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Browse Library Trends 16 (4) Spring 1968: School Library Services and Administration at the School District Level by Title
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Library Trends 16 (4) Spring 1968: School Library Services and Administration at the School District Level
Back Matter to Library Trends 16 (4) Spring 1968: School Library Services and Administration at the School District Level
(Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968)
The Broward County, Florida, Program
Hatfield, Frances S. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968)
Emerging Patterns of School District Organization with Implications for School Library Service
Willis, Charles L. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968)
Front Matter to Library Trends 16 (4) Spring 1968: School Library Services and Administration at the School District Level
The Fulton County, Georgia, Program
McJenkin, Virginia (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968)
Implications of Federal Legislation for School Library Services at the District Level
Mahar, Mary Helen (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968)
Index to Library Trends Volume 16
Introduction to Library Trends 16 (4) Spring 1968: School Library Services and Administration at the School District Level
Srygley, Sara Krentzman (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968)
The Lansing, Michigan, Program
Nickel, Mildred L. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968)
Library Trends 16 (4) 1968: School Library Services and Administration at the School District Level
The Materials Center at the School District Level
Ahlers, Eleanor E.; Morrison, Perry D. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968)
Professional Positions in School Librarianship at the School District Level
Darling, Richard L. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968)
The Shaker Heights, Ohio, Program
Krohn, Mildred L. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968)
Standards For School Library Services at the District Level
Henne, Frances (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968)
The Webster Parish, Louisiana, Program
Hefley, Sue (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968)


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First Helio X20 Benchmark Leaked; Galaxy Note 5, Pack Your Things And Go Home
Sep 1, 2015 18:06 EDT
Helio X20 is already a force to be reckoned with in terms of both performance and energy efficiency. To top it all, it is also running a 10-core processor, which is the first time we have seen such a feature on a mobile chipset. Now, we have come across the benchmarking scores of the chipset in the form of images, and let us tell you, Galaxy Note 5 will not be the fastest Android smartphone on the planet for much longer.
Helio X20 Scores Above 70,000 Points In AnTuTu, Qualcomm And Samsung Better Watch Out
According to a benchmarking leak coming all the way from China, Helio X20 performs much better compared to Exynos 7420, indicating that we have a new player on the block. The upcoming chipset from MediaTek scores in excess of 70,000 points, while Galaxy Note 5 was only able to register a score of 69,700 points in the benchmarking app.
The reason for this is quite simple, despite the fact that Helio X20 is fabricated on the 20nm process, which has several drawbacks when compared to the 14nm Exynos from Samsung. The upcoming SoC features a deca-core processor, but the primary difference separating Samsung's and MediaTek's chipset is that is that Helio X20 is running two Cortex-A72 cores, while Exynos 7420 is running four Cortex-A57 cores. Cortex-A57 might be known for its processing prowess, but it is nowhere near efficient compared to Cortex-A72, and nowhere near as powerful.
However, one thing that did capture our attention was the fact that the screen resolution of the device sporting the chipset was 1080p. Galaxy Note 5 was able to obtain the aforementioned score while rendering a resolution of 1440p. If the device running Helio X20 sported the same resolution as Galaxy Note 5, would the smartphone have obtained a much lower score than it would have achieved? It is quite possible, since a higher resolution not only stresses the battery, but the processor and GPU as well.
In 2016, MediaTek plans to top the performance of Helio X20 with the release of Helio X30. Helio X30 is going to be running four Cortex-A72 cores instead of two, delivering even more performance as a result. Too bad at this point, this is all the information that we can provide you. When more benchmarks surface, we will keep you in the loop. What did you think of Helio X20's performance so far.
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Endocarditis remains an elusive challenge for clinicians to master. As the population ages and their comorbidities increase, the risk of infecting cardiac structures – both native and, the ever-increasing use of, prosthetic support technology – also increases. In addition, the global epidemic of intravenous substance abuse has also resulted in a substantial increase in the number of infected patients. Fortunately, advances in the diagnostic testing, imaging, and recognition of the importance of a multidisciplinary management team have also contributed to advances in the care of these critically ill patients. Nevertheless, optimal therapies need to be individualized and considered in the ever-increasing body of scientific literature on this complex and difficult problem.
Road space is shared by multiple vehicles (i.e. cars, taxis, buses, trucks, motorcycles, and mopeds), pedestrians, animals and many other categories of travelers. Easy availability of motor vehicles and advancements in their technology has made road travel easy; on the other hand, this has also resulted in a significant increase in the number of motor vehicle related injuries. Road traffic related injuries remain an important public health problem globally. It has been estimated that approximately 1.25 million people succumb to road traffic injuries annually worldwide, and between 20 and 50 million people sustain non-fatal injuries. It is a cause of great concern that 59% of the severely injured population is young adults aged between the age of 15 and 44 years. At present, globally road traffic injuries are ranked as the eighth leading cause of mortality, and if the current trends continues, it is expected to be the seventh leading cause of mortality at the global level by 2030.
Published by Paras Publications this book focuses on medical values and metrics related emergency care of patients. The Book is a value resource for quick reference in EM settings.
Available on all e-commerce book portals.
A case-based book organized by the top 10 common complaints of patients presenting to emergency departments. This approach allows the reader to learn the pathophysiology of the major diseases, and analyze each case in a way that more closely approximates the clinical practice of medicine; not knowing which organ system is damaged or compromised before examining the patient. The cases are based on real patients and the diseases are either common in emergency practice, or are dangerous diagnoses not to be missed. The case descriptions include questions regarding the patient's presentation and basic information about the disease, illustrating key elements from the history, physical, and when necessary ancillary studies that help lead to a diagnosis. Each chapter ends with a flow diagram showing how diseases of different organ systems can present with similar initial complaints. This book is an ideal resource for medical students, residents and trainees in emergency medicine.
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), despite a long and troubled history, is very rapidly evolving into a therapy that can be safely and effectively applied across the world in patients experiencing acute cardiac and/or pulmonary failure. As experiences grow, there is a better understanding of nuances of the importance of teamwork, therapy guidelines and protocols, patient selection, and understanding the functional aspects of pump-circuit technology as it interfaces with human biology. The challenges in managing these very sick and complex patients cannot be understated. The goal of this text is to provide a framework for the development and successful growth of a program. Authors from Centers of Excellence Worldwide have shared their experiences in the full spectrum in dealing with this evolving field.
This seventh book in the series of Success in Academic Surgery looks to sustain the field and facilitate the next generation of leaders in Academic Global Surgery. It brings together a catalogue of current knowledge, needs, and pathways to a career in the field.
Academic Global Surgery involves educational, research and clinical collaborations between academic humanitarian surgeons in high-income countries (HIC), their low and middle-income country (LMIC) partners and their respective academic institutions. The goal of these collaborations is improving understanding of surgical disease, and increasing access to and capacity for surgical care in resource-poor regions.
In the last few years, the rapid exchange of ideas through social media and other technologies has combined with an increasing appreciation of worldwide health disparities to put the issue of global health at the forefront of our consciousness. Although traditionally neglected within public health initiatives, surgical disease is now recognized as a major contributor to death and disability worldwide, while surgical therapy in resource-poor areas is increasingly being shown to be cost-effective. In response to this growing recognition, what began as mission trips and short-term clinical volunteerism in the developing world has evolved into a burgeoning new field with a broader scope.
This book written by INDUSEM Leaders presents a practical approach to patient safety issues with a focus on evolution and understanding the key concepts in health care and turning them into implementable actions. With its contemporary approach and lucid presentation, this book is a valuable resource for practicing doctors in medicine and surgery to treat their patients with care, diligence, and vigilance and contribute to a safer practice in health care.
INDUSEM Leader Dr. Manpreet Singh is faculty of Critical Care Medicine at Government Medical College Chandigarh and is involved in teaching medical students, graduates and post graduates in the fields of Medical Technology, Trauma Technician, MBBS and MD.
It is first book of its kind and comprises of six sections. All sections are colour coded for easy identification. Section one consists of anatomy, physiology and clinical biochemistry for paramedics. Details of all muscles, bones and joints along with their actions, nerves and vessels are compiled in a tabular form so that it can be easily learnt and recapitulated by students. Essential physiology and clinical biochemistry are concised subsections of this section. Second section provides every detail about anaesthesia and its various sub-specialities. This section has 40 chapters i.e from history of anaesthesia till modular operation theatre suit details. Apart from basics of anaesthesia and sub-specialities of anaesthesia, it highlights operation theatre suit, air-conditioning of Operation theatre and ICU, sterilization, pain management, dialysis room management and transportation of patients and anaesthesiologists. Third section, 'Pharmacology in Anaesthesia' describes intricacies of all anaesthetic drugs and emergency drugs. These drugs are described in tabular forms in easy language. This section will help the students to explain the drugs that are asked in table viva during examination. Section four covers all the anaesthesia instruments. These include anaesthesia machine, automated external defibrillator, sutures, vaporizers and all airway management equipments. The details of instruments will be very beneficial for the students during training periods, examination, table viva and day-to-day practice. Fifth section provides knowledge of 32 unique topics of modern anaesthetic practices that requires utmost attention. It highlights brief knowledge about clinical audit, hospital waste management, ECG, EMG, cardiopulmonary resuscitation 2010 guidelines, intensive care topics and physics in anaesthesia. The final section highlights all the scoring systems, algorithms and grading in anaesthesia. The readers will be elated to read this section as they will feel comfortable to find all grading at one place.
This book will be extremely useful to all emergency physicians, anaesthetists, intensivists and paramedics i.e MSc. Operation Theatre, BSc Medical Technology students, operation theatre technicians nurses, physiotherapists and trauma technicians.
Atlas de Medicina Pediatrica de Emergencia; Secunda ed.


When we diagnose decay on baby teeth the most common question everyone always asks is "Why should I get treatment done on baby teeth? They are just going to fall out!". Yes, eventually most baby teeth will fall out sooner or later. But that's just it…sooner or LATER! Baby teeth are necessary for more than just chewing food. In the dental profession we call them "space maintainers". This means they hold the space for the permanent teeth to erupt in the proper placement. If a baby tooth is "lost" before it's time, the other teeth can shift into that area. Limiting the space for the permanent tooth to erupt could cause the need for braces in the future.
Baby teeth should be considered just as important as permanent teeth, if not more important. God was gracious enough to give us baby teeth as a "practice set" before the permanent set comes later in life. Teaching our children how to properly care for their teeth when they are little will ensure healthy habits with their permanent teeth. We don't get another set of teeth after that, unless they are FAKE!
As parents, we need to teach our children how to take care of their teeth at an early age and to help them along the way. Taking them to the dentist by the time they turn 1 year old is the first step. No, I'm not just saying that because I work at a dental office. The first dental visit is more for the parents than the child. Parents need to be properly educated on how to take care of their child's teeth. As well as, what kinds of food and beverages to stay away from that will cause early childhood decay. Choose a dental office that has a child friendly atmosphere. One that you believe will make the dental visit fun and enjoyable for you and your child.
If you ask most general dentists (that don't treat children on a regular basis), they would tell you that your child doesn't need to go to a dentist until they are 3 years old or if you see a problem before then. That cannot be farther from the truth!!! We see it every day. Children come into our office and have a mouth full of decay at 3, 4 and 5 years old (and even younger). If parents had been advised to take their children to a dentist, childhood decay could be reduced. We have extracted front teeth on children as young as 15 months old. There is absolutely no reason for this!
It is the responsibility of the dental community to inform the world…BRUSH AND FLOSS YOUR CHILD'S TEETH! TAKE YOUR CHILD TO THE DENTIST! NEVER PUT YOUR CHILD TO BED WITH A BOTTLE OR SIPPY CUP! LIMIT WHAT THEY DRINK TO MOSTLY WATER! But it is your responsibility as a parent to take the advise we give and put it to good use…for your child's overall health.


DriverCentre.net – It is necessary to setup Canon iR3235N printer drivers before you may use Canon iR3235N printer. There is always a CD came along in the package when ever you purchase it. Use that disc to deploy Canon iR3235N printer driver. Once you lost the disk, download the Canon iR3235N printer with following link and use these drivers to install your Canon iR3235N printer.
You must always install printer driver any time you want to use that printer. Click on the link above to download Canon iR3235N printer driver from the Canon's server.
A laptop or computer printer does not work until you setup the included driver and software. As soon as you have do not remember the DVD for your printer, you can download the drivers for your printer and use the driver to setup your printer.
What is Canon iR3235N printer driver?
Printer drivers are software programs, & their main mission is to convert the data you command from Windows OS to print from to the form that is specific to the mounted printer. Every printer should come with the drivers used to install Canon iR3235N printer in Windows Operating System and also your os.
Download and save the correct driver that is most compatible with your Canon iR3235N printer before going further.
Go to Desktop then open "Computer" or "My computer". Right Click in Computer folder, then click "Properties" you may possibly see what is your OS system type.
Step 2: Determine Printer Driver and press Get button.
Next pick where you desire to save Canon iR3235N printer driver and mouse click on Save to start download Canon driver.
Step 1. After everything has been plugged in turn the laptop & Canon printer on.


Friday, October 23 at 7:30 PM; Saturday, October 24th at 7:30 PM; and Sunday. October 25th at 2 PM.
With book and lyrics by Frank Loesser, The Most Happy Fella is known for a lush score, powerful vocals, and extensive dance sequences in songs like "Standing on the Corner," "Somebody Somewhere," and "Big D." Audiences will be swept away by a tale of comedy and romance this month as the Musical Theatre Division of the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music presents its fall production, The Most Happy Fella.
The Most Happy Fella will be presented Friday and Saturday, Oct. 23 and 24, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 25, at 2 p.m., at Hartke Theatre – 3801 Harewood Road, in Washington, DC. The performance is a part of the year-long 50th Anniversary Celebration for the music school.
Tickets are $40 for premium seating; $25 for general admission; $15 for seniors and CUA alumni, faculty, and staff; and $5 for students and children under 8. Purchase tickets at the box office or online.


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Q: How Symfony container collects vendor classes? I am working on very old legacy code, mostly procedural. Trying to improve it. Rewriting applications is impossible right now. The plan is to add a few libraries which would help organize things and improve that way.
I added a Symfony dependency-injection component in order to do that. It would provide the possibility to fetch needed services with its dependency easy.
I watched symfonycast tutorial on how to play with container. And with that knowledge, I managed to write a simple loader to start the container and to use services made by me. It is simple, it guesses FQCN based on file path, and then uses reflection to get dependencies. But I can not figure out how to load vendor classes, because here you can not guess namespace that way. :)
The question is: What exactly Symfony uses to load classes from the vendor folder, does it reads composer.json files to see namespaces, does it uses some composer feature, or something else?

A: Loading classes is different than instancing services.
The first can in fact use regular composer facilities to discover vendored classes in a legacy project like yours, even if they weren't installed with composer. This uses the standard php autoload mechanism with some added magic.
To include the, let's say lib/ legacy directory in the discoverable files you would add the following to composer.json:
"autoload": {
    "classmap": ["lib/"]
}

And then run composer dump-autoload. Note that by including vendor/autoload.php in your legacy files you could even forego the require directives for your dependencies and rely on composer as well. This can be a path for migrating them to composer-managed dependencies, too.
Service instancing requires not only being able to locate the classes themselves, but also their respective dependencies so the container can create the object tree automatically. This usually involves hand-writing service definition files: classes in the vendor/ folder are not automatically registered as services. A bundle (or your own definitions) enables support for an specific library.
Take for instance the Mailer component: you can use it as a standalone library, but for framework integration (which includes service definitions and depen) you'd need to install Mailer bundle as well.
The exception where automatic service registration applies (when using symfony framework, not the standalone dependency injection component) is for files under src/. During container compilation, services.yaml is loaded and the ContainerConfigurator with help from FileLoader, looks for *.php files the directories configured as a resource, creating service definitions for them.
I guess you could do a similar thing for your legacy dependencies in a CompilerPass by using a similar technique or by trying to leverage the composer classmap but, specially if your legacy dependencies do not follow a PSR loading standard, I'd advise against it, since it can pull in tests, example files, etc.

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Q: Qt QItemDelegate Commit data and close Editor on mouse leave the view widget (listView) I had a problem with calling off the editor of my listView, when mouse left it. I have managed to solve my problem. It was not obvious to me, so I've decided to post my solution:
In delegate header file Ive created a editor widget pointer, and in constructor, I gave him the value Q_NULLPTR.
//in header file of Delegate
mutable QWidget *myCustomWidget;

//in the source file of Delegate
MyItemDelegate::MyItemDelegate(QObject *parent) : QStyledItemDelegate(parent),
  myCustomWidget(Q_NULLPTR)
{
}

then in createEditor:
QWidget *MyItemDelegate::createEditor(QWidget *parent, const QStyleOptionViewItem &option, const QModelIndex &index) const
{
myCustomWidget= new KontaktForm(parent);
myCustomWidget->autoFillBackground();

return myCustomWidget;
}

in MyListView header file I've created a signal saveToModelFromEditor(); and emited the signal in
void MyListView::leaveEvent(QEvent *event)
{
emit saveToModelFromEditor();

QListView::leaveEvent(event);
}

The function to commitData to the model and close the editor, if someone wants it to close:
void MyItemDelegate::commitAndSaveData()
{
if(kontaktForm!=Q_NULLPTR){

// after testing the UI I've decided, that the editor should remain open, and just commit data

emit commitData(kontaktForm);

//    emit closeEditor(kontaktForm);
}
}

Finally I've used signal and slot mechanism to connect signal from listView to slot in the editor
   connect(treeView,SIGNAL(saveToModelFromEditor()),itemDelegate,SLOT(commitAndSaveData()));

I had help from a different comunity (VoidRealms facebook group).
Hope this helps someone here.

A: In delegate header file Ive created a editor widget pointer, and in constructor, I gave him the value Q_NULLPTR.
 //in header file of Delegate
 mutable QWidget *myCustomWidget;

 //in the source file of Delegate
 MyItemDelegate::MyItemDelegate(QObject *parent) : QStyledItemDelegate(parent),
   myCustomWidget(Q_NULLPTR)
 {
 }

then in createEditor:
 QWidget *MyItemDelegate::createEditor(QWidget *parent, const QStyleOptionViewItem &option, const QModelIndex &index) const
 {
 myCustomWidget= new KontaktForm(parent);
 myCustomWidget->autoFillBackground();

 return myCustomWidget;
 }

in MyListView header file I've created a signal saveToModelFromEditor(); and emited the signal in
 void MyListView::leaveEvent(QEvent *event)
 {
 emit saveToModelFromEditor();

 QListView::leaveEvent(event);
 }

The function to commitData to the model and close the editor, if someone wants it to close:
 void MyItemDelegate::commitAndSaveData()
 {
 if(kontaktForm!=Q_NULLPTR){

 // after testing the UI I've decided, that the editor should remain open, and just commit data

 emit commitData(kontaktForm);

 //    emit closeEditor(kontaktForm);
 }
 }

Finally I've used signal and slot mechanism to connect signal from listView to slot in the editor
    connect(treeView,SIGNAL(saveToModelFromEditor()),itemDelegate,SLOT(commitAndSaveData()));

I had help from a different comunity (VoidRealms facebook group).
Hope this helps someone here.


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1932 Marmon HCM V12, Most Advanced Car, Most Untimely
When RM Auctions closed its 2007 Meadowbrook sale, the highest bid was for a 1932 Marmon prototype that, had it been volume-produced, could have laid claim to being the most advanced car in North America.
Even so, it can boast of being one of America's most beautiful, having been designed by Walter Dorwin Teague, son of William Dorwin Teague, the famed industrial designer who helped turn mundane household appliances into works of art.
This was Marmon's last gasp, coming at a time when the stock market crash and following depression pulled the plug on the luxury car market.
Aside from that lovely shape, it featured 4-wheel independent suspension, 4-wheel drum brakes, and an all-aluminum overhead-valve V-12 (three-quarters of the legendary Marmon Sixteen's engine) delivering 151 hp and a top speed of 112 mph when tested at the Indianapolis Speedway by racer Wilbur Shaw.
This Marmon's history is almost as interesting as the car itself.
By the time it was finished the Marmon Motor Car Company was in receivership. With no prospect of his moribund company building it, Howard Marmon took his car on a tour of the nation's auto manufacturers.
None of the Big Three was interested, nor were any of the independents. Marmon delivered the car to his estate in North Carolina and wrapped it in cellophane. It remained there until his death in 1943. Eventually, it came into designer Brook Steven's collection until purchased by the seller in 1999.
Ironically, Walter Dorwin Teague had never seen the car until being re-united with it at Pebble Beach in 2001, where it won best-in-class. Teague was 94 when that magical moment happened. The car sold for $891,000, considerably less than the estimate.
A harbinger of things to come in a faltering economy?


Although mind control has been a factor for years now, it seems that a newly perfected technology has hit battlefields and has affected warfare in ways that are usually only seen in science fiction movies. These types of weapons have been deemed weapons of mass destruction and have been outlawed by the United Nations and many other countries, citing their cruel, inhumane, and invasive properties. However, this hasn't stopped the good ole US of A from using these weapons during their war with the Iraqi people and probably countless other hosts. It also hasn't stopped them from using these powers against their own people. Read on.
On the evening of October 23, 2007 a battle raged in Northern Iraq. American troops didn't know the terrain and the Iraqi soldiers had the upper hand. The troops were losing. Reinforcements were called in and they brought with them what looked like a small computer. The computer was set in a centralize location, aimed towards opposing troops and left alone. The enemies, in turn, dropped to their knees and surrendered to American troops and their allies. On November 2, the same thing happened again. As battle raged, troops from the opposition kindly laid their weapons on the ground and rescinded into the woods. So, then what's going on?
As reported in the Washington Post, the Unites States Army is using what are known as Electromagnetic Pulse weapons against the enemy. This technology was developed during the cold war, but was recently perfected in conjunction with top military officials who served under George Bush. During the Cold War these weapons were used to induce thoughts of suicide in individuals, causing them to commit suicide unwillingly. These weapons have been called weapons of mass destruction by the Soviet Union and the west agreed. They also agreed not to develop such weapons because of their brutal nature. Should such a weapon find its way into the wrong hands it would be detrimental.
By now I'm sure you're wondering how the weapon works. Well, it's simple. Okay, maybe it isn't SIMPLE, but I have a pretty simple explanation. The weapon creates hallucinatory affects and alternate realities on the target. This is done when electromagnetic, synthetic brainwaves interject normal thoughts of the intended target, giving the person who is controlling the electromagnetic pulse full range of control. You can create whatever thoughts you want to create and put them into another person's brain making them act in accordance to your own will. Sounds pretty spiffy right? Well, side affects of the weapon include internal bleeding, nausea, dementia, and other serious illnesses. The scary part? This weapon has been being used against our own people.
Following election day, I received classified documents from a connection I have the works inside the pentagon. According to the briefing, Barack Obama commissioned over a dozen of these wide-range mind control devices to be used at polling centers across the nation. These machines were used to generate brainwaves that were to be aimed at our own American constituents to influence them and assure a vote for Barack Obama. In the briefing, mention has also been made that during recent super storm Sandy, these devices have been used to control the minds of the masses, who threatened to riot which would have literally brought New York to a standstill and forced the federal government to do a better job. Instead, their minds were blasted with rays that led them to a FEMA camps, which were doing dry runs in preparation for wrangling up the American citizens into their prison camps. The briefing came with an item that supposedly has been technologically developed since the successful use and implementation of the original weapon in 2007. This item contains nanotechnology that will do the same thing that the computer did during battles in Baghdad and other Iraqi and Afghan towns. It holds the full mind control powers of the government that are implemented with supercharged electromagnetic brainwave technology. It will allow you to obtain full control over the brain of your target to make them do as you please, when you please, how you please.
Additionally, this piece will generate a shield for you. This shield contains bio-manipulation energies that will shield your mind from ever suffering the consequence of electromagnetic brainwaves. You will always remain in the know and not under the influence of some political or economic shmuck. It will protect you from the onslaught of control the government seeks to oppress their people with by shielding you from many different types of rays that have also been developed to control the minds of the masses. It is the ultimate protection piece that will protect your actions so you don't have to walk around saying, the devil made me do it... or Obama.. which is close enough. Protect yourself from mind invasion now!
This is sterling silver and the center of the ring is your powerhouse!


Having arrived at her great aunt Charlotte's house in the country ahead of her parents, Mary Smith finds herself bored, friendless and antagonised by a local boy named Peter. While Mary tries to adapt to her new environment, she comes across Peter's cats Tib and Gib who lead her into the nearby woods where she finds a strange and powerful flower. Known as "fly-by-night," the flower grants mysterious powers and when Mary accidentally gets goo from the destroyed bulb of the plant onto a broomstick, it comes to life and whisks her away to the magical Endor College. Exploring the College alongside its headmistress, Mary displays some magical prowess thanks to the flower's power. But something isn't right at Endor College, and Mary must utilise her new abilities to figure out just what is going on.
Mary and the Witch's Flower is Studio Ponoc's debut feature film and is based on Mary Stewart's book The Little Broomstick. Given that the studio is helmed by ex-Studio Ghibli staff, the similarity in art styles is reassuringly familiar, but this acts as a double-edged sword as comparisons between the two studios and their visual and narrative styles are unavoidable. When it comes to visuals, Mary and the Witch's Flower delivers like its Ghibli predecessors, with gorgeous renditions of the natural world and its elements, depicting fire, water and nature as mysterious and powerful. Character designs are also memorable, and the use of time and 'mundane' motion in the film is charming and effective.
Unfortunately, while Mary and the Witch's Flower captures an essence of wonder associated with the world it creates, it doesn't really deliver on it. The beginning of the film is well-paced and charming, but the narrative starts to become less engaging once Mary visits Endor College and the major conflict of the film begins to take shape. Endor College itself feels like a set in a film rather than an actual realised location, with Mary breezing through areas of the school with Headmistress Mumblechoock with all the sense of a dull studio back-lot tour. The students of Endor College are basically faceless window dressing that don't affect the narrative of Mary and the Witch's Flower in any way although their Headmistress directly contributes to its conflict. It made me wish for the variety of personalities that litter the worlds of Studio Ghibli films, such as the bathhouse workers in Spirited Away, the people of Irontown in Princess Mononoke, or even the students in the school club building in From Up On Poppy Hill. This lack of engaging worldbuilding or supporting characters leaves Mary and the Witch's Flower in an odd position as the film looks like a Ghibli film but doesn't feel like one, and there isn't enough of a new direction from the film's own power to resolve that dissonance. Also, I'm just going to say it, Peter is a less endearing version of Tombo from Kiki's Delivery Service.
It's comforting to see the Studio Ghibli style in a new film. Although computer-animated films produce some amazing visuals, whenever I watch an old Don Bluth, Disney or Ghibli hand-drawn animated film I experience this feeling that is two-parts joy and one-part loss. The styles of these films are gorgeous, and they breathe in ways not yet mastered by computer-animated films, and perhaps never will be. And they just aren't made anymore, not by the same companies and not to the same scale. A new Studio Ghibli film used to come out every one or two years, but at the time I am writing this review there will be six years between Ghibli's most recent release, When Marnie Was There which was released in 2014, and the release of Miyazaki's new project How Do You Live which is currently predicted to be released in 2020. I'm grateful that Mary and the Witch's Flower was released in a time when it seemed that no new projects would be produced in that gorgeous Ghibli style after Miyazaki (once again) announced his retirement and Studio Ghibli announced that it would stop producing feature-length films. Even though the film doesn't entirely maintain the narrative style and grace that is so viscerally associated with the aesthetic it's using, there's a part of me that unconditionally enjoys watching Mary and the Witch's Flower because I love animation that conveys subtle mannerisms and how people engage with the world around them so masterfully.
This release of Mary and the Witch's Flower is packed with special features, including a featurette on the making of the film, interviews with the film's director and producer, and creators of the film's ending song Rain, and several trailers. The featurette is the most interesting, and I would argue provides meaningful context to the creation of Mary and the Witch's Flower and ties the themes of the film to the very real circumstances the film was made in, the idea being that what does one who is blessed with a mysterious and wonderful power do once that power is taken from them. In particular it touches on some of ex-Ghibli staff director Hiromasa Yonebayashi and producer Yoshiaki Nishimura's anxiety surrounding the creation of a film that, no matter how good, will only be judged as "not being Studio Ghibli". It also discusses the history of Studio Ponoc and how Yonebayashi and Nishimura wanted to continue making films and needed to create their own studio after Miyazaki announced his retirement in 2014 and Studio Ghibli stopped making feature-length films. It's a story that is easy to empathise with and I admire the two of them and their staff for creating an animation studio based on their desire to continue making films using the things they were taught by their predecessors and in order to improve their skills.
Mary and the Witch's Flower is a fine debut for Studio Ponoc, channelling gorgeous visuals inspired by beloved films that came before it and that manages to remain generally charming although aspects of the film drag or become less engaging as the film goes on. The themes of the film are mirrored in the struggles of its creators, and it's hard not to appreciate that when viewing the film. I look forward to future films from Studio Ponoc, and hope they are able to establish a style of their own they can feel proud of as they move forward from Studio Ghibli.


Join the staff of Ruby Salon in Annapolis in supporting the Saint Baldrick's Foundation this weekend at Fado Irish Pub on West Street.
Saint Baldrick's raises money to fund children's cancer research. Stylists Steve, Kelly, and John Paul have volunteered to have their heads shaved this Sunday, March 15th, as part of the annual St. Patrick's day event.
Show your support: come and watch them as they "lose their hair", or click here to donate to this worthy cause. Each year, thousands of children are diagnosed with childhood cancers and many face life altering or life ending struggles with often painful and debilitating illnesses. The founders of Saint Baldrick's were looking for a way to both give back and show their solidarity with these children, as well as their sense of gratitude for their own good fortune.
Ruby Salon is more than just your local spot for great hair design, color and beauty services, we consider ourselves a part of the community and look forward to opportunities like this to participate with other local businesses and give back. Last year Ruby stylist Alex Green raised $3,000 in her fundraising efforts for Saint Baldrick's and had her head shaved at the Annapolis area event.
Check back next week for "after" photos!


On 8 July 2015, the Government released draft legislation which proposes to impose a 10% non-final withholding obligation on the purchase of Australian property from a vendor who the purchase has reasonable grounds to believe is a foreign resident. This means that if a purchaser purchases an Australian property from a foreign person for $5 million the purchaser will be required to withhold $500,000 from the purchase price and pay this to the ATO. The foreign resident will receive $4.5 million net of the withholding tax.
An option or right to acquire the above interests.
The withholding obligation on the purchaser will not apply where a residential property is valued at less than $2.5 million.
Foreign residents are required to pay capital gains tax on the sale of properties located in Australia or a sale of Australian property through an indirect interest (e.g. shares in a company owning Australian property). The government has proposed the withholding requirement to ensure that capital gains tax is collected from foreign residents who sell Australian property but may not be registered on the Australian tax system. Despite this the withholding obligation on the purchaser to collect and pay the tax to the ATO will impose additional administrative burden particularly if it is a private purchaser. The ATO have yet to release how administratively the withholding regime will operate.
The 10% withholding tax is a non-final withholding tax which means that a foreign resident still has an obligation to file a tax return declaring the capital gain so that the correct amount of tax can be calculated. The 10% already withheld should be available as a tax credit against capital gains tax payable on the transaction.
Our specialist business advisory services can help manage these proposed changes. For further information on the above or the CGT consequences on transactions undertaken by foreign residents please contact James Maston.


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Wednesday, August 15, 2018, 10:22
Qatar says Nepali worker dies building World Cup stadium
Wednesday, August 15, 2018, 10:22 By Associated Press
This file photo taken with a fisheye lens on Feb 6, 2018, shows construction work at the Al-Wakrah Stadium, a US$575 million World Cup venue seating 40,000 designed by celebrated Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, some 15 kilometres on the outskirts of the Qatari capital Doha. A 23-year-old Nepalese worker in Qatar died on August 14 while working on the site of the stadium, one of the venues for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. (KARIM JAAFAR / AFP)
DUBAI — Qatar said a Nepali worker has died while helping to build a stadium for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in the Arab nation.
Qatar's Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy said in a statement Tuesday the 23-year-old worker died at its Al-Wakrah Stadium project site.
It offered no cause of death, though the committee said both Qatari and Nepali authorities were notified. An investigation into the death is underway.
The committee says it "shares its deepest condolences with the family at this time."
Qatar has faced criticism for worker conditions as it prepares for the World Cup.
A British worker, Zachary Cox, died after falling nearly 40 meters in January 2017 at the Khalifa International Stadium. A British coroner blamed dangerous working practices for his death.
READ MORE: Qataris hope for memorable World Cup debut in 2022


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Nicole Rottmann (ur. 28 czerwca 1989 w Wagnie) – austriacka tenisistka, reprezentantka kraju w rozgrywkach Pucharu Federacji.

W przeciągu swojej kariery wygrała dwa singlowe i trzynaście deblowych turniejów rangi ITF. Najwyżej w rankingu WTA była sklasyfikowana na 307. (23 lipca 2012) miejscu w singlu oraz na 185. miejscu w deblu (29 października 2012).

Wygrane turnieje rangi ITF

Gra pojedyncza

Gra podwójna

Bibliografia

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By Doug Chapin December 10, 2015
Michigan House Endorses Straight-Ticket Ban, Ties It to No-Excuse Absentee Voting
The Michigan House passed its own version of a straight-ticket voting ban, raising the appropriation to $5 million and tying the bill to another establishing no-excuse absentee voting. The linkage of the two bills may slow progress on both, but local election offices – many of whom oppose the changes – are likely nervous about the prospect of not one but two big changes in an election year.
By Doug Chapin December 9, 2015
Brazos County, TX Vote Centers See High Number of Out-of-Precinct Voters
Brazos County (College Station) TX used vote centers in its most recent election and discovered that some locations had a high number of "out-of-precinct" voters who found that particular location to be more convenient than the one nearest their home. Such data can be helpful in identifying the best locations for polling places as people "vote with their feet."
"Shanda" (Disgrace): NY Assemblyman Calls for Election Materials in Yiddish
A New York state assemblyman is calling upon the NYC Board of Elections to add Yiddish to the list of languages used on voter registration and other election materials. It's a fascinating issue, given the combination of growing demand for alternate languages and the challenges election offices face in making sure those materials are not only literally correct but also make sense.
"Mad as a Wet Hen in a Thunderstorm": Ohio Confronts Problem of Late, Un-Postmarked VBM Ballots
The State of Ohio is surveying counties and conferring with postal officials after hundreds of late-arriving vote-by-mail ballots in the most recent election lacked postmarks that would have allowed them to be counted.
electionlineWeekly Q&A with San Mateo's Mark Church on Recent VBM Pilot
This week's electionlineWeekly has a Q&A with Mark Church, San Mateo County, CA's chief election official, who talks about the work that went into the county's recent vote-by-mail pilot and his hopes for how it might affect future elections in the State of California.
Payment Due: Las Cruces Invoices Candidates for Recount Costs
Las Cruces, NM has invoiced two municipal candidates a total of about $5,400 for costs incurred during a recent recount. The candidates are reviewing the bill – and may have grounds to contest it given that it relies on statutory language that was challenged and changed at the state level. Until then, the City is awaiting payment for additional costs for which it likely didn't budget.
Using Design to Prevent Downstream Frustration – Will It Fly in Elections?
A new blog post by design expert Jared Spool examines how jet engine companies are using design thinking to spot problems before they happen, reducing passenger frustration by preventing unplanned flight cancellations. This kind of "downstream" thinking is crucial in many industries – including election administration.
Adam Ambrogi and Brenda Wright on the Importance of DMV, Agency Registration
A new National Law Journal op-ed by Demos' Brenda Wright and the Democracy Fund's Adam Ambrogi highlights the importance and value of using public agencies like DMVs to help citizens register to vote and maintain their voter records. It's an effort that is already seeing results in some states – and is like to reach even more in 2016 and beyond.
By Doug Chapin November 30, 2015
Outgoing Kentucky Governor Restores Voting Rights for Former Felons
Outgoing Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear's executive order restoring voting rights to thousands of individuals previously convicted of nonviolent felonies is generating support for its impact on those potential voters but also some pushback from lawmakers who believe the change should have been done legislatively.
Counting my blessings until next Monday, November 30.


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package org.apache.beam.sdk.util;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.coders.Coder;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.windowing.BoundedWindow;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.windowing.GlobalWindow;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.windowing.NonMergingWindowFn;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.windowing.WindowFn;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.windowing.WindowMappingFn;

/**
 * A {@link WindowFn} for use during tests that returns the input window for calls to
 * {@link #getSideInputWindow(BoundedWindow)}.
 */
public class IdentitySideInputWindowFn extends NonMergingWindowFn<Integer, BoundedWindow> {
  @Override
  public Collection<BoundedWindow> assignWindows(WindowFn<Integer, BoundedWindow>.AssignContext c)
      throws Exception {
    return Collections.singleton(c.window());
  }

  @Override
  public boolean isCompatible(WindowFn<?, ?> other) {
    return true;
  }

  @Override
  public Coder<BoundedWindow> windowCoder() {
    // not used
    return (Coder) GlobalWindow.Coder.INSTANCE;
  }

  @Override
  public WindowMappingFn<BoundedWindow> getDefaultWindowMappingFn() {
    return new WindowMappingFn<BoundedWindow>() {
      @Override
      public BoundedWindow getSideInputWindow(BoundedWindow window) {
        return window;
      }
    };
  }
}

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Q: How to fix 'Use JsonReader.setLenient(true) to accept malformed JSON at line 1 column 1 path $' error in Android Studio I'm trying to POST data to API, but I get this error:

Use JsonReader.setLenient(true) to accept malformed JSON at line 1 column 1 path $

Anyone knows how to fix this?
Code to POST the data In Activity
private void callList(){
    String signature = new String(Hex.encodeHex(DigestUtils.md5(
            TMK + appId + appVersion +
                    SessionManager.getSession(getApplicationContext(), getString(R.string.session_token)))
    ));

    Call<PostGetList> postGetListCall = mApiInterface.postGetList(
            appId,
            appVersion,
            SessionManager.getSession(getApplicationContext(), getString(R.string.session_token)),
            signature);

    postGetListCall.enqueue(new Callback<PostGetList>() {
        @Override
        public void onResponse(Call<PostGetList> call, Response<PostGetList> response) {
            status = response.body().getStatus();
            Utils.logcat("Recv getInfo Status " + status);
            if (status.equals(getString(R.string.rc00))) {
                Message.message(getApplicationContext(), "Success");
            } else {
                Message.message(getApplicationContext(), status);
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void onFailure(Call<PostGetList> call, Throwable t) {
            String responseMsg = "Fail to connect";
            Utils.logcat(responseMsg);
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), responseMsg, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            Utils.logcat(t.toString());
        }
    });
}

ApiInterface.java
@FormUrlEncoded
@POST("List.php")
Call<PostGetList> postGetList(@Field("appId") String appId,
                              @Field("appVersion") String appVersion,
                              @Field("token") String token,
                              @Field("signature") String signature);

PostGetList.java
public class PostGetList {
    @SerializedName("status")
    String status;
    @SerializedName("data")
    String data;

    public String getStatus() {
        return status;
    }
    public void setStatus(String status) {
        this.status = status;
    }

    public String getData() {
        return data;
    }
    public void setData(String data) {
        this.data = data;
    }
}

The API should return
{ "status":"00",
  "data":"List Data"}

A: Are you sure your json response is not malformed?
please verify your response in some site like https://jsonlint.com/ to see if your response is correct json or not.

A: the model PostGetListKredit is match json, but response you use is PostGetList - not PostGetListKredit.
try : change PostGetList to PostGetListKredit

A: Set header,
@Headers("Content-Type: application/json")

And also use Gson for json conversion,
make sure that you have:
   compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.6.1'

Gson gson = new GsonBuilder()
        .setLenient()
        .create();

Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
        .baseUrl(BASE_URL)
        .client(client)
        .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create(gson))
        .build();

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Ju 87 D.5/G.2 Stuka
Ju 87
Screenshots Info Free Download
In a class of it's own.
The Stuka name derived from "Sturzkampfflugzeug", the generic German word for dive-bomber. So famous was the Junkers Ju 87 that the term Stuka came to be identified with it in Western eyes.
The aircraft was easily recognisable by its inverted gull wings, fixed spatted undercarriage and its infamous Jericho-Trompete ("Jericho Trumpet") wailing siren, becoming the propaganda symbol of German air power and the blitzkrieg victories of 1939–1942.
Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, the Stuka first flew in 1935 and made its combat debut in 1936 as part of the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War. Although sturdy, accurate, and very effective against ground targets, the Ju 87 was vulnerable to modern fighter aircraft, like many other dive bombers of the war.
By the end of the conflict, the Stuka had been largely replaced by ground-attack versions of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, but was still in use until the last days of the war. An estimated 6,500 Ju 87s of all versions were built between 1936 and August 1944.
Introducing the Milviz Ju 87 Stuka
Notice: We are now offering our Ju 87 Stuka as a free download. Formerly payware, it's still an amazing aircraft to fly; we have decided to share it with everyone as a thank you to all of our past and future customers!
Please note: This free download does not include product support.
We are very proud to introduce to you our rendition of the famous Junkers Ju 87 'Stuka' dive bomber!
Two versions of the Ju 87 are included in this package: The D.5, a typical long wing Stuka dive bomber capable of carrying four 100kg bombs and one 500Kg bomb, and the anti-tank G.2, equipped with two 37 mm (1.46 in) Flak 18 cannons mounted on under-wing gun pods, each loaded with two six-round magazines of armour-piercing tungsten carbide-cored ammunition. (It's worthwhile to note that the cannon-equipped Ju 87 'G' proved spectacularly successful in the hands of Stuka aces such as Hans Rudel, and later influenced the design of the A-10 Thunderbolt II!)
We've taken great care to provide realistic systems and instrumentation on both versions. It is strongly suggested that you peruse the manual to become familiar with the proper methods for operating this aircraft!
Many other details are also featured in this package, including operable dive brakes, releasable ordnance and weapons that fire. (Please note: the included weapons will not damage or destroy scenery, or AI objects.)
Completed with our usual rigorous testing and refinement, high-definition textures inside and out, high quality soundset and professionally coded flight dynamics, this should be of interest to every enthusiast of vintage or WWII aircraft!
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In a league where half the teams make it to the post-season dance, it's still not a sure thing that the top 10 teams make the playoffs. Is it time for Major League Soccer to revisit its playoff structure?
By Rob R. Scott Aug 12, 2014, 10:42pm PDT
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How can MLS move toward giving the best teams a shot at hoisting the hardware?
Yes, there's plenty of soccer yet to be played in the 2014 season, and the push for the playoffs is only just now starting in earnest - but it's not too early to look at how things are shaping up in MLS, and to recognize that there's an imbalance of power.
Let's start by looking at the Eastern Conference, and who's currently making up the top five - those that, if the playoffs were to start today, would be heading into post-season play:
1) Sporting Kansas City (1.7 Points Per Game)
2) D.C. United (1.68 PPG)
3) Toronto FC (1.52 PPG)
4) New York Red Bulls (1.22 PPG)
5) Philadelphia Union (1.17 PPG)
Meanwhile, over in the West, it looks like this:
1) Seattle Sounders (1.95 PPG)
2) Real Salt Lake (1.7 PPG)
3) FC Dallas (1.57 PPG)
4) LA Galaxy (1.7 PPG)
5) Vancouver Whitecaps (1.45 PPG)
The teams currently holding places six through eight in the Western Conference are on 1.3, 1.3, and 1.2 PPG - all good enough to qualify over in the East. Conversely, Philadelphia (5th in the East) would slot in at 9th in the West, were it not for lowly Chivas (1.05 PPG).
Starting to get the picture? In short, the West kicks Eastern butt all day long.
MLS runs an unbalanced schedule in a two-conference league divided along a geographical fault line for well-founded logistical reasons. It cuts down travel, and thus saves money. It also, as the league's Madison Avenue marketeers will tell you, serves to generate regional rivalries, spawning off various localized sub-cup contests that, of course, can be monetized. MLS isn't stupid, after all. Greedy, some might say, but not stupid.
But does it make sense to exclude better teams from the playoffs based on rigid geography alone? Should MLS institute a crossover system similar to what the Canadian Football League has been doing? If the sixth-best team in one conference finishes higher on points than the fifth-place team in the other conference, should a bump take place?
What are your thoughts? Have your say below.


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December 4 - 10, 2016: Issue 292
Warriewood SLSC Hosts Round 3 Of SLS SNB 2016-17 Surf Boat Premiership
The last surf boat carnival for the year has taken place, hosted by Warriewood SLSC.
Draft Plan For Ingleside Land Development Released To Meet 2021 Completion Dates
View of Ingleside hills from Warriewood, December 3rd, 2016 - photo by A J Guesdon
On Friday afternoon, December 2nd, NSW State Government Planning Minister and Pittwater MP, the Hon. Rob Stokes announced the release of the draft Ingleside plan which is available for comment until February 28th, 2017.
Community information sessions have been announced to take place from January 31, 2017 until February 28th. The State Planning Department will provide more details about these activities in their next update at planning.nsw.gov.au/ingleside. You can sign up to be notified.
Of 704.8 hectares slated to comprise this plan, Table 1 from the Ingleside draft land use and infrastructure strategy document shows the land use outcomes identified in the Structure Plan, and states that:
"...• 40% of the total Precinct area is proposed for development;
• 30% of the total area is proposed for conservation; and
• 30% of the area is unlikely to change, and any development will be subject to standard development controls. ..."
The Housing Developments are slated to be, Houses on Larger lots (with 2,000m2 min. lot size - 50 hectares allocated to yield 250 dwellings, Houses (12 to 13 dw per ha - 550m² average, maximum height 8.5m * - 123 hectares allocated to yield 1,530 dwellings and Low Rise Apartments/Townhouses (25 to 27 dw per ha - 300m² average , maximum height 10.5m * - 63 hectares allocated to yield 1,580 dwellings. A further 36 dwellings are slated for the Neighbourhood Centre (maximum height 11m) for which 1.8 hectares has been allocated. The estimated population for these 3, 396 new homes is 9000 people.
Mona Vale Place Plan Rally
On Sunday November 27th at a rally called by the various Residential Associations in Pittwater was opened by Mona Vale Residents Association speaker Marcia Rackham who thanked former Pittwater Councillors Sue Young, Bob Grace, Julie Hegarty and Alex McTaggart for attending the Mona Vale Rally.
Marcia then opened the speaking, stating, "We believe as a community that Mona Vale has a very strong sense of place and we don't need to be told how our place should be. What we want in planning is a top down approach not this bottom to up style of planning which is really an American style of planning that doesn't fit and is not suitable for here.
We also want to see developments progressed that were promised to people in Warriewood – this refers to a community centre that was promised and seems to have gone on the backburner now that a very large auditorium has been slated for Mona Vale on the park here where we're gathered today. Their Section 94 money was taken to build this facility but other than an announcement that plans are underway to make plans, nothing has progressed."
We do believe that we have a connection to Newport and Avalon and Palm Beach. In stating recently that these are not part of any plan and that they won't touch Newport or Avalon the General Manager and Administrator seem to be trying to place a divide between the various community organisations and residents associations.
Well we don't believe they won't touch these areas. We also don't like the fact that they're trying to create divisions within our community and the residents within our area. We find that the way this administration council is treating local associations, who have looked after their residents for decades, is quite shabby."
Once again the chasm between what was discussed at Mona Vale Place Plan consultation meetings in 2015 and what was touted as what people said was referred to. Widening footpaths was discussed, making laneways more viable and how important parks were – six and seven storey buildings, housing in the 5% of industrial area, which a few stated must remain as these are where young people have an opportunity for employment in Pittwater.
The similarities between what is in the draft Mona Vale Place Plan and what the Greater Sydney Commissions has slated for Mona Vale, with councils in the North District 'required to give effect to District Plans as soon as practicable after a District Plan is made' was discussed.
The Greater Sydney Commission draft North District Mona Vale Proposed priorities, for which feedback is invited, are:
protect and enhance the commercial and retail function of the centre to provide employment growth and maintain high job containment
ensure sufficient retail and commercial floor space is provided to meet future demand
leverage the Mona Vale B-Line stop to facilitate intensification of uses in the centre, with an emphasis on the provision of housing affordability to retain 18 to 35 year olds
explore opportunities to increase residential diversification around the centre
improve access and linkages to local destinations, such as Mona Vale Hospital, through priority pedestrian networks
promote walking and cycling to the centre and within it
retain and protect the industrial precinct to the north of the centre to serve the growing population
investigate feasibility of existing planning provisions and controls as they relate to mixed-use and residential development within the centre
prioritise place making initiatives to promote mixed-use activities, urban activation and more diverse housing, and improve connectivity and integration with existing networks.
Neverfail Creek Polluted: Community Finds Council Response Completely Inadequate
Neverfail Creek pollutant - photo supplied
Residents of Terrey Hills contacted us on Thursday and Friday very distressed about pollutants that have 'killed' Neverfail creek. One gentleman checking the creeks Neverfail joins stating "the contaminant has now run further into Kierans Creek, well into the National Park, possibly killing the Crystal Pools life."
Neverfail Creek is the water that runs over the rock ledge on the track near Kinma School, flows down through the Dundundera Falls reserve, through the National Park and then into Cowan Waters. The children will be unable to play in or near the creek as a result, angering their parents.
"Luckily we have the lovely Neverfail Creek running through the school - perfect for listening to, " Kinma has stated in the past, utilising the beautiful bush and creek areas as part of teaching through fun as recently as early November when Dennis, an indigenous elder of the land around here visited and told stories in the bush setting for some of the children. One of the stories told was a creation story about how the platypus came to be - perfectly set off beside the sound of that once clean warbling creek.
Kinma children have Neverfail creek music as part of their environment - photo courtesy Bea Pierce
A manufacturer of hand made soap has apparently admitted liability; what the pollutant is has not been determined yet but is being analysed.
Residents state the smell of the water would indicate it is some type of soap that has sucked all the oxygen out of the water.
"Whatever it was it has killed all the wildlife. There are dead eels floating in the water. The once clear pools now smell like old bath water. The white scum is everywhere and is way below the falls and is just waiting to be flushed down the rest of the creek after the next heavy rains into the National Park.
They are worried further damage will be done during the rains slated by weather forecasters for this week.
A HAZMAT team flushed the creek on Sunday November 27th when the white substance appeared and notified council. Terrey Hills residents are critical that council then had to be approached by two Streamwatch people on Wednesday for any action to be taken, one gentleman commenting,
"Is this slack response from council the new norm for Terrey Hills?" and wondered how council will present facts or assess fines with EPA without making an assessment themselves or taking photographs, for the record.
On Friday December 2nd, Cecil Ellis, a gentleman who started a petition to get things happening prior to more damage occurring, reported,
"Council arrived at 15:30! Minimal response. Two people. NSW Fire Rescue HAZMAT installed booms and removed contaminant from some pools. But the process appears to have been bought forward.
More containment barriers will be placed downstream by various agencies over the weekend. Onsite meetings between Council and EPA are now happening on the weekend and not next week.
Please go down the Neverfail Creek and have a look and ask questions. Be careful!! At the edge of the Creek the white contaminant is very slippery. The smell from the dead Eels and Crayfish is getting worse."
Streamwatch commented, "An ongoing unsatisfactory saga where grass roots determination by the community seems to be the only real action to date."
On Friday, a hot day, some of that grass roots determination was again in action as the locals ensured water dishes were placed where animals could get a clean drink. Something those that are furred and scaled and feathered who survived had not had for six days by then.
Neverfail prior to incident - photo by Bea Pierce
Avalon Beach SLSC Youth Program New Zealand Tour 2017
Avalon Beach SLSC continues its reputation as a surf club that encourages innovative approaches to all surf rescue related matters...
The Under 15 age group for surf clubs generally, are in a sort of gap year after completing their Surf Rescue Certificate as Under 14s after moving on from Nippers, but they are too young to do their Bronze Medallion to patrol as senior members of the club.
As a way of keeping the kids interested and involved in the surf club during a time when some members might drift away, particularly young female members, Brian Wetherall came up with a novel approach to encourage a group to continue to be involved and later do their Bronze Medallion as Under 16s and go on to be patrolling members of Avalon Beach SLSC.
In January 2017 a group of enthusiastic Under 15 members will be travelling to New Zealand as a special educational tour group representing the club.
Avalon Beach SLSC members are currently supporting a special fundraising effort to help send the team on its worthwhile mission.
Members of the public who might like to help out with donations or sponsorship are also more than welcome to contact the club for further information at avalonbeachslsc@gmail.com (website: www.avalonbeachslsc.com.au )
More in report by Roger Sayers, ABSLSC LIfe Member HERE
60th Anniversary Of Club Palm Beach
Club Palm Beach is going to celebrate the 1957 opening, its 60th anniversary and we would like to get as many people from the past and present as possible to join us in a reunion here at the Club. This includes old friends, relatives, neighbours, local sports clubs, sailing mates, students from local schools, campers from the old camping ground near the Golf course, EVERYONE!
Leading up to the reunion we want to hear your old stories and share your photos from the good old days. Stories from the camping grounds, for example some families lived at the camping grounds while their family homes were built. John Oliver was one, he says the camping ground was a community in itself. Other campers such as the Trainor family loved the camping community so much they moved permanently to Palm Beach.
Camping at Palm Beach, circa 1950 - photo courtesy National Library of Australia
Summer In Pittwater 2016
Spotted gums and Anghoporas are currently shedding bark - while last of the Angophora blossoms are falling
This Butcher Bird sang the song of 10 other birds outside the Pittwater Online window on December 2nd, 2016 - kookaburras, currawongs, lorikeets, cockatoos, bush turkeys, crows - it's watching a cockroach in this photo, which it then caught and ate.
Local Skaters Give Mona Skate Park A Big Thumbs Up
While waiting for a bus at Palmy on Saturday afternoon (Dec. 2nd, 2016) with a couple of 10 year olds, skateboards in hand, they explained they were on their way to Mona Vale skate park, one stating;
'It's really cool"
the other proclaiming;
'It's the best skate park in Australia"
Pretty much a ditto from three others waiting at Warriewood bus stop when heading back north later that same afternoon - although they may have been 12 years of age.
Our young citizens love it - and they're outdoors getting some fresh air and exercise - triple bonus!
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Q: GruntJS config styles and scripts path in dist My folder structure looks like this
public/
  app/
    scripts/
    styles/
    index.html
    ...
dev/
  apps/
    app/
      styles/
      scripts/
      index.html
      ...
    Gruntfile.js
    ...

I've changed in Grunfile.js the dist folder, so when I run grunt --force the production folder is public/app. This works fine, but the paths to the folders styles and scripts is not updated with the new one (is still /styles/ instead of /app/styles/), so after generating the dist, I have to manually edit the index.html to adjust the paths.
I had a look at the Gruntfile.js but I couldn't find the right spot where to add this config. It uses almost everywhere <%= yeoman.app %> and <%= yeoman.dist %> so I was thinking it would adjust the paths based on my settings...
This is what I have changed
var appConfig = {
  app: require('./bower.json').appPath || 'app',
  dist: '/path/to/public/app'
};

Any thoughts?
Gruntfile.js
// Generated on 2015-02-03 using generator-angular 0.10.0
'use strict';

// # Globbing
// for performance reasons we're only matching one level down:
// 'test/spec/{,*/}*.js'
// use this if you want to recursively match all subfolders:
// 'test/spec/**/*.js'

module.exports = function (grunt) {

  // Load grunt tasks automatically
  require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt);

  // Time how long tasks take. Can help when optimizing build times
  require('time-grunt')(grunt);

  // Configurable paths for the application
  var appConfig = {
    app: require('./bower.json').appPath || 'app',
    dist: '/path/to/public/app'
  };

  // Define the configuration for all the tasks
  grunt.initConfig({

    // Project settings
    yeoman: appConfig,

    // Watches files for changes and runs tasks based on the changed files
    watch: {
      bower: {
        files: ['bower.json'],
        tasks: ['wiredep']
      },
      js: {
        files: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js'],
        tasks: ['newer:jshint:all'],
        options: {
          livereload: '<%= connect.options.livereload %>'
        }
      },
      // jsTest: {
      //   files: ['test/spec/{,*/}*.js'],
      //   tasks: ['newer:jshint:test', 'karma']
      // },
      compass: {
        files: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.{scss,sass}'],
        tasks: ['compass:server', 'autoprefixer']
      },
      gruntfile: {
        files: ['Gruntfile.js']
      },
      livereload: {
        options: {
          livereload: '<%= connect.options.livereload %>'
        },
        files: [
          '<%= yeoman.app %>/{,*/}*.html',
          '.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css',
          '<%= yeoman.app %>/images/{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif,webp,svg}'
        ]
      }
    },

    // The actual grunt server settings
    connect: {
      options: {
        port: 9000,
        // Change this to '0.0.0.0' to access the server from outside.
        hostname: 'localhost',
        livereload: 35729
      },
      livereload: {
        options: {
          open: true,
          middleware: function (connect) {
            return [
              connect.static('.tmp'),
              connect().use(
                '/bower_components',
                connect.static('./bower_components')
              ),
              connect.static(appConfig.app)
            ];
          }
        }
      },
      test: {
        options: {
          port: 9001,
          middleware: function (connect) {
            return [
              connect.static('.tmp'),
              connect.static('test'),
              connect().use(
                '/bower_components',
                connect.static('./bower_components')
              ),
              connect.static(appConfig.app)
            ];
          }
        }
      },
      dist: {
        options: {
          open: true,
          base: '<%= yeoman.dist %>'
        }
      }
    },

    // Make sure code styles are up to par and there are no obvious mistakes
    jshint: {
      options: {
        jshintrc: '.jshintrc',
        reporter: require('jshint-stylish')
      },
      all: {
        src: [
          'Gruntfile.js',
          '<%= yeoman.app %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js'
        ]
      },
      test: {
        options: {
          jshintrc: 'test/.jshintrc'
        },
        src: ['test/spec/{,*/}*.js']
      }
    },

    // Empties folders to start fresh
    clean: {
      dist: {
        files: [{
          dot: true,
          src: [
            '.tmp',
            '<%= yeoman.dist %>/{,*/}*',
            '!<%= yeoman.dist %>/.git{,*/}*'
          ]
        }]
      },
      server: '.tmp'
    },

    // Add vendor prefixed styles
    autoprefixer: {
      options: {
        browsers: ['last 1 version']
      },
      dist: {
        files: [{
          expand: true,
          cwd: '.tmp/styles/',
          src: '{,*/}*.css',
          dest: '.tmp/styles/'
        }]
      }
    },

    // Automatically inject Bower components into the app
    wiredep: {
      app: {
        src: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/index.html'],
        ignorePath:  /\.\.\//
      },
      sass: {
        src: ['<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/{,*/}*.{scss,sass}'],
        ignorePath: /(\.\.\/){1,2}bower_components\//
      }
    },

    // Compiles Sass to CSS and generates necessary files if requested
    compass: {
      options: {
        sassDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles',
        cssDir: '.tmp/styles',
        generatedImagesDir: '.tmp/images/generated',
        imagesDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/images',
        javascriptsDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/scripts',
        fontsDir: '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles/fonts',
        importPath: './bower_components',
        httpImagesPath: '/images',
        httpGeneratedImagesPath: '/images/generated',
        httpFontsPath: '/styles/fonts',
        relativeAssets: false,
        assetCacheBuster: false,
        raw: 'Sass::Script::Number.precision = 10\n'
      },
      dist: {
        options: {
          generatedImagesDir: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images/generated'
        }
      },
      server: {
        options: {
          debugInfo: true
        }
      }
    },

    // Renames files for browser caching purposes
    filerev: {
      dist: {
        src: [
          '<%= yeoman.dist %>/scripts/{,*/}*.js',
          '<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/{,*/}*.css',
          '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images/{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif,webp,svg}',
          '<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/fonts/*'
        ]
      }
    },

    // Reads HTML for usemin blocks to enable smart builds that automatically
    // concat, minify and revision files. Creates configurations in memory so
    // additional tasks can operate on them
    useminPrepare: {
      html: '<%= yeoman.app %>/index.html',
      options: {
        dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
        flow: {
          html: {
            steps: {
              js: ['concat', 'uglifyjs'],
              css: ['cssmin']
            },
            post: {}
          }
        }
      }
    },

    // Performs rewrites based on filerev and the useminPrepare configuration
    usemin: {
      html: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>/{,*/}*.html'],
      css: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/{,*/}*.css'],
      options: {
        assetsDirs: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>','<%= yeoman.dist %>/images']
      }
    },

    // The following *-min tasks will produce minified files in the dist folder
    // By default, your `index.html`'s <!-- Usemin block --> will take care of
    // minification. These next options are pre-configured if you do not wish
    // to use the Usemin blocks.
    // cssmin: {
    //   dist: {
    //     files: {
    //       '<%= yeoman.dist %>/styles/main.css': [
    //         '.tmp/styles/{,*/}*.css'
    //       ]
    //     }
    //   }
    // },
    // uglify: {
    //   dist: {
    //     files: {
    //       '<%= yeoman.dist %>/scripts/scripts.js': [
    //         '<%= yeoman.dist %>/scripts/scripts.js'
    //       ]
    //     }
    //   }
    // },
    // concat: {
    //   dist: {}
    // },

    imagemin: {
      dist: {
        files: [{
          expand: true,
          cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>/images',
          src: '{,*/}*.{png,jpg,jpeg,gif}',
          dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images'
        }]
      }
    },

    svgmin: {
      dist: {
        files: [{
          expand: true,
          cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>/images',
          src: '{,*/}*.svg',
          dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images'
        }]
      }
    },

    htmlmin: {
      dist: {
        options: {
          collapseWhitespace: true,
          conservativeCollapse: true,
          collapseBooleanAttributes: true,
          removeCommentsFromCDATA: true,
          removeOptionalTags: true
        },
        files: [{
          expand: true,
          cwd: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
          src: ['*.html', 'views/{,*/}*.html'],
          dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>'
        }]
      }
    },

    // ng-annotate tries to make the code safe for minification automatically
    // by using the Angular long form for dependency injection.
    ngAnnotate: {
      dist: {
        files: [{
          expand: true,
          cwd: '.tmp/concat/scripts',
          src: ['*.js', '!oldieshim.js'],
          dest: '.tmp/concat/scripts'
        }]
      }
    },

    // Replace Google CDN references
    cdnify: {
      dist: {
        html: ['<%= yeoman.dist %>/*.html']
      }
    },

    // Copies remaining files to places other tasks can use
    copy: {
      dist: {
        files: [{
          expand: true,
          dot: true,
          cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>',
          dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>',
          src: [
            '*.{ico,png,txt}',
            '.htaccess',
            '*.html',
            'views/{,*/}*.html',
            'images/{,*/}*.{webp}',
            'fonts/{,*/}*.*'
          ]
        }, {
          expand: true,
          cwd: '.tmp/images',
          dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>/images',
          src: ['generated/*']
        }, {
          expand: true,
          cwd: '.',
          src: 'bower_components/bootstrap-sass-official/assets/fonts/bootstrap/*',
          dest: '<%= yeoman.dist %>'
        }]
      },
      styles: {
        expand: true,
        cwd: '<%= yeoman.app %>/styles',
        dest: '.tmp/styles/',
        src: '{,*/}*.css'
      }
    },

    // Run some tasks in parallel to speed up the build process
    concurrent: {
      server: [
        'compass:server'
      ],
      test: [
        'compass'
      ],
      dist: [
        'compass:dist',
        'imagemin',
        'svgmin'
      ]
    },

    // Test settings
    karma: {
      unit: {
        configFile: 'test/karma.conf.js',
        singleRun: true
      }
    }
  });

  grunt.registerTask('serve', 'Compile then start a connect web server', function (target) {
    if (target === 'dist') {
      return grunt.task.run(['build', 'connect:dist:keepalive']);
    }

    grunt.task.run([
      'clean:server',
      'wiredep',
      'concurrent:server',
      'autoprefixer',
      'connect:livereload',
      'watch'
    ]);
  });

  grunt.registerTask('server', 'DEPRECATED TASK. Use the "serve" task instead', function (target) {
    grunt.log.warn('The `server` task has been deprecated. Use `grunt serve` to start a server.');
    grunt.task.run(['serve:' + target]);
  });

  grunt.registerTask('test', [
    'clean:server',
    'concurrent:test',
    'autoprefixer',
    'connect:test'
    // 'karma'
  ]);

  grunt.registerTask('build', [
    'clean:dist',
    'wiredep',
    'useminPrepare',
    'concurrent:dist',
    'autoprefixer',
    'concat',
    'ngAnnotate',
    'copy:dist',
    'cdnify',
    'cssmin',
    'uglify',
    'filerev',
    'usemin',
    'htmlmin'
  ]);

  grunt.registerTask('default', [
    'newer:jshint',
    'test',
    'build'
  ]);
};

Notes
Just a note on what I am trying to do...
I have a php app, the folder structure looks like the one on top, in a sub folder (where I have my dev files) I started a new yeoman-angular app.
When I run grunt to build the dist, of course I don't want to create the dist in the subfolder used for dev (that is not public), and I don't want to create the dist and then copy the folder to the public folder. In this case it will not have the updated paths to styles/ and scripts/ and I have to manually update the paths.
So when I run grunt I want to create the dist in the public folder with the correct paths (in this case app/styles/ and app/scripts/).

A: No sure what your trying to do here. The app folder is the production folder by default and the dist folder is where your files get built into. So the relative paths makes sense when building.
You also shouldn't change anything in the dist folder as it will always change as you build.
Using the --force flag means your doing something wrong as your forcing grunt to void errors
Please upload your full grunt file so I can get a better understanding of the file setup

A: I've figured out to solve this problem by adding the base html tag in my index.html
<base href="/app">


In our current digital era, to lead also means to tweet. Twitter has become a powerful way for leaders, from politicians to CEOs, to reach the masses. But as Twitter has become a communication mode of choice for many leaders, it has also come to differentiate leaders with and without highly developed levels of emotional intelligence (EQ).
As a trained psychologist who sometimes can't stop myself from analyzing what individuals' communication practices say about their EQ, it can be amusing and horrifying to watch how and what some leaders tweet. While I could offer thoughts on President Donald Trump's use of Twitter, I'll focus on a well-known business leader instead: Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Over the past few months, the provocative tech leader has made grand proclamations about everything from his company's status to the sexuality of a volunteer rescue diver in Thailand. Both Musk's personal reputation and the value of his company have had ups and downs as a result, and some critics have even wondered whether Musk is just crazy.
Musk and President Trump may represent extreme cases of errant social media use, but they certainly aren't alone. Communications professionals increasingly are struggling to keep their leaders' tweets under control. According to Nola Weinstein, senior director of marketing and communication for Twitter, while legal or communications people may not need to check every tweet, they do need to ensure that the company's or brand's "overarching principles" are being upheld. This is a responsibility that should be shared by any leader with a Twitter handle. Leaders can start by developing their EQ.
EQ is consistently posited as a differentiator for leaders. According to Daniel Goleman and Richard E. Boyatzis, EQ (which they refer to as EI) is comprised of four domains (paywall): self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management. A highly developed EQ is also connected to the ability to modulate one's emotions and manage compulsive or addictive behaviors. This explains why EQ is critical to managing leaders' use, overuse and abuse of social media.
Addiction is a complex condition usually associated with the compulsive use of harmful substances. Addicts crave drugs or alcohol because these substances fuel the brain with dopamine, which in turn offers a temporary form of gratification. Tech addiction, and specifically social media addiction, works in a similar way to other forms of addiction. People addicted to social media use and abuse these platforms because they offer a form of instant gratification. When you post something on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, and people like it or comment on it, you feel gratified. The problem is that like any drug, after a while, you'll naturally crave more — more followers, more likes and more gratification. So how can you break the cycle?
Addiction interferes with self-regulation. When people are addicted, they can only focus on getting their next hit (or as the case may be, their next like). However, a key part of EQ is self-regulation (i.e., the ability to regulate one's emotional reactions to situations). Having a highly developed EQ, then, is not only a way to avoid developing a social media addiction, but it also can play a critical part in managing a social media addiction if one arises.
• Institute a cooling-off period. If you're a leader and prone to mistweeting, the first step is to pause. You might put your devices away, put your phone on airplane mode or even hand your devices over to a friend. Most industry leaders already share their account information with someone on their communications team. If you're prone to mistweets or other social media foibles, authorize a senior member of your communications team to shut down your account at critical moments. This is more common than you might think.
• Write it down, but don't post. One former client of mine used to routinely write out his frustrations in emails. In fact, he would put the person's name in the subject line, vent all of his frustrations and then send the rant to himself and file it away. This was a relatively contained way to deal with his frustrations — that is, until he once accidentally put the person's name in the send box instead of the subject line. So what is the takeaway? Write down your rant, but not online. In fact, it may even be a good idea to go old school and use a pen and notebook instead.
• Connect, but not online. If you have to share your thoughts, identify someone outside of your purview, and connect with them in person or on the phone to talk through the issue. Choose someone who might have a unique perspective and the ability to help you decide in advance whether posting a potentially contentious tweet will haunt you or your organization now or at any point in the future.
Social media is a powerful way for leaders to reach stakeholders they may otherwise never be able to speak to directly. When you bring your EQ to your social media posts, it's possible to add great value to your personal reputation and organization. When your use of social media platforms lacks EQ, both your personal reputation and your organization invariably suffer.


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The New 'Consensus' On Global Warming – a shocking admission by "Team Climate"
Posted: June 21, 2017 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Uncategorized |Leave a comment
In his 2011 paper "Separating signal and noise in atmospheric temperature changes: The importance of timescale" Benjamin Santer et al. stated that:
"Our results show that temperature records of at least 17 years in length are required for identifying human effects on global-mean tropospheric temperature."
Santer's "at least 17 year" chickens came home to roost nearly four years ago, with RSS satellite data showing a seventeen year "pause" in atmospheric global warming.
At this, Santer's 2011 findings were lovingly interpreted, in plain English, by legendary WUWT contributor Werner Brozek :
"There is a lot of noise in the climate system and it is quite possible that the noise can mask the effects of man-made carbon dioxide for a period of time. However if the slope is zero for 17 years, then we cannot blame noise any more but we have to face the facts that we humans do not affect the climate to any great extent." (2013)
Nearly four years on, Santer et al (with Mikey on board!) publish their latest capitulation into the dark and sordid world of "sceptical science pause denialism"!
You literally wouldn't read about it, especially not from Ben Santer and Mikey Mann et al!
Wow 😅
From the "well maybe there was a hiatus after all" walkback department. Even Mann is on board with this paper.
By MICHAEL BASTASCH AND DR. RYAN MAUE
A scientific consensus has emerged among top mainstream climate scientists that "skeptics" or "lukewarmers" were not long ago derided for suggesting — there was a nearly two-decade long "hiatus" in global warming that climate models failed to accurately predict or replicate.A new paper, led by climate scientist Benjamin Santer, adds to the ever-expanding volume of "hiatus" literature embracing popular arguments advanced by skeptics, and even uses satellite temperature datasets to show reduced atmospheric warming.
More importantly, the paper discusses the failure of climate models to predict or replicate the "slowdown" in early 21st century global temperatures, which was another oft-derided skeptic observation.
"In the early twenty-first century, satellite-derived tropospheric warming trends were generally smaller than trends estimated from a large multi-model ensemble,"…


USB drives are among the most widely used and recognized storage devices on the market. They allow consumers and industrial users alike to have powerful, portable storage that is universally compatible. For industrial users, however, it's important to choose the right kind of USB drive. Many industrial applications rely on embedded storage for its ruggedness, but rugged USB drives are also available. For users who need a rugged USB drive, industrial grade products are essential. If you are in the market for a USB drive for an industrial application, here is what you need to know.
Why use a USB drive over embedded storage in industrial applications?
Embedded storage has many advantages for some devices. However, in certain instances, industrial users need storage that is not just rugged, but also portable. Although USB drives are so ubiquitous that some people have them on their key chains, it doesn't mean that the utility they provide is any less necessary for industrial users who need an easy and secure way to transport data. Another advantage of rugged USB drives is that they can be customized in a huge variety of ways, both inside and out. They can feature different lengths, colors, and labels to match the functionality and branded needs of OEMs.
What makes a USB drive rugged?
Rugged USB drives meet the same standards as other kinds of industrial storage. They feature high-endurance SLC NAND flash technology, which is the fastest, most secure kind of flash storage available. They can also work in extreme temperature conditions, ranging from -40 degrees C up to 85 degrees C, which is a much broader temperature range than commercial grade products. Commercial grade USB drives are designed with MLC or TLC flash storage, both of which are not as secure or fast as the SLC used in rugged USB drives.
What capacities are available in rugged USB drives?
Capacities vary, so users can find a drive that meets their needs. With SLC flash models, capacities range from 128MB to 32GB. There are some MLC flash USB drives that meet the temperature operating ranges for rugged conditions and offer greater storage capacities of up to 64GB. With MLC storage, two bits of data are stored per cell, so it is possible to offer additional storage in these devices without making them bigger. Although MLC is not quite as reliable as SLC flash, it is still a highly reliable storage option and a good fit for some industrial applications.
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