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SOCCER TRAGEDY
Spanish former pilot of plane in which soccer player Emiliano Sala died: "It didn't fall to pieces"
Eduardo Hernández talks to EL PAÍS about his previous experiences flying the aircraft that crashed over the English Channel while carrying the Argentine forward
Damien Lemaître
Paris - 11 Feb 2019 - 12:56 UTC
Spanish pilot Hernández and his family next to the plane that crashed with Sala on board.IMAGEN CEDIDA POR EDUARDO HERNÁNDEZ
Eduardo Hernández Vidaurreta is an experienced 65-year-old pilot from Burgos in northern Spain. Between 2012 and 2015, he was in charge of a small Piper PA-46 Malibu, with registration number N264DB – the aircraft that crashed over the English Channel on January 21 with Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala on board. The body of the Cardiff City forward was found in the wreckage on Wednesday but questions still remain about how the accident happened.
If someone is looking for a mechanical reason to explain the crash, I think they are wrong
Pilot Eduardo Hernández
Hernández's story sheds some light on the unresolved tragedy and the plane, which has become the center of a British investigation since its remains were found last Sunday. "This plane was marvelous to fly. It would surprise me if the accident was due to a mechanical failure," he tells EL PAÍS by phone.
Hernández has been a commercial pilot since 1976. He has also held a North American pilot's license since September 1989, according to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). It was this license that put him in command of the Piper Malibu. "The plane belonged to an aviation school in Florida that used it a lot. In 2012, it was brought to Spain by a friend of mine, who was a good pilot as well but didn't have the North American license. So he asked me to be his chauffeur," explains Hernández.
The friend was a man named Roberto Sastre, a businessman from Valladolid who bought the plane in 2012 for around €500,000, he explains to EL PAÍS. "It was a whim, I wanted to give it to my family as a present," Sastre explains. "In fact, I only used it for recreational purposes, never for work. I would ask Eduardo to take me to places because he had the appropriate qualification. I went with my wife, I went to the port of Málaga one weekend or to the Seville Fair, for example."
Tributes left outside a stadium in France in memory of Emiliano Sala.STEPHANE MAHE (REUTERS)
The Piper Malibu clocked 200 flight hours in four years, or 50 hours each year, according to Hernández's notes. "It didn't give me any problems. If someone is looking for a mechanical reason to explain the airplane's crash, I think they are wrong," says Hernández.
This contrasts with the WhatsApp voice message Sala sent to his family while he was on board the light aircraft on the doomed journey: "It feels like the plane is falling to pieces [...] If you don't hear from me in an hour and a half, I don't know if they are going to send someone to look for me because they are not going to find me [...] Dad, I'm scared."
At 9.23pm the plane disappeared off radar as it was flying over the English Channel
"The plane didn't fall to pieces, I'm sure it didn't," maintains Hernánez, who says the aircraft had a new engine when it was brought to Spain. "It wasn't the original from 1984. That's not allowed by the FAA," he explains, referring to the year the plane was manufactured in the United States.
According to Hernández, between 2012 and 2015 "the engine was not changed again" but its propeller was reviewed once by a workshop in Germany.
Hernández says the plane was equipped with life jackets and emergency oxygen tanks when it was sold to the British company Southern Aircraft Consultancy Inc Trustee on August 25, 2015, according to the receipt Sastre still has. "I sold it to the English because I needed money," Sastre explains. "The company that bought the plane sent a mechanic to Spain to inspect it. They didn't find anything important. The plane could be sold, it was in good condition."
Willing to cooperate
It was on that occasion that Hernández met David Henderson, the British pilot who would take over captaining the private aircraft. For unknown reasons, Henderson did not fly the plane that was set to fly Sala from Nantes in France to Cardiff in the United Kingdom. Instead the plane was captained by 59-year-old British pilot David Ibbotson, who remains missing after the crash. According to the FAA, Ibbotson did not have a commercial license. Soccer agent Mark McKay, who arranged the flight, has maintained that it was a private flight.
The Piper Malibu took off on January 21 at 8.15pm from Nantes. At 9.23pm it disappeared off the radar as it was flying over the English Channel. Minutes before, Ibbotson was granted authorization to drop from an altitude of 1,500 meters to 700 meters. Both Hernández and Sala have told EL PAÍS they are willing to cooperate with the British investigation into the crash.
English version by Melissa Kitson.
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Interview: Subramanian Swamy
'A case of internal sabotage'
PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI
Print edition : January 19, 2018 T+ T-
Subramanian Swamy. Photo: K. Murali Kumar
Interview with Subramanian Swamy.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy was the first one to allege corruption in the allocation of 2G spectrum. He took the matter to the Supreme Court, which, in 2012, quashed the allocation of licences, directed the auctioning of spectrum and ordered trial of the accused. Excerpts from an interview he gave Frontline:
Why have you taken the Modi government to task for this judgment?
The BJP was nowhere in the picture when I approached the Supreme Court in 2008 for quashing the licences and ordering an investigation. It was on my petition that the Supreme Court gave the historic judgment quashing all licences, ordering auction of spectrum and a proper investigation by the CBI. If the judge has said that the prosecution failed to produce any evidence then it reflects poorly on the government. The law officers did not do their job properly.
So, the CBI did not take this high-profile case seriously?
I am not commenting on the CBI Director, he is a fine officer, a man of integrity, but the junior officers definitely did not take their job seriously. I can say with responsibility that the junior officers in the CBI actively worked to provide relief to the accused.
At whose behest?
Obviously those in the BJP itself. There are people, I will not name them at this point, but I know for a fact that they helped the accused. This is a case of internal sabotage. Take the AG [Attorney General], Mukul Rohatgi, for example. His appointment was wrong in the first place because he had represented some of the accused. I had written letters to Modi at the time of his appointment. Rohatgi handled the case for three years and botched it up. Even the Special CBI Court judge has said that after some time the prosecution seemed to have lost interest in the case.
But this was a politically sensitive case, on which Prime Minister Modi had based his entire Lok Sabha campaign. Do you think anybody could afford to mess it up deliberately and get away with it?
They have done that. They never thought the government would appeal. But they will not get away with it. This is a case based on rock-hard evidence, which the CBI judge deliberately ignored.
But the judge said there was "nil evidence" of any criminality in either allocation of spectrum or in advancing the cut-off date or in fixing the price. What rock-hard evidence are you talking about?
There are [several pieces of] rock-hard evidence of criminality. One, the spectrum was allotted at the 2001 price which was one-tenth the prevailing price then. It is also a fact that some of the allottees sold their spectrum either partially or fully at eight times higher prices to foreign companies like Systema, DoCoMo, Telenor, etc., immediately after getting it, though there was a two-year time bar for them. This resulted in huge profits for them without working for it even for a single day.
Second, the first come, first served policy had been declared a "bad policy" by the Delhi High Court in 2008 when some parties that had been denied spectrum approached it for relief. One of them was Aircel owner [C.] Sivasankaran. The Delhi High Court had then quashed the policy. Although Sivasankaran later withdrew his appeal, the judgment remains unaltered even today. The CBI judge made a grave mistake by ignoring this judgment.
Third, the Supreme Court judgment of 2012, which came after I filed a petition and which remains valid even today, was also ignored by the CBI judge.
Is this a setback for the government, especially Prime Minister Modi, who made this the theme of his Lok Sabha campaign?
It is potentially a big setback for Modi. But not for long because it is bound to be dumped by the higher courts.
If you look at the collection after the auction, it was only Rs.30,964 crore, nowhere near the "presumptive loss" of Rs.1.76 lakh crore as announced by the then CAG Vinod Rai.
I don't care what Vinod Rai has said. When I filed the complaint, Rai was nowhere in the picture. All I am saying is that a massive corruption had occurred in allotting spectrum and that should be fairly investigated and the guilty should be punished.
Do collections for 3G and 4G spectrum corroborate the charge of corruption in 2G spectrum?
I don't care about 3G or 4G collections. What I have said is based on rock-hard evidence and that is why I call this a bogus judgment.
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Wastewater Treatment Plant Takes Step Forward in Keeping Chesapeake Bay Healthy
WASHINGTON — The nation's largest wastewater treatment plant, Blue Plains, in Southwest D.C. is doing something lifesaving for blue crabs, oysters and other aquatic life in the nation's largest estuary — the Chesapeake Bay.
It has sharply reduced the amount of dangerous nutrients that rob the bay of oxygen.
"DC Water, in cooperation with Maryland, Virginia and the D.C. Government, have taken giant size actions to reduce pollution here," said Shawn Garvin, regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, standing atop Blue Plains' advanced nutrient removal filters.
The EPA says the wastewater treatment plants in the Chesapeake Bay area, led by Blue Plains, have reduced their discharge of nitrogen into the bay by 57 percent and phosphorous by 75 percent. The target reductions in pollution have been reached a decade ahead of schedule.
"10 years ahead, 10 years ahead of the goals set, which when we set them seemed pretty steep, yet out industry has been able to meet that goal," said George Hawkins, CEO of DC Water and the head the Blue Plains plant.
Although Blue Plains is operated by DC Water, 60 percent of the flow of waste into the plant is from Maryland and Virginia.
The reductions in pollution from waste water plants are significant and have made the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay cleaner.
"Today, the best bass fishing in all of the Potomac River is from our outfall south," Hawkins said.
Since 2010, wastewater plants including Blue Plains have cut nitrogen levels from 52 million pounds to 38 million pounds a year.
"Human beings decided there's an issue that deserves to be responded to and they've achieved the goal. It's really a victory for human ingenuity and effort," Hawkins said.
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Wo kunware pan ki zindagi guzar rahi hai.
Politicians have capitulated Pakistan to America.
Siasat dano ne Pakistan ko America k hawale kar diya hai.
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We eat a LOT of soup in the Leblond household. During fall and winter we eat it three to four lunches per week. We go through all the standards: broccoli soup, creamy tomato soup, potato leek soup, roasted red pepper soup, carrot ginger soup, chicken soup. Okay, now I am starting to sound like Bubba Gump!
By the time blossoms start to appear and winter is fading away, I am usually ready for a new season and the variety of produce that comes with it. I am typically getting sick of soup too; — until I see asparagus on sale! Asparagus soup is one of my favorites but it is one that I hold off making until the main ingredient is in season and reasonably priced. This soup is perfect for spring. It is fresh and crisp with light lemon notes and pairs perfectly with fresh baguette smeared with butter or a crunchy garden salad dressed with a tangy vinaigrette.
Heat large pot over medium-low heat. Add olive oil and diced onion cook for 7-10 minutes until the onion is soft and translucent – not browned.
Add garlic and cook for another 1-2 minutes, then add white wine and turn heat up to medium.
Allow the wine to reduce for 2-3 minutes then season with salt (I always season as I go). Add in lemon zest, thyme and asparagus. Cook over medium heat for 4-5 minutes.
Add stock, turn the heat up to medium-high and allow a soup to simmer for 15 minutes or until asparagus is tender.
If using a hand blender, you can turn the heat off, add coconut milk and blend. Add lemon juice, salt and pepper to achieve desired taste.
If you are using a traditional blender allow the soup to cool then blend in smaller batches. Return soup to the pot on medium heat add coconut milk and adjust seasoning with lemon juice, salt and pepper.
We store our soup in mason jars. Simply fill the mason jars with soup when hot, leave two inches from the top and loosely screw lids in place. Once the soup has cooled, tighten the lids and place in the fridge. Freezing is always an option as well. Simply make sure you have not filled the jar too full; — leave at least 2 inches from the top, wait for the soup to completely cool and then place in the freezer.
*Soups with pasta or that have been thickened with potato do not freeze well. If I am batch cooking a soup for freezing and the recipe calls for potato as a thickener, I substitute brown rice. I add it to the pot as soon as the onions or mirepoix has softened. You may need to add a touch more olive oil so it doesn't stick to the pot or begin to add a bit of liquid. If using brown rice over white you will also need to allow the soups to simmer for at least 20 minutes longer. If you blend the soup before the rice is fully cooked you may end up with a gritty texture.
Writing the recipe has given me a hankering! – off to the market I go!
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it Simon!


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Fortaleza Blanco Tequila
Mexico, 750ml
Fortaleza Blanco is a true aficionado's tequila. Flavors include citrus, cooked agave, vanilla, basil, olive, and lime. The finish is long and deep, complex yet easy to drink. Aromas of citrus, and rich cooked agave. Also present: butter, olive, earth, black pepper, and a deep inviting vegetal complexity.
Distillery: Fortaleza
Type: Blanco Tequila
Region: Tequila township, Jalisco, Mexico
Goes with: Ice, premium soda, agave syrup
"This is probably the best blanco on the planet. Love it. Huge bursts of olive and butter. Yum." Grover Sanschagrin (Founder, Tequila Matchmaker)
Fortaleza launched in 2005, but Guillermo Sauza's family have been making tequila for five generations going back to Don Cenobio who is said to have been the first person to export "mezcal de tequila" to the United States, shorten the name to simply 'Tequila', use steam to cook the agave rather than an earthen pit, and specify Blue Agave as the best to use. Quite a legacy!
Fortaleza Tequila Reposado is 100% estate grown Blue Agave Tequilana Weber, and aged in oak barrels for 6-9 months. The drawing on the label represents the traditional method of production, a Tahona or stone mill, with a horse pulling it as it was done over a century ago. The house is located in the town of Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico, first populated in the 1530's by Spanish forefathers, nestled in rich valley at 4,000 feet of altitude, in the foothills of the 9,560-foot tall, Volcan de Tequila. Here blue agaves grow for seven to eight years, caressed with the warmth of the Mexican sun, nourished by the summer rains, and protected from the harsh and cold winter winds. The Tequila is produced entirely within the walls of Fortaleza's estate, using centuries old, traditional methods, which are very labour intensive but create a tequila unequalled in taste and smoothness.
Using the age-old brick oven, with its meter thick walls, the agave is cooked for thirty six hours. Then it is crushed or milled , as it was 135 years ago, in the stone mill called the Tahona. The crushed agave is then washed with the pure mountain water from the Volcan de Tequila to separate the pulp from the woody fibres to create an agave juice called mosto. The woody fibres of the agave, called bagazo, are removed at this time, and taken to the fields to use as compost. The agave mosto is then naturally fermented for five days in small wood vats, and then double distilled using small, labour-intensive copper pot stills. The glass bottle is hand-blown in Tonala, Jalisco by artisan glassmakers and the bottle tops are artisan designed to represent the harvest agave, or Pina, and are hand-made by our workers.
"Best of the Best" - 2012 Tequila.net awards - Best in Class - Reposado


INFORMATION WEBCAST: The EFRI Office will hold a information webcast on Tuesday January 21st at 1pm to discuss the RIPS program and answer questions about this solicitation. More details of the webcast will be posted on the EFRI website, www.nsf.gov/eng/efri, as they become available.
Critical infrastructures are the mainstay of our nation's economy, security and health. These infrastructures are interdependent. For example, the electrical power system depends on the delivery of fuels to power generating stations through transportation services, the production of those fuels depends in turn on the use of electrical power, and those fuels are needed by the transportation services.
Create theoretical frameworks and multidisciplinary computational models of interdependent infrastructure systems, processes and services, capable of analytical prediction of complex behaviors, in response to system and policy changes.
Synthesize new approaches to increase resilience, interoperations, performance, and readiness in ICIs.
Understand organizational, social, psychological, legal, political and economic obstacles to improving ICI's, and identifying strategies for overcoming those obstacles.
The RIPS solicitation seeks proposals with transformative ideas that will ensure ICIs services are effective, efficient, dependable, adaptable, resilient, safe, and secure. Successful proposals are expected to study multiple infrastructures focusing on them as interdependent systems that deliver services, enabling a new interdisciplinary paradigm in infrastructure research. Proposals that do not broadly integrate across the cyber-physical, engineering and social, behavioral and economic (SBE) sciences may be returned without review. Projects supported under this solicitation may undertake the collection of new data or use existing curated data depending on the category of award, and must recognize that a primary objective is integrative predictive modeling that can use the data to validate the models and which can be integrated into decision making.
Two categories of awards are anticipated for this solicitation. The number of awards in each category will be dependent on the overall mix of proposals and the degree to which they meet the solicitation goals, Merit Review Criteria and Solicitation Specific Review Criteria. We anticipate up to 11 Type 1 awards and up to 9 Type 2 awards, dependent on the availability of funds.
Types 1 Awards: Projects will have a duration of 1-2 years for a maximum of $300,000 for each project in total direct and indirect costs.
Type 2 Awards: Projects will be of 3 years in duration and in the range of $1 to $2.5 million maximum for each project in total direct and indirect costs.
Because this program is meant to support interdisciplinary research, a minimum of three investigators is required per project, the Principal Investigator (PI) and two or more co-Investigators from the lead or participating institutions who are eligible to serve as PI or co-PI on NSF proposals submitted through their respective institutions. In order to ensure an interdisciplinary approach to studying ICIs principal investigators should represent three or more distinct disciplinary areas as described in this solicitation (computer science; engineering; social, economic, and behavioral sciences). Additional PIs or senior personnel may be added to cover other interdisciplinary needs of the project. The appropriateness of the research team's disciplinary composition and expertise will be factors in the merit review of the proposals (see Additional Review Criteria section).
An individual may appear as a Principal Investigator (PI), co-PI, other senior personnel or investigator on one Type 1, and one Type 2 RIPS proposal for FY 2014. This limitation includes proposals submitted by a lead organization, any sub-award submitted as part of a proposal, or any collaborative proposal. All proposals and collaborative proposals that include a PI who does not meet these limits will be returned without review.
The economic competitiveness and societal well-being of the United States are dependent upon the affordability, availability, quality and resilience of the services that its infrastructures provide. These infrastructures in turn are dependent on each other for their function. For example, the electrical power system depends on the delivery of fuels to power generating stations through transportation services, the production of those fuels depends in turn on the use of electrical power, and those fuels are needed by the transportation services. The disruption of electrical power impacts water, emergency services, finance, government services among others. All of these services are in turn dependent on communication and control services provided by the cyber-physical infrastructure, that has intranet and Internet services at its core, and which cannot function without power. This creates a complex set of interdependencies between infrastructure services that are challenging to conceptualize, understand, model and design across multiple scales.
Infrastructures are pervasive, often highly decentralized and dynamic with interlocking parts - functionally and contractually. Infrastructures despite seeming permanent and durable are as strongly dependent on other infrastructures for operations in a manner that forms an ecology of systems, people, and technologies. This reimagines infrastructures as processes delivering services. Advances in materials, electronics, and computing are reshaping the ecology at scale. The rapid merging of cyberspace with traditional infrastructures has created new functionality and opportunities while simultaneously exporting the malignancies of cyberspace too. Similarly, as the importance and interdependency of these infrastructures grow, so does the societal pressure from nations, transnational corporations, and even individuals to control that growth.
Infrastructures and their interlocking connections are subject to disturbances from natural, technological and malicious sources generated at different timescales and with different intensities. How their services are impacted, both in terms of initial loss of quality and the trajectory of service restoration, and how people respond to this loss of service caused by these disturbances and/or day-to-day operations, is central to their long term viability. These features of infrastructure response to disturbances have broadly been labeled its resiliency, including the notion that the components may autonomously adapt and dynamically reconfigure during a disturbance to restore the lost functionality. Conceived as a process, infrastructure resiliency can be achieved by a myriad of strategies in addition to simple repair and replacement. Given the interdependent nature of infrastructures, their collective resiliency is a complex phenomenon that makes the design, management and control of ICI services in the economy extremely challenging but necessary.
In order to address this broad and integrative topic of ICIs design and behavior, we require the mapping of infrastructure components and processes to services, and a holistic, predictive understanding of interdependent critical infrastructures, including the human component of service production and consumption, and a new science of system design. In this context, an infrastructure is defined as a network of man-made systems and processes that function cooperatively and synergistically to produce and distribute a continuous flow of essential goods and services.
The goal of the Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Processes and Systems (RIPS) solicitation is to enhance the understanding and design of interdependent critical infrastructure systems and processes that provide essential goods and services despite disruptions and failures from any cause, natural, technological or malicious, and provide opportunity to innovate in ICIs to enrich society with new goods and services. There are currently eighteen critical infrastructures defined by the Department of Homeland Security and some of these are highly aggregated classifications, for example energy, of different essential infrastructures, such as power generation and distribution, and natural gas production and pipeline distribution.
Studies that advance the development of theoretical frameworks and predictive understanding are particularly encouraged. Successful proposals in all categories are expected to broadly integrate across the engineering, SBE and cyber-physical sciences, enabling a new interdisciplinary paradigm in infrastructure services research to develop theoretical frameworks for a predictive understanding.
From a computer science perspective the major transformation in the ICIs of the past few decades is the rapid adoption and pervasiveness of computing, communications and information communications technologies. This transformation has created new capabilities for awareness, autonomy, interoperability, cooperation, and control among the ICIs and is reshaping relationships among ICIs to engineering and society. ICIs composed of deeply interconnected cyber-physical-social systems promise significantly improved service resiliency at scale against all hazards - from nature, technology, organizational, regulatory, and cyberspace. Unfortunately, connections with cyberspace also open ICIs to new classes of threats and vulnerabilities. The challenge is to understand the computational foundations of resiliency for ICIs in the expanding design space of critical ICI services and technology in engineering, social, and computer sciences that greatly benefit society.
From an engineering perspective the understanding of the interdependencies in infrastructure systems continues to be a major challenge both in terms of defining appropriate theoretical constructs and in terms of defining and implementing appropriate interventions given current fiscal realities. The research has focused primarily on understanding of the physical interdependencies. Many times this understanding is informed by cyber-physical technologies. There have also been long standing efforts to integrate social and behavioral considerations (e.g. in the disaster literature). A systematic consideration of the three perspectives (engineering, cyber-physical, social/behavioral/economic) in an integrated fashion, however, will help provide a deeper understanding of what is meant by the interdependencies and the associated physical, information and social phenomena.
From a SBE science perspective the conceptualization of infrastructure systems as processes and services offers exciting opportunities for examining the relationships of social, economic, behavioral, psychological, geographic, policy and decision-science variables with engineering and cyber infrastructure elements. Social scientists and engineers have decades of experience in jointly examining the resilience of physical infrastructures to natural and technological hazards and extreme events. While such studies of resilience are welcome in this solicitation, this solicitation encourages research that integrates across SBE sciences, engineering and computer science disciplines and examines infrastructure systems and processes under normal conditions and over time. Individual, organizational, and community impacts upon the operation of infrastructure systems and processes, the roles of public policy and decision making in the provision of infrastructure services, and the spatial and economic factors that influence the performance of these processes are some of the many social science relevant investigations.
Create the knowledge that leads to innovative new ICI services and markets, facilitating transition to practice.
Some of the more frequently asked questions (FAQ's) that might arise for this solicitation are posed and answered in Section X. Appendix of this solicitation.
Estimated Number of Awards: Two categories of awards are anticipated for this solicitation. The number of awards in each category will be dependent on the overall mix of proposals and the degree to which they meet the solicitation goals, Merit Review Criteria and Solicitation Specific Review Criteria. We anticipate up to 11 Type 1 awards and up to 9 Type 2 awards, dependent on the availability of funds.
Types 1 Awards: Theory, modeling, and metrics projects that will create the knowledge, methodologies and approaches to conceptualize and study interdependent infrastructures as processes and services. These awards are not intended for empirical testing of models or theories. These awards can also have the objective of team building that will help clarify the basic terminology, assumptions and premises that enable theories, model and metric formalizations for interdependent infrastructures as processes and services. Projects will have a duration of 1-2 years for a maximum of $300,000 for each project in total direct and indirect costs.
Type 2 Awards: These proposals support interdisciplinary research to conduct major new interdependent infrastructure research using empirical data. They are expected to include the creation of the knowledge, methodologies and approaches to conceptualize and study interdependent infrastructures as processes and services. Projects will be of 3 years in duration and in the range of $1 to $2.5million maximum for each project in total direct and indirect costs.
The title of the proposed project should begin with the string "RIPS Type 1:" or "RIPS Type 2:" Make sure to identify this Solicitation Number on the Proposal Cover Sheet.
Management and Integration Plan: A Management and Integration Plan up to 3 pages in length is required for Type 2 proposals. The Management and Integration Plan should: a) list all Senior Personnel in the project (provide the last name, first name, and institution/organization); b) describe how the group effort will be coordinated; c) describe how the disciplinary components will be integrated; d) describe collaborations and partnerships and their integration with the project; e) describe how data, models, and ideas will be disseminated and shared with the research community and stakeholders. A clear time line of expected outcomes should be included, as well as plans for the integration of research and education.
Collaborators/Individuals with Conflicts of Interest (text-searchable PDF, in FastLane, under Additional Single Copy Documents). A list, in an alphabetized table, of the full names and institutional affiliations of all persons with potential conflicts of interest as specified in NSF's Grant Proposal Guide is required for both Type I and Type II proposals. For each PI, Co-PI, collaborator and other Senior Personnel, include all co-authors/editors and collaborators (within the past 48 months), all graduate advisors and advisees, and any other individuals or institutions with which the investigator has financial ties (please specify type). Include all PIs, Co-PIs, and other Senior Personnel from collaborative submissions to this solicitation.
Participants are required to attend grantees meetings in year 1 for Type 1 and 2 proposals, and in year 3 for Type 2 proposals. Therefore, the budget category Domestic Travel in appropriate budget years should include costs of travel for up to four members of the research team (including the PI and a least one other senior investigator) to the Washington, D.C. area. The goals of these grantee meetings are (a) to provide an opportunity for investigators to share research approaches and results, (b) promote interaction of Type 1 and Type 2 awardees, and (c) to encourage discussion of the new types of interdisciplinary collaborations necessary for RIPS research.
This program will support the costs of U.S.-based scientists and their students. International collaborators are encouraged to seek support from their respective funding organizations. Funding guidelines for involving international collaborators allow the following expenses to be included in the NSF budget: 1) Travel expenses for U.S. scientists and students participating in exchange visits integral to the project; 2) Limited project-related expenses for international partners to engage in research activities while in the United States as project participants; 3) Project-related expenses for U.S. participants to engage in research activities while abroad.
Budgets for Research Platforms and Facilities: For projects utilizing NSF research platforms (e.g., ships, research aircraft, etc.) or other shared use facilities (e.g., field instrumentation, analytical or experimental facilities) PIs must prepare their budgets consistent with the customary practices of the facility. Costs that are not borne by the facility must be included in the budget cap of $300K for Type 1 proposals and $2.5M for Type 2 proposals. Non-NSF facilities costs should be included in the proposal budget and count toward the applicable budget cap.
Projects are required to be interdisciplinary incorporating cyber-physical, engineering and SBE sciences; they should be focused on how the study of critical infrastructures advances the intellectual foundations of these disciplines, and advance the state of the art in the system science of critical infrastructure processes. This breadth of interdisciplinary research is expected to be reflected in the Principal Investigators involved in this project.
These 3 questions reflect the major features of proposals responsive to the solicitation. (1) Does this address primarily address scientific research on interdependencies among critical infrastructures? (2) Does the research sufficiently reflect interests of the participating directorates? (3) Do the project personnel have the expertise to conduct necessary interdisciplinary research ?
For Type II Proposals, Supplementary Documentation section, include a Management and Integration Plan. The Management and Integration Plan should: a) list all Senior Personnel in the project (provide the last name, first name, and institution/organization); b) describe how the group effort will be coordinated; c) describe how the disciplinary components will be integrated; d) describe collaborations and partnerships and their integration with the project; e) describe how data, models, and ideas will be disseminated and shared with the research community and stakeholders. A clear time line of expected outcomes should be included, as well as plans for the integration of research and education.
At least one PI from a Type I and Type II grant will be expected to attend a PI meeting at the end of the first year of the project. At least one PI from each Type II grant will be expected to attend a PI meeting at the end of the third year of the project. Travel costs for these meetings should be included in the budget.
1. Question: What is meant by an infrastructure?
Answer: Infrastructures are defined as networks of systems and processes that function collaboratively and synergistically to produce and distribute a continuous flow of essential goods and services.
2. Question: Does an infrastructure system that I wish to study have to appear on the list of critical infrastructures as defined by the Department of Homeland Security?
Answer: No it does not have to appear on the list, but it must conform to the definition given of critical infrastructure: "the assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof." You must be able to describe your infrastructure system according to the definition provided in the answer to Question 1 and this definition.
3. Question: Does an infrastructure system have to have the same extent or scale as those listed on the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) list of critical infrastructures?
water, which includes the sourcing, storage, processing and distribution of water, and the recovery, processing, reuse and disposal of waste water.
It would be acceptable to study, for example, the interdependencies between certain subsystems of the energy infrastructure, the interdependencies of energy subsystems with telecommunications through an intranet, the delivery and customization of demand management strategies for different energy carriers through the internet, and water use for cooling and different energy carriers. You might also study the interdependencies of emergency services upon power, transportation, communication and water availability. The goal is to isolate an appropriate study scope to enable as rich a set of integrative questions to be addressed across disciplinary boundaries as possible, and to advance the study of infrastructures as services.
4. Question: Do the infrastructures we study have to be at the national scale?
Answer: You may study infrastructures at smaller scales than that of the nation or region as long as they constitute parts of the critical infrastructures defined above. For example, infrastructure interdependencies of communication, energy, and water can be seen at the scale of a building, neighborhood or city, as well as at a regional or national one. The questions and research outcomes should enable progress in understanding interdependency and resiliency across a broad range of scales, and very specific results on a particular location, that cannot be generalized, will be of limited value to this solicitation.
5. Question: What is meant by cyber-physical systems (CPS)?
Answer: A cyber-physical system is an interconnected network of cooperating sub-systems and devices with essential computational and physical characteristics that collectively can exercise purposeful control of a system. Cyber-physical systems include, for example, but are not limited to, medical monitoring systems, autonomous vehicular systems, and industrial process control systems.
6. Question: Will proposals that do not have a cyber-physical infrastructure component be considered?
7. Question: Will proposals that do not have an engineering component be considered?
8. Question: Will proposals that do not have a SBE component be considered?
9. What is meant by interdependent infrastructures?
The short term dependency of financial services on communication and internet services, and the longer term dependency of communication services on the integrity of financial services.
We draw a distinction between interconnected and interdependent infrastructures. Two infrastructures can be interconnected at a given location, but not interdependent, because of geographical proximity such as the colocation of pipes and fiber optic cables, or electricity poles carrying telephone wires. The state of one infrastructure is affected by the state of the other through the spatial correlation but not by direct use of each other's service outputs.
10. Question: Can I study interconnected infrastructures?
Answer: No, proposals that just study infrastructures that are interconnected but not interdependent are not responsive to this solicitation.
11. Question: What is meant by resilient or resiliency, adaptability and robustness?
Answer: There have been many definitions of resiliency offered across different disciplines, and this solicitation does not wish to be overly prescriptive in defining these terms. A recent definition of resilience is "the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, or more successfully adapt to actual or potential adverse events." The essential features of resiliency are the ability to absorb disturbances, or avoid disruptions, and "bounce back" and respond. The core element of resiliency is "bouncing back," which in this context is taken to mean the recovery of levels of service by the infrastructure after a disturbance. This service level recovery may be accompanied by changes in system components and structure that are temporary and permanent, which has been defined as adaptability. A linked concept is robustness, which is the loss of service that is induced by a disturbance. The boundary between when the system is responding robustly and when it is being resilient is not clear because the entire response is a dynamic trajectory governed by feedforward and feedback control interventions as well as design features. Proposals should be clear about the metrics and measures that they are employing for resiliency and robustness of given infrastructure services and how any data collected or used within their studies will be manipulated to compute such measures. Furthermore, resiliency is affected by how well we design interdependent systems to account for the wear and tear of day-to-day operations.
12. Question: I am specifically interested in the response of individual infrastructures to hazards. Is it appropriate to submit to this solicitation?
Answer: No, the goal of this solicitation is to focus on the interdependent nature of infrastructures. It is also preferred that the scope include not just responses to extreme events, such as natural disasters or large scale terrorist attacks, but to other more mild disturbances that may cause temporary disruption of service but not catastrophic loss.
13. Question: Is resiliency to deliberate attacks on interdependent infrastructures considered within the scope of the solicitation?
Answer: Yes, the source of the disturbance can be considered as a deliberate attempt to disrupt the smooth functioning of the infrastructure processes and delivered services. Again, a narrow focus on the disruption of a single infrastructure is not allowed.
14. Question: What defines "to broadly integrate across the disciplines of computer science, engineering, and SBE sciences"?
Answer: Integration can occur at many levels of research. This solicitation is particularly interested in discovering and elucidating process-level interactions that occur among these disciplinary components within interdependent infrastructure services. Thus, not only must all components be fully integrated but all components must also be sufficient to convey their disciplinary processes and to convey the coupling of those disciplinary processes.
15. Question: If I plan to collect data that may contain personal information am I expected to consider legal and ethical issues around the collection and use of such data?
Answer: Yes, and you may wish to consult your IRB.


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Estonian Journal of Ecology
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Oribatid mite communities (Acari: Oribatida) in different habitats of the Polistovsky Nature Reserve (Pskov Region, Russia); pp. 276–286
PDF | doi: 10.3176/eco.2013.4.04
Andrei S. Zaitsev
The fauna and community structure of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) in the Pskov Region of Russia is not yet comprehensively studied. Until now not much attention has been paid to soil communities of bogs and open landscapes of this area. The aim of this study was to compare the community composition of oribatid mites in different habitats in the environs of the Polistovsky National Nature Reserve (Pskov Region, Russia). We found 56 oribatid species in this area during our sampling campaign in 2010. Of these 16 have not been recorded in the Pskov Region before. Forest habitats were the richest in species within the examined territory. The highest faunistic similarity of oribatid communities was found between raised bogs and transition bogs. The mite faunistic composition in these two types of habitats was in turn quite similar to that in spruce forests. At the same time secondary habitats such as meadows hosted fewer oribatid species and were faunsitically distinct from the other habitats. Analysis of the rank abundance distribution of oribatid species indicated a disturbed state of oribatid communities in meadows even after their abandonment 20–25 years ago. The abundance of all oribatid ecomorphs besides surface-dwelling mites was similar and not significantly different across habitats. We assume that the relatively high number of previously unrecorded oribatid species for the Pskov Region in the research area is related to the considerable age of landscapes in the Polistovsko–Lovatskaya peat bog system and immigration of oribatid mites with transiting birds. More detailed comparative study of the oribatid fauna and community structure in the Polistovsky Reserve is needed to discover driving forces of the revealed community structure and diversity.
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Krivolutsky, D. A. & Lebedeva, N. V. 2004. Oribatid mites (Oribatei, Acariformes) in bird feathers: non-Passerines. Acta Zoologica Lituanica, 14, 26–47.
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Schon, N. L., Mackay, A. D., & Minor, M. A. 2012. Vulnerability of soil invertebrate communities to the influences of livestock in three grasslands. Applied Soil Ecology, 53, 98–107.
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ARMENIA - VATICAN
Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian is the new Armenian Catholic Patriarch
Born into a diaspora family, the new patriarch lost his grandparents in the 1915genocide. His orphaned father was welcomed at Castel Gandolfo at the behest of Benedict XV. Raphaël Bedros welcomed Francis during his visit to Armenia in 2016, stressing Armenians' "debt of gratitude" to the pontiff. When the Pope received the new patriarch, he emphasised the "joy" of the Armenian people.
Rome (AsiaNews) - The Armenian Catholic community has a new patriarch.
The Synod of Bishops of the Patriarchal Church of Cilicia of the Armenians (Lebanon), convened by Pope Francis in Rome on 22 and 23 September, elected Mgr Raphaël François Minassian.
Hitherto Titular Archbishop of Caesarea of Cappadocia of the Armenians and Ordinary for the Armenian Catholic faithful of Eastern Europe, the new patriarch took the name of His Beatitude Raphaël Bedros (Peter) XXI Minassian upon his election.
This morning Pope Francis met the new patriarch in audience, to whom he granted the Ecclesiastica Communio and delivered a letter in which he joins the "joy" of the Armenian Catholic people who were "waiting" for their pastor.
The election, the pontiff writes, "has come at a time when people are particularly burdened by various challenges. I am thinking of the suffering in Syria and Lebanon – countries where the Church of Cilicia of the Armenians is present – as well as the pandemic, which is still far from being overcome in many parts of the world."
"We know the Armenian people as expert in suffering, because of the many trials throughout its more than 1,700 years of Christian history, but also because of its inexhaustible capacity to flourish and bear fruit".
The Armenian Church "is fully integrated in the affairs of the Armenian people, preserving their memory and traditions, and at the same time deeply linked to the Successor of the Apostle Peter."
In concluding, Francis writes: "I entrust to you the care of the younger generations, the promotion of vocations, the wise harmony you must be able to find between the different entities of your community".
The new patriarch was born in Beirut on 24 November 1946. He attended the Patriarchal Seminary in Bzommar (1958-1967), and studied philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University between 1967 and 1973. His studies include a specialisation course in psycho-pedagogy at the Pontifical Salesian University.
He was ordained into the priesthood on 24 June 1973 as a member of the Patriarchal Congregation of Bzommar (Institut du Clergé Patriarcal de Bzommar). From 1973 to 1982 he served as parish priest at the Armenian Cathedral in Beirut.
From 1982 to 1984, he was secretary to Patriarch Hovannes Bedros XVIII Kasparian. He was responsible for setting up the parish complex of the Holy Cross in Zalka, Beirut, from 1984 to 1989.
From 1985 to 1989, he was judge at the ecclesiastical tribunal of the Armenian Church in Beirut, and taught Armenian liturgy at the Pontifical University of Kaslik.
Soon after he was transferred to the United States, where he served as a parish priest in New York for a year. Later, until 2003, he was parish priest for Armenian Catholics in California, Arizona and Nevada.
In 2004 he founded and directed Telepace Armenia, while the following year he was appointed Patriarchal Exarch of Jerusalem and Amman for the Armenians.
On 24 June 2011 he was appointed Ordinary for Armenian Catholics in Eastern Europe, with the titular episcopal see of Caesarea of Cappadocia of the Armenians and the title of Archbishop ad personam.
A former president of Caritas Armenia, he comes from a diaspora family of the Armenian-Catholic Church, which broke away the Armenian Apostolic Church and entered into communion with the Holy See in 1742.
His grandparents died in the Armenian genocide, which he has strongly denounced over the years, while offering words of dialogue and reconciliation to the Turkish people.
His orphaned father was saved in 1919 and brought with hundreds of other children to Castel Gandolfo at the behest of Pope Benedict XV.
From 24 to 26 June 2016, then Archbishop Minassian welcomed Pope Francis during his apostolic visit to Armenia.
Speaking to AsiaNews on that occasion, the future patriarch underlined the "clear and simple" words used by the pontiff in commemorating the Armenian genocide at the Vatican in April 2015, "the first of the 20th century", which "is why we have a debt of gratitude towards him."
Some of the most poignant moments of the papal visit, which had "double value", were the solemn Mass in Gyumri and the ecumenical prayer for peace in Yerevan.
During the visit, Francis showed that he "cares for the Armenian people" and the country as the "first Christian nation in history that bore witness to its faith for centuries in martyrdom".
While the pontiff "has special affection" for the Armenian people, Armenians are grateful to the Pope for "speaking so boldly before the world about the Armenian genocide of 1915."
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Woman Sues Invokana for Kidney Injury
A Tennessee woman has filed a personal injury lawsuit against Janssen Pharmaceuticals for a kidney injury she suffered after taking the drug Invokana. Invokana is a sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2 inhibitor) used to treat type 2 diabetes.
According to the lawsuit, the drug caused the woman serious side effects, including a kidney injury. The woman began taking Invokana in June 2015 to treat her diabetes. She suffered the kidney injury in February 2016, which led to complications she continues to live with.
The personal injury lawsuit claims the plaintiff suffered physical and emotional distress, as well as economic loss from medical expenses. She also claims Janssen failed to adequately warn patients and the medical community about the drug's serious side effects.
After investigating numerous reports of side effects from Invokana in May of 2015, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) required Janssen to add warnings to the drug's label. The warning label now alerts patients of the drug's side effects, including diabetic ketoacidosis.
"Drug companies bear the responsibility of warning consumers of their drugs' side effects. Patients deserve to make an informed decision before taking any medication," said Attorney Walter Clark, founder of Walter Clark Legal Group.
Our firm has been handling personal injury cases throughout the California Low Desert and High Desert communities for over 30 years. With a 95% success rate, the personal injury attorneys at Walter Clark Legal Group will fight to hold those responsible for your loss accountable and win compensation to cover medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering. If you have been injured by a drug and want to discuss your legal options, contact us today for a free consultation with an experienced personal injury lawyer. We have offices in Indio, Rancho Mirage, Victorville, and Yucca Valley and represent clients through the entire California Low Desert and High Desert communities.


I've always thought of myself as an addictive personality, but life is forever proving me wrong.
Take alcohol, for instance. My father–himself only a social drinker, and not much of one at that–introduced me to an occasional dab on the tongue of very good scotch when I was a mere child, so that, as he put it in his raspy voice, I wouldn't make a fool of myself when I got older. The Scotch tasted foreign and, in the parlance of my tender years, yucky. At the same time it seemed one of the accoutrements of the adult world, a realm I aspired to, childhood as I perceived it being a claustrophobic thicket of arbitrary rules.
On my first date–age thirteen, at the "nightclub" of a Borscht Belt hotel–my youthful swain asked me what I'd like to drink and suggested an innocuous just mildly spiked lemonade affair suitable for young virgins. Duly cognizant of the dangers of imbibing a substance I'd never tried at home, I rebuffed his cautious proposal and requested a scotch and soda. Scotch was the only alcoholic beverage I knew besides wine. Wine was my mother's preference. My mom always claimed scotch tasted like shoe polish. What bizarre experiment could have brought her to that conclusion?
A couple of decades hence, having turned into a dance journalist, I became aware of the heavy drinking indulged in by a couple of my colleagues. (I myself learned in time that there are some performances–I call them "double-scotch events"–that might easily drive one to drink, but it's hard to review them coherently in a state of advanced intoxication.) So fearful was I that I might become similarly undone, I observed an annual two-week total abstinence just to make sure I had "demon liquor" under control. I did, Puritan that I was.
Take smoking, then. I took it up at college, having already been raised in a cloud of secondhand smoke. Both my parents were two-packs-a-day consumers–and my father a physician, no less. My sense of the glamour of smoking came, of course, from the old movies (Now, Voyager, for instance) and the fact that my minor in French led me to hang out with the most chic professors in the school. When I could afford those hyacinth blue packets, I bought Gauloises. The rest of the time, I resorted, as my French idols did, to Camels, reputed, perhaps falsely, to carry the heaviest load of nicotine and tar available. I never inhaled.
Next, in short order, I graduated, married, and duly produced a baby. (That's how we did things back in the day–took care of lots of the heavy stuff before we reached the age of reason.) I found that I was relaxed enough to smoke only when I sat down to nurse my infant son. One day, after he'd lost his crib hair, I noticed to my horror that still-glowing ashes from my cigarette were falling onto his dear bald head. I quit smoking then and there. No withdrawal symptoms arrived to plague me, and I rarely missed cigarettes. The glamour of smoking had lain with my cinematic and Parisian models; a sleep-deprived housewife and nursing mom simultaneously trying to earn her master's degree in English lit has, by definition, lost her passport to that world. I spoke a lot of French to my infant, just to keep my hand in and secretly adhering to the theory that a foreign tongue can be imbibed with one's mother's milk. My son, as it turned out, did not confirm that theory. He was a scandalously early talker–spoke in sentences, indeed paragraphs, before he could walk–but, though he'd obey a command in French if caught unaware, his utterances were firmly confined to English.
My addiction of choice–or, rather, necessity–is pitifully harmless: caffeine. How else, I often wonder, could I have survived the rigors of devoted child-raising coupled with a (I use the word advisedly) career in writing about dance? I have quit, cold turkey, several times, the main withdrawal symptom being a piercing headache that no aspirin can ameliorate. I'd stay off all sources of caffeine–even chocolate–for weeks, even months, then relapse, relief far outweighing guilt. My most memorable succumbing was through an intensely rich double espresso bought from a celebrated restaurant's outdoor cart in Little Italy. I sipped it slowly, with the deepest pleasure, walking down Grand Street. After five minutes, everywhere I looked, colors jumped out at me, more vivid than anything that has ever hung on MoMA's walls. Marvelous stuff, coffee. To paraphrase Sydney Smith's paean to tea: Thank God for coffee! What would the world do without coffee? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before coffee.
Over the years I decided that there must be a gene for addiction. This was simply a fantasy on my part, but lately researchers have been looking seriously into the possibility that some people are simply born vulnerable to indulgences capable of destroying body and soul. I know for sure that there's a gene for understanding the digital world, another for attaining whatever mathematical capabilities follow the memorization of the multiplication tables, and yet another for a sense of geography that keeps one from getting lost the moment one leaves home base. I don't have any of them. I'm good with children, I have a keen eye for style, and some people even think I can write.
Thanks so much for this one tonite. The many actual belly laughs were extremely therapeutic in the midst of a very tiring though exhilarating jam-packed weekend in the City, still only 2/3 over.
And made even more so by unexpectedly by (because of your review) injecting two Paul Taylor performances at City Center; the related pair, "Suenos" and "Repiten," were done on two separate programs instead of one. I didn't favor the choreography exuberantly, but it did pique a lot of interest on my part, and induced me to take my cousin for her birthday celebration (she absolutely loved them!). Also am especially grateful to you for catching "Promethean Fire" not seen in quite a few years, and whose breathtaking beauty to Bach's Fugue in D Minor brought the house to its feet with six or seven loudly cheering curtain calls, and Paul taking bows with the company on both nights.
I want a Gauloise right this minute dammit.


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Q: Getting dynamically fetched selector What I need to do is get the '.clippy' class to be my selector, just selector no events but it seems that it doesn't work
How can I get the selector from a ajax response element
If I do this $('body').on( 'event', '.clippy', func(){} ), it definitely works but what if I only need the selector like this $('.clippy'), in order to test the selector I tried $('.clippy').click(function(){ alert(1)}) but it does not work
I only need the selector because of integrating it on a plugin, plugin only needs selector like so $('.clippy')
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            type: 'POST',
            url: '{{ url('multiple-show-links') }}',
            data: { ids: val },
            success: function( i ) {
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                $.each( i, function ( x ) {
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A: The error is when you set the event handler.
In the second you set the event handler to a selector that does not exist in the moment. Thus no event handler is set.
$('.clippy').click(function(){ alert(1)})

In the first case you are using a global event handler attached to the already existing body element.
$('body').on( 'event', '.clippy', func(){} )

The event handler exists and will stay there. If the user clicks, the event handler does not fire because there was a click on .clippy, but because there was a click on the body element. But jQuery will only execute the callback, if the selector specified as second argument matches.
This is the usual way to use event handler in websites that add HTML dynamically to the page (e.g. after an AJAX call).

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Q: How do I effectively send a large packet / combine smaller packets? I have a larger buffer I'm trying to send as a packet. Nodejs splits the buffer into smaller (65k packets). Once they are received by the client, how can I ensure the packets go together and effectively recombine them into a buffer?
Pretty much using this as a test:
// tcp socket
var buf = Buffer.alloc(265000);
socket.write(buf);

Then on client side I need to combine the 65k packets somehow together back into a buffer.
Thanks

A: TCP is free to break data up on the wire into packets of any size.  The size can be different based on different implementations or physical transports.  You cannot know exactly how this will happen and should not depend upon exactly how it is implemented.  It can even vary depending upon which route your data takes.
Further, the .on('data', ...) event just gives you whatever data has arrived so far.  While the order of the packets is guaranteed, there is no guarantee that if you write a certain set of bytes that they will all arrive in the same data event.  They can be broken into smaller pieces and may arrive in smaller pieces.  This is what happens at the lower level of TCP when you have no real protocol on top of TCP.
So, if you're sending a chunk of data over TCP, you have to invent your own protocol to know when you've got an entire set of data.  There are a variety of different schemes for doing this.

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*Delimiter character.  Some sort of delimiter character that won't occur in the actual data and indicates the end of a set of data.  You read and parse the data until you get a delimiter character and then you know you have a complete set of data you can process.  The HTTP protocol uses a newline character as a delimiter.  Sometimes a zero byte is used as a delimiter.

*Send length first.  For binary data, the length of the data is often sent first and then the recipient knows how many bytes of data they're reading until they have a whole set.

*Existing protocols.  Something like the webSocket protocol lets you send messages of any size and it will automatically wrap them into packets that contain information about length so that they can be recombined for you automatically into the original set of data without you have to do this yourself.  There are thousands of other protocols, one of which may be a perfect match for your needs and you can just use an existing implementation without having to write your own.
One you have some mechanism of knowing when you've received a complete set of data, you then set up your data event handler to read data, collect it into a buffer and watch for the end of the data (using whichever mechanism you have selected).  When you see the end of a set, you separate that out from any other data that may have arrived after it and then process it.

So, let's say you were using a zero byte as your delimiter and you've made sure that a zero cannot and does not occur in your real data.  Then, you'd set up a data handler like this:
let accumulatedData = Buffer.alloc(0);
socket.on('data', data => {
    // check for delimiter character
    let offset = data.indexOf(0);
    if (offset !== -1) {
        // get the whole message into one Buffer
        let msg = Buffer.concat(accumulatedData, data.slice(0, offset));

        // put rest of data into the accumulatedData buffer as part of next piece of data
        // skip past the delimiter
        accumulatedData = data.slice(offset + 1);

        // emit that we now have a whole msg
        socket.emit('_msg', msg);

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        // no delimiter yet, just accumulate the data
        accumulatedData = Buffer.concat(accumulatedData, data);
    }
});

// if any accumulated data still here at end of socket
// notify about it
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socket.on('end', () => {
   if (accumulatedData.length) {
       socket.emit('_msg', accumulatedData);
   }
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A: Nodejs is not splitting up the data; TCP/IP is. The maximum amount of data allowed in an IP payload is 64Kb. This is why your packets are being split up (fragmented).
This also means that TCP/IP will piece together the data at the receiving end. This is why you don't have to reassemble REST requests or websites. This is all handled by the lower network layers.
You may want to look at this example. You can edit the createServer() function to send more data like so:
var server = net.createServer(function(socket) {
    let buf = Buffer.alloc(265000);
    for (var i = 0; i < 264900; i++) {
        buf[i] = 'E';
    }
    buf[264900] = '\r'; // newline
    buf[264901] = '\n';
    buf[264902] = 0; // string terminator
    socket.write(buf);
    socket.pipe(socket);
});

The above (along with the other code from the gist) will respond to any request with a string containing 264900 'E's and a newline.
Now, you can use netcat (if on linux) to receive your request:
$ netcat 127.0.0.1 1337
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ... etc

The buffer can contain whatever and it will all still be transferred. A string is just easy to demonstrate.
In conclusion: Let the network do the work. You will need to read the incoming buffer on the client and save it to its own local buffer but that's pretty much it.
Further reading:
https://nodejs.org/api/net.html#net_socket_write_data_encoding_callback
https://techterms.com/definition/packet


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Their love and passion for good quality leather shoes was recognized and rewarded by many connoisseurs of luxury world over, including the coveted Linea D'oro in Paris. Well renowned luxury brands like Armani, Baldinini and Balley appointed them to produce their kids' footwear line.
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Q: What does happen to the DB when implementing autoscaling on EC2 (AWS) I want to implement autoscaling on my EC2 (AWS) but looks like I've arrived to a dead end...
I explain myself: right now I'm not using RDS, so both, the application and the DB are in my EC2, what would happen if I implement autoscaling on this scenario? How are the new instances going to interact with my DB? As far as I know, the new instances are like clones of the original one, so does this mean that there'll be clones of the original DB?
Should I migrate my DB to RDS before anything?
Autoscaling in general and on AWS in particular is something new to me so forgive me if this is a silly question...
Thanks so much!

A: You can't put your database on your autoscaling instances - you would need to use RDS or Dynamodb (or any other database), that does not live on temporary instances.
If you definitely want to run your own db instance, it should be on an instance that is not part of your autoscaling group and all of the other instances would talk to it.


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The "TERRIFYING" asteroid that flew by Earth was not a threat. Ignore the sensationalism.
By Melanie Ehrenkranz
On April 19, a whopping, lustrous asteroid called 2014 JO25 soared past Earth at a safe but visible distance of 1.1 million miles. This particular fly-by was impressive: "The encounter ... is the closest this asteroid has come to Earth for at least the last 400 years and will be its closest approach for at least the next 500 years," according to a NASA statement. "This will be a very close approach for an asteroid of this size."
Impressive. But did it burn through the atmosphere, threatening to crush and burn us all in a fiery storm of death? No. According to NASA, "there [was] no possibility" for the 2,000-foot space rock to collide with our dear planet.
That didn't stop the viral news industry from whipping up some ludicrous headlines about 2014 JO25. On Tuesday, six days after the event, Google searches for "asteroid earth" and "asteroid planet" resulted in top stories that looked like this.
Google search for "asteroid earth." We contacted these news sites and will update with a response. Google.com
"The MONSTER asteroid that could destroy a COUNTRY and WILL skim the Earth," warned Express. "Asteroid hurtles TERRIFYINGLY close to Earth — and was only spotted HOURS earlier," lied the Daily Star (NASA discovered it in May 2014). "Earth could be DESTROYED," said the Sun in a misleading related story. The articles come with terrifying artist's renderings of what it'd look like if a humongous asteroid really did fly directly into the planet.
Sensationalism and fear-mongering. Seems like the type of content Google is now looking to suppress.
Was there anything — anything at all — to fear about JO25? I emailed NASA, asking if people on Earth should have been afraid of the space rock and if there was any chance it could've destroyed a country. It sent back the statement from about two weeks before the fly-by, saying that the asteroid was simply passing by, not hunkering down.
For a second opinion, I emailed Paul Chodas, manager at the Center for Near Earth Object Studies. "There was, and remains, nothing to fear from asteroid 2014 JO25," he said. "The orbit of this asteroid was well understood when it was tracked extensively for the couple months after its discovery. ... There was no possibility of an impact."
We shouldn't just feel secure — anyone who loves science should feel excited. 2014 JO25 was a huge opportunity for NASA, Chodas said. "Astronomers used the fly-by ... as an opportunity to perform useful science." Its proximity afforded scientists the ability to collect radar imagery and a slew of other data.
Radar imagery of 2014 JO25 JPL
NASA's April 6 statement elaborated:
Radar has been used to observe hundreds of asteroids. When these small, natural remnants of the formation of the solar system pass relatively close to Earth, deep space radar is a powerful technique for studying their sizes, shapes, rotation, surface features and roughness and for more precise determination of their orbital path.
"When an asteroid is getting close, we ping it with radio waves," Shantanu Naidu, radar astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Wired. "For this object, it took about 20 seconds for those echoes to come back, at which point we stopped transmitting and started recording the echoes."
So you see, there's nothing to be afraid of — unless useful scientific data intimidates you.


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NHS Lure For Australian GPs A Wake-Up Call For Commonwealth Government
Reports that Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is targeting Australian-trained GPs should serve as a wake-up call for the Commonwealth Government, which has for many years neglected the need to better support general practice in caring for patients, AMA Council of General Practice Chair, Dr Richard Kidd, said today.
NHS England is reportedly offering incentives worth around $34,000 as part of a drive to recruit 2000 overseas-trained GPs by 2020/21.
"Australia has its own workforce shortages in general practice, particularly in rural and remote Australia," Dr Kidd, a GP in Brisbane, said.
"We cannot afford to lose our GPs to other countries like the UK.
"This latest offer will be tempting for many GPs who have grown disillusioned with the policy directions of successive Commonwealth Governments and the lack of investment in this critical part of the health system.
"General practice has been subject to a number of funding cuts, including an extended freeze on Medicare rebates.
"While the current Government has commenced a slow thaw on indexation, it has not undone the damage of several years of freezing Medicare rebates that commenced in the 2013/14 Budget under Labor and was continued until recently by the Coalition.
"The last Productivity Commission Report on Government Services 2018 showed that Australian Government total expenditure on GP services per person grew by just 80 cents between 2015-16 and 2016-17 - from $370.60 to $371.40. This is despite the growing burden of complex and chronic disease in the community, which is placing increasing pressure on hard-working GPs across the country.
"The AMA has been calling for real investment in general practice, recognising that it is the most cost-effective part of the health system, and that a well-resourced general practice sector can help keep patients out of hospital and save the health system money.
"It's time for the Government to recognise the high-quality care GPs provide and fund general practice properly – otherwise we will be at risk of our local workforce being actively poached by other countries."
CONTACT: Maria Hawthorne 02 6270 5478 / 0427 209 753
Follow the AMA Media on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ama_media
Follow the AMA President on Twitter: http://twitter.com/amapresident
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Canon is reportedly prepping a 75MP+ EOS R full-frame mirrorless camera
November 27, 2018 techspot Leave a Comment
Why it matters: Mirrorless cameras are highly desirable due to their compact footprint compared to traditional DSLRs. Early efforts weren't all that impressive in the megapixel department although that's been changing here lately and Canon could really push the envelope with a 75-megapixel shooter. Canon is reportedly developing an EOS R full-frame mirrorless camera that'll boast a resolution of at least 75 megapixels. Sources tell Canon Rumors that an exact announcement date hasn't yet been decided but it could be revealed as early as mid-2019. Another source added that Canon won't unveil the camera until at least four or five more native RF mount lenses are announced, one of which is said to be the best landscape lens in Canon's line-up. A report last week claimed Canon recently shared a roadmap in a marketing meeting highlighting three unreleased EOS R bodies and five RF lenses. All were slated to arrive before the second quarter of 2020. Sources also said … [Read more...] about Canon is reportedly prepping a 75MP+ EOS R full-frame mirrorless camera
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Review: Nikon Z6 is a great all-around full-frame mirrorless camera
November 21, 2018 appleinsider Leave a Comment
Review By Andrew O'Hara Wednesday, November 21, 2018, 07:48 am PT (10:48 am ET) The new full-frame mirrorless Nikon Z6 is a more affordable model of the outstanding Z7, keeping nearly all features while cutting the price in half. We've already reviewed the big brother to the Nikon Z6 —the Z7 —which launched a couple months earlier, and were left overall impressed. The biggest setback to the Z7 was the hefty price tag that accompanied it. As amazing as it was, it was clear that most users could go for a more affordable option with a slightly lower megapixel count.The basics Getting the commonalities out of the way first, the Nikon Z6 is a 24.5MP full frame mirrorless shooter. It sports an ISO range of 100 - 51,200 in steps of 1/3 or 1/2 EV. Maxed out, it can get up to an ISO 204,800 equivalent. It has a tilt-able LCD touchscreen on the back with a refreshed GUI to make controls easy. Powered by the newest Expeed 6 image signal processor (ISP). Both models also use … [Read more...] about Review: Nikon Z6 is a great all-around full-frame mirrorless camera
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Nikon's more affordable Z6 full-frame mirrorless camera goes on sale Friday
Why it matters: Nikon's late arrival to the full-frame mirrorless game puts it well behind segment leader Sony and comes at a time when consumer interest in standalone digital cameras is waning. It's a necessary step, however, as mirrorless cameras are a viable alternative to full-sized DSLRs for those looking to explore photography beyond what mobile cameras are capable of. Nikon in August unveiled its first full-frame mirrorless camera system, the high-end Z7 and the more affordable Z6. The former arrived in September priced at $3,400 and now, we're just days away from the debut of the Z6. The Nikon Z6 features a 24.5-megapixel sensor with an ISO range of 100-51,200. It boasts 273 focus points and like its bigger brother, utilizes Nikon's latest image-processing engine, the EXPEED 6, and an electronic viewfinder with a 3690k-dot OLED panel. You also get a shutter speed of 1/8000 to 30 seconds, five-axis stabilization, a 3.2-inch tilting touchscreen LCD, 12 fps continuous … [Read more...] about Nikon's more affordable Z6 full-frame mirrorless camera goes on sale Friday
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Nikon's Z6 mirrorless camera launches on November 16th for $2,000
November 14, 2018 theverge Leave a Comment
Nikon's first mirrorless camera, the Z7, launched back in September for $3,999.95. If you've been holding out for the cheaper Z6 model, your patience has been rewarded: it'll hit stores on November 16th, starting at $1,999.95 for just the camera body or $2,599.95 for a bundle with a 24-70mm f/4 "kit" lens. The pricing puts the Z6 right up against Sony's similarly priced A7 III mirrorless camera, which has long been the go-to option, and it also starts at $2,000. As for the Z6, it's largely similar to the Z7, although it trades the 45.7-megapixel sensor, 493 focus points, and 64-25600 ISO from its pricier sibling for slightly lower specs of a 24.5-megapixel sensor, 273 focus points, and 100-51200 ISO. That said, the Z7 costs $1,400 more than the Z6, so you'll want to consider the price difference when making your choice. … [Read more...] about Nikon's Z6 mirrorless camera launches on November 16th for $2,000
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Nikon gets serious about mirrorless with new Z7 and Z6 cameras, available now
November 14, 2018 digitaltrends Leave a Comment
100th anniversary in 2017, Nikon is starting a new chapter with the introduction of its Z-series cameras, the Z7 and Z6. The full-frame models represent Nikon's big push into the mirrorless category, which has been hotly anticipated for some time. After launching the Z7 first, the availability of the Nikon Z6 followed with a Nov. 14 launch. The Z7 and Z6 are nearly identical cameras with full-frame sensors. The big difference is resolution: the Z7 has a 45.7-megapixel back-illuminated sensor with the optical low-pass filter removed, while the Z6 has a 24.5-megapixel sensor with an OLPF — you could call it the Z7's baby brother. Another big thing that separates the two is price: the Z6 has a more consumer-friendly price of $2,000 (body only), putting it in competition with Sony's A7 III, while the Z7 is priced at $3,400 (body only). The Z7 would be aimed at professionals, particularly existing Nikon owners looking to move into mirrorless. The Z7 could … [Read more...] about Nikon gets serious about mirrorless with new Z7 and Z6 cameras, available now
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