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In the past ten years, bikeshares in Washington, DC (DC) and New York City (NYC) have grown in popularity.They offer a convenient transportation and recreation option for both locals and tourists to get around each city. While normal patterns, such as day of the week and time of day, are already known to affect the use of bike shares, the effect of recent Covid-19 related disruptions on ride demand and patterns has not been explored. This project aims to visually show how ride patterns change around the cities in conjunction with the still unfolding Covid-19 pandemic. Human cases of Covid-19 were first confirmed in Wuhan China on December 31, 2019 (Custis). From there, the virus quickly spread around the world at a breakneck pace, aided by its highly contagious nature and the lack of scientifically based data on how to effectively treat this new disease.In response to the growing threat posed by the pandemic, government officials in both NYC and DC introduced first of their kind regulations to try to stem the infection rate. Nonessential businesses were forced to close, citizens were urged to forego nonessential tasks outside the home, and public transportation schedules were greatly reduced. In conjunction with the government response, entities in the private sector in both of these cities initiated mass work from home policies. Every facet of everyday life, including transportation patterns, was disrupted across the country including in these two cities, on a level never before experienced. Although this analysis originally focused on Covid-19 related influences on bikeshare patterns, during the course of the project I uncovered trends related to the unprecedented "Black Lives Matter" protests which occurred across the country following the murder of George Floyd in police custody. This project will also touch on how rides changed in response to these activities and how patterns were also impacted by the government's response to these new events.

In the past ten years, bikeshares in Washington, DC (DC) and New York City (NYC) have grown in popularity.They offer a convenient transportation and recreation option for both locals and tourists to get around each city. While normal patterns, such as day of the week and time of day, are already known to affect the use of bike shares, the effect of recent Covid-19 related disruptions on ride demand and patterns has not been explored. This project aims to visually show how ride patterns change around the cities in conjunction with the still unfolding Covid-19 pandemic. Human cases of Covid-19 were first confirmed in Wuhan China on December 31, 2019 (Custis). From there, the virus quickly spread around the world at a breakneck pace, aided by its highly contagious nature and the lack of scientifically based data on how to effectively treat this new disease.In response to the growing threat posed by the pandemic, government officials in both NYC and DC introduced first of their kind regulations to try to stem the infection rate. Nonessential businesses were forced to close, citizens were urged to forego nonessential tasks outside the home, and public transportation schedules were greatly reduced. In conjunction with the government response, entities in the private sector in both of these cities initiated mass work from home policies. Every facet of everyday life, including transportation patterns, was disrupted across the country including in these two cities, on a level never before experienced. Although this analysis originally focused on Covid-19 related influences on bikeshare patterns, during the course of the project I uncovered trends related to the unprecedented "Black Lives Matter" protests which occurred across the country following the murder of George Floyd in police custody. This project will also touch on how rides changed in response to these activities and how patterns were also impacted by the government's response to these new events.

Extended family households of South Asia distinguish their core female personnel as sexually active or inactive, junior or senior, and own or other. (i) Noting similar variables in the region's classical theories and elsewhere in its ethnography, and constructing from these a paradigm to assist fur ther questioning, this paper finds (ii) eight major societal qualities generated by the same paradigm, (iii) eight corresponding domestic role-types, (iv) a common female life-course through those role-types, (v) characteristic relations of worship complementing that female life-course, and (vi) diverse related perspectives on male—female differences. So many results from questioning with this one paradigm make the common and congruent female family core a likely source of the civilisation's diversity as well as of its underlying assumptions.

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; PART 1 Introduction; 1 The challenge and the opportunity: some perspectives on Laudato Si'; PART 2 Implementation; 2 Laudato Si' and private property; 3 Reading Laudato Si' in a rainforest country: ecological conversion and recognition of indigenous religions; 4 The cry of the earth and the cry of the poor; 5 Laudato Si' and population; 6 Rethinking our treatment of animals in light of Laudato Si'

This paper will explore the growing presence of digital animation within the work of contemporary visual artists, architects and designers concerned with urban geography. More precisely, it will examine how the use of digital animation has become a primary method for both envisioning alternative urban futures and reconstructing the traumatic past within socially and politically engaged work. In the context of urban speculation, digital animation has most often been used as a tool for visualizing large-scale, capital-intensive development plans. This is an animated future consisting of digital visualizations of high-end real-estate and populated by affluent, happy, racially homogeneous render ghosts. Alternatively, artists and designers have begun to employ similar software tools and digital animation techniques in order to re-potentialize the productive powers of the speculative. The paper will focus on four examples, two past and two future-oriented. The work of Eyal Weizman and the Forensic Architecture project has increasingly involved the use of digital animation techniques to both reconstruct and visualize key dates or events within moments of humanitarian crisis. In the Rafah: Black Friday case study, for example, digital animation and 3D modelling are used to reconstruct and present key events in a particularly intense four days of bombing during the 2014 Israeli military offensive in Gaza. The conceptual artist Stan Douglas has recently, and uncharacteristically, adopted digital animation and gaming technologies in his Circa 1948 collaboration with the NFB. The interactive app recreates a largely overlooked element of Vancouver's past, the historical slum area of Hogan's Alley, notorious for its bootlegging, gambling and prostitution. The "speculative architect" Liam Young has been employing digital animation techniques to present urban scenarios that teeter between the utopian and dystopian. And finally, the artist Larissa Sansour merges live action and digital animation to visually depict bleak and disturbingly convincing Palestinian futures.

[EN] The work has been written both as background information for the D. S. Operations Mission to Spain and that, by highlighting some of the problems inherents in the coal mining industry, it will benefit the industry and the Spanish economy as a whole. After a short introduction outlining the main lines in which the Spanish coal production may became enough to meet full requirements from indigenous coals, thus eliminating the necessity for imports of coals, the author presents the actual situation of the coal market with the estimates for the years 1956, 1958 and 1960. The requirements for the major industry sectors, including the thermal electric, railways, steel, cement, fishing fleet, and a group that includes several industries, are given. In the evaluation of the programmed production estimates, the author points out a few bottle necks to the industry and the suggested procedures to assist in obtaining maximum production. Among these, the main points are: approach to the coal problem, finances, staffing pattern at the mines, spare parts, supplies, mechanization of mining operations, and shortage of skilled manpower in the Asturias Region. As obstacles to achieve requirements from indigenous production, the Government restrictions on deliveries and prices, the transportation and Port loading facilities, the lack of equipment and supplies, the miners housing, the lack of cleaning facilities, the fear of the operators of overproduction and the relations between the Engineers and labour, are put forward like the more importants. A number of operating suggestions to assist in increasing production or in decreasing cost, and the suggested peseta counterpart project, complete the article. Among the first, the following suggestions are treated in the paper: Concentration of working places, increase the production potentials of the shaft mines, improvements in the underground haulage, rock and coal gallery development, mechanization, washeries development, time studies, fabrication of a larger range of explosives, electric detonators) hand shovels for coal and rock, cap lamps, roof bolting, visits between mines by the supervisory personnel, technical assistance, minimum of time tied up in routine office work and reports for executives and engineers, and methods for dust suppression and explosion prevention. ; [ES] El articulo reproduce el informe redactado por el autor en julio de 1955 para la «D. S. Operations Mission to Spain». Escrito también con la intención de que pueda ser útil en relaci6n con algunos de los problemas que afectan a la minería del carbón en España, comienza con una breve introducción en la que se señalan unas líneas generales para llegar a una producción española de hullas suficiente para cubrir todo el consumo nacional, eliminando las importaciones de estos combustibles. Se examinan las necesidades para los principales sectores de la industria, presentando la situaci6n actual y las previsiones para los años 1956, 1958 y 1960. En la evaluaci6n del programa de producci6n para estos mismos años, se destacan algunas de las dificultades con que tropieza nuestra minería del carbón, y se sugieren medios para ayudar al logro de la producción máxima. Entre los principales puntos tratados a este respecto figuran: el enfoque del problema del carbón, el déficit de carbones coquizables, los aspectos financieros, los mandos de las minas, los repuestos y suministros, la mecanización, y la escasez de mineros en la región asturiana. Como obstáculos para alcanzar las necesidades de producción nacional se señalan: las restricciones oficiales sobre suministros y precios, la falta de medios de transporte y de carga en los puertos, la escasez de equipos y suministros, la insuficiencia de viviendas para mineros, la falta de medios de lavado, el miedo a la sobreproducción, y los fallos relativos a la preparación del personal de mandos y a sus relaciones con los obreros. Entre las sugerencias para aumentar la producción o disminuir los costos se indican: la concentración de los puntos de trabajo, el aumento de la producción potencial de los pozos mineros, mejoras en los transportes interiores, los estudios de tiempos, la fabricación de mas tipos de explosivos, el empleo de la pega eléctrica, mejoras en las palas de mano, el empleo de lámparas de cabeza, la utilización del sostenimiento con pernos de anclaje, el fomento de las visitas entre minas del personal supervisor, la asistencia técnica por personal ajeno a la mina, descargar a los ingenieros de trabajos de tipo administrativo, y el empleo de métodos contra las explosiones de polvo y grisú. Como final, se sugiere un proyecto para la contrapartida en pesetas originada bajo el programa de ayuda americana. ; Peer reviewed