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As of 2019, wind provided only 5% of China’s power.[4] This is much higher than the 0.1% I heard years ago.
— as of 2019 , total wind power generation capacity in gigawatt. Out of global total of 650 GW
Above is capacity in watts. Below is actual amount of energy produced.
— as of 2017, total annual production of wind energy, in terawatt-hour
Note
| Upper chamber: senate # sometimes “upper house” | Lower chamber: house_of_representative | the Congress | |
| A member is known as: | “senator” | “representative” or “Rep.” is more precise. “Congresswoman” is a common alternative term. | lawmaker; Member_Of_Congress |
| apportionment | exactly two senators per state | exactly one representative per “congressional district”, about 750,000 population each. | – |
| minimum age | 30 | 25 | – |
| minimum length of citizenship | 9 years | 7 years | – |
Ranked by viewership: 1) FoxNews 2) MSNBC 2) CNN. CNBC is another cable operator owned by NBCUniversal, but focused on business news.
— FOX news’ parent NewsCorp is merely the 5th largest media company, behind Sony, ViacomCBS, TimeWarner, Disney
— MSNBC: microsoft shareholding gradually disappeared. Now owned by NBCUniversal
MSNBC beat CNN in total primetime viewers
— CNN.. was the first cable news network
CNN beat MSNBC (but trailed first place Fox News Channel), in total daytime viewers
==== the big3 television networks: ABC, CBS and NBC. These are general purpose TV channels, often covering politics, entertainment (sports). They cover business but not as much as the dedicated financial news channels
==== television network vs cable network?
I guess television programs are broadcast over the air and can be received by antenna, but cables are the medium for cable news.
Nowadays, all of them are available via cable or fiber.
https://www.census.gov/popclock/data_tables.php?component=growth shows as of 2019
| West | South | Mid West | North East | ||||||
| 78 M | 126 M | 68 M | 56 M | population/Mil #2019 | |||||
| 24% | 38% | 21% | 17% #dense | -> add up to 100% | |||||
| MD, DC, VA | OH | some states | |||||||
https://www.businessinsider.com/regions-of-united-states-2018-5#-the-midwest–2 has a map of the four regions
— 8-region map showing some common shorthand terms:
The two smallest regions (by area) are New England and MidEast, presumably because they are the most established, the most developed, most populous regions. They feature small , dense states.
— https://www.businessinsider.com/regional-differences-united-states-2018-1 shows 11 sub-nations (culturally and historically distinct peoples) such as
Those photographers (without a physical protection) are definitely within attack range. In such a case, your life is up to the bear. The animal can easily outrun and overpower even the strongest human.
https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2021
— volatility in ranking
I feel ARWU is slightly more stable, but all big3 league tables show very high volatility. A reputable university often has 100+ years of history, but its ranking seems to depend on the last few years.
The volatility partly reflects 1) evolution of ranking criteria and 2) fast change in real research output — the reality we must accept.
— overall validity of ranking
Every reader (except the UChicago graduates) of these rankings complain about, criticize (or ridicule) the discrepancies, even within a single system over a 10Y span — ridiculous volatility!
The more criticism, the more eyeballs. It reminds me of the Option pricing theories — grossly imperfect, but largely validated by years of observation in the field. If there’s some fatal flaw, then people would stop following.
#1 Target audience — aspiring students and their parents. As such, top universities are really luxury brands , partly for vanity. Kyle said college ranking is mostly about prestige, which is mostly based on research output
— Comparing The big-three international rankings 1) QS 2) THE, both UK-based, and 3) ARWU i.e. the Shanghai ranking
ARWU is mostly about the A in ARWU — “academic” i.e. research output, which is hardly visible to the lay public. ARWU doesn’t care about international faculty or student representations, for example.
QS and THE both consider reputation among academics and employers, what I call professional reputation. It’s different from mass-media reputation, which influences the lay public’s opinion.
https://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/university-news/comparing-world-university-rankings-qs-shanghai offers a simplistic yet useful summary:
— Sg: NTU is close behind NUS in QS, THE, and slightly behind on ARWU. SMU is sometimes ranked. No 4th university
NUS and NTU are within top 100 in ARWU 🙂 whereas HK has none.
— ARWU publishes a “greater China(HK/TW) college ranking beyond research“.. considers quality of faculty and education.
The percentage weightage inherites a blended bias for research output, and doesn’t care about peer or employer perceptions.
— HK: HKU, CUHK, HKUST are comparable to NUS/NTU.
— Australia, Germany, Sweden all trail behind SG in THE, not in ARWU.
QS ranks NUS and NTU immediately outside top 10, so only US/UK/Switzerland have any university above the duo.
— India Institute of Technlogy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Technology#Academic_rankings shows them outside top 100 by all rankings. I wonder why. I think inernational student ratio is extremely low. I guess research output is not high.
Out of 23 locations, the top 5 have decent international rankings.
Underlined syllables are sustained, which requires a bit of challenge in the first verse:
Mari kita Rakyat Singapura Sama-sama Menuju bahagia
Cita-cita kita
Yang mulia
Berjaya Singapura
Marilah kita bersatu
Dengan semangat yang baru
Semua kita berseru
Majulah Singapura
Majulah Singapura
For a given city, the physical location in a given timezone is not absolute; rather it’s a choice.
NYC (along with 23 U.S states) is physically in Eastern time zone, whereas EST and EDT are the “observed timezones”. Some locations in the same physical timezone choose to observe EST only, not EDT.
EDT and EST do not define physical regions. The physical regions that observe EDT also observe EST, but not conversely, because some physical regions observing EST never observe EDT.
Similarly, Pacific time zone cities (like LA) observe PST vs PDT.
— analogy: students
A college student is usually in exactly one school, but some students are in Engineering school and also in Law school.
However, at any time, every student is in exactly one school. NY is never observing both EDT and EST.
— 12H off most of the year.
Note daylight Saving starts in Spring…. spring-forward from 2am to 3am in Mar.
Spring forward and stay 8 months, then fall back and stay 4 months (approx)
This archipelago sits between Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean
This archipelago sits between Australia and mainland Indochina.
Malay Archipelago is also the title of an influential book.
Population — estimated at 550 mil (including 1% in Singapore) almost half of China’s population
— Mainlaind S.E.Asia ^ Maritime S.E.Asia (aka Malaya archipelago or East Indies)
This is a simple binary framework to view S.E.Asia as two parts. The two parts have different cultures, languages, history.
I think Malysia is the only major country that straddles the two parts, though bulk of Malaysia population live in mainland S.E.Asia.
— religion: depending on the scope of “Malay Archipelago”, Muslim (more than 50% of population) and Christianity are reported to be the #1 and #2.
In contrast, Mainland S.E.Asia is predominantly Buddhist, but I doubt this claim.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/heatwave-water-covid-19-india-slum-dwellers-12778242
I feel the infrastructure weakness is much worse than China.
“a third of the country’s 1.3 billion people cut back on washing and bathing during summer as taps run dry”
“Only around 7 per cent of Indian households have air conditioning, despite rising incomes making the luxury more affordable for some.”
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