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"The Venus Project" redirects here. For other uses, see Venus Project (disambiguation).
(1916-03-13) March 13, 1916
Futurist,[1] social engineer,[2] structural engineer, architectural designer, industrial designer, author, lecturer
The Venus Project, resource-based economy ideas.
Notable work
Looking Forward[3] (1969), The Best That Money Can't Buy[4] (2002)
www.thevenusproject.com
Jacque Fresco (born March 13, 1916), is an American futurist[1] and self-described social engineer.[2] Fresco is self-taught and has worked in a variety of positions related to industrial design.
Fresco writes and lectures his views on sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural-resource management, cybernetic technology, automation, and the role of science in society. Fresco directs the Venus Project.[5] Fresco advocates global implementation of a socioeconomic system which he refers to as a "resource-based economy."[6][7]
Born March 13, 1916,[8] Jacque Fresco grew up in a Sephardi Jewish[9] home in Bensonhurst in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.[10] Fresco grew up during the Great Depression period.
Fresco spent time with friends discussing Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, science, and the future.[11] Fresco attended the Young Communist League. After a discussion with the league president during a meeting Fresco was 'physically ejected' after loudly stating that 'Karl Marx was wrong!'[12] Fresco left home at the age of 14, hitchhiking and 'jumping' trains as one of the so-called "Wild Boys of the Road." This was during the Great Depression period.[13] Fresco later turned his attention to technocracy.[11]
Fresco worked at Douglas Aircraft Company in California during the late 1930s.[12][14] Fresco presented designs including a flying wing[15] and a disk-shaped aircraft. Some of his designs were considered impractical at the time and Fresco's design ideas were not adopted.[16] Fresco resigned from Douglas because of design disagreements.[12][16]
In 1942, Fresco was drafted into the United States Army.[11][17] He was assigned technical design duties for the Army Air Force at Wright Field design laboratories in Dayton, Ohio.[11][16][18][19] One design he produced was a "radical variable camber wing" with which he attempted to optimize flight control by allowing the pilot to adjust the thickness of the wings during lift and flight.[20][21] Fresco did not adjust to military life and was discharged.[11]
Model of the Trend Home
Trend Home
Fresco was commissioned by Earl Muntz, to design housing that was low cost. Muntz invested $500,000 seed money in the project. Fresco along with his associates Harry Giaretto and Eli Catran conceived, designed and engineered a project house called the Trend Home.[22] Fresco, 32 years old at the time, came closest to traditional career success with this project. Built mostly of aluminum and glass, it was on prominent display at Stage 8 of the Warner Bros. Sunset Lot in Hollywood for three months. The home could be toured for one dollar, with proceeds going to the Cancer Prevention Society. In the summer of 1948, a Federal Housing Administration official met Muntz about the project. The official's proposal, according to Muntz, would add a bureaucratic overhead negating the low production costs. Without Federal or further private funding the project did not make mass production. This experience led Fresco to the conclusion that society would have to be changed for his inventions to reach their potential.[10][23]
Scientific Research Laboratories
In the late 1940s, Fresco created and was director of Scientific Research Laboratories in Los Angeles.[19][24] Here he also gave lectures, and taught technical design,[12] meanwhile researching and working on inventions as a freelance inventor and scientific consultant.[25] During this period, Fresco struggled to get his research funded[26] and faced setbacks and financial difficulties. In 1955, Fresco left California after his lab was removed to build the Golden State Freeway.[12][14]
In 1955 Fresco moved to Miami, Florida. He opened a business as a psychological consultant but had no formal schooling in the subject.[14] Receiving a 'barrage of criticism' from the American Psychological Association Fresco stopped that business.[14] In a newspaper article from that time period Fresco claimed to have a degree from Sierra University, Los Angeles California, which is unverified.[27]
Fresco described white supremacist organizations he joined to test the feasibility of changing people. He tells of joining a local Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens Council in an attempt to change their views about racial discrimination.[28]
In Miami Fresco presented designs of a circular city.[29] Fresco made his living working as an industrial designer for various companies such as Alcoa and the Major Realty Corporation.[14]
In 1961, with Pietro Belluschi and C. Frederick Wise,[30] Fresco collaborated on a project, known as the Sandwich House.[14] Consisting of mostly prefabricated components, partitions, and aluminum, it sold for $2,950, or $7,500 with foundation and all internal installations.[30] During this period, Fresco supported his projects by designing prefabricated aluminum devices through Jacque Fresco Enterprises Inc.[31]
From 1955 to 1969 Fresco named his social ideas "Project Americana".
Looking Forward was published in 1969. Author Ken Keyes Jr., and Jacques Fresco coauthored the book. Looking Forward, is a speculative look at the future. The authors picture an ideal 'cybernetic society in which want has been banished and work and personal possessions no longer exist; individual gratification is the total concern'.[32]
Sociocyberneering, Inc.
Fresco formed "Sociocyberneering", a membership organization claiming 250 members according to an interview of Fresco.[33] Fresco hosted lectures in Miami Beach and Coral Gables[34][35] Fresco promoted his organization by lecturing at universities[36] and appearing on radio and television.[37][38] Although Fresco is presented as a 'Doctor' on the Larry King show there is no evidence of that being the case. Fresco did not complete high school.[39] Fresco's "sociocyberneering" as a membership group was discontinued and land was purchased at another location in rural Venus, Florida. Fresco established his home and research center there.[40]
The Venus Project and later career
Construction in Venus
Fresco with Roxanne Meadows in Venus
Fresco, with Meadows, supported the project in the 1990s through freelance inventing,[41] industrial engineering, conventional architectural modeling, and invention consultations.[10]
In 2002, Fresco published his main work The Best That Money Can't Buy. In 2006, William Gazecki directed the semi-biographical film about Fresco, Future by Design.[42] In 2008, Peter Joseph featured Fresco in the film Zeitgeist Addendum where his ideas of the future were given as possible alternatives. Peter Joseph, founder of the Zeitgeist Movement began advocating Fresco's approach. In April 2012, the two groups disassociated due to disagreements regarding goals and objectives.[10]
In 2010, Fresco attempted to trademark the phrase "resource-based economy".[43] The phrase was reviewed and found to be too generic, and the trademark was denied.
Throughout 2010, Fresco traveled with Meadows, worldwide to promote interest in the Venus Project.[44][45] On January 15, 2011, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward was released in theaters, featuring Fresco.[46]
In November 2011, Fresco spoke to protesters at the "occupy Miami" site at Government Center in Miami.[47] In April 2012, Roxanne Meadows released a film, Paradise or Oblivion, summarizing the goals and proposals of the Venus Project.[48] In June 2012, Maja Borg screened her film, Future My Love, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival featuring the work of Fresco and Roxanne Meadows.[49][50]
Fresco holds lectures and tours at the Venus Project location.[51]
Personal life and family
Fresco was born to immigrants from the Middle East, Isaac and Lena Fresco.[8] His father was born in 1880[52] and around 1905 immigrated from Istanbul to New York where he worked as a horticulturalist.[8] He died in 1963.[52] Fresco's mother was born in 1887[53] in Jerusalem and also migrated to New York around 1904.[8] She died in 1988.[53] Fresco was brother to two siblings,[8] a sister, Freda, and a brother, David.
Fresco had two marriages when he lived in Los Angeles and carried his second marriage through his first couple years in Miami.[19] He divorced his second wife in 1957 and remained unmarried thereafter.[54] His second wife, Patricia, gave birth to a son, Richard, in 1953 and a daughter, Bambi, in 1956. Richard was an army private[55] and died in 1976.[56] Bambi died of cancer in 2010.[57]
Roxanne Meadows has assisted Fresco since 1976. As Fresco's domestic partner and administrative colleague, she oversees much of the management of the Venus Project.[10]
Critical appraisals
It's a 'lack of professional engagement', William Gazecki who in 2006 completed Future by Design, a feature-length profile of Jacque Fresco says, that has hurt Fresco the most. "The real missing link in Jacque's world is having put Jacque to work," Gazecki says, "[It's] exemplified when people say: 'Well, show me some buildings he's built. And I don't mean the domes out in Venus. I mean, let's see an office building, let's see a manufacturing plant, let's see a circular city.' And that's where he should have been 30 years ago. He should have been applying his work, in the real world … [but] he's not a collaborator, and I think that's why he's never had great public achievements."[58]
Fresco on Fresco: when asked by a reporter why he has such difficulty actualizing his many ideas, Fresco responded, "Because I can't get to anybody."[59]
Views on Fresco
Fresco's critical view of modern economics has been compared to Thorstein Veblen's concept of "the predatory phase in human development," according to an article in the journal of Society and Business Review.[60][61] Grønborg has labeled other facets of Fresco's ideology a "tabula rasa approach."[62]
Synergetics theorist, Arthur Coulter, calls Fresco's city designs 'organic' and 'evolutionary' (rather than revolutionary).[63] Coulter posits such cities as the answer to Walter B. Cannon's idea of achieving homeostasis for society.[63]
Hypothetical form of government
Fresco describes his form of governance in this way: "The aims of The Venus Project have no parallel in history, not with communism, socialism, fascism or any other political ideology. This is true because cybernation is of recent origin. With this system, the system of financial influence and control will no longer exist."[62]
Ludwig von Mises Institute scholar Robert P. Murphy has raised the calculation problem against a resource-based economy.[64] In a resource-based economy, Murphy claims there is no ability to calculate the availability and desirability of resources because the price mechanism is not utilized. Addressing this aspect, another article in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, states criticism of 'central plannings' computation problem applies to the ideas of Fresco.[65]
Question of utopianism
The Venus Project states on its website states that it is not utopian.[66] Nikolina Olsen-Rule, writing for the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, supports this idea,
"For most people, the promise of the project sounds like an unattainable utopia, but if you examine it more closely, there are surprisingly many scientifically founded arguments that open up an entire new world of possibilities."[67]
Morten Grønborg, also of Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, points out the Venus Project is,
"... this visionary idea of a future society has many characteristics in common with the utopia. ... the word utopia carries a double meaning, since in Greek it can mean both the good place (eutopia) and the nonexisting place (outopia). A good place is precisely what Fresco has devoted his life to describing and fighting for."[68]
Comments on Fresco
Hans-Ulrich Obrist notes, "Fresco's future may, of course, seem outmoded and his writings have been subject to critique for their fascistic undertones of order and similitude, but his contributions are etched in the popular psyche and his eco-friendly concepts continue to influence our present generation of progressive architects, city planners and designers."[69]
Fresco's work gained the attention of science fiction enthusiast and critic, Forrest J Ackerman,[11] Fresco would later attract Star Trek animator, Doug Drexler, who worked with Fresco to produce several computer renderings of his designs.[70]
Commenting on Fresco, physicist, Paul G. Hewitt, wrote that Fresco inspired him toward a career in physical science.[34][71]
In July 2016 Jacque Fresco received a NOVUS Summit award for City Design/Community. NOVUS Summit is supported by UN DESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs).[72]
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The Best that Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War (PDF). Venus, Fla.: Global Cyber-Visions. 2002. ISBN 0-9648806-7-9. OCLC 49931422. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
Designing the Future (PDF). Venus, Fla.: The Venus Project, Inc. 2007. OCLC 568770383. Retrieved 2011-01-09.
External video
Welcome to the Future on YouTube (1998)
Cities in the Sea on YouTube (2002)
Self-erecting Structures on YouTube (2002)
Designing the Future on YouTube (2006)
Paradise or Oblivion on YouTube (2012)
The Choice is Ours on YouTube (2016) Produced/Directed by Roxanne Meadows and Joel Holt
"THE VENUS PROJECT - A NEW WORLD SYSTEM | Full Documentary". 11 May 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
The Zeitgeist Movement
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Concomitant homozygosity for the prothrombin gene variant with mild deficiency of antithrombin III in a patient with multiple hepatic infarctions: a case report
Theodore Emmanuelle1,
Belkys Husein1,
Javaid Iqbal1,
M Macheta2 &
Peter Isaacs1
Journal of Medical Case Reports volume 4, Article number: 122 (2010) Cite this article
Hereditary causes of visceral thrombosis or thrombosis should be sought among young patients. We present a case of a young man presenting with multiple hepatic infarctions resulting in portal hypertension due to homozygosity of the prothrombin gene mutation not previously described in literature.
A 42-year-old Caucasian man with a previous history of idiopathic deep vein thrombosis 11 years earlier presented with vague abdominal pains and mildly abnormal liver function tests. An ultrasound and computed tomography scan showed evidence of hepatic infarction and portal hypertension (splenic varices). A thrombophilia screen confirmed a homozygous mutation for the prothrombin gene mutation, with mildly reduced levels of anti-thrombin III (AT III). Subsequent testing of his father and brother revealed heterozygosity for the same gene mutation.
Hepatic infarction is unusual due to the rich dual arterial and venous blood supply to the liver. In the absence of an arterial or haemodynamic insult causing hepatic infarction, a thrombophilia should be considered. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of a hepatic infarction due to homozygosity of the prothrombin gene mutation. It is unclear whether homozygotes have a higher risk of thrombosis than heterozygotes. In someone presenting with a first thrombosis with this mutation, the case for life-long anticoagulation is unclear, but it may be necessary to prevent a second and more severe second thrombotic event, as occurred in this case.
Thrombophilia is an acquired or inherited tendency for recurrent thrombotic episodes. There is no obvious clinical reason for thrombosis. However, an inherited factor should be considered, especially in patients who have their first idiopathic venous thromboembolism before the age of 50, recurrent thrombotic episodes, or a first degree relative with thrombosis before the age of 50 [1].
Inherited thrombophilia can be due to inactive variants of endogenous anticoagulants (protein C, S and anti-thrombin III). Or, very rarely, it can be due to overactive variants of normal procoagulants, such as dysfibrinogenaemia and the relatively recently described prothrombin gene variant. Factor V Leiden is the most common variant, accounting for up to 40% of cases [2].
The prothrombin gene variant is a mutation (transition of guanine to adenine) at nucleotide 20210 of the prothrombin gene. Heterozygous carriers of this mutation have elevated plasma prothrombin and are prone to venous thrombotic episodes [3].
We describe the case of a 42-year-old man who presented with abdominal pain attributed to multiple hepatic infarctions who had a combination of homozygosity for the prothrombin gene variant and mild deficiency of antithrombin III (AT III).
A 42-year-old Caucasian man presented with a one-year history of worsening vague abdominal pains over the past few months. The pain radiated to his back, and was associated with fever. He did not smoke and his alcohol consumption was 25 units per week.
At the age of 31 years, he had a right spontaneous lower limb deep vein thrombosis (DVT), with post-phlebitic leg swelling. His father had previously had two spontaneous DVTs, and his brother, aged 30, had a DVT following a herniorrhaphy.
An examination and investigations revealed a normal blood pressure and pulse. There was generalised upper abdominal tenderness, but no guarding or rebound. His cardiorespiratory examination was unremarkable. His blood tests revealed the following: bilirubin 21 μmol/L (normal range 5-17 μmol/L), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) 50 IU/L (normal range <40 IU/L), alkaline phosphatise (ALKP) 271 U/L (normal range <105 IU/L), gamma glutamyl transferase (GGT) 150 IU/L (normal range <35 IU/L), amylase 25 U/L, international normalised ratio (INR) 1.1, prothrombin time (PT) 27.4, C-reactive protein (CRP) 114 mg/L (normal range <4 mg/L), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) 53 mm/hr, normal full blood count (platelets 190 × 109/L) and normal renal function.
There was no growth in the blood culture. Serology for Epstein-Barr virus, hepatitis A virus and hepatitis C virus was negative. An autoimmune screen was negative (rheumatoid arthritis, antinuclear antibody, anti-mitochondrial antibody, anti-liver kidney microsomes, anti-smooth muscle antibody). An ultrasound scan of the patient's abdomen showed mild splenomegaly with a trace of ascites.
During a follow-up in clinic two months later, he complained of increased lethargy with reduced appetite. A unilateral leg oedema was noticed. A gastroscopy was normal and a computed tomography (CT) scan confirmed splenomegaly (13.5 cm), though he had a normal liver and had no ascites. An ultrasound Doppler examination showed a chronic DVT with incomplete recanalisation. Repeat blood tests resulted in the following: ALT 38 IU/L, ALKP 77 IU/L, bilirubin 22 μmol/L, AST 27 IU/L, GGT 58 IU/L, thrombocytopenia (78 × 106/mm3) and neutropenia (1.65 × 106/mm3), ESR 5 mm/hr.
Six months later, the patient experienced persisting vague abdominal pain, thrombocytopenia and a mild abnormality of the liver function tests. A repeat liver ultrasound showed a new 3 cm echo-poor area in the periphery of segment VIII, consistent with an infarct.
A repeat CT scan six months later showed multiple infarcts in the liver, numerous dilated veins on the greater and lesser curves of his stomach, splenic hilum, and surrounding the portal vein, consistent with portal hypertension.
A thrombophilia screen for anticardiolipin antibodies, lupus anticoagulant, protein C and protein S deficiency, factor V Leiden mutation and paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria were all negative. He was found to be homozygous for the prothrombin G20210A mutation with mild deficiency for antithrombin III (AT III 73%, normal range 80%-120%). His father and brother were subsequently tested and found to be heterozygous for the prothrombin gene variant. He was started on life-long warfarin.
Prothrombin is encoded by a 21-kb-pair gene localised on chromosome 11. Poort et al. identified a transition (guanine to adenine) at nucleotide 20210 in the 3' untranslated region of the prothrombin gene as a risk factor for thrombosis [4]. This is possible because the variant prothrombin is resistant to degradation. Heterozygotes for the variant have 30% increased plasma prothrombin levels [4, 5].
The level of thrombotic risk in homozygotes is not known as only a few cases have been reported [4, 6, 7], but their prothrombin levels are not always raised [8]. A young Mexican male homozygote suffered a myocardial infarction, ilio-femoral venous thrombosis and massive pulmonary embolism [9]. In contrast to this, two homozygotes had no thrombosis, suggesting that the mutation alone is less risky than other genetic risk factors [6].
Visceral vein thrombosis is rare but quite typical of inherited thrombophilia [9], especially mesenteric vein occlusion [10–13]. Heterozygotes have been reported with Budd-Chiari syndrome [10], hepatic vein thrombosis [12], or portal and mesenteric vein thrombosis [11, 13]. But this is the first report of G20210A homozygosity for the prothrombin gene variant and mild deficiency of AT III affecting the liver.
A hepatic infarction is rare because of the richly anastamosing collateral arterial supply, and the dual blood supply from the portal vein and hepatic artery. In this case, there was portal hypertension as evidenced by splenomegaly, thrombocytopenia, and peri-gastric venous varices. The portal vein may have thrombosed and recanalised, similar to the patient's leg DVT and the hepatic infarct, which must have resulted from the interruption of both the arterial and venous blood supply, which is usually needed for such an injury in the absence of an established cirrhosis.
Individuals who are heterozygotes for multiple prothrombotic mutations are prone to thromboses. But the decision to offer anticoagulation must be based on clinical manifestations. However, combinations of factor V Leiden and protein C deficiency, protein S deficiency or AT III deficiency greatly increase the risk of severe and recurrent thrombosis [14]. The four-year risk of recurrent DVT for 20210A heterozygotes is no greater than that for non-thrombophilic DVT patients [15, 16]; but a 10-year follow-up study showed the risk to be increased 2.4 fold [17].
There is at present insufficient evidence pointing to a need for life-long anticoagulation of heterozygous carriers of the prothrombin gene mutation after a single episode of DVT. But in this case, there was limb DVT and a visceral thrombosis with secondary portal hypertension justifying life-long anticoagulation.
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Emmanuelle, T., Husein, B., Iqbal, J. et al. Concomitant homozygosity for the prothrombin gene variant with mild deficiency of antithrombin III in a patient with multiple hepatic infarctions: a case report. J Med Case Reports 4, 122 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-122
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Sarah Gergen's eighth-grade science students at Irving Middle School are learning about measuring the motion of objects - speed, velocity, acceleration - as well as electromagnetic energy and the electromagnetic spectrum. On a recent afternoon, they witnessed a real-world application of those lessons, thanks to a surprise visitor to their classroom.
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Gergen used the same lesson years ago when she taught at Lefler Middle School, but on a much smaller scale with toy cars. She thought this life-size version was even better.
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One of the students, Raquel, said the lesson was very helpful. "I liked using the radar gun because you got to see how it worked and you can't really learn that in a textbook."
Another student, Grant, also learned a lot from the hands-on lesson. "I learned about the path that the radio waves take and the path that the light of the laser takes. The lidar travels in a straight line, but the radar spreads out and bounces back to give you the speed."
Gergen also appreciated another lesson the students learned. "Specifically, for students to be able to work with Officer Nichols and enjoy him as a resource for something other than safety and security."
Published: January 24, 2019, Updated: February 21, 2019
"I learned about the path that the radio waves take and the path that the light of the laser takes. The lidar travels in a straight line, but the radar spreads out and bounces back to give you the speed."
Grant, an eighth-grader at Irving Middle School


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}

type packageFilters []packageFilter

func (pf packageFilters) HasFilters() bool {
	return len(pf) > 0
}

func (pf packageFilters) Matches(path string) bool {
	for _, mod := range pf {
		if mod.Matches(path) {
			return true
		}
	}
	return false
}

type classifiedProgram struct {
	Meta       []*ast.File
	Models     []*ast.File
	Routes     []*ast.File
	Operations []*ast.File
	Parameters []*ast.File
	Responses  []*ast.File
}

// programClassifier classifies the files of a program into buckets
// for processing by a swagger spec generator. This buckets files in
// 3 groups: Meta, Models and Operations.
//
// # Each of these buckets is then processed with an appropriate parsing strategy
//
// When there are Include or Exclude filters provide they are used to limit the
// candidates prior to parsing.
// The include filters take precedence over the excludes. So when something appears
// in both filters it will be included.
type programClassifier struct {
	Includes packageFilters
	Excludes packageFilters
}

func (pc *programClassifier) Classify(prog *loader.Program) (*classifiedProgram, error) {
	var cp classifiedProgram
	for pkg, pkgInfo := range prog.AllPackages {
		if Debug {
			log.Printf("analyzing: %s\n", pkg.Path())
		}
		if pc.Includes.HasFilters() {
			if !pc.Includes.Matches(pkg.Path()) {
				continue
			}
		} else if pc.Excludes.HasFilters() {
			if pc.Excludes.Matches(pkg.Path()) {
				continue
			}
		}

		for _, file := range pkgInfo.Files {
			var ro, op, mt, pm, rs, mm bool // only add a particular file once
			for _, comments := range file.Comments {
				var seenStruct string
				for _, cline := range comments.List {
					if cline != nil {
						matches := rxSwaggerAnnotation.FindStringSubmatch(cline.Text)
						if len(matches) > 1 {
							switch matches[1] {
							case "route":
								if !ro {
									cp.Routes = append(cp.Routes, file)
									ro = true
								}
							case "operation":
								if !op {
									cp.Operations = append(cp.Operations, file)
									op = true
								}
							case "model":
								if !mm {
									cp.Models = append(cp.Models, file)
									mm = true
								}
								if seenStruct == "" || seenStruct == matches[1] {
									seenStruct = matches[1]
								} else {
									return nil, fmt.Errorf("classifier: already annotated as %s, can't also be %q - %s", seenStruct, matches[1], cline.Text)
								}
							case "meta":
								if !mt {
									cp.Meta = append(cp.Meta, file)
									mt = true
								}
							case "parameters":
								if !pm {
									cp.Parameters = append(cp.Parameters, file)
									pm = true
								}
								if seenStruct == "" || seenStruct == matches[1] {
									seenStruct = matches[1]
								} else {
									return nil, fmt.Errorf("classifier: already annotated as %s, can't also be %q - %s", seenStruct, matches[1], cline.Text)
								}
							case "response":
								if !rs {
									cp.Responses = append(cp.Responses, file)
									rs = true
								}
								if seenStruct == "" || seenStruct == matches[1] {
									seenStruct = matches[1]
								} else {
									return nil, fmt.Errorf("classifier: already annotated as %s, can't also be %q - %s", seenStruct, matches[1], cline.Text)
								}
							case "strfmt", "name", "discriminated", "file", "enum", "default", "alias", "type":
								// TODO: perhaps collect these and pass along to avoid lookups later on
							case "allOf":
							case "ignore":
							default:
								return nil, fmt.Errorf("classifier: unknown swagger annotation %q", matches[1])
							}
						}

					}
				}
			}
		}
	}

	return &cp, nil
}

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Noor Al Talaa, 22, and her husband, Yousuf Arsan, 27, at the Bad Berleburg camp in Germany, July 19, 2017. Image by Lynsey Addario. Germany, 2017.
Two Pulitzer Center projects, "Finding Home" and "Down from the Mountains," have both placed first in their respective cateogries at World Press Photo's eighth annual Digital Storytelling Contest. World Press Photo announced the winners, explaining that each category's winner was "the photographer whose visual creativity and skills made a picture that captured or represented an event or issue of great journalistic importance in the last year."
"Finding Home," reported over the course of a year for TIME, placed first in the Innovative Storytelling category. "Finding Home" documents four families at the heart of Europe's refugee crisis. It's the story of women and children with no place to call home; it's about families that, even if they do escape the limbo of refugee camps, may be forced to live in the shadows of Europe for years if not decades; and it's about a generation of stateless children, born and raised on the run. The TIME team includes photographer Lynsey Addario, international correspondent Aryn Baker, and videographer Francesca Trianni.
"Down from the Mountains," a documentary project by grantee Max Duncan, won first place in the Long Form category. The documentary examines the dilemma faced by many rural parents who must choose between providing for their children economically or emotionally, with parents leaving their children behind for jobs in China's cities. It also highlights the challenges faced by some of China's poorest and most marginalised people trying to keep pace with the country's rapid development. Duncan's project, produced by ChinaFile, was featured in The Atlantic, PBS Newshour and Aeon.
The full list of winners is available on the World Press Photo website.


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Digital Twin Concept Comes of Age
Demonstrations at GE's Minds + Machines 2016 event show how virtualization is fast reaching a tipping across industry as more companies discover business-changing insights from its application.
David Greenfield
Digital Twin rendering. Source: GE
The idea of virtualizing real world machines for performance analysis in the cloud has a fairly long history in the IT world with servers. Its use in the industrial world for asset operation and maintenance purposes is much more recent and not well understood by many potential users. But this scenario is likely to change rapidly with the increased focus on this technology being advanced by GE and others.
Explaining the coming influence of digital twins (aka virtualization) on industry at GE's Minds + Machines 2016 event in San Francisco, Dimitri Volkmann, GE's Digital Twin thought leader, started his presentation saying: "Digital twins are dynamic digital representations that enable companies to understand, predict and optimize the performance of their machines and business."
Volkmann noted that the digital twin concept differs from other industrial digitalization trends in that it doesn't seek to replace the physical asset; instead, it enhances our understanding and use of those assets. "The first wave of digitalization was all about making paperwork transactions disappear," he said. "But this second wave, focused on digitalizing the physical world, is not about making the real world assets disappear, but about pairing the assets' data with the physical system that creates it. We look at what the asset means in the physical world in order to build business outcomes."
Describing a digital twin as the result of combining data plus intelligence and enabling it with models based on the asset's physics, machine learning and analytics, Volkmann said that, with one digital twin you can get detailed, high fidelity context of an asset. With many digital twins, such as a fleet of assets, you can learn and discover business-changing patterns.
Using examples of the benefits GE Aviation has achieved using digital twins, Volkmann said that anomaly detections based on sensor data from flights has been reduced by 15-30 days, lifecycle predictions for turbine blade models has resulted in $44 million in savings, and dynamic optimization to deliver optimal flight patterns and maintenance has resulted in $10 million in savings.
In all, GE is currently running more than 500,000 digital twins across its production sites, said Colin Parris, vice president of GE Software Research. "We use parts twins, products twins, process twins and system twins."
Onstage at the Minds + Machines event, Parris demonstrated a voice-activated interactive session with a digital twin of a D11 steam turbine operating in California. Connected via the Predix System, Parris asked questions about possible rotor damage on the turbine and received analysis of the impact of this damage and advice on how to correct it with the least impact on production. The digital twin of the turbine was also able to provide a financial perspective on repair of the rotor and the resulting operational and financial impacts of that repair.
"The digital twin is a living model that drives business outcomes," said Parris. "It consumes environmental and operations data and constantly updates itself with this information. It also reaches into the fleet of similar assets and acquires learning from them to drive outcomes. This enables the digital twin to predict and warn about failures as well as forecast opportunities."
Parris explained in his demonstration that the digital operates in three stages: See, Think and Do. In the "See" phase, the digital twin gathers operations and environmental data to give a warning or prediction. It uses models of the asset to analyze and understand through Predix APM (Asset Performance Management). In the "Think" stage users can ask the digital twin questions. Based on user input, the digital twin runs simulations on Predix looking at historical data, fleet data and forecasts on costs and then reasons across this information. Finally, the "Do" stage is about the digital twin informing us on what needs to be done using info from APM to direct operator actions around the manual or automated options it offers.
"All of this can be done with Predix running on an edge device," Parris added.
Microsoft's HoloLens also made an appearance in the Digital Twin presentation as means of demonstrating an immersive augmented reality environment leveraging the digital twin. Parris interacted with the digital twin while using the HoloLens via voice commands and hand gestures.
At its Minds + Machines event, GE came out as strong proponent for the use of HoloLens or other heads up devices to free up the hands of operators to do work, rather than having to hold a mobile device between themselves and the environmental they are interacting with.
Shyam Krishnaswamy, senior manager of Technology Innovation Corporate Strategy at Exelon, spoke about their use of the digital twin, noting that Exelon's goals around use of digital twins centers on maximizing the life of the company's assets. He pointed out that the digital twin project at Exelon has not been an "easy journey, because were are not just creating models in a virtual world." Exelon's application of digital twins has been about "creating an exact twin of an asset and giving life to it to do useful what-if scenarios to get predictive," he said.
Having started with a small digital twin pilot at one of the company's power plants, Krishnaswamy said Exelon spent four to five months getting this pilot up and running. The first six weeks of that time was focused on prepping the data, getting blueprints of assets, etc., he said. Though Exelon could have outsourced this part of the project to GE, Krishnaswamy said, "We wanted to build it ourselves so we would fully understand the process."
The pilot project has been so successful for Exelon that the company's next step is extending it across "all of our generation assets," Krishnaswamy said.
Summing up GE's experience with its own use of the digital twin, as well as its experience with customers like Exelon, Parris said, "This convergence of operations with digital twins will profoundly change everything we know about industrial operations."
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Our pitches are shaded, partially equipped with direct connection to the black water, all with electric connection and each has a possible allocated parking.
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Memorable Manitobans: Charles Burgess (1835-1925)
Charles Burgess
Born at Barnstable, Devonshire, England on 5 August 1835, son of John and Fanny Burgess, he was brought to Canada by his parents in 1842 and educated at Hamilton, Ontario. A veteran of the Fenian Raids of southern Ontario in the late 1860s, he practiced as an architect at Hamilton and Arnprior. In 1882, he moved to Regina, North West Territories [now Saskatchewan] and worked in construction, becoming one of the first architects in western Canada. He relocated to Winnipeg in 1884 where he was responsible for the construction of many early business blocks and government projects. He worked as a contractor and supervising architect, such as for Winnipeg's Carnegie Library on William Avenue, retiring in 1906. On 26 December 1868, he married Ann Pettypiece (c1835-1914) at Arnprior, Ontario and they had two children: Mary Fanny Burgess (c1870-1949) and Thomas Ashton Burgess (1872-1955). He was a member of St. Luke's Anglican Church. He died at his Winnipeg home, 107 Lewis Street, on 22 February 1925 and was buried in the St. John's Cemetery.
His architectural works in Manitoba included:
Winnipeg Industrial Exhibition Building
Main Street, Winnipeg
Demolished (c1920)
Winnipeg Police Court (renovations)
223 James Avenue, Winnipeg
St. Peter's Anglican Church (renovations)
Demolished (?)
Ontario birth and marriage registrations, Ancestry.
Death registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
"Carnegie Library," Winnipeg Tribune, 13 August 1903, page 2.
Obituary [Anne Burgess], Manitoba Free Press, 25 November 1914, page 3.
"Veteran of Fenian Raids dies, aged 89," Manitoba Free Press, 24 February 1925, page 4.
"Fenian veteran is laid to rest," Winnipeg Tribune, 25 February 1925, page 5.
Death registration [Thomas A. Burgess], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950.
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A Loss of Ecological Security: The Demise of the Sistan Basin
April 29, 2022 By Laura Jean Palmer-Moloney
Water is one of the most critical factors for regional security and stability because it is multidimensional. It is an essential resource in ecosystem services & environmental security, yet its importance creates significant possibilities for insecurity—including corruption, environmental crimes, and other illegal activities.
In my capacity as Senior Advisor on Water to Regional Command Southwest (RCSW) in Afghanistan from 2011-2012, helping to support stability operations (e.g., irrigation, hydropower, and development), I saw firsthand that the Sistan Basin in Afghanistan's Helmand River watershed is one of these environments.
The region is a case study in how ecological disruption can become an underappreciated factor in creating regional insecurity threats. The hydropolitics of this transboundary river system are tied to a number of components: population growth and consumption patterns, water insecurity, and political exigencies.
Add in the continuing and intensifying effects of climate change, and future water availability in the region is significantly at risk. The Sistan Basin— which includes the Helmand's inland delta, as well as hamouns (lakes) and wetlands—is now poised on the brink of collapse.
Surveying The Problem
The importance of the Sistan Basin in the region cannot be underestimated. The Helmand River supplies about 80 percent of the waters that drain into the Sistan depression. (See map.) The river and its tributaries are fed annually by melting snow from the Koh-i Baba Range of central Afghanistan, its headwaters, running a nearly 1,300-kilometer journey to the basin's inland delta.
Geography of the lower Helmand Basin showing the location of physical features and streams. Click to enlarge.
As Landsat images illustrate, the size of the Sistan's hamouns and extent of marsh varies both seasonally and from year to year. Its maximum expansion comes in late spring, following snowmelt and spring precipitation in the mountains.
In some respects, the basin's current crisis has been more than half a century in the making. Since the 1950s, technical and knowledge deficits in the water sector of Afghanistan have restricted prospects for efficient management and use of water resources. This has led to accusations of corruption and illegal water use between Iran and Afghanistan, while also hindering development in Afghanistan's southwestern provinces.
Failure to determine the water balance (the flow of water in and out of a system) and factor in the high demand of irrigation water use is partly to blame for the ecological destruction and disruption of the hamoun wetlands. Increased evaporation caused by hotter temperatures and stronger winds, combined with less than normal precipitation associated with climate change, has further reduced available water in the watershed. This continuing trend makes ecological recovery unlikely.
Indeed, the Sistan's hamoun ecosystem may already be at the tipping point, creating a looming loss of ecological security. As the basin's lakes dry and wetlands vanish and its biodiversity decreases, the livelihoods of those who depend on it for activities including fishing, bird hunting, and reed harvesting are threatened.
In the Sistan Basin, as in many other places in the world, when people cannot sustain themselves economically, they adapt or move—if they can. These displaced persons often move to places where other people already live, increasing vulnerability and tension in the communities into which arrive. More pressure builds on the environment. And a vicious cycle ensues.
Controlling the Flow
During the 1950s, the damming of the Helmand River in southern Afghanistan became one of the showcase projects of U.S. foreign aid after World War II. The Kajaki and Dahla dams and their irrigation canals were constructed on the Helmand River, as well as on its main tributary, the Arghandab River, to provide hydroelectric power, increased agricultural productivity through irrigation, and land reclamation.
The millions invested by the United States in Helmand Province in that era transformed the barren desert into a veritable oasis known locally as "Little America." Work began on a third dam, the Kamal Khan, located in Nimruz Province on the lower reaches of the Helmand River in 1974, but was abandoned after the overthrow of the Afghan government in 1978.
Dams—and the politics behind them— are just as important in the Sistan Basin today.
In March 2011, the USACE Hydrologic Engineering Center published the Nimroz Province Watershed Assessments to identify potential water resource projects there. "Viable" irrigation dam and hydropower projects needed to demonstrate an adequate water supply to support such use, sediment rates that would not render the project inoperable in early stages, and enough hydraulic head for positive power generation. No viable projects were identified because of shortcomings in all three areas (including the Kamal Khan Dam), and thus investment in the proposed projects was discouraged.
Yet the Afghan government did not give up, and obtained funding (in 2017) for an Afghan-Turkish company to complete the project. Ten years later in March 24, 2021, Afghanistan's former President Asraf Ghani inaugurated the Kamal Khan Dam.
Only six months later, by August 6, 2021, the Taliban had taken took control of Zaranj, Nimruz's capital city, and the dam itself, effectively controlling the amount of water flowing downstream to Zaranj, as well as to the Sistan and Baluchestan region of Iran, and to the Sistan Basin. As author David Mansfield observed, "by taking Zaranj, [the] Taliban also control a major source of water to Sistan Baluchistan with the intakes from the Helmand river sitting just south of the city. With Kamal Khan Dam complete, it's easy to stop the flow of water to Iran."
The Taliban see the dam as viable. According to press releases issued on January 28 2022, the Kamal Khan Dam "is now full for the first time since its inauguration in March 2021, bringing new opportunities for irrigation. The dam is capable of storing 52 million cubic metres of water, irrigating more than 180,000 hectares of land and generating 9MW of electricity."
As of April 2022, there are conflicting reports on whether water will be held to ransom or shared with Iran according to the terms of The Afghan-Iranian Helmand River-Water Treaty of 1973. Yet the ability of the Taliban government to do either will depend in part on water availability in a system, which is more often than not operating at a deficit.
Why might it not work? High evaporation rates and lack of experienced irrigation management workers mean large areas of agricultural land in the region have become salinized and unsuitable for farming. Lack of monitoring and maintenance has caused canals and reservoirs to fill with sediment. Water and sediment trapped behind the dams have affected the delta, causing hamouns and their adjacent wetlands to shrink, especially in drier years when a greater proportion of the annual discharge is held upstream. Less water also means less vegetation holding the soil. Wind-blown dust movement across deltaic agricultural lands has increased since the dams were completed.
Budgeting for Availability
The Helmand River is a renewable resource, but it is also vulnerable to overuse and seasonal exhaustion. Decreasing precipitation and increasing temperatures exacerbate water stress. Indications are that temperatures in the watershed are expected to be exceptionally hotter in future, and precipitation deficits are expected to continue. This will result in high atmospheric evaporative demands, complicating an already vexing situation.
Present circumstances of geography, accessibility and insecurity in southwestern Afghanistan and southeastern Iran make it difficult to perform measurements related to water. But water cannot be managed if it cannot be—or is not—measured. Water cannot be managed without an accurate water budget. And the amount of available water is not known unless the water budget, as well as water use (i.e., capture and diversion), are taken into account.
Increasing access to water and improving its usage in the region was a key priority during the time of my own deployment with the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) in Helmand Province.
Water has a determinative impact on agriculture and livestock, population management, energy, public works—as well as on the drug trade. Humanitarian assistance projects, efforts to improve economic activity and employment have a water component.
Funds such as Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP) dollars were available for investment and improvements, but implementation designs and budgets failed to include long term watershed-level management. This gap resulted in no coordinated watershed monitoring or evaluation.
From 2010-2012, money poured into RCSW to fund development work. Yet, there was little oversight, quality control, or evaluation when it came to water projects–whether large-scale efforts at the Kajaki Dam or small-scale village-level efforts to win hearts and minds. By the end of my tour, it was apparent that power (whether hydropower, socio-economic, or political) was not for sharing or compromise.
Half Full Or Half Empty?
Politics and governance in the region may change, but the problems that have left the Sistan Basin on the edge of disaster persist regardless of who is in charge.
Afghanistan cannot proceed to build new dams, restore old dams, and take an increasingly greater fraction of shared groundwater and surface water resources from the Helmand River without serious environmental and geopolitical consequences. Meaningful discussion and negotiation require a comprehensive understanding of how these projects will affect overall water in-stream flow and availability. Diplomatic and development efforts need to pair policy and governance practitioners with scientists to guarantee correct interpretation and inclusion of water circumstances.
Water stress, and the failure of government to adequately address it, can contribute to social disruption and political instability. Water-sharing agreements between (river-sharing) states must navigate questions of access to water, sovereignty, development, and national identity. This is paramount to building integrity, which is key to integrated water resource management success.
Laura Jean Palmer-Moloney is founder and hydrogeographer at Visual Teaching Technologies consultancy. She is also the author and co-author of two chapters in Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (Routledge).
Sources: Council on Strategic Risks; University of Nebraska Omaha; United States Geological Survey; ISciences; International Union for Conservation of Nature; BBC; Little America (Vintage); Alcis; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Tasnim News; International Water Law; Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction; Curbing Corruption.
Lede Image Credit: Kandahar [Helmand] province from the air. Helmand River with the Boghra Irrigation Canal (Nahr-e Bughra) in the middle distance and the town of Gereshk (Grishk) in the far distance, Helmand Province, photo courtesy of Karla Marshall/Flickr User USACE Afghanistan Engineer District-South.
Map Credit: Whitney, J.W., 2006, Geology, water, and wind in the lower Helmand Basin, southern Afghanistan: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5182, 40 p.
Topics: Afghanistan, Guest Contributor, water, water security
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