While in the embassy, he discussed secret matters related to U.S. His position put him in contact with Soviet officials at their embassy in Washington, D.C. As a CIA agent and later a CIA official, Ames was responsible for, among other things, recruiting Soviet officials to do undercover work for the United States. As a double agent, Ames sold secrets to Moscow from 1985 to the end of the Cold War and beyond. The exploits of Aldrich Hazen Ames brought security problems within the CIA to the fore. These reforms only addressed the tip of larger, underlying problems. The DOD also reduced the number of classified documents in order to limit the number of remaining security clearances. department of defense (DOD) had to withdraw security clearances from approximately 2 million military and civilian personnel worldwide. The armed forces frantically scrapped and rebuilt their entire communications system, at a cost to taxpayers of nearly $1 billion. The ring's ample opportunity to exploit the lax security of the Navy left a legacy of damage. Jerry Whitworth received a sentence of 365 years for stealing and selling Navy coding secrets (upheld in United States v. Like John Walker, he was sentenced to a life term in federal prison. His conviction was affirmed in United States v. Arthur Walker was convicted of espionage in Norfolk, Virginia. He was able to reach a plea bargain under which he was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. Michael Walker pleaded guilty to aiding in the supply of classified documents to the Soviets. He was sentenced to a life term in federal prison, with eligibility for Parole in ten years. He claimed that he had become an undercover informant for the thrill of it, rather than for the money. John Walker pleaded guilty to three counts of espionage. The Walker ring also sold the Soviets classified material concerning Yuri Andropov, secretary general of the Communist party until 1984 the Soviet shooting of a Korean Airlines jet in 1983 and U.S. Navy that allowed the Soviets to decipher over a million Navy messages. Whitworth, supplied the Soviets with confidential U.S. history was uncovered in the late 1980s with the exposure of the Walker spy ring, which operated from 1967 to 1985. One of the most damaging instances of criminal espionage in U.S. Sometimes a foreign power is successful in procuring U.S. Other nations do the same, seeking to recruit CIA agents or others who will betray sensitive information. The CIA also attempts to recruit foreign agents to work on behalf of U.S. The CIA protects national security interests by spying on foreign governments. § 402 et seq.) to conduct covert activity. espionage is the CIA, created by the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C.A. Many of these activities remain secret in order to protect national interests and reputations. Attachés have worked toward the subversion of governments, the destabilization of economies, and the assassination of declared enemies. These "attachés" collect intelligence secrets about the armed forces of their host country. Since the late nineteenth century, nations have allowed each other to station so-called military attachés in their overseas embassies. However, espionage blunders can receive national attention, jeopardizing the security of the nation and the lives of individuals.Įspionage is unlikely to disappear. The general public never hears of espionage activities that are carried out correctly. This gathering of intelligence benefited competing nations that wished to stay one step ahead of each other. Through much of the twentieth century, international agreements implicitly accepted espionage as a natural political activity. government secrets to other nations.ĭespite its illegal status, espionage is commonplace. Criminal espionage involves betraying U.S. Federal law prohibits espionage when it jeopardizes the national defense or benefits a foreign nation (18 U.S.C.A. In the United States, the organization that heads most activities dedicated to espionage is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).Įspionage, commonly known as spying, is the practice of secretly gathering information about a foreign government or a competing industry, with the purpose of placing one's own government or corporation at some strategic or financial advantage. It can involve the analysis of diplomatic reports, publications, statistics, and broadcasts, as well as spying, a clandestine activity carried out by an individual or individuals working under secret identity to gather classified information on behalf of another entity or nation. The act of securing information of a military or political nature that a competing nation holds secret.
0 Comments
Or even jumping if you set the power very high. The robot will not balance, resulting in possible unstable behaviors like wobbly driving, When set_stabilization(false) and you power the motors, Stabilization is normally on to keep the robot upright using the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU),Ī combination of readings from the Accelerometer (directional acceleration), Gyroscope (rotation speed),Īnd Encoders (location and distance). Turns the stabilization system on and set_stabilization(false) turns it off. Note: Unlike official API, performance of spin is guaranteed, but may be longer than the specified duration. Use set_speed() prior to spin() to have the robot move in circle or an arc or circle. Spins the robot for a given number of degrees over time, with 360° being a single revolution.įor example, to spin the robot 360° over 1s, use: spin(360, 1). For example, use set_heading(90) to face right. set_heading ( heading: int ) ¶Īssuming you aim the robot with the blue tail light facing you, then 0° is forward, 90° is right,Ģ70° is left, and 180° is backward. Sets the speed to zero to stop the robot, effectively the same as the set_speed(0) command. Per second reported by the motor encoders. You can also read the real-time velocity value in centimeters Which persists until you set a different speed. For example, use set_speed(188) to set the speed to 188 Ollie is almost three times faster than Sphero. Each robot type translates this value differently into a real world speed Sets the speed of the robot from -255 to 255, where positive speed is forward, negative speed is backward,Īnd 0 is stopped. SpheroEduAPI roll ( heading: int, speed: int, duration: float ) ¶Ĭombines heading(0-360°), speed(-255-255), and duration to make the robot roll with one line of code.įor example, to have the robot roll at 90°, at speed 200 for 2s, use roll(90, 200, 2) set_speed ( speed: int ) ¶ For example, if you set heading = 0°, speed = 60, duration = 3s, the robot would roll forward for 3s at a moderate speed. Sphero robots move with three basic instructions: heading, speed, and duration. You can use sequential movement commands by separating them with line breaks, like the Hello World! program. Without it, humans would not have inhabited every corner of this planet.Movements control the robot’s motors and control system. Risk-taking, leaping, trying again, and failing are part of our genetic material. Go #BeyondCode and enrich your learning experience with engaging STEAM activities that foster creativity and collaboration. But what if we allow students to fail in a safe space and make learning a personal endeavor? Oftentimes we can see failure, particularly in exams, as negative - one of the worst things we can allow students to experience. Without it, humans would not have inhabited every corner of this planet. STEM skills grant students the 21st-century abilities needed to perform a wide range of both essential and highly-skilled jobs. STEM teaching is the hands-on exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics concepts, and it’s becoming an increasingly important part of modern-day education. Critical thinkers can solve problems by keeping a clear mind and rational thoughts that will help you analyze a situation and make a sound decision. That’s the basic process of critical thinking. Using information available, combined with skills acquired, can help make good decisions. Sphero makes remarkably cool, programmable robots and STEAM-based educational tools that transform the way kids learn, create and invent through coding, science, music, and the arts. But instead of serving as the core of your character's being, they serve as pools for gambling. You have three attributes: might, speed, and intellect. Second, you can gamble your attribute points to improve chances on skill checks. First, it creates interesting failure states most of the time, using its writing to push your goals down a different paths, instead of just closing the door. Normally I dislike percentage-based skill checks in games, as they encourage save scumming, but Torment gets around this cleverly in two ways. Torment uses a similar system for both combat and problem-solving outside of combat, where, based on your skills (like Quick Fingers or Lore: Machinery) you have a certain percentage chance of accomplishing your goals. Happily, it makes those options legitimate decisions instead of simplistic "pacifism good, violence bad." I tried to play as a relatively moral character, which put me into combat more often than expected, largely because refusing it would have meant supporting cruel and amoral characters. This sounds complicated, and perhaps it is but fortunately, combat is both easy and relatively rare, so it's more like a flavor to the game than something to worry about mastering.Ĭombat-called a "crisis" here because they can be resolved through dialogue as well as violence-is rare because, like its role-playing inspirations, Torment wants to provide you with options for dealing with inevitable conflict. For example, instead of conventional damage effects like fire or ice, you can add transdimensional or chemical damage to spells and weapons. Taking the game as it comes is also helpful mechanically, as Tides of Numenera is freed of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons systems that limited its predecessor Placescape. Most of the story involves figuring out what's going on, from "who am I?" and "what is this place?" early on to higher-order mysteries like "why do I exist?" and "what the hell is this giant organic monster that houses entire cities?" It's great advice for your player character, the "Last Castoff"-the leftover body of a Changing God who switches hosts every decade or so-who starts the game off on an alien world, in an amnesiac haze. "Go with the flow" is especially good advice for Torment in a variety of different ways. What makes a great RPG is being able to or say whatever you might want to, and the game accepts and even encourages that. It's the dream of freedom of choice, as promised by Torment's predecessor Planescape: Torment as well as games like the Fallout and Deus Ex series. It's the sort of game where you're given a set of choices, every single choice seems viable, and the game responds and validates the choice you made. At times, Torment: Tides of Numenera feels like the perfect role-playing game. In both Nigeria and Togo, a key barrier to men’s involvement in FP was the common thinking among the male participants that FP is the woman’s domain. That said, while the Togo study demonstrated common misperceptions around FP among men, there were also clear socioeconomic motivations that led men to consider (or use) FP. Recent qualitative studies from Nigeria and Togo demonstrate that men want and expect to be part of the decision-making process about family size and childbearing. In addition, spousal discussion of family planning has been found to be significantly related to male engagement and contraceptive uptake in varying contexts. The Malawi Male Motivator project is an example of a peer-led program that used a randomized evaluation design to demonstrate that engaging men and promoting couple communication lead to greater reported family planning uptake among men. Finally, emerging areas for reaching men included mobile health interventions (mHealth), hotlines, and engaging religious leaders. Community dialogue and mass/social media can address men’s knowledge and attitudes as well as community norms, whereas, clinic-level activities generally focus on access to methods. Promising activities included community dialogue (i.e., community engagement), mass and social media, and clinic-level provision of information and services. Social marketing generally increases men’s access to contraceptives whereas outreach by male motivators can improve men’s knowledge and attitudes, address community norms around FP use, as well as increase access to methods. Among the programs identified, those that were considered “proven” (i.e., strong evidence) included social marketing and outreach with male motivators/peer educators. Notably, an identified gap in the review was the need for more robust evaluations of programs that target men. Finally, Hardee and colleagues recently reviewed 47 interventions that reached men as users/clients (for condoms, vasectomy, withdrawal, and Standard Days Method) to provide recommendations to strengthen FP programming for men. A more recent review of evidence of changing gender norms among men to improve reproductive health outcomes demonstrates that programs that use a gender-transformative approach (i.e., promote gender-equitable relationships between women and men) and those that include multiple components were the most successful. The studies at the time of the review demonstrated that men’s involvement was related to men’s positive support for women’s contraceptive use and that men were not necessarily a barrier to use. One earlier review of evaluations of men’s involvement in sexual and reproductive health programs demonstrated that 10 years after the 1994 ICPD conference there was still little programmatic engagement of men and few evaluations of interventions engaging men in sexual and reproductive health programs. Several systematic reviews have examined programs targeting men to identify effective strategies for engaging men as partners and strategies to improve men’s own reproductive health needs. The evidence on male targeted FP programs has evolved over time. Programs that involve men can increase spousal communication frequency, address gender inequitable norms, and lead to greater FP use. Engaging men is particularly important given that husbands and male partner opposition are often given as reasons for contraceptive non-use by women. Following the 1994 ICPD meeting, there was increasing attention to engaging men as partners to increase couple communication and encourage men’s support for women’s FP decision-making. Prior to the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), family planning (FP) efforts almost exclusively focused on delivery of clinical services to women. The third step would be adding complete rolls. As step #2, add the chords or left-hand fingering as provided by the tab, but still just play the melody. Generally, you will find the melody notes in the first position (possibly the 5th as well) in every measure, but since syncopation (that is, shifted melody notes) is so frequent in bluegrass banjo, that rule applies only very loosely. For that purpose, you can switch off the banjo track in your Tabledit viewer and play along the rhythm track. My own arrangements usually contain more than one break, and many of them contain/are an up-the-neck break.īluegrass banjo tablatures learning tipsIf you are a beginner banjo player, I recommend that you start a new song or tune by learning to play the bare melody first, rhythmically on time. All my 5-string banjo tabs are written for 3-finger picking, mostly in Scruggs style however, styles may vary and often comprise passages in melodic style. on this site can be acoustically reviewed before downloading. In case you do modify a tab and redistribute it, please ADD your name to the credits in the tablature's 'notes' field.Īll the banjo tabs. Remember, though, not to be a tab slave, that is, feel free to modify any tab to suit your personal anatomy / musical preference. For my background as a banjo player/composer/transcriber, see my biographical notes.īanjo tabs are a great way of getting to know and analyzing somebody else's playing style, and getting inspiration from it. Tablatures for 5-string banjoWelcome to, a website offering quality tablatures for 5-string banjo bluegrass style in Tabledit format. S-tier monsters are typically harder to find and capture than lower-tiered ones. This means that these monsters are not only powerful, but they're also versatile and can hold their own against just about any opponent.
Next comes the obligatory spa regimen: a three-step enzyme wash followed by a deep groove vacuuming with two record cleaning machines, one of them an $8,000 Odyssey RCM MKV, an instrument the size of an airline beverage cart handcrafted by persnickety Germans. The painstaking process begins by scouring the used market-from Salvation Army bins to eBay-for a dozen or more clean copies of an album. It's preferable to have a record pressed early in a production run, before the metal exhibits signs of wear, rather than toward the end, right before a fresh stamper is slapped on. In contrast, during the peak of the vinyl boom, major labels churned out as many as 10,000 copies on a single stamper. To ensure the best sound quality, some boutique companies that press heavy vinyl today limit their stampers to 1,000 pressings. The accumulation of scratches, flaws, and other damage resulting from the tremendous mechanical stress a stamper is subjected to-100 tons of pressure during a production run-leads to a gradual loss of audio fidelity in the finished records. Like any metal die, these molds have a finite lifespan. One factor many serious record collectors fixate on is the quality of the stampers, the grooved metal plates used to press a lump of hot vinyl into a record album. It’s easy to learn more about a specific artist, view their entire discography, see album tracklists or song lengths, and even snag copies of an album in a matter of a few easy clicks.Hundreds of factors determine what a vintage record will sound like, from the chain of ownership and whether it's been properly stored to the purity of the vinyl stock and the quality of the equipment that produced it. The site’s Database is an amazing place to explore artists across all genres and styles of music and scour the latest trending releases. It’s also the closest you’re going to get to duplicating the in-store shopping experience because it’s run hive-mind-style by the hundreds of thousands of users that love the site. Hands down, Discogs is the best online resource for buying vinyl, thanks to its enormous Database and international Marketplace. Comprehensive and International: Discogs Discogs We recommend having a list on hand of the artists or genres you’re interested in to make things easier-unless you’re just window shopping, which we totally get. Individual vinyl shops tend to specialize in a handful of genres, rather than offer a more generalized selection as well. Rare and out-of-print records will cost more than those that are still in print. While browsing records online, keep in mind that selection and pricing will vary by store, so if you’re hip on finding a good deal, you might want to shop around a bit. This way you can have a fuss-free listening session and keep your vinyl clean and properly stored in between sessions. Whether you’re brand new to vinyl or thinking about dusting off your trusted old turntable, you’ll want to ensure your record player is in working condition and that you have all the proper accessories for your setup. Online shopping also makes it easier to listen to the songs before you buy the record-a feature that not every record shop offers to customers. And while it’s always fun to dig through a store’s selection on your own, shopping for vinyl online grants you access to a huge selection all at once, instead of having to trek to three or four stores to find a particular record. Some of the places we’ve listed do have a brick-and-mortar shop along in addition to an online store. And others prefer the streamlined convenience of shopping online as it makes it easy to find the exact records we’re looking for in a matter of minutes. Some like to skip buying their own vinyl and leave the hard work to a vinyl subscription box that picks and ships records to them each month. Some like the tactile experience of spending hours in a store with other music enthusiasts, digging through the crates, and hoping to stumble upon a rare LP. Great for Funk, Soul, Reggae, and Jazz: DustyGrooveĮvery vinyl enthusiast has a preference on where to shop for vinyl. Specializes in Classical Vinyl: Presto Classical World's Largest Independent Record Store: Amoeba Music Pngquant is a command-line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images. ↓ 04 – pngquant | Windows | macOS | Linux
Rin, in turn, harassed Nakamura until he had a nervous breakdown and resigned his post. Such was the case when the original teacher of class 3-1, Nakamura, bullied Mimi until she decided to stay home from school. The bond between the three girls grew so intimate over time, in fact, that each became willing to do anything to help, protect, or defend the other two without hesitation. Though initially treated as a living doll by Kuro, the latter's attempt to remove one of Aki's homemade dresses triggered a reaction in Rin for the first time. Over the next two years, Rin's personality and reputation experienced a dramatic shift: she went from being silent and emotionless to the rebellious, de facto leader of her class who would not hesitate to stand up to adults by using her intelligence and exploiting her status as an "innocent" minor to outsmart and outmaneuver them. Rin, still in her stuporic state, entered Futatsubashi Elementary School, where she was grouped together with the two other "class misfits", Kuro Kagami and Mimi Usa, during a physical education class, which marked the beginning of their association. The event was so traumatic that Rin became a silent and emotionless girl. Rin, who had been folding paper cranes incessantly in the hopes that Aki would recover if she made enough of them, was at her mother's side during her last moments. Though normally shy around strangers, she immediately warmed up to Reiji Kokonoe (Rin's first cousin once removed) when he moved in with them after being orphaned, and accepted the relationship that developed between her mother and him. Her joy at finally having a complete family to call her own, however, was short-lived: Aki was diagnosed with lung cancer, and, while she tried to stay alive long enough to see her daughter enter first grade, died several months later. Born and raised by Aki Kokonoe (Rin's single mother) for the first five years of her life, Rin was an affectionate and happy child. Rin Kokonoe (九重 りん Kokonoe Rin) is a mischievously precocious young girl in class 4-1 (originally 3-1) at Futatsubashi Elementary School. This Article Contains Content From Wikipedia. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |