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Forecasting the Future: Small Satellite Market's 15.3% CAGR Propels Industry to US$ 55.9 Billion by 2033

The small satellite market is expected to thrive at a strong CAGR of 15.3% during the forecast period. The market is anticipated to cross a market size of US$ 55.9 billion by 2033, while it holds a revenue of US$ 13.5 billion in 2023.

The expanding space exploration programs around the world have become an important element in the space race. Thus, the applications of small satellites become important

Small satellite market thrives on factors such as new technology, research and development programs, and private companies and startups investing in outer space exploration.

Countries and their defence programs are also adopting a huge number of small satellites while also building constellations for observation and surveillance.

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Different types of carriers and launch pads have also been built according to the reusable rockets and satellites. The latest addition to sustainable technology is the use of reusable and biodegradable materials while building satellites to minimize space waste.

Emerging economies like India and China have started building and advancing their space exploration programs with the help of commercial rides, payload carriers, and satellite carriers. Small startups are also helping organizations like ISRO and DRDO to create sustainable solutions for space programs.

Key Points

The US market for small satellite holds the biggest market share and is likely to cross the anticipated values of US$ 7.2 Bn by 2033 with a CAGR of 14.8%. The growth rate is rising for the US market as the market flourished from a lower CAGR of 11.0% between 2017 and 2022.

The Indian small satellite market thrives at the highest CAGR of 18.2% during the forecast period, while like revenue of US$ 701.1 million by 2033. The regional market was at a lower CAGR of 13.5% during the previous forecast period.

The small satellite market outlook states that the nanosatellites segment continues to lead the satellite type category with a CAGR of 15.9% between 2023 and 2033. The growth is owed to the easy implementation, effective use and cheaper cost.

Based on end-user type, the defence segment thrives at a CAGR of 15.3% between 2023 and 2033. This is due to the increased use of surveillance for enhanced security of the defense personnel.

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Competitive Landscape

Major players in small satellite market focus on experimenting with the size by using lighter materials in the production of these small satellites. Brands make satellites with a weight of 500 kg to increase performance and save rocket fuel too. Key players in the market are Orbital ATK, Inc., Ball Corporation, Airbus, Boeing, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd., QinetiQ, ISIS- Innovative Solutions In Space B.V., OHB SE, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., Planet Labs Inc.

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Lockheed Martin Corporation launched its advanced satellite series which has LM 50, offering compact size, optimized design, and efficient packaging while its mission life lies between three months to five years.

Ball Corporation has introduced BCP 100, which is a small satellite and offers a rapid and frequent response to meet mission requirements. Another satellite is BCP 300 that is applied for the demonstration mission for tests and other technological experiments.

Key Segments

By Satellite Type:

Micro-Satellite

Mini-Satellite

Nano-Satellite

Pico-Satellites

By End User:

Civil

Commercial

Defense

By Region:

North America

Latin America

Europe

Asia Pacific (APAC)

Middle East & Africa (MEA)

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myracingcareer · 3 years

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My Racing Career Racing Clubs

The Racing Clubs are a new feature to the game. It creates opportunity for managers to group in teams formed by them regardless of their nationality, age or skill and create races against each other.

At the moment racing clubs are in BETA version, which means they look to be fully working, BUT some defects can be expected and will be fixed when reported. After BETA is closed all created clubs will stay in the game with all the cards and rating achieved. So it BETA does not mean we will start from the beginning when it ends.

Races

At the beginning we will have simple club wars or challenges. There can be up to 4 clubs participating in one club war.

At first one club has to challenge 1-3 other clubs and nominate drivers. Other clubs have to accept the challenge and once all clubs agree, race is created. There is a club ranking which will be always updated based on the results of these races. Winner of the club war will be based on points earned by drivers for each club.

In the future there will also be Nations Cup type of races which means there will be only one driver per club and ranking will be based on the results the same way as in Nations Cup.

The Third category of races will be endurance races. There will be races like 24 hours in Le Mans created during the season. And drivers will be substituted during the race as you know it from this type of races in real life.

Cards

There are more types of cards.

car performance parts - parts with quality which affects attributes of club cars

car visual parts - parts which affect the look of the car but not the performance

boost cards - cards which affect driver performance and lowers the gap between good and bad drivers

upgrade cards - cards which can be used in card sets to exchange for better cards

Cards can be combined in Cards Sets and other cards can be gained in exchange.

Cards Expiration Date

Cards which affect the performance of the car better than bronze level have the expiration date. The expiration date is set when the card is used on the car for the first time and the card will last for next 6 weeks. Cards with expiration date cannot be used in Card Sets.

Card Purchase Limits

To avoid unlimited coins purchases which would grant pay for win principle there is a limit to purchase card packs.

Every user can purchase packages with a value equal to 200 activity points (voting points) or 100 coins per week. In addition to that, the club can purchase packages for its own coins.

Clubs with less than 16 members have a limit increased by 60 activity points for every member missing to 16.

Card Sets - Exchanging Cards

Every manager can use his own cards in Card Sets and exchange them for new cards. In addition to that Club Managers can use cards whioch belongs to the Club.

If card which belongs to the club is used in the Card Set, the exchanged cards will also belong to club, even if manager used also his own cards.

Cards you previously placed to Card Set, but never submited, so they are not exchanged, are still assigned to the card set. They must be removed from the set to be available for another use.

Cars

In the future, new cars will be available. Similar performance but different look.

We also plan to add Motorcycle vehicles for the clubs and separate ranking for cars and motorcycles.

LMS type cars will be available too, but only for usage in endurance races. Cars can be built from cards owned by the club. Managers can give their own cards to the club. On manage car screen a star on a card means there is a card with higher quality available.

Races

Besides to classic circuit races and motorcycle races we also plan to add option to create rally races with standard club cars.

Club Rating

Club rating is based on results in races but not all races gives winner same amount of rating points. If highly rated club wins against low rated one the winner gets significanlty less points than win over higher rated club.

After some time it will only make sense to race against clubs at about the same level.

Club Management

Club is managed by the Club Manager or his assistants.

#debik #clubs

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Thank you so much for apretiate of my pict 🙏🙏🙏 Let's read and watch all about Ferrari #Repost @castheads • • • • • • CastHeads Magazine It’s Turbo Tuesday CastHeads! And in today’s segment we have the Ferrari F40! The Ferrari F40 is a rear-wheel-drive mid-engined sports automobile designed by Nicola Materazzi and styled by Pininfarina. It was manufactured between 1987 and 1992, with the LM and GTE racing car variants lasting until 1994 and 1996, respectively. It was created to commemorate Ferrari's 40th anniversary and was the last Ferrari vehicle personally authorized by Enzo Ferrari. It was the successor of the 288 GTO (also engineered by Materazzi). It was Ferrari's fastest, most powerful, and most costly automobile on the market at the time. The Ferrari F40 engine needed to back up its performance statistics and prove its mettle on the track, especially with such a distinctive cabin. The F40's 2.9L twin-turbo V8 produced 471 horsepower and 426 lb-ft of torque, making it the first production car to reach 200 mph. These were Ferrari's official numbers, although many experts believed that they were understated, with reports suggesting the Ferrari F40 easily surpassed 500 horsepower. The F40 engine allowed it to reach 100 km/h (62 mph) in 4.1 seconds, 400 meters in 11.9 seconds, and a kilometer in 20.9 seconds. The front and rear tires on stock cars had vented disc brakes, with 17-inch 245/45 tires on the front and 17-inch 335/35 tires on the back. A huge shoutout to the photographers for these AMAZING pictures! And do drop pictures of your models in the comments below, we love to see them! #castheads #castheadsmagazine #modelmagazine #diecastcars #diecastcollector #diecastphotography #scalemodel #scale #scalemodels #turbotuesday #diecast #modelcar #turbocharge #speed #power #racing #turbotuesday #turbocharged #boosted #carphotography #supercharged #turbos #carlifestyle #turbolife #carswithoutlimits #carlovers #automotivephotography #automotive #carphotography #toypic_community #RetroPopThursday https://www.instagram.com/p/CaRhm9ipDKP/?utm_medium=tumblr

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frankmwilliams25 · 4 years

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NEW LIMITED Audi R8 green hell | Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles | What’s up, Audi? #38

In today’s episode we discuss everything about plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and take the new limited edition Audi R8 green hell for a ride on the Nürburgring! Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle: https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/presskits/audi-techtalk-plug-in-hybrid-13087 Locally emission-free travel combined with full long-distance suitability: Plug-in hybrid models resolve conflicting targets of modern mobility. The combination of an electric motor and a conventional internal combustion engine has evolved into a desirable type of powertrain in recent years. Audi R8 green hell: The Audi R8 LMS has notched up five overall victories since 2012 in the 24 Hours on the Nürburgring – the “Green Hell” –, which is regarded as one of the world’s toughest and most popular endurance races. As a tribute to the great success story, Audi Sport GmbH is presenting a limited special edition of the road sports car at this year’s race on the Nürburgring – the R8 green hell. GREEN TECH FESTIVAL: Audi is a founding partner of Nico Rosberg’s GREENTECH FESTIVAL. Under the motto “A story about tomorrow,” the company is showing how it is striving to achieve its self-defined vision of net CO2 neutrality by 2050. The company is taking measures along the entire value chain in pursuit of this goal. Strategic partnerships with Climeworks and the Audi Environmental Foundation underscore Audi’s efforts to help achieve the Paris climate goals. About the Audi Youtube Channel: This is the home of “Vorsprung”! On this channel, you’ll find first-hand information on us as a company, innovations, and coverage of exciting model releases. Be prepared for fascinating formats and the reporting of important events. Subscribe for thrilling insights, diverse opinions and new perspectives on the brand with Four Rings and become a member of a worldwide community of automotive aficionados: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO5ujNeWRIwP4DbCZqZWcLw?sub_confirmation=1 Stay tuned for news from the Audi Universe: Audi.com: https://www.audi.com/en.html Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Audi.AG/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AudiOfficial Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/audi-ag/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/audiofficial/ Audi MediaCenter: https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en Imprint: https://www.audi-mediacenter.com/en/imprint-3697 Audi collection shop: https://shops.audi.com/en_GB/web/collection #Audi #AudiR8greenhell #greentechfestival #PHEV ---- Audi R8 green hell: Combined fuel consumption in l/100 km: 13.0; Combined CO2 emissions in g/km: 299–297. Information on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions as well as efficiency classes in ranges depending on the tires and alloy wheel rims used. Audi A8 L 60 TFSI e: Combined fuel consumption in l/100 km: 2.7 - 2.5 (87.1 - 94.1 US mpg); combined electrical consumption in kWh/100 km*: 21.2 - 20.9; combined CO2 emissions in g/km*: 61-57 (98.2 - 91.7 g/mi); Information on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions as well as efficiency classes in ranges depending on the tires and alloy wheel rims used. Audi A3 Sportback 40 TFSI e: Combined fuel consumption in l/100 km*: 1.5–1.4 (156.8–168.0 US mpg); combined electric power consumption in kWh/100 km*: 13.8–13.0; combined CO2 emissions in g/km*: 34–30 (54.7–48.3 g/mi); Information on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions as well as efficiency classes in ranges depending on the tires and alloy wheel rims used. Audi A7 Sportback 55 TFSI e: Combined fuel consumption in l/100 km*: 2.1–1.9 (112–123.8 US mpg); combined electric power consumption in kWh/100 km*: 18.1–17.5; combined CO2 emissions in g/km*: 48–44 (77.2–70.8 g/mi); Information on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions as well as efficiency classes in ranges depending on the tires and alloy wheel rims used. Audi Q5 TFSI e: Combined fuel consumption in l/100 km*: 2.4–2.0; combined electric power consumption in kWh/100 km*: 19.1–17.5; combined CO2 emissions in g/km*: 53–46 ; Information on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions as well as efficiency classes in ranges depending on the tires and alloy wheel rims used. Audi Q7 TFSI e quattro: Combined fuel consumption in l/100 km*: 3.0–2.8; combined electric power consumption in kWh/100 km*: 22.9–21.9; combined CO2 emissions in g/km*: 69-64 ; Information on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions as well as efficiency classes in ranges depending on the tires and alloy wheel rims used. Audi A6 Avant 55 TFSI e quattro: Combined fuel consumption in l/100 km*: 2.1-1.9; combined electric power consumption in kWh/100 km*: 18.1-17.6; combined CO2 emissions in g/km*: 48-44 ; Information on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions as well as efficiency classes in ranges depending on the tires and alloy wheel rims used. .video-container {position: relative;padding-bottom: 56.25%;padding-top: 1px; height: 0; overflow: hidden;} .video-container iframe, .video-container object, .video-container embed {position: absolute;top: 0;LEFT: 0;width: 100%;height: 100%;}

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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 23 February, 2020

A classic Triumph flat tracker from the race director of the Wheels & Waves festival, a Virago influenced by 90s Japanese import culture, and the latest oddity from Lazareth.

Ducati Monster S4 by Barn Built Bikes Whether you leave them stock, sprinkle them with aftermarket parts or really got to town on them, old Ducati Monsters are cool. This 2002 Monster S4 used to fall into the second category; loaded up with bolt-ons, but without any serious fabrication work done. So the crew at Barn Built Bikes in Belgium decided to take it up a level.

Most of the parts that the previous owner had added on came off again, and got sold to fund the rest of the build. The first major undertaking was reworking the fuel tank. Shop boss, Sven, didn’t like the way the OEM unit dipped low at the back—so he cut away the bits he didn’t like, then welded it shut again.

The tank now cuts a cleaner line into the custom-made saddle, and also exposes more of the Ducati’s L-twin motor. The seat sits on a hand-made subframe, that was deliberately designed with sharp angles, to mimic the Monster’s trellis front frame. There’s a new electronics tray under the seat too, packed with a Motogadget m.unit controller.

Up in the cockpit, Barn Built swapped the bars for a set of Gilles Tooling clip-ons, with Magura controls and Motogadget switches, bar-end turn signals and mirrors. The speedo’s a Motogadget part too, and the headlight’s a LED unit.

Finishing this Monster off are a set of Alpina spoked wheels, Rizoma belt covers and a ‘rich java’ brown hue borrowed from Volvo’s swatch book. [More]

Triumph TR6 by Christophe Canitrot M. Canitrot really has a thing for racing old bikes—so much so, that he’s the race director for the popular Wheels & Waves festival, held in Biarritz each year. After two years of racing his first flat track build, a Triumph 500 Daytona with a stock frame, he decided it was time for an upgrade. This Staracer-framed TR6 is the result.

But this project was a struggle from the get-go. Christophe had managed to find a Staracer frame in France, but it took almost two years of negotiating to wrangle it from its owner. Then he had to find a new motor, since the frame was designed for a 650, and not the 500 in his Daytona. Luckily, he found a 1967 TR6R in the US.

A set of Ceriani GP 38 reproduction forks formed the next piece of the puzzle, but they ended up sitting in Christophe’s living room for a year, while he sourced the rest of the parts he needed. Meanwhile, the motor went off to Philippe Fabre (a mechanic Christophe trusts), who returned it with an extra 100 cc and a bunch of race-spec internals.

It runs with a set of Mikuni carbs and K&N filters, and a custom exhaust.

Eventually everything started coming together, and spectacularly so. New rims, a perfectly-tuned cockpit and a classic seat and rear fender setup, and Christophe’s TR6 was starting to look like a pukka vintage racer. As for that stylish yellow paint job, that’s a nod to the BSA B50 MX that he sold a year earlier, and still misses. [More]

Yamaha Virago 750 by WKND Digital x de stijl moto We took a very brief glance at this fresh Virago custom in our One Moto Show report last week. But now more details of the build have surfaced, and we couldn’t resist taking a more comprehensive look at it.

The bike was built by Sean Hogan at Portland’s de stijl moto, for his long time friend Tommy Patterson at WKND Digital. The two grew up skateboarding in California together, and later street racing home-built Honda (cars). So the build drew heavy inspiration from 90s Japanese import culture—hence the Toyo logos on the tires, and the Recaro logo on the seat.

There’s a ton of handcrafted goodness tying the Virago together. The trellis swing arm is custom, designed to accommodate the wider rear wheel from the second-gen Virago. It’s hooked up to a Yamaha R6 shock, and there’s a set of R1 forks up front, with a Cognito Moto top yoke.

The rear subframe is naturally custom too, as are the rear-set mounts and battery box. The bike was rewired around a Motogadget controller, with a Lithium-ion battery, and a couple of components from Revival Cycles. Most of the wiring runs through the actual frame.

Sean also rebuilt the motor, and hooked up a single carb intake manifold from Virago Performance, with a Mikuni TM40 carb. The exhaust system consists of pie-cut headers, that exit via two under-seat carbon fiber mufflers. It’s undeniably one of the sharpest Virago customs out, and a reminder that there’s still life left in Yamaha’s venerable V-twin. [More]

The Lazareth LM 410 Leaning Quad We’ve come to expect borderline ridiculous designs from Ludovic Lazareth, and his new LM 410 doesn’t disappoint. Lazareth hasn’t released full technical details of this other-worldly machine yet, but here’s what we know so far…

The LM 410 has four wheels, it’s powered by a 998 cc Yamaha R1 motor, and it looks absolutely bonkers. It’s also going to be produced in very limited numbers (only ten), and will set you back €100,000 (that’s around $108,470).

The design is pretty close to a previous concept from Lazareth—the Maserati V8-powered LM 847, which debuted at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show. But that version proved to hard to make properly road legal, so Lazareth’s toned it down to build the LM 410. He says the new version is now lighter and more manageable, but it still looks like a handful to us.

Like the 847, the 410 uses a tilting mechanism that allows the wheels to maintain full contact with the road, even on an incline. It’s over-the-top for sure, but it’s also really fascinating, and something we’d love to experience at least once. [More]

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bharatiyamedia-blog · 5 years

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50 years On Of Apollo 11's Journey, A Big Leap Into The Unknown

http://tinyurl.com/yxp4qjrk Apollo 11’s journey to the Moon had gone in response to plan (Representational Picture) Washington: The primary 4 days of Apollo 11’s journey to the Moon had gone in response to plan, however simply twenty minutes earlier than touchdown, the ambiance grew tense because the crew encountered a sequence of issues. It was July 20, 1969, and because the world adopted the spacecraft’s progress, it briefly misplaced radio contact with mission management in Houston. Then, because the lunar module Eagle was in the course of its descent, piloted by Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and mission commander Neil Armstrong, an alarm bell started ringing. Eagle had indifferent two hours earlier from the primary a part of the vessel, the command module, Columbia, the place the third crew member Michael Collins remained in orbit. It was an anxious second for Armstrong, a superb take a look at pilot and aeronautical engineer, however a person of famously few phrases. “Give us a studying on the 1202 Program Alarm,” he radios to mission management. They’re instructed to maintain going. Houston realizes the onboard pc is experiencing an overflow, however all techniques are purposeful. Beneath them, the Moon’s craters are zipping by quick. Too quick, realizes Armstrong: at this price, they are going to overshoot the touchdown web site by a number of miles. He switches to guide management and begins to scope out a brand new touchdown web site from his porthole. However there’s bother discovering the right spot, and it should be tight. “Fairly rocky space,” he tells Aldrin. Aldrin continues to inform him pace and altitude readings from the pc. “Coming down properly,” he says. “Gonna be proper over that crater,” Armstrong replies. In the meantime, the gasoline is quickly depleting. Houston continues to announce the variety of seconds left to the “Bingo gasoline name” — the purpose at which Eagle can have 20 seconds left to land, or abort the mission. It’s now 30 seconds left to Bingo. Armstrong, summoning all his expertise, is silent as he concentrates. The module involves a relaxation on the bottom. “Contact Mild,” says Aldrin, that means one of many leg’s foot sensors has touched down. The engines are switched off. “Houston, Tranquility Base right here. The Eagle has landed,” broadcasts Armstrong. “We copy you on the bottom. You bought a bunch of men about to show blue. We’re respiration once more. Thanks loads,” replies Charlie Duke, the CapCom or capsule communicator on the bottom. Nazi rocket manHistorical past information that the quantity of people that labored on the Apollo program was 400,000. However two figures tower above the remainder for his or her contributions. In 1961, President John F Kennedy known as upon his vp Lyndon Johnson to beat the Soviets in house. “We’re in a strategic house race with the Russians, and we’re shedding,” Kennedy had written in {a magazine} the 12 months earlier than. “If a person orbits Earth this 12 months, his identify will probably be Ivan.” Johnson reaches out to the godfather of NASA’s house program: Wernher von Braun. The previous card-carrying Nazi was the inventor of the V-2 rockets that rained destruction on London in World Warfare II. Towards the top of the battle, he surrendered himself to the Individuals, who introduced him and 100 of his greatest engineers to Alabama, as a part of the key “Operation Paperclip.” Von Braun instructed Johnson that whereas the US was properly behind, they might conceivably beat the Russians when it got here to placing males on the Moon, in the event that they instantly began work on a large booster rocket. Kennedy would handle Congress later that 12 months, famously committing “to touchdown a person on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth” by the last decade’s finish. Eight years later, Richard Nixon was president when the aim was realized. In case of a tragedy, he had ready the next remarks: “Destiny has ordained that the boys who went to the Moon to discover in peace will keep on the moon to relaxation in peace.” However the extraordinary nationwide efforts paid off. All of it occurred quick, due to a clean test for the mission from Congress. Between October 1968 and Could 1969, 4 preparatory Apollo missions had been launched. Armstrong was chosen in December 1968 to command the eleventh. Months from launch, Armstrong instructed Aldrin he was pulling rank and can be the primary to set foot on the lunar floor. “I stored my silence a number of extra days, on a regular basis struggling to not be offended with Neil,” Aldrin later recalled in his memoirs. “In spite of everything, he was the commander and, as such, the boss.” The large leapWhen the monstrous rocket designed by von Braun launched with the Apollo 11 capsule at its summit on Wednesday, July 16 1969, a million folks flocked to the seaside throughout from Cape Canaveral to observe. However many had doubts that they’d achieve touchdown on the Moon on the primary try. Armstrong confided in 1999: “My intestine feeling was that we had a 90 p.c probability — or higher — of getting again safely, and a 50 p.c probability of creating a profitable touchdown.” For these in America, the ultimate descent would happen on Sunday night. In Europe, it was already nighttime, however everybody was glued to their televisions, although they might solely hear crackling radio communications till Armstrong arrange his black and white digital camera forward of his first step. His grandmother had suggested him to not do it if he felt hazard; he had agreed, in response to the e book “Rocket Males” by Craig Nelson. As he climbed right down to the foot of the ladder, he noticed that Eagle’s footpads had sunk into the bottom by solely an inch or two, and the floor appeared very wonderful grained. “It is virtually like a powder,” he recalled. Then, over the radio: “Okay. I will step off the LM now.” A pause, after which the immortal phrases: “That is one small step for man; one large leap for mankind.” Based on Armstrong, the road wasn’t scripted. “I considered it after touchdown,” he would say in an oral historical past recorded by NASA in 2001. One downside: with out the indefinite article (“a person”), it wasn’t grammatically appropriate. Armstrong mentioned he meant to say it, however agreed it was inaudible. What does the Moon appear like, up shut? Its shade varies with the angle of the Solar: from brown to gray to black as coal. And the decrease stage of gravity takes getting used to. “I began jogging round a bit, and it felt like I used to be shifting in sluggish movement in a lazy lope, typically with each of my toes floating within the air,” Aldrin wrote in a e book in 2009. Over the course of two-and-a-half hours, Armstrong picks up piles and piles of Moon rocks and takes images. Aldrin installs a seismometer and two different scientific devices. They plant the US flag, and depart behind a bunch of things together with a medal honoring the primary man in house, Russia’s Yuri Gagarin. Of the 857 black and white pictures, and 550 in shade, solely 4 present Armstrong. The bulk are of Aldrin. “He is much more photogenic than I’m,” he joked in 2001. Homeward sureBy the point they had been set to go, the astronauts had been lined in mud. Within the cockpit, “It smelled, to me, like moist ashes in a fire,” mentioned Armstrong. Collins had been ready up in orbit for the previous 22 hours. “My secret terror for the final six months has been leaving them on the moon and returning to Earth alone,” he later wrote. “In the event that they fail to rise from the floor, or crash again into it, I’m not going to commit suicide; I’m coming residence, forthwith, however I will probably be a marked man for all times and I do know it.” Fortunately, the lunar module’s engine labored, it rendezvoused again with Columbia, and the trio started the lengthy journey residence. By the top, shorn of its further modules and gasoline, the capsule weighs solely 12,250 kilos, or 0.2 p.c of the launch weight of the totally loaded Saturn V rocket. On July 24, it enters the ambiance, turning into for some time a fireball within the sky earlier than deploying three parachutes and splashing down safely into the Pacific. The US had dispatched an plane service to get well them. Nixon was on board. Elite divers extract the boys, who’re unhurt however malodorous after their journey, to switch them by helicopter to the ship. There, they’re positioned in quarantine over the concern on the time that they could be contaminated with extraterrestrial microorganisms. At their first press convention, three weeks later, reporters requested the three males, now international heroes, whether or not they would ever contemplate returning to the Moon. “Within the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, we had little or no time for meditation,” replied Armstrong, ever to the purpose. None of them would return to house ever once more. After six extra missions, the Apollo program was terminated in 1972. It was not till Donald Trump got here to workplace that the US would resolve to return to the Moon, underneath the Artemis program, named for Apollo’s twin sister. (Aside from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is revealed from a syndicated feed.) Get Breaking news, reside protection, and Newest News from India and world wide on NDTV.com. Catch all of the Stay TV motion on NDTV 24×7 and NDTV India. Like us on Facebook or comply with us on Twitter and Instagram for latest news and live news updates. (function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = "http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5&appId=213741912058651";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Source link

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?”

Since digital education first emerged, following the heady early days of the World Wide Web in the ‘90s, online learning faced the elusive hurdle of turning disembodied classmates and instructors into living, breathing engaged learners and teachers, with minds and hearts you can feel, know and understand; with whom you can imagine sitting together in a lecture hall.

Clever techies have stepped up to the challenge with their ingenious gadgets, transforming remote students into tangible beings with a heartbeat, devising uncanny innovations, most now surprisingly part of mainstream education, right on campus.

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. Sink or swim. Courageously, pioneer faculty would just dive in, largely unaided by high-tech devices, making do, often in inspired ways, simply and creatively with their wits and ingenuity.

Looking back now, here are my picks for what have emerged as the most influential tools for online learning that have helped bring digital education from an experiment to a mainstream practice.

Learning Management Systems

With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams. Students can communicate peer-to-peer and also engage instructors directly in text, voice, and video, recorded for later access or run immediately in real-time. Students enroll in courses seamlessly, with attendance and grades plugged-in to an institution’s central records automatically.

In a telephone interview, Phil Hill, edtech guru and co-publisher of the widely followed e-Literate blog , acknowledged that “the LMS is not only part of the university’s core infrastructure, but it also allows faculty and students to use technology creatively in the classroom.” Hill conceded that while “it’s not sexy and is often bashed, without it, students can’t get their grades or find their assignments.”

Neck and neck for the top spot in the LMS academic vendor race are Blackboard—the early entry and once-dominant player—and coming-up quickly from behind, the relatively new contender, Canvas, each serving about 6.5 million students . The LMS market today is valued at $9.2 billion.

Digital Authoring Systems

Faced with increasingly complex communication technologies—voice, video, multimedia, animation—university faculty, expert in their own disciplines, find themselves technically perplexed, largely unprepared to build digital courses. Online places a burden on faculty they had not foreseen when they signed up for academic life.

After all, most professors started out believing they were destined to do scholarly work, perform research, publish results and teach in classrooms; but for most, teaching online was not what they had in mind.

As sophisticated digital skills—capabilities ironically found more commonly among students—became decisive, two new trends emerged. The biggest occurred when instructional designers, long employed by industry, joined online academic teams, working closely with faculty to upload and integrate interactive and engaging content.

The next big move came when instructional designers, as part of their skillset, turned to digital authoring systems, software introduced to stimulate engagement, encouraging virtual students to interface actively with digital materials, often by tapping at a keyboard or touching the screen as in a video game. Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes.

With authoring software, instructional designers can steer online students through a mixtape of digital content—videos, graphs, weblinks, PDFs, drag-and-drop activities, PowerPoint slides, quizzes, survey tools and so on. Some of the systems also offer video editing, recording and screen downloading options. “The good news is that you don’t need to be a programmer to build high-production-value online courses,” said John Vivolo, a former NYU colleague, in a phone interview last week. “All you need is your imagination.”

Compared with the cost of running an online unit, with compensation for instructors, videographers and recruitment staff, authoring tools are a bargain.

The authoring system market is fairly modest, running under $400 million in North America, according to one analyst, but as digital programs continue to proliferate and as more schools turn to instructional designers, the market will surely take off.

Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice."

Adaptive Learning

As with a pinwheel set in motion, insights from many disciplines—artificial intelligence, cognitive science, linguistics, educational psychology and data analytics—have come together to form a relatively new field known as learning science, propelling advances in a new personalized practice—adaptive learning.

Designed to adjust in real-time to each student's prior knowledge and skill attainment, adaptive systems respond to variations in ability and diverse student backgrounds, sensitive to the the unique needs of each learner. Based on each student’s actions, when a student gets stuck, the system automatically suggests strategies on how to get out of it and proceed to mastery.

Like much of edtech, research results can be ambiguous, with some saying it’s marginally better than conventional classroom teaching , while others report impressive results. In the most recent annual Campus Computing Survey, a majority of academic CIOs concluded that “adaptive technology has great potential to improve learning outcomes.”

MOOCs

Recent virtual upstarts, MOOCs—massive open online courses—catapulted onto the global learning stage when Stanford University computer scientists Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig in 2011 came upon the bright idea of streaming their robotics lectures over the Internet. They knew it was an inventive departure, but they were taken aback when an astonishing 160,000 signed up. (The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

Since then, more than 900 colleges and universities have jumped in, collectively offering more than 11,000 courses. Now in its seventh year, MOOCs crossed the 100 million learner mark, recently hitting 101 million. Of the top providers, Coursera, the Wall Street-financed company that grew out of the Stanford breakthrough, is the champion with 37 million learners, followed by edX, an MIT-Harvard joint venture, with 18 million. Launched in 2013, XuetangX, the Chinese platform in third place, claims 18 million.

MOOCs deliver mostly video-streamed lectures, with some offering readings, problem sets and interactive options as well. Forums often support peer-to-peer interaction. In some conventional courses, MOOCs also supplement on-campus curricula.

At first, MOOCs were available largely free to an unlimited number of participants, but as economic realities forced vendors to reassess their unprecedented generosity, MOOCs evolved. Today, in addition to continuing to offer some course materials at no charge, learners are given a menu of paid options, from modest fees for individual access, to many thousands of dollars for a degree-granting collection of MOOCs in partnership with first-ranked schools—MIT, GeorgiaTech and the University of Illinois among them. Coursera is reportedly nearing a valuation of $1 billion, which would make it a “unicorn” in Silicon Valley parlance.

MOOC critics say that streaming lectures is not terribly innovative. Just like lectures on campus, they fail to engage students in active learning, a likely reason retention rates tend to be depressingly poor, with about 85 to 90 percent exiting pretty soon after they sign-on. But with such staggering enrollments, many more learners complete than are enrolled in any university.

Former Yale President Rick Levin, who served as Coursera’s CEO for a few years, speaking by phone last week, was optimistic about the role MOOCs will play in the digital economy. “The biggest surprise,” Levin argued, “is how strongly MOOCs have been accepted in the corporate world to up-skill employees, especially as the workforce is being transformed by job displacement. It’s the right time for MOOCs to play a major role.”

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While these examples help animate ghosts inhabiting digital education, I may have introduced the false impression that virtual learning is just a species of technology, another edtech gadget. It turns out, however, these ingenious systems operate as the envelope in which online instruction is delivered, like paper and ink and chairs and desks in conventional classrooms.

In virtual education, pedagogy, not technology, drives the metamorphosis from absence to presence, illusion into reality. Skilled online instruction that introduces peer-to-peer learning, virtual teamwork and other pedagogical innovations stimulate active learning. Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice. It’s a mistake to think of digital education merely as a device you switch on and off like a garage door.

The surprising thing is that while these innovations began life online, many crossed over into our analog sphere, productively available to students and faculty on campus, too.

Disclosure: Robert Ubell serves on the McGraw-Hill Education Learning Science Advisory Board.

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’I’M TOO OLD FOR THIS’: Lindsey Vonn crashes, slides downhill face first

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ARE, Sweden — One of the hallmarks of Lindsey Vonn’s career has been the way she bounces back from major crashes time and time again.

So perhaps it’s fitting that the most successful female skier of all time will enter her last race before retiring following yet another tumble into the safety netting.

Vonn straddled a gate mid-air during the super-G at the world championships Tuesday and ended up sliding down the hill face first.

WATCH as Lindsey Vonn crashes out of control in the super-G race today in Sweden.😲

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“I’ve got a bit of a shiner. I feel like I’ve been hit by an 18-wheeler, but other than that I’m great,” Vonn said with a laugh. “My knees are the same as they were before the race. I think my neck’s going to be sore. I got the wind knocked out of me, my ribs are oddly sore. It’ll be fine. Sunday will be great.”

Vonn quickly got up after the fall and skied down the hill under her own power after being tended to by medical personnel. Then she sat and happily answered reporters’ questions during a half-hour news conference.

The 34-year-old Vonn, the all-time leader in women’s World Cup wins, announced last week that she will retire after racing the super-G and downhill at the worlds — meaning that Sunday’s downhill is her final race.

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“Don’t count me out,” Vonn said. “I’ve got one more chance. Maybe I’ll pull off a miracle, maybe I won’t. … I’m going to try my hardest. Just because I get knocked down, it doesn’t mean I don’t get back up.”

Vonn’s long history of crashes has included frightful falls at the 2006 Turin Olympics and 2013 worlds. Her legs are so battered that she will have knee surgery for the seventh time soon after she retires — to repair the left knee ligament she tore during training in November.

“I need complete reconstruction. That will be fun. Hopefully my last surgery,” Vonn said.

Vonn was planning on retiring in December but moved up her last race upon realizing last month after failing to finish a super-G in Italy that her knees just can’t handle anymore pounding. She has discussed the long-term health risks for her body with her doctors.

“I’m screwed. I’ve known that for three years now,” Vonn said. “It’s only a matter of time. The analogy I was given was, I only have a certain amount of steps left. And I’ve run out of steps at this point. I know I’ll have pain for the rest of my life but I wouldn’t change it. … I got no cartilage, no meniscus, I got rods and plates and screws. There’s a lot going on. My head is still good, that’s all I need.”

It didn’t take Vonn long to process on why she crashed. When she barrelled through a gate, the panel fitted between the two poles detached and got stuck on her boots. When she hit the ground she slid downhill face first, using her hands to keep her head from hitting the snow, then came to a stop in the netting.

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“I had the right line coming in, that roll or jump had kind of a crown, it wasn’t exactly smooth and I think one of my skis hooked up and sent me into the panel,” she said. “The header into the fence wasn’t the best.

“My immediate thought was ’What the hell? Why am I in the fence again?’ It was like, ’Why am I here? I’m too old for this.”’

Vonn was wearing a safety air bag device under her racing suit, which inflated as she tumbled over and softened the impact when she hit the safety nets.

Lindsey Vonn crashes out during the FIS World Ski Championships Women’s Super G on Feb. 5, 2019 in Are Sweden. (Alexis Boichard/Agence Zoom/Getty Images)

On a highly technical course, many other skiers also failed to finish their runs. American teammate Laurenne Ross also crashed and of the 43 starters, 14 failed to finish.

Mikaela Shiffrin won the race despite nearly making a similar error to Vonn toward the end of her run, correcting her direction in mid-air as she, too, was heading directly into a gate.

“I just squeaked by,” the American said. “That’s the sport. It’s such a fine line between the risk you have to take in order to win and then the risk where you take it’s just a little bit too much.”

Upon seeing Vonn’s crash, Shiffrin looked away from the big video screen in the finish area. Sofia Goggia, who took silver, clasped her helmet with both hands, and the crowd gasped. One American fan appeared to be crying.

“That’s Lindsey. She (goes) 100 per cent or nothing,” said Austrian racer Nicole Schmidhofer, who finished 11th. “That’s why she has won so many races and why she’s an Olympic champion.”

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Skyrocketing Success: Unveiling the US$ 13.5 Billion Small Satellite Market (2023)

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Market Watch: 1962-1964 Ferrari 250 GTO

By now you have probably heard the news: A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO sold at RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction in August for $48,405,000—a world-record price for a car sold at any auction. Why would anyone spend the better part of $50 million on a car? The short answer is because they can. The long answer is more complicated.

The End of an Era

If you read Automobile, you are likely at least aware of the rarefied air the 250 GTO inhales through its six downdraft Weber carburetors. Across the last decade, the car, with its distinguished aluminum bodywork and a 3.0-liter Colombo V-12 engine, has continued to establish itself as perhaps the premier collectible postwar classic car. Ferrari built just 33 Series I 250 GTOs with the original and more traditional early bodywork, in addition to three more Series II cars with revised sheetmetal for total production of just 36 cars.

Superstar Car: All eyes (and cell phone cameras) were glued to the front of the room as this 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO became the most expensive car to ever sell at auction.

The 250 GTO’s legacy is the stuff of legend. Essentially the last of the true dual-purpose road racers, able to compete on a track and drive home afterward, the 250 GTO (250cc of displacement per cylinder, and Gran Turismo Omologato designating its competition-homologated status) was the ultimate evolution of Ferrari’s front-engine 250 GT series. These 250 GT cars were sold in both road and race spec, but their basic engines and chassis were very similar, and the series really put Ferrari on the map as a credible production carmaker. Today Ferrari as a marque is often said to be the most recognized worldwide.

“You’ve got a roadgoing race car that won many of the big events in Europe and the United States in its day, and it was a romantic time in racing—we loved all the drivers,”

But make no mistake, the 250 GTO, in contrast to the brand’s 250 GT/L or Lusso road car, was made for a single purpose: to contest and win the 1962 FIA GT 3.0-liter international racing class. Which it accomplished. And then it did so again in 1963, besting competition from Jaguar’s new E-type Lightweight and Shelby’s AC-based and Ford-powered Cobra. Its successor, the mid-engine 250 LM, began a motorsports era in which serious race cars drifted ever further away from any premise of road use.

Our subject car was given new Series 2 sheetmetal in 1964.

“You’ve got a roadgoing race car that won many of the big events in Europe and the United States in its day, and it was a romantic time in racing—we loved all the drivers,” says Wayne Carini, owner of classic car dealership F40 Motorsports and host of Motor Trend Network’s “Chasing Classic Cars.” “Until recently, not many GTOs have been sold at auction; they’ve all been traded very privately.”

Like MacNeil’s GTO, this one still has its original engine and gearbox and it was never crashed severely.

Southern California-based classic Ferrari specialist and broker Michael Sheehan adds, “The most prestigious [collector car] club is, of course, the GTO club, which buys access to rub shoulders with Lawrence Stroll, the McCaw brothers, Rob Walton, Nick Mason, Anthony Bamford, Charles Nearburg, Chip Connor, and the [rest] of the international super-rich who have their [GTO] owners’ meetings and literally jet from very private collection to very private collection to show whose is indeed bigger.”

A Recent High-Water Mark

One of those private sales occurred several months ago when a 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO, chassis No. 4153 GT, entered the collection of American David MacNeil, founder of WeatherTech, a large automotive floormats business whose advertisements you’ll find in this very magazine. The sale price was widely reported as being upward of $70 million, a new world-record sales price for any automobile in any venue. As GTOs go, many experts deemed No. 4153 GT as one of the finest. It is believed to retain its original Series I bodywork and its original engine, rarities for cars that have raced extensively. Its history includes an overall win at the prestigious 1964 Tour de France road race and fourth overall at the 1963 24 Hours of Le Mans. Its sale price was instrumental in our subject car arriving at RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction.

“The GTO that sold for more than $70 million was a different body style but still the same thing: a GTO,” Carini says. “That prompted this owner [businessman and vintage racer Gregory Whitten] to come forward because of the price of the previous sale, and he thought, ‘Well, maybe it’s time to sell mine while the market’s hot.’ The gentleman certainly didn’t need the money, but it was a decision based on many things. He was at a point in his life when he thought he wasn’t using it properly and it was time to cash his chips in.”

And yes, we can verify MacNeil’s GTO wears WeatherTech floormats.

A New Auction Record

Our subject car, chassis No. 3413 GT, was originally a Series I car, built in 1962, then rebodied in 1964 with the more streamlined but less iconic Series II panels. Like MacNeil’s GTO, this one still has its original engine and gearbox, and it was never crashed severely. With its Series I bodywork, it was driven at the 1962 Targa Florio by Phil Hill, just after he became the first American Formula 1 World Champion in 1961 at the wheel of a Ferrari. It then changed hands and went on to win its class at the 1963 Targa Florio, and, with new bodywork, it did the same in ’64.

RM Sotheby’s estimated No. 3413 GT would sell for between $45 million and $50 million when it crossed the block in August; bidding opened at $35 million. Over the course of about 10 minutes, a handful of bidders, mainly on the phone, calmly raised the price by increments of $1 million, then $250,000, until the car was resolutely announced sold at $48,405,000 including RM Sotheby’s commission. The bid soundly beat the previous auction record of $38,115,000, also set by a 250 GTO, chassis No. 3851 GT at Bonhams’ Quail Lodge sale in 2014.

So did MacNeil overpay for his $70 million GTO?

“I think MacNeil’s car was probably one of the best ones,” Carini says, “and the difference between a good car and a superb car, as we’re seeing, is about $25 million.

“[This latest] car had been rebodied in the day; I really like the body, but a lot of guys have a vision of what a GTO should look like, and this wasn’t that vision,” Carini continues. “This is sort of a cross between a [mid-engine 250] LM and a front-engine Ferrari. I think that held it back slightly in value.”

It’s no surprise that at the values these cars command, GTO buyers are a picky bunch.

And the Crystal Ball Says …

Is a $100 million 250 GTO in the near future? The odds are favorable.

first $100 million car,” Carini says. “I remember when one sold [long ago] for $2.5 million, and that was like, ‘Oh my god, that’s crazy!’ And then $10 million, and it was, ‘Oh my god, these can never go any further!’ So we just keep going. There are a lot of wealthy people in the world, people who have been very successful, and they like to reward themselves with something nobody else can have. And with 36 GTOs having been made, your chances to buy one are slim.”

WeatherTech founder David MacNeil paid more than $70 million for this 250 GTO with its most desirable Series 1 bodywork.

Sheehan’s take is similarly bullish: “At the peak of the price-point pyramid, the rich just keep getting richer and so the minuscule market for the best-of-the-best eight-figure trophy car remains strong.”

The rich do indeed get richer, and so do their buying habits. Last year, a painting of Jesus holding a crystal orb, dubbed “Salvator Mundi” and believed to be painted by Leonardo da Vinci around 1505, brought in $450 million at a Christie’s auction in Manhattan. On such a scale, a 250 GTO that can be experienced through driving and racing versus being hung on a wall can seem to be a good value.

No End in Sight

Known 250 GTO sales since 2010

2010: 4675 GT, $17 million *Private sale, reported price

2012: 4675 GT, $25 million *Private sale, reported price

2012: 3505 GT, $35 million *Private sale, reported price

2012: 5095 GT, $52 million *Private sale, reported world record

2014: 3851 GT, $38.1 million *Bonhams auction, world auction record

2017: 3387 GT, $56 million *Private sale, reported world record

2018: 4153 GT, $70+ million *Private sale, reported world record

2018: 3413 GT, $48.4 million *RM Sotheby’s auction, world auction record

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Market Watch: 1962-1964 Ferrari 250 GTO

The End of an Era

Superstar Car: All eyes (and cell phone cameras) were glued to the front of the room as this 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO became the most expensive car to ever sell at auction.

“You’ve got a roadgoing race car that won many of the big events in Europe and the United States in its day, and it was a romantic time in racing—we loved all the drivers,”

Our subject car was given new Series 2 sheetmetal in 1964.

Like MacNeil’s GTO, this one still has its original engine and gearbox and it was never crashed severely.

A Recent High-Water Mark

And yes, we can verify MacNeil’s GTO wears WeatherTech floormats.

A New Auction Record

So did MacNeil overpay for his $70 million GTO?

“I think MacNeil’s car was probably one of the best ones,” Carini says, “and the difference between a good car and a superb car, as we’re seeing, is about $25 million.

It’s no surprise that at the values these cars command, GTO buyers are a picky bunch.

And the Crystal Ball Says …

Is a $100 million 250 GTO in the near future? The odds are favorable.

WeatherTech founder David MacNeil paid more than $70 million for this 250 GTO with its most desirable Series 1 bodywork.

No End in Sight

Known 250 GTO sales since 2010

2010: 4675 GT, $17 million *Private sale, reported price

2012: 4675 GT, $25 million *Private sale, reported price

2012: 3505 GT, $35 million *Private sale, reported price

2012: 5095 GT, $52 million *Private sale, reported world record

2014: 3851 GT, $38.1 million *Bonhams auction, world auction record

2017: 3387 GT, $56 million *Private sale, reported world record

2018: 4153 GT, $70+ million *Private sale, reported world record

2018: 3413 GT, $48.4 million *RM Sotheby’s auction, world auction record

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Lloyd Marcus – Every race Republicans lose emboldens Leftists obsessed with stopping Trump from making America great again.

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Lloyd Marcus The Unhyphenated Amercian

It is a huge mistake to think special elections do not concern you or are unimportant. Every race Republicans lose emboldens Leftists obsessed with stopping Trump from making America great again.

Please contact friends and family in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional district and tell them all patriots must get out the vote for Rick Saccone, conservative/Republican on Tuesday, March 13th. This is serious business folks. If Leftists can flip this seat in Trump country, they will be energized to spread their bogus narrative that Americans regret voting for Trump. This strengthens Democrats’ chances of winning other congressional seats; making evil Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House.

If Democrats win back the House, the first order of business will be to impeach Trump. Therefore, you see why Saccone winning in Pennsylvania is crucially important; a powerful left-hook to the jaw of the Democrats’ treasonous anti-Trump and anti-America movement.

Folks, I don’t know about you, but I am tired of witnessing Leftists purposely orchestrating the moral, cultural and economic decline of our once great country. Before Trump, our elected officials have been pretty impotent in halting Leftists’ march to undermine America’s greatness.

In only one year, Trump has given us renewed hope for America; implementing 64% of his campaign promises. http://washex.am/2FbTG5g Trump has our economy booming. Tyrannical government regulations which strangled businesses and family lives have been slashed by Trump. Illegal immigration has plummeted. ISIS is on the run!

Trump’s success has sent Leftists’ panic and efforts to stop him to unprecedented levels. Incredibly, practically every fake news story, tragic incident, TV sitcom, Hollywood movie, the Olympics, the Oscars and countless other unrelated events find their way to become attacks on Trump and his Administration. Outrageously, no matter what time you turn on CNN and MSNBC, 24/7, they are trashing Trump. Leftists are laser-focused on removing Trump from office and blocking him from making great deals and implementing commonsense good policies for Americans.

After driving from West Virginia to Pennsylvania for Rick Saccone, Mary and I hopped on an airplane to the west coast to join the Conservative Campaign Committee in their Western Election Central War Room. We’ll oversee the biggest election battles; good vs evil. Folks we have 100s of battleground elections for House and Senate. https://secure.donationsafe.com/defeatlamb/lm

On the airplane flying to the west coast, two millennial men were talking across the aisle. They freely used F and MF bombs without the slightest regard for families with children. No one, including flight attendants, asked the young men to respect fellow passengers — just another sign of our declining culture normalized by Leftists.

I am happy to report a light shining in the cultural darkness. Tina Griffin is famed as the Counter Culture Mom. Active in Hollywood for decades, Ms. Griffin exposes how Hollywood exploits our kids for profit while shielding their kids from the garbage they produce and market to the masses.

Founder of MTV, Bob Pittman boasted, “We’re dealing with a culture of teenage babies, they can watch TV, do their homework, and listen to music all at the same time. The strongest appeal you can make is emotional. If you can get their emotions going, make them forget their logic…you’ve got them. At MTV, we don’t shoot for the 14-year-olds — WE OWN THEM.”

Ms Griffin travels lecturing to students and parents. She sounds the alarm about video games for 10 and 11-year-olds which feature oral sex, graphic threesomes and more. Ms. Griffin leads parents where to find positive entertainment choices. counterculturemom.com

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I thought he was joking. Leftists praised the NBA playing the Negro National Anthem at basketball games as a wonderful thing. These same Leftists seek to ban our National Anthem and made heroes of ungrateful, mega-rich black pro athletes for giving our nation’s National Anthem their middle finger. As an American who happens to be black, this highly offends me.

This is the kind of Leftist inspired absurd craziness we endured when Leftists controlled the White House and Congress.

Trump has emboldened everyday Americans to push back against Leftists’ bullying; dissing our country, our military, our police, Christians and principles and values which have made America great. Trump must remain free to continue moving the ball forward on behalf of We the People.

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The Numbers Don’t Lie- Online Learning Is Big Business

With the digital revolution exiting its infancy and settling into young adulthood, several new learning media are finding secure footing online. Educational approaches range from e-courses to open source learning, in which students create their own pedagogical environments in conjunction with teachers and peers. Other methods include ebooks and instructional videos, which give students access to a knowledgeable guru or instructor without the high cost of a university environment.

As a result, access to information is exploding like never before. In this democratic online environment, one doesn’t need an acceptance letter to learn. Now anyone can acquire new skills, engage in rigorous physical and academic environments, and collaborate with instructors and peers to advance their abilities and careers.

Similarly, anyone with a developed skill set they’d like to impart to others can now upload content online and begin teaching large numbers of students right away. With so much in its favor, it’s no wonder online learning is such big business.

The Explosive Growth of Learning Management Systems

As of March 2017, there were an estimated 700-1,000 Learning Management System (LMS) providers. An LMS is a platform that enables individuals and groups to upload content that others can view and interact with. Costs are traditionally very reasonable, lowering the barrier to entry for both instructors and students.

Need more numbers? As of 2015, the LMS “market was worth somewhere around $165 billion,” says eLogic Learning. “At a 5% increase every year, that puts us on track for an almost $182 billion market in 2017 and hitting almost $240 billion by 2023.

“In a similar booming growth,” they add, “corporate eLearning has grown by a staggering 900% in the last 16 years. And, approximately 77% of U.S. companies offer online training as a way to improve their employee’s professional development.” That’s not all: “eLearning has also led to an increase in revenue for 42% of companies.”

Let’s Not Forget About Video

As they say, video killed the radio star. In this case, that’s a very good thing: Video’s commanding growth in the online sphere points to its usefulness as a learning medium for large groups of people.

In the opinion of Gordon Tredgold, writing for Inc., “Video marketing has been growing at an alarming rate, but I believe that this is just the tip of the iceberg and that any company that does not have an aggressive Video Marketing Strategy for 2017 is going to get left behind.”

The statistics reported by Inc. are staggering. By 2019, video is slated to represent 80 percent of all internet traffic. Including one in an email increases conversion up to 300 percent and on a landing page up to 80 percent. Every year, YouTube sees a 100-percent rise in mobile video consumption. Further, 59 percent of execs would rather watch a video than read text, and 50 percent of them will search for more information after watching a vid.

Stats like these make clear that video is the human race’s current favorite means of imbibing knowledge and increasing skills.

Don’t Leave Money on the Table

Inevitably, the adoption of new technology becomes de rigeur, and every business will soon take up the torch of video content. The danger of not following suit is that you may get left behind, your expertise overshadowed by the thousands of competing pieces of content out there. As a pre-existing company, it’s critical your marketing efforts include video in blog posts, email newsletters and social media blasts.

As an individual with a skillset to share, it’s equally important that you make your mark by using video. Not only can you prove expertise and carve out a niche for yourself, you can make a lot of money by selling videos to people who want your content and your expertise. By putting videos online, you can:

Demonstrate your expertise and drive people toward further courses, ebooks, and published works on Amazon and other indie platforms

Encourage signups to membership sites

Make money by teaching large groups of people without having to create new content

Repurpose content and make additional income

Outfit your blog posts and other collateral media to convert more people and drive them toward other video content

The possibilities for video eLearning are endless. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make use of these sweeping trends to start a business, increase your current business’s success and help those you most want to inspire.

A Better Than Ever Time to Put Your Knowledge Out There

The inescapable conclusion is that now is the time to start selling videos online. Not only is opportunity ripe, but by waiting, you run the danger of not being able to catch up later. Getting in while the technology is relatively nascent can bring rewards you can’t even imagine. Consider a few examples from Uscreen, an online video-selling platform: A site with 400 paying subscribers can bring in $35,000 per month, while 1,200 subscribers generates $59,000. A site with 500 one-time sale customers has generated almost $364,000 to date.

Want in? Come learn from the best. President of Uscreen PJ Taei helps new video entrepreneurs carve out a niche in the online industry and generate impressive sales, just by creating content about which they’re already knowledgeable. It’s a simple, streamlined system for getting your knowledge to the masses … and in the process, putting your business into overdrive. Don’t wait. Start today.

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2017 IMSA Sports Car Grand Prix at Long Beach - Race Report

From the long and wide stretches of Sebring Raceway, the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship motley gang went to the winding streets of Long Beach, California. The shortest race of the season proved to be every bit as exciting as the first two, mixing controversy, drama and some great on-track battles in a space of just 100 minutes between the waving of the first green flag, to the appearance of the white flag.

The streets of Long Beach were as packed as ever come the end of last week as teams from a number of series were preparing for the Long Beach Grand Prix. Indycars were on site, as well as the IMSA crews, the Pirelli World Challenge folks and, last but not least, a group of Can-Am cars. These were slated to run for the first time ever at Long Beach in what was a true spectacle for both the eyes and ears. Such cars as the Shadow DN4, the McLaren M8F or the Lola T70 made their way through the 1.9-mile-long street course for a couple of demo races that got everyone in the mood for the races of the modern cars – maybe not as dramatic but surely not forgettable.

Ricky Taylor proved to be the quickest in qualifying with his 1:13.549 being a lap record for the Prototype class. It was also the second podium in the last three editions of the Long Beach Grand Prix for Wayne Taylor Racing’s driver who was 0.2 seconds quicker than Christian Fittipaldi in the No. 10 Action Express Racing Cadillac. Tristan Nunez was third for Speedsource Mazda, but his 1:14.393 was almost a second off the pole time. It was JDC/Miller Motorsport on the fourth spot of the grid while the third Cadillac of Dane Cameron and Eric Curran qualified fifth. One car did not take part in the Prototype qualifying, precisely the No. 90 VisitFlorida.com Racing Riley LMP2 which was crashed in practice by Renger van der Zande, the Dutch going straight into T1 after he lost front brake pressure, the cause of the failure yet unknown.

Corvette Racing scored the pole in GT-LM thanks to Jan Magnussen’s 1:16.609 which was less than tenth of a second quicker than Joey Hand’s best lap in the No. 66 Ford. Hand was on an even quicker lap with three minutes left to go when his team-mate, Richard Westbrook, spun and crashed his No. 67 Ford GT which caused a session-ending red flag that denied Hand a chance to get pole. Also denied of a chance was Risi’s Toni Vilander whose starting position, third, could have been better as the Finn was quicker on his last flyer on which he spun out. Fourth was the best that Porsche’s No. 912 could do. The other 991 GTE did not take part in qualifying after Patrick Pilet’s shunt in practice that called for a partial rebuild of the mid-engined car. Bill Auberlen could do no better than fifth for BMW Team Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing – thus missing out on the chance to score three consecutive poles at Long Beach in three years.

GT-D pole went the way of Bryan Sellers and Paul Miller Racing. The Lamborghini driver reeled off a 1:19.243 to beat Jack Hawksworth whose bid for Lexus’ first pole fell short by just 0.033 of a second. Daniel Morad was third for Alegra Motorsport while Corey Lewis put Change Racing’s Huracan on fourth, right ahead of Lawson Aschenbach’s R8 entered by Stevenson Motorsport. 3GT Racing’s other Lexus did not take part in qualifying after Scott Pruett damaged the No. 14 quite badly in a practice crash.

With qualifying done, everyone was ready for the race which promised to be more busy than ever as never before had the GT-D cars taken part in the Long Beach round which was, in the past, welcoming only the Prototypes and the GT-LM teams. 34 cars were entered and 33 would take the start on Saturday afternoon.

Continue reading for the full story.

from Top Speed http://ift.tt/2prWNuc

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