Unsurprisingly, this state — which takes up the entire northeast corner of the country and has a relaxed, vacationer-friendly atmosphere — has contributed much to that great Aussie reputation for weathering a hot day with a cold beverage.
So the government's decision to launch a carbon-footprint policy for householders, urging people to reduce carbon emissions by cutting energy and reducing the impact of household goods and services, presented a challenge that the liquor industry here seems only too happy to meet.
If successful, this might make a big impact on the national carbon footprint, since the Aussie wine industry sells about 1.23 billion liters a year, a third of which Aussies account for and two-thirds of which goes offshore, fetching an average .24 a liter.
Americans drank 236 million liters of the stuff in June this year, slightly less than the British effort of 265 million liters, according to official figures from the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation.
The Australian Federal Department of Climate Change boosters its program by saying its "greenhouse friendly" labeling offers wine producers a competitive edge, mainly because the so-called Australian Greenhouse Office supports them by promoting those companies which gain certification.
This competitive edge will be especially handy given the news this week that Australia has been ranked as the world's No. 1 per capita carbon emitter in a report from the Maplesoft analyst company.
An unscientific review of the latest offerings at Aussie liquor stores and coffee shops revealed there's already plenty of "green" to choose from.
Among those putting an environment-friendly face on their products are several industry giants, including Yalumba and Wolf Blass, as well as smaller outfits such as Zilzie Wines and breweries such as Lion Nathan.
Yalumba's Y-series now comes with a little green tag on the neck which urges drinkers to "share Yalumba, share the future," and lets the drinker know that the company's green venture has won several awards: the Green Apple U.K. award 2007 ("an international award for environmental best practice"); a climate-protection award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency; and from the Australian Greenhouse Office, a gong for being a leader in greenhouse management 2005.
Airline travelers have been quaffing from plastic mini-bottles for years but now Wolf Blass has gone mainstream plastic with its new 750ml Green Label.
It calculates that its new PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic bottle packaging produces 29 percent less greenhouse gas emissions over the entire life cycle of the product, i.e. the grape growing, the wine making, bottling and packaging, distribution, and use (that's the buyer) disposal and recycling. Part of this is because (the company says) the product is 36 percent lighter and 100 percent recyclable.
Wolf Blass rolled out its new product to journalists and political types during Treasurer Wayne Swan's Budget road show earlier this year. It's a noticeably shorter and thinner bottle without the chunkiness of glass.
And there's no familiar clinking of the bottles in the car on the way home from the liquor shop.
Zilzie Wines, of Karadoc in northwest Victoria's Mildura region, claims to be carbon neutral with its Bulloak brand (a chardonnay and a cabernet merlot).
New on the block is the environment-friendly Barefoot Radler beer from multinational giant Lion Nathan.
This promises "carbon-neutral" beer and carries a "greenhouse-friendly" label from the Australian Government's "Climate Friendly" program.
And that's not all, their website shows the company has a pool of money to the tune of $100,000 for volunteer "Coastcare" groups to preserve and restore local coastlines.
Competitor Fosters Brewing has its own green venture: Cascade Green, "100 percent carbon offset." And healthy too: it's marketed as a "low-carb" brew.
We've been hearing something similar for more than 10 years, but with a different accent, from the folks at Banrock Station, another property on the banks of the Murray River and one of the earlier adopters of the "green" labeling trend.
Banrock Station drinkers can feel good about helping preserve wetlands and a swag of threatened species such as birds, fish and frogs around the world.
Of course, green labeling is about green production and according to the latest Greenpeace report on climate change and wine, Australian wineries stand to benefit most from all this, while European wineries stand to loose. Cheers!


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Q: What's going on with my if-else statement? (Python 3.3) I'm writing conditional statements for a billing program project. It's a bit advanced for a beginner I know but I welcome the challenge. Anyways, I plan on starting the program with asking for username and password. So this is my first coding for the program.
print ("Hello and welcome to Billing Pro, please enter your username and password to access the database.")

username = input ("Enter username:")

if username == "cking" or "doneal" or "mcook":
  print ("Valid username.")
else:
  print ("Invalid username. Please try again.")

password = input ("Enter password:")

if password == "rammstein1" or "theory1" or "tupac1":
  print ("Valid password. User has been verified.")
else:
  print ("Invalid password. Access denied.")

Now at first when I ran this code if I had typed in anything other than the three choices for username Python printed out the 'invalid username' line. For some reason now, it's printing out 'valid username' and then going ahead with the password prompt. Also if I input anything other than the choices for passwords it will always read out the 'valid password' prompt.
Also how do I loop the username prompt when the user inputs something other than the three choices? Should I be using a while statement instead of if-else or can a while statement be placed at the end of the if-else statement to trigger the prompting again?
Oh and I know you can't tell because my crappy formatting in the question, but I did use proper indentation on the script itself.

A: The problem with your boolean expressions themselves is that they're always True.
if a == 'b' or 'c' is like if (True|False) or 'c', and since 'c' is truthy, it's True regardless of the first expression (a == 'b').
You either want a == 'b' and a == 'c'… or the more succinct a in {'b', 'c'…}, which checks if a is a member of the set.
If you want to loop, use a loop :)
while username not in {"cking", "doneal", "mcook"}:
    print ("Invalid username. Please try again.")
    username = input ("Enter username:")
print ("Valid username.")

A: You need to compare your name with all names. Problem lies here:
if username == "cking" or "doneal" or "mcook":

Python evaluates first one to either true or false and then doing or with something, that evaluates to True in this context and at the end your comparison looks like this:
if username == "cking" or True or True:

which ends up being True. As suggested, you should use:
if username == "cking" or username == "doneal":

or simply do:
if username in ("cking", "doneal"):

The same applies to password.

A: I think this code can help you
from sys import argv

    username=raw_input("Enter user name")
    password=raw_input("Enter password")

    if(username=="VARUN" or "Varun" or "varun"):
        print "\n\tvalid Username "
    else:
        print "\n\tUsername already existes"

    if (password=="@ppu1131986"):
        print "\n\tPasssowrd matched"
    else:
        print "\n\tWeak Password"
~

A: print ("Hello, welcome to Facebook, please enter your username and password to access.")

username = input ("Enter username:")

if username == "cking":
  print ("Valid username.")
else:
  print ("Invalid username. Please try again.")

  username = input ("Enter username:")

if username == "cking":
  print ("Valid username.")
else:
  print ("Invalid username. Please try again.")

password = input ("Enter password:")

if password ==  "tupac1":
  print ("Valid password. User has been verified.")
else:
  print ("Invalid password. Access denied.")

  password = input ("Enter password:")

if password ==  "tupac1":
  print ("Valid password. User has been verified.")
else:
  print ("Invalid password. Access denied.")

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Why Do Democrats Scorn Legal Pot?
Posted by CN Staff on April 10, 2014 at 18:52:39 PT
By Steve Chapman
Source: Chicago Tribune
USA -- Legalizing marijuana is an issue made to order for the Democratic Party. A majority of Americans now support the idea, and so do two out of three Democrats. Two states have done it, and several more may vote on it in 2016.The party could put the issue to use against Republicans, who have no desire to be the party of weed. Can you imagine Rick Santorum or Marco Rubio or Paul Ryan endorsing legalization? Even libertarian Rand Paul declines to go that far.
He is not misreading his party. Chris Christie will lose no votes in the primaries for saying, as he did last month, "I don't favor legalization. I don't favor recreational use. I don't favor decriminalization. And I don't favor the use of marijuana as a medicine."So the GOP is locked into a position that is steadily losing appeal with the public. Worse yet, support for legalization is highest among young people and lowest among seniors. Rejecting it is a great way to worsen the Republicans' ominous demographic problem.There's only one thing standing in the way of the Democratic Party using the pot issue to win elections, curtail arrests of minorities, free money for social programs and cement the allegiance of young voters: Democratic politicians.Start with Hillary Rodham Clinton. Her husband may have tried weed, but she has never attested to such youthful indiscretions, probably because she never committed them. As secretary of state, she spoke out against legalization of cannabis, and in 2008 she rejected even decriminalization.That stance is no accident. Clinton got involved in politics in the 1970s, when Democrats were tarred as hippies and draft-dodgers � embracing "acid, amnesty and abortion," Republicans alleged. If Democrats of that era learned anything, they learned to look and sound like they couldn't find Woodstock on a map.Shedding an ingrained persona at her age does not come easy. My bet is you'll see Dick Cheney on a skateboard before you'll see Clinton go after the stoner vote. If she's the 2016 presidential nominee, legalizers will have to look elsewhere.Democratic governors also blanch at the sight of a pipe. New York's Andrew Cuomo, who only recently accepted medical marijuana, rejects legalization. Connecticut's Dannel Malloy says, "I don't think we are ready, or want to go down that road."Don't look for a live-and-let-live approach in California, where Gov. Jerry Brown recently went off on the sort of addled tangent that could be excused only if he were high. "All of a sudden, if there's advertising and legitimacy, how many people can get stoned and still have a great state or a great nation?" he asked scornfully. "The world's pretty dangerous, very competitive."Brown apparently is unaware that cannabis use is far more common in the United States than in the Netherlands, which has one of the most permissive regimes in the world. Banning pot doesn't actually prevent people from getting baked.Of course, if you truly wanted to worry about a mind-altering toxin that damages productivity and ruins lives, you wouldn't focus on marijuana; you'd focus on alcohol. But Brown doesn't worry that the Golden State's many wineries and craft breweries put it at a competitive disadvantage.Even Democratic governors presiding over legalization are not wearing "Bong Hits for Jesus" T-shirts. When Washington voters voted on legalization in 2012, Jay Inslee was running for governor and unsuccessfully opposed it. Colorado's John Hickenlooper came out against the Colorado initiative, which also passed. Neither has gotten giddy about the idea since then.But it's hard for Democrats to justify treating mere possession as a crime, if only because that policy has so many corrosive effects they should care about. It squanders revenue that could be used for more useful government programs. It causes blacks to be arrested four times more often than whites, even though they smoke weed at roughly the same rate.It encourages police to stop and frisk � a practice that in New York City, a federal judge ruled last year, led to violations of the Constitution and unjustified racial profiling.Democratic politicians could be making the case for change at a time when the public is increasingly receptive to a new policy. Instead, they are clinging blindly to the status quo. They undoubtedly are smarter than the average rodent. But even rats know enough to leave a sinking ship.Steve Chapman, a member of the Tribune Editorial Board, blogs at: chicagotribune.com/chapman Source: Chicago Tribune (IL)Author: Steve ChapmanPublished: April 10, 2014Copyright: 2014 Chicago Tribune Company, LLCWebsite: http://www.chicagotribune.com/URL: http://drugsense.org/url/gkQtNHIgContact: http://drugsense.org/url/DKtD0QMfCannabisNews -- Cannabis Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/cannabis.shtml
Comment #5 posted by MikeEEEEE on April 12, 2014 at 04:28:30 PT
Richard Z
I've always said that big pharma does not want their profit entities (customers), to grow their own medicine. Plastic companies do not want organics, such as hemp.
Alcohol companies do not want competition, etc.
Unless they, the corporation, can mobilize their proganda machine, but then, these pesky little human beings are not buying the bs anymore.
For those of you who have had common sense, and did not consider the business model, well, just know, common sense is not as common as it should be.
Comment #4 posted by Richard Zuckerman on April 11, 2014 at 16:14:41 PT:
Because of Pharmaceutical industry profits!!!
New Jersey is big with pharmaceutical companies. The City Of New Brunswick, New Jersey, is the world headquarters of Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical company. Right across the street from their world headquarters is the local legislative office of Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr., the person who wrote Obamacare. He has been voted in for the past 20 years. The illegals want their immigration, too. Congressman Pallone has been a Congressman there for far far too long!! He had been the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee. Now he is a ranking member of same Subcommittee. To my knowledge, he has NEVER supported Cannabis "Marijuana", not even for medical use! He may be one of those old-world, close-minded, Italians, too. I believe he is loyal to organized medicine. Naturopathic medicine is not his interest. I want you to visit the website of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, www.naturopathic.org, and notice their event in the Hilton Arlington, on or around April 26th through April 28th, 2014, for their DC Legislative Initiative, and to attend same event and/or contact your Federal and State lawmakers and ask them to phase in naturopathic medicine into the V.A. Health Care System, Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid! Their Annual Conference is scheduled in August of this year and will be held in Phoenix, Arizona. WE REALLY SHOULD TELL LAWMAKERS TO EMPHASIZE NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE, BECAUSE THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IS TOO EXPENSIVE AND USUALLY IS NOT AS EFFECTIVE!! Supporting Naturopathic medicine is not a snake-oil sales pitch! As an example, Naturopathic physicians can cure arthritis with chicken cartilage, rather than prescribe allopathic pharmaceutical drugs which do not work!
Comment #3 posted by runruff on April 11, 2014 at 09:07:28 PT
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-announces-sebelius-resignation-successor-150600769.htmlShe promoted corporate brand names of junk-food for our children in schools.She helped the fed hide their patent on cannabis, it could have been being used all these years.Instead of going to jail she will live on easy street on our dollar for the rest of her miserable life!
Comment #2 posted by Swazi-X on April 10, 2014 at 20:22:53 PT
Democrats are Politicians, that's why.
They might pose as the good guys - some of them do good things in office now and again even, but at their core Democrats are the same as Republicans.Most Dems and Repubs in Congress are millionaires and their first priority is to get reelected. To do that they need money, and to get that they pander to deep pocketed corporations - we the people don't have the kind of cash the system is rigged to need in order for any Congressional candidate to have a chance at getting elected. The system was rigged over decades by big money influencing politicians to pass laws that favor their bottom lines - you and I don't figure into it at all except as hapless consumers.Big money owns the news outlets, so the "news" we get is crafted to keep us squabbling between ourselves and/or to keep us sedated and apathetic instead of reporting on the rot at the core of our once functioning Democracy that has rendered it sterile and unable to respond to majority concerns.Dems and Repubs are birds of a feather - and the feather is green, green, green. That's why Democrats vote and act like Republicans sometimes - Republicans have been known to do a similar about-face when the money's right, or they think it'll bring them an extra helping of Heavenly Reward in the next life.
Comment #1 posted by FoM on April 10, 2014 at 19:18:48 PT
I like Steve Chapman.


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The British National Road Race Championships cover different categories of British road bicycle racing events, normally held annually.

History
Between 1943 and 1958, two separate bodies – the British League of Racing Cyclists (BLRC) and the National Cyclists' Union (NCU) – ran championships in competition with each other.

Between 1946 and 1958 the BLRC's championships were split into two, an amateur race and the independent championship for semi-professional riders.

Women's championships were introduced by the BLRC in 1947, and by the NCU in 1956.

In 1959, the NCU and the BLRC merged to create the British Cycling Federation.

Separate amateur and professional men's championships were held from 1959 until 1995.

In recent years the under 23 and senior races have been combined, which has caused some confusion in the interpretation of UCI rules.

Jersey

The winner of the road race gets to wear the National Champions jersey, which is white with red and blue bands, in races so that (s)he can be identified.

Men

From 1996

Professional (1959–1995)

Amateur (1959–1995)

BLRC

BLRC Independent Road Race (1946–1958)

BLRC (1943–1958)

NCU (1938–1958)

Under 23

Junior (Under 18)

All time medal table
 Updated after 2017 Championships.
Medal table includes only medals achieved in elite (senior) events. Riders with 2 or more medals. (Table Excludes BLRC & NCU wins)

Women

Senior (From 1959)

NCU (1956–1958)

BLRC (1947–1958)

Under 23

Junior (Under 18)

References

External links

Cycle races in the United Kingdom
National road cycling championships
National championships in the United Kingdom
Annual sporting events in the United Kingdom

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The multivalence of May Alcott Nieriker's Studying Art Abroad and How to Do It Cheaply
Julia Dabbs
Art History (Morris)
In the late nineteenth century an increasing number of American artists sought inspiration and instruction in the leading art centres of Europe, such as Paris, London, and Rome. Yet for the female artist-traveller of modest means, study abroad was a daunting proposition: how would she negotiate the barriers of cost, safety, and institutional access? Based on her experiences as an artist in Europe, May Alcott Nieriker (1840-79) addresses these issues in her fascinating guidebook, Studying Art Abroad and How to Do It Cheaply (1879), the first such advice manual written by an American artist. This essay will reveal that not only did Studying Art Abroad serve as an empowering guidebook, but simultaneously it allowed Alcott Nieriker to offer criticism regarding discriminatory practices faced by women artists, commentary that might otherwise have gone unpublished if presented outside the liberating genre of travel literature.
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A plaque for Papin
The Royal Society's Rupert Baker explores the link between the Society, pressure cookers, a village in central France, and St Bride's Church in London EC4...
By Rupert Baker
A plaque unveiled in St Bride's on 26 February was the culmination of the 'Papin Project', a lengthy fundraising, design and public awareness campaign led by Martin Clarke.
Rupert Baker
Library Manager, the Royal Society
Rupert joined the Royal Society in 1997, and is the Library Manager. His responsibilities include the development of the printed book collections, reader services and enquiry work, and tours of the Society's home in Carlton House Terrace. Rupert studied physics at the University of Exeter, and then went on to complete an MA in Information Services Management.
What's the link between the Royal Society, pressure cookers, a village in central France, and St Bride's Church in London EC4? The answers are in this picture:
Author's photo
It shows a plaque unveiled in St Bride's on 26 February as the culmination of the 'Papin Project', a lengthy fundraising, design and public awareness campaign led by Martin Clarke, who currently lives near Vannes in Brittany. Martin has made several visits to the Royal Society Library over the years to research our early Fellow Denis Papin, and was kind enough to invite Louisiane Ferlier and me to the dedication ceremony. Here's the moment the plaque was revealed to the world…
The unveiling of the Papin memorial plaque, by (L) Derek Rayner, Technical Advisor, Old Glory magazine, and (R) Jean-Paul Nicolas, Secrétaire, Circuit Vapeur Denis Papin, Chitenay. Photo credit: Old Glory magazine
… and here's a group photo taken a few minutes later. Your Royal Society librarians are lurking on the left; Luke Miller, Archdeacon of the Diocese of London, and Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's, are the ones in ecclesiastical robes. Martin is next to the table, and Jean-Albert Boulay, the current mayor of Chitenay (Papin's birthplace) is on the right:
Photo credit: Old Glory magazine
So, who was Denis Papin, and what brought him from France to London and the Fellowship of the Royal Society? A very brief, ahem, digest of Papin's early life runs as follows: born in Chitenay, near Blois, in 1647, he studied medicine at the University of Angers before moving on to Paris as assistant to two Royal Society Fellows, Christian Huygens and Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. He arrived in London in 1675, working with Robert Boyle and becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society; the precise date of his election, as with many facts about Papin's life, is not known, but is thought to be at the end of 1680 or shortly thereafter.
Papin was in Antwerp in early 1681, and sent a letter which was read at the Society's meeting on 2 March, 'wherein he mentioned his having, before his departure from London, left at Mr Hooke's lodgings his engine for softening of bones, &c, to be presented to the Society'. This is the device otherwise known as Papin's digesteur (or digester), forerunner of the pressure cooker and, as the text on the plaque notes, 'the precursor of the steam engine'. It was put through its paces (presumably by Hooke) at the same meeting:
'An experiment was made in Dr. Papin's engine, wherein were put pieces of ivory, horn, and tortoise-shell; all which were in about the space of half an hour reduced to softness; the tortoise-shell to the softness and pliableness of shoe-leather or tanned leather, the ivory to the consistence of old Cheddar cheese, and the horn to the softness and pliableness of pretty stiff tanned leather.'
Papin's busiest period at the Royal Society seems to have been between 1684 and 1687. Volume 6 of our Register Book contains a long list of experiments he performed for the Society during this time, investigating pneumatics, pressure, volume, and the effects of the digester on various substances. Our archives contain several images of the machine – search for 'Papin digester' in our Picture Library for a good selection. Here's one showing an improved version of the digester, presented to the Society on 5 May 1686 and the subject of a printed book the following year:
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By the time his book of improvements to the digester was published, Papin was on the move again. He spent 20 years in Germany from 1687 to 1707, with fellow Huguenot exiles, before making a final return to London. With old acquaintances such as Boyle and Hooke no longer on the scene, however, this period in London was apparently a less happy one, clouded by disputes with the Royal Society over money and leading to his death in 1713 – precise date, again, uncertain.
Martin Clarke's research into Papin's life did, however, turn up a register book at the London Metropolitan Archives which includes a burial record for Papin in St Bride's, dated 26 August 1713. The 'Lower Ground' cemetery where he was laid to rest has long since been built over, but the Church authorities welcomed Martin's suggestion of a memorial plaque. Several years later, on a beautifully clear February afternoon, we were proud to be part of the congregation paying respects – in English and in French – to Denis Papin.
Do take a look at the plaque if you're visiting St Bride's, which is a beautiful Wren church, even if the encroachment of more modern buildings meant that I went through a few contortions to take a picture (below) of the famous wedding-cake spire when I popped into the courtyard after the service. There's probably a better view from the east, but Louisiane and I had to get back to work, leaving the Chitenay visitors to continue the entente cordiale. We strolled back to Carlton House Terrace with a heightened respect for one of our early Fellows, a true forerunner of the age of steam and the Industrial Revolution.
St Bride's Church, London. Author's photo
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Aleph Objects CEO Jeff Moe demonstrates different generations of 3-D printers, including the new LulzBot printer.
Loveland-based Aleph Objects develops and manufactures a line of rapid prototyping 3-D printers. The new LulzBot printer is making a flower vase that stands about 8 inches tall.
Finally, 3-D is ready for prime time.
Not the technology that requires eyeglasses to experience, but the kind that enables consumers to make their own iPhone cases at home and startups to inexpensively manufacture prototypes in-house.
Tracing its roots back nearly four decades, 3-D printing is gaining wider adoption as costs have dropped dramatically in recent years.
And Colorado has its fingerprints all over the technology.
Aleph Objects, a Loveland-based startup founded in 2011, has already sold hundreds of its desktop 3-D printers to businesses and hobbyists at prices ranging from $1,000 to $2,500 — a fraction of the $20,000 price tag that some high-end machines still carry.
Denver is home to one of the nation's first 3-D printing retail stores, where consumers can pick from thousands of digital designs of household items and gadgets and watch as they're produced via a process known as additive manufacturing.
Colleges and high schools along the Front Range, including Colorado State University and Mountain View High School in Loveland, are integrating 3-D printers into classrooms and courses.
"It's just amazing because the students can design something, and boom, before you know it, they have a 3-D model of it right in front of them," said Tom Frayer, a teacher at Mountain View.
A typical desktop 3-D printer is roughly the size of a microwave and weighs about 20 pounds. It prints, or manufactures, three-dimensional objects with materials such as ABS plastic, the same type of material used to make Legos.
The plastic filament is fed through a tube connected to the machine's printhead, which then extrudes it onto a build plate, layer by layer, at temperatures of about 230 degrees Celsius, or roughly 445 degrees Fahrenheit.
Using a portion of a $2 million National Science Foundation grant, the CU research team recently purchased a pair of Aleph's LulzBot 3-D printers. One is headed for Platt Middle School in Boulder as part of a pilot project.
The digital design, or the instructions for the printer, can be created via freely available programs such as FreeCAD. Thousands of designs can be downloaded at no cost at Thingiverse.com, which is run by leading 3-D printing company MakerBot.
Major electronics manufacturers are joining the party, with Nokia recently releasing a digital design so consumers can print their own cases for the Lumia 820 smartphone.
For appliance and other manufacturers, the adoption of 3-D printers could simplify the parts-replacements process, Moe said. They could simply release a design for the broken part and have the consumer print it out at home.
At its Loveland headquarters, Aleph has about 40 LulzBots, each printing parts that are used to build the 3-D printers themselves. The machines, which retail for $1,725, can create objects that are up to 8 inches in length and width and 4 inches in height.
Aleph's next generation printer, dubbed the TK-0, will take those dimensions up to 12-by-12-by-11. It is an open-source machine, meaning anyone can download component designs to build their own 3-D printer.
A 5-pound spool of ABS plastic — which can create hundreds of objects — costs $100. Other printable materials include nylon, PLA plastic and wood.
Moe said broader adoption beyond hobbyists and tech geeks is not far away as the software to create digital designs gets easier to use and the price continues to drop.
"I think we're getting really close to that price point," he said, adding that the company has shipped printers and parts to 59 countries.
If $1,700 is still a little steep, consumers can visit The 3D Printing Store, 4603 Monaco St., to experience the 3-D manufacturing process. The store is teaming with Aleph on a 3-D open house on Thursday from 3 to 6 p.m., where a half dozen 3-D printers will be in action.
The time it takes to print an object ranges from a few minutes for a business-card holder or nut and bolt to several hours for a complex replica of a building. The machines are capable of printing items with moving parts, such as a wagon with wheels.
The store, open by appointment, features two of MakerBot's $2,200 Replicator 2 desktop printers and a uPrint machine that cost $20,000. The latter has a clear case covering the build chamber and can print at a much higher resolution, creating smoother objects.
The technology faced some controversy late last year when reports surfaced that working handguns could be created with a 3-D printer via freely available digital designs.
"The 3-D gun is a bit of a misnomer," said Kenton Kuhn, another principal at the 3-D store, adding that the gun would still require some sort of metal component to work.
The store won't print any weapons. Kuhn and Wilcox are contemplating hosting events similar to Canvas and Cocktails, but instead of painting, patrons would pay $40 to $50 to design custom smartphone cases while enjoying a beverage.
What: Aleph Objects and The 3D Printing Store will have six 3-D printers on display and in action, providing visitors a glimpse at a product some say will eventually become ubiquitous.
When: Thursday, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Where: 4603 Monaco St. in Denver (second door on north side of building). Located in warehouse district just north of I-70 on Monaco Street.
Cost: Free to attend. Most of the items that will be printed, such as business- card holders and bracelets, cost less than $1 in materials to make. Prices on large or more complex items, such as smartphone cases or building replicas, will vary.


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Q: Angular6 HTTP call wait I am working on a project in Angular6, where I need to make a HTTP call to fetch JSON data. The call is correct (I have checked the output in console). The problem is that my function in Service is returning 'undefined' befire the HTTP call finishes. But the 'undefined' is returned and all the rest of my functions in component are throwing me an error.
menuService.ts
getCall(url, options) {
    this.http.get(url, options).subscribe(
                (data:any) => {
                    if(data){
                        console.log(data);
                        return data;
                    },
                error => {
                    return [];
                }
            );
}

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     let result: any;
     result = this.menuSvc.getCall(url, options);
     let l:number = result.length;    //error is thrown here, "no length property for 'undefined'
     return result;
 }

I have searched the web and found solutions like Promise(); but i didn't really understand on how to apply it. It would be great if someone could help. Thanks!

A: You are not returning anything. In service, it should return an observable which should be subscribed by the caller.
Change your code like this:
menuService.ts
getCall(url, options) {
   return this.http.get(url, options);
}

menu.ts
getCall(url, options) {
     let result: any;
     this.menuSvc.getCall(url, options)
         .subscribe(result => {
           console.log(result);
           //do whatever you want to do with result.
         });
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Could climate change spell trouble for Kenya's largest river?
This post first appeared on the Thomson Reuters Foundation climate blog.
Ahead of the Global Landscape Forum in Peru, it helps to remember exactly why landscapes are important. They give us the bigger picture, to connect the dots between the many people who use an ecosystem and what for.
It's that bigger picture which helps put climate change into perspective. In Kenya's Tana River watershed, changing weather can have a major knock-on impact on soil degradation in the watershed.
Climate maps projecting possible climate scenarios to 2050 for crop suitability around Kenya's largest Tana River show the link with increasing soil erosion.
"Soil is washing down Kenya's 1000km long Tana River at unprecedented rates," said Fred Kizito, a Senior Scientist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, which led the research together with The Nature Conservancy in Kenya.
"In the last 10 years, research shows sediment yields have jumped more than 30 percent – not due to increased rainfall, but damaging agricultural and industrial practices, like farming or quarrying on steep slopes," he said.
Under certain scenarios, climate maps show that land currently planted to tea could become more suitable for maize or beans in future in certain areas.
If tea – which provides good cover for soil from rainwater runoff – is replaced by maize or beans without good soil management practices, scenario assessments from hydrological models indicate that run-off will increase.
Tea replacement by agriculture in both the Sagana and Thika watersheds of the Tana River basin could see soil sediment yields increase 23 tonnes per hectare and 28 tonnes per hectare: increments of 8 percent and 31 percent respectively.
Soil run-off could be exacerbated if, as the study suggests, rainfall increases another five percent.
This research shows how upstream dynamics are contributing to soil sedimentation and degraded water quality in downstream urban water supplies.
There is a solution being piloted: The Nairobi Water Fund, set to launch next year, will be a first for Africa. All eyes – and a lot of money – are resting on it.
Managed by The Nature Conservancy's Fred Kihara, downstream members – big businesses like Coca Cola and utility companies – provide financial and technical support to watershed keepers.
To date, The Water Fund has raised $900,000, supporting 5,000 upstream land owners to conserve soil and water in the Upper Tana River watershed. "That's exciting: downstream users are willing to invest in conservation, and upstream users are willing to adapt." It makes business sense, said Kihara.
Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company – which supplies 95 percent of Nairobi's drinking water – spends 40 percent more during the rainy season, cleaning soil sediment out of water clarifiers.
Not only does cleaning cost more in labor and imported chemicals; intensive cleaning slows water treatment and reduces flow.
KenGen, which supplies 70 percent of Kenya's electricity, says reduced water flow for hydropower generation prompts occasional shifts to expensive thermal powered alternatives. It makes business sense to invest in long-term solutions.
Researchers from CIAT and partners proves that targeted investments can yield a sustainable benefits for all. Best investment options have been mapped, and costs determined thorough complex soil and hydrological data, to inform Fund members about where and how much money to invest in conservation activities.
The Water Fund concept has worked before in a number of watersheds. In Ecuador, The Nature Conservancy's Water Fund started with $21,000 investment in an endowment. It has grown to be worth over $10 million in ten years.
Such holistic options, which take the stories of everyone using ecosystems into account, have some important lessons to share.
Related post: Costing the earth: who's responsible?
Costing the earth: who's responsible?


At the Summer Writer's Talk, Debra Adelaide, brilliant author of 'The Household Guide to Dying', joins editor Bernadette Foley, to discuss her new collection Zebra (Picador, 2019), writing and publishing, love and fate … and a zebra in one's living room.
You can enjoy great food, a glass of wine and relaxed conversation with other readers and writers in the fascinating Cross Art Projects Gallery.
The Potts Point Bookshop will sell copies of Debra's books on the night.
A percentage of the ticket price will go to the Room to Read Literacy Program for young girls.


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Q: How do I connect different swift jpanels in the Netbeans IDE? In my program, I have all the different " screens" that I want. They are all under the same project and each has a button or two that directs the user to another page. How can I get it so clicking the "Coaches Corner" button will have the Coaches corner file pop up?
Thanks

A: Sounds like you should be using a CardLayout. A CardLayout allows you to swap panels.
Check out the section from the Swing tutorial on How to Use CardLayout for more information and working examples to get you started.


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Juncos Racing Captures the 2018 Pro Mazda Championship
Sep 06 / 2018
Indianapolis, Indiana (September 6, 2018) – Juncos Racing claimed their second consecutive Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires this past weekend in the Soul Red Finale double header at Portland International Raceway. Rookie Rinus VeeKay took home the Pro Mazda driver championship, along with "Rookie of the Year" honors while Juncos Racing was awarded the Pro Mazda Team Championship.
Juncos Racing proved to have one of the most talented driver line-ups in the Pro Mazda Championship during the 2018 season with all three drivers finishing on the podium multiple times throughout the year. The team only missed the podium three times out of the 16-race schedule, recording 21 podium finishes in total. Rinus VeeKay added to the team's impressive run earning seven poles, and seven wins.
The team kicked off the 2018 season in dominating fashion with VeeKay driving the No. 2 Jumbo/Juncos Racing car to back to back wins at the Grand Prix of St. Pete. Both teammates Carlos Cunha in the No. 1 CarlosCunha.com.br/Juncos Racing car and Robert Megennis in the No. 9 Palo Alto Networks/Juncos Racing car picked up podium finishes in Rounds 1 and 2. The team would go on to collect multiple podiums between all three drivers at Barber Motorsports Park, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Lucas Oil Raceway, and Road America.
Throughout the second half of the season VeeKay closed in on the championship with five straight poles and wins between Toronto, the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, and Gateway International Raceway. Megennis had an impressive run as well with four straight podiums between Rounds 11 and 14. Cunha added to the podium total with a second place finish at Toronto.
The season came to a close at Portland International Raceway with Rounds 15 and 16. VeeKay only need to start the weekend to clinch the Pro Mazda Championship. The young Netherlands native picked up his seventh pole of the season for Round 15 and would go on to collect two second places finishes. VeeKay was awarded the Mazda Scholarship for winning the Pro Mazda Championship, which will provide him funds to run a full season in the 2019 Indy Lights Championship Presented by Cooper Tires.
Juncos Racing could not be caught in the team championship, winning by 223 points. The team now holds onto three total team Pro Mazda Championships and four driver championships.
Team Owner Ricardo Juncos said, "This was an incredible season. Many factors went into this team winning the Pro Mazda Championship back to back. The crew proved how much work the team puts into these cars, especially since the entire field was running with the new PM-18 car, so no one had any previous data to go off of. Despite any issues we faced this team was able to fight through each weekend. Our driver line-up was one of the strongest we have had. I knew we had a championship contending team between Rinus (VeeKay), Robert (Megennis), and Carlos (Cunha), but was blown away by how much success they all had throughout the year. These guys worked so hard both on and off track. I could not have asked for more talented and dedicated group. I want to thank the entire team for a fantastic year!"
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2014 Best Bar: From chocolate-roasted stouts to hoppy IPAs, you'll always find a new beer to love at this downtown staple. The cosmopolitans are noteworthy, as are the $3 craft beers during happy hour.
From 2011: Remember Vincent's? In just a little over a year, Side Bar has done wonders in burying the memory of its predecessor. You'll find none of that spot's contrived French Quarter-style ambiance here. Just bold colors and high ceilings, hearty, slightly upscale tavern fare (think wild boar bangers and mash and braised short rib bolognese), a three-bar layout (one upstairs) and a superior craft beer selection that have quickly made this place the go-to joint for courthouse types and borough locals alike.


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Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
When people in authority challenged Jesus, he often responded to their challenges with a parable.
Commentary on Matthew 21:33-46
If those challenging him didn't get the first parable, he'd give them a second one. Today's Gospel lection is just such a second parable addressed to the challenge posed by the chief priests and elders about the source of Jesus' authority (21:23-27).
The parable begins with a situation that was business as usual in Roman-occupied Palestine. A landowner established a vineyard complete with a fence, a winepress, and even a watchtower. He then became an absentee landowner, returning to his own country as often happened in the far-flung territories of the Roman Empire. Tenants were in charge of overseeing the productivity of the vineyard and paying their rent to the owner at harvest time, in the form of a share of the produce. So far, so good: business was working as usual. Then everything came apart!
When the owner's slaves arrived to collect his share of the produce, the tenants attacked them, even beating one and killing another. The owner of the vineyard then simply sent another delegation of slaves to collect the rent. Hmm… this is not normal!
Those slaves were treated even worse than the first. Surely by now the owner would send in troops or some form of armed enforcement of his rights! But no, instead he sends his son, thinking by some logic that the thugs who have abused two delegations of slaves will respect the owner's son and heir. How foolish! In parallel folly the tenants reason that if they kill the son, they will get his inheritance. Apparently unaware of how ridiculous their notion is, they kill the son.
Are you still playing along with the parable? I hope so, because the punch line is almost here. Jesus asks his audience (the chief priests and elders), "Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?" The answer is obvious, and the tenants offer it: "He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time" (verse 41).
Whether the answer is given in a gloating voice or as a lament in fear and trembling depends on where those listening see themselves — us — in the story, and therein lays the catch. The chief priests and elders probably see themselves in the role of the landowner, caught in his own merciful response to those in his charge. They would be able to actually own land, and to have others manage it for them while they were busy with their administrative tasks in Jerusalem. They would see the servants as their subordinates and themselves as the real victims of the unscrupulous tenants, and they would be ready and even eager to pronounce judgment on them.
We who are Christians, on the other hand, have tended to read the parable seeing God as the landowner and the temple leaders as the thoroughly evil tenants who are defrauding God of the rightful fruits of God's covenant with Israel. In this allegory, the groups of servants are Israel's prophets and Jesus is the son.
We, in turn, are the "other tenants" to whom the "vineyard" will be given after it is taken from the Jerusalem leaders who have not managed it well (Isaiah 5:1-7). Seen as an allegory of salvation history from Matthew's perspective, even to the point of depicting Jesus, who would be crucified outside of Jerusalem, as the son who is killed outside of the vineyard, this parable becomes an opening salvo from Jesus himself, justifying our claims against the Jewish leaders and even against Judaism as a whole.
Before we buy either of the traditional readings, though, we need to step back and look at it again. Perhaps neither allegory is the best way to approach this parable.
Our confusion about how to read this parable is built into its role and place in Matthew's Gospel. This exchange between Jesus and the chief priests and elders is set in Jerusalem near the end of Jesus' ministry. This final section of the Gospel before the passion narrative gazes stereo-optically at Jesus' own life and ministry and at the church that will carry on his witness to God's reign after Jesus' approaching passion, death, and resurrection.
Jesus' collision with the Jerusalem leadership is a thread running through the whole Gospel, just as the church would later be in conflict with the synagogue as both communities attempted to deal with the consequences of the destruction of Jerusalem and of the temple. The arguments between them were most often not about religious practices, but about the temple leaders' collusion with exploitative economic and social policies of the Roman Empire, and later over different ways of negotiating life under that Empire in the church and the synagogue from which it was "called out" (ekklesia).
Jesus' citation of Psalm 118:22-23 (verse 42) does not rebut the verdict the leaders have pronounced on the tenants, but rather it refocuses the discussion. The issue is no longer the old "vineyard," but rather a totally new structure of which Jesus himself is the "cornerstone." That structure is God's reign or empire, which Jesus has been proclaiming from the beginning of his ministry and which the church will continue to proclaim in Jesus' name.
This parable does not use the story to set forth the surprising nature and qualities of God's reign, as do so many others in the Gospels. Its focus is rather on the futility of debates about, and maintenance programs for, the institutions of this age. Even the terms of God's relationship to God's own people are new. This puzzling parable pulls us forward toward that unknown future in which we will be both blessed and judged, and about which we know only that it is anchored in Jesus Christ.
Sharon H. Ringe
Professor Emerita of New Testament
Wesley Theological Seminary
Commentary on Isaiah 5:1-7
The song of the vineyard is a ditty turned tragic.
Commentary on Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20
This week's lectionary text is a bit daunting. The Ten Commandments!
Commentary on Psalm 80:7-15
This portion of Psalm 80 responds to the first lesson from Isaiah 5 by employing the same metaphor of God's people as a ruined, forsaken vine and vineyard.
Commentary on Philippians 3:4b-14
Crossing the Threshold In an intense little book called Beginning to Pray, Metropolitan Anthony Bloom tells about a time during the Nazi occupation of Paris when he very nearly was caught by the Gestapo:


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    url='http://github.com/disqus/python-phabricator',
    description='Phabricator API Bindings',
    packages=find_packages(),
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    test_suite='nose.collector',
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Board index All Years of Reported Shark Attack Related Incidents 2011 Shark Attack and Related Incidents
09/28/2011 Michael Cohen ( South Africa )
Shark Attack Related Incident News Archive for 2011 Shark Attacks and Related Incidents.
Post by alb » Wed Sep 28, 2011 5:15 pm
Shark Attack at Fish Hoek South Africa Bystander rescued victim
A man attacked by a great white shark at Fish Hoek beach in Cape Town on Wednesday afternoon was rescued by a stranger, the NSRI said.
"It appears he was rescued from the water by a bystander who left the scene before we could identify him," National Sea Rescue Institute spokesperson Craig Lambinon said.
"On arrival, a 42-year-old man was found on the shore suffering complete amputation of his right leg, above the knee, and partial amputation of his left leg, below the knee."
Lambinon said the victim was believed to be a 42-year-old British citizen living in the Cape Town suburb of Plumstead. The man was stabilised at the scene and airlifted to Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic in a critical condition.
"The man was conscious when paramedics attended to him on the beach, but was sedated on-scene by paramedics in their efforts to stabilise the patient," Lambinon said.
The City of Cape Town said when the man entered the water, the beach was still closed. A shark flag, indicating the presence of a great white, was flying. A shark spotter stationed on the beach was warned by a spotter on the mountain that someone had entered the water.
The spotter then ran to Clovelly Corner to try and get the swimmer out of the water, but the attack took place before he could reach him.
The city said the attack happened around 12.15pm. Shark spotters sighted the shark at 10.45am and then closed the beach. The white shark flag was raised and the siren set off.
The victim of the shark attack was the only person in the water at the time.
Fish Hoek beach as well as Glencairn, St James and Muizenberg beaches were closed as a precaution until further notice. The shark was still in Fish Hoek bay in the afternoon and being monitored by the spotters.
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Re: 09/28/2011 Michael Cohen ( South Africa )
Shark attack: Samaritans tell of terror Bystander rescued shark attack victim Shark spotters tried to warn victim
Cape Town - Two men in their sixties who rescued a shark victim at Fish Hoek on Wednesday, told how they braved the blood-clouded water to bring him to safety.
Douglas Drysdale, 61, from Glencairn Heights, and Hugh Till, 66, from Fish Hoek were on their way home from Pollsmoor Prison, where they are voluntary spiritual guidance counsellors.
The two men, who were in one car, normally look out for whales as they round Clovelly Corner, said the NSRI's Craig Lambinon.
On Wednesday they saw a man, later identified as Michael Cohen, 43, swimming about 25m out to sea in the direction of Fish Hoek.
Then there was a dark shape, heading directly at him.
As the dark shape grew closer to the swimmer the two men realised it was a shark.
Drysdale and Till tried to warn the man, but they were too late, said Lambinon. He'd already been bitten by the shark and was struggling in the water, blood gushing from the wounds..
Human chain
Lambinon says the men kicked off their shoes and waded through the surf to reach the injured swimmer. Douglas had called the emergency services before plunging into the water.
When they reached the swimmer, Hugh grabbed him by the hand while Douglas pulled Hugh, dragging them both to shore.
Bystanders then started screaming at the men that the shark was now headed towards them.
It was about 10m away. Their luck held when a seal appeared and swam between the men and the shark.
As the men reached the beach one of the shark spotters immediately tied his belt around the stump of Cohen's severed right leg as a tourniquet.
The two men kept reassuring the victim as he waited for paramedics to arrive.
http://www.news24.com
Post by alb » Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:17 pm
Briton who lost leg to South African shark told he may never walk again
Michael Cohen's femoral artery was severed by the teeth of a 15-foot great white shark
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The British swimmer attacked by a great white shark off a Cape Town beach has been told he may never walk again despite surgery that saved one of his legs.
Michael Cohen is learning to use a wheelchair after he was warned that he may never be able to use his remaining foot which was badly mauled in last month's incident.
The 42-year old, who plunged into the water in False Bay despite warnings that great whites were circling, has spoken for the first time to thank those who had saved his life.
"I am very grateful for everyone who saved my life that day," said Mr Cohen, a British passport holder who lives in South Africa, from his hospital bed.
"I would like to thank all the medical personnel at the scene as well as the doctors, surgeons and nursing staff."
In a statement issued through hospital officials he said his family and friends had been "a pillar of strength" and added: "I am now focused on regaining my health, strength and my mobility."
The part-time accountant's femoral artery was severed by the teeth of the 15-foot great white in shallow waters close to a river mouth where the predators gather to feed off fish.
The shark, and another great white, had continued to circle nearby as two passing pensioners waded into the bloody waters to pull the stricken swimmer to shore where a member of a shark spotting unit conducted life-saving first aid.
Surgeons said if it hadn't been for the skilled response of those on Fish Hoek beach, who fashioned tourniquets from a belt and wet suit, Mr Cohen would have bled to death within minutes. Hours of complex emergency surgery managed to save one of Mr Cohen's legs despite appalling injuries to the foot.
"He's out of bed and in a wheelchair," said Faye Kariem from the Constantiaberg MediClinic. "He still has the foot, but we don't know if he'll be able to use it – that will take many months to establish.
"The surgeons cannot be certain that Michael's foot or leg can be saved in the long term. He is aware that there is no guarantee and he is prepared for that."
Fish Hoek beach, where a number of swimmers have been killed or maimed by sharks in recent years, has been closed to the public since the incident.
It lies in Cape Town's beautiful False Bay which boasts one of the biggest shark populations in the world. Full time spotters are employed to monitor and issue warnings to swimmers and surfers when predators are in the area.
Mr Cohen was well known to the spotters and they had regularly clashed over his refusal to heed their warnings to stay out of the water.
The swimmer had repeatedly told Monwabisi Sikweyiya, one of the senior monitors, that it was "my life, my choice" to dive into the waves and swim towards the sharks when the beach was closed.
Ironically, it was Mr Siweyiya who had turned his own belt and clothes into emergency tourniquets which saved the accountant's life in the crucial minutes after the attack.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk
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