, we were cruising with two partnerships that Punam built with Harman and Veda [Krishnamurthy]," Raj said. "But then we lost our way. I had my hopes till Shikha [Pandey] got run-out. I think it was the inexperience of playing on such a big stage on such a big occasion."HomeSubjectsMind and languageEpistemology and methodologyMapping, imagery, GIS
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The mediation of technologies for a new communication and representation of territory
Session S25 of the 32nd Italian Geographers Congress).
Marseille
Conference, symposium - History
Distances (15th-18th centuries)
Dans une optique interdisciplinaire, ce colloque international se propose d'étudier la notion de distance à l'époque moderne (XV-XVIIIe siècle), en la considérant comme un angle essentiel pour les approches spatiales et multi-scalaires mobilisées dans de nombreux travaux en histoire. Que ce soit en termes de circulations, d’échanges ou encore de liens sociaux, les distances se pratiquent et s’éprouvent. Intervalles physiques ou symboliques, elles permettent donc d’aborder le rapport qu’entretiennent les hommes à leur espace.
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Call for papers - Representation
The social dimensions of cognitive cartography
Cartotête fourth study day
Cognitive representations of geographical space are often studied in order to better understand how individuals perceive and deal with everyday spatial problems (Down and Stea, 1977), including orientation, trip planning or navigation. Since these works focus particularly on the functional dimension of such spatial representations, maps are read in a literal, rather than metaphorical perspective. In addition, individual geographical experiences, both direct (trips and visited places) or indirect (spatial information) is considered as the main factor contributing to their construction. Therefore, this “cognitive tool” is essentially considered as an individual and personal construction.
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- Conference, symposium (1)No, I very much did get your point. My point is what Plenty is doing is not the same thing as renting a warehouse, getting some racking and LED lights, and calling yourself a vertical farm. Everything about Plenty's operation is tightly controlled way beyond what any John Doe with a warehouse could pull off - the plant science, the nutrients, the lighting, the environment, the processing operations, the sanitization. Not to mention the automation is years beyond anything else I've seen coming out of this industry.A male passenger in the car escaped and ran away in shock. The woman was dragged out of the car, screaming and protesting. The driver, shot five times and seriously wounded in the head, abdomen and liver, was pulled clear by police. Handcuffed and bleeding profusely he was hauled across the pavement by his forearms. His name was Stephen Waldorf.
Within an hour a senior officer at New Scotland Yard was making a public apology for 'a tragic case of mistaken identity' and announcing the launch of an immediate inquiry by the Complaints Investigation branch of the Metropolitan Police Service. Stephen Waldorf, a film editor, had been ambushed by plainclothes detectives in the belief that he was David Martin, an escaped prisoner who was accused of the attempted murder of a police officer and was also facing bank robbery and firearms charges.
The ambush, staged in a busy thoroughfare in heavy traffic, was also seen as posing a serious threat to public safety as well as flouting rules governing the use of firearms by police officers. William Whitelaw, then the Home Secretary, promised that a full report would be passed to the then Police Complaints Board and
the Director of Public Prosecutions. All steps would be
taken to ensure that no such incident should ever happen again.
Three detective constables were suspended during the inquiry. On 19 January 1983, detective constables John Jardine and Peter Finch were both charged with attempted murder. Both were remanded on bail. Stephen Waldorf was still in intensive care.
Nine months later, on 19 October 1983, DCs Jardine and Finch were found not guilty as charged. Stephen Waldorf eventually recovered and was awarded pounds 120,000 in compensation.
After the Waldorf incident, changes in the selection, training and deployment of armed police were progressively introduced; but two incidents in 1985 resulted respectively in an accidental fatality and serious wounding. As a result, yet further changes in procedure were made and have continued to the present day.Every summer, as the heat builds and the atmosphere in the subway acquires the texture of a hound dog's mouth, straphangers wonder why stations aren't air conditioned. If train cars are reliably cooled, the thinking goes, why can't something be done to cool customers while they wait for them?
The MTA answer: "Unfortunately, air conditioning of subway stations is not feasible due to the open nature of their construction and the impossibility of cooling an infinite space."
Spokeswoman Marjorie Anders explained that the system is open, in part, to cool it: the movement of trains pushes hot air from the tunnels out through vents in city sidewalks.
The exception is Grand Central Terminal, which has air conditioning in the Main Concourse, an enormous central space through which 75,000 to 100,000 passengers pass daily. Anders said seven huge cooling towers on the terminal's roof work in tandem with dozens of temperature sensors to keep the hall cool. She said that's easier to accomplish at the start of summer because "the building isn’t heat-soaked yet. The concrete, limestone and marble are still cool to the touch."
Ms. Anders spoke via phone from an office at the MTA's Midtown headquarters, which had been darkened, she claimed, to save energy. She said that though the Main Concourse is air-conditioned, the gigantic underground train shed at Grand Central Terminal, which holds its 123 tracks and 46 platforms, is not.
Ushers keep doors between the terminal and the platforms closed when trains aren’t actively boarding or unloading. And conductors on the trains only open one door per car when a train is in Grand Central.
The MTA is also coping with the heat wave by reducing the speed of subway trains and reducing electrical usage by shutting down several substations that supply power to the system's third rails. That means subways are moving a little bit slower.
The authority says it cuts back on power during heat waves between noon and 6 p.m. at the request of the New York State Power Authority.
On subway lines, passengers may notice reduced elevator and escalator service, to conserve energy. Some contracts with energy providers require the MTA to reduce power consumption during heat waves.
The MTA will also be running trains at reduced speed on Metro-North's New Haven Line, which is powered by overhead catenary wires that droop in extreme heat. "Trains are slowed so that pantographs — arm-like apparatus on the roof of the trains that draw the power from the catenary — do not get ensnared in catenary wires," a spokesman said.
Fine, how about this one.
PLEASE just buy and use more FANS!
I can see the cost to benefit calculation of avoiding air-conditioning the vast majority of platforms. But MUCH more could be done. Air CAN be moved to keep people cool. Install some of those huge fans to make some fresh airflow on underground platforms. USE air conditioning in those small sealed off waiting areas.
There are perfect places where air conditioning CAN be used. I was waiting for a train in Jamaica last night and saw/appreciated a completely closed off on-platform space with the only benches. BUT when got inside it was a HOT BOX!!! I needed to sit for 45 minutes.
Closed off waiting spaces like the ones in Jamaica were apparently designed for the cold winter months. AT LEAST the design could utilize the heater's fans to move the air with the heaters off. The fans should be on a separate thermostatically controlled circuit so one thermostat turns on both heat and fans below freezing and the other thermostat turns on the fans above 80 degrees.
Why not use (and create) spaces to shield people from ALL types of harsh weather?
Actually, it is possible. There are subway stations around the world that are cooled. For instance, consider how the JFK airport airtrain works. In fact, it makes more sense and is more effective if the stations are cooled.
As much as cool stations would be amazing one can immediately see that it is not possible. I can only imagine the cost involved or if it is even possible on an engineering.News
Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announced it was adding a new option to store infrequently accessed data at a lower cost on Amazon Simple Storage (S3) instances.
"The team found that many AWS customers store backups or log files that are almost never read," spokesman Jeff Barr wrote yesterday.."
The new storage class for infrequently accessed data is called Infrequent Access (Standard - IA), starting at $0.0125 per gigabyte per month, with a $0.01 per gigabyte charge for retrieval.
"We believe that this pricing model will make this new storage class very economical for long-term storage, backups, and disaster recovery, while still allowing you to quickly retrieve older data if necessary," Barr said