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Bike Sharing Programs Make City Travel Easy

By Judith Nemes 

Judith Nemes is a reporter for USA Today. She is a freelance journalist originally from Chicago. Nemes specializes in green issues and health care. This article was first published in USA Todayon June 11, 2013.  

Adam Sledd and his wife, KC, never dreamed of riding bikes through the busy streets of Washington, D.C., until they moved last fall to a neighborhood with bike-sharing stations.

“Suddenly, there were a lot of places closer to us that made sense to get [to] by bike. It was faster than walking, but not practical to drive my car and then have the hassle of finding a parking spot,” says Adam, 31, a program manager at a non-profit that promotes energy efficiency in buildings.

The Sledds were hesitant to spend money on bikes they might not use regularly or that could get stolen. So they tried the bike-sharing system for a weekend. They were hooked and continued to use the service. An app on their smartphones identifies the closest bike-sharing station and lets them know how many bikes are parked there. “You see things differently in a city while you’re riding … I also like keeping carbon out of the atmosphere. Even though it’s miniscule, it’s better than nothing,” he says.

The Sledds are riding the wave of eco-friendly bike-sharing programs that has been spreading over the past decade and is popular with tourists as an easy means of getting around a new city. European cities paved the way, but U.S. cities are quickly catching up.

And better late than never. “A bike doesn’t pollute. It’s clean, healthy for the rider and a fun way to get around the city,” says Jeff Miller, president of the Alliance for Biking and Walking, a coalition of more than 200 state and city active transportation groups.

New York launched its bike sharing program last week and Chicago is gearing up to launch its later this year. The programs will put thousands of short-term, rentable bikes on the streets, available at hundreds of docking stations. Other cities with programs in the works include San Francisco; Los Angeles; Portland, Ore.; Seattle; and Vancouver, Canada.

Chicago hopes to make 4,000 bikes available at 400 stations across a wide swath of the city within the first year of the program, says Gabe Klein, Commissioner of Chicago’s Department of Transportation. “This will be a game changer,” he says. “People are moving back to cities because they don’t have to be in a car all the time. We’re playing to our strength as a city.”

The stations will be linked closely to the Chicago Transit Authority’s buses and trains, downtown office buildings, grocery stores and other desirable locations. “Bike share is one of those missing links in transportation, especially for that last mile of connectivity from the bus or train. It will give people mobility they’re not used to having,” Klein says.

The Capital Bikeshare program in Washington, D.C., has been hugely popular. Launched in 2010, it clocked 1 million trips in the first year of operation; in only eight months, it recorded the next million.

Adam Sledd uses the system as often as three times a week, but he may ramp that up and eventually use a bike on his 2.5-mile commute to work. “I’m not sure how comfortable I am yet riding through downtown D.C. in rush hour,” he admits.

Please write a summary of this reading. In summary please state the author’s purpose, state the main idea of the text, and include all major supporting details. 

 

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Review the information from the resources below, and answer the associated questions.

Part I: Cyberterrorism

Click the link below to view Segment 2 (“Cyber-Terrorism”) of Cybercrime: World Wide War 3.0 in CSU’s Films on Demand database.

Ways Press International (Producer). (2008). Cybercrime: World Wide War 3.0 [Video file]. Retrieved from https://libraryresources.columbiasouthern.edu/login?auth=CAS&url=http://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=273866&xtid=40324&loid=65101

Note: The transcript for the aforementioned video segment is available to view and print by clicking on the “Show Transcript” tab on the right side of the video page.

After watching the video, address the questions below:  

  1. What is cyberterrorism?
  2. What is the purpose of cyberterrorism?
  3. What are the advantages of cyberterrorism?

Part II: Federal Networks

Click the link below to review the following resource.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (n.d.). Securing federal networks. Retrieved from https:// reviewing the resource, address the following issues:

  1. Describe the purpose of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to secure federal networks.
  2. What is the mission of the National Cyber Security Protection System (NCPS), and what capabilities does it provide to protect the federal government from a cyberterrorism attack?
  3. What is the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program, who does it benefit, and what capabilities does the program provide?
  4. What is the purpose of the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)?

Your assignment must be a minimum of three pages in length. Submit Part I and Part II in one document, but make certain to use headings to identify each part. You are required to use at least one outside source other than the textbook. All sources used, including the textbook and associated web links, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying APA citations. All sources must be cited in APA format on a separate reference page. The reference page does not count toward meeting the minimum page requirement.

 

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Write 8 page essay on the topic What is applied anthropology and how did it emerge.

As a consequence of this, the British were able to colonize large regions of the world during the colonial period.

Before World War II began, the British colony had to change its tactics by engaging itself in more positive administrative arrangement that could be catalysts to strategic economic growth of its colonies. Heavy funding and underwriting began to stream towards social science exploration in African. This funding, ideally, was through a couple of mechanism, which included funding from foundation like the Rockefeller foundation and Carnegie Corporation. A portion of these funds permitted the anthropologists to liberate themselves from a prism relationship, including colonial emissaries and subjects. In the early 1940s, the British enacted an act that saw the provision of funds for social science explorations in the protectorates. The reason that social science reached were carried in out in the British colonies, was primarily shed light into the human society of Africa, which was apparently a lot less known. The results that were collected from these pragmatic researches provided anthropologists with crucial information, which they transformed it later into compelling theoretical products (Chambers 2008, p54).

In any case, without this transformation, the whole process would malformed. The researchers ensured that anthropology came out as a science, so that it would get full government support. However, if anthropology emerged as snot a science, there was no way it would have received any government support. This success saw an increase in total number of academic departments. Additionally, as the British ceased their operations in the colonies, applied anthropology began to erode gradually. However, applied anthropology was evidently not developed fully enough theoretically (Escobar 2008, p87).

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Locate the data set “Drinks.sav” and open it with SPSS. Follow the steps in section 4.18 Learning Activity as written. Answer all of the questions in the activity based on your observations of the SPSS output. Type your answers into a Word document for submission to the instructor.

1. Run Frequencies on the variable alcohol, requesting the summary statistics median and mean, plus a histogram with a superimposed normal curve. Suppress the display of the frequency table.

2. What is the value of value of alcohol that splits the distribution in half? Is the median the same as the mean? Which value is lower? What does that tell you about the shape of the distribution of alcohol?

3. Does the histogram verify your description of the distribution of alcohol? How does it differ from a normal distribution?

4. Run Descriptives to obtain default statistics for price and calories. On which variable is there more dispersion? Is it even realistic to compare these two variables since they are on different scales?

5. Continuing your analysis of price and calories, run the Explore procedure for these two variables. Request a histogram in addition to the defaults.

6. Does the standard error of each variable help you better determine which variable has more dispersion?

7. Review the boxplots and histogram for each variable. Which one has more outliers? What are the outliers on each? Which variable now appears to have more dispersion, based on these graphs? Does that match what you expected based on the statistics?

 

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