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UPDATED: Fleet Growth Stymied by Navy Budget Request
By: Christopher P. Cavas
May 28, 2021 2:42 PM • Updated: May 30, 2021 4:50 PM
Submarine construction continues apace in the latest US Navy budget request, which asks for two more Virginia-class submarines and another installment for the missile sub Columbia. Here, the Virginia-class attack submarine USS Montana (SSN-794) is seen just after launch in March 2021 at Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding. HII Photo
This post has been updated with additional details from the Department of the Navy's FY 2022 budget presentation.
The long-delayed Navy fiscal 2022 budget request submitted to Congress May 28 reflects modest increases in several areas but overall shows no significant changes over the previous year, either in weapons procurement or readiness accounts.
The service is asking for eight ships, but only four are combatants – two submarines, one destroyer and one frigate – while the other four are support ships. The President's Budget for 2022 (PB 22) request for new ships is counteracted by the decision to inactivate 15 ships, including seven cruisers and four littoral combat ships.
Aircraft purchases drop significantly, from 96 in 2021 to 59 in 2022, but the decrease reflects the end of several product lines, including the F/A-18 Super Hornet.
The total request for the Department of the Navy (DON) – which includes the Navy and Marine Corps – is $211.7 billion, an overall increase of $3.8 billion over the $207.9 billion the department received in fiscal 2021. While procurement drops by 5.7 percent, the other appropriation groups – operations and maintenance, military personnel, infrastructure, and research and development – all rise.
Broken down further, shipbuilding procurement drops 3 percent from $23.3 billion to $22.6 billion. PB22 asks for eight ships: two SSN-774 Block V Virginia-class fast attack submarines; one DDG-51 Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (a drop from last year's plan to ask for two DDGs in 2022); one-FFG 62 Constellation-class frigate; one T-AO-205 John Lewis-class fleet oiler; two T-ATS 6 Navajo-class towing, salvage and rescue ships; and one new-design T-AGOS(X) ocean surveillance ship.
The request also asks for incremental funding for the FY 2021 SSBN-826 Columbia ballistic missile submarine and advance procurement funds for another frigate and another oiler.
PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 30, 2021) An F-35C Lighting II from the "Argonauts" Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 147 sits on the flight deck on Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Carl Vinson is currently underway conducting routine maritime operations. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communications Specialist 3rd Class Erin. C. Zorich)
Aviation procurement funding drops 15.6 percent to $16.5 billion from FY 2021's $19.5 billion. The Navy notes that the drop is due to the end of buying further F/A-18 Super Hornets, P-8A Poseidons, VH-92A presidential helicopters and E-6B Mercury TACAMO aircraft, all of which reached their most recent program goals. Overall the request asks for 107 aircraft, including 17 F-35B and 20 F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters; five E-2D Advanced Hawkeye tactical command and control aircraft; five KC-130J Super Tanker aircraft; nine CH-53K King Stallion helicopters; multi-year procurement of three CMV-22 Carrier Onboard Delivery (COD) variants of the Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft along with five MV-22B Ospreys; and 36 TH-73A training helicopters.
Unmanned aircraft requests include six Medium Altitude Long Endurance-Tactical (MALE-T) Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs). Purchases of MQ-4C Triton long-range high-altitude unmanned aircraft are "paused" in Fiscal 2022, the Navy said, "to allow the Integrated Functional Capability-4 (IFC 4.0) design to mature, which will eliminate concurrency risk and minimize the retrofit cost." The pause comes after the service has ordered 15 Tritons, including test aircraft, out of an overall planned buy of 68 production planes.
Weapons procurement drops $300 million, or .6 percent, to $4.2 billion. Among individual requests are 34 Naval Strike Missiles (NSMs) and 14 littoral combat ship NSM missile modules. Other shipborne weapons include 60 Block V Tactical Tomahawk cruise missiles; 125 SM-6 Standard missiles; 100 Rolling Airframe Missiles (RAMs); 108 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSMs) and 58 Mark 48 Advanced Capability heavyweight torpedoes.
Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 15, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, prepare to depart Cold Bay, Alaska, in support of Northern Edge 2021 on May 10, 2021. US Marine Corps Photo
Aircraft-carried missiles include 178 AIM-9X Sidewinders; 48 Long-Range Anti-Ship LRASMs; and 54 AGM-88A Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Munitions-Extended Range AARGM-ERs.
Marine Corps procurement goes up 11 percent from FY 2021's $2.7 billion to $3.0 billion. Among the highlights are 613 JLTV Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, 92 ACV Amphibious Combat Vehicles and eight TPS-80 G/ATOR Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar systems.
In the readiness category, ship operations funding increases 6.4 percent over last year, although the provision for 58 days underway per quarter while deployed and 24 days underway per quarter while non-deployed is the same as in 2021. Funding for flying hours is increased $864 million although that amount meets only 83 percent of the requirement.
Personnel levels are down slightly. Active Navy military manpower drops 1,600 from the FY 2021 authorized level of 346,200, attributed by the service to efforts to "actively manage personnel to match the needs of the fleet." Active Marine Corps military manpower drops 2,700 to an end strength of 178,500 reflecting, according to the DON, modernization efforts by the Corps and the divesture of older programs, such as tanks, bridging and law enforcement. Civilian DON employees rise slightly to 223,113.
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) conducts cyclic flight operations while steaming in the Atlantic Ocean on Nov. 13, 2020. US Navy Photo
The Navy is asking for $2.4 billion for Ford-class aircraft carrier production, which covers the fifth increment for detail design and construction of Enterprise (CVN-80) and the fourth increment for the Doris Miller (CVN-81). The second increment of funding for ballistic missile submarine Columbia (SSBN 826) totaling $4.6 billion also is included, along with $6.4 billion for Virginia-class attack submarines that covers two Block V submarines and advance procurement for Fiscal 2024 Block VI ships.
The service is asking for only one $2.0 billion Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, DDG 137, rather than two, a decision sure to face significant pushback in Congress and one that breaks the Navy's responsibility under the multi-year procurement (MYP) scheme, which covers 2018-2022. The choice to delay the ship does not reflect a cancellation, as the Navy is committed to buy two more ships, DDG 138 and DDG 139, under the MYP.
Delaying destroyer procurement "was absolutely an affordability question, where the goal of the department was to balance the first priority, which was investment in Columbia [ballistic missile submarine] recapitalization," Navy budget director, Rear Adm. John Gumbleton, said May 28 during a press briefing. Responding to a question, he also acknowledged the Navy will pay a $33 million penalty for not fulfilling its obligations under the MYP.
A major question still to be determined is what happens next with destroyer procurement. Presumably DDGs 138 and 139 could be funded in FY 2023, but the White House and Pentagon decision to forego providing the usual Future Years Defense Plan (FYDP) along with current year request means there is no public information on what lies ahead after 2022, and service officials are declining to provide specifics about what will be in next year's budget.
Also to be determined are how many Arleigh Burke-class destroyers remain to be built before purchases begin of DDG(X), the follow-on design that has long been in development but is yet to be determined.
The 2022 request seeks $60.6 million in partial funding for Pittsburgh (LPD-31), an amphibious transport dock ship largely funded in 2021, as well as $68.6 million for the America-class amphibious assault ship LHA-9. The budget provides for four new LCU 1700-class landing craft, two new Landing Craft Air Cushion vessels and refurbishment of two older LCACs, and seeks funding to buy five used merchant vessels to begin upgrading the aging sealift fleet.
The surface ship acquisition program is offset by an increased program to decommission ships, including four littoral combat ships – USS Fort Worth (LCS-3), which entered service in 2012; USS Coronado (LCS-4), commissioned in 2014; USS Detroit (LCS-7), commissioned in 2016; and USS Little Rock (LCS-9), which has been in service only since late 2017. Fort Worth, Detroit and Little Rock all are Freedom-class (LCS-1) ships, while Coronado is an Independence-class (LCS-2) ship.
The Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) conducts operations with an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 8, during exercise Phoenix Fire 2018, Nov. 1, 2018. Phoenix Fire is a small-scale littoral combat exercise conducted in southern California by Helicopter Sea Combat Weapons School Pacific to enhance combat readiness through robust, realistic training while providing joint and combined partners the ability to work with multiple assets in a maritime and littoral environment. US Navy Photo
While the service has defended its requests to inactivate the first four LCSs by calling them "prototypes" and out of specification with later ships, the Navy is also frustrated by ongoing problems with combining gears in the propulsion of the Freedom-class ships, represented by odd hull numbers. Gumbleton, in the briefing, explained the decision to inactivate Detroit and Little Rock was made solely on a desire to save the costs of fixing the ships, although he acknowledged an earlier LCS, USS Milwaukee (LCS-5), is being kept in service because it is being upgraded and refitted with the Naval Strike Missile in preparation for a deployment.
The service also is seeking to decommission seven CG 47 Ticonderoga-class cruisers, including USS Hue City (CG-66) and USS Anzio (CG-69), along with the dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island (LSD-41) and a T-ATF ocean tug, although those two cruisers and the Whidbey Island have undergone recent upgrades. The Navy also seeks funding to inactivate 12 Mark VI patrol boats for a savings of $74 million, despite having spent nearly $200 million in recent years to buy the craft and establish training and support efforts. The patrol boats were part of an urgent need request from the US 5th Fleet, which said the vessels were needed to protect larger ships in the Persian Gulf and patrol the region. Disposal of the Mark VIs and retirement of the Cyclone patrol boat class will leave the Navy without any effective small combatants.
An undated photo of RQ-4A BAMS-D. Norfolk Grumman Photo
The service is speeding up the removal of legacy F/A-18 Hornet strike fighters, advancing the date all the aircraft are to be retired from 2024 to 2022. Interestingly, the Navy plans to cover some of the missions performed by the older aircraft with F-16 fighters transferred from the Air Force. Divestment of the BAMS-D Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Demonstrator aircraft is being accelerated.
Information Warfare
Navy Information Systems Technicians assigned the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) provision more than 1,500 computer workstations for integration into their shipboard Consolidated Afloat Ships Network Enterprise Services (CANES) system in Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific's Network Integration and Engineering Facility. US Navy Photo
While Navy leaders tout the increased importance of cybersecurity and Project Overmatch efforts to seamlessly network sensors, platforms and weapons, IW accounts show only a relatively modest increase of $256 million, from $5.615 billion to $5.871 billion. Command and control systems and integrated fires efforts such as electronic warfare systems and counter-C4ISR systems show increases, while battlespace awareness systems face cuts.
MQ-25 Stingray. Boeing Photo
Navy Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) funding jumps $2.5 billion, from $20.138 billion in FY2021 to $22.639 billion.
Leading the RDT&E request is $1.374 billion for Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS), an effort to design a missile comprised of a Common Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) and a 34.5-inch two-stage booster. The Navy intends to put the weapon into service in fiscal 2028 aboard a Virginia-class submarine fitted with the Virginia Payload Module. The weapon is also to be carried by Zumwalt-class destroyers.
Among the RDT&E highlights are $495.6 million for the Virginia-class submarine's Tactical Submarine Evolution Plan; $356.4 million for the Columbia-class submarine; $98 million for the SSN(X) Future Attack Submarine; $166 million for the Ford-class aircraft carrier; $109.5 million for the Constellation-class frigate; $122 million for the DDG(X) Next Generation Large Surface Combatant; and $28 million for the Next Generation Logistics Ship.
RDT&E funding also includes $257 million for the CH-53E Super Stallion heavy-lift helicopter program, primarily to cover continued software development and correct problems already discovered during Initial Operational Test and Evaluation efforts. The Navy also is asking for $46 million in RDT&E funds for the VH-92A Presidential Helicopter program. The helicopter is projected to enter service later this year.
Key unmanned programs also are included in RDT&E funding. The unmanned surface vehicles (USV) request of $375.6 million includes $144.8 million for the Large USV and $60 million for the Medium USV. The $290.6 million request for unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) includes $58.5 million for development, fabrication and testing of the ORCA Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle and $88 million for the Large Diameter Unmanned Undersea Vehicle.
The MQ-25 Stingray carrier-based unmanned aircraft, which the Navy first cast primarily as an aerial tanker, is being accelerated and its secondary missions expanded to include intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities, efforts reflected in the program's $269 million request for RDT&E funding. Initial operational test and evaluation of the MQ-25 is scheduled for fiscal 2024, with service entry projected for fiscal 2025.
Military Construction
Construction Electrician 2nd Class Brandon Rivera (left), from Victorville, Calif., and Builder 3rd Class Lawrence Spears, from Houston work at Naval Base Sasebo, Japan. US Navy Photo
The MILCON request went up significantly over last year's funding – $2.368 billion in FY2022 compared with $1.936 billion in 2021, but those totals pale in comparison to the $6.431 billion granted in fiscal 2020.
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Thinking type and age as factors influencing the learning of English by adults and children
Авторы: Осипова Софья Дмитриевна, Шкитина Анастасия Игоревна
Рубрика: Филология, лингвистика
Осипова, С. Д. Thinking type and age as factors influencing the learning of English by adults and children / С. Д. Осипова, А. И. Шкитина. — Текст : непосредственный // Молодой ученый. — 2021. — № 50 (392). — С. 616-619. — URL: https://moluch.ru/archive/392/86706/ (дата обращения: 20.01.2022).
The purpose of this article is to prove that a person's age does not affect the actual ability to learn (more specifically, to acquire knowledge of the English language), but only the way of perception and assimilation of this knowledge, their level. It also considers the theory that childhood, the period of initial physical and mental development, corresponds to intuitive thinking and approach to learning, while a mature person strives for analytical thinking and the most complete understanding of new information. The paper presents the results of a survey and a test, created for proving the existence between factors such as the age of onset of language, type of thinking and level of knowledge, as well as an analysis of the data obtained.
Keywords: foreign language, English, learning, analytical thinking, intuitive thinking, education, learning, adults, children, The Critical Period Hypothesis, Sensitive period.
Цель данной статьи — доказать, что возраст человека не влияет на фактическую способность к приобретению новых знаний (конкретнее, знание английского языка), а лишь на способ восприятия и усвоение этих знаний, их уровень. Также рассматривается теория о том, что детский возраст, т. е. период начального физического и психического развития, соответствует интуитивному мышлению и подходу к обучению, в то время как зрелый человек стремится к аналитическому мышлению и максимально полному пониманию новой информации. В работе представлены результаты опроса и теста, созданных для доказательства существования связи между такими факторами, как возраст начала изучения языка, тип мышления и уровень знаний, а также анализ полученных данных.
Ключевые слова: иностранный язык, английский язык, изучение, аналитическое мышление, интуитивное мышление, образование, обучение, взрослые, дети, гипотеза критического периода, сензитивный период.
Among the people of the older generation who aim to learn a particular foreign language, there is a stereotype that mastering a new language is impossible for them. Most often, this position is supported by an argument connected to older age and the belief that the possibility to acquire knowledge of a foreign language exists only in childhood. Such a stereotype most likely developed due to the omission of the fact of the typology of thinking and its dependence on the age of the subject, namely, the existence of intuitive and analytical, per se logical, thinking. This study explains the difference between the two types of thinking and correlates them with the age of the subject of learning a foreign language with the following study of the influence of the mentioned factors on the level of language. The main goal of this work is to prove the existence of a connection between the age of the subject of learning a foreign language, their type of thinking, corresponding to the age and the level of knowledge acquired . The method of the study is based on the comparative analysis of the process of thinking of a child and an adult while learning foreign language, focusing on English, and comparison of their results in practical usage of received knowledge. The article is divided into the following sections: literary review, research methods, key results and discussion, conclusion and references.
While there are different opinions on the question of dependence of the language learners' age on ability to acquire some language skills, this factor appears to be in the interest not only of the students, but educators (Jasmina Murad, 2006). One more not less significant issue that is the object of teachers' attention is the best period for learners to begin their way to the second language. This section of the paper observes the biological perspective of the theme basing on the The Critical Period Hypothesis, moving on to the psychological aspect of Sensitive period and, finally, provides information about intuitive and analytical thinking.
As neurologist Eric Lenneberg (1967) formulated The Critical Period Hypothesis, it is stated that the brain of a child is more plastic, while an adult's one is already rigid and set. What is meant by «plastic» is that the language is perceived by both brain hemispheres, but this process becomes a function of only the left hemisphere with age. According to The CPH, this period starts at the age of 2 and lasts until puberty, meaning 12–13 years old. At the same time, this does not negate the ability to learn language after this period, but the process is transformed.
Moving on to the term of the Sensitive period, it is defined as a period in a person's life that creates the most favorable conditions for the formation of certain psychological characteristics, types of behavior and, what is crucially important for the current paper, the range of skills (Nemov, 1997) . Italian teacher Maria Montessori, known for her author's method of early development, defined the age from 0 to 6 as the Sensitive period of speech. According to Montessori's division, the Sensitive period of speech development is one of the most durable. It starts right with the beginning of a child's life even in its unconscious period. In Russia, the age of six is a year of the beginning of school education and, at the same time, of the second language. Nevertheless, in accordance with the latest trends, the age of learning a second language is decreasing, which is happening not only with the spread of Montessori methods, but also because of the fashion for raising bilingual children. Taking everything into account, the earliest period of life is the period of the most efficient acquisition of language in the long term. Furthermore, the connection of these particular ages with the types of thinking will be discussed.
From a scientific point of view, there are a number of types of thinking. The current paper is focused on the types according to the classification by the level of mental processes: intuitive and analytical. Starting with the intuitive type, it is «a conscious process of comprehending the truth that is not deduced by a logical way and is included in the work, in a state of uncertainty» (Lebedev & Chumanov, 2014) . Lebedev and Chumanov state that intuitive thinking for a person who is holistic in his knowledge predicts the upcoming development of events for him, possible correct actions, steps and decisions. For instance, primitive man was not sufficiently informed, the world existed for him as an unknown dynamic system, and the world outlook was based on the reaction to the environment and on feelings in certain situations. It can be correlated with the process of how an infant learns the world. The same happens when it comes to mastering the second language at childhood. The stage of visual-figurative thinking formation (2–5 years old) is the stage when a child actively uses speech and performs mental operations. Skills of generalization, analysis and synthesis are just starting to develop but are not formed fully (Zeigarnik, 2002) . Applying all of the above to a specific case of a child learning a language, one should take into account that at this stage the subject does not yet have an understanding of the grammar of his own native language and that is why he cannot draw parallels and conduct a comparative analysis of the second language he learns with his native one. He or she has no choice but to learn the rules of a foreign language as a poem, that is, by heart. That is why many teachers include in their educational program the study of songs (for example, to memorize the alphabet) or poems (for example, to memorize the basic rules of times). To conclude the observation of the first type of thinking, there is a quote by cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett which describes intuition briefly and fully: «Intuition is simply knowing something without knowing how you got there» .
Continuing with the following type of thinking, that will be observed in this part of the work, it is needed to be highlighted that the type has several names: discursive or analytical. PhD in Psychology Bogdanov defines it as thinking mediated by the logic of reasoning and not perception or feelings. Referring to the development of thinking in ontogenesis ( Bersneva , 2010) , after the stage of visual-figurative thinking the verbal-logical follows. It starts at the age of 6, which is the age of the beginning of schooling in Russia. This period is characterized by development of the ability to establish identity, similarity and difference based on visual analysis and synthesis. Analysis and synthesis are inseparable thought processes. Only together can they create high-quality results of the task. More than that, Bloom attributed these abilities to the skills of higher level (1956) . Obviously, as a person grows up and gains experience, he or she masters the ability to analyze something. Drawing a parallel with language, for example, when studying a new time, the student seeks to analyze the given sentence in relation to time, find indicators of tense, etc.
There is the observation of psychological and biological phenomena significant for the presented theme, as well as two types of thinking and correlation to ontogenesis. The following practical part is going to test the described theory in terms of learning English as the second language on different stages of ontogenesis and corresponding thinking development level.
The research consists in one large-scale survey divided into 3 parts. The first part focuses on the collection of basic information as the age of starting to learn English and language level. The next one is in the format of a test ordered to count the points gathered by a respondent by completing the tasks on listening, reading, grammar and vocabulary. Each section includes at least 2 tasks with different difficulty levels. The last section is based on Likert scale and suggests a self-assessment of the test passing process.
Key results and Discussion
The practical part was created in the form of a questionnaire with three sections. The key question (except for questions on basic information) of the first part is «At what age did you start learning English?». To answer, 5 age categories are suggested. The following section is a test with a maximum score of 40 points. The last section consists of 3 statements with evaluating options. Each statement evaluates the process of the test and an answer helps to recognize the predominant thinking type involved in the test solution. The statements are structured in such a way that the answers «Yes» and «Rather yes than no» imply the inclusion of intuitive thinking, and «No» and «Rather no than yes» — analytical. Thus, the prevalence of one or another answer approximately determines the type of thinking.
Firstly, the connection between the age of the beginning of learning English language and the average score among respondents is to be observed.
38 language learners of different ages participated in the survey. As it is presented in table 1 , the group of accountants who started learning English in age of up to 7, solved the test most successfully with an average score of 34 out of 40 maximum possible. In turn, those who are in the 7 to 12 age category have an average score of 4 points less. Moving on to the next group of range from 12 to 19, these respondents' results appeared to be dramatically lower — 21 points on average (with the best result of 31 points). The next group of respondents coped almost the same with a margin of two points. Older learners from 30 years old had the worst average result (14/40), however having 24 points as the best result.
Furthermore, the connection between the results, the age and the type of thinking is to be analysed. The table 2 presents the rate of positive answers corresponding with the intuitive type and negative with rational and analytical one. According to table 2, the next relation is noted: the younger respondents are, the higher rate of «yes» and «rather yes, than no» answers are shown and contrariwise.
In order to test the theory suggested in the theoretical part, it was needed to set a parallel between the average answers of each section. The main question in the first part is «At what age did you start learning English?» which is closely connected to the theory of the Sensitive period defined by Montessori. Options of answers to this question are based on Erikson's stages of psychosocial development . The second section is the test consisting of listening, reading, grammar and vocabulary parts. Each part, except the last one, was formed of at least two tasks with different levels of language and difficultness, starting with the easiest. It was ordered for learners of every language level to pass the test. Taking the results of this part of the questionnaire into account, the overall trend corresponds to the inverse proportional relationship between the age of the beginning of learning a foreign language and its level, which proves the relevance and veracity of the statement of the Sensitive period as the best period to start learning the English language.
The last third section suggests a respondent to evaluate the process of the test and was based on Likert scale. The scale allows to evaluate the degree of agreement with the presented statements. It was stated that the earlier age corresponds to the prevalence of intuitive type of thinking and learning, respectively, meaning that a respondent did not feel the necessity to remember the certain rule, discomfort due to the unknown words and completed the tasks faster. According to table 2, the next relation is noted: the younger respondents are, the higher rate of «yes» and «rather yes, than no» answers are shown and contrariwise.
Taking all the presented and discussed information into consideration, the results of the practical part allow to conclude that there is a connection between such factors as the age of onset of language and type of thinking, together influencing the learners' language level. At the same time, the earlier age is claimed to be the most propper not denying the older age as a period of impossibility of learning language.
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Berseneva, N.V. (2010) . The Dynamics of Creative Thinking Development in the Ontogenesis. Kul'turno-istoricheskaya psihologiya. № 6. pp. 60–66.
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Likert R. Likert scale. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likert_scale
Erikson J. Erikson's stages of psychosocial development. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erikson %27s_stages_of_psychosocial_development
Основные термины (генерируются автоматически): URL, BBC, CPH, HERE, HOW, MAKE, REFERENCE, аналитическое мышление, английский язык, интуитивное мышление.
foreign language, English, learning, education, children, adults, analytical thinking, intuitive thinking, The Critical Period Hypothesis, Sensitive period
foreign language, English, learning, analytical thinking, intuitive thinking, education, learning, adults, children, The Critical Period Hypothesis, Sensitive period

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package org.terasology.persistence.typeSerialization.typeHandlers.core;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.terasology.persistence.typeHandling.DeserializationContext;
import org.terasology.persistence.typeHandling.PersistedData;
import org.terasology.persistence.typeHandling.SerializationContext;
import org.terasology.persistence.typeHandling.coreTypes.EnumTypeHandler;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

/**
 */
public class EnumTypeHandlerSerializerTest {

    enum TestEnum {
        NON_NULL
    }

    @Test
    public void testNullValue() throws Exception {
        PersistedData nullData = mock(PersistedData.class);
        when(nullData.isNull()).thenReturn(true);

        SerializationContext serializationContext = mock(SerializationContext.class);
        when(serializationContext.createNull()).thenReturn(nullData);
        EnumTypeHandler<TestEnum> handler = new EnumTypeHandler<>(TestEnum.class);
        PersistedData serializedNull = handler.serialize(null, serializationContext);
        assertEquals(nullData, serializedNull);

        DeserializationContext deserializationContext = mock(DeserializationContext.class);
        TestEnum deserializedValue = handler.deserialize(nullData, deserializationContext);
        assertEquals(null, deserializedValue);
    }

    @Test
    public void testNonNullValue() throws Exception {
        PersistedData data = mock(PersistedData.class);
        when(data.getAsString()).thenReturn(TestEnum.NON_NULL.toString());
        when(data.isString()).thenReturn(true);

        SerializationContext serializationContext = mock(SerializationContext.class);
        when(serializationContext.create(TestEnum.NON_NULL.toString())).thenReturn(data);
        EnumTypeHandler<TestEnum> handler = new EnumTypeHandler<>(TestEnum.class);
        PersistedData serializedNonNull = handler.serialize(TestEnum.NON_NULL, serializationContext);
        assertEquals(data, serializedNonNull);

        DeserializationContext deserializationContext = mock(DeserializationContext.class);
        TestEnum deserializedValue = handler.deserialize(data, deserializationContext);
        assertEquals(TestEnum.NON_NULL, deserializedValue);
    }
}

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Ramlila Maidan is located in Chandni Chowk situated in Delhi. It is the finest play showing the life story of Lord Rama, basically the struggle between Ravan and Ram. They used to show this play with various new technologies. Modernization is part of life we can also feel it in Ramlila. Prime Minister of India along with other ministers go to Ramlila Maidan to celebrate this ceremony. Statue of Ravan is about 150 feet high which is quite visible from far away. Stay updated with us on Happy Vijaya Dashmi 2013, Send free sms to your friends and relatives. We will be updating songs, peoms, sms wishes and wallpapers.
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Q: Unlock a mobile app using refresh token by biometric login wondering if anyone could help me
What I know about the relationship between biometric authentication and refresh token is as follow:
After the user finishes signing in, I receive tokens from the server, I store the refresh token in local storage with a biometric requirement. To use this refresh token to get a new pair of access token and refresh token, the user need to pass a biometric challenge (Face ID, Touch ID,…). If successful, the client will take this refresh token to get a new pair of access token and refresh token. The old refresh token stored will be altered by the new one in order to get another access token.
The question is:
If access token expires when the user is using the app and the refresh token is still locked in local storage, does the user need to pass another biometric challenge to continue accessing resources?

A: The most usual option is to only involve the user to provide biometrics during the authentication workflow. An example might be to  use WebAuthn as a second authentication factor. When dealing with the user's own assets you might then show a consent screen to allow the user to approve the application's access.
Sometimes, operating system mechanisms to prompt the user for biometrics are also possible, when dealing with secrets. I would avoid prompting the user about tokens though, since it is likely to confuse them. Storing refresh tokens in a secure encrypted HTTP-only cookie is a mainstream, secure and user friendly option.

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Doing The Impossible
January 8, 2020 by Peak Prosperity
Looming government insolvency. Ecosystem collapse. Our complete dependence on depleting fossil fuels. Overpopulation. The accelerating wealth gap between the 1% and everyone else. The folly of pursuing exponential growth on a finite planet.
How many of you are concerned about the above?
Now, when trying to engage folks on these topics, especially those people you care about — spouses, partners, friends, family, co-workers — how often has it ended in epic failure?
Each of these topics often seem impossible to talk about. Too many people find them too triggering.
When that happens, emotions get inflamed. The defensive force fields go up. Once that happens, nothing we say, no data we offer, can penetrate.
We could add many more topics to this list above. Religion. Politics. Abortion.
But avoiding these topics doesn't help us. It sets us up for fiery conflict when opposing beliefs on these topics inevitably collide.
So, how can we successfully engage in discussion on these issues, with those we care about and with society at large?
Peter Boghossian, co-author of How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide, shares straightforward conversational 'hacks' for having constructive, respectful discussion on any controversial topic — including climate change, religious faith, gender identity, race, poverty, immigration, or gun control.
If you've not yet listened to our podcast with him, you can (and should!) do so here. It's chock full of successful tactics and strategies for dismantling the resistance so often encountered when raising triggering topics, thus opening the door for real idea-exchange and actual influencing of beliefs.
For example, when having a conversation, discovering the other person's moral epistemology tells you how to frame your argument so that it resonates with the values they hold:
People do not formulate their beliefs on the basis of evidence. They think they do, but instead, they cherry pick pieces of information or pieces of data to support the beliefs they already have.
The key thing to understand is that people formulate their beliefs because of some moral impulse, derived from a community to which they belong. They have a strong moral sense of why they ought to believe something.
Arguing with evidence doesn't work. That triggers something called the backfire effect — it's well established in the literature — where people just hunker down or double down in their beliefs.
So instead of providing evidence, there are other ways that we have to shift those conversations.
The way to reach people about these issues is through values and not evidence. You have to figure out what somebody values and why they value it. In fancy terms, that's called moral epistemology.
Once you figure out someone's moral epistemology, that's like the lock. And the templates that we use in the book are like keys to unlock that lock. Epistemology is just a two dollar word for 'how you know what you think you know'. And morality is just a word meaning 'what ought I to do'.
People don't really think very much about how they come to their moral beliefs. It's remarkably interesting how brittle those moral epistemologies are. With a few targeted questions, people can become more reflective about that.
So for example, I'm very interested in the crisis in plastic in the oceans right now and the great garbage gyres. The way to reach people on this subject is not to give them evidence for how bad it is, because that doesn't tell them why they should care about it. Instead, see what they value in the first place, and then give them a reason for why the ocean should be cleaned up that comports with the values they already have.
These insights into how to have 'impossible conversations' are hugely valuable. Particularly as we head into a future decade where many of the limits to growth and prosperity are poised to stress and shatter people's beliefs in the status quo.
Which is why I'm so excited to announce that we've locked Peter Boghossian in as a featured speaker at the Peak Prosperity annual seminar on May 1-3, 2020 in Sebastopol, CA this year.
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Answering the questions nobody asked
Beijing or bust; is there a new 'Crucible curse' affecting winners of the China Open?
Much is made in snooker about the 'curse of the Crucible' – the fact that no first-time winner of snooker's World Championship has retained his title, dating back to the first tournament held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield in 1977. That particular curse continued this year, with last year's winner Stuart Bingham knocked out in the first round by Ali Carter.
But what if there was a second, different curse affecting players at the Crucible? Peter Ebdon alluded to this on commentary of this year's championship, during Judd Trump's second round match against Ding Junhui. Just two weeks prior to the start of the World Championship, Trump had beaten Ricky Walden 10-4 to seal his second China Open title; but now, Trump was about to be knocked out at the last 16 stage of snooker's most prestigious event. Ebdon speculated – is there a curse affecting winners of the China Open?
Whether you genuinely believe in curses, in sport or otherwise, is the topic for a totally different article. Perhaps it just makes for an interesting bit of trivia or a new slant for journalists to frame their previews of the tournament. Yet despite snooker being an extremely competitive sport in recent years (there will be nine different winners of the ten ranking tournaments in the 2015/16 season), it would seem logical to believe that the winner of the tournament directly preceding the World Championship would be in form and well placed to launch a bid at snooker's great prize.
This 'curse' may be a subject close to Ebdon's heart, as he has won in Beijing twice (2009 and 2012) only to be knocked out in the first round in Sheffield on both occasions. But whilst Ebdon was correct in saying that no winner of the China Open has ever gone on to lift the title at Crucible in the same season, the statistics show that not only do winners in China fail to win the world title – they usually don't even get close. See the table below, since the China Open was revived as a ranking event in 2005:
A list of the China Open winners, and their respective performance at the World Championship, since 2005.
Aside from Trump's run as a qualifier in a losing effort in the final against John Higgins in 2011,success in the China Open has been an indicator of under-performing at the Crucible. As well as Ebdon, first round departures for Graeme Dott, Neil Robertson and Ding (who didn't qualify for the World Championship in 2005) mean that exactly half of the winners in Beijing don't even make it past the first round in Sheffield. The next best effort after Trump was Stephen Maguire's quarter final appearance in 2008.
So what to make of this 'curse'? Twelve editions of the China Open may not be enough of a sample size to justify it as a true curse (the primary 'Crucible curse' will be in its fortieth year in 2017), but it might be prudent if you're a gambling man to think twice before backing next year's China Open winner to lift the world title in Sheffield. In fact, judging by previous years, there's a 50% chance they won't even make it out of the first round.
All information correct as of 1st May 2016.
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I know there are many issues that we care about, and that we want to have addressed. There is a constitutional way to make congress listen to us - Article V - a state convention.
How can the states call a convention and make congress address the issues we want them to address? This video explains the indirect corruption in congress and why this state convention is the best way to fix congress since congress is unwilling to fix itself.
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Berger's Disease
See "IGA NEPHROPATHY"
Dietary Vegan
A person who follows a plant-based, animal-free diet, but does not necessarily follow the strict lifestyle of non-use of animal products. (It is important to note that the use of this term often causes controversy — many vegans feel it takes away from the spirit of their ideology and cause, while many strict/pure vegetarians feel it is the only term that clearly separates them from Lacto-Ovo Vegetarians in society's eye.)
Rather than a long-term change in eating, this is really a procedure used to identify foods responsible for food intolerance. First, all suspected foods are excluded from the diet. After a period of time, the foods are reintroduced one at a time at intervals. An eating diary is kept which logs the foods eaten and any unpleasant symptoms associated with them (e.g. nausea, headaches, insomnia). The aim is to eliminate from the final diet all foods that cause an intolerance reaction.
Flexitarian
A person who considers him/herself to be a semi-vegetarian focusing on vegetarian food with occasional meat consumption. There are no guidelines for how much or how little meat one must eat before being classified a flexitarian. Flexitarians sometimes refer to themselves as "almost vegetarians" — most actual vegetarians do not appear to appreciate this.
Gastroparesis, also called delayed gastric emptying, is a disorder in which the stomach takes too long to empty its contents. Normally, the stomach contracts to move food down into the small intestine for digestion. The vagus nerve controls the movement of food from the stomach through the digestive tract. GASTROPARESIS occurs when the vagus nerve is damaged and the muscles of the stomach and intestines do not work normally. Food then moves slowly or stops moving through the digestive tract. Signs and symptoms of gastroparesis are heartburn, pain in the upper abdomen, nausea, vomiting of undigested food-sometimes several hours after a meal, early feeling of fullness after only a few bites of food, weight loss due to poor absorption of nutrients or low calorie intake, abdominal bloating, high and low blood glucose levels lack of appetite, gastroesophageal reflux, and spasms in the stomach area.
IgA nephropathy
Also known as Berger's Disease or IGAN, it is a common autoimmune kidney disease that occurs when an antibody called IgA lodges in the kidneys. This hampers the kidneys' ability to filter waste and excess water from the blood. Over time, it can lead to blood and protein in the urine, high blood pressure, and swollen hands and feet. IGAN usually progresses slowly over many years, and although some people eventually achieve complete remission, others develop end-stage kidney failure. No cure exists for IGAN, but certain medications can slow its course. Keeping your blood pressure under control, limiting protein in your diet and reducing your cholesterol levels also may help keep IGAN in check.
A person who follows a vegan diet, but also consumes milk and milk products. This is common in India.
Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian
A person who follows a vegan diet, but also consumes eggs and milk and milk products. This is the most common form of vegetarianism in the Western world.
Ovo-Lacto Vegetarian
See "Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian"
A person who generally follows a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet and also consumes fish; this type of pseudo-vegetarianism is not accepted by Vegan and Vegetarian societies. (It's possible that the Catholic practice of eating fish on Fridays during Lent led to the Western cultural misunderstanding that pescetarians are the same as vegetarians.)
Semi-vegetarian
A person who follows a diet which excludes some meat (particularly red meat) from the diet while still consuming limited amounts of poultry, fish, and/or seafood. A semi-vegetarian may also be a flexitarian. Semi-vegetarian diets are not vegetarian diets.
Strict Vegetarian
See "DIETARY VEGAN"
A person whose diet excludes animal flesh (meat, poultry, fish and seafood), but may or may not consume dairy products or eggs. (See also Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian and Lacto Vegetarian.)
A person who has chosen a lifestyle of compassion with the intention to end the suffering and exploitation of animals; his or her diet excludes animal flesh (meat, poultry, fish and seafood), animal products (eggs and dairy), and usually excludes honey. Beyond his/her diet, his/her lifestyle also excludes the wearing and use of animal products (leather, silk, wool, lanolin, gelatin…). (The major vegan societies all disallow honey, but some "vegans" still use it. Some "vegans" also refuse to eat yeast products.)


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I wish I had read this short book earlier in my parenting career. Indeed, having read "Shepherding a Child's Heart," I found this short book much more valuable. Gardiner Spring's early 19th Century text with Tedd Tripp's notes along the way was very insightful and encouraging. One such encouragement came on page 26 from Tedd in which he says, "God will take your patient teaching of your children and authenticate its truthfulness to their hearts. Your hope as you teach them to have magnnaminity of heart ... is that God will use His Word to persuade your child of its truth. Your job is to set forth truth plainly; God's job is to shine the light into their hearts." There is courage and hope offered throughout as the goals and objectives of are clearly laid out. Gardiner writes, "God's time for the conversion of your children may not be your time. Your efforts may seem in vain--for years--but you will likely at last see your children rejoicing in the graces and comforts of holiness. He who goes forth and weeps, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him" (p. 67). A short but very helpful little book--would make great new parent gifts from your church. I only hope I can integrate the biblical wisdom found in this gem of a book into my own parenting.


2017 season starts with a podium!
Missing a few events this year in WRC means that my racing season started with the 2nd round of the Danish Supertourisme series at Ring Djursland.
This is my second season in this Championship and I am driving for a new team Roed Performance in a brand new car.
Things started well in free practice but unfortunately I got penalized for speeding in the pitlane during qualifying which moved me from 13th to 17th on the grid. This meant I had a big job to do.
Sunday always starts with passenger rides and then the grid show before the races start. I nice way to connect with the fans!
In race 1 I got out of trouble in the first corner but got hit hard in the 2nd corner stalling the engine and could only really focus on lap times. Finished 18th.
In race 2 I started 18th but had a good start and a great race overtaking several cars. I finished 12th out of 22 cars, 0.6 seconds off the best time.
This gave me starting position P10 for the final race. The fight was on! Drove the whole race close to the top of the field and had a great battle with the two best drivers in my class! Finished P10 overall and 3rd in class.
Brilliant to start off the season with a podium in class and to closer to the best drivers!
Thanks to my team Roed Performance, my sponsors and of course everyone who supports my racing! You're the best!!
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Electric Powertrain Company ALTe Forms Joint Venture with Inmatech, Inc. to Produce Hybrid Electric Storage Devices
Source: ALTe Powertrain Technologies
ALTe Powertrain Technologies, the Michigan developer of a range extended electric powertrain, has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to form a joint venture with Inmatech, Inc., a leading developer of advanced supercapacitors, to produce and sell hybrid electric storage (HES) devices composed of batteries, supercapacitors and control electronics. The blend of supercapacitors with lithium ion battery cells will enable longer life for the battery cells while reducing cost by as much as 40% for an equivalent size battery composed exclusively of lithium ion cells. The applications will range from automotive batteries to stationary grid power leveling devices.
By combining key competencies of both companies, the joint venture will enable quick market penetration with a leading performance product at significantly reduced cost, providing robust technology in ALTe's plug-in hybrid electric powertrain kits while allowing the joint venture to provide HES devices to the automotive and grid infrastructure markets.
To assist in bringing the HEV devices to market, ALTe and Inmatech have submitted grant applications through various federal funding agencies including the Department of Energy. Initial feedback has been very positive and the projects are now being evaluated by government technical specialist teams. Should the grants receive final approval, the JV will be able to accelerate product development and production operations to facilitate sales in early 2014.
"We are very pleased to be entering into a relationship with Inmatech, as we will be able to provide the best battery solution for our customers while opening new opportunities to expand our business to further supply the automotive industry's growing need for advanced electric powertrain equipment," said ALTe Founder, Chairman and CEO, John D. Thomas. "We view this initial response from the Department of Energy as an important testament to the potential of this relationship and the value of the technology we are developing," he said.
Stefan Heinemann, President & CEO of Inmatech, declared " I am thrilled to launch into the JV with ALTe as it will accelerate our plans to bring this novel material based supercapacitor to market, offering dramatic cost savings to the industry with very high energy density."
ALTe's Range Extended Electric Powertrain will replace standard V-8 engines, retrofitting into existing fleet vehicles as well as in "glider" applications of new vehicles to increase their fuel economy by up to 200% and lower emissions. Most recently, ALTe announced a partnership with Manheim, the world's leading automotive reselling service, to create installation centers for fleet conversions across the country.
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A literary guide to Norway
The writer William T. Vollmann is passionate about the Eddic poems, the medieval source of Old Norse mythology. For a capsule description of what these poems say and their place in the literary history of Norway, click here. And:
For readers who prefer their heroes and characters to be a little more introspective, ambiguous, modern, [Vollmann] cannot wholeheartedly enough recommend the two great novel cycles of Sigrid Undset, "Kristin Lavransdattar" and "The Master of Hestviken." Undset was a devout Roman Catholic who lived in Lillehammer, site of the Norwegian Olympics in 1994. I have visited her home, which will soon be open to the public, and a brief inspection of her bookshelves showed me that her mind was not only Catholic but catholic in the other sense of the word, all-encompassing. If an Eddic protagonist lives out the agony of proud defiance to doom, Undset's characters live out the ever-repeated conflict between the spiritual and the material. One need not be Catholic (I am not) to be utterly caught up in Undset's imagined medieval Norway.
Kristin Lavransdattar's three novels (1920-1922) follow their eponymous heroine from her early childhood to her death from the Black Plague. It is one of the greatest love stories ever written, because it is one of the truest. For the sake of a man, Kristin sacrifices a great deal that she values, including her purity, her honesty and her obedience to her father, who is one of the most lovingly delineated characters in literature. She finally marries her sweetheart, only to learn that he and she cannot make each other happy. But Undset manages to convince us that if happiness will not be hers, perhaps she has won something similar to the treasure of an Eddic heroine: a destiny, a doom, that simultaneously fulfills and befits her. At the end, one feels that she could not have lived her life in any other way, with any other man.
"The Master of Hestviken" (1925-1927) is also a love story of sorts. The hero of this tetralogy is a friendless orphan named Ølav who cleaves only to his foster sister, Ingunn, a weak-willed, sickly girl to whom he was betrothed by his dying father. When the youn g couple are parted by violent legal difficulties, Ingunn has a fling with an Icelander and gets pregnant. To save her honor, Ølav kills the seducer, marries Ingunn and gives out that the child is his. All his life he longs to confess the manslaughter and do penance for it, but first Ingunn pleads with him not to, and then later, after she has suffered a long and ghastly death, he feels a mixture of duty to Ingunn's memory and revolted pity for the bastard, who adores him; and so the years go by, until this faithful, loving, bravely steadfast man has been utterly eaten up by his unshrived sin. Every time I reread this book I try to find the place where Olav "went wrong," and I cannot. This work reminds me of Sophocles -- or, better yet, of the old Norse sagas, whose heroes are simply "fated" to do what they do. Indeed, Undset's Norway retains its Eddic dwarfs, elf temptresses and mountain dwellers. Even Odin and the death goddess Hel get mentioned. And both Kristin and Olav are Eddic in their uncomplaining bearing of destiny's burden.
William T. Vollmann is the author of You Bright and Risen Angels, Whores for Gloria, Rising Up and Rising Down, and Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award.
Click here to read about Vollmann's ten favorite books.
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MANCHESTER, England — Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been keen to play down Manchester United's chances of challenging for the title but he will know better than most that it is results like this scrappy 1-0 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers that mark out teams capable of winning championships.
Having won six titles as a player at Old Trafford, Solskjaer will have come to appreciate the importance of a narrow victory in the middle of these gruelling winter fixture lists.
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For 90 minutes here against a shorthanded and very inexperienced Wolves team, United managed just two shots on target. But their third of the night, a Marcus Rashford effort which took a heavy deflection off Romain Saiss in the third minute of stoppage time, went in and Solskjaer's team are now second in the Premier League table, just two points behind Liverpool. It was just United's second 1-0 victory of the season, but there will likely be more to follow if United are to remain true title contenders.
Solskjaer and the rest of the home bench almost seemed surprised when the ball went in after a game which lacked many clear chances and looked destined to end in a fourth draw in the last five meetings between these two teams. The Norwegian, though, can be happy that his players at least showed the desire to score a winner — if not always the ability — and it was Bruno Fernandes forcing the ball forward as the clock ticked down that eventually led to Rashford's winner.
Since losing to Arsenal in November, United have taken 23 points from a possible 27 and that trip to Anfield to play Liverpool on Jan. 17 is looking more and more critical. It has been a long time since United were involved in such a crucial game at the top of the table.
"We had a fantastic attitude and it's a great result," said Solskjaer afterwards. "The desire to keep going and to create that little bit of luck, we earned that luck by desire to keep going, it's a good way of ending the year.
"We just focus on the next game. I am very boring but we cannot get too far ahead of ourselves," the Norwegian added. "We have got to a decent position at the moment but the season hasn't even reached halfway.
"We didn't perform as well as we want to but we won a game against a very difficult side to play against. It's the first win in the league for me against them. There have never been many goals in the games but for me, this is a big step forward, that you don't play well but you win."
Marcus Rashford grabbed all three points for Man United and pushed them up to second in the table with a 93rd-minute winner against Wolves. Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images
If United are to emerge as Liverpool's most serious challengers, they will have to find a way to be more creative at home. For much of the evening, Wolves looked happy to leave with a point and it was telling that referee Jon Moss felt the need to book goalkeeper Rui Patricio for time-wasting with the best part of 20 minutes left to play.
Despite Solskjaer using the full extent of his attacking arsenal, a combination of Rashford, Fernandes, Mason Greenwood, Anthony Martial, Edinson Cavani and Paul Pogba only forced Patricio into two significant saves before the winner and United will not always be able to rely on deflections in injury time to win a game. But that is a debate for another time.
After the disappointment of conceding a late equaliser against Leicester on Boxing Day, they bounced back with a crucial victory in a massive game in difficult circumstances. If the draw at the King Power Stadium was a missed opportunity, this time United were able to capitalise after both Chelsea and Leicester dropped points a day earlier. It was also a game they could quite easily have lost this time last year.
"We're a different outfit now," said Solskjaer. "We're better mentally and physically. That belief has come through performances, results and players we have on the pitch that can change games in a second.
"We brought it up in pre-season that we need to add more points towards the end of games and we've done that a few times this season as well. Physically we last games more."
Victory over Wolves ended 2020 on a high and afterwards, Solskjaer ended one of his interviews by saying: "We have plenty to look forward to in 2021." The foundation has been set for a first title challenge in seven years, even if the United boss is not ready to admit it just yet.
"There's no title race after 15 games," he said. "You can lose the chance of being in a race in the first 10 games, of course you can, but play another 15 — get to 30 games — and maybe we can start talking about a title race.
"The belief is there, we've shown what we're capable of and this result is massive for confidence."
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