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Darvish shines as Rangers hammer Mariners
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Arlington, TX – Yu Darvish tossed seven strong innings and Elvis Andrus had three RBI as the Texas Rangers downed the Seattle Mariners, 9-3, in the opener of a three-game series on Friday.
Darvish (15-9) allowed one run on two hits and two walks. He also struck out nine to give him 205 strikeouts for the season, making him 16th rookie since 1900 to record 200 strikeouts.
Josh Hamilton homered and knocked in two runs, while Ian Kinsler also hit a home run for the AL West-leading Rangers, who have won three of their last four.
"He throws so many different pitches for strikes, when he throws strikes, that you don't know what to expect," Hamilton said about Darvish. "It's fun to watch."
Hisashi Iwakuma (6-5) surrendered two runs on seven hits and a walk through 5 1/3 innings for Seattle, which dropped two straight and six of its last nine.
"We don't quit and we are not going to hang our heads," Mariners outfielder Michael Saunders said. "Over the course of a year, things like this are going to happen."
Texas jumped out to an early lead in its first at-bat as Kinsler led off the bottom of the first inning with a ball to left-center field that was initially ruled a double off the top of the wall, but a review showed the hit struck a chair behind the wall and bounced back into the field, giving Kinsler a home run.
Hamilton gave the Rangers a 2-0 advantage in the third inning with a solo shot into the second deck in right field.
Seattle cut into its deficit in the fourth after Saunders led off the frame by working a 12-pitch walk and advanced to third on a Kyle Seager double to deep center field that bounced off the tip of Hamilton's glove.
Two batters later, Jesus Montero lifted a sacrifice fly to center field to plate Saunders before Mike Carp grounded out to first to end the inning and strand Seager at third base.
Texas would then strand a runner on second base in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh innings, but was able to put the game out of reach with a seven- run eighth, starting with back-to-back doubles by Andrus and Hamilton.
A pair of walks by Adrian Beltre and Michael Young would load the bases with one out, and Hamilton crossed the plate on a Dustin Ackley throwing error to home on a David Murphy grounder to second.
Geovany Soto's double off the left-field wall scored Beltre and Young before Mitch Moreland worked a walk to fill the bags again.
Following a Kinsler strikeout, Andrus cleared the bases with a triple to right-center field for a 9-1 advantage.
Saunders' leadoff home run to right-center field and Montero's RBI single in the ninth inning accounted for the final margin.
Kinsler's homer was his 17th of the season, while Hamilton recorded his 42nd ... Saunders hit his 15th home run of the year ... Darvish improved to 2-2 in four starts against Seattle ... Iwakuma fell to 0-2 in three career appearances (two starts) against the Rangers ... Texas leads the season series between the teams, 8-6.

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Dublin Simon Community Respond To Latest Rough Sleeper Figures
Dublin Simon Community today (24/04/17) expressed concern at the high number of people continuing to sleep rough across the Dublin Region. On the night of the count, 04 April, 138 people were identified as sleeping rough across the four Dublin local authorities. This compares with 102 in the 2016 spring count and 142 found during the 2016 winter count.
In reaction to the figures Sam McGuinness on behalf of Dublin Simon Community said;
"Despite the provision of over 200 extra emergency beds since the 2016 winter count, there has been a 38% yearly increase since spring 2016.
"We are seeing great efforts by the Local Authorities and Approved Housing Bodies to move people into homes, and genuine cross department and agency partnerships in order to provide solutions for people who are homeless. However, the ever rising flow into homelessness means that there is a real challenge to keep up with the demand for beds.
Mr. McGuinness continued to say said that the high figures emphasised the urgent need to provide housing so we can prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place. He said that keeping people in their homes and working with households at risk was a key priority for Dublin Simon Community and everyone involved in tackling the crisis.
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Q: How to print out a value for a key of the first member of a list of dictionaries I need to print out the value of "text" where ID = 0 in this list of dictionaries:
{ "ID":"0", "Text":"Once upon a time"},
{ "ID":"1", "Text":"The good end"},
{ "ID":"2", "Text":"The bad end" }

I can print out all of the values for the key "text" but not just an individual one with the following snippet:
with open ('story.json', 'r') as storyFile:
   story = json.load(storyFile)

for passage in story:
   print(passage["Text"])

A: Just use an if and specify your condition:
for passage in story:
    if passage["ID"] == "0":
       print(passage["Text"])

A: Use a loop to separate each object then try to print the specific key value pair.

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At McElligot's Pool, inspired by McElligot's Pool (1947), children can play a digital fishing game surrounded by the multicolored fish from Ted's famous book as they learn about how Ted and his father enjoyed fishing when he was growing up in Springfield.
The Moose Juice and Goose Juice Brewery with its whimsical piping and artisan glasswork displays the fascination of conveyor belt production. Ted's family co-owned a brewery called Kalmbach and Geisel until prohibition. In this area, children have an opportunity to play with light, sound, gears and gadgets as they explore a factory-like setting. Inside the structure, the Moose Juice and Goose Juice from Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book (1962) is bottled before their eyes.
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Email: t.alonso@qmul.ac.uk
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Website: https://www.teresa-alonso.com/
Teresa is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. She obtained her bachelors and masters degrees from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Mexico and her doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from UMIST. Following this she worked as a Research Associate and then Research Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering Department at UMIST. In 2012 she was appointed Professor at the University of Manchester. She has a number of years of industrial experience including in the construction, water and petroleum industries. Professor Alonso-Rasgado has undertaken research in the areas of biomechanics, orthopaedic engineering, mathematical modelling, numerical techniques, total care product design, reliability and risk and has published over 100 journal and international conference papers to date. Teresa previously lead the very successful Bioengineering and Reliability and Maintainability Research Groups in Manchester.
Teresa was the Honorary Representative of the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT) in the UK (2010 to 2018) and is an Ohtli Award holder, the highest recognition that a citizen of Mexico living overseas can receive from the Mexican state. Professor Alonso-Rasgado was previously the Director of the Latin American Postgraduate Programme (LAPP) at the University of Manchester.


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McLean's Picks for Ellis Park on Saturday, July 15
1st: 6-1-2…Blonde in the City (6) drops back down after trying the grass at Belterra last time. Goes for a clever barn operation that wins its' share. Rhodium beat this one three back and that mare has been on a roll. Shortens back up today and has 2 wins and 5 seconds in 9 starts at this distance. Dixie Lover (1) has won two in a row and three of the last four. Was claimed in her last out, with a career high Beyer. Moves up in class today. Jury Wise (2) has run second to Dixie Lover in the past two and was claimed after her last try, too. Still figures to be behind that one. I bet the 6 to win/place and then box the 6-1-2 in exactas.
2nd: 1-4-6-2…Astrea (1) just may give trainer Stephen Lyster the daily double in this one. She drops out of the MSW ranks to MC30 and figures to enjoy the class drop. Trainer is super good with this angle (.43 win percentage). Right On By (4) gets a class drop in this one, too, and is 4-5 choice in the ML for trainer Ian Wilkes. Numbers Game (6) goes for trainer Buff Bradley and drops from MSW to this level. Has two super nice works in a row. Looks to be getting better. Sales Call (2) has run two seconds in four career starts. May be able to grab a part of this one. I bet the 1 to win/place and then key over/under the other numbers listed above.
3rd: 1-2-3-5…My Mystery (1) is 2-5 ML and may go even lower. Figures to be the best in this one by many, many. Drops to the bottom ranks and has hit the board in five of her six career starts. If she breaks well and is not compromised by bad luck, I can't see her losing. Not here. Not today. Not against this bunch. I bet the 1 to win and then key over (only).
4th: 2-4-6-1-5…Simple Surprise (2) is a speedster for the barn of Steve Asmussen and has run ITM in 9 of 11 starts. Has hit the board in 6 of 7 on the grass, and all 6 of her starts at this sprint distance. Game in every way. Melaleuca (4) is another one that wants to be out front, and has hit the board in 11 of 15 starts on the grass and at this distance. Clairenation (6) won four in a row last year. Will try to get back on a roll starting today for trainer Greg Foley. I bet the 2 to win/place and then box the 2-4-6 and the 2-4-1 in the exactas.
5th: 3-5-2-1…Timido (3) gets the "dot" (must use) in this spot for trainer Ben Colebrook. Gets a nice class drop and looks to prefer the dirt over both the turf and synthetics. Ran a good one four back at Keeneland. If she duplicates that effort, she will find the circle against these. Grantastica (5) is a consistent sort for the barn of Jack Van Berg, who has one win and three seconds in 6 starts this meeting. Training well for a return to the races after a short layoff. I bet the 3 to win/place and then box the 3-5 and then the 3-5-2 in the exactas.
6th: 5-7-9-10-11-8-1…United Stand (5) figures best in this one, coming off his best race ever. If he can muster that same effort again, then he should graduate for a solid barn. Hour City (7) ran a huge one against a very nice colt in McCormick three races back. McCormick just ran a huge second to Hence in the Iowa Derby. If trainer Buff Bradley can find that magic race again, he will romp today. Exit Laughing (9) had an unpleasant experience in his first race, at Churchill Downs last fall. He hit a fallen horse and then fell himself, and he looked to be running a pretty good race for his career debut. This son of Distorted Humor is back now for trainer Bill Mott — who hasn't hit the board in his first three starters at Ellis this meet. I bet the 5 to win/place/show and then key over/under all the other numbers listed.
7th: 7-5-2-1-6…Seven Trumpets (7) is a first timer for the barn of Dale Romans. He cost $205,000 at Ocala this spring, and has been training very well. Could pop at first asking. Fight On (5) is another first timer, and goes for trainer Steve Asmussen. This one cost $340,000 as a yearling, and has been training lights out at Keeneland and now at Ellis Park. Watch out. Big Iron (2) has a chance for trainer Bernie Flint, too. Made a nice run for half of his career start before faltering, and has come back to work lights out. I bet the 7 to win/place and then box the 7-5-2 in the exactas.
8th: 7-4-9-5-2-1-11-10-8…I go with Bonnie Arch (7), who has run three good ones in a row for trainer Ian Wilkes. If she runs anything close to those tries, she will be tough to handle in this spot today. Egg Roll (4) has been very consistent in her first three starts and it won't take much improvement at all to move into consideration for this one. Little Irishdancer (9) had a troubled start in her last and didn't run a step. Throw that one out and she figures to right with this bunch. I bet the 7 to win/place and then key over/under all the other numbers listed here.
9th: 2-5-8-1…Social Icon (2) has speed and that may be enough in this one. Zero (5) is a first timer for trainer Buff Bradley, who does not gear them up for an initial race appearance. But she may be good enough off works alone to win this one. I Miss You (8) is another first time starter, but she is by English Channel. I bet the 2 to win/place and then box the 2-5-8 and the 2-5-1 in the exactas.
Good luck &
All the Best/Gene
2017-07-14T22:28:10-04:00By Gene McLean|
About the Author: Gene McLean
Gene McLean began his professional career in 1977 as a sportswriter and columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader in Lexington, Ky., and was recognized as one of the state's best writers, winning the prestigious "Sportswriter of the Year" honor in 1985. Now the President and Publisher of The Pressbox, McLean sets the vision for the site and still finds time to handicap races, interview trainers and keep his finger on the pulse of the industry, More About Gene.
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This art history video about the Dutch artist, Piet Mondrian covers his life in 10 fascinating snippets of information. Piet Mondrian was one of the pioneers of abstract art. Born in 1872 in The Netherlands, he was the son of an art teacher. Trees fascinated him and he produced many paintings of them. He loved the structure of the branches and this structure had a bearing on his later abstract work. Piet Mondrian loved jazz and was the founder of the De Stijl movement. Eventually, he would develop his famous abstract paintings based on black lines and the three primary colours; red, yellow and blue.
Theo van Doesburg, the artist and art critic was his friend, and he was also influenced in his painting by Theosophy, Cubism and Suprematism.
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Giant Otter dens filmed in Chaco-Pantanal Reserve SEARCH NEWS
Two dens of Giant Brazilian Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) have been recorded west of the Rio Negro in the Chaco-Pantanal Reserve, which is owned and managed by Guyra Paraguay, a partner of World Land Trust (WLT).
The dens were observed late in 2013 and camera traps were installed near the dens to monitor the site round the clock for a week. This is the first time camera-trap videos have recorded Giant Otters in the Chaco-Pantanal Reserve.
Giant Otters are listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List and it is humans that pose the greatest threat to their survival. Humans hunt Giant Otters illegally for their velvety fur and meat, or capture them alive for the pet trade.
Films of Giant Otters rearing young in the wild are rare because these animals are extremely wary of human presence. The adult Giant Otter has few predators, but cubs are vulnerable to attack from Caiman and Jaguar, and require close protection in the first weeks and months of life.
Giant Otters build their dens in riverbanks, and give birth inside the dens. Otter cubs are born blind and remain so for the first four weeks of life. After they open their eyes, they begin walking in the fifth week and join other family members in the water when they are between 12 and 14 weeks old.
The female otter's breeding cycle usually coincides with the dry season when water levels are at their lowest and fish concentrations are at their highest. Parents and older siblings cooperate to catch prey for the new pups, and an abundance of prey makes it easier for adults in the family group to catch enough fish to feed the young.
WLT funds rangers at Three Giants Biological Station to protect and monitor wildlife in the Chaco-Pantanal Reserve. You can help keep Giant Otters safe by making a donation to Keepers of the Wild.
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Coronary artery calcium fracture following vessel preparation for stenting is associated with improved stent expansion. The ability of orbital atherectomy (OA) to facilitate Ca fracture has not been studied.
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) was performed post-OA and post-stent in 58 lesions. Ca modification was defined as a round, concave, polished lumen surface; and its prevalence was analyzed every 1mm and shown as percentage per lesion. Ca fracture was defined as complete discontinuity of calcified plaque after stenting. Optimal stent expansion was defined as cross-sectional area (CSA) ≥6.1mm2 (median) or stent expansion ≥90% (median).
Post-stent Ca fracture length (Ca fracture length/Ca length) correlated with post-OA Ca modification (Ca modification length/Ca length) (r=0.31, p=0.01). Among 75 Ca fractures in 35 lesions, maximum Ca fracture thickness was higher following Ca-modification than without-Ca-modification (0.58 mm [0.50-0.66] vs 0.45 mm [0.38-0.52], p=0.003) (figure). Post-OA optimal expansion was present in 41 patients (70.7%). Multivariable logistic regression analyses identified larger post-OA lumen CSA (Odds ratio, 2.6; 95%CI, 1.19-5.55; p=0.02) and the presence of Ca fracture (Odds ratio, 7.1; 95%CI, 1.30-38.6; p=0.02) as independent predictors for optimal-expansion.
Ca modification by OA facilitates post-stent Ca fracture even in regions of thick Ca as assessed by OCT. Greater Ca modification was correlated with more Ca fracture, in turn resulting in better stent expansion.


Add ½ dates, pulse and add in other ½.
Combine the dates, honey, chia seeds, flax seeds and salt in a food processor, and pulse until smooth. You should be able to stir the mixture -- if it is too thick, add in another tablespoon or two of honey.
Transfer the mixture to a large bowl, and stir in the oats, pistachios, and dried cranberries until evenly combined.
Once chilled, roll into balls about 1'' in diameter. Store in an airtight container and keep refrigerated for up to 1 week. Makes about 20 bites.


I did this card for the Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoaststampers today where we had a visit to Tim Holtz Pinterest Board called Crafts. I picked this for my inspiration. I am in the mood for a lot of colour, so I started with my background. I rubbed 4 different colours into my stencil and spritzed with a lot of water before laying down my cardstock. For the sunglasses I coloured using glitter markers and used vellum for the glass portion, then mounted on foam dots. I added the die cut border and matting in the lime green and die cut the sentiment in orange, and finished with a few sequins and crystals. I love all the bright happy colours and hope you do as well. Thanks for having a look.
Products: Frantic Stamper Retro Glasses, Frantic Stamper Stay Cool, Memory Box Stencil, Unknown Border Die, Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Sequins, Crystals.
Cool background technique........I'm going to have to try that but first need to get some stencils. Love all your colors on this card Kia.
this is just a super, fun and happy card!!!
Hope you have a great wknd mf.


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Home/News/Ukraine Activates Air Raid Sirens, Reports Russian Attacks
Ukraine Activates Air Raid Sirens, Reports Russian Attacks
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A man walks past a "To Moscow" sign attached to an old tank at a war museum in kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
kyiv (AP) — Russia launched a wave of explosive missile and drone attacks on Ukraine on Thursday, Ukrainian authorities reported.
Air raid sirens sounded across the country, though there were no immediate reports of injuries or the targets of shells and drones.
The head of kyiv's local government said 15 cruise missiles had been shot down.
The missiles were launched "in the direction of kyiv," said Serhii Popko, who did not say whether the target was the capital itself. The city's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said explosions had been heard in the Dniprovskyi district, on the eastern bank of the river that divides the city.
The attacks came a day after Germany and the United States announced they would send advanced main battle tanks to Ukraine, what one expert described as an "impact armored force" that would help kyiv break the battlefield stalemate. as the Russian invasion approached its 12th month.
Training of the tanks for Ukrainian troops could begin in the next few days, the German Defense Minister said on Thursday.
The teams will begin learning how to operate the German-made Leopard 2 model at a training center in Germany in late January, Boris Pistorius said.
The tanks themselves are expected to arrive in Ukraine before the end of March, Pistorius added.
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Head Lake ice goes out April 30
Although it seemed like winter would never leave Haliburton, the last chunk of ice finally melted into Head Lake in the afternoon of Tuesday, April 30.
We received more than 40 guesses from readers, but only one person guessed the right date. Congratulations to Eli Bassan, who receives a one-year subscription to the Haliburton Echo.
While we may think this winter was bad, in 1876 things were much more frosty. Steve Hill, curator of the Haliburton Highlands Museum, recently found a clipping from the May 9 Globe and Mail from that year.
"There is said to be no prospect of navigation opening at Haliburton before the 20th, the ice in Head Lake being still 18 or 20 inches thick," the story read.


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Q: PySpark generates wrong column name I have the following SQL query (proprietary details hidden):
SELECT uuid,
       extra_info,
       name
FROM table1
WHERE uuid is not null

When run on my local machine, this query gives no error. When deployed on server, I get the following error:
org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: cannot resolve '`extra_info`' given input columns (Notice the extra quotes).
'Project [name#7, 'extra_info, uuid#62] (Again notice the dangling quote).
What is happening here? Why are these quotes being inserted here? Can someone explain how to resolve this?


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Q: I am trying to extract some data from espn as a table and getting it as list start_urls = http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/18679/scorecard/1144998/australia-vs-india-2nd-odi-india-in-aus-2018-19
I scraped this site and extracted the match result(winning team) and then I yielded the player URL and I want to print the player name and the batting style. My first problem is
1. I cant abstract the player batting sytle. it is under <pclass="ciPlayerinformationtxt">Batting style Right-hand bat. I was only able to extract the text 'Batting style'.How to extract 'Right-hand bat'
2.I was unable to yield the whole extracted data as a table. The result I got was like
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link of all the player
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/326434.html
Player_name Country
Alex Carey  Australia
Kuldeep Yadav   India
Mohammed Siraj  India
Winning_Team:India
class ScoreSpider(scrapy.Spider):
    name = 'score'
    allowed_domains = ['espncricinfo.com']

    def parse(self, response):
        Player_URLs=[]

        #got the result

        result= response.xpath('//div[@class="cscore_notes"]/span/text()').extract_first()
        result=result.split(" ")
        Winning_Team =result[0]

        #extracted player ulrs

        Batting_Player_URLs=response.xpath('//div[@class="cell batsmen"]/a/@href').extract()
        Bowling_Player_URLs=response.xpath('//*[@class="scorecard-section bowling"]/table/tbody/tr/td/a/@href').extract()

        #added to a list

        Player_URLs.extend(Batting_Player_URLs)
        Player_URLs.extend(Bowling_Player_URLs)
        for p in Player_URLs:
            yield Request(p,callback=self.parse_players,meta={'p':p})
            yield{'Winning_Team':Winning_Team}

    def parse_players(self,response):
        Player_name=response.xpath('//div[@class="ciPlayernametxt"]/div/h1/text()').extract_first()
        Country=response.xpath('//div[@class="ciPlayernametxt"]/div/h3/b/text()').extract_first()

        #this wont give the batting style but the 'batting style' as text
        Batting_style=response.xpath('//div[@class="ciPlayerinformationtxt"]/p/text()').extract_first()

        yield{'Player_name':Player_name,
              'Country':Country,
              'Batting_style':Batting_style}

what I want is the extracted data as a single table and I wanted to avoid repetition.
          yield{'Winning_Team':Winning_Team,
                'Player_name':Player_name,
                'Country':Country,
                'Batting_style':Batting_style}

Thanks in advance

A: You need to adjust your XPath:
batting_style = response.xpath('//p[@class="ciPlayerinformationtxt"]/b[.="Batting style"]/following-sibling::span[1]/text()').get()

UPDATE
for p in Player_URLs:
    yield Request(p,callback=self.parse_players,meta={'Winning_Team':Winning_Team})

and later:
def parse_players(self,response):
    Winning_Team = response.meta["Winning_Team"]


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Trump slaps tariffs on imported washing machines, solar panels
Washington: US President Donald Trump has imposed steep tariffs on imported washing machines and solar panels, the first major step by his administration to protect manufacturers in the country.
The announcement on Monday came after a year of tough rhetoric -- but little action -- on curbing imports of cheap products from countries like China and South Korea. Both countries will be most heavily affected by the move, the New York Times reported.
Both China and South Korea harshly criticized the action, suggesting they could take their complaints to the World Trade Organization.
The administration's decision came in response to petitions from American manufacturers who have complained for years that rising imports were eating into their sales.
It was in line with Trump's "America First" trade policy, which aims to protect local manufacturers from foreign competition.
The action was being seen as the President's most significant trade move since his decision to pull the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal (TPP) and renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).
The administration said the tariffs were largely directed at China, which over the past decade has built itself into the world's largest manufacturer of solar products, flooding global markets with low-cost crystalline silicon panels.
Beijing on Tuesday hinted it could take a similar approach.
"With regard to the wrong measures taken by the US, China will work with other WTO members to resolutely defend our legitimate interests," its Ministry of Commerce said.
South Korea's Trade Minister Kim Hyun-chong said the tariffs may constitute a "violation of WTO provisions".
The imposition of tariffs will most likely exacerbate trade tensions with other nations also and could result in an escalation of retaliatory trade measures against imports from the US.
Trump will impose tariffs of up to 50 per cent on imported washers for the next three years and of up to 30 per cent on solar cells and modules for the next four years, said the Office of the US Trade Representative.
The decision was based on the findings by the US International Trade Commission that increased foreign imports of both products "are a substantial cause of serious injury to domestic manufacturers".
South Korean conglomerate Samsung called the decision "a great loss for American consumers and workers. This tariff is a tax on every consumer who wants to buy a washing machine".
US appliance maker Whirlpool said that the tariff move would benefit US manufacturing workers.
The announcement came with Trump's scheduled travel to Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum. He is scheduled to speak on Friday before the annual gathering of corporate and government leaders.
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Digital radiography (DR) – A modern method of recording a radiograph in digital form. Among digital radiography systems, there are indirect and direct systems. Intermediate systems for image recording use a phosphor-coated memory plate, which saves the latent image, which is read later by a special scanner. Direct systems use a digital CCD or CMOS detector to record radiation. The image of the tested object is displayed on the computer screen immediately after the exposure. Data collected this way can easily be digitized.
Navitest has a system for direct digital radiography enabling scanning of objects with a thickness up to 85 mm. While the sensor and the source are working in the radiation zone, the operator receives an image on the tablet screen, staying outside this zone. Detection of discontinuities (e.g. porosity, corrosion, erosion or cracks) already during the test enables intermediate decision to continue works with the object.
Digital radiography is most commonly used to monitor tube conditions and tanks as it provides detection and assessment of corrosion (including pitting corrosion). The thickness of the pipe or tank and the type of insulation material or coating is irrelevant to the effectiveness of the test. Corrosion mapping using digital radiography is an ideal way to monitor material damage – periodic testing allows measurements to be compared. Corrosion mapping is an effective way of seeing different material damage.
Digital radiography can also be used to wall thickness measurements; images of examined objects can be made by the insulation. There is no need to switch off or limit the functionality of a diagnosed device or remove insulation even in places such as refineries, drilling rigs, power plants, etc.
Digital radiography, just like the traditional, also allows you to evaluate the quality of welded joints, solders, etc., both during manufacturing and in operation.
- fast and easy access to high quality images - the result of the study is obtained immediately after the exposition without photochemical processing, and professional software enables improving of the image quality to achieve the desired image characteristics.
- the obtained image can be easily copied and transferred. Standard computer software (.tiff format files) is sufficient to view a digital image of the exposed object. Until now, making radiographs available for viewing outside the NDT laboratory required their physical transported. Digital image recording enables presenting the results to a client anywhere in the world.
Our system enables testing of pipelines, pressure vessels, welded joints, valves, reinforcements, rotor blades, engine components, turbine blades, other types of castings and forgings, plastic wires and many other. DR is also used to check the completeness or correct placement of individual elements in larger components.
The result of the examination is obtained immediate after the exposition without photochemical processing, and professional software enables improving of the image quality to achieve the desired image characteristics and significantly reduces the need of repeating expositions.
The digital image of the exposed object can be copied and emailed. Standard PC software for .tiff files is enough to show the results to a client anywhere in the world.


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Anders Rantzer received a PhD in 1991 from KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. After postdoctoral positions at KTH and at IMA, University of Minnesota, he joined Lund University in 1993 and was appointed professor of Automatic Control in 1999. The academic year of 2004/05 he was visiting associate faculty member at Caltech and 2015/16 he was Taylor Family Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Minnesota. Since 2008 he coordinates the Linnaeus center LCCC at Lund University.
Rantzer is an editorial board member of Proceedings of the IEEE and several other publications. He is a winner of the SIAM Student Paper Competition, the IFAC Congress Young Author Price and the award for best article in IEE Proceedings - Control Theory & Applications. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and former chairman of the Swedish Scientific Council for Natural and Engineering Sciences.
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Pittsburgh is the first major U.S. city to adopt a rights-based ordinance that includes the legal rights for nature.
The ordinance is also the first in the nation to recognize the legally binding rights of nature. Nature and the resources it offers has for too long been seen as property. And damage done is only gauged by human impact. Drilling, for example, could only be challenged by its harm to humans; not the water, land, and animals that it violates. By seeing nature as more than a means to an end, but rather for its innate right to exist the city is protecting the ecosystems and natural communities by which it relies on and residents are empowered by this ordinance to enforce those rights.
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Aiman Napoli (ur. 2 lutego 1989 w Paderno Dugnano) – włoski piłkarz, napastnik w zespole Renate.

Kariera
Napoli rozpoczął swoją karierę w 2005 roku, kiedy to grał dla klubu z Serie C1 - Pro Sesto. Rozegrał tam dwa mecze. Od 2007 roku grał w Interze, w którym zadebiutował 19 grudnia 2007 roku, w meczu Pucharu Włoch przeciwko Regginie. Z Interu był wypożyczany do Modeny, Crotone, Hellasu Verona orz Prato. Następnie był zawodnikiem Prato, a także Pisy i Renate.

W barwach Modeny i Crotone rozegrał łącznie 42 spotkania i zdobył 3 bramki w Serie B.

Bibliografia

Włoscy piłkarze
Piłkarze Interu Mediolan
Piłkarze Modeny FC
Piłkarze FC Crotone
Piłkarze Hellasu Verona
Piłkarze AC Prato
Piłkarze AC Pisa 1909
Urodzeni w 1989

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Q: Question about the behavior in which $\cos x$ repeats in the interval $[0,2\pi]$. It's obvious to see that $\cos x$ repeats every $2\pi$ values of $x$. However if you look at $\cos x$ in the interval $[0,2\pi]$:

Than you can see that cosine repeats (in this specific interval) in such a way that cannot be described by the simple equation:
$$\cos(x+2\pi)=\cos(x)$$
My question is can you find an function $g(x)$ st. :
$$\cos(x)=\cos(x+g(x))$$ in $$[0,2\pi]$$
I know that $g(0)=2\pi$ works, $g(\pi)=0$, and $g(\pi/2)=\pi$  works.
I thought of using angle sum:
$$\cos(x)=\cos(x)\cos(g(x))-\sin(x)\sin(g(x))$$
But could not get anywhere. Help and hints are greatly appreciated.


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Happy Canada Day 2018 : Electing the Governor General could make a lot of sense in the 21st century
Jul 1st, 2018 | By Randall White | Category: Key Current Issues
Meghan Markle and her mother, Doria Ragland, on their way to tea with the Queen, May 2018.
Meghan Markle and Harry Wales have now shown the world that the British monarchy does have some kind of modern future. (Though, somewhat intriguingly, what was once the website of "The British Monarchy" nowadays just calls itself "The home of the Royal Family.")
Meanwhile, back in the most northerly North American UN member state, Canada Day 2018 may also be a good time to think further about Jonathan Manthorpe's helpful April 18 ipolitics report on "Commonwealth countries consider life after Queen Elizabeth."
Long before the new populist age of Doug Ford (and some would add Donald Trump), Mr. Manthorpe's book on The Power and the Tories in Canada's most populous province convinced more than a few readers that (strange as it may seem) Ontario politics was interesting.
Canada Day 2018 fireworks set off between the North Shore and Canada Place in Vancouver start at 10:30 PM PT.
Many years later, his report on life in the Commonwealth after the Queen usefully frames a broad policy debate we ought to be having (quietly and craftily) in all parts of Canada today.
Of particular interest are the arguments Mr. Manthorpe advances in the later parts of his article, starting with : "If Canadians decided they wanted to directly elect the Governor-General …"
He urges that : "Directly electing the head of state sounds like a great democratic advance, but it is not." From another point of view, this proposition at least deserves to be challenged, in a friendly, upbeat spirit, inspired by diverse traditions of compromise — and perhaps especially at a time when a president next door actually seems to be threatening the Canadian future (in one way or another).
1. Canada's office of Governor General begs to be reformed
To start with, in what the Constitution Act, 1982 alludes to as our "free and democratic society" of the 21st century, our current haphazardly evolved method of filling the office of "Governor General and Commander in Chief of Canada" does beg to be reformed.
PM Stephen Harper and the Governor General he appointed, David Johnston.
As matters stand, the monarchy back at Buckingham Palace may be "above politics." But in 2018 the Governor General who does the practical work of the monarch (and head of state) in Canada is practically appointed by the Prime Minister of Canada (head of government).
And how can someone who is indebted for her appointment to the country's most powerful politician be credibly perceived as above politics?
Jonathan Manthorpe alludes to key implications of this situation in his April 18 report. In our constitution today, he notes, "the Governor-General and provincial counterparts, the Lieutenant-governors, have limited but critical powers."
He illustrates these powers with a sketch of former Lieutenant-Governor Judith Guichon's stabilizing role in the creation of the present BC provincial government, after voters delivered a complex election verdict last year.
Appointment of provincial lieutenant governors by the federal prime minister does arguably lead to office holders who are at least more "above politics" locally than governor generals in Ottawa — and more credible in exercising their limited but critical powers when need be.
PM Justin Trudeau and the Governor General he appointed, Julie Payette.
Yet at the federal level, as Mr. Manthorpe also stresses : "On four occasions, former prime minister Stephen Harper urged the Governor-General to prorogue Parliament before the session was complete … In all four occasions the Governors-General decided to follow Harper's advice, but they need not have done so."
Jonathan Manthorpe does not dwell on the real-world problems of governor generals who may feel they ought to reject the advice of prime ministers in particular cases, but also finally feel unable to because they are appointed by prime ministers.
At this point his argument nonetheless logically turns to the prospect of directly electing the governor general — which "sounds like a great democratic advance, but … is not."
2. Experience in other jurisdictions and potential Canadian adaptations
Directly electing the Governor General of Canada would certainly give the office the soft-power credibility to actually exercise its limited but critical powers if and when the need arose, and the partisan advice of the prime minister seemed not in the best interest of the Canadian people.
US Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders visits Irish President Michael D. Higgins at his official residence, Áras an Uachtaráin, June 2017.
In Mr. Manthorpe's view, however, the concept of a directly elected head of state in our kind of parliamentary democracy raises troubling questions, and would finally prove "a recipe for clashing egos and political stalemate."
Moreover, other more modest approaches to reforming our method of selecting governor generals raise their own equally troubling questions. And : "The easy answer to all these questions" is just "to allow the current system to continue."
One crucial quarrel with this and other similar analyses is that they are all theoretical, without reference to real-world experience. Ireland, for example, has had a directly elected ceremonial head of state in a parliamentary democracy like Canada's since 1937.
(The holder of this office also lives in the former official residence of the governor general of the old British dominion established in Ireland in 1922.)
President of Iceland Gudni Johannesson, with wife Eliza Reid who grew up in Canada, at an election party in Reykjavik, June 2016. HALLDOR KOLBEINS / AFP/GETTY IMAGES.
Iceland has also had a directly elected ceremonial head of state since 1944, in another parliamentary democracy with a prime minister as head of government. (And the wife of the current elected "president" of Iceland, Ms. Eliza Reid, "grew up on a hobby farm near Ottawa.")
In neither the Icelandic nor the Irish case has the directly elected office in fact proved "a recipe for clashing egos and political stalemate" — over the past three-quarters of a century.
Mr. Manthorpe similarly raises "the whole issue of how candidates would be chosen" as an especially problematic question in directly electing the governor general in Canada.
Yet the method of choosing the indirectly elected ceremonial head of state in India (another modern parliamentary democracy and former British dominion, like Canada) suggests amendments to the current Irish nomination process, that would make particular sense in a northern North American federal system with a strong federal government and strong provinces.
President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind on a visit to Equatorial Guinea, Swaziland, and Zambia in Africa, April 2018.
Candidates for the directly elected ceremonial head of state in Ireland must be nominated by 20 members of the Irish parliament, or at least four local municipal councils.
Just as an example, a Canada inspired by the role of state legislatures in choosing the head of state in India might prescribe that a candidate in governor general elections must be nominated by, say, 30 ordinary registered voters, 10 members of the federal parliament, and 10 members of at least seven provincial legislatures representing 50% of the Canada-wide population.
(And in answer to another of Mr. Manthorpe's questions here, lieutenant governors of provinces could also finally be chosen by the reformed office of Governor General in practice, as has been long hinted at in the Constitution Act, 1867.)
3. Opening the constitutional can of worms
Of course, reforming the office of governor general in this way would involve what Jonathan Manthorpe calls "amending the constitution" — a "can of worms" that "none of this country's political leaders wants to open."
Part of the Trans Mountain Pipeline from Alberta to BC and Canada's Pacific Coast has already been constructed.
But the controversy over the Trans Mountain pipeline is arguably just one sign that we still have considerable undone constitutional work to do in Canada. The Quebec government's June 2017 paper on at least starting to talk about ongoing constitutional issues is another.
If Canada and the United States are in fact about to embark on a rather perplexing trade war between the two countries with almost certainly the closest relations of all sorts in the world today, resolving some kind of comparatively easy constitutional issue (who really stands to lose from electing the governor general?) could strengthen the Canadian future as well.
As Jonathan Manthorpe and others point out, reforming the office of governor general would also require the agreement of the federal parliament and all 10 provincial legislatures. Yet as too seldom noted in discussions of this sort, this allegedly unheard-of unanimous federal-provincial agreement has already been achieved at least once in the 1992 Charlottetown Accord.
4. Towards a Canadian republic?
Mr. Manthorpe is almost certainly right when he urges that the "easy answer to all these questions" is just "to allow the current system to continue."
But we may already be in a time when Canada will need to do a little more than follow easy answers, if we really want to show the rest of the world that we're a place where innovation happens and things get done — regardless of our sometimes erratic, bullying neighbours.
It could also be said that directly electing the governor general would ultimately imply a wider acceptance of the de facto "republican" constitution that some political scientists see Canada as having moved towards with the Constitution Act, 1982.
(See, eg, the late Frederick Vaughan's book of 2003, The Canadian Federalist Experiment : From Defiant Monarchy to Reluctant Republic.)
For the time being, however, the office of governor general in Canada could be made directly elected without wading into the undoubtedly more complex issue of just how the Constitution Act, 1867 would have to be amended, to finally remove all symbols of the British monarchy from the official theory of how Canada works.
Meanwhile, the Canadian diplomat Paul Heinbecker would disagree with Jonathan Manthorpe about how the continuing "somewhat eccentric attachment to the British crown" has "the virtue of being a clear distinction between Canada and the U.S. for people outside North America, often to Canada's advantage."
(See Mr. Heinbecker's Canada Day 2014 article in the Globe and Mail : "The monarchy hurts Canada's standing in the world. It's time to let go.")
Finally, what seriously and forever distinguishes us politically from the United States is that we're an officially bilingual parliamentary democracy, on the so-called Westminster (or "British") model — not that we remain an easy-answer, neo-colonial "constitutional monarchy" with an offshore head of state. (That just makes it seem like we still haven't quite grown up, even if the Canadian confederation of 1867 is now 151 years old. And, oh btw, happy birthday!)
Tags: Canada and United States, Canadian republic, Elect governor general Canada, Elected Irish president, Frederick Vaughan, Jonathan Manthorpe, Lieutenant governors in Canada, Paul Heinbecker on monarchy, president of Iceland, president of India
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The cryptocurrency markets plummeted on Monday following a report that the Chinese central bank had issued a blanket ban on initial coin offerings (ICOs). The bitcoin price fell 5%, while the ethereum price took an 11% dive. The altcoin markets fared equally as bad, with 91 of the top 100 cryptocurrencies declining for the day.
This widespread investor panic caused the total value of all cryptocurrencies to plummet. Yesterday, the total crypto market cap was $164 billion–a $16 billion decline from the all-time high it set on September 2. But the news that the People's Bank of China (PBoC) had decided to ban ICOs sent the crypto market cap careening below $150 billion.
According to the report, all token sales are forbidden within the country, and organizations which have already completed ICOs are instructed to return all investor funds. This is likely an impossible task, since organizations have doubtlessly already spent a portion of those funds.
The bitcoin price weathered the storm better most cryptocurrencies, but it still took a 5% hit. This intensified the sell-off that began when the bitcoin price touched $5,000 on September 2. Since that point, the bitcoin price has plunged nearly $700. At present, the bitcoin price is $4,344, which translates into a $71.9 billion market cap.
China's ICO ban confirms investor fears that the nation does not intend to reconsider its hostile posture toward cryptocurrency and will have ripple effects throughout the entire market. However, decentralized smart contracts platforms such as Ethereum and NEO will bear the brunt of the damage. Following news of the ban, the ethereum price plunged 12% to $304. This is a nearly $90 decrease from last week, when the ethereum price climbed as high as $390. At present, ethereum has a market cap of $28.7 billion.
Unfortunately, the ICO squeeze might not be isolated to China. South Korea–home of the world's highest-volume cryptocurrency exchange–is considering strengthening its bitcoin and digital currency regulations. Reportedly, the regulators want to "punish" ICOs.
News of the ICO ban devastated the altcoin markets. No top 25 coin increased more than 1% for the day, and 91 of the top 100 coins engaged in a comprehensive retreat.
In a twist of fate, the bitcoin cash price–which only declined 4%–returned the best single-day performance of any top 10 coin. The Ripple, NEM, and Dash prices fell 7%, while the litecoin price plunged 13% to $67. The litecoin price has declined almost $30 since peaking above $90 last week.
Eighth-ranked IOTA dropped 16% to $0.612, reducing its market cap to $1.7 billion. The Monero price fell 9% to $112, and 10th-ranked ethereum classic dropped 11% to about $17.
NEO–the "Chinese Ethereum"–was absolutely pummeled by the report of the ICO ban. The NEO price fell to $20. This represents a single-day decrease of 34% and a weekly decline of almost 50%.
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2. Boil the sliced potatoes for about 10 minutes, just to soften them a little bit and not cook them all the way. Drain, and set aside.
3. While the potatoes are boiling, take out a pyrex or glass baking dish and lightly grease it with some of the vegetable oil. Don't use all of the oil...just use a little and set the rest aside.
4. Slice the hot dogs into 1/2 inch circles. Place in baking dish.
5. Put the pepper chunks, onions, and potatoes in the baking dish with the hot dogs. Drizzle vegetable oil on top. Sprinkle with a little salt and pepper to taste.
6. With your hands, toss all of the ingredients together so they're all coated lightly with the oil, salt, and pepper.
7. Cover with aluminum foil. Bake for 40 minutes, or until you can smell the onions and peppers cooking, the hot dogs look cooked, and the potatoes are soft but firm. The peppers and onions should be soft but firm...not totally wilted and mushy.
Notes: You can prepare this hours in advance, cover with foil, and refrigerate it. Just take it out to get to room temperature about a 1/2 hour before you put it in the oven.
Hot Dog Casserole, prepped and ready to bake in the oven!


"The foremost critical natural resource issue facing humanity is freshwater. ... No more fresh water will exist on Earth than there was 2,000 years ago when the population was 3% of its current size."
The water cycle contains the largest chemical flux on Earth. Water distributes heat around the globe and thus creates climate, and water is the single most important factor regulating land-plant productivity worldwide. Without water, life would not exist (perhaps on ANY planet), and despite the fact that 70% of the Earth's surface is covered with water, over 97% of that water is salty and can't be used for drinking, agriculture, or industry. Only about 0.014% of the water at Earth's surface is useable by plants, humans, and other animals.
1. What are the major pathways and controls of water movement on Earth – what processes (e.g., evaporation, precipitation) are important?
2. How is rising temperature from global warming affecting the water cycle?
3. How will the interactions between temperature and water cycle processes affect lake levels and drought in the future?
1st - Accounting: Accounting tells you "where things are," or the distribution of the element in different pools within the ecosystem.
2nd - Cycling: Cycling tells you "where things are going," and how fast they are moving from different pools in the ecosystem.
3rd - Controls: Determining the controls tells you "how does the system function, and what factors drive the cycling."
Using this approach of gaining knowledge about each of these three components enables you to answer the question of "How will things change?". Gaining this kind of a predictive understanding of ecosystems, or of communities or populations, is the most important goal in basic scientific research. So, let's start with the Accounting in our examination of the global water cycle.
Figure 1. The Laurentian Great Lakes contain 20% of the world's freshwater.
Figure 2. The distribution of water at the Earth's surface, showing that freshwater is scarce!.
As you can see from the Table and from Figure 2, most of the water on Earth is tied-up in rocks and unavailable (this water is in the mineral grains itself. Of the water that is at the surface of the Earth and available for cycling, only a very small percentage is fresh water. Of that fresh water, about 20% is contained solely in the Laurentian Great Lakes in North America (Figure 1), and another 20% is contained in a single lake in Siberia, Lake Baikal.
The atmospheric water residence time is the shortest, and less that 10 days (as part of your learning about the water cycle, please take a moment to calculate the atmospheric water residence time following the example above for ocean residence time). This very short residence time of the atmosphere indicates that the main fluxes into and out of the atmosphere (evaporation and precipitation) are dynamic, which is one reason why storms and floods are also very dynamic.
Figure 3. The Global Water Cycle - Pathways and Fluxes (values in 103 km3/yr) and residence time of major water pools..
There are several major controls on the water cycle, including temperature increases, human consumption, and land use change. In this lecture we will focus on the role of temperature in the water cycle, especially as it affects (1) Evaporation, (2) Lake ice melting, and (3) Drought. The melting of ice from glaciers and ice sheets, and how that affects sea level rise, will be the focus of an upcoming lecture.
(A). Temperature. Temperature has a strong affect on evaporation and the amount of water the air can hold. As temperature increases, the rate of evaporation (water changing state from a liquid form to a vapor form) increases - think about setting a glass of water out on a table and putting another glass under a heat lamp - which glass would evaporate its water sooner? In addition, if the air is dry (low humidity or low "water vapor partial pressure") then the rate of evaporation will also be higher. This is because the liquid and vapor states of water are always trying to come to equilibrium, and water will evaporate until the air is saturated with water vapor (cannot hold more) or all the water is gone, whichever comes first. This equilibrium is described in Figure 4 below, and the black line shows the equilibrium between water and vapor at different temperatures. Above the line the water vapor partial pressure is greater than the equilibrium (the atmosphere can't hold that much water), and water vapor condenses to form liquid water droplets. Below the line, the water vapor pressure is undersaturated, and because the atmosphere can hold more water vapor the liquid water evaporates to raise the vapor pressure up to the black line.
Finally, note that the atmosphere can hold more water vapor at higher temperatures (think of the last time you felt very "sticky" from high humidity - was it on a cold day or a hot day?). This is a very important relationship, and it is at the center of why increasing temperatures on Earth are causing an intensification of the water cycle. Because warmer air holds more moisture, and because increasing temperature increases the rate of evaporation, when it is hotter out we have greater rates of evaporation and precipitation (rain). [Note that the total amount of water in the atmosphere or the ocean may not change, but the rates of cycling increase at higher temperatures.] Therefore, the greatest evaporation rates are when the weather is hot and dry, and the greatest water vapor amounts (humidity) in the atmosphere are when the weather is hot and wet.
Figure 4. The amount of water vapor the atmosphere can hold increases as the temperature increases.
1. The Case of the Great Lakes Water Levels. In 2000 the water levels in the Laurentian Great Lakes were very low, but the precipitation levels were normal that year. This confused scientists because in addition to normal preciptiation inputs the temperatures that year were only slightly warmer, meaning that the lake levels should also have been normal and not extremely low. Because the level of water in a lake (or bathtub) is a simple mass balance of inputs (rain, snow, river inlets) and outputs (evaporation and river outlets or withdrawal), we can examine the components of this mass balance in order to determine why lake levels were low.
Examine the data record for the average Great Lakes temperature, evaporation, and water levels shows that the evaporation was indeed higher in the year 200, when lake level was low. However, the fact that we can also have lower lake levels (in the early 1980s) when temperature and evaporation were low, means that another factor must be involved beyond simply the temperature alone increasing evaporation. Until now we have talked about the intensity or rates of evaporation increasing with temperature, but in our mass balance model we must know the duration of the evaporation as well. For example, if there was a longer duration of open water on the Great Lakes in 2000 (i.e., less ice cover), then we would expect more evaporation over the course of the year, even if the temperature was not increased. We know that warmer winters have shorter ice cover, and ice blocks the evaporation of lake water into the atmosphere, meaning that the lake water can evaporate to the atmosphere for a longer period of time. If this integration of components of the water cycle is responsible for Great Lakes water levels, we would expect lower water levels in the years 2000 and 2013 when the ice cover was very short - and that is exactly what we find.
Figure 5. Great Lakes average temperature, evaporation, and water levels.
Figure 6. Great Lakes annual maximum ice coverage, showing low ice cover in years around 2000 and 2013. This corresponds with low lake levels in those years, due to the greater time for open-water evaporation when the ice cover period is shorter.
Drought in the Southwest U.S.
A second example of the intensification of the water cycle concerns drought. Although the severity and extended periods of drought have likely increased worldwide, here we discuss the example of drought in the southwestern United States and specifically in the Colorado River Basin. The key point is that because air temperatures have increased over time due to global warming, rates of evaporation have also increased and that has lowered the levels of water stored in reservoirs. This water shortage is independent of the precipitation amounts, and increasing evaporation that leads to drought will be a continuing problem as global temperatures rise. The droughts seen in the southwestern and western U.S. have been termed "megadroughts" because of their severity and long-term nature. While megadroughts have occured in the past, and are part of the natural variability of climate, on the basis of our fundamental scientific understanding of the water cycle, megadroughts will only become more common or intense in a warmer future world.
Figure 7. Water cycle components in the Colorado River Basin over time.
The Colorado River Basin has had two main droughts in the last 100 years, as distinguished mainly by the volume of water stored in the system (Fig. 7). Droughts can be caused by too little precipitation, as occurred in the 1950s, or by warmer temperatures that increase evaporation rates (starting in the 2000s). Even though the precipitation (rain and snow) in the upper basin has been near the long-term average since 2000, the increasing temperatures (bottom panel in Fig. 7) have caused greater evaporation and a loss of water flowing and stored in the Colorado (top two panels).
(B). Human consumption. The consumption of water by humans has increased dramatically since the industrial revolution, and today water is a critically lacking resource in certain areas such as deserts and semi-deserts. In addition to this local vulnerability, it is quite likely that water shortages due to human consumption will occur at the regional scale in the near future. For example, the southwestern United States (in all seriousness) has proposed to "buy" water from the Great Lakes states and build a pipeline from Lake Michigan -- so far Michigan, Wisconsin, and other nearby states and Canadian provinces have declined such offers. Globally, the U.S. dominates in terms of the average water use per person, 575 Liters or over 150 gallons per day.
Figure 8. Rates of water withdrawn from surface and groundwater sources, and consumption per individual for representative countries.
In industrialized countries most water is used for industry (59%) and then agriculture, while in developing countries 82% of water usage is for agriculture. We can define the Sustainability of water use as simply the supply minus the demand. The supply is from precipitation, and the demand from agriculture, utilities, industry, and domestic use. Already today parts of the western U.S. have unsustainable water supplies, and by 2050 (Fig. 9) the risk of unsustainable water supply will increase dramatically, especially when factoring in the increased evaporation at higher temperatures from global warming. While the supply will be reduced, the demand for water is estimated to grow 12.3% from 2000 to 2050.
Figure 9. Rates of water withdrawn from surface and groundwater sources, and consumption per individual for representative countries.
(C). Land use changes. Currently most of the land use changes on Earth, such as deforestation, are at a local scale. However, it may soon become important at regional scales and for the entire globe in the future. For example, in a study done at Hubbard Brook in New Hampshire, run-off increased by up to 400% after deforestation. Nutrient cycles are strongly linked to hydrologic cycle, and so nutrient export was also increased. These increases are only temporary, however, and the likely end result of such land use changes is that precipitation will be decreased (this will be discussed in more detail in the upcoming lecture on the Tropical Rainforest), and soils will become less fertile. This illustrates one of the key points about element cycles, which is that they are most often linked and it is difficult to study them in isolation. In this example, the water cycle strongly controls the nutrient cycling due to the transport of nutrients in runoff. In what is a particularly striking case, in the Amazon the drainage basin is so large that it makes its own climate, and evaporation in one part of the basin returns as rainfall in another part. However, much of this evaporation moving water into the atmosphere is due to transpiration (through trees), and it has been predicted that increasing deforestation will reduce rainfall and make the climate drier, to the point that rainforest will not be able to grow back.
1. Useable freshwater is very scarce on Earth.
2. Precipitation and evaporation are the most dynamic fluxes in the water cycle, and have the greatest short-term impacts on water levels, floods, and droughts.
3. Evaporation rates and moisture holding capacity of the atmosphere both increase with rising temperatures.
5. Drought extremes (megadroughts) are predicted to increase in the future. 6. Current demands for freshwater are unsustainable given water availability, and this problem will only get worse if warming continues.
"Drink water now, while you can...".
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Q: Visual Studio 2015 - Class Wizard in C++ When I right click my project and go to Class Wizard I'm met with the following error:
"The solution's source code database may not have been opened. Please make sure the solution is not open in another copy of Visual Studio, and that its database file is not read only."

What I've tried so far:

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*Creating a new project

*Restarting Visual Studio

*Restarting PC

*Repairing Visual Studio

*Reinstalling Visual Studio

*Installing MS SQL Server Compact 3.5

*Deleting the folder: C:\Users\Jacob\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0

None of these have had any effect, and I'm finding very few pages online where others have had this issue. I am totally at a loss on what to do next.
If anyone has any ideas, I would really appreciate them.

A: It turns out the problem here was actually caused by JetBrains Resharper C++, which I didn't consider could be the problem.
There seems to be no solution, however the program provides an alternative Class Wizard in the same menu.