HYDROLOGIST IN CHIEF: Trump tells California 'there is no drought' [AP] - "'They don't understand — nobody understands it,' he said, declaring at one point: 'There is no drought. They turn the water out into the ocean.'"
Water is a politically potent issue in California, and will continue to be as the state grows and--possibly--precipitation is reduced temporarily or over a long period of time, regardless of your perspective on climate change. There is no scientific issue of whether there is a drought. Here is the current drought monitor of the nation, measured by University of Nebraska-Lincoln in partnership with several federal agencies.
Incidentally, Nebraska is the most irrigated state in the nation, and is building market-based solutions for its water challenges. When I asked a friend who is working in Nebraska on this about its applicability to California, her head exploded. The legacy water rights and contracts in California just make it very difficult. Remember the energy crisis in which out-of-state companies (no, I'm not related to Enron's Ken Lay) extorted the natural gas market by reducing supplies to push up prices?
When I grew up in OC, I just expected the tap to flow and our lawn to be green. My fish and turtles were in a fountain in the backyard. When I moved to Northern California for college, learned to drop the "The" article from my freeway names, adopted the word "hella," and caused horror to Dan Weitzman by rooting for both the Giants and the Dodgers, I learned about water politics.
In fact, in my break over the last month, I re-read "The King of California" about the Boswell family's grab of water rights near Corcoran to support its cotton empire. (King of California is on the Nooner's Sofa Degree list.) The J.G. Boswell Company is known as the world's largest privately owned farm. The company's farming operation in Kings County has largely drained Lake Tulare's naturally occurring ebbs and flows of water based on annual variations in snow melt and other precipation, and now relies on state water deliveries.
Trump claims that the Delta's water is being sent out to sea and could be delivered to Central Valley farmers and Southern California, and he will fix it as president. Farming is a big part of the state's economy, directly accounting for 2.1% of the state's economy and far more in collateral economic benefits. Restaurants wouldn't be charging $150 for prix fixe dishes with Iowa corn. No offense to Hawkeyes, but you can't beat summer Brentwood corn.
Micheael Finnegan and Kurtis Lee report: [Trump] mocked environmentalists for 'trying to protect a certain kind of 3-inch fish,' repeating an apparent reference to the delta smelt, a fish on the verge of extinction that is regarded by scientists as a barometer of California's environmental health."
Now, Delta smelt isn't found on the menu of The Kitchen, Nobu, or Chez Panisse, but is found on the Endangered Species List. That's a federal legal issue and not at the whim of state official, as Trump seemed to assert in his speech yesterday. Its biggest predators are striped and smallmouth bass, both of which are non-native species to the Delta. Incidentally, the bass also eat a large percentage of endangered salmon. However, Delta smelt are an indicator species of the environment, in the way bald eagles were an indicator of the harm of DDT. Yes, I just compared Delta smelt with the bald eagle for hyperbole sake. In all, there are six species of fish that are listed as endangered or threatened.
If you're in Sausalito, a great stop to make is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model to understand the complex hydrological system in Northern California.
It is a system largely unique in California, where a very large estuary is created that creates a brackish condition, blending salt water and freshwater as rivers flow to the ocean. If you change the freshwater flows too much, the ecosystem is disrupted and animal and plant species are adversely affected.
Additionally, environmentalists point to the hazard created by pumps, which alter water flows (sometimes even reversing them), confusing fish and drawing them into the south Delta, where they are more likely to be preyed upon.
Delta-area farmers express concern that their water rights and supplies will be harmed by increasing salinity of the farming islands of the Delta, which affects not only water availability but also the balance of peat in the soil that provides carbon in a unique farming environment. This concern is accelerated with warnings by most scientists that sea levels will rise. Additionally, two Southern California water agencies are in the process of buying four Delta islands for freshwater storage and habitat preservation, raising suspicions of Delta activists.
Jerry Brown has proposed adding two large tunnels in a $15 billion project to increase the amount of water pumped from the Delta (which currently is around 20% of the Delta's freshwater inflow. Brown calls for paying for the project, which is currently under administrative review by using revenue bonds, which don't require voter approval. However, Stockton-area farmer Dean Cortopassi has qualified an initiative for the November ballot to require revenue bonds totalling over $2 billion for a specific project to be approved by voters (treated like general obligation bonds, which don't have an underlying revenue source such as water rates).
Brown's proposal satisfies neither the most passionate environmentalists nor the farmers erecting the signs along the highways running north-south. However, it is also the most comprehensive plan put forward, in addition to the water bond.
Yesterday, a bill by Susan Talementes Eggman (D-Stockton) to force approval of voters of Brown's plan was killed in the Assembly Appropriations Committee as part of the Suspense File clearing.
Trump didn't mention Brown's proposal to the crowd yesterday, and its likely it would have fallen flat with the red-meat seeking audience. But, there's a real discussion about how to preserve the Delta habitat and ensure adequate water for agriculture and urban users. There's no such thing as simply turning on a giant tap to the State Water Project and Central Valley Project.
Regardless of your candidate of choice for president, Californians should agree that overly simplific assertions won't fix a complex problem. Particularly from a guy who owns this golf course in a Mediterranean climate--the most expensive golf course ever constructed with lots of water features, although the three artifical waterfalls have been removed.
Ironically, the website for Trump National states that it "has established a strong reputation for its environmental practices. Trump National is dedicated to protecting the environmentally sensitive habitat that plays host to several protected plant species and the endangered Coastal California Gnatcatcher (a small migratory bird)." Save the gnatchatcher, but screw that 3-inch fish.
Is this really a statement from a presumptive nominee of President of the United States? It may be cute in rallies, but in real press statements? Reminds of Schwarzenegger calling legisiators "girlie men." Stay classy, folks. Respect the office you're running for or holding.
END THE SUSPENSE (KILL BILL VOL. 3): The LAT has lots of coverage on the winners and losers in yesterday's Suspense file hearings.
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A lot of voters with no party preference who were hoping to cast ballots in California's June 7 Democratic presidential primary could be in for an unwelcome surprise if they don't act fast.
California lawmakers gave final approval on Friday to a November ballot measure asking voters about the growing role of undisclosed donors in political campaigns.
Announcements about the fate of hundreds of pieces of legislation -- 245 Senate bills and 449 Assembly bills -- came during hearings held by the Legislature's Appropriations Committees, which vet bills that will cost taxpayers more than $150,000, ahead of an early June deadline to hear bills on the floors of their respective houses.
According to the latest Public Policy Institute of California poll likely voters in the state are for raising taxes … or not. At first glance it might appear that divergent attitudes about potential tax measures gain support or opposition depending on the issue. The truth is much simpler and consists of a long held attitude with the voting public.
A closely watched effort to force a statewide vote on Gov. Jerry Brown's water tunnels project was blocked Friday in the Assembly -- a big victory for Brown in a year where the plan faces some key hurdles.
The majority party in the Senate Committee on Appropriations passed out of committee measures that would increase government spending even higher, which is in addition to the already record spending budget proposed by Governor Brown earlier this year.
California Senate Republicans, a resilient lot that two years ago recovered from near obscurity, this year offered up a package of 11 priority proposals, pitching the legislation as a way to lift up the state's most vulnerable and downtrodden.
When environmentalists wade into political contests, they're almost always outspent by big business. But that's not the case with Measure AA, a $12 annual parcel tax that will appear on the June 7 ballot in all nine Bay Area counties to fund wetlands restoration and flood control projects around San Francisco Bay's shoreline.
California is trying to figure out how to define what a good school looks like. On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Education released regulations on the Every Student Succeeds Act that might help.
Two Central Valley irrigation agencies slapped with unprecedented penalties last year during the state's drought-related crackdown on illegal water users are likely to see their cases dropped. In a dispute that has been closely watched by California's farmers and water managers, the State Water Resources Control Board moved to dismiss its complaints that the Tracy-area irrigation districts were taking river water illegally. Last year, California's historic drought prompted state regulators to enact sweeping restrictions on pumping river water. The restrictions limited access even for those with water rights dating to 1914 and earlier — known as senior water rights and long considered ironclad. In proposing Thursday to drop the cases, water board regulators acknowledged that they had used flawed methods to measure water draws and had failed to prove the districts did anything wrong. "We conclude that the board has the authority to take enforcement action … against the unauthorized diversion of water under claim of a pre-1914 water right," state regulators wrote in a proposed decision to drop the case, which will be taken up by the five-member governing board June 7.
"That's why I'm here," she told her select group of breakfast-mates, who included Mayor Libby Schaaf and Oakland schools Superintendent Antwan Wilson. "I want to be a champion for Oakland and all the Oaklands of America ... places that have challenges but places that are coming together."
The family of a woman allegedly killed by a Mexican immigrant deported five times from the U.S. has filed a federal lawsuit against San Francisco County's former sheriff, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the federal Bureau of Land Management.


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Q: Good (better) substition for setInterval or setTimeout I've got a masterpage with some nice UI (jQuery) features. One of these options is interefering with my embedded YouTube (or other alike-) objects. On each, in this case, setInterval event the embedded video stops displaying new frames (for like a second).
More detail:
I've got a "polaroid" gallery (in the header) with only 5 100x100 images in it (test: preloading has no effect on performance) and my gallery will show or hide them (fade-in / fade-out) after a period of time. (test: non-animated display:hide or display:block has no effect on performance).
After some testing and I've come to the conclusion that it isn't the "animated" showing or hiding of the pictures, but it's the interval itself (- since altering to display:hide or block had the same result). Perhaps it is my "gallery" "function" on itself ...
 function poladroid() {
     if (!galleryHasFocus) {
         if (galleryMax >= 0) {
             galleryCurrent++;

             if (galleryCurrent > galleryMax) {
                 galleryCurrent = 0;
                 showPictures = !showPictures;
             }
             if (showPictures) {
                 $('#pic-' + galleryCurrent.toString()).show("slow");
             }
             else {
                 $('#pic-' + galleryCurrent.toString()).hide("slow");
             }
         }
     }
     if (!intervalSet) {
         window.setInterval("poladroid()", 3000);
         intervalSet = true;
     }
 }

It's not like my function is doing really awkward stuff is it? So, I was thinking I needed a more "loose" interval function.. but is there an option for it?
Ow.. almost forgot to mention it: FireFox and Chrome perform pretty good; using IE (what else) has the most performance problems.

A: There is no substitute for setInterval/setTimeout - these are the only ways of timing events in browser based ECMAScript.
Its not easy to grasp the real issue here, but I'm guessing the whatever you are triggering using setInterval is heavier than it has to be (as it is jQuery) - you should try to make this more efficient.
If you want an easy to use slideshow, take a look at http://github.com/oyvindkinsey/JsSlideshow - it has a demo here
By the way, do not use a literal as the first argument to setTimeout/setInterval, use a function reference
setInterval(poladroid, 3000);

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Police chief wants more crimes to be dealt with out of court
Police chief backs community orders
By Tom Seaward @swindonadver Reporter
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WILTSHIRE'S police commissioner has called for more crimes to be dealt with by way of community resolutions.
But new figures show his force is using far fewer of the out-of-court disposals, which are essentially an agreement between the perpetrator and his victim to make amends through an apology or making good damage done. They are not court convictions or cautions and do not appear on a person's criminal record.
The number of community resolutions organised by Wiltshire Police fell by 40 per cent between 2014/15 and 2017/18, from 1,039 to 618.
Angus Macpherson, Wiltshire and Swindon police and crime commissioner, said he was keen to commission schemes involving police, the NHS, social workers, schools and housing associations, aimed at reducing offending and intervening early with "troubled families".
"I would like to see more of this work done," he said.
"Community resolutions are mainly for first time, low-level crime where offenders are truly remorseful and accept full responsibility for their offence.
"If the police are satisfied that public interest can be met by dealing outside of the court process, then this has to be the preferred approach.
"A scrutiny panel, made up of independent members of the judiciary, oversees the decisions made around the correct use of community resolutions – ensuring that they are appropriately used or not used depending on the crime committed."
Five years ago, community resolutions made up almost four per cent of all cases dealt with by the Wiltshire force, according to Home Office figures crunched by the BBC. In 2017/18 it was less than half that.
Theft offences, such as shoplifting and burglaries, made the bulk of the most recent community resolutions – with 238 cases dealt with through the informal contracts between victim and perpetrator.
There were 164 community resolutions for violent offences, 178 for criminal damage, 19 for drug offences and just two for possession of weapons. No robbers or sex offenders were given a community resolution.
A Wiltshire Police spokesman said: "By encouraging offenders to face up to the impact of their behaviour and to take responsibility for making good any harm caused, a community resolution can reduce the likelihood of their reoffending."
"Community resolutions are primarily aimed at first time, low-level offenders where a genuine remorse has been expressed and they have accepted full responsibility for the offence being investigated. If officers are satisfied that public interest can be met by dealing out of court, then this is the preferred approach."
'People can get boob jobs on NHS' says mum of boy refused treatment for flat head syndrome
IN THE DOCK: Burglar stole thousands of pounds of cigarettes and other cases before the court
COUNCILLOR BLAST: CCG 'did nothing' for patients during IMH farce
Little Mix star's ex one of five men in court over plot to smuggle £200,000-worth of cocaine to Swindon
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Swindon council's plan for 'unofficial' crossing at site of axed lollipop man
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Q: Is Kafka global store visible from multiple instances of app My question is - I have Kafka stream processing micro service which listens to multiple topics. Aggregates the state from multiple topics and stores in state store. We send that aggregated message ahead to down stream system. Down stream system will response back with other message on different Kafka topic. Need to create global state store which is visible for all my micro service instances. Is it possible to achieve same in karka using global store ? Can I get sample code example on how to create one ?

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The state that is locally available on any given instance is only a subset of the application's entire state. Querying the local stores on an instance will only return data locally available on that particular instance.

An in this instance, to query across instances, you must expose the application.server, as discussed in the link in the comments. Also relevant: Is Kafka Stream StateStore global over all instances or just local?
However, GlobalKTable has a full copy of all data on each instance


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Developing a model of participatory research involving researchers, practitioners, older people and their family carers - an international collaboration
HANSON, E., MAGNUSSON, L., NOLAN, J. and NOLAN, M. R. (2006). Developing a model of participatory research involving researchers, practitioners, older people and their family carers - an international collaboration. Journal of research in nursing., 11 (4), 325-342.
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The care of frail older people and their family carers present significant challenges for welfare systems throughout the world. In order to address their needs, policy initiatives are promoting partnership working between service users, family carers and providers, whereby the former are increasingly involved in the design and evaluation of services. However, participatory models of working raise fundamental issues about power relations and pose important questions about what constitutes 'evidence'. Several authors identify tensions between movements such as evidence-based practice and initiatives designed to increase the active participation of service users suggesting that there is a need for a new approach to research that reconciles potentially conflicting goals. This paper describes the evolution of a model of participatory research resulting from a collaboration between Sweden and the United Kingdom, which actively involved older people, family carers, service providers and voluntary organisations. The model is underpinned by constructivist principles that have been adapted by the authors so as to be more intellectually accessible to a non-academic audience. The conceptual basis for the model is described and a case study illustrates how it is applied in practice. It is argued that the approach could be adopted widely as a means of more fully engaging older people, their families and a range of service providers in important debates about future health and social care provision.
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On Monday July 23rd, 7 DJJ leaders attended Mayor Duggan's community meeting in District Five. Rabbi Alana addressed the Mayor directly, asking a sharp question about structural racism.
Our partners in the social justice community have been calling for escalation around a number of injustices. At the encouragement of the People's Water Board, Rabbi Alana, a resident of District 5, asked Mayor Duggan about water shutoffs, foreclosures, and his condescension of other residents who had pressed him about related structural problems earlier that night. Her question moved the whole room to shouts of support as she walked away from the microphone. Watch the whole video below (captions overlay the video and a transcript can be found below the video).
Hi I'm Rabbi Alana Alpert. I am a homeowner in the North End, and I moved to Detroit so that myself and the new Detroiter in my belly could be surrounded by the dedicated and resilient people who have lived here for the last many decades.
[Community member] Say it again girl.
[Mayor Duggan] "To say that I am pushing people out... the five years before I was elected 20,000 people a year left the city. 100,000 people left the city in 5 years, everything that I have done has been designed to keep people here. Better ambulance response times, with street lights. We lost 20,000 people last year. We've cut the number of water shut offs by 90 percent, we've cut foreclosures by 90 percent. I believe we are acting responsibly I also believe if I were to say today we're not going to do water shut offs that all the people in this room who are paying their water bills, many of whom are strained to pay by themselves, do not want to pay $300 a year.
[Rabbi Alana interjects] Do we want the water shut offs to stop?
you are hope, inspiration, courage and deep love. thank God for you, Rabbi Alana.


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Alex Highsmith and George Pickens are key players in Week 1 Steelers vs. Bengals
In a recent sit-down with BLEAV Network's Mark Bergin, the Steelers cover man named a couple of ancillary players as keys to a possible Pittsburgh win over the Bengals.
By Anthony Cosenza@CJAnthonyCUI Sep 10, 2022, 1:27pm EDT
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The Pittsburgh Steelers are in a state of transition, no doubt. Any time you lose a Hall of Fame quarterback who has manned the position since George W. Bush was in the Oval Office, it leaves a void—no matter the results from 2021.
Even so, we know some of the Steelers' veteran stars and how they'll be keys to the game. Can La'el Collins stymie T.J. Watt? Will Chidobe Awuzie and Eli Apple be able to contain Diontae Johnson and Chase Claypool once again this year?
All valid questions.
But, there are a couple of other players to keep an eye on this week, according to BLEAV Network's Mark Bergin. The co-host of BLEAV in Steelers (with former Steelers defensive back, Ike Taylor), pointed out two somewhat-under-the-radar Pittsburgh players to watch in Sunday's season-opener when he joined us on The Orange and Black Insider.
The first Bergin pointed out was defensive lineman Alex Highsmith. After being a mid-round pick in 2020 from small-school UNC Charlotte, Highsmith has paved a nice pro career for himself. He does get overshadowed by Watt and the great Cam Heyward, though.
"One player we haven't seen a lot of this preseason because of injuries is Alex Highsmith, who plays that outside linebacker position opposite T.J. Watt. Highsmith lines up over opposing teams' left tackles," Bergin said. "Watt's going to garner a lot of attention on the other side...someone's going to have to win single-team, one-on-one matchups and Alex Highsmith has to take advantage."
Highsmith had six sacks last year, along with 15 tackles for loss. He didn't suit up for the first matchup of 2021 versus the Bengals, but did for the second. He had two of those 15 tackles for loss in that contest at then-Paul Brown Stadium.
"This is where he's got to eat...so I want to see what he can do. Again, didn't see a lot of him in the preseason due to injury, but when he's out on the field Week 1 and so forth, I'm excited to see what he can do because someone is going to have to take advantage, given the time and attention being paid to Watt."
It's likely the Bengals will use some combination of Alex Cappa, Hayden Hurst and Drew Sample to aid Collins with Watt. Devin Asiasi won't be available to help in any regard as he is out this week.
Earlier in the show, our own John Sheeran asked Bergin to pick between a few descriptors of rookie wide receiver George Pickens and the BLEAV host went with "scary".
"I wish I could say 'all of the above', but I'll go with 'scary' right now," Bergin said with a chuckle. "Because it's not just the highlight reel catch/toe-tap in the back of the end zone we saw in one of the first preseason games, what I look at is the blocking ability and just being a downright bully."
Since being drafted in the second round and in his work throughout the preseason, much has been made of Pickens and his big-time shoves of defensive backs trying to either press him, or get in on run defense. The former Georgia Bulldogs receiver seemingly embodies that "Steelers mentality"—AKA being a bully on the field.
"You go back to his Georgia footage and he was playing against Georgia Tech...I don't want to see him get ejected from a football game like he did in that one, but that kind of attitude is contagious and that 'want to' in blocking." Bergin concluded with telling us how his co-host Taylor called Pickens "the real deal" after seeing him in-person at Steelers training camp.
Obviously, Pickens isn't as far under the radar as say, Highsmith, given his draft status and being a favorite to win Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2022, but he is contending for touches with Johnson and Claypool.
It will be interesting to see how these two players end up impacting the game on Sunday. Our thanks to Mark Bergin of BLEAV in Steelers for the chat. Be sure to go check out their show!
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The veteran rock band is set to play another Octoberfest on Saturday.
APPLETON - Much like Tiger Paws, tap beer and green-and-gold No. 12 jerseys, one thing you're just about guaranteed to find at Octoberfest on a given year is Vic Ferrari.
The Fox Valley's eminent rock and roll cover band — who next year will celebrate 30 years together — has become a staple of the annual downtown Appleton block party. They're on a run of at least a dozen straight years in a prominent stage and time slot and Michael Bailey, one of Vic Ferrari's founding fathers, guessed they've played about 20 Octoberfests total dating back to the early 1990s.
In all those years, you better believe Bailey and company have figured out how to give the people what they want at the peak of Appleton's biggest party.
"It's just a wonderful atmosphere, my god," said Bailey, who'll again likely be performing in front of tens of thousands of loosened-up locals on Saturday afternoon. "There's no gig on the face of the Earth like that. We've played some good ones and some great ones in many countries and this is like — wow. Here's our backyard and we've got something like this, you know?"
The band, sometimes referred to by those in the know as simply Vic, will be back in the familiar role as Octoberfest's biggest musical draw with a 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. set on the stage near the corner of College Avenue and State Street.
"You just ratchet (the energy) up," Bailey said. "I'll be the first to admit. I think it's the enormity of being on the west side and looking at all those people having fun all day. We know darn well they're not all looking at us, but, you know — there's a lot of people out there."
So, just what goes into putting together the perfect Octoberfest set list for the closest thing there is to the living embodiment of three hours of WAPL airtime?
It's about playing the hits, of course. Bailey, who'll draw up the plans for another epic 150 minutes of music a few days before showtime, said there are about a dozen or so songs that are no-brainers for Saturday.
Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer," for instance. It's one of those classic rock sing-alongs that, after several hours of sipping from plastic cups, the College Avenue crowd's practically begging for. Toto's "Africa" is another.
"'Thunderstruck,' you know, I don't ever get tired of playing that one," Bailey said of AC/DC's arena rock detonator from 1990. "Why? Because there's really not a lot of people that can sing like that, and then we try to get every intricacy. It's not a simple song. The drums have got to be there, the bass has got to be there, the guitars have got to be there. Man, that guy, Ron (Kalista) can sing the crap out of that."
Another one you're bound to hear? Wayne and Garth's favorite drive jam.
"We played in Minneapolis with our symphony last year and I know when I got in the car the next day, I put my phone on and I had probably 20 complaints that we didn't perform 'Bohemian Rhapsody' with the symphony," Bailey said. "And this was in Minnesota. I went, Oh, wow, I guess I didn't make anybody happy."
While those sorts of all-time classics are shoe-ins for the set, don't expect the band to keep the energy cranked to 11 for the full stretch.
"We'll do 'Simple Man' (by Lynyrd Skynyrd), that's a slower tempo song. We might do like 'Knee Deep' (by) Zac Brown," Bailey said. " ... They're a little mellow. I think you have to do it because Vic Ferrari knows dynamics. We know sometimes you've got to back off the volume for a minute to let everybody take a breath and you've got to let the show breathe a little bit."
With about two decades of block party-playing under their belts, it hasn't been all roaring crowds and rock and roll ecstasy. One year back in the '90s, Bailey said, their Octoberfest set got rained out. That was a major bummer. And about 10 or so years ago, they worked out a special surprise during another AC/DC song. For "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)," they welcomed a team of bag-pipers to the stage and it was a surprising misfire.
"It didn't go over at all," Bailey he said. "People were like, What are you guys doing? I thought people were totally digging it when all these guys walked up in their uniforms, but it didn't go over one bit. Even the band was looking at each other on stage going, What do we do?"
As for how fans should expect Vic to start of Saturday's performance, it's yet to be determined, though Bailey said there's an Eagles song that's likely the front-runner.
"I really like 'Heartache Tonight' for an opener," he said. "It's a great song. It takes vocals to do it. I really like the fact you have slide guitar in it. It's got to be spot-on when you walk out because it's not an easy song to do. The clapping's got to be there."
From there, Vic's working with an arsenal of great songs to choose from. The band's online song list reaches as far back as 1955 ("Folsom Prison Blues") and up to contemporary hits from the likes of Luke Bryan, Bruno Mars and Eric Church. Of course, there's a lot of classic rock in between.
It'll all get thrown together to soundtrack a heckuva party downtown. Bailey said when it comes to drawing up a set list, he might even be the type that spends too much time on it. There've been occasions where the plans have been scrapped early on because the vibe didn't match the outline.
Whatever happens, it's not rocket science. It's a rock show. It's a party. The keys to it are pretty simple.
"I would say (the most important elements are) entertainment and good music and just trying to be something that maybe others aren't," Bailey said. "I'm not going to climb to the top of the stage and jump off it and hope that somebody catches me."


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Q: Android-What 's the Disadvantage of using static UI object In my project,i need to use some UI object (such as Textview) that Between two Independent class or two activity;
In this case,to avoid repeating the code which get UI object,I want use an static Ui object to instead.
Of course ,i am also thinking about the safty of static object in App life cycle;
But The article of android-static-object-lifecycle clear up my doubt;
the value of the static variable will persist when you switch to a different activity of another application and none of the below three happens.
1. the class is unloaded
2. the JVM shuts down
3. the process dies
In my Opinion ,using static object no only safty but also more convinece to use in different class; But In fact  it is rarely see in others project.
Is there any Disadvantage to use static ui object?
Please post your suggestions on this... Thanks in advance

A: Each UI element will need a context. When you provide this (this being an Activity subclass for example) the element will hold a reference to your activity. This is bad because activity instances may be recreated by the runtime (for example when the screen rotates). In those cases the older instance will still remain in the memory (as it cannot be garbage collected) because your UI element has a reference of it (via this). Hence, it is advised not to use static UI elements.


Make it something concrete so you know exactly what change you're planning to make. If you're successful with the first change you can go ahead and make another change after a month or so. By making small changes one after the other, you still have the chance to be a whole new you at the end of 2015 and it's a much more realistic way of doing it.
To ensure success you need to research the change you're making and plan ahead so you have the resources available when you need them.
If you do enough research you should even be looking forward to making the change.
Get everything ready so things will run smoothly.
You don't have to make these changes on New Year's Day. It's better to wait until your whole mind and body are fully ready to take on the challenge. You'll know when it is when the time comes.
Try again, keep trying and you will succeed.
Small rewards are great encouragement to keep you going during the hardest first days. After that you can probably reward yourself once a week with a magazine, a long-distance call to a supportive friend, a siesta, a trip to the movies or whatever makes you tick. Later you can change the rewards to monthly and then at the end of the year you can pick an anniversary reward. Something that you'll look forward to. You deserve it and you'll have earned it.


1. There will be some differences between Java packages and C# namespaces. If you're developing with C#, for example, you can still use this as guidance, but you'll want to adapt it to make sense for your specific programming language and platform.


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Invisible Children Gives Woman Hope
by Julie WaltonPosted on December 6, 2011
While visiting the United States with a non-profit organization called Invisible Children, a young woman from Uganda made a stop in Southern Utah. Her goal on this tour is to educate Americans about her country and its 25-year civil war.
Harriet Achola of Lira, Uganda, shares her story at high school and college presentations around the country. On November 10 at Dixie State College, she told of how her mother, while pregnant with her, was abducted by rebels and witnessed horrendous events. Harriet's mother eventually escaped, but was greatly traumatized. Harriet's entire childhood was affected by the civil war.
"I lived in great fear because I knew the rebels' way and what they used to do," Achola said. "And since kids were the main target, I lived in great fear. Most of my nights were spended in the jungle just for safety, for fear of being abducted."
Invisible Children (IC) volunteer Katrina Aucoin, of Laconia, N.H., explained the purpose of organization. "We're a non-profit organization based out of San Diego that is working to end the longest war in Central Africa," Aucoin said. "This a war for the last 25 years, a man by the name of Joseph Kony, has been abducting children and forcing them to fight as child soldiers."
Invisible Children is dedicated to helping the youngest, displaced victims of the war by creating scholarships for education and rehabilitation centers for former child soldiers. The fundraising efforts go to these endeavors with donations and the sale of T-shirts, handbags and jewelry made by Ugandans which provide ongoing employment for them. The documentary which is featured at these IC presentations, called "Tony", is also available for purchase to raise money.
After high school, Achola received a scholarship from Invisible Children to attend Makerere University where she studied hospitality management. She says she is so grateful for this opportunity. During her second year, she decided to give back to Invisible Children by taking a year out of her education to travel in the United States to advocate for her homeland and surrounding countries.
This is the second IC visit to St. George which made an impact on those who heard the message last spring. DSC student Shaira Dursteler attended the previous event and decided to get involved. She helped make arrangements to host a stop on the IC western tour.
Dursteler said, "I believe that Invisible Children is saving lives by creating awareness with the movie screenings, and everything that they are doing."
Another DSC student, Ricky Wilkins said, "I think it's a personal obligation to me anyway. I feel like, as a person of African descent, seeing my people like that, how can I not stand up and do something."
Invisible Children provides an opportunity for both young adults of Uganda and America to collaborate in community service—creating a positive change for many lives.
"I did one semester in the spring [of college] and half way through, I decided I wanted to dedicate myself to this [IC] as long as I could; because my work was making a difference in the lives of others I would never meet, but it was absolutely worth it," Aucoin said.
To learn more about the efforts to help Uganda visit:
http://www.invisiblechildren.com
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This announcement is a game changer for most webmasters and business owners. It's very unlike Google to provide such specifics about an update that it plans to release. With this being the case, we anticipate this update having a huge impact on mobile search results. Mobile friendly websites will surely be rewarded with better rankings while non-mobile sites will experience a decline in rankings. Exactly how much of an increase or decrease we don't yet know, but if your website gets a lot of traffic from organic rankings, I don't think you're going to want to wait around to find out. After all, 1/4 of all searches are now being done from mobile devices. With several billion searches being completed each day, this adds up to a whole lot of searches that you are not going to want to miss out on!
But regardless if you've received a notification or not, if you know your website is not mobile-friendly I wouldn't recommend waiting around to receive one.
There are several options to consider when planning a mobile-friendly website upgrade. From responsive design website templates to 3rd party software extensions, you'll want to research what will work best for your situation. Of note, Google has stated that its preferred mobile method is responsive web design because it believes this offers a better user experience and it's less prone to errors than dedicated mobile websites.
Google has published a "Guide to Mobile Friendly Websites" that offers some tools and advice to those needing assistance.
Whether you chose to react to Google's notice or not, the change is coming on April 21st, 2015. What's your take? Do you think Google should be displaying different search results for different devices? Or should the results be the same regardless? Let me know in the comments below.


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Q: How do I get my Guake terminal to look as fancy as this screenshot? I saw this screenshot from this post, and was curious as to how they got their Guake environment to have what looks like 3 split tabs. Any suggestions on how to do this? Are they running tmux on top of Guake or something of the sort?

A: What you see in the screenshot is couple apps, actually.  Tripple split is done by screen as suggested by the name in lower right corner in the screenshot and the process manager in top split is  htop.
I personally would recommend byobu instead of just screen, since that has fancier interface showing clock, ip address, and other stats. All the apps are installable via sudo apt-get install PACKAGE-NAME
Here's for instance what can be done witih Byobu. Similar layout:


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Section 1: Benign Neonatal Dermatoses
Benign Neonatal Dermatoses. In: Prose NS, Kristal L. Prose N.S., Kristal L Eds. Neil S. Prose, and Leonard Kristal.eds. Weinberg's Color Atlas of Pediatric Dermatology, 5e New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; . http://accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1913&sectionid=138561851. Accessed July 16, 2019.
. "Benign Neonatal Dermatoses." Weinberg's Color Atlas of Pediatric Dermatology, 5e Prose NS, Kristal L. Prose N.S., Kristal L Eds. Neil S. Prose, and Leonard Kristal. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, , http://accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=1913&sectionid=138561851.
Erythema Toxicum Neonatorum
Transient Neonatal Pustular Melanosis
Erythema toxicum neonatorum This very common and completely benign condition usually arises in the first 2 days of life. It is seen in about 30% to 50% of healthy newborns and occurs less frequently in preterm infants. Rarely the onset occurs up to 14 days of age.
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The lesions are erythematous macules, within which papules (Fig. 1-1) and pustules (Fig. 1-2) may develop. The trunk is the most common site, but all other body surfaces, except for the palms and soles, may be involved. In rare cases, these lesions may occur in plaques.
Erythema toxicum neonatorum Occasionally, this unimportant eruption must be differentiated from more serious infectious processes, such as neonatal herpes simplex. Tzanck smear of a pustule of erythema toxicum neonatorum will reveal numerous eosinophils but no multinucleated giant cells or bacteria.
In some newborns, peripheral eosinophilia is also present. The cause of this condition is not known, and it resolves spontaneously within 10 days. No treatment is required.
Transient neonatal pustular melanosis This is a benign neonatal dermatosis that is most common among children with more dark-colored skin. The original lesion is a vesiculopustule, which may be present at birth. This small blister quickly ruptures and leaves a typical collarette of superficial scale. Both intact pustules and collarettes are seen in the newborn in Figs. 1-5 and 1-6.
Figures 1-6 and 1-7 show the brownish-pigmented macules that may develop at the site of resolving lesions. These macules may be sparse or numerous and resolve without residua over a period of several weeks to several months.
Transient neonatal pustular melanosis In some infants, the pustule and collarette stages seem to occur in utero, and the sole cutaneous manifestations are the typical macules (Fig. 1-8). Lesions of transient neonatal pustular melanosis favor the forehead, neck, chin, and lower back but may be very widespread and may involve the palms and soles.
Scraping the base of an unroofed pustule reveals polymorphonuclear leukocytes but no bacteria, pseudohyphae, or multinucleated giant cells. A biopsy of a pustule, which is rarely necessary, shows an intraepidermal collection of polymorphonuclear leukocytes.
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Home Old_Posts Conference resolutions must be respected
Conference resolutions must be respected
The just-ended ZANU PF gathering at Goromonzi High School, should not be seen merely as an ordinary political party conference, since decisions arrived at this indaba, are ideas that are going to determine the governance of the country.
For it is the ideas of the ruling Party that give direction to the affairs of a country.
It was appropriate that emphasis in their resolutions was placed on revamping the economy.
It is a given, that for happiness to be shared by the greatest number of the people, a flourishing economy is a pre-requisite.
But this economy cannot grow through wishful thinking.
We would like to see visible measures taken to see to it that maximum yields are achieved on our farms, be it commercial or subsistence.
The resolution on the desire to rehabilitate and develop irrigation infrastructure, should be worth much more than the paper it was written on.
One of the effects of climate change is recurring droughts.
It will be tragic for the whole country to be caught napping when we are blessed with so many waterbodies.
Since we are blessed with valuable minerals, the economy can be boosted through the prudent exploitation of that resource.
Hence the resolution to fund small-scale miners is one big way, not only to boost our mineral production, but also to create employment.
However, the desired economic growth will suffer a stillbirth, if corruption is not stopped forthwith.
It could be corruption by individual sharks, by illegal money changers or by those distributing farming inputs.
We are glad the resolutions were emphatic on that.
The unanimous endorsement of President ED Mnangagwa as the party's sole presidential candidate for the 2023 harmonised elections, was a reassuring sign of unity.
For unity is a vital ingredient to safeguard the sovereignty of the nation.
There are a number of forces determined to stop ZANU PF from delivering.
It may be through infiltration by moles or bare knuckled onslaught by regime change disciples.
Isn't it curious that as ZANU PF was holding its conference, the Zimbabwe Council of Churches was also organising an indaba, purported to be apolitical.
But this was betrayed by the presence of the who's who from the regime change camp.
What apolitical deliberations can be expected from a conglomeration of hard core regime change veterans like Ibbo Mandaza of Forum of Concerned Citizens, Jestina Mukoko of Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum, Briggs Bomba of Citizens Manifesto and Tony Reeler of National Transitional Justice Working Group, among others.
All these are well known out- and-out regime change stalwarts.
And it was with such characters and the apparent blessing of the 'usual' embassies that the ZCC is looking for a renewed approach to bring about the downfall of ZANU PF.
The surest way for ZANU PF to foil all this it to make a bold attempt to fulfil the conference resolutions as a united party.
As long as the people centred resolutions are implemented, the surrogates of the Western imperialists are assured of another thrashing, come 2023 polls.
Meanwhile, we wish all our readers a happy holidays and a prosperous new year.
Remember not to drink and drive during the festive season.
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Lots-Renversés est un village (parfois désigné comme hameau) compris dans le territoire de la municipalité de Saint-Juste-du-Lac, dans le Témiscouata, au Québec (Canada).

Toponymie
Les lots du cadastre de la seigneurie de Madawaska sont généralement orientés perpendiculairement à la rive du lac Témiscouata. Or, les lots ayant front sur les rangs  et , dont chemins relient Saint-Juste-du-Lac et Auclair, sont plutôt orientés perpendiculairement à la voie publique.

Le nom du village provient donc de cette différence dans l'orientation des propriétés.

Géographie

Localisation
Le village est situé sur la route 295 reliant Auclair au lac Témiscouata, près du Nouveau-Brunswick.

Économie
L'économie de Lots-Renversés repose essentiellement sur l'industrie forestière, particulièrement la transformation des bois francs.

Une scierie emploie une cinquantaine de travailleurs. L'usine produit du bois destiné à la fabrication de palettes de manutention, ainsi que des billes et des copeaux. Une entreprise acéricole possède de plus de , exportant des produits de l'érable partout au Canada. Une entreprise de fabrication de cercueils est en activité jusqu'en 2012.

Histoire
Le secteur de Lots-Renversés est ouvert à la colonisation vers 1931, alors que sont ouverts les rangs  et , le long de la route reliant Saint-Juste à Auclair. La compagnie Fraser accepte alors de troquer sa concession forestière pour une autre située en Gaspésie.

Une scierie est implantée en 1934. Un bureau de poste est ouvert en 1939.

Services
La localité rivalise avec le village de Saint-Juste, notamment pour le financement des projets de développement territorial. Bien qu'intégrés à la même municipalité, Saint-Juste-du-Lac et Lots-Renversés possèdent leurs propres casernes de pompiers, église, services de loisirs, bureaux de poste, etc..

Après avoir fait l'objet de tentatives de sauvegarde au long des décennies 1970 à 2000, l'école du village a changé de vocation ; elle abrite désormais un centre de conditionnement physique, une garderie, une bibliothèque et un local d'artisanat.

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Témiscouata
Localité au Bas-Saint-Laurent

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While the development and QA staff have primary responsibility for testing, site reliability engineers (SREs) are typically responsible for the overall system and its availability.
Unit tests are typically created and run in silos within individual teams, but integration, end-to-end and system tests must be conducted in a fuller environment that combines the work of multiple teams, technologies and more realistic deployment environments. This fuller environment is the domain of the SRE engineer.
Having the task of creating and implementing tools that increase site reliability and performance, the SRE team has a role to play in enabling testing against the full distributed system.
Tools focused on assisting SRE engineers with managing a distributed application at scale have undergone a complete revolution in the last decade, mainly due to necessity. Log files are great in a monolithic environment with one user, but they quickly become untenable when you have a distributed system with many users.
This revolution changed the way that logs and metrics are handled, but the greatest difference has been the advent of distributed tracing. The ability to fully track a single transaction as it flows through the complete system, seeing the timing and key information at each step along the path, is a game changer. It has become a central tool on which the SRE community depends to understand and debug complex transactions in its environments.
What Is Trace-Based Testing?
Trace-based testing uses data contained in the spans and attributes of a distributed trace to assert expected system behavior. Traditional API tools assert against the response of a system call, while trace-based testing asserts against the response and the trace results.
You can think of it as Postman with X-ray vision, seeing and allowing testing against not only the obvious result from a call, but also the entire flow, ensuring that each microservice involved in fulfilling the request behaves in the expected manner. It is a natural solution for testing in the distributed world, as it is built on distributed observability tooling, namely distributed tracing.
Great, but how does trace-based testing help SREs?
No. 1: It Brings More Value to the Table Across Roles
Implementing distributed tracing has been described as the high promise, high effort, low value story (see Ian Smith's presentation "Distributed Tracing — The Struggle Is Real" at KubeCon, in Detroit), but why is that? Power users, typically the SREs, are the only ones in the organization who use tracing tools. However, others have to spend time implementing tracing in their code, maintaining it, etc. Meanwhile adoption lags, never reaching critical mass across multiple stakeholders, so implementing tracing is viewed primarily for its cost.
Basing tests on your traces, however, reverses this trend. Both developers and QA engineers actively create and maintain tests, and building them for distributed systems is notoriously difficult. Trace-based testing is the "easy button," as it relies on work your organization has already done by implementing distributed tracing. Being able to leverage your investment across the organization to enable testing adds more value, and that value is realized by multiple stakeholders.
No. 2: Trace-based Testing Results in Better Observability
This one is for you, the SRE team. Trace-based testing improves observability, helping you diagnose issues quicker and reducing mean time to repair (MTTR). Since the dev and QA teams rely on the business data captured in attributes in the trace to form their assertions, you will also "observe" the critical business data when viewing the trace. The information needed for a good test is typically the same information needed in debugging, and basing tests on trace data ensures the data in traces is rich.
No. 3: Traditional Testing of Distributed Systems Is Broken
You want to catch issues as code is moved through the pipeline via tests, but the traditional methods used to write end-to-end tests are inherently broken. They are hard to build and expensive to maintain, so many organizations just give up. You, the SRE, end up catching the issues, in prod, with your observability tools, at 3 a.m.
Trace-based testing uses modern observability techniques to enable modern testing. With it, developers and QA engineers are given a trace as the basis of the tests they create. It inherently shows the path taken and systems used in a particular triggering of the system. We all navigate better with a map, and the trace is the map you rely on when creating a trace-based test.
No. 4: Trace-Based Tests Can Be Run in Prod
The same set of tests used in your CI/CD processes can be run against production. Want to verify that an order in production is being processed properly? Use your test from the deployment environment by feeding in the trace from production. The same set of rules and verifications can be applied to the production trace, with the test results highlighting issues throughout the flow. You can also run a subset of tests directly in production, as long as they are harmless and do not end up shipping a toy to a random customer.
No. 5: It Makes the SRE Team Heroes
The Google SRE Workbook defines the role of an SRE team as:
"Simply put, SRE principles aim to maximize the engineering velocity of developer teams while keeping products reliable. This two-fold goal is good for the product users and good for the company."
Implementing trace-based testing fulfills the tenets of the SRE mission by providing the developer team with a means to more quickly write extensive tests, increasing both test coverage and developer velocity. Better tests lead to better reliability as code is being rolled into your production environment, resulting in a more reliable product for your customers.
Ready to get started? Tracetest is an open source solution that enables you to build and execute trace-based tests. You do not need to change your application or any of your code, and you do not need to switch your observability vendor. The tool has two integration points: It needs to be able to trigger your system, and it needs to be able to access the resultant trace. That's it! Tracetest can be installed in Docker or Kubernetes; it runs in your environment and begins providing value immediately.
The Tracetest team is available to help you. You can reach us on our Discord channel, and you can add issues to help direct the course of the project in GitHub. If you like Tracetest, please give us a star in our GitHub Repo!
Ken Hamric has been a developer for 35 years and has founded multiple tech startups, including CrossBrowserTesting.com, which was acquired by SmartBear and added to its robust testing portfolio, and recently, Tracetest, an open source project that allows users to...
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The site encompasses an area of approximately 37 hectares along the foreshore of the Qiantang River to be used as a multi-function park as a key focus on visual and functional integration with adjacent developments/open space systems and a large portion of the site covers underground car parking and road infrastructure, thereby creating a large "green roof". The Masterplan provided a more unified, legible open space framework that successfully integrated the many parts of the existing plan- adjacent developments, the central axis, adjacent parks & infrastructure as well as creating spaces for uses that would adapt to changing recreational and social needs over time.
The New CBD is the major landmark development for the future expansion of the city of Hangzhou. The CBD will house large office and retail complexes, residential buildings, hotels and major cultural points of interest such as the new convention centre and the main theatre. The New CBD, located along the edge of the Qianjiang River will have a both an orientation to the river while also linking to the old part of town the West Lake area which is the historic town centre.
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The title may sound slightly frivolous – with visions of elephants jumping hurdles or being serenaded in gondolas as they drift under the Bridge of Sighs – but the subject matter is really very serious. It is the future of CO2 storage that will determine the degree of success of CCS in Europe. I use the term 'degree of success' as opposed to 'success or failure' because we simply cannot afford to fail with CCS. It is not an option. Several other factors could play a role, but none more important than storage. Unfortunately, we have already made big mistakes which are now hampering our progress.
Storage of carbon dioxide had been going on at Sleipner (Norway) for over 10 years and a very small number of EU Member States had started to think about CCS in a relatively low-key way before CCS finally made its serious political debut in Europe. This was in 2007/2008 when energy and climate policies were top of the political agenda. Europe clearly needed to continue its use of coal for economic and supply security reasons, but its emissions remained a major problem.
Emphasis was immediately placed on the technology for capturing the gas. It was clearly in the interest of the equipment suppliers to bring capture to the fore and the utilities, whose expertise was in operating large industrial plants, were comfortable with this emphasis. Only a limited number of them had experience in transporting gases and even fewer had experience in deep geology (especially offshore). It was generally assumed that transport would not be a major issue and that pumping the gas underground would not present any particular problems. Only those companies or organisations that had already experienced some local resistance to exploratory work sounded the warning bells, but they went unheeded in the enthusiasm for the technology and its unquestioned benefits from the point of view of climate change. The expectations were that the carbon price under the Emission Trading System (ETS) would rise quite quickly and, as a result, encourage demonstration and fund early deployment. We were somewhat over-optimistic!
In 2006, the electricity producer EoN announced that it would be building a new coal-fired power plant at its Kingsnorth site in Kent (UK) as replacement for units at the site. In 2008 it announced that part of the new capacity would be equipped with CCS and would enter the UK's CCS competition. However, by October 2009, the company had announced that the project would be delayed, and one year later announced its cancellation. While the cancellation was for commercial reasons – the company was and still is supportive of CCS and are expected to take a final investment decision (FID) soon on the ROAD CCS demonstration project in the Netherlands – delays in the CCS project could have proved important. A retrospective view on the project might have come to the conclusion that it should have been 'storage-led'. This is a realisation that several other projects are now arriving at. While capture equipment and pipes can, to a greater or lesser extent, be bought 'off the shelf', the same is unfortunately not true for storage capacity nor for a storage site.
It is with some dismay that companies have started to realise that it is likely, in many cases, to take seven to 10 years from preliminary identification of a potential storage site to it receiving its storage permit, especially if you are looking at virtually unexplored saline aquifers in the North Sea. It is of particular concern if you are already less than five years away from a major funding deadline by which you should be demonstrating the full CCS value chain! Who will be ready and willing to capture a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year if they have nowhere to put it? In fact, how many companies can afford to take an investment risk in the technology to add to their plants before they have at least some form of assurances about storage? It would probably not be an attractive option even in times of strong economic growth. At the present time in Europe it is something that could only be done with strong political support, mainly in the form of major grant funding.
Therefore it is hardly surprising that the need for storage is seen as one of the hurdles for the demonstration of CCS. It is, of course, not the only one. There are regulatory and financial hurdles, the need for infrastructure for transporting CO2 and a noticeable lack, at this moment in time, of political support and public acceptance in European countries. This is where the elephants make their appearance! In April this year I participated in a BP-sponsored symposium in Brussels on 'Getting Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies to Market'. Towards the end of the meeting, participants were asked to identify their 'elephant in the room' as far as CCS was concerned – meaning, in this case, what had the greatest potential to negatively impact the progress of CCS. All the usual suspects were mentioned, though two topics stood out: public acceptance and the lack of storage. Every geologist in the meeting identified the need for storage. This was not because geologists do not believe that there is inadequate potential for storage in Europe. In fact the opposite is the case. Europe has tremendous potential for storing CO2 both onshore and offshore, but at the moment it is almost all still potential. A great deal of effort needs to be done to confirm that this is useable. This takes time and money, especially working in the difficult environment of the North Sea. A massive exploration effort, comparable to that required to support the oil and gas industry, could well be needed.
In addition, the other big 'elephant', public acceptance, is most commonly related to storage, in particular the safety or perceived lack of safety of geological storage. Yet another member of the herd was political acceptance, which is closely linked to public acceptance and hence to storage. So the lack of proven storage is a major hurdle, or a massive elephant in the room to the demonstration of CCS.
So where do gondolas fit into this? The answer, not surprisingly, is in Venice! This is a reference to the CO2 GeoNet and CGS Europe meetings that were held on the Venetian island of San Servalo in April 2012. This was the seventh annual 'open forum' of GeoNet and gave a comprehensive review of the research on storage in Europe, including many encouraging results. The large majority of the presentations were of R&D activities supported by the European Commission's Framework R&D programmes. Many of the presentations were excellent and reported on good progress.
ECO2 – detecting and monitoring sub-seabed CO2 emissions.
The CGS knowledge sharing workshop included some excellent presentations on national storage activities including identification of sites for the Belchatow (Poland) and Getica (Romania) CCS Demonstration Projects. All the presentations from both meetings are available from the CO2GeoNet site.
While the 'gondola meetings' did not present all the answers to the hurdles or elephants question, they clearly indicate we are well advanced on providing some of them. But the full characterisation of likely storage sites is still going to be the controlling influence over how soon CCS can be demonstrated and deployed. This will still take considerable efforts, money and, of course, time – much more than we have presently available!


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Facebook Is Facing a Massive Lawsuit Over Online Purchases Made by Kids
In this photo illustration the Social networking site Facebook is displayed on a laptop screen on March 25, 2009 in London, England.
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By Rishi Iyengar
Correction appended: 10:17 p.m. EST on Mar. 16
Facebook was ordered to face a nationwide class-action lawsuit in the U.S. on Tuesday, over its refusal to provide refunds to parents whose children spent money on the website.
A federal judge in San Jose, California ruled that hundreds of thousands of people across the country could legally claim refunds from the social network over its policy on online purchases by minors, Reuters reported.
U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman also said parents could not pursue refunds as a group, because each case would be different, but could do so individually.
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The suit was initiated in 2012 by two children and their parents, over purchases of the now discontinued virtual currency Facebook Credits made using the parents' credit and debit cards. One child said his mother used her credit card to buy him a $20 game called Ninja Saga but was subsequently charged hundreds of dollars for what he thought were virtual currency purchases, while the other child racked up charges of $1,059 after taking his parents' debit card without permission.
"The difference between Facebook and other businesses is that the company is on actual notice of a user's age, but treats children the same as adult users when it comes to taking their money," said J.R. Parker, a lawyer for the plaintiffs.
The lawsuit says Facebook violated state laws by refusing refunds under its "all sales are final" policy, to which the company responded by saying the claims were too disparate. It also said the lawsuit lacks merit, and that it will defend itself vigorously.
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It's a hot summer, and here are some luxury water toys. From personal submarines to water-powered jetpacks here is our round up of best water toys to accompany your yacht, entertain the family or send you on your next adventure.
In just a few words the EGO is the ultimate yacht toy. South Korean company Raonhaje created this baby so you can explore the underwater world with very little effort and virtually no training at all. The EGO is semi-submersible, meaning that the bottom portion sits under the surface for an incredible view and the top section floats above for those who prefer to remain in the sun.
No, this is not a one-off project some guy assembled in his garage. The PYTHON Watercar is on the production line and available for those who want to turn heads or just really hate lining up to launch their boat. This hot rod can reach 60mph speeds in the water and does 0-60 in 4.5 seconds on the street. Starting at $200k, these amphibious vehicles are hand built with an engine "based on the famous aluminum LS Corvette power train."
Somewhere between surfing and jet skiing there lives the JetBoard. Ride the waves or glassy water at speeds up to and over 35 miles per hour. This fun toy runs at 55 horsepower with 350 psi of thrust to push riders of up to 350 pounds. Although we doubt you will be hitting the full 35mph if you don't lose a few first. Can't wait to start carving waves? PowerSki plans to offer this bad boy at a $7,995.
Newly launched and delivering summer 2011, the FlyNano can be yours for a little under $40,000. Classified as a microlight aircraft, the winged water toy can actually fly up to a hieght of 1.9 miles...some call it scary, we call them wimps. Flying across the water at 43mph and up in the air at 93mph without a helmet is totally safe. Really. Regardless of any concerns you may have we highly doubt base jumpers, wing suit flyers and that guy flying around in a jet pack will stay away.
So what sets the JetBike apart from a Seadoo or other wave runner? According to their site, " The Jetbike is the only personal watercraft offering a simultaneous front and rear steering mechanism." In fact a driver can actually plunge under the water briefly due the extra power. Wave runner it is not. AquaJet describes this watercraft as being a motorcycle for the water. Does it do wheelies too? Among other motorcycle-esque elements, the JetBike includes a twist-grip motorcycle throttle; speeds can reach and exceed 70mph.
For anyone with a mega yacht the $130k you will need to purchase a JetLev-Flyer is not much more than usual operating costs. However if you aren't quite in that tax bracket, a visit to a resort near you will shortly do the trick. Salt and fresh water friendly, this water-propelled jetpack uses a 250hp engine to shoot flyers up to 33 feet above the water at up to 22 miles per hour. Pick one of these up and after 10 hours of flight time the makers claim you will be doing Donuts, Sea Otters and Leaping takeoffs in no time.
On the surface the of the water the SCUBACRAFT SC6 can propell up to six passenger to 45 knots. But the real reason that you have to have one of these is because underwater exploration at up to 100 feet below the surface is awesome. Underwater the SCUBACRAFT flies through the water at up to 3 knots. Battery operated and silent in the water, taking one of these for a spin will not disturb the fish. The price is available per request, but according to CNN the smaller SC3 goes for about $164,000.
Scuba diving is fine, by why not add a little extra oomph? Seabob has been around for a few years now, but it had to make the list. Particularly the limited edition Cayago Magnum, of which only 100 will be made. What better way to simultaneously explore underwater and feel like you are a Navy Seal? The Magnum boasts 10 gears, 4 hours of operating time, Sonar and 10 horsepower. Pick one up for a little over $100k.


Apple iPhone sales plunged in China by 20 percent in the fourth quarter, according to an industry research firm, as the tech giant contends with slowing demand that led company executives to cut revenue guidance. IDC attributed the decline in iPhone sales in part to Apple's decision to raise prices on the product.
In the whole year, due to the slowdown in the macroeconomic growth, the long-term replacement cycle of consumers, and the diversion of fragmented smart terminals, the overall market shipments of domestic smartphones reached 397 million units in 2018, a year-on-year decline of 10%.
Curiously, Xiaomi, another China-based smartphone giant, had Apple-like troubles in the quarter: Its unit sales fell nearly 35 percent. Among them, Huawei and VIVO have shown growth despite the trend, and Apple's decline has reached 11.7%. Revenue from the iPhone slid 15 per cent in the October to December period.
The sales shortfall was reflected late last month in Apple's first-quarter earnings report.
As noted, Huawei sales surged by 23 percent in the same quarter, indicating that this phone maker-which is now number two in the world ahead of Apple-has improved the quality of its products dramatically.
Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has seen China as a key part of Apple's strategy: last fiscal year the company generated nearly US$52 billion in revenue from Greater China, a region that includes Hong Kong.
Counterpoint said iPhone sales in the fourth quarter, which includes India's electronics sales-heavy Diwali festival, fell 25 percent on the year, reducing total sales in 2018 to 1.7 million units from 3.2 million a year earlier. "Apple didn't seem to change its Chinese marketing plans". But my key takeaway is this: The IDC report proves that Apple blaming only China for its iPhone sales drop-off is a smoke screen: Its sales in China were only slightly worse than they were worldwide. But there's an unrelated reason, IDC says: Xiaomi suffered from "inventory corrections and an internal restructuring", the firm claims.
Wang Xi, a senior analyst of IDC China, said: 'The domestic smartphone market environment in 2019 doesn't look very optimistic. We've a long way to go before they become mainstream'.


Hi! My name is Freddy Roman and I am maker and restorer. I apprenticed under master craftsmen Philip C. Lowe at the Furniture Institute of Massachusetts (FIM) in Beverly, MA. After graduating I worked for conservation studios and cabinet shops restoring furniture, making built-ins, kitchens, architectural elements, and reproducing museum quality furniture.
In 2007 I opened a furniture making and restoration studio located in Littleton, MA. Currently I am working for private clients, institutions, and conservation studios. When I'm not working in the studio, I can be found educating the public, teaching and demonstrating across the United States.
My start into woodworking goes back as far as I can remember. My father is a general contractor who builds custom homes and office buildings. At the age of five I received my first hammer, (a 12oz Eswing that I still have and use to this day). From that young age all the way through high school I would go to work in the field framing and doing what ever was required of me.
After high school I went to work full time building for my father. I switched from the framing side of construction to the finishing side about six months in, and that's when I truly fell in love with woodworking. The ability to produce eye catching work that people would enjoy set off a chain reaction in me. After several more years of working under my uncle, a master finish carpenter, I then began running jobs myself.
In my mid twenties I was asked to build a window seat with bookcases. This sparked the idea of producing even finer work. After learning the general idea of cabinetry I began seeking more complicated work and stumbed across period furniture. It was at that point that I was learning how to really work with wood and its abilities. In my late twenties I had started taking on so much side work that I decided to quit working for my father's business and start my own.
I have been in business now for over seven years and could not be happier. My background in construction gave me a good base for production, where as my business has taught me the importance of paying attention to detail and no matter what, you deliver a quality product.
My name is Guy Dunlap, and I have been a woodworker for long as I can remember. I fell in love with the craft when I was in junior high school, and I have been building furniture since. I treated woodworking as a hobby for many years, and then in the 1990s I opened my own shop and started a business making custom furniture.
While I enjoyed the freedom and fulfillment it gave me, it was not as financially rewarding as I hoped it would be. So after a few years of trying very hard to make it work, I realized I would have to go back to a regular job and make furniture as a hobby again.
A few years ago, I started posting videos of my builds on You Tube. These are long format instructional videos and meant to help a woodworker take his/her craft to the next level. I found myself becoming an active participant in the online woodworking community, and meeting many people from around the world that share my passion.
In the summer of 2016, I moved back again to doing woodworking full time. I still have a very active presence on You Tube where I post videos of what I am currently working on, tips, and technique videos.
Recently I started giving classes in my shop, and really enjoy it. I am also starting to take on commissions again for custom furniture and cabinetry. My days are very full!


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"Stress is a good thing," says Dr. Joan Vernikos, "if you know how to use it. It is a stimulus. Gravity is also a stimulus. If we do not use it, we die."
These are some of the mystifying conclusions from a lifelong pioneering researcher, pharmacologist, and scientist, and a daughter of the Greek Diaspora, Joan Vernikos. This month's feature profiles the first woman and long-reigning Director of Life Sciences at the NASA Research Center. In her trail blazing career, Dr Vernikos has conducted ground-breaking research on stress and the body, has trained astronauts like the 77-year-old John Glenn to adapt to weightlessness, and become a proponent of the growing older in grace, motion, and health movement. Herself an octogenarian, she shares her passion for life as well as details of her biography for the benefit of readers at www.greekamericangirl.com.
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Dr. Vernikos was born to a prominent Greek family in Alexandria, Egypt. Her father was a physician while her mother a homemaker schooled at the French Lyceum. Even though her father was born in 1875 and had her when he was 60 at a time when women were expected to become secretaries or interpreters, Vernikos states she and her sister were encouraged to become educated. "In our family what was wonderful," she recounts, "was the fact that it was expected without even speaking that we should be educated and become professionals so we didn't have to agonize over the choice." The fact that her family had no sons also helped the choice.
It was actually her older sister who took the initiative to register her for university as Vernikos remembers she was a shy girl in her youth. Although her sister paved the way for a career in medicine, Vernikos opted for pharmacology. "The first corpse I saw put me off," she confesses. She pursued a Masters at the University of London, but opted to stay in the research side of the field and at the prodding of her mentor, stayed on to complete a doctorate.
"Passionate people like the Greeks tend to live longer," posits Dr Vernikos
Vernikos credits her education for forming her reminding us that the only word that means education in Greek is "morphosis," literally "shaping." She cites her true Hellenic upbringing and its focus on shaping the individual in the formative years as the foundation for her success. She even merits her mother's consistent "What did you learn in school today?" for enhancing her communication skills, "as most scientists cannot tell you what they were doing in the lab."
"It is a unique Greek sense to learn by listening to many others," she says, "just as is the drive for excellence. Even though the pursuit for excellence and success involves competition, it is less competition with others and more a focus of surpassing one's own personal standards."
Vernikos also credits her "extraordinary" mentor, Dr Nora Zainis, a stunning red-headed Greek, the first woman to create a drug to lower blood pressure and the first woman to chair the Department of Pharmacology at the University of London for putting her on the right path. "Mentors, by the way," Vernikos asides in the usual Greek penchant for digression, "you don't seek out consciously; they spontaneously converge on their own." Among many of the things Vernikos learned from Dr. Zainis (besides how to pay a lower rate for a hair style in pricy London by going early) was the importance of creativity. "We knew that when Zainis came in and said, 'I have been thinking,' that whatever we had planned for the research agenda that day would change. She taught me that you could change your mind and it would be completely acceptable," Vernikos says, "you didn't need to stick to mediocrity because you had committed to do so."
Eventually Vernikos completed her doctorate and had found a "nice Greek boy" in London to marry. They wound up moving to Columbus, Ohio so that he could complete a business degree at Ohio State, or as she figured "he found a fellowship so I could support him there."
It was from that junction that she received an offer to join the NASA Research Center in California as her research dealt with stress and the physiological effects of stress hormones. She was to spend the majority of her career at NASA until her retirement in 2000.
Research Take Aways
After a lifetime spent studying stress and gravity, Dr Joan Vernikos has made some radical claims. For one, without gravity on the body, it ages faster.
She found that simulating space like environments with humans for 24 to 48 hour cycles resulted in accelerated aging symptoms. "Without gravity, you grow older," she says. "We have been designed to be rooted to the earth. In fact, before age 20 at the peak of youth, we use gravity–we tumble, we jump, we push a soccer ball around, we jump into a sports car. But we don't label it as such, we call it having fun."
She continues: "The problem is that once we move on to graduate school or work, we stop interacting with gravity, we just sit."
Long periods of sedentary living, Vernikos claims is the culprit lurking behind bad health. While technology and many modern day conveniences have freed up our time and lessened physical labor, this has taken a toll on our bodies which for millennia have been meant to feel the strains of gravity, pushing and pulling on it. The trick is to find the best way to live with advancing technology without sacrificing health. One of the best ways to do that is by staying in motion, Vernikos contends.
"And this starts with being mindful," she explains. "We must become aware of our habits, of what we do and what we don't do, and then actively structure your day and your choices to include more motion."
Vernikos cites the example of her uncle who lived until 991/2. He purposefully chose to sit in a high-backed wooden upright chair that forced him to keep good posture and stand up more often instead of slinking and slouching into the recesses of an ultra-comfy couch. She advises changing your environment so you can keep upright . She herself used to watch television while cooking at night so that she could keep from sitting.
Vernikos' goal is in the words of a friend, "to live healthy until I drop dead." She acknowledges the more holistic view of health in line with the ancient Greek model. It not only has to do with moving the body, but also moving the soul. Staying passionate, fostering your innate curiosity and having a proper attitude are all necessary ingredients for health. "Passionate people tend to live longer," Vernikos claims.
Dr Vernikos explaining the benefits of doing yoga in space to keep weightlessness from taking its toll on astronauts. Her research showed that the body ages ten times faster without gravity than with.
Health Conclusions Unique to the Greek Community
Dr. Joan Vernikos also has insights into the ways genetics and environment are playing out uniquely to the Greek American culture. She cites that being Greek gives us an advantage in the longevity game. The Greek culture she explains has the genetic propensity for longevity but also adheres to a lifestyle that stretches it. The gift of socializing and politicizing Greeks have is a factor for their well being. "Greeks don't go to the gym," she states, "but they interact with one another as human beings; that gives them a health boost."
Greeks are also very tactile people she brings up. Parietal centers on the soles of the feet and the palms of the hand are some of the most intense in the body. "The sense of touch, so central to Greek culture, provides comfort, creates bonds, and acts as a stimulus that keeps us young," she says.
Even the noise level that typically accompanies a Greek home makes for stimulation. Vernikos has even half jokingly coined a new ailment, the Deprivation Syndrome. This is defined as the loss of stimulation when one grows up outside a Greek environment.
However, the advantages to health by virtue of being Greek are starting to get eroded. Because we live in America, Vernikos cautions we live as part-time Greeks. Although there are no statistics readily available to prove her point, she has a hunch that Greek-Americans might not be living as long as their native counterparts. A sedentary lifestyle has already begun to set in. Vernikos cited a cross-cultural Japanese study as proof that environment and lifestyle changes have a profound impact on life expectancy. A longitudinal study traced a group of young Okinawan families to Brazil as part of a government research program. One hundred years later statistics on life expectancy were dramatic: the Japanese Okinawan who had moved to Brazil died in their 50's and 60's; the Japanese who remained in Okinawa lived beyond 100. If genetics remained fairly constant among this group of people, then lifestyle differences had a large role to play in life expectancy. She suspects much the same is happening to Greeks outside of their native environment.
Director of Life Sciences Dr Joan Vernikos has trained astronauts such as John Glenn to adjust their bodies to space conditions.
As for the best thing about being a Greek American woman," My mother used to say we are better than anybody else," she states. And the worst? "We take ourselves too seriously, we are too eager to please and be perfectionists. We worry too much about competing with the Pappas'" she says.
In terms of career choice, Vernikos explains the correct question to ask is not what do you want to be when you grow up, but rather what are you good at? What have you learned to do? Can you do it?
Dr Joan Vernikos continues to stay in motion by lecturing, writing, and advocating for healthy aging as part of her Third Age Health campaign. More info and to purchase her book, Sitting Kills, Moving Heals, can be found by logging onto her personal site, www.joanvernikos.com.
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import (
	"testing"

	interfaces "gate.computer/wag/internal/isa"
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func TestISAInterfaces(*testing.T) {
	var _ interfaces.MacroAssembler = asm
	var _ interfaces.Linker = linker
}

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Q: haskell can not construct infinite type I'm new to haskell.
I wrote a simple code.
But it does not work.
I'm getting this 'can not construct infinite type' error.
How does it fix.
reverse' list
        | null list = []
        | otherwise = (reverse' (tail list)) : (head list)

A: The problem arises from your use of the : operator, which has the type
(:) :: a -> [a] -> [a]

So it takes an element and a list, and returns a new list with that element prepended on.  Where you have
reverse' (tail list) : head list
-- parentheses removed since they're not needed

the type of reverse' (tail list) is [a], and the type of head list is a, so the compiler tries to make it so that a ~ [a], which obviously can't work.  Instead, you can use the ++ operator and put head list into a list itself:
reverse' (tail list) ++ [head list]

But keep in mind that this is not a very efficient solution, concatenation onto the end of Haskell lists is slow since they're singly linked lists.