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Landslide Concerns in Fire-Ravaged Gatlinburg TN
December 7, 2016 /2 Comments/in Current Fires, Flooding, News, Wildfire 101 /by John Mead
While the community of Gatlinburg, Tennessee grieves their losses and starts planning how to recover and rebuild, a new threat confronts the area. An inch and a half of winter rain helped put out the horrific fire over the weekend, but as we've covered in the past, wildfire-scorched areas often have an increased risk of landslides and mudslides. Local fire crews have thus far reported several small landslides that are slowing their ability to access damaged areas.
Before and After Image of a Burn Scar from the Chimney Tops 2 Fire
How a Fire Can Increase Landslide Risk?
Depending on soil type and topography, vegetation and land cover have a significant impact on the stability of the soil. Under normal conditions, leaf litter and other surface vegetation slow the rainfall water moving down a given slope. This allows much of that moisture to permeate through the soil and drain into the water table or aquifer below, leaving the surface soil relatively stable. Even during heavy rainfall when surface soil becomes saturated, root systems from brush and trees help to keep the soil from moving downhill.
However, when vegetation is lost due to wildfire (or other reasons such as construction), the factors that keep soil in place are minimized, and there is greater risk that the soil's surface tension in a given area is overcome by gravity and washes down the slope.
Gatlinburg is in the Great Smoky Mountains, a very old mountain range within the Appalachian Mountain region. Due to the age of the mountains and the region's climate, the mountains themselves are very weathered, and have much deeper soils than the mountains in the Western United States. The region is also heavily wooded, so the roots of the dense vegetation help to stabilize the nearby soil. When the wildfires recently moved through the area, the vegetation and leaf litter was burned out, and the stabilizing root systems were compromised. Storms then came and assisted in firefighting efforts, but the lack of vegetation due to the recent burns caused a few small slides. Before winter brings snow to the normally wet area, an increased likelihood for flooding, mudslides, and landslides remains a worrying possibility. As of December 7th, there is little rain forecasted in the region for several days.
Visit ready.gov to learn about how to better protect yourself, your family, and your property from landslides and other hazards.
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Gatlinburg Disaster: 700 Structures Lost, 13 Fatalities
December 2, 2016 /3 Comments/in Catastrophe, Current Fires, Fire Fighting, Wildfire impact /by Adam Prell
Chimney Tops 2 Fire Update
Tough questions were abundant at this morning's press conference as word fell that a thirteenth victim has been identified in the aftermath of this week's Chimney Tops 2 fire. Fire and Emergency managers tried to dodge the press's questions regarding whether they waited too long to evacuate residents in the Gatlinburg and surrounding areas, and whether lives were lost because of it. The truth of the situation is this fire was an anomaly. It was a first of its kind for its fire regime.
The fire creeped around in rocky areas of the steep mountains, south of Gatlinburg, for a few days and warranted fire crews to manage it with an aerial attack. An extreme wind event fanned the fire, knocked down power lines, and created ember starts and abundant spot fires equaling utter chaos. Unfortunately, it appears that with power outages and cell service down, emergency notifications were not received by all residents with disastrous implications. Door to door evacuations by the local authorities couldn't cover the vast areas in impending danger. The rapidly spread ignited leaf litter and ground fuels from wind gusts reported as high as 87 mph, fueled by prolonged drought, (not surprisingly) from house to house.
The Southern Area Red Team in charge of the damage assessment has updated the Incident Page stating, "There have been a number of confirmed fatalities (13 reported as of this morning) and over 700 confirmed structures lost. This fire hit the communities of Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, and surrounding areas adjacent to Great Smoky Mountains National Park hard as they were preparing for both Christmas and the final few weeks of a bustling tourist season." It was truly a disaster never before seen by this part of the country and only rarely seen nationwide.
Map of the Chimney Tops 2 Fire and surrounding spot fires in Sevier County, TN
Chimney Tops 2 Fire Outlook
Southern Area Red Team type-1 incident management team has command of the fire and has been focused on public safety, infrastructure, and assessing damages. The fire has not spread since early in the week after the incident area received precipitation with frontal passage Wednesday. Minimal fire behavior and smoldering is expected for the three day fire forecast. Weather-wise, a ridge of high pressure will produce dry conditions in the fire area through Saturday before wetting rains are forecast to return late in the weekend.
14,000 people remain displaced by the fires, with almost 4000 residents still without power. Some business owners and evacuees have been escorted back into some areas but most remain under mandatory evacuation for now. Three Red Cross Shelters remain active in the area with 219 people still utilizing them. Red Cross has delivered over 10,000 meals this week in Sevier County according to their website. We're happy to report that the organization has also received hundreds of thousands in relief donations.
Chimney Tops 2 Fire Facts
As of: December 2nd, 2016
Location: Sevier County, TN
Size: 17,859
Containment: 0%
Fire Behavior: Minimal fire spread and smoldering.
Structures Impacted: 1000 (Estimated)
Structures Destroyed: 700 (confirmed but expected to rise)
Evacuations: Are in place, 14,000 residents and visitors impacted
Fatalities: 13
Incident Page: http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/5112/
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Stadion Międzynarodowy w Aleppo (, ) − wieloużytkowy stadion sportowy w syryjskim mieście Aleppo, jeden z największych stadionów na świecie, zaprojektowany przez polskiego konstruktora Stanisława Kusia i architekta Stanisława Karpiela; macierzysta arena reprezentacji Syrii w piłce nożnej i klubu Al-Ittihad Aleppo w turniejach międzynarodowych.

Stadion został otwarty w 2007 roku; może pomieścić 75 000 widzów. Obiekt jest częścią centrum sportowego Al-Hamdanijja, które znajduje się w południowo-zachodniej części Aleppo.

W wyniku działań wojennych w Aleppo (2012–16) fasada i trybuny stadionu zostały uszkodzone przez pociski moździerzowe, zaś cały obiekt przez kilka lat pozostawał zamknięty. W 2017 szkody odbudowano.

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Whenever it was time to decide who would do my hair and make-up, it was an easy decision for me to ask these two sisters, Roxy and Jesy. They are great at what they do and it's just an added bonus that we are such good friends. They arrived early and stayed late. It was such a blessing to have them there when we woke up, before pictures, and for touch-ups before the ceremony and reception. I couldn't have been happier with the excellent service they provided, while keeping us all company!
Jesy styled our hair, while Roxy did our make-up. It's the perfect, dynamic duo.
Roxy. She is a Physician's Assistant. We met at Darton College, forever and a day ago. Both of us moved to Savannah around the same time, and became close friends. Roxy is a make-up queen and shopaholic – literally, the only real one I know! She's married to D & has two pups, Jeda & Jace.
Jesy. She is a hairstylist and lives in Waycross, Georgia. We first met when she bought her prom dress at a boutique I worked at in high school. It wasn't until years later in Savannah that we became close friends. Her boyfriend lives in Hawaii – and she's moving there very soon.
Roxy and Jesy, I would like to thank you for the hard work, time, and love you two put into making me look beautiful on my wedding day. From bobby-pins and make-up, to glam lips and curls, you two did a fabulous job – on me, my sister, my bridesmaids, my mother-in-law, and Mama. Thank you for all you did on my big day. Thank you for your friendship, now and for years to come. Thank you.


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5 Mexican players cleared of doping
MEXICO CITY —
The Mexican Football Federation says five players who tested positive for the banned substance clenbuterol have been cleared and will not face punishment.
The five players - defenders Francisco Rodriguez and Edgar Duenas, goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa, and midfielders Christian Bermudez and Antonio Naelson - tested positive in May at a training camp in Mexico before the Gold Cup tournament in the United States.
The players blamed the positive tests on contaminated meat.
In a statement Friday, the federation said its disciplinary commission findings showed the positive tests were "due to contaminated food."


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Q: stream.listeners is not a function Trying to run a really basic Express app, I'm getting this error:

/path/to/testserver/node_modules/unpipe/index.js:22
  var listeners = stream.listeners('data')
                         ^

TypeError: stream.listeners is not a function
    at hasPipeDataListeners (/path/to/testserver/node_modules/unpipe/index.js:22:26)
    at unpipe (/path/to/testserver/node_modules/unpipe/index.js:52:8)
    at send (/path/to/testserver/node_modules/finalhandler/index.js:311:3)
    at /path/to/testserver/node_modules/finalhandler/index.js:133:5
    at Function.handle (/path/to/testserver/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:177:5)
    at app (/path/to/testserver/node_modules/express/lib/express.js:39:9)
    at file:///path/to/testserver/index.js:6:1
    at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:193:25)
    at async Promise.all (index 0)
    at async ESMLoader.import (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:530:24)

The app code is literally just:
import express from "express";

const port = 3000;
const app = express();

app("/", (req, res) => {
    res.send("Is this thing on?");
});

app.listen(port, () => {
    console.log(`Listening on ${port}...`);
});

I bootstrapped the project like this:

npm init -y
npm install express

...and then added "type": "module" to package.json (but I know the problem isn't ESM; I removed that and switched to require and had the same problem).
Why am I getting that error? I don't see that error message in the issues list.

A: It's a typo-level mistake, but the symptom is so bizarre and the typo so subtle that it's worth having an answer about it here. The problem is here:
    app("/", (req, res) => {
//  ^^^^−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−
        res.send("Is this thing on?");
    });

That calls app. The code should be calling one of app's methods, like app.get:
    app.get("/", (req, res) => {
//  ^^^^^^^^−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−
        res.send("Is this thing on?");
    });

Although it doesn't seem to be documented, app (the function) calls app.handle. From node_modules/express/lib/express.js:
var app = function(req, res, next) {
  app.handle(req, res, next);
};

app.handle expects very different parameters than app.get does. It happens that passing it app.get parameters takes it down a path to where eventually it reaches that error condition.
Just change app( to app.get( or whatever other method the code was meant to use.

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Coaching: Personal mentoring and coaching — performed with an awareness of the coach's responsibility in shaping an ethical culture — is important to leadership development programs and courses in ethics. Coaching in this case becomes an exercise not only in teaching points of knowledge but in imitating a master's behaviors.
Case-based and action learning: Consideration and discussion of dilemmas posed as issues of virtuous leadership are important, and they need to be reinforced through real-time discussion and sharing of experiences. Program participants could ask: What worked for you? What didn't? How have you been affected by leaders, and how have you affected others?
Social networking: Discussion forums, carefully planned and monitored, can have a positive influence on ethical culture, because they are opportunities for employees to share their experiences. There is risk here, but many organizations default to too high a setting for risk-aversity when it comes to social media. Much of the risk can be mitigated by setting ground rules for sharing experiences that emphasize openness and positivity, and by having leaders monitor and participate in the discussions to correct misconceptions or indicate steps the company is taking in light of the insights being shared.
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Q: Cannot read property '' of undefined I don't know what's wrong with my code.
The console logs are fine, but there is an error Cannot read property 'aqua' of undefined at the page.
home.ts
export class Home implements {
  color: any;
  constructor(public http: HttpClient) {

    this.http.get('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bahamas10/css-color-names/master/css-color-names.json')
    .subscribe(
      data => {
      this.color = data;
      console.log(this.color.aqua); //this logs fine
    });
  }

}

home.html
{{color.aqua}} <!-- this produce error -->

A: A http request is async therefore the variable is initally undefined, so you need to show the variable only if it has a value, one way to do this would be using the following syntax:
{{ color?.aqua }}
or
<ng-template [ngIf]="color && color.aqua">{{color.aqua}}</ng-template>

Note, the second statement (color.aqua) is optional, but keep in mind a value which is undefined will not be shown in the template

A: The template is rendered before you get the response from you GET Request (Async)
You can use the elvis operator in this case
{{ color?.aqua }}
Alternatively you can use an *ngIf
<span *ngIf="color">{{ color.aqua }}</span>

Edit
As @ConnorsFan mentioned in the comments.  Using <ng-container> instead of a <span> will prevent and extra element from being rendered (<span>).
<ng-container *ngIf="color">{{ color.aqua }}</ng-container>


The useful collection of tools has multiple features related with translation, input keyboard, more familiar languages, virtual keyboards and more. Google has released input tools for both Windows OS and Chrome browser extension. It means that we can work in both online and offline modes. It make us eligible to start typing in different languages, translate words or phrases, insertion of special characters as well.
Google Input Tools has almost 125 popular languages from worldwide. You can easily switch to any language where you will find a virtual keyboard that includes complete collection of keys alongwith alphanumeric, punctuation, command, special and navigations keys. However, tools are available on Search, Gmail, Drive, Translation and YouTube as well. It allows us to start chatting with other language person without known that language. It will be possible with translating word by word and reply in same language without needing a human.
Input Method Editors or Cantonese IME is latest function which will convert keystroke into different language character. However, the smart application lets you start handwriting in any language without having their keyboard. In simple words, there will be a large keyword based dictionary is working behind the application that will correct mistakes, translate new keywords as well as showing meaning of names.
Update: Google has discontinued input tools for both chrome extension and download for windows. The service is still working on multiple online services where you will take benefits though internet connection. Although, it is useful for personal, education and business profile users because multi-national communication is now growing day by day so it is requirement of everyone to get details about various languages. Learning a new language is difficult for everyone so use this smart tool and learn.


The State reports that authorities have officially confirmed that skeletal remains found on the South Carolina coast over the weekend are those of Kate Waring.
And there's even more information in The Post and Courier's morning write-up.
Sad news, The Post and Courier reports that the body is Waring's.
Investigators haven't said for certain, but a body located on Wadmalaw Island is believed to be that of Kate Waring, missing since June 12.
You can read more about the sad topi on on our Waring topic page.


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Country Knolls és una concentració de població designada pel cens dels Estats Units a l'estat de Nova York. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 2.155 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Country Knolls tenia 2.155 habitants, 725 habitatges, i 659 famílies. La densitat de població era de 507,3 habitants/km².

Dels 725 habitatges en un 41,1% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 84,3% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 3,9% dones solteres, i en un 9,1% no eren unitats familiars. En el 8% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 3,3% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,97 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 3,12.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 28,2% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 4,9% entre 18 i 24, un 23,7% entre 25 i 44, un 31% de 45 a 60 i un 12,3% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 41 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 99,7 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 86.290 $ i la renda mediana per família de 88.637 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 66.490 $ mentre que les dones 40.156 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 33.027 $. Entorn del 0,9% de les famílies i l'1,6% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

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At the restaurant, you'll have the choice to eat on a large, beautiful terrace overlooking the Tarn Gorge, weather permitting, or in front of the dining room's fireplace, in the autumn.
You'll enjoy our chef Didier's traditional cuisine, which is based on quality local produce from Lozère.
All the pâtés and terrines you'll eat at the Auberge du Moulin are home‑made by our chef.
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StandardAero Keeps GE's CF34s Spinning
by Mark Phelps
- February 9, 2020, 11:15 PM
StandardAero recently celebrated the delivery of its 3,000th workscope on a GE CF34 turbofan. Widely used on regional jets and Bombardier Challenger business jets, the CF34 made its first run in 1982. There are close to 6,000 in service worldwide, and the 3,000th to be serviced by StandardAero is installed on a SkyWest Airlines CRJ700 regional jet.
StandardAero (Booth V93) has been servicing CF34-3s and -8s since 2001 and supporting Utah-based SkyWest since 2004. The company offers a full range of maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services for the engine at its Winnipeg, Manitoba facility in Canada. Since 2012, StandardAero has supported Challenger operators through its business aviation team as an authorized line service provider with facilities in Augusta, Georgia; Springfield, Illinois; and Houston, Texas. In 2013, GE appointed StandardAero as its first independent TRUEngine-authorized MRO provider for the CF34.
"The delivery of our 3,000th CF34 engine workscope is a significant achievement for StandardAero as we enter our twentieth year of supporting CF34 operators worldwide," said David Green, StandardAero v-p and general manager for CF34/CFM56. "We look forward to continuing to meet the needs of the global CF34 operator community for the next two decades and beyond."
Challenger business jet operators typically fly far fewer hours than airlines do, so StandardAero offers its 7/10 Program on-condition maintenance plan. According to StandardAero, because of this "low-utilization" dynamic, many business aviation CF34s stay on-wing for 7,000 hours/10 years or more without a shop visit or attention to OEM service bulletins. They are thus at greater risk of undetected problems inside the engine. The three-tier 7/10 Program is offered as an affordable path to on-wing reliability for low-utilization operators. The program's predictive or condition-based maintenance uses data from trend-monitoring or periodic inspections to drive service events.
Meanwhile, on the avionics front, StandardAero and Thales signed an agreement to jointly develop and certify an advanced autopilot system for several light helicopters, starting with the Airbus AS350.
Thales's lightweight, four-axis Compact Autopilot has built-in aircraft stabilization capability, eliminating the need for a dedicated flight-control computer. Additionally, the autopilot can fully control the helicopter from initial hover to coupled approach and position-hold.
StandardAero's expertise in aircraft modifications will help in obtaining approvals for the autopilot in the AS350 and other light helicopters, as well as provide after-sales support. StandardAero said the fielded solution will "far exceed basic certification requirements and will satisfy operators' exacting expectations for system operation, airframe integration, simplified maintenance, and product support."
In addition, StandardAero and Robertson Fuel Systems recently delivered two crash-resistant fuel tanks (CRFT) to the first operator in Canada to adopt this potentially lifesaving equipment. The CRFTs will be installed on an Airbus AS350BA and an AS350B2 owned and operated by Ontario-based Zimmer Air Services. Both helicopters have HeliLynx FX2 or Soloy SD2 modifications using Honeywell LTS101 engines.
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The Royal Castle in Warsaw
International News, UK News
The latest news from Monika Drąg, Landscape architect, specialist in History of Gardening and Paweł Gutt, Polish members of EBTS UK.
The Royal Castle of Warsaw opens to the public after 70 years
Over the weekend of May 11th the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the proud landmark in Castle Square next to the gates of the Old Town, held a great ceremony to celebrate the completion of the restoration of its historic gardens. Originally the 15th century residence of the Polish kings and, in the 16th century of the Dukes of Masovia, the castle has suffered a long and tragic history of plunder and destruction inflicted by Swedish, Prussian and Tsarist armies. Burned and looted in 1939 in the German Invasion of Poland and virtually destroyed in the Polish uprising of 1944, the Castle was left to moulder until 1971 when restoration work finally began.
View of the gardens from the Royal Castle by Marcin Kmiecinski
The castle gardens are in two complementary halves. The Upper Garden, immediately outside the Castle is perched on the roof of the 19th century Kubicki Arcades. It was redesigned before the Second World War in the style of the day and restored in 2014. The Lower Garden, which will now be open to the public for the first time, has been partly preserved in the 17th century Renaissance style of King Stanislaw August, the last monarch to rule the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In this older part of the garden are a set of fine hornbeam bosquets with fountains, sculptures and sandstone vases soon to be in place. Pre-War additions by the architect, Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz, include the central horse-shoe amphitheatre.
The Royal Castle and the `Upper Garden perched over the Kubicki Arcades by Marcin Kmiecinski
While taking every care to preserve the historical fabric, the restoration has made good use of modern technology with a discrete central control system for automatic irrigation and lighting, robotic mowers and pest-monitoring systems.
Some 50,000 visitors flocked to the opening of the Lower Garden, the last piece of the entire restoration, for a weekend of rejoicing. The ceremony opened with the naming of a new tulip, The Heart of Warsaw. It was a fitting symbol to express what the battle-worn Royal Castle represents in the eyes of the Old Town and the people of Warsaw.
Text edited by Caroline Foley
The Heart of Warsaw tulip by Marcin Kmiecinski
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Feinstein on Kaine's Iran Resolution
Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today released the following statement ahead of an expected Senate vote on a resolution requiring congressional approval for military action against Iran:
"I support Senator Kaine's resolution to prevent war with Iran without congressional approval.
"The United States has a right to defend itself against imminent attack and ensure the safety of our diplomatic and military personnel overseas. However, the Constitution is clear that Congress – and only Congress – has the power to declare war. That power was reinforced in 1973 by the War Powers Act, which says no president can send armed forces into war without congressional authorization.
"Over the past month, escalating hostilities between Iran and the United States have led to dozens of deaths, and the unfortunate truth is that further escalation is possible. This bill would make it clear that Congress has not authorized President Trump to engage in any hostilities against Iran.
"I urge my colleagues in the Senate to support Senator Kaine's bill. Congress must assert its authority over the use of military force against Iran and we must have a proper debate over the merits of military action."


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Papua New Guinea politics: Cabinet reshuffled
October 22nd 2003
COUNTRY BRIEFING
FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT
The prime minister, Sir Michael Somare, has dropped four members of his ruling National Alliance (NA) party from the cabinet, to appease his coalition partners. The new cabinet comprises eight NA members (including the prime minister), four members each for the People's Progress Party (PPP) and People's Action Party (PAP), three People's National Congress (PNC) members, two members each for the Melanesian Alliance, the People's Labour Party (PLP) and the United Resources Party (URP), and one each for the Pangu Party, the United Party (UP) and the National Party.
The new ministers are the PLP leader, Peter Yama, who succeeds Peter O'Neill in the labour and industrial relations portfolio (Mr O'Neill continues as head of government business); Michael Nali, who takes over from his senior PPP colleague, Robert Kopaol, as lands and physical planning minister; the UP leader, Bire Kimisopa, who takes over the internal security brief; Roy Biyama of the PAP, now minister for higher education, research, science and technology; Nick Kuman of the PNC, who becomes the tourism and culture minister; William Duma of the URP, who assumes the environment portfolio; and the prime minister's son, Arthur Somare, the new privatisation minister. The reshuffle, the first since the Somare government came into office 12 months ago and, according to Sir Michael, the last one for a long while to come, ended months of rumblings within the coalition and associated media speculation.
SOURCE: Country Report (full publication)
Source: Country Report


We take a look back at one of our favourite adverts, Welcome Home directed by Spike Jonze. Starring FKA Twigs, Welcome Home shook up the internet and pulled all our heart strings upon its release. Watch this exclusive behind the scenes video by Danilo Parra to discover a first hand insight into Spike Jonze process.


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"B" is for Big Botswana Bulls
The Legend Of Welverdiend
Last Nile Buffalo in Dati
25 September 2011	by Peter Flack	in Articles
Sitting in the papyrus, fortunately with one very dead and very good (at least by Ethiopian standards) Nile buffalo, on the Dati flood plains of west central Ethiopia, about 40 kms from the Sudanese border.
Jason Roussos, Richard (our deaf baggage man), Birru (who found the buffalo), myself, Terfa (our local Mao tracker), Mohammed (our regional game scout), Telehun (a senior employee of Ethiopian Rift Valley Safaris who had driven down especially from Addis Ababa to run the camp as the Oromia government had previously removed the employees, without notice to ERVS, and sent them on a two month training course to act as game scouts) and Ashagri, our federal game scout.
Buffalo poachers caught by members of the ERVS anti-poaching squad on the Dati flood plains of west central Ethiopia, about 40 kms from the Sudanese border.
Packing our chartered Cessna Caravan on the dirt landing strip in the steaming hot Omo Valley, after my fourth and only successful Abyssinian greater kudu hunt, en route to Dati in west central Ethiopia to hunt Nile buffalo and Abyssinian waterbuck.
A hippo pod in one of the watercourses winding through the Dati flood plains and which eventually join to form the Dabus River which flows into the Blue Nile and which, in turn, flows into the Nile.
The debt collecting look from what Jason Roussos said was the longest horned Nile buffalo he had ever seen. The bosses of the bull were soft and so we left it alone.
Another Nile buffalo dagga boy giving us the silent treatment.
A herd of Abyssinian waterbuck. Although these animals are classified as East African defassa waterbuck, they look nothing like the standard animal and, as can be seen, have orangey brown coats, pitch black lower legs and are much smaller – about the same size as the differently categorized Crawshay's waterbuck from Zambia albeit completely different to these grey beasts as well.
Typical Dati scenery - one of the watercourses criss-crossing the flood plain, grassy meadows kept neat and trim by the numerous hippos, thick, brown, mop-headed papyrus swamps home to many Nile buffalo dagga boys and mountains – in this case Elephant Mountain although the big grey beasts are long gone from the area.
Have you ever had a premonition? I have. The strongest one was on the way to catch a plane to Tanzania – the plane was going to crash! The feeling all but overwhelmed me. It was so strong that I stopped my car, turned around and started to drive back to the office. Then it occurred to me that, if I gave in to this feeling, my life might never be my own again. I would continually be a hostage to whatever inner fear happened to grab hold of me. I stopped my car a second time, drove to the airport and caught the flight. I won't pretend I wasn't a very hot, sweaty and nervous passenger. I was but the flight obviously passed without a hitch and I chalked up my premonition to a subconscious fear.
On 22 May, 2011, the night before I was to fly from Ethiopia's Omo Valley (in the south western corner of the country near the Sudanese and Kenyan borders where I had been hunting Abyssinian greater kudu), to go and hunt Abyssinian waterbuck and Nile buffalo on the Dati flood plains, about two hours flying time to the north, I had another dream/premonition. I could see a coffin containing my body being loaded at Bole Airport in Addis Ababa onto a flight back to South Africa. The person supervising the loading was my PH's young wife, Amy Roussos and I could hear her explaining to the air cargo staff that I had been killed by a buffalo in Dati. The premonition was a first for me as I have never been dead in a dream before. Initially, I did and said nothing about the dream but I could not get it out of my mind.
The flight to Dati was a tricky one. As the Cessna Caravan lurched off the runway in the stifling 40 degree midday heat, it promptly sank back to mother earth and I was certain we were going to crash. I watched with my heart in my mouth as the pilot's hand snaked towards the flap controls, flicked them up a notch and the plane snailed its way incrementally upwards and cleared the flat top acacias at the end of the dirt landing strip. Just!
We dodged thunderstorms most of the way and, two hours later, I could see the aircraft's weather radar showing the merest sliver of green to our destination between two massive storms. We threaded our way between them and thumped to earth none too gently on Dati's muddy, uphill, dirt runway with Betsy, our 1957 Dodge Power Wagon hunting car, a veteran of the Korean war, waiting to greet us along with the camp staff.
These flood plains in western Ethiopia are some 40 kilometres from the Sudanese border and form the catchment area for the big Dabus River, which flows into the Abbay or Blue Nile and on into the Nile itself. The plains measure some 15 kilometres by 100 kilometres. Six years ago, Jason Roussos of Ethiopian Rift Valley Safaris (ERVS), had "discovered" the big buffalo concentrations on the Dati flood plains (estimated to amount to some 2 500 animals) while flying Ethiopia's western border looking for game, in general, and buffalo, in particular. The Nile buffalo, Abyssinian waterbuck and hippo he saw from the air warranted a closer look and, in due course, ERVVS, the company that he owns with his father, Nassos, was granted a five year concession and a small quota of these animals (12 buffalo, four hippos and four waterbuck per year).
They then pioneered a 40 kilometre road into the area at their own cost with a D8 bulldozer, built a landing strip and camp, hired and trained staff, recceed the area and were ready for business.
Last year, the Oromia regional government gave them 12 months' notice that they were declaring the area a national park, although it is quite beyond me who they think will drive all this way to see only buffalo, hippo and waterbuck, especially as the area is flooded for half the year and getting around on the trackless flood plains when they dry out is difficult if not impossible for the normal 4×4. To compound matters, at almost the same time, the Federal government began trucking people into Dati (some 10,000 people in the first year), as part of its Re-village-isation Program. I was the last paying overseas rifle hunter that would hunt the flood plains. I say paying hunter because, in the absence of a dedicated safari outfitter backed up by a determined government wildlife authority, poaching will almost certainly return to the previous epidemic proportions. According to local information, about 200 to 250 buffalo (some ten per cent of the entire buffalo population) were poached each year before ERVS started its anti-poaching efforts which reduced these numbers to about 25 per year. In support of these local allegations, when the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority conducted the first game census in Dati soon after ERVS started hunting, in one day, they counted 40 donkeys loaded with buffalo meat leaving the flood plains.
The Re-village-isation Program involves removing large numbers of people, lock, stock and two decrepit ox drawn ploughs from areas which they have devastated and denuded by criminally bad animal husbandry and farming practices, to a fertile area usually previously occupied only by wildlife and/or small local tribes. In my opinion, it is very similar to removing an alcoholic from a bar where he has finished all the whiskey, taking him to another bar with a good supply and warning him to stay off the booze. It is a disastrous strategy to avoid having to address the real issues of over population and habitat destruction in the country which is destined, ultimately, to convert Ethiopia into the desert that most people think it is. All I can say is that Bob Geldof should not pack away his guitar anytime soon.
The Dati Flood plains are, for the moment, however, still surrounded by unspoilt green grass and tree covered hills and ringed by charcoal blue, steep, rocky mountains, the biggest of which rejoices in the name of Elephant Mountain, although these grey giants have long since vanished. Seen from the air, silver channels dotted with hippo pods snake their way through bright green grass meadows and brown, mop headed papyrus thickets. On the ground, the meadows metamorphisize into muddy hippo hummocks, hard on the ankles and where every pace must be perfectly placed. The papyrus thickets, in turn, are a tangled and impenetrable mess of brittle, burnt, black stalks and supple, new, bright green stems through which it is impossible to move but represent no greater obstacle to a Nile buffalo than a spider web does to a human.
The small rains begin in May (the big ones in October) and the regular afternoon thunderstorms soon turn the channels into rivers which overflow their banks and usually – if is still possible to use the word "usually" when it describes weather – flood the plains between knee and waist deep in water by June or July. I was cutting things fine. Of course, where the water covers worn hippo paths, wallows and channels, it is much deeper which makes wading through the muddy flows a game of Russian roulette – when you suddenly disappear over your head is merely a matter of when, not if.
There were two reasons behind my trip to Dati. Some years previously, Steve Kobrine, the well known African bow hunter and outfitter, told me that the waterbuck in Dati looked completely different to any he had seen previously. They were small in body and horn length (about the same size as a Crawshay's defassa waterbuck from Zambia) but a bright orange brown in colour with black lower legs and the characteristic pale, defassa, pear shaped patches stretching down their rumps. I was intrigued and wanted to see for myself.
Now, I have never found waterbuck particularly difficult to hunt but, after three days of unsuccessful toil, trudging across the hippo hummocks, through fringing papyrus and having the snot scared out of me by lone dagga boys leaping up unannounced from neighbouring thickets – there are about ten buffaloes for every waterbuck – as so often happens, just as I was about to resign myself to a long, drawn out siege, a big, lone Abyssinian waterbuck bull stood stock still facing us on the edge of the papyrus 215 yards away and I had my bull.
According to Jason, he has shot only 12 Abyssinian waterbuck in his 12 year career as a PH. He added that probably no more than another 30 have been shot in Ethiopia over this time, the two biggest being barely 28 and 27 inches, respectively. Mine was a very respectable 25 1/4 inches and, in my opinion, is the most handsome of all the waterbuck. A broad cross section of these animals in the Dati flood plain habitat all look the same and they are completely different to any other waterbuck I have ever seen. Currently, these waterbuck fall under East African defassa waterbuck in the record books but, I honestly believe, if roan can be divided into different sub-species determined primarily by coat colour and geography, then the Abyssinian waterbuck is a far worthier candidate for differentiation as a separate sub-species.
The second and major reason behind my visit Dati was to hunt one last buffalo – a genuine Nile buffalo, syncerus caffer aequinoctialis, to complement the other four buffalo sub-species I had been lucky enough to hunt before – Cape buffalo, Central African buffalo, West African buffalo and the smallest and nastiest of them all, dwarf forest buffalo.
As we skirted one of the many papyrus thickets that separated the meadows, the bush some 20 paces to our right exploded into a crashing, thrashing crescendo of breaking stalks and thudding hooves. Jason rapidly shouldered his black, synthetic stocked, iron sighted .458 Lott. I sprang towards him and looked wildly behind me for my gun bearer who stood frozen in a half crouch some 10 paces away. Two huge, dark brown Nile buffalo bodies lurched through the papyrus at a tangent to us, cleared the fringe and galloped across an opening before vanishing into more papyrus.
This was only the second time that I had seen these slightly smaller and browner cousins of our own big, bus bodied Cape buffaloes – syncerus caffer caffer – in Ethiopia. On the first occasion with Jason's father, Nassos, on the banks of the Sala River, almost due south from Dati, I had inexplicably shot a cow and part of the reason for this hunt was to try and make amends for the earlier mishap and to hunt one last buffalo.
I say "inexplicably" as, even to this day, Nassos and I are not sure exactly what happened. The bull we had been tracking all afternoon ambled into a gap between two shrubs which hid both his head and rump. We looked away briefly as we moved towards one another so that I could shoot off his shoulder and it could only have been then that the bull moved forward, leaving the slightly smaller cow standing directly behind him with only her mid-section and shoulder exposed to view. The incident cost me a fine of $1,500 and a letter of explanation to the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority which still rankles.
None of this was on my mind, however, as we trudged behind our local Mao tribesman tracker, Terfa, trying to find the meadow containing a herd of Nile buffalo which we had spotted earlier from the hilltop next to camp, now hidden some kilometres away in the grey afternoon drizzle. Jason snapped his fingers and we instantly halted. The outline of big, dark bodies could vaguely be seen through the thinning papyrus fringe to our front. Crouching, we retreated and left the rest of our eight man hunting party behind us. As we struggled forward again, deeper into the sheltering papyrus, a pair of warthogs and two buffalo cows jogged across a finger of meadow to our front. The fickle faltering wind had given us away.
"We are stuck," said Jason. "The wind is all wrong and we can't push through the papyrus surrounding the herd. What to do?"
"Why not use two of our umbrellas and walk straight at them. I think the drizzle might mask our scent a little. Besides, we've come so far and we've nothing left to lose. If they run, they run," I suggested, thinking of one of Nicky Blunt's old hunting tricks which he had taught me when we were last together in Tanzania.
They did not run but they were not comfortable. They shuffled first one way and then the other. The odd cow would trot off followed by one or two members of the herd and then stop and return when others did not follow. Some of the herd bulls walked towards us and then retreated as Jason imitated buffalo grunts, snorts and groans. The effect, however, was to break up the compact herd and spread it out in a long, suspicious, semi-circle around Jason and I as we crouched behind our two umbrellas and a thin screen of papyrus about 100 metres away. The drizzle fell steadily soaking us to the skin and it was a battle to keep our optics reasonably clear.
"There is one very big bull towards the middle but right at the back," Jason murmured. "We'll not find a bigger one than him in Dati. Do you want to wait to see if he'll give us a shot?" he asked. Are the Kennedys gun shy?
Half an hour later, the big bull and another almost just as big were standing facing us at a 45 degree angle some 113 yards away according to Jason's Leica Geovids. I don't have a shot, Jason," I said as I peered at the bigger of the two bulls. "No," he agreed, "the shot is too risky. We must wait to see if he will turn broadside while still in the clear," he added, reminding me, once again, of the vital importance of calculating not only the entry but also the exit point when thinking through a shot.
As the bull turned and angled towards the head of the herd, the 300 grain Bear Claw loaded by Federal flowed down my .375's barrel and, immediately, the sharp sound of the shot was lost in the splattering smacks of soup plate sized hooves on sodden soil. It was then that the thought struck me for the first time that, if this bull was wounded, the rain would wash out the blood spoor in seconds. The next thought was one that had been ever present since I first saw the terrain. I knew that I really, really, REALLY did not want to have to follow a wounded buffalo into the papyrus.
Jason's "You got him good. I saw him hump to the shot and lift his left foreleg. Let's move up to where he was standing," was some consolation and I eagerly went forward with him. He planted the shooting sticks – I had not used them preferring my twenty year old, extended Harris bipod – at the estimated spot. We waited impatiently for the rest of the party to join us.
When they did, we explained the situation to them and fanned out in a line looking for blood. Not a sign. As we searched and the minutes ticked by, my original confidence started to wane. "How did the shot feel?" Jason queried and I could hear the doubt and uncertainty in his voice. The premonition from five nights ago resurrected itself in High Definition Technicolour in my mind's eye. Please, no, I thought. Not now. Not on my last buffalo hunt.
Jason interrupted my ghastly thoughts which had vapourised all the moisture in my mouth. "Alright" he said loudly, "We are going to form a line abreast and walk in the direction in which the buffalo ran. Pay attention now and be careful. I am going to be on one side of the line and Pete on the other. "Amy," he said to his bride of nine months and who was with us on safari, "Stay close to Pete." How clever is that, I asked myself? I have only ever faced one buffalo charge. I redoubled my focus on the papyrus thickets enveloping us but said nothing.
We set off, pace for careful pace. Jason moved around a finger of papyrus to my left. Every one of my senses was working overtime. The rain had mercifully stopped and all the colours stood out in bright, sharp relief. I could hear, see and smell everything. I felt totally alive – from the tips of my fingers to the nails of my toes. Out of the corner of my left eye, I saw Birru, our local Mao baggage man, walk through the finger of papyrus. Suddenly, with arms and legs flailing, he levitated upwards and backwards! Jason instantly shouldered his rifle and leant into the shot! It never came. Birru had walked onto our buffalo, dead as the proverbial dodo, with almost no blood dribbling from the bullet's neat entrance hole in the middle of the vital triangle.
It was a soaking wet, dog tired but happy band of hunters that emerged from the flood plains with the full skin of a genuine Nile buffalo at just after 21h30. A glass of red wine and a plate of steaming hot pasta half an hour later have never tasted so good!
Nile Buffalo can currently be hunted only in Uganda and Ethiopia. The Ethiopian variety are much smaller than those in Uganda which is also home to Cape buffalo which, in turn, are smaller, on average, than those found in countries to the southwest. Quite where Cape buffalo end in Uganda and Nile buffalo begin, can be difficult to establish but not so in Ethiopia which has no Cape buffalo. The acid test, I believe, is to draw a horizontal line through the eyes sockets of the buffalo. In the case of genuine Nile buffalo, the downward sweep of the horns will never break this horizontal line.
My bull was a bruiser by Ethiopian standards with a spread of exactly 30 inches and hard bosses of ten and ten and a quarter inches, respectively, but it will not make the 38 inch minimum spread for entry into Rowland Ward. In fact, only two Nile buffalo from Ethiopia do, shot in 1895 and 1922, respectively. Of the 69 entries, 66 come from Sudan and one from Uganda.
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In October 2016, 151 million tweet impressions were made about cybersecurity as a way to celebrate National Cyber Security Awareness month. Computer security continues to be a hot news item due to the recent and continued hacking of well-known organizations. Despite the millions of dollars worth of loss and liabilities at stake, computer security is still not taken as seriously as necessary by more than half of IT professionals across the world.
So to honor National Cyber Security Awareness Month this October, update your corporate security solutions with the latest defense mechanisms to combat the latest cybersecurity threats.
Protecting your client's data, or your patients data in the case of HIPAA, is of utmost importance. By initiating or updating data encryption methods through the implementation of self-encrypting drives (SED) and enterprise password management, you will be in a much better position to protect the most valuable aspect of your organization: Your data. A self-encrypting drive encrypts all data to magnetic media and decrypts it when a password is initiated. The SED allows for very strong passwords ensuring data protection of the highest degree is in place. Implementation of single sign-on solutions or single sign-on authentication is the another way to protect your users, logins and your data. Make sure you have implemented a single sign-on solution to help minimize unwanted break-ins to your systems.
It may sound elementary, but anti-virus and anti-malware software is a basic, yet essential piece of your overall corporate security solutions. Nearly half of all IT managers have experienced a malware attack in the past year. All company devices, including cellular phones, tablets, laptops and desktops should have the latest versions of anti-malware software installed to ensure computer security.
Ransomware is one of the more recent and especially nasty methods of breaching computer security. A ransomware attack locks all your user data and functionality until the ransom is paid to the attacker. If you or your company are victims of such an attack without proper data backup in place, your only option may be to pay the ransom. To combat this…backup your data frequently. By keeping data backed up, you may be able to recover.
By implementing single sign-on authentication you can reduce the amount of passwords that users have to remember in order to access multiple systems. You also should require a password change by the users after a set amount of time to ensure that the single sign-on solutions maintain their ability to ensure data protection instead of becoming a way for hackers to get access to your systems.


This is a great article about the Ford Transit that will be arriving in the Spring of 2014. I dont agree with the writer that the Econoline is wretched…but it is time to replace this model. Enjoy!
There's a big shakeup taking place in the full-size van and truck market as Ford prepares to replace its wretched Econoline with a far superior vehicle called the Transit. At first, the setup for the new Transit seems all wrong, as a uni-body is the polar opposite of the traditional body-on-frame truck construction.
The Transit is indeed a big change for a group of hard-working van buyers who are scarily familiar with all the gritty details of the Econolines they've run for the last 50 years. The Transit, at first, looks like a botched Euro import, but in fact, Ford's spent years of planning, engineering and customizing the global Transit line to make sure it answers every question asked of the Econoline by American van buyers.
Part of the admirable and smart "One Ford" strategy, the Dearborn teams take a long, hard look at which of their worldwide models is best fit to tackle global challenges. In the case of the Mustang, it turns out Europe has been clamoring for it all along, so the next-gen car will be sold in Europe and in many more global markets than ever before. In the case of the large commercial van market, the Transit is simply a far better model than the Econoline in terms of fitness for purpose, modern safety and efficiency needs.
Yes, it is a V-6 uni-body without off-road options or the four-wheel-drive system of some Econolines. As we'll discover over the full review of the lineup, these things bring only benefits but keep the core attributes: a dozen plus different body styles and engine configurations, massive passenger or cargo payload ratings, better performance and economy, more comfort, more tech and finally, more safety.
As Ford educates and comforts the long-trenched Econoline market, the two models will briefly overlap before the eventual phase-out of the E-series altogether after 2015. Let me be the first to say it: good riddance Econoline!
Click past the jump for the full review and image gallery of the 2014 Ford Transit.
There's no amount of styling that can disguise the utilitarian shape of the Transit, but up front it features some striking proportions and a slanted cab design for the first time. There are large reflector headlamps flanking a massive, grinning trapezoidal grille with horizontal chrome slats. The black plastic bumpers certainly fit the Transit's work-van mission, as does the enormous windshield for visibility and the hood scoops just below it.
The Transit online configurator is pretty wild because of all the variations available in wheelbase and roof height, as well as configurations for passengers or cargo. Three lengths and three roof heights are available, with the middle option from each proving the most palatable.
Moving to the profile of the vehicle, the slab sides are broken up by a modest swage line running the full width of the van. Modest fender flares and some interesting creases break up what is a large, blocky shape. In terms of physical presence, the Transit is far lower to the ground than any previous Econoline, but the small wheels look seriously overwhelmed by the huge mass of van above them. The black plastic molding extends across the body sides and meets another scratch-resistant bumper out back.
From the rear view, simple vertical taillights ride on the outmost edges of the truck. That lower ride height and steel uni-body construction allow a door opening that spans the full width of the vehicle and offers an extremely low floor and loading area. The doors swing out 180 degrees at minimum and up to 270 degrees in certain configurations.
This interior wins the most improved award, hands down. The style echoes the latest Focus with technical surfaces and a great, compact steering wheel with Ford's latest twin multi-function pads controlling the infotainment. Impressively, MyFord Touch will be an optional feature for the Transit. Even getting a CD player with decent speakers in an Econoline is a challenge, so this is big progress.
Other technology solutions are available, including Ford's fleet management tracker, called Crew Chief. This allows the, ahem, crew chief back at the home office to monitor vehicle data and locations from afar, cutting wasted driving expenses and increasing productivity.
Ford's controls couldn't be simpler to use: the left pad controls the gauge cluster info screen while the right pad controls the central screen. The automatic transmission's gearstick is right where your right hand falls easily, and offers more control than the old-fashioned column-mounted shifter.
Vertical air vents and a plethora of storage areas will easily hold any pocket junk, and there are also five dedicated cup holders up front and four additional wells designed to fit water bottles. Evidence of the Transit's European sophistication abounds, especially with the adjustable headlight beams. The twin bucket seats are flat but comfortable and feature easy adjustments with giant adjustment controls that are easy to reach.
At the lower end of the dashboard are twin USB inputs/charging ports, twin 12V sockets (plus one in the back), A/V component inputs and an SD card reader. Another nod to the Transit's utility mission are the built-in cabinets and bins that are options on the cargo models. On the high-roof models, the space above the front seats is put to use with a sturdy shelf built in as standard.
In terms of interior specifications, the passenger model has huge windows that seem almost twice as tall as the gun slits in the back of an Econoline, affording a great view and helping relieve motion sickness when packed in the back.
The minimum seating for passenger Transits is eight passengers, increasing to 10, 12 and 15 with the varying body styles. A single entry on the passenger side can come as twin swing-out doors or a sliding door.
Buyers in this market often have very specific needs for the vehicle that are almost never the same across the board. As such, the Transit's mechanical specification is also wildly configurable from the base 3.7-liter V-6 to the top-end 3.5-liter EcoBoost and 3.2-liter in-line-five diesel engine options. Rear-drive is standard and buyers needing four-wheel-drive will be directed to Ford's extensive F-series line of commercial vehicles, all of which can be loaded with off-road goodies.
Horsepower and torque ratings are not finalized yet but expected to stay consistent with the engines already in use across the Ford portfolio. This means a 3.7-liter making roughly 300 horsepower and pound-feet of torque, the 3.5-liter twin turbo EcoBoost pumping out 350 horsepower, and the diesel making closer to 200 horsepower but a powerful 350 pound-feet of torque.
For the vast majority of Transit owners, the base V-6 offers plenty of power, a huge 25-percent jump in efficiency, and acceptable towing and hauling stats versus previous Econolines with Ford's older 4.6-liter (revvy but gutless) V-8s.
All engines are paired with Ford's six-speed, torque-converter automatic transmission and there's an option for dual rear wheels, increasing payload to an immense 10,360 pounds GVWR in top spec. LNG and CNG prep kits are offered, but not a full conversion to run natural gas.
The European market Ford Transit Custom earned a five-star crash test rating from EuroNCAP, the regulatory body similar to the NHTSA here in America. The NCAP test is traditionally much harder than U.S. crash tests, and such a good score from a commercial vehicle is rare indeed. In the U.S., Ford predicts top marks for the Transit as well.
The Transit packs four-wheel discs with ABS as standard, as well as their stability control system with rollover mitigation technology. A tire-pressure monitoring system is standard as well.
Typically, once a truck passes a certain weight rating, it is exempt from safety mandates, most crash testing and corporate average fuel economy standards. Having learned their lesson from the Firestone debacle, Ford is including car-like safety electronics that go above and beyond federal guidelines for trucks.
The Transit is not on the Ford price books yet but the range should mirror today's Econoline vans with a 10-percent increase to account for all this new tech. Base prices are expected at $27,000 for the shortie, low-roof 3.7-liter, up to $47,000 for the extended wheelbase, high-roof diesel. As with other Fords, the Power Stroke diesel will likely be a costly stand-alone option that adds nearly $8,000 to the price, but doubles the fuel economy and range from the 26-gallon tank shared by all engines.
As well as competing with the Econoline (initially) and Chevrolet Express, Ford is prepping for a hard-fought battle with Ram's upcoming Fiat-based Ram ProMaster.
The Ram ProMaster replaces the Mercedes-supplied models with another giant (but cheaper) van from Europe's commercial markets. Less is known about the ProMaster's mechanical configurations and arrival dates, but diesel and gasoline powertrains are expected as well as modern Chrysler-based telematics and infotainment. Considering Fiat's current cash crisis is delaying models across the board, the ProMaster will likely lag at least a year behind the new Transit in dealer showrooms.
As shoppers in this market broaden their horizons, the Nissan NV may also become more appealing. Much more like the Econoline with V-8 power and body-on-frame construction, the Nissan offers some advantages in rough terrain but also has far worse noise, vibration and harshness ratings and a bucking-bronco ride quality. The NV is also offered in passenger or cargo variants with multiple roof heights, but it's been a market flop and the future of the entire Titan-based line is in jeopardy.
Ford has done a really good job integrating the Transit into the U.S. lineup and is heavily invested in its long-term success here. Building the van in the U.S. was critical to avoid price fluctuations of foreign assembly, and also ensures that large government agencies can keep buying them. Most federal and state law-enforcement operations are prohibited by law from operating vehicles not made domestically.
But the Transit is far more than a Border Patrol or Airport Express shuttle. It's a cunning and bold answer to the future of commercial business in the United States. Much like the largest jet liners, the cost of entry is almost irrelevant versus fuel economy in the full-size truck/van segment. These vehicles do so many miles that fuel costs are a huge operating expense for fleets and sole proprietors alike. In this regard, the Transit is well-positioned to ride out any future gasoline price spikes.
On the comfort and convenience front, the Transit will be the most civilized large van ever created. The biggest hurdles the Transit is likely to face are buyer perceptions that perhaps the truck is not as strong or durable as Econoline vans.
The truth is, the Transit will out-haul, out-mile, and out-last all those nasty and awful Econolines – all while providing a comfortable cabin and tech solutions the 1980s-era E-series couldn't fathom in its wildest dreams. Any skeptics or Econoline drivers will be convinced within the first block of the test drive that the Transit is the future of American commercial vans.
Isn't there room for some batteries or a mild hybrid AWD setup?
The familiar van that delivers packages or shuttles you to the airport is about to change in a revolutionary way. Ford's all-new full-size 2014 Transit van will provide professional tradesmen and commercial fleet customers with unmatched fuel economy, innovative new configurations and leading versatility in the expanding commercial vehicle market.
"The all-new Transit is a game changer," said Joe Hinrichs, Ford's president of The Americas. "Transit raises the game for our customers in North America and around the world with even greater work capability and significantly lower operating costs, helping improve their productivity and bottom lines. These, literally, are the vehicles people trust and rely on for their livelihoods." With global commercial vehicle sales expected to grow by 4.8 million during the next several years to 21 million units annually by 2017, Transit represents a major opportunity. Ford is the second-largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in the world and best-selling commercial vehicle brand in North America. The company is leveraging its One Ford product strategy to meet the needs of Transit customers on six continents and in 116 markets with vans that are Built Ford Tough, more fuel efficient and even more capable. Transit joins the most fuel-efficient lineup in Ford Motor Company's history. Ford will offer eight vehicles rated at 40 mpg or higher in 2013 – double the 2011 total, and more than any other automaker. Ford tops Toyota in fuel economy in every segment in which both companies compete. Transit is born from a combined total of nearly a century of hard-earned experience delivering two distinct full-size vans to customers in North America, Europe and other global markets. For North America, Transit eventually replaces the E-Series nameplate, first sold in 1961 as Ford Econoline and America's best-selling commercial van for 33 years. In other global markets, this all-new vehicle will replace today's popular, market-specific Transit models, first sold in 1965 and the best-selling commercial van in Europe.


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How the Trump campaign is already planning to keep power after the election
Thom Dunn 8:55 am Fri Sep 25, 2020
The Atlantic has a long, detailed, and harrowing new piece by Barton Gellman that goes in-depth into election security and the GOP's established history of voter suppression tactics. But Gellman also speaks with a few members of the Trump campaign team, who — as long as their names are protected — are very open about acknowledging the legal strongarm tactics that they're already planning to use to retain power. Think Jeb Bush assigning his own electors in Florida during the 2000 election. Think Pat McCrory in North Carolina using his lameduck period to legally strip powers from the incoming Democrats in 2016. Now think worse.
The Trump campaign's response: https://t.co/m70OkHOFJU pic.twitter.com/9qdlm68tq4
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) September 23, 2020
The Trump-campaign legal adviser I spoke with told me the push to appoint electors would be framed in terms of protecting the people's will. Once committed to the position that the overtime count has been rigged, the adviser said, state lawmakers will want to judge for themselves what the voters intended.
"The state legislatures will say, 'All right, we've been given this constitutional power. We don't think the results of our own state are accurate, so here's our slate of electors that we think properly reflect the results of our state,' " the adviser said. Democrats, he added, have exposed themselves to this stratagem by creating the conditions for a lengthy overtime.
"If you have this notion," the adviser said, "that ballots can come in for I don't know how many days—in some states a week, 10 days—then that onslaught of ballots just gets pushed back and pushed back and pushed back. So pick your poison. Is it worse to have electors named by legislators or to have votes received by Election Day?"
When The Atlantic asked the Trump campaign about plans to circumvent the vote and appoint loyal electors, and about other strategies discussed in the article, the deputy national press secretary did not directly address the questions. "It's outrageous that President Trump and his team are being villainized for upholding the rule of law and transparently fighting for a free and fair election," Thea McDonald said in an email. "The mainstream media are giving the Democrats a free pass for their attempts to completely uproot the system and throw our election into chaos." Trump is fighting for a trustworthy election, she wrote, "and any argument otherwise is a conspiracy theory intended to muddy the waters."
In Pennsylvania, three Republican leaders told me they had already discussed the direct appointment of electors among themselves, and one said he had discussed it with Trump's national campaign.
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"La précision du vague" at the UQAM Centre de Design: Constructing an Imaginary Urban Landscape
Centre de design de l'UQAM
Event + Exhibition, Art, Culture, Edition, Landscape Architecture, Photography, Travel
Exhibition on display from February 7 to April 14, 2019
Montréal, Canada, 2019-02-18 -
Carole Lévesque went in search of Montreal's of "terrains vagues", abandoned or undeveloped patches of land, such as empty lots and wild greenspaces. The exhibition La précision du vague is the result of three and a half years of work carried out by this professor at the UQAM School of Design. Working with a team of assistants, she created a kind of atlas of terrains vagues, using various representational modes to document these often neglected spaces: photography, digital database, video, sound, perspective drawings, collection of found objects, herbarium, and landscape elevations. Together they form an exhaustive representation of places that are generally considered empty and devoid of interest.
Abandoned land
The terrain vague has long been a favourite location for temporary interventions, improvised agriculture and, more recently, citizen appropriation. It is not the terrain vague itself that is usually of interest, but rather its availability: the developer sees it as a business opportunity, the architect as a site for a grand project, the activist as a place to defend an ideal, and the citizen as an opportunity for rebuilding socialization. But what would happen if we focused more closely on the place in itself? And above all, what would happen if, by paying less attention to the terrain, the lot, a space determined mainly by its availability for building, our attention were focused more on the vague, i.e. its lack of definition, and its elusive relationship to our experience of the city?
This exhibition by Carole Lévesque comprises 42 hours of walking, just over 5,000 photographs collated in 120 collages, a database covering more than 150 characteristics, 144 minutes of film and sound recording, 75 objects, 90 plant specimens, 100 hours of surveying, 400 hours of perspective drawings, and 1400 hours of hand drawn sketches to produce six landscape elevations. The project of representing the terrains vagues is realized through this long, slow documentary accumulation and its attentive gaze is achieved through the production of these six landscape elevations: six large drawings, six precise records of what was observed, a drawing for each day of walking, creating unity out of a fragmented experience. These drawings, where the gesture of the hand, the lines of the technical pen and the grain of the paper reconcile the visible and the tactile, near and far, time and space, are constructions, "machines" that transform our view of these precious, lost and found landscapes.
The exhibition allows us to follow this process of discovery, a journey of research and creation that is akin to a real performance. Invited to share this singular experience, to enter into more than a hundred improbable places, the visitor rediscovers these spaces often linked to the large rail lines or asphalt roads across the island of Montreal. Examining them closely, we realize that these spaces are no more undefined than the built environment. They are not gaps in the map, let alone gaps in memory. They play a role in the development of the city; they are part of the landscape, the critical inverse. The terrain vague is the sensitive springboard of the imagination, providing an alternative view of the world that we build day by day.
The professor/artist hopes to transform our appreciation and understanding of these otherwise neglected spaces. By accumulating various modes of representation, she strives to articulate a productive vision – rather than a function – of this singular landscape, with the ultimate goal of changing our view of these wild spaces from something to be disposed of or filled in, to something that is accepted as a positive element of the urban landscape.
The exhibition represents a turning point in theoretical thinking on the practice of architecture and design. It will be of particular interest to anyone — architect, landscape architect, urban planner, professional or student — contemplating the urban space of big cities.
Carole Lévesque, artist and professor at the UQAM School of Design
Through walking, photographing, drawing and documenting, Carole Lévesque's work evolves in a long, slow process that explores various modes of representing the urban space, its temporality and its practices. Whether in Montreal or elsewhere, she prefers to take the measure of abandoned spaces, whether in ruins or preserved away from the mainstream. In her various research-creation projects and her teaching, she focuses on questions relating to urban and architectural transformations, particularly with regard to the diversion or recycling of spaces, and the transformation of perceptions and functions. Within disciplinary boundaries, her work explores ways to reconcile research and project.
She holds a degree in Environmental Design (UQAM), a Master's of Architecture (UBC) and a PhD in Architectural Planning, History and Theory (UdeM). She taught architecture at the Université de Montréal and the American University of Beirut before joining the UQAM School of Design in 2012, where she teaches design theory and practice.
She is the author of À propos de l'inutile en architecture (L'Harmattan, 2011) and Finding Room in Beirut, Places of the Everyday (Punctum Books, 2019).
Events with the exhibition
Finding Room in Beirut. Places of the Everyday
February 20, at 6 pm
Nuit blanche at Centre de design de l'UQAM :
Vaguement Montréal
March 2 from 8 pm to 2 am
Urban inventories
March 21 and march 22, 2019
L'imaginaire du terrain vague
March 22 at 6 pm
The works presented in this exhibition have received financial support from the SSHRC and CELAT research-creation programs.
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#ifndef SUDOKU_CELL_H
#define SUDOKU_CELL_H

// A CellSet is simply a set of 9 cells that are either a row, column, or square of the Sudoku Board
struct CellSet;

enum CELL_RELATIONSHIP
{
    CELL_NONE,
    CELL_ROW,
    CELL_COLUMN,
    CELL_SQUARE
};

extern const char *g_relationship_name[];

// A Cell represents an individual square on a Sukoku board.
// A Cell has a "value" (1-9) if a value has been set, otherwise 0 represents uninitilaized (m_value)
// A Cell has a candidate list of candidate values that have not been eliminated.  The candidate list is a bitmask (m_bitmask)
// A Cell has back pointers to the CellSets (row, column, square) that it belongs to
struct Cell
{
    int _value;  // the actual value of the cell, 0 means unknown
    uint16_t _bitmask; // candidate list as a bitmask.  LSB represents 1.  (next to last bit represents 2, etc...)

    CellSet *_square;  // pointer to the square this cell belongs to
    CellSet *_row;     // pointer to the row this cell belongs to
    CellSet *_column;  // pointer to the column this cell belongs to

    int _rowIndex;    // row index (0-8)  0 is top row
    int _colIndex;    // column index (0-8)  0 is far left column
    int _squareIndex; // square index (0-8)  0 is top left square.  8 is bottom right square
    int _squareCellIndex; // which index of the square this cell belongs to (0-8).  0 is top left.  8 is bottom right

    bool _isPermanent;  // means that this is one of the initial values of the puzzle

    int _cellIndex;    // overall cell index (0-80).  0 is top left cell.  80 is bottom right cell.

    Cell();
    void SetValue(int value);           // sets both value and bitmask
    void Reset(); // sets everything back to initialization values (value = 0, _bitmask = CELLINIT, etc..)
    bool IsOkToSetValue(int value);     // returns true if "value" is in this cell's candidate list
    bool ClearValueFromMask(int value); // removes a value from this cell's candidate list
    bool ClearBitmaskFromMask(uint16_t mask); // removes an entire bitmask from the the cell's candidate list

    // BitCount is a utility function that returns the number of bits set in w
    static int BitCount(uint16_t w);

    // These next two functions map a candidate list bitmask to the actual values they correspond to

    // GetCellValueFromBitmask returns an error if there is more than one bit set in wMask
    // otherwise, returns the value associated with wMask
    static int GetCellValueFromBitmask(uint16_t wMask);

    // Useful function for itereating over a bitmask with more than one bit set.
    // Returns the value associated with the least significant bit that is set and then clears it
    static int GetCellValueFromBitmaskAndClear(uint16_t &wMask);

    CELL_RELATIONSHIP GetRelationship(CellSet *set);

};

// a CellSet is a row, square, or column
struct CellSet  // set of 9 cells making up a row, column, or square
{
    std::vector<Cell*> _set;
    CellSet();
    void Reset();
};

const uint16_t CELLINIT = 0x01ff;  // 9 bits set

#endif

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Here at EF Indonesia, we work hard to make sure our teachers have the best experience possible. Educating young minds is a life affirming experience in itself, but we are constantly looking for ways to ensure teaching English in Indonesia is enjoyable for the teachers (and students) in all our classrooms. To this end, the Teacher Recruitment and Training (TRT) department sat down with long time EF Indonesia educator Laura Renouf, to find out what makes her tick and why she chose this company to build her career.
1. What's your current position? And how long have you been working at EF?
2. What do you like the most about working at EF?
The support system, I know I have plenty of people I can call on for help and advice and also you make friends for life. The actual everyday work is definitely the students – they provide you with energy and you always come out of a class laughing with them.
3. What's the first thing you do every morning before going to work? And what do you usually do on the weekend?
Before going to work I tend to check my emails and also catch up on social media and generally chill out. I tend to go out with my friends over the weekend, usually into Jakarta or if it's a long weekend go to one of the neighboring cities and find new places to eat at and chill.
4. What do you find is different from working at EF compared to other places you've worked at?
EF has a fun style and is more relaxed, the academic team you work with on a daily basis are great and there is always time for banter and laughs. The training provided is thought through and management are much easier to contact and speak with.
5. What do you like the most about the work that you do?
I do a lot of admin work, which comes with the role, but the best thing about my job is without a doubt the students and seeing them grow in confidence, develops their skills and also have fun at the same time.
6. What's the biggest challenge you've encountered during your career?
My age for sure, when I first took on the STM position I was 25 and my other colleagues were all 35+ also being a female I felt I had to prove myself even more than them. I have persevered and have achieved some pretty decent career steps.
Check out this video to learn more about Laura's journey with EF Indonesia.
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