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Up the Academy (1980)
This puber-comedy is a kind of mixture between 'Animal House' and 'Police Academy'. Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a the Sheldon R. Wienberg military academy. The life of dicipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party out of the hard times. Will they be 'real men' after one year?
Wendell Brown, Tommy Citera, Ralph Macchio
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I stumbled upon this video where he controls the speed of a motor using python and php he just sends a value to the arduino over serial. But I'm curious is there a way to replace the submit button with two arrows and when you press and hold the button the motor rotates and when you release the button the motor stops rotating?
If anyone knows how to do that post here please


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Five years into the global financial crisis, the U.S. and global economies remain mired in a weak-growth, low-inflation, high-unemployment environment. Debt busts such as 2008-09 are hard to exit from, and recoveries are long and painful. However, three complicating factors make the current environment even more challenging.
First, economic growth models lie broken across developed and emerging economies alike, with the United States deleveraging from its debt-fueled consumption excesses, the European Union locked in a fiscal and currency straitjacket and China (and emerging economies more broadly) transitioning from export-led to domestic-demand-led growth. Second, globalization is in retreat as financial institutions retrench. And third, debt levels remain highly elevated in the developed economies, leading policymakers to rely almost exclusively on monetary policy to buffer the necessary deleveraging process.
The current policy mix of easy money and tight fiscal conditions, however, produces the worst of both worlds: stagnant global growth and increased risk of financial asset bubbles alongside rising prospects for beggar-thy-neighbor tendencies (already somewhat evident in global currency markets).
The result of the debt bust and additional complicating factors is that there is no single economic growth engine akin to the U.S. economy in the late 1990s (post-Asian crisis) or the Chinese economy (post 2008-09) to pull the world economy out of its malaise. We are stuck in a low-demand, low-growth world.
Given such an environment, U.S. policymakers face two main challenges: first, how to put the U.S. economy on a robust and sustained growth path of 3 percent to 4 percent per year and second, how to stabilize the globalization process. The answer to the first challenge lies in the transition to an investment- and production-led economic growth strategy that leverages U.S. access to excess global capital to rebuild America. The answer to the second lies in a U.S. international economic strategy that contributes to global demand and deepens integration with our trade partners in the Americas. Such solutions would provide both global leadership and a model for the EU and Asia to adopt.


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Grateful Dead
...78 min. 9 sec. of bliss.
beats hell out of the Stella>Sugar.
Good call subbing it in!
...we get the big Dark Star>Eyes, but the disc is still chopped up segments of the concert. Sigh. I mean, it's all good, but why not just fill the disc up with the Dark Star>Eyes>Stella>Sugar Mag? I've heard a traders' tape and it sounds just fine. It's not like there's not a bazillion China>Riders out there LOL.
Sorry, hasn't been enough bitching going on lately ;^D
...guess the bonus disc setlist is gonna be a surprise ;)
I see RT 4.3 has now been announced. Anyone know, is this the one that will come with a bonus disc for early subscribers? I am psyched about his one - it will get a lot of play from me. Loud!
"They" can´t release a 3-CD-set "Denver 73" without the unique sequence from 11/21 "Half Step>Playin>El Paso>Playin>Wharf Rat>Playin>Morning Dew" followed by "Truckin>Nobody´s Fault". Can they? Sure they can.
p.s.: Hi Helena, just love your comments!
Dark Star> Eyes> Stella Blue> Sugar Magnolia fills up a disc, doesn't it ;)
maybe on the bonus disk from 12/6?
on either 11/20 or 11/21 : - (
That segue from Half Step into Dire Wolf on 11/20 is so unbelievably subtle and perfect. And then there's the rest of the show!


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Rob Luyando
Going to change things up for a while. One of my MHP Team Members Anthony King wants to meet up with me at a Single Ply meet so I decided to take him up on the offer. He currently holds the IPA Raw World record at 242 and 275. Normally a bodybuilder he is getting strong quickly and catching on. He trains with legendary Joe Mazza's crew. I am going to compete at the 275 lbs class to qualify for the USPA Olympia meet. Anthony King will suprise a lot of people and push me. This is the first training cycle for the meet and the first time I have had a single ply on in years. This shirt is a little big so with some fine tuning big things should happen.


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Published in Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Forty Year of U.S. Human Spacelight Symposium, edited by Stephen J. Garber. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2002.
Given at a symposium sponsored by the Space Policy Institute, Dorothy Betts Marvin Theater, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 800 21st Street NW, May 8, 2001, 11:00AM
There are two models of the future of spaceflight, and there are two theories of how that future might be achieved. The first model of spaceflight assumes that we have already achieved most of what is worth achieving in space, whereas the second imagines it will be possible to build a truly interplanetary civilization in which most human beings live elsewhere than on Earth. The first theory holds that progress comes incrementally from the inexorable working of free markets and political systems, whereas the second believes that revolutionary transformations must sometimes be accomplished by social movements that transcend the ordinary institutions and motivations of mundane existence.
My 1975 Harvard doctoral dissertation, published in 1976 as The Spaceflight Revolution, attributed the early stages of development of space technology in large measure to a social movement that transcended ordinary commercial, military, or scientific motives.[1] First, visionaries like Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard and Hermann Oberth developed the ideology of spaceflight. Then tiny volunteer groups coalesced around their ideas in Germany, America, Russia, and Britain, becoming the vanguard of a radical social movement aimed at promoting the goal of interplanetary exploration. Shrewd and dynamic entrepreneurs, notably Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolyov, took the movement on a military detour, gaining the support of the German and Russian governments. Finally, the movement became institutionalized as the space programs of the Soviet Union, United States, and other countries.
After I wrote, some historians gave greater emphasis to the technical needs of the German war machine and the technocratic values of the Soviet Union in the development of spaceflight.[2] Their analyses focus on later phrases in space history, and certainly the social movement was crucial at the very beginning. There is room to debate how long it was influential, and when institutional factors took control. The role of a transcendent social movement in the development of spaceflight is an intrinsically interesting question for historians, but it becomes very important if we use the past to try to understand the future. Thus for me the crucial question has always been: Can spaceflight technology develop to the fullest possible extent without the often irrational impetus that a social movement can contribute?
Human beings have not left low Earth orbit since 1972, and for thirty years the emphasis in space has been relatively modest projects that satisfy some of the conventional needs of terrestrial society. The 1986 report of the National Commission on Space argued that the solar system is the future home of humanity, where free societies will be created on new worlds, and great new resources will benefit humanity.[3] However, governments, private enterprise, and the general public have not endorsed solar system colonization as a practical or worthy goal.
This essay will first consider whether technological breakthroughs in space technology and the rational motives of ordinary institutions have the capacity to break out of this relatively static situation. Then we will survey the roles that social movements of various kinds might play, and conclude with an examination of one particular nascent movement that might possibly build the foundation for a spacefaring civilization.
When The Spaceflight Revolution was written, we had great hopes that the space shuttle would be an economic as well as technical success, but sadly the cost of launching to Earth orbit remains prohibitively high for many applications. The most recent disappointment is the cancellation of the X-33 and the inescapable realization that we are still a long way from the ability to develop a low-cost launch system.[4]
Science fiction writers and other visionaries have suggested a vast array of alternative orbital launch methods.[5] Some, like electric catapults and Jacob's ladders, have some grounding in scientific principles but may present insurmountable engineering difficulties. Others, like anti-gravity and reactionless drives, have no basis in science and thus must be presumed impossible. A third of a century ago, practical nuclear fission rockets were under development, but this approach now seems environmentally unacceptable. It is hard to devise a more environmentally benign propellant than the hydrogen and oxygen used by the main engines of the space shuttle.
There is some hope that nanotechnology will save the day, with materials based on carbon nanotubes that are vastly stronger yet lighter than metals.[6] However, the X-33 failure shows that it is not easy to work with radically new structural materials in demanding aerospace applications, and we may be many decades away from being able to manufacture propellant tanks, wings, and other large structures from carbon nanotubes.
Perhaps Robert Zubrin is right that use of native Martian resources will significantly reduce the cost of a manned expedition.[7] However, the cost may still be more than people are willing to invest. Thus The Mars Society that has been organized around Zubrin's vision may be more important for reviving the spirit of the spaceflight movement than for any particular technical innovation it offers.
Technological breakthroughs in rocketry would certainly help promote space development, but the advances we are likely to see over the next several decades will not be sufficient in themselves. We also need a profound boost in the motivation to invest in an aggressive space program.
Satellites in low-Earth and synchronous orbit are of great importance in the collection and distribution of information, thus essential to the information economy. The wide range of civilian applications includes telephone, data transmission, television, navigation, weather observation, agriculture monitoring, and prospecting for natural resources.[8] The technology is largely perfected, and incremental progress can be achieved by improvement in information systems and simply by investing in more relatively small satellites of the kinds we already have.
Current space technology has proven the capacity to send robot space probes to any location in the solar system and a few billion miles beyond. Orbiting observatories, such as the decade-old Hubble Space Telescope, are effective means for gaining information about the vast realm that lies beyond the reach of space probes.[9] Much can be accomplished over the next century in space science without the need for major new launch technology. Indeed, one could argue that if science were the prime purpose of spaceflight, we would have done well to keep manufacturing the 40-year old Saturn I, rather than developing more sophisticated launch systems.
Many scientists and ordinary citizens believe that the chief justification for the space program is the knowledge of our place in the universe gained by probes and space telescopes. However, if the government really wanted to advance fundamental knowledge that is interesting to the general public as well as to scientists, it would put its money not into spaceflight but into paleontology, archaeology, and anthropology, extremely underfunded fields where rapid advances could be expected to follow quickly from any increased investment.
The search for human origins is a noble and tremendously exciting scientific initiative waiting for the political will to achieve profound discoveries. Very little is currently invested in primary data collection in paleontology and archaeology, and a few million dollars a year could work wonders. In physical anthropology, tools of genetic science already exist that could chart the evolution of the human species and its geographic dispersion. For example, existing techniques are capable of sequencing the DNA of Neanderthal specimens and determining their relationship to modern humans.[10] All that is needed is funding.
Military reconnaissance satellites have been essentially perfected, and they are already capable of accomplishing almost any data gathering the defense establishment is willing to invest in.[11] For a quarter century, enthusiasts have urged the development of a space-based missile defense system, perhaps employing beam weapons. If it required orbiting many large installations, it would promote the development of efficient launch vehicles which could then be applied to other purposes.[12] But currently its advocates emphasize localized theater defense systems and "smart rock" ICBM interception methods that do nothing to advance civilian spaceflight.
Since the 1960s, there has been much talk about commercial exploitation of outer space. For a time, attention was given to the idea of collecting solar energy in space and beaming it to Earth, and there still is hope that some new industrial processes that require weightlessness will prove to be economically profitable. However, space-based solar energy systems would be extremely costly and are not currently part of the world's response to energy needs.[13] Today, materials scientists are much more excited about a wide range of terrestrial nanotechnology techniques than about the dubious value of weightless manufacturing.
Like military applications, hypothetical industrial satellites would probably be in low Earth orbit, although some writers have argued that it might be cheaper to build them from lunar materials because of the low velocity required to leave the Moon.[14] This would demand some degree of lunar colonization, and it would thereby build a transportation infrastructure that would reduce the cost of deep space missions.
Nonetheless, it is very difficult to develop a scenario in which the Earth itself could ever benefit from importation of raw materials from beyond the Moon. It is more than a cliche that the world is becoming an information society, post-industrial rather than industrial.[15] The Earth has ample supplies of almost every useful chemical element, and it is not plausible that we could find energy sources on Mars that would be cost-effective to bring to Earth. Martian resources would be of value if we had already decided to live there, but we would need some motivation other than raw materials to do so. In purely economic terms, beyond synchronous orbit or maybe lunar orbit there may be no bucks, therefore, no Buck Rogers.
Some say that the pressure of population growth on Earth will force humanity to colonize other worlds. Perhaps the most plausible version of this scenario was suggested in Kim Stanley Robinson's series of novels about terraforming Mars: The rich ruling classes might want to develop Mars as a home for themselves when Earth becomes unendurably overpopulated.[16]
Unfortunately, examination of actual fertility and mortality trends does not provide a clear demographic justification for space colonization. The population explosion has not yet halted in many poor nations, but they certainly do not have the wealth for spaceflight. Fertility rates have dropped so far in most of the industrial nations, that they are poised for a population collapse that would remove their motivation to expand out into space.
Recent United Nations estimates predict that nineteen nations of the world will each lose more than a million in population by the year 2050: Russia (loss of 41 million people), Ukraine (20 million), Japan (18), Italy (15), Germany (11), Spain (9), Poland (5), Romania (4), Bulgaria (3), Hungary (2), Georgia (2), Belarus (2), Czech Republic (2), Austria (2), Greece (2), Switzerland (2), Yugoslavia (2), Sweden (1), and Portugal (1).[17] Fertility rates are also already below the replacement level in Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
Fertility rates are still above replacement in the United States, and the US Census projects population growth throughout the next century.[18] In part, growth is assured by immigration, and by the fact that fertility rates are still high in some minority groups. Major uncertainties are the roles of religion and politics. The collapse in European fertility rates may partly be explained by secularization and by indirect effects of the welfare state.[19] America is far more religious than almost any European nation today, other than Ireland and Poland, and its political environment is quite different from that of Europe or Japan. If the United States eventually follows the other industrial nations in abandoning religion and adopting the welfare state, then American fertility rates could collapse just as those in most of Europe have already done. If that happens, then there is no nation both rich enough and demographically motivated to colonize the solar system.
Finally, one might hope simply that the passage of time will allow a steadily increasing portion of the population to become interested in space. Spaceflight accomplishes a little more each year, and the growing status of science fiction in popular culture should also contribute to increased enthusiasm.
However, opinion polls reveal only modest growth in support for the space program. Perhaps the best data source is the General Social Survey, a repeated scientific study of a random sample of Americans that has included a question about the space program for twenty-five years. In 1973, just 7.8 percent of the American public wanted funding for the space program increased. By 1998, this fraction had grown just to 10.8 percent. A pessimistic way to look at this is to note that this increase of 3 percentage points over a quarter century would mean 12 percentage points every century. Linear extrapolation would predict a majority of the population will support increased space funding in about the year 2325.
Of course, a crude projection like that is scientifically indefensible. Support has moved up and down over the years, apparently in response to events. The highest level of support was in 1988, responding to the nation's return to space after the Challenger disaster, when 18.9 percent wanted funding increased. The biggest trend over the twenty-five years was actually a shift from feeling funding should be reduced to feeling it was about right. In 1973, 61.4 percent wanted the space program reduced, compared with only 42.2 percent in 1998. Those who felt about the right amount was being invested rose from 30.8 percent in 1973 to 43.8 percent in 1998. But a projection based on the fifteen years 1983-1998 shows no growth in those who want space funding increased, and no decline in the proportion of the population who want it reduced, so projections are very sensitive to the assumptions on which they are based.
While opinion polls give some reason for slight optimism, they certainly do not reveal the kind of rapid growth in support that would be required to break out of the current doldrums. Hope springs eternal, but there is little reason to expect that either a breakthrough in space technology or a surge in conventional motivation will transform spaceflight in our lifetimes. Thus we need to consider the possible impact of another spaceflight social movement.
The regularities of human interaction can be classified in terms of four levels of social coordination: parallel behavior, collective behavior, social movements, and societal institutions.[20] Parallel behavior is when individuals do roughly the same thing for similar reasons, but without influencing each other directly. An example is the isolated pioneers who developed the intellectual basis of spaceflight, including Tsiolkovsky, Goddard, and the early work of Oberth. On the basis of their ideas, an international network of informal communication developed, chiefly through publications, in which the ideas were disseminated and spaceflight enthusiasts came into contact with others of like mind. The sociological term for informally coordinated mass activity is collective behavior, including such phenomena as panics, riots, fads, and crazes.
It often happens that collective behavior can develop a degree of formal organization and become a social movement. For spaceflight the watershed was the founding of pro-space voluntary organizations, notably in Germany, the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain. A successful social movement often becomes incorporated in or co-opted by a societal institution, such as government space programs. Then, the early enthusiasms of the typical institutionalized movement become mired in bureaucratic inertia, and it is very difficult to transform well-established institutions.[21]
Much of the traditional social-scientific literature on social movements focuses on the movements of deprived groups within society.[22] These often take the form of protests, and they typically challenge the comfortable status of societal elites. To many influential people, the evolutionary processes of conventional societal institutions feel safer and more reasonable than revolutionary movements.
Since the end of the Apollo program, a number of moderate social movement organizations have supported increased efforts in space.[23] In the main, these are respectable groups and their contributions have been worthwhile. However, as Michael Michaud noted in his study of these groups, they have not achieved significant breakthroughs.[24]
A really new spaceflight movement might upset the delicate relationship between the established space program and the branches of government that provide the money for it, and it might alienate many opinion leaders in the general public, even if it energized the enthusiasm of others. At the very least, a fresh social movement would demand fresh thinking that shatters conventional notions about what science, technology and the human spirit could accomplish in space.
Religious movements are especially suspect in the modern era, yet they have the capacity to break through ordinary routines and to experiment with utopian alternatives such as extraterrestrial society.[25] Few people already involved in the space program, and few members of the general public, are prepared to embrace a radically new religion. Some of them are faithful believers in the traditional religions. Most of the rest are probably secularists with neither religious faith nor much trust in religious enthusiasts.
Most people seem horrified by the few highly-publicized religions oriented toward contact with extraterrestrial beings. Both Heaven's Gate[26] and The Solar Temple[27] tried to travel to other worlds by committing suicide, and the latter also committed a number of murders. A theologically similar space-oriented group called The Raelian Movement has not resorted to violence but has hurled a powerful religious challenge at conventional society by setting out to clone human beings as part of its radical method for transcending the limitations of terrestrial life.[28]
Religious movements have a tendency to pursue goals by supernatural rather than natural means. An example is the little book published by the Hare Krishna movement, Easy Journey to Other Planets, advocating chanting rather than rocketry as the best means to experience other worlds.[29] Thus, it is possible that space-oriented cults will seek to explore the galaxy, but they will probably attempt to do so through supernatural rituals rather than through spaceflight.[30]
This brief survey of research on social and religious movements is not very encouraging. However, the examples of the Civil Rights, Women's Liberation, and Environmentalist movements remind us that social movements are often very effective in changing society's priorities. Perhaps a totally new kind of movement could emerge in the next few years, employing technology to serve fundamental human needs that in earlier centuries would have motivated religious or political movements.
Let us imagine a successful social movement of the future that could actually build an interplanetary and even interstellar civilization. I will present one idea here, but perhaps others are possible. The idea relies upon plausible developments in fields of science and technology that seem remote from astronautics, namely: cognitive neuroscience, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and information systems. But the fundamental key is a transcendental movement that would provide the motivation to apply these developments to the foundation of cosmic civilization.
The chief impediment to rapid development of spaceflight is the problem of returning a profit to the people who must invest in it. The most obvious way to motivate people to invest in interstellar exploration is to invite them to travel personally to the stars and create new lives for themselves on distant worlds. But we are decades and perhaps centuries away from having the technological capability and infrastructural base to accomplish this in the conventional manner we have always imagined, by flying living human bodies and all the necessities of life to other planets. There is, however, another possible way.
Visionaries in a number of cutting-edge disciplines have begun to develop the diverse toolkit of technologies that will be required to overcome death. A prominent example is Ray Kurzweil, a pioneer of computer speech recognition, who argues that human beings will gradually merge with their computers over the next century, thereby becoming immortal.[31] The idea dates back at least to Arthur C. Clarke's 1953 novel, The City and the Stars. In 1966, Roger MacGowan and Frederick Ordway speculated that successful spacefaring species might evolve past the state of being biological organisms, becoming "intelligent synthetic automata."[32] We have in fact advanced some distance in that direction over the past thirty-five years, and we now see the real possibility of achieving that dream in a manner that preserves unique human personalities, and blends natural with synthetic modalities.
For a number of years, I have studied the techniques for archiving aspects of human personality in computerized information systems, along the way publishing computer-assisted textbooks on some of the methodologies.[33] In May 1997, I launched a web-based project, called The Question Factory, to create a very large number of questionnaire measures to archive aspects of personality that were generally missed by standard psychological tests.[34] In addition to placing a number of item-generation open-ended surveys on my own website, I joined the team creating Survey2000 and Survey2001, two major online questionnaire projects sponsored by the National Geographic Society. My initial result was a set of eight personality-archiving software modules incorporating 15,600 items and 31,200 measurements.[35] Anyone can begin to archive his or her personality using these Windows-based programs today.
A complementary approach involves making digital audio-visual recordings of a person's perceptions, speech, and behavior. For example, Carnegie-Mellon University's Experience on Demand project is developing "tools, techniques and systems allowing people to capture a record of their experiences unobtrusively."[36] Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation has videotaped the reminiscences of more than 52,000 survivors of the European holocaust, a 180-terabyte dataset that cost $175,000,000 to assemble.[37] The same effort could have captured much of the personality of a single individual. A combination of real-time computer graphics and artificial intelligence based on an individual's full personality record could even today produce a realistic dynamic simulation of that individual.
Many people today carry personal digital assistants (PDAs), and some of these are already connected to Internet. Over the next few years, these will evolve into multi-media gateways to the world of information, serving as advisors, coaches, agents, brokers, guides, and all-purpose servants. At the same time they perform all these functions, they can unobtrusively record the user's wishes, thoughts, actions, and words. Advanced devices of this type will adapt to the user's needs and personality, so they will have to learn many of the facets of the person anyway. They will also be companions that converse and play games with the user. Many forms of personality archiving methods can be blended seamlessly with these activities.
A combination of foreseeable advances in several fields of science and technology will permit vast improvements in our ability to capture and reanimate a human personality. In time, cognitive neuroscience, perhaps drawing upon molecule-size sensor developments in nanotechnology, will be able to chart the structure and function of a living human brain. "Gene on a chip" bio-electronic devices will permit cost-effective sequencing and analysis of those aspects of a person's genetic code that influence his or her personality. Information science, especially in the very active field of digital libraries, will develop the necessary techniques for efficient storage and access of petabyte records of the individual. Finally, advances in genetic engineering, information systems, and robotics will allow archived human beings to live again, even in transformed bodies suitable for life on other planets and moons of the solar system.
New lives must be lived on new worlds.[38] Overpopulation from a zero death rate would soon fill any one planet, and humanity would lose its finest treasure if there were no more children. In the past, several religions imagined that the afterlife was located in Heaven. Once reanimation of archived human personalities becomes possible, it will be necessary to enact a world-wide constitutional law that resurrection must not be done on Earth, but only in the heavens.
We see the beginnings of this prohibition against terrestrial resurrection in the remarkably powerful world-wide movement to ban human reproductive cloning. Other technologies are likely to be banned on Earth in later decades, such as advanced forms of artificial intelligence and android robots. Genetic engineering is already under concerted attack, and there are the beginnings of a movement to ban some forms of nanotechnology.[39] Scientists in these fields may have to do their work beyond the reach of terrestrial religions and governments, but that will be costly. Only a goal as valuable as eternal life could motivate investment in substantial scientific infrastructure on the Moon or Mars.
Calculation of the geometric realities facing colonization of the universe suggests that there might not be enough room in the galaxy for endless copies of absolutely everybody. The population of an expanding sphere of inhabited worlds increases according to the cube of its radius, while the surface area from which colonization ships can directly reach new solar systems increases only as the square of the radius.[40] To some extent this problem can be dealt with by gradually increasing the time between lives. But unless a means of instantaneous interstellar travel is devised, the rate of expansion of the human population is limited.[41]
The answer is a simple one. A person must earn a new life by contributing in some way, direct or indirect, to the development and maintenance of the entire system that explores and colonizes space. Thus, each generation has a moral contract with the ones that follow. Every person who contributes substantially has a right to expect at least one more life. Future generations must honor that promise, if they are to have any hope that the generations after them will grant them a second life as well.
As noted above, many human populations are failing to reproduce even at the replacement level and are destined to vanish gradually from the earth through an insidious form of genetic suicide.[42] In particular, highly educated nations and groups whose religion or philosophy does not encourage childbirth are failing, whereas uneducated populations and fundamentalist groups are growing. Well educated people can ensure the demographic growth of their population through interstellar immortality. By "arrival of the fittest," those with the most advanced minds and cultures will spread across the galaxy.
Even a very low birthrate per lifetime can cause population growth when an individual has many lifetimes in which to reproduce. Additionally, some individuals who make extraordinary contributions to human progress may thereby earn the right to live out several lives simultaneously in different solar systems, reproducing themselves as well as giving birth to children who are distinct personalities.
We have the technology, already today, to begin archiving human personalities at low fidelity within what I call Starbase, a database destined eventually to be transported to the stars. To gain entry to Starbase, a person must contribute significantly in some way to the creation of interstellar civilization. One way is to help develop technologies for archiving and reanimating human personalities at ever higher fidelity. Another is to work toward the establishment of small human colonies, first on the Moon and Mars, where Starbase can be headquartered and where serious work on reanimation can begin.
When the time comes for the first interstellar expeditions, they will be carried out not by biologically-based humans in their first brief lifetimes, but by eternal Starbase modules incorporating the archived but active personalities of the crew and colonists. At the destination, the crew will not waste its time terraforming planets, but will adapt the colonist into whatever form (biological, robot, cyborg) can thrive in the alien environment. Subsequent waves of colonists can be sent as radioed datafiles, in a technically feasible version of the old science fiction dream of teleportation.
A Starbase movement could offer the stars to people living today, and this realistic hope would motivate us to create first an interplanetary then an interstellar civilization. It draws upon advanced technology from fields other than rocketry, and it promises to serve the instinctive desire for survival. By conceptualizing human beings as dynamic systems of information, it harmonizes with the fundamental principles of post-industrial society. Such a movement could provide powerful new motivations for a second spaceflight revolution.
Ancient Greek scientists knew that the Earth was a sphere, and they understood roughly how large it is. However, the classical civilization of Greece and Rome failed to exploit that knowledge, send expeditions to the Americas, and colonize the New World. Similarly, our more technically advanced civilization understands the fundamental scope of the galaxy, yet we seem to lack the cultural dynamics and social organization required for interplanetary let alone interstellar travel and settlement.
Pessimists might conclude that we should tear down our present civilization quickly to hasten the next dark age, so that the successor spacefaring civilization will get an earlier start. But the seeds of each new civilization need to be securely planted within the old, just as Christianity took root within classical society and later helped shape industrial society. Two thousand years ago, Christianity was but one of many cults vying for attention within the Roman Empire, but it rose to become the most influential movement of all human history. Thus, optimists would attempt to launch many space-related social movements, in the hopes that one of them would eventually take humanity to the stars.
At the extreme, optimists and pessimists might agree that the human species, as it is currently defined, simply is inferior to the task. With a life span generally under a century, we require quick returns on our investments, and our instincts are too easily satisfied by modest lives on our home planet. But extreme optimists differ from pessimists in that they imagine we can evolve into something higher, a truly cosmic species for whom all the universe is home.
Count me among the optimists. Probably, many intellectual leaders and policy makers in the standard aerospace agencies and corporations will find the Starbase idea too radical for their tastes. Yet business as usual is not going to create interplanetary civilization. In time, the standard institutions of Western Civilization will disintegrate, like those of the Roman Empire sixteen hundred years earlier. Already we see demographic trends that are extremely worrying: unchecked population growth in the poor countries, and impending collapse in most advanced nations. Human exploration of the universe through an aggressive space program has nearly stalled. The future demands a new spaceflight social movement to get us moving again.
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2. Michael J. Neufeld, The Rocket and the Reich: Peenem�nde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era (New York: Free Press, 1995); Walter A. McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (New York: Basic Books, 1985).
3. National Commission on Space, Pioneering the Space Frontier (New York: Bantam Books, 1986).
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7. Robert Zubrin and Richard Wagner, The Case for Mars (New York: Free Press, 1996).
8. For example, see the National Research Council report, People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science, edited by Dianna Liverman, Emilio F. Moran, Ronald R. Rindfuss, and Paul C. Stern (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1998).
9. Robert W. Smith, The Space Telescope (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
10. Matthias Krings, Anne Stone, Ralf W. Schmitz, Heike Krainitzki, Mark Stoneking, and Svante P��bo, "Neandertal DNA Sequences and the Origin of Modern Humans," Cell, (1997) 90: 19-30; see also Dennis H. O'Rourke, S. W. Carlyle, and R. L. Parr, "Ancient DNA: Methods, Progress, and Perspectives," American Journal of Human Biology, 1996, 8: 557-571.
11. Jeffrey T. Richelson, America's Space Sentinels: DSP Satellites and National Security (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1999).
12. William Sims Bainbridge, The Spaceflight Revolution (New York: Wiley Interscience, 1976), pp. 241-243.
13. Electric Power from Orbit: A Critique of a Satellite Power System (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1981).
14. Gerard K. O'Neill, The High Frontier (New York: Bantam Books, 1977); Richard D. Johnson and Charles Holbrow, editors, Space Settlements: A Design Study (Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1977).
15. Daniel Bell, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (New York: Basic Books, 1973).
16. Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (New York: Bantam, 1993); Green Mars (New York: Bantam, 1995); Blue Mars (New York: Bantam, 1997).
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18. Frederick W. Hollmann, Tammany J. Mulder, and Jeffrey E. Kallan, "Methodology and Assumptions for the Population Projections of the United States: 1999 to 2100," Population Division Working Paper No. 38, United States Census Bureau, 2000.
19. Ronald Inglehart and Wayne E. Baker, "Modernization, Cultural Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values, American Sociological Review, 2000, vol. 65 (February), pp. 19-51.
20. William Sims Bainbridge, "Collective Behavior and Social Movements," in Sociology by Rodney Stark (Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1985), pp. 492-523, reprinted in second edition (1987) and third edition (1989).
21. William Sims Bainbridge, "Beyond Bureaucratic Policy: The Space Flight Movement," pp. 153-163 in People in Space, edited by James Everett Katz (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction, 1985).
22. Neil J. Smelser, Theory of Collective Behavior (New York: Free Press, 1962); Hans Toch, The Social Psychology of Social Movements (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965); Ted Robert Gurr, Why Men Rebel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970).
23. Trudy E. Bell, "American Space-Interest Groups," Star and Sky (September 1980), pp. 53-60;
24. Michael A. G. Michaud, Reaching for the High Frontier: The American Pro-Space Movement, 1972-84 (New York: Praeger, 1986), p. 308.
25. William Sims Bainbridge, "Religions for a Galactic Civilization," pp. 187-201 in Science Fiction and Space Futures, edited by Eugene M. Emme (San Diego: American Astronautical Society, 1982).
26. Robert W. Balch, "When the Light Goes Out, Darkness Comes," in Religious Movements, edited by Rodney Stark (New York: Paragon House, 1985), pp. 11-63; "Waiting for the Ships: Disillusionment and the Revitalization of Faith in Bo and Peep's UFO Cult," in Lewis, James R. (ed.), The Gods Have Landed: New Religions From Other Worlds. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995), pp. 137-166; Ryan J. Cook, "Heaven's Gate," in Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements, edited by Richard Landes (New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 177-179; Winston Davis, "Heaven's Gate: A Study of Religious Obedience," Nova Religio, (2000) 3 www.novareligio.com/davis.html.
27. Susan J. Palmer, "Purity and Danger in the Solar Temple," Journal of Contemporary Religion (1996) 11, pp. 303-318; "The Solar Temple." Pp. 394-398 in Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements, edited by Richard Landes (New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 394-398.
28. Susan J. Palmer, "The Ra�lian Movement International" in New Religions and the New Europe, edited by Robert Towler (Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 1995), pp. 194-210; Phillip Charles Lucas, "Raelians" in Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements, edited by Richard Landes. New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 342-344.
29. Bhaktivedanta Swami, A. C., Easy Journey to Other Planets (Boston: ISKCON Press, 1970).
30. Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge, The Future of Religion (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985); A Theory of Religion (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996); William Sims Bainbridge, The Sociology of Religious Movements (New York: Routledge, 1997).
31. Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (New York: Viking, 1999).
32. Roger A. MacGowan and Frederick I. Ordway, III, Intelligence in the Universe (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1966).
33. William Sims Bainbridge, Survey Research: A Computer-Assisted Introduction (Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1989) this textbook includes 9 software programs and datasets; Social Research Methods and Statistics (Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1992) this textbook includes 11 software programs and datasets.
34. William Sims Bainbridge, "Religious Ethnography on the World Wide Web," in Religion on the Internet, edited by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Douglas W. Cowan, volume 8 of the annual Religion and the Social Order (New York: JAI/Elsevier, 2000), pp. 55-80 especially pp. 66-75.
35. The Question Factory, www.erols.com/bainbri/qf.htm [obsolete URL]
36. www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu/eod/
37. www.vhf.org/
38. William Sims Bainbridge, Goals in Space (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1991).
39. Bill Joy, "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us," Wired, April 2000.
40. William Sims Bainbridge, "Computer Simulation of Cultural Drift: Limitations on Interstellar Colonization." Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (1984) 37:420-429.
41. Sebastian von Hoerner, "Population Explosion and Interstellar Expansion." Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (1975) 28:691-712.
42. Nathan Keyfitz, "The Family that Does not Reproduce Itself." In Below Replacement Fertility in Industrial Societies, edited by Kingsley Davis, Mikhail Bernstam and Rita Ricardo-Campbell. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 139-154; Ben J. Wattenberg, The Birth Dearth (New York: Ballantine Books, 1987).


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NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 01/28/13 -- Elektra recording artist Marina And The Diamonds has unveiled the next series of North American dates on her ongoing "Lonely Hearts Club" headline tour. The dates -- which see support from Charli XCX -- get underway May 2nd at The Showbox at the Market in Seattle and then continue through a major New York City concert at the world famous Central Park SummerStage at Rumsey Playfield on May 29th (see itinerary below). For complete details, please visit www.marinaandthediamonds.com/live.htm.
The "Lonely Hearts Club Tour" celebrates Marina's extraordinary second album, "ELECTRA HEART," which earned critical approbation and international chart success upon its release last year. The new dates follow a number of epic world tours in recent months, including a sold out North American summer headline tour and an array of North American and European stadium/arena dates supporting Coldplay.
A chart-topping phenomenon in her native UK, "ELECTRA HEART" finds Marina collaborating with a handpicked group of superstar songwriters and producers, including Dr. Luke (Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj), Rick Nowels (Cee Lo Green, Lykke Li), Liam Howe (Sneaker Pimps, Lana Del Rey), Greg Kurstin (The Shins, Kelly Clarkson) and Diplo (Beyoncé, M.I.A.). Songs like "Primadonna" and "How To Be A Heartbreaker" see Marina truly reaching her full potential as an outstanding songwriting talent and dazzling pop performer, an uncompromising spirit who singlehandedly fashions the ideas for her artwork, videos, website content and striking live performances.
The album -- which was written and recorded in London and Los Angeles -- received global approval upon its release earlier this year. BBC Music praised its balance of "the ironic and the heartfelt, the quirky and the mainstream, the real and the fake with remarkable aplomb," while Entertainment Weekly declared that Marina "rivals Katy Perry for catchy hooks, commands with the swagger of Gwen Stefani, and even comes close to the ethereal vocal exhilaration of Florence Welch."
For more news and information, please visit www.marinaandthediamonds.com, www.facebook.com/marinaandthediamonds, and www.elektra.com.
Charli XCX is quickly proving an unqualified phenomenon, earning immediate applause for such angel-pop smashes as "You're The One" and "I Love It (Feat. Charli XCX)," her internationally successful collaboration with Big Beat recording duo Icona Pop. The upcoming tour -- which follows a string of sold out U.S. headline shows as well as dates supporting both Santigold and Coldplay -- herald the British-born singer/songwriter's hugely anticipated debut album, set for release later this year.
In the meantime, Charli XCX recently unleashed her electrifying new single, "You (Ha Ha Ha)," with a companion video directed by award-winning filmmaker Ryan Andrews. The track (along with a range of exclusive remixes by such dancefloor notables as BURNS, Goldroom, Melé, and MS MR.) will be officially released in late February -- please see www.charlixcxmusic.com for up to the minute news and information.
Charli XCX made an immediate splash with a series of increasingly acclaimed singles, including "Nuclear Seasons" and "Stay Away," which Pitchfork hailed as "a slow-burning kiss-off of a pop song with low-lying synths, industrial textures, and a whole lot of shadowy atmosphere." "You're The One" received ever greater accolades upon its 2012 release, with Billboard praising "its frisky beats, Euro-pop synths, and vaguely Middle Eastern melodies" while also naming Charli to its "21 Under 21: Ones To Watch 2012" ranking. Charli also appeared in a range of year-end packages, including 2012 wrap-ups and 2013 predictions. Rolling Stone declared her to be one of the year's "Hottest Synthpop Acts," while Stereogum included Charli on their influential "40 Best New Bands of 2012" tally, noting that "her voice floats above slickly catchy electroscapes, showing an admirably tough vulnerability." "You're The One" was among Billboard's "20 Best Songs of 2012: Critics' Picks." As if that weren't enough, Time named Charli's upcoming debut album as one of their "11 Albums To Look Forward To In 2013," writing that "at only 20 years old, the vaguely goth Charli XCX (nee Charlotte Aitchison) has a vocal maturity that outshines many more seasoned singers, crafting songs that are alternately gorgeous, anthemic, throbbing and occasionally weird, with soaring vocals and swelling choruses that sweep you up in their melodies."
Furthermore, Charli XCX has released a pair of creative and compelling mixtapes, including the recent "SUPER ULTRA," highlighted by the viral hit, "Cloud Aura (Feat. Brooke Candy)." Pitchfork decreed the track -- produced by J£ ZUS MILLION -- to be "a weird one," in large part thanks to the appearance of "rapper" and tumblr meta-meme Brooke Candy. "SUPER ULTRA" is available now as a free download to fans signing up at Charli's official website, charlixcxmusic.com, while the "Cloud Aura" companion video can be viewed at http://youtu.be/7LJOg-yLWbI.
For more, please see www.charlixcxmusic.com, www.facebook.com/charlixcxmusic, www.twitter.com/charli_xcx, and www.youtube.com/officialcharlixcx.
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MAY ----- 2 Seattle, WA The Showbox at the Market 3 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom 4 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom 6 San Francisco, CA The Warfield 7 Santa Ana, CA Observatory 9 Las Vegas, NV The Pool @ Blvd Social Club * 10 San Diego, CA House of Blues 11 Los Angeles, CA Nokia Theatre LA Live 13 Salt Lake City, UT Club Sound 14 Denver, CO The Gothic Theatre 16 Kansas City, MO Granada 17 St Louis, MO The Pageant 19 Minneapolis, MN The Varsity 20 Chicago, IL The Vic Theatre 22 Detroit, MI Saint Andrew's Hall 23 Toronto, ON Sound Academy 24 Montreal, QC Corona Theatre 28 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls 29 New York, NY Central Park SummerStage @ Rumsey Playfield
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"Technically rewarding, verbal expectation nightmare "
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I worked at MomentumSI
Best of MSI is their ability to ask you to do anything beyond what you've done already - great for folks who want to expand their technical abilities and are self-motivated to learn. They pay/reward well for specific ability. They will also expect your participation in CEO efforts that often expand your technical ability and be of strategic value at the time. Good recognition for those contributions.
MSI has long hours and are very apt to tell you one thing yet do another. Make sure you get all 'offers' and statements of work in writing - especially when it comes to anything you 'think' you'll receive as compensation for work/travel or expect to do at a client. If you're not currently engaged - be prepared to do low level development or sales support if you're a consultant- this is not a job where you can focus only on your given area of expertise.
Formalize the hiring process and ensure verbal discussions match written SOWs and or agreements with clients and employees. Nothing worse than going to a client expecting one thing and doing another. (This is from an expectation on both the client part - and the consultant's.)
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I worked at MomentumSI full-time for less than a yearPros
I was only there for a week, so it was hard to find any pros. The salary was decent I guess, and some of the people I met were friendly.Cons
Wow, where to begin. First, "up to 50% travel" was actually "at least 50% travel, 100% at first." And the travel was weird: rather than a hotel, you're expected to live in their house ("The Purple Palace"). So, no work-life balance at all.
I didn't actually do anything the entire time I was there, just read documentation alone. At one point my boss called to criticize my wardrobe (perfectly standard; slacks and a button-down shirt).
Then, after a week, they fired me but refused to even say why. Pretty infuriating actually.Advice to ManagementAdvice
I don't think this "virtual company" thing is working for you. I also don't think you know how to interact with adult professionals, as opposed to frat boys.Doesn't RecommendNeutral Outlook
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I have been working at MomentumSI full-time for more than a yearPros
- I worked here for several years before I left to try some new things. Came back a year and a half ago to take advantage of a great opportunity.
- The fact that I get exposed to multiple leading edge technologies, inherently promotes my job security.
- Few companies have the learning opportunities afforded here.
- Management is fair in all matters, internal or customer-facing.
- The firm is growing rapidly given demand for modern technology services.
- I get to work remotely from the Bay Area. Although, I collaborate extensively with colleagues on Hangouts, Skype, StatusPath and Yammer.Cons
- Because I work remote, I sometimes miss daily interactions with colleagues on a daily basis in an office environment.
- If you are not intellectually curious and not always looking to expand your knowledge, you will not like it here.Advice to ManagementAdvice
I already provide ideas and feedback to management on an ongoing basis. Glad to report that I get a fair hearing and actions taken based on merit.RecommendsPositive Outlook


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Oil and Gas Leasing:
Federal Oil and Gas Resource Management and Revenue Collection in Need of Comprehensive Reassessment
GAO-09-506T: Published: Mar 17, 2009. Publicly Released: Mar 17, 2009.
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In fiscal 2008, the Department of the Interior (Interior) collected over $22 billion in royalties and other fees related to oil and gas. Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Minerals Management Service (MMS) manage federal onshore and offshore oil and gas leases, respectively. Acquiring a federal lease gives the lessee the rights to explore for and develop the oil and gas resources under the lease, including drilling wells and building pipelines that may lead to oil and gas production. This statement focuses on findings from a number of recent GAO reports on federal oil and gas management. GAO has made numerous recommendations to Interior, which the agency generally agreed with and is taking steps to address. However, two important issues remain unresolved. Specifically, GAO made one recommendation and one matter for Congressional consideration that together call for a comprehensive re-evaluation of how Interior manages federal oil and gas resources. To-date, Interior has not undertaken such a comprehensive review and until this is done, the public cannot have reasonable assurance that federal oil and gas resources are being appropriately managed for the public good.
In recent years, GAO has conducted numerous evaluations of federal oil and gas management and found many material weaknesses. Interior does less to encourage development of federal oil and gas leases than some state and private landowners. Eight states GAO reviewed undertook more efforts to encourage development on their oil and gas leases, using increasing rental rates as well as shorter lease terms and escalating royalty rates. Some states also do more than Interior to structure leases to reflect the likelihood of oil and gas production, which may encourage faster development. Private landowners also use various leasing methods to encourage faster development, including lease terms as short as 6 months. The annual federal oil and gas leases issued and the pace of development have generally increased in recent years. Several factors influence industry's decisions to acquire and develop federal oil and gas leases, including oil and gas prices; the availability and cost of equipment; the geology of the land underlying the lease; and regulatory issues, such as limitations on when drilling can occur. Development activity in a sample of leases issued from 1987 through 1996 varied considerably. Development occurred on about 26 percent of offshore and 6 percent of onshore leases issued, but production was less frequent, with about 12 percent of offshore leases and 5 percent of onshore leases ultimately achieving production. Shorter leases were generally developed more quickly than longer leases, but not as frequently during the term of the lease. MMS and BLM employ different practices for deciding which federal properties to lease and when, and could do more to encourage faster development of certain federal oil and gas leases that are relatively more likely to have significant oil and gas resources. BLM has encountered persistent problems in hiring and retaining sufficient and adequately trained staff to keep up with workload as a result of rapid increases in oil and gas operations on federal lands. The federal government receives one of the lowest shares of revenue for oil and gas resources compared with other countries and Interior has not systematically re-examined how the federal government is compensated for extraction of oil and gas for over 25 years.
Oct 1, 2014
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Sep 22, 2014
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Aug 11, 2014
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Jul 17, 2014
National Nuclear Security Administration:Agency Expanded Use of Some Federal Oversight Reforms, but Is Still Determining Future PlansGAO-14-588: Published: Jul 17, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 17, 2014.
Jul 11, 2014
Fusion Energy:Observations on DOE's Cost and Schedule Estimates for U.S. Contributions to an International Experimental ReactorGAO-14-750T: Published: Jul 11, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 11, 2014.
Jun 23, 2014
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Jun 9, 2014
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Jun 5, 2014
Fusion Energy:Actions Needed to Finalize Cost and Schedule Estimates for U.S. Contributions to an International Experimental ReactorGAO-14-499: Published: Jun 5, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 5, 2014.
May 30, 2014
DOE Loan Programs:DOE Has Made More Than $30 Billion in Loans and Guarantees and Needs to Fully Develop Its Loan Monitoring FunctionGAO-14-645T: Published: May 30, 2014. Publicly Released: May 30, 2014.
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Last week DG Academy published part 1 of their interview with LPC Provider The College of Law. Part 2 are the questions our twitter followers requested we asked on their behalf.
Q&A With College of Law
Beth Brown is the careers advisor at The College of Law in Chester and very kindly took the time to answer our questions.
Q. When will the SRA recognise the right for individuals to exclusively choose modules which are relevant to their chosen career path?A. I think the SRA is still committed to a 'broad based profession' but the Review 2020 I think would welcome your question.
Q. Does the LPC provider admit that the course is commercially biased, out-of-touch and doesn't facilitate careers in legal aid?A. We do offer a legal aid route.
Also if you talk to any senior partner in a Legal aid firm or LAPG (legal aid practitioners group) they will stress they are running a business and commercial awareness is important to them if they are to survive as a business to help those vulnerable individuals they work with.
Do you think it's right the LPC has no entry requirements but so few training contracts?A. I think I tried to answer that in my first interview with DG Academy in about who decides on who comes or not for the LPC.
Q. With the SRA intent on destroying the diversity of the legal profession, what are LPC providers doing to realise social mobility?A. I am not sure the SRA is intent of destroying diversity; the Review 2020 and the workbased learning pilot are both based on recognising the issues around Law and diversity.
The College of Law are heavily involved with The Pathways to law programme organised by the Sutton Trust and our recent sale will fund a legal education body which will provide bursaries and support for this issue and will be open to all students at all providers.
I am actually proud of that!
Q. Why is the LPC so expensive?A. As a provider we are not directly funded in any way by government so this is the cost.
At The College of Law all our lecturers are paid as if they were in practise as we want to attract the best and produce the best.We also fund student support like our Careers service and things like the Sutton Trust – we are committed to being a broad based provider for the profession. The above answers are Beth Brown's own views and do not necessarily reflect those of the College of Law.
Contact DG Academy for Legal Careers Advice
You can still read our main interview with the College of Law which provides a lot of information for law students considering studying the LPC.
The LPC is a big financial commitment and shouldn't be something you rush into. For an alternative route check out our article on the CILEx qualification.
If you have any comments regarding this article please tweet us @DG_Academy or chat to us on our Facebook Page.
If you are interested in writing a piece for the Academy please email Beth Nunnington at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
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Grandmother's Insight
My grandmother used to say "Be careful what you ask for — because you just might get it!"
I imagine that is what many people are thinking at this moment. It is pretty easy to speak in political parables and tell other people what they ought to do, but to walk the talk is a bit harder.
It is time to stop for a moment and critically assess just what the state government does that is worth continuing and what it does [...]
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Swearing in Austin!
There's been a lot of it in Austin over the past couple of weeks.
First, the state watched as the Governor and Lt. Governor were "sworn" into office on the Capitol steps. The inauguration events were scaled down this year as compared to prior events in deference to the economic issues facing the state.
The next "swearing" began just hours later when members of the House and the public got their first look at the Legislative Budget Board's recommendations regarding the revenues [...]
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Doom and Gloom Galore! But hope still alive for a balanced budget!
The 82nd Legislative session got off to a somewhat gloomy start Tuesday. After the budget projections issued on Monday by the Comptroller, the mood was not exactly bright. As the reality sets in upon everyone, the work yet to be done in the next 139 days seems overwhelming. Yet there was optimism among the members of both houses and affirmation of a desire to work out reasonable solutions to the economic issues that plague all states across the nation.
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The Dawning of the 82nd Legislative Session
The 82nd Legislature officially convenes itself for the next 140 days to conduct the people's business today. If the past 23 hours of political intrigue is any indication, the session will hold plenty of surprises and intrigue. Texas Comptroller Susan Combs delivered a revenue estimate that took even the stout of heart by surprise predicting as much as $26.8 billion deficit. A variety of pundits have weighed in over the day as the estimate undergoes additional analysis with some suggesting that the "real" [...]
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Occupying almost an entire city block, Hermanos Villar has two parts: the bustling Dominican-style diner serving cafeteria food and hot, grilled deli sandwiches, and a large outdoor garden restaurant that is slightly more upscale in terms of menu. The chicken mofongo (mashed yucca or plantains with pork rinds, RD$175) is delicious.
This wind-shaken restaurant-club across the street from Rita Neptuno's Refugio is tops for style and food. The expansive overwater deck gleams with illuminated-shell lighting over lounge-style beds and all-white mini-cabanas.
The Italian owners and their Azurri cohorts sit around this casual open-air eatery Godfather -style, giving it a nod of authenticity it doesn't need – the pizzas are the real deal and do the job on their own. The lobster fettuccine also stands out, a favorite of local expats, as pretty much does any pasta you choose.
There's no better oasis from the heat, exhaust fumes and backfiring motoconchos than the charming, shaded courtyard of this French cafe and bakery inside an historic mansion – hours can slip away sipping the specialty coffee and teas. The bakery has freshly made pastries like mini-lime tarts and cheesecake, and a good selection of wines.
Sitting outside on the restaurant balcony, piano music on the stereo, and the city spread out at your feet... This is easily the most romantic spot around, though you'll need a car to make it up the mountain where it's perched outside of town.
Part of Plaza España's restaurant row, Pat'e Palo is for gourmands and anyone tired of the same old bland pasta and chicken. Everything here is special but two personal recommendations are the grilled angus rib eye with rocket and parmesan with potato fricassee, mushrooms and bacon, and the Chilean sea bass served over Spanish sausage risotto in a creamy beer sauce.
This sexy French bistro, walking distance from El Cortecito, offers a lovely terrace on which to enjoy a mean filet of beef (RD$580), duck confit (RD$650) and the occasional curveball like fish carpaccio with spicy coconut sauce (RD$380). The chef and owner are French, so you're getting the real deal. Reservations are a good idea in high season (and so is a date).
This is the biggest of a string of similarly chic bars on Calle RC Tolentino, with a large patio set above street level featuring high bar tables and stools. Most people come to drink, but in case you miss dinner the food here is actually pretty good. There's live outdoor jazz on Mondays and a sister dance club across the street on Av Restauración.
Hands down, the place for an afternoon drink. As much a restaurant as a cafe, El Conde's appeal isn't its varied menu of decent food, but its commanding location at the busiest corner in the Zona Colonial crowded with tourists and locals alike.
This well-respected dive shop is one of the best, and the most willing to create customized excursions to little-visited dive sites (although it'll cost you).
Tucked away in surprisingly rough landscape, surrounded by peaks covered in lush greenery, is the 52m-high El Limón waterfall. A beautiful swimming hole is at the bottom, though it's often too deep, cold and rough for a dip; other times it's an absolutely perfect place to wash off the sweat and mud from the trip there.
There's a reason why boatloads of tourists descend upon this island daily. The powdery, white-sand beach doesn't seem real from afar, and a dip in the aquamarine surf is a gentle restorative, like the waters of the most luxurious spa; palm trees provide a natural awning from the intense sun.
Preferred by some locals over Playa Rincón, Playa Frontón boasts some of the area's best snorkeling. Apparently it's also popular with drug smugglers, Dominicans braving the Mona Passage on their way to Puerto Rico, and reality show contestants – in 2002 Expedición Robinson, Colombia's version of the reality show Survivor, was filmed here.
This is the oldest colonial military edifice in the New World. The site of the fort – at the meeting of the Río Ozama and the Caribbean – was selected by Fray Nicolás de Ovando. Construction of the fortification began in 1502 under the direction of master builder Gómez García Varela and continued in various stages for the next two centuries.
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That was Peggy Wulf's initial thought when she entered the studio for her first "hot yoga" class.
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Wulf's reaction is typical, according to fitness and preventative health care professional Joe (Barocsi) Sparks, a native East-Sider who offers the classes daily at his Perrysburg studio.
Conducted in a room heated to around 100 degrees with a humidity level of about 60 percent, each class lasts for 90 minutes and takes participants through 26 traditional yoga poses - twice.
The German-American Festival (GAF), the Toledo area's oldest, largest and greatest ethnic festival, returns to its familiar Oregon grounds Aug. 28 through 30.
As always, authentic German food, beverages and entertainment will be in full abundance, including continuous live music at three stages from local Germanic and ethnic bands, an old world-style Bier & Wein Garten, the Import Haus featuring steins, linens and other gift items, new amusement rides and the fest's signature 56' by 40' wooden dance floor in the main Fest Zelt tent – a 100' by 265' clear span without poles.
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Oregon City Council on Monday will vote on a proposed agreement with Envirosafe Services of Ohio, Inc., that would include dropping its appeal with the Environmental Review Appeals Commission (ERAC).
ERAC is reviewing an appeal by the city of a decision by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency that allows the hazardous waste landfill to vertically expand Cell M, the facility's only active landfill at 867 Otter Creek Road.
The Ohio EPA's director on Sept. 15, 2005, approved an application for a modification of Envirosafe's permit to increase the allowable elevation of Cell M at the facility from the limits in the facility's original permit issued in 1991 by the Ohio Hazardous Waste Facility Board to 714 feet above the mean sea level.
For famed East Toledo artist Bernie Andrews, being diagnosed with colon cancer
was a surprise. Finding out about it weeks after being admitted to St. Charles Hospital was even more shocking.
According to Lewie Andrews, Bernie's father, his son was made aware of his condition just two days ago, after going through major surgery.
"In the last two days he has woken up and he is beginning to understand what people are saying to him," Lewie said. "He did not know where he was or what had happened to him."
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The operator of a 7-Eleven store in Walbridge is enlisting the help of residents and local elected officials to reverse a decision by the corporation's management to end the sale of gasoline at the store after the Labor Day holiday.
Gail Adler, the franchisee for the store at 200 N. Main Street, and her son-in-law, Mike Doyle, have started a petition drive to gather signatures to "save the pumps" at the store, hoping the petitions will give them some leverage in an appeal to management.
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