Anonymous recruitment processes in New Zealand
Diversity is one of the hot topics at the moment. Could blind recruitment be the answer or is it just a plaster on a much deeper wound?
Earlier this year, outgoing State Services Commissioner Iain Rennie told the Global Government Forum that New Zealand's civil service is contemplating the implementation of name-blind recruitment. The aim, he said, was to close the gender pay gap that has been slowly increasing over the last several decades.
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The move is in line with other governments in countries such as the UK, which recently announced it would use name-blind recruitment for posts below senior civil service. Rennie said the New Zealand government will consider adopting it at an entry level initially.
"[The government] also want to be open about the potential to take that kind of approach at more senior levels and more technical types of roles," he said before adding, "the evidence does appear generally quite solid that those kinds of practices do reduce bias."
Yet, due to its novelty, many business leaders are unaware of what blind recruitment entails, the pitfalls and limitations it presents approaches to diversity.
What is blind recruitment?
Humans are creatures of habit. We tend to settle into regular tendencies or practices, even if they're bad for us. Whether it's smoking, drinking, biting our nails or even procrastinating, we do it because habits are hard to break.
However, there is another habit that continues to be a major problem for recruiters and the organisations they work with: Stereotyping. While a number of possible countermeasures have been touted, blind requirement has gained traction in countries like the UK and could be seen in New Zealand soon.
Blind or anonymous recruitment is the removal of the cues or signals on CVs and cover letters, which may identify a prospective candidate's gender, ethnicity, religion or age. Name-blind recruitment is often used, which is the removal of a person's name and other gender identifiers from their application.
Alongside the UK government, major organisations such as the BBC, Deloitte and the National Health Service have introduced name-blind recruiting. In New Zealand, PwC implemented this practice when it recruited for its graduate and summer internship programme.
While you may not think that removing names will have an impact on learned identity biases, research says otherwise. Investigators from the Australian National University found that employers often harbour bias towards certain names.
The study submitted 4,000 fictional applications to entry level jobs in Australia. Names from five different ethnicities were tested against names of Anglo-Saxon origin. People with names associated with certain ethnicities were forced to apply for more roles to get an interview. For example, a person with a Chinese name had to submit 68 per cent more, while a Middle Eastern names led to 64 per cent more applications.
However, this approach to recruitment is in no way a silver bullet.
Blind requirement could soon see it's self in New Zealand.
What are the pitfalls?
Work is a core part of our social lives. It helps form our unique personal identity, our sense of national and civic contribution and it ensures we meet familial and collegial needs.
Making sure all people have uninhibited access to employment that fits their skills and knowledge is essential. However, blind recruitment can actually have the opposite effect.
If we remove elements of our lives such as schools to hide gender, your address to hide socio-economic status and year of graduation to hide age, we are left with very little information about the candidate. The processes for removing all this information is not a swift one either, it takes a lot of resources to got through 100 plus applications that many positions receive.
At the interview stage, blind recruitment can become an even bigger challenge. Orchestras have shown that assessments and interviews can be completed without bias. For instance, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra began blind auditions almost 40 years ago, using a large sheet to separate the hiring panel from candidates.
However, in the business world, recruiters would have to conduct the interview in such a way to limit a candidate's visual appearance and voice. For full objectivity, recruiters might have to hire an actor to answer for candidates.
While blind recruitment is not the silver bullet many imagine it to be, it does make people think critically about diversity and the inherent bias many of us carry. So what should recruiters and business leaders do to ensure bias does not preclude a diverse workforce?
Diversity makes both business and ethical sense. Inclusion is a core part of what makes democratic nations so vibrant and commercially successful.
Take, for instance, 2006 research from Tufts University. The study found that groups comprised of a range of ethnicities, genders and backgrounds were much better at sharing information. In the workplace, this translates into better collaborative environments, quicker flows of information and a higher bus factor.
As I have said before, inclusive thinking must be at the core of all organisations. While blind recruitment may not be the answer everybody hoped for, it does force organisations to find other, more effective ways of ensuring a diverse workforce.
Whether it is a through a standardised application form, like those found in Germany, or facing bias head on through workshops and other actions, the aim is clear – to drive diversity. With a range of documented benefits, organisational leaders must adopt diversity-focused practices or risk being left behind.


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"The Chamber of Digital Commerce has made incredible progress over the past three and a half years in working with industry and the policy community. However, we still have much work to do to reach mass adoption," said Perianne Boring, founder, and president, Chamber of Digital Commerce. "The Foundation of the Chamber of Digital Commerce will serve as a platform to help fuel continued prosperity and growth for the next generation of our industry."
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Cannabis infused cocktails are predicted to be the next big thing in the US, according to Bloomberg Business.
As more states legalise the herb it becomes increasingly likely that mixologists will experiment by combining THC (the effective part of the drug) with alcohol.
However, even in states where recreational use of marijuana is allowed, public consumption is usually banned, meaning that this kind of experimentation only takes place at private events.
Already "high-end" cannabis cocktails have been created, says Bloomberg. The most notable example was at an underground weed-themed dinner at Roberta's in Brooklyn in 2012.
Drinks served included variations on the California Painkiller and the Gin Sour, made with a tincture of gin, Early Grey tea leaves and a "grapefuilt-y" strain of cannabis.
Jane West, owner of cannabis events company Edible Events, believes this may be the future of alcohol. She said: "I think there will be an entirely different way to consume intoxicating beverages in 10 years.
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22 Reasons for Hamas to Thank the Media
by Lee S. Bender and Jerome R. Verlin
A rocket fire from Gaza hit Ashdod causing a massive fire near a gas station. Photo: IDF.
Hamas -which started an offensive war with Israel, rejected ceasefires, deliberately committed war crimes by hiding its weapons and fighters behind human shields, and fired thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians – should be ever grateful to a morally bankrupt media that ignores, excuses, and fails to fully and fairly report the following:
1) At its core, this is in no small measure a religious war. Hamas is the offspring of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose genocidal Qu-ranic-based charter states that they are determined to wipe out the State of Israel and the Jews, who are perceived as the eternal enemy of Allah (as well as Christians).
2) They are terrorists and not "freedom fighters."
3) Had they been fighting any other Arab/Muslim states or actors, they would be carpet bombed without hesitation and the media would hardly care.
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4) This is an existential war. Israel is on the frontline of the defense of Western civilization, democracy, freedom, and Judeo-Christian values against barbarism, totalitarianism, Islamism, and global jihadism.
5) The extensive Hamas tunnel system is an offensive weapon, built to murder and kidnap Israeli civilians and soldiers. The tunnels were built with supplies and cement that Israel, under tremendous international pressure, allowed into Gaza by the thousands of tons for supposedly "humanitarian" and legitimate purposes; no other country in the world would permit such a hostile entity committed to its destruction to have access to such supplies.
6) Hamas uses child laborers to build their terror tunnels. The Institute for Palestine Studies published a detailed report on Gaza's tunnel phenomenon in the summer of 2012, noting: "At least 160 children have been killed in the tunnels, according to Hamas officials."
7) Despite the war, and preceding months of thousands rocket attacks by Hamas, Israel is still providing electricity, power, and water and medical care to Gazans – despite Hamas bombing (unintentionally?) hospitals inside Gaza. This indeed demonstrates Jewish moral values not shared by Arabs/Muslims.
8 ) Hamas bombed a power station in Israel that supplied electricity to 70,000 Gazans, plunging them into darkness, which Israel repaired at great risk. No other country on earth would do repairs under such circumstances, let alone supply power to a hostile entity committed to its eradication.
9) Israel's Health Ministry offered humanitarian and medical aid worth millions of shekels to Gaza, but the Palestinian Authority has refused to accept it.
10) The Israel Defense Force (IDF) is the most humane army in the world- warning Gazans of imminent attacks, thus degrading the effectiveness of the strikes, and giving Hamas the opportunity to move their weapons. IDF targets the terrorists, not civilians. Indeed the Israel Air Force has aborted many missions when it has noticed that civilians are present and acting as human shields, even at legitimate military targets. Hamas would do the opposite.
11) Israel has built bomb shelters to protect its citizens against deliberate missile attacks by Hamas, but Hamas builds missiles to attack civilians and tunnels to protect its missiles.
12) The double war crimes routinely committed by Hamas, such as placing its weapons in civilian homes, mosques, schools, hospitals, and encouraging, even ordering, civilians to ignore the IDF warnings and become martyrs.
13) "Proportionality" is misapplied. Hamas intends to kill thousands of Israelis with its rockets and tunnels. It is not to be rewarded for its failures, the inaccuracies of its missiles, or the superior defense of the Iron Dome system. Hamas is directly responsible for the deaths of its citizens, which it revels in for propaganda purposes.
14) Hamas has abused the UN, placing weapons in UN facilities and using ambulances as cover to transport weapons and hide terrorists. The UN has failed to respond to this illegal use, or condemn it.
15) The IDF sacrifices its soldiers to protect Gazans; most countries would merely bomb the entire place to smithereens, i.e. the Allies in WWII in Germany and Japan.
16) Israel must be allowed to defend itself as any other nation under such circumstances, especially with a blood-thirsty group whose culture relishes death.
17) Gaza is not "occupied," and indeed it also has a border with Egypt.
18) Israel unilaterally left Gaza in 2005, leaving behind thousands of viable businesses, including greenhouses; Hamas had the opportunity to establish a thriving economy. Instead, they destroyed these businesses, and have failed to build anything positive for their people, i.e. schools, hospitals; they have made Gaza into a terrorist launching pad against Israel.
19) Hundreds of Hamas leaders have become obscenely wealthy through corruption, the tunnel system, and outright theft from generous international donors. Many do not even stay in Gaza.
20) Hamas is the elected government of Gaza, and a coalition partner with the Palestinian Authority, and thus directly responsible for its actions relative to its people.
21) Focusing so much more on the suffering of Gazans than the hundreds of thousands Arabs/Muslims killed by other Arabs/Muslims in Syria, Nigeria, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, etc.
22) Not reporting on what Hamas says in Arabic and in its media. It states unequivocally that it will never recognize Israel no matter what is offered in any negotiations, and is not interested in peace.
Lee Bender is the co-President, and Jerome Verlin is the co-Vice Present of the Zionist Organization of America-Greater Philadelphia District, and they are the co-authors of the book "Pressing Israel: Media Bias Exposed From A-Z" (Pavilion Press).
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Women's race to be held on Mont Ventoux in 2022
By Cyclingnews published 11 March 21
CIC - Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenges to be held in conjunction with men's race
CIC - Mont Ventoux Denivele Challenges men's race 2021 (Image credit: CIC - Mont Ventoux Denivele Challenges)
Organisers of the CIC - Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenges have confirmed that they will host a women's edition in 2022 alongside the men's race. In addition, they aim to join the UCI ProSeries circuit as title sponsor, CIC, committed to supporting the event through 2023.
The inaugural men's event was held in June of 2019 on the day after the Santini GF Mont Ventoux mass-participation event, which created a weekend of riding and racing on the Géant de Provence.
The race was part of the UCI Europe Tour and was also held the day after the Criterium du Dauphine, so Tour de France contenders had an opportunity to ride Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge.
The inaugural edition was won by Jesús Herrada. Last year's second edition of the men's race was won by Aleksandr Vlasov. The 185km race started in Vaison-la-Romaine and finished partway up the summit of Mont Ventoux because of roadworks at the summit.
Organisers have released details of this year's race, set to take place on June 8, which includes 155km from Vaison-la-Romaine and which will climb Mont Ventoux twice.
"The end of the development work on the summit of Mont Ventoux, recently a Regional Natural Park, marks the return of the finish of the CIC - Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenges at the top of the Giant of Provence," said the event organisers in a press release Thursday.
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SBS Remembers: All Out War – The Turtling of Lemieux
Written by : Roger Pretzel
Published on : May 9, 2016
"I can't believe I shook that guy's friggin' hand…" – Dino Ciccarelli
In the mid-nineties, Kris Draper was the epitome of a blue-collar hockey player, all scrum and speed, which lead him to being the Red Wing's go-to-guy on the penalty kill, with a particular talent for scoring shorthanded goals.
In the '96 cup campaign, Draper's postseason ended when Colorado Avalanche player, Claude Lemieux, put his entire upper body into Draper's face. Crushing it against the boards in what is certainly one of the most malicious and the dirty plays in NHL history.
Reconstructive surgery was necessary. But true to his nature, Draper came back the following season as if having his face scrambled was just another day at the office. The Avalanche won the Stanley cup that year, while Draper was in the hospital, and the Detroit Red Wings, known for their Lady Byng-like poise and finesse, quietly bided their time.
"Hockey players have long memories." –Darren McCarty
When these two met at the Joe the following year, it was a different situation entirely. Near the end of the first, the least likely of scrappers, Igor Larionov, got involved with Peter Forsberg and glorious bedlam ensued.
Big number 25, Darren McCarty, was the closest thing Detroit had to a goon at the time. McCarty was a physical presence on the ice but he also scored his fair share at the right wing position. Seeing his chance, McCarty ripped into Lemieux and tore his helmet off in one of Hockeytown's greatest spectacles. I remember watching this happening live as a kid and couldn't understand why Lemieux didn't fight back. The big bad wolf crumpled to the ice in a pathetic effort to protect his head while McCarty's bare fists tore skin and drew blood. From that day on, Lemieux was less than a paper tiger. He was a man who openly displayed his spineless cowardice to all of hockeydom on local television.
McCarty ended up dragging Lemieux around the ice in a two-team brawl that ended up with 18 fighting majors. Lemieux, face bloodied, retreated to the locker room, and was buried forever as far as Wings fans were concerned.
"They were after Claude and we expected it. McCarty's a big guy and he should face him at least, stand up and go after Claude if he wants to do something." – Patrick Roy
It was sweet to see McCarty avenge Kris Draper, but the overlooked gem of the night was Patrick Roy and Mike Vernon slugging it out. I think it's fair to say that Roy was a legendary villain for any Red Wings fan of the 90's, and as much as I used to hate him, I kind of admire him in hindsight. He came to the aid of Claude Lemieux, streaking past the centerline even while encumbered with all that padding, only to be hammered by Brendan Shanahan in a flying collision that knocked both men to the ice. Roy's blood was understandably up by the time Vernon got to him and the two 'tenders went at it. I don't know if you've ever heard this, but I have it on good authority that the hockey gods smile every time two goaltenders fight. By the time the blood was scraped off the ice there was more than two whole periods left to play.
Darren McCarty scored the game winner in OT. A billion angels got their wings that night. They were all colored red.
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Is the Democratic Party obsolete?
That's the question that keeps nagging me as I watch President Obama and the Democratic leadership fumble away their opportunities to fight for meaningful reform of health care and the financial system.
The president and congressional leaders consistently shy away from fighting for reforms they themselves propose, such as the public option or the consumer financial protection agency.
They obsess over whether someone will accuse them of partisanship, or whether they will spook the markets if they crack down on reckless profligate bankers. They appear to find any excuse to avoid pushing the kinds of fundamental of changes that would challenge the health care and financial industry.
I don't think you can blame the Republicans, whatever their own faults. They oppose reform. They're fighting Obama and his policies as a way to regain power. They're pursuing that opposition determinedly, and they're betting it will pave their way back to a majority. It's not the Republicans' fault if they set traps for the Democrats and the Democrats continually fall for them.
Members of the Democratic leadership have shown profiles in cowardice when it comes to fighting for any reforms opposed by the insurance or financial industries. In the latest display, House and Senate leaders are furiously trying to blame the other for the death of the public option, even though it's supported by a majority of Americans and even 40 members of the U.S. Senate.
But the insurance companies have fought the public option, which would provide those forced to buy health insurance under reform an alternative to private insurance. So the Democratic leadership has shown determination to find a way to eliminate the provision without leaving their fingerprints on the corpse.
The same with financial reform, where the Democrat leadership has zigged and zagged but hasn't won the fight for strong independent consumer protection or meaningful regulation of the complex investments that blew up in the meltdown. Sen. Chris Dodd, the long-time friend of insurers and financial titans who serves as Senate Banking chair, flirted with a strong reform proposal when he was running in a tough reelection campaign. But he backed off after he decided to retire and now appears ready to resume his traditional role in service to the bankers' lobby. As an industry publication recently noted, insurance companies will miss Chris Dodd.
The Democratic leadership don't seem to stand for any strong principles.
The president and Democratic leaders pay only lip service to the deep anger in the country over the erosion of the middle class, and the bank bailout that pumped up Wall Street while leaving Main Street on life support. The Democrats fear that anger because they know that their own Wall Street-friendly policies have helped fuel the series of speculative bubbles that brought prosperity and then a crash that wiped out the financial security of millions of Americans.
The president and his party are banking that the economy will improve enough by later this year, and 2012, to blunt voters' anger.
If it does, the Democrats will claim credit for setting the economy right without having unduly upset their contributors in the financial and insurance industries. Even better for the Democrats, they will be able to bolster their fundraising by showing how they hung tough against the call for stronger reforms.
The Democrats came into office promising not to "waste a crisis." But their efforts to reform health care and the financial system and to put Americans back to work have shown a distinct lack of urgency.
Could there be another way?
Obama will face voters on the 100th anniversary of the last presidential election in which a third-party candidate beat a major party candidate. The third-party candidate was a former president, Teddy Roosevelt, running on the progressive Bull Moose ticket promising to bust up the powerful big corporations of the day, known as trusts. Roosevelt was angry that the president who followed him, Republican William Howard Taft, hadn't followed in his activist political footsteps. The former president was not afraid to show his ire, calling on his followers to launch "a genuine and permanent moral awakening."
Taft, for his part, favored a laissez-faire policy toward business and regulation that resonates with the era that we've been through. "A national government cannot create good times," Taft said. "It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, or the crops to grow." But by meddling, government could "prevent prosperity that might otherwise have taken place."
Roosevelt lost the election to Woodrow Wilson, but he got more votes than hands-off Taft.
Today the tea party is rumbling on the right, threatening revolt against the Republicans. There's already the beginnings of a coffee party. If the economy doesn't cooperate with the Democrats, the tea party's discontent could be just the beginning of the end of the two-party stranglehold on our government.
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Meet the new wealthy: The cash hoarders
It seems so long ago. But in 2009, many of the wealthy were stunned to find themselves in a cash crunch. Despite all the talk of cash cushions and risk management, many of the wealthy suddenly realized that they had overborrowed, overspent and overconcentrated on a single asset or industry.
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Four years later, the lesson still holds.
A study from Spectrem Group asked wealthy and affluent investors "what do you wish you had done differently in the crisis."
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For the top earners-those making $750,000 or more-the No. 1 answer was "saved more." Ranked second was "done more research about finances on my own" and then "not taken on as much debt."
Their regrets have turned into real action-with possible impacts on the broader economy. Since the financial crisis, the wealthy have become the nation's top cash hoarders, filling up deposit accounts and money markets at a rapid clip.
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According to research from American Express Publishing and Harrison Group, the savings rate of the wealthiest 1 percent soared to 37 percent in the second quarter. That's up from 34 percent in the second quarter of 2012-and more than three times their savings rate in 2007.
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Ugly Truth: Spreading Covid-19 Is Now The Top Republican Priority
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Waging war on the country's well-being, the GOP, fueled by the right-wing media, has set its sights on Covid nihilism. And they're doing it in the name of partisan warfare.
Republican members in the House and Senate were scheming to shut down the federal government to ensure that workers won't have to comply with vaccination mandates put in place to help slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus. The plot came as health officials warn that the new Omicron Covid-19 variant could be highly be contagious and dangerous to Americans.
At least four red states — Florida, Iowa, Kansas and Tennessee — have begun extending unemployment benefits to workers who were fired or who quit over their employers' requirement that everyone get vaccinated. (Typically, only workers are who laid off through no fault of their own are eligible for benefits.) It's a way for the GOP to tighten its bond with anti-vaxxer voters and to show solidarity with those who are working hard to perpetuate the pandemic.
TV doctor Mehmet Oz made headlines this week when he declared his candidacy for next year's Pennsylvania Senate race. (Oz has not lived in the Keystone State since the 1980's.) He's likely most infamous for his Fox News appearance at the outset of the pandemic when he urged schools be reopened immediately, even if that meant a mortality rate of two to three percent among students, or three million deaths nationwide. He also promoted useless hydroxychloroquine to fight the coronavirus.
All of this dangerous behavior and rhetoric comes while Fox News churns out nonstop lies about a free, safe, and effective vaccine designed to save lives. Just this week on Fox, the nation's Covid point person, Dr. Anthony Fauci, was compared to fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and deranged Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.
Here's what's painfully obvious, even if the political press doesn't want to say so: Republicans aren't merely anti-mask or anti-vaccine. They're pro-Covid. Period. Republican politicians and commentators, who are fully vaccinated themselves, want the virus to spread and they want to extend the deadly pandemic so it inflicts political damage on Democrats next year. And yes, even if that means anti-science Republicans helping to spread the virus among their own voters, which ought to seem inconceivable, but is not. "Red America Has Seen the Highest Rates of Cases and Deaths, and the Lowest Rate of Vaccinations," read a recent Washington Post headline.
Never in our nation's history has a mainstream political party responded to a public health crisis by doing whatever it takes to keep the crisis alive, completely unconcerned about the rising death toll.
There's a reason every single Republican member of the House and Senate voted against the historic, $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill earlier this year —they hated that it represented a popular win for President Joe Biden.
Despite the mounting evidence of the party's nihilistic ways, the press remains too timid to call Republicans "pro-Covid," just like they wouldn't call Trump a "liar." Millions of conservative Americans are being brainwashed about the pandemic, and thousands are killing themselves in the process. Yet the media downplay the huge story, framing it simply as "vaccine hesitancy."
Republicans plan on shamelessly exploiting the Omicron variant. And the only way to exploit a Covid variant is to help spread it. This type of cynical and unpatriotic strategy isn't new for Republicans — they spent eight years blocking President Barack Obama's agenda and then blaming him for not getting his agenda passed.
Note that when Republicans ran the federal government and America was under siege from Covid, Trump and his team again aided the virus' spread. Back then, it was done out of a panicked sense of denial, fearful of what the pandemic would mean to Trump's re-election.
Trump all but issued a stand-down order for the virus invasion, then became the world's most influential fountain of Covid misinformation, using his daily White House briefings to spread rampant virus lies. "When it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away," he once predicted. Yet we never saw a parade of "Trump Lies about Pandemic" headlines, as the press remained intimidated by the GOP madman.
"The previous administration* gagged its own scientists, buried its own reports, bullied its own agencies, soft-pedaled its own data, and created its own reality to sell to the country, all at a crucial time when the pandemic could have been fought seriously and at least partly arrested," notes Esquire's Charles Pierce.
Just this week we learned that Trump likely showed up at the first presidential debate against Biden contagious with Covid, after Trump tested positive for the virus days earlier and refused to tell anyone.
The transformation from bumbling Covid enablers under Trump to proud Covid supporters today happened when the GOP started shifting gears this spring and summer. At the time, the good news regarding America's fight against Covid was cascading in, as cases and deaths plummeted in the U.S. The developments led Biden to announce, appropriately at the time, that the U.S stood poised to put the deadly pandemic in the past and fully reemerge to a normal way of life.
Then the Delta variant stormed our shores, sending cases upwards, creating renewed debates about mask-wearing and vaccine mandates. Sensing a political opening, the GOP made a decision to become the party that opposed vaccines, and to become pro-Covid — to do everything possible to extend the pandemic and block Biden's efforts to save lives and restart the economy.
In other words, the GOP eagerly adopted its role as the fifth column within the United States, working unapologetically to damage the country's health from within.
That's the ugly truth that the press ought to be telling.
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75 RANDOM FARMS KIDS ON BROADWAY
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"Random Farms kids are taking Broadway by storm...
Is there something in the water...?" [source: The Journal News]
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Random Farms is featured in a middle-grades book series called Stagestruck! Based on the real-life experiences of Founder and Executive Director, Anya Wallach.
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Members of the Kids Who Care, along with Producer Anya Wallach, made their national television debut on The FOX News Channel. The group was interviewed live, followed by a performance of the Kids Who Care theme song. Click here to see the segment.
DISNEY THEATRICALS CHOOSES RANDOM FARMS TO PILOT NEW PRODUCTION OF THE LITTLE MERMAID JR.
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WORLD OF DISNEY DVD SERIES ZIPPY AND FRIENDS CASTING CALL AT RANDOM FARMS
Two Random Farms kids are chosen to star in the project.
RANDOM FARMS KIDS AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
RFKT was selected to provide the children to play the Munchkins in the national touring production of The Wizard of Oz at Madison Square Garden.
" 'I worked so hard to get up to this moment,' said pretty Emily Trias, 12, of Hartsdale, Westchester County. And to perform at Madison Square Garden? I'm just so ecstatic." [source: The Daily News]
RANDOM FARMS ALUMNUS NOMINATED FOR TONY AWARD
Jennifer Damiano, who began performing with RFKT at age ten, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Next To Normal. Other Broadway credits include Spring Awakening and Spiderman.
"Random Farms was the perfect place to grow up performing. I was always impressed with the professionalism of the shows and the fact that every performer was treated with respect." - Jennifer Damiano
Read more about Jennifer's start at Random Farms.
RANDOM FARMS KIDS ON NBC'S TODAY IN NEW YORK
"What makes RFKT's workshops so unusual is the combination of both professionalism and fun."
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The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA): It is unlawful for an employer to refuse to hire; to discharge or to terminate; to refuse to select or to bar or discharge an employee from a training program leading to employment; or to discriminate against the person in compensation or in terms, conditions, or privileges of employment" because of the employee's marital status. California Government Code § 12940(a).
Marital status is defined as, "a(n) individual's state of marriage, non-marriage, divorce or dissolution, separation, widowhood, annulment, or other marital state." 2 California Code of Regulations § 11053. For example, an employer was found to have illegally discriminated when it refused to hire unmarried mothers because they were unmarried and single people because they were single as well as by denying maternity leave to unmarried mothers because they were unmarried. Chen v. County of Orange (2002) 96 Cal.App.4th 926, 940. Employers have also been found liable for discrimination when they have refused to promote an employee to the position of associate warden despite the many accolades he received over the years because the employee's wife was also an associate warden. The employer tried to justify the refusal to promote by intentionally misinterpreting an anti-nepotism policy.
Marital status does not protect against discrimination for being married to a particular person. The concept of marital status does not include the specific identity or actions of an individual worker's spouse. For example, though it may be unfair or unethical where an office worker was fired because his wife was an assistant district attorney involved in the conviction of his employer's first cousin for domestic violence, this is not marital status termination because the office worker was fired for who they were married to, not because they were married.
By the same token, employers who discharge employees that have known extramarital affairs are not technically discriminating on the basis of "marital status." Hope Internat. University v. Super. Ct. (Rouanzoin) (2004) 119 Cal.App.4th 719, 743.
In order to bring a claim for wrongful termination based on an employee's marital status, the employee needs to prove that the employee:
has a particular marital status, (i.e., engaged),
that the employee's job performance was satisfactory, or that the employee was qualified for the job which they were not hired for,
that the employee was terminated,
that individuals outside the protected class were treated more favorable or some other circumstances that suggest a discriminatory motive
Employers may not refuse to employ a husband or a wife simply because they are both working for the employer as a married couple. "California's marital status antidiscrimination laws are clear that marriage between two coworkers is not ipso facto (by the fact itself) a reason to get rid of one of them." Hope Internat. University v. Super. Ct. (Rouanzoin) (2004) 119 Cal.App.4th 719, 724, 743. Therefore, a university could not terminate two professors because they had gotten married to each other. Id.
While antidiscrimination laws forbid wrongful terminations of married individuals working for the same employer, "reasonable regulation" over the working of spouses in the same department is allowed. California Government Code § 12940(a)(3)(A). In addition, FEHA regulations state that the employer "shall make reasonable efforts to assign job duties so as to minimize problems of supervision, safety, security, or morale." 2 California Code of Regulations § 11057(b).
The choice of who to marry cannot be made by your employer. For example, an employer could not terminate a white employee who married an African American. Chen supra at 943. Likewise, employers could not terminate an employee who marries a person of the same sex/gender.
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Adult Painting Classes
Adult Painting Classes with Noreen Gaffney will commence in Drumsna Community Centre on Tuesday, April 16th, 8-10pm, to register or for further information contact Martina at 071 9625782.
Bingo continues in Drumsna Community Centre on Thursday night at 8.30 p.m
Please note change of Masses while St. Mary's Church, Annaduff is being refurbished as follows: Masses will now be celebrated in Drumsna Church: Monday evening 7 p.m. followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until 8 p.m. Holy Hour Duty: Maura Ward, Irene Beirne, Annie Cox, Kathleen McWeeney: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 9 a.m. Friday (7 p.m.). Saturday evening Vigil Mass 7 p.m. in Drumsna and the 11 a.m. Sunday Mass will be celebrated in Annaduff N.S.
The men and woman of Bornacoola GAA Club are preparing to strut their stuff on April 19th; all for a good cause. This is just one event in a list of exciting challenges they have set themselves as part of the club's fundraising endeavours for the coming season. Fashions will be supplied by shops on Longford, Carrick on Shannon and Athlone. Models will be our own home grown talent! See your favourite players as they put their best foot forward and walk the ramp! Music on the night with Tom Moran. Wine & Cheese reception and raffle. Tickets are priced at only €10 and are now available so dig deep and support this very worthwhile cause.
The Parish and G.A.A. Lotto took place in Coxs' Steakhouse, Dromod on Sunday. The winning numbers were 4, 11, 21, 22. There was no jackpot winner. The following won prizes. €50 was won by Patricia Reilly, Glebe. €25 prizes were won by: Damien Moylan, Drumsna, Mattie Cox, Annaduff, John Dowling, 3, Warren View, Dromod, Tim Shanley, Newtownforbes. Congratulations to our winners. Thanks to all who contributed. Thanks to T.P. and Eileen for hosting the draw. The next Lotto Draw will be held in Taylor's, Drumsna on Sunday, 21st April with a jackpot of €4,300.
Do this in memory of me (First Communion Programme) young people and their parents will be celebrating on Sunday next 14th April at 11 a.m. Mass in Annaduff National School. Practice in Annaduff School at 8 p.m. on this Thursday night.
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LOurdes Ardagh & Clonmacnois Pilgrimage (27th May - 01 June) - 5 nights - fully inclusive price €699. Places available. Contact Joe Walsh Tours, 143 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. Tel: 01 2410812.
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My Big Fat Italian Wedding Hangover
Caleb and his groomsmen pause for a "Best Boxer Shorts contest" on our deck, while Best Man, Justin, grabs one last handful of cheek from the betrothed. From the left, Nick, Justin, Caleb, Nate, Tom, Matt.
Deep breath. Okay, the "Big Fat Italian-like" wedding is in the books, a celebration that played out over several days. Oh the food and drink... back to back to back buffets at the Secret Garden capped off with lethal desserts... culinary excess that just about landed me in the hospital one night, though I suppose it could have been the beverage progression from beer to wine to margaritas...
Most of the Johnson side of the family showed up, including my older/smarter brother, Dan, his lovely wife, Elaine, nephews Darin and his wife, Tracey, and MOAB... better known as Maia, Owen, Anita, and Brent. It was a marvelous reunion, and I appreciate the effort made to get to Lovely Ouray!
The Johnsons seem to have a keen appreciation for the art and nuance behind all beverages fermented, including, but not limited to, hops, grapes, and cacti. Nephews Darin and Brent specialize in beer snobbery, describing microbrews as if they were fine French wines, "...I detect a subtle citrus undertone... short of fruity and yet moderately hoppy... to the edge of bitter, but not overdone, which makes for a smooth transition mouth to gullet. Lord, I have so much to learn...
I believe it was the fermented cacti (commonly known as tequila) that inspired a blathering monologue roast of son Caleb at the rehearsal dinner. I've been granted absolution, thanks to a renegotiation of the wedding gift, a new sum that was agreed would also count for absolution of dance floor antics of which I have only fuzzy memories. Judging from the photos, what felt like John Travolta in the moment, more resembled Pee Wee Herman. What can I say, just another intoxicated old fool taking a last stab at glory days through a psychogenic haze of beer, wine, and tequila.
"Roasting" the Groom at the rehearsal dinner.
Caleb and groomsman Nick... Cooking something up :)
My Bro Dan, nephew Brent, and yours truly.
May I present Mr and Mrs Johnson!!!
From the left, Kelli's parents, Jim and Joyce, Kelli, Caleb, Caleb's mom, Elane, her husband, Bill, Mark, and Bobbie. Note I even got a haircut for this affair... should last a good year! :)
Grampa Jim and Shea... Kelli's niece via her Sister, Morgan.
The Bridesmaids and Maid of Honor... and Caleb, giving his blessing :)
The bride and groom getting down on the dance floor
The day after... Still Smiling
Dear Kelli and Caleb, I must say, it was a smashing wedding... a home run! You two make such a handsome couple. I wish you both all the best and happiness, for you have earned it.
Live long. Live hard. Dream big.
A pre-wedding pedal up to Pleasant Valley Overlook...
In the vacuum after such a big wedding and celebration, Bobbie and I took a quiet stroll up Oak Creek Trail to relax and draw a deep breath. It's hard to believe the difference a few days can make this time of year... from corrals of aspen glowing like thousand watt torches, to bare branches stripped of leaves by a vicious wind that ushered in Ouray's first legitimate snowstorm of the season. Beauty to Beast, kinda like me.
When Autumn's leaves fall, so, too, does my spirit. Leaves on the ground signals the end of a glorious Rocky Mountain summer hiking season. It's like I'm the spoiled rotten two-year-old supermarket brat stalled in a checkout line... the gimme more kid that grabs for all the glittering impulse items.
Fall was truly spectacular this year, a seasonal sensory kaleidoscope that danced a jig on every single receptor in my body. If I could just freeze the season in place, that time when "every leaf's a flower," extend Ms Autumn's radiant sun as it arcs low across our colorful, peak-studded horizon. I'm with George Eliot, "Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
Bobbie and I worked hard to realize our dreams; we all do. We are fortunate and grateful to have lived to see most of them bear fruit, especially the one at the top of the "bucket-list, which was to quit jobs and embrace the freedom of (semi) retirement. We have roamed coast to coast/border to border, experienced the physical and cultural wonders of America. I recall with fondness and gratitude the year we chased Ms Autumn from Bar Harbor, Maine to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, living months on end in a perpetual vortex of color. After surviving a couple recent brushes with the Grim Reaper, I've taken to sporting a "Life is Good" ball cap as a daily reminder to appreciate every single minute, every single breath, all the nooks and crannies we've found, the good friends made, and the luck of landing in Lovely Ouray.
I write this column from a boondock camp in The Klondike, an area that borders the fins and bobble-heads of Arches National Park in eastern Utah. A surreal vista of red rock monoliths silhouette against a fiery sunrise. The scene stirs the coals of my wanderlust, re-enflames my spirit to not waste a minute... to explore and venture out amid the natural wonders that are within easy reach of Lovely Ouray. Ms Autumn may have all but departed the San Juans, but she is on the rise here; Rabbit brush, top-hatted in ocherous yellow. Deformed cottonwoods—caught in a life and death struggle against dry-wash aridity with limbs drooped and twisted like boneless chicken wings. They resemble gnarly-barked ghouls and remind me that life is tenuous.
Utah extends Ms Autumn's visit. She renews my spirit like a shot of brandy after a sumptuous feast, and reminds me that Life is still Good.
One of my Panorama shots enlarged to 16" X 60." Shooting south from near the summit of Mount Abram.
Sue Malone October 10, 2016 at 9:54 AM
Ahh, you are there, in Utah....makes my heart soar. Lovely Ouray is lovely, and I so want to hike there someday, but well....red rock country holds my soul. That was a great wedding. Actually brought tears to my eyes, and reminded me of the wedding I attended omigod 2 years ago with my friend in Vermont. Wonderful weddings between two people who have finally "found" each other and their families can be an amazing experience. Congrats to all.
Congratulations to Caleb & Kelli!
Chris and Mindy October 10, 2016 at 3:41 PM
Looks and sounds like it was a great weekend! Now off to the Red Rocks adventures. Stay safe and say hi to the gang for us.
Andre October 10, 2016 at 4:11 PM
Wishing Kelli & Caleb all the best for the road ahead and may their dreams all come true!
Thanks for the paragraph reminding us why we quit our 9 to 5 chains and choose instead to wander the crags and gullies.
Oh.... I am soooo jealous of your wandering spirit and ability to hike and bike and climb! For me, I would need a horse to see these sights! I will continue to live vicariously through your blog for now however. The wedding was one for the books and will bring fond and treasured memories for years to come! We are both so very lucky to have raised such wonderful kids/adults who found each other when it was the right time! We are truly blessed!
Box Canyon Blog.com October 11, 2016 at 5:48 AM
I couldn't agree more, Joyce.
John and Pam (ohtheplacestheygo.wordpress.com) October 10, 2016 at 7:24 PM
Looks like a wonderful wedding celebration:) Great photos! Enjoy Moab! Love, love that place! Beautiful panorama photo, Mark! I can only imagine how spectacular it is in person:)
John Q October 10, 2016 at 7:34 PM
What fun getting the family together in Ouray for such a special wedding. Best Wishes and happiness to the bride and groom.
Dawn October 11, 2016 at 4:21 AM
Congratulations on the family wedding It looked beautiful. It's only beginning to be autumn here in Michigan...well down here in the lower peninsula anyway. I'm sure the UP is much further along. Last year at this time we were in peak color, so you can never tell. I love your photographs and writing. You're making me give in to my own wanderlust. Love Utah and haven't been there in many many years. Can't imagine how wonderful it would be to boondock near Arches. Stretches the imagination. Thanks for that.
Metamorphosis Lisa October 11, 2016 at 8:01 AM
Congrats to the young newlyweds...may they follow your words of wisdom re:living life to the fullest!
Suzanne October 11, 2016 at 9:16 AM
Congratulations to Kelli and Caleb! Their celebration looks like a lovely way to kick off what I trust will be a lifetime of joy together.
Box Canyon Blog.com October 11, 2016 at 5:01 PM
many pools hike
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A Sunny Hike in the Klondike Bike-trail Area
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday Anniversary Ride......
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This map, published in Berlin in July 1916, shows the Turkish theater of World War I. It is based on an 1884 map in French of the Asian provinces of the Ottoman Empire by German geographer and cartographer Heinrich Kiepert (1818–99). The map contains additional notes in German and its coverage of existing and projected railroads is updated to 1916. The Ottoman territories, shown in pink, include present-day Turkey, Cyprus, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, as well as Saudi Arabia. The Ottoman Empire, or Turkey as it was also known, entered the war on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary and against Great Britain, France, and Russia in October 1914. Among the places indicated on the map is Gallipoli, the site of a bitter battle between Turkish and British, French, and Allied forces that took place between April 25, 1915, and January 9, 1916. A red line marks the Dodecanese Islands and surrounding seas, which were seized from the Ottoman Empire by Italy in 1912 during the Italian-Turkish War over Libya, and which were used as a staging area for the British and French fleets in the Gallipoli campaign. The table in the lower left provides the names of geographical features in Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Greek, and three Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Serbian, and Russian) and their equivalents in French.
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Leica M9 at a glance:
18.5 million effective pixels
230,000-pixel, 2.5in LCD screen
Brightlines for 28-135mm
2fps continuous shooting
Three-mode shutter release including 'discreet' and 'soft' mode
Street price around £4,850
Leica M9 – Introduction
In the beginning, there was the Leica M3. Released in 1954, the M3 was Leica's first M-mount rangefinder, and offered significant improvements in features and ergonomics over earlier screw-mount models. As well as an all-new bayonet lens mount, the M3 was the first Leica to feature automatic brightline frames in its viewfinder, and the first to integrate the viewfinder and the rangefinder into a single window.
The M3, and the later M-series cameras, revolutionised 35mm photography and greatly contributed to Leica's reputation among professionals as well as wealthy amateurs.
The M9 isn't the first digital Leica rangefinder – that honor goes to the M8 of 2006 – but it is the first to offer a full-frame CCD sensor, which means there is no increase in the effective focal length of compatible optics.
The M8 was an intriguing 'first try', but one with significant faults, most notably a remarkably noisy shutter and the need to use a special IR blocking filter on every lens it is coupled with. The shutter was hushed a little in the upgraded M8.2, which also featured a tougher LCD screen, but the cropped sensor remained a sticking point for many Leica enthusiasts.
And these Leica enthusiasts have been waiting a long time: it is worth remembering that 'serious' DLSRs started to become affordable for enthusiast photographers around ten years ago. A decade on, the Leica M9 is the first full-frame digital camera designed for the M-mount user. As such, it has a lot to live up to.


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The main thing that anyone interested in blackjack how to play blackjack requires is the ability to be patient, have persistence, and enough concentration to apply any of his or her strategies. The house-advantage can be reduced to less than 1% in this game, and the secret lies in knowing when to hit; stand; double down; and split pairs. A little extra time spent in learning these basic strategies will help players make their money go a lot further when playing at online casinos.
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The quickly growing field of mechanobiology needs for reproducible and robust characterization of cell mechanical properties
On January 2, 2021	by Elmer Brooks	With	0 Comments	- p56lck
The quickly growing field of mechanobiology needs for reproducible and robust characterization of cell mechanical properties. al., 2016; and analyzed in Rajagopalan and Saif, 2011; Zheng and Zhang, 2011; Polacheck et al., 2013), for software in many interdisciplinary areas of research, such as biophysics, biomedicine, cells engineering, and materials science. Here, we will summarize the latest improvements in the research part of cell biomechanics, and we will focus on the modern technological approaches and mechanical testing systems developed in the last decade by combining theoretical, experimental, and numerical models, for pursuing a realistic description of cell mechanical behavior. First, we will expose the founded techniques and available tools, highlighting the variations between NSC 663284 active and passive activation methods. We will provide a brief description of atomic pressure microscopy (AFM) and AFM-derived methods, and then we will explore thoroughly the tweezing methods, including optical, magnetic and acoustic tweezers. Also, we will format the part of microengineered NSC 663284 platforms, such as Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, micro/nanopillars, microfluidic products, and hydrogel stretching methods (highlighting the underlying technology and mathematical modeling) for cellular pressure measurements. Finally, we will critically discuss the future outlooks of such technological tools and the difficulties that still need to be resolved to understand the structural and mechanical difficulty of living cells. Classification Measuring causes in the cellCextracellular matrix (ECM) interface is a critical aspect for fully understanding cellCECM relationships and how the ECM regulates cellular function. It has boosted the introduction of technological platforms achieving force measurements on the subcellular and cellular scale. You'll be able to separate these technology in two wide types: (i) energetic stimulation strategies, which measure cell response to mechanised drive program, and (ii) unaggressive stimulation methods, that Mouse monoclonal to CD16.COC16 reacts with human CD16, a 50-65 kDa Fcg receptor IIIa (FcgRIII), expressed on NK cells, monocytes/macrophages and granulocytes. It is a human NK cell associated antigen. CD16 is a low affinity receptor for IgG which functions in phagocytosis and ADCC, as well as in signal transduction and NK cell activation. The CD16 blocks the binding of soluble immune complexes to granulocytes may only sense mechanised pushes generated by cells without applying any exterior drive. Mechanical cell replies to exterior inputs have already been examined using energetic single-cell manipulation strategies generally, such as for example: basic?? Atomic drive microscopy (AFM) (Lam et al., 2011): AFM depends on microcantilevers to induce a deformation in the cell. In the deflection from the cantilever, you'll be able to measure regional mechanised properties also to generate maps over the cell surface area.simple?? Tweezing strategies, which encompass three primary techniques. basic?C Optical tweezers (OTs) (Galbraith et al., 2002): OTs depend on a laser to make a potential well for trapping little objects within a precise area. Optical tweezers may be used to micromanipulate cells aswell as intracellular elements (i.e., organelles) and quantitatively gauge the binding drive of an individual cell to different types of ECM substrates (Guck et al., 2001; Wang et al., 2005), or even to evaluate physical connections between subcellular buildings (Sparkes et al., 2018)basic?C Magnetic tweezers (MTs) (Hu et al., 2004): the unit rely on the usage of magnetic microbeads. Magnetic areas are created either by movable long lasting magnets or by electromagnets (Ziemann et al., 1994).basic?C Acoustic tweezers (ATs) (Guo et al., 2015): ATs can manipulate natural samples using audio waves with low strength power and low effect on cell viability, and with no need for any intrusive get in touch with, tagging, or biochemical labeling.In the passive methods, the primary goal may be the evaluation of cell-generated forces using flexible substrates: simple?? Microengineered systems: they are microfabricated systems, including both silicon-based gadgets (micro-electro-mechanical systems, MEMS) created through integrated circuit processing processes, aswell as elastomeric (i.e., polydimethylsiloxane, PDMS) gadgets produced through reproduction molding (Tan et al., 2003; Kim et al., 2009).simple?? Traction Force Microscopy (TFM): TFM exploits elastic substrates with known mechanical properties and fluorescence/confocal microscopy. In its unique version, cells were cultured on flexible silicone bedding with different compliance. During cell action, silicone patterns wrinkled and this could be visualized under a light microscope (Harris et al., 1980). An development of this method implies the use of flexible sheets with inlayed beads. Positions of the beads are tracked during the experiments and cell-generated NSC 663284 foces are derived from the analysis of bead displacement field (Lee et al., 1994).A summary of the available techniques with a brief description of their advantages and disadvantages, their range of detection, and a simple sketch is reported in Table ?Table11. Table 1 Summary of the most relevant techniques for cell mechanical characterization. cell wall were two orders of magnitude lower than those acquired by micromanipulation studies. The authors ascribed such discrepancies to the use of mathematical models that are improper to fit the experimental data. In fact, the classical Hertz-Sneddon model, based on the assumption that the whole cell is a homogeneous material, does not hold for tissues with a complex hierarchical structure. The problem was solved by implementing a new FEM-based model, which considered the yeast cell.


Electric Solar Sail Concept Introduction
By Marc Boucher
Filed under Electric Solar Sail, NASA, NASA Hack Space, NIAC
Electric Solar Sail Concept
The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program recently selected several concepts for further study including the Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System (HERTS), an electric solar sail concept.
The concept is led by Bruce Wiegmann of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
Here's how he describes the mission.
"Our Electric Sail (E-sail) propulsion team is excited to propose to the 2015 NAIC Phase II solicitation. Our international team includes: the inventor and patent holder of the E-Sail propulsion system (Dr. Pekka Janhunen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), the Principal Investigator for NASA's previous Tether Satellite System experiments that were flown on the Space Shuttle (Dr. Nobie Stone), fellow NASA NAIC former and present Fellow Dr. Rob Hoyt of Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI), and Utah State University team lead by Dr. Robert Schunk. Our proposal builds upon our teams technical findings in Phase 1 – "that an E-Sail propelled spacecraft can travel 100 AU in less than 10 years or to the Heliopause (120 – 150 AU) in < 15 years". In addition to the Heliopause missions, our team member - Dr. Pekka Janhunen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) - has examined a number of missions of scientific discovery where the E-Sail propulsion system will provide rapid transits so various researchers could begin to get data back from outer planetary missions within 1 to 2 years of launch."
Marc Boucher
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