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Men’s Soccer Topped by Wentworth Saturday
Wentworth (8-7-2, 4-2-2 CCC) 3 3 6
Eastern Nazarene (0-15-0, 0-8-0 CCC) 1 0 1
1st - 0:32 - Griffin Price (Wentworth)
1st - 1:25 - Sebastian Arboleda (Eastern Nazarene)
1st - 5:51 - Joe Kalil (Wentworth)
1st - 12:33 - Noah Martins (Wentworth)
2nd - 48:38 - Diego Panayotti (Wentworth)
2nd - 54:49 - Emmett Basaca (Wentworth)
2nd - 83:03 - Alexis Reinoso (Wentworth)
G: 6 Players (#10, #11, #13, #22, #24, #26) - 1
A: 5 Players (#8, #10, #13, #20, #24) - 1
Sh: Noah Martins - 5
G: Sebastian Arboleda - 1
Sh: 3 Players (#6, #11, #23) - 1
Sv: Victor Mendoza - 7
NORTH QUINCY, Mass.- The Eastern Nazarene College men's soccer team dropped a 6-1 decision to Wentworth Saturday afternoon at Creedon Field.
The Lions slide to 0-15-0 on the season and 0-8-0 in the Commonwealth Coast Conference with the setback. The Leopards climb to 8-7-2 overall and 4-2-2 in league action with the win.
The visitors established an early 1-0 lead less than one minute into the match. Griffin Price buried his team-leading 12th goal of the season off of an assist by Michael Zendan.
The home team responded with an equalizer in the second minute of the contest. Sebastian Arboleda (Barranquilla, Colombia) lasered a right-footed shot into the back of the net from outside of the box for his first tally of the year.
Wentworth regained a one-goal edge in the sixth minute, 2-1. Joe Kalil knocked in a corner kick delivered into the box by Emmett Basaca to notch his second goal of the season.
The Leopards widened the gap to 3-1 in the 13th minute. Noah Martins netted his fifth marker of the year after a threaded pass by Diego Panayotti.
Eastern Nazarene managed three shots in the opening stanza while Wentworth produced 19 attempts.
The guests extended their lead to 4-1 in the 49th minute as Panayotti bagged his first tally of the season off of an assist by Price.
The Leopards tacked on their fifth score of the match in the 55th minute. Basaca converted a penalty kick to collect his third goal of the fall.
Wentworth capped off the scoring in the 84th minute on a goal by Alexis Reinoso after Cameron Pacheco's cross setup the strike.
The Lions finished the game with three shots while the Leopards racked up 33 chances.
Victor Mendoza (Cathedral, Calif.) started the contest between the pipes and registered seven saves. Tim Eddings (Endicott, N.Y.) gathered five saves in 32 minutes of relief action.
Up next, Eastern Nazarene closes out the campaign October 24 at Roger Williams.
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Tuesday Links: Lenin Toppled, Potentially by Market’s Unseen Hand
by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on September 20, 2016
Josh Roth is the art lawyer tasked with assembling United Talent Agency’s art team, essentially responsible for the Hollywood agency’s controversial move into representing visual artists. There’s a lot of concern that UTA is going to disrupt traditional artist/gallery/audience relationships and reward entertainment-style spectacle. After reading this interview with him, the whole endeavor seems to make a bit more sense. Maybe this isn’t the L.A. art apocalypse it’s been made out to be? [VICE]
Well, everyone should’ve seen this coming: secondary market prices for “emerging” artists such as Hugh Scott-Douglas and Lucien Smith are way below the prices they commanded in 2014. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Those prices were over-inflated by speculators just buying to flip, and the correction keeps the primary market in check. Will this encourage young artists and gallerists to stop churning out endless quantities of soulless crapstraction? [Bloomberg]
Andrew Sullivan’s long-form reflection on his (very common) addiction to a constant data stream of social media as a professional blogger is a good read and very relatable… until about ⅘ of the way through, when it’s suggested that yoga, Burning Man, and organized religion are productive alternatives to wean us off Facebook. The first 10 minutes of this essay had me convinced that living real life should be enough. [New York Magazine]
This is a great idea. Berlin has trained refugees displaced by ISIS and the associated civil wars as museum guides to give other refugees tours in Arabic. [The Art Newspaper]
Headline of the week: A Sex Toy Lawsuit Highlights Privacy Concerns Around “Smart” Dildos. The lawsuit centers around “We-Vibe” a dildo that can be controlled via smartphone, and collects data like intensity settings, frequency and date of us. Personally, I’m (Paddy) far less concerned about the privacy issues than I am baffled by the need for such a “smart” product to exist in the first place. To use a dildo you have to hold it in your hand…just like a phone. Isn’t this just complicating the whole procedure? [Motherboard]
We’ve been fascinated by the story of Rebecca Moss, the artist-in-residence aboard a cargo vessel owned by Hanjin Shipping Company. After the Korean company declared bankruptcy, no port would allow the ship to dock out of fear the parent company wouldn’t be able to pay fees. She’s been stranded at sea by this bizarre situation until September 17th, when the ship was allowed to dock in Tokyo, where she’s now catching up with art world folks. [artnet News]
That giant statue of Lenin atop the East Village apartment building Red Square has been removed. This comes amid rumors that the complex has been sold to developer Dermot Company. Sad. There’s gotta be some joke in here about capitalism winning over the East or something. [Curbed]
Kansas Gallery is closing after five years. The gallery was located across the street from Postmasters on Franklin Street in Tribeca. They showed a lot of great young talent and will be missed. [AFC Inbox]
In other “Kansas” news, Wichita-based artist Curt Clonts wrote a short opinion piece condemning trendy art as social-media-focused or else overtly political “crap”. What’s remarkable about this is the backlash/conversation it started—after igniting heated debate locally online, the Wichita art space Harvester Arts is hosting a public forum to discuss the piece. I can’t tell if living somewhere where one short piece of art criticism ranting could become such a hotly contested issue would be inspiring or crazily suffocating. Either way, it’s good to see people care. [The Wichita Eagle]
Oh man. Greg Allen reports that we missed the Rob Pruitt birthday panda balloon market on ebay back in June. Doh! [Greg.org]
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Reconstructing 3d Buildings From Aerial Lidar With Ai
offered better performance in terms of correctness, completeness and geometric accuracy than a LIDAR-based approach (Sampath and Shan, 2007). Multiview stereo reconstruction is a part of our ap-. View Radford Parker’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. And it was a pleasant surprise to see familiar faces and companies pitching their current work on creating smart cities, building information models, and virtual augmented reality. In these data resources, LiDAR data is the most important technology as LiDAR can detect the building and its outline, and also 3D information of building can be extracted from LIDAR. Tunnel reconstruction: For 3D modeling of a tunnel. Ok A O, Wegner J D, Heipke C, Rottensteiner F, Soergel U, Toprak V (2010), “A new straight line reconstruction methodology from multi-spectral stereo aerial images. RECONSTRUCTING 3D BUILDINGS FROM LIDAR DATA. , 2006; Poullis and You, 2009; Zhou and Neumann, 2008, 2009). Teledyne launches compact new aerial LiDAR at INTERGEO. are horizontal in the real world. For comparison purpose we generated two sets of 3D building models: i) UAV-based, reconstructed from SfM point cloud and ii) ALS-based, produced directly from LiDAR data. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are proliferating sectors such as defense and surveillance. , LIDAR and aerial images [1], LIDAR and three-line-scanner images [2], LIDAR and high satellite images [3], LIDAR, aerial images and 2D maps [4]. This also shows the level of detail with which the railway system is reconstructed. WRL for FREE. Rapid texture mapping of buildings and other man-made objects is a key aspect for reconstruction of 3D city landscapes. 3D City Modeling from Street-Level Data for Augmented Reality Applications Large-scale 3D reconstruction of cities is an active area and aerial imagery and. Schenk and Csatho (2002) proposed a method on the establishment of a com-mon reference frame between lidar data and aerial imagery. LiDar and its Applications Part 4 – Agriculture along with building somewhat reluctantly on previous work in The second column is the AI 3D reconstruction. First, building regions are detected automatically. Now, more than four decades later, Lidar has become a fundamental technology in the geospatial sector. With our sophisticated equipment and tools, operated by skilled and competent technicians, TOP Aerial will provide a full and professional service. Large Vertical Objects reconstruction: For 3D modeling objects that are tall and slender. Thankfully for site managers, 4D Building Information Modeling (BIM) with AI is here to help. Bethel School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 1284 Civil Engineering Building, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA. Big or small our high flying cameras will get it all. Chassin 1 GIS-Lab, School of Engineering and Management Vaud, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland. Abstract This paper describes integration methods to increase the level of automation in building reconstruction. LiDAR USA specializes in UAV Drone 3D Mobile Modeling Mapping GIS LiDAR scanning. GTA Advantages. The results from the test have shown the potential of the automatic method for building detection. Musialski et al. The ground plans are divided into rectangles, for each of which 3D primitives are instanti-ated. Page Professor of Civil Engineering, Co-Director of the Civil Engineering Center for Applications of UAS for a Sustainable Environment (CE-CAUSE), and Associate Director of the Joint Transportation Research Program. Automated Building Block Extraction and Building Density Classification Using Aerial Imagery and LiDAR Data 2 complex data processing. Autodesk ReCap Photo will be part of ReCap Pro for both your LiDAR scan data and photogrammetry data. Assisted in the processing of LiDAR 3D point cloud data including registration, point clean. Ai Khanum Reconstructed GUY LECUYOT UMR8546 CNRS-EN,S EE\ 1965 AND 1978 EXCAvATToNS wERE coNDUCTED in Ai Khanum, the great Bactrian city situated in the north-eastern corner of present-day Afghanistan, rfue French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan (DAFA) and its director Dr P. LiDAR plays an integral part in 3D imaging technology owing to which LiDAR market can be assured of significant growth during the forecast period. The raw product issuing from LiDAR scanning is a point cloud, i. In addition to traffic accident reconstruction, law enforcement agencies can use UAS to create a 3D model of a crime scene that enables investigators to zoom in and out of any part of the scene. GA-based method is used for reconstructing the building models. The captured 3D data contains terrain models, forestry, 3D buildings and so on. edu, [email protected] Lidar-inferred fluxes are compared with eddy-covariance fluxes obtained in-situ at 396m AGL from the tower. limited efforts have been found on real time image-based 3D reconstruction using UAV. A building with complex roof shape and its representation in visible spectrum (RGB), Aerial LiDAR, and corresponding roof segments digitized by a human editor. 3D Reconstruction of Assets & Buildings Modified on: Fri, 2 Aug, 2019 at 11:33 AM With delair. The processing is done directly on the raw LiDAR point cloud, so as to avoid any loss of information due to interpolation. -Vis+NIR characterization of phytosanitary status of trees in order to develop an ad-hoc multispectral camera. To show or hide the keywords and abstract of a paper (if available), click on the paper title Open all abstracts Close all abstracts. We present an automatic system to reconstruct 3D urban models for residential areas from aerial LiDAR scans. What is BIM? BIM (Building Information Modeling) is an intelligent 3D model-based process that gives architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals the insight and tools to more efficiently plan, design, construct, and manage buildings and infrastructure. Reconstructing 3D buildings from aerial LiDAR with AI: details. g American cities) vs. Going with the trend, Quanergy Systems, a market distributer of LiDAR sensors and smart sensing solutions has updated surveillance solution to detect threats in 3D space. Also, a classification method based on the Markov Random Field on the connected component is proposed in this paper. List of papers, articles and books published by the Visual Computing working group of Prof. Selected Papers in the Area of 3D Modeling X. What you see is a 3D color map of your immediate environment that your brain has built (mostly in real-time) using the light rays soaked up by your eyes. Then a building mask is obtained from nDSM based on the elevation and roughness analyses. Automatically generating building models in the form of 3D CAD representation is the major part of city modeling and a challenge for many researchers. reconstruction of a 3D realistic urban model in a semi-automated procedure. Leveraging the advances in 2D perception, we designed a 3D object reconstruction model that predicts 3D object shapes from unconstrained real-world images with a range of optical challenges, including objects with occlusion, clutter, and diverse topologies. Able to be programmed to perform a range of repetitive and labour intensive activities - such as moving materials, tying rebar, building masonry walls and even 3D printing structures - these robots are set to have a huge impact on the industry reducing accidents and greatly increasing productivity. But drone technology has significant advantages over these other options. Chassin 1 GIS-Lab, School of Engineering and Management Vaud, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland. BIZ By Jason Hermitage – GM Public Sector, Microsoft Canada – Digital transformation is providing organizations with not only information that was never thought possible, but information that is accessible and usable. , LIDAR and aerial images [1], LIDAR and three-line-scanner images [2], LIDAR and high satellite images [3], LIDAR, aerial images and 2D maps [4]. 3D building reconstruction is a challenging problem addressed by many researchers. Varun was drawn to Spacemaker’s mission of building better cities, and will be working in the Boston office as a Data Science intern. automated 3D model reconstruction. , Gonzalez-Barbosa JJ. Autodesk ReCap Photo will be part of ReCap Pro for both your LiDAR scan data and photogrammetry data. 3D map services are now used by any individual and not only by experts. Kada and McKindle (2009) developed an approach for automatic reconstruction of 3D building models from LiDAR data and existing ground plans by assembling building blocks from a library of parameterized standard shapes. Section 2 briefly reviews the main aspects of the synergy between LiDAR and image data in context of building extraction methods. Our services encompass both traditional aerial imagery and new age technologies, including 3D mapping, HD mapping and AI / Machine Learning. An AI model runs on aerial imagery and outputs a feature class of 3D Reconstruction from LiDar. The Global Mapper LiDAR Module is an optional enhancement to the software that provides numerous advanced LiDAR processing tools, including Pixels-to-Points™ for photogrammetric point cloud creation from an array of drone or UAV-collected images, 3D model or mesh creation from a point cloud, automatic point cloud classification, automatic. What is LiDAR and How Does It Work? LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) is a 3D laser scanning technology that was originally developed in the 1960s for submarine detection. If you’re unable to find what you’re looking for, please fill in and submit your details using the form provided and someone will get back to you as soon as possible. Aerospace Develops New Aerial Vehicles. In this paper, an approach has been proposed in order to reconstruct the flat buildings using the LiDAR data and the digital aerial images because on one hand, these types of buildings constitute the main structure of IRAN mega cities. Now, more than four decades later, Lidar has become a fundamental technology in the geospatial sector. Reconstruction of buildings in urban areas from aerial images is a challenging task. Automatic building. Google Earth is the most photorealistic, digital version of our planet. Fraser Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information, The University of Melbourne. Varun was drawn to Spacemaker’s mission of building better cities, and will be working in the Boston office as a Data Science intern. UAV-Mapper is a lightweight UAV Image Processing System, Visual SFM reconstruction or Aerial Triangulation, Fast Ortho-Mosaic, Plannar Mosaic, Fast Digital Surface Map (DSM) and 3d reconstruction for UAVs. For instance Bing Maps from Microsoft and Google Earth both use aerial imagery to generate 3D models of building exteriors [5,6]. Technology originally developed to help missiles home in on targets has been adapted to create 3-D color models of cityscapes that capture the shapes of buildings to a resolution of 15 centimeters. There is a quiet revolution going on in mapping, because research in other sectors such as robotics, driverless cars and drones have bought down the cost of Lidar surveys by orders of magnitude. Rottensteiner a, *, G. , Hurtado-Ramos JB. March 2008 city-modeling 2 University of Bonn Bonn • 300000 inhabitants • At river Rhine University: 30000 students • 7 faculties – Agricultural faculty. Once the 3D data was generated, it was then transferred to a 3D intelligence platform where computer vision and machine learning algorithms detected the roof structure, classified edge types, and extracted accurate geometry and measurements for the entire roof, and then generated a detailed CAD model. 3D data acquisition and object reconstruction can be performed using stereo image pairs. Geo-Referenced 3D Reconstruction: Fusing Public Geographic Data and Aerial Imagery Michael Maurer, Markus Rumpler, Andreas Wendel, Christof Hoppe, Arnold Irschara and Horst Bischof Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision Graz University of Technology, Austria {maurer, rumpler, wendel, hoppe, irschara, bischof}@icg. Designers at Geotech Aerospace have a long history of developing advanced UAV's for various market sectors. Carlson Center for Imaging Science Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY, USA. Nappez , T. The main role of aerial image data in this research is to improve the geometric accuracy of a building model. – Easy adjusting of 3D individual image parameters. Mitra Hao Li Thibaut Weise Mark Pauly EPFL UCL Columbia EPFL EPFL University Abstract We introduce a novel framework for image-based 3D reconstruction of urban buildings based on symmetry priors. The electricity distribution network operator contracted UK companies ADAS and Bluesky International to carry out vegetation assessment in. A building with complex roof shape and its representation in visible spectrum (RGB), Aerial LiDAR, and corresponding roof segments digitized by a human editor. It includes two main steps: roof point. Since its inception in 2014, millions of user-generated images were uploaded to the Mapillary platform. Agriculture. This paper presented an efficient workflow for automatic building extraction using LiDAR data and aerial photographs. Designers at Geotech Aerospace have a long history of developing advanced UAV's for various market sectors. I try a production and it fails giving me an error…. and construction. We present an automatic system to reconstruct 3D urban models for residential areas from aerial LiDAR scans. Scientists discover ancient Mayan city hidden under Guatemalan jungle Aerial laser mapping detects thousands of hidden structures in Peten region, suggesting its population was millions more than. LIDAR and aerial photographs for building model reconstruction. Aerial laser scanning or photogrammetric point clouds are often noisy at building boundaries. Our dataset enables 3D tracking with sensor fusion in a 360 frame. Meet Jason Dolf. Building extraction is one of the main research topics of the photogrammetry community. AUTOMATED EXTRACTION OF BUILDINGS FROM AERIAL LIDAR POINT CLOUDS AND DIGITAL IMAGING DATASETS A. Teledyne launches compact new aerial LiDAR at INTERGEO. , Ornelas-Rodríguez FJ. GTC Silicon Valley-2019 ID:S9255:Reconstruction of 3D Building Models from Aerial LiDAR with AI. The innovative photogrammetry-based algorithm allows for power line reconstruction and preparing the LiDAR-quality data with aerial imagery only, which dramatically reduces total labour costs, in comparison to methods employing helicopter and LiDAR. 3D City Modeling from Street-Level Data for Augmented Reality Applications Large-scale 3D reconstruction of cities is an active area and aerial imagery and. The Experiment. Nappez , T. A Survey of Urban Reconstruction. Mitra Hao Li Thibaut Weise Mark Pauly EPFL UCL Columbia EPFL EPFL University Abstract We introduce a novel framework for image-based 3D reconstruction of urban buildings based on symmetry priors. 3D Vision, Vision for Robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Geometric Deep Learning, Camera Drones Our research focus is the the area of 3D computer vision including vision for robotics. This research proposed an approach for automatic extraction of buildings from digital aerial imagery and LiDAR data. In the past, some research dealt with building detection and reconstruction by using only image data (Henricsson and. This allows for a complete picture of the building and infra- structure in. automated 3D model reconstruction. Building reconstructed in 3D using aerial LiDAR. Ranging from industrial to anatomical, the models were made using Artec 3D scanners and Artec Studio 3D scanning and data processing software. RedTail LiDAR Systems Innovative 3D Mapping Solution Unveiled at Commercial UAV EXPO RTL-400 introduced as high-resolution LiDAR system for small drones RedTail LiDAR Systems (a division of 4D Tech Solutions, Inc. Reconstructing 3D buildings from aerial LiDAR with Mask R-CNN) NVDI - vegetation index. Briese Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vienna University of Technology, Gußhausstraße 27-29,. Airborne Laser Surveying (ALS) or LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) becomes more and more popular because it provides a rapid 3D data collection over a massive area. Introduction Automatic large-scale 3D reconstruction of urban en-vironments from ground reconnaissance video or active sensors like LiDAR is a very active research topic on. Bridge GIS & Design: Transform Workflows. The simple automated way to arrange the camera alignment up to a detailed 3D model makes the software user friendly. The existing methods are grouped into three categories: 3D reconstruction from images, 3D modeling using range data, and 3D modeling using images and range data. RECONSTRUCTING 3D BUILDINGS FROM LIDAR DATA. Airborne Laser Surveying (ALS) or LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) becomes more and more popular because it provides a rapid 3D data collection over a massive area. Jan-Michael Frahm, Pierre Fite-Georgel, Enrique Dunn State of the Art and Challenges in Crowd Sourced Modeling. (August 12, 2019) – Velodyne Lidar, Inc. The reconstruction of building outlines provides useful input for land information systems. Using a semi-automated approach, we detect vegetation (and/or other) classes. During this past week at INTERGEO, I saw a stronger focus on the use of digital tech in mobility, utilities. See more ideas about Remote sensing, Point cloud and Forensic facial reconstruction. The pipeline consists of three main steps, i. Pix4D Mapper photogrammetry software. The National Building Map product is powered by state-of-the-art deep neural networks. This data is processed by Doxel’s artificial intelligence (AI) software, which cross-references as-built 3D data with BIM models, schedules and project budgets to catch installation errors and track installed quantities to monitor daily progress and expenditures. These are a class of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that enable accurate extraction of ground features like building footprints from high-resolution aerial imagery across large scales and highly diverse geography. Has successfully directed and secured projects for over €17M. See this detailed post "Reconstructing 3D Buildings from Aerial Lidar with AI: Details" on Medium or "Restoring 3D Buildings from Aerial Lidar with Help of AI" on the ArcGIS Blog to learn how this was done. today introduced the Puck 32MR™ sensor to address key markets in the autonomous industry. In this regard, firstly, building detection carried out by utilizing a Supper Vector Machine (SVM) as a supervise method. edu Ulrich Neumann University of Southern California [email protected] Another recent approach is developed for the 3D reconstruction of the flat roof buildings by integrating the LIDAR data and orthophoto [12]. today announced it has acquired mapping and localization software as well as intellectual property assets from Mapper. automatically reconstruct building models using aerial images and LIDAR point clouds. – Extract parallel feature lines from the corridor in less time. To help you learn how to make better 3D models, we talked to an expert and asked him to share his tips and tricks. , Gonzalez-Barbosa JJ. for Earth Science & Disaster Prevention. Mobile Laser Scanning for 3D Road Scene Reconstruction Download behaviour depends on browsers and you can experience any of the below behaviour: 1. In this blog post we will cover the Proof-of-Concept project we did here at Esri on reconstructing 3D building models from aerial LiDAR data with the help of Deep Neural Networks, in particular, a…. We offer a unique data product — a dynamic HD map as a realistic, accurate reconstruction of the world. In this paper, we present a method for the automated generation of 3D building models from directly observed point clouds generated by LIDAR. " Using LiDAR-Specific Ground Targets: A Performance Analysis. Autodesk ReCap Photo will be part of ReCap Pro for both your LiDAR scan data and photogrammetry data. Reconstruction of 3D building models from aerial images and maps. (August 12, 2019) – Velodyne Lidar, Inc. China Grows a Domestic LiDAR Industry. We talk about drones a lot on this show. To summarize, Foresight AI is building a scalable data platform for mobile robots around the globe. Video Playlist of ICCP 2018 Talks All lectures will be held in McConomy auditorium in Cohon University Center. A comprehensive survey on 3D building modeling& meshing that contains methods from all these fields will be beneficial. from multiple outputs of a single aerial image capture and explore how these can be used to improve automation in 3D building reconstruction. 3D data acquisition and object reconstruction can be performed using stereo image pairs. generation of 3D building models from aerial images or LiDAR is now viable (e. If you have any queries about Promap or any of our services, please have a look at our FAQs and support articles. View Evangelos Maltezos, Phd NTUA’S profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Tom Langley knows a lot about automobile accidents. Architecture and engineering bureau Alllevels, the general reconstruction designer, noticed the basement floor of the historical building has a complex layout, and walls are uneven and deviated from the vertical. We hope that this new domain provide the community an opportunity to develop visual perception frameworks for various types of autonomous navigation agents, not only self-driving cars but also other types of agents like social mobile robots 1 1. Given a 3D LiDAR scan of a building facade (a), we decompose it into depth-layers (only three layers shown) (b) and apply grammar-based segmentation per-layer (c). 10/28/19 - Using different sensors in an autonomous vehicle (AV) can provide multiple constraints to optimize AV location estimation. Indoor environments include many hazards not detectable by low-cost distance cameras or 2D LiDARs. Consultant in digital photogrammetry, remote sensing, airborne laser scanning, GIS, digital maps etc. Section 3 presents an approach for refining building polyhedrons previously extracted from LiDAR da ta. Nappez , T. LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data is widely used to construct 3D terrain models which provide realistic impressions of the urban environment and models of the buildings. Details of some of the services offered are: Aerial Triangulation: Aerial Triangulation is the calculation of true ground co-ordinates and 3D coordinates for object elements that are used as the base reference in aerial photogrammetry and digital photogrammetry. Advocate for open data and location-based analytics at Esri. The following image shows how a LiDAR point cloud using an airborne LiDAR system can be colorized with RGB values from a digital aerial photo to produce a realistic 3D oblique view. DSM 3D MODELLING. LiDar and its Applications Part 4 - Agriculture along with building somewhat reluctantly on previous work in The second column is the AI 3D reconstruction. Our dataset enables 3D tracking with sensor fusion in a 360 frame. In addition to techniques that rely on aerial images, generating 3D building models from point clouds provided by light detection and ranging (Lidar) sensors is gaining importance. Now, more than four decades later, Lidar has become a fundamental technology in the geospatial sector. PDF | We present a novel approach to reconstructing cities and buildings from LIDAR data using level set methods. Tom Langley knows a lot about automobile accidents. Qiusheng Wu's Academic Website modeling hydrologic connectivity using lidar data and aerial imagery. The Kinect range sensor provides both visual and depth image that can generated 3D colored point cloud in real time. The documentary showcased Routescene’s 3D mapping technology and demonstrated how LiDAR is currently being used in industries such as archaeology, forensics and heritage to create a bare earth model to identify structures without disturbing or obstructing protected land. refinement of 3D rooftop models using airborne LiDAR data with an LOD of a 3D building model and their. , González-Barbosa EA. Having around 18+ years of experience in Geospatial field. 5G planning: Model radio signal propagation with 3D buildings to optimize placement of antennas. A NEW METHOD FOR BUILDING EXTRACTION IN URBAN AREAS FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION LIDAR DATA F. In the past, some research dealt with building detection and reconstruction by using only image data (Henricsson and. Esri & Autodesk - See the collaboration in action. , LTD which is acknowledged as a national leader in LIDAR industry is devoted to provide advanced products including LiDAR products for robots navigation and anti-collision, laser imaging sensor, obstacle-avoidance LiDAR for self-driving vehicles, altitude-hold LiDAR for laser scanners, displace sensors, special. Video Playlist of ICCP 2018 Talks All lectures will be held in McConomy auditorium in Cohon University Center. Toronto City Dataset (coming soon): semantic labeling, 3D building reconstruction, road centerline extraction, and others. Now, more than four decades later, Lidar has become a fundamental technology in the geospatial sector. Complete UAV solution for surveying and construction enables fast and flexible data collection for efficient project delivery providing you quick access to critical information to perform your day-to-day work. Inspired by CAD-based photogrammetry and MBBR, we propose a complete 3D building modeling approach – Floating Models – for reconstructing building models simultaneously from aerial photos (2D) and LiDAR point cloud (3D). Cintoo Cloud, the Digital Twin Platform. View Radford Parker’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Autonomy provides functional building blocks for autonomous vehicles on top of Apex. (2008) used stereo pairs of high resolution radar images for building extraction. 2D building outlines is. Velodyne Lidar Announces Breakthrough Sensor for Autonomous Systems, Puck 32MR™ Delivers High-Resolution, Real-Time Lidar for Mobile Robots, Shuttles, and More SAN JOSE, Calif. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Thommen’s connections and jobs at similar companies. Creating precise 3D imaging of large monuments, sculptures and even buildings is a growing sector where drones are been used. I'm Michiel Vlaminck. The experiments and the results of the evaluation according to several criteria show that more than 91% of the roof facets over 10m² are correctly extracted, and the achieved accuracy of the building model is better. Bekijk het volledige profiel op LinkedIn om de connecties van Varun Kakra en vacatures bij vergelijkbare bedrijven te zien. FUSION OF LIDAR DATA AND AERIAL IMAGERY FOR A MORE COMPLETE SURFACE DESCRIPTION Toni Schenk CEEGS Department The Ohio State University schenk. On the processing of aerial LiDAR data for supporting enhancement, interpretation and mapping of archaeological features Rosa Lasaponara 1, Nicola Masini2 2 GisSearch Lab. Indoor environments include many hazards not detectable by low-cost distance cameras or 2D LiDARs. A novel approach by integrating multi-view aerial imagery and lidar data is proposed to reconstruct 3D building models with accurate geometric position and fine details. For building reconstruction two fundamentally different approaches can be distinguished: model driven and data driven methodologies. ai built-in analytics for generating the quarry haul roads as an input to this fuel map computation : Raw images are captured by drones; Drones images are processed in 2D or 3D in delair. In this paper, we give insight into the geometric 3D reconstruction of the buildings from given LIDAR data and building footprints and describe the approach implemented in the software tool that was used for this project. Marbach is a professional land surveying and civil engineering firm with two offices located in Northern Indiana. , Ramirez-Pedraza A. edu Commission III, Working Group 5 KEYWORDS: Fusion, Lidar, Aerial Imagery, Surface Reconstruction, DEM/DTM ABSTRACT. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are proliferating sectors such as defense and surveillance. The team’s compact, low cost, high power, laser amplifier system operates at 1650 nanometers (nm), allowing them to exploit a strong methane. Towards Real-time 3D Reconstruction using Consumer UAVs Qiaosong Wang University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA ABSTRACT We present a -near realtime solution for 3D reconstruction from aerial images captured by consumer UAVs. The method focuses on the segmentation of photogrammetric point clouds and RGB orthophotos for the successive reconstruction of 3D building models. In a city in northern Greece, a mixed commercial and residential area of 33 hectares was selected as a test area to evaluate the classification of buildings. ai (they could be processed outside and ingested as well) Delair. A specific focus is on the topic of computer vision for camera drones, e. Thankfully for site managers, 4D Building Information Modeling (BIM) with AI is here to help. Both approaches were implemented to get an automated rapid aerial mapping solution. Building Surfaces from Typical Large Datasets Three extremely common large surface datasets are point files, LIDAR contours and aerial topographic information. Reconstructing 3D buildings from aerial LiDAR with AI: details Map shows all possible impact zones of Hurricane Florence in real-time Hurricane Florence Weakened to Category 2 Moves Closer to Shore. View François Mirallès’ profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Using photogrammetric Digital Surface Model in LiDAR software for creating Three Dimensional filtering and processing LiDAR data and reconstructing 3D buildings. Consultant in digital photogrammetry, remote sensing, airborne laser scanning, GIS, digital maps etc. However, I prefer high resolution, photogrammetry for 3D building production, primarily, from the value proposition of a photogrammetry flight mission over a LIDAR only flight mission. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Evangelos’ connections and jobs at similar companies. The proposed method utilized object-based analysis to create objects, a feature-level fusion, an autoencoder-based dimensionality reduction to. In a city in northern Greece, a mixed commercial and residential area of 33 hectares was selected as a test area to evaluate the classification of buildings. Rome, NY- Join Microdrones for their next Wednesday Webinar and learn how Morris P. BIZ By Jason Hermitage – GM Public Sector, Microsoft Canada – Digital transformation is providing organizations with not only information that was never thought possible, but information that is accessible and usable. DAR data for 3D building reconstruction. He's spent the past sixteen years growing his accident reconstruction business, Thomas Langley & Company, and he's been using laser scanning since May 2003 to capture and analyze the geometry of auto accidents. The name lidar, now used as an acronym of light detection and ranging (sometimes, light imaging, detection, and ranging), was originally a portmanteau of light and radar. LEG has experienced fantastic growth over the past 11 years and now operates a fleet of 7 fixed-wing aircraft with 8 LiDAR sensors and 4 digital cameras. ai analyzes satellite, aerial, Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) imagery and other proprietary data on millions of. These photogrammetry software solutions work with both ground based and drone aerial images. Abstract This paper describes integration methods to increase the level of automation in building reconstruction. Autodesk ReCap Photo will be part of ReCap Pro for both your LiDAR scan data and photogrammetry data. The processing is done directly on the raw LiDAR point cloud, so as to avoid any loss of information due to interpolation. THE ISPRS BENCHMARK ON URBAN OBJECT CLASSIFICATION AND 3D BUILDING RECONSTRUCTION F. These data sets are con-structed by using expensive aerial photography, purchasing access to building permit and architectural plan databases, and performing street level laser surveying. This approach consists of two major steps: building detection and 2D building reconstruction. for aerial image processing or camera based navigation. Download high resolution 3D scans in. Deep Learning for Mapping. Produit , T. Organized by mahimaA. A streaming framework for seamless building reconstruction from large-scale aerial lidar data QY Zhou, U Neumann 2009 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2759-2766 , 2009. UAV-Mapper is a lightweight UAV Image Processing System, Visual SFM reconstruction or Aerial Triangulation, Fast Ortho-Mosaic, Plannar Mosaic, Fast Digital Surface Map (DSM) and 3d reconstruction for UAVs. Figure 1 illustrates (a) (b) (c) (d) Fig. On the other hand, separating the roof planes and reconstructing. Flying UAVs ( Drones and Airplanes ) with LiDar systems for Geo Mapping , Surveying , data analysis and visualization projects in geology and mines. Using photogrammetric Digital Surface Model in LiDAR software for creating Three Dimensional filtering and processing LiDAR data and reconstructing 3D buildings. The proposed method has been applied on the LiDAR data over the buildings from LiDAR data and generate the building models. Automated Extraction of Buildings from Aerial LiDAR Point Cloud and Digital Imaging Datasets for 3D Cadastre - Preliminary Results WCS-CE - The World Cadastre Summit, Congress & Exhibition Istanbul, Turkey, 20 -25 April 2015. It has been tested, used, cited, and compared with other methods, in many subsequent works. 3D map services are now used by any individual and not only by experts. Here, Lidar and dense image matching data complement one another to allow reconstruction of both the railway itself and the poles alongside the railway. a dense set of points organized in 3D space and accurately georeferenced. – Easy adjusting of 3D individual image parameters. edu Abstract A fast 3D model reconstruction methodology is desir-. Selected Papers in the Area of 3D Modeling X. With the aerial LIDAR technology developing, how to automatically recognize and reconstruct the buildings from LIDAR dataset is an important research topic along with the widespread applications of LIDAR data in city modeling, urban planning, etc. The Routescene UAV LiDAR system is ideal for rural applications where high penetration of dense vegetation is needed, for example to achieve high resolution DTMs. ,Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision, 2nd ed. RANSAC algorithm is used for reconstruction of the power lines. , Ornelas-Rodríguez FJ. cluding large buildings, residential houses, and store front facades obtaining clean, complete, compact, and visually pleasing 3D models. According to the study, the lack of diversification and subsequent explosion of a variety of UAS processing packages; has fueled interest in the use of UAS in estimation of tree distribution and canopy heights. It is similar to how humans and animals observe 3D structure of the environment at different poses. Elaksher and James S. ai you can easily generate 3D point clouds from drone or ground-based cameras images, in order to build the body of your asset digital twin. In order to keep it as general as possible, no predefined primitives or ground plans are required. Step 1 is to use delair. Executed several projects in Photogrammetry (GCP Planning, GPS/INS Processing, Raw Image processing, AT, Mapping 3D/2D, DTM/DEM/DSM and Ortho Processing) using different images of various sensors (Aerial, Satellite, Terrestrial & UAV), Lidar processing (ALS, MLS & TLS) and 3D Modeling/Texturing. The method is guaranteed to produce crack-free models composed of complex roofs and vertical walls connecting them. edu Stephen Lach Chester F. Kada and McKindle (2009) developed an approach for automatic reconstruction of 3D building models from LiDAR data and existing ground plans by assembling building blocks from a library of parameterized standard shapes. In the final step, 2D image features are extracted depending on the initial 3D primitives generated from LiDAR data, and then the compound building is reconstructed using constraints from LiDAR data and aerial imagery by a nonlinear least squares optimization. , 2006; Poullis and You, 2009; Zhou and Neumann, 2008, 2009). The electricity distribution network operator contracted UK companies ADAS and Bluesky International to carry out vegetation assessment in. Figure 1 illustrates (a) (b) (c) (d) Fig. cloud and dsm for 3D building reconstruction using. 3D Modeling & Meshing. 2 (a) DSM obtained from LiDAR data corresponding to an urban area in Louisiana, (b) Aerial image of the same urban area from a di erent perspective, (c) DSM obtained from LiDAR data corresponding to a synthetic model, (d) Visual image of same synthetic model from a di erent perspective 16. Here are the top 12 photogrammetry software for building 3D maps and models using drones on the market. We are looking for the best 3D computer vision engineers to work in a top-notch international team with offices in San Francisco, Boulder, Madrid, Moscow and other locations. For critical infrastructure and other projects where security and compliance are important the 3DR H520-G is the UAS solution built for security and assembled in the United States. with LiDAR showed nearly no difference in accuracy, but the Structure-From-Motion (SFM)-based photogrammetry method yielded a denser point cloud. Regarding the aerial imagery technology, three steps are usually included: feature extraction, image matching, and building reconstruction. Building dense point cloud. But because they make predictions in 2D, they ignore the 3D structure of the world. flat roof, saddle back roof,. College of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an 710054, China;. The key difference between downtown area modeling and residential area modeling is that the latter usually contains rich vegetation. View Orson Lin’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. After the images were put to use for immediate reconstruction purposes, the team exported the data to a Microsoft HoloLens "mixed reality. The value of accurate 3D building models for cities is hard to overestimate, but collecting and. With photogrammetry, large amounts of images can be taken using either fixed wings drones or hovering drones, each with differing speeds and accuracies. Data are provided by calibrated aerial images. GA-based method is used for reconstructing the building models. AI & Robot Intelligence Autonomous robot navigation Vision, LiDAR, Magnetic field-based SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) Indoor, Outdoor(Ground, Underwater, Underground, Aerial)SLAM Object recognition UAV image-based jellyfish recognition, green algae recognition, underwater jellyfish recognition. from multiple outputs of a single aerial image capture and explore how these can be used to improve automation in 3D building reconstruction. DroneDeploy 3D mapping mobile app. " 2005, Presented at ISPRS WG I/2 Workshop on 3D Mapping from InSAR and LIDAR,. Our core idea is to simplify the multiview stereo problem into a series of two- - view stereo matching problems. Reconstructing 3D buildings from aerial LiDAR with AI: details. Abstract This paper describes integration methods to increase the level of automation in building reconstruction. automatically reconstruct building models using aerial images and LIDAR point clouds. This preprocessing method is more robust than the original method for the low resolution LiDAR data. today announced it has acquired mapping and localization software as well as intellectual property assets from Mapper. After that, roof planes are detected by applying a curvature-based segmentation technique. g LIDAR + aerial images) • Studies often based on "simple" contexts (e. ∙ 13 ∙ share Scene understanding of full-scale 3D models of an urban area remains a challenging task. 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63 Frederick Street - The Dougald MacDonald House
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The Dougald MacDonald House is located mid-block at 63 Frederick Street. The house was built pre-1900 (around 1882) in the Ontario Vernacular Cottage style. It was built by George (Geordy) MacDonald, a bachelor, stone mason, and contractor who emi...
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106 Frederick Street
This house is located at 106 Frederick Street. (1)
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This house is located on the north side at 151 Frederick St. (west of Essa Street). (1, 2)
This house is located on the north side at 155 Frederick St. (west of Essa Street). This small structure was the home of Milt Bales for many years. (1, 2)
This house located at 117 Frederick St. was once the home of Jack Barnard. By 1995, this structure was the home of Bill and Terry Lotto. (1, 2)
81 Frederick Street - The Anglican Church Manse
The former Anglican Church Manse is located at 81 Frederick St. (on the northeast corner of Church and Frederick Streets). The structure was built around 1880 in the Eclectic Neoclassical style. The two-storey, rectangular building has a medium-pi...
62 Frederick Street
This house is located at 62 Frederick Street. The section of this street from Moore Street to Barrie Street was originally known as Letitia St., and was named after Letitia Magee (a land speculator in the 1830’s). The name was later changed to Fre...
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This mid-block building is located on a sloping lot at 112 Frederick Street. The structure, which was once the home of the Chantler family, was built on a sloping lot pre-1900 in the Ontario Vernacular Cottage style. The existing Frederick Street ...
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At The Intersect Project, Hannah Jayne Adkins shared a post discussing why Christians should care about the opioid epidemic.
The opioid epidemic may sound like an abstract or irrelevant topic to you. It’s something you hear on the evening news, but you never think deeply about it.
But I’ve seen the effects of drug addiction first-hand. In addition to studying counseling at Southeastern Seminary, I also serve as a registered nurse. And I have seen how opioid addiction impacts real people’s lives in devastating and destructive ways.
At the Center for Great Commission Studies, Anna Daub shared a second post about singleness during the holidays, this time discussing how singles should engage others around them.
The holidays usually mean a myriad of emotions for single Christians. Some singles look forward to this time because of the opportunity to be a part of all the festivities or because it means a trip home to welcoming arms and nostalgic Christmas traditions. But for other singles, the holidays can be a stinging reminder of what they don’t have- a family waiting for them to come home, a significant other playing in the snow with them, children expectantly setting up cookies and milk for Santa. For these singles, the Christmas season can accentuate unmet desires and initiate the ache of loneliness, the sting of envy, and the choking hold of bitterness.
At The Gospel Coalition, Trevin Wax discusses singing ‘Peace on Earth’ when our heart is heavy.
It’s Christmastime, so we’re singing these days about “peace on earth,” joining our voices with the angels who appeared to the shepherds.
But let’s face it: 2017 has been a hard year for “peace on earth.” We’ve seen wars and rumors of wars. We’ve watched earthquakes flatten towns, hurricanes destroy islands, fires consume neighborhoods, and floodwaters engulf a city. Last month brought news of a mass killing that took more than half of the people gathered for worship at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas.
The bad news is everywhere. Terrorist attacks. Nuclear threats. Corruption in Washington. Racial tensions. Sexual assault and harassment and predation coming to light in Hollywood, in Washington, D.C., and (Lord have mercy!) in the church of Jesus Christ. It’s easy to look at the state of our world and say, “Peace on earth sounds so far away.”
In a series of posts at his blog, Dr. Bruce Ashford shared ‘How to Watch a Move (An Evangelical Guide).’
Recently, I composed a brief survey, asking my website readers to tell me what they like and dislike about my website, and what they’d want to talk about if they had some time to chat with me personally.
I gained valuable insights from the survey, one of which is that many of my readers want me to explore issues at the intersection of Christianity and popular culture. In response to this request, I offered a six-part series entitled, “How to Watch a Movie (An Evangelical Guide).”
In light of the interest readers showed in the series, and in response to readers’ requests to put all of the content in one place so that it can be shared, I offer the six links together.
Dr. Chuck Lawless recently shared a post discussing why “parking lot” church business meetings are seldom good.
Maybe you’ve seen it happen. A group of church leaders are striving to make an “official” decision, but the discussions move beyond the official discussion to the parking lot (or the hallways, or the local café, or the telephone). Here’s why those parking lot meetings are seldom good.
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At the Intersect Project, Nathaniel Williams shared about the beauty of a child’s enthusiasm for work.
“Dad, when I grow up, I want to drive a trash truck.”
My four-year-old told me this with a straight face. Upon further examination, I discovered that he didn’t want to drive just any trash truck. He wanted to drive a “flying purple trash truck.”
I love that his career aspirations are so broad; he hasn’t yet fallen prey to the lie that white-collar vocations are somehow better than blue-collar. But I also love that he’s so genuinely excited about work. On some days, he dreams of driving this elusive flying purple trash truck. Other days, he wants to be a teacher, or a choir director or a farmer. Just yesterday, he had papers, toys and craft materials strewn about a table. When I asked him to clean it up, he told me matter-of-factly, “Dad, this is my desk. I have to work here. My boss won’t want me to clean this up!”
There’s something beautiful about his childlike enthusiasm for work. To him, work is not an obligation. It’s not a chore. It’s not even about making money. To him, work is thrilling. The world is teeming with possibilities, and he can’t wait to get his hands on it.
At the Center for Great Commission Studies, Anna Daub shared some advice about engaging singles during the holidays.
When I was a child, my parents went to great lengths to ensure we had beautiful Christmas memories and fun family traditions. One tradition was that Christmas Eve was always an open invitation to people who had nowhere else to go. My mother would cook a Tex-Mex feast and invite the single professors from the university nearby, the elderly woman who lived alone, and the Muslim man who sold cell phones in the mall to join us. Most of the time, only one or two would come, but this tradition instilled in me a reminder to always look for those who had nowhere to go for the holidays.
In a post at the Intersect Project, Tami Gomez warned Christians about being cultural copycats.
“Engage the culture.”
It’s what Christians are continually being told we need to do more. We need to look to our culture and use it creatively to reach our lost friends, family members and society at large. After all, if we can make music as catchy as what’s on the radio or movies as spectacular as Hollywood’s, then we will have won the culture wars; people will come for the party, but stay for the substance. At least that’s been the theory. Unfortunately, this has only lead to “Christian culture” being a stuffy, retooled version of styles that used to be trendy. Christians need to stop thinking in terms of engaging an already-existing culture and start thinking in terms of creating culture.
In a post at his blog, Scott Slayton shared why we should live in the Psalms.
In our distracted and fast-paced world, many Christians struggle to gain depth in our spiritual lives. If our devotions happen, they are usually hurried, so we don’t often make the unhurried time that we need to soak in God’s word and linger before God in prayer that we so desperately need. The result is that we often evidence a weak and shallow Christianity. We may be able to fake depth for a while, but eventually, the hard times come and expose us for who we really are.
The Psalms provide a welcome antidote to our craving for shallowness. The Psalms, which seem so easy to understand on the surface, invite us to deep study and contemplation. They show the blessing of cultivating a deep and abiding trust in the Lord and beckon us to leave behind our life of distraction so we can know and love God more deeply.
Here five reasons that our hurried and forgetful hearts need to live in the Psalms for a while.
At the LifeWay Facts & Trends blog, Joe McKeever shared thirteen things a pastor should never say to a congregation.
In addition to the obvious no-no’s, such as profanity, heresy, racism, sexism, and the like, no pastor should ever be heard to utter any of the following from the pulpit.
At his personal blog, Chuck Lawless shared ten reflections of a formerly single pastor.
For the first ten years of my pastoral ministry (ages 20-30), I was unmarried. The Lord had called me to preach when I was 13 years old, and the first church called me as pastor at age 20. Here are my reflections on those years as a single pastor.
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In a recent post at the Intersect Project, Dayton Hartman shared the cure for a hopeless Christmas.
The Christmas season is marked by hope. Well, at least it is supposed to be. But instead of decorating their homes a la Clark Griswold, enjoying Christmas parties and watching cheesy Christmas movies, I’ve noticed among many believers a pervasive pessimism regarding the present and the future.
Yes, we live in difficult times culturally and politically. However, our celebration of the incarnation (Jesus’ first coming) ought to drive us toward hopeful anticipation of the consummation (Jesus’ second coming). In short, our eschatology ought to bring hope, not despair.
At the Center for Great Commission Studies, Dr. Alvin Reid shared about how to teach believers to share Jesus using the Sharing Jesus book.
This past April my book Sharing Jesus Without Freaking Out: Evangelism the Way You Were Born to Do It was released by B&H Academic. Response has been amazing. So many pastors, students pastors, college and small group leaders have used it.
It’s designed to help everyday believers share Christ naturally through everyday conversations. B&H also made an incredible landing page that features an 8-week challenge to help the reader grow in their witness, free videos for each chapter and some role-playing videos as well.
In a recent talk at Southeastern Seminary both Michael Bird and Bruce Ashford shared responses to the Benedict Option. In this post, Alysha Clark shares a recap.
Christians can be peaceful public nuisances or counter-cultural practitioners for the common good, argued Michael Bird and Bruce Ashford in a recent Southeastern Seminary event.
Christianity has long held a position of privilege in the West. For a long time in Europe and the United States, Judeo-Christian values formed the normative framework for ethics and morality, and belief in God (even merely nominal belief) served as an asset for advancement in society and securing public favor.
Suddenly, it seems, this is no longer the case. Over the last 50 years, and especially the last 25, the West has become increasingly post-Christian and marches toward militant secularism, where belief in God is synonymous with immorality, where religious language has become flagged as hate speech and where the phrase “religious freedom” has become code for bigotry. Christians may feel the earth has given way under them and fear they will be swallowed up by the increasingly emboldened progressive secularism.
Numerous cultural thinkers have offered their analysis of the religious situation in the West and proposed a wide array of solutions. Some seek to dive into national politics and try to effect change and restore Christian morality through legislation and the judiciary. Some live as spiritual exiles in a foreign secular culture and want to preserve Christian culture through individual practice. Others, in the words of James Davison Hunter, aim to create a faithful presence of Christian disciples who seek to work for the common good of society and serve as a witness of the kingdom of God.
In a post at The Gospel Coalition, Trevin Wax shared about sexual assault and the scandal of repentance.
During his lengthy tenure as an evening commentator on CNN, Larry King often posed two questions to pastors and theologians who came on as guests.
First, is Jesus the only way to God? This was Larry’s way of seeing if the Christian representative would insist on the uniqueness of Jesus no matter how offensive that claim might come across in a pluralistic world. You mean good people from other religions might be condemned?
The second question came from a different angle. Could a serial killer, or someone like Hitler, or a rapist, or a pedophile receive forgiveness and wind up in heaven? This was Larry’s way of seeing if the Christian representative would insist on the offer of grace, no matter how offensive that pronouncement might come across in a world that demands justice. You mean abhorrently wicked people might repent and be saved?
Larry King is not a Christian. But he knows where the scandalous power of Christianity is found. It’s in the narrowness of insisting on universal, eternal condemnation for all sinners who fall short of God’s glory, and in the broadness of calling everyone to repent of their sins, trust in Christ and be saved. Everyone, even the “vilest offender,” in the words of the old Isaac Watts hymn.
The “vilest offender” today is the person who engages in sexual assault and abuse.
At his personal blog, Chuck Lawless shared eight reasons why he chooses to be a friend to his pastor.
I’m excited to be a part of our church in Wake Forest, Restoration Church, and I love my pastor. I’m proud of him and enjoy working beside him. I’m also honored to carry some of his burdens for him. Here’s why all of us need to be a friend to our pastors.
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William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester
World Bank, Washington, DC
World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Universidade de Múrcia
Bootstrap Panel Granger-Causality Between Government Budget and External Deficits for the EU
Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe
Fonte: ISEG – Departamento de Economia Publicador: ISEG – Departamento de Economia
#panel causality tests#budget deficit#external imbalance#real exchange rates#EU#OECD
We investigate the existence of Granger-causality between current account and government budget balances over the period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use a panel-data approach based on SUR systems and Wald tests with country specific bootstrap critical values. Our results show a causal relation from budget deficits to current account deficits for several EU countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Italy, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia, along the lines of the so-called twin-deficit relationship. Considering the effective real exchange rate in the SUR system does not substantially alter the results.
Federal Budget Outlook -- A Report to the SOMC
Levy, Mickey D.
Fonte: William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester Publicador: William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester
#economic policy#budget deficit
Projections of the FY1984 budget deficit have been revised downward, to $179.7 billion by the Administration...Any optimism about these forecasts of declining deficits, however, must be tempered. Both forecasts assume the enactment of substantial deficit-cutting legislation, and such action may not be politically feasible, at least on the short-term horizon. Also, although there is much uncertainty about the economic outlook, some of the assumptions underlying these projected budget outcomes may be too optimistic. Consequently, budget deficits may be higher than these projections indicate.
How Should the Fed Respond to Large Fiscal Deficits?
McCallum, Bennett T.
#economic policy#monetary policy#Federal budget
It is not easy to predict accurately (or even approximately) the future path of Federal budget deficits, as is well-illustrated by the predictions made a few year ago that ongoing surpluses would be so large that problems would arise from the lack of short-term federal debt! Nevertheless, it does seem likely that the federal budget will record quite large deficits over the next several years.1 Accordingly, it is natural to ask how the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy should respond to this situation. There is no specific evidence that the Fed currently intends to respond in any particular way, although Chairman Greenspan’s comments on the prospective deficits have been highly prominent. But in any case, there are repeated calls from important members of the economics profession for greater coordination of monetary and fiscal policies.
How Do Governments Respond after Catastrophes? Natural-Disaster Shocks and the Fiscal Stance
Melecky, Martin; Raddatz, Claudio
Fonte: Banco Mundial Publicador: Banco Mundial
#ACCESS TO CAPITAL#ACCESS TO CREDIT#ACCESS TO DEBT MARKETS#ACCESS TO FUNDS#ACCIDENTS#AUTOREGRESSION#BANK POLICY#BIASES#BORROWING#BUDGET CONSTRAINT#BUDGET DEFICIT
Natural disasters could constitute a major shock to public finances and debt sustainability because of their impact on output and the need for reconstruction and relief expenses. This paper uses a panel vector autoregressive model to systematically estimate the impact of geological, climatic, and other types of natural disasters on government expenditures and revenues using annual data for high and middle-income countries over 1975-2008. The authors find that, on average budget, deficits increase only after climatic disasters, but for lower-middle-income countries, the increase in deficits is widespread across all events. Disasters do not lead to larger deficit increases or larger output declines in countries with higher initial government debt. Countries with higher financial development suffer smaller real consequences from disasters, but deficits expand further in these countries. Disasters in countries with high insurance penetration also have smaller real consequences but do not result in deficit expansions. From an ex-post perspective...
The Dot-Com Bubble, the Bush Deficits, and the U.S. Current Account
Kraay, Aart; Ventura, Jaume
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, DC Publicador: World Bank, Washington, DC
#BANKING CRISES#BONDS#BORROWING#BUDGET DEFICITS#CAPITAL GAINS#CAPITALIZATION#COST OF CAPITAL#CROWDING OUT#DEBT#DEFAULT RISK#DIVIDENDS
Over the past decade the United States has experienced widening current account deficits and a steady deterioration of its net foreign asset position. During the second half of the 1990s, this deterioration was fueled by foreign investment in a booming U.S. stock market. During the first half of the 2000s, this deterioration has been fuelled by foreign purchases of rapidly increasing U.S. government debt. A somewhat surprising aspect of the current debate is that stock market movements and fiscal policy choices have been largely treated as unrelated events. Stock market movements are usually interpreted as reflecting exogenous changes in perceived or real productivity, while budget deficits are usually understood as a mainly political decision. The authors challenge this view here and develop two alternative interpretations. Both are based on the notion that a bubble (the "dot-com" bubble) has been driving the stock market, but differ in their assumptions about the interactions between this bubble and fiscal policy (the "Bush" deficits). The "benevolent" view holds that a change in investor sentiment led to the collapse of the dot-com bubble and the Bush deficits were a welfare-improving policy response to this event. The "cynical" view holds instead that the Bush deficits led to the collapse of the dot-com bubble as the new administration tried to appropriate rents from foreign investors. The authors discuss the implications of each of these views for the future evolution of the U.S. economy and...
The Crisis in the Euro Zone : Did the Euro Contribute to the Evolution of the Crisis?
Lin, Justin Yifu; Treichel, Volker
#ACCOUNTING#ADVERSE SHOCKS#AGGREGATE DEMAND#AMOUNT OF CREDIT#ANNUAL GROWTH#ASSET CLASSES#ASSET PRICES#BAILOUT#BALANCE OF PAYMENTS#BALANCE OF PAYMENTS CRISIS#BALANCE SHEET
The simmering sovereign debt crisis in the Euro Zone represents a looming threat to the recovery of the world economy and could lead to a renewed global financial crisis. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the root causes of the crisis in Europe and assess the extent to which it was driven by the global financial crisis and by factors internal to Europe, notably the adoption of the common currency. Adoption of the euro led to convergence of interest rates in periphery countries to the levels in core countries and, in combination with rising capital inflows owing to greater financial integration, set off a consumption and real estate boom in periphery countries, leading to higher growth and increases in government revenue and spending. The resulting real appreciation led to a loss of competitiveness in periphery countries, adversely affecting export performance and causing rising current account imbalances. While the fiscal position remained manageable before the crisis owing to rising revenue, the recession brought about by the global financial crisis led to the burst of real estate bubbles and a financial sector crisis and to sharply increased budget deficits and worsened debt indicators and triggered the sovereign debt crisis. Core countries...
Population Age Structure and the Budget Deficit
Chen, Derek H. C.
Fonte: World Bank, Washington, D.C. Publicador: World Bank, Washington, D.C.
#ACCOUNTING#ANNUAL OBSERVATIONS#BOND ISSUES#BORROWING#BUDGET DEFICITS#BUDGET SURPLUS#CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS#CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE#CONSUMPTION INCREASES#CROWDING OUT#DEBT
The author focuses on the effects of age structure changes on the size of budget deficits of national governments. More specifically, he determines whether differences in age structure can account for the observed differences in budget deficits across countries as well as across time. By way of an extension of the untested theory of negative bequest motives advocated by Cukierman and Meltzer (1989), the author argues that the commonly accepted notion that population aging tends to increase the budget deficits of economies is theoretically consistent. However, preliminary results from country and time fixed-effects panel regressions, estimated from 1975 to 1992 over 55 industrial and developing countries, indicate statistical evidence for this postulation is present only in the developing countries but not in the industrial countries.
Intertemporal Excess Burden, Bequest Motives, and the Budget Deficit
Chen, Derek Hung Chiat
#ACCOUNTING#BALANCED BUDGETS#BUDGET CONSTRAINT#BUDGET DEFICIT#BUDGET DEFICIT REDUCTION#BUDGET DEFICITS#BUDGET SURPLUS#CAPACITY BUILDING#CENTRAL GOVERNMENT#CENTRAL GOVERNMENT BUDGETS#CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS
The author aims to empirically determine the significant factors that affect the levels of budget deficits of central governments across time and across countries. He empirically tests two prominent theories of budget deficits-the Barro (1979) tax-smoothing approach, and the still-untested theory of negative bequest motives advocated by Cukierman and Meltzer (1989). The author uses econometric techniques including fixed-effects (both country and time) panel regressions spanning 87 countries over the period 1975 to 1992, and the Griliches treatment of missing data. The author finds relatively stronger statistical support for the tax-smoothing approach among developing countries but not in industrial countries. The existence of empirical evidence supporting the theory of negative bequest motives is indeterminate. The author also conducted post-regression analyses to assess the proportion of observed differences in budget deficits the factors were actually able to explain. These reveal that both theories are generally weak in accounting for inter-temporal changes in budget deficit shares for both industrial and developing countries. The theories performed significantly better in accounting for cross-section differences. The author has many contributions to the literature. First...
Credit Ratings and Fiscal Responsibility
Hanusch, Marek; Vaaler, Paul
#MONETARY POLICY#DEFICIT#HOLDING#CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS#TIMELY PAYMENT#DEFAULTS#STOCK#FISCAL DEFICITS#INDEBTED COUNTRIES#INTEREST#SOVEREIGN DEFAULTS
The authors build on the findings from an earlier analysis, adding to the evidence base for the notion that credit rating agencies contribute to fiscal sustainability. To do so, the authors focus on election periods when political pressures for fiscal expansions are heightened. The literature on political budget cycles documents the tendency for budget deficits to increase in election years as governments attempt to appear economically competent by strategically providing additional publicly financed goods or services, or by cutting taxes. A rating downgrade, however, signals the opposite of competence as it implies an increase in the probability of sovereign default. Since credit ratings are widely observed - by financial markets as well as voters - they in effect serve as a disciplining device for fiscal policy not to submit to short-term spending pressures, thus keeping it responsible. The authors find that: (1) governments going into an election year immediately after a rating downgrade are 27 percentage points more likely to lose at the polls; and (2) governments going into an election year with a negative rating outlook (indicating a higher likelihood of a near-term downgrade) run smaller budget deficits compared to cases with positive or stable outlooks. Ratings act like fiscal rules disciplining governments when they are more vulnerable to political pressures on the budget - as opposed to fiscal policies supporting longer-term economic growth and development objectives.
Structural reforms and budget deficits in a monetary union: a strategic approach
Campoy, Juan Cristobal; Negrete Mediavilla, Juan Carlos
Fonte: Universidade de Múrcia Publicador: Universidade de Múrcia
#Structural reforms#Budget deficits#Externalities#Coordination#CDU::3 - Ciencias sociales::33 - Economía
This paper explores the interrelations between budget deficits and structural reforms in a monetary union. The analysis considers the international spillovers generated by both policies. We show that efforts to achieve fiscal policy coordination within the Eurozone reduce member countries’ incentives to carry out much-needed structural reforms. As a consequence, this cooperation can turn out to be welfare-reducting if it not extended to the implementation of structural reforms.
France, Germany, Greece and the United Kingdom an analysis and comparison of budget deficits and defense spending
Schoettelndreyer, Friedrich.
Tipo: Tese de Doutorado Formato: xvii, 61 p. ;
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.; This thesis documents findings on the relationship of government budget deficits and defense spending for France, Germany, Greece, and the United Kingdom in detail and for NATO and OECD country collectives. The thesis topic is relevant, as many European countries are justifying their recent cuts in defense spending with high government budget deficits. The author looked at different data sources and metrics to graphically analyze the developments in government budget deficits and defense expenditures for the selected countries over a fifteen-year period and statistically analyze possible interactions between lagged budget deficits and defense expenditures for NATO and OECD country collectives. Six regression models were developed and applied to the country collectives with different time periods, from 1975 to 2009. A fixed effects regression analysis was used to determine the significance levels and the standard errors of the independent variables. The research method consisted of four activities: review of related research, analysis of government budget spending levels, analysis of defense spending levels and graphical and statistical analysis of government budget deficit and defense spending relationship. The literature survey focused on data research...
Uganda Economic Update, March 2014 : Are You Being Served?
Fonte: Kampala Publicador: Kampala
Tipo: Economic & Sector Work :: Economic Updates and Modeling; Economic & Sector Work
#ACCOUNTABILITY#ACCOUNTABILITY RELATIONSHIPS#ACCOUNTING#ADMINISTRATION COSTS#BALANCE OF PAYMENTS#BALANCE OF PAYMENTS CRISES#BANK LENDING#BROAD MONEY#BUDGET DEFICIT#BUDGET DEFICITS#BUDGET FORMULATION
This is the third edition of the Uganda Economic Update series. The first part of this update provides a general overview on the state of Uganda's economy. Then the second part offers an examination of an economic topic of special interest and high relevance for the country, looking at how to improve service delivery by district governments. In 2013 Uganda managed to sustain macroeconomic stability and contain a short-lived uptick in inflation caused by fluctuations in regional food prices. This demonstrates the ability of the country's authorities to formulate and implement sound macroeconomic policies, and lays the foundation for continued achievement of economic growth rates in the range of 6-7 percent. The implementation of the large public infrastructure projects planned for the next several years should also contribute to growth. However, it will be as important as ever to keep budget deficits under control and to make sure that increased focus on infrastructure does not slow down progress in social outcomes. While healthy and educated population is critical for achieving Vision 2040...
Fiscal Deficits, Monetary Reform, and Inflation Stabilization in Romania
Budina, Nina; van Wijnbergen, Sweder
Tipo: Working Paper; Publications & Research; Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
#AGRICULTURE#ASSETS#BANK DEPOSITS#BANK LOANS#BASE YEAR#BENCHMARK#BUDGET CONSTRAINT#BUDGET DEFICITS#CAPITAL GAINS#CENTRAL BANK#CENTRAL BANK BALANCE SHEETS
Unsustainable fiscal deficits were the chief reason for the inflation that has persisted in Eastern Europe since 1989. Deficits need to be cut back, but by how much for a given inflation target? The authors develop a simple framework for debt, the deficit, and inflation to study the interactions between fiscal and monetary policy in Romania's economy. This framework can be used to 1) determine the financeable deficit and the required deficit reduction for a given rate of output growth, inflation rate, and target for debt-output ratios, and 2) find the rate, and target for which no fiscal adjustment is needed. They use this framework to assess consistency between inflation, monetary reform, and fiscal policy in Romania. Many of the issues in Romania are similar to those in other countries. But Romania is an interesting case because of its history of unsuccessful stabilization attempts. The authors' results suggest that fiscal problems during 1992-94 were masked by shifting government expenses to the books of the National Bank of Romania so that the government deficit did not fully reflect public spending. In addition...
Performance-Informed Budgeting in the U.S. National Government : An Evolutionary Approach and a Work in Progress
Joyce, Philip G.
Tipo: Publications & Research :: Brief; Publications & Research
#ACCOUNT#ACCOUNTING#ACHIEVEMENT#ATTENTION#BILLS#BUDGET DEFICITS#BUDGET PROCESS#BUDGET PROJECTIONS#BUDGET REFORM#BUDGETING#DEBT
The United States, at the national level of government, has been trying to identify stronger links between performance and funding for at least 50 years. The most recent two presidents had fundamentally different approaches to performance-based reforms. The administration of George W. Bush embraced a top-down, comprehensive approach to performance, embodied by the President's Management Agenda and the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART). The Obama administration has delegated more of the agenda to the agencies and has abandoned the PART in favor of a more in-depth, targeted approach to evaluation. Continuing challenges in the United States include creating incentives for focusing on the long term rather than the short term, making expanded use of performance information for budget decision making, and simultaneously focusing on performance improvement and reducing unsustainable budget deficits.
A New Data Tool to BOOST Public Spending Efficiency; Un nou instrument pentru date, BOOST, util pentru eficientizarea cheltuielilor publice
Kheyfets, Igor; Mastruzzi, Massimo; Merotto, Dino; Sondergaard, Lars
#ACRONYM#ADMINISTRATIVE CLASSIFICATION#ALLOCATION#ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES#BUDGET CLASSIFICATION#BUDGET CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM#BUDGET DATA#BUDGET DEFICITS#BUDGET MANAGEMENT#BUDGETARY RESOURCES#CAPITAL EXPENSES
The BOOST data tool makes it easy to analyze how the allocation and use of public expenditure can be made more efficient. BOOST makes detailed public spending data, including data on sub-national spending, more open and accessible than ever before. The global financial crisis has prompted many governments to seek efficiency savings in order to reduce budget deficits and restore medium-term structural balance without harming long-term growth prospects or service quality. To reap savings from inefficiencies, governments must be able to identify such inefficiencies and examine their root causes. One way of doing so is through analytical work that sheds light on where in the budget more can be done with less the process starts by gathering detailed government expenditure data directly from a country's treasury system. By requesting raw data at the most disaggregated level available, the resulting BOOST database takes advantage of the full breadth and depth of the country's budget classification system. The data on expenditures...
Papua Public Expenditure Analysis : Overview Report, Regional Finance and Service Delivery in Indonesia's Most Remote Region; Analisis pengeluaran publik Papua - sebuah tinjauan umum : keuangan daerah dan pelayanan publik pada wlayah tertinggal di Indonesia
Fonte: Washington, DC Publicador: Washington, DC
Tipo: Economic & Sector Work :: Public Expenditure Review; Economic & Sector Work
#BORROWING#BUDGET DEFICITS#BUDGET EXECUTION#BUDGET PROCESS#CAPACITY BUILDING#CASE STUDY#CENSUS DATA#CIVIL SOCIETY#ECONOMIC GROWTH#EQUALIZATION#ETHNIC GROUPS
The region of Papua occupies a special place in Indonesia. It is the country's easternmost, largest and most sparsely populated region. Ever since its integration into Indonesia in 1969 Papua has been troubled by separatist movements and social unrest. Following Indonesia's transition towards democracy and decentralization in the late 1990s, the Special Autonomy Law for Papua was passed in 2001. This was aimed at solving the ongoing conflict and accelerating the economic development of the region. The special autonomy status carried with it an increased flow of resources to Papua. While this boost in fiscal resources is important in helping Papua "catch up", more attention needs to be paid to the quality and efficiency of public expenditure management. As history shows, economic growth and fiscal wealth alone will not be enough to reduce poverty and boost development outcomes in Papua. The region has experienced an average annual GDP growth of close to ten percent for the last fifteen years, and has had a substantial amount of revenues to spend. This stands in stark contrast to Papua's consistent underperformance in fighting poverty and raising human development outcomes: forty percent of Papuans still live below the poverty line, more than double the national average. One third of Papua's children do not go to school. Nine out of ten villages do not have basic health services with a health center...
Mauritania : Improving Budget Management to Promote Sustainable Development and Reduce Poverty, Public Expenditure Review Update; Mauritanie - Ameliorer la gestion budgetaire pour promouvoir une croissance durable et reduire la pauvrete : revue des depenses publiques actualisee
#ACCESS TO SAFE WATER#ACCOUNTABILITY#ACCOUNTING#ANNUAL COST#ANNUAL DEFICITS#ANNUAL RATE#APPROPRIATIONS#AUDITORS#BASIC SERVICES#BENEFICIARIES#BENEFICIARY
The Public Expenditure Review (PER) has provided a basis for analysis and action under the Public Sector Capacity Building Program(PRECASP), one of components is related to the improvement of public finance management and is expected to support the implementation of the measures proposed in this document. These analyses deal with issues closely related to this review, including (i) the problems faced by the financial sector and their impact on public finances; (ii) the issue of transparency with regards to the management of oil revenues, and (iii) medium-term and long-term macroeconomic projections that determine the prospects for growth and for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Its objectives are to identify ways to improve public financial management in the sector and to alleviate the constraints on agriculture development, with a view to increasing productivity and reducing poverty in rural areas. Moreover, the PRECASP will finance expenditure reviews in priority sectors. Oil-related research...
Global Stock-Take of Social Accountability Initiatives for Budget Transparency and Monitoring : Key Challenges and Lessons Learned
Tipo: Economic & Sector Work :: Knowledge Economy Study; Economic & Sector Work
#ACCESS TO INFORMATION#ACCOUNTABILITY#ACCOUNTABILITY FRAMEWORK#ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS#ACCOUNTABILITY RELATIONSHIPS#ACCOUNTING#ACCOUNTING SYSTEM#AUDIT FINDINGS#AUDIT SYSTEM#AUDIT SYSTEMS#BENEFICIARIES
Budgets are key documents that lay out a government's economic priorities in terms of policies and programs. Budget transparency refers to the extent and ease with which citizens can access information about and provide feedback on government revenues, allocations, and expenditures. Budget monitoring entails using such information to analyze, critique, and track government finances in order to provide this feedback. Budget transparency is a prerequisite for public participation and accountability, which are instrumental for a democratic and legitimate budget process. Both budget transparency and monitoring efforts also help remove institutional bottlenecks that result in delayed budget allocations, thereby jeopardizing the delivery of vital services to people. Even though they have a far-reaching impact on the lives of people, opening up budgets beyond the exclusive domain of policy makers and administrators is a relatively recent phenomenon that has gained momentum in the last two decades. The stock taking exercise illustrates the range of mechanisms involved in Budget Transparency and Monitoring (BT&M) in different contexts and demonstrates significant promise of influencing governance processes and outcomes. Finally...
Federal Politics and Budget Deficits : Evidence from the States of India
Khemani, Stuti
Tipo: Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper; Publications & Research
#BORROWING#BUDGET DEFICITS#BUDGETARY INSTITUTIONS#CABINET OF MINISTERS#CENTRAL GOVERNMENT#CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS#CENTRAL TRANSFERS#COALITIONS#CONSERVATISM#CONSTITUENCIES#CONSTITUENCY
This paper tests two predictions implied by models of the common-pool game in federations where subnational governments are more likely to have higher deficits because they do not internalize the macroeconomic effects of fiscal profligacy. The first is that subnational governments that belong to the same political party as the central government have lower spending and deficits because they are more likely to be influenced to internalize the macroeconomic effects of additional local spending; and the second is that subnational governments that are more dependent on intergovernmental transfers have higher spending and deficits. We find that in 15 major states of India over the period 1972-1995, states in fact have substantially higher spending and deficits (higher by about 10 percent of the sample average) when their government belongs to the same party as that governing at the center; and that intergovernmental grants tend to have a counter-intuitive negative effect on spending and deficits. The additional deficit of affiliated states is financed almost entirely by additional loans from the central government (as opposed to the market) leading to our interpretation that similar political considerations influence the distribution of deficits across states as they do other intergovernmental grants. We argue that the evidence from India...
The Quality of Budget Execution and Its Correlates
Addison, Douglas
#ACCOUNTING#AGENCY PROBLEM#AGENCY PROBLEMS#AGGREGATE BUDGET#AGGREGATE EXPENDITURE#AGGREGATE EXPENDITURES#AGGREGATE FISCAL#AGGREGATE FISCAL DISCIPLINE#AGGREGATE FISCAL OUTCOMES#AGGREGATE REVENUE#AID DEPENDENT
What determines the quality of budget execution around the world, measured in terms of a government's ability to accurately hit its own revenue and expenditure targets? The answers could be relevant to the topics of macroeconomic stability, national development, public service delivery, and political reputation. This paper takes a step toward finding answers through the exploration of a new database of budgets and budget outcomes and potential cross-country correlates of budget execution in levels and in composition. Few countries within the data sample execute their budgets well, in levels or in composition. Expenditure deviations are positively but rather loosely correlated with revenue deviations. Within this broad tendency, there is considerable variation in behavior not only across countries, but also across time within countries. In explaining the cross-country variations, the data confirm traditional drivers for common pool behavior while also supporting constructive roles for political institutions and the technical capacity for public financial management. This is good news for reform minded governments.
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Project Fledgeling
Please bear with us while we prepare to tear the hinges off of your mind.
Fledgeling Overview
Uplift: Block Scale Nesting
Posted on May 10, 2018 by dudecon
Minecraft uses a single-scale voxel engine, with 1m blocks. The lack of sub-division prevents easily modifying smaller and larger scales.
Instead of considering block textures to be immutable and cosmetic, it could be a rendered representation of a projection of the sub-blocks that compose the block itself. In this way, we could see the classic Minecraft grass and dirt blocks as a single level of nesting in a multi-level system of detail. Because all Minecraft blocks share a texture size (16×16 by default), this isn’t a particularly difficult stretch of the imagination. Minecraft blocks, too, exist in 16×16 chunks, each of which carries some data about biomes, heightmaps, and so forth. The problem here is that all of the user-level and simulation-level operations act on a block level. None of them operate on the textures or the chunks.
So, if Minecraft uses 16×16, is that the best scale factor? Before making a nested block detail system, we really should ask ourselves
What scale factor?
I propose a 8x scale system where each level is eight times larger than the one before. If we use a total of 16 levels, and realistic object sizes, we get a span from sand to stars and beyond, with each scale representing the scale of something tangible and intuitive.
On the left, a texture-baked representation. On the right, a voxel representation.
0.4mm (sand)
3mm (seed)
2.5cm (haft)
20cm (handspan)
1.6m (the basis of the entire proposed system, the height and armspan of an average person)
12.8m (house)
100m (city block)
0.82km (neighborhood)
6.5km (town)
52km (county)
420km (state)
3300km (continent, moon)
27Mm (rocky planet)
215Mm (gas planet)
1.7Gm (star)
14Gm (stellar structures (ringworld, dyson sphere))
Of course other mappings could be applied. A more cartoony world may have the scales compressed, with planets and stars sharing scale with towns. A hyper-real world could have many intermediate steps, with people the size of rabbits, and trees the size of planets. But why go through all this trouble in the first place?
Why nested scales?
Nested blocks allow four important advantages over a flat scale representation (such as we have in Minecraft)
Rapid low-cost procedural generation
Powerful and dynamic GI lighting system
In-game tileset modification
Dynamic filtered LOD rendering.
Low Cost Procedural Generation
Instead of generating all of the branches for all of the trees in sight, you can generate a few trees, bake them into x-plane textures, and then place those in the world at various scales and rotations. If the player gets close to them, you can generate the voxels at that point, but every likelyhood is that they never will. This on-demand procedural generation allows for rapid population of very large areas.
The nested voxel scales also allows for simplified simulation when zoomed out or zoomed in. This ties into the multi-timescale features, which I’ll reserve for another post. Suffice to say, simulation of fluids and societies becomes much more manageable in the context of an adaptive scale framework.
Dynamic Global Illumination
Minecraft does a kind of poor-man’s global illumination with the light propagation system. However, since it is tied to a single scale, it can’t afford to have light propagate very far. With a nested scale system, brighter light levels could fall-off only at larger scales, allowing for dynamically placed lights with rapid low-cost propagation. If the light takes on the color of the blocks that it propagates past, the lighting system will have a global illumination quality as well. This could be combined with a more conventional shadow-casting system for potentially spectacular results.
For example, a street-light could be lighting a house-scale road (size 6) using human scale light falloff (size 5) and be modeled with hand-span scale blocks (size 4). Something like so.
In-game tile set modification
If you want to change the tile-set in Minecraft, you alter the textures outside the game, and that’s it. No effect on gameplay. But if textures are merely low-detail representations of real in-game voxel data, then one could, at any time, edit the voxel contents of the block and update the block texture.
This also allows for players making their own block types by building them in-game. These blocks could be entire buildings or planets, which other players could then import and easily use in their worlds.
dynamic Level of Detail filtering
Each of the large blocks in the background represent 512x512x512 of the small blocks in the foreground. For comparison, the Minecraft map height is locked at 256 blocks.
Because the game has data on both an abstracted form for blocks (a textured cube), and their contents (lots of smaller cubes), it could smoothly fade between the two as the player switches between interacting at different scales, or changes their viewpoint.
Level of Detail is a normal thing for games to manage, but many times the level of detail is designed around maintaining photo-realism. But if the engine implements a nested scale system with tagged features (minerals, plants, and animals, for instance) it would be fairly easy to expose tag-specific LOD controls, thereby allowing the player to prioritize viewing features that they care about. Roads and player created structures will probably be much more important to a traveler than they would be to a farmer, who will likely want more detail on plants and soil conditions.
Still want to go back to a single grid size?
I admit that implementing a nested voxel scale engine is much more daunting than a single-scale system. Hopefully I’ve made it clear that the benefits outweigh the inevitable difficulty.
And, in the end, some sort of large-scale data-management is always going to be necessary. Grouping connected features together, and generating in-world elements is a constant headache in Minecraft because of how much data is thrown away after feature generation. Why not build the nested hierarchy right into the engine?
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Richmond-Danby
Bolton Beck
Bolton Nature Reserve
Bolton-on-Swale
Danby Rectory
Danby Wiske
Easby Abbey
Ellerton Lake
Danby-Swainby
Dany Wiske
Richmond to Danby Wiske
Informational and educational articles for places visited, or near to, the Richmond to Danby Wiske section of the Coast to Coast path are indexed below. Additional articles are added weekly, and existing articles are updated regularly.
Bolton Beck is an attractive slow moving beck flowing around the east of Bolton-on-Swale. The Coast to Coast is alongside it.
Bolton Lake Nature Reserve is a reedy lake within 50 yards of the Coast to Coast path at Bolton-on-Swale
Bolton-on-Swale is a small village on the Coast to Coast path on the opposite bank of the Swale to Catterick
Catterick Garrison is on the other side of Ellerton Lake to the Coast to Coast path. The town hosts a large military camp.
Colburn village lies immediately east of Catterick Garrison, beside the Coast to Coast path and the River Swale
Danby Wiske is a small village on the Coast to Coast path midway between Richmond and Ingleby
Danby Rectory Moat
Within the ground of Danby rectory is a large medieval moated area, just south of the village.
Easby Abbey lies on the north bank of the River Swale as it leaves Richmond. It dates to 1152
Ellerton Lake, in Ellerton-on-Swale, is just off the Coast to Coast, and adjoins the Bolton Nature Reserve
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Max Kellerman predicts the Clippers will win the 2020 NBA Finals if Kawhi Leonard joins the team. (1:55)
NBA free agency doesn't begin until 6 p.m. ET on June 30, but that isn't stopping us from taking stock of the league immediately following the Toronto Raptors' impressive run to the franchise's first NBA championship.
It's early, some might say way too early, but our panel (a group of more than 40 reporters, insiders and editors) already is looking ahead to next season and ranking all 30 teams heading into a pivotal offseason.
Note: These rankings are based on which teams voters think belong higher heading into the 2019-20 season, taking into account potential player movement and the draft. Title odds for 2019-20 were provided by Caesars sportsbook. ESPN.com's Malika Andrews, Kevin Arnovitz, Tim Bontemps, Tim MacMahon, Royce Young and Ohm Youngmisuk contributed the following information.
1. Milwaukee Bucks
2018-19 record: 60-22
Result: L, Conf. finals
2020 title odds: 6-1
Ticktock. While the Bucks might check in at No. 1 in our way-too-early list, Milwaukee is on the clock. Roster evaluations began mere days after being eliminated from the Eastern Conference finals by the Raptors. Over the next 2½ months, decisions will be made on the contracts of Khris Middleton, Malcolm Brogdon, Brook Lopez, George Hill and Nikola Mirotic. Re-signing Lopez is a priority, league sources told ESPN. During the first week of June, the team agreed to a contract extension that will keep general manager Jon Horst in Milwaukee for the next three years. Every move Milwaukee makes is done with the ultimate goal of signing All-Star Giannis Antetokounmpo to a supermax contract in 2020. -- Andrews
Result: W, NBA Finals
Next moves for NBA teams: Trade and free agency decisions
The champs at No. 2? Despite their improbable run to a title, the Raptors now face one of the biggest offseason questions in the NBA: Can they retain Kawhi Leonard? If they can, they'll have a legit shot to repeat. If not? Well, they'll be shifting into a new era. Toronto has several key players -- Kyle Lowry, Marc Gasol, Serge Ibaka and Fred VanVleet -- who will be on expiring contracts next season, allowing team president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri the flexibility to either let their deals expire and have oodles of cap space next summer or flip them for future assets and speed up a rebuild. How those decisions play out will, of course, be greatly influenced by Leonard's looming decision, with the general consensus being he will either remain in Toronto or sign with the Clippers next month. Ujiri also will have his own opportunities to consider as the Wizards are preparing a massive offer to him, sources tell ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. -- Bontemps
3. Philadelphia 76ers
Result: L, Conf. semis
2020 title odds: 12-1
It's been a long month in Philadelphia, where the Sixers could only watch as the team they pushed to the absolute limit in the Eastern Conference semifinals -- the Raptors -- went on to win the NBA title. Still, it shows how high Philadelphia's ceiling with this current group is -- and it makes the decisions that hang over the Sixers during the next few weeks all the more fascinating. That begins with what to do with Jimmy Butler and Tobias Harris, the two stars Philadelphia traded for this season and who will be unrestricted free agents on June 30. Philadelphia spent a lot of capital to acquire Butler and Harris, but it now will have to spend a huge amount of money to retain them both in free agency. And even if the Sixers do keep them both, they're going to have to spend more money to retain JJ Redick, another huge piece of what Philadelphia did over the past two seasons, and fill out the bench. -- Bontemps
4. Denver Nuggets
Coming off the smashing success of the 2018-19 season, the Nuggets enter the next phase of a developing contender, and it's the hardest one: expectations. The Nuggets seemed to come out of nowhere to finish second in the West, but now they're going to rank high on every preseason list and have the burden of expectations to realize those rankings. They're still young, and they still have to sort through some significant offseason questions (Paul Millsap's future being the main one), but if 2018 first-round pick Michael Porter Jr. can get healthy and fulfill some of his own expectations, he might be the biggest addition the Nuggets can make this offseason. -- Young
5. LA Clippers
Result: L, Round 1
Who knew that the Clippers would be the best team in L.A. last season? After trading their leading scorer and rebounder in Tobias Harris, the Clippers still made the playoffs with a band of gritty role players and young prospects in what could have been Doc Rivers' best job as coach. Now the Clippers are entering their biggest summer looking to add at least one superstar in free agency with Kawhi Leonard having been linked to the Clippers all season. LA also will be eagerly watching what happens up north with Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson and their respective injuries. The Clippers could add two max players but would have to trade Danilo Gallinari to do so. The heart of their defense, Patrick Beverley, is a free agent but they have plenty of tough-nosed pieces to surround a star. -- Youngmisuk
6. Golden State Warriors
Result: L, NBA Finals
The Warriors' season ended in the worst way imaginable with their dynasty literally falling apart. Kevin Durant's ruptured Achilles and Klay Thompson's torn ACL punctuated a painful ending, and Golden State now enters its most uncertain offseason. The devastating injuries to Durant and Thompson potentially have a major impact on free agency. What will Durant do and how will his Achilles injury impact the balance of power in the NBA? If Durant opts out of his contract, will the Warriors commit to a five-year, $221 million deal to keep Durant or does he leave for say the Knicks, Nets or Clippers to the four-year tune of $164 million? Then there's Thompson, who injured his ACL just weeks before he was set to become one of the most coveted free agents. The Warriors still need to make Thompson, who could re-sign with the Warriors for up to $190 million, a priority on June 30. DeMarcus Cousins, Kevon Looney and Quinn Cook are also among the Warriors' free agents. Even if the Warriors can keep Durant and Thompson, they will have to somehow fortify the rest of their team with minimum contracts and a late first-round pick. -- Youngmisuk
7. Houston Rockets
General manager Daryl Morey is turning over every rock -- and probably hurting a few feelings in the process -- to try to figure out how to get the Rockets over the huge hump known as the Warriors. Houston will continue to aggressively explore the trade market, but there's a decent probability that the Rockets' starting five will remain intact, in which case Morey must make good use of the $5.7 million midlevel exception and minimum deals to build a contender-caliber bench. Owner Tilman Fertitta has committed to use the midlevel after not doing so last summer. -- MacMahon
8. Los Angeles Lakers
Result: Missed playoffs
The offseason got off to a tumultuous start with Magic Johnson's resignation and explanation of his feeling of betrayal by Rob Pelinka. In the Magic aftermath, Pelinka now is in charge with Kurt and Linda Rambis also helping make Lakers decisions with Frank Vogel now the head coach. The offseason objective has been clear -- acquire a superstar. Pelinka already is in hot pursuit of Anthony Davis. Armed with a new asset in the fourth overall draft pick to throw into any package that could include young prospects such as Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram and Kyle Kuzma, Pelinka is trying his best to secure Davis now even if the All-Star big man's intentions to sign with the Lakers as a free agent in the summer of 2020 have been made clear. If Davis cannot be acquired via trade this summer, Pelinka will see if he can trade for another All-Star while dangling the potential combination of the lottery pick and a young core player. In free agency, the Lakers have one max spot to find help for LeBron James. Max free agents such as Kawhi Leonard, Klay Thompson, Kyrie Irving, Jimmy Butler and Kemba Walker are on their radar. It remains to be seen how Thompson's ACL injury impacts free agency and the Lakers' chances. -- Youngmisuk
9. Boston Celtics
Six months ago, Boston looked as if it had the brightest future of any team in the league. Now? That future is much more muddled, beginning with Kyrie Irving's impending free agency. His declaration that he was going to return to Boston, "If you'll have me," at a season-ticket holders event feels like a lifetime ago -- as does his commercial saying he hopes no one else will ever wear No. 11 again for the Celtics. Whether Irving decides to remain also could have a huge impact on Boston's pursuit of Anthony Davis, as it will make it far tougher to give away long-term assets for Davis if Irving departs. The Celtics also have three first-round picks in this year's draft, plus the potential of Al Horford having to decide whether to pick up his player option for next season and Terry Rozier hitting restricted free agency. To say it will be an eventful summer in Boston is an understatement. -- Bontemps
10. Portland Trail Blazers
The Blazers surpassed expectations and finally broke through the wall to validate what they've been building around Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum. And now, it's about capitalizing on the momentum. They have been one of the most stable organizations over the past eight years and are set to remain so, with extensions for GM Neil Olshey and coach Terry Stotts in place and a likely supermax for Lillard on its way. Jusuf Nurkic's recovery is critical to any next steps for the 2019-20 campaign, but fortunately, the Blazers are finally getting some air to breathe from the money spent during the cap-spiked 2016 summer of spending. -- Young
11. Oklahoma City Thunder
For the first time in nearly five years, the Thunder enter an offseason without any sweeping superstar questions and no worry of losing a cornerstone. They are stable; they have their core in place. That's a plus, sure, but in spite of that, the Thunder aren't riding anything other than profound disappointment into the summer. The Russell Westbrook-Paul George pairing still possesses plenty of promise and potential, and there were moments when they flashed their power. But both George and Westbrook are spending their summers getting healthy, while the front office sorts through the financial burden of a gargantuan luxury tax bill for a roster that has won only four playoff games since 2016. -- Young
12. Brooklyn Nets
Brooklyn was already an intriguing team heading into the summer -- and that was before the Nets swung a huge deal with the Hawks, sending Atlanta their 2019 first-round pick and a protected 2020 first-round selection to dump Allen Crabbe and create the ability to get two max players in free agency next month. Now there is rampant speculation that Kyrie Irving could be headed to Brooklyn. This is the first time since the franchise moved to Brooklyn that the Nets and Knicks are going toe-to-toe in free agency. Meanwhile, D'Angelo Russell will be one of the more interesting restricted free agents this summer. Russell was an All-Star this season, but he remains a polarizing player. Still, he is a young guard who has shown an ability to shoot from 3-point range and create his own shot. -- Bontemps
13. Utah Jazz
Opting for continuity a year ago didn't pay dividends for the Jazz, who won 50 games but were eliminated in the first round, a disappointment after advancing to the West semifinals during each of the previous two postseasons. Utah needs another offensive creator to ease the burden on Donovan Mitchell, which is why point guard Ricky Rubio is unlikely to return. Potential free-agent targets include D'Angelo Russell and Tobias Harris, but Utah would have to decline a $17.7 million option on power forward/center Derrick Favors to have that kind of cap space. The Jazz also could rekindle trade talks for Memphis Grizzlies guard Mike Conley. -- MacMahon
14. Indiana Pacers
The Pacers are determined to be more than a scrappy, resilient, heartwarming story next season. After losing their franchise player, All-Star Victor Oladipo, to a season-ending quad injury in January, Indiana clawed its way to a playoff berth before being swept in the first round by the Celtics. Domantas Sabonis was consistently reliable coming off the bench for the Pacers, earning him a spot as an NBA Most Improved Player Award finalist. Indiana has seven free agents it will need to make decisions on, including Thaddeus Young and Bojan Bogdanovic. Signing Bogdanovic -- who emerged as a key part of the Pacers' offense -- will be a priority for Indiana. They also will seek a wing to replace Tyreke Evans, who was disqualified from the NBA for two years for violating the league's anti-drug program. Whatever moves it makes, Indiana must keep in mind it might not start the 2019-20 season with Oladipo, as the team still has not provided a timetable for his return. -- Andrews
15. San Antonio Spurs
The Spurs just keep on Spurs-ing, and while there are plenty of questions on how they can reclaim space in the upper tier of the West, they remain stable. They dealt with significant injuries last season, but the core of coach Gregg Popovich, big man LaMarcus Aldridge and guard DeMar DeRozan was enough to produce another postseason berth. There's an obvious need for more talent, but the biggest steps forward are getting Dejounte Murray and Lonnie Walker IV healthy and pushing the development of the other young talented players on the team. -- Young
16. Sacramento Kings
GM Vlade Divac hired coach Luke Walton to help the young Kings take that next big step. While an independent investigation into an accusation of sexual assault surrounds Walton, the Kings enter a pivotal offseason. Like he was tasked to do before LeBron James arrived in L.A., Walton will look to develop a promising young core led by De'Aaron Fox and Marvin Bagley. The Kings will wait to see if Harrison Barnes opts into a $25 million player option. Also, Willie Cauley-Stein can become a restricted free agent. If Barnes opts in, the Kings have $21.3 million to play with in free agency, and they could free up to $38.4 million to improve the roster, according to ESPN's Bobby Marks. -- Youngmisuk
17. Dallas Mavericks
The Mavs are optimistic that they will be able to end their playoff drought at three seasons now that their rebuilding period has produced a young one-two punch they can build around in Luka Doncic and Kristaps Porzingis. Dallas plans to re-sign restricted free agent Porzingis to a max deal and lock up springy center Dwight Powell to an extension this summer. The team's brass is debating whether the Mavs' significant cap space would be better spent on one star (Kemba Walker or Tobias Harris?) or two or three starter-caliber role players. -- MacMahon
18. New York Knicks
No team outside of the Warriors was impacted more by Kevin Durant's ruptured Achilles than the Knicks, who saw their dream scenario for 2019-20 scuttled before the offseason even began. Now instead of pairing KD with another star free agent -- and then potentially swinging an Anthony Davis trade to create the NBA's next superteam -- the Knicks could choose to play the waiting game. They could still sign Durant, then remain flexible with their cap space while he works his way back for the 2020-21 season. Or, in a scenario that must frighten Knicks fans, New York could miss out on Durant and not trade for Davis, meaning they dealt away former franchise player Kristaps Porzingis to create two max spots to sign two very good -- but not great -- players. Meanwhile, the Knicks wound up with the No. 3 pick in last month's NBA draft lottery, probably setting them up to take Duke star RJ Barrett -- if they don't use that pick as the foundation of a Davis deal instead. -- Bontemps
19. Detroit Pistons
2020 title odds: 200-1
Playoff loss after playoff loss, first-year Pistons coach Dwane Casey would climb the step to Detroit's dais and compliment the Bucks -- the Pistons' first-round playoff opponent -- and their depth. Detroit's lack of depth, Casey said, was what was hurting his team. Ultimately, it was part of what led to the Pistons' being swept in the first round of the playoffs. This summer, the Pistons' priority will be to build out their bench on a budget that stays below the luxury tax. -- Andrews
20. Orlando Magic
The Magic surprised the East last season by cobbling together an elite defense down the stretch to propel themselves into the postseason for the first time in seven seasons. The Magic will improve to the extent that their young talent does -- namely Jonathan Isaac, Aaron Gordon, Markelle Fultz and Mo Bamba. Though there is optimism about the future, planning for it won't come without some difficult choices. Their All-Star center, Nikola Vucevic, who will turn 29 soon after the new season starts, enters free agency with the expectation of a payday. Should Orlando invest heavily in the frontcourt, where they already have a trove of talent and prospects? Orlando needs to upgrade its backcourt, where D.J. Augustin, Evan Fournier and Fultz are on the books. -- Arnovitz
21. Atlanta Hawks
There are few teams in the league more optimistic about the future than Atlanta. With Trae Young, John Collins and Kevin Huerter, the Hawks have a talented and young foundational core under a head coach in Lloyd Pierce who has demonstrated an acuity for player development. And there's more help on the way: The Hawks will select three of the first 17 picks in the upcoming draft, have additional future first-round picks in the hopper and also hold plenty of financial flexibility going forward to absorb contracts safety-pinned to additional assets. Atlanta might still be a couple of seasons from qualifying for the postseason, but there's a strong sense that Atlanta has a chance to assume its rightful place down the road as a destination for NBA stars. -- Arnovitz
22. Miami Heat
For the fifth consecutive season, the Heat finished with between 37 and 48 wins, solidifying themselves as a team with enough organizational competence and stability to be respectable, but not enough talent to truly contend. Unfortunately, there's a lot of money on the books in Miami without a ton of upside. With their pursuit of Jimmy Butler last season, the Heat are aware they need to add to a young core of Josh Richardson, Justise Winslow and Bam Adebayo. Goran Dragic reportedly told the Heat he will exercise his option on next season and Hassan Whiteside is expected to do the same, an indication that the $46 million they're collectively owed next season is greater than their market value. Similarly, James Johnson, Kelly Olynyk and Dion Waiters are on the books for another couple of seasons. -- Arnovitz
23. Minnesota Timberwolves
It's a fresh start for the Wolves with a new front office and Ryan Saunders officially taking over the roster. But there still are plenty of questions ahead -- and not a lot of great options to answer them. On the surface, there's a foundation of youth. But it comes with the complication of Andrew Wiggins' contract and the relation of his value to it, as well as Karl-Anthony Towns' supermax that has him tied to the Wolves for the next few years. What will team president Gersson Rosas' approach be? Will he tweak around his two young foundational pieces or go for a full-on rebranding of the roster? -- Young
24. New Orleans Pelicans
Winning the lottery -- and the right to draft Zion Williamson -- essentially assured that the Pelicans would be relevant despite Anthony Davis' strong desire to be traded. New Orleans already had taken a significant step in the right direction by hiring David Griffin, the architect of Cleveland's title team, to run the front office. With Williamson and Jrue Holiday in the fold, a return to the playoffs is a reasonable goal if Griffin gets good value in a Davis deal, assuming Griffin is unable to convince the perennial All-Star to have a change of heart. -- MacMahon
25. Washington Wizards
When it comes to degree of difficulty, the Wizards' current cap management ranks near the top of the NBA. The Wizards are a lottery team with an aging core and no prospects with anything approaching All-Star potential at present. To complicate matters, John Wall is owed $171 million by Washington over the next four seasons -- but he won't return to the court from a ruptured Achilles tendon until midway through next season. Wall might have the league's least portable contract, but Bradley Beal, with two years remaining on his deal, could be coveted by contenders. Do the Wizards cut bait and move Beal? This is the most challenging question facing a Wizards team that still is without a permanent lead basketball executive, although it has Toronto's Masai Ujiri in its sights, and that still has little financial flexibility. -- Arnovitz
26. Charlotte Hornets
A cloud of uncertainty and a messy salary spreadsheet make for a foggy future in Charlotte. The most vital decision begins with the free agency of All-Star Kemba Walker. By being named to the All-NBA third team, Walker now is eligible for a five-year, $221 million contract from the Hornets. Yet investing nearly a quarter of a billion dollars into a guard who will turn 34 near the conclusion of the term is fraught with all kinds of risks. Unfortunately, that's not the only liability for Charlotte on the horizon. The Hornets are locked into Nicolas Batum for another two years and $53 million, with hefty, eight-digit pay stubs next season for Bismack Biyombo, Marvin Williams, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Cody Zeller. Between the cost restraints and Walker's status, it's hard for Charlotte to draw up a clear vision. -- Arnovitz
27. Memphis Grizzlies
It's time for the Grizzlies to say goodbye to the final piece of the Grit 'n' Grind era by trading point guard Mike Conley. Such a deal should give Memphis financial relief and assets (draft picks and/or young players) to aid its rebuilding process. Conley's replacement will arrive on draft night, assuming that the Grizzlies use the No. 2 overall pick on Ja Morant, a dynamic athlete who can be a franchise pillar for the foreseeable future along with last year's lottery pick and All-Rookie selection Jaren Jackson Jr. -- MacMahon
28. Phoenix Suns
Phoenix's biggest move of the offseason already has happened with the hiring of Monty Williams. Williams is the latest head coach to try to steer the Suns in the right direction, after Igor Kokoskov lasted just one season following a 19-63 campaign. The Suns will try to add more help around Devin Booker by either keeping or trading the sixth overall pick in the draft. They need to upgrade at point guard but have no significant cap space available, unless they make a trade or let restricted free agent Kelly Oubre Jr. go. Williams also will look to continue the development of last year's first overall pick, Deandre Ayton. -- Youngmisuk
29. Chicago Bulls
The Bulls must determine who are the key players who can be cornerstones of their franchise's rebuild. The team set out to answer that same question in the 2018-19 season. Instead, injuries provided more puzzles than answers. The Bulls replaced head coach Fred Hoiberg with Jim Boylen, and they stumbled through the regular season. Now, Chicago is in the market for a point guard. They could acquire a guard with their No. 7 draft pick, but it's likely the Bulls will seek a more seasoned free agent to help lead their young core of Wendell Carter Jr., Lauri Markkanen and Zach LaVine. -- Andrews
30. Cleveland Cavaliers
All of the Cavaliers' struggles in their first season after LeBron James left for Los Angeles came with a silver lining in a lottery pick in the 2019 NBA draft. Unfortunately for Cleveland, it ended up with only the No. 5 selection in what's widely considered a two-player draft. The Cavaliers could return a core of Kevin Love, Cedi Osman, Tristan Thompson, Larry Nance Jr. and second-year point guard Collin Sexton, who dramatically improved over the second half of last season to receive second-team All-Rookie honors. They'll also have a new coach in John Beilein, who bolted from the University of Michigan for one last coaching challenge in his career. GM Koby Altman has proved that he's almost always willing to make a trade, so don't be surprised to see JR Smith's contract moved or another roster reshape in some way before September training camp begins. -- Andrews
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Magnus Carlsen. 30 training chess games
World champion Magnus Carlsen is the undoubted leader of modern chess. Unlike most of the strongest grandmasters of the 21st century, the Norwegian goes its own way, relying not on the “slaughter” & raquo; computer preparation of the debut repertoire, and the ability to play the original positions of the mittfiel and fight in the endgame to the last "patron". Being an adherent of the positional style, M. Carlsen has a remarkable combinative imagination and feels the dynamic resources of the struggle perfectly.30 M. Carlsen's games included in this book will give the readers considerable aesthetic pleasure and will be an excellent school of modern chess. divided into thematic sections, each of which is provided with a brief introduction.
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Sample Victims in Sicilian Defense
Acquaintance with typical victims in such a double-edged debut, as Sicilian defense, is absolutely necessary for a chess player, who wants to improve his skills. Author, participant of the seven World Chess Olympiad in the Canadian team demonstrates by illustrative examples how important initiative, attack, and dynamic factors are in chess. At the end of the book, positions are given for an independent decision. For a wide range of chess fans.
Alexandra Goryachkina: small steps to big chess
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The book tells about the chess way of Grandmaster Alexandra Goryachkina. The reader will learn about how a young athlete from chess remote provinces successfully went to storm the most prestigious tournaments, won the children's championships of Russia, Europe and the world, then entered in the adult national team of the country and has achieved the greatest successes in the process professional chess. Authors share the secrets of successful workouts from Alexandra and her parents, suggest what problems can expect young talents on the road to success. The book provides many details commented on chess pieces, revealing the creator Grandmaster’s image. For a wide range of chess lovers.
Color chess textbook Anatoly Karpov. The second step. Gift Edition
Full color printing. On coated paper. Chess & mdash; the royal game that the chess king will teach you & mdash; world champion Anatoly Karpov. You will learn about the manners and habits of the figures, learn how to attack energetically and coolly defend yourself. You will get acquainted with many tricks and traps that can be put to reckless opponents and, last but not least, learn how not to get into them yourself. Having traveled through the pages of this book, you will prepare for your first chess battle with the help of a great chess player & mdash; against mom or dad, friend or computer, on the Internet or at a competition. The book will allow your child to easily learn the rules of the game, helping him to win not only in chess, but also in life. After all, chess develops perseverance, logical thinking and memory, teaches rational use of time. According to this textbook, teachers, trainers or parents can even teach children the basics of a wise game, even with minimal chess preparation. the game.
My chess path. Volume 3 (1993-2005) Second edition
Garry Kasparov's long-awaited autobiographical three-volume booklet "My chess path & raquo; continues large-scale projects & laquo; My great predecessors & raquo; and & la modern chess & raquo ;. It includes about 300 best and most memorable games and endings of the 13th world champion with detailed comments. The third volume contains more than 100 parts and covers the late period of Kasparov's creative work (1993 & ndash; 2005). Each chapter of this fascinating book & ndash; a whole milestone in his athletic career. & nbsp;
Championship of Leningrad in 1932. Collection of games. (art 5)
Publisher: OGIZ
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Gas Chromatography Detectors - Some Less Common GC Detectors > The Discharge Detector > Page 84
The Discharge Detector
About the same time that Ryce and Bryce were developing the thermionic ionization detector, Harley and Pretorious (33) and (independently) Pitkethly and his co-workers (34,35) were developing the discharge detector. By applying the appropriate potential, a discharge can be maintained between two electrodes situated in a gas providing the pressure is maintained between 0.1�10 mm of mercury. After the discharge has been initiated, the electrode potential can be reduced and the discharge will still continue. Under stable discharge, the electrode potential remains constant and independent of the gas pressure and the electrode current.The electrode potential, however, depends strongly on the composition of the gas. It follows, that the system could function as a GC detector. Pitkethly modified a small domestic neon lamp for this purpose and a diagram of his sensor is shown in figure 48.The lamp was operated at about 3 mm of mercury pressure with a current of 1.5. Under these conditions the potential across the electrodes was 220 V. Pitkethly reported that a concentration of 10-6 g/l gave an electrode voltage change of 0.3 V.
Figure 48. The Discharge Detector
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Running head: ENRON: EXAMINING A BUSINESS FAILURE.
Enron: Examining a Business Failure.
According to the Mid-American Journal of Business (MAJB), Enron serves as the absolute example of the perils of large scale success achieved in a short space of time. Created out of the merger of two gas companies in the mid-1980s, Enron began trading gas commodities in 1989 and in the space of a few years became the largest supplier in the USA, with 21,000 employees in 40 countries. Riding on a wave of optimism, Enron began diversifying its portfolio through the use of special purpose entities (SPEs) which allowed the company to embark upon less conventional ventures without necessarily reflecting their cost on its balance sheets.
From 1989 to 1995, Enron was named ??????America??™s Most Innovative Company??™??™ by Fortune magazine. In 2001, the chief executive officer (CEO) unceremoniously resigned, the chief finance officer (CFO) was fired, and the company filed for bankruptcy and was the subject of a host of litigation. What happened in between can arguably be labeled the biggest governance failure in corporate history (???Enron, board governance and moral failings,??? 2002, p. 23).
Many of the improper transactions and substantial information about Enron??™s activities were received by the main Board and were approved for them as well. During 2001 Enron had created an online trading business and formed Enron Online and rapidly became one of the biggest e-business sites in the world.
Enron believed that to succeed it would need to access significant lines of credit to settle its contracts daily, and to reduce the large quarterly earnings fluctuations, which affected its credit ratings. To address these financial needs, Enron developed a number of practices, including ???prepays,??? an ???asset light??? strategy, and the ???monetizing??? of its assets (???Antecedents and consequences of failed governance: the Enron example,??? 2005, Para. 15).
Enron began to sell or syndicate its assets, to ???special purpose entities??? (SPEs), because was not easy to find parts willing to invest and to carry the significant risks. The SPEs were entities that were not on Enrons financial statements but were so closely associated that their assets were considered part of Enrons own holdings. The assets that were losing money were sold to SPEs to avoid reporting its mounting losses and to give the appearance of rapid earnings growth. The board??™s members did not seem these methods unethical, but they even developed the shared belief that these practices were a necessary part of doing business. In the end, the Board knowingly allowed Enron to move at least $27 billion or almost half of its assets off balance sheet (???Organizational disasters: why they happen and how they may be prevented,??? 2008, Para. 10).
A year before Enron declares bankruptcy; $680 million were paid to 140 managers. They sell their stock just before Enron nosedived when the company??™s stock was still high. But the lower level employees did not have the same luck. Most of their employees belong to retirement plan known as a 401(k), which the company used to use investing it in the Enron Stock. The employees were allowed to sell their stock after they turned age 50. Even when Enron??™s executives knew about the warming related with the company??™s financing surface, they reported healthy earnings and rapid grow, and encouraged the people to keep investing their saving in Enron stock.
Most of the Enron workers had 62% of her or his 401(k) retirement savings invested in Enron stock. When crisis came they found that their retirement founds just about wipe out. Further, while Enron??™s stock plummeted, the 401(k) plan was ???locked down??? during an administrative ???blackout period,??? prohibiting those over age 50 from selling their shares. This prohibition, however, did not apply to executives who owned shares or controlled stock options (MSM. Encarta, 2009).
There were involved many management and leadership issues during and after the revelation of the Enron??™s scandal. The following will describe how specific organizational behavior theories could have predicted the failure of Enron. Additionally will show how issues as behavior of management, leadership and organizational structures could impact a company positively avoiding this kind of failures.
At the first instance the board of directors should act on behalf of shareholders. Directors??™ decisions can bring serious consequences beyond merely the shareholders, to whom they are responsible. Directors also should monitor internal and external forces that may affect the company, including performance indicators, corporate finances and assets, market conditions, and cultural, social, and political climate (Mintzberg, Lampel, Quinn, & Ghoshal, 2003).
The meanly reason because Enron fail, was not because it was not viable business. It failed because of it decisions. Some of Enron??™s business decisions did not have prudential judgment. Enron failed because the board failed. Even when they knew what was happening with the secrets partnerships, conflicts of interest, and the irregularities within the financial balance sheet, they just keep driving the company ignoring what was happening and doing nothing to correct those issues.
In the Enron??™s case the main board obviously did not understand their role as managers, they role were perform basic administrative activities such as locating information on company practices and procedures, analyzing routine information, or maintaining detailed and accurate financial records and documents. Their responsibilities were to ensure that the corporation remains loyal to its corporate purpose, to exercise prudential judgment, and to demonstrate moral courage in carrying out these functions.
One of vital free market principles is the transparency. Corruption will be systematic and the market system will not function without transparency. The board??™s directors should be the first ones in practice this principle, demand clear and transparence balance sheet statements ask questions and guarantee transparency in their reports. Enron??™s case shows the result of short-term omissions can cause long-term devastation (???Enron, board governance and moral failings,??? 2002, p. 21).
It is obvious that Enron executives had not an open and constant communication with their employees. I do believe we can learn a lot about Enron??™s failure. The workplace is changing from an environment in which a few dictate the rules to others to an environment in which all employees work together to accomplish common goals. Some of the changes for the new generations of management are:
??? Communicate a vision and rally others around that vision. The leader should be broadly openly sensitive to the concerns of followers, give them responsibility, and win their trust.
??? Establish corporate values. This value include a concern for employees, for costumers, for the environment, and for the quality products.
??? Promote corporate ethics. Include an unfailing demand for honesty and insistence that every in the company gets treated fairly.
??? Empowering workers. Giving employees the authority and responsibility to respond quickly to any situation.
In order to avoid Enron??™s failure, the company should involve more its workforce; they probably could contribute with a wide of suggestions for the good running of the company. Consequently the Enron executives could have chosen other strategies and solutions for the welfare of the company, the all their employee and community.
Board membership is a serious matter. The board members also should be courageous moral leadership that asks tough questions, insists on complete answers, and takes its role in the company and in society seriously. As Enron demonstrates, the impact of such failures is wide and deep. Unethical decisions leads in severe consequences affecting the future of the company, the live of their employee, the partner relationship and a whole nation as in the Enron??™s case.
Mintzberg, ., Lampel, ., & Quinn, . (2003). The Strategy Process. [University of Phoenix Custom Edition e-Text]. New Jersey, NY: Prentice Hall. Retrieved September 3, 2009, from University of Phoenix, ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP.
Enron, board governance and moral failings (2002). Corporate Governance, 2(2), 16-19. Retrieved September 3, 2009, from database Emerald.
Antecedents and consequences of failed governance: the Enron example (2005). Corporate Governance, 5(5), 84-98. Retrieved September 3, 2009, from database Emerald.
Organizational disasters: why they happen and how they may be prevented (2008). Management Decision, 46(1), 32-45. Retrieved September 3, 2009, from database Emerald.
MSM. Encarta. (2009). Enron Scandal. Retrieved September 2, 2009, from http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_701610398/Enron_Scandal.html
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Groups Generally Pleased With FCC ‘White Spaces’ Decision
Broadband's Impact
WASHINGTON, September 23, 2010 – Broadband watchers generally reacted favorably to the Federal Communications Commission’s vote on Thursday to finalize rules to open vacant television channels, which are often referred to as TV white spaces.
WASHINGTON, September 23, 2010 - Broadband watchers generally reacted favorably to the Federal Communications Commission's vote on Thursday to finalize rules to open vacant television channels, which are often referred to as TV white spaces.
Today, only about a third of the frequency channels reserved exclusively for over-the-air television are licensed for use by local broadcast stations.
Harold Feld, legal director for Public Knowledge, called the decision a "great step forward to providing consumers with an exciting new range of products and services" such as flexibility to laptops and tablet computers and extending broadband access to underserved people in rural and urban areas.
“We haven’t seen anything like this since the FCC 20 years ago approved the use of what was then thought to be unwanted spectrum and what today is used for Wi-Fi, and other unlicensed consumer applications," he added.
Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, senior member of the Commerce Committee, also lauded the FCC's action. Kerry said it will help Massachusetts and create a "robust wireless future" benefitting all Americans" while Snowe highlighted that it will aid the nearly 14 million Americans who don't have access to broadband.
"Opening this beachfront spectrum for unlicensed use by any individual, entrepreneur or internet service provider will unleash innovation and promote pervasive connectivity, particularly in underserved communities," said Michael Calabrese, a senior research fellow with the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative. His peer Sascha Meinrath, also with OTI, added that many details need to be resolved to determine whether TV white space technologies "are viable or dead on arrival."
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Verizon Makes a Hologram Call with 5G, How Might Your Business Benefit?
In a move designed to remind everyone 5G is almost upon us, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) allowed its network to be used for making the world’s first holographic communication at the annual Mobile World Congress Americas.
It wasn’t the same as Princess Leia asking Obi-Wan Kenobi for help, but the image was nonetheless impressive for the early days of holographic communications
The technology was demonstrated by Voxon Photonics on the show floor of the Los Angeles Convention Center. The company used Verizon’s 5G network to send medical data from the Verizon booth to the Ericsson booth.
In addition to sending the data, the company used the Intel RealSense depth camera to carry out the first-ever real-time video conference where the caller’s holographic face appeared. The potential applications of the technology were on display as participants on the call collaborated in an immersive environment.
They were able to manipulate the holographic medical images they were viewing around them from every direction without any glasses or goggles covering their faces.
The use cases of this technology across industries will have transformative implications for years to come. Voxon Photonics CEO Will Tamblyn and co-founder Gavin Smith are responsible for creating the world’s most advanced 3D volumetric display which was used for the Verizon demonstration.
Hologram Call Possibilities
As to what is possible with this technology, in the press release Tamblyn said, “Our goal is to show what’s really possible with this new generation of wireless technology. It’s not just for mobile phones but has applications in everything from remote medical diagnosis to video games and video conferencing.”
Small business in gaming, healthcare, education, communications, entertainment, and more can use this technology to introduce new services and grow their business.
Future Investments
For its part, Verizon recently announced it is expanding its 5G Labs to more locations across the US. Los Angeles, Washington DC, Palo Alto, and Waltham will have facilities which will be developing technologies to harness the full potential of 5G.
The labs are going to launch by the end of 2018, and just like the one in New York City, they will be forming partnerships with institutions of higher learning, tech companies, and startups to develop and test next-generation 5G solutions.
In addressing the creation of these labs, Verizon Senior Vice President of Strategy, Innovation, and Product Development Toby Redshaw, said, “Our 5G Labs will be where collaboration and innovation happen. We’re opening access to our 5G network because we believe the next-generation solutions that will ride on it will be the result of collaboration and innovation by an entire ecosystem of developers.”
The point Redshaw made about this ecosystem may hint at how much potential the technology holds for small businesses. Whether by creating content or developing applications to communicate, play and work with holographic technology, there is a multi-billion dollar industry waiting to be discovered.
Watching Ronald Reagan at his library or listening to Tupac Shakur in Coachella is just scratching the surface of holographic technology.
Image: Verizon
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So long Liberalberta! Raj Sherman calls it quits.
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Calling for a public health care inquiry in March 2011, folk-hero Independent MLA Raj Sherman stood united with NDP leader Brian Mason, Alberta Party leader Sue Huff, Wildrose leader Danielle Smith and Liberal leader David Swann.
All four main political parties will have new leaders going into the next election after today’s announcement by Liberal leader Raj Sherman that he is resigning as leader and will not seek re-election as the MLA for Edmonton-Meadowlark.
Jim Prentice
Like the Wildrose Party, who lost leader Danielle Smith and 10 other MLAs when they crossed the floor to the Progressive Conservatives in the final months of 2014, the Liberals will now need to find someone to lead them into the next election. Despite being less than three years from the last election, Premier Jim Prentice expected to trigger an election within weeks.
The Liberals will choose an interim party leader next weekend but the state of the party remains dire. Disorganization, low fundraising returns and a poor showing in four recent by-elections suggest the Liberals might have a difficult time surviving the next election. This is a scenario that likely pushed Dr Sherman to resign.
Hugh MacDonald MLA
Rumour is that Dr. Sherman was facing considerable pressure from party constituency presidents and fellow MLAs to leave. Though it is not clear if the Liberal Party is in any better position without him as leader.
Elected as a PC MLA in 2008 and ejected in 2010, Dr. Sherman immediately enjoyed folk hero status as an Independent MLA for criticizing the PC Government’s record on health care. As an Independent, the former Tory toyed with joining all of the four opposition parties, but eventually used his status to help propel him to win the Liberal Party leadership in 2011, defeating party stalwarts Hugh MacDonald and Laurie Blakeman.
Laurie Blakeman
His political capital as Alberta’s political folk hero was quickly diminished as the PCs used a narrowly focused health care inquiry to publicly discredit his claims. Internally, a very bizarre rebranding attempt confused and alienated many long-time party supporters (see Liberalberta Green).
As a health care advocate, he was a natural fit in the opposition benches. As a former Tory MLA, he was not the right fit to lead Alberta’s Liberal Party.
With such short notice before a potential spring election, who will replace Dr. Sherman as leader?
David Swann
The soft-spoken and altruistic MLA from Calgary-Mountain View, David Swann, already served as leader from 2008 to 2011 and might be unlikely to step back into that role.
Party President Shelley Wark-Martyn is a former New Democratic Party MPP with cabinet experience in Ontario. Her profile in Alberta politics is extremely limited, but one Liberal organizer has suggested to me that she could be tapped as interim leader.
As the only remaining Liberal MLA who is running for re-election and has not already been leader, Ms. Blakeman is the obvious choice, if she wants it.
Rachel Notley
Alberta’s longest serving opposition MLA, Ms. Blakeman took centre stage in the 2014 fall session with Bill 202 and Bill 10, which sparked the debate about Gay-Straight Alliances in Alberta schools. Over the course of the debate, she proved herself to be the only opposition MLA who has been able to throw Mr. Prentice off balance and exposed a huge rift between moderates and social conservatives in the PC caucus. It was a strategy that could be hard to repeat.
In the not too distant past, the popular Edmonton-Centre MLA mused about joining the Alberta Party and many political observers suspect the NDP would welcome her with open arms if she choose to run under their banner.
The vacuum in the Liberal leadership is good news for the PC Party, Rachel Notley‘s New Democrats and the Alberta Party, who will try to offer Liberal voters a new home to park their votes. A weakened Liberal presence in Edmonton is a positive for the NDP, who will now no longer have the luxury of a conservative vote split between the PCs and Wildrose.
As I am sure Dr. Sherman and Dr. Swann would attest, being leader of the Liberal Party in Alberta is probably one of the least rewarding positions in provincial politics. And with an election quickly approaching, I do not envy the challenges faced by anyone willing to step into the role.
Three more PC MLAs announced on today that they will not be seeking re-election.
– Battle River-Wainwright MLA Doug Griffiths
– Red Deer-North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski
– Calgary-Varsity MLA Donna Kennedy-Glans
Tags 2015 Alberta Liberal leadership race, Alison Redford, Battle River-Wainwright, Brian Mason, Calgary-Mountain View, Calgary-Varsity, David Swann, Edmonton-Meadowlark, Hugh MacDonald, Jim Prentice, Laurie Blakeman, Liberalberta, Raj Sherman, Red Deer-North, Shelley Wark-Martyn, Sue Huff
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6 replies on “So long Liberalberta! Raj Sherman calls it quits.”
John M.says:
Raj Sherman was trying to become the official opposition a few weeks ago. And now he quits? He always has been, and always will be, a joke.
Icemansays:
We have a liberal party in Alberta? I thought it was just the conservative and the more conservative parties in Alberta. Must be lonely being a liberal in this province.
Julie Alisays:
Dr. Sherman was a very decent man and I appreciate that he tried to do a thankless job in Alberta which is to present other opinions than the dominant Conservative voice.
It’s too bad that he has decided to leave politics.
He is not a joke as John M. indicates to us.
The Tories are a joke.
Maybe John M. should look at the record of the Tories at all levels before calling a man who tried to represent Albertans –a joke.
I’m a Tory voter and I am unimpressed with the performance of the Tory MLAs and MPs who do nothing for citizens. All the money spent on them is wasted.
It would be productive at this point for the NDP and Liberal Party to merge and become one party rather than splitting the non-Tory vote. This is the only way that there will be an effective opposition now that the Wildrosies are toast.
The Conservative Party of Alberta is now trying to renew itself as it sheds MLAs like a dog sheds fleas. Too bad that the entire party isn’t “renewed” in this way; the cronyism and lack of respect these politicians have for their employees is appalling. This party needs a good kick in the rump by Tory voters to be really renewed.
In contrast to the failures in representation of the Tories, I believe that Dr. Sherman tried his best for his constiuents; too bad his party has been made into a traitor party in Alberta with the myth making machinery of the Tories at high gear. Why don’t we all talk about these myths?
Such as responsible development of the oil and gas resources for example–where the AER has no duty of care to citizens and yet we are to believe that the Tories really care about us.
What about the fiasco of long term care in Alberta where we get to hear the daily abuse a senior story on the news?
Who actually represents Albertans?
The Tories?
If so then why are we billions of dollars in the red while oil and gas companies are making out like bandits?
Who do the Tories serve?
Brian Janzsays:
Apparently not you Julie, from your monologue you are anything but a Tory voter and are instead a left wing socialist.
Velvet Martinsays:
“My last words as Liberal Leader for all Albertans, young and old, living in every corner of this great Province, from every economic, ethnic, social and religious background are these: We truly live in the best Province and the best Country in the world, but not all of us share equitably in the vast wealth of this Province. It was once said that the moral test of a Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life – the children – those who are in the twilight of life – the elderly – and those who walk in the shadow of life – the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.” – Raj Sherman
There is much wisdom stated here, both outwardly as well as with that which can be inferred. Sincere thanks, Dr. Raj Sherman, for attempting to give voice to those most vulnerable.
Jerrymacgpsays:
The only way the Liberals & NDP will ever merge is if Liberal members give up on their increasingly moribund political brand and sign NDP memberships. This question has been rejected by NDP membership at numerous Party conventions; why would Party leadership even consider going against that rank & file judgement?
Dave Cournoyer is a writer and political watcher living in Edmonton, Alberta. Contact him at david.cournoyer@gmail.com.
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Review: Identity Crisis trade paperback collection (DC Comics)
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The first time I read Identity Crisis, back when it came out, I walked away having enjoyed it, but thinking predominately that what it sorely lacked was a scene of Superman flying. Sure, I understood the wistful hopefulness of Ralph Dibney's ending conversation with Sue, but to really make the book about hope and not despair, Superman would need to fly again.
I came to find, reading the Identity Crisis hardcover nearly a year later, that low and behold, a scene of Superman flying was in the end all along, and I'd somehow just missed it the first time. And such is the stuff that has garnered this time not just my enjoyment of Identity Crisis, but my respect and admiration for it, too. Because, despite slight evidence to the contrary, I do think Identity Crisis is a hopeful book, and I think Brad Meltzer and Rags Morales have used, and deconstructed, the comics art form well to prove it.
Almost immediately, a comic book trope that Meltzer and Morales explore is the common white-space used to cover the characters' eyes through their masks. As early as Nightwing's first appearance, his eyes bore through his mask directly at the reader. In showing the characters eyes through their masks, the authors make it that much more difficult to view these characters one-dimensionally; if eyes are the windows to the soul, then seeing the eyes of these characters that have been created cannot help but make us feel that much more for them, even if fiction can't feel for itself. It is not coincidence that Nightwing is the first character used in this way; as Robin, he was the first character that positioned the DC heroes as families, instead of vigilantes. It is a theme that carries throughout Identity Crisis.
At the same time, the one character in Identity Crisis given whitened eyes is Batman. When he finally appears, half-way through the story, there is a sense -- both from his whitened eyes and the fact that his presence is made as much as character as Batman himself -- that the character is to be considered more than, or less than, human. It makes it hard to pity Batman; moreover, even as Wally West registers shock at the League's mind-wiping of Batman, that act is kept off-screen (as opposed to the brutal mind-wiping of Dr. Light), increasing the difficulty of sharing Wally's dismay. And yet, we finally do see Batman's eyes -- as he takes off his cowl at the grave of his parents -- overlayed with Green Arrow explaining the League's actions to the Flash, and as Green Arrow notes, Batman knows more than anyone "that you should never underestimate what someone will do for the people they love -- either the League's mind-wiping Batman, or Batman's quest to avenge his parents.
Meltzer suggests here that Batman understands, and perhaps even approves, of the League's actions; this is further proved, in my interpretation, on the last few pages, when Batman stares Wally down. There are two panels of Batman staring, almost identical, but the second panel looks to me lighter and softer -- the suggestion that Batman takes pity on Wally. This is an opinion somewhat challenged by The OMAC Project and JLA: Crisis of Conscience, where Batman rebels at the League for their mindwiping, but I maintain that, at least as far as Identity Crisis is concerned, there's the suggestion that Batman understands.
Another trope reimagined through the Identity Crisis lens is the struggle between good guys and bad guys. Ordinarily, we might say, a comic book features the heroes acting heroically against the villains working for evil. Instead, in Identity Crisis, not only are we faced with heroes acting outside the usual realm of moral certainty, but also villains working both for and with each other. Granted, both Deathstroke and the Calculator assist other villains for a fee, but we also see the deep parental love that Captain Boomerang has for his son--a note of commonality between both heroes and villains. Moreover, both heroes and villains die during Identity Crisis -- and the culprit turns out to be neither one nor the other.
In Identity Crisis, we find not the usual heroes verus villains, but instead heroes and villains existing side-by-side, somewhat similar. And I think we should also give special notice to a sequence early in the book, after Bolt is shot by a couple of small-time crooks, where Bolt begs one crook to call an ambulance, and the crook does. It's an unexpected act of villain-to-villain compassion, given to show not only that the line between hero and villain is not so ardent as we might think, but that just as heroes can sometimes be villains, villains sometimes have the potential to be heroes, too.
There's been some charge since Identity Crisis came out that Meltzer and company have played willy-nilly with the DC Universe, leaving careless destruction in their wake. Certainly, I can see where one can think that -- I can understand the use of Dr. Light raping Sue Dibny as a gauntlet thrown down to venture into the uncharted areas of comics, but I'm also not sure it was really a gauntlet that ever needed throwing; I understand Warren Ellis's point, even if I don't agree one-hundred percent, that if DC really meant business, they would have used Lois Lane instead of Sue Dibny (I think Ellis said this).
But Meltzer largely redeems the story, and shows an awareness of what he's done -- the rape, the mindwipes, et al -- in again a conversation between Wally West and Green Arrow. Wally cries, "But don't you understand? You ruined it." Ollie doesn't really answer, but earlier, he tells Wally that "people always believed it was simpler back then. But it wasn't." Here is the inherit argument for and against Identity Crisis: Wally, who believes the stories of the Silver Age ruined, and Ollie, who sees the stories of the Silver Age explained and redeemed. If it were not for these sequences, one could argue that Identity Crisis is a waste, destruction for destruction's sake. But unquestionably there's a motive here, a motive even willing to question itself, and in that it proves itself capable of wisdom.
What we have in Identity Crisis is a deconstruction of the superhero genre that uses this deconstruction at every turn to show how the characters of comics are richer, more human, and more humane. It is a story that, I believe, ends with pity, ends with forgiveness, and ends with understanding, and is even willing to allow for its own faults within the context of the book. When Superman flies in the end, it is the symbolic representation of the same thing we see when Ralph says good-night to the departed Sue -- that, even if wounds don't heal, life goes on. Identity Crisis shows, in my opinion, that Superman can still fly in the end of any story--even a story that challenges how we ready comics themselves--as Ma Kent whispers to Clark, "no matter what."
And now I start my Identity Crisis tie-in reading, beginning with The Flash. Join me, won't you?
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Mark Fossen 11/08/2005 12:43:00 PM
Excellent review that really makes me want to re-read the issues, and makes me question my initial impression.
I don't know as I'd end up agreeing, but you sure make some good points.
One of the best reviews of Identity Crisis I've read. Great point concerning the visibility of the heroes' eyes, though I can't say I completely agree on whether Batman approved the League's actions, even without taking into account OMAC Project and Crisis of Conscience. Great article though.
Oops! Accidentally deleted my own comment! As I was saying ...
Thanks to you both. Much obliged.
Hey Jeffrey, what's your blog URL again?
Don't have one at the moment. Not that I have anything to say. :(
I always feel a bit ridiculous talking with friends of mine that both are and aren't into comics, especially the DCU. Mainly because I feel that at times i'm reading so much into these characters that I've been following for 20+ years. Things like the way a character's opaque white costume lens gets shattered revealing the fragile eyes beneath. The way Elongated Man can "barely hold himself together" and the true expression of emotion in these two dimensional characters.
This review really made me feel justified, and aside from that, your writing and crafting of words is on par with excellence sir.
I stumbled across this looking for a timeline to get caught up with Crisis (Identity, Infinite, and Final) and you've just won yourself a dedicated reader.
wonka -- Thanks for your comment, and welcome to the fold! Hope you find a lot here you like.
If you're looking for reading order, don't miss our DC Trade Paperback Timeline. Thanks again!
As someone who is unfamiliar with DC other than having read a few batman, superman and wonder woman books, I was not really impressed with this story. Especially when the culprit was revealed which is was not convincing to me. There are some interesting ideas here but it felt like there were lots of characters jammed into the story that weren't necessary.
Maybe this story would've been more effective for me if I had followed many of these characters previously but based on this story alone, I felt no connection to any of the characters.
If you're not familiar with a couple iterations of the JLA, also maybe Flashes Barry Allen vs. Wally West and Green Lanterns Hal Jordan vs. Kyle Rayner, a couple of Green Arrow stories, and possibly the travails of Robin Tim Drake, to start with, very possibly this book won't have the resonance for you that it has for others. This one was insider baseball, most definitely.
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