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Umatilla National Forest
Three designated wilderness areas exist on the Umatilla National Forest: the Wenaha-Tucannon, the North Fork Umatilla, and the North Fork John Day. These areas are unique because they are unlike many wilderness areas. The Umatilla's wilderness radiates down into steep gorges and canyons from high plateaus instead of upward to high peaks and alpine lakes. This unusual terrain offers a unique wilderness experience!
Wild and Scenic Rivers
Established by Congress from 1975 to 1988 these rivers were selected for their outstandingly remarkable values such as recreational, wildlife, historic, cultural or other similar values.
The Umatilla National Forest has two designated wild and scenic rivers for your floating, fishing or hiking activities.
Highlighted Areas
Fremont Power House Interpretive Site
In the mid and late 1800s, the North Fork John Day drainage was bustling with gold and silver mining. In the rush, mining towns popped up here and there, only to be left to ruin as the mining dwindled. The nearby town of Granite is one such ghost town, with weathered buildings and the graves of prospectors and pioneers who came to seek their fortunes.
In 1903, local mines began to notice a decline in earnings and promoted construction of a cheaper power source in an effort to operate the mines more economically. As a result, the Fremont Powerhouse was constructed and began operation in 1908. Two dams were constructed at Olive Lake and water from the lake was piped through an eight-mile-long wood and steel pipeline to the powerhouse to generate the much needed electricity. A large portion of the building collapsed in 1992 under a heavy snow load. The Oregon National Guard, led by retired Command Sergeant Major Joe Batty, reconstructed the powerhouse and cabins from 1999 through 2005. The powerhouse contains pictures and artifacts from a bygone era. There is a local caretaker who gives tours when he is on site.
Kelly Prairie
The prairie is located along the Blue Mountain Scenic Byway and offers spectacular displays of wildflowers in the spring. This site is minimally developed, with only a parking area. There are no informational signs or other facilities.
Olive Lake Campground
Nestled on the edge of a lake, high in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon, this popular campground is only 8 miles west of the historic Fremont Powerhouse and 12 miles west of the old mining town of Granite. The campground features 28 campsites and 7 accessible toilet facilities. Other features include a 2-mile hiking trail around the lake with nearby access to wilderness and scenic area trails, a boat ramp and 2 docks. There is no potable water or garbage service, so please pack your garbage home.
Besides beautiful scenery, the lake offers many opportunities for wildlife viewing--particularly a nesting pair of osprey that return annually. Activities in this area include fishing, boating, swimming, hiking, hunting, and photography. Within 20 miles are several historic sites.
Campground Map
Ray Ridge Viewpoint
This viewpoint offers an unobstructed view of 95% of the Wenaha -Tucannon Wilderness.
Mountain Road #40
This road is closed to wheeled traffic from Dec. 1 thru March 31 each year. This is the time that it is a designated snow mobile trail and is groomed on a regular basis. This trail begins at the forest boundary on Mountain Road #40 and ends at Mount Misery. The groomed section along Mountain Road #40 is well maintained for snowmobiles, cross-country skiers, and other snow enthusiasts. The trail is characterized by a double groom width for easier passage, well-marked trail signs along the route, and generally follows along at a gentle incline from the Boundary to Mount Misery. The trail does narrow on the bypass behind Sunset Point.
Whitman Route Interpretive Site
Users will be introduced to an interpretive display on the Marcus and Narcissa Whitman route to their future mission located near Walla Walla, Washington. The overlook offers a panoramic view into Meacham Creek Canyon. This interpretive site is barrier free and nice for picnicking.
Blue Mountain Scenic Byway
The Blue Mountain Scenic Byway, designated in 1989 under the National Scenic Byway Program, allows east-west travelers an alternative route between the Columbia River near Arlington and Baker City, Oregon. This scenic byway covers 130 miles of paved, two-lane road, crossing Morrow and Umatilla counties in northeast Oregon, with a long segment of the byway traversing the Umatilla National Forest.
Blue Mountain Scenic Byway Brochure
See also: Blue Mountain Scenic Byway Points of Interest
Table Rock Lookout
Table Rock offers spectacular and unmatched views of the surrounding terrain. To the west is the Mill Creek Watershed, municipal water source for the City of Walla Walla, Washington, and eastward lies the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness. On the narrow ridgeline separating these two rugged areas is the Kendall Skyline Road (Forest Service Road 64).
Vinegar Hill/Indian Rock Scenic Area
This scenic area is located on the southernmost portion of the Umatilla National Forest adjacent to the North Fork John Day Wilderness. It covers over 25,000 acres, including the highest elevation point on the Forest: Vinegar Hill at 8,100 feet. The major attraction of this area, aside from hunting opportunities, is the splendid 360-degree vista available from several high elevation viewpoints. Hiking in grassy, open alpine areas and subalpine trees provide a scenic and unusual contrast from the adjacent forested areas.
Stahl Canyon Overlook
The overlook, located on Forest Service Road 21, offers a panoramic view of the canyon and beyond to the northwest. Big game use this canyon as a travelway, and raptors are often seen soaring overhead.
Clearwater Big House Cabin
Clearwater Big House Cabin is neatly placed on a gently rolling slope in a clearing planted with a younger generation of Christmas trees in the area. The Cabin's location may give the feel of being a winter chalet hideaway, even during the warmest months of the summer. This two-story comfort cabin lives up to its name. Expansively, with 868 square feet of living space on the first floor, and another 336 square feet upstairs, there are three bedrooms, a living room, and a kitchen.
Cabin lodging is furnished with propane heating and lighting, a table set, a propane cook stove, a propane refrigerator, along with queen, full, and twin beds. Renters will need to bring sleeping bags and/or bedding. Renters are also encouraged to bring their personal cooking and eating utensils for their stay. There is one nearby vault toilet that it is operational year- round.
At this time, there is no water at this site; therefore renters will need to bring a supply of water for drinking, cooking, and washing.
Do call the Pomeroy Ranger District three business days before your arrival date to receive a combination for cabin access. Pomeroy Ranger District's phone number is (509) 843-1891 and we are open Monday through Friday, 7:45 AM to 4:30 PM.
Availability: Clearwater Big House Cabin is available for rent year-round.
Clearwater Big House Cabin was once a ranger station and once a deep-rooted trapper cabin. In 1928 and 1929, Ranger Grover Blake built a three-room house out of scrap lumber donated by local stockmen and game department. In 1933, 200 Civilian Conservation Corps' men, whom were staying at the district, built the barn, warehouse, outhouse, and garage.
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) - Students at Longfellow Middle School want to see changes.
They've identified the intersection of 20th & Denton and 20th & Redfield streets as an area posing major safety concerns.
"We saw maybe ten cars and seven of those cars had people on their phones, not paying attention," said 7th grade student Lilly Ackerman.
Students conducted a survey at the school and found 72 percent of the kids who responded, have had a near miss incident with a car.
They decided in order to see changes, they first needed to do their research. They started tracking how fast cars were traveling near the intersection and counting the number of cars.
Presenting to the Board of Public Works on Monday, students asked for new stop and speed limit signs to be put up near the school.
"Them approving it will hopefully mean that they'll come soon and get the problem fixed in the spring hopefully," Ackerman said.
Longfellow 7th grade teacher Jeanne Halderson says she's proud of her students for doing their research, and creating change.
"You know as a teacher, this is a dream come true. To watch kids get this excited about something."
A motion was made by city council members to approve removal of a stop sign at 22nd & Denton and switch the orientation of the two stop signs located at 21st and 22nd of Redfield, from north-south stops to east-west.


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New Look at Aging Video Series
Everyone has heard Canada's population is changing. What does this mean in our day-to-day lives and what does it mean for our futures? How do we respond to social issues like finances, health care, careers, retirement and housing? As well, as the population ages, new business opportunities are becoming apparent. In addition, there will be more career opportunities for people working in the field of gerontology.
How to Assist With Medications (DVD)
This program teaches unlicensed home care personnel how to assist with medications and remain within their scope of practice.
How to Manage Medications DVD (Developed for Primary & Family Caregivers) DVD
This program teaches primary and family caregivers safe practices for administering and storing various types of medications.
Assisting The Resident With Self-Administration Of Medication
This important program reviews the role of the nursing assistant in assisting residents with self-medication and addresses the most common routes of administration. This program is designed for Assisted Living Facilities and Nursing Homes.
Assisting With Medications DVD (Developed for Unlicensed Home Care Personnel)
Mental Health Nursing Complete 5 DVD Series
Mental Health Nursing Complete 5 DVD Series2
Follow along with this series of vignettes where nurses interact with clients experiencing a wide range of mental health challenges. In each situation there are two scenarios, the novice scenario helps students to see and anticipate some of the more common errors that a student nurse may make when first dealing with these clients.
New Look At Aging: Use It Or Lose It (DVD)
Heart disease, cancer, arthritis and osteoporosis - are these diseases preventable? Many experts believe so. If someone has a chronic illness what can be done to improve their quality of life? What can baby boomers do to support their parents who are living with these conditions? Focusing on people who have chronic illnesses and addressing current knowledge about chronic illnesses as well as how people with these illnesses continue to live successfully.
Keys to Getting Hired for Job Seekers over 50: Ace the Interview and Get the Job - Video
Research, practice, and preparation are essential for interview success. This video will help your clients master these important steps and know what to expect in different types of interviews. Career coaches and former job seekers share strategies to help your clients prepare for interviews, make a great first impression, and convince employers they are the right person to hire.
New Look at Aging: Journey to 100 - Video
New Look at Aging: LIving Every Day - Video
People understand more and more the importance of maintaining their health. A look at the components that contribute to healthy living, utilizing Health Canada's Key Determinants of Health--income and social status, social support networks, education and literacy, social environments, physical environments, etc. Profiles people living active healthy retirements and inspiring us, regardless of our age, to really live the lives we desire.
New Look at Aging: Myths of Aging - Video
We all have ideas of what aging means. Most people think of aging as a negative thing in which we lose our memory, our sight and our hearing. Most of the time aging means we can't get around, we can't sleep and sex isn't even a possibility. Many of these common ideas are myths and there are many things we can do to avoid and reduce these common myths of aging.
New Look at Aging: Attitude is Everything - Video
Keeping a healthy outlook on life is critical as we age. By using current research and personal stories, this program will focus on the importance of family, friends and the support systems we need as we age. At this stage of our lives and our parents' lives, a sense of loss is normal. Friends and family die, and on top of the emotional turmoil, other monumental changes can occur. Dramatic changes in health, housing and income can also have significant impacts on our mental well-being. How do we cope with these losses and how do we support loved ones going through challenging times?
New Look at Aging: Club Sandwich Generation - Video
See the effects of aging on family members. Takes an in-depth look at family dynamics and aging. How do siblings make difficult decisions about and for their aging parents? Often one sibling takes on more responsibilities, which leads to other problems and concerns among the siblings and other family members. Current research on aging families and support systems will be explored as well as personal stories.
Master Library for Caregiver Training
The Master Library for Caregiver Training contains all of our Caregiver Training DVD's. This comprehensive caregiver training program provides the highest value for caregivers.
Caring for Aging Parents - The Growing Challenge of Caring for a Loved One: Parenting your Parents - Dealing with Alzheimers - Facing Death
Parenting Your Parents: Having to care for a dependent parent, usually in their later years, is a situation many adults face at some point - often when they're raising their own children.
Attack From Within: Living With Arthritis (DVD)
Animated illustrations provide a dynamic schematic of the disease and take us for a ride through the human body to witness the origin, progression and treatment of the disease.
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Realizing 10x Throughput While Driving Down Costs, with Linkerd
Entain Australia, a leading sports betting and gaming company, used Linkerd to tame gRPC. Within several months, the organization reduced max server load by over 50% and increased request capacity by tenfold, all while getting more nights of uninterrupted sleep.
Backdrop: When latency costs money
Entain is a leading global sports betting and gaming company. It operates iconic brands, including Ladbrokes, Coral, BetMGM, bwin, Sportingbet, Eurobet, partypoker, partycasino, Gala, and Foxy Bingo. The company is listed on the FTSE 100, has licenses in more than 20 countries, and employs a global workforce of more than 24,000 people.
For Entain, speed is everything. Latency literally costs money, especially when you're on the other side of the planet to most of the games taking place. When Messi scores in Barcelona, the data must be processed by its pricing management systems within milliseconds.
To tackle this immense challenge, Entain Australia built a data feed processing platform on modern, cloud native technologies including Kubernetes, gRPC, containers, and a microservices approach. These tools allowed the company to build a high-performance, reliable, and scalable system—but it wasn't perfect.
Initially, the interaction between Kubernetes and gRPC around load balancing caused some parts of the system to run "hot" while other parts ran "cold". This disrupted the customer experience, creating financial risk if the updates slowed down, and too many sleepless nights for the team.
Linkerd – Taming gRPC for Entain Australia
Entain Australia's Trading Solutions Team is responsible for handling the immense amount of data that comes into the business, managing the pricing systems, and making results available to the rest of the platform as quickly as possible.
Hosted on Kubernetes, Entain's Australian sports trading platform consists of approximately 300 microservices with over 3,000 pods per cluster in multiple geographic regions.
Handling thousands of requests per second, the platform updates the prices and status for live and upcoming sports and racing events. Any delay in processing, even a small one, impacts revenue, user experience, and price accuracy. For instance, a latency hit could have massive consequences. Why? To generate revenue Entain relies on sports prices based on the probability of an outcome and the user experience must be as real-time as feasible. You can't place bets on events that you already know the result of!
A critical challenge for the Trading Solutions Team was that their environment is constantly changing. Despite running the infrastructure 24x7, engineers use AWS spot instances to keep costs low. Chaos engineering tools and practices also ensure a resilient platform and applications. "With nodes coming and going, we needed a way to ensure reliable application performance, despite all the changes under the hood," said Steve Gray, Entain Australia's Head of Trading Solutions.
"Although our developers were quick to seize on the efficiency and reliability gains provided by microservices and gRPC, the default load balancing in Kubernetes didn't give us the best performance out-of-the-box and left us in a position where all requests from one pod in service would end up going to a single pod on another service," explained Gray.
While this approach worked, it had two negative effects on the platform. First, servers had to be exceptionally large to accommodate huge traffic volumes. Second, the team couldn't make use of horizontal scaling. This prevented Entain from taking advantage of the available spot instances while still processing a high volume of requests in a timely manner.
Another issue was a lack of intelligent routing. To hit its ambitious availability targets, the company spans Kubernetes clusters across multiple AWS AZs (availability zones), ensuring no one AZ is a single point of failure for the platform.
"For more casual Kubernetes users this isn't a problem," said Gray. "But at Entain's scale and request volume, cross-AZ traffic began to represent a tangible source of both latency and cost. Data that needlessly crossed an AZ boundary would slow down performance of the platform and incur additional charges from AWS."
To help address these issues, Gray's team began looking into a service mesh approach. After considering a variety of solutions, they chose Linkerd, the lightweight, ultra-fast service mesh.
Why Linkerd? Turnkey, easy, and it just works
Linkerd stood out for several reasons.
First, Gray's team needed a mesh that was Kubernetes-native and would work with their current architecture without having to introduce a large number of new custom resource definitions or force a restructuring of its applications or environments.
Second, the team lacked the bandwidth to learn the ins and outs of a complicated system. "Linkerd was ideal because it is easy to get up and running and requires little overhead," said Gray. "It took us five to six hours to install and configure and migrate 300 services to the mesh. It's just the go-get-command and then the install process, and job done! It's that simple. We installed it and have rarely had to touch it since—it just works."
Gray's team also found the Linkerd Slack community and Linkerd's docs to be extremely helpful as they moved into production—a process that happened overnight.
With Linkerd, the technology and business gains came quickly
Once Linkerd had finished rolling out to all the Kubernetes pods, the Linkerd proxy took over routing requests between instances. This allowed the trading platform to immediately route traffic away from pods that were failing or being spun down.
Immediate improvements in load balancing were also realized. Linkerd's gRPC-aware load balancing immediately fixed the issues with gRPC load balancing on Kubernetes and started balancing requests properly across all destination pods.
This allowed Gray's team to achieve two key business gains. "We increased the volume of requests the platform could handle by over tenfold and now use horizontal scaling to add more smaller pods to a service," explained Gray. "The latter gave us access to a broader range of AWS spot instances so that we could further drive down our compute costs—while delivering better performance to our users."
In that same vein, Gray realized an unexpected side benefit. Kubernetes' load balancing natively chooses endpoints in a round-robin fashion, basically rotating through an endpoint list, distributing load. It's an arbitrary process sending requests to any node on a cluster without considering latency, saturation, or proximity to the calling service.
With Linkerd, however, proxies consider all potential endpoints and select the "optimal" traffic target based on an exponentially weighted moving average or EWMA of latency. When the team introduced Linkerd to its clusters they began to see faster response times and lower cross-AZ traffic costs. The service mesh's built-in EWMA routing algorithm automatically keeps more traffic inside an AZ, cutting bandwidth costs by thousands of dollars a day. All without Entain's platform team needing to configure anything!
"The difference was night and day," said Gray. "Our applications began spreading the load evenly between application instances and response times went down. We could see it right away in our monitoring. The bandwidth decreased and the CPU just leveled out everywhere—an improvement across the board. We were so excited; we were literally jumping around. With Linkerd, we went from a fraction of our servers going flat out at their line speed (20gbit/s) to an even balance, with no server hitting above 9gbit/s sustained. Linkerd really made a difference."
Linkerd day-to-day—runs like a utility service
Within a week of trying Linkerd, Entain Australia was able to take it into large-scale and highly performant Kubernetes clusters. The trading solutions team now runs over 3,000 pods in a single namespace in Kubernetes—a massive deployment that usually requires a team to manage. Yet only one person manages the entire infrastructure.
As Gray explained: "We've adopted Linkerd without needing to become experts in service meshes or any particular proxy. In fact, Linkerd just sits in the background and does its job. It's like with the electricity or water supply. When it's working well, we really don't think about it and just enjoy the benefits of having electricity."
Linkerd has met all of Entain's needs while keeping it really simple. It solved the gRPC load balancing problems and augmented standard Kubernetes constructs in a way that allowed Gray and his team to move forward without reconfiguring applications. "It solved our problems including some of those we didn't realize we had."
Entain never stops taking bets (and the team can sleep again)
Everything that Gray's team does goes back to reliability, availability, scalability, and cost reduction or control. That what matters and by which they measure everything. Whenever there is a service or application failure and Entain stops taking bets, their business suffers a direct financial impact. "We have to make sure that we're available, reliable, and rock-solid and Linkerd is a part of our strategy for achieving that," said Gray.
"Because of Linkerd, we've been able to easily increase the platform capacity by over 10x, reduce operating costs, and better hit our availability targets—while continuing to iterate on our business differentiators."
Linkerd also helped the team from a personal standpoint: they finally get to sleep again. "No more being woken up in the middle of the night is perhaps the most valuable feature of the service mesh."


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Pace Updates Threaten Two Local Bus Routes
Pace bus riders will lose access to routes serving Northbrook Court and Glenbrook Hospital, under proposed changes recently announced by the suburban transportation provider. Pace plans to eliminate Route 210, connecting Glenbrook Hospital to the Glenview Metra train station and points south to Lincolnwood, and cut the portion of Route 422 connecting Northbrook Court to the Glenview train station and points east to Wilmette.
Public hearings will be held in February to collect community feedback on the following dates:
Monday, February 3, 4:00-6:00 p.m. at the Niles-Maine District Library
Wednesday, February 5, 3:30-5:30 p.m. at the Northbrook Public Library
Tuesday, February 11, 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the Levy Senior Center in Evanston
Tuesday, February 18, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. at the Wilmette Public Library.
Written comments may be submitted until February 18 to public.hearings@pacebus.com. Visit PaceBus.com for more information.


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Why the NES is Still My Favorite
It has been over 25 years since I first dragged my parents to the toy store to buy a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), but I still have fond memories of the front-loading machine that used mostly gray cartridges and did not use a joystick controller.
A Simple Design With Some Complexities
It offered a simple design with controllers that was shaped like a brick. Offering a button layout with "A" and "B" button, along with Select and Start buttons and a joypad with four directions, which were Up, Down, Left and Right. Other controller-like accessories that were commonplace for use with some of the more popular games were a light gun, a pad that would sense by requiring the use of your feet and a glove that also offered a modified controller over the wrist pad. The light gun was known as the Zapper, which was most famously used for the Duck Hunt game. The floor pad was known as the Power Pad and was used for dancing, fitness and track and field games. The glove accessory was the Power Glove, which attempted to use hand movement as the primary controller of the game and a controller pad as a secondary control device. Though only a couple of games were ever released specifically for the Power Glove, it was a significant advancement from the point of a joystick and a button. Arguably, the most enjoyable accessory was a robot known as R.O.B., who was limited in its usage, but it became an iconic part of the Nintendo legacy because it created such a physical connection to the human user.
It's Gotta Be the Games!
What Nintendo always did better than previous systems up to that point was offering a vast library of high-quality games. There were many different types of genres, from role-playing to action to sports, the games would get better by the day and the options to play different games were into the hundreds. Some of the Nintendo characters became cult heroes, such as Mario, Luigi and Yoshi of the Mario Bros. Series. The legend of Mike Tyson grew because of Mike Tyson's Punch Out because many of his fights were on Pay Television and were not seen by may of the game's fans, such as myself. Even quite a few references have become popular in 1980's pop culture, such as the 30 lives codes from Contra, one of the best two-player games that the NES offered.
Many will say that Nintendo saved the home video game business, but with all of the new consoles that have made that thought a memory, I will always have a soft spot from the first console that brought me joy and excitement for many days.
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Bushist Ideology Runs Rampant Over Any Sense Whatsoever
The front page of the Washington Post today reports that the current US Transportation Secretary, Susan Peters, has thrown up impossible barriers to allowing the US government to provide $900 million out of an estimated $5 billion to extend a metro line from Washington through now-unserved Tyson's Corner to the area's main airport, Dulles International, far west of town. This project has been in the planning for 40 years, is supported by local politicians in all jurisdictions of both parties, plus local business people, would help the environment, reduce congestion, and end the absurdity of Washington being the only major capital city in the world from which an international traveler cannot get to downtown from its main airport by public transport. As it is, there is a monopoly on transport for the Washington Flyer, and one hears announcements over the loudspeakers asking people to report to the police anybody daring to offer one a cab or other kind of ride out of Dulles not from Washington Flyer, the only "approved" transport from the airport.
This decision is totally and utterly ideological, with Peters being an advocate of paid toll roads, automobile uber alles. Those involved in the negotiations have complained of "goal posts constantly being moved" with the various local governments having jumped through endless hoops to satisfy the DOT. This is one more sign of how much damage Bush can still do to US society and economy in the year he still has to remain in office as president, and given his appointments to the Supreme Court, for decades to come. (I am not against congestion tolls as are in place in London and Singapore, but those places provide good metro transport from their airports as well)
Posted by rosserjb@jmu.edu at 5:01 PM
rosserjb@jmu.edu said...
A correction. The name of the Secretary of Transportation is Mary Peters. Also, the actual announcement came from her underling, James S. Simpson, Director of the Federal Transportion Agency. Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia reports that in the final meeting on Thursday, Simpson and his people were raising new objections that had not been raised previously, hence all the talk of "moving goalposts." However, all concerned see Simpson as simply mirroring the views of Peters, who is openly against public funding for mass transit infrastructure.
"This is one more sign of how much damage Bush can still do to US society and economy in the year he still has to remain in office as president"
I tremendously underestimated the damage Bush Co. was capable of his first term in office, even as much as I disagreed with his ideology. I'm surprised anyone is still making that mistake.
Myrtle Blackwood said...
I wonder why Norman Mineta, the previous US Secretary of Transportation resigned. And I also wonder why the Washington Post presented a totally different version of Mineta's evidence given at the 911 Commission?
"September 11
During the September 11, 2001 attacks, Mineta issued an order to ground all civilian aircraft traffic for the first time in U.S. history.
Mineta's testimony to the 9/11 Commission about his experience in the Presidential Emergency Operating Center with vice president Cheney as American Airlines flight 77 approached the Pentagon was not included in the 9/11 Commission Report, however it has attracted attention for its content.
There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, 'The plane is 50 miles out. The plane is 30 miles out.' And when it got down to, 'The plane is 10 miles out,' the young man also said to the vice president, 'Do the orders still stand?' And the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said, 'Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?' Well, at the time I didn't know what all that meant. And...
– Norman Mineta,
Mineta's testimony to the Commission on Flight 77 differs rather significantly from the account provided in the January 22, 2002 edition of the Washington Post, as reported by Bob Woodward and Dan Balz in their series "10 Days in September":
" 9:32 a.m.
The Vice President in Washington: Underground, in Touch With Bush
Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta, summoned by the White House to the bunker, was on an open line to the Federal Aviation Administration operations center, monitoring Flight 77 as it hurtled toward Washington, with radar tracks coming every seven seconds. Reports came that the plane was 50 miles out, 30 miles out, 10 miles out-until word reached the bunker that there had been an explosion at the Pentagon.
Mineta shouted into the phone to Monte Belger at the FAA: "Monte, bring all the planes down." It was an unprecedented order-there were 4,546 airplanes in the air at the time. Belger, the FAA's acting deputy administrator, amended Mineta's directive to take into account the authority vested in airline pilots. "We're bringing them down per pilot discretion," Belger told the secretary.
"[Expletive] pilot discretion," Mineta yelled back. "Get those goddamn planes down."
Sitting at the other end of the table, Cheney snapped his head up, looked squarely at Mineta and nodded in agreement.
—Dan Balz and Bob Woodward, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42754-2002Jan26_3.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mineta
For what it is worth, Mineta was the token Democrat in Bush's cabinet in his first term, indeed I think the only one he has had in his cabinet at all in either term. Usually most presidents will have somebody from the other party in their cabinet pretty much all the time.
John Emerson said...
I just took a long trip. From the Portland airport to town, $15.00 (could have been $1.90). From the Minneapolis airport to town, $1.50. From Manhattan to Kennedy airport, $13.00. From DC to NYC by bus, $20.
Dulles to DC, $55.00. Unbelievable.
There must be a Senator behind this.
Not a senator. A president and his Secretary of Transportation and Director of Federal Transportation Agency, playing ideolgoical games. People in Northern Virginia are simply stunned by this. It is coming out that businesses and households have spent millions of dollars preparing for this metro line. Of course the FTA/DOT people are not counting benefits of reduced air pollution or traffic congestion or any of it. This is one of the stupidest and least defensible things I have seen coming out of an administration that has generated one hell of a lot of such stupid and indefensible things.
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Thank you Sofia for a magical evening last night at the Bulgarian Army Theatre! We are sad to leave you, hope to be back soon again. Even though we loved playing Cinemascope music for u, the nachspiel in the theatre basement after our gig might be the highlight of our little Balkan adventure. Here's our new friend Theodoosi Spassov rocking the kaval together with our fellow scandies Mats Eilertsen and Per Oddvar Johansen. Nasdrave!


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At Volkswagen, a Scandal Where Executives Could Pay the Price
Story By Jeffrey Rothfeder | The New Yorker
At the Detroit Auto Show last week, Volkswagen hoped to escape the present with a nod to the past, introducing a revamped version of its iconic flat-faced, boxy Microbus, the vehicle that shepherded the counterculture across the interstates some five decades ago. The bus's reincarnation is a battery-propelled, self-driving vehicle called ID Buzz. But nostalgic wing-vent windows and chrome trim could not distract from the company's current predicament. Barely had the auto show kicked off when the Justice Department announced that VW had pleaded guilty to criminal and civil charges related to its efforts to cheat on U.S. emissions standards.
The company agreed to pay $4.3 billion in penalties, the largest fine ever levied by the U.S. government on an auto company, dwarfing both Toyota's $1.2-billion settlement for vehicle-safety problems involving unintended acceleration and GM's nine-hundred-million-dollar settlement for ignition-switch defects. This new penalty was on top of the $14.7-billion settlement that VW signed, in July, to cover customers' class-action suits. In addition, six Volkswagen executives have been charged with running a decade-long scheme to rig VW diesel engines with so-called defeat devices, which made engines appear to satisfy U.S. emission standards when they were actually spewing more pollutants than allowed, and then to hide their actions from regulators. The executives who were charged headed up engine development, quality control, and regulatory affairs. Oliver Schmidt, who led emissions compliance in the U.S., was taken into custody in Miami, earlier this month; the other five are said to be in Germany, where they likely must remain in order to avoid arrest.
The case stems from a strategic shift at VW in 2007, when Martin Winterkorn, who was then the C.E.O., implemented an aggressive growth directive meant to push Volkswagen past General Motors and Toyota as the leader in global auto sales by 2018. This would be accomplished, in part, by selling many more so-called clean-diesel vehicles, which at the time were believed to deliver better fuel economy than gasoline with lower emissions and high performance. The company saw its biggest clean-diesel opportunity in the large U.S. market, where it had minimal penetration at the time.
But when VW executives and other employees realized that their diesel engines would not meet U.S. air-quality standards and that the cars would likely be barred from the market, they created a workaround in the form of software programmed to reduce emissions only when the vehicle was undergoing a standard U.S. emissions test. When on the open road, the car would perform normally—that is, it would emit more pollution but perform better in other respects.
Much of the government's evidence came from the testimony of James Robert Liang—a VW engine designer who helped write the software fix and pleaded guilty, in September, to conspiring to defraud regulators—as well as from internal documents and memos turned over by Volkswagen. On the face of it, the e-mails and descriptions of interactions among VW executives that prosecutors have released so far are pretty damning. In one example, according to the complaint, in May, 2014, a VW employee included Schmidt, the compliance officer, on a group e-mail saying that the Environmental Protection Agency had apparently found out about the emissions problems. Schmidt's response to this open discussion about the deceptive device was quick and to the point: "Are you crazy? Recall the email."
Although the six co-conspirators are upper-tier managers, none is on VW's board, leading to objections that the company's top executives are walking away unscathed. However, U.S. prosecutors have said that more indictments are possible as additional evidence is unearthed, and German legislators plan to question Winterkorn, who resigned soon after the scandal came to light. German prosecutors also have a separate investigation under way into the automaker's activities.
Read the full article at The New Yorker
Jeffrey Rothfeder is a former editor-in-chief of the International Business Times and a former national news editor at Bloomberg News. His latest book is Driving Honda: Inside the World's Most Innovative Car Company.


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It was an amazing video Helen and you have responded to it so well. I especially enjoyed your illusion to childhood games. Well done.
"Our blood ran thick as fear" I love that line! I also love your reference to Demeter as there are indications throughout the video that they are performing some sort of fertility right. Brilliant!
I like that you began and end with the same two lines and that nothing in between them bore any resemblance to the 'childhood games' one typically thinks of. Great response!
I looked up the myth and could only get a short handle on this.
I like how you focused on how as children we learn from the adults around us, playing at their rituals.


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Acadian Genealogy Homepage; Bourgeois Family!
With de Razilly, he first settled at La Hève, on the southern coast of present day Nova Scotia. In 1636, after the death of Razilly, the new governor, Charles de Menou d'Aulnay abandoned La Hève and re-established the colony at Port Royal to the northwest.
One of Jacques' sons, Robert, either came with his father to Acadie or else joined him later. Jacques would later serve as lieutenant of the garrison at Port Royal under Germain Doucet. Robert Bourgeois was also an officer of the garrison.
In 1646, the Governor d'Aulnay granted Jacques and Jeanne Bourgeois an island called Isle aux Cochons situated in the Dauphin River (today called the Annapolis River) just upstream from Port Royal.
In 1671, Jacques, aided by his three sons and his son in law, Pierre SIRE, and his future son in law, Jean Boudrot, founded the settlement of Beaubassin, near the border separating present day New Brunswick from Nova Scotia. Jacques and his son, Guillaume, returned to live at Port Royal after the establishment at Beaubassin, although they kept farms at the new settlement. Jacques' other two sons, Charles and Germain, stay at Beaubassin with their families.
In 1686, Jacques and Jeanne moved definitively to Beaubassin to live with their son, Germain. On Oct. 15, 1687, Jacques Bourgeois signed a document, along with others, attesting to the works of the ex-governor d'Aulnay in the colony.
At the beginning of Sept. 1696, the English Colonel Benjamin Church from Boston attacked Beaubassin, which has been left undefended by the French. Jacques is enlisted to negotiate with the English contingent from Boston. Jacques obtained a promise from Church that the residents would be left in peace, but Church reneged on his promise and the soldiers from Boston burned most of the homes in the region. The Acadians of Beaubassin were forced to flee to the woods; however, the English respected the Acadians' capabilities as marksmen and refused to chase the Acadians out of the reach of their ship's cannons.
At the time of the deportation in 1755, many of Jacques' grandchildren were deported to the American colonies where they suffered greatly. Some eventually made their way back to Canada, and the Bourgeois name is common today in southeastern New Brunswick.
Others made their way to Louisiana during the mid-1760's. At least nine Bourgeois men settled on the east bank of the Mississippi River in St. James Parish. Five of these, Paul, Joseph, Michel, Pierre and Jean-Baptiste, were brothers, the sons of Paul Bourgeois and Marie-Josephe Brun, originally of Beaubassin, Acadia. From this group came a number of successful sugar planters in St. James Parish.
Beginning in the 1790's and continuing into the 1820's, some of the children and grandchildren of the original Bourgeois settlers moved to Bayou LaFourche. Most settled below Thibodaux.
You can join the international Bourgeois family association, "L'Association des Bourgeois d'Amerique" and receive their newsletter by sending $10 to Paul-Pierre Bourgeois; C.P. 117; Grand-Digue, N-B, EOA 1S0, Canada.
"I copied this from the cited source this morning, and made every attempt to spell each name as printed. Hopefully, you can find the appropriate place to post it for other researchers use. I also plan to post it to the Cajun roots newslist. Please let me know if you can use additional info like this in the future".
"I have not had an opportunity to check out the relationship of this family to that of my wife's earliest Bourgeois who was born in St. James Parish, LA in 1802. I would love to hear from anyone, though, that can help me connect her Thomas D'Aquin Bourgeois (married Marie Celeste Matherne, 8 Feb 1831) to any of the nine Bourgeois men named in the article that came to Louisiana".
NOTE I am grateful to Jason Bourgeois [[email protected]] for having provided me the following corrected information which was subsequently published in the October 6, 1996 Daily Advertiser under the heading "Bourgeois Update".
"Paul-Pierre Bourgeois of Grande-Digue, New Brunswick, points out new information refuting the view that a Jacques Bourgeois, father, and Jacques Bourgeois, son, both came to Acadie in the early 1600's. Rather, a single Jacques Bourgeois, the surgeon, arrived in 1641 aboard the St-Francois from La Rochelle. According to Paul-Pierre Bourgeois and René Perron, Jacques Bourgeois was most likely born in 1620 or 1621 in La Ferte-Gaucher near Paris as the illegitimate son of a widow, Marguerite Bourgeois Grandjehn and raised under the maiden name of his mother. Jacques was apparently trained as a surgeon by the Order of Malta. You may order a copy of Pierre-Paul Bourgeois' bilingual book A la recherche des Bourgeois d'Acadie, from La Societé Historique de Grande-Digue, C.P. 117, Grande-Digue, N.B. E0A 1S0, Canada."


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We are happy to announce our **seventh** update for Manjaro 0.8.12.

Gnome 3.16 is now avaiable. It took us a while to get most of the issues fixed. Thx flies out to **Horst3180** for adding gtk316 compatibility to Menda. Gnome brings new features and functions. Some you might notice right away, like hidden scrollbars when you don't need them and visual signals when you hit the end of a file. Other features are more hidden ;)

David is working on Maia, the new theme for our upcoming Manjaro Plasma5 Edt. Maia icons supporting now also XFCE.

Ramon and I are working hard on our graphical installer Thus to get ready for our next stable release of Manjaro, 0.8.13. Most of the issues are solved. We are still hoping on some translations, as with the rework and adding of new features lot of strings had changed. So hit over to transifex and start translating ;)

Guillaume worked on pamac. With release 2.3 we added some fixes and features to our engine. Also pamac supports now GTK 3.16.

Arnt added some needed functions and features to octopi. We released his latest work as version 0.7rc2.

Kernel-wise we added Linux 4.0 and updated other kernels as usual.

With this update you find also regular updates like:

mhwd-0.5.4, maia-theme 0.3.2, gambas 3.7.1, calligra 2.9.2, nvidia 346.59, libreoffice 4.4.2, gnome 3.16.1, KDE Frameworks 5.9, octopi 0.7rc2 and pamac 2.3.

As regular, this update includes also regular Archlinux upstream fixes (Sun Apr 19 09:26:19 CEST 2015).

Please give us feedback and report any findings with this update.

Kind regards,
Philip Müller and the Manjaro Development Team

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##Current supported kernels

* Linux310 3.10.74
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* Linux314 3.14.38
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* Linux40  4.0.0

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* multilib x86_64:  20 new and 20 removed package(s)

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##Links

* [Talk about this update](https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=22223.0)
* [Changelog](https://lists.manjaro.org/pipermail/manjaro-packages/Week-of-Mon-20150420/003134.html)

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Brian McClendon, vice president of Google Maps, discusses Google's new Maps product for business owners.
The idea is to help companies get more value out of the location-based data they already have. If that data can be plotted on a map, it will be easier for business owners to make decisions, Google executives said Monday during a media briefing at the company's offices in San Francisco.
It's taking "the consumer experience with Maps, but bringing a more powerful form of mapping to successful business owners," said Brian McClendon, vice president of Google Maps.
With Maps Engine Pro, companies can import data such as addresses, names, office locations and sales leads from various file formats onto a map, which can then be edited and shared among any number of people working at the company.
The maps can be customized, too. For example, companies can use different colored pins to show various points of interest or add text to parts of the map.
Businesses can share their maps with as many people as they want, just like regular Google Docs files. But the data behind the maps is secure, according to Google. The tool is built on Google's existing account systems, so users can utilize security options such as two-factor authentication to keep others from accessing the data, the company said.
More than 50 percent of U.S. companies already use some Web-based mapping, according to Google, but less than 5 percent of employees have access to those maps. Google says it wants to democratize the process.
"We want to move maps from a read-only experience to do-it-yourself understanding, share it, and make it a public experience," said Vinay Goel, director of global product management for Google Maps for Business.
Google Maps Engine Pro will cost $5 per month, or $50 per year. It is launching Monday both for the desktop, available at the Google Maps for Business Site, and also on mobile for Android-based devices, in the Google Play Store. There is no iOS version yet.
The product is designed to serve any company that has a small or medium-sized amount of business location data. It is built on top of Google's Maps Engine platform, which is geared toward power users and businesses working with larger datasets and more complex maps.
Google also announced several new features for its Maps Engine on Monday, such as more data import tools and a free account option.


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Days Out Everywhere is run by children's activities specialists, Freaky Rivet.
Freaky Rivet is founded with a simple mission to get kids engaged in richer and more varied lives. We do this mostly through our online club and game, where children get rewards for moving, creating and exploring.
We also wanted to build into the heart of our business a way to work with disadvantaged children to help them engage in richer and more varied lives. And the itineraries are our key way of doing that. We have a dream to use them to help children in 40 locations around the world within 5 years.
How does it work? Pleased you asked! The itineraries have 2 goals:
To get children with their families to engage more with the places that they visit rather than playing with a gadget.
To help underprivileged children in those destinations by donating all profits (or 50% of sales, whichever is greater) from these itineraries to a local children's charity aligned with our mission.
We love the symmetry of children from families able to afford the (ludicrously cheap) itineraries having fun in a city where underprivileged kids are benefitting from their itinerary purchase. As one of our charity partners said, "it's like a Robin Hood project". We liked that.
So we work with local parent blogging partners to identify a charity in each of our destinations which helps kids to engage more in the world, and then get to creating itineraries to support them.
Freaky Rivet was founded by Kevin and Iyas. Kevin was teacher to many thousands of children, with a specialism in immersing them in activities that reinforce their learning. He is now the owner of a company that works with schools to do precisely that.
Iyas is a father of four, and after a career break travelling across Latin America for 6 months with his family, he re-evaluated his priorities and joined up with Kevin and see how together they could create a business doing good work with children. In his spare time he runs a charity for children in war-zones.
Warning - dull legal bit! Our legal name is Freaky Rivet Ltd, and our registered office address is 145-157 St. John Street, London, UK, EC1V 4PW.
You can get in touch with both Kevin and Iyas through our email address, freakyrivet@freakyrivet.com.


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While high-speed fish feeding videos may be the signature of the lab, dig a bit deeper and you'll find a wealth of comparative phylogenetic methods sneaking in. It's a natural union — expert functional morphology is the key to good comparative methods, just as phylogenies hold the key to untangling the evolutionary origins of that morphology. The lab's own former graduate, Brian O'Meara, made a revolutionary step forward in the land of phylogenetic methods when he unveiled Brownie in 2006, allowing researchers to identify major shifts in trait diversification rates across the tree. This work spurred not only a flood of empirical applications but also methodological innovations, such as Liam's brownie-lite, and today's focus: Jon Eastman et al.'s auteur package.
Auteur, short for "Accommodating uncertainty in trait evolution using R," is the grown-up Bayesian RJMCMC version of that original idea in Brownie. Diversification rates can change along the phylogenetic tree — only this time, you don't have to specify where those changes could have occurred, or how many there may have been — auteur simply tries them all.
If you want the details, definitely go read the paper — it's all there, clear and thorough. Meanwhile, what we really want to do, is take it out for a test drive.
The package isn't up on CRAN yet, so you can grab the development version from Jon's github page, or click here. Put that package in a working directory and fire up R in that directory. Let's go for a spin.
The data is going in as "phy" and "dat", just as expected. We won't worry about the optional parameters that follow for the moment. Note that because we use lapply to run multiple chains, it would be super easy to run this on multiple processors.
Not only is that a beautiful plot, but it's nailed the shift in species 12-16. How'd your example do?
Auteur comes with three beautiful large data sets described in the paper. Check them out, but expect longer run times than our simple example!
Phylogenetic tree with 226 tips and 225 internal nodes.
Thanks Jon and the rest of the Harmon Lab for a fantastic package. This is really just a tip of the iceberg, but should help get you started. See the paper for a good example of posterior analyses requisite after running any kind of MCMC, or stay tuned for a later post.


This a 100-copy limited print of a black & white oil canvas from Perinotto, the most talented French official aviation artist. Perinotto manages to recreate the hectic atmosphere of the last moments before the Air France Constellation leaves Paris Orly for a long overnight flight. Compared to the original print of the "Air France Propellers" portfolio, this one has NO fold, is numbered 1 to 100 and signed by Perinotto.
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My first trip to Europe was two years ago, when I was 17, to Barcelona, Spain. I had traveled overseas before, but never somewhere so far away. It is a trip I most certainly will never forget.
First of all, it was quite an unexpected journey because the whole trip was a surprise. I knew that my boyfriend and his family were going away that August because he had told me at the beginning of the summer; what I had no idea was that I was going to be invited to go along with them.
The most I had traveled on a plane was about four hours, so a direct flight from Aguadilla to Barcelona was pretty excruciating. I get really nervous on planes. Thankfully, the journey lasted all night so I slept right through it. Once on Spanish soil, I was flooded with the sounds of languages I had never heard spoken: Russian, Indian, Mandarin, Arabic, Swedish, Italian..it was a kaleidoscope of sound. I felt strange - being so accustomed to europeans as foreigners, I really had no idea what it was like to be the odd one out with my hispanic background.
Barcelona is incredibly vibrant, a clash of the times: cathedrals from the 17th century stood next to modern offices and hotels. During the taxi ride into the city, I learned that we were in a province called Catalunya, which I learned is an autonomous community with official status of nationality. It even has it's own official language, Catalan (which is a mixture of French and Spanish). I certainly felt a link to home then, coming from a place that is still struggling with its identity. I had always admired European culture form afar (one of my best friend is Spanish), but I had never actually been there before. Actually being in Europe was a real eye-opener to different ways of life.
I'm a 19 year old Political Science major at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. I wish to study law or work in the field of law. I like flowers and coffeeshoppes and rainy days. I want to move to France someday.


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Q: Enforce conditions on queries Currently I have a simple schema, a sites table and an items table.
Sites own many items, items has a siteId column to store the reference of the site which owns it.
I'd like to be able to enforce a condition when querying items, meaning returning an error if it is not queried with a siteId - in practice:

*

*select * from items would fail

*select * from items where siteId = 1 would succeed, albeit a site record with id 1 exists

This can easily be achieved on an application level.
I recently started investigating further into row level policies, roles, functions, etc… which I found very interesting as they enable lower level setups. That is, I'm still new about it and lack understanding/knowledge. I was wondering if the use case described above could simply be solved within SQL (via a combination of policies, functions, etc… or any other Postgres builtin tools)?

A: One possibility (one that you feel intuitively, apparently) is to centralize your query into a function and disable querying otherwise.
Let's say the tables are owned by a role called owner, and there is a reader to run SELECT queries against the tables.  Then there is an application role which can connect to the DB and is able to call functions.  All this can be achieved by:
-- log in as a superuser, for example
CREATE ROLE owner;
CREATE ROLE reader;
CREATE USER application WITH PASSWORD 'a';

SET ROLE TO owner;

CREATE SCHEMA data;

CREATE TABLE data.important (i_id serial PRIMARY KEY);  -- will be owned by owner

GRANT SELECT ON data.important TO reader;

At this point, whoever can assume the reader role (by being a member and/or using SET ROLE) will be able to run any SELECT against the table.  Note that application doesn't have any rights here.
Then create another schema for your functions:
CREATE SCHEMA api; -- well, you can call it something else, too

RESET ROLE; -- to switch back to your superuser self

CREATE FUNCTION api.select_important(id integer)
RETURNS data.important
LANGUAGE sql
SECURITY DEFINER -- the important bit
AS $$
SELECT * FROM data.important WHERE i_id = id;
$$;

GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA api TO application;
GRANT EXECUTE ON FUNCTION api.select_important(integer) TO application;

The SECURITY DEFINER clause will make the function inherit the rights of the superuser to read from the table (there is no need to grant it).  Now if you log in as application, you can call the function:
\c - application
Password for user application:

SELECT * FROM api.select_important(1);
 i_id
──────

(1 row)

However, you cannot read from the table directly:
my=> SELECT * FROM data.important WHERE i_id = 1;
ERROR:  permission denied for schema data
LINE 1: SELECT * FROM data.important WHERE i_id = 1;

Note: to spare GRANTs all the time you create a table or function, you can set default privileges.  See the bottom part of an earlier answer of mine about how to do that.

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Cranbrook courts development
Innovation and strategic planning are key concepts at Cranbrook city hall
by Marie Milner — March 21, 2019
Lee Pratt (L) and David Kim have worked closely to implement a new vision for Cranbrook. — Marie Milner photo
At heart, Lee Pratt, the mayor of Cranbrook, is a businessman. David Kim, Cranbrook's CAO, is all about strategy followed by action. Both are results-driven and both believe in following a long-term plan. When Kim joined Cranbrook's administrative team in early 2016, he saw the council and community's desire for change and growth, and his own philosophy of risk management and innovation complemented that.
"Our new mindset is to not avoid problems," Kim said, "but to look at them with ownership and find innovative ways to the solutions. The change of mindset and corporate culture was probably the most important priority and fundamental change that has happened within our corporation. It will serve the organization and community for a long time."
Kim sees strategic economic development as the basis and core of community vibrancy and sustainability, having everything to do with quality of life, lifestyle and choices. He sees the economy as a large, intermeshed unit with interdependent components including private business, public institutions, social services and the natural environment.
On the drawing board
Plans for economic development in Cranbrook include strategies for industrial land, a transportation hub, intellectual infrastructure, infrastructure service improvement, approvals service improvement and regional collaboration.
Recent changes to property zoning and streamlining of the development application approval process are having results. "Our building permit numbers are through the roof," Pratt said, "and we're getting calls from developers from outside the area who are looking at getting in on our growth."
A couple of proposed housing projects look promising, including one project that combines 121 units of rental and for-sale housing. Every effort is being made to support these projects to become a reality in as timely a manner as possible.
In their pursuit of industrial investment, Pratt and Kim are becoming familiar faces in Vancouver. The Vancouver Port Authority and CP Rail are interested in the establishment of an intermodal transportation hub in Cranbrook and have provided Pratt and Kim with helpful information on accessing federal funding.
Pratt talked about the City's aggressive program of public works, roads and infrastructure and downtown revitalization.
"Winter Blitzville was a phenomenal success," he said, "and based on widespread public response, we're planning a bigger and better event next year. Isaac Hockley was the guy behind organizing the snowmobile show, and Brett Turcotte is on board to come back with more riders next year, if we want him. The fireworks guys have asked to be part of the planning for next year, promising us a bigger, more spectacular show.
Cranbrook's first Winter Blitzville was held on February 16, 2019. — Kyle Born photo
"Development of the former Tembec lands is coming along. We have three leases in place and lots of interest that we expect will result in more confirmed leases inside of this year."
"Innovative problem solving is now our forte," Kim said. "The Idlewild project and Joseph Creek restoration are based on science and long-term community health and safety. In one neighbourhood near St. Mary's school, there was chronic flooding. We took an innovative approach and dealt with that at a cost of $5,000—a scientific, engineering-oriented approach—and it dealt with a decades-old problem."
"Same thing with Elizabeth Lake downstream," said Pratt. "We reversed the conduit under the highway, which had been installed incorrectly, creating annual flooding. We haven't had floods in that area since that correction was made."
Careful examination of the roof of Western Financial Place revealed that the direct cause of the problem of leaks was a design/construction issue, and a cost-effective long-term fix will be applied.
The Ice moves
"We're sad to see the Kootenay Ice leave Cranbrook," Pratt said, "and we wish the team success in Winnipeg. We'll lose some revenue from the lease on the building, but we don't know all of the ramifications—that will take some time to play out."
"The Ice being based here was primarily providing value in the recreation and entertainment sector and in community spirit," Kim said. "The impact to net new jobs would not be a major issue. Our goal is to provide a similar level of entertainment to our citizens while making sure the revenue stream is feasible. We're getting some interests to fill this gap, but our first priority is to complete our contractual dealings with the Kootenay Ice."
Forward view
"This kind of community building takes a lot of effort and time." Kim said. "We ask for the continuous trust and support from the community to be successful in this endeavour. We are building a solid foundation so that we can get the benefits for many decades to come."
In April the City administration will begin its strategic planning to continue its groundwork for the next 20 years.
Marie Milner is a writer and photographer for Kootenay Business magazine and several other publications. She appreciates the inspiration that she gets during her interviews and hopes to share that inspiration with you. View all of Marie Milner's articles
East Kootenay, Cranbrook, Entertainment and Hospitality, Tourism Top 10 things to do in Cranbrook with kids
Children can climb, swim, bowl and mini-golf their way to adventure in Cranbrook, B.C.
December 2019 by Kyle Born
East Kootenay, Cranbrook, Small Business Kootenay author lets down her (bug-filled) hair
Riki Unrau, children's author and owner of Soul Bird Studio in Cranbrook, B.C., has released a new book, Bethany Blair and the Bugs in her Hair
November 2019 by Kyle Born
East Kootenay, Cranbrook, Education, Small Business, Technology How the Kootenay tech community is thriving (and how you can too)
Cam Whitehead, executive director for KAST in Nelson, B.C., explains how Kootenay businesses can harness tech with simple steps
View all Cranbrook articles


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Q: What is the difference between join and Joined in LINQ Query in asp.NET MVC 4 framework I have two dataTable called A and B , i need all rows from A and matching row of B
A:                                           B:

User | age| Data                            ID  | age|Growth
1    |2   |43.5                             1   |2   |46.5
2    |3   |44.5                             1   |5   |49.5
3    |4   |45.6                             1   |6   |48.5

And the Output will be
User | age| Data |Growth
------------------------
1    |2   |43.5  |46.5
2    |3   |44.5  |
3    |4   |45.6  |

In this case I got a solution from StackOverflow.com Link
var results = from data in userData
              join growth in userGrowth
              on data.User equals growth.User into joined
              from j in joined.DefaultIfEmpty()
              select new
              {
                  UserData = data,
                  UserGrowth = j
              };

It's working fine, but I am little bit confused there, What is the differences between join and joined in this LINQ Query. Thank you.

A: joined is a variable name for the result of the join or group by operation.
just to be able to use it in the from clause.
MSDN:

The into contextual keyword can be used to create a temporary
  identifier to store the results of a group, join or select clause into
  a new identifier. This identifier can itself be a generator for
  additional query commands. When used in a group or select clause, the
  use of the new identifier is sometimes referred to as a continuation.

In your case, the joined identifier is used in order to perform a LEFT JOIN. By checking if the result of join (which is stored in joined) is empty, then j would be null and the record will not be skipped (as in an INNER JOIN).

A: joined is just the variable name of the resulting collection.  You can see it gets created in the line that ends with into joined.  Then it is used in the next line.


200th Blog post. 198th Halo Related. I have a feeling some Microsoft Points might be given away on Friday. Possibly, 800, the same amount as the Defiant map pack. I'll let you know more about that on Friday.
As for challenges, let's get this going.
Go about on your usual business killing your fellow man in Multiplayer. Grifball & SWAT give a good Kill per Game ratio but with only 125, it shouldn't take too long in any gametype.
This one has been cropping up a lot. So go out and get 10 kills in a row or 5 with a specific weapon. If you want speed, grab a shotgun and fire away, or play Sniperfight and pick them off before they get close.
Play a game, Go to theatre mode, the most recent film will already be there. Play it for a couple of seconds and record, 2-5 seconds worth of gameplay. Save it as anything (Auto name if you want) then find it in your file browser & upload.
That pistol you have as a backup weapon may be small, but that weapon can still get headshots from miles away. If you want, play some SWAT. 1 (Accurate) Bullet, 1 Kill. You can out fire a DMR so if they're close, give them a punch and a quick double shot.
That's all, come back Friday for competition details.


Gatehouse Manor is conveniently located just minutes from Delphi, Covenant Medical Center, Delta College, Saginaw Valley State University and I-75.
Sawmill West is located west of the Sawmill Golf Club in Saginaw County, just south of McCarty Road. From McCarty take Hackett Road south and turn east onto Sawmill Boulevard.
It's a brand new experience at Apple Mountain. The Greens will offer the Great Lakes Bay Region a unique lifestyle with resort amenities and the convenience of "lock and leave" in a gated condo community.


NEW YORK: Stocks finished mostly lower Thursday, though the Dow Jones industrial average staged a late-session turnaround to end higher.
The Standard & Poor�s 500 index fell 2.26 points, or 0.2 percent, to close at 1,403.28. It has gained 0.4 percent so far this week and more than 11 percent this year.
The technology heavy Nasdaq composite index lost 9.60 points, or 0.3 percent, to 3,095.36, with the losses denting a weekly rise of 0.9 percent.
Bucking the negative trend on Thursday, the Dow industrials closed up 19.61 points, or 0.2 percent, at 13,145.82 after turning higher in late trading. The Dow is currently up 0.5 percent for the week.
The losses on Wall Street came as data showed that weekly jobless claims fell to 359,000 last week, with the level a bit higher than expected. Also, the Commerce Department reported that U.S. real gross domestic product for the fourth quarter rose at a 3.0 percent annualized rate, unrevised from an earlier estimate.
�With the stock market where it is, any news that is not fantastic is going to be met with some disappointment,� said Glenn Guard, director of investment management at Campbell Wealth Management in Alexandria, Va., of the weekly claims data.
�We�re due for a moderate pullback,� he added, noting that the S&P 500 is set to finish the first quarter with a double-digit advance.
Oil prices fell $2.63 to $102.78 a barrel.


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U.K. CHARTS: WEEKND WARRIOR
The Weeknd has his second #1 on the U.K.'s Official Albums Chart with After Hours (Island) hitting the top on 26k combined sales. Over on singles, the reign of Saint Jhn continues.
After Hours sold more than double that of its closest competitor, Lewis Capaldi's Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent (Virgin EMI) at #2. Of The Weeknd's 26k sales, 78% came from streaming.
Morrissey's I Am Not a Dog on a Chain (BMG) is the second highest new albums entry today at #3.
The late Kenny Rogers has reached a new peak at #6 with his All The Hits & All New Love Songs (EMI) compilation, which charted at #14 following its release in 1999.
Manchester band The Slow Readers Club land their highest charting album yet with The Joy Of The Return (Modern Sky) at #9. A previously unreleased rarities EP from David Bowie, Is It Any Wonder? (Parlophone), closes the Top 10 at #10.
On the U.K's Official Singles Chart, SAINt JHN's "Roses" (Hitco/Ministry of Sound) spends a second week at the top. The track scored 60k combined chart sales, including 7.4m streams.


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Meet Echo
psittacus erithacus
African grey parrots have an unparalleled ability to mimic human speech and other sounds.
Herbivore - Fruits, berries, seeds and nuts
50 yrs on average
1-4 eggs per clutch, on average
About 1 ft (33 cm)
About 1 lb
Animal Ambassadors
Overview Taxonomy What is an Animal Ambassador? What is The Animal Embassy?
African grey parrots are native to west and central Africa. They inhabit different types of lowland forest, including rainforest, woodlands, and wooded savannah. They can be seen along forest edges and in clearings as well, and sometimes feeding in gardens and cultivated fields.
African greys are kept as pets in many parts of the world and their popularity dates back centuries. They were a favored pet among the noble classes of ancient Rome. If you ever consider keeping a parrot as a pet, be aware that these are long-lived and highly intelligent birds that require considerable care and attention. They form strong bonds with their owners and can be very noisy, messy, and demanding! You can have wonderful companionship with a parrot, but you need to know what you are getting into and be willing to take on the full responsibility.
The Maryland Zoo features an African grey parrot among its Animal Ambassadors that are introduced to audiences in education programs on and off grounds.
African greys are gregarious, social birds that roost together at night in large flocks sometimes numbering in the thousands. They disperse into much smaller groups during the day to feed. At dawn and dusk, they can often be seen (and heard!) flying high over the treetops on their way to and from feeding and roosting sites, calling loudly all the way. They travel regular routes and their flight is swift and direct, with rapid, shallow wingbeats.
African greys rarely come down to the ground. They feed high up in the treetops on fruits, berries, nuts and seeds and they are particularly attracted to the fruit of the oil palm tree. They also roost in trees or palms, often along a shoreline or on a small island in a river or lake. They use their toes – two facing back and two facing front on each foot – to help them balance and perch. They also use their beaks as a third foot for climbing and balancing.
Like all parrots, African greys have short, blunt, rounded beaks with a curved upper mandible that fits neatly over the lower. The parrot's beak is a powerful tool for cracking nuts and seeds.
The African grey parrot is a beautiful silvery-grey bird with a bright scarlet tail. It has extraordinary vocal range. It squawks, whistles, shrieks, screams, and mimics. This particular species of parrot is a well-known and very accomplished mimic, but recent research suggests that they are capable of far more than just "parroting back" what they hear. They demonstrate impressive intelligence. Those few African greys that have been studied closely in a research setting have shown an ability to comprehend and discriminate between colors, numbers, and shapes, and to use language purposefully to provide the correct word in response to particular questions.
Most parrot species, including African greys, are monogamous and form dedicated pair bonds. This species nests in tree cavities high off the ground. Breeding pairs typically go off on their own to nest, although African greys have also been known to form loose breeding colonies of several hundred pairs.
Females lay clutches of usually two to four eggs and incubate them. The eggs hatch within 21 to 30 days. Both parents care for the nestlings until they fledge – i.e. start to fly and leave the nest – at about ten weeks of age.
African greys are preyed upon mainly by snakes and large cats. To avoid predators, they will either fly away or defend themselves with their powerful beaks. They are extremely vulnerable to trapping and may also be persecuted by humans in places where they are perceived as pests because of the damage they can do to crops.
African grey parrots have declined significantly in the wild in recent decades, due primarily to excessive trapping for the international pet trade. They are also threatened by habitat loss due to deforestation in many parts of their range.
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genera: Psittacus
Species: erithacus
What is an Animal Ambassador?
The Maryland Zoo refers to its special collection of education program animals as "Animal Ambassadors." The Zoo currently cares for more than 60 Animal Ambassadors, representing more than 40 species, both native and exotic. These animals are managed separately from the rest of the Zoo's collection and cannot be seen on exhibit at the Zoo. However, many can be seen up close and personal on a rotating basis at Creature Encounters, the Zoo's outdoor education center; at camp and school programs at the Zoo; as featured participants in community-based Outreach programs; and at special events on and off Zoo grounds.
Animal Ambassadors spend countless hours working with their human handlers, developing bonds of trust and communication that will allow them to appear in front of audiences large and small. They are not show animals. They behave naturally, focusing audiences' attention on their natural behaviors and adaptations and giving living, breathing meaning to concepts and topics that students may be studying.
Animal Ambassadors travel all over the state of Maryland and beyond, and many also make local and national media appearances, educating about wildlife while representing the Zoo and its commitments to animal welfare and conservation.
What is The Animal Embassy?
The Animal Embassy at The Maryland Zoo is an off-exhibit area that is not open to the public. It is where the Zoo's "Animal Ambassadors," or education program animals, live. The Embassy is home to more than 60 individual animals representing more than 40 different species. It is staffed by its own dedicated group of keepers and volunteers and has both indoor and outdoor living space for the animals.
Animal Embassy Tour
Green-winged Macaw
Off Exhibit: An Embassy (Full of Animals)
Military Macaw


CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Thousands were in Charlotte on Friday to say goodbye to Rev. Billy Graham.
The private funeral service was held at noon in a tent outside the Billy Graham Library. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence attended the funeral and were escorted by Graham's grandson, a Major in the United States Army.
The minister will be buried next to his wife, Ruth, on the property. His coffin, a plain, pine casket, was built by inmates at the Louisiana state prison.
See the complete funeral program here.


While music is often viewed as a source of therapy, not much gets said about the overwhelming pressure that gets put on musicians by being in the industry. Sure the music they create helps us through difficult times as fans, but what about their well-being? Who is responsible for checking in with them? So in honor of #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth we caught up with Brooklyn Magazine's '30 Under 30' alum Naiylah Warren, a Marriage and Family Therapist who focuses on drug and substance abuse counseling. We discussed the importance of seeking therapy and the impact social media has on musicians' mental health.
If you loved this episode be sure to let us know what you thought! Send us a comment via our socials or via email at viewsfromthechixx@gmail.com. Your comment may be featured on the next episode!
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The popularity of medical marijuana over the last several years has spurred renewed interest in using it to treat other forms of addiction such as heroin and cocaine. Since heroin and cocaine are two highly addictive substances that are wreaking havoc all over the country, medical marijuana is now seen as a way to ween people off these potent drugs.
One of the major reasons why doctors and health practitioners believe medical marijuana could be used to treat those who are addicted to cocaine and heroin is it can help calm people down as they come off the dangerously addictive drugs. As anyone who has ever gone through withdrawals, they can tell you how much of a nightmare it is. In fact, many users of cocaine and heroin forgo getting help for their addiction is because the withdrawals are so agonizing.
There are varying studies out there today suggesting medical marijuana has curing properties. Although there are differing opinions as to the overall effectiveness of the drug when treating medical conditions, the main thing here is that it can help relieve the anxiety as the patient tries to kick the heroin and cocaine habit.
Some people might say that you are just substituting one addiction for another, but so far nobody has ever died from marijuana. Cocaine and heroin, on the other hand, produces many deaths every day all over the world due to its potency, plus you never know what type of fillers are added to these drugs. Medical marijuana is licensed by the state and has to go through a rigorous testing process before it can be approved.
Growers must apply for a license and the industry is also highly regulated. In other words, you can feel much safer buying from licensed growers because they don't add anything to the marijuana such as harmful pesticides that would cause a person to get sick.
Medical marijuana can be grown to different potency levels which can help the addicted ween off drugs altogether. Or they can continue on a program of medical marijuana to help them relax. Anyone who has been or is addicted to cocaine and heroin must initially find something to help calm them down as they go through withdrawals to help with heroin treatment. It is also a lifestyle change when you give up those drugs, so many doctors believe that substituting medical marijuana for cocaine and heroin can mimic the good feeling of taking the drugs but in a much healthier way.
Nobody knows for certain how medical marijuana can treat other addictions since there are now plenty of ongoing studies. But one thing we do know is that it is far less dangerous than being addicted to heroin and cocaine.
There is a lot of ongoing studies today where you can participate in medical marijuana programs if you have a terrible addiction problem. The hardest thing is making that decision to get help, but just knowing that you can do it in a safe manner with regulated marijuana may be enough for the addicted person to want to quit. Even though the high is not the same, medical marijuana can be potent enough where the user can experience happiness as they ween off the bad stuff.
Getting off drugs is no easy task and it requires a lot of mental toughness and the willingness to see it through. It may be the most difficult thing you do in your life, but the alternative to that is no life at all. At least trying the medical marijuana approach gives hope to so many out there who are heavily into the heavy drugs.
Think about what you have to go through in order to get heroin or cocaine and the dangers it poses to your safety and health. At least with marijuana bought at a licensed medical clinic, you are not risking your safety and health. Plus there are many forms of medical marijuana aside from smoking it which causes damage to your lungs. Try edibles if you don't prefer to smoke, or get yourself a vaping kit that is healthier than smoking to help with quitting drugs .
There is never an easy solution when quitting hard drugs, but hopefully with new studies out it can show that medical marijuana is a safe alternative that can help people kick their very dangerous habit.