Joseph Graham, Revolutionary soldier, politician, and iron entrepreneur, was born in Chester County, Pa. James Graham, his father, was Scotch-Irish and had settled in Berks County, Pa., in 1733. His mother, Mary McConnell Barber Graham, also of Scotch-Irish descent, was James Graham's second wife. Their union produced five children; Joseph Graham was the youngest son but had two younger sisters. Widowed in 1763, Mary Barber Graham moved her family through Charleston to the Carolina backcountry, locating permanently in Mecklenburg County, N.C. Joseph Graham was educated at Charlotte's Queen's Museum (later Liberty Hall Academy), where he proved himself a good scholar of "mannerly bearing." He was in Charlotte when the patriots of that town adopted the Mecklenburg Resolves on 31 May 1775. The events of May made a lasting impression on the young scholar. Throughout his long life, Graham attested to the revolutionary intent of his Mecklenburg neighbors.
Perhaps it was the inspiration of this patriotic moment or perhaps his Scotch-Irish temperament, but whatever the motivation young Graham was an eager participant in the struggle against British tyranny. Serving periodically from 1778 to 1781 as a volunteer, Graham, aged eighteen to twenty-one years, fought in fifteen minor engagements in North Carolina and South Carolina, while rising in rank from private to major. His most memorable service was commanding the rear guard action against Tarleton's cavalry, which enabled General William R. Davie to evade Cornwallis's troops after the British capture of Charlotte. Wounded nine times, six by saber and three by lead, the bleeding and exhausted Graham was left on the field for dead; however, he survived and, after two months' recuperation, became major of a company of dragoons that engaged Tories and British regulars in the Cape Fear region. Graham demonstrated capacity as a soldier and impressed those who knew him with his youthful determination and devotion to duty.
After the American Revolution, Graham farmed near the Catawba River and held several public offices of varying importance. He was sheriff of Mecklenburg County (1784–85) and for a time served as government commissioner in land transactions. As a delegate to the 1788 Hillsborough convention to discuss the federal constitution, he voted with the majority against ratification. Later, in the Convention of 1789, he supported adoption of the Constitution. He took no part in the debates in either convention. From 1788 to 1793 Graham represented his county in the North Carolina Senate. There he manifested an interest in education—he served on the first board of trustees for The University of North Carolina—and in internal improvements.
Graham's political horizons seemed unlimited; however, his 1787 marriage to Isabella Davidson, a refined daughter of Revolutionary hero John Davidson, was destined to divert him to more remunerative endeavors. By the early 1790s Davidson, a practical blacksmith who became a wealthy planter and ironmonger, had convinced Graham and another son-in-law, Alexander Brevard, that their future lay in Lincoln County's nascent iron industry. In October 1791 Graham purchased twenty-eight acres, mostly sand and water, on the Lincoln County side of the Catawba. Soon afterwards the three kinsmen—Davidson, Brevard, and Graham—bought an interest in a productive ore bank from Peter Forney. With Forney they formed the Iron Company. Other land was obtained in 1792, and Graham built Vesuvius Furnace on Anderson Creek in east Lincoln County. A suitable residence was constructed on a nearby bluff. There Graham settled his growing family.
These early iron manufacturers were essentially planters with an outside interest, and they learned the techniques of forge and furnace through experimentation. Fortunately the demand for iron products increased apace with the growing population of the western Carolinas. In 1795, Brevard built Mount Tirzah Forge and established his family about three miles from Vesuvius. In the same year the Iron Company was dissolved, with Peter Forney retaining control of the ore bank. Graham, Davidson, and Brevard continued their partnership under the name of Joseph Graham and Company. Industry and good management increased their holdings. In 1804, when Davidson sold his interests to his sons-in-law, the company's assets were valued at $28,510. Ten years later when Brevard and Graham amicably ended their partnership, both were wealthy men. Their products were marketed throughout the region and down the Catawba into South Carolina. During the War of 1812 Graham alone sold the U.S. government 30,000 pounds of shots, shells, and cannon balls of various sizes, making delivery anywhere by wagon.
The War of 1812, which also resulted in an uprising among the Creeks, touched Graham more directly. Long interested in military affairs, he was appointed brigadier general of a brigade of North Carolina and South Carolina militiamen in 1814. Although the brigade arrived after Andrew Jackson's victory over the Creeks at Horseshoe Bend, General Graham was considered an efficient officer. Major General Thomas Pinckney, a South Carolinian who commanded the Sixth Military District, characterized him as having "conducted his Brigade with judgment and propriety" and noted "that he and the officers and men under his command have displayed much zeal, patriotism and attention to discipline." For many years after this renewed military service, Graham was major general of the Fifth Division, North Carolina Militia.
Active in public and business affairs until late in life, Graham was a councillor of state in 1814, a trustee of Lincolnton's Pleasant Retreat Academy, a justice of the peace for nearly forty years, and a ruling elder of the Unity Presbyterian Church. After 1820 he assisted Archibald D. Murphey, who hoped to prepare a state history, by writing a series of remarkably accurate accounts of military activities in western North Carolina and South Carolina. His vivid account, based on memory, of the events of May 1775 proved to be the principal authority for the disputed Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Although Murphey never completed his history, many of the Graham manuscripts eventually were included in the archives of North Carolina.
Eleven children were born to Isabella Davidson Graham (1762–1808) and her husband in their twenty-one years of marriage. Their offspring were Polly (1788–1801); John Davidson (1789–1847); Sophia (1791–1865), who married Dr. John Ramsay Witherspoon and settled in Hale County, Ala.; James (1793–1851), who settled in Rutherford County and was a Whig congressman; George Franklin (1794–1827), a physician of Shelby County, Tenn., who died of yellow fever; Joseph (1797–1837); Robert Montrose (1798–1821); Violet Wilson (1799–1868), the wife of Dr. Moses Winslow Alexander of Mecklenburg County; Mary (1801–64), the wife of the noted Presbyterian minister and educator Robert Hall Morrison; Alfred (1803–35); and William Alexander (1804–75), a North Carolina political leader for over forty years.
Upon his death Joseph Graham was buried at Machpelah Presbyterian Church, the burial grounds of the Brevards and Grahams located between the family plantations.
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El colapso ecológico se refiere a una situación donde un ecosistema sufre cambios drásticos, posiblemente irreversibles de la capacidad de carga de todos los organismos pudiendo resultar en una extinción masiva. Generalmente un colapso ecológico es causado por un evento desastroso que puede ocurrir en una escala corta de tiempo. Se lo puede considerar como una consecuencia que un colapso de ecosistemas tiene sobre los elementos bióticos del ecosistema original.

El crecimiento insostenible y excesivo de la economía puede provocar no solo el agotamiento de los recursos naturales, sino la contaminación tóxica y el deterioro de los entornos vitales y la extinción de la vida hasta el punto de que la resiliencia natural ya no puede restaurarla. Genera no solo una triple crisis energética, climática y alimentaria, sino la crisis ecológica de la biodiversidad. La sobreexplotación de recursos hídricos, pesqueros y madereros está esquilmando la naturaleza e impidiendo a los animales habitarla fuera de "reservas". Cada vez son menores las extensiones de bosque virgen en el Amazonas, por ejemplo, y avanza la desertificación. La entropía está destruyendo el planeta. Anthony Giddens y Martin Rees publicaron una carta abierta sobre el cambio climático atribuyendo los cada vez mayores desastres sucedidos en el planeta al sobrecalentamiento del mismo. Aparte de la extinción de las abejas, un estudio dirigido por el español Francisco Sánchez-Bayo en 2019 advierte que en un siglo podrían desaparecer todos los insectos. Elizabeth Kolbert ha bautizado este colapso ecológico global en un libro de 2014 que obtuvo el Pulitzer como la "Sexta gran extinción". Películas distópicas como Blade Runner 2049 advierten seriamente también de esta posibilidad.

Véase también
 Desastre medioambiental
 Sexta gran extinción
 Apocalipsis climático

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, 2014.

Ecosistemas
Extinciones masivas
Desastres provocados por el hombre
Catástrofe ecológica
Desastres naturales
Conservación ambiental

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\section{Introduction}

Optical quantum technologies in continuous variable (CV) regime find applications in quantum metrology \cite{schnabel2017squeezed, wang2020continuous}, quantum communication \cite{braunstein2005quantum, dias2020quantum, eberle2013gaussian}, and quantum computing \cite{asavanant2022optical, andersen2010continuous}. At the same time, many CV quantum information protocols requires the ability of generating non-Gaussian quantum states, such as Fock \cite{morin2012high} and Schrödinger cat-like states \cite{ourjoumtsev2007generation}, that are essential to fault-tolerant optical quantum information processing \cite{niset2009no} or long distance quantum communication \cite{takahashi2010entanglement, tipsmark2013displacement}. A common strategy to benefit from these resources is to implement conditional state preparation, often starting from a (Gaussian) squeezed state~\cite{lvovsky2020production}. This idea has been demonstrated in multiple CV experimental realizations~\cite{ ourjoumtsev2007generation,morin2012high, asavanant2017generation}, including the recent trend of employing a nonlinear waveguide as squeezing source~\cite{Takase:22}. Reported realizations, however, rely entirely, or largely, on bulk-optics setups that are generally hardly scalable and require careful spatial alignments~\cite{lvovsky2020production}.

This work addresses the need for compact and stable realizations that can be easily assembled out-of-the-laboratory, as demanded to push current CV quantum optical experiments towards practical demonstrations. More specifically, it shows the feasibility of non-Gaussian state generation setups fully employing plug-\&-play components from guided-wave technologies. Strategically, we applied this concept to single-photon subtraction from a squeezed vacuum state. Such a scheme, commonly used for the preparation of small amplitude Schrödinger cat preparation~\cite{lvovsky2020production}, can be considered as an archetypal configuration, gathering Gaussian and non-Gaussian resources and lying at the heart of multiple complex architectures\cite{lvovsky2020production}. Squeezed states at a telecom wavelength are generated by single-pass spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) in a commercial periodically poled lithium niobate ridge waveguide (PPLN/RW), whose input and output are fiber-pigtailed. Both photon subtraction operation and heralded state characterization via homodyne detection (HD) are then implemented using standard fiber components from classical telecom technology. The clear non-Gaussian behaviour of the measured heralded state proves the pertinence of our approach. This result opens the way to robust CV optical realizations compatible with existing telecommunication fiber networks and with considerably reduced resource overhead, spatial alignment, and mode matching issues.

\section{Experimental setup}

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=12cm]{Setup_3D}
\caption{Experimental setup. A fiber-coupled continuous wave (CW) laser delivers two outputs at $\lambda = \SI{1560.44}{nm}$ and $\lambda = \SI{780.22}{nm}$. The $\lambda = \SI{780.22}{nm}$ output passes through a polarization controller (PC) and a variable fiber optical attenuator (VOA) to be used as pump source for the PPLN/RW generating the single-mode squeezed vacuum. Downstream of the PPLN/RW, squeezed light is sent to a 95:5 fiber beam-splitter. The $5\%$ output undergoes a spectral filtering stage (SFS) and is sent to a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD), whose signal heralds the non-Gaussian state generation. The $95\%$ output is sent to a homodyne detection (HD) made of a 50:50 fiber beam-splitter and a commercial balanced detector (BD). The HD local oscillator is given by the laser output at $\lambda = \SI{1560.44}{nm}$, passing through a fiber phase shifter (PS) and a polarization controller (PC).}\label{fig:exp_setup}
\end{figure}

Fig. \ref{fig:exp_setup} shows the detailed experimental setup. The master source is a continuous wave (CW) fiber-coupled laser (Muquans) delivering outputs at $\lambda = \SI{1560.44}{nm}$ and its second harmonic (SH) at half of the wavelength ($\lambda = \SI{780.22}{nm}$). The SH output is sent to fiber polarization controller (PC) and an optical variable attenuator (VOA) that allow adjusting its polarization and intensity. This set of plug-\&-play telecom components is then directly connected to the PPLN/RW (NTT Electronics corp). Single-mode squeezed vacuum state at $\lambda = \SI{1560.44}{nm}$ is generated via type-0 frequency degenerate SPDC and collected by the optical fiber at the PPLN/RW output with an efficiency $\eta_{c}$. Propagation losses inside the nonlinear waveguide lead to a reduced PPLN/RW transmission efficiency $\eta_{pl}$. As largely documented in the literature~\cite{lvovsky2020production}, heralded single-photon subtraction can be implemented by sending squeezed light to a low reflectivity beam-splitter followed by a single-photon detection stage. In our experiment, a 95:5 fiber beam-splitter (f-BS) splits squeezed light into two paths: the $5\%$ output is sent to the heralding path, whereas the $95\%$ output, carrying the heralded non-Gaussian state, goes to the HD for the measurement of its CV properties.
Following an approach that we already validated for squeezing experiments~\cite{kaiser2016fully}, the HD is realized by means of a 50:50 f-BS whose outputs are connected to a commercial balanced detection (Insight) showing a bandwidth of $\SI{300}{MHz}$. The HD local oscillator (LO) is provided by the fundamental laser output ($\lambda = \SI{1560.44}{nm}$), whose phase, $\theta$, is controlled via a fiber phase shifter. The overall detection efficiency is $\eta_{HD} = \eta_{t}\cdot\eta_{pd}\cdot\eta_{el} = 0.72$, where $\eta_{t}= 0.94$ includes measured losses in the f-BSs, $\eta_{pd}=0.80$ is the photodiode efficiency as given by the manufacturer, and $\eta_{el}=0.96$ accounts to the residual HD electronic noise. The HD output is monitored using an oscilloscope (Teledyne LeCroy) for data post-processing. The CV data acquisition on the oscilloscope is triggered by photon counting events from the heralding path.\\
Light on the heralding path undergoes a cascade of optical spectral filters allowing to comply with the strong mismatch between the HD electronical bandwidth ($\SI{300}{MHz}$) and the broad squeezing optical emission bandwidth (a few THz). Indeed, photon-counting events of wavelengths far away from the CW LO could trigger the CV detection of signals whose non-Gaussian features are out-of-the-reach of HD electronics. This would weave data corresponding to the desired non-Gaussian states with those relative to squeezed vacuum, eventually resulting in the measurement of a mixed state. Such an effect further combines with the fact that single-pass squeezing can be not pure over its whole bandwidth~\cite{yoshikawa2017purification}. Spectral filtering in the heralding path allows circumventing these imperfections~\cite{yoshikawa2017purification, melalkia2022theoretical}. In our realization, the $5\%$ of tapped light from the squeezed state is filtered using a commercial $\SI{500}{MHz}$ FWHM fiber Bragg grating filter (FBG from AOS GmbH) and an in-house fiber-coupled Fabry-Pérot cavity with a target bandwidth of $\SI{10}{MHz}$. Note that, as an alternative, plug-\&-play optical filters with bandwidths of a few tens of MHz are commercially available. Filtered light is then sent to a polarization controller and to a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD from IDQuantique). The heralding rate is of $\SI{3}{kHz}$ and the dark count rate is about $\SI{80}{Hz}$, giving a signal to noise ratio, SNR, of $\SI{15.7}{dB}$.

\section{Data analysis}
The properties of the heralded non-Gaussian state can be reconstructed by performing a quantum state tomography, starting from the state quadratures measured by the HD~\cite{leonhardt1997measuring}. A series of $43000$ homodyne traces, $x_i(t)$, of a duration of $\SI{5}{\mu s}$ each at a sampling rate of $\SI{5}{Gs/s}$ are recorded using the oscilloscope. Note that the LO phase is spanned with a speed of approximately $9\pi / s$ and, therefore, it can be considered as a constant over the time needed to acquire a homodyne trace. For each acquisition $x_i(t)$, the actual $\theta_i$ value is inferred from the phase dependency of the measured squeezed vacuum variance. \\
As discussed in~\cite{yoshikawa2017purification}, in the CW regime, the quadrature $X_i$ of the heralded non-Gaussian state can be obtained from raw homodyne data as~\cite{lvovsky2015squeezed}:

\begin{equation}\label{datiraw}
X_i = \int f(t) x_i(t) dt,
\end{equation}

\noindent where $f(t)$ is the temporal mode of the heralded non-Gaussian state, as determined by the filtering stages on the heralding path. When the squeezing bandwidth is much broader than the bandwidth of the filtering cavity, $\gamma / \pi$, the theoretical $f(t)$ is expected to be $\sim e^{\gamma t} u(-t)$, $u(t)$ being the Heaviside step function. Experimentally, $f(t)$ is obtained as in~\cite{morin2013experimentally} by computing the autocorrelation function of the heralded homodyne traces, $\langle x(t)x(t')\rangle$, and by numerically performing its single value decomposition: the eigenfunction corresponding to the highest eigenvalue gives the optimal $f(t)$. Fig. \ref{fig:eig_mode} shows both the reconstructed temporal mode $f(t)$ (blue) and theoretical one (red); a perfect agreement between the two curves can be observed and gives a filtering bandwidth of $\gamma / \pi = \SI{9.75}{MHz}$ at FWHM, in agreement with the filtering stage characteristics.

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=6cm]{Temporal_Mode.pdf}
\caption{The temporal mode function corresponding to the highest eigenvalue (blue curve) and the fit with the theoretical model (red curve) as functions of time. The cascade of the Fabry-Pérot cavity and the fiber Bragg grating filter in the heralding path gives a filtering bandwidth of $\SI{9.75}{MHz}$ at FWHM.} \label{fig:eig_mode}
\end{figure}

 By exploiting Eq.~\eqref{datiraw}, the obtained $f(t)$ is used to extract the quadratures of the squeezed state and of the heralded non-Gaussian state out of the raw homodyne data. More in details, with reference to Fig. \ref{fig:eig_mode}, $x_i(t)$ data are post-processed within the time window $\approx [\SI{-1.25}{\mu s}, \SI{-1}{\mu s}]$ to extract the heralded non-Gaussian state quadratures. Data outside this time window are used to extract the squeezed state quadrature.

\section{Experimental results and discussion}

The tomographic analysis allows measuring, for the non-heralded state, a squeezing of $-1.80 \pm 0.05$ dB and an antisqueezing of $3.36 \pm 0.05$ dB. This corresponds to an initial squeezing of $-5.39 \pm 0.05$ dB when corrected for the total losses experienced by squeezed light, $\eta_{tot} = \eta_{wg}\cdot\eta_s\cdot\eta_{HD} = 0.48$. In the expression of $\eta_{tot}$, $\eta_s = 0.96$ is the transmission of the subtracting 95:5 f-BS and $\eta_{wg}$ accounts for both the propagation losses and the guide-to-fibre coupling occurring at the SPDC stage ($\eta_{wg} = \eta_{pl}\cdot\eta_{c}$). From the measured $\eta_s$ and $\eta_{HD}$, we deduce $\eta_{wg} = 0.69$. \\

The tomography of the heralded non-Gaussian state is performed with the maximum-likelihood algorithm with $200$ iterations \cite{lvovsky2009continuous}. Fig. \ref{fig:Wigner}-(a) shows the obtained Wigner function of the generated non-Gaussian state. As can be seen, the generated state has a highly non-Gaussian Wigner function with a minimum at phase origin $W_{NG}(0, 0) = 0.016 \pm 0.004$. Its profile perfectly matches the one predicted by theory ($W_{Th}(0, 0) = 0.015$) following an approach similar to the one in \cite{ourjoumtsev2007etude, morin2013non} and taking into account all the experimental imperfections. This result represents the very first demonstration of non-Gaussian states in CV regime obtained using a fully guided-wave approach and it attests its impact towards compact, simple, and plug-\&-play setups involving both Gaussian and non-Gaussian operations.

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{cc}
(a) & (b) \\
\includegraphics[width=6cm]{Wigner_Without_Correction.pdf} & \includegraphics[width=6cm]{Wigner_With_Correction.pdf} \\
\end{tabular}
\caption{(a) The Wigner function $W_{NG}(x, p)$ of the heralded non-Gaussian state and (b) the Wigner function $W_{Corr}(x, p)$ of the state corrected by the homodyne detection efficiency $\eta_{HD} = 0.72$.} \label{fig:Wigner}
\end{figure}

In this regard, we observe that without modifying $\eta_{wg}$, which is in agreement with realistic performances in such fibre-coupled ridge waveguides, our results could be straightforwardly enhanced by simply replacing our  balanced photodetection with one with higher efficiency. By correcting the data by the HD efficiency ($\eta_{HD}= 0.72$)~\cite{leonhardt1997measuring}, the non-Gaussian state obtained just after the 95:5 f-BS exhibits a negative Wigner function as expected for Schrödinger cat states, the corresponding value at the phase origin being $W_{Corr}(0, 0) = -0.065 \pm 0.004$ (see Fig. \ref{fig:Wigner}-(b)). We point out that residual losses in the fiber components and low HD efficiency are not intrinsic to the followed guided-wave approach but only to our specific realization. In particular, the lack of efficient photodiodes, that represent the most critical loss factor in the HD, affects in the same way both guided-wave and bulk realizations.

As concluding remark, we stress that a further improvement of the Wigner negativity could be obtained by improving $\eta_{wg}$. The combined effect of propagation and coupling losses at the nonlinear waveguide leads to a degradation of the purity of the squeezed state on which the subtraction protocol is applied. This can be circumvented by adopting a full integrated setup including squeezed state generation, photon subtraction and homodyne detection, in a configuration similar to the one shown for Gaussian state generation, manipulation, and detection on lithium niobate circuits~\cite{mondain2019chip, lenzini2018integrated, zhao2020near}. Such a strategy would push the propagation losses down to $\SI{0.03}{dB/cm}$ and the coupling losses to 0, thus giving for a typical chip length of $\SI{5}{cm}$, a total $\eta_{wg} = 0.97$. In this condition, the Wigner function negativity would go to its maximal value, $W_{Corr}(0, 0) = -0.22$.

\section{Conclusion}

We have demonstrated that a plug-\&-play, fully guided-wave, approach to CV experiments is definitely reachable with off-the-shelves standard components and devices. This concept has been pushed, for the first time, to the generation of non-Gaussian states of light, showing the possibility of implementing complex setups free from any bulk optics stage. The obtained realization enables  reconfigurable and scalable systems compatible with integrated photonics~\cite{mondain2019chip, lenzini2018integrated, zhao2020near}, adapted to ambitious CV quantum communication protocols. These ingredients are essential to scale-up realizations of increasingly complex optical quantum systems capable of enabling disruptive but realistic quantum information protocols.

\begin{backmatter}
\bmsection{Funding}
This work has been conducted within the framework of the project OPTIMAL granted by the European Union by means of the "Fond Européen de développement regional" (FEDER). The authors also acknowledge financial support from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) through the project HyLight (ANR-17-CE30-0006-01) and the French government through its program "Investments for the Future" under the Université Côte d'Azur UCA-JEDI project managed by the ANR (grant agreement ANR-15-IDEX-01).

\bmsection{Acknowledgments}
Virginia D'Auria acknowledges financial support from the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF).

\bmsection{Disclosures}
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

\bmsection{Data availability} Data underlying the results presented in this paper are not publicly available at this time but may be obtained from the authors upon reasonable request.\\
\end{backmatter}

\noindent \authormark{$\dagger$}These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Q: object slicing issue? I'm having a strange problem when I inspect the elements of a vector that should polymorphically point to derived objects through base class pointers.
this is my vector:
std::vector<Gun*> weapons;

this is the instantiation:
weapons.reserve(3);
weapons.push_back(new Pistol());
weapons.push_back(new Rifle());
weapons.push_back(new Shotgun());

This works fine, but as soon as the constructor exits the objects are now of the base class type, not the derived type. Why is this happening?

A: You have some bugs:
std::vector<Bullet> Bullets();

Returns a copy of bullets, not the underlying object. So when you do:
Bullets().push_back(Bullet(Position(), Rotation(), velocity, Colour()));

It does not do what you expect it to do.
You most likely want both:
const std::vector<Bullet>& Bullets() const;
std::vector<Bullet>& Bullets();

That being said, like @John said, the Access violation is most likely a problem with the weapons array not being large enough (perhaps because of the same bug above). The bug would be in the code that populates weapons. You say RIFLE is 2, but from the code you posted it is actually at index 1, not 2, so I'm guessing you have SHOTGUN set to 3 when it should be 2, which is out of the bounds of the array, hence the access protection error. Classic off-by-one.

A: You don't appear to be slicing the objects in any way -- that's probably not the problem.
The most likely suspect is the way you are accessing the vector and the probability that there aren't as many items in the vector as you think there should be:
weapons[RIFLE]
How do you know that there is a valid object here?  Given that you're getting an access violation, it seems likely that there is no valid object at that index.
You should be doing something more along the lines of:
if( weapons.size() >= RIFLE )
{
  Gun* gun = weapons.at(RIFLE);
  gun->Ammo();
}
else
{
  cerr << "WHOA!  Something blowed up...";
}

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Iowa's Republican Governor To Sign Executive Order Restoring Felon Voting Rights
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Ten percent of Iowa's African American population stands to have their voting rights restored with the executive order.
Governor Kim Renyolds (R-IA) said Tuesdays that she plans to sign an executive order restoring voting rights to people with felony convictions, according to a Hill Report.
This decision will restore voting rights to 60,000 people with felony convictions, as well as close to 10 percent of the state's African American population.
Renyolds said, "We're working on that right now, sitting down with various groups, listening to what they think is important, what is contained in that executive order, and then I've got my legal team working on it."
Officials with the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union, and activists affiliated with the Des Moines chapter of Black Lives Matter claimed earlier that the governor said she will have restored voting rights before the November election; however, Renyolds did not personally confirm this until Tuesday.
"We have an important election coming up," Reynolds said. "We're working on the language to see what that looks like, but hopefully it would mirror what we would put in a constitutional amendment so that we could be consistent in what we're trying to do."
Reynolds has pushed state lawmakers numerous times to amend the Iowa constitution to restore felons' voting rights upon the completion of their sentence, but the Republican legislature has repeatedly struck it down.
While lawmakers claimed the executive order will make a legislative solution unnecessary, Reynolds is seeking legislative action to ensure the change remains permanent. She seeks to put forth an executive order that would mirror parallel action from the state's Congress.
The governor said she is not going to give up on a permanent solution to the issue of felon disenfranchisement. She said, "I just believe that's the right thing to do and then it doesn't matter who's sitting in the governor's chair."

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Glasgow cannabis enthusiasts celebrate 'green' on city green
January 15, 2021 3:08 pm | No Comments
Coinciding with Easter Sunday, Glasgow Cannabis Social Club's annual 420 event was held on Glasgow Green, under sunny blue skies, and overlooking the river Clyde. Despite the city's council attempting to revoke permission for the gathering at the last minute, police were happy for it to go-ahead with approximately a dozen officers attending in high-visibility vests.
The Daily Record reported five arrests were made for minor offences, likely smoking and possession of small quantities of cannabis. Taking a less-sensational — and more accurate — line of reporting, the Monday edition of Glasgow's Evening News stated five were referred to the Procurator Fiscal who is responsible for deciding if charges should be brought.
Official figures provided by the police were that 150 attended. With people coming and going, Wikinews reporters estimated upwards of 200 attended, compared to nearly 700 who had signed up for the event on Facebook. Hemp goods were advertised and on sale at the event, and some attendees were seen drinking cannabis-themed energy drinks.
"I was searched and charged under the Misuse of Drugs Act (which is a lot of bollocks)" one attendee noted online, adding "not fair to happen on a brilliant day like it was, other than that I had a great day!" A second said they were openly smoking and ignored by police, who "were only really focusing on people who looked particularly young".
Cannabis seeds were openly and legally sold at the event and a hydroponics supplier brought a motortrike towing an advertising trailer. Actually growing cannabis is, however, illegal in the UK.
With the event openly advocating the legalisation of cannabis, speakers put their arguments for this to a receptive crowd. Retired police officer James Duffy, of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, spoke of the failed United States alcohol prohibition policy; stressing such policies needlessly bring people into contact with criminal elements. Highlighting other countries where legalisation has been implemented, he pointed out such led to lower crime, and lower drug use overall.
One speaker, who produced a bottle of cannabis oil he had received through the post, asserted this cured his prostate cancer. Others highlighted the current use of Sativex by the National Health Service, with a cost in-excess of £150 for a single bottle of GW Pharmaceuticals patented spray — as-compared to the oil shown to the crowd, with a manufacturing cost of approximately £10.
Similar '420' pro-cannabis events were held globally.
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Chris Benoit mystery editor confesses: claims "terrible coincidence"
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The anonymous individual responsible for suggesting, 14 hours before police discovered the body, that WWE wrestler Chris Benoit's wife was dead is saying his/her comment was a "terrible coincidence."
I feel incredibly bad for all the attention this got because of the fact that what I said turned out to be the truth. Like I said it was just a major coincidence, and I will never vandalize anything on wikipedia or post wrongful information. I've learned from this experience. I just can't believe what I wrote was actually the case, I've remained stunned and saddened over it….
In a post made at 12:26 AM EDT Friday morning to the talk page of a Wikinews article headlined as the "Death of Nancy Benoit rumour posted on Wikipedia hours prior to body being found", the user admitted to writing that Nancy Benoit was dead at the Wikipedia article page for Benoit came from information that was garnered from "rumors and speculation online."
The IP Address of the individual making the apology was identical to that of the one who posted the Nancy Benoit rumor, a strong confirmation of the admission's authenticity. The lengthy apology was not signed, with the individual claiming, "I am just an everyday individual who posted a wrongful remark at the time that received so much attention because it turned out to actually happen."
Wikinews originally broke the story about the suspicious edit after receiving a tip from Wikipedia administrators. The fact the edit originated from a computer in Stamford, Connecticut (the site of WWE headquarters) appears to be another coincidence.
The anonymous editor left a lengthy apology to the Wikimedia community, explaining, "I hope this puts an end to this speculation that someone knew about the tragedy before it was discovered."
Wikinews is continuing to follow the story, but the anonymous user has declined an interview.
Below is the full, unedited apology:
Hey everyone. I am here to talk about the wikipedia comment that was left by myself. I just want to say that it was an incredible coincidence. Last weekend, I had heard about Chris Benoit no showing Vengeance because of a family emergency, and I had heard rumors about why that was. I was reading rumors and speculation about this matter online, and one of them included that his wife may have passed away, and I did the wrong thing by posting it on wikipedia to spite there being no evidence. I posted my speculation on the situation at the time and I am deeply sorry about this, and I was just as shocked as everyone when I heard that this actually would happen in real life. It is one of those things that just turned into a huge coincidence. That night I found out that what I posted, ended up actually happening, a 1 in 10,000 chance of happening, or so I thought. I was beyond wrong for posting wrongful information, and I am sorry to everyone for this. I just want everyone to know it was stupid of me, and I will never do anything like this again. I just posted something that was at that time a piece of wrong unsourced information that is typical on wikipedia, as it is done all the time.
Nonetheless, I feel incredibly bad for all the attention this got because of the fact that what I said turned out to be the truth. Like I said it was just a major coincidence, and I will never vandalize anything on wikipedia or post wrongful information. I've learned from this experience. I just can't believe what I wrote was actually the case, I've remained stunned and saddened over it.
I wish not to reveal my identity so I can keep me and my family out of this since they have nothing to do with anything. I am not connected to WWE or Benoit at all in anyway. I am from Stamford as the IP address shows, and I am just an everyday individual who posted a wrongful remark at the time that received so much attention because it turned out to actually happen. I will say again I didn't know anything about the Benoit tragedy, it was a terrible coincidence that I never saw coming.
I hope this puts an end to this speculation that someone knew about the tragedy before it was discovered. It was just a rumor that I had heard about from other people online who were speculating what the family emergency Chris was attending to. I made a big mistake by posting this comment on his page, since all we had were what we thought was going on and nothing about what actually was going on yet, and sadly what happened turned out to be my speculation at the time. I assumed wiki would edit out my information, which they did, so thats why I didn't go back to edit it out myself.
I know I keep repeating it but I feel terrible about the mainstream coverage this has received, since it was only a huge coincidence and a terrible event that should of never happened. I am not sure how to react, as hearing about my message becoming a huge part of the Benoit slayings made me feel terrible as everyone believes that it is connected to the tragedy, but it was just an awful coincidence. That is all I have to say, I will never post anything here again unless it is pure fact, no spam nothing like that. Thank you, and let this end this chapter of the Benoit story, and hopefully one day we will find out why this tragedy ever actually happened.
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Podolski plays his last international match; scores the winner
On Wednesday, Poland-born German football player Lukas Podolski played his last international game, a friendly match, against England at Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund. 31-year-old Podolski, who announced retirement in August, scored the only goal of the match.
Before the match started, Podolski received a bouquet from Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB — German Football Association) president Reinhard Grindel. Podolski netted his 49th international goal in the 69th minute — a 25-yard screamer from Toni Kroos' assist. In this match, Timo Werner became the 87th player to debut under Germany's manager Joachim Löw. The Germans also set a new team record of most consecutive clean sheets, seven, as FC Barcelona's Marc-André ter Stegen was guarding the German net. Mesut Özil received Germany's player of the Year for 2016 recognition.
Before the match, Podolski said, "Thank you for thirteen years of having the eagle on the chest. Thank you to everyone. Thank you to my family and my parents. Thank you Dortmund. Thank Köln and thank you Germany!" Podolski immigrated to Germany at the age of two "with basically only a football under my arm", as he put it in August. He earned his 130th international cap on Wednesday. Podolski is Germany's third all time most capped player after Lothar Matthäus and Miroslav Klose and is the third top-scorer for Germany.
Podolski debuted for Die Mannschaft thirteen years ago in 2004. Since then, the forward has made appearance in seven major tournaments, and won the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Podolski was the fifth player to retire from Germany's 2014 World Cup squad. Before him, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Philipp Lahm, Miroslav Klose, and Per Mertesacker hung up international boots.
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Wikinews interviews Ubuntu developer Fabrice
The 10.10 version of Ubuntu (codename Maverick Merkaat), a free operative system is to be released in the next few days. French Wikinews contributor Savant-fou (Baptiste) has interviewed Fabrice (fabrice_sp on Ubuntu), an Ubuntu's MOTU (Master Of The Universe), member of the development team of the operative system.
Ubuntu is a computer operating system, based on Debian, which is created collaboratively by thousands of people. There are three official Ubuntu versions: Ubuntu Desktop Edition (for desktop and laptop PCs); Ubuntu Netbook Edition (for netbooks); and Ubuntu Server Edition (for use in servers).
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Three babies dead within one week at Madrid Hospital
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A Spanish hospital reported today that three premature babies have died within one week from the same infection. The babies, who were being cared for in the neonatal intensive care unit of Madrid's 12 de Octubre Hospital, all died after being infected with Klebsiella pneumoniae bacterium. Authorities also suspect that a fourth baby has become infected with the bacterium. The Spanish patients' association ADEPA has asked the public prosecutor of the Madrid Region, Manuel Moix, to open an investigation into the matter.
This morning, hospital authorities stated that the first death occurred on 26 February. A baby born eight weeks prematurely and weighing just under one kilo died due to septic shock arising from the infection, which was unconnected with the symptoms of his premature birth, according to hospital reports.
Shortly afterwards, two babies in the same unit died on 2 March. They appear to have died from the same infection; however the hospital stated that they are still waiting for confirmation of the cause of death. A fourth baby has been found to have the bacteria on his skin, but as yet there is no confirmation of whether he has been infected. The hospital states that although the baby is in a serious condition, this is to be expected when a baby is born so premature, and that his condition is also due to other factors, unrelated to the bacterium, which have arisen since his birth.
The hospital authorities have asserted that all of the babies in its care are under close supervision, and are being periodically monitored by the Preventive Medicine Centre, in order that the most up-to-date information may be had on the state of any and all patients in the hospital.
To prevent further infections, the hospital has taken several measures. The first is of course rigorous medical hygiene. High-risk patients are referred to other hospitals. The hospital has been divided into two separate zones, one for those already infected and the other for those who have not yet been affected. As a consequence, 25 children who were staying in the hospital while the 3 premature babies died, remain separate from the others, to make sure newly admitted children are not exposed. The nursing staff has also been restricted to one or other of these two areas. Visits from specialists of other hospital services, and from families, has been restricted. Furthermore, an epidemiological study is being undertaken to determine the origin of the situation.
The newspaper El País reports that the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae is to be found in hospitals as a matter of course and is often contracted by those who have been in hospital for prolonged periods (termed a nosocomial infection). The mortality rate from the bacterium is extremely high in those cases where it's contracted by people with serious illnesses, as is often to be expected in the case of a premature birth, which can result in newborn babies weighing less than 500 grammes.
According to the Spanish daily, this type of bacterium is prevalent in hospitals throughout the world, but the incidence of infection in Madrid hospitals is lower than the Spanish average. The head of the Neonatal Unit at 12 de Octubre Hospital, Carmen Payás, explained that the bacterium is very adaptable "and keeps on learning". The father of the dead baby, an Ecuadorian named Angel Marcelo, was quoted as saying that the progress of the baby had at first been "tremendous", and that he had even been taken off the respirator, but that a few days later he began to cough up blood, dying soon afterwards.
The chair of ADEPA, Carmen Flores, has appealed to the Madrid public prosecutor to open an investigation into the situation and to find those responsible. ADEPA have suggested that the investigation centre on the number of casualties among infants in the hospital, and on the question of whether conditions in the neonatal unit were a direct contributor to the incidence of the infection.
José Quero, head of the Neonatology Department of the La Paz hospital in Madrid said that, "sadly enough", this situation was "not something exceptional," but rather something neonatologists have to watch out for.
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US Department of Health proposes priorities for flu vaccine distribution
Draft guidelines issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services in November have established a series of tiers and categories for distribution of scarce vaccine in the event of pandemic flu. These guidelines give strong preference for emergency responders, military and national security personnel, and socially important occupations, such as top politicians, energy sector and communications personnel, bankers, and newborn infants. Distribution of vaccine to the elderly occupies a low priority, especially in the event of a severe pandemic with a case-fatality rate of 2% or more causing more than 1.8 million deaths. The scheme differs significantly from that proposed in Britain in 2005, which gave high priority to the elderly, noting that most of the deaths in recent years – ranging from 12,000 to 29,000 annually – were in elderly patients.
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Tier 1. Deployed/mission critical national security, health care providers, police, fire, vaccine manufacturers, top politicians Priority 1. Health care workers, nursing home staff
Tier 1*. Pregnant women, infants (*Sub-tier plan places at lower priority than other Tier 1) Priority 2. Fire, police, security, communications, utilities, undertakers, armed forces
Tier 2. Intelligence, border, national guard, other domestic national security, community support, electricity, natural gas, communications, water, critical government personnel, children, household contacts of infants Priority 3. High medical risk (e.g. diabetes, immunosuppressed)
Priority 4. All over 65 years of age
Tier 3. Other active duty military, important health care, transport, food, banking, pharmaceutical, chemical, oil sector personnel, postal and other government, children Priority 5. Selected industries, e.g. pharmaceuticals
Tier 4. High risk conditions, all over 65 years of age Priority 6. Children
Tier 5. General public Priority 7. General public
The plan is open to public comment under U.S. Federal Register guidelines until December 31.
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ACLU President Strossen on religion, drugs, guns and impeaching George Bush
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There are few organizations in the United States that elicit a stronger emotional response than the American Civil Liberties Union, whose stated goal is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States". Those people include gays, Nazis, women seeking abortion, gun owners, SPAM mailers and drug users. People who are often not popular with various segments of the public. The ACLU's philosophy is not that it agrees or disagrees with any of these people and the choices that they make, but that they have personal liberties that must not be trampled upon.
In Wikinews reporter David Shankbone's interview with the President of the ACLU, Nadine Strossen, he wanted to cover some basic ground on the ACLU's beliefs. Perhaps the area where they are most misunderstood or have their beliefs most misrepresented is their feelings about religion in the public sphere. The ACLU categorically does not want to see religion disappear from schools or in the public forum; but they do not want to see government advocacy of any particular religion. Thus, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's placement of a ten ton monument to the Ten Commandments outside the courthouse is strenuously opposed; but "Lone Ranger of the Manger" Rita Warren's placement of nativity scenes in public parks is vigorously defended. In the interview, Strossen talks about how certain politicians and televangelists purposefully misstate the law and the ACLU's work in order to raise funds for their campaigns.
David Shankbone's discussion with Strossen touches upon many of the ACLU's hot button issues: religion, Second Amendment rights, drug liberalization, "partial-birth abortion" and whether or not George W. Bush should be impeached. It may surprise the reader that many ideas people have about the most visible of America's civil libertarian organizations are not factually correct and that the ACLU often works closely with many of the organizations people think despise its existence.
1 Strossen's background
2 Religion in schools
3 Religious symbols
4 How the ACLU is misrepresented by politicians and televangelists
5 The abortion debate
6 Judicial activism
7 Capital punishment and criminal justice
8 Decriminalization of drugs and suicide
9 War and threats to humanity
10 Should George Bush be impeached?
11 Gun rights
12 Strossen's philosophy
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Wikinews interviews Great Britain men's national wheelchair basketball player Joni Pollock
Homebush Bay, New South Wales —Wikinews sat down with Great Britain men's national wheelchair basketball player Joni Pollock before a practice session at the Rollers & Gliders World Challenge in Sydney.
British-born Pollock was born with the condition spina bifida. He explained he could walk with difficulty up until age twelve or thirteen, after which he began using a wheelchair. Shortly after this, he began playing wheelchair basketball. He attended a disabilities tournament for children with disabilities in England, where he tried both wheelchair basketball, since he came from a town where team sports were popular; and wheelchair tennis, as he'd played with an able-bodied friend. Ultimately, he chose wheelchair basketball as it was a team sport.
Wikinews asked Pollock about being loud towards his team mates during the match on July 20 between the Australian Rollers and the Great Britain Bulldogs. He said he was out of wheelchair basketball for nine months due to a pressure sore and surgery on his shoulder, and has been making a comeback since January, with the doctors and physiotherapists giving him the all-clear in April. On that night, he said, the Australian team used bullying tactics and some of his teammates on the British team didn't step up to win the game. He also said that no matter what team his team plays against, he has a target on his back because of his calibre of playing in the game, and his team failed to to understand it that night, leaving him frustrated with his team and himself; and, he hates coming to Australia during a Paralympic year since the home town —that is, Australian— referees do not protect the visiting team from the home team's dirty playing, which puts the British team's gold medal prospects in jeopardy.
Wikinews also asked Pollock his opinions regarding Oscar Pistorius. Pollock believes Pistorius shouldn't be competing in the Olympics if other Paralympic athletes can't compete. He also mentioned reservations about certain technical aspects, such as whether Pistorius would be the same height if he still had his legs rather then his prosthetic legs. Asked about 5 point players playing in wheelchair basketball, he said he believes 5 point players can play with other point players but not in the Paralympics, and said 5 point players currently play in the domestic league but not at the elite level, to boost the number of players participating and to help the development of the game.
Wikinews also questioned him about tattoos worn by members of the British team. In previous years, he said, only one or two forwards had tattoos, but now almost everyone has one as having tattoos is currently in fashion. He said he got his first tattoo at the age of sixteen and only recently had it removed. He also has tattoos on his right arm, depicting the logos of the Paralympics and World championships in which he competed.
Pollocks's team begins its London campaign on August 30, against the Germany men's national wheelchair basketball team.
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WORK: Volunteers will be involved in forestry work. In cooperation with local environmental groups and communities, they will work at creating a hiking route, connecting the area of Koutsoura to the monastery of Zoodohou Pigis Ligia ("the life-giving fountain of Ligia") that hosts a church of archaeological interest.
● Clean the route from old trees and other materials, as a fire protection measure.
● Create and place sign posts and information panels along the path.
● Create wooden fences in exposed parts of the path and wooden steps if and where needed.
Volunteers will also help in the maintenance of the "gorge of butterflies" hiking route, that was created by volunteering workcamps during the past three years. The workcamp takes place in the framework of NOMADS project, aiming to promote the common values of IVS and sports for all. In addition to enriching the hiking routes of the area, the volunteers are encouraged to participate and organize sport activities with the local community. In that spirit, at the end of the camp, the volunteers will prepare a "youth sport day", in cooperation with the "Parents – Teachers Association" of the community of "Kato horio".
Volunteers will work 5 hours per day, 6 days per week. We might need to adapt the daily schedule (e.g start working at 6 in the morning or work in the morning and afternoon) in order to avoid the hottest hours of the day. Any changes in the working schedule and/or type of work will be discussed and decided as a group and in close cooperation with the local host.
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD: Volunteers will be hosted at the high school near Koutsouras village, by the seaside. They will sleep on the floor, on mattresses provided by the local host. Toilets and showers with warm water are provided at the gym, within the school complex. Volunteers will be given all necessary equipment and materials from the local host and they will prepare their meals in shifts. We will cook using local products and donated row or cooked supplies and we will adapt our menu to the supplies we receive.
LOCATION AND LEISURE: Ierapetra, the closest town to Koutsoura, is in the south east of Crete Island. There is the possibility to organize visits and excursions to the most important sites of the area. Volunteers will also have the opportunity to visit and participate in some of the cultural events organised in different parts of the area. Camp-leaders will organise free time activities in co-operation with the volunteers and the local partner. The host organization does not cover free time activities expenses.
TERMINAL: Heraklion (HER) or Sitia (JSH) airports. Heraklion port (if coming from Piraeus or other island by ferry). Ierapetra Bus Station.
NOTES: The work will be physically demanding mainly because of the weather conditions (sun, high temperatures and wind). The recommended travel option is to arrive in Heraklion (either ariport or port) before 12:00 on the 16th of July and depart from Heraklion after 12:00 on the 31st of July.
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Extended wind industry PTC feeds myth that 100 renewable electric grid is possible, energy advocate says
By Karen Kidd | Dec 31, 2019
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A bit of perspective will help Texans better understand that a pre-Christmas extension of the wind industry's multi-billion dollar tax break, the production tax credit (PTC), won't do the state – or nation – much good, an energy and environment advocate said during a recent interview.
This is the first of a two-part examination of what can be expected from yet again extending the PTC.
Among other things, Texans should not expect an energy grid powered only by renewables, Energy & Environment Legal Institute President Craig Richardson told Texas Business Daily.
"To put things into perspective, it's important to understand how expensive it is to switch over from traditional sources like natural gas or coal and incorporating to renewables," Richardson said. "Over a decade ago, many states passed what are called Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), which dictate that a certain percentage of the grid must come from renewables."
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Initial RPS goals typically were for 30 percent of grids to be powered by renewables, Richardson said. Then RPS formulators became overly optimistic.
"Now, many states, including California, have passed laws saying that by a certain date, the grid must be composed of 100 percent renewables," Richardson said. "This is preposterous and isn't doable."
The Energy & Environment Legal Institute sued Colorado over that state's RPS several years ago. In 2013, lawmakers in Colorado's Senate and House admitted that a state law that imposed a high renewable energy standard was unconstitutional.
Colorado was not the first state to recognize how difficult, if not impossible, to achieve 100 percent renewable energy in their grids.
"Renewables overall are much more expensive to extrapolate and maintain, meaning that energy bills will skyrocket," Richardson said. "Renewable energy drives up the cost of electricity, which negatively impacts the cost of goods and services across all sectors of the economy."
Europe already has experienced these negative results of trying to force high RPS "and those least able to pay are the most affected," Richardson said. "They call this 'energy poverty.'"
Richardson's comments came shortly after yet another PTC extension - the 27th in a row - that was part of $1.4 trillion government spending package of tax extenders approved by both houses of Congress before the holiday break, and more are expected next month. A Wall Street Journal editorial referred to the tax extender package as "Return of the tax games."
Meanwhile, back in Texas, the planning reserve margin for next summer is forecast to be 10.6 percent, a 2 percent increase over what had been projected this past summer, according to an Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) new release issued earlier this month.
ERCOT, which manages the electrical grid in the state, based its estimate on resource updates provided to the council from generation developers and an updated peak demand forecast, according to the news release.
"ERCOT maintained system reliability through record-setting electric demand and high temperatures this summer," ERCOT President and CEO Bill Magness was quoted in the news release. "We anticipate there will continue to be sufficient generation to meet Texas' growing power needs."
The difficulty with that optimism is that much of the new power generation that ERCOT expects to come online next year will be from wind and solar farms, which are expected to "provide significantly more electricity" than the ERCOT reserve margin, Texas Public Policy Foundation Vice President of Research Bill Peacock and Research Assistant Cayden Connally said in a recent op-ed piece in the The Gilmer Mirror.
"So, if the weather does not cooperate one hot summer afternoon next August, Texas is going to face some challenges," the op-ed piece published Dec. 22 said. "Why should Texas – with perhaps the most robust energy market in the world – be so close to the brink of going dark? The answer is that renewable energy subsidies like the PTC enable renewable energy generators to cash in by pushing far more reliable energy sources off the grid."
There are reasons that renewable energy is unreliable.
"Renewable energy – wind and solar basically – is what's known as intermittent power," Richardson said. "In other words, when it's a cloudy day, the solar panels aren't collecting energy and when there's no wind present, the turbines aren't turning and creating energy."
Which would mean a grid of 100 percent renewable energy would be equally unreliable.
"Therefore, in order to maintain 'grid integrity,' in other words, to ensure that there's enough electricity in the system and people don't experience brownouts and blackouts, these systems must have a traditional energy source underneath and ready to kick in whenever the renewables don't provide enough power to keep people's lights on."
That would make for "a very expensive and inefficient way" to maintain a power grid, Richardson said.
"Instead of a constant stream of energy flow, the system must jump back and forth between sources depending on the flow of renewables," he said.
Part Two will discuss why the wind industry PTC could cause so much difficulty for Texas and whether there is any real hope of that the PTC - and other extensions in the tax extenders package - will not happen again this time next year.
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Q: Want to make search function using SQL but never used databases I made a Winforms application that displays rows of data in a DataGridView. I want to add a function that searches for specific rows based on text that the user enters in a Textbox. I have found examples that use SQL queries but I did not construct my DataGridView from an SQL database data source, I filled in each row manually one-by-one with strings and ints.
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I am new to databases and I have a conceptual question. Can I create a temporary database at runtime without needing to install a password-protected database onto my system? This program is one that I share with colleagues as an .exe file and I don't want them to need to download and install an SQL database with a specific username/password just to run the program. I don't want the data stored in the database to persist when the program exits. I just want to be able to create a database and query it so I can implement a good search function for my DataGridView while the program is actually running. My program generates a completely new DataGridView at runtime based on the .txt log file that the user provides and has no need for data to persist between runs.

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Instead of generating the DataGrid directly:

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*Filter the list using Linq and save the filtered result in a query

*apply the query result to your DataGridView DataSource


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March 19, 2021 by fcostin
Welcome to the dream, Hunters. The new Bloodborne: The Board Game by CMON has now released, and there are already lots of game additions and expansions available to add to your core box. I wanted to take an in-depth look at what inside of one of the expansions, The Hunters Dream and how this adds to the core game adventure.
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In Bloodborne the video game, the Hunter's Dream is a location that works as the central hub throughout the game. Players can travel to any lamps that have been activated from this area, which is pretty handy considering the difficulty of the game - and the amount I died accessing different lamps!
The area contains The Hunter's Workshop which is the only place in the game where Hunters can access their storage and repair and upgrade their weapons. It is also home to a few in-game freaky-looking characters to engage with throughout the story.
Knowing this, I was keen to explore what the Hunter's Dream expansion would bring to the board game.
The Hunter's Dream expansion itself is not really an expansion if you are looking for a new campaign to embark on. It is similar to the video game providing you with extras features to enhance the core game.
The expansion works like a plug-in that will add more challenges and extending possibilities to any campaign that is included in the core box and other expansions. The box also adds an extra chapter at the end too. Along with that, you gain new enemy cards and a double-sided tile to incorporate into the core game.
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Haiti's special envoy calls for greater harmony and a cooperation agenda with the Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo, DR.
Ambassador Daniel Supplice, the special envoy to the Dominican Republic of Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, exhausted a 6-day agenda with meetings that included Dominican President Luis Abinader.
The diplomat was accompanied by Mrs. Stamie Joseph, a senior official in the Haitian prime minister's office.
The Haitian embassy in the country reported that Supplice also met with the Dominican Foreign Minister and that in all his meetings he advocated "for greater harmony and a true cooperation agenda in Dominican-Haitian relations."
The special envoy arrived in the Dominican Republic on Monday, November 8, and left on Sunday, November 14, satisfied, he said, "with his mission in the Dominican Republic."
"This mission, which lasted from Monday 8 to Saturday 13 November 2021, allowed him to meet with the highest Dominican authorities, including the President of the Republic, Exc. Mr. Luis Abinader, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Exc. Mr. Roberto Álvarez, the Minister of the Interior and Police, Mr. Jesús Vásquez and the President of the Senate, Mr. Eduardo Estrella ", says the statement from the embassy.
In his work schedule, he also paid a courtesy visit to some members of the diplomatic corps accredited in the country, including the apostolic nuncio, Archbishop GhalebBader, and the charge d'affaires of the United States embassy in the Dominican Republic, Robert Thomas.
"Ambassador Supplice also met with some senior officials of the United Nations System in the country, personalities from the private sector, representatives of Haitian student associations and community leaders of the Haitian diaspora from the Santiago and Santo Domingo regions," he said. the Haitian diplomatic legation.
The communiqué indicates that in all these meetings, the special envoy spoke with his interlocutors about the main current problems of binational relations, in particular the issues of migration and border security, "increasingly advocating for greater harmony and a true cooperation agenda. in Dominican-Haitian relations at all levels."
"Satisfied with the frank and friendly exchanges obtained from their meetings, the emissary warmly appreciates the hospitality of the Dominican authorities and all the personalities encountered," the statement said.


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Hidden danger in the delta / Fragile levees threaten state's water
Greg Lucas, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
Jan. 9, 2005 Updated: Jan. 25, 2012 6:54 p.m.
1of3On 1/4/05 in Stockton Department of Water Resources engineers, and flood management personel meet with Dutra Construction Co. management and engineers at the site of the 400 foot levee break at Jones Track six months ago to determine what repairs are yet to be done to return the flooded land to farm land. Chronicle Photo by Kat WadeKat WadeShow MoreShow Less
2of3How the Delta acts as the hub of the state's water system. Chronicle graphic by Joe Shoulak Show MoreShow Less
3of3Islands that have flooded the most often since 1900. Chronicle graphic by Joe Shoulak Show MoreShow Less
2005-01-09 04:00:00 PDT Sacramento -- (First of two parts)
More than six months after a levee break in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the circumstances of the failure and the extent of the cleanup costs are raising fears about the integrity of the 1,100 miles of levees that protect the heart of California's water delivery system.
The break that inundated 12,000 acres of the Upper and Lower Jones tracts near Stockton on June 3 wasn't caused by the usual threat of surging floodwaters, but simply by beavers digging into the dike to make dens. Yet damage and cleanup costs from this less-than-catastrophic threat are estimated at $90 million.
As winter rains drench the delta and the vast watersheds that drain into it, the state's budget problems have eliminated most money for strengthening the aging levees, some of which were built more than 100 years ago by Chinese laborers.
And most of that limited money is being spent on just eight islands at the western end of the delta, miles from the large population centers the levee system protects. The reason: If those islands are flooded, saltwater will pour into the delta, ruining the water supply for most of California.
"Things are not getting better -- they're getting worse," said Jeff Mount, dean of the UC Davis geology department. "Jones tract is not an aberration. The forces attempting to fill these islands with water are increasing steadily over the next 50 years. And then there is the sword of Damocles -- the earthquake, when it hits."
If multiple levees collapse, farms, homes and crops would be flooded, and rail lines, gas pipelines and aqueducts could be damaged. Water quality would be compromised by saltwater incursions, potentially idling water deliveries to the Central Valley and Southern California for weeks or months.
The delta is the hub of both the state and federal water projects. Massive pumps at the southern end near Tracy can send as much as 6.6 million gallons per minute to irrigate 4 million acres of farmland and slake the thirst of 22 million Californians, including residents of Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties in the Bay Area.
If the delta is the heart of California's water delivery system, the levees are the ribs that protect nearly 530,000 acres of farmland, 82,000 acres of habitat and 67,000 acres of urban development.
The system is showing weakness.
Since 1980, 17 delta islands have been partially or completely flooded.
Delta levees are like dams -- water pushes against them constantly. On most, the water side is buttressed with rock, called riprap, to protect against buffeting by wind-whipped waves and the force of winter flows.
Farming on the islands has also scraped away layers of soil, gradually pushing the land farther below sea level. This process is called subsidence.
Although the rate has slowed, many islands are 25 feet below sea level, and the farther the islands fall, the more pressure is placed on the levees.
More than 700 miles of delta levees are privately owned, built to a hodgepodge of construction standards and maintained by local reclamation districts that assess landowners to cover repair costs.
"I don't know of a more underappreciated part of our water system than those levees," said Steve Hall of the Association of California Water Agencies. "Without them, we would have a large tidal marsh. The islands, the freshwater estuary would be lost, and many parts of the state would lose their water supply."
A catastrophic series of levee collapses would also shatter the delta's ecosystem, which is home to 750 plant and animal species. Among the endangered is the delta smelt, whose protection puts restrictions on levee maintenance from August through November.
The delta also is home to billions of dollars in public and private investment. East Bay Municipal Water District has three pipelines that deliver water from the Sierra foothills to homes and businesses. Important state highways, railroad tracks, and gas and power lines crisscross the delta.
Many of the decisions about the delta are made by the California Bay- Delta Authority, an agency with 22 voting members that was created in 2003 and charged with attempting to find consensus among state and federal water project users.
The authority has four broad goals: Maintain a reliable supply of water, restore the delta's ecosystem, preserve water quality and keep the levees from collapsing.
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Critics say the levees, despite their importance in achieving the authority's other three goals, rank a distant fourth in priority.
"Lip service has been paid to the importance of the levees, but in terms of actually investing in the various aspects of California's water management over the past three decades, the delta levees have gotten very little in real dollars," said Tom Graff, regional director of Environmental Defense California.
The Bay-Delta Authority, which coordinates various government programs working to improve the delta, estimates that $1 billion of levee work is needed now. But the state Department of Water Resources estimates that only $200 million has been spent since 1988 on maintaining and improving delta levees by both the state and the 60-odd reclamation districts that care for privately owned levees.
Most of the spending is on shoring up the eight westernmost delta islands, particularly Sherman, which, like neighboring Twitchell Island, is owned by the state.
Sherman Island acts as a bottleneck allowing the Sacramento River on its north and the San Joaquin to the south to flow into Suisun Bay while keeping saltwater out of the delta.
Widespread levee failures -- or just a sizable breach at Sherman Island north of Antioch -- could suck enough saltwater into the delta to make the freshwater undrinkable.
The Jones tracts, on the far side of the delta from Sherman, gulped in enough saltwater after the June 3 levee break to close the pumps for two weeks until more freshwater could be flushed through to push back the saline intrusion.
"Our priority is the public benefit, and Sherman is the most important island in the delta in terms of protecting our water supply," said Curt Schmutte, the state's chief of levees for the north delta.
Compounding maintenance problems, the western islands of the delta lie on peat -- a poor foundation for levees -- and are the most susceptible to seismic assault.
The Bay Area's fault lines are closest to the western islands. Although the levees on those islands suffered no damage in 1989's 7.1-magnitude Loma Prieta quake, there are fears about the next big one.
"The westerly portions of the delta would receive the greatest shock, and the levees that might be most vulnerable to seismic shock are the levees on the peat," said Tom Zuckerman, a lawyer for the Central Delta Water Agency.
Mount, the geologist, predicts dire consequences without more attention to a delta strategy. Subsidence, a rising sea level and the potential of a massive earthquake create the possibility of catastrophic levee failures that no one is prepared for, Mount said.
"All our planning assumes a static landscape. It isn't. This is a dramatically changing system, and yet all our planning is fixed," Mount said.


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No. 26/2013 - Update on contracted FRR-A capacity in the Nordic synchronous system
Nord Pool Spot has received the following information from the Nordic transmission system operators:
This exchange information is a follow-up to exchange information No. 18/2012 - Implementation of Load Frequency Control in the Nordic synchronous system and No. 12/2013 – Update on implementation of Load Frequency Control in the Nordic synchronous system.
The implementation of automatic Frequency Restoration Reserves (FRR-A) in the Nordic power system started in December 2012 and all four Nordic transmission system operators currently contribute with FRR-A. The base FRR-A volume during the test period in the Nordic synchronous system is 100 MW. During week 10 to 17 tests have been performed with a capacity in the range of 100 to 400 MW.
The Nordic transmission system operators observe that currently in some parts of the Nordic system the FRR-A capability (number and capacity of units that are able to provide FRR-A) is limited and that the available FRR-A capacity is reduced due to the seasonal 'spring flood' conditions. Taking into account the required geographical distribution this would result in a limited total amount of available Nordic FRR-A, which would only have a limited effect on the frequency quality. The TSOs therefore decided to reduce the contracted FRR-A capacity for the period from 20 May to 16 September 2013 to 0 MW.
The Nordic transmission system operators will focus on building further capability and preparing for continuation of use of FRR-A in autumn 2013.
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Karolina Näsholm, Svenska Kraftnät, +46 8 4758201
Gunnar Nilssen, Statnett, +47 23903238
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