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Michelle Obama, for her recentspeech in New Hampshire aboutTrump, was praised by Democratsand Republicans alike

She was praised similarly for her JulyDemocratic National Convention speechwhere she spoke about raising daughters inthe White House as a black woman

AirMule isambulanceof the future

AN autonomous flying am-bulance has successfullycompleted its first solotest flight, offering a po-

tential solution for challeng-ing search and rescuemissions.

Completing such missionsin rough terrain or combat zones can be tricky, with heli-copters currently offering thebest transportation option in most cases.

However, these vehicles need clear areas to land, and in the case of war zones, heli-copters tend to attract enemy fire. Now an Israeli company has completed the test flight for an automated flying vehi-cle, dubbed the Cormorant, that could one day go wherehelicopters cannot.

Last month, the company flew the Cormorant on the craft’s first solo flight over real terrain. The vehicle is de-signed to eventually carry peo-ple or equipment without a human pilot on board, ‘LiveScience’ reported.

Rather than using propel-lers or rotors to fly, the Cormo-rant uses ducted fans that areeffectively shielded rotors, which means the aircraft does not need to worry about bump-ing into a wall and damaging the rotors.

Another set of fans propelsthe vehicle forward. The vehi-cle is effectively a decision-making system that can figure out what to do if there is a problem in the inputs from thesensors, the company, UrbanAeronautics, said.

If the Cormorant detects a potential issue, the drone’s ro-botic brain can decide wheth-er to go home, land and wait for more instructions, or try a different flight path. — PTI

UP SWING

What is a paradigm shift?A PARADIGM shift is when asignificant change happens,usually from one fundamental view to a different view. In most cases, some type of ma-jor discontinuity occurs aswell. Thomas Kuhn wrote about Paradigm Shift duringthe early 1960s, and explainedhow a “series of peaceful in-terludes punctuated by intel-lectually violent revolutions”caused “one conceptual world view to be replaced by anotherview.” In laymen terms, para-digm shift is a popular, or per-haps, not so popular shift or transformation of the way we Humans perceive events, peo-ple, environment, and life alto-gether. It can be a national or international shift, and couldhave dramatic effects – wheth-er positive or negative – on the way we live our lives today and in the future.

In today’s society, we’ve all witnessed a major shift al-ready. When we look backupon counterculture’, we tracesome of the origins to the defi-nition of ‘Paradigm shift.’During the counterculture era (1960s-1970s), younger genera-tions opposed authority andwere very much at odds withsociety’s accepted belief sys-tems and standards of living. In the counterculture move-ment (fueled by the VietnamWar), social conservatives were deemed ‘social repres-sionists.’ The enlighteningparadigm shift exploded into innovative ideas about reli-gion, society and spirituality, notwithstanding traditionalWestern ideologies. In today’ssociety, we see a shift toward a more blinded-oppresionisticview.

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