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Revel noticed a loophole as a chance for a brand new ridehail service. New York Metropolis is completely furious

2021-05-03 23:37:09

Revel, extra generally identified for its fleets of rental mopeds, plans to launch a ridehail service in New York Metropolis subsequent month. Its effort is simply the most recent chapter of enterprise capital-backed transportation startups utilizing authorized grey areas or loopholes so as to add extra autos to streets.
US cities have grown accustomed to startups arriving with automobiles, buses, bikes or scooters and grand guarantees of bettering transportation. Uber and Lyft spoke of ending automotive possession and making cities higher locations to dwell. As an alternative, streets ended up extra congested, and extra polluted. Public transit ridership fell nationwide as Uber and Lyft attracted transit riders with enterprise fashions that sponsored rides and burned by billions. Neither firm has reported a revenue but.
Taxi speeds in Manhattan’s midtown core dipped to a glacial 5 mph in 2017, slower than the streetcars and horses and buggies of yesteryear. New York Metropolis cracked down on Uber and Lyft in 2018, quickly blocking any new for-hire automobile licenses. Town’s ridehail driver inhabitants had swelled to 80,000, and in addition to the visitors downside it impacted taxi driver earnings.
“Our metropolis is straight confronting a disaster that’s driving working New Yorkers into poverty and our streets into gridlock. The unchecked development of app-based for-hire automobile corporations has demanded motion,” Mayor Invoice de Blasio mentioned on the time.
Town’s restrictions had been prolonged a 12 months later. However the guidelines left an exemption for electrical autos, to encourage already licensed drivers to transition to inexperienced modes.

Now Revel seems decided to grab on that exemption in a manner regulators did not intend. On Wednesday Revel introduced its plan for a ridehailing service in a part of Manhattan.

Revel CEO Frank Reig informed CNN Enterprise he expects to develop to different markets, however is specializing in New York Metropolis, the place the corporate is predicated, initially. Revel’s enterprise mannequin activates its head the strategy of ridehail giants Uber and Lyft. Revel’s drivers will likely be workers with advantages, and they’re going to drive Revel-owned electrical autos, slightly their very own gas-powered automobiles.

“That is as a lot of a slam dunk for town administration and the [Taxi & Limousine Commission] as it may be,” Reig mentioned. “When it comes to metropolis administration targets and TLC targets, and what they’d like rideshare corporations to do, we’re doing all the things.”

Town is not satisfied.

“TLC capped for-hire autos as a result of provide already exceeds demand. The electrical battery exemption exists to encourage already-licensed automobiles to go inexperienced, to not flood an already saturated market or to disenfranchise the Yellow Taxi sector in Manhattan. This ride-share scheme deviates from the spirit of these guidelines,” New York Metropolis’s Taxi & Limousine Fee Chair Aloysee Heredia Jarmoszuk mentioned in an announcement.

New York Metropolis’s mayor’s workplace informed CNN Enterprise that electrical for-hire autos are nonetheless for-hire autos, and the TLC has an obligation to guard the market.

Revel’s Reig struck a extra optimistic tone in an interview with CNN Enterprise, and spoke confidently of launching the service subsequent month.

“We’re precisely the place we have to be in that course of,” Reig mentioned. “We have now our base license quantity, it has been delivered to us from the TLC.”

A TLC spokesman known as Reig’s wording “artistic,” and mentioned that candidates are assigned a quantity firstly of the appliance for administrative comfort, not as a milestone of progress on the appliance.

Revel mentioned in an announcement to CNN Enterprise that it has been informed by the TLC to start affiliating autos with the bottom quantity, a step that the TLC web site says solely occurs upon utility approval.

A TLC spokesman mentioned Revel has an inaccurate interpretation of what it has been offered and informed.

Reig informed CNN Enterprise that Revel is doing all the things town administration and TLC needs of ridehail corporations. The TLC declined to touch upon the declare. Reig describes Revel’s product because the “rideshare of the longer term.”

“We’re launching with 100% electrical autos. We’re truly using New Yorkers versus pushing asset deprecation, insurance coverage threat, pushing that each one down on New York Metropolis residents attempting to make a dwelling,” Reig mentioned.

Drivers will likely be paid a base wage of $15 an hour. Reig mentioned he expects pay will likely be nearer to $20 an hour following ideas and bonuses.

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Covid-19 vaccine: Confusion reigns over how and when to get jab

A woman receives a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine during the first rollout in Australia at the Castle Hill Medical Centre in Sydney on February 21, 2021.

2021-05-05 03:07:42

Medical doctors are being inundated with requests from over 65s who thought they might get their vaccine from this week – however cannot.

A woman receives a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine during the first rollout in Australia at the Castle Hill Medical Centre in Sydney on February 21, 2021.

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The federal government’s roll out plan says group 3 might be vaccinated “from Could” – that’s over 65s who don’t fall into earlier teams, and folks with circumstances that make them extra prone to Covid-19.

However the Ministry of Well being says for many within the group of 1.7 million, the call-ups wouldn’t start till the top of the month.

Auckland GP John Cameron stated his surgical procedure was flat out doing flu jabs and nearly everybody was asking about Covid-19 too.

There was a number of confusion, with many understandably assuming being eligible “from Could” meant from the beginning of the month.

“From a punter’s perspective, they wish to know – am I going to get a vaccine, how am I going to learn that I’m going to get a vaccine – is it coming within the mail, is it coming from the DHB, is it coming from the ministry, is it coming from my normal practitioner?” he stated.

It was irritating that the majority GPs knew little greater than their sufferers did, he stated.

His surgical procedure was contemplating sending out an costly all-patient textual content.

“Simply to say, ‘guys, we are going to let you realize as quickly as we all know however we do not know in the mean time’,” he stated.

Different GP surgical procedures from Auckland to Invercargill have advised RNZ they’ve additionally been overwhelmed with requests.

Each DHB was doing issues in another way – with the ministry setting the general technique.

In Northland, for instance, they had been already rolling out to over 50s.

Gisborne-based Tairāwhiti DHB stated it could do whole small, distant cities without delay no matter age.

Waitematā DHB chief government Dale Bramley stated Auckland’s DHBs knew their populations finest and would observe the federal government’s steering – with flexibility.

For instance, if a whānau introduced a kaumātua and kuia in to be vaccinated, and the youthful members had been prepared too, they’d attempt to do them on the similar time, he stated.

Dr Cameron stated, to vaccinate as many individuals as attainable, it was finest to keep away from missed alternatives.

If a nervous particular person or somebody who didn’t go to typically was in a surgical procedure, that was typically an important likelihood to offer them their shot, he stated.

“They do not have to come back again, they do not need to rebook, they do not need to do anything. It is finished then and there,” he stated.

Gray Energy stated official communication for these over 65 in regards to the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out is poor, and it was inflicting confusion.

Info publicly out there features a leaflet delivered to letterboxes not too long ago, however Gray Energy well being nationwide advisory group chair Jo Miller stated it was imprecise, ambiguous and lacked particulars individuals wished to know.

She stated typically individuals over 65 most well-liked to depend on written info moderately than having to go surfing and the pamphlet was insufficient.

She stated the data on the web site concerning the state of affairs for over 65s was clearer but it surely was fairly advanced and essential to go to a number of hyperlinks to seek out what was wanted.

Miller stated there was no info within the pamphlet about whether or not the flu or the Covid-19 vaccine ought to be given first, nor about how lengthy the hole ought to be between the 2 vaccines.

In a press release, the ministry’s Covid-19 immunisation director, Jo Gibbs, stated the rollout plan was a information and he or she anticipated DHBs would have began to vaccinate these within the normal over 65s group by late Could.

Most individuals would obtain an invite however they’d be staggered, she stated.

Beneath the federal government’s roll out plan, everybody underneath 65 not lined by different teams is prone to begin getting their vaccine in July.

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Karen Barad: Quantum Entanglement and Relations

Levi Bryant recently argued against the notion that "relata do not precede relations" as Karen Barad (1) in her work affirms. For her there is a distinct "ontological priority of phenomena over objects (Barad : 315)". 1 For her an atom is not a separate object but rather an "inseparable part of the phenomenon". In her understanding of scientific analysis it is the quantum entanglement between the "object" and the "agencies of observation," that the key to any adequate ontological theory can be found. As she states it:

"If one focuses on abstract individual entities the result is an utter mystery, we cannot account for the seemingly impossible behavior of the atoms. It's not that the experimenter changes a past that had already been present or that atoms fall in line with a new future simply by erasing information. The point is that the past was never simply there to begin with and the future is not simply what will unfold; the "past" and the "future" are iteratively reworked and enfolded through the iterative practices of spacetimemattering-includ-ing the which-slit detection and the subsequent erasure of which-slit information-all are one phenomenon. There is no spooky-action-at-a-distance coordination between individual particles separated in space or individual events separated in time. Space and time are phenomenal, that is, they are intra-actively produced in the making of phenomena; neither space nor time exist as determinate givens outside of phenomena (Barad : 315)".

As she argues "the paradox arises out of the mistaken assumption that there are individually determinate entities from the outset; this assumption, which is the basis for classical physics, is precisely what is being called into question here (Barad : 316)". Barad further explicates on this statement, saying:

"...entities are not separately determinate individuals but rather inseparable parts of a single phenomenon. In particular, there are no preexisting-individually-determinate-entities-with-determinate-spatial-positions-communicating-instantaneously-at-some-remove-from-one-another outside of a phenomenon that determinately resolves the boundaries and properties of the entangled components in a way that gives meaning to the notion of individual. Indeed, "individual" is ontologically and semantically indeterminate in the absence of an apparatus that resolves the inherent indeterminacy in a way that makes this notion intelligible (Barad : 316)".

For her there are no real objects in Harman's or Bryant's sense of that term, instead all we have are the singularity of phenomenon. What is really going on is a battle between Object-Oriented Philosophy and a different type of metaphysics. OOO argues for intrinsic or endo/internal relations within objects (i.e., that there are real objects and these objects have relations between the real and sensual aspects of its own being). For Barad there are only exo/external exstrinsic relations of one type of object: the phenomenon. For her there are no real objects that precede the boundaries of quantum entanglement.

Aristotle assumes that there is a plurality of individual things (substances) that are characterized by intrinsic properties (forms) each. David Lewis, an analytical philosopher, provided the thesis of Humean supervenience: at the basic level of the world, there are only local qualities in the sense of intrinsic properties instantiated by space-time points or point-sized particles or field sources at space-time points. Space-time points can qualify as individual things in the above mentioned sense. Everything there is in a world like ours supervenes on the distribution of basic intrinsic properties over all space–time points. Whether really everything supervenes on that distribution is not relevant to the present paper. What is important here is the claim that, except for spatio-temporal relations, all the relations between the things at the basic level supervene on their intrinsic properties.

Against this Barad finds in modern quantum physics a theory that can be taken to suggest replacing a metaphysics of intrinsic properties with a metaphysics of relations. It seems to some philsophers that relations require relata, that is, things which stand in the relations, and that these things have to be something in themselves, that is, must have intrinsic properties over and above the relations in which they stand. However, a metaphysics of relations according to Barad merely has to reject the second part of this claim: one can maintain that relations require relata, that is, things which stand in the relations, but that these things do not have any intrinsic properties that underlie the relations in which they stand. In other words for her there are no real objects hiding under the surface texture of phenomena: phenomena are the end-all of any metaphysics based on physics.

At the heart of her agential realist project is the questioning of quantum entanglements in terms of the specifics of relational ontology:  "...the fact is that these apparatuses of bodily production are intra-acting with and mutually constituting one another; that is, what is at issue is the primacy of relations over relata and the intra-active emergence of "cause" and "effect" as enacted by the agential practices that cut things together and apart. (Barad : 388-389)".

We can thus set out an account of quantum entanglement in this way:

1) Quantum entanglement shows that there are non-supervenient relations among physical
systems over and above the spatio-temporal relations (strongly non-supervenient relations
in contrast to weakly non-supervenient relations).
2) The non-supervenient relations of entanglement among the parts of a quantum whole
amount to the whole having intrinsic properties that do not supervene on intrinsic
properties of the parts.
3) These properties of the whole come to non-separability in the following sense: the parts
have some of the properties that belong to the family of properties which make something
a quantum system not separately, but only in this way: there are properties of the whole
which indicate the manner in which the parts are related with each other with respect to
some of the properties that make something a quantum system. (Wiki : Quantum entanglement)

Karen Barad's theories seem similar to those presented by James Ladyman in his advocation of a metaphysical or ontic structural realism, namely the view that structure is what is real and that there are no intrinsic properties underlying structure. 2 As Ladyman (1998) envisions it “structural realism amounts to the claim that theories tell us not about the objects and properties of which the world is made, but directly about structure and relations” (422), suggesting that there is no need to admit objects in metaphysics (Ibid.). The structural realism of French and Ladyman rejects not only the claim that things have to be something in themselves, that is, must have intrinsic properties over and above the relations in which they stand, but also the claim that relations require relata, that is, things which stand in the relations (31-56). 3

Yet, against, Ladyman's structural realism, Barad's agential realism takes a much more modest approach to avoid the gap between epistemology and metaphysics: affirming instead that we can in principle know all there is at the basic level of the world; for what there is at the basic level of the world are relations of quantum entanglement. As she states it causality is an "entangled affair: it is a matter of cutting things together and apart (within and as part of phenomena). It is not about momentum transfer among individual events or beings. The future is not the end point of a set of branching chain reactions; it is a cascade experiment (Barad : 394)".

I think the problem now is to work through the issues she presents in a methodical manner without dismissing her conclusions out of hand as some have. That scientific practice informs her philosophical vision is an aspect that I find enabling. I think that philosophy should at least begin to take into account the many scientific endeavors that inform our views about reality and its manifestations within philosophical practice without being subservient to those practices in themselves. Philosophy is the practice of wisdom not science, so for the philosopher we should recognize scientifc knowledge for what it is but not confuse it with our ontological theories. Neither science nor ontology should be reduced to each others theoretical categories, but should inform each others respective approaches to what we mean by "reality". Do objects precede relations (OOO), or do they as Barad (agential realism) affirms only arise out of quantum entanglement? This is the question that ontology will need to answer for itself in its struggles with its own relations, be they internal or external, intrinsic or extrinsic to the matter at hand.

1. Karen Barad. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning.
2. Ladyman, J. (1998). What is structural realism? Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Science, 29, 409-424.
3. French, S. and Ladyman, J. (2003). Remodelling structural realism: Quantum physics and the metaphysics of
structure. Synthese, 136, 31-56.

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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Learning Spanish / Aprender Espaniol

There are so many ways to learn a new language. My new goal is to be more or less fluent in Spanish. This language is widely spoken in Americas. I like to learn Spanish because everybody looks at me as if I should speak Spanish! I remember some people in Puerto Rico and DominicanRepublic were taking it personally and getting upset because I didn’t speak their language. They thought I was from hispanic decent but grew up in the U.S and never got to learn Spanish.

The best way to learn is to be in a Spanish-speaking environment. Last year in Colombia, my Norwegian cruising friend and I took some private classes in Spanish. We found a good teacher in Cartagena and took 2 hours classes, 5 days a week, for one month. The note book from that class is my Spanish Bible. Nowadays, there are so many other sources for learning a new language, such as apps on your electronic device. The best Spanish learning app I found is "Duolingo". It’s so easy to learn a new language through this application. In addition, when you get to advanced level and formulate new sentences, Duolingo applies those sentences and translates the Wikipedia and other documents to Spanish. Another useful app is “Translate”, which is just a regular multi language dictionary but very easy to switch between different languages. And then there are audiobooks that you can play all day while cruising on your boat.
Aboard Earthling, we also have Spanish for dummies and cruisers, and Spanish music, such as Julio Iglesias and Gypsy Kings. Moreover, a good way to end a hot sunny day on the boat is to watch a Latin movie with subtitle.
Between all these sources, one should be able to learn a new language quickly. But the most important criteria to learn a new language is Self-Discipline!

If you find yourself in Cartagena and need private lessons in Spanish, contact Lu Rodriguez at

El Amor De Panama

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Coco Heaven

Gorgidup Dummat, San Blas

Coconuts are everywhere in the Caribbean, from Florida Keys to the rainforest in Dominica. But in this part of the Caribbean, San Blas, there are more coco palms than most it combined. All the deserted islands in San Blas are covered by palm trees of all sizes. I have never been in such a coco paradise. This fruit has been the major commodity for Kunas and they have been trading it with Colombians for centuries. Therefore, coconuts have been a sacred fruit and it's more or less forbidden by outsiders to help themselves with a nut on the ground. Katherine and I were talking about how weird it is that we are in the Coconut Heaven but can't have any of it! Consequently, I had a dream! They caught me because I took a coconut. I was in trouble, but confident that I could protect my rights as a citizen of Earth. In a conference with the Kuna chiefs, I presented that I respect their culture and understand how significant coconuts have been in their history. However, as a guest, visitor, or someone that is just passing through and find themselves thirsty or hungry, and there are coconuts on the ground, then, that should be the least amount of a gift offered to a guest. Most people that pass through don't carry a Machete to open a coconut and most wouldn't clime the trees anyway. If they are willing to do that, then they should be allowed to.  After that conversation, Kuna chiefs made a new statement that visitors can help themselves with coconuts for immediate indulgent but absolutely for no commercial use. And then, I woke up, heard someone outside the boat, went to the cockpit and saw a father and a son. They handed over two coconuts and said “Regalo” (gift)!

Love from Coconut Heaven


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EarthSky’s 2021 meteor shower guide

All you need to know about major meteor showers in 2021.

Long thin white streak of meteor trail in dawn light bisecting bright dot.

What are the odds?! This amazing image is from Emma Zulaiha Zulkifli in Sabah, on the island of Borneo in Malaysia. She caught a bright meteor streaking right in front of the bright planet Venus on December 15, 2018. She wrote: “Yes, the meteor actually did streak in front of Venus! Only a bit of tweaking on contrast and noise reduction done in Photoshop CC2018.” Fuji X-A1, 18-55mm f2.8 with Tripod, Exif : iso2000, 30″, f2.8. Way to go, Emma!

January 3, 2021: Quadrantids

April 22, 2021: Lyrids

May 5, 2021: Eta Aquariids

Late July, 2021: Delta Aquariids

August 12, 2021: Perseids

October 8, 2021: Draconids

October 21, 2021: Orionids

November 4-5, 2021: South Taurids

November 11-12, 2021: North Taurids

November 17, 2021: Leonids

December 13-14, 2021: Geminids

December 22, 2021: Ursids

A word about moonlight

Most important: a dark sky

Know your dates and times

Where to go to watch a meteor shower

What to bring with you

Are the predictions reliable?

Remember …

Starry sky with many thin meteor trails radiating out from one point.

Quadrantid radiant composite via Scott MacNeill of Frosty Drew Observatory in Charleston, Rhode Island.

January 3, 2021, before dawn, the Quadrantids
The Quadrantids can produce over 100 meteors per hour in a moonless sky, but the narrow peak of this shower lasts only a few hours and doesn’t always come at an opportune time. Unfortunately, a bright waning gibbous moon will obtrude on the show. The radiant point is in the part of the sky that used to be considered the constellation Quadrans Muralis the Mural Quadrant. You’ll find this radiant near the famous Big Dipper asterism (chart here), in the north-northeastern sky after midnight and highest up before dawn. Because the radiant is fairly far to the north on the sky’s dome, meteor numbers tend to be greater at northerly latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere. In 2021, watch in the wee hours – after midnight and before dawn – on January 3. Some of the brighter Quadrantid meteors may be able to overcome the glare of the waning gibbous moon.

Everything you need to know: Quadrantid meteor shower

Dark blue sky with a few clouds and stars and vertical white streaks.

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Photographer Thomas Hollowell in Colorado caught these Lyrid meteors on the morning of April 22, 2020, and said: “The 6 meteors in this frame were stacked in Photoshop on a set of 3 background frames.” Thanks, Thomas!

April 22, 2021, before dawn, the Lyrids
The Lyrid meteor shower – April’s shooting stars – lasts from about April 16 to 25. About 10 to 15 meteors per hour can be expected around the shower’s peak, in a dark sky. This year, the best time to watch may be the hour or two between moonset and dawn. The Lyrids are known for uncommon surges that can sometimes bring the rate up to 100 per hour. Those rare outbursts are not easy to predict, but they’re one of the reasons the tantalizing Lyrids are worth checking out. The radiant for this shower is near the bright star Vega in the constellation Lyra (chart here), which rises in the northeast at about 10 p.m. on April evenings. In 2021, we expect the peak viewing to take place in the dark hour before dawn April 22, after moonset.

Everything you need to know: Lyrid meteor shower

Long thin meteor trail crossing the Milky Way above trees and small house.

Long meteor caught during the peak of the May 2016 Eta Aquariid meteor shower, by Darla Young.

May 5, 2021, before dawn, the Eta Aquariids
This meteor shower has a relatively broad maximum; you can watch it the day before and after the predicted peak morning of May 5. Hopefully, the waning crescent moon won’t too seriously dampen this year’s production. The shower favors the Southern Hemisphere and is often that hemisphere’s best meteor shower of the year. The radiant is near the star Eta in the constellation Aquarius the Water Bearer (chart here). The radiant comes over the eastern horizon at about 4 a.m. local time; that is the time at all locations across the globe. For that reason, you’ll want to watch this shower in the hour or two before dawn, no matter where you are on Earth. In the southern half of the U.S., 10 to 20 meteors per hour might be visible in years when you have a dark sky. Farther south – at latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere – you might see two to three times that number on a dark, moonless night. Meanwhile, at northerly latitudes – like those in the northern U.S. and Canada, or northern Europe – meteor numbers are lower for this shower. In 2021, the most meteors will probably rain down in the hour or two before dawn on May 5, though under the light of a rather wide waning crescent moon. The broad peak to this shower means that some meteors may fly for a few days before and after the predicted optimal date.

Everything you need to know: Eta Aquariid meteor shower

Green fireball with glowing trail against the Milky Way.

Delta Aquariid in 2014, from David S. Brown in southwest Wyoming.

Late July 2021, before dawn, the Delta Aquariids
Like the Eta Aquariids in May, the Delta Aquariid meteor shower in July favors the Southern Hemisphere and tropical latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere. Yet the bright waning gibbous moon is sure to obtrude on this year’s production. These faint meteors appear to radiate from near the star Skat or Delta in the constellation Aquarius the Water Bearer. The maximum hourly rate can reach 15 to 20 meteors in a dark sky. The nominal peak is around July 27-30, but, unlike many meteor showers, the Delta Aquariids lack a very definite peak. Instead, these medium-speed meteors ramble along fairly steadily throughout late July and early August. An hour or two before dawn usually presents the most favorable view of the Delta Aquariids. At the shower’s peak on or near July 29, 2021, the rather faint Delta Aquariid meteors will fall most abundantly in the predawn hours, though in the glaring light of a waning gibbous moon. You’ll still be seeing Delta Aquariids when the Perseids peak in August.

Everything you need to know: Delta Aquariid shower

Long meteor trail over a lake with brightly lit yellow pier.

The 2017 Perseid meteor shower peaked in moonlight, but that didn’t stop Hrvoje Crnjak in Šibenik, Croatia, from catching this bright Perseid on the morning of August 12, 2017. Notice the variations in brightness and color throughout, and the little “pop” of brightness toward the bottom. A brightness “pop” like that comes from a clump of vaporizing debris. Thank you, Hrvoje!

Late evening to dawn on August 11, 12 and 13, 2021, the Perseids
The Perseid meteor shower is perhaps the most beloved meteor shower of the year for the Northern Hemisphere. It’s a rich meteor shower, and it’s steady. These swift and bright meteors radiate from a point in the constellation Perseus the Hero. As with all meteor shower radiant points, you don’t need to know Perseus to watch the shower; instead, the meteors appear in all parts of the sky. These meteors frequently leave persistent trains. Perseid meteors tend to strengthen in number as late night deepens into midnight, and typically produce the most meteors in the wee hours before dawn. In 2021, the waxing crescent moon will set at early evening, providing dark skies for this year’s Perseid meteor shower. Predicted peak in 2021: the night of August 11-12, but try the nights before and after, too, from late night until dawn.

All you need to Know: Perseid meteor shower

Several meteor trails over a desert landscape with tall cacti.

Draconids near Tucson, Arizona, in 2013, by our friend Sean Parker Photography.

October 8, 2021, nightfall and evening, the Draconids
The radiant point for the Draconid meteor shower almost coincides with the head of the constellation Draco the Dragon in the northern sky. That’s why the Draconids are best viewed from the Northern Hemisphere. The Draconid shower is a real oddity, in that the radiant point stands highest in the sky as darkness falls. That means that, unlike many meteor showers, more Draconids are likely to fly in the evening hours than in the morning hours after midnight. This shower is usually a sleeper, producing only a handful of languid meteors per hour in most years. But watch out if the Dragon awakes! In rare instances, fiery Draco has been known to spew forth many hundreds of meteors in a single hour. In 2021, watch the Draconid meteors at nightfall and early evening on October 8, though you might catch some the day before and after, as well. Fortunately, the thin waxing crescent moon sets before nightfall, and won’t obtrude on this year’s Draconid shower.

All you need to know: Draconids in 2020

Beautiful green aurora along horizon reflected in shallow water, with a meteor trail above it.

Orionid meteor with aurora in 2013, by Tommy Eliassen Photography in Norway.

October 21, 2021, before dawn, the Orionids
Unfortunately the full moon accompanies this year’s Orionid shower. On a dark, moonless night, the Orionids exhibit a maximum of about 10 to 20 meteors per hour. More meteors tend to fly after midnight, and the Orionids are typically at their best in the wee hours before dawn. These fast-moving meteors occasionally leave persistent trains. The Orionids sometimes produce bright fireballs, which may be able to overcome the moonlit glare. If you trace these meteors backward, they seem to come from the Club of the famous constellation Orion the Hunter. In 2021, try watching the Orionids in the wee hours before dawn on October 21, though the full moon is sure to obtrude on the show.

Everything you need to know: Orionid meteor shower

Big green Taurid fireball reflected on a lake under a starry sky.

In 2015, the Taurids put on a spectacular display of fireballs, which lasted many days.Photographer Jeff Dai captured this one over Yamdrok Lake in Tibet.

Late night November 4 until dawn November 5, 2021, the South Taurids
The meteoroid streams that feed the South (and North) Taurids are very spread out and diffuse. Thus the Taurids are extremely long-lasting (September 25 to November 25) but usually don’t offer more than about five meteors per hour. That is true even on their peak nights. The Taurids are, however, well known for having a high percentage of fireballs, or exceptionally bright meteors. Plus, the two Taurid showers – South and North – augment each other. In 2021, the expected peak night of the South Taurid shower happens in close conjunction with the new moon. Peak viewing is just after midnight, with absolutely no moon to ruin the display. The South and North Taurid meteors continue to rain down throughout the following week, with virtually no interference from the waxing crescent moon!

Late night November 11 until dawn November 12, 2021, the North Taurids
Like the South Taurids, the North Taurids meteor shower is long-lasting (October 12 – December 2) but modest, and the peak number is forecast at about five meteors per hour. The North and South Taurids combine to provide a nice sprinkling of meteors throughout October and November. Typically, you see the maximum numbers at or around midnight, when Taurus the Bull is highest in the sky. Taurid meteors tend to be slow-moving, but sometimes very bright. In 2021, the first quarter moon sets at late night, providing dark skies from roughly midnight till dawn.

Meteor streak over low-lying hills with sea in foreground.

James Younger sent in this photo during the 2015 peak of the Leonid meteor shower. It’s a meteor over the San Juan Islands in the Pacific Northwest.

November 17, 2021, before dawn, the Leonids
Radiating from the constellation Leo the Lion, the famous Leonid meteor shower has produced some of the greatest meteor storms in history – at least one in living memory, 1966 – with rates as high as thousands of meteors per minute during a span of 15 minutes on the morning of November 17, 1966. Indeed, on that beautiful night in 1966, the meteors did, briefly, fall like rain. Some who witnessed the 1966 Leonid meteor storm said they felt as if they needed to grip the ground, so strong was the impression of Earth plowing along through space, fording the meteoroid stream. The meteors, after all, were all streaming from a single point in the sky – the radiant point – in this case in the constellation Leo the Lion. Leonid meteor storms sometimes recur in cycles of 33 to 34 years, but the Leonids around the turn of the century – while wonderful for many observers – did not match the shower of 1966. And, in most years, the Lion whimpers rather than roars, producing a maximum of perhaps 10-15 meteors per hour on a dark night. Like many meteor showers, the Leonids ordinarily pick up steam after midnight and display the greatest meteor numbers just before dawn, for all points on the globe. In 2021, the expected peak night is from late night November 16 till dawn November 17, though the bright waxing gibbous moon will be out nearly all night long, setting in the wee hours before sunrise.

Everything you need to know: Leonid meteor shower

Very bright meteor trail in densely starry sky behind bare trees.

Cynthia Haithcock in Troy, North Carolina, caught this Geminid in 2015. Looks like a bright one!

December 13-14, 2021, mid-evening until dawn, Geminids
Radiating from near the bright stars Castor and Pollux in the constellation Gemini the Twins, the Geminid meteor shower is one of the finest meteor showers in the Northern Hemisphere (though still visible, at lower rates, in the Southern Hemisphere). The meteors are plentiful, rivaling the August Perseids. They are often bold, white and bright. On a dark night, you can often catch 50 or more meteors per hour in a dark, moonless sky. But this year, a waxing gibbous moon will obtrude on the show for much of the night, before setting several hours before dawn. The greatest number of meteors fall in the wee hours after midnight, centered around 2 a.m. local time (the time on your clock no matter where you are on Earth), when the radiant point is highest in the sky. In 2021, the peak night of the shower must endure many hours of moonlight from the waxing gibbous moon, though the moon will set in the wee hours before dawn, providing dark skies in the wee morning hours. Watch the usually reliable and prolific Geminid meteor shower from mid-evening December 13 until dawn December 14, with some of the brighter Geminids likely to overcome the moonlight.

Everything you need to know: Geminid meteor shower

December 22, 2021, before dawn, the Ursids
Die-hard meteor watchers in the Northern Hemisphere watch for Ursid meteors about a week after the Geminids. This low-key meteor shower is active each year from about December 17 to 26. The Ursids usually peak around the December solstice, perhaps offering five to 10 meteors per hour during the predawn hours in a dark sky. This year, in 2021, the bright waning gibbous moon will obtrude on the show.

Ursid meteors peak around December solstice

A word about moonlight. In 2021, moonlight poses no problem for the August Perseids, October Draconids or November South Taurids, whereas the morning crescent shouldn’t seriously disrupt the May Eta Aquariids. Some moon-free viewing time accompanies the April Lyrids, November North Taurids and December Geminids in the predawn sky. On the other hand, a nearly full moon obstructs January Quadrantids, October Orionids and November Leonids, while a waning gibbous moon intrudes on the July Delta Aquariids and December Ursids. Our almanac page provides links for access to the moonrise and moonset times in your sky.

Most important: a dark sky. Here’s the first thing – the main thing – you need to know to become as proficient as the experts at watching meteors. That is, to watch meteors, you need a dark sky. It’s possible to catch a meteor or two or even more from the suburbs. But, to experience a true meteor shower – where you might see several meteors each minute – avoid city lights. EarthSky’s Stargazing page shows dark locations worldwide.

Know your dates and times. You also need to be looking on the right date, at the right time of night. Meteor showers occur over a range of dates, because they stem from Earth’s own movement through space. As we orbit the sun, we cross “meteor streams.” These streams of icy particles in space come from comets moving in orbit around the sun. Comets are fragile, icy bodies that litter their orbits with debris. When this cometary debris enters our atmosphere, it vaporizes due to friction with the air. If moonlight or city lights don’t obscure the view, we on Earth see the falling, vaporizing particles as meteors.

Where to go to watch a meteor shower. You can comfortably watch meteors from many places, assuming you have a dark sky: a rural back yard or deck, the hood of your car, the side of a road. State parks and national parks are good bets, but be sure they have a wide open viewing area, like a field; you don’t want to be stuck in the midst of a forest on meteor night. An EarthSky friend, veteran meteor-watcher and astrophotographer Sergio Garcia Rill, also offers this specific advice:

… you might want to give it a try but don’t know where to go. Well, in planning my night photoshoots I use a variety of apps and web pages to know how dark the sky is in a certain location, the weather forecast, and how the night sky will look.

Some suggested apps and websites:

EarthSky’s Best Places to Stargaze

Find a Dark Sky Place, from the International Dark Sky Association

Heavens-Above: Satellite predictions customized to your location

Stellarium Online: Star maps customized to your location

Accuweather’s astronomy blog

Dark Site Finder, from astrophotographer Kevin Palmer

Blue Marble Navigator

What to bring with you. You don’t need special equipment to watch a meteor shower. If you want to bring along equipment to make yourself more comfortable, consider a blanket or reclining lawn chair, a thermos with a hot drink, binoculars for gazing at the stars. Be sure to dress warmly enough, even in spring or summer, especially in the hours before dawn. Binoculars are fun to have. You won’t need them for watching the meteor shower, but, especially if you have a dark sky, you might not be able to resist pointing them at the starry sky.

Are the predictions reliable? Although astronomers have tried to publish exact predictions in recent years, meteor showers remain notoriously unpredictable. Your best bet is to go outside at the times we suggest, and plan to spend at least an hour, if not a whole night, reclining comfortably while looking up at the sky. Also remember that meteor showers typically don’t just happen on one night. They span a range of dates. So the morning before or after a shower’s peak might be good, too.

Remember … meteor showers are like fishing. You go, you enjoy nature … and sometimes you catch something.

Peak dates are derived from data published in the Observer’s Handbook by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and Guy Ottewell’s Astronomical Calendar.

Meteor trail from two very bright stars against a starry sky.

This Geminid meteor is seen coming straight from its radiant point, which is near the two brightest stars in Gemini, Castor and Pollux. Photo taken on the night of December 12-13, 2012, by EarthSky Facebook friend Mike O’Neal in Oklahoma. He said the 2012 Geminid meteor shower was one of the best meteor shows he’s ever seen.

Bottom line: Look here for information about all the major meteor showers between now and the year’s end. There are some good ones!

Find a dark place to observe meteor showers from worldwide.

EarthSky’s top 10 tips for meteor-watchers

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More than 5,000 tons of space dust fall to Earth each year

Dust shed from comets and asteroids constantly rains down on our planet. How much of this extraterrestrial material lands on Earth’s surface?

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View at EarthSky Community Photos | Chirag Bachani in Marathan, Texas, captured this photo of the Geminid meteor showe on December 14, 2020. He wrote: “The Geminid meteor shower produced a spectacular show with over 100 meteors per hour at the peak around 2 am local time on December 14th. This image displays over 40 meteors captured throughout the night from a Bortle Class 1 dark sky in Marathon, Texas. Many of the meteors lasted over 2 seconds and were typically green and blue.” Thank you, Chirag!

According to a new paper, over 5,000 tons of space dust fall on Earth every year. The study, published April 15, 2021, in the peer-reviewed journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, is the result of a 20-year collection of extraterrestrial particles performed near the Concordia Research Station in Antarctica by an international team of researchers.

Dust shed from comets and asteroids constantly rains down on our planet. When these tiny bits of dust and rock pass through our atmosphere, they usually burn up, and the short-lived trail of light made by the burning debris is called a meteor.

If the meteor does not burn up completely, the remaining portion hits the Earth and is then called a meteorite. A special kind of tiny meteorites are known as micrometeorites: particles of a few tenths to hundredths of a millimeter in size.

Micrometeorites have always fallen on our planet. The goal of the new research was to determine how much of this interplanetary dust reaches Earth’s surface each year.

To collect and analyze micrometeorites, researchers undertook six expeditions over the past two decades, near the Franco-Italian station Concordia, on Antarctica’s Dome C, one of several summits or “domes” of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Dome C is located in the heart of Antarctica, about 680 miles (1,100 km) inland. Dome C is an ideal place to collect micrometeorites, the researchers said, because of the low accumulation of snow and the virtual absence of ground dust.

Map of Antarctica, with scene of wide, deep, smooth-bottomed trench in snow.

On left, the location of the Concordia Research Station at Dome C in Antarctica. To the right, a view of a trench where micrometeorites were collected. Image via ScienceDirect/ J. Rojas et al.

Study co-author Jean Duprat is a cosmochemist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Duprat told Popular Science:

Central Antarctica is a desert. So it’s totally isolated.

These six separate expeditions made it possible to collect enough extraterrestrial particles, with sizes between 30 and 200 micrometers, to measure their flux – the mass added to the Earth – per year.

According to a statement from the researchers:

By applying these results to the whole of our planet, the total annual influx of micrometeorites represents 5,200 tons per year. This is the main source of extraterrestrial matter on our planet, far ahead of that of larger objects such as meteorites, whose flux is less than ten tons per year.

Comparison of the flux of micrometeorites with theoretical predictions confirms that a majority most likely come from comets (80%) and the rest from asteroids.

White cylinders with black tops standing in a large snow trench.

Collection of micrometeorites in the central Antarctic regions, at Dome C, in 2002. Image via Jean Duprat/ Cécile Engrand/ CNRS.

A gray blob that looks like a cloud, on a black background.

Electron micrograph of a Concordia micrometeorite extracted from Antarctic snows at Dome C. The displayed scale (horizontal line) of ten micrometers (µm) is equal to 0.01 millimeters, or one hundredth of a millimeter (about a thousandth of an inch). Image via Cécile Engrand/ Jean Duprat/ CNRS.

Bottom line: A study, based on 20 years of collecting extraterrestrial particles in Antarctica, has concluded that more than 5,000 tons of space dust fall to Earth each year.

Source: The micrometeorite flux at Dome C (Antarctica), monitoring the accretion of extraterrestrial dust on Earth

Via Popular Science

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I have waited a very long time to get this shot. Chipmunks have been around the entire time we’ve lived here, but sightings became rare when the hawks and owls arrived a few years ago. Since then, two large trees have been cut down, and the raptors have moved on. Last summer, the chipmunks returned.

A huge sweet gum tree used to stand about 35 feet from the kitchen window. You don’t want a sweet gum tree. Its fruits are spiny balls that hurt if you step on one. I used to have to rake them up each year—a real pain literally and figuratively. The tree became diseased, so I had it removed. The stump is now is surrounded by large hostas that hide the ground from view much of the year.

While in the yard one day, I noticed a chipmunk running along the fence then disappearing under the hostas. Curious, I decided to coax the chipmunk out for a photo session using treats as bait. Not knowing what to try, I placed sunflower seeds and blueberries near the tree stump. I sat waiting for maybe half an hour before a curious robin showed up. The robin, looking leery, slowly approached and hopped around before going after the blueberries. Before the robin could eat two berries, out charged the chipmunk, chasing the robin away. I didn’t have a chance to aim or shoot. Having wasted a lot of time waiting, I walked away disappointed. The blueberries were gone when I came back.

Feeling I was on to something, I tried raspberries and sunflower seeds (ran out of blueberries). This time a squirrel popped by and was promptly chased away by the chipmunk. Later, the robin came by again. After waiting patiently, I found that my Sony a100 and Maxxum 5D would not focus with a teleconverter attached.  Oddly enough, the Maxxum 7000, which is nearly 20 years older, did. So, I managed to get blurry pictures of the robin and the squirrel, but the chipmunk was too fast. Frustrated and having developed way more respect for wildlife photographers, I gave up.

Of course, when I don’t have a camera in hand, the chipmunks (I’ve seen two at once) run everywhere. They leave my yard and go next door, always at breakneck speeds. They never eat out in the open like squirrels and robins. Chipmunks have a lot of moxie, routinely chasing away squirrels and robins. I have never seen a single squirrel or robin put up a fight.

I finally gave up on being a chipmunk paparazzi; I don’t have the patience. They enjoy my hospitality but never let me have a shot—I know when I’m being abused.

They say every dog has his day. My day came recently while wandering through the house at 6 AM. I looked out the window, and only about 20 feet away was a chipmunk casually digging holes in the pine straw, looking for nuts hidden by the squirrels. (I have watched squirrels use the area to hide things.)   Nonchalantly, I went to get my camera. I didn’t run because I didn’t want the chipmunks to make me look stupid again. When I got back, he was still there, oblivious to my presence! In the dim morning light through a dirty window, I rattled off as many shots as I could. But, I’m not complaining—I’m grateful for what I could get. Chipmunks are skittish and don’t like having their pictures taken, but I think they owe me. They’ve abused my hospitality too many times.

Next up, it’s the goldfinches in the front yard that stop by each fall to munch black-eyed Susan seeds. I leave the flower stalks with seeds just for them. I’ve fed them for six years, and they owe me too. You would think they’d have the decency to sit still.

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KAZbrella, the inside-out umbrella, is launching a limited number of pre-orders on 26th December 2015 at 3:00PM GMT on their website.

The KAZbrella is currently in production, with an anticipated date for delivery in March 2016.

Kickstarter backers will get their KAZbrella first, but for everyone else, this will be your only available opportunity to get one of the first units off the production line as the KAZbrella is not yet available for purchase anywhere else.

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The dye is found in the dried roots of the kind that are reddish brown and very thick not thin crust. The plant is native to the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes, so called "Rathania of Peru. " Scientific Name: Krameria triandra Ruiz et Pavon. Famila: Krameriaceae
Common names: Rhatany, rattan, Rathania Peru.
Botanical description: It is a small shrub that grows to knee height, with leafy branches exposed, turned downward, hairy, with leaves covered with silvery hairs and stalked axillary red flowers with 4 sepals and 4 petals. The fruit is globose, ornamented with prickles hooked. Has a high tannin content catechists located mainly in the cortex. Oligomeric proanthocyanidins are formed by a variable number (2-14) of propelargonidina and procyanidins.

These macromolecules tend to condense during the storage of the substance, becoming insoluble compounds called pink phlobaphenes which are precisely those responsible Rathania called red. The Rhatany is a mountain plant. Its powerful root, reddish brown, is abundantly branched and is making headway in the rocky terrain of the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes.

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Rhatany activity in the oral cavity, bleeding stops, reaffirms the tissues and capillaries, and calms the nerves. The collaboration of this root with blood and nerve function in the evolution process of the tooth, leading to hardening of this when life threatens to leave for the fall and suffers from inflammation and suppuration.

This plant brings back normal, with the same energy and force with which the root is capable of development, in hard struggle for survival, apparently rocky uninhabitable.

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Download Coursera Personalized Recommendations addons 1.2 for Firefox, Chrome and Microsoft edge store. Also, Coursera Personalized Recommendations extension is very helpful for every computer Users.

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Coursera Ontology-Based Personalized recommendation system is a research project being undertaken by Abhinav Agarwal and Divyansh Mishra, two students of ICT Department at MIT Manipal, under the supervision of Dr. Sucheta Kolekar.

The course completion rates on the Coursera platform are currently less than 10% of all the enrolled students. We are working to provide targeted and personalized recommendations to Coursera users, which would enable learners to complete a higher number of courses.

As you can already guess, for achieving this goal, we need some data regarding the way you and other users learn from the Coursera platform.
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This extension is primarily intended for students at MIT Manipal.

Q) What information will you collect?
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The aim of this module is to encourage you to think transnationally and intertextually about literature and to explore the relationship between politics, societies and cultures within twentieth and twenty-first century history. The module builds upon and expands the general themes and approaches introduced in LIHC 1 and encourages you to engage in critical dialogue with the canonical texts introduced in LIHC 2. It consists of two overlapping and interconnected parts (outlined below). One part is concerned with theoretically informed literary analyses and runs for the entire 14 weeks of the semester with an alternation of 1 or 2 weekly lectures and a 3-hour seminar. The second part is concerned with contemporary and global historical issues and is placed in the last 7 weeks of the semester consisting of 1 weekly lecture and a 2-hour seminar. Both parts are organised around thematically focused lectures tied to the seminars in which further discussion of the themes of the lectures will take place.

The literature part of the module invites you to engage in more detail in transnational, global and transcultural approaches to Anglophone literatures and stages literary texts of a variety of genres in intertextual dialogue and with the broad historical themes considered later on in the semester. This module works across geographical locations and time periods and brings in general theories from the theoretical foundation of humanistic study, such as epistemology, hermeneutics, discourse, representation, authority and reception. Apart from the theoretical foundation of humanistic study, this part also employs literary theories and conceptualisations, such as race, ethnicity or diaspora, as well as broader theoretical perspectives on literature, such as literature and migration and literature as world making activity. Our discussions will help you develop a critical and contextual platform that will inform your engagement with Anglophone texts, in particular American and postcolonial ones. The second part of the course considers historical and contemporary themes – which deal with relationships between politics, societies and cultures.  Our case studies will consider transnational histories and networks across the English speaking World. Our critical focus is the varied processes of convergence, difference and hybridisation which constitute ‘globalisation’. The course also questions the meanings and usefulness of the term. In addition, the course uses ‘globalisation’ as a case study to investigate varieties of historical methodology and research approaches to the past. Topics may include the Atlantic World, global migration systems, the 1968 youth revolutions, and twenty-first century challenges to cosmopolitanism and regionalism. You will complete the history part of the module with a short oral seminar presentation on a historical topic.

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The three LIHC modules in the BA curriculum introduce you to the study of literature, history, and culture in the Anglophone world. These three modules are organised in such a way that we take a point of departure in the modern and contemporary world in LIHC 1 (module 2), then pursue historical developments and the literary canon in LIHC 2 (module 4), before we return to modern and contemporary perspectives in LIHC 3 (module 6).

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Sastry Tumuluri, Information Technology Advisor & Chief Information Security Officer, Government of Haryana

It is well known that implementation of information systems in silos (standalone systems that don’t communicate with each other) is disingenuous, unproductive and expensive. As a result there have been numerous attempts at breaking the silos and building integrated systems. However, such efforts in the Government sector have been largely unsuccessful.

For many years, the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) of the Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India, has been championing an integration framework, aligning multiple citizen services delivery projects and other government information systems to integrate using the National / State-Level Services Delivery Gateways (NSDG / SSDG). However, adoption has been slow; and the benefits, hard to measure.

As a part of the IT Roadmap for Haryana, a multi-pronged integration plan (and project) was conceived – incorporating the lessons learned from other projects in the country and accommodating the latest technologies and techniques. This project, envisioned to be Haryana’s e-Governance Integration Platform (called the Haryana OneState) was accepted by the State Technical Committee to be a critical part of the state’s e-Governance vision.

The Integrated Village Information & Services System (IVISS) is a starting point of Haryana OneState implementation, beginning with a set of integrated e-Services for citizens as well as an Integrated Village Information Visualization System. It is designed to showcase the benefits of integration along with deep (rigorous) modelling of underlying information. After a series of demonstrations to the Government, the IVISS has been rolled out on a pilot basis at Barwala (Panchkula district) on 20 June 2013. Based on its success, a state-wide rollout is currently being planned; starting with the Panchkula District where a plan for 54 rural centres has been announced. Other districts and urban locations will soon follow.

e-Services to Citizens
The service delivery aspect of IVISS has been designed to align with the Common Service Centre (CSC) Project, which is a Mission Mode Project (MMP) of NeGP. In this, the District Administration takes the lead in e-Services delivery through a District e-Governance Society (DeGS) that selects and manages the operations of Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs). The VLEs operate eSeva Kendras (CSCs) and deliver services using the IVISS in accordance with the government guidelines. The same system would also be used for urban e-Services delivery through the Urban Local Bodies Department.

Apart from consolidating e-Service delivery across multiple departments, it is also envisaged that the eSeva Kendras could undertake back office IT systems work for the Government at the village level – for the Panchayats (through the ePanchayats/ePRI project) department and potentially for other departments as well.

In this vision, the eSeva Kendras have the potential to serve as focal points of Government-Citizen two-way interaction, perhaps becoming Open Government hubs for every cluster of 5-6 villages.
A new division has been setup in HARTRON to develop and manage all the IT systems (such as IVISS) and run the operations required to deliver the e-Services. All the IT assets are being hosted on a common Cloud Computing platform thereby avoiding costly duplication of expensive IT administration and security resources.

Integrated Information Visualisation
Ready access to reliable and up-to-date village level information has for long been every administrator’s dream. At present this requires significantly time-consuming collection, collation, analysis and consolidation of information from multiple sources. The IVISS project, by building a mapbased visualization platform showcases how each departmental system can bring together all their data in an easy to use and easy to consume manner. The integration framework integrates views from multiple departments and data sources to be presented in a rich visual medium, leveraging the power of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) combined with automated information aggregation.

Department, System e-Services
Health Department, Births
& Deaths Information
Management System
1. Registration of Birth
2. Issuance of Birth Certificate
3. Reminders to register Child’s name
4. Add a Child’s name in the Register
5. Registration of Death
6. Issuance of Death Certificate
7. Issuance of Non-Availability Certificate (Birth
& Death)
Revenue Department,
Certificate Management
1. Issuance of Caste Certificate (SC, BC, OBC, …)
2. Issuance of Residence Certificate
3. Issuance of Income Certificate
4. Registration of Marriage
5. Issuance of Marriage Certificate
6. Issuance of Orphan Certificate
Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitaran
Nigam (UHBVN),
Metering, Billing & Collection
1. GIS Mapping of Consumers (Mobile
2. Meter Reading (Mobile Application)
3. Bill Generation
4. View and Pay Bills
5. Meter self-reporting and Provisional payment
Treasury + Other
GovPay System
1. Treasury (Challan) Payments
2. Other (Bills, etc) Payments

Government Receipts Processing and Reconciliation
A comprehensive Government Receipts (“payments”, from a citizen perspective) system has been developed as a part of IVISS to enable receipt of payments through the CSCs – structured in line with the guidelines of the CSC Project.
In this, HARTRON acts as a trusted intermediary, managing the receipts by allowing the VLEs to operate a virtual pre-paid account with HARTRON. Every time a citizen pays the VLE to receive a Government e-service, the corresponding fee is deducted from the VLE’s virtual pre-paid account and credited to the Government account. Receipt is generated from the system only upon successfully crediting the Government account. At any time, the VLE is only allowed to collect fees equal to or less than his account balance – thus ensuring that the government receipts are always protected. The VLE is allowed to “top-up” his virtual account at any time through an online payment gateway – thereby permitting him to continue serving citizens and collecting fees on behalf of the government. For maximum transparency, all routine VLE debits and credits (including top-ups) are designed to work without any human intervention.

Non-Treasury payments such as to boards and corporations are also handled the same way. Their payments are credited to their respective bank accounts instead of a centralized Treasury Account.
Receipts are generated by the system, giving complete details of the payments received. Clearing reports are generated both for the VLEs as well as the Departments to ensure that they are able to reconcile all the transactions pertinent to their context. An exclusive Clearing and Settlement Operation has been set up in HARTRON for this purpose.

For all systems with full online integration (such as the UHBVN MBC, Health and Revenue systems) account & services information is updated immediately (online). For offline systems (e.g., Challan Payments) up-to-thesecond Clearing Reports are made available online through their own logins so that they may update their systems at any frequency they desire (once-a-day is recommended). Settlement will be through an online funds transfer, planned as a once-a-day activity, with an effective settlement period of T+2 as the target.

Integration Architecture
The system is modeled to preserve the autonomy of each of the participating (integrated) information systems. Inter-system interaction is implemented through a simplified and yet powerful middleware similar to the SSDG. As a light-weight equivalent, this middleware is much simpler to integrate with, thus reducing the costs and hurdles of integration – a prime attraction when compared to the NSDG or SSDG.
This middleware includes a State Services Directory, Integrated System Registration, Auto-discovery of Services, Health-Check of Services, Round-trip performance check of Services, and Service Call Routing. Improvements are underway to make this a drop-deploy component, thus making it even simpler than it currently is.

Interaction between systems is strictly through mutually-accepted Application Programming Interfaces (API). As a result, direct database access is not required for any two systems to interact. As a result, each departmental system retains complete control of their respective databases and implementation of business rules.

State Resident Data Base and Identity Management
A Core System consisting mainly of a State Resident Database (SRDB) – as a centralized and shared resource available by default to every application integrated into the platform. The SRDB data is planned to be the single-most reliable source of resident, location, organization and event data across the state – through the efforts of one-time data migration, enrolment, consolidation and data enrichment.
As is common with any large repository of such nature, considerable effort has been spent in ensuring the security of the data and the privacy of the citizens. The system has many levels of safeguards to prevent unauthorized data access.

Master Data Management Operations
Quality of data is of utmost important as the value of the citizen services as well as government decision making degrades significantly if the underlying data is unreliable. No single source of data about citizens is fully reliable at this time. Reconciliation across data sources is a herculean task. Therefore, IVISS attempts to enrich the citizen data obtained from each citizen service delivery interaction. A Data Enrichment system collates citizen data from each of the available databases (e.g., VoterID,Socio Economic Caste Census, UID, Births & Deaths Registers, UHBVN consumer list, …) and guides the citizen (with CSC Operator assistance) in consolidating, correcting and linking the records across sources.

The resultant collation is sent to the centralized Master Data Management Operations set up specifically for this purpose, as a part of the IVISS operations. Here any attachments are checked, the information provided is validated and analyzed against the databases for possible duplications / inaccuracies before accepting into the SRDB.
New enrolments (with or without UID) are also handled as a part of the same workflow.

The IVISS is an ambitious start for Haryana’s e-Governance vision and roadmap. The benefits of breaking down the silos through integration include:

• Richer and more reliable data becomes available as a common reusable asset to all departments and systems. The core resident data, along with UID-enabled strong online authentication system thus form one of the foundations of integrated citizen e-services delivery.
• As operations, software and IT assets are consolidated, duplication is avoided and economies of scale are achieved. Some of the savings can be used to increase the service levels that would’ve been otherwise difficult to achieve.
• As the systems interact with each other, departments can leverage each others’ work eliminating the time and effort of stereotypical activities (e.g, citizen identity / address / caste / income verifications) thus increasing productivity.
• With deeper knowledge of the citizens, their needs and their activities across departments, better fraud detection as well as better citizen service becomes possible.
• With an integrated visualization system, officers have information available at their fingertips – spending dramatically less time and effort in compiling information; thus focusing more on putting the information to work for them. Response to the initial demonstrations to various stakeholders indicates that the potential is immense. While the success of these systems depends on the quality of data and the IT systems, their usefulness will multiply manifold with each new department that joins the integrated, collaborative ecosystem.

Information from the following 9 sources (departmental systems) has been put together on a single map. Additional departmental information is planned to be integrated as each departmental system is integrated into the common
integration platform
State Resident Database (SRDB) Data
Panchayat Data Industries Survey Data
Animal Husbandry

Identity Management and Single Sign-on
All the applications of IVISS – including the mobile application use a single Identity Management System (IdM) that uses the SRDB as its directory and provides single sign-on functionality. This ensures every user and beneficiary (citizen in an assisted service model at a CSC counter) can be authenticated securely, in accordance with the requirements of the specific service and applicable departmental business rules. Strong online UID-based authentication is an integral part of this plan. By using this as a service all departmental systems can eliminate costly and repetitive implementations.

While the identity is assured by this system, the privileges / benefits accorded to the adequately authenticated person is still decided by the individual systems – thus preserving the autonomy while providing a valuable common service. Mobile Application Gateway A fully functional

Mobile Application Gateway
has been implemented as a part of IVISS. A comprehensive cross-departmental verification & approval workflow application has been developed on the Android Operating System – for use on low-cost tablet computers.
It is expected that the intuitive touch-based interaction will significantly overcome the usability barriers often experienced by village level functionaries not well-versed with computers. Features such as Hindi & English language support, as well as the elimination of the need for a cumbersome onscreen keyboard (the system uses a two-factor authentication system with mobile based One-Time PIN) have been designed for this purpose. SMS integration has been implemented through the National Mobile Services Delivery Gateway (MSDG).

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