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Line (heraldry)
Engrailed
A chief enarched indented throughout in the arms of Sawbridgeworth
Bretessé
A fess wavy in the arms of Welwyn Hatfield
Nebuly
A chief embattled in the arms of Letchworth
The lines of partition used to divide and vary fields and charges in heraldry are by default straight, but may have many different shapes. (Care must sometimes be taken to distinguish these types of lines from the extremely unusual and non-traditional use of lines as charges, [http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Cav/91CavalryRegiment.htm] and to distinguish these shapes from actual charges, such as "a mount [or triple mount] in base," or, particularly in German heraldry, different kinds of embattled from castle walls.) The most common include the following:
*"indented:" with small zigzags like a saw's edge.
*"dancetty:" like "indented", but with opposing points staggered so that the band's width is constant, and usually of fewer points; in early days no distinction was drawn between this and indented. (A fess dancetty is often called a dance.)
*"dentilly:" a modern invention, similar to "indented", but with one of the sides of the points perpendicular and the other angled.
*"rayonné": as indented, but with curved instead of straight lines.
*"wavy" (rarely called "undy"): like a sine curve.
*"engrailed:" a series of half-circles, with the lobes pointing towards the chief or dexter as a line of division, or towards the interior of an ordinary.
*"invected:" the reverse of engrailed.
*"nebuly:" a series of mushroom shapes, representing stylized clouds; formerly not always distinct from "wavy".
*"potenty:" like a row of capital T's ("potent" means a crutch).
*"embattled:" topped with a row of small squares, like a battlement.
**When a fess is embattled, only the topmost edge is altered. If both edges are to be embattled, the term "embattled-counter-embattled" (or "counter-embattled," as in the arms of Sir Cecil Denniston Burney) is used. In this case the lines are parallel. If gaps face gaps, the term "bretessé" is used. There is at least one emblazonment suggesting that the orle is only embattled on its outer edge.
**"embattled grady:" has one small square atop another. [http://www.armorial-register.com/arms-es/moore-sr-arms.html] James Parker says that "double-embattled" may be the same as this.
*"raguly:" as with embattled, but slanted instead of orthogonal, like the stumps of limbs protruding from a tree-trunk.
*"dovetailed:" as the name implies; unlike embattled, gaps face gaps.
Exotic line shapes
The arms of the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals contain an example of "indented acute," a form of indented with higher peaks. [cite web|title="College of Arms Newsletter No.17, June 2008|url=http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Newsletter/017.pdf|accessdate=2008-07-13]
The number of peaks in indented is almost never specified, but an exception is the arms of Arthur D. Stairs: "Per bend sinister indented of six steps Gules and Sable", and Westville, Natal, South Africa bears "Sable, issuant from behind a fence of spears in base Argent, a fig tree in leaf Or; on a chief indented of four points to base, also Or, three lion's faces Sable".
In South Africa there are a number of examples of "dancetty inverted". While the number of peaks in dancetty are three unless otherwise specified, the arms of Wagland show "dancetty of two points" [http://www.whitelionsociety.org.uk/Slidesandblazon/Slide56.gif] and the arms of Baz Manning show an (identical in appearance) "dancetty of two full points upwards" [http://www.theheraldrysociety.com/resources/bazmanning.htm] . The arms of the Matroosberg Transitional Representative Council in South Africa give an example of "dancetty... in the shape of a letter W". The arms of the French department of Côtes d'Armor show "émanché," which would be equivalent to the English "per fess dancetty of two full points upwards." The arms of Baron Griffiths of Fforestfach are "Paly of four Vert and Argent per fess enhanced indented of two points upwards each point double barbed throughout issuing in base a pile double barbed throughout all counterchanged". [http://www.theheraldrysociety.com/publications/gazette/2007-Dec.pdf] The arms of Alaric John Martin Woodrow show an example of "barry dancetty each point double barbed". [http://www.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project-pic.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=583&ProjectElementID=2054] The [http://www.polity.org.za/html/govdocs/misc/fscoat.html arms of the Free State] in South Africa show "a chief dancetty, the peaks terminating in merlons," and so might be called a combination of dancetty and embattled; a similar hybrid can be seen in the arms of the Agricultural Gymnasium. Hoerskool Hangklip provide an example of "dancetty with points flattened", and Blouberg of "dancetty the peaks couped." [http://www.geocities.com/heraldrysa/2-sainno.htm] It is difficult to know whether to characterise the "wall-like extremity with five merlons and four embrasures" in the arms of the Kurgan Oblast in Russia as a divided field or a charge. [http://www.heraldry.hobby.ru/eng/e.kurgan.html]
The wavy chief in the arms of Lord Nelson was blazoned as "undulated". [http://www.baronage.co.uk/nl/nl-02-07.htm]
The field of the arms of the 40th Finance Battalion of the United States Army is blazoned as parted "per fess wavy (in the manner of a Taeguk)". [http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Fin/40th%20Finance%20Battalion.htm] The chief in the arms of "Professor S.W. Haines" is "wavy of one crest and depressed in the centre of one point". [http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Haines.htm]
In "wavy crested" the waves appear like pointed breakers. [http://www.snodgrass-clan.com/grant.html]
The arms of James Hill show an example of barrulets "wavy crested to the sinister on the upper edge". [http://www.heraldry-scotland.co.uk/scotsarmsgal/gallery.asp?ID=149] There are examples of even great complexity and specificity in the "wavy" line, such as the arms of "Baron Nolan... [which include] three 'bars wavy couped composed of two troughs and a wave invected of one point on the upper edge and engrailed of one point on the lower edge'" [http://www.grsampson.net/AHtc.html] .
The arms of Liverpool Hope University include "a Cross engrailed of one point on each limb". [http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Newsletter/010.pdf]
The arms of the Pretoria Philatelic Society show a "chief engrailed and couped", [http://www.geocities.com/heraldrysa/1-corg3.htm] having the appearance of the edge of a perforated postage stamp.
The arms of Kutlwanong Dorp in South Africa provide an example both of the specification of the number of lobes in invected, and those lobes being "trefly."
The arms of Laerskool Bosveld in South Africa have a field "Per chevron embowed trefly, Azure and Argent".
Specification of the number of "undulations" in nebuly can be seen by [http://www.heraldry-scotland.co.uk/interarmsgal/gallery.asp?ID=46 Jochen Wilke] 's roundel, with ten. (It is uncommon for lines of partition to modify a charge other than an ordinary.)
The arms of Schellenberg, in Liechtenstein, provide an example of embattled "with three battlements." [http://www.ngw.nl/int/oveur/schellen.htm] The bordure in the arms of Boissy l'Aillerie, in Val d'Oise, France, has nine battlements (and the bordure is also masoned and contains doorlike openings).
A very unusual occurrence of embattled occurs in the arms of the 136th Military Police Battalion of the United States Army: "Sable, a fesse enhanced and embattled Or, overall a magnifying glass palewise rim Argent (Silver Gray), the glass surmounting and enlarging the middle crenel between two merlons, the handle Gules edged of the second bearing a mullet Argent." [http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/MP/136MilitaryPoliceBattalion.htm]
The arms of the 2nd Baron Kirkwood, David Kirkwood, show two chevronels "round embattled" (the merlons are rounded rather than squares). [http://www.theheraldrysociety.com/resources/andersdaae.htm The arms of Anders Daae] show "battled embattled". There are also examples of "embattled pointed" [http://www.geocities.com/heraldrysa/2-sainno.htm] and "embattled in the form of mine dumps".
James Parker cites the arms of Christopher Draisfield: "Gules, a chevron raguly of two bastons couped at the top argent."
The arms of Zodwa Special School for Severely Mentally Handicapped Children show a chevron dovetailed, the peak ensigned with a potent issuant".
Some examples also exist of "urdy," where the line is in the shapes of the upside-down and rightside-up "shields" of vair (this is to be distinguished from "couped urdy", in which the couping takes a pointed form [http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/MP/231MilitaryPoliceBattalion.htm] ). The arms of Winfried Paul Reinhold Steinhagen are "Per chevron, the peak in the form of a merlon round urdy of four, Gules and Or, in chief a horse forcene and a goat clymant respecting one another, Argent, and in base a bull's head Sable armed Argent; a chief per fess in the form of a wall with three watchtowers, Azure and Argent, the latter charged with a strand of barbed wire throughout, Sable". The "unusual, if not unique" arms of Lourens Du Toit are "Per fess of three pallets urdy Sable and Or". [http://www.geocities.com/heraldrysa/1-famg2.htm]
The arms of Ernest John Altobello show a chevronel with the upper edge "grady" (this is identical in appearance to indented) "and ensigned of a tower Argent".
The arms of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons [http://www.racds.org/college/college_arms] have a bordure emblazoned "dentate," although this appears to be quite similar to dovetailed.
The rare line "bevilled" modifies the bendlets in [http://www.whitelionsociety.org.uk/Slidesandblazon/WLS%20Armorial/Slide94.gifthe arms of Thomas Roy Barnes] . This lightning-bolt type of line with one zigzag is to be distinguished from "angled", in which the line takes a 90-degree upwards turn before another 90-degree turn, continuing parallel and in the same direction from the old line. There is a South African example of "bevilled to sinister", and a bend "double bevilled" can be seen in the arms of Philip Kushlick School.
A line "nowed" contains a semicircular protuberance in the middle.
The arms of Léopold-Henri Amyot [http://www.heraldry.ca/arms/a/amyot.htm] show "per fess ogivy"; this is based on the "ogive" or French for "pointed arch."
A line "trefly" shows protuberances in the form of trefoils.
The arms of St. Paul's Cathedral in Regina, Saskatchewan contain a bordure "its inner line looping in foils of poplar of the field within the bordure at each angle and at regular intervals between". [http://www.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project-pic.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=582&ProjectElementID=2051]
The arms of Carmichael show a fess "wreathy," which may or may not be strictly speaking a line of partition, but it does modify the fess; the coat is not blazoned as a "wreath in fess". James Parker calls this "tortilly."
The 20th century saw some innovations in lines of partition. "Erablé", a series of alternating upside-down and rightside-up maple-leaves, is a typically Canadian line of partition, though the College of Arms in London has used it in a few grants (but compare the cross "nowy erablé" in the arms of Katherina Fahlman Selinger Schaaf. [http://www.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project-pic.asp?lang=e&ProjectID=569&ProjectElementID=2003] A Finnish line of partition, invented by Kaj Cajander and called "kuusikoro," which is called "fir-tree" in Britain, and which the Canadian Heraldic Authority coined the term "sapine" to blazon, resembles fir trees; in the arms of Guy Selvester [http://www.theheraldrysociety.com/resources/guyselvester.htm] this is called "sapinage". A line resembling fir twigs, and so called in British blazon, is called "sapinagy" in Canada, and "havukoro" in Finland. [http://www.baronage.co.uk/2002d/appleton.pdf] ) Other 20th-century examples of lines, or things akin to lines, include the 1990 grant to Albersdorf-Prebuch, also in Austria, in which the upper line of the fess takes the form of fruit, the bottom of vine-leaves. (It is debatable what the distinction is between such lines, and examples such as the [http://www.ngw.nl/int/oos/b/bierbaum.htm arms] of Bierbaum am Auersbach, a town in Styria, in which three pears grow from a pall.)
The South African Bureau of Heraldry has developed the line of partition "serpentine", which is rather like wavy, but with only one "wave"; the serpentine in the arms of the Mtubatuba Primary School is defined as "dexter to chief and sinister to base". (Similar is the German "im Schlangenschnitt" (snake-wise).) It has also developed the uniquely South-African lines of division (which can also form the ends of a charge) "nowy of a Cape Town gable" (now called just "nowy gabled"), [http://www.baronage.co.uk/2002d/appleton.pdf] and "nowy of an Indian cupola." Similarly, the fess line in the arms of the Council for Social and Associated Workers is "nowy of a trimount inverted", the fess in the arms of Mossel Bay is "nowy of two Karoo gable houses", the chief in the arms of the Lenasia South-East Management Committee is "nowy of an Indian cupola", the chief in the arms of the Genealogical Society of South Africa is "double nowy gably" and that of Frederick Brownell is "gably of three". [http://www.geocities.com/heraldrysa/1-famg1.htm] The arms of the Reyneke Bond (i.e. Reyneke Family Association) are "Per fess, in each flank double nowy fitchy to base, Azure and Or, a lion rampant per fess of the second and Gules, a chief Or". The plain chief identifies these as the arms of a family association. The arms of Itsokolele, South Africa include "a chief double fitchy inverted".
"Broad fitchy couped" is a line of South-African origin similar in appearance to a mine-dump. [http://www.geocities.com/heraldrysa/e-line.htm]
Chiefs, fesses and palar dividing lines are sometimes seen "arched" and "double-arched" (and there is an example of triple-arched), though there is some debate as to whether or not these are lines of partition. That arched can be combined with partition lines can be seen from the [http://www.ngw.nl/int/gbr/scot/slanks.htm arms] of South Lanarkshire in Scotland. Arched can also be "reversed".
A shield horizontally and vertically divided into red (upper left and lower right) and silver with sawedged lines would be blazoned: "Quarterly indented gules and argent."
Chevrons can be topped with a fleur-de-lys, and ordinaries with a non-straight border (particularly if they are dancetty or engrailed) can have the points topped with demi fleurs-de-lys. In some reference works flory-counter-flory (and flory) is treated like a line of partition, even though strictly speaking it is not. (Flory is sometimes varied with other shapes than the fleur-de-lys, when it is blazoned as "flory of". [http://www.theheraldrysociety.com/resources/michaelmctiernan.htm] )
In Scotland lines of partition are often used to modify a bordure to difference the arms of a cadet from the chief of the house.
* "Burke's Peerage and Baronetage," 105th edition.
*Variations of ordinaries
*Finnish heraldry
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Facebook admits WhatsApp knows best with messaging
Authored by: Kris Carlon Jun 25, 2015
Facebook has been a bit all over the place with its Messenger app recently. First it stripped the chat feature from its Facebook app and forced everyone to install the standalone Messenger app, then it added chat back to the main app. Now it has done away with the necessity of a Facebook account at all to use Messenger. So what gives? WhatsApp gives, that's what.
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When Facebook bought WhatsApp last year for the staggering price of $19 billion, it was pretty clear that Facebook was seriously invested in messaging. While WhatsApp remains a largely independent faction of the larger Facebook juggernaut, WhatsApp still has more active monthly users than Facebook Messenger (800 million versus 700 million). It looks like Facebook is learning a thing or two from this.
Facebook knows that not everyone wants to use Facebook to use Messenger. / © ANDROIDPIT
No Facebook account needed for Messenger
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Secondly, WhatsApp lets you maintain a level of privacy for just that reason: if someone doesn't have your number, they can't message you. Meanwhile, anyone you've added on Facebook can message you. Furthermore, social media participation is still much bigger in the US than it is in other countries. Instant messaging is still more popular than social networks in most countries of the world.
For many, instant messaging is much more important than a social network. / © ANDROIDPIT
Why did Facebook do this?
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This is the new no-Facebook sign-up screen for Messenger. / © Facebook
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This is not to say that Facebook sees the social network as a limiting factor for growth, after all, Messenger wouldn't even exist as a standalone service without Facebook. It means simply that the less strings attached to a messaging platform the further it can spread. This is the lesson that WhatsApp has taught Facebook and now that is has been learned, it's hard to see any other service competing.
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christian Sep 16, 2015 Link to comment
very nice app.whatsapp
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I use viber 😅
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Is it going to be available for India too?


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It's been far too long, but we wanted to give a little more in-depth summary of our early-May trip to Hawaii. It was Michal's first time in Hawaii and Sarah's first time visiting the Big Island. You can see the entire itinerary in full detail, or you can get the general overview below.
For the record, you should also look at Michal's photos and Sarah's photos from the trip.
Here's how it went down:
Day 1: Sunday
Hawaiian Airlines sucks, even though they do give you free food onboard. Let's get that out of the way to begin with. They charged us to check a carry-on bag, falsly claiming we had to. This in turn caused us to miss our separate-ticket connection in Honolulu to Hilo, causing a two hour delay. After the 3 mile walk to the hotel (with a ride from strangers driving by for the last 0.5 mile), we headed out to dinner in downtown Hilo at Pesto's. Mostly this was a travel day, so not much happened aside from that.
Day 2: Monday
Monday started with us picking up a 4x4 rental car for about three times the daily rate of regular economy car. We then drove to Ahalanui Hot Pond on the eastern coast of the Big Island. Before we got there, we stopped by Lava Tree State Park, which was probably a lot neater if we hadn't seen a lot of similar lava-preserved trees and lava-molded tree trunks in the Pacific Northwest previously. Then we swung by the eastern-most point, just for kicks. All told it was about an hour drive and a few minutes' of stops before we got to the hot pond, which is a geothermally heated pond with a small channel connecting it to the ocean. We floated in this pond for three hours or so, inadvertantly causing a massive sunburn for both of us. But it was incredibly pleasant, with the water about 90 degrees and the air temperature in the low 80's. Lunch was a couple of hot dogs from the vendor in the parking lot on our way out.
Driving back to Hilo we headed south first, and got a look at the distant steam cloud formed by lava hitting the ocean. Little did we know, but we were less than a mile from the official lava viewing area (but it wouldn't open until 5pm), and we would be returning the next day. We then drove back to Hilo, filled up the gas tank, and headed out to Mauna Kea.
We had been told there was no gas along the way, and a 4x4 was "recommended". Well it turns out that it's really a well-maintained gravel road for the 8 or so miles to the summit -- perfectly doable in a regular car. We got there far too early, around 4:30 or 5 in the afternoon, and there really isn't too much to do. However, in May there is snow! So we played around in it a tiny bit, and we also hiked the the actual summit of over 13,000ft. But in the end we still had about an hour to kill in the car. We had sadly just missed the public tours of one of the telescopes which ended around 4pm -- they apparently need time to calibrate before sunset. If we had known we probably would have tried to show up a little earlier.
The tourist tours starting showing up less than 30 minutes before sunset, which was at 7:00pm. They're very timely (though expensive -- our brief investigation revealed that most tours cost more for a single person than our rental car cost for the entire day). Sunset is quick in the tropics, and most everyone left promptly. You're not supposed to stay longer than 30 minutes after sunset, but we waited until we were the last ones, and left about 45 minutes after sunset -- driving with our headlights off for the first mile or so to avoid disturbing the telescopes.
On our way down the mountain we stopped back at the visitor center which sets up telescopes for a star gazing program each evening which goes until 10pm. Unfortunately it's pretty crowded with all the commercial tours, but it was fairly fun anyway. We spent about an hour and Sarah had a hot chocolate to stay warm (the evening temperatures fell to around 50 F).
Day 3: Tuesday
We switched our 4x4 rental car for the cheap economy one early in the morning and drove out to Volcanoes National Park, about a 30 minute drive. We stopped in the visitor center to get information on the lava flow and the ranger was most un-helpful, stating that to see the lava we'd have to hike six miles over lava from the end of the Chain of Craters road. A sheet we picked up indicated that lava was flowing in a remote roadless area and wasn't flowing into the ocean (something we knew was not true from the previous day). A last minute unrelated inquiry to another ranger yielded a new info sheet which was more up to date and was actually the only thing which told us that the lava viewing involved only a 1/2 mile hike from the same spot we had seen the lava steam cloud the previous day -- outside the national park, but still official, and open 5 to 10 pm daily.
We spent the rest of the day driving around various sites inside Volcanoes NP. We did the 4 mile Kiluaea Iki trail and saw Thurston lava tube (rendered entirely unimpressive by Ape Cave near Mt. St. Helens in Washington, one of the longest lava tubes in the world).
We drove to the end of the Chain of Craters road and did a 3/4 mile (one-way) hike along the lava to no particular destination -- very neat because the lava covered the road in 2003 so you could still see signposts and pavement here and there. Typically I think of lava as something very ancient and the paved road underneath it underscored just how incredibly recently the lava flowed in this area.
We also did a 1.4 mile roundtrip hike to see some petroglyphs carved into the lava. Again, these were somewhat unimpressive.
We couldn't drive quite the entire crater rim road because the caldera has been erupting since March 2008 and is spewing lots of sulfur dioxide into the air. As a result the entire park was quite hazy ("vog" the locals call it) and in fact much of the Hawaiian Island chain is hazier than normal since March 2003.
Of course in the evening we drove around to see the lava. Unfortunately due to a cliff all you could really see was the reflection of the lava glow, though occasionally you could see a splash of magma. What was really amazing was the boat lights you could see because they were getting really close to the lava -- like 50 feet! In the parking lot there were a number of vendors selling volcano and lava memorabilia, including one photographer who had a picture of his boat touching the lava (and catching fire).
Day 4: Wednesday
I had decided that I wanted to be on one of those boats seeing the lava. I called and discovered there was a 5am trip, but it was full. I understood there to be a 7am trip so I left the hotel at 6am to make the 1 hour drive to the boat launch, only to discover that there "might have been" a 7am trip, only not. The launch location was Isaac Hale park, near the hot pond, so I took some photos before driving back to the hotel. We packed up and checked out, and headed to Kona.
Along the way we stopped at Volcanoes National Park again, this time driving a 9-mile single-lane road out to a scenic overlook. That was pretty much the only thing we hadn't done the previous day. Afterwards we continued south until we got to the turn off for the southern-most point in the US. Grasslands, mostly, along with a decaying wind power farm. There's also a green sand beach, but it involved a real 4x4 road (unlike the Mauna Kea road) so we hiked for about 15 minutes before deciding we didn't want to risk being late to Kona (as we had booked evening plans already).
Kona is a very resort-feeling town; much more tourist-oriented than Hilo, but in a bad way. We spent an hour or so in traffic getting there -- it didn't help that we were following someone speeding until we hit a 35mph zone and a cop driving our direction. We checked in to the hotel at last, Castle Bali Kai Condominiums, then headed into town (2.5 miles or so) to have dinner at a Thai restaurant (we had been told in Hilo that Thai food was particularly good in Hawaii, though it wasn't perticularly so in our experience). After dinner we drove to Keauhou harbor to make our Seaparadise 6pm departure for the night snorkel with manta rays, though the departure really came closer to 6:40pm, and once the divers got in the water (before all us snorkelers) it was probably 7:30 or 8:00pm, even though the snorkel site was about a 10 minute slow boat trip out to the end of the harbor, where the Sheraton hotel is. Apparently light attracts plankton, and manta rays eat plankton, so over the past 20 years the rays have been conditioned to associate light with food. Fun experience, but really expensive, so the bang-for-the-buck isn't quite there.
Day 5: Thursday
The morning was spent snorkeling the Captain Cook monument and Ka'awaloa Cove with Seaquest. We saw spinner dolphins on our way out to the sites, and also stopped in numerous sea caves, lava tubes, and blow holes, taking our 12-person cigarette boat into many of them. The Captain Cook monument is where Captain Cook was killed after some disagreements with the locals and is apparently deeded to England. The snorkeling was pretty fun, though the water was a little chilly.
After snorkeling, we had lunch at a pizza place just outside of Greenwell Farms then went on to tour the coffee farm. It started as a general store but realized they should grow their own coffee instead of buying other farmers' coffee, and today there are lots of fruit trees whose fruit is free for the visitors (we got two oranges and six avocados) if you find it on the ground (or pick it!).
After the coffee tour we headed north to Hapuna beach, which is supposedly routinely rated one of the top beaches in the US.
It's very nice, but not particularly outstanding. And it's pretty remote from anything. We walked up and down the beach then headed back to Kona to finish off the evening at Mamalahoa hot tubs. They asked us if we liked it hot or not; I said not so they turned off the heater. Half an hour later the water was still at 105F -- way too hot. Very nice place however.
Day 6: Friday
We started the morning with a tour of the Original Hawaiian Chocolate Factory. It wasn't free, and the guy liked to talk a lot -- but we didn't walk around that much. We saw three places, about 30 feet apart, and listened to a 20 minute speech at each. But it was interesting to sample cacao pods and watch the lizards lick them.
After chocolate it was time to head to the airport, though we detoured through downtown Kona to hit an internet cafe to check in online for our flight (take that stupid Hawaiian Airlines!) and really delicious shave ice with ice cream underneath. And of course before we got to the airport we detoured through Kaloko-Honokohau National Historic Park, which is really just a couple of fish ponds (and perhaps an "ancient place of refuge" where if you committed a crime and would be killed, if you could outrun your killers to this spot, you'd be safe).
After arriving in Honolulu, we checked in at our hotel, the third Castle hotel we've stayed in. Then we headed out to do a bit of souvenir shopping in Waikiki, and strolled down the beach towards the Moana Surfrider hotel where we had a gigantic and delicious steak dinner at the Beachhouse restaurant.
Day 7: Saturday
Woke up early to get to Pearl Harbor at 8:00am, and we still had to wait an hour to get on the ferry out to the Arizona memorial. It's very interesting, but you can't see that much from the memorial, aside from the oil that's still leaking out of the sunken ship (why haven't they cleaned it up?) Then we also went to the USS Bowfin (submarine) and the USS Missouri (battleship where WWII Japanese surrender was signed). Very neat, though it took a lot longer than we had planned -- until about 1pm. We had hot dogs for lunch at a stand outside the USS Bowfin.
After Pearl Harbor we drove to Sandy Beach, then north to Kailua before returning on Hwy 61 (Pali Hwy) through a very scenic and Jurassic Park-like mountain range.
The afternoon was spent surfing in Waikiki where I did quite well but after my second wave I was still standing on my board but not moving anywhere, so I jumped in and in the process lost my glasses. I saw them for a few moments but the wave action, combined with the 4-8' water depth (depending on the waves) caused me to lose track of them. I went to an ABC store to buy a mask and fin and snorkel and spent the next hour searching for the glasses, but was unable to find them. I'm terribly sad to this day, as I loved the style of those glasses. Lenscrafters at the Ala Moana mall were unable to help without a prescription (boo! It's not like anyone would go get prescription glasses to get high!) so I spent the rest of the evening wearing my prescription sunglasses. Dinner was at a burger joint at the International Marketplace in Waikiki.
Our flight out was around 2pm, so of course that means we had plenty of time to get up at 5am and see the sunrise over Diamond Head. Only the sun rises at 5:55am, and Diamond Head doesn't open until 6, so we saw sunrise outside the gates.
Promptly at 6am they threw the gates open and we (along with everyone else who had gathered for sunrise -- maybe 15-20 cars) drove up to the parking lot to begin the hike up to the summit. The views were stellar, lighting was excellent, and for the first time in Hawaii I didn't have to worry about a sunburn.
Afterwards we hiked down, napped in the hotel, and packed up. We still had fruit from Greenwell Farms, so I scarfed down the two oranges and gave all the avocados to a passing elderly man on the street carrying groceries. Then we headed off to the airport for our return to Seattle.
Tomsha said...
Sounds like you were more or less mostly unimpressed with just about the whole trip including most of the tours and local spots as well as the food. Hawaii has a completely different lifestyle than what you are probably used to. You maybe should just chill and enjoy life for a while


My father in law has a huge collection of radio programs that he has taped and cataloged over the last two or three decades, and several years ago he gave me a couple of interesting tapes from the late 1980s. They contain a recorded performance of a baseball-themed show put on by the late baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti and one of my favorite essayists, New Yorker staffer and renowned baseball writer Roger Angell.The show, which is about two hours long, consists of readings of baseball essays, stories, and poetry. The work of John Updike is represented as is that of Garrison Keillor, but when I listened to the tapes, I was most interested in an excerpt from a book called The Glory of Their Times: The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It, a book that was put together by Lawrence Ritter, a former economics professor at NYU who died in 2004. Ritter was also a big baseball fan, and shortly after Ty Cobb's death in 1961, inspired by the outpouring of myth and legend that occasioned Cobb's passing, Ritter decided to record for posterity an oral history of the early years of professional baseball. Over the next several years, Ritter traveled 75,000 miles, crisscrossing the country, tape recorder in hand, seeking out the game's oldest living veterans, men who played in the decades leading up to and after World War I. The result, first published in 1966 and updated and expanded in 1984, is among the most cherished baseball books around.With the baseball season hitting its sweet spot, I cracked the spine of my tattered copy of Ritter's compilation, and what I found within was a look into a lost period of time – before radio, before TV, and before even the prevalence of still cameras – brimming with color about the game's rough beginnings as America's national pastime.To give just a sample of the gems contained within the Glory of Their Times, this is what I learned reading Fred "Snow" Snodgrass' chapter, a representative sample of the sorts of details in the book that are sure to amaze any fan of today's game:Christy Mathewson "never pitched on Sunday, or even dressed in uniform," but "he made a good part of his expenses every year playing poker."Snodgrass wore a baggy uniform to try to increase the chances of getting hit by pitches, and, failing that, he would dive for the ground on an inside pitch and pinch his arm to raise a welt so he could show the ump where he got "beaned."There was more than one deaf and dumb ballplayer during this era, and, judging by this book, they were all nicknamed "Dummy." Dummy Taylor, who played on the Giants with Snodgrass, "took it as an affront if you didn't learn to converse with him," and consequently everyone on the team learned sign language.A mysterious man named Charles Victory Faust emerged from the stands before a game in 1911 and told the Giants that a fortune teller had told him that if he pitched for the team, they would win the pennant. Superstitious manager (and baseball legend) John McGraw took Faust on the road with the team, and "every day from that day on, Charles Victory Faust was in uniform and he warmed up sincerely to pitch that game." Of course, he never actually pitched, but the Giants did win the pennant in 1911. Faust joined them again in 1912, and again the Giants won the pennant. By 1913, Faust had become a fan favorite and McGraw let Faust come in and pitch an inning, much to the fans' delight. Needless to say, the Giants won the pennant again in 1913.In 1908 Fred Merkle lost the pennant for the Giants because of a famous, "bonehead" play. He was on first and Moose McCormick on third in the bottom half of the ninth inning in a 1-1 ballgame against the Cubs in the last week of the season. Al Bridwell hit a single to center and McCormick scored from third. The fans rushed the field and Merkle sprinted to the clubhouse to avoid the madness – without stepping on second. Cubs shortstop Johnny Evers (of the famous Tinkers, Evers, Chance infield) noticed this, found the ball in the crowd, got in a tussle with the Giants third base coach, tagged second base for the force out, and then convinced the umps to come back out onto the field to reconsider the play. The umps overturned the win, ruling in the Cubs favor.There was a rumor that as a nervous habit, Phillies pitcher Harry Coveleski, "always carried some bologna in his back pocket and chewed on that bologna throughout the game."In 1914, the Boston Braves went from last place on July 4th to contending for the pennant by season's end. Interest in the team was so great that "they put ropes up in the outfield and thousands of people were sitting and standing and standing behind the ropes, right on the playing field."Snodgrass, playing the outfield, got into a shouting match with the Boston fans, and the incensed mayor of Boston got out of his box seat and marched onto the field and demanded that the umps remove Snodgrass from the game.There is a sense that the modern game has lost much of its charm, that it is all spectacle. The game 100 years ago was certainly charming, but, as The Glory of Their Times makes clear, it was perhaps more the spectacle back then, a game of colorful characters and nicknames, brawls and backroom dealings, and fights over money with capricious owners. Some things just don't change. It's also true that for a game that we seemingly know so much about, the book shows just how little we know about professional baseball's formative days.Ritter's amazing chronicle of the early years of baseball is essential for anyone with a deep interest in the game.


Solving for the resultant force created when multiple forces act on a body involves several steps. The steps include using the tools of math and trigonometry to work with force vectors. Using a systematic approach makes it easier to arrive at the correct answer.
With vector quantities like force, the direction of the vector is as important as the magnitude. A force of +50 Newtons (N) in the vertical direction is different from a force of –50 N in the vertical direction. Pay attention to the magnitude and the direction of every force given in a problem you're trying to solve. Similarly, your answer must provide both the magnitude and the direction for the resultant force.
When working with force vectors, be sure to first set a coordinate system to provide a reference for direction. Assign the positive and negative directions for both the horizontal and the vertical axis of your coordinate system. Sometimes this is set for you in the question, with words like "use upward as the + vertical direction." Also identify the axis you'll use when setting the direction of any vector with a direction given in degrees (for example, a force of 1,100 N at an angle of 38 degrees). Typically, the right horizontal axis represents 0 degrees, and the angle of a vector is measured as positive in the counterclockwise direction.
On your coordinate system, sketch out each vector given in the question. Show the positive vectors pointing in the positive direction, the negative vectors pointing in the negative direction, and any vector given in degrees pointing in the general direction of the given angle. Beside each arrow, assign each a name and write in the magnitude and the direction of each force (for example F1 = 300 N at 20 degrees, F2 = –830 N vertical, F3 = 1,100 N at 38 degrees). This step is important because it gives you a visual image of each vector.
Next, resolve each vector into its components. Components of a vector are at 90 degrees to each other. These are typically called the horizontal and vertical components. If the force is indicated as purely horizontal or purely vertical, this step is already done for you. For each vector with a direction that's given as an angle, sketch out a right triangle to graphically show the two components. The given vector is the hypotenuse (H) of the right triangle. Assign the given angle as Ө, and use Ө to identify the side opposite (O) and the side adjacent (A).
The next step is important: Using your reference system, make sure you identify which of the opposite and the adjacent sides is the horizontal and which is the vertical component of your vector. Name each of these components with the force name and the component name (for example, F1H, F1V, F2H, F2V, F3H, F3V). Be sure to correctly align the adjacent and the opposite sides to the reference system. If you don't do this, even if you complete the next step correctly, your calculated resultant force in the final step will be wrong.
Next, use one of the trigonometric functions — sine, cosine, or tangent — to calculate the magnitude of the individual sides of each right triangle using the given force (the hypotenuse) and the angle Ө. Use the anagram SOH CAH TOA to identify the correct trig function needed for each component of each vector.
When you calculate each component, make sure you identify both the magnitude and the direction (+ or –) of the force.
The net force in each direction is the sum of all the forces acting in that direction, or Net ForceDirection = ΣForceDirection. For the horizontal direction, use ΣFH = F1H + F2H + F3H, and for the vertical direction use ΣFV = F1V + F2V + F3V. In each direction, use this format: ΣF = (Force) + (Force) + (Force). When entering the force vectors into the equation, enter both the magnitude and the direction (+ or –) within the parentheses. Now complete the summing to calculate the net force in each direction.
The final steps involve calculating the magnitude and direction of the resultant force created by the combined effect of the net force acting in the vertical direction and the net force acting in the positive direction. A diagram will help here. Draw the vector arrow representing the net horizontal force in the correct direction, and draw the vertical force vector arrow pointing in the correct direction (+ or –) with the tail of the vertical vector starting at the tip (arrowhead) of the horizontal force vector. Correctly label each of these sides as horizontal and vertical, and write in your calculated magnitude and direction (+ or –) of each force. The resultant force you will calculate is the hypotenuse of the right triangle you've sketched.
Present the answer in this format: The resultant force has a magnitude of (resultant magnitude) Newtons at an angle of Ө degrees.


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News On How Triple H Is Doing After Heart Surgery, What WWE Talents Were Reportedly Told
WWE Executive Vice President of Global Talent Strategy & Development Paul "Triple H" Levesque is reportedly doing well after his recent heart surgery.
As noted, WWE announced back on September 8 that Triple H underwent successful heart surgery the week before at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, CT. WWE noted that the operation was needed after Triple H suffered a cardiac event, which was caused by a genetic heart issue. WWE also said Triple H was expected to make a full recovery.
In an update, word is that everything remains quiet regarding Triple H's condition, but he's in good enough shape that he's taking phone calls, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
WWE talents have been told that they can call Triple H and wish him well, but that they are not to talk about any WWE business with him.
Triple H missed this week's WWE NXT 2.0 reset taping, and there's no word yet on when he will be back to work full-time.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
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Washington Post reporter shares how British troops escorted her and Afghan colleagues to safety
August 23, 2021 Dianne Reeves US News
A Washington Post reporter has shared how British troops helped her and friends flee Afghanistan – as pressure mounts over US forces' continued refusal to leave Kabul airport.
Susannah George told of how she and the paper's Afghan staff were able to latch on to a separate evacuation led by UK troops, after spotting them and asking for help to flee.
That saw them hurriedly travel along a road to Kabul's Hamid Karzai Airport in armored cars driven by private security guards.
Those roads were being guarded from Taliban interference by UK service personnel, before making it to the security gate of the airport itself, which was manned by American troops.
George did not offer further comment on the troops who helped save her, but the UK's elite Special Air Service (SAS) have been drafted in to rescue Britons trapped in the war-torn country.
Her difficult journey contradicts President Biden's assertion that anyone with an American passports would be allowed through checkpoints.
The Washington Post 's Susannah George (pictured) told her harrowing tale of trying to escape Afghanistan accompanied by her Afghan colleagues and their children
A full flight of 265 people are evacuated out of Kabul by the UK Armed Forces on Saturday
Biden said the U.S has not extended their perimeter beyond Kabul airport to avoid the risk of having U.S. forces and civilians of being attacked by terrorist
George said security around the airport was 'crumbling' and that her Afghan co-worker Tassal and his young daughter were beaten by Taliban fighters as they waited on the civilian side of the airport for a flight that never arrived.
'I will never forget how they beat my small daughter,' Tassal told her as he showed her a dark blue bruise on her side. 'They will never change. My country is gone forever.'
George recalled that the day The Post team was set to leave, British troops had arrived at the security compound where she was staying to escort a larger evacuation and she asked them to help escort her and her group, who were not far away, into the airport.
'Initially, the men were cautious about helping us,' she wrote. 'We weren't part of their evacuation, and the officer said they needed sign-off from the U.S. Embassy. But after a few phone calls, they agreed to wave Tassal, another Washington Post employee and their families through the Taliban checkpoint.'
'I can let your guys through, but ma'am, if you leave them here, it's just going to put them in more danger,' George said the soldier told her.
The British troops were only planning to keep the road clear of Taliban fighters for an hour or two more until their evacuation was complete.
George says that after she met up with her group they piled into two rented armored cars driven by private security guards and approached the gate to the airport, passing by ' half-destroyed vehicles and dozens of desperate families held back by rows of barbed wire.'
They were able to make it along a road protected by UK troops, and up to the gate of the military section of Kabul's Hamid Karzai Airport, which was manned by US soldiers.
The group made it past the gate and eventually into a makeshift terminal and the group was out on a U.S. military flight list, then later flew out on a C-17 with about 300 passengers on board.
'We have no indication that they haven't been able to get, in Kabul, through the airport,' Biden said at a press conference on Friday.
American troops have not ventured past Kabul to assist Americans who couldn't get to the airport, with Biden coming under increasing pressure as UK and German forces were revealed to have sent forces into the country to evacuate citizens and embassy workers.
On Friday the White House confirmed that the U.S military used three military helicopters to rescue 169 Americans outside Kabul Airport who were trapped at a nearby hotel.
When asked why the U.S has not extended their perimeter beyond Kabul airport Biden said it was to avoid the risk of having U.S. forces and civilians of being attacked by terrorist groups, including ISIS.
'The reason why we have not gone out—it's likely to draw a lot of unintended consequences,' he said Friday.
But British and French allies have gone beyond the boundaries of Kabul airport and sent troops into the city to help recover their citizens.
Australian citizens and visa holders pictured on board a Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster
Troops help assist a child during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul
British armed forces are working with the U.S. military to evacuate eligible civilians and their families out of Afghanistan
Kabul airport has been the scene of chaos as Westerners and visa holders desperately trying to get to their flights say they are unable to check in because of the crowd of up to 50,000 desperate locals who are gathering at the gates.
At the main entrance, Taliban fighters periodically fire into the air to clear the crowd in an attempt to disperse the crowd – but video of the fighters unleashing a volley of automatic fire shows the terrifying gauntlet evacuees have to negotiate.
Taliban fighters were seen shooting over the heads of crowds, striking people with rifles, while those on the ground reported beatings and whippings being dished out seemingly at random.
Crowds have also gathered at the entrance to the military wing of the airport, which is guarded by US and British troops who have been firing into the air to disperse the crowds.
Westerners face a race against time to get out of Kabul, with control of the airport resting on the up to 60,000 troops.
Joe Biden has said they will stay until all US citizens are evacuated, but there are suspicions among British troops that they could leave abruptly – leaving the 600 British unable to keep operating to evacuate UK nationals and interpreters.
UK troops have said that firing warning shots is a last resort, the Taliban are causing pandemonium and were filmed today shooting from the hip just yards away from women and children, and whacking people with the butts of their rifles.
Such is the desperation among crowds at the airport that women have resorted to passing babies over barbed wire to soldiers in a vain attempt to get them out of the country.
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Home Electric Vehicles EV Charging How can CarCharging Group adopt Tesla Supercharger and CCS in Blink's DC Fast Charging stations?
How can CarCharging Group adopt Tesla Supercharger and CCS in Blink's DC Fast Charging stations?
David Herron June 19, 2014 April 13, 2015 EV Charging
The CarCharging Group may be the first company to validate Tesla's new strategy on patents. CCG has announced its intention to integrate the Tesla Supercharger technology into Blink fast charging stations.
CarCharging Group started its life building charging stations on the ChargePoint network, but last year it bought the Blink network when ECOTality went out of business. The 119 Blink CHAdeMO stations is, according to CCG, the largest DC fast charging network in the United States. The company is also working with Nissan and Gridscape Solutions to integrate Nissan's CHAdeMO stations into the Blink network.
Integrating Tesla Supercharger support into the Blink network would somewhat fit the theory I wrote the other day – that Tesla Motors will need to give up some control over the Supercharger system in order to get other automakers on board. If CCG and Tesla make a deal, instead of Tesla directly spinning its own Supercharger network out as a separate company, it would be the first instance of a 3rd party company implementing the Supercharger system.
"Like Tesla Motors, CarCharging believes that the market potential for electric vehicles is vast and we are dedicated to doing all that we can to assist in its acceleration," said CarCharging Founder and CEO, Michael D. Farkas. "By sharing its technologies, Tesla Motors provides CarCharging with the ability to leverage all of the locations in its portfolio and offer a solution that is compatible for all EV drivers, which is a win-win for the drivers and the industry."
This is part of a broader plan to breath new life into the Blink network. In addition to supporting Supercharger, the Blink network will also support the Combo Charging System.
At the high level, the Supercharger technology would have to be redone for integration with 3rd DC Fast Charging Station installations. Doing so requires many more details than are in Tesla's patent filings.
From the DC Fast Charging stations I've inspected the modules are:
Grid interface for 3 phase AC, 480 volts, and a big pile of amps This requires some very large boxes with big heatsinks, etc
A large box – bigger than a refrigerator – to handle converting all 3 phases of AC into DC, with the ability to vary the voltage depending on the vehicle being charged
A smaller box for interfacing with the car, and providing the user interface and display screen
In the case of the Nissan CHAdeMO unit the latter two modules are in one slim box.
The picture shown here is for the Tesla Supercharger station in Gilroy, CA. Inside the orange enclosure is the bigger-than-a-refrigerator boxes that convert 3 phase AC into power required for the Supercharger. The big green box is where the interface to the grid occurs.
But, how would the CarCharging Group implement Tesla Supercharger, integrating it into Blinks own DC Fast Charging stations?
Let's start this inquiry by studying the Tesla Supercharger installation in Gilroy.
This part of the Gilroy station was added later. Some of these grey boxes have labels saying "Supercharger 5" or whatever, indicating which Supercharger port the box corresponds with. Except, there isn't enough of those boxes to directly match up with the charging ports. I assume, and Tesla does have a patent or two on this, that Tesla designed the system to intelligently share power among the Supercharger ports if all ports are in use.
This part, where the cord hangs, that's just a shell. There's no electronics in this part.
This is those same charging pylons, but last fall (October 24, 2013) while they were still being installed.
This is the same concrete pad shown above, as it existed last fall while the expansion was still being installed. In the background is the original four stalls Tesla installed at Gilroy, and further back is the brown box shown above. Just outside this picture, to the right, is a pair of Level 2 charging stations owned by the SemaCharge group.
Up at the top of this post, I showed a Blink station. Those Blink CHAdeMO stations have an additional unit, not shown in the picture, a big box that is the grid interface.
The question is, how do you merge the two charging systems together into one presentation for the user? That is, one box containing multiple charging cords?
This trick has already been done by Schneider, ABB and some other charging station manufacturers whose fast charging stations support both CHAdeMO and the SAE Combo Charging System. The user sees two charging cords, and they select the one that matches the receptacle on their car. At this level it's like choosing between Diesel or Gasoline fuel at the gas pump.
The dual protocol charging stations, as I understand it, have a control board for CHAdeMO and another for CCS. The control board "speaks" the charging protocol (CHAdeMO or CCS), and then tells the AC/DC rectifier unit what voltage/amperage to send to the car. In other words, the high power AC/DC rectifier unit itself doesn't know the charging protocol, it's the control board that does.
Therefore the Supercharger protocol could be implemented using a control board which speaks the Supercharger charging protocol.
The difficulty will be the power level expected by Elon Musk. Musk has repeatedly said that any automaker seeking to implement Supercharger must build an electric car capable of accepting 130 kilowatts of charging input. Musk didn't talk about charging station manufacturers seeking to adopt the Supercharger system. Now that we have a charging network (Car Charging Group) announcing its intention to do so, the question is here: Will Musk make a similar requirement of 3rd party charging networks who implement the Supercharger system?
Will the Blink implementation of Supercharger also support 130 kilowatts? Or will it be limited to 50 kilowatts as its CHAdeMO stations are?
It seems feasible that Blink (Car Charging) could add another control board and a Supercharger cord to its CHAdeMO charging stations. But what if they also have to upgrade the grid interface to support 130 kilowatts? Obviously that can be done, but at the expense of ripping out and replacing whatever existing grid interface exists at each site.
CarCharging's press release also indicates the company plans to integrate the Combo Charging System into their DC Fast Charging stations.
The eventual result will be to upgrade the significance of the Blink network – giving that network support for all three DC Fast Charging protocols.
June 19, 2014, 8:30 a.m. EDT
CarCharging Intends to Integrate Tesla Motors' Electric Vehicle Charging Technology into its Blink Network
Leaders in Electric Vehicle and Charging Infrastructure Expand Access to Technology and Services to Benefit EV Drivers and the Industry
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., June 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Car Charging Group, Inc. (otcqb:CCGI) ("CarCharging"), the largest owner, operator, and provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging services and owner of the Blink Network, one of the largest EV charging networks, announced its intention to integrate the Tesla Motors' EV charging technology into Blink EV charging stations. According to the blog on the Tesla Motors' website dated June 12, 2014, Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk, stated that the company would "not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology". Mr. Musk noted that the decision to provide access to the patents is "in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology" and that "Tesla, other companies making electric cars, and the world would benefit from a common, rapidly-evolving technology platform".
While Tesla Motors' Model S currently includes an adaptor for the J1772™ connector, the standard for public EV charging stations and compatible with EVs sold in North America, CarCharging anticipates incorporating the technology of Tesla Motors' charging port into Blink charging stations as well as the Society of Automobile Engineers' (SAE) new J1772™ DC Fast Charging combo coupler. By integrating these charging ports and connectors with its current J1772 and CHAdeMO connectors, CarCharging will expand the charging options currently available for EV drivers, including CarCharging's network of 119 DC Fast Chargers, the largest network of DC Fast Chargers in the United States.
CarCharging is further expanding its network of DC Fast Chargers by actively working with Nissan to deploy quick chargers in key markets throughout the United States. CarCharging has also partnered with Gridscape Solutions, a software and service company that specializes in designing and developing a broad range of smart energy solutions, to integrate Nissan's DC Fast Chargers with the Blink® Network, the software that operates, monitors, and tracks the Blink EV charging stations and all of its charging data.
CarCharging shares Tesla Motors' commitment to the development of the EV market and is also actively working with other major EV charging networks on various interoperability initiatives. CarCharging recently launched the CarCharging mobile application ("app"), the first truly interoperable app that serves as the gateway to multiple networks that operate EV charging stations from various manufacturers. The CarCharging app provides drivers with the ability to locate public Blink, GE, SemaCharge, and ChargePoint EV charging stations, and initiate and pay for EV charging sessions at GE WattStations and SemaCharge stations, that are owned and operated by CarCharging, directly from their iPhone. The app is now available for is currently available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, and is available for download from the App Store .
CarCharging also recently announced its participation in Nissan's "No Charge to Charge" promotion, which provides two years of no-fee charging with the purchase of a new Nissan LEAF with the new EZ-Charge card, an all-access card that provides drivers with the ability to initiate charging sessions on CarCharging's Blink Network as well as other major charging networks. CarCharging is also collaborating with GE's Industrial Solutions business to establish interoperability between CarCharging's Blink Network and GE's WattStation EV chargers. GE will soon allow CarCharging's Blink Network to serve as an alternative payment method for drivers and owners of GE WattStations.
To learn more about CarCharging and the Blink Network, please visit www.CarCharging.com and www.BlinkNetwork.com .
About Car Charging Group, Inc. Car Charging Group, Inc. (otcqb:CCGI) is a pioneer in nationwide public electric vehicle (EV) charging services, enabling EV drivers to easily recharge at locations throughout the United States. Headquartered in Miami Beach, FL with offices in San Jose, CA; New York, NY; and Phoenix, AZ; CarCharging's business model is designed to accelerate the adoption of public EV charging.
CarCharging offers various options to commercial and residential property owners for EV charging services. Our typical business model provides a comprehensive turnkey program where CarCharging owns and operates the EV charging equipment; manages the installation, maintenance, and related services; and shares a portion of the EV charging revenue with the property owner. Alternatively, property partners can share in the equipment and installation expenses with CarCharging operating and managing the EV charging stations and providing network connectivity. For properties interested in purchasing and owning EV charging stations, CarCharging can also provide EV charging hardware, site recommendations, connection to the Blink Network, and management and maintenance services.
Through its subsidiary, Blink Network , CarCharging also provides residential EV charging solutions for single-family homes. For more information, please visitwww.BlinkHQ.com .
CarCharging has strategic partnerships across multiple business sectors including multi-family residential and commercial properties, parking garages, shopping malls, retail parking, and municipalities. CarCharging's partners include, but are not limited to Walgreens, IKEA, Wal-Mart, Simon Property Group, Equity One, Equity Residential, Forest City, Cinemark USA, Fox Studios, Facebook, PayPal, Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants, Mayo Clinic, San Diego Padres, University of Pennsylvania, Ace Parking, Central/USA Parking, Icon Parking, Rapid Parking, Parking Concepts, CVS, Related Management, Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, City of Phoenix (AZ), City of Philadelphia (PA), and City of Miami Beach (FL).
CarCharging is committed to creating a robust, feature-rich network for EV charging and is hardware agnostic. CarCharging owns the Blink network, and owns and operates EV charging equipment manufactured by Blink, Aerovironment, ChargePoint, General Electric, Nissan, and SemaConnect. CarCharging's Level II charging stations are compatible with EVs sold in the United States including the Tesla Model S, Nissan LEAF, Chevy Volt, Mitsubishi i-Miev, Toyota Prius Plug-In, Honda Fit EV, and Toyota Rav4 EV, as well as many others scheduled for release over the next few years.
For more information about CarCharging, please visit www.CarCharging.com, www.facebook.com/Car.Charging, or www.twitter.com/CarCharging .
Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement: This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined within Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. By their nature, forward-looking statements and forecasts involve risks and uncertainties because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the near future. Those statements include statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of Car Charging Group, Inc., and members of its management as well as the assumptions on which such statements are based. Prospective investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed conditions.
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Oracle Portal 9.0.2 Calendar.JSP Multiple HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerabilities
Reporter putosoft softputo
Oracle Portal 9.0.2 Calendar.JSP Multiple HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerabilities. CVE-2006-6697. Webapps exploit for jsp platform
Oracle Portal is prone to multiple HTTP response-splitting vulnerabilities because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.
A remote attacker may exploit these vulnerabilities to influence or misrepresent how web content is served, cached, or interpreted. This could aid in various attacks that attempt to entice client users into a false sense of trust.
Versions 10g and 9.0.2 are vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.
http://www.example.com/webapp/jsp/calendar.jsp?enc=iso-8859-1%0d%0aContent-length=12%0d%0a%0d%0a%3Cscript%3Ealert('hi')%3C/script%3E
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{"cve": [{"lastseen": "2020-10-03T11:48:20", "description": "CRLF injection vulnerability in webapp/jsp/calendar.jsp in Oracle Portal 10g and earlier, including 9.0.2, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via CRLF sequences in the enc parameter.", "edition": 3, "cvss3": {}, "published": "2006-12-22T02:28:00", "title": "CVE-2006-6697", "type": "cve", "cwe": ["NVD-CWE-Other"], "bulletinFamily": "NVD", "cvss2": {"severity": "HIGH", "exploitabilityScore": 10.0, "obtainAllPrivilege": false, "userInteractionRequired": false, "obtainOtherPrivilege": true, "cvssV2": {"accessComplexity": "LOW", "confidentialityImpact": "PARTIAL", "availabilityImpact": "PARTIAL", "integrityImpact": "PARTIAL", "baseScore": 7.5, "vectorString": "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P", "version": "2.0", "accessVector": "NETWORK", "authentication": "NONE"}, "impactScore": 6.4, "obtainUserPrivilege": false}, "cvelist": ["CVE-2006-6697"], "modified": "2018-10-17T21:49:00", "cpe": ["cpe:/a:oracle:application_server_portal:10g", "cpe:/a:oracle:application_server_portal:9.0.2"], "id": "CVE-2006-6697", "href": "https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2006-6697", "cvss": {"score": 7.5, "vector": "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"}, "cpe23": ["cpe:2.3:a:oracle:application_server_portal:10g:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:oracle:application_server_portal:9.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"]}], "osvdb": [{"lastseen": "2017-04-28T13:20:27", "bulletinFamily": "software", "cvelist": ["CVE-2006-6697"], "description": "## Manual Testing Notes\nhttp://[target]/webapp/jsp/calendar.jsp?enc=iso-8859-1%0d%0aContent-length=12%0d%0a%0d%0a%3Cscript%3Ealert('hi')%3C/script%3E\n## References:\n[Secunia Advisory ID:23461](https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/advisories/23461/)\n[Related OSVDB ID: 31379](https://vulners.com/osvdb/OSVDB:31379)\nMail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-12/0358.html\nFrSIRT Advisory: ADV-2006-5124\n[CVE-2006-6697](https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2006-6697)\nBugtraq ID: 21686\n", "edition": 1, "modified": "2006-12-20T07:03:51", "published": "2006-12-20T07:03:51", "href": "https://vulners.com/osvdb/OSVDB:31378", "id": "OSVDB:31378", "title": "Oracle Portal calendar.jsp enc Variable HTTP Response Splitting", "type": "osvdb", "cvss": {"score": 7.5, "vector": "AV:NETWORK/AC:LOW/Au:NONE/C:PARTIAL/I:PARTIAL/A:PARTIAL/"}}]}


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The nominees for today's episode were miss A, Red Velvet, and EXO However it was EXO who grabbed the #1 trophy. Congratulations!
Other performers of the night were Minah, F.T. Island, K.Will, Baek Ji Young & Song Yoo Bin, MFBTY, Huh Gak, MAMAMOO, CLC, Crayon Pop, Lovelyz, Untouchable, N-SONIC, and Lee Ji Min.


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Q: What is required to change the vertical offset of a Kendo UI DataViz sparkline? I am familiar with the kendoTooltip plugin and have worked with many other controls, and the typical approach for configuring the plugin does not appear to be working.
Using the sparkline chart, by default the tooltips are displaying just to the right of the cursor. Unfortunately, as you can see in this image, this renders any covered area of the sparkline unable to respond to hover input, meaning, you force the user out of the control and in again in order to see the other values.

You can try it out on Telerik's site.
I have tried passing in the config that works otherwise for the tooltip in other areas of Kendo UI, in this case, I've used position: "top" and applied it to the widget with the following:
        $("#temp-log").kendoSparkline({
            type: "column",
            data: [
                16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 21, 22, 23, 22,
                20, 18, 17, 17, 16, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
                21, 22, 23, 25, 24, 24, 22, 22, 23, 22,
                22, 21, 16, 15, 15, 16, 19, 20, 20, 21
            ],
            tooltip: {
                format: "{0} °C",
                position: "top"
            }
        });

However, this option is not being applied, whereas some other properties are (such as format and visible).
Is there a way to change the position of the tooltip so it doesn't interfere with user interaction?

A: The tooltip in sparkline charts doesn't accept a position.
Try http://dojo.telerik.com/@harsh/eNUkO
.k-tooltip {
    margin-top:-40px;
    margin-left:20px;
}

If you do not want the tooltip to be on top for other widgets create a class with these styles and add to k-tooltip element when a chart is hovered.
Or
http://dojo.telerik.com/@harsh/OyacA
Html:

Js:
$("#sparkline-chart").kendoSparkline({
         type: "column",
         data: [
         16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 21, 22, 23, 22,
         20, 18, 17, 17, 16, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
         21, 22, 23, 25, 24, 24, 22, 22, 23, 22,
         22, 21, 16, 15, 15, 16, 19, 20, 20, 21],
         tooltip: {
             format: "{0} °C"
         }
     });

$(".sparkline").on('mouseover', function () {
     $('body').addClass('chart');
 });

 $(".sparkline").on('mouseout', function () {
     $('body').removeClass('chart');
 });

Css:
 .chart .k-chart-tooltip
      {
        margin-top:-40px;
        margin-left:20px;
      }

A: You can modify the tooltip's anchoring code:
Html target:

Chart:
var s = $("#temp-log").kendoSparkline({
    type: "column",
    data: [
        16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 21, 22, 23, 22,
        20, 18, 17, 17, 16, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
        21, 22, 23, 25, 24, 24, 22, 22, 23, 22,
        22, 21, 16, 15, 15, 16, 19, 20, 20, 21
    ],
    tooltip: {
        format: "{0} °C"
    }
}).data("kendoSparkline");

This will only change the tooltip for this specific chart:
var templogHeight = $("#temp-log").height();
s._tooltip._slotAnchor = function(point, slot) {
    var result = kendo.dataviz.SharedTooltip.fn._slotAnchor.call(this, point, slot);
    return {
        x: result.x,
        y: result.y - templogHeight
    };
};

(demo)
You could also do this for all sparkline charts by overriding the widget and changing the anchor code in the widget's init method.


Pioneer 43Y23 (RR) perform better in terms of higher grain yield, oil yield and gross margins than Sturt TT, with both varieties producing similar oil percentage.
Grain yield responded to applied nitrogen up to 30kg N/ha.
Maximum oil percentage was produced with no applied nitrogen.
Gross margins also responded to nitrogen application up to approximately 30kg N/ha after which further increases in nitrogen led to no further financial gain.
Overall when nitrogen was applied it did not alter the response to nitrogen of both varieties for grain yield, oil, oil yield and gross margin.
Basal fertiliser: 100kg/ha SuperPhos at seeding, 400kg/ha of gypsum and 120kg/ha of Muriate of Potash applied by hand over whole site on 10 June.
Additional costs such as seeding, harvest, insecticides assumed to be $205/ha.
Pioneer 43Y23 (RR) had higher grain yield, oil yield and gross margins than Sturt TT, with both varieties producing similar oil percentage.
Grain yield responded to applied nitrogen up to approximately 30kg N/ha (approximately 85kg soil plus applied N/ha), attaining yields of 1.2t/ha, oil yield 0.5t/ha and gross margins $627/ha. Both varieties responded similarly to applied nitrogen with no variety x N rate interaction for grain yield.
Maximum oil percentage was produced with no applied nitrogen (mean oil percentage at 0N = 44.1%). As the rate of applied nitrogen increased the oil percentage in the seed of both canola varieties decreased at a rate of 0.02% oil per kilogram of applied N/ha. Both varieties responded at a similar rate (no variety x N interaction). The relatively slow decrease in oil percentage as nitrogen increased resulted in oil yield mirroring grain yield.
Gross margins also responded to nitrogen application up to approximately 30kg N/ha after which further increases in nitrogen led to no further financial gain. As for oil and yield, the gross margins of both varieties responded similarly to nitrogen rate (no variety x N interaction).
Overall when nitrogen was applied did not alter the response to nitrogen of both varieties (P = 0.05, for grain yield, oil, oil yield and gross margin). There was a trend (P<0.1) at the highest rate of applied nitrogen of 70kg/ha (10 and seeding and 60 at a later date) for applications of the top-up of 60kg/ha that occurred at 12 weeks to be slightly lower yielding than the same top-up of nitrogen applied at eight weeks. If the same total nitrogen was split so as to apply 30 within eight weeks and the remaining 40 at 12 weeks there were no differences.
The Cunderdin trial saw Pioneer 43Y23 (RR) perform better in terms of higher grain yield, oil yield and gross margins than Sturt TT, with both varieties producing similar oil percentage.
As the rate of applied nitrogen increased the oil percentage in the seed of both canola varieties decreased at a rate of 0.02% oil per kilogram of applied N/ha.
This trial (14NO17) is one of a series conducted throughout Western Australia as part of theGRDC/DPIRD co-funded project Tactical Break Crop Agronomy in Western Australia. Thanks to the Merredin RSU for trial management. Laurie Maiolo provided technical assistance to ensure all treatments and measurements occurred in a timely and accurate fashion.


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The traditional German press, which since the immigration crisis of 2015 has consistently picked the side of the Merkel government, has seen its share in the media landscape in Europe's biggest economy slide ever since.
Right-wing websites in Germany are being read all over and people are regularly choosing to no longer let themselves be influenced by the traditional Mainstream Media (or MSM).
But as of late, Germany's biggest Magazine Der Spiegel is slowly coming to terms with what's important in the country.
Whereas last week their cover spoke of Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen in German) where rightwing demonstrations in Chemnitz followed the arrest of two asylum seekers in connection with the murder of a man in the city, this week they chose to do their cover on the AfD political party, the anti-immigrant rightwing block in the German parliament that is now polling as the second biggest political force in the German Heimat.
Related coverage:  Jewish restaurant attacked in Chemnitz.
Because of this, Germans are turning to alternative news outlets who see that a growing number of readers feel the traditional press is too loyal to Angela Merkel, the long-serving chancellor, and her brand of moderate, centrist politics.
The new outlets' relevance is increasing as political divisions in Germany deepen, a trend highlighted by Der Spiegel's article.
The conservative voters who have shifted allegiance from Ms. Merkel's CDU/CSU are tired of having themselves branded as the far-right and therefore are turning off from traditional media. Only German tabloid Bild seems to buck the trend so far.
Germany has local elections in October in its rich Bavaria region. It will be interesting to see how the media will cover the AfD result.
Be sure to let us know what you think of the AfD's rise in Germany hereunder in the comments section.


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Hele-On awarded $270,000 for Pāhoa Transit Hub planning
Hele-on, in partnership with the Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT), received $270,000 from the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Areas of Persistent Poverty (AoPP) program late last month. As a result, the Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation will receive funding to plan for a transit hub in downtown Pāhoa in conjunction with the County and will support a fixed-route transit system to better connect people to jobs and opportunities.
SSFM International has been selected as the consultant to complete the site selection, environmental analysis, and 30% of the design. A public outreach process is included in this project. Eleven sites will be looked at to determine the feasibility of a transit hub with amenities discussed at public meetings. Additionally, the consultant team will evaluate the potential of colocating a future Pāhoa Public Library at the Transit Hub with funding from the Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries to fund that effort.
"We are elated to hear that we will be receiving $270,000 in partnership with the HDOT to create a much-needed, innovative facility that will serve as an excellent community focal point for our Puna communities, once constructed," said Mayor Mitch Roth. "Creating communities with access to affordable food, jobs, and transportation services is key to fostering a sustainable
Hawaiʻi Island where our keiki can thrive and succeed for generations to come."
The USDOT will provide $16.2 million to fund 40 projects in 32 states and territories. FTA grants the awards on a competitive basis to state and local governments, transit agencies, and nonprofit organizations to create better transit for residents with limited or no transportation options.
"For millions of people in communities big and small, transit is a lifeline," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. "Every American should have a way to get to work affordably or school, buy fresh food, access medical care, and visit their loved ones – and these transit grants will help make that a reality in 45 underserved communities across the country."
The program supports the Biden-Harris Administration's Justice40 initiative and general goals of advancing racial equity and improving public health and the environment through transportation planning that results in new or better transit services. AoPP grants are awarded for planning, engineering, technical studies, or financial plans to improve transit in Census-defined low-income areas. The program also supports coordinated human service transportation planning to improve transit service or provide new services, including paratransit. Thanks to the President's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the FTA expects to be able to support more projects in the next round of grant awards. FTA received applications totaling close to $63 million in funding requests. Projects were selected based on criteria described in the Notice of Funding Opportunity.
Information on prior-year funded projects under the program, previously known as the Helping Obtain Prosperity for Everyone (HOPE) initiative.
"The Mass Transit Agency is excited to provide Puna with enhanced transit services and start the formal planning effort for the Pāhoa Transit Hub," stated John Andoh, Mass Transit Administrator & General Manager. "We are also excited about our partnership with the Hawaiʻi State Public Libraries and Hawaiʻi Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to potentially plan to co-locate a library within the future hub."
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