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Dan Ma

Jan 4, 2018

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aquaponics :)

Souhir Hammami

Jan 6, 2018

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Dear Authors,

Tomorrow 07/01/2018 is the last day for proposal creation; I encourage you to complete the remaining parts  Impact/Benefits and Costs/Challenges

Best of Luck

Olawale Olaniyan

Feb 28, 2018

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Hi Charles, Caleb, and Dan,

I agree with you on many points and particularly like your very good line of thoughts about invloving communities in the implementation of sustainable development goals which have synergistic effects on both climate change adaptation and mitigation.

I also like your arguments and presentation of key points. Meanwhile, I will like to suggest that build up the section on the potential benefits of your projects for CC mitigation. Also, try to add a few points concerning the reasons why you selected those countries where your projects is expected to be implemented. Lastly, try to share your proposal on the socia media to campaign for votes, if you have not yet done so.

Best wishes

Lana Dang

Mar 3, 2018

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Dear Dan, Caleb and Charles,I came across your proposal by someone intruduced it to me. I am glad i read your proposal and feel deeply appreciate the fact that come from the group of young, extraordinary students who deeply care for the world we live in. I can see your point of bringing community and women gender into the proposal. I do believe we are tackling several issues interelated to each order such as food, climate change, water for consumption and argriculture used, health related issues due to lack of proper nutrition, energy source and quality of air. I glad you point out the fact that this is the framework to incorporated all the detail projects had been working on in the past and human being is still the key factor to bring everything together. The community will serve the foundation for everything. I do believe the countries you have chosen to work on are in need of the sustainable development. The world has change and we are all focus on green living. These countries in need for guidance, model framework and supports to make the different in each individual life and the country as well as the world as whole. Thanks for the good work!

Jake Haws

Mar 5, 2018

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The food section is very well done. This is an excellent proposal.

Huy Nguy?n Anh

Mar 9, 2018

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Good idea, will be good to be practical application

Viana Ly

Mar 9, 2018

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Your Alma Mater, Westminster High School, supports you. The Assistant Principal of Westminster High has sent out a link requesting for all of Westminster to vote for you. Go Lions!

Heather-hanh Stensengwhs

Mar 9, 2018

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We are so proud that you included us in your journey.  GOOD LUCK!!!

Nghiep H

Mar 9, 2018

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Good idea, Dan!

I and some Vietnamese people have just learned your potential project which may apply for our Vietnam country on yesterday. We regreted to vote lately and you are surely missed a lots of votes from Vietnamese at last moment.  We are interested in practical benefits from your projects to be applied in our country where the population is over 90 million with many people in remoted area in difficulty condition once it is improved more details with good investment.

Anyway, we apprecited for your best effort during this contest and let us know this meanningful website with good source of information, we do hope you keep trying for more research and good idea projects like this in coming time. Also we are proud of you as we saw you got speady votes daily and inspired to more and more people, especially other young student at your age.

Good luck!

Dat Nguyen

Mar 9, 2018

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Chúc các b?n thành công !

Parth Kotak

Mar 11, 2018

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Proud of you Charles!

Killian O'brien

Mar 15, 2018

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You have done great work here. Unfortunately, this proposal, while grand, is simply too little of a good thing and inappropriate versions of others. The idea of community involvement should not seem novel, as it does here, but should be seen as a *the* core of any project anywhere in the world. Unfortunately, the People are treated, still, as secondary to the NGOs.

This is a deep flaw that rectified only by turning this on its head: Start with Community, let them lead. Any "projects" or "programs" that come in should be seen as facilitating rather than leading.

Second, Community-based energy is necessary not because of tech or any other reason. You can choose community-based or grid-based anywhere in the world based on technology. The reason for a Community-based is simple: Agency. The People should determine their energy needs and solutions. What is needed is a mechanism for this to be built out. In the U.S., for example, there have been discussions of Cap and Dividend. In 2008( ), I proposed micro-grids as the necessary future of energy. (Unfortunately, the opposite has dominated.) and proposed gov't grants to achieve this. However, combining Cap and Dividend, something that can work in any energy resource-producing country, or even any nation by taxing imported/exported energy, with a micro-grid build-out makes better sense. Individuals and neighborhoods/communities can choose to individually do micro-energy or can work together to build more efficient community-based systems.

Rather than go on and on, let me get to a more important flaw. Your proposal is broken down in ways that don't reflect how decisions are made. What is needed is a different form of governance and or management and decision making. I proposed in 2011 a system by which egalitarian processes address problems at scale. A neighborhood council, e.g., would address issue at the neighborhood (or small town) level. A city or regional (for rural areas) council would address issues at scales that are inter-neighborhood/community. bio-regional scale problems - issues at the watershed level, inter-city level - would be managed by a bio-regional council.

It is scale that matters for implementation, not false segregation of the system as in your proposal. Treating a system as separate parts - water away from food, e.g., makes no sense from a design perspective, and it is a design and problem-solving perspective that we need.

I am hopeful you will consider some discussion and modification of this proposal.

Dan Ma

Mar 16, 2018

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Hello Killian,

Thank you for your response. I find that I very much agree with what you have to say regarding the role of the community. In fact, being community-focused has been the central point from the beginning of this proposal's conception. In addition, the whole point of this proposal was to think of the system as an interconnected ecosystem. The point having the different food, water/waste, and energy sections was not to separate them. To the contrary, we strived to incorporate considerations of each of the other sectors within the sections. The reason we had the separate sections was because we recognize that a nation's entire infrastructure is not built all at once as one giant project, so we wanted to treat the different sectors as modular pieces that can be developed as communities' needs arise and be able to fit together with the other developments projects as they arise. I agree that communities should be central to addressing these issues and through this proposal, my team placed communities as the primary actors of development. Where NGOs, international programs, and governments come in is to create an environment that enables communities to lead their own development by giving them the resources and tools to do so.

At the core, I think that we have much more in common than differences. I appreciate your advice.

Santosh Yatnatti

Mar 20, 2018

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Congratulations for the winning proposal!!!

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The government widened the scope of eligibility for middle income group (MIG) category homeowners to claim subsidy under the credit linked subsidy scheme.

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The limit of 120 square meters has been increased to 160 square meters for families earning between Rs 6,00,000 and Rs 12,00,000.

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Electronics overload may limit option choices

Automotive News reports on how cabin tech is putting more strain on car battery systems.

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The proliferation of electronic content in cars and trucks is fast reaching a point where consumers may be unable to get all the options they desire when buying a new vehicle.

As electronic content grows, so does the amount of electric power required. That demand may bump up against battery capacity.

"I can see a future where you're going to not be able to get some options on some vehicles because they just draw too much power," says Robert Klosterboer, senior vice president of ON Semiconductor Corp. "You are going to have to make a decision: Do I want another 30 minutes of drive time, or do I want a high-end stereo?"

So Klosterboer understands why automakers such as Toyota Motor Corp. want to reduce the number of electronic control units in vehicles. Those ECUs control electronics for the power train, safety devices, body, multimedia and anything else electronic.

25 to 70 units per vehicle

As many as 70 control units can be found on luxury vehicles today. Most General Motors, Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC vehicles have about 25 to 35 ECUs.

Electronic control units and microcontrollers--the brains of the units--manage engines, transmissions, doors, seats, and climate and entertainment systems.

"I think that up until now we've pretty much just said, 'Let's put everything on the vehicle that we can, and we'll let consumers decide what they want,'" Klosterboer says. "We're going to get to a point where the auto manufacturers have to decide what options and what electronics they can put on some vehicle models and still hit their carbon footprint requirements."

During a panel discussion at October's Convergence 2008 conference on automotive electronics, executives from five automakers acknowledged that they must rein in the proliferation of electronic control units in the vehicle.

In 2008, worldwide sales of automotive microcontroller units are on pace to total $5.3 billion, according to Gartner Inc., an information technology research and advisory company in Stamford, Conn.

Because many of the technologies used in "green" vehicles such as hybrids are managed through microcontrollers, Gartner expects the market to top $6.3 billion in 2012. Half of that growth will be driven by new green vehicles and fuel-efficiency improvements in traditional vehicles, Gartner says.

New vehicle features also will propel the growth, says Jim Trent, automotive group vice president at NEC Electronics America Inc.

Features such as antilock brakes, stability control and even backup warning systems--all requiring microcontrollers--are commonplace today, he says.

"It's really inside the car where a lot of the differentiation is," Trent says. "Everybody wants new creature comforts inside the car, so that's where we're seeing a lot of potential growth in semiconductors."

Crowning achievement

But the sky is not the limit. Toyota already recognizes that it must, and can, reduce the number of electronic control units and microcontrollers that it packs in a vehicle.

In the spring of 2006, Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe set a goal of slashing the number of ECUs in Toyota cars to four from about 60 at the time. The goal was part of a broad effort to reduce the electronic complexity of Toyota cars, cut costs and quicken new-vehicle development.

This year, Toyota met that goal--sort of.

In February, the company launched a redesigned Toyota Crown luxury sedan in Japan with only four main electronic control units overseeing power train, safety, multimedia and vehicle body control.

Sounds good. But those four oversee numerous smaller electronic control units. Toyota boasts that it reduced the number of units used for vehicle body control to one-fourth the total previously used, but the company declined to say how many the new Crown has.

In addition, systems with their own, dedicated units include electric power steering, variable gear-ratio steering, engine and brakes.

Although they have 25 to 35 microcontrollers on most of their products today, the Detroit 3 expect that number will come down as they integrate functions and features with more powerful controllers.

"The real power, as we all know, is through integration," says Jim Buczkowski, Ford's director of global electrical and electronics systems engineering. "We improve cost, but we also improve quality, performance and value for customers. So we will continue to drive integration of functions and features, which will probably cause a leveling off of the number" of electronic control units.

'We work hard'

BMW AG has up to 70 ECUs in its high-end cars. That's "probably the maximum you can reach for in high-end cars," says Gunter Reichart, BMW vice president of driver assistance, body electronics and electrical networks.

BMW has 40 to 50 ECUs in its average-equipped cars, he says.

"We work hard toward reducing the number of ECUs," Reichart says. "In one of the next models to come, we have reduced in the body domain from four ECUs into two. So we have started a number of high-integration projects."

While the trend toward fewer electronic control units ultimately may prevail, the manufacturers of these controllers are constantly working on units for new applications.

Take Freescale Semiconductor Inc., the largest manufacturer of automotive microcontrollers. Ray Cornyn, director of global automotive products in Freescale's microcontroller solutions group, expects continued growth in safety-related features, including image recognition.

"The camera, normally just behind the mirror, is scanning the lanes in the road looking for road signs," Cornyn says. "It basically reads all the road signs for you. On your dashboard, you can call up the last speed sign you passed.

"It's quite advanced object recognition software. You need fairly powerful processors to do it."

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“Toofan to sab ke ander hai, bas dhakkan hi to hatana hai”

Campaign to be previewed to over 20 Million fans on Thums Up & Salman Khan’s Facebook page and twitter account before the campaign goes on air on mass media

  • Thums Up kick starts the year with new campaign featuring Superstar Salman Khan
  • Campaign builds on the brand’s core philosophy by urging the youth to push boundaries, pave their own path and to unleash their inner potential
  • Conceptualized by Leo Burnett and directed by Julien Troussellier of Cutting Edge Pictures is all set to roll out on 14th March, 2014.
  • Action star and southern superstar Mahesh Babu to features in the south version of the thrilling campaign.

New Delhi, 14th March, 2014: India’s most iconic soft drink brand, Thums Up is back with a thunderous campaign to kick start the year, featuring Bollywood’s own toofani superstar Salman Khan. With characteristic oomph and chutzpah, the new campaign reminds consumers to push boundaries, pave their own path and unleash the potential within, with the tagline “Toofan to sab ke ander hai, bas dhakkan hi to hatana hai”. This clarion call is a further build on the drink’s iconic and much celebrated brand philosophy of ‘Live Like Thunder’.

Speaking about his experience, Superstar and Thums Up Brand Ambassador Salman Khan said, “I am excited to be part of the next leg of the toofani Thums Up campaign. This time, the toofan is even more electrifying! I completely identify with Thums Up’s new campaign thought – asking people to unleash the potential within them – bas dhakkan hi toh hatana hai. Thums Up stands for this inherent potential which is within each of us. It’s about self-transformation, finding your true calling and unleashing ones Inner Potential!”

As a part of the launch of the campaign, Thums Up will be previewing the TVC to Salman’s fan base of more 20 Million (14 MM Facebook fans + 6 MM twitter followers) people, on 13th March 2014 before the TVC hits mass media on 14th March 2014. Thums Up has a robust digital plan to leverage the campaign. This includes digital and social media platforms for targeted genres: Social, Video on Demand (VOD), Search, Travel, Games, Reach portals and Mobile.

Speaking about the campaign, Debabrata Mukherjee, VP – Marketing, Coca-Cola India said,”Ek Toofan Khatam to Doosra Shuru”. In continuation of our Toofani philosophy, Thums Up is back with its thunderous campaign: ‘Toofan to sab ke ander hai, bas dhakkan hi to hatana hai’. The campaign builds the Thums Up philosophy of inspiring today’s youth to recognize their inner potential and unlock the Thunder within. We are constantly trying to push boundaries to bring this message to our consumers and this year, we are setting the bar higher. The compelling visual narration portrays Salman unleashing the Thunder within, for his bottle of Thums Up”.

Conceptualized by Leo Burnett, the TVC has been created by KV Sridhar, Chief Creative Officer India Sub-continent, Leo Burnett and Sainath Saraban, Executive Creative Director Leo Burnett. The TVC has been directed by Julien Troussellier under the Cutting Edge Pictures production banner.

The campaign will be amplified through a 360 degree integrated communication plan. Commenting on the film, KV Sridhar, Chief Creative Officer India Sub-continent, Leo Burnett said, “The new campaign embodies the values of being adventurous and the ability to go beyond one’s limit. The idea behind this whole approach was to convey that a true Thums Up drinker will go to all possible heights to experience the energetic and energizing taste of Thums Up. In the TVC Salman Khan shows the extent to which he can go for his Thums Up by achieving the impossible.

In line with the theme of the 2014 campaign, Thums Up will soon be rolling out its extremely popular rural marketing initiative, Thums Up Toofani Jalsa in the states of Odisha, Bihar, UP, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Haryana and Rajhmundhary. This initiative, running nationally in its fifth year now, is a unique consumer engagement initiative, allowing Thums Up to connect and engage with its loyalists, giving them the opportunity to participate in and experience an evening of great entertainment and action. Thums Up Jalsa is one of the company’s largest consumer connect initiative for Rural India and the response and encouragement that it has got from consumers over the years has guided us in making this event larger, better and more entertaining with every passing year.

About Coca-Cola India

Coca-Cola India is one of the country’s leading beverage companies, offering a range of healthy, safe, high quality, refreshing beverage options to consumers. Over the last 20 years, ever since its re-entry in 1993, the company has been refreshing consumers with its beverage products – Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Thums Up, Fanta, Limca, Sprite, Maaza, Minute Maid range of juices, Georgia and Georgia gold range of hot and cold tea and coffee options, Kinley and Bonaqua packaged drinking water, Kinley Club Soda and BURN. The Company along with its bottling partners, through a strong network of over 2.2 million retail outlets, touches the lives of millions of consumers, at a rate of more than 500 servings per second. Its brands are some of the most preferred and most sold beverages in the country – Thums Up and Sprite – being the top two selling sparkling beverages.

The Coca-Cola system in India has registered 30 consecutive quarters of growth, 19 of them being double digit. It believes in the long term growth potential of the country and this system is committed to invest US$ 5 billion in its operations between 2012 and 2020. The system already provides direct employment to 25,000 people and indirect employment to 150,000 people.

The Coca-Cola system in India is contributing in its own small way to building sustainable communities and reducing its own environmental footprint. Some of our community development programs include the “Support My School” program – a movement for healthy, active, happy schools, the ‘Parivartan’ and ‘Pragati’ retailer training program, Career Development centers to train youth and make them employable, women empowerment program as a part of the global 5BY20 campaign, Unnati – a sustainable mango farming project etc.

For further information on the company’s India operations and its products, please visit: www.coca-colaindia.com.


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CoCalm Entertainment, also known as Cool Calm Collective Entertainment, was founded by MC David J in 2015 and is an American enterprise that consist of music production, visual works, and fashion. CoCalm began in  the city of Atlanta, Georgia and quickly reached the world through its music and fashion movement. CoCalm is an enterprise that represents mainly Hip Hop energy as well as the culture itself. Although it is mainly a Hip Hop rooted enterprise, CoCalm is not limited to Hip Hop. CoCalm has branched out in many different music genres mainly including Jazz, Rock and Roll, and R&B.

CoCalm represents originality, essentials, and creativity at it's finest. Everything from the sharp, fitted, and cool clothing to the precise, innovative, and energetic music is all perfected to a T.

MC David J grew up with his father being in the Air Force and had the pleasure of living all around the United States. Due to the fact of David living nation wide he had the experience of meeting many different people and encountering different paths of life. These experiences are what craved David's music into what it is today.

At the age of 7, David found his passion for music through the genre of Jazz. He simply found his love through learning how to play instruments such as the trumpet, piano, drums, and the guitar. It was not until the age of about 10 until David wrote his first rhyme. Although it was not a masterpiece it was the beginning to something that would change his life FOREVER!

The first influences of MC David J started when he noticed his father break dancing to Hip Hop by Melle Mel, Sugar Hill Gang, and Run DMC. David absolutely loved not only the art behind the music but the culture involved with Hip Hop. He furthered his love for Hip Hop by discovering artist such as Dr. Dre, The Roots, Notorious BIG, Eazy-E, Slick Rick, Run DMC, and more. These artist helped David not only develop his skill in writing but also develop his skill in producing all of his own music.

MC David J received his first drum machine from his grandfather at the age of 16. From there David built his own home studio with electronic keyboards, recording software, and a microphone. He then took all of his skills from conducting music as a drum major in his high school marching band and used them for production in Hip Hop.

At the young age of 18, MC David J joined the United States Air Force as a fire fighter to serve his country. Little did he know that the disciplinary training he received in the Air Force would help crave is professionalism and cleanliness of is musical production.  In the year 2015, David released two albums titled "The Chill" and "No Chill" both providing listeners with two different worlds of Hip Hop. He then developed the movement Cool Calm Collective or CoCalm for short which is MC David J's recording label, clothing brand, and entertainment corporation in general. To this day David represents and resides in Atlanta, Georgia and continues to make essential, original, and TRUE HIP HOP!


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Mobile: why the answer isn't always go responsive

"Really? But everyone's telling me that I *must* have a responsive site..."

With many companies becoming increasingly keen for their website to be optimised for mobile and tablet use (and rightly so), we've heard the above from quite a few clients when we've suggested that responsive web design (RWD) might not actually be the best route for them.

We've noticed that buzzwords often get thrown around with no real understanding of what they fully entail, and the core concept of having a single website to fit all purposes is quickly lost... It's important to remember that there are other options available.

What exactly is responsive web design?

The term 'responsive web design' is widely acknowledged to have first been coined by Ethan Marcotte in a 2010 article for the A List Apart website. It's centred on the production of a fluid design or layout which 'responds' at certain breakpoints in the viewing environment. These breakpoints are built to emulate common device sizes, e.g. mobile, tablet and desktop, and can be achieved through the use of CSS, in particular Media Queries.

A common approach when choosing RWD is 'mobile first', whereby the page is designed and built for the lowest denominator -- usually mobile -- and then enhanced accordingly, depending on the capabilities of the device/browser.

It's worth noting that in a RWD build, the browser (and device) is primarily responsible for handling and changing the website accordingly; therefore, it's worthwhile keeping scripts/images as optimised as possible to alleviate any performance related issues and help support a wider range of older hardware.

All sounds pretty good, doesn't it? But RWD's not automatically the best way to go.

Responsive vs. adaptive vs. mobile

If you want to do more to your site than simply alter the visual look -- for example, if you've a large site with lots of hi-res images, or if you've a site with an intricate or complex interface -- then an adaptive approach will probably suit your needs better.

Adaptive design pretty much does what it says on the tin -- the website 'adapts' to both the size and capabilities of the device. Things like images and videos can be targeted and, after being cropped or edited on the server to suit different scenarios, can be output accordingly in differing layout's which favour different device types. This helps to reduce loading times and offers the user a far slicker and ultimately more enjoyable experience

By taking an adaptive approach, we can use the server to do some of the initial work and optimisation for us. Aside from batching and minifying scripts/CSS, it allows us to send better images as per the device -- something which is currently lacking if using pure CSS on the client side.

The other benefit of using an adaptive approach is that we can still take advantage of all the great parts of RWD and incorporate them into our solution. So whilst we'd be using the server to send out images at a lower size for mobiles, or script/CSS files specific to touch devices, we can still use breakpoints to target a range of device sizes and allow for improved control for design and layout.

There is one final alternative -- to simply have a specifically designed mobile site. This seems to be a less popular option these days as it only allows for basic content, but it's still a viable option for those who only need to offer a more limited experience.

Finding the right solution

Mobile is growing at a rapid rate and, as a result, it's becoming increasingly difficult to justify not improving your overall mobile experience, regardless of the complexities involved.

What's most important is that you consider all the options and then pick the right solution for your site -- not just in terms of how the website looks and performs, but also in making sure that the content is tailored to meet the demands of the user (and whatever device they happen to be browsing on).

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This Code Fellows Alum Wanted an App... So He Learned to Code & Built it Himself

Meet Derek Graham! He learned to code at Code Fellows and created Box-o-matic, an app that creates patterns for users to create their own boxes and containers.

He shares with us where he got the idea for Box-o-matic, how the app works, and his advice for others who want to take their ideas from concept to completion.

Thanks for sharing your story with us, Derek! How did you first hear about Code Fellows?

I think I first heard of Code Fellows in its early days when I was looking at different options for getting into coding in a more serious way. More recently, I was evaluating the various coding bootcamps in the Seattle area. It stood out for offering a native iOS program in addition to the more web-centric courses and seemed to have a more in-depth approach to programming vs. web technologies and frameworks.

What courses did you take?

I started with Code 101 at the old location to try to get a feel for the instruction style and approach. After that, I took Code 201, Code 301 and Code 401 in iOS, and then Code 501: Data Structures & Algorithms. I really enjoyed the 201 and 301 sequence and instructors, and thought about continuing with JavaScript or Python, but ultimately went with iOS to work on native development as well as the opportunity to learn two languages (Swift and Objective-C).

What was your favorite part of your time on campus?

I really enjoyed the combination of hands-on instruction followed by lab work, but some of my favorite times were pair programming during class and then working on a project as a team during project weeks. It was great getting to know and bonding with all the other students in my cohort, at least one of whom I met in 101.

You recently launched an app into the App Store—tell us about it!

Box-o-matic is an iOS application that makes it quick and easy to design simple boxes and containers that can be cut out on a laser cutter. After specifying the basic constraints of the box, like dimensions and material thickness, Box-o-matic will generate a pattern that can be transferred to a laser cutter and cut from a material, like thin plywood or acrylic.

Where did you come up with the idea for Box-o-matic?

Box-o-matic is the product at the intersection of several of my interests: material, joinery and technology. I have always really liked plywood as a material and for the purposeful aesthetic it brings to everyday objects, like furniture. When I was a kid, I built a really cool desk with plans from Popular Science that used a single sheet of plywood. The farm I grew up on had lots of cool old wood boxes for fruit harvesting and other products. They were solid, well-made, and often had beautiful finger-jointed or box-jointed edges. Fast forward a few years, and we have access to all sorts of cool technology, like CNC (Computer Numerical Control) routers, CNC plasma, and laser and waterjet cutters.

Box-o-matic welcome screen
Box-o-matic's welcome screen

So I really liked that idea of taking a plan (like that one from Popular Science magazine), loading it into a computer, putting a piece of plywood in a CNC cutter, and getting the parts to make something tangible and occupying 3D space from something that started out as a (mostly) 2D sheet. Especially because the parts would be square and accurate and would properly account for the kerf (the material removed by the cutting process).

Along the way, I have admired the aesthetic of plywood designs like kerf cabinets here in Seattle, and things like the kickstarter printrbot+ 3D printer, other 3d printers, and a variety of kickstarter and Makerfaire projects that were being built with laser- and CNC-cut plywood.

When the MakerHaus opened in Seattle, I joined up so I could use the laser cutter and began experimenting with early web-based tools that could generate patterns for boxes. The one I used was functional but pretty limited, so I started writing custom plugins for VectorWorks, a CAD package I owned. That let me explore code-generated joinery, and made it much easier to customize—like creating open boxes (5 sides) and other variations.

So, when it came time to do my solo project week in the Code Fellows iOS class, I thought I would take a crack at re-implementing some of those same ideas, but in Swift and with the functionality to export to PDF. That was in the summer of 2016 and I’ve spent a lot more time since then re-writing and rounding out the functionality.

How has the launch gone so far?

So far I have been keeping very low key—definitely a soft launch. I haven’t been actively promoting it so it is only word-of-mouth or people who happen to find it in the App Store. I have an update in the works with some new features (SVG export and iPad support), and once I roll that out I’ll probably do some experiments to see what kind of interest the app gets.

I also have some features implemented that I need to test before enabling them. I’ve been waiting over two years for a Glowforge (personal laser cutter) and it finally arrived last week. Once I get that set up it will enable me to more quickly iterate, and once that is done I think it will be more interesting.

Box-o-matic welcome screen
Box-o-matic's layout preview screen

What plans do you have for the app going forward?

Well, I literally have several notebooks full of ideas and sketches for new features, content, and things to explore. There are a number of features that I have implemented but I still need to test and fine tune or expose to the UI, like grid dividers and handles. Continuing that direction will be tweaking the existing code to work in other directions. So instead of a divider for a drawer, it will be able to make shelves and cubbies (vertical dividers). Beyond that, I want to do some work with server-side Swift, so I may move some drawing code or other features to a server that I’ve been playing around with. I also just got a Shaper Origin, which is a handheld CNC router that will work with thicker plywood and at a larger scale than a laser, so I’m going to look at joinery and options for furniture/cabinetry scale boxes. And I hope to do some work that takes advantage of the camera and maybe some new frameworks like ARKit.

Writing an app like this has been a great vehicle for me to continue learning Swift and iOS development, as well as exploring UX and UI design ideas.

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Any advice for someone else who has an idea for their own product they’d like to launch?

Well, I think that perseverance is a key factor, along with clarity of purpose and approach. The ideas and product I have envisioned are a long way from where it is today, but I can also see the path to getting there from here. So I think that boils down to start with something small, but that you can still be proud of, and build from there. My solo project was a great proof of concept for me, and I spent another year and change picking away at it, re-writing, improving, prototyping, testing, etc. Box-o-matic has less functionality at the moment, but it is a more complete product and the code base is more flexible so it will be easier to add new features.

If someone was considering attending Code Fellows, what would you tell them?

It was a great experience for me. The curriculum is solid and constantly improving and being updated, the instructors were helpful and knowledgeable, and the interaction with other students was great. I really liked the intensity and focus, and the accountability of the classroom / lab / project approach. I think it is key to understand your own learning style and preferences and what outcome you are expecting. Also, of the other options I looked at, I felt that Code Fellows had a healthy focus on core computer science and programming principles, in addition to the current tools of the trade / frameworks du jour.

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Code 401: Advanced Software Development in Full-Stack JavaScript

Students will learn to build full-stack applications. The first four weeks focus on building back-end web applications with Node.js. During weeks six through nine, students learn to build web apps with modern front-end libraries and frameworks. This course goes in depth into the core competencies of JavaScript, object-oriented programming, and functional programming. Students get hands-on practice in test-driven development with agile tools and best practices.

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Students will learn how to create mobile games and apps for the Android and iOS operating systems. They will take their app ideas from concept to completion and learn the tools, frameworks, and best practices used by mobile developers around the world.

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While every day is a little different, students can expect consistency. Half of the day, Monday through Friday, students are in class learning to code through lectures, in-class assignments, and live coding sessions. The other half of the day (or more) is spent in lab time, getting specialized attention from instructors and TAs and honing development skills—all preparation to land a high-paying job as a software developer. Four Fridays are dedicated to project presentations and our Career Development Curriculum, which prepares students for their job search.

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You voted. Our writers debated. Meet CoinDesk’s Top 10 2018 Crypto Influencers.

This year, we’re celebrating the biggest people in blockchain with a special edition CoinDesk Crypto Collectable Store, where the biggest names are available for purchase (and in-game play) on the blockchain, right alongside our feature articles and videos.

You can own the original digital trading cards designed for this series by bidding for them on OpenSea, an open marketplace for NFTs.

Special thanks to our partners and contributors, who designed amazing artwork and guided us through the technical execution of this series.

Dapper Labs – The makers of the viral blockchain game CryptoKitties

Chibi Fighters – A brutally fun and addicting blockchain game.

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Grand Canyon National Park 5 Oz Silver Uncirculated Coin Released

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Grand Canyon National Park Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin

Grand Canyon National Park Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin

The United States Mint today at noon ET released the Grand Canyon National Park Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin for a price of $279.95.

The collector Grand Canyon coin is the fourth issue in the Mint’s America the Beautiful Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin Program. It honors Grand Canyon National Park located in the state of Arizona.

The previous five ounce silver uncirculated coins honored national parks as well, with the first for Hot Springs, the second for Yellowstone and the third for Yosemite. Each of them sold out with their authorized 27,000 mintage, which is the same limit set for the Grand Canyon coin.

Buyers can place their order directly from the United States Mint website at or by calling the bureau directly at 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468). There is a one unit per household limit and each domestic order will be charged a $4.95 shipping and handling fee. The Mint is expected to begin shipping orders by July 14.

The collector coin comes enclosed in a capsule to protect its finish. The capsule is placed within a protective outer box and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

The Grand Canyon National Park Five Ounce Silver Uncirculated Coin is composed of .999 fine silver, has a diameter of 3.000 inches, and a thickness of 0.165 inches. It is, by far, the biggest collectible product available from the United States Mint. Like all of the silver coins in the series, it features the same design as the corresponding American the Beautiful Quarter, including the obverse George Washington portrait. However, while quarters have a reeded edge, the five-ounce coins have an edge inscription of .999 FINE SILVER 5.0 OUNCE.

The United States Mint has already sold out of the investment version of the strike, named the Grand Canyon National Park Five Ounce Silver Bullion Coin. It is exactly like the collector piece in all but its finish and mint mark. Both coins are produced at the U.S. Mint facility in Philadelphia, but only the collector uncirculated coin features the additional "P" mint mark. The bullion coin had a slightly larger mintage at 33,000.

The Grand Canyon coin reverse, designed by Phebe Hemphill, depicts the granaries above the Nankoweap Delta in Marble Canyon near the Colorado River.

The next coin in the series honors Mount Hood National Forest located in the state of Oregon. It is scheduled to launch on July 28, 2011. The 2011-dated five ounce issues are expected out this year as well. These coins will honor:

  • Gettysburg National Military Park, PA
  • Glacier National Park, MT
  • Olympic National Park, WA
  • Vicksburg National Military Park, MS
  • Chickasaw National Recreation Area, OK

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Cold Krush presents.. SUNDAY SESSIONS!
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View the ‘CHEW on This’ Exhibition which features up to 40 SA Artist’s. Proceeds from CHEW on This will be donated to local Animal Charity SA Dog Rescue.

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We commemorate the Yahrzeit of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, and the ascent of his successor The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson.
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The Previous Rebbe

The sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn obm, (also known by his initials as the Rebbe RAYYATZ) was an intrepid leader who confronted the challenges of maintaining and advancing Jewish life during the turbulent years that saw the fall of Czarist Russia and the rise of the new Bolshevik regime, and during the darkest days of World War II. He then launched a renaissance in Jewish life and Torah in – and from – the United States following the ravages of the Holocaust.

As a young man, during the 1904 Russo-Japanese War, the sixth Rebbe spearheaded the effort to bring matzo to Russian soldiers serving on the front in the Far East. Following the pogroms in the Pale of Jewish settlement, he traveled to Germany and Holland where he successfully enlisted the intercession of world leaders. Because of these activities on behalf of the Jewish community he was arrested by the Czarist regime four times between 1902-1911.

By the time he became the Rebbe in 1920, following the death of his father the Fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe (The Rebbe RASAHB), Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok was already recognized as a towering Jewish figure through his activities at the 1917 and 1918 Assemblies of Jewish Leaders in Moscow, as well as through his myriad efforts on behalf of beleaguered Jewish communities throughout Russia.

Following the Bolshevik Revolution, the Rebbe RAYYATZ defied the Soviet regime, and especially its notorious Jewish Yevsektzia, by fearlessly stoking the embers of Yiddishkeit under the lethal Communist boot. At the same time, recognizing the diminishing opportunities for Jewish learning under Soviet rule, he established a formidable Torah learning center in Warsaw, to which he eventually relocated in1934.

The Bolsheviks considered Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok a direct threat to official Soviet atheism, and had him arrested in Leningrad, and sentenced to death in 1927. Thanks to major foreign intervention, the death sentence was commuted to exile in the Ural Mountains, and ultimately to relocation in Riga where he, yet again, established a new Talmudical Seminary in 1929.

It was also in 1929 that he visited New York for the first time where he presciently planted the seeds for revitalizing Jewish life on American shores.

During the Nazi conquest of Poland and the devastating bombardment of Warsaw, the Rebbe RAYYATZ worked mightily to rescue as many Jews as possible before escaping to New York, where his first order of the day was the creation of a relief fund for European Jews, especially those in the Baltics and the USSR.

From his new headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway, the Sixth Rebbe established a series of educational, publishing and outreach efforts that continue to serve as the fountainhead of Chabad-Lubavitch activity to this very day. They include the Central Talmudic Academy Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch, Machane Israel, Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, Beth Rivkah, Beth Sarah, and Mesibos Shabbos.

Additionally, the Rebbe RAYYATZ, recognizing the dire spiritual situation in North Africa and Australia, launched a network of Jewish schools to serve those communities, thereby enabling them to flourish to this day.

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn passed away on Shabbat, 10 Shevat 1950, at which time the mantle of leadership was passed on to his son-in- law and successor, The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson who played a pivotal role in the success of the Rebbe RAYYATZ’s efforts.

The Rebbe

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson of righteous memory (1902-1994), the seventh leader in the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty, is considered the most phenomenal Jewish personality of modern times; the single individual most responsible for stirring the conscience of world Jewry.

Born in 1902 in Nikolaev, Russia, The Rebbe was named after his great-grandfather, the third Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch.

In 1929 Rabbi Menachem Mendel married the sixth Rebbe's daughter, Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka. He later studied in Berlin and at the Sorbonne where his formidable knowledge of mathematics and the sciences blossomed.

The arrival of the Rebbe and Rebbetzin in the United States in 1941 marked the launching of sweeping new efforts toward bolstering and disseminating Torah, Judaism, and Chassidic teachings through the establishment of three central organizations under the Rebbe's leadership: Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch ("Central Organization For Jewish Education"), Kehot Publication Society, and Machne Israel, a social services agency. With the publication of the Rebbe's notations to Chassidic and kabbalistic treatises, as well his responsa on wide-ranging Torah subjects, the Rebbe's genius was acclaimed by scholars everywhere.

In 1950, after the passing of his father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson ascended to the leadership of the Lubavitch movement thereby launching an unprecedented flowering of new Lubavitch institutions and outreach activities, and the establishments of a global network of Chabad Houses in cities and on campuses worldwide.

The Rebbe passed away 3 Tammuz 5754 (June, 12 1994), orphaning a generation.

With the Rebbe's teachings and personal example as its guide, Lubavitch has expanded into a global presence. Small wonder then, that many ask, "What is it about his leadership that was -- and, in so many ways, still is -- so unique? Why do leading personalities of the day maintain such profound respect and admiration for him?"

Radiating a keen sense of urgency, the Rebbe demanded much from his followers, and even more from himself. The Rebbe led, above else, by example. He was a rare blend of prophetic visionary and pragmatic leader, synthesizing deep insight into the present needs of the Jewish people with a breadth of vision for its future. He charted the course of Jewish history by initiating as well as reacting to current events. His knowledge was encyclopedic, yet all his pronouncements and undertakings were rooted in our Holy Torah.

For the Rebbe, every Jew -- indeed every human being -- has a unique role to play in the greater scheme of things. He had an uncanny ability to meet everyone at their own level. The Rebbe advised Heads of State and leading professionals and corporate titans, yet spoke to small children with warm words and a fatherly smile.

Through his writings and videos, the Rebbe continues to teach and inspire. In each case the same strong, if subtle, message is imparted: "You are Divinely gifted with enormous strength and energy -- actualize it!"

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Talk to the experts

The smartest and possibly the only way to be able to get your hands on quality systems is simply by being in touch with the experts. However, this will only work if you make your search for the real experts in all the right places. The tricky part is that most of them will claim to be the best in the entire field when, in reality, they are only after your money. That is all the more reason to search every nook and cranny for high-profile experts that specialize in  speakers, such as speakerxpert. There are many other sources who can offer great advice when it comes to getting the right amplifiers. Get in contact with all the dealers that meet your standards. Eventually, you will be able to find someone who can help.

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This has got to be the most tedious and cumbersome part for most of us. Bearing in mind that we are all booked to capacity with other things to do, it is highly unlikely that we will pay full attention to the content staring at us. However, despite the fact that not all of us are interested in doing thorough research, we will come to need whatever comes out of it. Failure to get the necessary information from the research may lead to us being misled and given all the wrong information. Given this fact, you are more than welcome to employ other methods of research that will lighten up the whole session. For instance, you can try turning on some music that is appropriate for your ears. A vast majority of us are comfortable with working in an environment that is filled with lively music. Besides, your findings will begin to flow towards your direction especially when you least expect it.

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Weighing options is a welcome idea to anyone that fancies quality. The beauty of it all is that there is so much to choose from. During your research, you saw for yourself exactly what is out there. This is your chance to see what is in store and make the most out of it. Your friends and colleagues could also be one of the factors that can affect your decision. Most of them could have all the answers that you could be desperately seeking. That’s not all. Most of them will even go as far as  to give you direct leads to help you get exactly what you are looking for, which is why you need to be open-minded and see where it will take you.


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  • Rear door bins
  • Telescoping steering wheel
  • Rear beverage holders
  • Power windows
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  • Remote keyless entry
  • Overhead console
  • Passenger vanity mirror
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Entertainment Features

  • Primary LCD size: 3.5"
  • Wireless phone connectivity: Bluetooth
  • AM/FM radio
  • 1st row LCD monitors: 1
  • Speakers: 6
  • Steering wheel mounted audio controls
  • CD-MP3 decoder
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  • Max seating capacity: 5
  • Rear seats: split-bench
  • Front seats: bucket
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  • Basic warranty: 60 months/60,000miles
  • Roadside assistance coverage: 60 months/ unlimited distance
  • Powertrain warranty: 120 months/100,000miles
  • Corrosion perforation warranty: 84 months/ unlimited distance

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  • Compression ratio: 12.50 to 1
  • Engine horsepower: 147hp @ 6,200RPM
  • Front headroom: 986mm (38.8")
  • Rear legroom: 907mm (35.7")
  • Turning radius: 5.3m (17.4')
  • Passenger volume: 2,713L (95.8 cu.ft.)
  • Exterior height: 1,435mm (56.5")
  • Front shoulder room: 1,427mm (56.2")
  • Wheelbase: 2,700mm (106.3")
  • Exterior body width: 1,801mm (70.9")
  • Engine bore x stroke: 81.0mm x 97.0mm (3.19" x 3.82")
  • Rear hiproom: 1,318mm (51.9")
  • Rear headroom: 947mm (37.3")
  • Front legroom: 1,072mm (42.2")
  • Interior maximum cargo volume: 408 L (14 cu.ft.)
  • Exterior length: 4,569mm (179.9")
  • Engine displacement: 2.0 L
  • Engine torque: 132 lb.-ft. @ 4,500RPM
  • Rear shoulder room: 1,405mm (55.3")
  • Interior cargo volume: 408 L (14 cu.ft.)
  • GVWR: 1,780kg (3,924lbs)
  • Front hiproom: 1,356mm (53.4")

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  • Engine liters: 2.0
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  • Cylinder configuration: I-4
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  • Engine location: front
  • Torque: 132 lb.-ft. @ 4,500RPM
  • Variable intake manifold
  • Drive type: front-wheel
  • Number of valves: 16

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  • Traction control
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  • Front tires: 195/65TR15.0
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  • Wheel size: 15"
  • Speed-sensing steering
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  • Front anti-roll bar
  • Power steering

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  • Outside temperature display
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  • Display: analog
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#004f90 Color Information

In a RGB color space, hex #004f90 is composed of 0% red, 31% green and 56.5% blue. Whereas in a CMYK color space, it is composed of 100% cyan, 45.1% magenta, 0% yellow and 43.5% black. It has a hue angle of 207.1 degrees, a saturation of 100% and a lightness of 28.2%. #004f90 color hex could be obtained by blending #009eff with #000021. Closest websafe color is: #006699.

    • R 0
    • G 31
    • B 56
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    • C 100
    • M 45
    • Y 0
    • K 44
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#004f90 color description : Dark blue.

#004f90 Color Conversion

The hexadecimal color #004f90 has RGB values of R:0, G:79, B:144 and CMYK values of C:1, M:0.45, Y:0, K:0.44. Its decimal value is 20368.

Hex triplet 004f90 #004f90
RGB Decimal 0, 79, 144 rgb(0,79,144)
RGB Percent 0, 31, 56.5 rgb(0%,31%,56.5%)
CMYK 100, 45, 0, 44
HSL 207.1°, 100, 28.2 hsl(207.1,100%,28.2%)
HSV (or HSB) 207.1°, 100, 56.5
Web Safe 006699 #006699
CIE-LAB 33.146, 5.713, -41.594
XYZ 7.829, 7.605, 27.439
xyY 0.183, 0.177, 7.605
CIE-LCH 33.146, 41.984, 277.82
CIE-LUV 33.146, -19.174, -57.391
Hunter-Lab 27.577, 2.415, -39.69
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Voter ID Laws Are Finally Being Outed for Their Discriminatory Intent

Restrictive voter ID laws are being struck down across the country, and that’s a very good thing for environmental protection.

The Voter ID law has been a central part of the Moral Monday protests in North Carolina. (Photo: © Jason Miczek / Greenpeace)

Over the last five years, there has been a dramatic rise in states enacting or strengthening laws that require voters to show ID at the polls. Supporters of voter ID laws claim that they are necessary to prevent voter fraud — but studies have consistently shown that this type of fraud is exceptionally rare. And in fact, laws like this disproportionately affect minority, elderly, and low-income groups that tend to vote in favor of progressive causes.

So what do voting rights have to do with the environment? The two issues are more closely tied than you might think. Denying anyone the right to vote prevents their voice from being heard in decisions that directly impact them — including climate and environmental health issues.

Moreover, the historically disenfranchised communities that are affected by voter ID laws are often the same ones that disproportionately suffer environmental harms. Take climate change for example. Communities of color tend to suffer the greatest impacts from climate change — and are often least likely to have the resources available to counteract those harms.

We're at the point of no return.

The battleground state of North Carolina has seen itself in the crosshairs of the fight for voting rights, as it had one of the strictest voter ID laws in the nation. With just three months left before the general election, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down this harsh, discriminatory law. The ruling also eliminated the state’s ID requirement, brought back same-day voter registration, and reinstated rules to expand early voting and allow voters to register before they turn 18.

Republican North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory was speaking at a Donald Trump rally when he responded — announcing that he would appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.

But North Carolina is not alone is the battle against voter suppression. In the past few weeks, five courts in five states have ruled against voter ID and proof-of-citizenship laws. All of these laws discriminate against communities of color, but North Carolina’s law has been highlighted for being particularly egregious. In fact, in striking down the law, the court said the law was “the most restrictive voting law North Carolina has seen since the era of Jim Crow.” The court argued the intent of the law was not to stop voter fraud, but rather to “target African Americans with almost surgical precision” in order to diminish turnout at the polls.

North Carolina lawmakers were found to have crafted the restriction only after receiving data on voter behavior in the state based on race. In its ruling, the court wrote, “this data showed that African Americans disproportionately lacked the most common kind of photo ID, those issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).”

The data also suggested that black voters were more likely to participate in early voting. “With race data in hand, the legislature amended the bill to exclude many of the alternative photo IDs used by African Americans. The bill retained only the kinds of IDs that white North Carolinians were more likely to possess,” the court wrote. The judges ruled that North Carolina lawmakers clearly acted with discriminatory intent, adding, “we cannot ignore the record evidence that, because of race, the legislature enacted one of the largest restrictions of the franchise in modern North Carolina history.”

The state had, in fact, argued in court that “counties with Sunday voting in 2014 were disproportionately black” and “disproportionately Democratic,” and stated this as the reason they eliminated Sunday voting. The court found this to be the “smoking gun” demonstrating the discriminatory intent of the law.

Hector Vaca, a community organizer with Action NC in Charlotte, North Carolina, eagerly anticipated the ruling.

“I am happy with the decision of the 4th circuit. It was clear the law was an attempt to disenfranchise the communities I directly work with,” said Vaca. “These are people who regularly feel like their voice is not being heard. The voter ID law only made matters worse. They are pleased with the ruling, but are now now concerned with the governor’s appeal.”

Similar rulings recently occurred in Texas, Wisconsin, Kansas, and North Dakota. While these cases represent a wave of victories for voting rights groups, there still remain more than a dozen states that have enacted new voting restrictions since 2012. Just as environmentalists take action to keep money out of politics, we should also act to restore voting rights to the disenfranchised.

All voices must have an opportunity to be heard if we are to tackle these problems. The public is increasingly recognizing that the health of our environment is directly tied to the health of our democracy. With this in mind, it’s clear that ensuring the right to vote is critical.

With the election fast approaching, there remains time for appeals and stays, but for the time being, many voting rights advocates are celebrating a series of victories after having suffered losses across the nation.

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Fight the Disease, Not the Symptoms

If we can mount sustained acts of defiance in the face of severe state repression, we have a chance.

They seek a return to the polished mendacity of politicians such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. They hope to promote the interests of global capitalism by maintaining the fiction of a functioning democracy and an open society.

"They seek a return to the polished mendacity of politicians such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. They hope to promote the interests of global capitalism by maintaining the fiction of a functioning democracy and an open society." (Photo: Mr. Fish)

The disease of globalized corporate capitalism has the same effects across the planet. It weakens or destroys democratic institutions, making them subservient to corporate and oligarchic power. It forces domestic governments to give up control over their economies, which operate under policies dictated by global corporations, banks, the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund. It casts aside hundreds of millions of workers now classified as “redundant” or “surplus” labor. It disempowers underpaid and unprotected workers, many toiling in global sweatshops, keeping them cowed, anxious and compliant. It financializes the economy, creating predatory global institutions that extract money from individuals, institutions and states through punishing forms of debt peonage. It shuts down genuine debate on corporate-owned media platforms, especially in regard to vast income disparities and social inequality. And the destruction empowers proto-fascist movements and governments.

These proto-fascist forces discredit verifiable fact and history and replace them with myth. They peddle nostalgia for lost glory. They attack the spiritual bankruptcy of the modern, technocratic world. They are xenophobic. They champion the “virtues” of a hyper-masculinity and the warrior cult. They preach regeneration through violence. They rally around demagogues who absolve followers of moral choice and promise strength and protection. They marginalize and destroy all individuals and institutions, including schools, that make possible self-criticism, self-reflection and transcendence and that nurture empathy, especially for the demonized. This is why artists and intellectuals are ridiculed and silenced. This is why dissent is attacked as an act of treason.

These movements are also deeply misogynistic. They disempower girls and women to hand a perverted power to men who feel powerless in the global economy. They blame ethnic and religious minorities for the national decline. They foster bizarre conspiracy theories. And they communicate in the Orwellian newspeak of alternative facts. They claim the sole right to represent and use indigenous patriotic and religious symbols.

India, built on the foundations of caste slavery, has become one of many new neofeudal states, among them Turkey, Poland, Russia and the United States. Its neofeudal structure continues to carry out atrocities against Dalits—the former “untouchables”—and now increasingly against Muslims. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who as the chief minister of the western Indian state of Gujarat oversaw a vicious anti-Muslim pogrom, has defended sectarian discrimination and violence even though this year he made a tepid declaration that “[w]e will not tolerate violence in the name of faith” and issued other unconvincing appeals for religious peace. As prime minister he has employed threats, harassment and force to silence those who decry human rights abuses and atrocities carried out in India. He attacks his critics as “anti-national”—the equivalent of “unpatriotic” in the United States.

Modi, like his fellow demagogues in other parts of the world, including Donald Trump, speaks in the language of moral purity and promotes self-serving historical myth. Indians who eat beef—a huge number—are targeted, school history books are being rewritten to conform to right-wing Hindu ideology and its open admiration for fascism, and entertainers considered too political or too salacious are under attack.

There are within America’s corporate power structures individuals, parties and groups that find the hysterical, imbecilic and irrational rants of demagogues such as Trump repugnant. They seek a return to the polished mendacity of politicians such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. They hope to promote the interests of global capitalism by maintaining the fiction of a functioning democracy and an open society. These “moderates” or “liberals,” however, are also the architects of the global corporate pillage. They created the political vacuum that the demagogues and proto-fascist movements have filled. They blind themselves to their own complicity. They embrace their own myths—such as the belief that former FBI Director James Comey and the Russians were responsible for the election of Trump—to avoid examining the social inequality that is behind the global crisis and their defeat.

The 400 richest individuals in the United States have more wealth than the bottom 64 percent of the population, and the three richest Americans have more wealth than the bottom 50 percent of the U.S. population. This social inequality will only get worse as the weak controls that once regulated the economy and the tax code are abolished or rewritten to further increase the concentration of wealth among the ruling oligarchs. Social inequality at this level, history has shown, always results in these types of pathologies and political distortions. It also, potentially, presages revolution.

The short-term political and economic gains made by the Democratic Party and liberal class in the last few decades came at the expense of the working class. The liberal class, because of its complicity in globalization, has destroyed its credibility as well as the credibility of the “liberal” democratic values it claims to represent. Enraged workers, lied to for decades by “liberal” politicians such as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Obama, delight in Trump’s crude taunts and insults directed at the power structure and elites they loath. Many Americans are perhaps aware that Trump is a con artist, but he at least appears to share their disdain for the “liberal” elites who abandoned them.

It will eventually become apparent to some, perhaps many, of Trump’s supporters that he is cravenly in the service of the 1 percent and has turbocharged the corporate kleptocracy. The Democratic Party, busy purging Bernie Sanders supporters from its ranks, is banking on this epiphany to revive its political fortunes. The Democratic leadership has no real political strategy, other than to hope that Trump implodes. They are backing and funding opposition movements such as Indivisible and the women’s marches, as well as the witch hunt about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, all of which have as their sole focus removing Trump and restoring the Democratic Party to power. This form of resistance is sterile and useless.

But there are other resistance movements—the most prominent being the battle by the water protectors at Standing Rock to block the Dakota Access pipeline—that attack the disease. It is easy to tell the resistance from the faux resistance by the response of the state. During the women’s marches, Democrats, including Debbie Wasserman Schultz, were honored participants. The police were usually courteous and helped facilitate the marches; arrests were few and coverage by the corporate press was sympathetic. In contrast, during the long encampment at Standing Rock, which took place under the Obama administration, the nonviolent resisters were physically attacked by police, the National Guard and private security contractors. These forces used dogs, pepper spray, water cannons in subzero temperatures, sound machines, drones, armored vehicles and hundreds of arrests in their efforts to destroy the resistance.

Attack the symptoms and the state will be passive. Attack the disease and the state will be ruthless.

Once Trump’s base begins to abandon him—the repression in Turkey under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a good example of what will happen—the political landscape will turn very ugly. Trump and his allies, in a desperate bid to cling to power, will openly stoke hate crimes and violence against Muslims, undocumented workers, African-Americans, progressives, intellectuals, feminists and dissidents. He and his allies on the “alt-right” and the Christian right will move to silence all organs of dissent, including corporate media outlets fighting to restore the patina of civility that is the window dressing to corporate pillage. They will harness the power of the nation’s substantial internal security apparatus to crush public protests and to jail opponents, even those who are part of the faux resistance.

Time is not on our side. If we can build counter-capitalist movements that include the working class we have a chance. If we can, like the water protectors at Standing Rock, mount sustained acts of defiance in the face of severe state repression, we have a chance. If we can organize nationwide campaigns of noncooperation we have a chance. We cannot be distracted by the symptoms. We must cure the disease.

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