The employer-driven hospital quality watchdog, The Leapfrog Group, announced today that 2011 results from the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey indicate that hospitals are making progress in eliminating early elective newborn deliveries. The Leapfrog Group announced that 39% of reporting hospitals kept their early elective delivery rate to 5% or less, compared to 30% of reporting hospitals last year.
In 2010 Leapfrog was the first, and remains the only, national organization to make hospital-specific information about this practice publicly available. Since Leapfrog highlighted data on this unsafe practice last year, early elective deliveries has emerged as a priority issue for dozens of national and local health organizations, the National Priorities Partnership, and policymakers through the Department of Health and Human Service's Partnership for Patients campaign.
According to Leapfrog, there is still wide variation among hospitals. Rates of early elective deliveries ranged from less than 5%, which is Leapfrog's target for all hospitals, to over 40%. Leapfrog's 2011 data is the first indication that hospitals are improving.


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Remarks to Citizens in Hambach, Federal Republic of Germany
Chancellor Kohl, honored guests, and my young friends of Germany and Europe, danke schon. [thank you]. Nancy and I are very happy to be with you and to see that the ideals of the first Hambach Fest live on today. To join you at this site so rich in history makes this a very special day.
Already, you have given us a gift of hope and beauty from the site of this sturdy old castle in the spirit of your youth and the spirit of Germany's future and, yes, from the warmth that we feel in German hearts. I may not say it well, but I can truly say, wir fuellen ganz hier zu hause [we feel completely at home here].
In welcoming us, you honor the 237 million Americans that I'm privileged to represent. I might add that, as you've been told, more Americans trace their roots to this land, these towns, and your families than to almost any other place or people in the world.
It's fitting that we meet where so much that is good and worthy of our two nations began. From here in the Rhineland-Palatinate, thousands left to cross a mighty ocean, to push back America's frontiers and to help us win a great struggle for independence. You have been told that, yes, one regiment came from Zweibrucken, led by Count Christian and Viscount Wilhelm von Frobach. They fought by our side. They were with us the day we won the historic battle of Yorktown, the day the American Revolution triumphed.
And it was from this hill on this good soil that freedom was proclaimed and the dream of democracy and national unity came alive in the German soul.
I am only a visitor to your country, but I am proud to stand with you today by these walls of Schloss Hambach. They are walls of time that cradle the glorious past and that reach toward the promise of a future written for eternity across this wide open sky. Think back to that first Festival of Freedom that was held here in 1832. What noble vision it was that inspired and emboldened your first patriots -- not violence, not destruction of society, and not some far-flung utopian scheme. No, their vision and cry were revolutionary in the truest sense of that word. Those first patriots cried out for a free, democratic, and united Germany, and we do so again today. They cried out for solidarity with freedom fighters in Poland, and we do so again today. And they waved the colors of black, red, and gold to announce rebirth of human spirit and dignity, and those colors wave proudly here today.
The dream was voiced by many that year. But there was one student, and I am told that his name was Karl Heinrich Bruggemann, whose passion and eloquence echo with us still. ``All Germanic peoples,'' Karl said, ``will and must acquire greater dignity; the times of tyranny have passed. Free states will flourish, patriotic nations will in future celebrate the New Europe.''
The new Europe. One hundred fifty-three years have come and gone, bringing great change and progress. But the new Europe is yet to be complete. Why is this so? We know the answer. It is not that freedom has not worked for the European people, but that too many Europeans have been forbidden to work for freedom. It's not that democracy was tried and found wanting, but that some forbid democracy to be tried because they knew it would succeed.
Europe today -- divided by concrete walls, by electrified barbed wire, and by mined and manicured fields, killing fields -- it is a living portrait of the most compelling truth of our time: The future belongs to the free.
You are living in the springtime of your lives. The world needs your idealism, your courage, and your good works. From one whose own life spans many years -- my critics in America would tell you too many years -- [laughter] -- permit me to offer you some observations about the future, about the creative future that can be ours if only we apply our wisdom and will to heed the lessons of history. Let me speak to you for a moment about your responsibilities and your opportunities.
In many ways, the challenges of 1832, when thousands of young Germans came here to protest repression, were similar to those you face today. By that year of 1832, Germany was changing rapidly. The Industrial Revolution was sweeping across Europe. But in dealing with these new problems, strong forces inside and outside Germany resisted democracy and national unity.
The great hopes that arose in 1832 and again in 1848 were set back. But despite the difficulties of democratic movements, we know for sure that totalitarianism, by whatever name, will never fulfill German aspirations within a united Europe.
The cause of German unity is bound up with the cause of democracy. As Chancellor Kohl said in his state of the nation address last February, ``Europe is divided because part of Europe is not free; Germany is divided because part of Germany is not free.'' And democracy will only be complete, Europe will only be united, when all Germans and all Europeans are finally free.
But even if national unity cannot be achieved immediately, you, the youth of Germany, you who are Germany's future, can show the power of democratic ideals by committing yourselves to the cause of freedom here in Europe and everywhere.
You know some may not like to hear it, but history is not on the side of those who manipulate the meaning of words like revolution, freedom, and peace. History is on the side of those struggling for a true revolution of peace with freedom all across the world.
Nothing could make our hearts more glad than to see the day when there will be no more walls, no more guns to keep loved ones apart. Nothing could bring greater happiness than to reach an agreement that will rid the Earth of nuclear weapons forever, and we will never stop praying, never stop working, never stop striving one moment to bring that day closer.
But my young friends, I must also plead for realism, for unless and until there's a changing by the other side, the United States must fulfill a commitment of its own -- to the survival of liberty. The first frontier of European liberty begins in Berlin, and I assure you that America will stand by you in Europe, and America will stand by you in Berlin.
Understanding the true nature of totalitarianism will be worth as much to us as any weapons system in preserving peace. Realism is the beginning of wisdom, and where there's wisdom and courage, there will be safety and security, and they will be yours.
Your future awaits you, so take up your responsibilities and embrace your opportunities with enthusiasm and pride in Germany's strength. Understand that there are no limits to how high each of you can climb. Unlike your cousins on the other side of the wall, your future is in your hands -- you're free to follow your dreams to the stars. And, you know, we have something so precious if we'll just remember: The eternal youngness of freedom makes it irresistible to people everywhere.
And we who live in this great cathedral of freedom need to remind ourselves that we can see our future shining, we can see new freedom spires rising, and yes, we can see the times of tyranny passing if we will just believe in our own greatest strengths -- our courage, our worthiness, our unlimited capacity for love.
Let us ask ourselves: What is at the heart of freedom? In the answer lies the deepest hope for the future of mankind and the reason there can be no walls around those who are determined to be free. Each of us, each of you, is made in the most enduring, powerful image of Western civilization. We're made in the image of God, the image of God, the Creator.
This is our power, and this our freedom. This is our future. And through this power -- not drugs, not materialism nor any other ``ism'' -- can we find brotherhood. And you can create the new Europe -- a Europe democratic, a Europe united east and west, a Europe at long last completely free.
Now, we hear it said by some that Europe may be glum about her future, that Europe dares no more. Well, forgive me, but I think this kind of talk is nonsense. And I hope you think it's nonsense, too. It is you, Germany, and you, Europe, that gave the values and vitality of Judeo-Christian civilization to America and to the world. It is Europe that has known more tragedy and triumph than any place in history. Each time you suffered, you sprang back like giants -- the giants, Adenauer and Schuman, Churchill and Monnet.
Today, only 40 years after the most devastating war known to man, Western Europe has risen in glory from its ruins. Today Europe stands like Schloss Hambach, a magnificent monument to the indomitable spirit of free people.
No country in the world has been more creative than Germany, and no other can better help create our future. We have already seen one miracle, your Wirtschaftswunder. The experts expected it would be decades before Germany's economy regained its prewar level. You did it in less than one. The experts said the Federal Republic could not absorb millions of refugees, establish a democracy on the ashes of nazism, and be reconciled with your neighbors. You did all three.
Germany's success showed that our future must not depend on experts or on government plans, but on the treasures of the human mind and spirit -- imagination, intellect, courage, and faith. We remembered Ludwig Erhard's secret, how he blazed Germany's path with freedom by creating opportunity and lowering tax rates, to reward every man and woman who dared to dream and to create the future -- your farmers, labor leaders, carpenters, and engineers -- every German hero who helped to put the pieces of a broken society back together.
I want to encourage you today to consider joining with your friends now or in the future to start up your own business, become part of a great new movement for progress -- the age of the entrepreneur. Small businesses will be the biggest job creators for the future.
Human faith and skill discovered oil where once there was only sand. Today we're discovering a new world of computers, microchips, and biotechnology. The new technologies can bring opportunities, create more jobs, produce medical breakthroughs, make our world cleaner and more humane, and provide better means of communication to bring the people of the world closer together. One top American computer firm was actually started by two college students in a garage behind their house.
Technology developed in the Federal Republic can make your air and water more pure, preserve the environment for your children. And because you're free, because you live in a democracy, you can help make all these things happen. You can make your voices heard so that technology works for us, not against us. My young friends, you can not only control your lives, you can help invent the future.
New technologies may someday enable us to develop far safer defenses -- a nonnuclear defense not to harm people, but to prevent missiles from reaching our soil; a nonnuclear defense not to militarize space, but to demilitarize the arsenals of Earth. For now we must rely on a system based on the threat of nuclear retaliation called mutual assured destruction. But someday, your children may be protected and war could be avoided by a system we would call mutual assured survival. Someday, technology developed by your generation could render nuclear weapons obsolete.
Working together in space -- as we've done with your fine astronaut, Ulf Merbold -- we can create the future together. We've learned enough from our shuttle flights to believe that we'll be able to manufacture in space rare crystals and medicines in far greater quantities, medicines to treat diseases that afflict millions of us. In the zerogravity of space, we could make medicines to treat victims of heart attack and manufacture factor 8, a rare and expensive medicine used to treat hemophiliacs. We could study the beta cell, which produces insulin and which could give us mankind's first permanent cure for diabetes. We know from one of our flights this is possible in space. In your lifetime, men and women will be living and working in space.
We're going to make the extraordinary commonplace -- this is freedom's way. And those secrets for our future belong not just to us in Europe and America, but to all people, in all places, in all time. Look at Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan -- tiny specks on the globe, densely populated, and with few natural resources. But today they are stunning success stories -- mighty little engines of growth and progress, pulling the world forward, thanks to their dynamic policies of incentives that reward innovation, risk-taking, and hard work.
The future awaits your creation. From your ranks can come a new Bach, Beethoven, Goethe, and Otto Hahn for Germany's future. Your future will be a way station further along that same journey in time begun by the great patriots at Hambach 153 years ago -- a journey that began in a dream of the human heart; a journey that will not be complete until the dream is real, until the times of tyranny have passed, until the fear of political torture is no more, until the pain of poverty has been lifted from every person in the world forever. This is freedom's vision, and it's good. And you must go out from here and help make it come true.
My young friends, believe me, this is a wonderful time to be alive and to be free. Remember that in your hearts are the stars of your fate; remember that everything depends on you; and remember not to let one moment slip away, for as Schiller has told us, ``He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.''
I'd like to insert something here that isn't in the scripts that you may have. [Laughter] There is a poem in our country, born of a story of ours, in which the words are, ``breathe there a man with soul so dead who never to himself hath said, this is my own, my native land.''
Thank you. Thank you for welcoming us. Thank you for your warmth and your kindness. Thank you for this very wonderful day. I will always remember it, and I'll always remember you.
Mein herz ist mit ihnen. [My heart is with you.] Gottes segen. [God bless.] Thank you very much.
Note: The President spoke at 12:42 p.m. at Hambach Castle. Following his remarks, the President traveled to Madrid, Spain.

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When Bill Collings first met the brilliant young jazz musician Julian Lage, in 2014, the two began a series of in-depth conversations about their respective crafts. Lage's profound insights as a guitarist would play a key role in the creation of Collings' T (Traditional) Series guitars. This rare collaboration, which continued right up until Bill's passing, in July, 2017, has yielded another exceptional new guitar with an old soul. We are proud to present a highly personal extension of the T Series: the Julian Lage Signature OM1. Though Lage's guitar shares the same foundational specs as the OM1 T, it is unique in some key ways. Its neck feels like no other Collings guitar. That's because it's modeled after Lage's cherished 1939 Martin 000-18. This pre-war gem is heard on the guitarist's 2015 solo album, "World's Fair," and was his main touring acoustic for years. The 000-18's neck which was of course originally hand-shaped and sanded has a distinctive taper altered by decades of wear. For Lage, this particular neck had come to feel like home. Through careful analysis and digitization of its unique dimensions, we were able to precisely recreate its worn-in, asymmetric feel on his signature model. While we maintained the relatively narrow 1 11/16" nut of the 000-18's neck, we extended the fretboard from the original short scale to our standard 25 _" length for slightly greater presence and note definition. Lage has an affinity both tonally and aesthetically for vintage guitars whose finishes have mellowed after years of playing. To recreate this effect we initially considered a varnish, but to achieve the ideal combination of a thin finish application and a vintage aesthetic, we landed on a custom satin lacquer. This new finish offering not only feels and looks right to Lage, he finds it has the same inherent openness of tone that is present in the best pre-war instruments. With his typical descriptive eloquence, Lage characterizes his signature model as a "lovingly neutral" guitar. It has a remarkably even response between registers. It's not an empty flatterer, but an instrument that rewards you when you're playing your best. In this way, Lage, whose own education is unending, sees the guitar as a teacher. Lage's signature model incorporates a script peghead logo not seen on a new Collings instrument in decades. This is the inlay that Bill hand-cut some 30 years ago when he started out in a tiny shop in Austin, Texas. We see this as a loving tribute to our late leader, who in his final project was able to realize the perfect new steel-string for one of today's most exacting guitarists. With Collings TKL case.
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: War Profiteers Ecstatic at Middle East Mess by Justina
By Anti-Capitalist Meetup in Iraq
In 1935, US General Smedley Butler detailed in his "War is a Racket" the World War I racket he had served. It is now much, much worse.
Vice-President Richard Cheney and his fellow Neo-Cons originally lit the barn fires with their factually unjustified invasion of Iraq in 2003. Bush-Cheney then torched the secular, but Sunni sect based, ruling Baathist Party and applauded the decapitation of its brutal, but anti-al Qaeda leader, Saddam Hussein. (Saddam himself had originally been put in place by the US CIA in a coup, but thereafter fell out of favor with the US government because he dared to assert exclusive control of Iraq's oil industry.)
Up to his ouster, Saddam had successfully kept the radical jihadists out of Iraq, which even the US intelligence agencies have admitted:
"There was no al Qaeda-Iraq connection until the war; our invasion made it so. We have known this for nearly a decade, well before the murderous ISIS even appeared. In a September 2006 New York Times article headlined "Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat," reporter Mark Mazetti informed readers of a classified National Intelligence Estimate representing the consensus view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government. Titled "Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States," the analysis cited the Iraq war as a reason for the diffusion of jihad ideology: "The Iraq war has made the overall terrorism problem worse,' said one American intelligence official."
Now jihadis even more extreme than Al Qaeda, the ISIS, are an hour outside of Baghdad, threatening the capitol city and its Shia sect residents. Its Sunni sect population, a minority in Baghdad, is seemingly terrified of the reaction of the Shiite majority as well as the blatantly brutal, although Sunni ISIS. Likely everyone there is arming. (The NRA must be delighted.)
Ahmed Maliki, al-Qaeda, anti-capitalism, Anti-Capitalist MeetUp, foreign policy, International, Iran, ISIS, MIC, President Obama, Syria
Gun Control and the Hypocrisy of the War on (some) Terror
By gjohnsit in War
What nation can intentionally target children for death and still expect the world to love us? Didn't we used to denounce the Soviet Union for this stuff?
"In addition to looking for military-age males, it's looking for children with potential hostile intent."
– Lt Col Marion Carrington, Marine Corp Times
It sort of puts those school shooting deaths in perspective, doesn't it? Our lack of respect for the lives of children overseas will eventually come home.
al-Qaeda, Empire, gun control, Military, terrorists, War on Terror
Truth, Justice and the American Way
By banger
The killing of Osama Bin Laden the late scion of a great Saudi family closely connected to the Saudi royals shows the exact condition of American culture. Bin Laden and the other people who were in the compound could have been arrested. I doubt, surprised as they were, they offered much resistance against heavily armed and armored troops. It will be interesting to hear if anyone in the propaganda media will wonder why these people were killed. Also, it is interesting that he was said to have been "buried at sea." Of course no one will wonder–well did they actually kill Bin Laden? We have no proof he was killed. It is possible, for example, that Bin Laden had been dead for quite a while and the PR people figures it was time to rev up some blood-lust.
This sort of brings us full-circle to the question of what really happened on 9/11 and whether Bin Laden was ever really involved. I have, personally, seen no evidence of his involvement though clearly an organization called Al-qaida seems to have been involved. But who were these people? Where did they come from? I leave that to the reader to look into. Since I have some knowledge of how covert ops and politics (which is often full of all kinds of covert ops, false flag operations and so on) I know that evidence is important in these matters and the evidence for any of the governments assertions is just no there. And it seems to be a pattern. Oh, you killed Osama–where's the body? Oh, we dropped him in the ocean man he was, like, heavy. Ok, of course I believe you–you are the U.S. gov't and you're always straight with us, right?
al-Qaeda, al-qaida, Covert Operations, Culture, justice, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Superman, the american way, truth
Afghanist- yemen- omalia- bama, & Good Intelligence
By Edger
Al-Qaeda shifts into dangerous new territory
UK Telegraph, January 04, 2009
The key to success against the jihadists will always be good intelligence.
President Barack Obama's statement on Saturday linking the failed airline bomb attack over Detroit on Christmas Day to an al-Qaeda group based in Yemen will have surprised no one. It confirmed, if confirmation were needed, that the coming decade will be as dominated as the last by the threat posed to the West by Islamist terrorism. The focus of the battle is, however, shifting. Significant successes by the United States and its allies in both Afghanistan and Pakistan have forced al-Qaeda largely to re-locate to Yemen and Somalia.
It's a goddamn good thing he's keeping you "safe" by upping the number of troops in AfPak to 100,000 or more and shooting handcuffed children, right?
Real News Network – January 4, 2010
Afghanistan and global dominance
Engdahl: US China strategy driving Afghan war, but no real long range thinking in place
Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Bullshit, Obama, Somalia, Yemen
Fifty Questions on 9/11, by Pepe Escobar
By Edger in Barack Obama
It's September 11 all over again – eight years on. The George W Bush administration is out. The "global war on terror" is still on, renamed "overseas contingency operations" by the Barack Obama administration. Obama's "new strategy" – a war escalation – is in play in AfPak. Osama bin Laden may be dead or not. "Al-Qaeda" remains a catch-all ghost entity. September 11 – the neo-cons' "new Pearl Harbor" – remains the darkest jigsaw puzzle of the young 21st century.
It's useless to expect US corporate media and the ruling elites' political operatives to call for a true, in-depth investigation into the attacks on the US on September 11, 2001. Whitewash has been the norm. But even establishment highlight Dr Zbig "Grand Chessboard" Brzezinski, a former national security advisor, has admitted to the US Senate that the post-9/11 "war on terror" is a "mythical historical narrative".
The following questions, some multi-part – and most totally ignored by the 9/11 Commission – are just the tip of the immense 9/11 iceberg. A hat tip goes to the indefatigable work of 911truth.org; whatreallyhappened.com; architects and engineers for 9/11 truth; the Italian documentary Zero: an investigation into 9/11; and Asia Times Online readers' e-mails.
None of these questions has been convincingly answered – according to the official narrative. It's up to US civil society to keep up the pressure. Eight years after the fact, one fundamental conclusion is imperative. The official narrative edifice of 9/11 is simply not acceptable.
Fifty questions
Read the whole thing here…
9/11, AfPak, al-Qaeda, Dick Cheney, FBI, George W. Bush, global war on terror, Mythical Historical Narrative, Osama bin Laden, Overseas Contingency Operations, Pepe Escobar, wtc, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Creating Thousands Of New Recruits For al-Qaeda
Aijaz Ahmad, TRNN Senior Editorial Consultant and political commentator for the Indian newsmagazine Frontline, Political Science teacher, and frequent writer on South Asia and the Middle East, talks with Real News CEO Paul Jay with his analysis of the results of US policies and actions in Pakistan.
Real News Network – May 12, 2009
US policy makes things worse in Pakistan
Aijaz Ahmad: US policy will lead to thousands of new recruits for Al-Qaeda
Aijaz Ahmad, al-Qaeda, Pakistan, SWAT Valley, US Foreign Policy
Obama's Afghanistan Surge: What's Going On?
Crossposted from Antemedius
Today in "The secrets of Obama's surge" Pepe Escobar says that "the President is not exactly telling all that's going on in AfPak", and argues there are many more strategic issues at play than meets the eye – and the President and his team's spin:
President Obama's highly anticipated new strategy for what the Pentagon now calls AfPak – Afghanistan and Pakistan – is full of grey areas.
Most extra troops will be deployed to poppy-growing areas, not to fight al-Qaeda, the President's stated number one objective.
The President talks about building trust – but as the US cannot trust the Pakistani ISI, the Pakistani people don't trust the US or even their own government.
Afghanistan, AfPak, al-Qaeda, ISI, Pakistan, Pepe Escobar, Poppies, Taliban
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TREB reports sales down about 50% and prices down about 7% year over year in Toronto
TREB reported the November sales figures and it was as expected. The sales volumes are down about 50% and the sale prices are down about 7% compared to last year
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Over 3,600 Sales In November
December 4, 2008 -- TREB Members recorded 3,640 sales in November 2008 from the 7,313 sales recorded during the same period last year in the GTA, TREB President Maureen O'Neill announced today.
The average GTA price in November 2008 was $368,582. During the same period last year, the TorontoMLS system recorded an average of $393,747, and in November of 2006 overall GTA prices averaged $355,727.
The 2008 year-to-date sales for the GTA was recorded at 72,086 from last year's 88,695. The year-to-date GTA average price was $379,489 from last year's $375,445
Within the 416 area (City of Toronto) there were 1,523 sales during November 2008. During the same month last year, 3,426 sales were recorded. The average price in the 416 area was $390,225 compared to $433,859 in November 2007 and $381,188 in 2006.
In the City of Toronto, 28,806 sales have been recorded year-to-date for 2008 from last year's 36,804 during the same time period. The year-to-date 2008 average price in the 416 area is $411,155 from last year's $411,640.
The 905 Region recorded 2,117 sales last month, compared to the 3,887 sales transacted during November of 2007. The average price in the 905 Region was $353,012 last month from $358,391 in November of 2007 and $335,522 in November 2006.
Year-to-date sales in the 905 Region for 2008 were 43,280 from the 51,891 recorded during the same period in 2007. The year-to-date average price in the 905 Region for 2008 was $359,245 from $349,774 in 2007.
Breaking down the total, 1,453 sales were reported in TREB's 28 West districts and averaged $350,199; 629 sales were reported in the 14 Central districts and averaged $473,346; 651 sales were reported in the 23 North districts and averaged $410,253; and 907 sales were reported in TREB's 21 East districts and averaged $295,470.
The Median Price for November 2008 was $312,250, compared to $325,000 in November of 2007 and $298,000 in 2006. The YTD Median for the first 11 months of 2008 was $325,000, compared to $318,000 during the same time-frame in 2007, and $300,000 in 2006.
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Authorities get search warrant on suspected supplier of 'Rust' ammo
By Julia Jones and David Shortell, CNN
Investigators in New Mexico were authorized by a state judge Tuesday to search an Albuquerque prop store where some of the rounds used on the set of the film "Rust" prior to the fatal shooting in October are believed to have been supplied.
In the search warrant, which was provided to CNN by the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office, "Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed said in an interview with law enforcement that she or prop master Sarah Zachry had picked up ammunition for the movie from a man named Seth Kenney at PDQ Arm and Prop.
Authorities outlined two possible ways live ammunition could have ended up in the supply on set and in the gun discharged by actor Alec Baldwin that resulted in the shooting death of director of photography Halyna Hutchins.
Thell Reed, Gutierrez Reed's father and an industry veteran, told detectives in an interview earlier this month that he had given Kenney an "ammo can" with live rounds for training on a different movie this year — and that the can was still believed to be in Kenney's possession, according to an affidavit released Tuesday.
Reed explained he never got the remainder of the bullets back after that earlier production ended.
"After several attempts to get it back from Seth, Seth advised Thell to 'write it off.' Thell stated this ammunition may match the ammunition found on the set of Rust," the warrant reads.
Kenney also told authorities about a different way live ammunition may have been mixed in with the supply, according to the affidavit.
In an interview a few days after the October shooting, Kenney told a detective that he generally uses a manufacturer called Starline Brass for ammunition. Two days later, though, Kenney called the detective back to say that he had received "reloaded ammunition" from a friend two years earlier that "stuck out to him." The round, which Kenney suspected was live, was in a cartridge with a logo of Starline Brass, a company he said only sells components of ammunition, and not live ammunition.
In her own interview with law enforcement last month, Zachry said there were additional sources of ammunition for the film, including some Gutierrez Reed brought from a previous production, and extra rounds from someone who went by "Billy Ray."
CNN has reached out to Kenney for comment.
In a statement, Jason Bowles, the lawyer for Gutierrez Reed, called the warrant "a huge step forward today to unearth the full truth of who put the live rounds on the 'Rust' set."
"We trust that the FBI will now compare and analyze the 'live rounds' seized from the set to evidence seized in the search warrant to conclusively determine where the live rounds came from," the statement said.
New details
A series of incident reports released by the Santa Fe Sheriff's Office on Tuesday also contained previously unknown details about the initial police response to the "Rust" movie set shooting and the interviews authorities conducted in its immediate aftermath.
According to narratives written by the responding officers included in the newly released reports, authorities interviewed 12 people who were inside the church at the time of the shooting.
Director Joel Souza, who was injured in the incident, gave a statement to a member of the sheriff's office as he sat on a bed in a hospital trauma room with a "half inch hole" in his shoulder before he was "administered any medications prior to doctors taking the projectile out."
"Joel explained he remembered a movie worker or armorer handling guns prior to [beginning] to film the gun fight scene. Joel explained he thought he heard someone say the gun was 'cold' which meant unloaded but was not sure," the report states. "Joel went on to say he remembered hearing a loud bang which didn't sound like a blank round. Joel stated he fell backwards, looked forward and saw one of the other member (sic) of the production crew bleeding."
Gutierrez Reed was described as "very emotional" and "more agitated" in the aftermath of the shooting and was found by an investigator walking with a gun in her hand, according to the report.
"I located Hanna (sic) walking back to the structure with a handgun in her left hand with the muzzle pointing down. I observed Hanna (sic) to be emotional and at this time, I took custody of the handgun," the report said. "Hanna (sic) was very emotional and getting more agitated because of the incident. I advised Hanna (sic) she was not under arrest several times and put her in the rear of my unit with the passenger side rear door open but the vehicle locked. I had medical personal (sic) check on [Hannah]."
The report states that Baldwin approached an officer who was putting up crime scene tape and asked to talk to him.
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I am walking deliberately through a row of still-standing brick barracks of the Holocaust's most well-known landmark, a place that annually draws more than a million visitors. Despite the remnants of genocide—-a sardonic welcome sign promising salvation through work, a well-preserved gas chamber, a room filled with mountains of human hair—it's impossible for most visitors to fathom what it was like here at Auschwitz 70 years ago, when the world was busy denying the true motives and consequences of Hitler's war.
We are here to bear witness, as Primo Levi commands, to try and understand, because "it happened, and therefore it can happen again." But even with that palpable knowledge I feel like little more than a distant spectator, late to arrive and all too eager to leave.
As much I try to meditate on the suffering of more than a million Jews who died here, other thoughts fill my head. Would I have been a perpetrator in Nazi Germany? As a blond, blue-eyed WASP with a preponderance of German blood in my veins, I have much more heritage in common with the SS, after all, than I do with any of their victims.
I'm afraid to admit it to the other journalists among me that I have nothing to say or write about Auschwitz. I am not Jewish, not Polish—-I have no poetry to offer. What could my voice possibly add to the canon of Holocaust literature?
Book of names in "Shoah" exhibit at Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Photo by Dippy Bhattacharya.
I find myself grappling with a mix of guilt and shame as I enter Israel's living memorial in one of the barracks at Auschwitz. Near the end of the powerful memorial-—replete with video and audio reels of those that perished—-is a mammoth book spanning the length of the room. In it, in tiny script on thousands and thousands of pages, are the names.
I take time to absent-mindedly run my fingers through the pages, stopping every so often to try to comprehend the staggering scale of death confined in the book's pages.
When I get to the letter "V" I begin searching for it. I don't know what to expect.
And then I see it. Twice.
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connection to Auschwitz and the Holocaust, as if I, too, have finally bore witness.
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When word got out that N.A.A.F.I, a music label and events project turned underground movement, had been invited to do a year-long residency at the Jumex Museum (simply titled Residency), some people declared it would be the death of N.A.A.F.I, while others thought it would be a threat to the museum and its "culture." In short, people on both ends of the spectrum were scared. Often, strong gestures threaten the status quo and or push people out of their comfort zones. But to me this is always a good kind of discomfort, and after witnessing this particular one, it even made me want to write about it here, to think through what was going on.
Perhaps it is no coincidence then that one of the umbrella terms that N.A.A.F.I. has borrowed to think of this three-part Residency is "Zones of Disturbance" (from Mariana Botey's Zonas de disturbio: Espectros del México indígena en la modernidad, which addresses the presence of indigenous arts within European art history—or imaginary— from a postcolonial perspective as precisely such a zone of disturbance). Already, this kind of language, or framework, should let people know that these neo-ravers are not the just "burnouts" who might threaten the "integrity" of a "cultural institution."
Aside from the party, which was hosted specifically during the afternoon (and not as the usual late-night-into-wee-hours rave-style party) this first part of the Residency also included an informal and juicy round-table conversation with LAO, one of the label's producers or artists (another blurred boundary here), their first special guest and genre-bender, UNIIQU3, label co-founders Tomás Davó and Alberto Bustamante, and myself as moderator. The ideas we discussed among ourselves and in close dialogue with the participants ranged from issues of power and control in such collaborations between institutions and countercultural agents; to cultural appropriation; a re-evaluation of the term hybrid; and how something that is purely aesthetic can quickly be commodified, versus how something that is physical (such as a community that participates in an event) can transcend easy commodification.
UNIIQU3, articulate beyond her young age, spoke of her experience as a woman in a mostly male-dominated world, and as a woman of color specifically, and how the Jersey Club sound has been appropriated often and not always in positive ways (for instance when, for some strange—and unconsciously?—racist reason, some DJs decided to play this music genre but only while wearing animal masks, whereby the DJ that was supposed to emulate UNIIQU3's sound was a "friendly gorilla." Really; seriously). So, what initially might seem like a simple intervention in a more run-of-the-mill typical museum context (note that the exhibition being shown at the museum at that time was an innocuous Calder show, and that very recently a Hermann Nitsch exhibition had been canceled, with much controversy) then began not only to question the role of the institution in a fresh way, from within the institution, but also made the party-goers question their own roles (did they become conscious participants in a performance? co-creators in a collective art piece?), at the same time as the N.A.A.F.I organizers themselves questioned the issues of periphery, empowerment, and resistance that their parties and music have always been part of. A note on this last part: yes, N.A.A.F.I has been making events or parties for several years but since the beginning, the co-founders, many of whom have backgrounds in careers like architecture, really think of it as the gestation of shared spaces. No coincidence then that N.A.A.F.I, which started as a party, made waves that reached the doors of a consecrated institution such as Jumex Museum, which has defined this as the first in a series of collaborations with "movements that are redefining contemporary culture" (my emphasis, from the museum's website).
I think that José Esparza, the curator who invited N.A.A.F.I and helped organize this event was a bit worried he might get fired. He shouldn't be fired, he should be given a raise. These types of events are what keep large institutions from becoming entirely sclerotic (especially after decisions like cancelling a show, which taint them with the word "censorship"). On the other hand, such an invitation and the fact that the "underground came up for some sun," as one of the participants described the first dance-party-afternoon, shows not only the self-reflective nature of N.A.A.F.I but also how conscious its participants are of their position, and of what it potentially means to take over such an institution. To some readers in the United States this might sound pretty obvious, and I can think of many such collaborations between a large museum and a small independent space—some of my favorites being when Machine Project in Los Angeles got invited to orchestrate ten hours of all kinds of things at LACMA, occupied the Walker Art Center for a few weeks, or did a full year of programming at the Hammer Museum (including a Dream-in and a Fungi Fest). In Mexico City small or independent or underground (or all of the above) spaces, initiatives, collectives or even movements often talk to each other and are seldom invited into the more formal (often State-run) institutions, with the few-and-far-between exceptions of the university museums. In any case such a radical crossover hadn't happened in a while to my knowledge. It was radical not just from the institution's point of view—actually, from that point of view it was necessary—but rather also from the standpoint of the N.A.A.F.I audience, many of whom had never set foot in a museum, many of whom probably never leave their homes before sundown, many of whom consider themselves abjected bodies from the norms imposed by society (and therefore by an institution of society such as a museum) or who are from social milieux that wouldn't even use the word "milieu" when referring to themselves because they might get punched in the face, or worse. It was also probably radical for the average middle-class ("straight") family visiting the museum who encountered people dressed weirdly, half-dressed, trans, gay, bi, tattooed to the gills and dancing out of their minds—an artwork of a different order than a Calder mobile.
But what N.A.A.F.I does is also radical on other levels and it makes me think of the term "living arts" in a new and more expanded way: Jumex Museum has called them a movement; participants feel like they are part of a movement; and clearly they are thinking of themselves as something beyond hip party planners on MDMA. N.A.A.F.I began at a time when partying in Mexico in the middle of a bloody war against drugs was a real risk. N.A.A.F.I is in itself a political statement. It reminded me of how Simon Reynolds speaks of nineties raves in Britain, for instance, because "Rave is more than music+drugs; it's a matrix of lifestyle, ritualized behaviour and beliefs. To the participant it feels like a religion. […] I think again of that declaration 'we must make of joy a crime against the state'." (Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture, 4) and like a rave, which "constructs an experience" (author's emphasis, 9) N.A.A.F.I has constructed an experience here, or as Debord might have called it, a situation. It has detourned the institution into something else.
And the Residency even goes so far as to problematize and question the idea of self-defining as a movement belonging to an underground or periphery and how this kind of rhetoric can actually become a tool for further marginalization. How to break through it is an ongoing question.
What N.A.A.F.I does so well, as this Residency underscores, is to bring many worlds together, and think about how this happens and what it implies. It also generates a safe space for interaction among different vulnerable bodies through dance music. It reminds me of transfeminine artist Wu Tsang's documentary about Wildness, my favorite party in L.A. which used to take place at the Silver Platter in MacArthur Park, where several underground cultures met (from the trans immigrant community to art college music enthusiasts and anything in between). All this also brings to light an interesting paradox: one person's safe space can either become threatening to a certain kind of institutional thinking, or perhaps can alchemize into the antidote needed for the institution's survival.
When discussing what happened after the event with many of its participants, very few still thought it was the death of N.A.A.F.I as a "true" underground movement, others really noticed the political potential being unleashed. To quote Reynolds again "[…] I've found this 'mindless' music endlessly thought-provoking. And despite its ostensibly escapist nature, rave has actually politicized me, made me think harder about questions of class, race, gender, technology." (10) This is precisely being thought about in this Residency and openly discussed. But perhaps more important: it is lived in the flesh, in all the erotic life-affirming of the rubbing together of many (mostly) young bodies with young bodies—something which, increasingly, seems to pose a threat to the powers-that-be that want to annihilate young bodies (think of all the young disappeared students in Mexico, but also of countless young black men being killed in the U.S., of Julien Coupat and his "associates" soon to be thrown in prison in France, or the young women arrested for dancing in Russia).
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Q: Update ou insert com dados de outra tabela Tenho esse comando SQL para atualizar a tabelaREQUISICOES com os dados da tabelaREQUISICOES_ATUALIZA.
Uso como chave para atualizar o campo numero_requisicao, mas preciso que caso não encontre correspondencia na tabela REQUISICOES, insira um novo registro vindo da tabela REQUISICOES_ATUALIZA;
Esse funciona para atualizar:
UPDATE requisicoes a
JOIN requisicoes_atualiza b
SET a.projeto = b.projeto
WHERE a.numero_requisicao = b.numero_requisicao

E como seria o SQL para os que não existem?

A: Usando o NOT EXISTS. Se o campo numero_requisição for uma unique declarada, você pode usar o INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE:
INSERT INTO requisicoes (numero_requisicao, projeto)
SELECT numero_requisicao, projeto
FROM requisicoes_atualiza ra
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE projeto = ra.projeto

A: Para fazer o insert do que não está na sua tabela de requisições pode usar o SQL abaixo
INSERT INTO requisicoes (numero_requisicao, projeto)
SELECT b.numero_requisicao, b.projeto
FROM requisicoes a
LEFT JOIN requisicoes_atualiza b on a.numero_requisicao = b.numero_requisicao
WHERE a.numero_requisicao is null

Eu uso bastante essa tabela quando tenho esse tipo de duvida:

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Could technology that is under trial in the US point the way for the deployment of smart grids in the UK? Stuart Nathan reports
Electricity is, literally, part of the landscape. The skeletal forms of pylons carrying high-voltage lines, marching across the countryside, are such a familiar sight that we barely register them. Yet as we derive more electricity from the landscape, in the form of wind, hydro and marine power, these most visible manifestations of the National Grid may need to change.
Electricity distribution is changing. As renewable generation gathers pace and consumers become more concerned with conserving power, the concept of the 'smart grid' — equipped with systems that can accept inputs from smaller power sources and tell householders how much energy they consume — will be the model for the sector's future. In the US, major companies are teaming up with cities to test these new technologies; but for the smart grid to take off in Britain could require not just technological but also political innovation.
The whole landscape of electricity is changing, from the way it's generated to the way it's used, in industry and in our homes; and the infrastructure that makes up the distribution network is also going to have to change. It's not so much the technology that's outdated, because that has been updated regularly and steadily over the years. It's the paradigm that underpins the way the distribution system was designed, back in the early 1960s. The old grid is on its way out. Say hello to the smart grid.
Currently, electrical distribution grids reflect the centralised, supply-led nature of power generation. Their job is to get big lumps of current from multi-megawatt power stations — generally located on the coast or in the countryside — to the consumers, who are generally in towns. On the way, the voltage is stepped down in several stages until it's finally transformed into the familiar 230V, 50Hz AC.
But we are now starting to see changes to this system. Renewable energy sources are making bigger contributions to the grid and, of course, their contribution is set to grow considerably in coming years, with the European Union's target of 20 per cent renewable energy by 2020. Renewable energy doesn't contribute to the system in the same way as major power stations, however. The voltage is lower; they produce less electricity and, crucially, they don't produce consistent amounts of energy all the time.
This is one of the reasons that electricity generation is going to have to become 'smarter'. Rather than a one-way conveyor-belt system, the grid is going to have to accept flows of current at different voltages from different places at irregular intervals.
This represents a considerable change, but for the consumer, it will be like the rest of the grid's workings: Invisible. In the home, however, the smart grid will be quite the opposite. The old electricity meter, hidden away in a cupboard, will go, to be replaced by a smart meter, which will show, minute by minute, precisely how much electricity the household is consuming, with a level of detail that could go down to individual appliances. This will also communicate its measurements back to the electricity supplier, allowing for billing based on actual consumption rather than estimated readings, and allowing the household to understand and regulate its use of power.
The built-in intelligence can go a step further, becoming a component of an energy-smart house. As well as sending information to the supplier, the meter can receive it. The supplier would send out information on the upcoming demand for and price of electricity, which would then be sent to appliances around the home. Ahead of a peak in demand — which would correspond to a high price — appliances such as fridges and freezers would drop their temperature, allowing them to switch off their pumps during peak time without allowing food to spoil. Washing machines could be triggered to start and electronic gadgets to charge during off-peak periods, so they use cheaper electricity.
Moreover, if the anticipated surge in demand for plug-in electric cars takes place, these could be an integral part of the smart grid. Not only could they help level out demand by sequentially charging during off-peak periods, they could also help overcome the problem of intermittency of renewable electricity.
Central to the smart grid concept is the smart meter — the household device that tracks the use of electricity and can tell consumers exactly how much they're using at any point, while also communicating that information back to the electricity supplier and thence to the generator. Much of the attention devoted to smart meters has focused on their usefulness in helping consumers reduce energy usage, and in accurate billing. But it's the whole suite of possible applications that's interesting Alan Claxton, director of organisational development at the UK Energy Network Association (ENA), who is concerned that any meters employed will be as capable as possible.
The ENA represents all the businesses concerned with transmitting energy around the country, whether it's in the form of gas or electricity — the 'wires and pipes' people, to use its phrase. However, Claxton said, it's likely that selection and deployment of smart meters will be down to individual suppliers, rather than the generation and transmission sector. 'We've been working with the networks on the functionality we want to see within smart meters, because the networks' requirements are going to be quite different from the suppliers' requirements,' he added.
Electricity suppliers may be able to source their own meters and roll them out to customers, but they will still have to comply with some sort of manufacturing standard, which is still to be defined. ENA is concerned that all meters should have the necessary functionality to support the sort of information that would be needed to set up a smart grid.
'We need to have a meter that can give us an indication of no supply, latent loads covered by microgeneration, voltage levels and power quality,' Claxton said. 'And what we don't want is a limited functionality that would require the replacement of a whole first generation of smart meters. We're trying to look ahead — we need to make the system future-proof.'
Hand in hand with the functionality of the smart meters comes their communication capability. As yet, it hasn't been decided how the meters will communicate, although it seems likely that there will a central communications hub. 'There are a variety of options,' Claxton said. 'It could piggy-back onto broadband internet, for example. Another option might be a power-line carrier, which works by modulating the frequency of the alternating current signal.'
The way electricity is generated is going to have a considerable effect on how smart grids would be implemented. It might also mean that the grid is going to have to become more regional, according to Jim Watson, director of Sussex University's energy group and a leader of the Tyndall Centre Energy Programme. 'With the possibility of microgeneration sources coming onto the grid, and the different energy needs and supply profiles of different areas, it might be best to consider this technology on a city-by-city basis,' he said.
This, he commented, is how smart grid trial projects in the US are being handled. There are several of these, with GE and the US operations of the National Grid being key players. National Grid, for example, announced plans in March for a pilot scheme in Worcester, Massachusetts, involving 15,000 customers, all of whom will receive a smart meter and will have the option of additional equipment such as programmable thermostats to control house heating and air conditioning. They will receive information on their energy usage via email, text message or on a PDA.
This technology doesn't come cheap — the two-year trial will cost $57m (£34.7m). National Grid spokeswoman Marcy Reed points out that funds are available. 'We understand that Massachusetts is interested in taking advantage of the $4.5bn of stimulus funds allocated to smart grid.'
GE is also setting up trial smart grids on a local basis, with a much bigger trial involving a million consumers in Miami. Using smart meters with a variety of readout systems, including internet and in-home display panels, an expansion of solar panel capacity to local schools and universities, open-standard communications and a fleet of 300 plug-in hybrid cars, the trial will cost $200m. For GE, the Energy Smart Miami project represents an important foot in the door; the company is heavily committed to the technology and plans to roll out similar systems across Europe; it has supplied smart meters to a trial project with Scottish and Southern Energy. 'Smart meters are the foundation for a smart grid in Europe and a critical component to help maximise the productivity and performance we can squeeze from our infrastructure,' commented Keith Redfearn, general manager for GE's distribution business in Europe.
One barrier to this approach in the UK, however, is that it's unclear whether the power to plan energy provision resides with local authorities or with the government, Jim Watson said. 'If you're in the situation where lots of homes have microgeneration, whether it's wind turbines, solar panels, or a micro CHP [combined heat and power] plant in every house, then you have to get all their surplus power onto the grid. That's a local issue, but there's no clarity on whether a local authority can specify its own power station, for example. This sort of thing badly needs to be resolved before these systems can go ahead.'
One crucial factor in this technology is the definition of an 'electrical appliance', and this could have a huge bearing on the way that a future grid could work. Again, the crucial factor is renewables and their intermittent nature. Many discussions of renewable power touch upon the importance of some sort of electrical storage system that can act as a reservoir; for example, to store excess electricity from a wind farm when the wind isn't blowing, to release it back onto the grid when the breeze dies down.
Much research has been done into what form these storage devices might take. But it appears that the answer might have been staring us in the face; or rather, parked outside our front door. Could plug-in battery-powered electric vehicles be the missing link in the smart grid?
One of the major advantages of a smart grid is that it could be used to phase the charging of battery-powered electric vehicles. Imagine a suburb with a large number of electric cars, all of which can be plugged in to recharge from their owners' domestic electricity supply. One set of sensors in the supply system detects when the vehicle is plugged in, while the domestic communications system switches power into the battery when prices are low; that is, at night. Local intelligence ensures that all the cars within a particular area aren't all charging at the same time, to avoid overloading the grid. The result is that, in the morning, all the cars in the area are fully charged from off-peak electricity; demand has been smoothed out; and everyone's happy.
Extend this system a little, however, and the cars take on a dual role. Stop thinking of it as a car, and think of it instead just as a battery. Its stored power needn't just be used to run the vehicle; it can be used for anything. As long as the vehicle is plugged in, power can be diverted out of it, onto the grid, as well as into it for charging.
Although each individual car would not be able to store a huge amount of charge, the cumulative effects could be huge. According to Jasna Tomic, new fuels programme manager for Californian low-carbon transportation advocate Calstart, if a quarter of car owners in the US switched to battery-powered electric vehicles, their storage capacity would total some 750GW — more than the country's entire generation capability. And with the UK government's major drive to promote the development and take-up of plug-in hybrids, the figures could well be similar here.
Systems such as these are known as vehicle-to-grid (V2G), and much of the research into them has been carried out in the US. The University of Delaware is a notable centre for V2G research, where Willett Kempton, director of the university's Centre for Carbon-Free Power Integration, has worked with Tomic to look at the economics of V2G. 'In the US, an average vehicle is on the road only four to five per cent of the day,' he said. At least 90 per cent are parked, even during peak hours. If they were plugged in while stationary, fairly simple power electronics and telecoms systems would allow the utility to request power from a vehicle's battery when demand was high and return it when demand is low. 'Electricity from V2G is not cheap when compared with bulk electricity from large power plants,' he commented — in general, it's up to five times the price — 'but it can be competitively used for ancilliary services, such as maintaining grid reliability, balancing supply and demand, and supporting the transmission of electric power from seller to purchaser.'
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Peter J Coales - The wired west 10th July 2009 at 1:50 pm
In the EU, why cannot electric power be traded across time zones, taking advantage of national off-peak periods?
Surely the technology exists to create a high voltage super-grid that would level out national demands.
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Q: Capybara fill_in multiple input fields Below is my form, you can see that there will be many rows of inputs fields all with the same classes:
<%= q.simple_fields_for :choices do |c|%>
  <div class="row-fluid choice-row">
    <%= c.text_field :sort_order, class: 'span1' %>
    <%= c.text_field :title, class: 'span9' %>
    <%= c.link_to_remove 'Remove', class: 'btn btn-danger span2 pull-right' %>
  </div>
<% end %>

For my tests I'm trying:
fill_in(:sort_order, with: '3')
fill_in(:title, with: 'Choice 3')

I've also tried:
fill_in('Sort Order', with: '3')
fill_in('Title', with: 'Choice 3')

And:
fill_in('Sort Order', :with => '3')
fill_in('Title', :with => 'Choice 3')

The error I get is:
Failure/Error: fill_in(:title, with: 'Choice 3')
 Capybara::ElementNotFound:
   cannot fill in, no text field, text area or password field with id,         name, or label 'title' found

Can someone please recommend how I can fill a specific input, like say the third row?

A: You'll find in your markup that fields output by a form-helper are namespaced within the object passed to fields_for, this indeed the entire point of using fields_for.
In this case, your form elements will have names like choices[title] and choices[sort_order].
To find and fill_in the correct field when selecting by name yields many fields, you need to get more creative, because this is not a very typical setup:

*

*You can use within to select a unique parent element

*You can use CSS selectors to find the nth element

*You can find all elements and use [2] on the returned array to access the 3rd element


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US Coking Coal Supply Response Remains Constrained
By Brendan Kjellberg-Motton
November 6, 2021 - The financial, infrastructural and labour market environment around North American coking coal continues to limit the industry's ability to keep pace with demand, which is forecast to remain strong in 2022.
US third-quarter exports recovered by 11.74pc compared with a year earlier to 10.33mn t, driven by a sharp rise in Chinese demand following China's informal ban on Australian coals in October 2020. Shipments to most traditional buyers in Europe and Latin America, despite the significant recovery of steel production in those regions over the same period, fell as US suppliers sought to take advantage of historically high spot prices in China. US shipments to the EU fell by 21.4pc year on year to 2.05mn t in the third quarter, while shipments to Brazil fell by 33.3pc to 1.14mn t.
US exports to China totalled 3.48mn t in the third quarter, an increase of 51pc compared with the previous quarter, but fell below 1mn t for the first time in three months in September, to 939,405t. Shipments to most other destinations rose on a monthly basis in September as the increase of Australian prices to record levels made shipments to destinations outside of China more attractive.
But US exports fell by 17pc compared with the third quarter of 2019. This decline was largely supply-led, with US coking coal output falling by roughly 15pc over the same period, as indicated by a survey of Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) data constituting the bulk of US coking coal production. Mining firms reduced production sharply last year in response to Covid-19, and the return of supply so far has not kept pace with the recovery and growth of demand. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic triggered a labour shortage in the coal mining and transport industries, and an effort among global banks to support the decarbonisation of the steel sector has constrained new capital availability for coal producers. "We do not anticipate these conditions changing any time soon," said US mining firm Ramaco Resources this week. "Nor do we sense that there will be any near-term supply response sufficient to balance demand for the foreseeable future."
Mining companies will continue to raise output where possible and will gain some ground on demand, with global steel demand forecast to grow by 4.5pc on the year in 2021 to 1.85bn t. Ramaco plans to raise its annual coking coal production capacity by 50pc to 3mn short tons (st) by the second quarter of 2022, while Arch expects to reach full production levels of 4mn t/yr at its $400mn Leer South mine by early 2022. Alpha expects to ship 14-15mn st in 2022, compared with a projected 13-14mn st this year. Warrior expects that without a resolution to the ongoing strike, its production and sales volume over a 12-month period could be 5.5mn-6.5mn st, compared with the annualised rate of 4.4mn st in the third quarter. This increase could possibly include restarting Mine 4, the company said. With a resolution to the strike, the firm expects that it could ramp up to a run rate of approximately 7.5mn st/yr within 3-4 months.
But the increased production will be slower than in previous years and held back by ongoing disruptions on Appalachian rail networks. Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell on 22 October warned that US supply chain woes could extend well into next year. Thermal coal shipments through US ports rose by 84.1pc in the third quarter to 9.33mn t, adding to the pressure on rail and port operators.
In Canada, wildfire damage to rail systems serving major producer Teck limited the country's third-quarter exports to 6.17mn t, 2.21pc higher than a year earlier but 12.2pc lower than in the second quarter.
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There are several key principles that all accountants should always keep in mind. No matter what kind of business you may be bookkeeping for, your books should be consistent, easy to understand, easy to read, and objectively useful.
These principles are especially important for anyone who is creating a chart of accountants. The purpose of a chart of accounts (COA) is to enable organizations to easily identify every class of items that they will either spend money on or receive money for. These charts are essential for financial decision-makers to make objectively good decisions regarding expenses, revenue streams, and long-term strategies. They also make it significantly easier for outside evaluators to understand a company's current financial decision.
Contrary to some financial statements, creating a chart of accounts involves a significant amount of subjective decision making. In this article, we will discuss the most important things you should keep in mind when creating a COA and how you can use this to give your business a competitive advantage.
What should be included in a Chart of Accounts (COA)?
As your business continues to evolve over time, naturally, the number (and type) of accounts you possess will evolve as well. This means that in order to create a useful COA, it should be directly scalable along with the growth of your business.
Charts of Accounts are not regulated by FINRA or any other accounting organization, meaning that the exact dynamics of your chart will ultimately be up to you. Typically, a COA will have at least three columns. The first column will list all of the account names that are involved, the second column will list the specific type of account (accounting category), and the third column will usually contain a general description of the kinds of transactions typical to that account. Some COAs may also include a "status" column where they list whether the account is active or not.
In order to make your COA easier to organize and to use, you should likely develop a scalable number system. The most common number system will categorize your accounts by type: asset accounts (1000 to 1999), liability accounts (2000 to 2999), equity accounts (3000 to 3999), sales and cost of goods sold accounts (4000 to 4999), and expense accounts (5000 and above). Usually, this numbering system will make it much easier to effectively make decisions.
What are some of the most common mistakes made when creating a COA?
Because the practices involved in creating a COA are only loosely standardized, it can be very easy to make mistakes. Many businesses turn to outsourced ecommerce accounting services to reduce small mistakes that can compound and have a tremendous impact on their business' financial well-being.
Fortunately, by taking the time to develop a codified plan, your business can avoid these common mistakes and create a COA that actually adds value.
How can my business improve its COA?
In order to begin improving your COA, you should think about the underlying objective of this chart and work backwards from there. For example, while some businesses will primarily use their COA in order to identify potential ways to increase revenue streams, others will use their COA in order to run a cost-benefit analysis of keeping certain accounts.
In order to improve your COA—which, again, is something very specific to your business—you should begin by consulting all of the individuals who use the COA on a regular basis. Naturally, this will probably include the CEO and CFO of your company, but it may also include various other stakeholders as well.
Changes that can be easily made include adding new columns (contact information, account values, etc.) and either expanding or condensing various columns that already exist. Furthermore, you should evaluate any changes that have recently occurred in your business and decide if these changes ought to be reflected in your chart of accounts. For example, readjusting your equity situation (changing business structures) may be a reason for change.
Not every answer to your financial questions can necessarily be found in your COA, which is why many firms make the decision to keep multiple different charts (thin ledger, thick ledger, management ledger, etc.). However, regardless of what you intend to use the COA for, you will want to keep some important principles in mind.
As long as you can adhere to these principles, your business will find itself in a much better position to succeed.
Creating a Chart of Accounts is one of the most useful things your business can do. Though there will certainly be many subjective decisions involved along the way, adhering to these best practices will put your business in a position to succeed.


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Q: Circumventing Chrome Access-control-allow-origin on the local file system? I've read the other same origin policy topics here on SO, but I haven't seen any solutions related to the local file system.
I have a web app (In a loose sense of the word) that must be local served.   I am trying to load a large amount of data in after the user has loaded the page, depending on what they are doing on the webpage.   In Firefox 3.5 and IE8 I am able to use jQuery's AJAX() and GetScript() methods to do this, but in Chrome this fails due to the Same Origin Policy.

XMLHttpRequest cannot load file://test/testdir/test.js. Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.

This happens when I do something simple like
$.getScript("test.js");

This functions perfectly well in IE & Firefox.
After reading a bunch about this, I decided to try writing directly into the head of the document.  In the console in Chrome I typed the following:
var head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];
var script =document.createElement('script');
script.id = 'uploadScript';
script.type = 'text/javascript';
script.src = "upload.js";
head.appendChild(script);

This works fine when pasted in the console- the <script...test.js</script> element is added to the head, evaluated, and content loaded into the DOM.
I thought this was successful, until I put this code into a function call.   The same exact code, when called from a function, adds the element to the  but does not evaluate the JavaScript file.   I can not figure out why.  If I use Chrome's console to stop execution in the method that it is adding the element to the  and run the above code, it does not evaluate it.   However, if I unpause the execution and run the exact same code (pasting it in the console window) it works.  I'm at a loss to explain this.  Has anyone dealt with this before?
I've read up on the following SO posts, but they are not describing the problem that I have:
Ways to circumvent the same-origin policy
XMLHttpRequest Origin null is not allowed Access-Control-Allow-Origin for file:/// to file:/// (Serverless)
Cross-site XMLHttpRequest
Again, my last resort is to load all the data at the webpage's load-  This can cause up to a 10 second delay in loading the webpage that is unnecessary for 90% of the app's users.
Thanks for any suggestions/alternatives!!!

A: I think I've figured it out.
All I really needed to do was add a callback into my <script> tag.  Final code:
I have an element named next...   So, in the $("#next").click() function I have the following code.  This only gets executed if they click "next".
//remove old dynamically written script tag-
       var old = document.getElementById('uploadScript');
   if (old != null) {
     old.parentNode.removeChild(old);
     delete old;
   }

   var head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];
   script = document.createElement('script');
   script.id = 'uploadScript';
   script.type = 'text/javascript';
   script.src = 'test/' + scope_dir + '/js/list.js';
   script.onload = refresh_page;
   head.appendChild(script);

function refresh_page(){
   //perform action with data loaded from the .js file.
}

This seems to work, and allows Chrome to dynamically load .js files on the local file system while circumventing the access-control-allow-origin policy I ran into while trying to use jQuery functions.

A: Ok, done a lot of fiddling and wasted a lot of time.  But I got it figured.
The solution in my last answer works fine for Chrome, and for Mozilla.  But it does not work for blessed IE, because IE will not fire the onload event: it thinks it has dealt with all the onloads in this file and you can't get it to do another one.  However, IE is quite happy to load the file up using the JQuery getScript function (which Chrome will not permit because of the ccess-control-allow-origin policy) -- you will need the JQuery libraries for this to work.  So here is what I ended up with:
function getMyText(){
    var url='mylocalfile.js';
    if (jQuery.support.scriptEval) {
        var old = document.getElementById('uploadScript');
        if (old != null) {
             old.parentNode.removeChild(old);
             delete old;
            }
        var head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];
        var script = document.createElement('script');
        script.id = 'uploadScript';
        script.type = 'text/javascript';
        script.onload = refresh_page;
        script.src = url;
        head.appendChild(script);
    } else {
       $.getScript(url,function(){
            refresh_page();
      });
     }
}

function refresh_page() {
    alert(mytext);
}

In all this, mylocaltext.js defines all my html as the content of a variable, mytext.  Ugly, but it works. jQuery.support.scriptEval is true for intelligent browsers that fire onload events if the DOM changes.  IE does not, so that sends it to .getScript; Chrome and others do, so that sends them the other way.  Anyway this works on local files.

A: Interesting, but how can I use the same technique to load in a whole HTML file? Similar problem to yours -- I have hundreds of HTML files which I want to include within a web page, depending on what the user wants to see.  It seems I can use this technique to load in a whole HTML page, something like:
script.id = 'uploadScript';
script.type = 'text/html';
script.src = url;
script.onload = refresh_page;
head.appendChild(script);

ie, tell it load in HTML. I can see from the console that it is loading it into the page, and I get a message 'Resource interpreted as script but transferred with MIME type text/html'. But I cannot figure out any way to get at the HTML loaded in and held within the script