via YouTube
Monthly Archives: November 2018
SWISS MISHAP
My first time Hang Gliding turned into a near death experience as my safety harness was never hooked to the Glider. For 2 Min. 14 seconds I had to hang on for my life! The landing was a rough one, but I lived to tell the story.
via YouTube
Wildlife crossings stop roadkill. Why aren’t there more?
A better way for animals to cross the road.
Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Sources:
Highway Wilding: https://ift.tt/1vVTacM
ARC Solutions: https://ift.tt/2uCfEFB
Wildlife-Vehicle Collision Reduction Study: Report To Congress: https://ift.tt/2tE9BDf
Western Transportation Institute Road Ecology Program: https://ift.tt/2uCb0rg
“How Effective Is Road Mitigation at Reducing Road-Kill? A Meta-Analysis” T. Rytwinski et. al: https://ift.tt/2tDo7LlImages:
Leanne Allison/Jesse Whittington: https://ift.tt/2uCfGNJ
Cminna: https://youtu.be/D2yAVuacAoM
DKrieger: https://ift.tt/2tE6BGM
El-polacio.com: https://youtu.be/E4KpjwcJs24
Benjamin P. Y-H. Lee: https://ift.tt/2uBLXV2
m01229: https://flic.kr/p/FVDvhe
Maine Audobon: https://youtu.be/WFUqPffRuEg
Larry Lamsa: https://flic.kr/p/Sbe5KM
Tamsin Mackay: https://youtu.be/AxfLddaWS7g
Ganesh Raghunathan: https://youtu.be/0bverFVj-OY
Isydia Vibes: https://youtu.be/imSMcX16ZzU
Washington State Department of Transportation: https://ift.tt/2tE5maB
Wyoming Department of Transportation: https://youtu.be/slE0wem1z6g///
Roadkill harms animals, endangers drivers, and costs billions of dollars every year. In Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, wildlife scientist Tony Clevenger and other researchers have proven that constructing overpasses and underpasses for animals decreases roadkill and improves ecological connectivity. Many animals, including deer, elk, grizzlies, moose, lynx, cougars and others, have been recorded using the structures. Although animal crossing structures have been fairly common in Europe for a few decades, there are relatively few in North America. In The United States, the crossing structures that have been built, in places like Washington State and Wyoming, were partly inspired by the research Clevenger conducted in Banff. To create even more of them, Clevenger worked with a team of experts, including ecologist Nina-Marie Lister, to organize a design competition. The competition, named ARC solutions, was held in order to generate more cost-effective crossing designs that are also sustainable and environmentally friendly. The competition generated many new models for animal crossings and Clevenger and Lister hope that highway planners will adjust their approach to structure design based on them.
///
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what’s really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app.
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H
Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
via YouTube
Cycle Superhighway 6 officially opens
A major new extension to Cycle Superhighway 6 (CS6) is being officially opened today by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Transport for London (TfL), and local boroughs.
The extension to Cycle Superhighway 6 is a high-quality 2.5km route between Farringdon and King’s Cross, and the extension means that Cycle Superhighway 6 now connects Elephant & Castle all the way up to Kings Cross, passing through key transport hubs such as Blackfriars and Farringdon stations. The total length of CS6 is now 5km.
via YouTube
Bicycle-only Interstates and Highways – No Cars Allowed (Seriously!)
Learn how to make your own battery with my book DIY Lithium Batteries: http://a.co/jcc2OzV or check out my second book – The Ultimate DIY Ebike Guide: http://a.co/2Yys1kf
The parts that I use for building batteries:
18650 cells (Sanyo GA 3500mAh): https://goo.gl/J6ONJV
18650 cells (another Sanyo GA 3500mAh source): https://goo.gl/f10wHH
18650 cells (Samsung 26F 2600mAh): https://goo.gl/VhpP7T
18650 cells (Panasonic 18650B 3400mAh): https://goo.gl/fvwJZQ
18650 cells (Another Panasonic 18650B): https://goo.gl/tVjREI
18650 positive insulating washer: https://goo.gl/HBVOuc
Ebike battery cases: https://goo.gl/W2DLmE
Nickel strip: http://goo.gl/VIrNQq
Spot welder: https://goo.gl/KN3Uaw
BMSs: http://goo.gl/S6gSQx
Silicone wire: http://goo.gl/xmpbKD
Black 18650 cell spacers: http://goo.gl/hQxWF6
Vruzend cell spacers: https://goo.gl/5ReLqA
Large heat shrink tubing: http://goo.gl/6v1ow9
Small heat shrink tubing: https://goo.gl/OU3Z6u
Foam sheet for protecting battery: http://goo.gl/5e71tE
Kapton tape: https://goo.gl/D6BT57
Chargers: https://goo.gl/js0T0V350W hubmotor: https://goo.gl/K1mYvR
36V/48V controllers I used: https://goo.gl/nJBnJP
Throttle: https://goo.gl/UebsNC
Cycle Analyst: https://goo.gl/RsmE3N
350W Bafang BBS01: https://goo.gl/peyiYb
500W Bafang BBS02: https://goo.gl/EsqHu2
750W Bafang BBS02: https://goo.gl/k81aVH
1000W Bafang BBSHD: https://goo.gl/MU69ohSpecial thanks to the Times of Israel for their Yom Kippur footage (https://ift.tt/2TJ3PL5) and to Itai Rotem as well (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIlOZWhqM3U)
***Question response book giveaway rules***
When you guys asks questions in the comments of my videos, I’ll try to answer them. If there are questions that I think would make a good video response, I’ll choose them to do a longer segment. If I choose your question for a video response, you’ll win a copy of my book The Ultimate DIY Ebike Guide (the paperback or the ebook), or my book DIY Lithium Batteries.
Here are some things that YouTube makes me say: This contest is not sponsored by YouTube and YouTube isn’t affiliated with it. I’m supposed to provide a link to the community guidelines for YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/t/community_gu…). YouTube is not a sponsor of this “contest” and by participating, you are releasing YouTube from any potential liability, whatever that might be. Privacy notice: I won’t steal your info. If you do win, you can choose to send me your address so I can mail you a paperback copy of the book (or some other prize if that changes) or you can send me an email address and I’ll send you a copy of the ebook. I will do everything in my power to immediately forget your personal information afterwards.Music provided by BenSounds (“Happiness”)
via YouTube
What Happened to Taiwan?
Marriage equality has lost a battle at the polls in Taiwan in a bad year for progressives there, but this result is likely to go to court as to whether it is constitutional at all.
First thought: Yikes. This is almost Prop 8 levels of bad. Almost.
Second: We should really lay the blame for this on the DPP and Tsai Ing-Wen. They took NO action for LGBT people since they won the last national election (unlike what they promised), and allowed the opposition to set this absurd frame against LGBT people and their rights. The DPP deserved to lose in the local election as badly as they did, and I expect them to lose again in 2020 no matter how they treat LGBT people after this referendum.
Third: This places the government between their own statutory law regarding the effects of referendums and the Constitutional Court regarding their interpretations of law. The ruling will go into effect by next year in spite of this referendum, but how will the DPP implement it in order to placate voters? If the conservative KMT wins in 2020, how will they implement it or recognize it?
Fourth: A civil unions/partnerships bill (especially one akin to Thailand’s, or the one that was approved by voters as a second-class relationship recognition) would still run afoul of the ruling, and by now may not be recognized in most countries which have moved from civil partnerships to marriage equality as far as spousal visas are concerned. Why would Taiwan go this route if even the United States, Taiwan’s biggest ally, is stripping spousal visas from unmarried same-sex partners of U.S.-residing diplomats?
Fifth: Almost ALL of the pan-green referendum questions failed at the ballot this year. “Pan-Green” = progressive AND pro-independence from China. The DPP, which is a pan-green party, failed miserably at the polls in city council and mayoral seats this election. This was not a good year for progressives – be they anti-nuke, pro-LGBT, pro-independence – at the ballot box. Pro-LGBT activists were caught off-guard and were out-organized and out-funded, which is why marriage equality went down 70-20. They need to retake the frame from the reactionaries, not rely on the DPP or the pan-green camp, and build coalitions to weaken such a high opposition in a record-high turnout year.
Sixth: This was Taiwan’s first time with this referendum process. What were the problems with it? Vote integrity is a must, and the process which took place should be vetted for any potential failings or indiscretions.
I can’t hide it: I’m entertaining thoughts of “(State) Sen. Stacey Abrams” or “U.S. Rep. Stacey Abrams”. I could see her succeeding John Lewis in CD-05 in the future, and maybe become that future Speaker of the U.S. House that the Washington Post wants her to be.
But then again, throughout the campaign, I kept hearing volunteers and strong Democratic voters alike mistakenly calling her “Senator Abrams”, so why not have her succeed Steve Henson as Senate Minority Leader? “Senator Abrams” rolls off the tongue with the honey of prestige better than “Leader Abrams”, IMO.
#PoliticalFanfiction #SenatorAbrams #Abrams4Congress
The States of North Georgia and South Georgia
What if we split the state in half, roughly along the Fall Line?
I wonder what the impact would be on our politics and demographics. 60+ northern counties becoming their own state, 90+ southern counties becoming their own.
What would the capital of South Georgia be? Savannah? Tifton? Would it be even more agriculturally-dependent than Georgia is right now?
And what would the impact on Georgia Democrats be when they are split between these two states? Most of the Democratic base is concentrated in Metro Atlanta, but African-American voters who straddle both sides or live even further south of the Fall Line give more geographic breadth to the Democrats outside of the most urbanized areas. So many of these rural Democratic counties in “South Georgia”, especially in Southwest Georgia and the Savannah area, are Black Belt counties where the ancestors of their current African-American residents once toiled the soil as slaves and sharecroppers. “North Georgia”, by comparison, didn’t have as much rich soil to attract plantation owners to such an extent, especially not in Appalachian
But at the same time, perhaps it would wean the DPG further away from its historic legacy as a party dependent on the agricultural sector for votes, and center the party as a pro-industry, pro-economic diversification party.
Marcia Fudge’s potential bid was scuttled by a problematic letter she wrote years ago, and Nancy Pelosi gave her an out to bury the bid AND get her own subcommittee. Pelosi is not a salesperson, but she makes shrewd moves all the time. #TeamPelosi wins.
Vox: House Democrats don’t need a leader, they need someone to represent them on TV
I’d even push this further: a shadow cabinet or speakers’ bureau of House members as critics of portfolios based on the presidential cabinet and cabinet-level positions. They don’t have to be House Dem leadership or committee chairs, just as long as they are the go-to spokespersons for the House Dems.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for example, could be the caucus critic for either Labor or the EPA. Seth Moulton could be the caucus critic for Transportation. Adam Schiff could be the critic on either Finance or Intelligence. Ro Khanna could be the critic on Commerce and the FCC.
And why not include Democratic senators? Bernie Sanders could be the caucus critic on Health and Human Services.
I think it’s time that Democrats introduced a tradition of shadow cabinets to American politics.
