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Q: I want to transform all the binaries in a Integer List to an decimal int this is what I have atm:
I tried to convert the integers form the list to an int array.
Problem is that the output is wrong.
Logic is: last index from the array -> if 0 break else
2^index.
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

public class BinaryArrayToNumber {

public static int ConvertBinaryArrayToInt(List<Integer> binary) {

    int x = 0;

    int[] binaries = new int[binary.size()];

    binary.forEach(integer -> {
        Arrays.fill(binaries, integer);
    });

    for (int j = binaries.length - 1; j>=0; j--) {
        if (binaries[j] == 0) break;
        else {
            x = (int) (x + Math.pow(2, j));
        }
    }
    return x;
 }
}

A: Okay, here is some help.
First to copy from a list to an array, just do it in a loop.
    int[] binaries = new int[binary.size()];
    // here is how you copy the list.

    for (int i = 0; i < binary.size(); i++) {
         binaries[i] = binary.get(i);
    }

Of course you can use the list without converting to an array.
Now, for converting your list of bits into decimal value. You have the right idea but you need to think about where things are stored.
Array indices        0  1  2  3
And say the bits are 1, 1, 0, 1  with x = initialized to 0

Using powers of 2 where ^ means exponentiation.
x = binary[0] * 2^3 + x  // now x = 8
x = binary[1] * 2^2 + x  // now x = 8 + 4 = 12
x = binary[2] * 2^1 + x  // now x = 12 + 0 = 12
x = binary[3] * 2^0 + x  // now x = 12 + 1 = 13.

Now you just need to work with the for loop to obtain both the array index and the exponent as their values change inversely to each other.

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Master-Slave Cascading Replication
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You are designing a replication solution for the following requirements:
A replication set is to be replicated from a single source to many targets that all require substantially the same replication data.
The replicated data in the targets is read-only, or if it is updated at the targets by any applications, it is accepted that these updates can be overwritten by later transmissions. This is called a master-slave relationship.
Hence the replication flow is one-way, from the source to the targets, and neither conflict detection nor conflict resolution are triggered at the targets because of target changes.
Figure 1 summarizes this overall replication scenario.
Figure 1: Overall replication scenario
You know you could design direct replication links from the source to each target, but the potential impact on the source, and possibly the source availability, is a concern. Therefore, you want to find another approach that reduces this concern and is also an efficient way to replicate this common replication set to many targets.
How can you optimize the replication to a set of targets in a master-slave environment, and minimize the impact on the source?
Any of the following compelling forces would justify using the solution described in this pattern:
Too many passes on the source. Every replication link that starts from a source requires a pass over the replication set to acquire it. The resources (for example, CPU time and I/O activity) needed for the required number of passes might not be available on the source database server, or they may cost too much.
Very large replication set. Even with a moderate number of replication links to the source, the total overhead on the source database server can become unsustainable if the amount of data to be transmitted to the targets is large.
Significant growth in replication needs anticipated. Concerning both of the preceding forces, you anticipate a significant growth in the number of targets and amount of data to be transmitted. Therefore it is important to implement a replication topology that can sustain the predicted growth.
Need to offload replication set from source as quickly as possible. Acquiring data impacts source resources and you must minimize the duration of the impact. For example, if you are replicating across a slow communications link, you may prefer to offload the source quickly and then replicate to the target from this offloaded set.
No direct connection between source and target. Due to your network topology, you might not be able to directly link the source and target, but you can connect to a third place.
The following enabling forces facilitate the move to the solution, and their absence could hinder such a move:
Targets can tolerate the delays implied by replication. The timeliness with which the data arrives at any one of the targets depends on the replication link, which frequently includes a network link. Adding more replication links from the source to the final target generally increases the delay until changes made to the source replication set appear at the target.
Great similarity in the replication sets to be replicated. The core of this pattern is that all the replication data comes from the same original source replication set. Within this fundamental constraint, each replication link can have its own replication set to be replicated, which can differ from the replication set of other replication links. Although the structure differences between each source/target pair might be fairly small, the overall differences could be significant. Data Replication requires that the source and the target of every replication building block be very similar. Master-Slave Cascading Replication requires the similarity of all databases along the whole chain of replication links to be high. Otherwise, an Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) approach would be more useful.
Increase the number of replication links between the source and target by adding one or more intermediary targets between the original source and the end target databases, as Figure 1 shows. Specifically, this arrangement adds the concept of cascade intermediary target/source (CITS) to the topology, as Figure 2 shows. These intermediaries are data stores that take a replication set from the source, and thus act as a target in a first replication link. Then they act as sources to move the data to the next replication link and so on until they reach the cascade end targets (CETs).
Figure 2: Master-Slave Cascading Replication with a single intermediate target/source
Figure 2 shows a very simple example of a Master-Slave Cascading Replication topology. Each Acquire, Manipulate, and Write (AMW) box in the figure represents a replication link. For more information about the replication building block, see the Data Replication pattern.
In general, several CITSs can be connected to the same source and a CITS can also be connected to several other CITSs. Regardless of the number of CITS, Master-Slave Cascading Replication arranges them in a tree with the source as the root, CITS as inner nodes, and CETs as the leaf nodes.
For discussion purposes, it is helpful to define a few more specific terms for the replication links in a topology:
Initial link. The initial link connects a source to a CITS.
Intermediary link. The intermediary link connects a CITS to another CITS.
End link. The end link connects a CITS to a CET.
The characteristics of the end links are the same as if the targets were connected to the source directly. This means that the end links can be configured for full or incremental replication depending on the requirements, and that they can start a transmission immediately after every transaction, periodically, or on demand.
Hint: The addition of CITS to the replication topology, however, impacts the service level offered to the CETs. The initial and intermediary links must transmit any data or changes early enough for any of the following intermediary or end links. Thus, it is common practice to design an immediate replication here. If all end links only do periodic or on-demand replication, a periodic replication on the initial and intermediary links would be sufficient. For these reasons, you should not design an on-demand replication on an initial or intermediary link, because the timeliness of some of the CITS and their corresponding targets would depend on a user or operator starting the transmission.
The choice of the replication frequency also impacts the choice of the replication refresh policy. If the initial and intermediary links have been configured for immediate replication, you will have to use incremental replication to transmit only the changes. Incremental replication is also generally the best choice to transmit changes for periodic replication at the initial and intermediary links. If the replication sets are small enough, another option is to use a snapshot replication on the initial and intermediary replication links.
Next Considerations
To design a Master-Slave Cascading Replication topology for your environment, you must do the following:
Determine the number of CITS to use.
Design the replication links from the source to the CITS and from the CITS to the CETs.
Determine how much data is required for each CITS.
Define the data structure of the CITSs.
Define the manipulation in each replication link.
The following sections explore these issues.
Number of CITSs
A single CITS removes most of the load from the source database server because there is only a single replication link from the source to the CITS. Thus, the only overhead to the source is that single replication link.
However, if you design just a single CITS, you introduce two new single points of failure: the CITS and the additional replication link. An additional CITS helps to mitigate this effect because you can design an alternative chain of replication links from the source to each of the targets. Although the additional replication links that are now connected to the source cause a slight increase in replication overhead compared to a single replication link, the overall availability increases because the alternative chain acts as a backup to the standard chain.
Figure 3: Master-Slave Cascading Replication with an alternative chain (dotted arrows)
Hint: After you have two (or more) CITSs connected to the source, you can connect parts of the CETs to each of them. This achieves some load balancing on the CITSs because every CITS serves fewer CETs. In case of a failure, the CETs are served by one of the remaining CITSs.
The replication links to both CITSs must transmit the same replication set. Additionally, the CITSs must not be written to by any process but the replication link from the source. If one of these conditions fails, the CITSs could have different data. In that case, they would not be able to serve as substitutes for each other.
More CITSs can also be added if a single CITS cannot serve all CETs. Adding CITSs also increases scalability because you can add new CITSs to accommodate a growing number of CETs. If the number of CITSs consequently impacts the source in an unsustainable way, you can even add another layer of CITSs. This increases the chain length by one replication link, but again frees the source database server from the additional load.
Hint: Adding CITSs can also help you optimize for different replication characteristics because the CITSs can be structured in different ways. If, for example, some of the CETs require snapshot replication, while others require incremental replication, you can optimize the structure of one of the CITS for storing change data and the other one for storing the data itself. The CETs requesting the changes will connect to the first CITS, while the CETs requesting snapshots will connect to CETs that are optimized for the snapshots. Generally, you should look for clusters of CETs with similar replication characteristics and then design a dedicated CITS for each of these clusters. Thereafter, you can optimize every CITS to best support the replications links that have similar characteristics.
Limiting the Number of Replication Links
You must have at least one chain of replication links between the source and every CET to transmit the data or its changes. As described earlier, you can design an alternative chain of replication links from the source to every target to achieve higher availability for the whole system. Do not overdo it by designing too many alternative chains, however, because the additional replication links increase the load on the source. It is best to design at most one standard chain of replication links plus one alternative chain. Furthermore, designing additional replication links should be reserved for when you feel that normal data availability techniques, such as clustering, storage area networks, or hot standbys, are not suitable.
Amount of Data for Each CITS
The source replication set which is stored on each CITS must satisfy the requirements of all the CETs connected. Thus, the amount of data stored on each CITS is the logical union of data requested by any of its CETs and the type of replication being used.
Data Structure for Each CITS
To determine the data structure for each CITS involves, choose one of the following design options:
Matching the data structure of the CITS to the source. This enables the movement of data from the source to the CITS without any additional manipulation overhead. This design is important if the main goal of your cascading replication is to remove any avoidable load from the source.
Matching the data structure of the CITS to the CET superset. In this case, the manipulation is performed only once, namely within the replication link from the source to the CITS. The targets can be fed easily by the contents of the CITS. This provides a higher overall efficiency with the tradeoff of some impact on the source that could have been avoided.
Designing a data structure that differs from both the source and the CETs. If all replication links to the CETs perform incremental replication, the CITSs do not have to store the data - only the changes. In this case, the data structure of the CITSs can be designed for the storage of changes only.
The following examples present two possible configurations of Master-Slave Cascading Replication.
Different Lengths of Replication Chains
This first example assumes that you have a single source and a large number of CETs. A small number of the CETs receive snapshots, while the others are served by incremental replication. The snapshot replication is transmitted by way of a single CITS. The number of CETs served by incremental replication is too large to be served by a single CITS, however. To minimize the impact on the source, you could design two levels of CITS, each with a single CITS that is connected to the source. Figure 4 shows the resulting replication topology where thick arrows represent replication links with snapshot replication and thin arrows represent replication links with incremental replication.
Figure 4: Master-Slave Cascading Replication topology with different chain lengths
Two Sources and Conflict Detection and Resolution
Figure 5 shows a replication topology in which a CET participates in two master-slave cascading replications.
Figure 5: Master-Slave Cascading Replication from two sources
If the replication sets of Source 1 and Source 2 do not intersect, then replication from Source 1 by way of CITS 1 to CET 2 always affects different records than those from Source 2 by way of CITS 2. Thus, no special attention is required in CET 2 to handle both replication chains.
However, if the replication sets of Source 1 and Source 2 do intersect, the same CET 2 record can be affected by both the replication from Source 1 through CITS 1 and Source 2 through CITS 2. Resolving the discrepancy requires the ability to detect and resolve conflicts in CET 2. The same applies if two or more sources feed the same CITS.
Note: The conflict detection and resolution is not triggered by updates having occurred at the target, which is why this is not a master-master pattern. In this case, the trigger is that different updates occurred at two sources. However, the concepts described in Master-Master Replication still apply to solving this problem.
Resulting Context
This pattern inherits the benefits and liabilities from the Data Replication pattern and has the following additional benefits and liabilities:
Source is freed from most of the replication load. This is the most important benefit of a Master-Slave Cascading Replication. Only the first replication link adds load to the source. The remaining replication links do not burden the source. The CITS generally should not serve any applications so that conflicting operational demands between applications and replication services can be avoided.
CETs can be relatively autonomous. Using a CET is a good way to provide data to other organizations because you can pass raw data on to the organizations and they can use the data however they want. Because you cannot force another organization to pull the data frequently, though, this could impact your source database system (for example, if the organization connected to your database directly). Master-Slave Cascading Replication liberates the source from this impact; a CITS is more appropriate to handle the impact because it does not serve any applications.
Adding more targets does not impact the source. As your business requires more CETs you can add them without overburdening the source.
Increased latency. Because the chains from the source to the targets are longer compared to direct replication, the delays in getting the replication set to the CETs can increase. Most implementations of this pattern use an immediate replication on the replication links to minimize this liability.
Potential for decreased availability. The longer chains from the source to the targets have an impact on the overall availability as well. As the number of links in the chain increases, the opportunity for failures increases. You can address this liability by adding a second CITS and alternative chains in case of failures. A second CITS also offers the opportunity for load balancing by connecting half of the targets to each of the CITSs.
Additional administration and management.Master-Slave Cascading Replication adds databases and replication links that must be administrated and managed. The whole replication environment should be controlled by management tools for an automatic surveillance of the ongoing operation.
Extra storage cost. The CITS will add storage requirements to the overall environment.
Additional change management. Structural changes to the source or the CETs require more attention because the CITS have to be adjusted appropriately. You should precisely plan and design the changes on all affected databases.
Operational Considerations
By applying Master-Slave Cascading Replication, most of the replication overhead is loaded on the CITS. Hence, it is common practice that the CITSs do not serve any applications. Instead, the applications are connected to the source and the targets only. All applications requiring write access of the database must be connected to the source.
For more information, see the following related patterns:
Patterns That May Have Led You Here
Move Copy of Data. This is the root pattern of this cluster. It presents the fundamental data movement building block that consists of source, data movement set, data movement link, and target. Transmissions in such a data movement building block are done asynchronously (or eventually) after the update of the source. Thus, the target applications must tolerate a certain amount of latency until changes are delivered.
Data Replication. This pattern presents the architecture of a replication.
Master-Slave Replication. This pattern presents the solution for a replication where the changes are replicated to the target without taking changes of the target into account. It will eventually overwrite any changes on the target.
Patterns That You Can Use Next
Implementing Master-Slave Transactional Incremental Replication Using SQL Server.
Other Patterns of Interest
Master-Slave Snapshot Replication. This pattern presents a solution that transmits the whole replication set from the source to the target on each transmission.
Master-Slave Transactional Incremental Replication. This pattern presents a solution that transmits only the changes from the source to the target on a transaction-by-transaction basis.


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Q: MYSQL Delete Query based on condtion I have a table Product and i have another table Rating
I want to delete products that have 3 or more ratings score lower than 3.
Here's what i tried
DELETE p  FROM product p
JOIN rating r ON r.produits_id = p.id
IN
  (SELECT produits_id
  FROM rating
WHERE rating.score < 3
GROUP BY rating.produits_id
HAVING COUNT(*)  > 2 )

A: You should join the table directly to the query that returns the ids from rating:
DELETE p
FROM product p
JOIN (
  SELECT produits_id
  FROM rating
  WHERE score < 3
  GROUP BY produits_id
  HAVING COUNT(*)  > 2
) r ON r.produits_id = p.id

A: You can just use in in the where clause:
DELETE p
    FROM product p
    WHERE p.id  IN (SELECT r.produits_id
                    FROM rating r
                    WHERE r.score < 3
                    GROUP BY r.produits_id
                    HAVING COUNT(*)  >= 3
                   );


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Urban heat
Cities sizzle as more people move in
By Sid Perkins
In life, as in boxing, the combined effects of a one-two punch are often more devastating than either blow alone. Imagine, then, the devastation from a triple whammy that city dwellers might suffer this century as three unfavorable trends converge to afflict an already warming world.
First, there's temperature. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Earth's average global temperature has risen about 0.74 degrees Celsius in the past century (SN: 2/10/07, p. 83), an increase almost certainly linked to the rising concentrations of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases that human activities have released into Earth's atmosphere. IPCC scientists suggest this warming trend will continue, and indeed accelerate: In the next 20 years, average global temperature will rise another 0.4 degrees C or so, they estimate.
Then, there's population growth. Now home to more than 6.6 billion people, Earth will see its population increase by about 25 percent, or 1.65 billion, by the year 2030 (SN: 10/13/07, p. 235). Even with substantial increases in energy efficiency, this dramatically larger population will likely trigger a rise in total energy consumption, further boosting emissions of greenhouse gases.
Third, there's urbanization. Much of the world's population growth in coming decades will occur within cities, where residents are exposed to warmer-than-average conditions due to the "urban heat island" effect. People living in large, well-developed areas typically experience temperatures several degrees warmer than do residents of the rural areas nearby.
The confluence of these trends could create a "perfect storm" that places urban dwellers at increased environmental risk, says Walt Dabberdt, president of the American Meteorological Society in 2008. Besides the risk from rising sea levels — much of the projected population increases will be in coastal cities — urban dwellers could be exposed to more-frequent heat waves, higher levels of pollution and a myriad of health concerns (SN: 7/3/04, p. 10).
Possibly of more importance, much of the population growth will result in urban sprawl in what are now smaller metropolitan areas — a trend that will lead to dramatically larger numbers of people living within urban heat islands.
Future changes in climate, as well as the effects of those changes on regional and local weather, must be an integral part of urban planning, Dabberdt notes. The way urban heat islands affect climate overall is also important: If more people move to places that require increasing amounts of air conditioning, even more greenhouse gases will be emitted.
"Cities are major contributors to anthropogenic climate change," says Dabberdt, who is also the Boulder, Colo.–based chief science officer for Vaisala Corp., an international manufacturer of weather-monitoring systems and instruments. Overall, he says, urban areas are directly or indirectly responsible for about 80 percent of the emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. While many of those emissions are produced in the cities by industrial activity or vehicles, others are generated in coal-fired power plants that are far from the cities but are still driven by urban demand for power.
The topic of urban heat occupied many researchers who gathered in January for the 2009 annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society, held appropriately enough in Phoenix, the site of many recent studies of the urban heat island effect. While some scientists are studying how to minimize the temperature-boosting effects of urban heat islands, others are studying how urban dwellers can substantially reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that are emitted in the first place.
THERMAL STUDY | A one-day, round-the-clock thermal study of Phoenix buildings, including the U.S. Bank Center, tracked how concrete and glass absorb heat by day and release it by night. Deep purple is 9°C, deep orange is 17°C and white is at least 25°C. Throughout the night, the building, especially near street level, remained warmer than the surrounding air. Di Sabatino et al./Arizona State University
COOLED BY GRAVEL | A thermal perspective of a sun-soaked rooftop in a Phoenix suburb reveals that gravel painted bright white (left) remains cooler than darker gravel (right). Carlson et al./Arizona State University
From farm to suburb
People have been living in increasingly large settlements ever since they gave up the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and began to cultivate the land. As agriculture became more efficient, urban populations could grow — a trend that accelerated with the Industrial Revolution and is continuing today as technology allows an ever-smaller fraction of the population to feed everyone else, says Kai N. Lee, a political scientist at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in Los Altos, Calif.
For example, in 1740, about two-thirds of the labor force in England and Wales — the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution — worked in agriculture. A century later, as labor-saving machines proliferated, that fraction had fallen to less than one-quarter, and England was exporting surplus food to boot, Lee notes. Today, in developed nations, less than 5 percent of the population engages in agriculture, he says.
As that proportion has fallen, the percentage of urban dwellers has risen, Lee said at the AMS meeting. In 1800, only about 2 percent of the world's population lived in cities. In 2007, for the first time, that fraction rose above 50 percent, and it's poised to grow even more. While in raw numbers the world's rural population is now at its peak and will probably decline slightly in coming years, urban population will continue to grow at a brisk pace. According to estimates by United Nations demographers, more than 60 percent of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2030.
Most of that growth will take place in rapidly developing nations such as China and India and in regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa, which is already home to more urban dwellers than the combined populations of the United States and Canada, says Lee.
And the bulk of urban growth — which by 2030 will tally about 1.3 million people per week worldwide — will occur in cities that now hold less than 500,000 people. That trend will expose increasing numbers of people to urban-accentuated heat: While recent research suggests that the urban heat islands in large, long-established cities haven't strengthened in recent decades (SN Online: "Don't blame the cities," 9/5/08), temperature differences between urban and rural areas in rapidly developing regions such as eastern China have increased substantially as its cities have sprawled and developed.
Cooking by day and night
In one sense, urban heat islands have been around as long as urban areas have: They just started out small and grew as cities did. Buildings and pavement typically are made of materials that have a lower albedo — that is, they absorb more of the sun's radiation than does the natural landscape — and, during the daytime, reach higher equilibrium temperatures than surrounding objects do. At night, the buildings and streets release much of that heat. The boost in both daytime and nighttime temperatures raises the average temperature in the city.
Another often unrecognized factor that boosts urban temperatures is the proliferation of impervious surfaces, says David J. Sailor, a mechanical engineer at Portland State University in Oregon. As the proportion of rain-shedding surfaces such as roofs, pavement, sidewalks and streets goes up, the water that previously would have soaked into the ground — and later would have soaked up heat as it evaporated — simply drains away into sewers or streams (SN: 9/4/04, p. 152). Areas swaddled with impervious surfaces, in essence, heat up because the ground has lost its ability to sweat.
The size, shape and arrangement of buildings, particularly in a downtown core dense with skyscrapers, can also influence urban temperatures, Sailor said at the AMS meeting. If the heat-soaked facade of a tall building can't "see the sky" at night — in other words, if it is surrounded by other tall buildings — any heat it gives off at night ends up warming nearby buildings rather than radiating back into space.
Finally, says Sailor, human activity generates immense quantities of heat. Burning a kilogram of gasoline generates about 45 million joules of energy, enough to melt 60 kilograms of ice and bring it to boiling. So, each car on the road with moderate gas mileage — say, 10 kilometers per liter or 24 miles per gallon — releases enough heat to melt about 4.5 kilograms, or a 10-pound bag, of ice for every kilometer it travels.
Much of the energy used in buildings — for lighting, heating and producing hot water, for example — eventually makes its way into the environment as heat.
As a rough guide, Sailor notes, one-third of the anthropogenic heat contribution to an urban heat island comes from transportation, one-third comes from buildings and one-third stems from industrial processes. Nevertheless, all cities are different: The heat island in Houston, for example, is substantially aggravated by the large number of nearby oil refineries.
Although urban heat islands are nothing new, scientists haven't conducted many detailed investigations of the phenomenon, says Brent Hedquist, an urban climatologist at Arizona State University in Tempe. In April 2008, he and his colleagues used portable weather stations and thermal imaging cameras to carry out a round-the-clock study in downtown Phoenix. Some studies, Hedquist says, have shown that the core of that city, one of the fastest growing urban areas in the nation, is on average between 7 and 11 degrees Celsius warmer than the surrounding countryside.
A first look at the Hedquist team's field data qualitatively confirms what many lab studies might suggest: Facades of dense concrete and brick, some of which reached temperatures of 45°C, or 113°F, during the day, retained heat well into the night, while glass and metal cooled rather quickly after the sun went down. The details of that warm-up and cool-down, however, will be the topic of intense analyses. "The situation downtown is very complex," Hedquist notes, with daytime heat absorption and nighttime heat loss depending on factors such as the angle at which the sun strikes building facades, the distance between the buildings and the speed and direction of prevailing winds.
By combining the data gleaned downtown with some gathered by helicopter over the city at large, Hedquist and his colleagues intend to construct detailed computer models of the region's landscape and how it responds to heat. Future studies, he says, will enable the team to assess how widespread changes in land cover — adding trees or installing permeable pavements, for example — might affect the size and strength of the region's urban heat island.
A top-down approach
One way to make buildings energy-efficient is to modify their roofs, which are invariably exposed to sunlight. Home-owners may spread a little insulation in the attic, or switch to a lighter-colored shingle when it's time to replace the roof. Large buildings, especially commercial structures, have more options.
So-called green roofs, which coat all or part of a building's upper surface with soil and vegetation, address several urban heat island factors, says Sailor. Not only do green roofs typically absorb less sunlight, but the thick layer of soil also provides some insulation, reducing overall energy use in the building. And, Sailor notes, because the roof is designed to catch precipitation and hold it, potentially polluting runoff is reduced.
Previously, Sailor and his colleagues estimated that converting the impervious roofs of the buildings in Portland's two-square-kilometer industrial district to green roofs would reduce daytime temperatures in the district as much as 0.5 degrees C (SN: 9/4/04, p. 152). That would reduce the demand for air conditioning, cutting even further the human contribution to the city's heat island by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
In the glaring heat of the American Southwest, researchers investigated the energy savings possible from a roof of a different color — a white one. By replacing a moderately reflective roof with one that is superbright, buildings can reduce their energy costs substantially, Joby Carlson, a research scientist at Arizona State University in Tempe, and his colleagues reported at the AMS meeting.
As part of the study, one of Arizona's largest utility providers replaced half of a 20-year-old roof on one of its office buildings in Deer Valley, a Phoenix suburb. Sensors on the roof and at other spots inside the building just under the roof gathered data from mid-August to mid-September 2008. The original portion of the roof was covered with gravel that had an albedo of about 31 percent: In other words, about 69 percent of the sunlight falling on the roof in visible wavelengths was absorbed. The portion of the roof that was replaced was covered with gravel with an albedo of 72 percent, so it absorbed only 28 percent of the sunlight. "It's bright white — you have to put on your sunglasses when you go up there for sure," Carlson says.
The change in albedo made a big difference. On the afternoon of August 20, 2008, when air temperature at the site peaked near 41.7°C, or 107°F, the old portion of the roof heated up to 68°C. Meanwhile, the surface temperature on the roof's newly bright-white portion rose to only 58.9°C. Underneath the roof's cooler portion, temperatures near the ceiling were consistently about 3.3 degrees C lower than temperatures measured under the old roof.
More importantly, says Carlson, the building's energy use during hours of peak demand for electricity decreased. Because utilities must build power plants to meet peak demand, widespread use of white roofs and other energy-saving renovations could forestall or slow the need for additional power plants that would emit more greenhouse gases, he notes. And building fewer power plants is one possible counterpunch in the fight against climate change.
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Heat recycling
Two-thirds of the energy locked in the coal and natural gas used to generate electricity at power plants ends up as waste heat, says Thomas R. Casten, chairman of Recycled Energy Development in Westmont, Ill. Casten and Phil Schewe of the American Institute of Physics in College Park, Md., note in the January-February American Scientist that unused heat is dumped into the environment. Were power plants closer to customers, Casten suggests, some of that waste heat could be put to work. Consolidated Edison in New York City, for example (smokestacks pictured), delivers heat to thousands of buildings in Manhattan via the world's largest commercial steam system. Even waste heat from industrial processes could generate electricity.
A version of this article appears in the April 11, 2009 issue of Science News.
Casten, T.R., and P.F. Schewe. 2009. Getting the most from energy: Recycling waste heat can keep carbon from going sky high. American Scientist 97(January/February):26. [Go to]
Dabberdt, W.F. 2009. Climate, eeather, and demographic changes in the cities (Presentation 1A.1). American Meteorological Society meeting. Jan. 11-15. Phoenix. [Go to]
Sailor, D.J., and A. Brooks. 2009. Quantifying anthropogenic moisture emissions and their potential impact on the urban climate (Presentation 2.2). American Meteorological Society meeting. Jan. 11-15. Phoenix. [Go to]
DiSabatino, S., B.C. Hedquist, et al. 2009. Phoenix urban heat island experiment: Effects of built elements (Presentation J12.3). American Meteorological Society meeting. Jan. 11-15. Phoenix. [Go to]
Jo, J.H., J. Carlson, et al. 2009. Quantifying the direct and indirect benefits of a 'cool' roof renovation project in hot dry climate zones (Presentation 5.4). American Meteorological Society meeting. Jan. 11-15. Phoenix. [Go to]
Lee, K.N. 2009. Urbanization and rapidly expanding urban populations in a changing global climate (Presentation 1.1). American Meteorological Society meeting. Jan. 11-15. Phoenix. [Go to]
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The azalea lace bug tends to attack plants that are already weakened due to poor fertilizing or watering, so make sure to take proper care of your plants. If your azalea shrub is already infested with these azalea leaf pests, you can try one of two methods for getting rid of them.... The azalea lace bug tends to attack plants that are already weakened due to poor fertilizing or watering, so make sure to take proper care of your plants. If your azalea shrub is already infested with these azalea leaf pests, you can try one of two methods for getting rid of them.
If cutting peony flowers to take indoors, gently rinse the blossoms in a bucket of water to get rid of the ants. Leaf curl: When a peony's leaves curl it is a sign of stress, caused by lack of water, a virus or unusual weather conditions.
19/09/2008 · You'll have to dig them up and remove all the roots. See if anyone else might want them and give them away. A lot of people love peonies and would probably love to get the plants you don't want.


It's Homecoming season in Manhattan, KS. The Wildcats will host the Oklahoma Sooners this Saturday for the Homecoming football game. On Friday, there will be the annual Homecoming parade, where many fraternities and sororities have made floats that will start at Manhattan Town Center and end at Manhattan City Park.


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Dark spots or hyperpigmentation occurs when the skin produces too much melanin, the pigment that provides skin with color. Several factors can trigger the formation of dark spots, including sun damage, age-related changes, diseases, certain medications, hormonal fluctuations, trauma, and scarring.
How do lasers work to remove or reduce dark spots in the skin?
Lasers use intensely-focused heat energy that's directed at the pigmented cells, breaking down these cells so they can be transported out of the body naturally over time. At the same time, the laser heat works to stimulate healing as well as the production of collagen so skin looks and feels healthier and skin tone and coloration are more evenly distributed. Darker pigments absorb more of the laser energy, so treatment can be specifically and precisely directed at pigmented cells while leaving the surrounding cells and tissues unaffected and undamaged.
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SOUTHWEST ASIA — On Monday, Dec. 26, Abu Jandal al-Kuwaiti, an ISIL gang leader in Raqqah was struck and killed by a coalition airstrike near Tabqa Dam, Syria.
He was a previous member of the ISIL's War Committee and was involved in their retaking of Palmyra, Syria, before being reassigned to Tabqa to try to improve ISIL's defenses against the Syrian Democratic Forces.
Abu Jandal was involved in the use of suicide vehicles, IEDs and chemical weapons against the SDF. Because of his associations with ISIL terror attack planners and War Council members, his death will degrade ISIL's ability to defend Raqqah and launch external operations against the West.
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Softball's Tibbetts and DeFina Garner All-ECAC Recognition May 28, 2019
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We also see behavior as communicating unmet needs. So often, a harmful or illegal behavior is an attempt to get a need met. For example, while I was working in Longmont, we would occasionally receive a theft case of a homeless person who stole food, or someone stealing clothing for an upcoming job interview after realizing they didn't have anything appropriate to wear or money to buy something. The needs were often more abstract. I remember a pregnant woman who stole lingerie because she was worried her husband wasn't attracted to her while she was pregnant and they were struggling with money. Especially among teenagers, so often the drug use, vandalism, and fighting was rooted in a need for belonging and respect from their peers. More violent acts such as physical assaults were often rooted in a need for safety, respect, or even self-esteem. When you begin to view these behaviors through understanding the need the person was attempting to fulfill, you are better able to problem-solve. If you can help to identify a legal, pro-social way to fulfill that un-met need, then the behavior will not be repeated.
Having grown up in the United States and taken introductory level psychology throughout high school and university, I have often understood these common human needs through the framework of Maslow's Hierarchy. In Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, the most basic physiological needs are at the base of the pyramid and are the first things that motivate our behavior. Once those needs are met, the next level up is what motivates us. The framework has often helped me to understand and empathize with the lived experience and perspective of the offenders and victims that are referred to restorative justice.
Earlier this week, I took part in an introductory training day for a pilot project being launched in Wellington, New Zealand to use Restorative Circles as a response to Elder Harm issues. During the training, we talked about Te Whare Tapa Whā, a Maori framework for understanding health and wellbeing. This framework is widely used among Maori people and others in New Zealand.
Te Whare Tapa Whā portrays four dimensions of wellbeing as four walls or sides of a house. If one of the dimensions is missing or damaged, the entire structure (representing the person) will become unbalanced or unwell.
This way of perceiving these dimensions of health and wellbeing, of understanding the basic human needs we all share, struck me as very true. These aspects of health are deeply interconnected. When my mental health is damaged or unbalanced, my physical, spiritual and social health also all suffer. When I am physically sick, the other areas of my life similarly feel like they aren't thriving. The needs are essentially intertwined.
Rather than needs being a series of levels that are achieved one after another, needs often co-exist. I remember speaking with a homeless man who had accidentally caused a fire in an unused home he was squatting in and his need for food and shelter was equally matched by his need for community and for a greater sense of meaning and purpose. In our pre-conference discussion, we talked more about God than we did about his physiological needs.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs still helps me to understand the (sometimes reckless) motivation we all feel when our needs in different categories go unmet. However, Te Whare Tapa Whā has also helped me to see how those needs cannot really be broken into neat level and will always exist as an interconnected whole, deserving a holistic response.
For restorative justice practitioners, this framework serves as a reminder to strive to keep going, past the most obvious needs, to understand the whole picture of where a person is coming from and the impacts of an incident on physical, social, spiritual, and mental wellbeing.


No one doubts the existence of bad cops or of cops who make poor decisions or who use poor judgement. But where's the evidence of "systemic" racism? When black Harvard economist Roland Fryer conducted a 2016 study of police use of force, he expected to find widespread evidence of police officers disproportionately using deadly force against blacks. Instead, he found the opposite. Police, he concluded, were (SET ITAL) more (END ITAL) hesitant to use deadly force against blacks than against whites. "It is," he admitted, "the most surprising result of my career." This tracks another study published in 2014 by researchers at Washington State University, who reached the same conclusion, finding "there was significant bias (SET ITAL) favoring (END ITAL) (emphasis added) blacks where decisions to shoot were concerned."
While most people can name several recent high-profile police killings of unarmed blacks or deaths that occurred while in police custody -- Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, to name some -- few people can name a single instance of an unarmed white who was killed by police or died in police custody. Yet the police kill more unarmed whites than unarmed blacks.
As to the claim of "institutional racism," government studies have debunked this. In 2013, the National Institute of Justice, the research arm of the Department of Justice, examined traffic stops by race, as traffic stops are the most common reason for a person to interact with a cop in any given year. Seventy-five percent of blacks stopped by police (SET ITAL) admitted (END ITAL) that, in fact, the cops had a "legitimate reason" for stopping them. The NIJ study found that blacks were disproportionately stopped by the police, but that any numerical disparities resulted from "differences in offending" in addition to "differences in exposure to the police" and "differences in driving patterns."


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The vast diversity of artists and experiences that make up Nashville's love affair with music was the topic on a recent "MTSU On the Record" radio program.
Two young women of color who dare to be different are in the spotlight on the next "MTSU On the Record" radio program.
Students in MTSU's Jones College of Business now have access to an innovative sales laboratory that will allow them to hone their selling skills in their efforts to become ready-to-hire graduates.
The new Africana Studies major at MTSU is the first of its kind in the region and the only one in Tennessee that provides the option of either a Bachelor of Arts degree or a Bachelor of Science degree.
With questions continuing to swirl around President Donald Trump's attitude toward Russian President Vladimir Putin, the future of U.S.-Russia relations in the Trump administration is the focus of the next "MTSU On the Record" radio program.
MTSU faculty experts recently expressed themselves for national media outlets on several hot button topics, including various election-related issues and Russian perspectives on American politics.
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The 7 Chrome extensions of moderately effective people
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By James Holloway October 14, 2013
Useful Chrome extensions for useful people
It's the world's most used web browser, but how many users are using extensions to get the most out of Google Chrome? (Probably very many. That's just the sort of annoying question journalists like to ask by way of an introduction.) Here are some of my favorites, not geared towards any particular profession, which I think could prove useful to my fellow generalist web users out there in the world. There are no gimmicks; no bossy extensions telling you what or what not to do; merely usefulness, hopefully.
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Lazarus: Form Recovery
It's a First World problem, no doubt, but a decidedly annoying one. Whether you're paying your taxes online, ordering a pizza, or posting your enlightened and well-researched comments to your favorite technology news blog, losing your precious form data to a server error or a dropped connection is a fraught experience as, heart-in-mouth, you reach for the back button to find out whether your carefully crafted text has been swallowed by the ether.
The aptly-named Lazarus brings your lost form data back from the dead by saving your entered data for retrieval ahead of submission. It's as simple as navigating back to the web form, hitting the Lazarus button in the corner of the text field, and selecting the version you wish to restore. Each draft appears as a preview as your hover your pointer over each saved draft, so there should be little need for repetitive clicking as you check which one you want.
All data is stored on your computer, and, if you add the optional password, encrypted before it's saved. However, there is an option to sync data to the Lazarus servers which will encrypt the data yet again before it's uploaded.
The only drawback is that, due to the variety of web forms out there on the web, Lazarus can't be guaranteed to work with every website. Certainly it doesn't work with Flash or Java forms. However, with the proliferation of HTML 5, these should be less and less frequent – which is a very good thing.
Lazarus: Form Recovery Chrome store link
Created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Tor Project, the HTTPS Everywhere Chrome extension forces all sites which support the secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Once the realm of banking sites, web email and online stores, HTTPS is increasingly used to keep the communications of web users private with the use of SSL/TLS cryptography underneath the HTTP protocol.
Or, to put it another way, this extension will, when possible, force the first bit of the web address to https rather than http. If it's good enough for the banks, it's good enough for everywhere else, no?
The extension doesn't change the behavior of websites, but the extension can be disabled on a site by site basis with a click of the HTTPS Everywhere button in the address bar should it turn out that a particular site doesn't have its HTTP**** together.
HTTPS Everywhere Chrome store link
LastPass, in a delicious nutshell, renders the issue of managing the endless sets of log-in details a non-issue.
Predicated on the sound advice that a password shouldn't be reused across multiple sites (and certainly not important ones like your bank, email, or Amazon account), LastPass does away with the problem of remembering and organizing your details by doing it for you. Visit a website and the official LastPass extension will populate the login fields, like this:
You'll need a LastPass account to make use of it, obviously, though it isn't the only password manager out there, 1Password being among the notable alternatives.
LastPass Chrome store link
Send to Instapaper
There are web apps aplenty, but Marco Arment's Instapaper, like LastPass, enjoys the distinction of being one that, in my opinion at least, is significantly life-enhancing. I mean it. If you're not familiar with it, Instapaper's a service for storing articles you want to read later at a time that suits you, on your device of choice, presented in beautiful distraction-free plain text. It's a joy. It even pulls in additional pages of multi-page articles, which is dead useful.
Though the pleasure derived from Instapaper comes from reading the articles on your phone, tablet, or e-reader, you need to get the content in there in the first place. This is where a browser extension comes in. There are numerous Chrome extensions for Instapaper, but personally, I would like to save articles with a single click. For my money, Mike West's Send to Instapaper, which adds a small icon to the address bar, is perfect, doing exactly this.
That said, I always keep my bookmarks bar in view, so for me the official Instapaper bookmarklet, which does much the same, works for me.
Again, alternatives to Instapaper exist, like Pocket, for example.
Send to Instapaper Chrome store link
RSS Subscription Extension
RSS Subscription Extension makes it the work of a moment to add a blog or news site's RSS feed to your reader of choice. An RSS feed is a list of a site's recent content, and the technology offers a way to keep tabs on a favorite site's output without having to check the site, sign up for mail lists or follow them on Twitter or Facebook. It has the advantage that content you haven't seen before is highlighted as unread, a bit like email.
Though it has the same name, this extension is actually an off-shoot from Google's original RSS Subscription Extension, and adds support for the online RSS readers which have risen to prominence since Google Reader shut up shop in July.
The extension adds the familiar orange RSS button to Chrome's address bar, so rather than having to open up your feed (hoping all the while that feed auto-detection works), or go rooting around the page's layout for RSS feed links, you need only click the button to be find the current site's RSS output, and be offered a choice of feed readers to add it to, including Feedly, NewsBlur and Old Reader.
This is handy if you find yourself chopping and changing your feed subscriptions regularly, though if that doesn't sound like you, it could be surplus to requirements.
RSS Subscription Extension Chrome store link
UnShortenIt
To click or not to click: that is the question. It's testament to the success of Twitter that URL shortening services, which trim web addresses down to much shorter redirecting addresses, have exploded, supposedly in order for users to be able to cram more words into their tweets along with the link they wish to post. However, they can conceivably be used to conceal undesirable domains that the right-minded web user wouldn't wish to visit.
Twitter now has its own URL shortener, with short addresses based on the t.co domain. Official Twitter apps and the Twitter website will display the first part of the original long URL instead of the t.co link, giving readers an idea of where they would be redirected to before they click the link. The redirecting service additionally offers some protection from harmful sites, which should, theoretically, be blocked.
But despite Twitter's work in this area, competing URL shortening services are staying put (or, with the proliferation of branded short urls, are probably increasing). The UnShortenIt extension is a response to this. It extends the preview functionality of Twitter's t.co domains to all forms of short URLs, regardless of where they're posted on the web.
With the extension installed, simply right-click a shortened link and a new Chrome tab will open showing the original address, as well as various safety ratings for that website. Theoretically, there should also be a screen preview courtesy of pagepeeker, but this didn't always work – at least not when I try it.
Unfortunately, some publishers push their own shortened URLs to Twitter which are then shortened yet again to t.co URLs (though often this appears not to be the case because of Twitter's own URL preview functioning). In this case you simply need to copy and paste the intermediate shortened URL shown into the UnShortenIt form that has now appeared. It's annoying, but worth doing if you're really suspicious about a particular shortened web address.
UnShortenIt Chrome store link
Draft: handy for composing carefully-crafted web comments
You'll need to be signed up with the Draft service for this extension to work, but this online web service provides one of those minimalist text editors that are all the rage these days. The service offers many of the same services of pay-for downloadable alternatives such as iA Writer, including support for Markdown (a means of effectively writing HTML using a markup language that is much easier and intuitive to pick up and use.)
The idea of the extension is that, when you come across a web field such as a Facebook status box or a blog comment form that you want to fill in, you click the Draft Chrome extension button. Though this extension does little more than open a new tab showing a new blank document in the Draft web service, the ability to paste this directly back into the text field you came from using a button within Draft itself is probably just enough to make the extension worthwhile over a simple browser bookmarklet to the Draft website.
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Interesting article. Too bad plugins and extensions don't work in mobile chrome. But on the desktop, adblockplus is my fav. (I may not be moderately effective).
The old Opera (not the latest, don't upgrade) is still my favorite mobile browser, but chrome is so fast compared to all the others. Anyone who doubts that can google "sunspider test" and run it to verify for themselves.
Although I don't use extensions, I also found the article interesting, especially on a slow news day.
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DENVER – March 22, 2016 – PEAK Resources, Inc., a Denver-based technology systems integrator, today announced the celebration of its 25th Anniversary and announced the PEAK Resources Scholarship for Technology, benefiting KIPP Denver Collegiate High School on KOA NewsRadio.
Click the image to listen to Vince DeRose announce the scholarship.
Privately held, PEAK provides consulting and professional services along with hardware and software products for medium to large organizations throughout the United States, with a specific focus in the Rocky Mountain Region.
Over the years, PEAK has received recognition for both industry and community achievements. For the past three years, PEAK has been named to Inc. Magazine's 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America. In 2013 PEAK was named A Colorado Company to Watch by ColoradoBiz Magazine, and in 2015 PEAK was named the Small Business Partner of the year by the Denver Public School Foundation. PEAK has also received numerous awards from companies such as IBM, NetApp and CISCO for innovation and performance.
Community is a key part of the culture at PEAK. In celebration of its 25th Anniversary, PEAK has committed to continuing its relationship with The Knowledge is Power Program ("KIPP") Denver Collegiate High School, a Denver Public Schools Charter, through the PEAK Resources Scholarship for Technology. The scholarship program was started in 2011 and provides a four-year Scholarship and laptop to a deserving student from KIPP, which is located just minutes from PEAK's corporate offices.
"25 years ago, we started out brokering used IBM mainframe hardware. Within 4 years we became a distributor and value-added reseller with IBM" said Vince DeRose, CEO and Founder. "Today, we are a much larger and more diverse organization, with clients all over the country. We have always been very community minded. One of our focus areas has been supporting educational programs within our community and we are excited to continue to enhance our scholarship program moving forward. Most importantly, I would like to thank our dedicated employees. We feel like PEAK is a great place to work. Our team has propelled PEAK's growth and have been a major contributor to our community engagement through their volunteer efforts." DeRose added.
The program will include a $2,500 per year scholarship for four years along with a new Laptop to assist the deserving student with their continued education beyond high school. A scholarship will be presented each year over the next 5 years.
Celebrating 25 years of business, PEAK Resources is a systems integrator specializing in providing technical expertise and design for enterprise IT solutions including servers, storage and networking. Founded in 1991, PEAK Resources' core competencies include architectural design, consolidation, business resiliency, and cloud solutions. The PEAK Resources professional services and consulting group offers clients a vast range of consulting services required to implement technology-based business solutions. For more information, visit www.peakresources.com.


New York Attorney David Schorr is suing his son's psychiatrist, Marilyn Schiller, for branding him as unfit parent — reportedly for refusing to take his son to McDonald's.
According to Schorr, Schiller told the judge in his custody case that he was "wholly incapable of taking care of his son." Schorr is currently fighting for custody rights with his estranged wife, Bari Yunis Schorr.
The incident in question occurred when Mr. Schorr was set to take his 4-year-old to their regular eatery, the Corner Café. The boy demanded McDonald's instead, and proceeded to throw a tantrum. Schorr told his son that they would either go anywhere besides McDonald's, or they would eat no dinner at all.
Schorr also said, "I wish I had taken him to McDonald's, but you get nervous about rewarding bad behavior. I think it was a 1950s' equivalent of sending your child to bed without dinner. That's maybe the worst thing you can say about it."
Schorr now wants the psychiatrist to return the $2,750 he paid for her work. He claims that he has had partial custody of his son for the past 2-1/2 years, and that no other incidents have occurred.
Although Schorr's wife did not comment — and only one side of the story has been reported — The Mayo Clinic notes that giving in to temper tantrums is likely to make children believe that they will always get their way by throwing a fit.


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Predators GM David Poile: NHL Draft is 'our game day'
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Tonight is the first round of the NHL Draft. All the major movers and shakers around the league -- management, coaches, agents -- will all be in the same area the same time on the floor of the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
The first round starts at 6 p.m. and will be broadcast on NBC Sports Network. Nashville has the No. 11 pick. The second round starts at 9 a.m. Saturday and will be on NHL Network.
It's an interesting scenario, since it's the only major professional draft in North America with the open floor. This gives general managers an easier chance to talk to one another, make trades, or just catch up.
For example, last year at the draft in Newark, N.J., Predators GM David Poile and Lightning GM Steve Yzerman talked right up until the moment before the Lightning took Jonathan Drouin with the No. 3 pick.
Was a trade discussed? Both sides played coy a year ago and wouldn't reveal the details of their chat.
"There are so many stories from the draft, things that happened both good and bad and trades that have been made. Your draft picks are your currency. You trade them to get players," Poile said. "Everyone is together in a two- or three-day format. We're all talking to each other."
For a small-market team like the Predators, the draft is like their Super Bowl. They need to hit on a few of their picks to keep their system stocked and refreshed. For the scouts, it is the biggest day of the year.
"From management, scouting staff, hockey operations, it's our game day," Poile said. "I get nervous about it."
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Jordan – Qatar relations are the bilateral relations between the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the State of Qatar. Diplomatic relations were established in 1972. Jordan has an embassy in Doha. Qatar also has an embassy in Amman.

Diplomatic visits
Jordanian Prime Minister Faisal Al-Fayez visited Qatar in January 2004. During his visit, a number of economic and trade agreements were signed, including an agreement on the avoidance of double taxation. In March 2004, Qatari Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani visited Amman.

On 12 October 2021, King Abdullah II of Jordan visited Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha. They discussed bilateral relations, the developments in Syria and ways to reach a "comprehensive peace" in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. During the visit, investment contracts between the Qatar Investment Authority and Jodan's Government Investments Management Company (GIMC) were signed. On 25 January 2023, Sheikh Tamim received King Abdullah II for a working visit in Doha. They discussed bilateral relations, regional developments, as well as ways to expand cooperation in the fields of political, economic and investment relations between Jordan and Qatar.

Political cooperation

Early cooperation
Although formal diplomatic relations date back to 1972, Qatari and Jordanian officials started cooperating a year earlier. When Qatar gained its independence in September 1971, it flew in Jordanian specialists to assist the new country in planning out its educational, military and economic sectors. In 1972, Qatar opened its embassy in Amman and its first ambassador to Jordan presented his credentials.

Detainment of Qatar Airways flight
Qatar had turbulent relations with Jordan in the early 2000s. In August 1999, Jordan banned the militant Palestinian Islamist group, Hamas. The then Hamas spokesperson in Jordan, Ibrahim Ghosheh was arrested and deported to Qatar in November 1999, along with several other Hamas members, where he lived freely. Jordan and Qatar became involved in a dispute over the matter. It was claimed by Qatar that it had temporarily agreed to host Ghosheh, along with 4 other imprisoned Hamas members, while it negotiated a settlement between the two parties.

On 14 June 2001, Ghosheh unexpectedly returned to Jordan on a Qatar Airways flight. Jordanian authorities grounded the flight he was on at Queen Alia International Airport. A standoff ensued, with the Qatari pilot refusing to leave with Ghosheh on the plane, and the Jordanian authorities refusing to release the flight without Ghosheh being present on the plane. One day into the standoff, Royal Jordanian Airlines froze all flights to Qatar. Two weeks into the stand-off, on 28 June, an agreement was reached between Jordan and Ghosheh in which Ghosheh would be flown to Bangkok and be allowed to return to Jordan if he "froze" his links to Hamas. Flights between the two countries were resumed on 30 June. On 16 July 2001, Qatar Airways announced it would be suing the Jordanian government for $2.2 million.

Imprisonment of Firas Majali
Authorities in Qatar arrested and tried a Jordanian journalist working for Qatar TV, Firas Majali, on charges of espionage in February 2002. A Qatari court ruled that Firas Majali be sentenced to death in October 2002, and maintained that ruling in February 2003. A month later in March, the Qatari emir granted Majali a pardon after meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan.

2002 closure of Al Jazeera
In August 2002, a segment broadcast by Al Jazeera was seen as being insulting to Jordan's ruling family, and in response, one day later Jordan closed Al Jazeera's bureau in the country and withdrew the accreditation of its journalists. Jordan also recalled its ambassador to Doha the same month. In 2003, Jordan reinstated Al Jazeera's Amman bureau.

2006 United Nations elections
In response to Qatar's backing of Ban Ki-Moon instead of Jordan's candidate Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad as the Secretary-General of the United Nations in the 2006 election, Jordan decided to withdraw its ambassador from Qatar. Although Qatar expressed its bewilderment of the situation, Jordan retaliated by claiming that all Arab League members had earlier agreed to support Jordan's candidate. Qatari Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani accused Jordan of launching a media campaign to defame Qatar because of this incident.

Qatar diplomatic crisis

On June 6, 2017, one day after the beginning of the 2017 Qatari diplomatic crisis, Jordan announced that it would be cutting back ties with Qatar in solidarity with the blockading countries as well as shuttering the Al Jazeera bureau based there. After the decision was taken, Jordan came under pressure from its parliament to restore diplomatic relations at a normal level and to remain neutral in the conflict.

In July 2019, Jordan and Qatar restored diplomatic ties by appointing new ambassadors.

Economic relations
In an attempt to promote direct investment by Qatar's government, Jordan set up a trade office in Doha in 2006. With Qatar's investments being valued at $2 billion in early 2018, it was the third-highest foreign investor in Jordan. These investments were mainly centered in Jordan's real estate and financial industries.

Trade turnover between the two countries was valued at $400 million in 2017. Qatar's main exports are chemicals and pharmaceutical products, while Jordan's chief exports are livestock, fruit and meat.

The economic ties between both the countries flourished in 2018 and 2019. The commercial exchange volume between Qatar and Jordan grew by 18% in 2018 to 1.3 billion Qatari riyals, compared with 1.1 billion Qatari riyals in 2017. By the end of the first nine months of 2019, 175 new Jordanian companies had established partnerships and alliances with Qatari firms.

On 14 March 2022, Jordan Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission and Qatar Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) signed an agreement on air services connecting Jordan companies and Qatar Airways to more global destinations.

Educational relations
Qatar's Supreme Education Council and Jordan's Ministry of Education collaborate with each other by jointly participating in conferences, seminars and competitions. Furthermore, exceptional Jordanian students are granted scholarships to attend Qatar University.

The Jordanian School, located in the Ain Khaled area of Qatar's Al Rayyan, follows the Jordanian curriculum and caters to students from KG to 11th grade. In 12th grade, students attend a public school in order to attain a Qatari secondary school certificate.

Migration
There are roughly 40,000 Jordanian citizens living in Qatar as of 2014.

Jordan Embassy
The Jordan embassy is located in Doha.

 Ambassador Zaid Al Louzi

Qatari Embassy
The Qatari embassy is located in Amman.

 Ambassador Saud Bin Nasser Al-Thani

References

External links
 Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the State of Qatar
 Embassy of the State of Qatar in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

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Here in Emerald Isle, NC, you will find a vast assortment of activities that will keep the entire family engaged and excited. The area is not only home to clear waters and breathtakingly beautiful beaches, but also to a diverse culture, ecosystem, and history. If you are ready and willing to explore the awesome offerings of this unique area, its activities and sights will make a marvelous addition to your must do list.
The local area is home to a strong and proud boating culture, and you will have the opportunity to explore the Bogue Sound, Atlantic Ocean, and the White Oak River on one of many scenic boat tours or cruises. Crystal Coast Ecotours offers full, half-day, and two hour customized eco-tours of the Crystal Coast. Dive in and explore the hidden natural treasures through snorkeling or dolphin watching.
On the Crystal Coast, we are privileged to have both coastal and inshore waters that are begging to be explored. Make plans to spend a day on the water on one of our local fishing charters. Jump on The Pelican with Captain Paul to explore, and jump in to get up close and personal with the sea life of our local waters—another "Must Do" while here in Emerald Isle.
The area is home to many different types of stores, so you will find yourself right at home if you are accustomed to shopping during your vacations. Many of these stores offer a remarkable assortment of antiques, collectibles, and hard-to-find items that simply cannot be described.
If you are a wildlife enthusiast, you will be overwhelmed by the sheer diversity and complexity of the area's local bird species. Pelicans, egrets, gulls, warblers, and herons are all located within this vast ecosystem. The North Carolina Birding Trail is fun for the whole family, and you will have the chance to view some of these elusive species from the Emerald Isle Woods.
If history is your thing, you will love visiting Cape Lookout Lighthouse. The lighthouse was established in 1859 and was just named "Best National Park Beach" in 2016 by the readers of USA Today and 10Best. Cape Lookout sits on the Southern Outer Banks and is a national seashore. This means it is protected and maintained by our National Parks Service. It is a definite "Must Do" while here in Emerald Isle—maybe you'll even get a glimpse of the wild horses that frolic through the green marshes and beautiful beach.
To learn more about what lives under the water in our parts, you will want to add the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores to your list. Take a dive into our natural sea life and discover all the unique animals that live here. You will get a glimpse of river otters, sting rays, sharks, rare sea turtles, and more.
And a trip outdoors would not be complete without a stop at Fort Macon State Park. This historic landmark is also home to a Civil War fort. After exploring the fort, enjoy all the park has to offer. Swimming, guided tours, or fishing offer activities for everyone.
For those that enjoy history and culture combined, the Emerald Isle area is home to a number of museums and art galleries. The Mattie King Davis Art Gallery and North Carolina Maritime Museum are just some of the locations that will give you a taste of the area's unique heritage and history.
Here at our office, we strive to help you experience the true nature of the Crystal Coast and its inhabitants. We offer concierge services and will help plan certain activities on your behalf if you are pressed for time or you already have a general idea of what you would like to do. Contact Emerald Isle Realty to view our array of rental properties and learn more about the local area.


Eleni (Alexandra Aidini) and Alexis (Nikos Poursadinis) struggle to keep their love alive amid uncertain times in this first installment of Theo Angelopoulos's trilogy. When Russia invades Odessa, youngsters Eleni and Alexis develop a deep bond in a refugee camp. They fall in love, but circumstances keep them on the move. World War II nears, and the family is torn apart as sons go off to war, Alexis emigrates to America and Eleni is imprisoned.


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Q: kubernetes Init Container - can we run it conditionally? I had a requirement wherein we need to support backward compatibility.

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*Old implementation is we are fetching credentials thru init container

*new implementation, we will fetch credentials thru credentials request.

With the new implementation, there's no need to run init-container anymore, but still we wanted to support backward compatibility wherein customer can have an option to still use the old implementation.
Is it possible for kubernetes init-container to run it conditionally by just providing flag in the deployment file?
Thanks..

A: You can do it two ways:

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*Use Helm and set a conditional clause around the init container block and you set the flag via the chart values.yaml or as a command line --set argument

*Run the init container all the time, but pass an environment variable into it as well to indicates whether it should pull credentials. If it's set to pull credentials, it'll do so, if it is not set, it'll terminate and do nothing.


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Stone Tape Theories: Hearing, Haunting, and the Memory of Materials
With Kevin T. Allen, Jen Heuson and Shannon Mattern.
"Think of a record that's kind of stuck, and it's playing itself over and over again," he told me. These are not cognizant ghosts, but the energy of past events trapped in things.
A stone tape is a material object that has "recorded" the energy of a past event. Widely popularized by British author Nigel Kneale in his 1972 teleplay The Stone Tape, beliefs in the recording ability of objects and environments span the practices of heritage preservation, paranormal investigation, sound and media theory, and spiritual pilgrimage. But if materials do, in fact, record the past, how do contemporary encounters act as instances of playback? Through a focus on sound, hearing, and listening, we will take up this question as an opportunity to interrogate what a sound recording is and what it does. How do we listen to and through material objects? How do we hear a mood or feeling? What is the sound of a memory or a myth? From experiences of haunting to early sound recording techniques to atmospheric design, we will trace a genealogy of stone tape theory and will discuss how these apply to our own scholarly and artistic practice.
Through field recordings, film screenings, and archival examples, this evening will explore the relationships between the social and sensorial practices of hearing and listening and material objects ranging from vinyl to ghost towns to sacred stones. Works presented are grounded in years of non-fiction filmmaking and sound research and include investigations into aural politics, expanded sound recording techniques, and heritage production in South Dakota. The evening will culminate in a panel discussion about the relevance of stone tape theory to media archaeology, archaeoacoustics, aural heritage, sound theory, and non-fiction filmmaking.
SOUNDING WESTERN (field recordings), by Jen Heuson
8 min., 2012-2013
A selection of four field recordings from South Dakota's Black Hills, one of the most popular and contested tourist regions in the United States. Marketed as "the most marvelous hundred square miles on earth," the region is home to Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Memorials, Deadwood, the Badlands, and the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. It is also a sacred land called "the heart of everything that is" by local Lakota peoples. Through these field recordings, we attempt to listen for the legacies of colonial exploitation embedded in ways of hearing and listening.
Center of the Nation, Belle Fourche, 2013, 1m
Running Elk and Josephine, Custer, 2012, 0m30s
Crazy Horse Night Blast, Custer, 2012, 2m30s
Closed Cut Fireworks, Lead, 2013, 3m30s
LEAD (film), by Jen Heuson
4 min., 2012
A time-lapse document of the ex-mining town of Lead, South Dakota, home to George Hearst's Homestake Gold Mine. 8,000 feet beneath this small mountain town are the artifacts of more than a century of gold mining. Today, the old mining caverns house dark matter experiments a mile underground, while the surface continues to resound with everyday life.
BRIDGE (film), by Kevin T. Allen
11 min., 2013
A study of three similar but distinct microcultures: the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge. Interrogated through the use of contact microphones, the physical infrastructures of these bridges become audible and reveal their inherent macroacoustics. The film treats the bridge as an anthropological body for discourse, as a physiology of limbs, organs, eyes and ears moving in time.
REAL WEST (film), by Kevin T. Allen
An experimental portrait of two roadside ghost towns in South Dakota. It is also the tale of the two elderly proprietors who devotedly maintain these sites. Such roadside attractions conjure the mythical West through material and cultural artifacts, from a decrepit wagon wheel to an out-of-tune player piano. Tourists are encouraged to not only experience, but also to re-enact these historical environments. The film uses contact microphones and super-8mm film as archaeological tools to uncover the material traces of this living history.
Jen Heuson is a scholar, filmmaker and sound ethnographer. Her films have screened internationally at venues as diverse as FLEX Fest, Big Muddy, Black Maria and the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, and she has produced sound ethnographies of the Peruvian Amazon, New York City and South Dakota's Black Hills. Jen earned her PhD with distinction from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Funded by the Wenner-Gren and Reed Foundations, her research explores how heritage and tourist experiences are made and managed through sound. Jen is currently working on a film about aural sovereignty and a science-fiction novel exploring stone tape theory in South Dakota. She teaches media ethics at The New School and critical media analysis at New York University.
Kevin T. Allen is a filmmaker, sound artist and radio producer. He has exhibited at numerous venues, including MoMA, Ethnographic Terminalia, Flaherty NYC, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Berlin Directors Lounge and Ann Arbor Film Festival. His sound work has been featured at museums and festivals, including the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Third Coast International Audio Festival and Deep Wireless Festival of Radio Art. He has made ethnographically imbued films in Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, the Wild West, and the migrant farm worker community of Immokalee, Florida. Recent research has lead him to find culture not exclusively in human forms, but also inherent in physical landscapes and material objects. His work is funded through the Jerome Foundation. He teaches documentary practice and film form at The New School.
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