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Press Clips: Maryland Reform Efforts Take Shape; Senate Tax Bill Gains Momentum
Justin Kendall
Nov. 22, 2017 at 3:59 PM
Maryland Alcohol Law Reform Legislation Introduced
Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot has introduced the "Reform on Tap Act of 2018," which he says will create a friendlier business climate for the state's craft breweries.
The proposed legislation would drastically alter Maryland's alcoholic beverage laws by removing all limits on beer production as well as restrictions on taproom and take-home sales. The act would also repeal a controversial "buy-back" provision included in House Bill 1283 — which was passed into law earlier this year — requiring breweries that sell more than 2,000 barrels of beer directly to consumers to purchase another 1,000 barrels from a wholesaler at a "marked-up cost."
Additionally, the legislation would eliminate the state's franchise laws, which lock breweries into nearly unbreakable lifetime contracts with wholesalers; allow local jurisdictions to set taproom hours; and allow brewers producing less than 300,000 barrels of beer to self-distribute, among other changes.
"We simply cannot ignore the fact that our laws and regulatory framework have stood in the way of the limitless potential of Maryland's craft beer industry," Franchot, the state's chief alcohol regulator, said in a press release. "This is going to take us from last in the region, to the first in the nation."
Franchot's office has asked the governor to submit the legislation as a departmental bill, which often receives a hearing before the Legislature, although that is not guaranteed, the Baltimore Sun reported.
Read more about Franchot's 12-point plan here.
Senate Tax Bill Gains Steam as Alcohol Industry Watchdogs Cry Foul
Although hurdles still exist, the Senate's tax reform proposal gained momentum today as Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski reiterated her opposition to the Affordable Care Act's individual tax mandate, writing in an op-ed that she supports the repeal of that tax, according to Bloomberg.
That's important to brewers because, as Brewbound reported last week, the Senate's version of tax reform includes excise tax relief that would benefit brewers via the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (CBMTRA).
CBMTRA would cut the federal excise tax to $3.50 per barrel (currently $7) on the first 60,000 barrels for domestic brewers producing fewer than 2 million barrels annually. Additionally, the legislation would reduce the federal excise tax to $16 per barrel on the first 6 million barrels for all other brewers and beer importers while maintaining the $18 per barrel excise tax for brewers producing more than 6 million barrels.
However, the modernization bill's inclusion in the Senate's version of tax reform has drawn opposition from nonprofit advocacy group Alcohol Justice, which said the tax breaks would cost the U.S. $642 million over two years.
"Of the projected $126 million annual giveaway to beer manufacturers, $50 million will be claimed by just seven 'mega-craft' brewers," the organization said in a press release.
NBWA Beer Purchasers' Index Expands; BI's October Domestic Tax Paid Estimates Up
The National Beer Wholesalers Index — which gauges U.S. beer distributors' monthly purchasing activity — saw a reading of 50.5 in October, which is up significantly over September's 41.3 reading. For all of 2017, the craft and imports segments have tracked above a 50 reading.
"These two high end segments are now tracking each other much closer over the past few months," NBWA chief economist Lester Jones said in a press release. "Premium Lights, Regular Premium and Below Premiums all posted slightly higher readings compared to the past three months, however their index readings are still below the 50 mark."
The NBWA also found the FMBs registered below 50 for the second month while cider posted its highest reading of the year, although the NBWA said that segment is still contracting.
According to the NBWA, "a reading greater than 50 indicates the segment is expanding," while "a reading below 50 indicates the segment is contracting."
Meanwhile, the Beer Institute (BI), citing Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) figures, released unofficial estimates of domestic tax paid shipments for U.S. beer producers through October. After three consecutive months of declines, October shipments increased by 5.6 percent over the same period last year.
U.S. brewers shipped a total of 13,726,000 barrels in October, according to the BI. However, total shipments for the year — 144,980,000 barrels — are down 1.9 percent (2,837,484) compared to 2016.
Massachusetts Brewers Guild Offers Discounted Lyft Rides
The Massachusetts Brewers Guild is partnering with Lyft to offer more than 2,000 discounted rides to and from its member breweries tonight (November 22). Lyft is offering $10 off rides from 8 p.m. Wednesday, November 22, until 3 a.m. November 23, with the code MBGTHANKFUL.
Massachusetts Brewers Guild executive director Katie Stinchon told Brewbound that the promotion covers rides to and from all 89 member breweries in the state.
"We asked our breweries when is the most popular evening in your taproom during the holiday season, and they all resoundingly said Thanksgiving eve," Stinchon said.
In October, the Massachusetts Brewers Guild announced an exclusive ride-sharing partnership with Lyft. Stinchon said additional offers are forthcoming.
Earlier this year, Anheuser-Busch InBev announced a partnership with Lyft to offer up to 150,000 rides through the end of the year.
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Kim, Evgeny, and Roman Klinger. "A Survey on Sentiment and Emotion Analysis for Computational Literary Studies." arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.03137 (2018).
Kim, Evgeny, and Roman Klinger. "Who Feels What and Why? Annotation of a Literature Corpus with Semantic Roles of Emotions." In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pp. 1345-1359. 2018.
Barth, Florian, and Kim,Evgeny, and Murr, Sandra, and Klinger, Roman. "A reporting tool for relational visualization and analysis of character mentions in literature". DhD, Köln, 2018.
Kim, E., Padó, S., & Klinger, R. (2017). Investigating the Relationship between Literary Genres and Emotional Plot Development. In Proceedings of the Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (pp. 17-26).
Kim, E., Padó S., & Klinger, R. (2017). Prototypical Emotion Developments in Literary Genres. In Digital Humanities 2017: Conference Abstracts, Montréal, Canada, August 2017. McGill University and Université de Montréal.
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Q: Error using Django-Hstore for PostgreSQL HSTORE in Django When I run my Django Server, I got this error:
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I am using, the currently newest, Django 1.10, and django-hstore 1.4.2

A: You don't need to use Django_Hstore extentions on 1.10.
Add 'django.contrib.postgres' in your INSTALLED_APPS.
If hstrone not enabled on Postgres , Run sql script: CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS hstore
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A: This problem can be easily solved by downgrading Django to version 1.9. It seems the version 1.10 is not stable yet.
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Earlier this month, we launched a competition on our Facebook page, giving away a free framed baby cast usually worth £150!
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We've had over 750 entries on our Facebook page, but there can be only one winner!
We'll shortly be sending you a message on Facebook to confirm the details of your prize.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been left red-faced after spending time on the faux campaign trail ridiculing a Labor policy, only to find his party adopted it first.
A secretly recorded video leaked to the media shows Mr Morrison attacking Labor's policy requiring 50% of all cutlery sold in Australia to be chopsticks by the year 2030.
In the video, recorded at a factory photo-op in Queensland, Mr Morrison brandishes a knife and fork and says: "These are what fair-dinkum Aussies eat with.
"Eating irons is what they're called – made from steel which is made from coal using fair dinkum electric power.
Replacing his Ford cap with a Holden cap halfway through his statement for specifically targeted bogun videos to be uploaded on social media later in the day, Mr Morrison made it clear the LNP would never, ever, following Labor's demands that half of all meals in Australia by 2030 should be eaten with chopsticks and not knives and forks "as has been our proud British tradition since Captain Cook and the First Fleet circumnavigated Australia in 1770".
At that point in the video the Prime Minister goes further and makes what political observers claim is a strategic error akin to the infamous "Chinese students with PhDs" comments that sunk Labor leader Michael Daley in the last week of the NSW state election campaign.
In hindsight, and with Christchurch in mind, Mr Morrison is probably now regretting his decision to cast aside his Holden cap and don a traditional straw Asian field worker's hat, known by the politically incorrect term "coolie hat", and sticking chopsticks up his nose, and using his fingers to spread his eyes sideways so they looked quite slanty.
At that point aides interrupt the Prime Minister and advise him that the LNP already has on its books a policy that 50% of all new eating utensils sold by 2030 onwards should be chopsticks rather than knives and forks.
Mr Morrison and his staff then quickly departed the factory.
His blunder was quickly seized on when at a media call at a Brisbane hospital Labor Senator Kristina Keneally mocked his comments by displaying photograph after photograph of a number of the PM's senior ministers enjoying eating meals with chopsticks.
A Labor spokesperson made it clear that the 50% sales of chopsticks by 2030 was only a target and "Australians will be quite entitled to keep using knives and forks for as long as they like after that".
Coalition insiders said the Prime Minister's "unfortunate behaviour" at the factory would likely not hit the Liberal Party's vote in the same way Mr Daley's disastrous video impacted Labor's vote in the last week of the NSW state election.
"The difference is that Daley fucked up in the last week of the campaign, while Scott has fucked up in what is probably the last week of the non-campaign so we've got time to recover," the insider said.
The PM made his statement in time for it to lead regional evening TV news programs and the country editions of News Corp Australia papers around the nation.
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On Saturday, March 10, 2018, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mission San Luis living history museum invites visitors to take part in its interactive event, Spanish Colonial Adventure Day. All ages can re-enact colonial Spanish Florida's preparations for the 1686 exploratory expedition to Pensacola Bay with hands-on activities and make-and-take crafts.
As a continuation of the success of Mission San Luis' Winter Solstice Celebration, which highlighted the site's Native-American connection, this event will focus on the Spanish aspects of the site's history. Guests can enjoy collecting trade beads at the Council House, grinding corn for travel supplies at the Spanish House, and creating a banner at the Church. At the Fort, draw a map of Western Florida, learn cattle roping, and more. There will also be archery for all ages. In addition, Charles Santiago will thrill guests with masterful renditions of Spanish guitar music from the 16th and 17th centuries in a morning and an afternoon set.


After the introduction of the Argon OceloteWorld mouse, Ozone gaming now launches the brand new Ozone Blast OceloteWorld 7.1 Surround headset. Ozone has worked with Ocelote the past year to develop these new peripherals to bring the best comfort and performance.
The new Blast OceloteWorld works for both PC and PS4 gamers and give quick access to important functions with easy and fast volume adjustments to both the headset and chat. The virtual 7.1 surround headset features an automatic microphone muting when the boom is moved up and a LED will also indicate whether the microphone is on or off.
The headband has been reinforced additionally for that extra stability. The adjustable ear pads are made from high-end protein and memory foam. The headset can also be folded together for easy transportation and storage.
The Ozone Gaming Blast OceloteWorld 7.1 Virtual Surround Sound headset comes with an MSRP of €74.90.


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Esri Joins Microsoft-GEO BON Biodiversity Grant Initiative
In response to ever increasing threats to world ecosystems and biodiversity, Esri is supporting the Microsoft-GEO BON (Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network) grant initiative known as Essential Biodiversity Variables on the Cloud.
The Microsoft-GEO BON grant program, which already provides $1 million worth of Azure credits and financial funding, will now include complimentary Esri technology. The program is targeted at projects that strengthen efforts to monitor Earth's biodiversity and create Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs), as well as relevant biodiversity change indicators derived from EBVs.
Esri is pleased to have been a participant in GEO BON over the last six years, most recently as a GEO Associate member, so providing additional support is a natural progression.
We hope that the support provided by Esri will be a force multiplier for the innovative biodiversity science in each successful grant. Esri technology will provide an effective way to communicate the results to a much broader audience through maps and other visualization tools. The complimentary technology could also widen the scope of participation (including to developing nations, educational institutions, and smaller nonprofits), inspiring passionate action and advocacy on various fronts.
Supported projects will be developed and deployed in the Azure cloud, which builds on prior collaborations of Esri and Microsoft as part of the AI for Earth initiative and the Geo Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) Data Science Virtual Machine (DSVM). The GeoAI DSVM provides a large collection of machine learning, deep learning, and additional data science tools, including Python libraries, R, and ArcGIS Pro, all in a conveniently preconfigured VM where all versions are synced and work together.
Esri has partnered with Microsoft for several years on the GeoAI Data Science Virtual Machine and the AI for Earth initiative. These collaborations support a shared interest in leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI), geographic information system (GIS) technology, and cloud computing to better understand our planet and create a more sustainable world.
The GeoAI DSVM provides two key benefits to the ArcGIS user. First, it brings together hundreds of data science libraries into a single preconfigured environment. If you want to use CNTK, R, or other packages in combination with ArcGIS, you can be assured that all versions are synced and everything works seamlessly. The second benefit is access to scalable computing. Whether you need to run an ArcGIS task parallel on a 16-core VM or want to train a deep learning model on a powerful GPU, the cloud is the easiest way to access that kind of compute power. Over the last few years, Esri has grown significant analytic capability, both within ArcGIS and when linked to other software, supporting a complete GeoAI workflow that is accessible within the GeoAI DSVM.
Example of a powerful conservation data science workflow leveraging ArcGIS in conjunction with AI tools that supports a full workflow from data access and training samples to model refinement, and application of modeling results.
The Esri Offering
Licenses of ArcGIS Pro Advanced, ArcGIS Image Analyst, ArcGIS Spatial Analyst, and 10 other data processing and analysis extensions to assist with modeling and data development.
Named user accounts for ArcGIS Online, providing access to data and capabilities to share project work as open web services and develop hosted web applications, and ArcGIS StoryMaps.
Unlimited access to Esri's online training resources, plus custom webinars on using ArcGIS Pro in the GeoAI DSVM.
Program eligibility, application timeline, and instructions are outlined in Essential Biodiversity Variables on the Cloud web page. The use of Esri technology will not affect the selection process.
Note that an additional application is not required to receive the Esri supplement. Every awardee of an Essential Biodiversity Variables in the Cloud grant will receive the complimentary Esri technology.
At Esri, we look forward to the innovations from grant recipients, uncovering new ways to monitor earth's biodiversity.
Dawn Wright
Dawn Wright joined Esri as Chief Scientist in October 2011, after 17 years as a Professor of Geography and Oceanography at Oregon State University. As Esri Chief Scientist, she is responsible for strengthening the scientific foundation for Esri software and services, while representing Esri to the national and international scientific community. Dawn also remains on the faculty of Oregon State University. Over the past 30 years she has developed and participated in several initiatives around the world to map, analyze, and preserve ocean terrains and ecosystems, and was elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for this work. Aside from GIS, Dawn is very much into road cycling, apricot green tea gummy bears, 18th-century pirates, her puppy Riley, and SpongeBob Squarepants.
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This Is How Each State Got Its Shape
John Harrington, Grant Suneson
Each of the 50 states that comprise the United States of America has its own shape. How their shapes were determined provides insight into how the United States became a nation like no other.
24/7 Tempo has taken a look at how each state got its shape. We reviewed materials such as Mark Stein's book "How the States Got Their Shapes" to find out how each state's contours fit into the grand puzzle that is the United States of America.
According to Stein, the most important influences that determined the shapes of the states were the American Revolution, the construction of railroads, the proposal for the Erie Canal, and the issue of slavery.
The American Revolution helped to define the shapes of the original 13 colonies. The outlines of the earliest states were often shaped by geographic boundaries, such as rivers. These are the oldest historic towns in every state.
The original 13 colonies vary in shape and size. This did not please Thomas Jefferson, who suggested that Congress create future states equal in size based upon latitude and longitude coordinates.
The construction of cross-country railroads and the Erie Canal helped dictate the contours of states where those modes of transport traversed.
The issue of slavery also helped shape states in the territory that was included in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The Missouri Compromise of 1818 solidified the practice of determining state boundaries in the region based on where slavery was legal.
The two largest contiguous states, California and Texas, determined their own borders because of the political power they wielded and the concern that they might secede from the U.S. if a territorial dispute arose. As it turned out, Texas did end up seceding from the Union. Here's how your state was founded.
Click here to read how each state got its shape
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The Most Dangerous Cities in the World
25 Largest Churches in America
The Most Expensive Steakhouse in Every State
States With the Most Indian Reservations and Tribal Areas


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Net Neutrality Bill Passes Crucial Committee Vote
By Ernesto Falcon and Elliot Harmon
Congress took a big step today toward protecting net neutrality, competition, and privacy for Internet users. The House Energy and Commerce Committee just voted 30-22 to approve an amended version of the Save the Internet Act of 2019 (H.R.1644). Please join us in urging your members of Congress to pass the bill now.
The Save the Internet Act would lock into law the protections for net neutrality that came in the 2015 Open Internet Order and require the FCC to take action when ISPs give unfair preferential treatment to certain types of content or content sources.
In 2017, despite a clear mandate from the people to protect net neutrality, the FCC abandoned its responsibility to enforce net neutrality principles. The move was highly unpopular among Americans of all political stripes as well as experts in how the Internet works. In fact, the only people it was really popular with were the big vertically integrated ISPs who seek to leverage their dominance to raise their profits at the expense of the free and open Internet.
H.R. 1644 restores the FCC's ability to police unjust and unreasonable conduct by ISPs. Unfair ISP practices recently took center stage nationally when Verizon was found throttling the wireless service of the Santa Clara Fire Department while the department was fighting a massive fire. The bill also reinstates the competition policies of the Telecommunications Act for the broadband access market, a measure that's widely supported by the small competitors to incumbents like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon.
The committee applied two small tweaks to the legislation during the full committee markup. Bill sponsor Rep. Mike Doyle brought an amendment to permanently lock the 2015 Order as a matter of law to prevent any future FCC from ever repealing net neutrality again. The committee also approved an amendment to reinstate the temporary one year exemption on some of the transparency rule requirements the FCC adopted for ISPs that had less than 100,000 subscribers. Both of these amendments tightened the legislation to mirror the 2015 Open Internet Order and every amendment offered to weaken the legislation was rejected by a majority vote.
Now the legislation will head to the House floor for a debate and the entire country will have an opportunity to demand their elected official in the House of Representatives take a stand against big ISP gatekeepers. Now is the time: let's send a clear message to Congress that we can't wait to bring back essential net neutrality protections. Tell your members of Congress to vote yes on H.R. 1644 and S. 682.
Deeplinks Blog by Kit Walsh | June 28, 2019
First Amendment Case Against Restrictive Copyright Law Can Proceed, Says Judge
A federal judge has ruled that litigation can go forward to determine whether Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act violates the First Amendment as applied. EFF brought this litigation on behalf of security researcher Matt Green, technologist bunnie Huang, and bunnie's company Alphamax, in order to...
Press Release | June 4, 2019
Hearing Today: EFF Staff Attorney Alex Moss Will Testify About Proposed Changes to Patent Law That Will Benefit Trolls, Foster Bad Patents
Washington D.C.—EFF Staff Attorney Alex Moss will tell U.S. lawmakers today that proposed changes to Section 101 of the U.S. Patent Act—the section that defines, and limits, what can get a patent—will upend years of case law that ensures only true inventions, not basic practices or rudimentary ideas, should...
Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | May 23, 2019
Congress Can End the Digital Divide or Replace It with a Speed Chasm with Its Broadband Infrastructure Bill
The House Energy and Commerce Committee held its first hearing on a major infrastructure bill called the "Leading Infrastructure for Tomorrow's (LIFT) America Act," which authorizes $45 billion in broadband infrastructure money. Such a massive infusion of federal dollars would reshape the United States communications market and help put the...
Uniloc v. Apple
This is one of many patent cases filed by Uniloc--one of the most active patent trolls in the world that filed more than 170 lawsuits in a year. Since then, various Uniloc entities have filed hundreds of patent suits, including this one against Apple in the Northern District of...
Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta | March 25, 2019
Why Are Creators Paying for TikTok's Mistake?
TikTok is an app that makes it easy for people to make short lip-synching videos, which unsurprisingly makes it a goldmine of creativity and memes. TikTok recently got in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission because it failed to comply with Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). COPPA requires...
Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | March 22, 2019
This Could Be It: Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13
With only days to go before the final EU debate and vote on the new Copyright Directive (we're told the debate will be at 0900h CET on Tuesday, 26 March, and the vote will happen at 1200h CET), things could not be more urgent and fraught. That's why...
Deeplinks Blog by Danny O'Brien | March 20, 2019
The Best of Europe's Web Went Dark Today. We Can't Let That Be Our Future.
We're into the final days before members of the European Parliament vote on the Copyright and the Digital Single Market Directive, home of the censoring Article 13, and the anti-news Article 11. Europeans are still urging their MEPs to vote down these articles (if you haven't already, call now...


In 1882 Senior Constable Francis Drum paid the ultimate price in the execution of his duty. Unfortunately his death has not been accepted as duty-related by the various Commissioners (and Inspectors General) of the Police.
Francis Drum, a twenty year veteran, was thrown from his horse near Murringo while collecting crop returns and electoral lists. Sadly, his fatal fall was not regarded as being in the line of duty.
It has since been shown that in a report by Edmund Fosbery Inspector General of Police to the Principal Under-Secretary of the NSW Police Department that most country police had this task as a normal part of their duties at that time. "These duties and others such as the collection of the Electoral Lists, Jury List, Stock and Crop Returns interfere more or less with legitimate police work and occupy much time, but there is some counter-balancing advantage by bringing the police into contact with people they would not otherwise meet, whereby they acquire information of service to them in a police point of view". (see Police Duties in NSW 1862 - 1915).
We have been in contact with a serving Police Officer who wishes to facilitate the process of getting Francis Drum recognised as his due right and to have his name included on the Police Honour Roll.


A chat show with a difference from the stars of Britain by Bike.
George Lamb is the host, and he'll be encouraging his old man, Larry Lamb, to talk about his life on the telly, from Gavin and Stacey to EastEnders, with the highs (and lows) from his 40 year career.
But, the spotlight will turn on George too: his life in showbiz, and being the son of someone whom millions of people (think they) know.
The duo come to Crazy Coqs for one night only as part of their upcoming UK tour.


Enjoy your new Gator Case!
Hauoli Caparida, a Ohio Valley University student, came into our Showroom today looking for a good case for his guitar. After going through our multiple case options with our Sales Manager, Scott Arthur, he decided to buy one of our new Gator Cases.
Thank you Hauoli for stopping in and we can't wait to see you again!


They say that sharing is caring, and we love sharing yummy treats with our dogs! However, there are two potential problems with feeding Fido extra snacks. For starters, table scraps can contain ingredients that are safe for us, but dangerous for our dogs (for instance, onions and chocolate). Second, too many treats can make our pups pack on the pounds, which can lead to a host of health problems.


Maddie-Jane Reeves joins mom and dad, Meredith and Jon, in her third Lyons Village 4th of July parade. The parade begins at Highland Street and weaves around the block to Lyon Village Park where festivities continue.
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Shipping dangerous goods such as liquefied or compressed gas can be pretty risky and daunting. If you have a basic understanding of dangerous goods shipping, this process can be uncomplicated. However, it is important to be aware of potential liabilities and responsibilities.
What are Dangerous or Hazardous Materials?
Hazardous materials are substances that can pose unreasonable health, property, and safety risk when it is being transported. The items are flammable, toxic, or corrosive. There are about nine different classes of hazardous materials such as explosives, flammable liquids, oxidizing substance, corrosives, radioactive material, flammable solids, gasses, infectious substance, and various other objects.
However, you need to keep in mind that there is no difference between hazardous material or dangerous goods.
Dangerous goods are usually classified in the same manner around the world. As per the UN regulation, it is classified into different classes that represent a similar kind of goods. Gasses make up the 2 groups and have three sub-divisions.
Some other descriptions of hazardous materials which you need to know have been given below.
The UN number is an exclusive identification number that relates the materials to a certain set of regulations. The common names of the items might differ around the world but the UN number will be the same.
The Packing group makes use of a primary identification of the danger level of a particular material as their hazard level. They are identified using Roman numerals that are listed below.
Packing groups decide on the right kind of packaging to provide maximum protection from spill and leakage. However, gasses are different since it is packed in cylinders and meet specific international standards. Packing group classification does not apply to gasses and this is the reason the field is always left blank.
The proper shipping name is the accepted name of the product and has a relation to the UN number. The technical name of the product is related to the proper shipping name.
Do you need a special certification for dangerous goods shipping?
Whether you need a certification or not actually depend on where the goods shipped through the shipping services. The requirement of each and every shipment is different be it international or domestic. Dangerous goods shipping through the air is the most restrictive means of transport. In order to consign the goods to the aircraft, it has to be certified by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). There is no difference between international and domestic flights and all of them have to adhere to the same regulation.
Dangerous goods shipping through the sea is available for all kinds of calibration, pure gasses, and specialty. Ocean regulation is maintained by Maritime Organization. You need to complete the maritime order form to consign dangerous goods through the ocean.
Road shipping cargo services are the easiest way for dangerous goods shipping since it requires no special certification. However, the dangerous goods shipping procedure should be adhered to for smooth movement of goods.
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The first DPDK Summit brought the DPDK open source community together at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis Hotel with the vision to share DPDK usage and implementation; to hear from DPDK developers, contributors, and users; and to build the DPDK community.
Jim starts off the summit by discussing the objectives, DPDK history, the community, and its contributors.
Is It Time to Revisit the IP Stack in the Linux Kernel and KVM?
We might take too many things for granted, like the Linux kernel providing a TCP/IP stack since its inception, whereas UNIX did not. Fast forward to today's world with virtualization, where most hypervisors derived from modern OSs also supply an IP stack. Should we take out the IP stack to let the OS and hypervisor focus on their main tasks, including process scheduling, resource management, and virtualization, or let them be the monolithic piece for all these elements?
This presentation describes an approach to support latency-sensitive applications by diving into best practices in augmenting DPDK to deliver lower jitter and high availability in addition to higher packet throughputs. We will review Enhanced Memory Management techniques and multi-process enhancements to the DPDK library foundation.We also will describe our experience and optimizations in using DPDK with a XEN Hypervisor including the addition of NUMA awareness.
Microsoft operates some of the world's largest data centers, such as Bing, Office365, Xbox Live, and Azure, to name a few. One of the key fundamentals enabling Microsoft to operate efficiently at such hyper scale is NIC performance. This talk addresses how to drive up packet processing performance for the network functions running in their data centers.
A high-performance software switch is a key component for next-generation telecom infrastructure, especially for NFV and SDN. NTT Laboratories developed a high-performance and highly-scalable SDN/OpenFlow software switch, called Lagopus, that leverages state-of-the-art server and software technologies, including Intel® processors, Intel® Ethernet Controllers, and the DPDK.
In this session, one of the original authors of the DPDK library will share insight into how to best use the available tools and library hooks when looking to optimize system packet performance. The session will also provide insight into concepts under consideration to facilitate discussion and prioritization feedback into the future planning process.
The usage of virtualized DPDK applications has increased tremendously. This session will review how the DPDK APIs take advantage of platform technologies like SR-IOV, direct device assignment (VT-d) and para-virtual as well as emulated devices offered by the underlying platform to achieve higher packet throughput at predictable latency. The session will primarily focus on the virtualization options offered by DPDK for the VMware ESXi Hypervisor environment. The session will conclude by sharing the future vision and commitment to enhance the API even further to enable community developers and end users to get most out of underlying Intel Architecture and Hypervisor target.
High-performance networking stacks can be designed using the DPDK and packet processing software. This presentation covers the development of high-performance applications with examples for IPsec, TCP, virtual switching, and virtual networking functions for NFV.
Tim brings the summit to a close by reviewing the DPDK open source journey, soliciting feedback on the summit, and discussing increased involvement in the DPDK community.


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06 - Difficutiles in Theory 06-12 - Organs not in all Cases Absolutely Perfect 100 Natural selection cannot possibly produce any modification in a species exclusively for the good of another species; though throughout nature one species incessantly takes advantage of, and profits by, the structures of others.
But natural selection can and does often produce structures for the direct injury of other animals, as we see in the fang of the adder, and in the ovipositor of the ichneumon, by which its eggs are deposited in the living bodies of other insects.
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If it could be proved that any part of the structure of any one species had been formed for the exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my theory, for such could not have been produced through natural selection.
Although many statements may be found in works on natural history to this effect, I cannot find even one which seems to me of any weight.
It is admitted that the rattlesnake has a poison-fang for its own defence, and for the destruction of its prey; but some authors suppose that at the same time it is furnished with a rattle for its own injury, namely, to warn its prey.
I would almost as soon believe that the cat curls the end of its tail when preparing to spring, in order to warn the doomed mouse.
05 - Laws of Variation 05-12 - Reversion to Long Lost Characters 100 He who believes that each equine species was independently created, will, I presume, assert that each species has been created with a tendency to vary, both under nature and under domestication, in this particular manner, so as often to become striped like the other species of the genus; and that each has been created with a strong tendency, when crossed with species inhabiting distant quarters of the world, to produce hybrids resembling in their stripes, not their own parents, but other species of the genus.
To admit this view is, as it seems to me, to reject a real for an unreal, or at least for an unknown, cause. It makes the works of God a mere mockery and deception; I would almost as soon believe, with the old and ignorant cosmogonists, that fossil shells had never lived, but had been created in stone so as to mock the shells living on the seashore.
13 - Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Or 13-03 - Rules and difficulties in classification, explained on the theory of descent with modification 100 Geographical distribution has often been used, though perhaps not quite logically, in classification, more especially in very large groups of closely allied forms.
Temminck insists on the utility or even necessity of this practice in certain groups of birds; and it has been followed by several entomologists and botanists.
Coenraad Jacob Temminck
Finally, with respect to the comparative value of the various groups of species, such as orders, sub-orders, families, sub-families, and genera, they seem to be, at least at present, almost arbitrary.
Several of the best botanists, such as Mr Bentham and others, have strongly insisted on their arbitrary value.
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12 - Geographical Distribution -- continued 12-50 - On colonisation from the nearest source with subsequent modification 100 So it is with most fresh-water productions, in which so many genera range over the world, and many individual species have enormous ranges.
It is not meant that in world-ranging genera all the species have a wide range, or even that they have on an average a wide range; but only that some of the species range very widely; for the facility with which widely-ranging species vary and give rise to new forms will largely determine their average range.
For instance, two varieties of the same species inhabit America and Europe, and the species thus has an immense range; but, if the variation had been a little greater, the two varieties would have been ranked as distinct species, and the common range would have been greatly reduced.
Still less is it meant, that a species which apparently has the capacity of crossing barriers and ranging widely, as in the case of certain powerfully-winged birds, will necessarily range widely; for we should never forget that to range widely implies not only the power of crossing barriers, but the more important power of being victorious in distant lands in the struggle for life with foreign associates.
But on the view of all the species of a genus having descended from a single parent, though now distributed to the most remote points of the world, we ought to find, and I believe as a general rule we do find, that some at least of the species range very widely; for it is necessary that the unmodified parent should range widely, undergoing modification during its diffusion, and should place itself under diverse conditions favourable for the conversion of its offspring, firstly into new varieties and ultimately into new species.
In considering the wide distribution of certain genera, we should bear in mind that some are extremely ancient, and must have branched off from a common parent at a remote epoch; so that in such cases there will have been ample time for great climatal and geographical changes and for accidents of transport; and consequently for the migration of some of the species into all quarters of the world, where they may have become slightly modified in relation to their new conditions.
There is, also, some reason to believe from geological evidence that organisms low in the scale within each great class, generally change at a slower rate than the higher forms; and consequently the lower forms will have had a better chance of ranging widely and of still retaining the same specific character.
This fact, together with the seeds and eggs of many low forms being very minute and better fitted for distant transportation, probably accounts for a law which has long been observed, and which has lately been admirably discussed by Alph. de Candolle in regard to plants, namely, that the lower any group of organisms is, the more widely it is apt to range.
Alphonse de Candolle
The relations just discussed, namely, low and slowly-changing organisms ranging more widely than the high, some of the species of widely-ranging genera themselves ranging widely, such facts, as alpine, lacustrine, and marsh productions being related (with the exceptions before specified) to those on the surrounding low lands and dry lands, though these stations are so different the very close relation of the distinct species which inhabit the islets of the same archipelago, and especially the striking relation of the inhabitants of each whole archipelago or island to those of the nearest mainland, are, I think, utterly inexplicable on the ordinary view of the independent creation of each species, but are explicable on the view of colonisation from the nearest and readiest source, together with the subsequent modification and better adaptation of the colonists to their new homes.


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Jeff Stein is the Washington Post's blogger on matters of intelligence. His blog, SpyTalk, tracks insider news from the intelligence services. One of his most recent entries, however, attracted much wider attention from across the web. CIA unit's wacky idea: depict Saddam as gay. David speaks with Stein about this and other strange initiatives contemplated by the CIA.


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Free Information Session for the Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology (SLP).
In response to a regional need for individuals who are trained in the field of speech-language pathology, the M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology program will be accepting applications beginning in October 2015 for Fall 2016 admissions.
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Farm women volunteers involved in the CommonGround outreach program, along with state and national staff met in Kansas City, Mo., to share their experiences with the program and welcome new members earlier this week. Over the course of three days, the participants worked intensively to gain insight into consumer questions and hone the skills that they use to share their personal story and that of modern farming with urban and suburban moms.
MARCH 13, 2019 – The Colorado Fruit & Vegetable Growers Association (CFVGA) has partnered with the Colorado Department of Agriculture, Colorado State University and Rocky Mountain Farmers Union to provide Produce Safety Alliance courses that satisfy the Food Safety Modernization Act's (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule requirement. Two grower training opportunities remain prior to growing season, April 4 in Colorado Springs and April 9 in Greeley.
DENVER – Red Angus enthusiasts can plan to be in Denver the first week of January for many years to come, thanks to the Red Angus Association of America's Board of Directors' decision to make the National Western Stock Show the permanent home for the National Red Angus Open Show.
The decision was made at the January board meeting, held in conjunction with the NWSS, and was based on many years of increasing attendance and entries at the prestigious stock show. Moving forward, the NWSS will host the National Red Angus Open Show while the National Red Angus Junior Show will continue its rotation to various sites.
WASHINGTON – As part of the Bureau of Land Management's effort to find good homes for wild horses and burros removed from public lands, the agency today began offering new financial incentives to encourage qualified people to adopt one or more of the animals. The incentives are being implemented to step up placement efforts and confront the growing overpopulation of wild horses and burros on fragile rangelands and in off-range holding facilities, which cost taxpayers nearly $50 million every year to maintain.
The Trump Administration Tuesday released its proposal to allow for year-round E15 sales. The proposal would remove a barrier that limited the year-round sales, while also making changes to credits refiners use to prove they are using biofuel. In a news release, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler stated, "EPA is working to propose and finalize these changes by the summer driving season," which starts June first and is also the date when E15 sales are restricted. The proposal would provide a Reid Vapor Pressure waiver for the summer months that has historically been applied only to E10. Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor called the rule a "critical milestone." However, proposed changes to the RIN market are questioned by the industry. While many are still reviewing the proposal, Skor says Growth Energy wants to make sure that changes "do not upend the marketplace, and continue to encourage investment in E15 and other higher ethanol blends." Before finalizing the rule, EPA will now accept comments from biofuel producers, farmers, and other stakeholders.
The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture expressed disappointment this week in the content of President Trump's budget proposal. NASDA CEO Barbara Glenn says the budget request would "negatively impact agriculture, particularly at a time when many in agriculture are facing a serious economic downturn." NASDA expects Congress to ensure the programs agriculture needs, including those within the Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are adequately funded. The budget includes cuts to crop insurance and other programs. However, one positive thread throughout the budget, according to NASDA, was the theme of cooperative federalism, particularly in the realm of food safety. The proposal called for a $16 million increase in funding to advance implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act with a specific focus on cooperative agreements. NASDA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit association which represents the elected and appointed commissioners, secretaries, and directors of the departments of agriculture in all fifty states and four U.S. territories.
The Department of Agriculture Tuesday published a narrowed list of potential site relocations for the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. USDA says the agency used a set of guiding principles against the interested locations, including consideration of USDA travel requirements, labor force statistics, and work hours most compatible with all USDA office schedules. The new list includes 67 potential sites across the nation from the 136 proposed locations. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says "USDA will make the best choice for our employees and customers," adding "relocation will help ensure that USDA is the most effective, most efficient, and most customer-focused agency in the federal government." The initial list includes locations in 35 states, however, the smaller list announced this week includes sites from just 28 states. Find the complete list at USDA.gov.
Despite numerous challenges for most of 2018, sales of U.S. pork abroad remained relatively steady compared with 2017. For the year, U.S. pork and pork variety meat exports totaled 5.37 billion pounds, unchanged from 2017, and were valued at $6.3 billion, which was down one percent from 2017. Bill Luckey of the National Pork Board called 2018 a "difficult year," noting market-access was the biggest challenge. Pork exports accounted for 25.7 percent of total 2018 U.S. pork and pork variety meat production. Export value per head averaged $51.37, down 3.9 percent from 2017. Despite market access challenges for many markets, 2018 export growth was strong in a few countries, including tremendous growth in South Korea and Colombia. Pork and pork variety meat exports to Korea were up 40 percent in volume and 41 percent in value, while exports to Colombia were up 39 percent in volume and 32 percent in value. During 2018, more than 100 countries imported U.S. pork.
The Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service is seeking input on conservation practices through the 2018 Farm Bill. As USDA works on implementing the farm bill, NRCS is asking the public to submit comments on how to improve conservation practices standards that support programs such as the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and Conservation Stewardship Program, which help producers cover part of the costs for implementing these practices. NRCS offers 150-plus conservation practices to America's farmers and ranchers to help them meet their business and natural resource needs on their working lands. The standards provide guidelines for planning, designing, installing, operating and maintaining conservation practices. NRCS is using the comment period to evaluate opportunities to increase flexibility to producers, finding the optimal balance between meeting site-specific conservation needs and minimizing risks of design failure, and ensure the relevance of the standards to agriculture. The comment period ends April 25, 2019. Comments can be made online by searching regulations.gov.


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TORONTO, July 15 (Reuters) - Canada's currency vaulted to its highest level against the U.S. dollar in more than a month on Wednesday, helped by improved hopes for a global economic recovery and equity-market rally that fueled risk appetite.
Late in Wednesday's session the Canadian dollar rose as high as C$1.1117 to the U.S. dollar, or 89.95 U.S. cents. That marked its highest level since June 12 and lifted it further above the seven-week low it tumbled to last week.
While the rise came alongside meaty gains in North American equities and higher prices for major Canadian exports like oil and gold, some market experts felt there could be more behind the latest move by the currency.
"You have to guess that there is some deal going though, whether it's an M&A-related deal or whether it's a one-off or something," said Steve Butler, director of foreign exchange trading at Scotia Capital.
The currency closed at C$1.1143 to the U.S. dollar, or 89.74 U.S. cents, well up from C$1.1360 to the U.S. dollar, or 88.03 U.S. cents, on Tuesday.
That put the Canadian dollar up more than 4 percent this week over the Bank of Canada's closing level on Friday.
A healthy global economy would likely mean more demand for key Canadian export commodities. Oil prices were up 3 percent while gold hit a two-week high.
Canadian bond prices were lower across the curve as upbeat corporate earnings out of the United States lent a bid to North American stocks and sapped demand for more secure government debt.
The two-year bond was down 4 Canadian cents at C$99.99 to yield 1.255 percent, while the 10-year bond retreated 65 Canadian cents to C$101.95 to yield 3.514 percent.
The 30-year bond fell 84 Canadian cents to C$116.06 to yield 4.035 percent. In the United States, the 30-year Treasury bond yielded 4.51 percent.


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I recently tried some new bulbs I want to share with you. They are Vintage LED Filament Bulbs from GOKU. They have a vintage design but the color temp is a warm white. These came in a pack of six and I tried them out in several different rooms.
They are a Standard A19 Bulb Shape and the E26 Base Type. They do come in this shape too.
They are dimmable, which is nice depending on your needs.
They are 6W which is equivalent to the traditional 60W incandescent bulbs. Saving quite a bit of power there !!!
Supposed to have a very long life span. Approximately 25,000 – 30,000 life hours. Obviously I'm not going to wait that long before leaving you a review on them. But I can tell you I've been using them for exactly 1 month with no problems at all.
In the end I like them best in my kitchen. Don't mind my old style fixture. Those have not been high on the list to update. Since I do work at the table, my daughter does homework at the table, we like a nice bright light in there.
The first thing I love about these bulbs is that they are instant on. So no need to "warm up" before they are full brightness. I do not have the patience for those bulbs. At all !! When I flip a switch, I like to see 'now', not in 5 minutes. So the instant on is a plus for me !
The second thing I love about these bulbs is that they are the ideal bright light without the harshness.
I tried them in the bathroom for a bit too.
The 360 Degree Omni-Directional Light was nice in the bathroom. This means that light is emitted from 4 LED filaments uniformly and evenly in all directions, so there is no spotlight effect. When doing hair, make up or shaving, you don't feel like the light is shining in one spot. Just a nice bright room.
This is my only dimmable lamp in the house. It does make a nice soft light to leave on while we are gone, or just to have on without the main light on.
Even with the lamp shade blocking the nice 360 degree omni-directional light, it was still a great bulb in this lamp.
I really like it while reading at night. It's more similar to natural light and easier on the eyes I thought.
If you are in need of a great set of bulbs, that will hopefully save you some power and just the hassle of buying them so frequently, you should give these a try. They were the GOKU Vintage LED Filament Bulbs. Also available in the Candelabra Style.


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The New Science of Disaster Prediction
By Nathaniel Rich
You wouldn't know it from the images of the Philippines this past week, but the science of disaster prediction is flourishing. Prediction and preparation are not the same thing, however, and questions have arisen about whether sufficient preparations were made for Typhoon Haiyan. These questions are posed after every disaster, and invariably there is only one answer: we could have prepared better. The Philippines could have been better prepared, but the best preparation is no match for two-hundred-mile-per-hour winds.
Nevertheless, our knowledge of how disasters occur, and how they will occur in the future, has never been more sophisticated. We are now able to prophesy impending cataclysms with a specificity that would have been inconceivable just several years ago. Several factors have contributed to this progress: a growing public anxiety about disasters; advances in disciplines as disparate as computer science, fluid mechanics, and neuroscience; and an infusion of funding from governments, universities, and especially corporations, which have figured out that disaster planning saves money in the long run. But the field remains in its infancy. Disaster prediction—like disaster science, disaster economics, disaster-response technology, disaster art, disaster cinema, disaster lit—is a growth industry. All indications suggest a growth curve that will continue to steepen well into the next century. Disaster is big business, and its prophets will profit.
Milestones in the past year include the March publication, by a team of U.C.L.A. scientists, of a new computer model that predicts where the next global pandemic will originate. The model gives the most favorable odds to Egypt's Nile Delta and several areas in coastal and central China. One of these places is the most likely site for a particularly virulent strain of bird flu to jump species to human beings, creating a globetrotting virus that would kill more than six million Americans, according to a 2009 Department of Defense report that was declassified in September. In June, at a conference in Brisbane, an emergency-management specialist explained that Geographic Information Systems technology—which collects exhaustive data on land elevation, the condition of roads and buildings, water levels, population density, and meteorology—will help governments prepare for a flood years before it occurs. The technology will be used to determine when a flood is likely to happen, whether your house will be submerged, and whether you will survive if you don't evacuate.
In the greater Dallas metropolitan area, engineers from the University of Massachusetts have been installing the prototype of a new tornado-detection radar system that should allow scientists to detect tornadoes twenty-five per cent faster than old models. In October, researchers at Purdue University filed a patent that will allow food-processing plants to screen for salmonella within a single six-hour work shift, much faster than current methods, which can take more than a day (by which point the tainted meat may have already reached supermarkets). And just over two weeks ago, a team of British and Australian neuroscientists published an algorithm that they believe may predict stock-market crashes.
Most of the progress in this field, to be clear, has been modest, incremental, and uncertain. Our current tornado-tracking models indicate the presence of a tornado sixteen minutes before it forms; the radar system currently being tested in Dallas would increase the warning time by only four minutes. ShakeAlert, an app recently developed by a U.C. Berkeley seismologist, makes funny noises whenever it detects an earthquake. Unfortunately, it cannot predict a major earthquake more than a minute before it hits—roughly enough time to duck under the nearest table and curl into the fetal position.
The science of typhoon prediction also has its blind spots—in the case of Haiyan, the blind spot was forty-six nautical miles in radius. The storm was first detected as a tropical depression a full five days before it made landfall. But this information was relatively useless, because the storm's intensity could not be accurately predicted until hours before Haiyan passed over the southern tip of Eastern Samar province. Earlier forecasts had predicted a storm with an intensity between Category 1 and Category 5—the lowest and highest hurricane classifications available. This is like a doctor telling you that your cough could be a symptom of a seasonal cold or lung cancer.
But the science will improve. Though prediction abilities vary depending on the type of disaster (volcanologists have it much tougher than meteorologists), many of the current inefficiencies can be attributed to limitations of financial cost, computer processing power, and the complexity of analyzing vast amounts of data—all problems that will be overcome with time. As Alan Boyle of NBC News has pointed out, scientists would have been able to make far better predictions about Typhoon Haiyan had more money been invested in detection. No government, for instance, was able to send typhoon-hunting airplanes or drones into the storm to make accurate measurements of wind speeds and barometric pressure. The United States once had a program in the South Pacific charged with doing exactly this—the Fifty-fourth Weather Reconnaissance Squadron—but President Reagan discontinued the "Typhoon Chasers" in 1987.
Disaster predictions will become more accurate, but what difference will it make? Will it save lives, or even change behavior? Tokyo's nine million residents are today fully aware that their city is due for a massive earthquake; last year, the University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute calculated that there is a seventy per cent likelihood that an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 or higher will hit the city by 2016. A 7.0 earthquake would kill eleven thousand people and cost Japan a trillion dollars. Angelenos who continue to buy multi-million-dollar houses on the escarpment of the San Gabriel Mountains—"on the steep slopes where the subdivisions stop and the brush begins" —know that the mountains want nothing more than to slide into the sea. Phoenix knows that it's running out of water, Miami knows that it's sinking into the Atlantic Ocean, and Seattle knows that it's due for a reprise of the 9.0 megathrust earthquake that hit in 1700.
Anybody who had bothered to read the 1995 Metro New York Hurricane Transportation Study issued by the Army Corps of Engineers, or historical accounts of previous hurricanes that hit New York City—such as the 1821 storm that caused the East River to meet the Hudson in what is now SoHo—would have been prepared for the extent of Hurricane Sandy's destruction. We also already know how much more severe the destruction will be when a stronger storm hits. Sandy was no longer a classified as a hurricane when it made landfall on the New Jersey coast, but a post-tropical cyclone; a Category 3 hurricane hit New York as recently as 1938.
And the Philippines had no delusions about the risks posed by typhoons. It had plenty of experience to draw from: the nation endures an average of twenty typhoons annually. Nobody knows exactly when the city of Tacloban—one of the areas hardest hit by Haiyan—first came into existence, because the city's original municipal records were destroyed in a typhoon. The six most destructive examples in recorded history have all occurred since 1990, and average storm intensity and sea level continue to rise every year. In May, the executive director of the Philippines' National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council acknowledged that global warming posed an "existential threat" to the nation.
We know all of this, but we continue to live in the path of catastrophe. Many millions of people, of course, don't have a choice—they cannot afford to move. But those who can leave—especially those who can leave—tend to stay. To rebuild is heroic; to move is a retreat, an act of cowardice. So Keansburg, the Rockaways, and Seaside Heights rebuild. The houses on Grand Isle, the only inhabited barrier island in the state of Louisiana, stilt ever higher. Seattle relaxes zoning regulations to allow the construction of downtown skyscrapers. The Maldives heighten its seawalls.
I'm no different—I choose to live in New Orleans, a city forced to contemplate its own existential threat every hurricane season. If pressed, I could propose tepid arguments about why I ignore this threat: that the constant sense of impending doom is responsible for New Orleans's uniquely vital culture; that most other major American cities face equally serious threats, including terrorism, earthquakes, drought; that I might get run over by a bus tomorrow so what does it matter?; that I trust the reinforced levees (yeah, right); that life in a more secure city—such as Cleveland, by some estimates the American city least vulnerable to global warming—wouldn't be worth living.
The truth is that my desire to live in New Orleans overwhelms any rational consideration. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks this way. We're a blindly hopeful species. We're able to glimpse the grinning dangers that lurk around the next corner, but we're unable to take them to heart—which is how we got into this mess in the first place.
Nathaniel Rich is the author of the novels "Odds Against Tomorrow" and "The Mayor's Tongue."
Photograph by John Javellana/Reuters.
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Egypt Turmoil
Saad Lamjarred concert in Egypt cancelled after backlash over rape allegations
Moroccan singer's performance in Cairo pulled amid widespread attention on sexual assault in Egypt
Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred's planned performance sparked a backlash over multiple rape allegations against the singer (AFP/File photo)
Rayhan Uddin
Published date: 16 October 2020 13:09 UTC | Last update: 2 months 4 weeks ago
A concert in Cairo by Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred has been cancelled after a backlash on social media over multiple rape accusations against the artist. Lamjarred has previously denied all charges.
Last week, the Cairo Show theatre released a poster and details of a performance by Lamjarred due to take place in the Egyptian capital in December.
Egyptian social media users were quick to raise concerns about the singer entering their country, citing rape allegations.
Lamjarred was first arrested on suspicion of rape in New York in 2010. He later fled the United States after being released on bail.
He was arrested for a second time in 2016, accused of physically assaulting and raping a 20-year-old French woman in a hotel in Paris. Morocco's King Mohammed VI covered the legal fees for the case, and hired a top French lawyer known for securing acquittals.
In 2018, Lamjarred was arrested for a third time, in the south of France, accused of raping a woman in a Saint-Tropez hotel. The allegation prompted calls for his songs to be banned from Moroccan radio stations.
Neither the singer nor his business manager responded to press requests for comment on the show's cancellation, Reuters reported.
Online outrage
The Cairo theatre's decision to host the singer sparked outrage online, with Egyptians using the hashtag #مش_عايزين_لمجرد_في_مصر (We don't want Saad Lamjarred in Egypt).
Some users posted an edited version of the promotional poster with the word "Rapist" written across it.
Egyptian actor Rosaline Elbay, who plays a leading role in the critically acclaimed comedy-drama Ramy, called the decision to allow Lamjarred to perform "disgraceful".
"When you platform men like this, you tell every woman in your cast, crew, and audience that her life and safety don't matter," she wrote on Twitter. "This is disgraceful."
Several social media users attempted to raise concerns about the allegations under the Cairo Show theatre's Instagram post, however these were deleted or marked as spam.
The show was eventually cancelled, and promotional posts have been deleted from social media.
"It is already cancelled," Magdy El Hawary, head of the Cairo Show theatre, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, providing no further details.
Egypt's 'Me too' movement
The fallout comes at a time of widespread public and media attention on sexual harrassment and assault in Egypt.
Earlier this month, an Egyptian court began hearing a high-profile case of alleged blackmail and sexual assault against former student Ahmed Zaki.
Cairo court begins high-profile 'Egyptian MeToo' case
After Zaki's arrest, hundreds of women started to speak up on social media about abuse, sparking a #MeToo movement, prompting fresh allegations against several men and also revealing a rape case that occurred in a Cairo hotel in 2014.
Just this week, there was outcry after a woman from the Maadi neighbourhood of Cairo was harrassed, run over and killed by three men in a vehicle.
A 2017 Thomson Reuters Foundation poll found Cairo to be the most dangerous megacity for women, and 99 percent of women in Egypt interviewed by the United Nations in 2013 said they had experienced sexual harassment.
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