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EU demands legally-binding climate deal
The EU has set the bar high for a future climate treaty by asking for it to be legally binding, a move sure to be resisted by China and US
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Gerard Wynn
The European Union has demanded that the United States and China stand behind a recent pledge to act jointly on climate change, by signing a legally binding protocol at a summit in Paris at the end of this year.
The EU's executive, the European Commission, for the first time made it clear that it prefers a protocol, to be agreed in Paris, with legally binding emissions targets, in the mold of the previous Kyoto Protocol.
While the EU's goals for a "Paris Protocol", as it called a potential new agreement, were generally quite ambitious, the EU's own pledge on emissions cuts of 40% by 2030 (from 1990 levels) fell rather short.
The bloc could try harder. The Commission calculated last year that even with no additional action, greenhouse gas emissions would still drop by a third (32.4%) by 2030.
Furthermore, the EU has a track record of surpassing its emissions targets. The European Environment Agency estimated last October that the EU's greenhouse gas emissions in 2013 were already 19% below 1990 levels, all but reaching the target it has set to cut emissions by 20% by 2020, seven years early.
The EU's 2030 target is disappointing, given that the EU is the first party to publish detailed plans for climate action under a new agreement, and so will set the tone for others.
Ratcheting up of targets
The pledge is also important because the EU – although it now only accounts for a tenth of global emissions – has traditionally been a leader on climate change, which has helped to smooth tensions between developed and developing countries.
It is very unlikely that the EU and other countries will revise their pledges. That is because of the effort involved in drafting and agreeing the contribution, which is expected to be submitted to the UN in the coming weeks.
All this reinforces why it would be better that a new agreement be focused on climate action to 2025, rather than 2030, thus giving countries an earlier opportunity to review and increase their ambition.
The US has made an offer for climate action in 2025, and it is unclear how the EU would amend its pledge if such a timeline were agreed in Paris, and whether that would open the door for greater ambition in subsequent years.
Kyoto Protocol
The EU's proposal that a new agreement should have the same legal force as Kyoto appears something of a gamble. Unlike a voluntary agreement, a protocol with legally binding emissions targets would have to be ratified by national parliaments, presenting a significant hurdle in the US, in particular.
The EU is hoping that new cooperation between the US and China will help push a new, more ambitious deal over the line.
"The EU, China and the U.S. should send a particularly important signal of political leadership, setting the pace by joining the Protocol as early as possible," it said.
The comparison with Kyoto is sure to please many developing countries, and in particular those more vulnerable to climate change, such as island states and African nations. That is because Kyoto was a detailed, rule-based and legally binding agreement, which is more likely to hold countries to their commitments.
The EU said that making emissions targets binding under international law would make a new agreement stronger, more durable and more predictable.
It also called for countries in Paris to agree for the first time a global emissions goal to guide successive, new rounds of emissions targets and a cycle of new targets every five years through to 2050. In this way, a Paris Protocol would effectively launch an open-ended diplomacy, making it potentially the most significant climate agreement of the century.
The proposal for 5-year review cycles is likely to feature in a final Paris agreement, given that it has broad support, both from developing countries and the US.
Countries in the past have failed to agree a global long-term emissions goal, which in turn has let them off the hook by failing to hold them collectively to account.
Longer-term goal
However, the EU's proposed long-term goal was to cut emissions by 60% by 2050, compared with 2010 levels. That falls short of a goal for net zero emissions in the second half of the century, as demanded by some environmental groups.
Some aspects of the EC's contribution differ from previous EU offers, for example what it commited to under Kyoto. This time the EU will meet its target domestically, with no option to offset its emissions by buying carbon credits from overseas. That means that a once multi-billion-dollar international carbon market remains on ice. And the EU did not offer to increase its ambition even in the event of a particularly successful summit in Paris.
The contribution published on February 25 was light on detail about renewable energy, for example.
Key strands of the EU's contribution are unresolved, for example how to account for Europe's forests. Trees absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as they grow, and so can effectively offset the effect of carbon emissions from power plants and factories.
However, EU officials assured me this week that there was no question that the bloc would use its forestry sector to offset emissions in this way. The 40% target would stand, and any net emissions reductions from the land use sector would therefore be in addition to this headline target.
And if Europe's forests shrank, for whatever reason, leading to net emissions, then the rest of the economy would have to make up for that, leading to effort greater than 40% cut.
These are the rules that the EU has previously agreed on forests and land use, and has re-iterated there is no question of back-sliding on this commitment.
Post-2020 adaptation finance remains on ice
The EU did not offer this week any new finance to help poorer and more vulnerable countries cut emissions and prepare for climate change, under its pledge, saying that any such move remains premature.
That is sure to rile developing countries that have long argued that developed countries have so far failed to deliver on past promises to transfer funds and share technologies which would help them in cut emissions and adapt to climate change.
With UN climate talks set to resume in Bonn in just over three months' time, we will soon see whether climate contributions will help, or hinder progress on the road to Paris.
Gerard Wynn is an analyst, writer and advisor, working in the fields of energy, climate change and the environment, at present with the Finance for Biodiversity (F4B) initiative, and the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).
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Norman Campbell Wins Albert Smith Medal.
Newtonmore's Norman Campbell won the Albert Smith medal for man of the match as his team beat Kingussie 4-3 after extra time to win the Scottish Hydro Camanachd Cup Final at the Bught Park, Inverness on Saturday 17 September 2011.
The 'More full back, who has been named in Scotland manager Drew McNeil's preparation squad ahead of next month's shinty / hurling international against Ireland, was outstanding throughout the game and he was a worthy winner of this prestigious award.

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university of louisville -- football (7)
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Ann Isolde/Santa Monica, CA/Artist, Activist, Inspiration, Friend.
Isolde, Ann, 1944-
Born Salem, Massachusetts, May 2, 1947. Currently resides in Venice, California. / Looking back on my childhood, my happiest memories of making art are of "pasting colored bits together." These feelings guide me in making art today. Color drives...
University of Louisville football team returns to Louisville, Kentucky from Miami, Florida, 1950.
Football players; University of Louisville--Football; University of Louisville--Students; Students; College athletes; Mayors; University of Louisville--Sports
University of Louisville Cardinals football team returns from Miami, Florida where they unexpectedly tied the undefeated Miami Hurricanes 13-13. They are surrounded by a crowd, including Louisville Mayor Charles Farnsley who stands amidst the crowd...
Football players; University of Louisville--Football; University of Louisville--Students; Students; College athletes; Crowds; Airplanes; University of Louisville--Sports
University of Louisville Cardinals football team returns from Miami, Florida where they unexpectedly tied the undefeated Miami Hurricanes 13-13. Football players step out of an airplane, down the stairs, and into a welcoming crowd. A man that...
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University of Louisville Cardinals return from Miami, Florida where they unexpectedly tied the undefeated Miami Hurricanes 13-13. Team members Baby Ray (left), Bill Pence (middle) and Kenny Day (right) hold a banner given to Captain Tom Lucia...
University of Louisville Cardinals return from Miami, Florida where they unexpectedly tied the undefeated Miami Hurricanes 13-13. A crowd surrounds the players and coaches. Assistant Basketball Coach John Dromo (center right, next to baby) smiles...
University of Louisville Cardinals return from Miami, Florida where they unexpectedly tied the undefeated Miami Hurricanes 13-13. Two men disembark from an airplane and head down the stairs to a waiting crowd. One person holds a plackard that reads...
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The University of Louisville Cardinals football team returns from Miami, Florida where they unexpectedly tied the undefeated Miami Hurricanes 13-13. A crowd crosses the tarmac at the Louisville's Standiford Field, heading toward an airplane, bus...
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Installation, L'Attico Gallery, Rome. Detail of wall drawing in pencil. Draughtsmen: Climbo, Piccari, Battista, Pranovi. "In the early 1960s LeWitt had largely devoted himself to producing modular open cube structures made from wood. His 'wall...
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Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will launch a new series of SD memory cards offering the world's fastest data write speed. The latest edition to its line-up of EXCERIA memory cards designed to offer users of high-end digital cameras an excellent experience, the EXCERIA PRO and EXCERIA cards will be launched in major markets worldwide, starting with Japan in October.
EXCERIA cards compliant with UHS-II will be available in two series. The EXCERIA PRO series will offer photographers a data write speed of 240 MB/sec the world's fastest, while the EXCERIA series will write at 120 MB/sec. They will allow digital camera users to shoot still images continuously at high speed.
The cards are the first in the EXCERIA line-up to integrate a newly developed controller compliant with UHS-II the ultra high speed serial bus interface defined in SD Memory Card Standard Ver. 4.10, and they achieve significantly higher data transfer speeds than earlier UHS-I compliant cards.
While digital cameras have made huge strides in image quality and versatility, users have long wanted to see improvements in data transfer rates and write times, so as to be able to takes bursts of photographs in quick succession. This demand has grown increasingly strong as high performance digital single-lens reflex cameras and mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras have gained popularity and moved into the mainstream. Further advances in higher resolution image recording (including 4K2K video), will also fuel demand for transfers of data-rich images at high speed.
Looking to the future, Toshiba, a world leader in the NAND flash memory business, will continue to meet market demands by enhancing its line-up of UHS-II compliant SD memory cards.
1. Compliant with the SD Memory Card Standard Ver.4.10 HD312, which defines 312 MB per sec as the fastest data transfer speed under the SD Memory Card Standard Ver.4.10 UHS-II.
2. SDHC memory cards (32 GB, 16 GB) are interoperable with SDHC host devices compliant with SD Memory Card Standard Ver.2.0.
3. Integrates highly secure CPRM copy protection technology.
4. The minimum recording speed is UHS speed class.
Why no more than 64GB??
Are there memory readers that support UHS-II?


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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 8, 2016
Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.
On March 8, 2016, United Airlines, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of United Continental Holdings, Inc., issued a press release reporting its February 2016 operational results. The press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
The information in this Item 7.01, including Exhibit 99.1, is being furnished and shall not be deemed to be "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that Section and shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document filed pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
Exhibit No.
99.1* Press Release issued by United Airlines, Inc. dated March 8, 2016
* Furnished herewith electronically.
By: /s/ Chris Kenny
Name: Chris Kenny
Title: Vice President and Controller
Worldwide Media Relations
media.relations@united.com
United Reports February 2016
CHICAGO, March 8, 2016 – United Airlines (UAL) today reported February 2016 operational results.
UAL's February 2016 consolidated traffic (revenue passenger miles) increased 2.7 percent and consolidated capacity (available seat miles) increased 6.0 percent versus February 2015. Excluding the impact of leap year, consolidated traffic decreased 1.0 percent and consolidated capacity increased 2.2 percent year-over-year. UAL's February 2016 consolidated load factor decreased 2.5 points compared to February 2015.
The company continues to expect first-quarter 2016 consolidated passenger unit revenue to decline 6 to 8 percent compared to the first quarter of 2015, with the decline driven largely by a strong U.S. dollar, lower surcharges, travel reductions from customers impacted by declining oil prices and softening domestic and international yields.
About United
United Airlines and United Express operate an average of nearly 5,000 flights a day to 342 airports across six continents. In 2015, United and United Express operated nearly two million flights carrying 140 million customers. United is proud to have the world's most comprehensive route network, including U.S. mainland hubs in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York/Newark, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. United operates more than 700 mainline aircraft, and this year, the airline anticipates taking delivery of 20 new Boeing aircraft, including 737 NGs, 787s and 777s. The airline is a founding member of Star Alliance, which provides service to 192 countries via 28 member airlines. Approximately 84,000 United employees reside in every U.S. state and in countries around the world. For more information, visit united.com, follow @United on Twitter or connect on Facebook. The common stock of United's parent, United Continental Holdings, Inc., is traded on the NYSE under the symbol UAL.
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United Reports February 2016 Operational Performance / Page 2
Preliminary Operational Results
February Year-to-Date
REVENUE PASSENGER MILES (000)
6,347,769 6,101,440 4.0 % 12,901,297 12,606,649 2.3 %
1,838,478 1,997,352 (8.0 %) 4,142,066 4,456,002 (7.0 %)
1,717,758 1,461,931 17.5 % 3,641,574 3,190,252 14.1 %
12,284,706 11,952,503 2.8 % 25,835,480 25,442,182 1.5 %
1,780,500 1,740,320 2.3 % 3,651,000 3,651,882 0.0 %
AVAILABLE SEAT MILES (000)
3,006,635 2,985,601 0.7 % 6,217,628 6,298,206 (1.3 %)
PASSENGER LOAD FACTOR
81.5 % 83.9 % (2.4 ) pts 82.5 % 83.5 % (1.0 ) pt
72.2 % 75.0 % (2.8 ) pts 75.7 % 77.2 % (1.5 ) pts
79.8 % 79.9 % (0.1 ) pts 82.1 % 81.8 % 0.3 pts
ONBOARD PASSENGERS (000)
6,840 6,392 7.0 % 14,017 13,254 5.8 %
3,063 3,077 (0.5 %) 6,244 6,408 (2.6 %)
CARGO REVENUE TON MILES (000)
195,470 221,575 (11.8 %) 396,513 422,196 (6.1 %)
First Quarter Preliminary Fuel Costs Per Gallon
Estimated average price per gallon of fuel, excluding hedges
Operating cash-settled hedge loss price per gallon
Estimated average price per gallon of fuel, including operating cash-settled hedges1
Non-operating cash-settled hedge loss price per gallon2
Estimated average price per gallon of fuel, including all cash-settled hedges3
1 This price per gallon corresponds to fuel expense in the income statement
2 This price per gallon corresponds to the impact of non-operating hedges that appear in non-operating expense in the income statement
3 This price per gallon corresponds to the total economic cost of the company's fuel consumption including all cash-settled hedges but does not directly correspond to fuel expense in the income statement
Preliminary Operational Results6
2016 2015 Change
February On-Time Performance4
69.6 % 49.9 % 19.7 pts
February Completion Factor5
97.2 % 94.8 % 2.4 pts
4 Based on consolidated scheduled flights arriving on or before scheduled arrival time
5 Consolidated completion percentage
6 The Company's operational results for January on-time performance and completion factor percentages as reported in its January 2016 traffic report have been adjusted positively. January on-time performance was 65.1% in 2016 and 52.4% in 2015. January completion factor was 95.4% in 2016 and 96.4% in 2015.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Certain statements included in this investor update are forward-looking and thus reflect our current expectations and beliefs with respect to certain current and future events and financial performance. Such forward-looking statements are and will be subject to many risks and uncertainties relating to our operations and business environment that may cause actual results to differ materially from any future results expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements. Words such as "expects," "will," "plans," "anticipates," "indicates," "believes," "forecast," "guidance," "outlook," "goals" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Additionally, forward-looking statements include statements that do not relate solely to historical facts, such as statements which identify uncertainties or trends, discuss the possible future effects of current known trends or uncertainties or which indicate that the future effects of known trends or uncertainties cannot be predicted, guaranteed or assured. All forward-looking statements in this report are based upon information available to us on the date of this report. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, changed circumstances or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. Our actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements due to numerous factors including, without limitation, the following: our ability to comply with the terms of our various financing arrangements; the costs and availability of financing; our ability to maintain adequate liquidity; our ability to execute our operational plans, including optimizing our revenue; our ability to control our costs, including realizing benefits from our resource optimization efforts, cost reduction initiatives and fleet replacement programs; our ability to utilize our net operating losses; our ability to attract and retain customers; demand for transportation in the markets in which we operate; an outbreak of a disease that affects travel demand or travel behavior; demand for travel and the impact that global economic conditions have on customer travel patterns; excessive taxation and the inability to offset future taxable income; general economic conditions (including interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates, investment or credit market conditions, crude oil prices, costs of aircraft fuel and energy refining capacity in relevant markets); our ability to cost-effectively hedge against increases in the price of aircraft fuel; any potential realized or unrealized gains or losses related to fuel or currency hedging programs; the effects of any hostilities, act of war or terrorist attack; the ability of other air carriers with whom we have alliances or partnerships to provide the services contemplated by the respective arrangements with such carriers; the costs and availability of aviation and other insurance; industry consolidation or changes in airline alliances; competitive pressures on pricing and on demand; our capacity decisions and the capacity decisions of our competitors; U.S. or foreign governmental legislation, regulation and other actions (including open skies agreements and environmental regulations); the impact of regulatory, investigative and legal proceedings and legal compliance risks; the impact of any management changes; our CEO's health prognosis and return to work full time; labor costs; our ability to maintain satisfactory labor relations and the results of the collective bargaining agreement process with our union groups; any disruptions to operations due to any potential actions by our labor groups; weather conditions; and other risks and uncertainties set forth under Item 1A., Risk Factors, of UAL's Annual Report on Form 10-K, as well as other risks and uncertainties set forth from time to time in the reports we file with the SEC.


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Shield Laws - Hmmm
I just saw an editorial by Steve Forbes in Forbes magazine about the need for a national shield law to protect reporters from having to reveal their sources.
I generally agree with Forbes, but I'm not at all sure about this.
As I recall from my journalism days, the argument for such laws, which many states have, is that people may decide not to talk to reporters if they think they won't remain anonymous.
To take an extreme example, if a reporter gets an interview with an organized crime boss, who details how his organization works, should the reporter be forced by the courts to reveal his source?
If the reporter is forced to reveal the crime boss's name, then it's reasonable to assume no criminal (except stupid ones) will ever talk to a reporter again. So what? Well, think of the potential value of the information the reporter was allowed to reveal. That in itself could be very valuable to police and governing bodies, and it wouldn't be wise to cut off some information by demanding all information.
And if someone should ask, "Well, who is a reporter? Does the state decide who a reporter is?" The answer would always be: "No! We absolutely don't want the state deciding who a reporter is. Anybody who publishes or broadcasts is a reporter."
Okay, that's the argument, and I always bought it. But that was then and this is now. Then, the very nature of printing and broadcasting limited the number of people to whom the shield laws applied, but now, with blogs, everybody can be a reporter - for free - and this presents difficulties.
Do shield laws now apply to everybody?
If they do, it seems all anyone would have to do to avoid testifying would be to start a blog and reveal some information about a criminal event, and that would immunize him or her from having to give any additional information.
The way to avoid that, of course, would be to have the government decide which people are reporters. Ouch! I'd rather have the first problem. Giving the government the right to decide who is a reporter gives the government the right throttle free speech.
So, loophole for criminals or the government's fat foot in the door of regulating the press. I'm not suggesting a solution here, but just pointing out that Congress has a tough problem.


Android apps are already supported by modern chromebooks via Chrome OS, the Studio One RC app actually already works, you can use it in demo mode, it just doesnt pick up / sync with the Studio One software on PC.
This could be a cool and big feature with minimal work!
This appears to be a function of the Chromebook sandbox that Android apps run in (which means the Android apps aren't running with direct network access -- i.e., no direct UDP/TCP passthrough).
This is not specific to the StudioOne Android-app-on-Chromebook, and has implications for other games as well (such as Minecraft for example) where multiple local network players which might normally be able to "see" and play each other on a network with an Android tablet, but can't do that with the Android-on-Chromebook setup.
I'm hoping someone finds a way to manually open up the UDP/TCP ports necessary, or set up port forwarding in the ChromeOS somehow... this would be a great use for a touch-controlled Chromebook.
I did a lot of digging about a year ago to try and open up the ports but ChromeOS really locks everything down extremely tight. Even disabling the firewall altogether didn't work.
I have moved to the Faderport 8 so this has been on the way back burner for me since then. It still would be nice though for transport control and track arming/muting from another room, maybe cue mix control.
BUT that was before native Linux support was added to many Chromebooks. Mine now supports native Linux so I am going to give it a try again. That might have enabled more firewall flexibility.


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It's been a while since three-row SUVs started overshadowing traditional minivans. While most of the market is about crossovers, there are still a couple of minivans remaining, including the Odyssey. Honda's minivan has been around for decades and it has always been known for refined mechanics, decent handling and overall ride quality. The current generation is no exception. Moreover, it also brings a higher level of luxury and convenience, which makes this vehicle quite luxurious. Furthermore, the 2021 update made the current generation fresh and competitive, so we presume that bigger changes won't happen in the next year or so.
However, there are sources that suggest a couple of updates for the next year. Allegedly, the next year's model is about to get a new powertrain. Besides the well-known V6, we could also see a hybrid version. At this point, details are still unknown but it looks like we could see a PHEV setup. That model could arrive already in the second half of 2023.
2024 Honda Odyssey Design
As we've just mentioned, the current generation has a few more years before it gets a full redesign. Therefore, we presume that the next year's model will come with a familiar layout, featuring the same design and features as the 2023 model. This means that you may count on the same aesthetics that were introduced with the 2021 update, which have brought various novelties, such as new headlights, new grille, new bumpers, new tailgate etc. All these things made the vehicle look fresher and more attractive, so we are pretty sure that bigger changes won't occur before the full overhaul.
The same thing goes for mechanics. We are about to see the same setup, which has a lot of things in common with the mid-size SUV PIlot. Therefore, the ride quality is quite similar and mostly on the soft side. Still, the Odyssey features lower ground clearance, which also means less body roll compared to the SUV sibling. All in all, the ride is smooth and comfortable, while the vehicle is easy to drive.
One of the big improvements the current generation brought was a much nicer cabin design. Thanks to that, the current model looks notably more upscale than before, and also more upscale compared to most rivals. For example, the materials are notably nicer compared to the Chrysler Pacifica, while there is also more attention to detail.
Another important thing for this class is the amount of passenger space and the Odyssey stands pretty well in this aspect too. All three rows of seats are pretty generous and accommodate adults with ease. Moreover, the first and second-row seats and pretty massive and supportive, while the third row also offers a decent level of comfort.
The third row folds flat, but that's not the case with the second row. Therefore, if you want to use maximum cargo space, you will have to remove the seats completely. Still, the numbers are very good. You may count on about 32.8 to 38.6 cubic feet of cargo room behind the third row. That expands to between 86.6 and 92.3 cubic feet behind the second row and between 140.7 and 158 cubes behind the front seats.
We don't believe that the next year's model could bring more important changes in terms of standard and available equipment. Therefore, base models should come standard with goodies like an 8-inch touch screen, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, satellite radio, HD Radio, two USB ports, Bluetooth, a seven-speaker audio system, tri-zone automatic climate control, proximity keyless entry and push-button start.
Of course, there will be a lot of available upgrades, starting from goodies like a Wi-Fi hot spot, wireless device charging, navigation, a rear-seat entertainment system, an 11-speaker premium audio system, additional USB ports, a universal garage-door opener, a 115-volt household-style power outlet, ambient interior LED lighting, a power liftgate, a hands-free power liftgate, a moonroof, a CabinTalk in-car PA system, a CabinWatch rear-seat monitoring system etc.
2024 Honda Odyssey Engines
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On the other hand, base models will continue with a good-old 3.5-liter V6, which puts out around 280 horsepower and 262 pound-feet of torque. The overall performance is pretty good while the powertrain also feels very refined. It comes coupled with a 10-speed automatic gearbox, which generally works pretty well. The average fuel economy goes around 19 mpg in the city and 26 mpg on the highway, typical for a minivan of this size.
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The Fishes of New Zealand
Nov 26th, 2015 at 11:09am
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RRP: $250, 4 HARDBACK VOLUMES IN A SLIPCASE, 2,008 PAGES
Edited by Clive D Roberts, Andrew L Stewart, and Carl D Struthers
The most comprehensive reference to the fishes of New Zealand ever published – definitive and completely illustrated.
Following decades of scientific work by Te Papa scientists in partnership with NIWA, Te Papa Press is launching the landmark research project The Fishes of New Zealand.
The Fishes of New Zealand is the first attempt to comprehensively catalogue New Zealand's aquafauna since the nineteenth century. This landmark publication will be an indispensable reference for researchers, conservationists, professional and recreational fishers, and anyone interested in the unique aquatic biodiversity of Aotearoa New Zealand.
"This work is a scientific achievement of national and international significance, and sets a new benchmark in scientific publishing in New Zealand," says Te Papa Chief Executive Rick Ellis.
"The Fishes of New Zealand reflects the best of New Zealand science, in a field where New Zealand leads the world. It will become the standard reference guide, recognised and referred to around the globe, and is a true testament to the research work that goes on within Te Papa."
The Fishes of New Zealand reveals the history, diversity, and biogeography of the region's rich freshwater and ocean life across New Zealand's vast aquatic environments. The scientific
work provides baseline information that is crucial to the good stewardship of New Zealand's marine realm, one of our most important natural assets, and the sustainable use of our fisheries.
"The significance of this hugely important publication can't be underestimated. It substantially advances our knowledge and understanding of the extraordinary range of fish found in New Zealand waters," says NIWA Chief Executive John Morgan.
"Research begins with accurate identification. Armed with the kind of information these volumes provide, scientists can undertake research that better equips us to manage the vast biodiversity of our marine resource."
"NIWA is proud to be a part of this important collaborative publishing achievement, and I congratulate the authors, editors and publishers on an outstanding publication," says Mr Morgan.
Featuring diagnostic, taxonomic, distribution and biological detail of each fish species, the work is also accompanied by richly produced photographs, maps, and hand-drawn illustrations.
Te Papa Press publisher Claire Murdoch says "The research value of this book (Te Papa Press's biggest ever!) is beyond doubt – but so too is its collectability, its bach-worthiness, and its cultural importance to all of us on these islands of Aotearoa."
The Fishes of New Zealand by the numbers:
- Weighing in at 11 kilograms, this encyclopedic, four-volume reference set is the culmination of more than 20 years of international collaboration and research.
- The 2,008-page set describes for the first time ever all 1,262 known New Zealand fish species, across 245 families found in New Zealand waters, including more than 140 species new to the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone.
IMAGES FROM THE BOOK ARE AVAILABLE FOR REPRODUCTION FOR THE PURPOSES OF REVIEW.
- Richly illustrated throughout, there are over 800 colour species photographs, 450 hand-drawn species illustrations, over 1,000 other illustrations of fish and characters for identification, and distribution maps for every species.


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Morning all. A peaceful day in Ukarumpa today, but I will post on the prayer thread.
I get clean teeth this morning. Good thing the dentist's office sent a text yesterday afternoon.
Mr. P bought the turkey 🦃 and left it in the underneath section of the 🛒. Luckily the guy was pulling them back into the store and took it in. The wrote down the weight so hours later when P asked me where the turkey 🦃 was and I didn't know, a simple phone call and all I had to do was go pick it up and collect my six cents difference.
I see Peter claimed 57 and everyone else left after that.
Good morning for most. Today is the day for Art to drink that yucky formula that will keep him close to the comode. Miss Bosley was curious as to why we kept pouring bottles of water into the large container. It was a new thing for her to witness. We did not let her taste the results. Sometimes I think cats have nine lives because they have too much curiosity for only one.
Art seemed happy to see the new tires and hubcaps that I got yesterday. That's on a 2007 Corolla. We can't seem to keep hubcaps on it. He has noticed other Corollas missing hubcaps. Has anyone else had a similar problem and found a solution other than buying new ones frequently?
Poor Art. I would not tell him my last experience with that. I hope it is more like my first experience. Third time was not the charm, to say the least.
Weird about the hubcaps. Are they being stolen or falling off?
Hmmm . . . I did not think of them being stolen. That has not been an issue for this area in the past. We will have to keep our senses on alert. He had been driving the car without hubcaps for quite awhile, but with the new tires it made sense to put on new hubcaps.
Kim, you may not know the answer to this, but can the cranberry stuff be frozen?
I just spoke to Art and asked if he thought the hubcaps might have been stolen. He said he distinctly remembered seeing one fly off on the expressway. He thinks the clips don't hold tightly enough on that model for whatever reason. I watched the Advance Auto Parts person snap them on and they looked plenty well attached to me. But maybe overtime they lose grip.
The beaver was almost as close to me as it looks–though I didn't notice till seeing it in the header that is you look, you can see its webbed back foot and not just its hand. (I could see the webbed foot in an earlier shot in the sequence, but I hadn't noticed it in this one.) It was getting dusk and almost too late for photos, so it helps that I barely had to touch the zoom.
Previously I had never seen anything interesting in this particular little pond. Apparently any creatures within it get a good enough view of the humans walking by to have fair warning, since I have often heard a quick splash and figured I just missed seeing a muskrat or a turtle. One day I saw one single frog, and another day I saw two mallards, and that's it on the wildlife sightings here.
This particular day, I hadn't seen anything worthy of note, nothing pretty like flowers, hardly any birds at all (one cardinal, but they're a dime a dozen on this walk, and I didn't see him till I was on my way home). I figured OK, I'd never yet had a "dud" when walking this particular area, but there's always a first time, and oh well. I decided to swing up by the pond and then turn and go home.
And the pond had this piece of brown fur lying by it. I wasn't alongside it yet, and it was getting dusk, but I zoomed in to see if it was something living–it really looked like fur, but it didn't look like it was moving, and surely if an animal that large had been up on the bank, it would have seen me before I saw it, and would have been long gone. But I zoomed in, and at the bottom of the brown lump of fur was a beaver tail.
Quietly I moved up the trail, taking a couple of photos–I couldn't see the head at all, as from my initial angle the head was hidden by a bush. And I wasn't going to get good photos if I saw only a brown patch of fur with a tail, so I moved on, and eventually I could just see the head. But the fellow was definitely asleep and it didn't wake up. It moved enough to say it was alive, but I even wondered if it was in a trap. (Later I remembered that beaver traps–at least the ones I've read about–are set up in the water.) Finally I decided to toss a rock into the pond below it, a natural enough sound that it shouldn't panic it, but maybe it would open its eyes. It opened them, and then closed them again. Concerned that sleeping out in the open and not even waking up when a person was standing there maybe five yards away (but on the other side of the narrow pond from it) left it in potential danger as night fell, and also wanting a photo, I tossed another rock into the pond, and at that point I got this photo as it decided it was probably safer in the water. If your screen doesn't show a lot of detail, his front hand /paw is just touching the water.
The reality is that beavers are a formidable prey to just about anything that might encounter them (meaning they are larger than most of their potential predators and they know how to drown a dog), and he was really very near the water–but at the time I wasn't thinking that, just thinking that an animal sleeping in the open, and barely opening its eyes and then closing them again, was quite exposed. I have heard twice at church of different people having seen a bobcat in their backyard, but as far as I know we don't have cougars and we don't have wolves, and coyotes can kill beavers but would probably have to find one farther from water and I'm not sure whether they can kill an adult.
Probably half a dozen people jogged or walked by as I took photos of this rodent, and not one slowed down or noticed that I had something quite interesting in view. I wondered how long it had slept, and how many people had gone by in that time, and whether any of them had seen it!
I always felt a bit of a connection to Joni, since she had her diving accident in 1967 (the year I was born) when she was 16, and I first read her autobiography when I myself was 16. I have never met her, but have heard her speak and have read several of her books.
Learning from NancyJill, I went to a bakery and had hot chocolate with a friend yesterday. It was fun!
I was sorry to see that last night (about Joni), too.
I would not want that critter in my house. It is vaguely rat-like.
Stolen hub caps is so West Side Story.
Another day for me to work at home. I have 5 stories I'm trying to get done before the end of the day tomorrow — one of them requires a 2:30 p.m. in-person interview and tour of the under-construction Elks Lodge that was burned down 3 years ago by a disgruntled member. Since that's close to home I am just staying here again today to work.
The thermostat works wonderfully. Mayor Garcetti missed his chance to win a vote, but oh well, that's life in the big city when you're also running for president, I suppose.
Janice, yes, cats are crazy curious, it cracks me up just watching Annie's wheels turning as she explores something unfamiliar — or even something familiar (a cupboard or cabinet, usually) but seen (by her) in a new light all over again and in urgent need of renewed exploration.
She almost started following us on the dog walk last night so I had to get her back into the house. I hadn't realized she'd made her way out onto the front porch when I was heading out down the driveway with the dogs. Sure enough, as soon as we hit the sidewalk, she bounded right down the steps, ready to go along.
My outdoor cats have managed to train the old dog new tricks. The two indoor dogs now understand that chasing cats is not something they want to do.
Why do people steal hubcaps? What do they do with them?
Yes. My Corolla used to lose them regularly. I also have a neighbor with one that has the same issue.
I like that solution, AJ, but am not sure it would work on the major expressways we travel daily. I am imagining the hub cap loose and rattling along and causing a twenty car pileup. It happens in Atlanta where anything can happen.
Our hubcaps fell off last time son changed the tires. We found them out on the road just past our driveway. The little clips had broken.
I have had several cars since 1952. I have never lost a hubcap.
I have clean teeth and a Christmas present bought. Since I was in town anyway I went to the toy store. My own Baby Girl and First Grandaughter both got Little Huggums Baby Dolls for their first Christmas. Miss Maddie will be receiving hers as well.
I think I may have my own Little Huggums in the attic. I know I have two Pussycat Baby Dolls. One in blue with dark hair and one in pink with blond hair. I was not allowed to play with the Blue Baby, so I allowed my niece to play with the Pink Baby. BG also had another baby doll made by some famous doll maker. Her name is Olivia. She lives in the toy box in the closet. She is almost like holding a real baby.
Ugh. Nightingale has bought one of those Elf-on-a-Shelf elves to do that with The Boy this year. She has come up with a story to explain why Santa hadn't sent an elf in previous years.
Those things are so creepy!
The elf that Nightingale bought is in the Victorian style. Still looks creepy.
Do we need to have hub caps? The car drives without them, right?
Not necessary. Just slows the thieves down when they want your tires.
Rather than argue on the political thread, let's watch these. I've told you about the Bible project before, right?
Yep, the first was good, I shall carry on with my cohort.
I have considered not having hub caps in the sense of practicality, and I am fine with that. But others who are known by the company they keep (or work with) are not fine with that and ask Art about when he will replace the hub caps. Now the person I am referring to is more into cars than we are and is out for medical reasons. She and her husband bought Hank Aaron's used car so I guess that might tell you a bit about what they expect cars to be like. In top notch shape. They don't have that car but have other snazzy vehicles.
The person I mentioned enjoys driving and Art and I have enjoyed her generous spirit in driving us around in much nicer cars than we've ever owned.
I suspect they can also protect the lug nuts so they don't get all rusted up unless they are the fancy open ones, then I suspect it is mostly just looks. Like crown molding.
The regimen has begun. Art is in the bathroom and my job is to bring him more yucky drink every fifteen minutes. I would have a woe is us pity party, but I don't have time for the celebration.
I went to T-Mobile earlier and got some rearranging done on my phone to free up space. I did not realize it is T-Mobile Tuesday when they give a free gift. The gift today was a really cute toboggan. The funny thing is that when I did my haiku today one line was about my new toboggan (I wrote it before going to T-Mobile). God is sweet to time things when we need a little cheer.
We no longer have hubcaps, but fancy rims for our summer tires. We had cattle guards (Texas gates) where we used to live and they always rattled off a hubcap or two, so we just gave up finding and replacing them. Up here in winter, most people have plain steel rims for their winter tires, so it's practical and 'ugly' but no hubcaps.
as I handed him another cup full.
I hope the cup has supernatural powers with the suggestions. I am sorry to share my Black Tuesday humor.
Well, painters were back for final touch ups but they couldn't finish so they'll be back AGAIN on Friday. Sheesh. At least they're thorough.
Meanwhile, I need to leave on an interview that'll take probably 90 minutes and I have to leave the front door open so some touch-up paint will dry. I think I'll stick the dogs in the back, the guys barricaded the passage to the door from the living room but I don't trust my dogs to figure out a way through. Hate just leaving the door open like that but people will assume that SURELY someone is home, right?
My parents had a Toyota Corolla back in the days when I was learning to drive. I don't remember any problem with hubcaps coming off. Did they make them better in those days? Were there fewer hubcap-stealing people around there at that time? I don't know.
Kare, what fun to read of your kitchen arriving last weekend! So excited for you!
And DJ, the paint job getting done! Well, almost, with the finishing touches coming up Friday. Wow. It sure sounds pretty — brandywine; I would love a color like that.
Now the sleeping beaver is up. I had to get to the right of the critter to be able to see its eyes and its nose. But really, do you expect to see a wild animal dozing out in the open like that, with a person just yards away snapping photos? The stream was between me and it, and a bit of a hill behind it, so it was not as "open" as it might have been, but it really was not under cover at all. I assume it hadn't yet built a lodge and had to sleep somewhere. And perhaps beavers sleep sounder than other creatures since they do usually have the safety of a lodge?
Do notice the tail–positive identification of this fellow and its truly unique feature.
A couple days later my husband went on a walk with me. We went past this spot and I pointed out the slick, muddy area where the beaver had been sleeping. As we were walking back home, my husband said of course the beaver wouldn't show itself–it would be too afraid of being turned into a hat. It was then I realized he was wearing the fedora made of a beaver pelt. (Imported from Australia.) The poor beaver probably thought me a traitor, going and bringing someone who would wear such a thing!
I think the difference between older cars and new ones is that the hubcaps of old only covered the middle part of the rim, protecting the hub, in which were the ball bearings and lots of grease. Now cars have wheel covers, which cover the entire rim and are held on by plastic clips instead of metal to metal contact. They are nearly impossible to put on correctly unless you know what you are doing. And if they aren't totally secure will come off if you hit a big bump.
And the reason people steal them is because they are worth a lot on the second hand market. they are easy to sell used for $25-$50 each, which is much cheaper than new ones for some cars.
I got a delivery of pet food today and as soon as I took the items out of the large cardboard box, Annie jumped in it. All I saw later was her little face peering out of the top, she is so clever.
What is it about cats and boxes? It's so funny.
AJ- The Pigskin Picks are in your in box. I sent them early because one of the games is Thursday night.
Looking out my dining room window, I can see a dead deer hanging from its hind legs from a tree in my neighbor's yard, right over the property line.
We may set a record for the coldest Thanksgiving on record here. The high is only supposed to be 19*F.
The book Divine Design by John MacArthur is free for Kindle on Amazon.
I'd hoped they would feel embarrassed.
Instead, several parents thanked me for bringing them in pajamas to make the point.
They always got dressed after that.
I see on FoxNews that some colleges (I think in England) have forbidden teachers to write in ALL CAPS. IT MIGHT FRUSTRATE THE STUDETS.
I fear for the students. College is supposed to prepare students to face the real world.
This protection form any sort of emotional challenge is going to leave a lot of people unprepared to live in the real world.
oh, did someone say 49?
Wow, I'm jamming out the stories this week, trying to build up a reserve for editors for the long weekend. I've written three so far (and part of a fourth). I need to finish that fourth tomorrow and write another story and then that'll be all I can manage, I think. Churn, churn, churn.
Today a photographer and I got the walking tour of the Elks Lodge that was burned down by an arsonist nearly 5 years ago. It's been a nightmare to rebuild, especially with all the city hurdles and hoops to jump through — adding bio-swales to the property was just the beginning. LA regulations and codes are very dense and demanding. The building isn't done yet, but a lot of the major work is finished and, if they get their master electrical plan permit next week, they're looking at a possible March/April re-opening.
The Elks bought the property in the 1960s on a hilltop overlooking the harbor — it's truly a spectacular location and they got it (compared to today's prices) for a pittance. They built the new building the same as the old except they took out all "walls" blocking the views and it's all glass for a panoramic view that takes in the Hollywood sign to the OC coastline on a clear day.
That story is partly written, have to finish it tomorrow.
Computer secret for those who type a long post and accidentally erase it: command 'z' will bring it all back. 🙂 I know I've used it at work but I tried it for the first time on my home mac and it works here, too.
Computer secret for those who type a long post and accidentally erase it: command 'z' will bring it all back.
That's CTRL + Z for those of us with real computers.
DJ, I found out that secret a few years ago, and wished I had known it earlier. It's quite useful!


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Clay Aiken -It's About Damn Time
Posted on 02/28/2010 by musicfan123
What an amazing night. Clay Aiken delivered a wonderful speech that was articulate, researched, and passionate. He even threw in a bit of humor.
If you want to see a video of the speech, it is in the post below.
I thought you might want to see some pictures from the evening.
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23 thoughts on "Clay Aiken -It's About Damn Time"
RALLY on 02/28/2010 at 8:33 am said:
Love the pictures. Thank you!
Judy Anderson on 02/28/2010 at 2:01 pm said:
What a wonderful night for Clay. His speech was brilliant. "It's About Damn Time", will be remembered by all. Great pictures…. I am so proud of Clay.
Sandy on 02/28/2010 at 2:15 pm said:
So proud of our boy ( man). Wonderful speech. Is he a great speech writer or what? I hope that he can continue to speak out about civil rights for all. He didn't need to pound his fist. He just carried a big stick and spoke about it in an enlightened manner.
I'm so looking forward to March 12. Clay just hightens the excitement with every appearance.
zanyforclay on 02/28/2010 at 2:45 pm said:
Gorgeous pictures! Clay looked great! Thanks.
Magicalmusic on 02/28/2010 at 3:57 pm said:
Thanks for sharing the pictures. I hope there's more to come.
@gerra730 on 02/28/2010 at 3:58 pm said:
Very nice speech. And he's right. It's about damn time!
anaturegirl on 02/28/2010 at 4:23 pm said:
I love that Clay Aiken continues to fight for inclusion of ALL people in all things. Loved his speech and how he connects with all people. I am so happy for him and where he is today. Yes, indeed, 2010 is Clay's year! We have been faithfully standing with him all these years and it is a pleasure to see him so completely comfortable with who he is and what he has to offer all people.
katy on 02/28/2010 at 4:40 pm said:
Clay Aiken is a wonderful speaker and advocate and the gay community is lucky to have him.
sally on 02/28/2010 at 6:52 pm said:
Thankyou so much for posting all of th epictures and video from last nights HRC event! Clay Aiken continues to make me so very proud and leaves me feeling hopeful for the future of the LGBT movement! He truly is a very good, a very natural speaker!!
On a more shallow note, he also looked GREAT 🙂
nebclayfan on 02/28/2010 at 9:22 pm said:
I loved Clay's speech last night which he wrote himself. He is an intelligent man and a gifted speaker. He cares deeply for everyone and it clearly shows. He is a remarkable man and I feel so blessed to be a fan.
kta on 02/28/2010 at 11:02 pm said:
I'm so glad the speech went well. Clay has always been extremely articulate and really tries to show he cares. I must be shallow too cause I thought he looked soo hot 🙂
ImGranny on 03/01/2010 at 1:05 am said:
Clay's speech last night was excellent. He is such a natural public speaker! Others are starting to see in Clay Aiken what we have seen for a long time. I'm so proud of him!
Mary on 03/01/2010 at 1:46 am said:
What an amazing man. He speech was wonderful and he looked great.
Thank you for all the information…….the pictures, the video and the comments!!
RIFAN on 03/01/2010 at 3:24 am said:
His speech was wonderful–have listened to it many times.
Clay Aiken makes me proud to be a fan. I feel that his time has arrived and 'It's about damn time!"
Luci on 03/01/2010 at 3:57 am said:
Clay gave an amazing speech . And he looked gorgeous too 😀
Thank you for the pics, and video.
Carolina Clay on 03/01/2010 at 4:18 am said:
Musicfan,
Clay Aiken gave an eloquent, impassioned speech at the HRC Gala this weekend. Thank you for reporting all this in CANN where those not in attendance could see photos, read the text, and watch a video of his address.
IamMesmerized on 03/01/2010 at 4:43 am said:
Oops, that's me above! 😉
kallie on 03/01/2010 at 6:14 am said:
I think Clay Aiken's "It's About Damn Time" speech has hit the right note! He is fascinating.
lulu on 02/28/2010 at 11:26 pm said:
Not only did Clay Aiken sound good, but he looked good, too. The positive feedback is also mighty fine!!
Carole Hart on 03/01/2010 at 4:42 am said:
Why do I think the most common phrase through the Clay Nation will now be "It's about damn time!" 😀
Rita Hellum on 03/01/2010 at 1:11 pm said:
Why was my comment not posted, what was wrong with it?
Rita jaxv. fl.
musicfan123 on 03/01/2010 at 4:38 pm said:
Rita………..you have posted a comment in the article just below this one……about 18 hours ago. Is that what you meant because that is all I can find.
We only delete spam, however, sometimes it takes me a bit to get to the comments.
claysweetea on 03/01/2010 at 7:58 pm said:
Love the pictures and video. Thank you! Clay is so articulate and funny.
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		ModelAndView mv = new ModelAndView("uploadvideo");
		logger.debug("Processing uploading...");

		if(br.hasErrors()){
			logger.error("Binding errors: " + br.getErrorCount());
			for (ObjectError objError : br.getAllErrors()){
				logger.error("Error message:" + objError.getDefaultMessage());
				}
			mv.addObject("nError", br.getErrorCount());
		} else {
			logger.debug("Video title: " + videoModel.getVideoTitle());
			logger.debug("Video Size: " + videoModel.getVideoFile().getSize());
			mv.addObject("videoTitle", videoModel.getVideoTitle());
			mv.addObject("videoSize", videoModel.getVideoFile().getSize());
			mv.addObject("originalFileName",videoModel.getVideoFile().getOriginalFilename());
		}

		return mv;

	}
}

/*public class HomeController {
	@RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET)
	public String home(){
		return "uploadvideo";
	}

	private static final String VIDEOS = "videos";
	private static final String TOMCAT_HOME_PROPERTY = "catalina.home";
    private static final String TOMCAT_HOME_PATH = System.getProperty(TOMCAT_HOME_PROPERTY);
    private static final String VIDEOS_PATH = TOMCAT_HOME_PATH + File.separator + VIDEOS;

    private static final File 	VIDEOS_DIR = new File(VIDEOS_PATH);
    private static final String VIDEOS_DIR_ABSOLUTE_PATH = VIDEOS_DIR.getAbsolutePath() + File.separator;
    private static final String FAILED_UPLOAD_MESSAGE = "You failed to upload [%s] because the file because %s";
    private static final String SUCCESS_UPLOAD_MESSAGE = "You successfully uploaded file = [%s]";

    Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(this.getClass());
    @RequestMapping(value = "/upload", method = RequestMethod.POST)
//    public String uploadFileHandler(@RequestParam("name") String name,
    public String uploadFileHandler (@RequestParam("file") MultipartFile file) {
        ModelAndView mv = new ModelAndView("uploadvideo");
        String name = "title";
            logger.debug("name = " + name);
        	createDirIfNeeded();
            mv.addObject("message", createFile(name, file));

            mv.addObject("path", VIDEOS_DIR_ABSOLUTE_PATH + name +".mov");
            mv.addObject("fileName", name);
            mv.addObject("fileSize", file.getSize());
           return "uploadvideo";
    }

    private String createFile(String name, MultipartFile file) {
    	try{
    	File video = new File(VIDEOS_DIR_ABSOLUTE_PATH + name);
    	BufferedOutputStream stream = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(video));
    	stream.write(file.getBytes());
    	stream.close();
		return String.format(SUCCESS_UPLOAD_MESSAGE, name);
    } catch (Exception e){
    	return String.format(FAILED_UPLOAD_MESSAGE,  name, e.getMessage());
    }
	}

	private void createDirIfNeeded() {
        if (!VIDEOS_DIR.exists()) {
        	VIDEOS_DIR.mkdirs();
        }
    }
}
	*/

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Q: Missing token and extraneous input I use Python3.g4 grammar from here and try to modify it. I want to add type hints, starting with 3 chars "#t ". They can be on separate line and after statements.
Added and modified rules:
simple_stmt
 : small_stmt ( ';' small_stmt )* ';'? type_comment? NEWLINE
 | type_comment NEWLINE
 ;

type_comment
 : TYPE_COMMENT
 ;

TYPE_COMMENT
 : '#' 't' ' ' ~[\r\n]*
 ;

Other relevant rules:
stmt
 : simple_stmt
 | compound_stmt
 ;

fragment COMMENT
 : '#' ~[\r\n]*
 ;

compound_stmt
 : if_stmt
 | while_stmt
 | for_stmt
 | try_stmt
 | with_stmt
 | funcdef
 | classdef
 | decorated
 ;

while_stmt
 : WHILE test ':' suite ( ELSE ':' suite )?
 ;

suite
 : simple_stmt
 | NEWLINE INDENT stmt+ DEDENT
 ;

With input
a = 1 #t int

#t int

#t str
s = "string"

I get following errors:
line 3:0 missing NEWLINE at '#t int'
line 5:0 extraneous input '#t str' expecting NEWLINE

When line
| type_comment NEWLINE

changed to
| type_comment

I receive other similar errors. What is the correct version of this grammar?

A: My guess would be that the #t ... gets matched by a rule defined before your TYPE_COMMENT. Try to define TYPE_COMMENT as the first lexer rule. If that doesn't help, please post your entire grammar.

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"I asked for that to go out yesterday!" I yelled at the newly hired receptionist, Melinda. "Now, it's going to be late! I don't know why it's so hard to do what I ask. I haven't asked that much of you!" She'd only been with my company for a couple of weeks and I hadn't spent much time around her. But here I was, yelling at her. She looked at me as if I'd slapped her. She started apologizing profusely, not knowing what to say to appease me. I snatched the letter out of her hand and made an off-the-cuff comment about how I might as well not even ask her to do anything because it probably wouldn't get done anyway.
Sadly, that was my first encounter with leadership—and I was not exactly making the best first impression, either. I was 28 years old and had started my own company that year. I had also just had a baby, my husband was working the night shift, and I was running all over town trying to do what I could to keep the new company afloat while sleep-deprived. It was a difficult time, and, unfortunately, I used my authority as an excuse to lead with the weight of my position as opposed to using my head and heart to lead with maturity.
Thankfully, I've learned a lot of lessons in leadership in the last 14 years. Not only because I went back to school to get my doctorate degree in Organizational Leadership, but that did help. I also attribute what I've learned about leading well to the fact that I've surrounded myself with good leaders, both inside and outside of my organization.
I'd like to share with you the valuable lessons of I've learned, through five lessons in good leadership.
Have you heard the phrase 'praise in public; criticize in private'? I have, and I disagree, and I'll tell you why. When you praise in public, you're sending the message that things are going well, that performance is acceptable and you're happy with the way things are going. In fact, you're so happy that you're even drawing attention to their stellar performance by taking the time to offer public comments. But when you criticize in private, your message is contradictory to what you've publicly proclaimed. This concept is confusing at best, and lacks consistency with your messaging.
Instead of praising in public and criticizing anyone, good leaders build their team members up and focus on the wins, publicly and privately. Private communication is not an opportunity for condemnation and shame, either. That's not to say that losses are overlooked, however, but instead of spotlighting and analyzing mistakes and what went wrong, good leaders help others look for opportunities for growth. There is no criticism—public or private.
"I've only been there four months and I feel like I'm being set up. My boss tells me he'll support me 100% but when my team goes above me and talks to him about me, he doesn't redirect them to address their concerns with me. And now I've noticed the HR manager is only giving me half the information I need," Tammy, my client, said to me in her recent coaching session. She knew the prior person in her had left because she hadn't been supported in her role, and Tammy confided in me that she was regretting her decision to change companies.
An undermining team can spell disaster for the culture and all employees involved, including the organization. In this case, the culture included lying, manipulating, and backstabbing, and Tammy's boss, the Area Director, was inadvertently supporting it through not addressing it. As a result, the toxic office environment led a stellar employee like Tammy to ultimately find another job.
A good leader sets the tone for a positive company culture and wouldn't allow unhealthy behaviors to persist. By appeasing the team and continuing to have company meetings without all sides present, the closed door represented approval and the secrecy resulted in a factional staff. Whether spoken or unspoken, leaders set the cultural tone and dictate what behaviors will and won't be permissible.
"I've already said that my team's exhausted, but you weren't listening. If you'd just listen you'd know that," Paul said to his team lead, hitting his hand on the desk in the meeting. She shot her rebuttal back quickly, completely missing the opportunity to listen; she lost the opportunity to lead well. Paul was clearly frustrated, as we all feel when we aren't being heard, but the point that was missed was the one not being said—the meaning behind the meaning.
Leadership is more than about hearing what people have to say, it's about actively listening to those around you. Thankfully, active listening is a skill that can be developed over time.
To improve your active listening skills requires more than just the occasional glance in the same direction and 'uh huh' or 'yeah' during a conversation. Active listeners maintain eye contact, listen for understanding, and take a genuine interest what's being said. To improve your active listening skills, remain neutral, consider what's not being said, and ask clarifying questions before jumping to conclusions.
Do you remember the tale of the Emperor's New Clothes? It's a classic childhood tale about an emperor who wouldn't listen to feedback that he didn't want to hear. As a result, he surrounded himself only with people who told him exactly what he wanted to hear and wound up naked in public.
Now, I'm not saying this because I'm worried you'll show up to your next board meeting in the buff; but I do know there's extreme value in having people in your corner who'll tell you the hard stuff, even when you don't want to hear it. Criticism is never easy to hear, but when you reward candid, honest feedback, you're setting a standard for others that shows you're open to grow.
Listening to the older man speak, you'd never guess he was a billionaire. Craig was soft-spoken and honest as he spoke of his failings in business and how he'd learned from his mistakes. He'd made his vast fortune in real estate but maintained an air about him that exuded humility. He spoke of some of the darkest days of his life, when he lost his fortune and felt as if he had nowhere to turn. Even now, decades later, he reflected on that time with thanksgiving, as he recognized that he'd learned so much during the darkness.
There's an old proverb that says pride comes before a fall, meaning that when you behave with pride and arrogance, failure is likely. Good leaders remind themselves that they are human, and they acknowledge their faults and flaws. They know they will make mistakes and accept that they don't have all the answers. They are confident in their abilities without being arrogant; they are approachable and humble.
I'm thankful I've had the opportunity to surround myself with strong leaders who demonstrate characteristics I try to emulate. I'm also thankful for Melinda, who didn't leave after I yelled at her for not mailing the letter. After 14 years of being in business, she's still with me and my company.
We both still remember that day, but we reflect back on it now and laugh. She's forgiven me, and thankfully, seen me grow as a leader; and I've seen her grow as a leader, too.
Lessons in good leadership are only effective if you learn from them and put them into practice. What lessons have you learned about ways to behave and not to behave as a leader? I'd love to hear from you.


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On Donald Trump's long list of bête noires, "sanctuary cities" are near the top. And he's promised to act on his ire.
In a major immigration speech in August, the president-elect vowed to withhold all federal funding from cities and states that don't actively particulate in deportation campaigns. Securing their compliance is the only way Trump can hope to carry out his campaign plank of "immediately" expelling up to 3 million immigrants — at least short of massively expanding the federal immigration agency, which only has about six thousand employees.
If Trump gets his way, not only will cities have to turn over records that detail their residents' immigration statuses (such as the municipal IDs that New York started issuing last year, or the IDs San Francisco introduced in 2009), but they could even be required to hold people without warrants or formal charges on the federal government's behalf — or risk losing critical revenue.
The term "sanctuary city" is rather misleading, conjuring up images of cities actively shielding their residents from deportation, like clergy hiding refugees inside a cathedral. In truth, federal agents go wherever they please. The only difference is that in sanctuary cities, local police concern themselves with local laws and leave enforcement of national laws to the federal government.
Sanctuary city or not, undocumented immigrants who have run-ins with the law find themselves with almost no protection. As a matter of course, their fingerprints are sent to the FBI and the immigration police as soon as they're booked. If federal records show they're in the country unlawfully, all the feds need to come pick them up is a warrant. (The only exception is New York City, where undocumented immigrants are guaranteed a lawyer to defend them in court.)
At the same time, sanctuary cities still represent one of the strongest bulwarks against Trump's inhumane immigration proposals. While there are few concrete estimates, a huge share of the country's undocumented population lives in these cities. And the more local governments that resist Trump's agenda, the greater the logistical hurdles he'll face implementing it.
The History of Sanctuaries
"Sanctuary cities" are cloaked in religious language for a reason. To the extent that US municipalities look out for the undocumented, it's largely because of an activist movement that grew out of churches and synagogues.
In the early 1980s, refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala were crossing the US border in droves, driven from their countries by civil war. The Reagan administration, viewing these conflicts as fronts in the Cold War, funded the countries' oppressive right-wing governments and refused to grant the refugees asylum status. "If you had a weak claim from the Soviet Union, you would get asylum," recalled Dan Kesselbrenner, the director of the National Immigration Project, who was litigating cases during that period. "But if you were persecuted within an inch of your life in El Salvador or Guatemala, you would be denied."
So Quakers and Presbyterians in Tucson took it upon themselves to start smuggling refugees across the border. By the mid-1980s, more than 150 congregations across the country were resettling refugees.
Cities, partly in response to this influx, began revising their own policies. In Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, many undocumented immigrants wouldn't even go to the hospital or report crimes to the police for fear of being deported. So the cities drafted laws that provided basic security to those without papers. An executive order issued by New York mayor Ed Koch was representative: it forbid city employees like cops and welfare workers from reporting undocumented people to the feds, unless they were suspected of committing a crime.
In subsequent years, congressional Republicans tried to put the squeeze on sanctuary cities. After several abortive attempts, they finally succeeded in 1996 during negotiations over Bill Clinton's welfare-reform bill, managing to work in a single sentence stating that cities couldn't stop their employees from turning in undocumented immigrants. A second law passed that year authorized the federal government to immediately deport any undocumented immigrant who had committed a misdemeanor, like marijuana possession. (Before that, immigrants were only kicked out if they'd been convicted of a crime that involved at least a five-year jail sentence.)
While the Clinton administration was no friend of immigrants, the anti–sanctuary city legislation lay dormant until after 9/11, when the Bush administration seized on it and began training local cops to identify undocumented immigrants. Particularly in Republican-leaning states like Florida and Georgia, anyone who was booked into a county jail could be interrogated about their immigration history. These interviews became the main channel for deportations, says Muzaffar Chishti, an attorney with the Migration Policy Institute.
In 2008, the feds went a step farther: they started requiring law enforcement to send the fingerprints of every person arrested for any offense, anywhere, to the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. Whenever someone "appeared" to be undocumented, Homeland Security could ask the local jail to hold the person for an extra forty-eight hours, excluding weekends — even if there was no warrant, even if their charges had been dismissed — so federal agents would have time to come pick them up.
And pick them up they did. Beginning in 2009, Obama tripled the budget for immigration enforcement, spending more on it than on all other federal law-enforcement agencies combined. With newfound cooperation from local jails, the number of deportations shot up: from 319,000 in 2007 to about 392,000 in 2009. Obama's deportation machine kept breaking records, topping out at 438,000 in 2013. Well over half of the immigrants removed during his tenure did not have prior criminal records.
But the immigrant rights movement pushed back, both in the streets and in the courts. In 2014, a federal judge ruled that a county in Oregon had violated a woman's rights by detaining her, at the federal government's request, without probable cause. In the wake of the decision, hundreds of counties began spurning the federal government's detention requests, in part to avoid being sued themselves.
They weren't offering sanctuary, in the literal sense; they just refused to hold people without formal charges, or to give special notifications when the detainees were released. Their message to Homeland Security was essentially, "If you want to pick them up, just get a warrant."
The Obama administration, faced with rising opposition, backed off the detainer requests and took a different tack, prioritizing the removal of violent criminals.
Trump, on the other hand, seems to be spoiling for a fight. But he can't slash all federal funding to sanctuary cities without congressional authorization. (He could choose to revoke only Department of Justice funding instead of all federal funding, but this is unlikely given his "law-and-order" stance.)
A bill filed this past summer by Pennsylvania senator Patrick Toomey provides a glimpse of the kind of legislation we might see. The measure — which failed in the Senate but could be revived in some form — would significantly roll back federal funding to sanctuary cities.
Take New York City: federal dollars makes up less than 9 percent of the total budget, but departments like Housing and Preservation and Children's Services would lose nearly half their funding. That kind of quick drawdown would deal a considerable blow — both to direct beneficiaries of government programs and the local economy.
Trump is betting that in the face of such threats, local officials will fold.
Roadblocks for Trump
But Trump's desire to steamroll sanctuary cities will come up against a couple potential roadblocks.
The first is judicial. In 1987, the US Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could withhold a small fraction of annual highway funding from states that refused to raise their drinking age to twenty-one. (Twice since then, for helmet laws and lower speed limits, Congress has invoked the same right.)
But in 2012, while upholding parts of the Affordable Care Act, the ultra-conservative Roberts Court ruled that the federal government couldn't withhold money from states that declined to expand their Medicaid programs.
While it would be more than foolhardy to count on the Supreme Court to rein in Trump, sanctuary cities' legal challenges will at the very least frustrate Trump's dream of taking them down in one fell swoop.
And for now, elected officials in sanctuary cities don't seem to be wavering.
Many have declared, either via a statement from the mayor or a vote by the city council, that they will stick to their current immigration policies even if it means jeopardizing federal cash. At least five additional cities (four of them in Vermont, the fifth in California) have decided to adopt new sanctuary policies for the first time.
And last week, the leaders of thirty-one local governments, including the mayors of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, sent an open letter to Obama, insisting that he take last-minute measures to curb Trump's deportation plans. Specifically, they asked him to protect the personal information of people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and to extend eligibility for Temporary Protected Status, which allows migrants to remain in the US if their homelands are declared unsafe by the US attorney general.
Trump's election has sparked a flurry of action on immigration at the local level. Seattle's mayor has urged that $250,000 be spent to support undocumented students in the city's public schools; Los Angeles has started advising its undocumented residents not to fill out any new applications for city programs (lest the records be seized); and Oakland's city council has called on California's governor to institute sanctuary policies statewide.
Meanwhile, San Francisco's city council is considering a proposal to allocate $5 million for lawyers who could represent the undocumented in deportation proceedings, and the city attorney says he's already preparing to sue if a bill like Toomey's is passed.
In New York, undocumented immigrants will benefit from a program implemented in 2014 that guarantees legal defense to those without immigration papers — similar to the measure San Francisco is considering. And New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged to destroy the applications for city-issued ID cards if it's necessary to keep them from the feds (though a Republican group has filed a lawsuit to stop him).
Other laws that aren't explicitly connected to immigration policy could prove to be a boon for the undocumented as well. Earlier this year, New York City approved a measure directing police to stop arresting people for low-level offenses like public urination or littering, and to issue citations instead. As law professors Daniel Altschuler and Peter Markowitz have argued, such measures limit people's contact with the carceral state, and thus reduce the chances they'll be deported.
Staying Trump's Deportation Hand
With Trump vowing to slash funding to sanctuary cities within his first one hundred days, the showdown could set the tone for anti-Trump resistance over the next four years.
Many urban mayors have little to gain politically from working with Trump — even Rahm Emanuel, Chicago's neoliberal mayor, has rebuffed the president-elect — and refusals to comply at the local and state level will place enormous burdens on Trump's deportation plans. Standing together, sanctuary cities could marshal significant resources for their legal defense, while at the same time drain Trump's political capital. Phil Torrey, an attorney with the Harvard Immigration Project, says it's likely that each uncooperative city's sanctuary laws would have to be dealt with individually — so the more cities push back, the greater the headaches for Trump.
Activist groups will be absolutely central to this effort.
Indeed, what's most likely to stay Trump's deportation hand is the grassroots organizing of the immigrant rights movement and the power of disruptive action. Immigrant rights groups forced President Obama to pull back from a deportation-only immigration policy. In the wake of Trump's Electoral College victory, thousands streamed into the streets and blocked highways across the country.
Mayors tempted to cave or compromise on sanctuary city status will have to deal with the same specter of mass shutdowns.
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