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Q: Get an array of size as big as 10^12 in C I have to find prime numbers between two given numbers a and b, both of them ranging between 1 and 10^12. To do this, I am using a Sieve of Eratosthenes. How can I get such a big array? Exceeding the size 10^6 gives an error.

A:
to find prime numbers between two given numbers a and b, ...  between 1 and 10^12. ... using a Sieve of Eratosthenes.

Algorithm:
To find determine if a number is a prime, the classic approach is to attempt division of all primes 2 ... sqrt(n).
So create a Sieve of Eratosthenes: byte/bit wise flags in the range [0 ... 10^6].
Then test each value [a ...b] against the primes in the array.
So in the end only an array of 1,000,000 is needed.

A: Please quote the exact error. If you do have enough memory, the code should compile just fine.
But chances are, you do not have the terabytes of memory this would need. So you should probably think about a better algorithm that trades some memory space for some execution time.

A: As said here, you need a lot of RAM (and, of course 64-bit OS) for that kind of allocation.
You can resort to a different algorithm, like this one for instance:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <limits.h>

bool isPrime(unsigned long long n) {
    if (n == 2 || n == 3)
        return true;
    if (n % 2 == 0 || n % 3 == 0)
        return false;
    unsigned long long check = (n + (n % 3)) / 3;
    while (check>3) {
        if (n % check == 0)
            return false;
        check-=2;
    }
    return true;
}

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    for (unsigned long long l = 2; l < ULLONG_MAX; l++)
    {
        if (isPrime(l))
            printf("%d, ", l);
    }
}

A: You can get upto 10^8 by dynamically allocating memory by pointer,like:
    int *p=(int*) malloc(sizeof(int)*100000000)
code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
main()
{
    int *p=malloc(sizeof(int)*100000000);
    p[5]=147;
    printf("%d\n",p[5]);
}

Sieve of Eratosthenes require only sqrt(input array element) sized array.For example Sieve of Eratosthenes needs only a[10] for 100 numbers. Sieve of Eratosthenes implementation in C++ below:
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <cmath>
#include <cstdio>
using namespace std;
void same(int);
void creat(int);
vector< int>v;
int main()
{
    int a,b,c,i,root,temp;
    cin>>a;
    while(a--)
    {
        cin>>b>>c;
        if(b==c)
        {
            same(b);
            continue;
        }
        temp=b;

        if(b%2==0 )
        {
            if(b==2) {b=3;}
            else
                ++b;
        }

        if (b==1)
        {
            b=3;
        }

        if(temp==2||temp==1||temp==0)
        {
            cout<<2<<endl;
        }
        creat((int)sqrt(c));
        for(i=b; i<=c; i+=2)
        {
            int flag=1;
            root=(int)sqrt(i);
            for(auto j=v.begin();*j<=root && j!=v.end(); ++j)
            {
                if(i%(*j)==0)
                {
                    flag=0;
                    break;
                }
            }
            if(flag)
            {

                cout<<i<<endl;

            }
        }

        cout<<endl;
        v.clear();

    }
    return 0;
}
void same(int n)
{
    if(n==1) return ;
    int rot=(int)sqrt(n);
    for(int i=3; i<=rot; i+=2)
    {
        if(n%i==0)
        {
            return ;
        }
    }
    cout<<n<<endl;
}

void creat(int n)
{

    const int h=n/2;
    int a[h+1],i,j;
    for( i=0; i<=h; i++)
    {
        a[i]=0;
    }

    int r=(int)sqrt(n);
    for(i=3; i<=r; i+=2)
    {
        if(a[i/2]==0)
        {
            for(j=i*i; j<=n; j+=2*i)
            {
                a[j/2]=1;
            }
        }
    }
    for(i=3; i<=n; i+=2)
    {
        if(a[i/2]==0)
        {
            v.push_back(i);
        }
    }
}

Input:
Number of test case
 lower range
 upper range

1
1
100

Output:
Prime numbers from 1 to 100

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Maharashtra News: According to a state health department study released on Tuesday, the samples received for genome sequencing of COVID-19 positive individuals in Maharashtra 80% of them were tested positive for the Delta variant.
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Maharashtra is regularly conducting genome sequencing tests on COVID-19 positive patients' samples to determine the extent of the virus's mutations' transmission.
Each centre sends 15 samples to the National Institute of Virology in Pune every two weeks for genome sequencing.
A contract has also been inked with the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, which is part of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
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This laboratory tests 100 samples of each district of Maharashtra to find if there is any mutant virus present in any of the samples.
On Monday, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology found 10 more people positive with Delta Plus variant.
Six of them are from the Kolhapur district, three from Ratnagiri, and one from Sindhudurg. So far, 13 Delta Plus cases have been reported in Jalgaon, 15 in Ratnagiri, 11 in Mumbai, seven in Kolhapur, six in Pune and Thane, three each in Palghar and Raigad, two in Gondia, Sindhudurg, and Nanded, and one each in Chandrapur, Akola, Sangli, Nandurbar, Aurangabad, and Beed.
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There have been 39 Delta Plus cases documented in people aged 19-45 years, 19 in people aged 46-60 years, nine patients under the age of 18 years, and nine people beyond the age of 60 years.
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According to the news agency PTI, 39 of the 76 Delta Plus cases were female and 37 were male.
Meanwhile, the state health agency said that of the 76 people, 10 had received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccination, while 12 had received only the first dosage, resulting in 22 people receiving at least one dose of the vaccine.
Covaxin was given to two of the 22 participants, while Covishield was given to the other 20. The symptoms of 37 Delta Plus-infected patients ranged from mild to none at all.
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Is there time to avoid humanity's extinction? Practically everything that has ever lived is extinct; we will be no exception unless we work very hard to be an exception. Wrestling with that problem led to a chilling, undeniable conclusion: the human species is ultimately doomed on Earth and we have no plan.
The Earth will eventually become uninhabitable and moving people off Earth is the only credible survival alternative, short of some sort of intervention. The United Nations produced some encouraging declarations at the turn of the century fostering hope for humanity in spite of mounting evidence to the contrary.
In 2007, fourteen space agencies created a document proposing global coordination for space exploration, another recent heartening, if limited, development.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is our primary space exploration agency; its strategic planning is found wanting. NASA strategic planning has become increasingly tactical and less inclusive over the last ten years. Nevertheless, evaluation of its evolving strategic planning is instructive to identify what to draw on and what to avoid.
Space advocacy groups sponsor some creative ideas; yet they usually quibble over how rather than the more important question, why?
A convincing, understandable, comprehensive strategic vision and mission for humanity elude us... until now. This book is about why it is critical to move aggressively from wars on each other to a War on Extinction.
Informazioni sull'autore
As a former Fortune 500 aerospace executive for over thirty years and a planetarium program director for an additional ten years, Donald Richard Prescott has been planning and managing successful, complex operations for decades where strategic planning is an essential tool. A revealing stint as director of strategic planning and service on local government planning committees provided opportunities to speak to and participate in groups about complex strategic issues as well as appearing in a local cable documentary about transportation and community development. He has interfaced with congressional and governmental leaders, directly participating in securing millions of dollars of governmental funding for two local projects. Prescott has also written and published award winning short stories (Concoctions), a science fiction novel (Daddy's Different), a nonfiction book about avoiding human extinction (Is There Time?), and a book of essays (Layman's License). He has written a full-length-three-act play, planetarium show/display scripts, two family histories, technical articles and business plans as well as edited several newsletters. Recent awards and published work include multiple Writers' Journal "Write to Win! Contest" awards/publication, The Orange County Register Dreamscape Contest publication, placing in Writer's Digest competitions, Long Story Short E-zine short story publications and internationally published short stories/essay in The Taj Mahal Review as well as awards on Writing.com among others. He currently writes and explores life in Orange, California.
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Chapter 2: Why?
Chapter 3: What?
Chapter 4: How?
Chapter 5: Where?
Chapter 6: When?
Chapter 7: What more?
Chapter 8: Who and What?
Chapter 9: What strategic visions and missions?
Chapter 10: When are strategic values flexible?
Chapter 11: What is strategic planning?
Chapter 12: What plan?
Chapter 13: How long is strategic?
Chapter 14: What? - 6 People Off-Earth.
Chapter 15: What? - 1,000 People Off-Earth.
Chapter 16: What? - 10,000 People Off-Earth.
Chapter 17: What? - Majority of People Off-Earth.
Chapter 18: What? - Majority of People Out of the Solar System.
Chapter 19: What else?
Chapter 20: What is sensitivity analysis?
Chapter 21: What makes us worth it?
Chapter 22: How can space advocacy help?
Chapter 23: Why is we so conflicted?
Chapter 24: What are our options?
Appendix A: World Population
Appendix B: Human Outcomes
Appendix C: NASA Strategic Goals FY 2000 - FY 2006
Appendix D: Selected Advocacy Organizations
Appendix E: Reading and Resources
Figure 1: Searching for a Plan
Figure 2: Sentience, Sapience, Intelligence
Figure 3: The Human Computer?
Figure 4: Why?
Figure 5: How We Keep Asking Questions.
Figure 6: World Population Projections, 2000-2500
Figure 7: Energy Production-Consumption, 1995-2004
Figure 8: World Primary Energy Production, 1970-2004
Figure 9: Human Energy Consumption, 1995-2004
Figure 10: NASA Strategic Values FY 2000 through 2006
Figure 11: FY 2000 NASA Flow Down Example
Figure 12: NASA Planning Terminology
Figure 13: NASA Plan Partial Goals Comparison
Figure 14: A Strategic Plan for Humanity
Figure 15: Flow Down to Strategies
Figure 16: U.S. Total Outlays Current & Constant Dollars
Figure 17: U.S. Outlays by Function FY 1969 versus FY 2010
Figure 18: U.S. Outlays by Function FY 2010 and a Proposal
Figure 19: World Population More and Less Developed
Figure 20: Space Advocacy Organizations
Figure 21: What are our options?
Figure A1: World Population Growth Rate Trend
Figure A2: World Population Projections
Figure A3: Expert Carrying Capacity Estimates
Figure A4: Base Case Human Population Over-Under Expert Carrying Capacity Estimates
Figure B1: Why, How, Outcomes
Figure B2: Human Outcomes
Figure B3: Intervention
Figure B4: Preservation
Figure B5: Expansion
Figure B6: THE BOTTOM LINE
To my wife, Cherianne; our children, Don Jr. and Kimberly; their children, Don III, Samuel, Lindsay, Joshua, Ryan, Michael and Zoe; their spouses; everyone I have ever cared about; everyone I have ever known; everyone alive at the moment; and everyone yet to be born; I think this is that important.
There are thanks due to many people, too numerous to specifically name here. However, here are a few who more directly influenced this book.
Thanks to the K-12 students and teachers, who attended my planetarium shows full of promise and for asking questions that often made me stretch. Every day they attended, they made my day.
To Sheryl Johnson, Astronomy Educator, my genuine thanks for reviewing the first draft and especially for the many insightful and stimulating discussions we've had since I've known her. She is a part of this book.
Mary Halvorson, Vice President of Academic Affairs at Santiago Canyon College, took the time to give me needed feedback on the first draft, to her my heartfelt thanks.
Thanks go to Dr. Stephen Eastmond, Tessmann Planetarium Director, for inspiring, thought-provoking discussions over ten years from which some ideas have woven their way into this book.
My appreciation goes to Robert Menn, my replacement as Program Director at the planetarium, and Alice Shevitz, a friend and fellow writer, for reviewing the second draft for glaring grammatical and presentation issues.
Barbara Cloninger, my personal assistant for fifteen years, has my dearest thanks for her unfailing support and making me heed my wife's advice and call the doctor before I keeled over.
There are very special people to whom I owe so much, of course, my grandparents (Etha and Harry and my maternal grandmother, Margaret Craft), my parents (Charles and Louise), my aunts and uncles (Geraldine and Jack Handley; Dick and Priscilla Craft) and my very exceptional sisters (Gloria and Carol).
There are others from my formative years whose influences were very strong and still resonate after all this time, especially and fondly Shelda Barnett (Johnston) and particularly Fred Crossen, Carol McCormick (Potts) and Don McKinley. Two grade school friends of mine, Terry Kapp and Bill Jones, had a penchant for word-jousting that held me in good stead in later years. These people likely have or had no idea how much knowing them meant to me.
To my children, Donald and Kimberly, I think of you often recognizing that the subject of this book will likely affect you and my grandchildren more than your mother or me. The future is yours, not ours. I hope this book makes a positive difference. Thank you Kim for your editing and input; it was valuable.
Unparalleled thanks and love go to my beautiful wife, Cherianne, for her patience, encouragement, lifelong support and time sacrificed together as I hunched over the keyboard, seemingly forever in her eyes.
The artwork, illustrations, tables and graphs in this book were created by the author, unless otherwise noted. Photographs and composite images were created from royalty-free clip art or courtesy of NASA. Cover was designed by the author. Bolide photograph integrated into cover art is courtesy of NASA.
People have visions of the future. Some are modest; others are grand; a few are bleak, more than a few conflict. Collectively, (as families, classes, schools, churches, towns, nations or any other groupings you may imagine), we have visions and even missions, but what about humanity, the species as a whole? How do our separate visions for the future integrate into a comprehensive, coherent vision for humanity?
Wrestling with that problem stirred my planning juices and forced me to ask, where is the strategic vision for humanity?
Answer: It does not exist.
Challenge: If one were to create a single, undeniable vision for humanity, what might it look like?
As I searched for and reviewed strategic plans (the United Nations, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Institute of Health, and National Science Foundation (NSF), Amazon.com, among others), the lack of a cohesive, human strategic plan haunted me and stimulated my aerospace planning roots. Humanity does not have a common strategic vision. We are at war and/or in competition with each other rather than facing an unavoidable reality. We are vulnerable; there are many threats to our existence; and, we can do something about it.
That led me to a chilling, undeniable conclusion: the human species is ultimately doomed on Earth and we have no plan. Practically everything that has ever lived is extinct; we will be no exception unless we work very hard to be an exception. Nature can be a harsh taskmaster. Are we next? Is it unavoidable? When will it happen? Will there be an intervention?
It may not happen today, tomorrow or thousands of years from now but it will happen; someday, the Earth will no longer be habitable for humans; there is little argument about that from experts. Short of an intervention, which is possible and a subject for later discussion, I am convinced that moving off the Earth is humanity's only real chance against extinction.
One would think that the United Nations would be the logical place to find such a vision for humanity and so it is but, even there, the current strategic planning myopically deals with symptoms (poverty, sustainability, politics, conflict and human rights) rather than the broader strategy necessary to avoid human extinction. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of altruistic and humanistic ideas have been written into U.N. resolutions. Still, a comprehensive, integrated plan for humanity eludes us.
Many people have written books supporting common causes like dodging objects from space, staving off hunger, dealing with pandemics, combating global warming, supplying energy, eradicating poverty, stemming extinction and confronting other actionable threats. However, none have addressed the larger issue, the lack of a common vision and mission for humanity.
The chart (Figure 1) represents an assessment of Amazon.com, the United Nations and the United States Government web sites subject matter in search of a strategic plan for humanity. Variations of search phrases were specified to attempt to isolate a vision, mission or strategic plan for humanity from the number of hits at each web site.
There were 23 hits on united nations strategic plan , 5 hits for global strategic plan and 19 hits for strategic mission followed by only 3 hits for human extinction. On closer inspection, these were specific plans for selected, isolated subjects that, while surely a part of the larger issue, are not an inclusive strategic plan for humanity. It is interesting to note that there are numerous titles about extinction across the three sites but no umbrella plan for humanity. When searching for an extinction level event plan or an extinction strategic plan , the results were zero. The conclusion is either a strategic plan for humanity does not exist or it is top secret.
Since the thrust of this book focuses on avoiding human extinction, it is significant that all searches with the term, humanity, failed to show any results underscoring the premise that no formal strategic plan for humanity exists.
There are a number of space advocacy titles that usually deal with who, what, when, where and how humans should go to and use space. Few, if any, convincingly address the why and the how at the same time.
One document that I ran across confirmed my suspicions. The Global Exploration Strategy: The Framework for Coordination, a paper produced from a 2007 meeting of fourteen space agencies, highlights the lack of a coordinated plan:
"Bilateral and multilateral cooperation among space-faring nations has enabled much of what has been achieved so far, and this will continue in the future. But there's never been a single, comprehensive strategy for space exploration [emphasis added] that allows existing plans to be coordinated and new ones to be developed." [1]
If there is not a single, comprehensive strategy for space exploration then a comprehensive strategy for humanity does not exist or is secret. This meeting of national space agencies recognized that a global effort is necessary for space exploration but why only space exploration? Space exploration is but one small part of human activity. A true integrated plan should cover everything, everyone.
Since I had started this project as a review of the NASA Strategic Planning processes, using the fruits of that labor were synergistic. NASA's strategic planning might act as a good resource for constructing a universal, inclusive vision for humanity. Why? NASA has done some fair strategic planning in the past that considered, or by inference included, all of humanity. In addition, NASA and other national space agencies are charged with space exploration responsibilities, which are fundamental to getting people off Earth. NASA was involved in the creation of The Global Exploration Strategy. Unfortunately, I also discovered that NASA planning had turned more tactical, limited and less inclusive since 2000.
With initial conclusions and suspicions in hand, I rummaged around looking for a shared human vision. Many private and public organizations are devoted to the success of humanity, the United Nations, the Red Cross, the Peace Corps, religious organizations, humanitarian groups, national agencies, foundations and the like. I found no truly common vision.
My search led me to the results of the United Nations 1999 conference in Vienna (UNISPACE III) which is a digestible document for people not into reading long and laborious reports, The Space Millennium: Vienna Declaration on Space and Human Development. This declaration adopted in a plenary meeting on 30 July 1999 [2] gave me some hope that human beings might have a chance against the mighty forces of nature. A second seminal document sculpting my thought processes was a United Nations Resolution called 55/2 United Nations Millennium Declaration of 2000 [3] that dealt with many symptoms but lacked any reference to extinction. Both documents offer glimmers of hope that humanity might inch toward solutions but each lack an integrated, obvious strategic vision for humanity.
While the scientific community, NASA and other space agencies have formed and are forming some sensible international partnerships to share knowledge, technology and accomplishment, an internationally-accepted strategic plan does not exist or only partially exists in separate plans for this and that. There is a lot of discussion headed toward a better future but no vision or road map to get there. As a species, we are ideologically and politically adrift, pushed this way and that by immediate necessity and parochial interest. Globally, we have difficulty staying a peaceful, productive course. Cultural schisms abound. Monetary interests are prolific. The gulf between 'have' and 'have-nots' is considerable and growing, likely to be exacerbated by climate change; people find many reasons to quarrel and too few to cooperate; human kills human almost routinely; is it futile to expect more?
Yet, in spite of the negatives, encouraging words in those documents represent some altruistic and expansive ideas that are actually strategic. Bolstering my motivation was a 2004 report by the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, comparing the Vienna Declaration (UNISPACE III) [4] with the United Nations Millennium Declaration:
Protecting the Earth's environment and managing its resources:
Using space applications for human security, development and welfare:
Enhancing education and training opportunities and ensuring public awareness of the importance of space activities:
Strengthening and repositioning of space activities on the United Nations system.
The U.N. Millennium Declaration offered more good thoughts about Poverty eradication; , Changing the patterns of consumption and production: and Protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic development... —not bad ideas to consider when formulating a plan. The Millennium Declaration also states:
"We recognize that, in addition to our separate responsibilities to our individual societies, we have a collective responsibility to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity at the global level. As leaders we have a duty therefore to the entire world's people, especially the most vulnerable and, in particular, the children of the world, to whom the future belongs."
Do they really mean it or is it just political rhetoric, merely window dressing?
Numerous people have tried to get us to understand and support common causes like combating global warming, dodging objects from space, colonizing the solar system, staving off hunger, dealing with pandemics, eradicating poverty and confronting other natural and man-made threats. Good for them but I think there is a larger issue, mission if you will. Maybe it is so simple, so obvious, to give us an aha moment, an approach that every human can readily understand, endorse and encourage. A convincing plan should inspire civilization as well as raise individual spirits and present encouraging possibilities for humanity. It needs to integrate and channel human efforts in the face of one of our most annoying and unproductive attributes—apathy.
Human apathy must be overcome. In developed countries, many become so comfortable with conveniences and entitlements that moving them into action requires a significant jolt. Others seem to give up, as dismal as that seems, and have the attitude that nothing can be done and humans might as well give the Earth back to the plants and animals. These people often think that people are just plain no good. Overcoming apathy will take a vision and mission that spurs people into action, makes them want more and promises them the opportunity for adventure and prosperity.
A number of important things are not seriously considered, or even given any thought in certain circles, especially in the political arena. I want to take you on a journey from the marvelous human ability to ask why to seeking guidance from the NASA strategic planning process as well as generally understanding the planning development. Then, spend a little time creating an example of what a comprehensive, inclusive strategic plan for humanity might look like; look at possible downsides; and, finish with conclusions, my conclusions that you might share by the time you reach the last chapter.
I believe that human beings can avoid extinction, if not forever then perhaps interminably. In the process, we might even discover a greater purpose. Why do it? Because, it interests me; I think it is important; and, I am just old enough where my priorities are shifting from considering things worth having to things worth being and doing. If this effort gets you to ask why more often or gives you pause in the voting booth, I will be a happy planner. I hope that we are not too late.
First, there is one simple but bewildering question: Why?
Notes and References:
[2] United Nations Conference, 1999. The Space Millennium: Vienna Declaration on Space and Human Development.
[3] United Nations, 8 September 2000. 55/2 United Nations Millennium Declaration.
[4] United Nations, 23 July 2004. Pages 31-32, Table 2. Report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space on the implementation of the recommendations of the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III).
I Keep six honest serving-men:
(They taught me all I knew)
Their names are What and Where and When
And How and Why and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.
I let them rest from nine till five.
For I am busy then,
As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,
For they are hungry men:
But different folk have different views:
I know a person small—
She keeps ten million serving-men,
Who get no rest at all!
She sends 'em abroad on her own affairs,
From the second she opens her eyes—
One million Hows, two million Wheres,
And seven million Whys!
- Rudyard Kipling, 1902
Why breathe, eat, sleep, work, worship, love, hate, wash, compete, lust, cheat, play, hurt, kill, struggle, think…? Why permeates everything. After satisfying basic needs, humans tend to seek answers to questions of increasing complexity. Our lives become an iterative search for purpose, a quest for meaning. For most of us, our purposes may not be obvious or even conscious acts. Just staying alive is a basic purpose of living things. It is when we begin asking why that the concept of purpose teases us and being alive becomes significantly more than merely to exist.
Rudyard Kipling created a poem in a story called The Elephant Child. [5] I memorized the first four lines early in life. It highlights the human ability to ask questions.
The five W's and an H as many of us learned in grade school were and are considered fundamental to communicating. I find Who, What, When and Where as well as How tangible concepts where Why is something else, something more, something unique. You can usually identify specific actions or things to Who, What, When, Where and How but Why can splinter into different meanings to different people at different times. Why is a multidimensional concept requiring subtle qualitative and quantitative thinking as opposed to the more quantitative nature of its brethren, Who, What, When, Where and How. Why leads us to purpose which most often differs from person to person. When we ask, 'What is the purpose of it all?' we stare down an abyss of uncertainty. It is asking the big Why.
Purpose is a synthesis of science, sociology, psychology, history, philosophy, religion, morality, politics, in short, everything living beings and the inanimate were, are or could be. Copious amounts of flexibility and understanding are necessary to attempt to unravel this sinewy saga about what we are and what we might become.
The critical and perhaps the most fundamental component of our quest is sentience, or consciousness. Without sentience, little else other than mindless existence seems attainable. Being aware does not necessarily mean that an entity
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 Prefectura Naval Argentina.
 Partido Nueva Alianza, partido político mexicano.
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America's Biggest Polluters: Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Power Plants in 2007
The Sherburne County coal-fired power plant near Becker, MN is the dirtiest power plant in Minnesota based on carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution ranking it as the 13th dirtiest plant in the country for 2007, according to a new analysis of government data released today by Environment Minnesota.
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The United States relies heavily on outdated technology and limited resources for most of its electricity needs. While the production of clean, renewable energy such as wind and solar power is growing, the vast majority of American electricity comes from burning fossil fuels—coal, oil, and natural gas—and from nuclear power.
Our long-time dependence on fossil fuels is a threat to our future. It wreaks havoc on our environment by polluting our air, land, and water; and it puts our entire economy at risk due to our reliance on imports from unfriendly parts of the world. Most importantly, it fuels global warming—the most pro- found environmental problem of our time, with ever growing impacts that will impose threats to our safety and immense financial cost on our society. Power plants are the single largest source of U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the main pollutant that fuels global warming.
Coal is the biggest culprit. Coal supplies just under half of America's electricity – more than any other source – and is the dirtiest of all fuels. Coal has the highest carbon content of any fossil fuel per unit of energy, meaning that burning coal for electricity produces more carbon per kilowatt-hour generated than does burning oil or natural gas. America's fleet of coal-fired power plants emitted more than 80 percent of CO2 pollution from U.S. power plants in 2007 and 36 percent of the total U.S. CO2 pollution, as well as disproportionate amounts of smog- and soot-forming pollutants, toxic mercury, and other toxic air pollutants.
This report examines CO2 emissions of America's power plants. We analyze 2007 plant-by-plant data from the Environmental Protection Agency's Acid Rain Program; 2007 is the most recent year for which final data is available. The report finds that America's power is dirty – and also very old – and that these two qualities tend to go hand-in-hand.
Key findings include the following for 2007:
America's power is old:
Two-thirds of fossil-fuel electricity was generated by plants built before 1980. We are reliant on plants more than 30 years old for the majority of our electricity.
The oldest plants in the nation – which have been in operation for as long as 70 years – are located in Indiana, Wisconsin, New York, Iowa, and North Carolina. These dinosaur plants were built in the same decade that the television first became commercially available.
America's power is dirty:
In 2007, power plants released 2.56 billion tons of CO2, equivalent to the amount produced by 449 million of today's cars. This represents 42 percent of the total U.S. CO2 emissions in 2007.2
Georgia, Alabama, and Indiana are home to the dirtiest power plants. Along with Texas, Michigan, and Arizona, these states are home to power plants that each emitted more than 20 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution – equivalent to the pollution from 3.5 million of today's cars – in 2007. Georgia and Texas both have two plants that belong to this elite dirty club.
Texas, Ohio, Florida, Indiana, and Pennsylvania emitted the most CO2 pollution from power plants. Texas power plants emitted nearly twice the amount of CO2 emitted by power plants in Ohio and Florida, the next highest polluting states.
The oldest and dirtiest often go hand-in- hand:
The oldest power plants are dirty. Plants built before 1980 produced 73 percent of U.S. CO2 emissions from power plants. These represent just less than half of all plants, indicating that the older half of plants pollute a disproportionate amount.
The dirtiest power plants are old. Of plants that produced more than five million tons of CO2 pollution in 2007, 83 percent were built before 1980. This subset of 129 plants, just 10 percent of plants—the oldest of the dirtiest—generated almost half of our electricity and produced half of the CO2 emissions from power plants in 2007.
Older means dirtier on average. For each year older a coal generator is on average, it created 0.001 more tons of CO2 for each Megawatt-hour of electricity it produced in 2007. The relationship is slightly stronger for natural gas.
Power Plants Must Be Required to Clean Up
Cleaning up America's fleet of aging, inefficient power plants is critical to stopping global warming. We cannot achieve the real and sustained reductions in global warming pollution that science shows are urgently needed to stop the worst effects of global warming unless we begin now to reduce carbon pollution from the utility sector.
The most recent report by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released in 2007, found that in order to have a 50-50 chance of avoiding dangerous global warming, developed nations as a whole must reduce global warming emissions by 25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and by 80-95 below 1990 levels by 2050. Cutting pollution from the oldest and dirtiest power plants is a key to being able to achieve these reductions.
Moving to clean energy means leaving old, inefficient, and dirty technology behind. The U.S. Department of Energy projects that electricity demand will remain relatively flat over the next two decades, growing at an annual average rate of less than 1 percent – and that's without factoring in the enormous efficiency gains that we can and should make. These projections make it clear that allowing polluting fossil fuels to maintain the monopoly over America's electricity will result in a much smaller market for renewables. Making the move to clean, renewable energy will cut pollution as well as jump-start our economy and create millions of clean energy jobs.
In order to build a clean energy economy and stop global warming, lawmakers should adopt the following recommendations:
The Environmental Protection Agency should finalize its proposal to require coal plants and other big smokestack industries to meet modern standards for global warming pollution when new plants are built or existing plants are upgraded.
Congress should pass strong clean energy and global warming legislation that caps global warming pollution at science-based levels, establishes strong mandates for clean energy production, and does not repeal the sections of the Clean Air Act that require coal-fired power plants to meet modern standards for global warming pollution.
Congress should eliminate subsidies that help keep our nation dependent on fossil fuels for its electricity.
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Reference number for this case: 14-Oct-54-Séranon. Thank you for including this reference number in any correspondence with me regarding this case.
The author indicates that the flying saucer that landed close to Biot on October 14, 1954 at 18:15 was seen furrowing the skies by a crowd of people, in Séranon, among other places.
The two authors indicate that in Séranon in the Alpes-Maritime, on October 14, 1954, shortly after 06:15 p.m., an object was observed in the sky.
Luc Chastan indicates in his database that in the Alpes Maritime in Séranon on October 14, 1954 at an unknown hour, "Little after eighteen hour fifteen observation of an object in the sky."
The source is noted: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet... by Figuet M./ Ruchon J.L. ** Alain Lefeuvre pub. 1979"
The website indicates that on 14 October 1954 at 18:15 in Seranon, France, "An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. One object was observed by several witnesses."
1.0 Patrick Gross April 8, 2009 Conversion from HTML to XHTML Strict. First formal version. Additions [jg1], [lc1], [ud1].


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Series Preview: New York Yankees at Cleveland Indians (7/7-7/10)
By Unknown - July 06, 2016
Heading into this season, neither one of these teams had high expectations nor they were expected to win their respective divisions. Through 84 games, the Yankees have been as advertised, continuing their mediocrity, as they have gone 41-43. They have been one of the more streaky teams in baseball in every facet of the game with their bullpen, offense, defense, and rotation. On the other hand, the Indians have taken a 6.5 game lead over the Tigers, thanks in large part to their recent 14 game winning streak. Incredibly, before Wednesday's loss against division-rival Detroit, they had not lost a home game since May 31. Their 51-33 record is good for fourth best in the majors. They will look to continue their fantastic first half when they take on the New York Yankees for the first time this season, at Progressive Field.
Game 1 (Thursday, July 7 at 7:10 PM ET): Ivan Nova (5-5, 5.06 ERA) vs. Trevor Bauer (7-2, 3.02 ERA)
Ivan Nova was surprisingly good early on. He allowed one run or less in four consecutive starts back in May. Nova then reverted back to his normal self, giving up three or more runs in his next seven starts, before last week's one-run performance against San Diego's weak lineup. Although he has good movement on his curveball, it's hard to be a successful MLB pitcher with just two pitches.
A major prospect a few years back, Bauer has really turned things around this year. Although he has always had filthy stuff, it hasn't necessarily translated into good results, as he was moved to the bullpen last season and hovered around a 5.00 plus ERA. Thus far, Bauer has pitched to a 7-2 record and an ERA of 3.02. Only 25 years old, he has a very bright future ahead of him and his stuff will likely give the Yankees problems.
Game 2 (Friday, July 8 at 7:10 PM ET): Chad Green (1-1, 4.09 ERA) vs. Corey Kluber (8-8, 3.79 ERA)
Essentially replacing Nathan Eovaldi's spot in the rotation for the time being, Chad Green did an excellent job in his second career start against the Padres, holding them to one run in six innings, to go along with eight K's. Due to Eovaldi's profound struggles, Green could keep a rotation spot with another good start.
Although the he has struggled to regain the Cy-Young form he had two years ago, Kluber still shows flashes of dominance. His inconsistency has been disappointing, but he still goes late into games and strikes out many hitters. Heading into the series, he ranks fifth among AL pitchers in strikeouts with 114 in 114 IP, which is second in the AL. The Yankees offense has struggled with strikeout pitchers, so this will be a difficult matchup in game 2.
Game 3 (Saturday, July 9 at 4:10 PM ET): C.C. Sabathia (5-6, 3.48 ERA) vs. Danny Salazar (10-3, 2.36 ERA)
In the midst of a bounce back season, Sabathia has been a solid number two pitcher for the Yankees. After taking a break from baseball at the end of last season due to alcohol problems, he has found success. Despite a strong showing for most of the season, he has struggled lately allowing 16 earned runs in 17.1 innings of work over his past three starts. This start will be crucial for Sabathia, especially against All-Star Danny Salazar.
Danny Salazar has broken out this season, being the Indians' best starter and arguably the best in the AL. In the first half of this season, he is first in ERA, sixth in strikeouts, and tied for fourth in wins. Opponents are batting just .195 against him, good for 2nd in the AL. The Yankees offense will have trouble getting anything going against this ace.
Game 4 (Sunday, July 10 at 1:10 PM ET): Masahiro Tanaka (6-2, 3.12 ERA) vs. Carlos Carrasco (5-2, 2.47 ERA)
The Yankees' ace has had his ups and downs again in this 2016 season. He has stayed surprisingly healthy and has produced quality results. Although still not as good as his rookie season, Tanaka has produced a quality start in seven of his last nine starts and a team-leading 11 overall on the season.
Plagued by a hamstring injury early in the season, Carrasco has been dominant when on the mound. He has an incredible 0.68 ERA over his past 26.2 IP (three and a half starts), while facing Detroit's elite offense twice and Toronto's high-octane lineup once. A key part of Cleveland's incredible all-around rotation, he has often been overlooked by fans and teams around the league.
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3 players to watch for the Yankees:
1. Brian McCann - Unlike many other Yankee veterans, McCann has stayed relatively healthy the past few seasons. He has provided the Yankees with his reliable catching behind the plate and superb power. This season hasn't gone as planned thus far. Just a few weeks ago, he was fighting to stay above the Mendoza line.
2. Didi Gregorius - Acquired from Arizona in the 2014 offseason, Didi has turned into one of the better shortstops in the AL. He was always considered to be good with the glove, but this season he has shown a good average and surprise bursts of power, as he has a .293 average and nine home runs thus far. He, like McCann, has been on a tear lately so it'll be interesting to see if it continues against one of the best pitching staffs in the MLB.
3. Nathan Eovaldi - If you haven't heard, Eovaldi has been sent to the bullpen. Like Nova, he has fallen off incredibly since a good start to the season. He has continued to struggle to put guys away with two strikes and has an incredibly high WHIP of 1.41. Along with his high WHIP, his ERA is also well above 5.00. It'll be interesting to see if he gets any action coming out of the pen in this series. If he finds a rhythm there, it could be a spot he stays in for the rest of the season. It also depends greatly on how youngster Chad Green pitches in his start.
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3 players to watch for the Indians:
1. Francisco Lindor - Lindor has built off of his strong rookie season, making him one of the top shortstops in the game. Selected as a 2016 All-Star in this year's Midsummer Classic, he has been a steady presence in the three hole for Cleveland, with his stellar defense, above-average power, and threat on the base paths with 13 stolen bases. A former top-prospect, Lindor has started living up to those expectations and has rose to stardom.
2. Mike Napoli - In the offseason, Napoli's acquisition was considered an afterthought. A guy who showed diminishing power, below-average defense, and a consistently bad batting average, Cleveland fans weren't thrilled at the thought of Napoli batting in the everyday lineup for the Tribe. Instead, he has experienced a bounce back season, showing the power he's always been known for and being a veteran presence in the clubhouse. Despite being on pace to finish with the third-most strikeouts in MLB history, he has been a huge contribution to Cleveland currently being first in the AL Central.
3. Tyler Naquin - Once a first-round pick by the Indians, Naquin has struggled to get going in the pros since being drafted. His first few seasons were disappointing compared to the expectations raised by many fans. After finally getting it going in the minors in 2014 and 2015, both seasons were cut short due to injuries. Then, this year, he has gotten a chance in the majors and has produced very good numbers in center field. In 147 ABs, he has produced an average of .320, along with seven HRs and 19 RBIs. Not only has he had a huge impact on the team, but he has helped Cleveland fans forget about the severe right shoulder injury to Michael Brantley and Marlon Byrd's 162-game suspension for PED use. With both players sidelined, many counted this team out and figured their average offense had just gotten even worse. Naquin has been an essential piece to the Indians offense.
Two keys to victory for the Yankees
1. Success from the middle inning relievers or length from starters: For the past few seasons, the Yankees have used an unusually inconsistent bullpen. The rotation hasn't been much better. Other than no run DMC at the backend of the bullpen, no reliever can be counted on consistently. Constantly calling guys up and sending them down, the Yankees have stuck to the principle of using the freshest arms. Due to this strategy, many of these relievers can't to find a rhythm in the big leagues. The success of these relievers is crucial to the outcome of each and every Yankee game.
2. Hit well with runners in scoring positions: This Yankee team is consistently bad with runners in scoring position. They're second in all of baseball with a .227 average in these situations. This is horribly bad considering this is where most of your runs are scored. The first step in order for the Yankees to be an above-average team is to hit better with runners in scoring position. Their lack of discipline at the plate is evident in these situations and if they want a series win in Cleveland, they must do this better.
With the Indians coming off a recent 14 game winning streak and having the second best record in the AL, I think all Yankee fans would be fine with splitting the series. The Indians possess one of the better starting pitching staffs in the majors, which will likely be a problem for the Yankees' inconsistent offense. They also have a solid mix of savvy veterans and shining young players on offense. The first two games give major advantages to the Indians, with the last two featuring good pitching match ups. In the first series between the two teams this season, the Yankees will drop three out of four in Cleveland, avoiding a sweep in the series finale.
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Former Mississippi News Anchor Claims News Station Fired Her After Giving Birth And Embracing Her Natural Hair
She was told her natural hair was unprofessional.
Ricky Riley
| January 14 2019,
A journalist terminated from a local news station claimed the station banned her natural hair and racially discriminated against her while on the job.
Former WJTV This Morning co-anchor Brittany Noble-Jones wrote in a detailed Medium post about her time working for the Mississippi news station.
Yahoo Lifestyle reports Noble-Jones claimed she was pushed out of the company when station executives found out she was pregnant. Stories she pitched were often passed over; her natural hair became an issue, and she was often subjected to racial discrimination.
In 2015, the anchor from St. Louis was hired to co-anchor the morning news program. Everything seemed fine until she received criticism for a March 2016 promo.
The station boss reportedly told her she was full of herself, but Noble-Jones received no other examples of what she did wrong. Then, her story pitches were denied at an abnormal rate; she began to be treated differently than her colleagues and was not allowed to attend events.
While speaking to Yahoo Lifestyle, the 32-year-old explained that she initially neglected to tell her bosses she was pregnant. Three months into her pregnancy, Noble-Jones finally made the announcement.
"After announcing that I was pregnant, I was no longer included in commercials," she wrote on Medium. "I felt the need to starve myself to fit in. I now weigh only 108 pounds. I did eat while I was pregnant and while carrying my son and postpartum. I wasn't allowed to represent the station and my events were given away to another white reporter."
The station allegedly did not give her breaks to pump milk once returning to work.
Noble-Jones also decided not to wear a wig and embrace her natural hair to inspire young Black girls to follow suit. However, her natural hair was called unprofessional. She made complaints about the pushback, but the target on her back only grew. In her Medium post, she said there was a station policy that did not allow her to appear on TV with another Black anchor.
"I was told my natural hair is unprofessional and the equivalent to him throwing on a baseball cap to go to the grocery store. He said, 'Mississippi viewers needed to see a beauty queen.' He even asked, 'why my hair doesn't lay flat.'"
And after all of that, things escalated even more.
After using accrued sick days to look after her ailing grandfather, she was fired in 2018. In April, Noble-Jones took her complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Times have been difficult for her, but she has made due. Noble-Jones currently works for Michael Kors and freelances on the side.
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Back to School week has been a success! Lucy is loving second grade. Henry is loving having his mama to himself and I'm loving having a routine!!
Below are our happenings through the week.
Julie and I hosted our 3rd back to school brunch!
Lucy's second day of school outfit!
(My sister texted me and said Emma Grace wore the same outfit on day 2).
Henry's face cracks me up!
Sweet Boy after a full day at the pool! I don't usually let him nap during the day because I'd rather him go to bed early but we had tee-ball practice and I didn't want him to be a grump!
The coach would ask the kids which way was first base and all the kids would point towards 1st base! Except for mine and he would point towards 3rd base.... We will work on that!
I've been working on tidying up. That book really is life-changing. Especially for someone with hoarding tendencies. I hold on to stuff that I think I might need, someone gave me, or things that I've just had forever. I've learned that I don't have to keep that stuff. I just recycle it or give it away! It has been so freeing! I threw away Christmas Cards yesterday! That was a big step for me.
So, I've started on paper. Yes, I know it's messy.... This is real life, sir. So I turned on a JamieIvey podcast and got to work.
We ended day 3 with a snowcone!
That's it. That is our week!


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