Technology has the capacity to transform the trucking industry and improve truck drivers' way of life. Of course, that technology comes with questions about highway safety and to what extent tech companies can be held liable as their products become increasingly central to our lives.
The trucking industry is a fast-paced, competitive environment worth hundreds of billions of dollars. This market, combined with the overall unavailability of a direct and easy way for truckers to arrange the loads they haul, leaves a gap for the ever-growing technological advancement of our modern age to creep in. In 2013, Drew McElroy and Jonathan Salama took advantage of this gap to create the app "Transfix." This app aims to make it easier for independent truckers to schedule loads, thereby decreasing the amount of time a truck may sit empty, losing money. Typically, independent truck drivers rely on freight brokers to schedule the loads they haul. However, these trips are often only one way, which means drivers have an empty truck on their return trip, and an empty truck means lost money.
But can apps like Transfix potentially harm highway safety and increase the risk for accidents on the road? Transfix is already a multimillion-dollar company, but several questions must be asked to ensure road safety will not be compromised as the app continues to gain users. For example, can truckers using the app take advantage of it and schedule more hours or loads than they are legally allowed to drive? According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMSCA), truckers are not allowed to exceed eleven hours of driving, following ten consecutive hours off-duty. Additionally, long haul truck drivers may not drive after 60/70 hours on duty in a period of 7/8 consecutive days, and cannot drive more than eleven hours during a fourteen hour shift.
One of the biggest preventable issues that truckers face is fatigue. These regulations were put into place by the Department of Transportation to ensure a safe driving experience for truckers and the other drivers with whom they share the road. However, truckers also have deadlines to follow, and are expected to get the shipments they carry to their destinations as quickly as possible. Furthermore, any trip made with an empty truck results in lost money for the driver, which is a typical occurrence for many truck drivers—they have a load scheduled to a certain location, but nothing scheduled for the return trip. While Transfix attempts to remedy this situation, the app also leaves room for truckers to schedule more loads with close deadlines, forcing them to get back on the road, fatigued and in a rush.
Another potential question regarding the safety implications of apps like Transfix is credibility and liability. For truckers to legally operate their vehicle, they need lots of documentation, such as a Commercial Driver's License, Federal Department of Transportation number, and a Motor Carrier Authority number. Prior to allowing drivers to sign up for and use the app, does Transfix check for the proper credentials and documentation? These documents are essential to be a properly licensed trucker, and a driver who does not have all the right documentation could potentially put other drivers at risk. Further, it is important for Transfix to check the driving records of each trucker who signs up for the app. A trucker with a poor driving record could possibly cause serious harm to the company, themselves, or other drivers on the road.
Insurance is also an important aspect for apps like Transfix. In case of accidents or injuries, would the truckers using the app be liable or could liability extend to the app itself? While truckers may be using their independently owned trucks to make these drives, it is the app that sets them up with the deliveries and the routes they will take. Does Transfix require drivers who sign up to have their own insurance prior to joining, thus protecting the company from any liability? These questions are crucial to determining whether the app is a tool of progress or one that can have a negative threat on road safety.
Apps like Transfix have the opportunity to really drive the trucking industry forward. Through this app truckers can find consistent work, a steady paycheck, and an easy way to schedule loads and routes. Additionally, Transfix is closing the gap between the amount of money freight brokers and truckers make. However, more frequent hauls and easier scheduling cannot come at the cost of road and driver safety. By following Department of Transportation regulations and requiring proof of insurance, a good driving record, and a Commercial Driver's License, Transfix can continue to improve the trucking industry while maintaining road and driver safety.


Rule Out Podcast was created as part of a course called FLEX, a course that allows for self-directed scholarly activity. The podcast is a student doctor's exploration of social issues in the medical arena. More recently, this podcast plans to focus on beneficial community initiatives. Problems in medicine are not only numerous, they are also complex. Fortunately, in medical school, when presented with a complicated patient scenario we are taught to use the rule in/rule out method. This approach asks us to take generate a list of all potential differential diagnoses to ensure we do not miss any. Once our list is generated, we carefully evaluate the evidence against a particular disease (rule out) while building the case to support others (rule in). A critical component in diagnosis is collecting a thorough history.
Rule Out Podcast was created with an emphasis on communication and history-taking, collecting narrative from experts while discussing solutions. The podcast hopes to utilize journalistic principles of balance, fairness and truth while blending the medical principles of honesty, diligence and compassion.
The logo is inspired after the epidemiological concept of R-nought (reproductive number). R-nought is useful in the study of infectious disease to represent the number of new cases an infectious case generates over a period of time in a susceptible population. In other words, how many other people does one person infect? My goal is that this podcast spreads like a benign but contagious infectious disease.
Juan Valle Rivera is a senior medical student at the University of British Columbia. He is an MD candidate for the Class of 2019. Prior to medical school Juan studied Microbiology and Immunology at the University of British Columbia followed by Nursing at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. His spare time is spent with his wife and daughter.


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Q: How to fix javascript countdown seconds bug so I have this countdown timer I created,
<script type="text/javascript">
var interval;
    var minutes = 12;
    var seconds = 32;
    window.onload = function() {
        countdown('countdown');
}

function countdown(element) {
    interval = setInterval(function() {
        var el = document.getElementById(element);
        if(seconds == 0) {
            if(minutes == 0) {
                minutes=7;
seconds=47;
                } else {
                    minutes--;
                    seconds = 60;
                }
            }
            if(minutes > 0) {
                var minute_text = minutes + (minutes > 1 ? ':' : ':');
            } else {
                var minute_text = '';
            }
            var second_text = seconds > 1 ?'':'';
            el.innerHTML = minute_text + ''+seconds + ' '+second_text + ' remaining';
            seconds--;
        }, 1000);

}
</script>

The result works perfectly, but when the timer reaches digits below 10, (12:03, 12:05, etc.) it displays the seconds without a '0' in the front. (12:3 instead of 12:03)
I tried fixing this, but it has brought me nowhere. Is it possible to somehow edit my script to fix this bug?

A: A number does not have a zero in front of it.
You have to manually add that.
if(seconds < 10) {
    second_text = "0" + seconds;
}

A: second_text = (seconds > 9) ? (seconds) : ('0' + seconds);

A: I just cleaned your code a bit:
var interval,
    minutes = 12,
    seconds = 32;

window.onload = function() {
    countdown('countdown');
}

function countdown(element) {
    var el = document.getElementById(element),
        minutes_text, second_text;

    interval = setInterval(function() {
        if(seconds == 0) {
            if(minutes == 0) {
                minutes=7;
                seconds=47;
            }
            else {
                minutes--;
                seconds = 60;
            }
        }

        minutes_text = minutes;
        second_text = (seconds < 10 ? "0" : "") + seconds;

        el.innerHTML = minutes_text + ':' + second_text + ' remaining';
        seconds--;
    }, 1000);
}

A: try adding a function to pad the value displayed
function padvalue(i) {
    if (i<10) {
        i="0" + String(i);
    }
    return i;
}

Call it here
el.innerHTML = minute_text + '' + padvalue(seconds) + ' ' + second_text + ' remaining';

A: Use this snippet to convert the numbers to strings:
var secondStr = seconds + "";
while (secondStr.length < 2) {
    secondStr = "0" + secondStr;
}

Do the same thing for minutes and hours and then print the strings.
(You do know that doing an interval of 1000 means the interval will be 1000 or more milliseconds? It's unlikely that you miss a whole tick though with that long of an interval. This means the counter will be close to real time seconds but not exact and will vary from time to time and computer to computer.)

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Protect Girls, Not Abortionists and Sex Traffickers
News: US News
by Martin Barillas • ChurchMilitant.com • April 19, 2021
Abortion survivor warns Illinois Legislature may end parental notification
CHICAGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - Dr. Brook Bello, a sex-trafficking survivor and pro-life advocate, is urging Illinois lawmakers to place girls' safety above appeals from the abortion industry to enable sex predators.
(L to R) Rep. Anna Moeller and Sen. Elgie Sims
A video link featuring Dr. Bello that was sent to state legislators on Tuesday calls on them to reject HB 1797 and SB 2190. The pro-death bills would repeal Illinois' Parental Notice of Abortion Act (Act), which has been law since 1995 and enforced since 2013. The Act requires that a parent or legal guardian be notified when a child under the age of 18 seeks an abortion.
State Rep. Anna Moeller and Sen. Elgie Sims, both Democrats, introduced the bills in their respective chambers.
Personal Experience: Secrecy's Harm
Raped at age 11 and trafficked at 13, Dr. Bello shared the video with lawmakers to link abortion and abortion clinics to human trafficking as well as share her heartbreaking story of surviving multiple abortions while being trafficked.
If her mother had been notified, she might have been preserved from a life of sex work and sterility.
She recalled, "Our traffickers made us get abortions. Had my parents been notified," she said, "my mother would have known what city I was in and on what street I was and contacted law enforcement."
Bello said that as a married woman she suffered multiple miscarriages and other health issues as a result of the endometriosis caused by the abortions. Tragically, she is now unable to have children later in life. She said that if her mother had been notified in advance, she might have been preserved from a life of sex work and sterility.
Dr. Bello explains her traumatic past, which inspires her opposition to the abortion secrecy bills.
A black woman selected as a Google Next Gen Policy Leader and founder of the anti-trafficking organization More Too Life, Bello is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from President Barack Obama.
Bello views parental involvement as essential to help minors avoid sex trafficking. Her group provides counseling to survivors and trains others to recognize and combat human trafficking.
In her video, Bello wondered why anyone would keep abortion "such a profound secret" from parents when doing so can "affect the life and womb health throughout that child's life."
Her group provides counseling to survivors and trains others to recognize and combat human trafficking.
"The reason I am pro-life," Bello shared, "is that I understand the beauty and sanctity of life. And so, I beg you, I plead of you, Illinois, to not reverse and to please notify parents. I think every state should notify parents. Why keep something secret that affects the rest of someone's life?"
Many young people, she added, are afraid to tell their parents.
Voters vs. Advocacy Groups
While Illinois legislators want to change the law to prevent parental notification of abortions, most voters reject doing so. According to a poll by the Virginia-based Tarrance Group, 72% of state voters prefer parents or guardians be notified when a minor girl is seeking an abortion. Conducted March 7–10, 600 voters registered in Illinois responded to the poll, which claimed a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1%.
Attorney Mary FioRito
Attorney Mary FioRito, speaking for Parents for the Protection of Girls while referencing the poll in a news release related, "Even 58% of voters that self-describe as 'pro-choice' wish to see the law retained. Support is higher among voters in minority communities, with more than three out of four people of color favoring parental notice."
The powerful pro-abortion American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Campaign and Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health are among the organizations demanding repeal of the notification law.
According to Save Parental Notification, a coalition that includes the archdiocese of Chicago and various pro-life organizations, the bills now before the Illinois Legislature would dismantle protections for minor girls, usurp parental authority and enable predators.
"The passage of HB 1797 and SB 2190 will allow sexual predators to cover up their crimes against minors without fear of repercussions," the coalition said.
Although the Illinois Supreme Court and ultimately the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled as constitutional the parental notification law protecting minors, the current law has loopholes that limit its protection for minors. It does not require parental consent — a stronger safeguard than parental notification —and offers two waivers. The first allows a minor not wishing to inform parents to obtain a court's agreement. The second allows any minor attesting to physical or sexual abuse by an adult family member to also obtain a waiver.
In an April 14 conversation with Church Militant, Ralph Rivera of Illinois Right to Life said various court challenges had delayed enforcement of the Parental Notification of Abortion Act until 2013 when it was affirmed by the federal appeals court. Since then, Rivera said, the parents of at least 1,000 girls per year were notified that minors were contemplating abortion, thus saving many babies from death because of the notification law.
A 'Very Close Vote' Expected
With a Democrat majority in both chambers of the state legislature, Rivera expects a very close vote within the next two weeks.
All we need is just one or two votes to tip the scale.
"All we need is just one or two votes to tip the scale," said Rivera, noting that previous pro-life bills have passed with similar margins.
Rivera pleaded with pro-life voters and voters who may not be pro-life but who see the need for parental involvement in something so life-changing as abortion to call on their legislators to see reason and vote against HB 1797 and SB 2190.
Related Anti-Life Bill
Rivera likewise called on Illinois voters to call on their legislator to also oppose another anti-life bill, HB 1736, which was introduced by Democrat House member Kathleen Willis. Dubbed "Responsible Education for Adolescent and Children's Health (REACH)," the bill would amend state law to mandate sex education in K-12 public schools.
Democrat House member Kathleen Willis
The declared purpose of the bill is to foster "personal health" to "encourage better sexual health outcomes, reduce stigmas and prepare young people to lead healthy and fulfilling lives." But it would further require the schools to provide "health-positive instruction on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression" and employ "effective use of contraception."
Rivera said that parents who oppose the exposure of children to the LGBTQ agenda and sexual practices that are at odds with Catholic Church teaching should make their voices heard before May 31, the end of the legislative session.
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Awe, look at them play! 43 seconds into this 53 second clip, their swatting becomes so synchronized, it looks almost unreal. Typically, when two cats swat each other they are playing. Sometimes, one might be trying to establish dominance, but here it appears these "buds" are just playing.
Watching these four tiny kittens observe the room around them is 32 seconds of complete cuteness. The way their heads move back and forth make this video seem like a screen saver.


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Design Museum Reopens in Kensington, West London
| 25 Nov
The Design Museum has returned bigger and better having taken 6 months out to relocate from Shad Thames to Kensington. The museum's new home boasts an impressive interior and exterior design and welcomes designers from around the world.
The Design Museum has officially opened its doors to visitors following a 6 month hiatus whilst relocating to Kensington, West London. The museum's new home is a listed grade-ll building and has roughly tripled in size. In total, there have been 3 relocations in the museum's history with its original home being the basement of the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Design Museum's new site accommodates for three exhibition spaces, a library, restaurant and café and studios for resident designers. The increase in space has also allowed for collections to be housed permanently.
The old Commonwealth Institute building boasts an awe-inspiring structure with a parabolic curved roof and an open interior design. The museum's designer, John Pawson, has recycled existing materials including white marble and implemented open stairways and blonde oak walls. As the original building suffered from a lack of light, the new open central atrium exposes the inner spaces of the building and highlights the quirky angles of the roof's underbelly.
'The Design Museum offers a platform for new ideas and it is the place to discover new thinking about contemporary design. Encouraging the next generation of young designers and revealing exciting new projects, the museum is the place to hear from designers from around the world' says Design Museum's director, Deyan Sudjic.
For advice on your restaurant or coffee shop brand or interior design, contact Offbeat Creative at hello@offbeatcreative.co.uk or call 020 7060 3121


There are numerous lawsuits in motion right now brought by cities and organizations around the world demanding change on how we're impacting our environment.
Plaintiffs include leaders from Earth Guardians Crews from around the United States. In addition to exercising their legal options, these kids are committed to projects locally to offset carbon and educate others. We can all follow their example, make mindful choices in our daily lives, and get involved in our own communities for a brighter future.
Read about our path through the courts fighting for our right to life and liberty.


Dadamora was initially a two stay at home mother's DIY and handicraft project that grew into a real Estonian kids brand. Turned out there are a lot of other people too, who like the things they do. Dadamora's products should, first of all, be comfortable, getting the most inspiration from simple and modest design with pure and tender colour combinations. Of course it is also important to have a story behind the items they make. For example, the collection of colourful kids pullovers is entirely made out of reused fabrics, giving old garments a new life through new design. And the baby bodies, on the oner hand, are 100% domestic – the cotton fabric is made in Estonia and the bodies are sewed also in Estonia to support local enterprises. All the prints and patterns used on our clothes are designed by Tõnis Kenkmaa and silkscreen printed on the fabric.


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It's the gold medal of e-commerce. Getting that coveted sale is what every online business owner hopes and prays for daily. But what if you could get even MORE sales from your order page? It's really not very hard to do.
It's the gold medal of e-commerce. Getting that coveted sale is what every online business owner hopes and prays for daily. It's why we fight for good search engine positioning. It's why we battle with our copy, making it "just so." It's what pays the bills! But what if you could get even MORE sales from your order page? It's really not very hard to do.
What I'm about to tell you is not some big secret. It's a widely used practice that works. You've probably seen it before, but never paid it much attention. Well get ready to listen, because with just a few simple steps you could quickly be doing a lot more business.
Will this same tactic work for off-line businesses? You bet!
I have two ebook sites. One is for my copywriting course (http://www.copywritingcourse.com) and the other is for my ezine guide (http://www.creatingezines.com). Like you, I'd seen this sales practice put into place before... I'd even bought more of a product or service because of this tactic. But one day it dawned on me to actually USE this method to see if it would really work for me. I used the two products above to conduct a test.
Instead of just linking my "order" or "buy now" buttons to my credit card processor, I created a separate order page. And instead of just putting the copywriting course on the order page of the copywriting course site, I added a "deal." I offered a 0 discount if site visitors bought BOTH ebooks at the same time. I have a link to buy just the copywriting course, and a link to buy both ebooks at the discounted price. Literally, within minutes of implementing the change, I began ringing up sales for both books.
Have you seen this before? I'm sure you have. Amazon.com, ProFlowers.com and many other huge online retailers use this method to boost sales every day. Why does it work? Simple.
Once people go through your site, read your copy, and check out your products or services, they make a decision to buy. By offering them more for less (more products/services for less money) you take advantage of their "buying mode." You strike while the iron is hot (so-to-speak). It's a win-win situation. The buyer gets a discount, and you get more sales.
So how would you implement this strategy for off-line businesses? Just follow any fast food restaurant's lead.
ëMay I take your order?"
"Yes. I'd like a Big Mac combo with a Coke."
"Would you like to super size that, ma'am?"
"And how about adding one of our hot pies or an ice cream sundae for just .00?"
Without so much as a fuss, McDonald's just added two sales to your order. One was super sizing of your combo meal... the other was a sundae. You got a discount - you got more food for less money - and McDonald's got more profits.
Off-line retailers can simply instruct their salespeople to ask for more sales. Once the customer gets to the cash register, they are officially in "buy mode." While they're standing there, quickly (and I mean quickly... don't bombard them) ask if they need shoe polish to keep those news shoes looking new, or if they remembered to pick up labels for that box of CDs. It's really that simple. No hard sale, no pushing, no shoving. Just a simple question to which the answer is almost always "yes."
So there you have it... the quick and easy way to get more sales from your order page. Think it's too easy? Try it and see for yourself.


Jerome Dolittle recently reported via James Fallows that he had asked thirty Harvard first-year students to redesign universities from the ground up; 29 of 30 came up with, as the author put it, "something that looked very much like Harvard, except a little farther out of town". He seemed to take this as evidence that Harvard students were not very creative.
This was in response to an article by Randy Pollack talking about how uncreative Chinese MBA students were: when asked to come up with a the most original idea they could for a business, e.g. a restaurant chain, five of six groups came up with the idea of — a restaurant chain! This was given as evidence of how the Chinese educational system did not foster creativity.
Dolittle seemed to think that the Harvard students were just as uncreative as the Chinese students, but I don't think that comparison is fair. I think that reforming education is a much more difficult problem for first-year students than thinking of a business would be for MBA students.
In addition to the age difference and the difference in academic focus, the MBAs had probably encountered hundreds if not thousands of businesses and products in their day-to-day life. I would bet that the majority of the Harvard freshman had intimate knowledge of exactly one university. It's difficult to consider how you can change something if you don't have an idea of the number of degrees of freedom you have.
Restructure the curriculum to be more interdisciplinary.
Abolish permanent departments, replacing them with problem-focused temporary departments (e.g. Water).
Allow dissertations in forms other than things that look like scholarly books.
Give graduate students real-world skills.
Three recommendations (#1,# 3, and #5) are goals that institutions already aspire to. They might not do it well, but they sure talk about it a lot.
I think people haven't done #6 because it would lead to either a rise in cost or a decline in quality (or both), not because it wasn't an obvious thing to try.
For #4, I believe that it already is possible to do a non-book thesis, particularly in the performing arts. One friend's "dissertation" was a symphony. Another friend made a movie for her anthropology thesis. While I have a copy of my thesis printed on dead trees, the important version of the thesis is the PDF available on-line.
Even though Taylor's ideas are not that novel, they got buzz. I think that means that it is really hard for most people to come up with ideas on how to reform university education.
Now, it is possible that it is a coincidence that I have both unusual intimacy with universities and was able to come up with creative insights about reform. I suppose it's also possible that I'm just amazingly brilliant. I don't think so. I think that if you see lots of X, then it becomes easier to think creatively about things you could do with X.
It might be that the Harvard students were in fact just as uncreative as the Chinese MBAs. However, I don't think Dolittle proved that.
UBC programming team takes 34th in the world!
The UBC programming team took 34th place at the 2009 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals in Stockholm! W00t!!
UBC is considering joining the NCAA's Division II.
At Division I universities, "revenue sports" — i.e. ones that people hope can bring in more money directly or indirectly (football, basketball, and sometimes baseball) — corrupt in many obvious and non-obvious ways. It might be that Division II doesn't have revenue sports, so maybe it wouldn't have the same problems that revenue sports bring.
Weakening of admissions standards. While academic standards for athletes have gotten slightly stricter, they are still pretty weak. While there are many athletes who are fine scholars, there are also numerous cases where admissions and grading standards have been bent into pretzels to accommodate star athletes in revenue sports.
Bad behaviour excused. Universities tend to have their own police department. (UBC has sort of a hybrid.) Those departments get pressured to not press charges against star athletes. There is a history of really frightful behaviour on the part of athletes in revenue sports being overlooked.
Overbuilding. Bear with me. When a revenue sport does really well, alumni donations go up. In particular, really rich alumni start to give big hunks of money to construct buildings. (I grew up in the hometown of the University of Illinois. For about fifteen years, the team was crummy, and there were essentially no buildings built on campus. In my fourth year, the football team did extremely well. In the next ten years, the building square footage doubled.) Nobody ever gives huge chunks of money to the maintenance fund, so what happens is that the maintenance and salary gets stretched. Tuition tends to go up as well.
Tribalism. Revenue sports can create a highly competitive "us-against-them" mentality that is bad news for anyone who ends up on the "them" side. This is very un-Canadian.
Murray Sperber, a Canadian-born professor at the University of Indiana, received death threats because he dared to voice the opinion that the basketball coach's was so bad that he should be fired.
My fourth year at the University of Illinois, the backup quarterback threw three interceptions in an important game. A friend who lived near him said that for weeks, cars would drive slowly past his house. This seems threatening and uncalled for to me.
Expensive tickets. If a team is consistently successful, the tickets become desirable, so the price goes up. Students cannot compete with alumni: they just don't have as much money. The university might set aside a block of cheap tickets for the students, but at least at the University of Illinois, they were crummy seats.
One argument people make in favor of joining Division II is that it might help keep the top Canadian athletes from going to the US. I say let them go. The percentage of athletes at a university is very small; the number of "top athletes" will be even smaller. I do not thinkk it is appropriate to change the culture of a university on the hopes of attracting five people per year? Five people who are good at something other than the university's core mission? I would much rather that UBC work on attracting the top scholars instead of the top athletes.
I believe that revenue sports are a dangerous, corrupting, un-Canadian institution.
One of the The neatest thing about living at Green College is the neat people I get to talk to all the time. One of them, Alice Cohen, gave a talk at Green recently about her research area: water. Specifically, she's looking at the difference in water usage management between the US San Juan Islands and the Canadian Gulf Islands. These islands have the same geography and the same climate, but different legal systems depending upon which side of the US/Canadian border they fall on. This makes them an ideal study case.
With a few exceptions, drinking water in Canada falls under provincial jurisdiction. The federal guidelines only apply when drinking water is a federal responsibility (in transboundary waters, on First Nations territory, in national parks, and were it affects coastal and inland fisheries). Although some provinces have taken on the Canadian federal guidelines, most provinces use their own standards. Provinces can elect to ignore parts of the federal standard if they so choose. This makes sense sometimes. For example, Prince Edward Island basically only has groundwater, so it might not make sense to spend money testing for things that are only present in surface water.
Washington and BC also have a different approach towards supply. On the US side, you have to prove that there is adequate water before you are allowed to build a house. On the Canadian side, you do not.
Alice spent last summer interviewing residents of both islands on how groundwater management worked in practice on either side of the border. She found, to her surprise, that there ended up being very little difference "on the ground" in water management from one side of the border to the other, despite very different regulations.
Meanwhile, on the US side of the border, she found that people sometimes did things without permits in order to bypass restrictions. This is one example of the way that people actually interacted with water was very similar on both sides of the border.


Legal experts suggest that the White House would be wise to settle out of court, especially while there is still a possibility that the government might pay for the settlement.
However, it is likely that the plaintiffs will drive a hard bargain. They might be expecting an opportunity for a future suit against Congress over the play Julius Caesar, because there may be an Et tu, Brute situation lurking in the wings.


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MightyOhm store back online, shipping kits now.
It took a while longer than I expected, but Geiger Counter and HV Rescue Shield kits are back in stock and shipping now.
This week only, $99.95 gets you a Geiger Counter kit with sensitive SBM-20 Geiger tube and a clear acrylic case.
Thanks to everyone who has been taking advantage of the reduced pricing on Geiger Counter kits this week, there are just a handful left in stock.
If you've been holding out on placing an order, now might be a good time. There's a fair chance that I'll run out of kits before I close the online store at midnight tomorrow (CDT).
PS: There are still some HV Rescue Shields in stock as well.
Update: I have been asked if I am closing up shop permanently – hopefully not! I plan to reopen the online store after I move to Seattle, but my new day job might slow down the process a bit. I'll post updates as I get settled.


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COVID-19 Impact: Six Million LatAm Households Will Not Receive Remittances
Narayan Ammachchi
Around six million households in Latin America and the Caribbean will not receive remittances this year due to the global economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The worst-hit would be Central American countries and Haiti, nearly 30% of whose GDP is made up of remittances, reports Inter Press Service, citing the World Bank projections.
The consequences will be just as great in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, where there are thousands of households heavily dependent on the money sent by their family members working abroad.
Millions of Central Americans working in the United States send a portion of their income to families back home. With the COVID-19 pandemic shuttering many businesses in the US, they are less likely to escape the financial damage.
"Migrant workers… tend to be more vulnerable to loss of employment and wages during an economic crisis in a host country," says the World Bank.
Considering the report, remittances are set to drop by 20%, compared to the last year. The LAC region receives approximately US$100 billion in remittances annually. This year it would only receive around US$75 billion.
Adding salt to the wound is the rising cost of transferring remittances. "Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the costs of transferring remittances to the region could increase due to operational challenges being faced by remittance service providers," says the bank.
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The average cost of sending $200 to the region was 5.97 percent in the first quarter of 2020.
Another major loser is Mexico, whose 7 million households received a total of US$30 billion in remittances last year. Nearly 30% of these households are less likely to get remittance this year, says the IPS, citing the market experts.
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News Editor for Nearshore Americas, Narayan Ammachchi is a career journalist with a decade of experience in politics and international business. He works out of his base in the Indian Silicon City of Bangalore.
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Brown Scores 30, Leads Washington Past Utah In 2OT – KSL.com
SEATTLE (AP) — Terrell Brown Jr. scored 30 points and made several key plays down the stretch to lead Washington to a 77-73 double-overtime victory over Utah on Saturday.
With 3:16 remaining in the second overtime, Cole Bajema's 3-pointer gave the Huskies a five-point lead, their largest since 40-32 with 17 minutes remaining in regulation. On Utah's following possession Brown got the defensive rebound of a miss by David Jenkins Jr. then hit a jumper at the other end for a seven-point lead.
The Utes cut their deficit to three and sent Brown, a 78% free-throw shooter, to the line with 13 seconds to go. He made one of two for a four-point lead and the Huskies went on to win. He made 9 of 14 free throws for the game.
Branden Carlson gave Utah a 3-point lead in the first overtime period, making his only 3-point attempt of the game. Brown tied it with a jumper at :37 then blocked a potential go-ahead jumper by Lazar Stefanovic, sending the game to the second overtime.
There was no need for the Huskies to erase a 14-point deficit in this one as they had done in a 74-68 win over Utah in Salt Lake City earlier this month. The biggest margin in the last 10 minutes of regulation was a 3-point lead for Utah when Stefanovic hit a 3-pointer with about two minutes to go. The Huskies eventually tied it on a pair of free throws by Brown with 16 seconds remaining.
Jamal Bey scored 10 points for Washington (11-8, 6-3 Pac-12). Nate Roberts had 11 points and nine rebounds and Emmitt Matthews Jr. added eight points and 10 rebounds. Washington had a season-high 11 blocks and forced 20 turnovers.
Carlson, in his second game back after missing five games with an appendectomy, led Utah with 18 points. Marco Anthony had 13 points and nine rebounds and Rollie Worster scored 10 points.
The Huskies have won four consecutive home games and five of their last six in the conference. Five of Washington's six Pac-12 wins have come against teams with a combined record of 9-28 in conference.
Utah (8-14, 1-11) has lost 10 in a row.


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Q: Bash: How to detect "repeat" flag, such as -vvv? Currently, I have some flag -x, along with some others:
while getopts abcx opt; do
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    c) c=true; ;;
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However, I want to make it so that adding an x will increase the level of the flag. I've seen this with v for verbose with extra v's increasing the verbosity. How do I detect this in my Bash script?

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I want to make it so that adding an x will increase the level of the flag.

Use a counter:
unset a b c x
while getopts abcx opt; do
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done
echo "x=$x"

Then use it as:
bash optscript.sh -abcxxx
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This is a super easy cake to make using my favorite British Cereal Weetabix, that is sold in a few US grocery stores - yipee!
This was a picture of Jasmine eating the cake last July the first time I made it, below is her yesterday everyone tells you time fly's with kids and its so true!
She loved it, really making an effort this year with decorating for my parents coming, only 2 weeks can't wait.
Seen that cereal, but never tried it....love the pictures of Jasmine and the tree. So cute!
Intersante la propuesta, me la anoto.
What a great idea, must buy Weetabix.
Jasmine is adorable and yes they do grow so fast; enjoy her!
I have to look for Weetabix.
Jasmine is a cutie. Your cake looks lovely. Perfect with a cup of hot tea.
can't wait to read more of your interviews about holiday traditions!
Will look for Weetabix, 'cause this looks super simple and yummy.
Your grl is adorable :) I have never heard or baked with this cereal so I have learnt something new from your space today.
weetabix cake looks awesome. Nice recipe. Jasmine is cute.
Never heard of Weetabix, looks interesting.
what a fun bread, i love it!
This sounds like a healthy and delicious cake. Just what I need right now.
Your daughter is precious. Yes, sadly, they do grow up really quickly. Mine are 13 and 16...yikes...hard to believe.
Joanne look forward to seeing what you make!
Great cake idea, I am going to keep an eye for the weetabix!
I don't like eating weetabix with milk but I would love it in cake! What a terrific idea! Great pics!
I like weetabix...super healthy! And using them in a cake is brilliant!
I will have to look for that cereal! I adore your photos here and looking forward to your upcoming interviews/tweets!
This looks and sounds healthy and delicious.
An original cake! Jasmine is very cute.
I love wheetabix, but have sunch a hard time finding them here. This cake looks great!
This is such a simple recipe...love it!


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Interview: working against colonialism in Vancouver
Bradley Hughes talked to Scott Clark, a Salish activist in Vancouver, who is the Executive Director of Aboriginal Life In Vancouver Enhancement – ALIVE about his work.
"It's about assimilating non-Aboriginal people into the Aboriginal world view," is how Scott Clark described his approach to activism and reconciliation.
The problems that colonization has created for Aboriginal people who live in what is now Vancouver are neither hidden nor undocumented. For example, Mary-Ellen Turpel – Lafond, B.C.'s first Representative for Children and Youth has been documenting the problems of the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) since she was first appointed in 2004. Her reports document the indifference the Ministry, child welfare workers, school officials, medical professionals and police have towards Aboriginal youth. Her office has produced 17 reports on Aboriginal youth in BC dating back to 2006. Her recommendations to the BC government regarding services for Aboriginal youth and children have been largely ignored. The title of her May 2015 report looking into the life and drug overdose death at age 19 of an Aboriginal girl in Vancouver says it all, Paige's Story: Abuse, Indifference and a Young Life Discarded.
ALIVE uses "a place-based strategy . . . to create avenues for Aboriginal citizens to have meaningful impacts in their communities and to negotiate their role in the urban 'place' on their own terms."
Place-based strategy
Scott explained to me that a place-based strategy is the opposite of what the traditional NGO's are doing. The traditional NGO's work on building up a program for their intended "clients" (a term Scott detests) without involving those people. Once the funding is gone, the program disappears leaving nothing behind. Along the way, there is little or no measurement of results. In addition, as Scott points out, the location of many services for urban Aboriginals creates a "pipeline to the downtown East side," Canada's poorest neighbourhood.
The place-based strategy is an "empowerment model," where people are given a chance to organize themselves in their own neighbourhoods to get the services they need for success from "pre-natal to post-secondary." Taking this holistic approach, Scott points out that the "health of a community impacts the health of individuals. We have to look at the social, economic, and environmental variables that harm or help vulnerable peoples." A place-based approach looks at "what is here, what assets, what services, and develops a strategic approach. We identify what the needs are and go after them." "If we can do that in Canada's most impoverished urban area, we can do this nation wide."
I asked Scott how this place-based strategy for building community and community services was related to the work of earlier activists like the Black Panthers. "It's exactly like that. It goes back to the Black Panthers, to Saul Alinsky, to Marx. It's based on the social, environmental and economic interconnectedness of healthy and unhealthy communities."
Midway through our interview at a coffee shop on Commercial Drive, Scott recognized a woman passing by. She shows the success of ALIVE's approach. A few years ago, they were able to get her help with childcare and housing. She got involved in the Ray-Cam Co-operative Centre and ALIVE. She was able to find work and move out of the downtown east side and enroll in post-secondary education. However, in her new neighbourhood she can't afford the community services offered at the local community centre where children "play if you can pay." There is a subsidy program for the centre's services, but they don't publicize it.
Scott told me about another success of this strategy. A developer was planning on building an apartment building across the street from the Ray-Cam Cooperative Centre. Activists from ALIVE and the community centre organized a town hall meeting with the developer and got 150 people out to it. Through the discussion, they got the plans changed from single room occupancy units to family units. They also got an agreement to employ 150 people from the neighbourhood, to have the developer purchase local goods and services, and employ local artists. This way some of the money stays in the neighbourhood.
On the subject of reconciliation Scott believes that "people feel so isolated and powerless. They don't know how to begin to engage in their communities…I look at reconciliation as a big concept, we all can do something in a coffee shop, in the business improvement associations, in our community centres, in transit and so on."
Scott couples revolutionary methods with clear goals in the fight against the wreckage racism, colonialism and neoliberalism produces. For every 10 Aboriginal people who are pushed out of the education system, if he can help two find the support they need to make it to university, "then I will have done my job." "My spot in this moment of struggle: I can't change Canada, this province or this city, but I might be able to change something in my community"
This article should be read alongside of Reconciliation in action
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"We always came into the Games to really try and test the systems that will be used for Tokyo. Everything from jetlag strategies to heat management. And it turn out that the heat in the track building was a really big factor, and we know we have a lot of work to do in that area. Some of our athletes were really struggling with their body temperature."
"The great thing about the Commonwealth Games for the track component is that it is harder, in many senses, than the world championships. You've got countries like Australia, England, Wales, New Zealand all with three riders each in the events. So, it is one of the toughest sprint tournaments outside of the Olympics or world championships. It is really good to measure our athletes against these countries, and we had a lot of young athletes here, who really needed this level of experience. So, we can learn how they react to this level of pressure and speed, and fierce competitiveness."
"The high points are obviously the two medals we got in the Team Pursuits. We lucked into the means one a little bit [when New Zealand was disqualified], and we were a little disappointed with the bronze in the women's because we were expecting better. Having said that, we had an untested line up in the race, and a couple of athletes that have never raced at this level before."
"And, of course, Lauriane Genest stepping up to her amazing performances. She was really cooked by the end of the tournament; she's young and doesn't have the base of training to support this kind of repeated effort requirement. So, it's really good to see that she is ready to race at this kind of level, and we know exactly we need to do working with her, to make her a world-class contender."


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Foster Carer's Week
Foster Care Week, William Campbell Foundation, Children in need
This week is Foster and Kinship Care Week where William Campbell Foundation, as well as other agencies within the sector, celebrates and thanks all the incredible carers who love, support and give so generously and unselfishly to children and young people. At William Campbell Foundation, Foster Care Week is a chance to thank their carers for the incredible work they do. "It gives us the chance to acknowledge and give back to those who give so much of themselves to the children and young people in their care," CEO Sonia Liddicoat of William Campbell Foundation said. "We have seen our carers, time and time again, show compassion and hope through their selfless acts of love and care." Founder and chairman, Bill Campbell, who was a child in care himself, understands how important it is to celebrate Foster Care Week. Bill acknowledges the incredible and selfless acts carers and their biological children do for vulnerable kids. "Foster Care Week is a special week for us at William Campbell Foundation, as we reflect on the dedication, love and support our carers give our children and young people every day," he said. "Every year we say thanks to our carers through special little ways to let them know we are thinking of them during this wonderful week!" For over six years, William Campbell Foundation carers Alan and Shirley have offered care to children and young people through short term and respite care. "We open up the possibilities that even though your life's not great, there's a future there for you, if you learn how to read, do well at school, it's a stepping stone to the next step," said foster carers Alan and Shirley, William Campbell Foundation. "There is a future for them, there are people out there that care for them and want to see them succeed and grow to their full potential, and give them the opportunities they deserve - an education, love, and a safe environment." "Our vision is through Christ-centered care we are committed to supporting and creating positive opportunities to empower children, young people, individuals and families, and this is exactly what our foster carers strive to do," CEO Sonia added. Foster carers Mick and Monique acknowledge that being a carer can be a journey with highs and lows, but they would not have it any other way. "It's been the hardest thing we've done but becoming a carer was the best thing we've done," they said. This week reflect on the amazing work that foster and kinship carers do in providing loving and caring homes for children and young people in care. For more information on becoming a foster carer, head to wcfoundation.org.au or call the friendly team on 1300 000 WCF.
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Selfless acts of love and care
This week is Foster and Kinship Care Week where William Campbell Foundation, as well as other agencies within the sector, celebrates and thanks all the incredible carers who love, support and give so generously and unselfishly to children and young people.
At William Campbell Foundation, Foster Care Week is a chance to thank their carers for the incredible work they do.
"It gives us the chance to acknowledge and give back to those who give so much of themselves to the children and young people in their care," CEO Sonia Liddicoat of William Campbell Foundation said.
"We have seen our carers, time and time again, show compassion and hope through their selfless acts of love and care."
Founder and chairman, Bill Campbell, who was a child in care himself, understands how important it is to celebrate Foster Care Week.
Bill acknowledges the incredible and selfless acts carers and their biological children do for vulnerable kids.
"Foster Care Week is a special week for us at William Campbell Foundation, as we reflect on the dedication, love and support our carers give our children and young people every day," he said.
"Every year we say thanks to our carers through special little ways to let them know we are thinking of them during this wonderful week!"
For over six years, William Campbell Foundation carers Alan and Shirley have offered care to children and young people through short term and respite care.
"We open up the possibilities that even though your life's not great, there's a future there for you, if you learn how to read, do well at school, it's a stepping stone to the next step," said foster carers Alan and Shirley, William Campbell Foundation.
Foster carers: They open up the possibilities that even though your life's not great, there's a future for you.
"There is a future for them, there are people out there that care for them and want to see them succeed and grow to their full potential, and give them the opportunities they deserve - an education, love, and a safe environment."
"Our vision is through Christ-centered care we are committed to supporting and creating positive opportunities to empower children, young people, individuals and families, and this is exactly what our foster carers strive to do," CEO Sonia added.
Foster carers Mick and Monique acknowledge that being a carer can be a journey with highs and lows, but they would not have it any other way.
"It's been the hardest thing we've done but becoming a carer was the best thing we've done," they said.
This week reflect on the amazing work that foster and kinship carers do in providing loving and caring homes for children and young people in care.
For more information on becoming a foster carer, head to wcfoundation.org.au or call the friendly team on 1300 000 WCF.
Foster Care Week: Selfless acts of love and care1 year, 4 months ago


My Stocking Fetish.: Jelena Jensen.
I thought this girl/girl set was spectacular, the black undies and suntan nylons had me bone hard as soon as I saw the set! Not a model I normally post here but there will always be exceptions!!!
What a decision, two spectacular examples of womanhood. Who would be first????
I've decided, black stocking first, but can enjoy the other at the same time with other probing objects.


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Rays Straight Murder the Twins, Win 15-3
By Bradley Woodrum@BradleyWoodrum Apr 28, 2011, 5:31pm EDT
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This recap comes from the everlasting SBN Tampa Bay.
Following last night's blueprint, the Tampa Bay Rays (13-11) scored early, often, and late against the Minnesota Twins (9-14) today, completing their second straight blowout, 15-3. Ben Zobrist played the hero, falling one base short of the cycle while hitting 2 doubles, a homer, a single, and a Rays record 8 RBI. The slugging super-utility man now leads the team with 6 home runs and is on pace for yet another career year.
The Rays received solid contributions from all over the field. Here some highlights:
Jeremy Hellickson (2-2) picked up his second win, pitching 6.1 innings while being tabbed for only 3 runs. He had 3 strikeouts and 1 walk, despite not having his greatest stuff on the day.
Casey Kotchman had a solid day at the plate, sneaking a home run into the overhang in right field, altogether going 2 for 5. Matt Joyce also went 3 for 4, with 3 singles.
Johnny Damon also had a fine day at the plate, going 3 for 4 with a triple and a walk, stretching his hit streak to 15 games. Damon, B.J. Upton, and Ben Zobrist each had a steal, too, as nothing seemed capable of stopping the Rays offense.
Jake McGee and Adam Russell added another pair of rather quiet performances. McGee did allow a hit, which caused an additional run to score on Hellickson's account.


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Una red libre de escala es un tipo específico de red compleja. En una red libre de escala, algunos nodos están altamente conectados, es decir, poseen un gran número de enlaces a otros nodos, aunque el grado de conexión de casi todos los nodos es bastante bajo.

Historia
Lászlo Barabási y sus colaboradores de la Universidad de Notre Dame en Indiana (EE. UU.) hicieron un mapa de la Web en 1999. Para su sorpresa, la web no presentaba una distribución del grado de conectividad usual. En lugar de esto, algunos pocos nodos, a los que llamaron "hubs", estaban mucho más conectados que el resto. Al mismo tiempo, una observación similar sobre internet fue obtenida por los hermanos Faloutsos (1999). Y más tarde Broder et al. (2000) corroboraron estos hallazgos con un mapa de la Web más completo. (véase también Modelo Barabási–Albert).

En general, encontraron que la probabilidad p(k) de que un nodo de la red estuviera conectado con k nodos era proporcional a , es decir, sigue una ley de potencias. El exponente  no es universal, sino que depende del tipo específico de red. Para la mayor parte de los sistemas se encontró que dicho parámetro se encontraba en el rango . Cuando , la varianza de la distribución del número de enlaces por nodo es infinita.

Ejemplos

Además del ejemplo de las redes de páginas Web, existen muchas otras redes libres de escala:

 La red de amistades entre personas. Esto también se puede extender a las redes de llamadas telefónicas, de envíos postales y de correo electrónico, por ejemplo.
 Las redes del crimen organizado, en los cuales unos cuantos "peces gordos" ordenan la actuación de muchos "peces chicos".
 La red de distribución eléctrica, en que existen estaciones enormes que abastecen a zonas enormes, y al mismo tiempo una miríada de transformadores pequeños.
 Las redes de comercio internacional, dado que los países desarrollados, que son la minoría, concentran la mayor cantidad de intercambio de bienes, mientras que en los países no desarrollados, que son la mayoría, el intercambio comercial es relativamente menor. Esto se aplica también a las redes de comercio entre empresas dentro de cada país.
 Las redes de citaciones bibliográficas incluyen unos pocos libros o escritos muy citados, mientras que la mayoría de los libros reciben pocas o incluso ninguna citación.
 Las redes de neuronas en los organismos dotados de sistema nervioso, lo que significa que permanentemente usamos mucho una fracción de las neuronas, mientras que la mayoría de las neuronas las ocupamos muy poco.
 Las redes de interacción de proteínas en el metabolismo celular, con unas pocas proteínas que aparecen en la mayoría de las reacciones, mientras que la mayoría de las proteínas aparecen sólo en situaciones muy específicas.
 Las redes de caminos, pues la mayoría de los caminos llegan a unas pocas ciudades muy grandes, mientras que de la mayoría de ciudades pequeñas salen unos pocos caminos. Lo mismo es válido para las rutas marítimas y los puertos, las rutas aéreas y los aeropuertos.

Véase también
 Modelo Barabási–Albert

Bibliografía
 Albert, R., Jeong, H. & Barabasi, A. L. Diameter of the world-wide web. Nature 401, 130-131 (1999).
 Faloutsos, M., Faloutsos, P. & Faloutsos, C. On power-law relationship of the internet topology. Comp Comm Rev 29, 251-262 (1999).
 Broder, A. et al. Graph structure in the Web. Comput Networks 33, 309-320 (2000).

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Redes libres de escala - explicación con diagramas en Tejedores del Web.
 snGraph Software óptimo para manipulación de redes libres de escala.

Estadística
Libre de escala
Familias de grafos

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Manchin: 'I Think' Hunter Biden Should Be Called as Witness
"I don't have a problem there, because this is why we are where we are. Now, I think that he could clear himself."
Who Drove Dow to 10,000?
Updated Apr. 25, 2017 12:24PM ET / Published Oct. 15, 2009 2:16AM ET
The men at the stock exchange got to wear their 10,000 hats and market watchers cheered that the magic number of 10,000 for the Dow Jones industrial average was passed yesterday for the first time in a year. But who made it happen? The Washington Post reported Thursday that individual investors sat out the recent rally. While large pension-fund managers and hedge-fund owners are cheered by the charge, mom-and-pop investors remain on the sidelines. In fact, financial planners tell the paper, only very recently have individual investors begun to take notice. Said one: "For the first six months of the year, people just had their heads down. I don't know how many people told me they haven't looked at their statements."
Read it at The Washington Post


How do I insert my images when I uploaded my own HTML code?
I am trying Emma for the first time, but am a bit lost.
I uploaded my own HTML code for two newsletters, and I also uploaded the images for those newsletters into my gallery.
The newsletters just show the missing image icon, and I can't use the left hand menu to add the images, as I don't need an 'image block' -the placeholders are there already.
If I go into the gallery, I can't see what the URLs to the images are, or I would happily place these in the HTML code to link them properly.
I hope you can help me. How do I find the URLs for the images so I can place the code to link them?
I would click on the image or right click on the image in the Gallery and in the Context menu (not part of MyEmma just part of your browser), you will see something like 'Copy Image URL', that will copy the image URL to your clipboard and you can add that in your HTML.


WP User Frontend Pro makes frontend better for you!
Do you have any online demo?
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Which themes are compatible with your plugin?
Till now no theme has conflicted with WP User Frontend. So you can use any theme you want. In some rare cases, you might have to add or edit some CSS code.
Is there any limit on single site license?
No. There is absolutely no limit on any license. You can have as much posting forms and registration forms as you want.
Your license key is valid for one year from the purchase date. You need an active subscription for continued access to automatic updates and support. License keys automatically renew every year.
Is WP User Frontend plugin translation ready?
Yes, WP User Frontend is translation ready, you can translate it to any language.
Can users edit their profile from frontend?
Yes, this is a built in feature of WP User Frontend Pro. Users can edit their complete profile including changing profile pictures from frontend. Even the custom fields will appear on the frontend profile!
Can I upload and attach images and post videos to post?
Yes, you can upload and attach images and videos to post body. You can also upload featured image or attach files to download.o, you only have to select the available events from the list.
Can users post from frontend without logging in?
Yes, you can enable guest posting. So the system will not ask the users to login to post. You can set the default post owner in the settings. So all the posts the guests make, will be assigned to that user.
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Yes, you can approve each and every post before they appear on your site.To do this, you have to set the default post status to pending and turn on post notification. So you will be notified upon new posts and will be able to approve the posts manually.
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Vancouver--A media conference today marked a full year since Justice Bruce Cohen released the Final Report of the $26M "Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River." Despite the impressive strength of Cohen's findings and the solid 75 recommendations tabled to protect Fraser River sockeye, government has taken no meaningful action on the Report or towards rebuilding salmon numbers. In fact, as representatives from science and First Nations expressed today, government has instead weakened protection of salmon and habitat.
The delay in moving forward with implementing the recommendations spurred Watershed Watch Salmon Society to track government's response to the Inquiry--see their Cohen Report Card for more background information.


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#coronavirus test kits #exports
S. Korea's exports of virus test kits reach US$2.3 bln this year
All News 10:31 December 04, 2020
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's exports of coronavirus test kits amounted to US$2.3 billion in the first 11 months of the year due to soaring demand amid the deepening pandemic, data showed Friday.
Exports of test kits hit a record high of $546 million in November, up from $412 million the previous month, according to the Ministry of Food and Drug Agency and the Korea Customs Service.
The country has shipped 497 million test kits valued at $2.27 billion to some 170 countries around the world since early this year, the data showed.
Demand for South Korea's virus test kits shot up on the back of the country's success in flattening the virus curve.
By country, exports to India accounted for 15.6 percent of the total shipments, followed by Germany with 13.2 percent and Netherland with 9.6 percent.
Since July, India, the country that reported the second-largest virus cases globally, has been the biggest buyer of Korean test kits.
Globally, more than 60 million people have been infected with the new coronavirus since the first case was reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year.
sooyeon@yna.co.kr


A few days ago Google started to launch the update from Android 2.3 Gingerbread over the air (OTA) for the Nexus One and the Nexus S. This system, as they will already know the most veteran of Android, will be staggered and not all devices receive it at the same time.
If you are a holder of a Nexus One American (Vodafone users will have to wait) that you have not yet received the official update and want to install Gingerbread Google uploaded update a zip file to install it manually. Then we explain step by step how to do it.
Before, to carry out manual update you have to desrootear the phone, if it had rooted, prior to proceed with the process.
The first thing, and fundamental, download the update.
Rename the file that we have downloaded to Update.zip, If you are on Windows you don't need to put the .zip.
We put the file in the root of the MicroSD.
With the Nexus One off, press the Trackball and power button. Will a screen in white with the Android making skate and selected "Bootloader".
In the next screen, click "Recovery".
The phone will reboot and will show a drawing of Android with an exclamation point in a triangle.
Click the power / volume button above at the same time. If the first time it leaves not try again.
Finally, using the trackball, select "Apply sdcard: update zip." and wait for the update process to finish.
Ready! You already have Gingerbread on your Nexus One.
The tutorial is not particularly complex, but if you have any questions do not hesitate to ask via comments. In any case, we remind you that if you don't hurry you will receive the update in the coming days.
Nexus One Getting Gingerbread Update Already?


The nominations for this year's Farnborough's Goal of the Season have been chosen by a few selected fans – and voting is now open.
In the event of any additional goals from Saturday's (13th April) meriting inclusion, they will be added.
Voting is via email to fb@fcvideo.co.uk.
In the event of additional goals, any votes already cast may be changed.
Voting closes on Sunday, 21st April, at 5pm. The announcement of the winner will be done at the Farnies.


One response has been Senator Rex Patrick's private member's bill to ban cotton exports. While this has facilitated debate, the Royal Commission argues that attention needs to be focused on overall consumptive take rather than any particular crop.
However, as cotton uses around 80% of irrigation water in the northern Basin, it is impossible to discuss the northern Basin without discussing cotton. The key argument in favour of crops like cotton or rice is that as annual crops, they are able to adjust to water availability in each year, unlike permanent plantings such as citrus and nut trees or grape vines. In theory, water markets will help allocate water to its highest value use between crops, bringing efficiency, diversity and prosperity to the Basin.
This is simplistic. Firstly, water trading options are limited in the northern Basin. Secondly, there are few crops other than cotton to trade between. The only real incentive faced by producers is to acquire and store water and grow more cotton – at least until some other crop becomes more profitable.
While cotton is an annual crop, cotton businesses don't work on a one year timeframe. Despite the current drought, with record low rainfall and record high temperatures in parts of the Basin, over 100,000ha of irrigated cotton has been planted in the northern Basin. While down by almost half on last year's crop, 1.2 million bales of cotton will be produced - still a substantial crop by historical standards.
At least 845 and perhaps as much as 1,135 gigalitres (GL) of water will be applied to this crop and a further 1,000 GL likely evaporated while in storage before irrigation use. In the meantime, only 40 GL flowed past Bourke and a little over 11 GL reached Wilcannia in all of 2018.
This year is not an anomaly. Analysis of records from 1989 show that while water availability is highly variable, cotton production can be remarkably consistent. From 1991 to 1995 there was minimal flow at Bourke, while cotton production remained steady at around 250,000ha. From 2001/02 it took nearly six years of very low water availability before cotton production was significantly reduced. By the time cotton reached its lowest point in 2007/08, the Darling had been virtually dry for seven years.