![]() "Then the crew get 'ice liberty' and can get out onto the ice."Īfter breaking every submarine speed and endurance record, USS Nautilus made its final voyage in 1979 and is now open in Connecticut as part of a maritime museum. "The class of submarine was fitted with fins on the conning tower that could flip 90 degrees to pierce the ice like a knife when it surfaced between ice floes," Morison explains. Morison considers himself lucky particularly because – just like Santa on the USS Nautilus, apparently – he also got to get out at the North Pole. Since 1969, for instance, the UK has always had at least one submarine carrying nuclear weapons at sea – a role currently performed by its Vanguard-class boats.Īnd while the mission was a proving ground for the military potential of nuclear submarines, it was also a scientific milestone, helping to set the stage for a new era of exploration and discovery about the strange world beneath the Arctic ice.īut, even now, operating in the ocean beneath the Arctic ice is never routine.Īlthough the US Scicex programme is still operating, and scientific data still being gathered and shared, scientists no longer get to join submarine crews. Today, nuclear-powered submarines can remain deep beneath the waves for months at a time, stealthy weapons of destruction and deterrence, carrying torpedoes and nuclear missiles. "It provided proof that a nuclear-powered submarine could operate submerged, and therefore entirely stealthily, for sustained deployments." "It was an eloquent demonstration of a revolution in maritime warfare," says Captain Justin Hughes, a retired nuclear submarine commander for the British Royal Navy and now honorary secretary of the Friends of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum. US President Dwight D Eisenhower sent his congratulations on "a magnificent achievement", certain in the knowledge that the voyage would revolutionise submarine operations and any future warfare. In fact, Nautilus had already been deep underwater for three days before it reached the Pole and did not come back to the surface, near the coast of Greenland, until 7 August 1958 – spending a week beneath the waves and ice. But running off a nuclear reactor meant that Nautilus needed to do none of these things. The epic voyage that peered into the voidīefore Nautilus, submarines had to surface, or at least extend a snorkel above the waves, to take in air needed to run their diesel engines and charge their batteries for electric propulsion.The dive to find the world's deepest shipwreck.The shipwrecks rewriting ancient history.The transit took place with the 97-metre-long (319ft) submarine and its 116 crew (it's not clear in the logbook if that includes Santa) entirely submerged under the ice, a feat impossible before the invention of compact nuclear-powered propulsion.Īs Anderson announced to his crew: "For the world, our country, and the navy – the North Pole." It was the final sentence of a celebratory record of the first crossing of the North Pole by any ship under its own power, a top-secret mission codenamed 'Operation Sunshine'. ![]() ![]() ![]() On 3 August 1958, the commander of the world's first nuclear submarine made an extraordinary, if somewhat tongue in cheek, entry in his logbook: "Embarked following personage at North Pole…" wrote USS Nautilus commander William Anderson, "…Santa Claus, affiliation: Christmas."
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![]() He was playing Seattle, Washington, about a three-hour drive from my city of Vancouver, Canada. On May 2nd, 2022, I went to see Paul McCartney live in concert. A final event marked the end of my Beatles' study for my first time ever I attended a performance by a Beatle. ![]() I revisited all the Beatles' official studio albums, sought out rare and early recordings, and brushed up on the four members' post-Beatles solo work, of which I'd only been largely familiar with Lennon's. John Lennon (2006), John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky (2018), George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011), the 11-hour Beatles Anthology television series (1995), and Beatles-inspired movies like Backbeat (1994), Across the Universe (2007), Nowhere Boy (2009), and Yesterday (2019).Īnd then, of course, the music. I also watched a bunch of documentaries like The U.S. Incorporating a distinct visual accompaniment to every featured song, this musical art film was groundbreaking in pioneering the "music video" and "video album" formats that would become popular years later. Then I watched Lennon and Ono's 1972 film Imagine, a TV special released shortly after Lennon's album of the same name. And finally, I read John Lennon's three books: In His Own Write (1964), A Spaniard in the Works (1965), and the posthumously published Skywriting by Word of Mouth (1986)-collections of his absurdist poetry, comic strips, cartoon drawings, and short stories of the "literary nonsense" genre.Īfter the Get Back docuseries, I watched over a dozen other relevant movies including the Beatles' official films A Hard Day's Night (1964), Help! (1965), The Magical Mystery Tour (1967), the cartoon feature Yellow Submarine (1968), and documentary Let It Be (1970). Then I read Ono's first book Grapefruit (1964), an early example of conceptual art as a series of "event scores" and "instructional poems"-short, whimsical passages instructing the reader to enact an idea, whether actually feasible, or abstract, or metaphorical. ![]() I also concurrently read the book that was released along with the art exhibit and serves as its counterpart, with the same title Growing Freedom: The Instructions of Yoko Ono / The Art of John and Yoko, which chronicles and examines, with text and photographs, the work of the Ono-Lennons. The instance of the art exhibit and docuseries' release coinciding renewed an interest I've long had with the group that many say-still, to this day, even fifty-plus years after their breakup-is the greatest, or at least the most influential, band of all time.Īnd so I started indulging in all things Beatles-related, including reading Philip Norman's in-depth book Shout! The True Story of the Beatles, considered by many to be the band's definitive biography. The fly-on-the-wall footage makes for the feeling of being right there in the room with the band as they write and rehearse their songs, smoke, drink, hang out, and alternate between bickering and showing creative support to each other. I took it in slowly over several weeks, rewinding and rewatching segments throughout, and savoured every second. The nearly eight-hour-long series utilizes unused footage recorded over twenty-one days in January 1969 for the feature documentary film Let It Be-during the making of Beatles' album of the same name-culminating with their legendary rooftop concert. The second occurrence which initiated my fascination with Lennon, Ono, and the Beatles-or more accurately re-initiated my fascination, for I've been a fan since childhood-was the November 2021 release of The Beatles: Get Back docuseries. The show started in October 2021 I viewed it twice that fall, and once more in its last week in April 2022. Sometimes humourous, sometimes somber, often moving, and always mind-expanding, the work conveys profound messages of hope, peace, and love. The pieces collectively showcase a playful, fairy tale-like, optimistic worldview while alternately resonating as an urgent call to action, with antiwar, antiracism, antisexism sentiments anchored in love and compassion for the suffering. My mind was blown by her work, and theirs together, which included happenings, bed-ins, displayed objects, installations, performance, film, song, image, and viewer participation. The first of these occurrences was an exhibit at my city's biggest visual art venue, the Vancouver Art Gallery, entitled Growing Freedom: The Instructions of Yoko Ono / The Art of John and Yoko. More specifically, my fixation was with the story of John Lennon, and to only a slightly lesser degree, his wife Yoko Ono. Two recent occurrences sparked what would end up being my eight-month-long preoccupation with the Beatles-or as my girlfriend called it, my obsession. John Lennon ("Instant Karma! We All Shine On") "Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear." Those are pretty good outputs, but the battery life isn't exactly market leading. The solid modes are High (1,100 lumen/1.5hrs), Middle (800 lumen/2hrs) and Low (400 lumen/4.5hrs). How much it stands out when your arms are shielding it on the hoods is another matter, but it's better than nothing.Ĭateye has kept things simple with just three solid modes and two flashing. Two LEDs are used to achieve this pattern and Cateye's OptiCube lens technology, and its design also allows a decent amount of side illumination. It has a bright white colour to the beam as well, which gives great clarity. It's not necessarily that road-specific but it is wider and flatter than many, with less of a spotlight in the centre.Īngled down slightly it's unobtrusive to oncoming motorists if you're sensible with the mode settings, and illuminates a large spread of road in front of you, picking up the verges and drains in your peripherals. While I was testing the AMPP 1100, George was out and about getting to grips with the AMPP 800 and the points he made about it in his review here pretty much sum up my thoughts about the AMPP 1100, you just have a bit more light to chuck about.įirst, I like the beam pattern. Cons: Short battery life makes planning routes necessary.Pros: Nice wide, white beam secure bracket. ![]() ![]() It's not the cheapest, though, and others delivery better battery life. Cateye has been in the bike lighting game a long time and the AMPP 1100 is one of its latest additions, a 1,100-lumen light that has a decent wide beam pattern, is solidly made and is simple to use. They’re designed to meet the real-world tasks and hurdles that people deal with, so you’ll find items with superior charging speeds, magnetic grips, and multiple outlets. ![]() Today, Belkin’s products are available in over 50 countries though they’re still designed close to Pipkin’s home in Southern California. This shift attracted investors and corporate partners which led to Foxconn purchasing Belkin in 2018 for over $800m. The majority of their products are geared towards mobile devices as that’s such a massive market these days. ![]() They adapted to meet market demands and saw the rise of smartphones and tablets in the 2000s, eventually developing products for those devices as well. But, as you’ll notice throughout this Belkin review, Pipkin and his company didn’t stick with computer cables forever. Pipkin started making computer cables out of his parent’s house and gained plenty of success with local computer shops. We’ve all heard the jokes about outlets being fire hazards if they have too many devices attached to them, and one could assume that Belkin has had a hand in keeping that as just a joke rather than a reality. ![]() They develop accessories and peripherals that can make your life much easier when it comes to technology.Ĭhet Pipkin established Belkin while he was a student at UCLA to remedy a problem that he was predicting would become more prevalent as time lurched forward: computers have too many dang cables and people need a way to trim down those cables. No, I don’t mean that they’re a computer-delivery service. Dating back to 1983, Belkin has been instrumental in filling the gap between customers and their computers. ![]() Banks introducing and investing in digital personal lending have experienced sevenfold sales growth through the channel in just 24 months.īanks’ pre-COVID-19 digital investments primarily targeted customers predisposed to adopt such solutions. ![]() McKinsey benchmarking data show that the leaders in digital new-to-bank acquisition consistently outperform their peers at every stage of the sales funnel and are rewarded with double the number of account openings. Nearly half of institutions globally still do not offer a savings-account-opening journey in their mobile app, while less than a third have introduced investment sales. Many banks still lag on introducing capability to capture demand for simple and complex customer journeys. In other words, banks that had already established momentum by building a top-flight digital consumer experience extended their lead in 2021. Leaders increased their digital-sales penetration by 15 percentage points in 2021, compared with an average annual increase of four percentage points between 20 at the laggards, digital penetration declined marginally. The variation in digital as well as branch performance is striking. It is important to note that overall, the widely discussed increase in digital sales as a percentage of total sales owed more to branch declines than to actual digital gains. Digital sales increased 4 percent-not enough to compensate for a 15 percent decline in the still-larger branch channel when facilities became inaccessible during lockdowns. At the same time, a combination of micro and macro factors caused total sales to fall by 10 percent globally (Exhibit 2). ![]() In 2021, more than 40 percent of core retail banking sales originated digitally, which unsurprisingly represents a new high. The drop: Core retail banking sales are down Then we describe the distinguishing traits of banks that are ahead of the pack. In this article, we examine the state of consumer engagement across digital and physical retail banking channels for both sales and servicing needs. At more than a third of banks, branch activity grew by 20 percent in 2021, so are branches still important? While banks continue to downsize physical channels, the long-term role of branches remains uncertain. Customers report large differences between their willingness to use, preference for, and actual use of digital channels, necessitating actions to establish and maintain customer relationships. Retail banking sales declined by 10 percent in 2021, after branch activity collapsed in 2020 and growth in digital channels did not fully make up the difference. To guide banks in answering these questions, we probed the responses to McKinsey’s Retail Banking Survey and applied proprietary benchmarks (for more, see sidebar, “About the data”), arriving at the following critical findings: To plot their next moves in distribution, banks should try to answer a few questions: Can digital channels replace branches as the dominant sales channel for financial services? Did COVID-19 really accelerate a permanent channel shift, as many assume? Or will customer behavior trend back toward historical habits when the pandemic recedes? However necessary these changes may have been, closing branches and widening digital channels cannot alone constitute an adequate distribution strategy, given the complex dynamics of retail banking. These consumers represent 28 countries, reported in seven geographic clusters spanning the globe. 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Last updated on Jun 28, 2022.Ĭelecoxib is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). Medically reviewed by Philip Thornton, DipPharm. Tickets for smaller venues that sell out fast are typically more expensive due to simple supply and demand. You’ll find that Wolf Alice concert tickets vary in price from market to market. Grab Wolf Alice tickets now so you can experience alternative music live and in person. ![]() The album was nominated for Mercury, Brit, Grammy and Ivor Novello Awards and their second album 'Don't Delete the Kisses' was released to positive reviews in 2017. Two further singles, 'Giant Peach' and 'You're a Germ', also featured on 'My Love Is Cool', which peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart in 2015 and number 12 on Billboard's Alternative Albums Chart. Two earlier singles were also on that album - 'Fluffy' and 'Bros' - which reached number 12 on the Alternative Songs Chart in 2015. 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Let's work through the imaginary example above.įirst, we know from the principle of superposition that rock layer F is older than E, E is older than D, D is older than C, and C is older than B. The fault cut the curb and is thus younger than the curb itself. We know that the curb was originally straight when it was first constructed. As it turns out, the famous San Andreas fault runs below the curb at this location, which has caused the curb to be broken and displaced. You can see that the curb is offset: the bottom half does not line up with the top half. Have a look at the photographs below, which show the curb of a road in a neighborhood in Hollister, California. Because these features are the ones doing the cutting, we know that they are younger than the rocks that they cut into. When investigating rocks in the field, geologists commonly observe features such as igneous intrusions or faults that cut through other rocks. Because of cross-cutting relationships, the cut that divides the slice from the rest of the loaf is younger than the loaf itself (the loaf had to exist before it could be cut). Imagine cutting a slice of bread from a whole loaf. The principle of cross-cutting relationships states that a rock unit (or other geological feature, such as a fault) that is cut by another rock unit (or feature) must be older than the rock unit (or feature) that does the cutting. A third key principle- faunal succession-is reviewed in Section 3. Geologists employ a handful of simple principles in relative age dating two of the most important of these are are the principles of superposition and cross-cutting relationships. Relative age dating has to do with determining the temporal ordering of events in Earth's past. ![]()
![]() They include 640 x 360 pixels and 854 x 480 pixels. Unfortunately, most pico projectors and palmtop projectors have smaller native resolutions. Some have full HD resolutions of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels. LED mini projectors usually have native HD resolutions of 1,280 x 720 pixels. If you want pictures that are sharp and crisp, opt for a mini projector compatible with an iPhone that has a high resolution. Most of today’s mini projectors can operate anywhere from one hour to four hours in a single full charge. But the presence of sophisticated features can drain the rechargeable battery at a faster rate. When shopping, check that it has a large battery. It means that you can use them even without an electrical outlet nearby. Battery LifeĪ reason why mini projectors are portable is that they come with rechargeable batteries. Some devices that rely on wired connectivity may require you to get your hands on an adapter.Ī unit that has various connectivity options allows you to use it not only with your smartphone but other devices, too. This makes them ideal for anyone who hates any dangling cables.Ī lot of mini projectors can also be connected to a mobile device via HDMI or VGA cable. Some of them feature wireless connectivity options via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. The majority of today’s mini projectors can be connected to your iPhone in many ways. It can help save storage space, too, when taking the device from one place to the other. Opting for one that can be used with both iOS and Android platforms can help you save a lot of money. Buying two different mini projectors is not the smartest move. ![]() Then check that the mini projector is compatible with both an iPhone and an Android phone. Here are some of the most important features that you need to take a look at: OS Compatibilityĭo you own another smartphone that uses the Android platform? What To Look For In Mini Projectors: Buyer’s Guide The importance of ensuring that the mini projector for iPhone you are about to buy is capable of meeting your specific needs cannot be stressed enough. After all, the features are those that make a mini projector carry out its job. Other than the size and weight, it’s also a must that you consider the features. The TakeawayĬonsidering your personal preferences, needs and lifestyle can help you decide if a pico projector, palmtop projector or LED projectors is the right one for you. Since their advanced features require a lot of power, most LED projectors in the market need AC power to run. What’s more, models with rechargeable batteries are rare. And it’s none other than the fact that they are bulkier.īecause of this, they are not the most portable mini projectors around. They project images at higher resolutions, too. LED ProjectorĬompared to pico projectors and palmtop projectors, LED projectors produce brighter images. It has more ports, better image quality, etc. That’s because the bigger dimensions make it possible for a palm projector to have more or better features than a pico counterpart. It’s true that palmtop projectors are generally larger and heavier than pico projectors.ĭespite this, they are still small enough to rest comfortably on your palm - hence the name. Unfortunately, due to its small size, its features and capabilities are limited. This means that it can easily fit in your pocket and be taken from place to place hassle-free. Most pico projectors are about the same size as a smartphone or power bank.Ĭompared to a palmtop projector, which is another type of mini projector that we will talk about in a few, a pico projector is smaller and lighter. Let’s take a quick look at the key differences of these mini projectors: Pico Projector They are pico projectors, palmtop projectors and LED projectors. When it comes to shopping for a mini projector for your iPhone, you have a handful of options in terms of size and weight. One is different from the other in terms of dimensions, features, available ports, and others. These days, mini projectors that are compatible with an iPhone come in all shapes and sizes. It’s important that you first know which of them you should opt for. Here Are 12 Best Mini Projectors For Your iPhoneĭon’t just place a mini projector in your shopping cart.What To Look For In Mini Projectors: Buyer’s Guide. |
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