demographic growth, but it tends to grow exponentially. Eventually you have a real business district.
Finally, once this family decides on the community, they might start looking for a house. But what if that beautiful old Victorian is connected to collapsing sewer line? What if water the tap water was under a boil order because the aqueduct at the reservoir had crumbled? What if the road in front of the house was full of pot holes, or had not been plowed after the last snowstorm? What if the house's addition had been built by a sketchy contractor who did not have to worry about a building inspection?
Ultimately it boils down to - Does this family think it's really a better value to live here, than, say, one town over? It's true that you often get what you pay for.
So why am I worried about my chosen city of North Adams becoming Detroit? Because our fiscal situation is such that our community has a ballot box choice for us to keep turning the corner from our manufacturing past and into the vibrant 21st century education, arts and tourism mecca that we are so well poised to become. Or we can hunker down and whine about the huge cuts in state aide for impoverished towns that have subsidized our low taxes for a generation by laying off a chunk of the teachers, ending difference-making educational programs, cutting city services to ineffective levels and allowing our 100+ year old infrastructure to disintegrate - to, in effect become more like the city of Detroit and stumble past a rare opportunity once more. We can talk about a glorious past with sentimental sadness, or we can build on that past with ideas for tomorrow.
I believe that the next generation is just as important as the previous one. I will be voting Yes on the Proposition 2 ½ Override, June 21st. It's time for us to take care of our own.


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Mixed Martial Arts fights, including the popular UFC events, are among the most pirated live-streams on the Internet. Responding to questions from US senators, the UFC's General Counsel says that the company is working hard to address this issue, adding that Congress should help to incentivize online platforms to become more proactive.
With millions of dedicated fans around the world, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) events are extremely popular.
They are also relatively expensive and as a result, unauthorized broadcasts are thriving.
For most popular fight cards, dozens of dedicated pirate streams are queued up via unauthorized IPTV services, streaming torrents, and streaming sites, in the latter case often masked with an overlay of ads. At the same time, unauthorized rebroadcasts also appear on more traditional Internet platforms, such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.
This is a thorn in the size of rightsholders, including the UFC, which dominates the MMA fighting scene. To tackle the problem the UFC has employed various anti-piracy strategies. Most recently, it contracted Stream Enforcement, a company that specializes in taking down pirated broadcasts.
In addition, the MMA promoter also involves itself in the lawmaking process. Just a few weeks ago, UFC General Counsel Riché McKnight, shared his anti-piracy vision with the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
One of the main goals for the UFC is to criminalize unauthorized streaming. Unlike downloading, streaming is currently categorized as a public performance instead of distribution, which is punishable as a misdemeanor, instead of a felony.
The Senators made note of this call, which was shared by another major sports outfit, the NBA. They also had some additional questions, however, which McKnight could answer on paper later, so it could be added to the record.
These answers, which were just published, show that the UFC is not satisfied with how some social media companies and other online services address the pirate streaming issue.
McKnight explains that the UFC has takedown tool arrangements with several social media companies, but adds that online platforms have neglected its requests to combat illegal streaming more effectively.
"We believe communication, coordination, and cooperation could be greatly improved. Our general experience is that those subject to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) use it as a floor and do the minimum required to be in compliance," McKnight notes.
The UFC notes that Facebook recently bettered its communication and 'slightly' improved its takedown response but overall, more could be done. However, most online services appear to be reluctant to voluntarily do more than the law requires, which means that in order to trigger change, the law should change.
"Private, voluntary partnerships [with online platforms] are not sufficient to combat online piracy. Addressing this problem requires a new approach that includes a strong legal framework, a combination of private and public enforcement, and enhanced cooperation with our international partners," McKnight writes.
Criminalizing streaming is a step forward, according to the UFC. However, that doesn't affect the platforms that host these streams, as these are protected by the DMCA's safe harbor provisions.
According to the UFC's General Counsel, Congress should consider other options as well. In particular, changes to the legal framework that will motivate social media companies and other online platforms to proactively prevent piracy.
"Congress should examine how best to properly incentivize platform providers to protect copyrighted online streaming content," McKnight writes.
"Transitioning from a reactive 'take down' regime to a proactive 'prevention' regime would better protect and enhance a vibrant online ecosystem," he adds.
McKnight specifically mentions policies to effectively ban repeat infringers, which is already part of the DMCA, but not always properly implemented.
While not specifically mentioned, the words "proactive" and "prevention" are reminiscent of the EU's Article 17, which could potentially lead to upload filters. The UFC doesn't reference filters here, but other rightsholders have in the past.
Later this year, the US Copyright Office is expected to issue a report on the effectiveness of the DMCA's safe harbor provisions. This will be based on input from a variety of stakeholders, some of which discussed filtering requirements.
The UFC hopes that the Copyright Office report will further help Congress to shape a more effective legal framework to tackle online streaming.
A copy of the written responses to the questions from the Senate Committee on the Judiciary is available here (pdf).
Many thanks to TorrentFreak for the breaking news.
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Turkey stops cross-border trade with Syria
Ankara seals border with Syria to commercial traffic, but keeps crossings open for Syrian refugees fleeing conflict.
About 300 Syrians crossed into Turkey on Wednesday, some using informal crossing points [Reuters]
Turkey is closing its border with Syria to commercial traffic, but will keep it open for refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict, a UNHCR spokeswoman has said.
"We've received assurances that it is staying open. The border is closed for all commercial traffic in both directions, that is what we heard from the Turkish government," Sybella Wilkes, spokeswoman of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told the Reuters news agency.
About 300 Syrians had crossed overnight into Turkey, she added, some of them are using informal crossing points.
"The Turkish government is still actively welcoming refugees and offering them protection," Wilkes said.
Earlier, Turkish Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan said the border posts would be sealed off due to the deteriorating security situation along the border.
"We have serious concerns over the safety of Turkish trucks regarding their entry and return from Syria," Caglayan said, noting that there had already been an 87 per cent drop in trucks travelling to Syria this year.
Turkey had close trade ties to neighbouring Syria before the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began 16 months ago.
But it has turned into a harsh critic and its territory along the of the 911-km border is used as a staging ground for the rebel army as well as a haven for thousands of refugees fleeing violence that activists say has killed 19,000 people so far.
Smuggler routes
Northern Syria, especially the province of Idlib, has been a steady scene of heavy fighting between Syrian forces and the rebels and large swathes of the countryside are under rebel control.
Al Jazeera meets one man who lives as a refugee in Turkey and also fights with the Free Syrian Army
Rebels, for their part, generally move their weapons and material over the border through clandestine smuggler routes.
Caglayan told reporters Turkish trucks would not be allowed into Syria, though no restrictions were being imposed on trucks going the other way, contrary to what the UNHCR heard from the Turkish government.
The sealing will deprive Syria of a common route for imports. Dozens of Turkish trucks were either looted or torched when the rebels captured the border crossing of Bab al-Hawa last week.
In all, about 120,000 Syrian refugees have registered with UNHCR in four neighbouring countries – Iraq (7,490), Jordan (36,323), Lebanon (31,004) and Turkey (43,387) – since the uprising began.
In the past few weeks, the rate of Syrians arriving in Jordan has doubled to 1,200-1,300 per day, stretching a transfer facility overflowing with 6,500 people staying in desert conditions, Wilkes said.
The agency is urgently building a camp with tents at Za'atri in Mafraq.
"We are quite literally working overnight to get it ready. We may need to move in thousands of people," she said.
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Ankara's version of how a Turkish F4 Phantom jet was downed by Syria could be sliding into deep water.
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Why Turkey won't go to war with Syria
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has yet to understand the new deal struck between Russia and the US.
Assad: Turkey is party to Syrian bloodshed
Syria president says Ankara is arming rebels and accuses Turkish PM of being "two-faced" for ignoring Gulf state deaths.


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Tour de San Luis – Update
A quick update from the Tour de San Luis in Argentina, and it's a tale of bad luck and hard-going.
Tour de San Luis – Stage One
Well, I've never seen anything like that before... I'm at the Tour de San Luis and it's amazing. Not the Tour of Britain, not even the "Grandassima" (Volta a Portugal). Maybe only the opening of the Tour of Spain in Seville a couple of years ago was up to the scale of this "small" event here in the middle of Argentina.
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It looked like Pippo was going to send Italia into raptures on Wednesday's Stage 17 - but big, bad Six Day man and omnium specialist, Roger Kluge (IAM & Germany) spoiled the dream, jumping early from an uncontrolled peloton to take a beautiful stage win. IAM are folding at the end of this year but Rodge will have no bother finding a contract. With so many of the big sprinters gone - Kittel, Greipel, Demare, Ewan, Mezgec and Viviani - there was no one capable or willing to control the last kilometre except Lampre for Modolo and/or Trek for Nizzolo.
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In a sport where Grand Tours are won or lost by mere seconds, every advantage counts. It's no secret that many top pros use PowerCranks as part of their training program, but most prefer to keep that secret. But we found three pros - Marco Pinotti, Dario Cioni, and Matt Brammeier who not only use the cranks, but were happy to talk to us about them. In today's Part I, we asked each about how they got turned on to PowerCranks, and their experiences getting started.
Murray Hall – the Aussie British Madison Champion
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Back in 1972 when Edinburgh's Meadowbank Velodrome was still a thing of beauty and not kindling-in-waiting, the British Madison Championships were held there. The men who won that day were the young Australian rider, Murray Hall – then riding for Croydon Premier - and his compatriot, Tom Moloney. We caught up with Murray recently during our researches about the Six Day races of old - he has a good tale to tell.


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IAB UK Real_Living research receives top award
IAB UK won the 'Consumer Devices' award for its 'Real_Living: How devices compete for attention in the living room' research at the IAB Europe Research Awards 2016.
See the research here
The winners were announced last night at a gala dinner held as part of IAB Europe's Interact conference in Lisbon.
The IAB Europe Research awards recognise and celebrate the research projects and the contribution they have made to the development of the digital advertising industry.
Working with research agency Sparkler, the IAB's Real_Living research aimed to truly understand how people use their devices in the home.
Tim Elkington, the IAB's Chief Strategy Officer, who managed the project said: "We're delighted to win the award, especially given the amount of work that went into the project which combined different types of research methodology including an online survey, passive device monitoring, ethnography and biometric data to build into some great consumer insights around the equality of screens in the living room."
Andy Goll from Sparkler commented: "We are really proud to have partnered with the IAB on this project not just because it won an award, but because it tackled such fundamental questions about how digital devices are changing viewing habits in 2016. This is such an important topic for advertisers, brands and digital platform owners to understand and hopefully, there will be more research targeted at this topic now and in the future."
This award comes after IAB UK won the 'Best Use of Research Budget' award for its Content and Native consumer research in 2015, and the Multi-Screen award for its RealView research in the 2014 IAB Europe Research awards.
Congratulations also go to IAB members comScore & News UK, Instagram/Facebook, The Guardian and Yahoo, who also picked up awards. You can see the full list of winners here.
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"This has been a challenging year for funeral homes as they worked to provide meaningful support to grieving families in the midst of a global pandemic," said NFDA Director of Public Relations Jessica Koth, who manages the Pursuit of Excellence Award program. "The Pursuit of Excellence Work Group was very impressed with the quality of this year's entries and all that funeral homes have accomplished during these difficult times. The funeral homes that NFDA is recognizing with the Pursuit of Excellence Award have truly earned it this year."
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STAUNTON – It's easy to forget that the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind isn't like your neighborhood school. It doesn't have a parent-teacher association to rally volunteers and fundraising on its behalf.
But like area school divisions, VSDB has felt the sting of budget cuts and hiring freezes that have teachers doing more work for the same pay.
To help lighten that load, faculty members are attempting to organize a structured volunteer program at the school this fall that gives people an opportunity to help their community, and gives teachers a support system.
Kathy Guisewite, outreach coordinator and Koressa Malcolm, school psychologist, spent the school year and this summer organizing a program for volunteers.
They came up with a variety of jobs that volunteers could do that would benefit teachers and staff members, such as lunch and bus duty, copying materials, researching and writing grants, reading with students and supporting teachers through measures of kindness throughout the year.
The idea came to Malcolm and Guisewite after a local Delta Kappa Gamma chapter, which is an organization for women educators, organized a teacher appreciation day at VSDB. Many of the members expressed an interest in coming back to volunteer in the future.
That's when the two realized there might be more community organizations and members who would enjoy working with students and learning more about the school.
"There are people who don't know we're here or don't know what we do," Malcolm said.
The next step will be establishing protocols for who can volunteer and what the parameters are. All volunteers will have to go through a background check and no volunteers will be left unsupervised with students, Guisewite said.
"We're doing this all above board," she said.
Guisewite and Malcolm will also organize a training session for volunteers so they feel comfortable on campus and interacting with students who are deaf, blind or have multiple disabilities.
"We want to offer training on the cultural aspects for being on campus," Guisewite said.
They hope that volunteers will get as much out of it as teachers will.
"It's such a gift to be with our students," Guisewite said.
"When you haven't had this experience, it can be a little intimidating. But once they leave they're going to feel like they've gotten something out of it."
For more information about the VSDB volunteer program, go to http://vsdb.k12.va.us/Volunteer/.
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