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Trains at the Tehachapi Loop
by Andrea Greengard July 20
Welcome to world famous Tehachapi Loop in Keene, California USA! This streaming camera is mounted approximately 3/4 mile from the Tehachapi Loop hilltop which gives a very large viewing area of the Loop and surrounding areas.
With its frequent trains and spectacular scenery, the Loop is one of the prime railfan areas in the country. There's plenty of private property in the area, and trespassers are not welcome. A good (and safe) vantage point is the site of the Tehachapi Loop historical marker. In 1998, the Loop was named a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark and is now California Historical Landmark #508.
One of the engineering feats of its day, the Loop was built by Southern Pacific Railroad beginning in 1874 and opened in 1876. Contributors to the project's construction include Arthur De Wint Foote and the project's chief engineer, William Hood.
A large white cross, "The Cross at the Loop", stands atop the hill in the center of the loop in memory of two Southern Pacific Railroad employees killed on May 12, 1989, in a train derailment in San Bernardino, California.
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Tehachapi Loop Information:
The Tehachapi Loop is a 0.73-mile (1.17 km) long "spiral," or helix, on the Union Pacific Railroad line through Tehachapi Pass, of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, south-central California. The line connects Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley to Mojave in the Mojave Desert. Seeing a daily average of almost 40 trains, the line is one of the busiest single-track mainlines in the world.
On the loop, the track passes over itself, lessening the grade. The loop gains 77 feet (23 m) in elevation as the track climbs at a steady 2% grade. A train more than 4,000 feet (1,200 m) long thus passes over itself going around the loop. At the bottom of the loop, the track passes through Tunnel 9, the ninth tunnel built as the railroad worked from Bakersfield.
The siding on the loop was known as Walong after Southern Pacific District Roadmaster W. A. Long. Union Pacific RR constructed a second track between the east (south) end of Walong siding and the west (north) end of the Marcel siding, creating a 3.1 mile long section of two main tracks between MP 351.1 and MP 354.2.
The Loop became the property of the Union Pacific in 1996, when it absorbed the Southern Pacific. Trains of the BNSF Railway also use the loop under trackage rights. Union Pacific bars passenger trains from the line, which prevents Amtrak's San Joaquin train from serving Los Angeles. This has been the case since the creation of Amtrak in 1971. An exception is made for the Coast Starlight, which uses the line as a detour if its normal route is closed.
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Q: How to rename the text field placeholder Im using SCLAlertView and i would to rename the text field placeholder if the user not entering any input at the text field.
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        // Create custom Appearance Configuration
        let appearance = SCLAlertView.SCLAppearance(
            kTitleFont: UIFont(name: "Play", size: 14)!,
            kTextFont: UIFont(name: "Play", size: 14)!,
            kButtonFont: UIFont(name: "Play", size: 14)!,
            showCircularIcon: false
        )
        let alert = SCLAlertView(appearance:appearance)
        email = alert.addTextField("Enter email")
        email.text = tempEmail
        alert.addButton("Submit", target: self, selector: #selector(LoginViewController.forgotPasswordBtnPressed))
        alert.showEdit("Forgot Password", subTitle: msg, colorStyle: 0xFF0000, closeButtonTitle : "Close")
    }

    func forgotPasswordBtnPressed(){

        let emailRegEx = "[A-Z0-9a-z._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}"

        _ = NSPredicate(format:"SELF MATCHES %@", emailRegEx)

        if email.text == ""{
            reloadAlertView("Please fill all field")
        }else{
            validationSuccessful()
        }
    }

i would like to rename the textfield instead of using this
email = alert.addTextField("Enter email")

to this when user input a blank space and click submit
email = alert.addTextField("Please fill this")

A: I able to make it rename the field by calling the same syntax as the first one
if email.text == ""{
            let appearance = SCLAlertView.SCLAppearance(
                kTitleFont: UIFont(name: "Play", size: 14)!,
                kTextFont: UIFont(name: "Play", size: 14)!,
                kButtonFont: UIFont(name: "Play", size: 14)!,
                showCircularIcon: false
            )
            let alert = SCLAlertView(appearance:appearance)
            email = alert.addTextField("You maybe forget this")
            email.text = tempEmail
            alert.addButton("Submit", target: self, selector: #selector(LoginViewController.forgotPasswordBtnPressed))
            alert.showEdit("Forgot Password", subTitle: "Please fill all field", colorStyle: 0xFF0000, closeButtonTitle : "Close")
        }

one more question how can i rename the string to redColor?
email = alert.addTextField("You maybe forget this")
email.textColor = UIColor.redColor()

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TRC - Thermodynamics Research Center, NIST Boulder Laboratories, Chris Muzny, director
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
Tfus 401.95 K N/A Malaviolle, De Maury, et al., 1987 Uncertainty assigned by TRC = 0.5 K; determined for various conditions and heating rates; TRC
Tfus 402. K N/A Grady, Hays, et al., 1973 Uncertainty assigned by TRC = 1. K; TRC
subH° 121.2 ± 3.3 kJ/mol C Ribeiro da Silva, Gonçalves, et al., 2001 AC
Enthalpy of sublimation
subH (kJ/mol)
111.8 378. ME Stephenson and Malanowski, 1987 Based on data from 363. - 393. K. See also Negoro, Miki, et al., 1960 and Harutada, 1959.; AC
Enthalpy of fusion
fusH (kJ/mol)
23.8 403.8 DSC Good and Rodriguez-Hornedo, 2009 AC
25.5 401.6 DSC Nicoli, Bilzi, et al., 2008 AC
26.94 402. N/A Negoro, Miki, et al., 1960, 2 AC
In addition to the Thermodynamics Research Center (TRC) data available from this site, much more physical and chemical property data is available from the following TRC products:
SRD 103a – Thermo Data Engine (TDE) for pure compounds.
SRD 103b – Thermo Data Engine (TDE) for pure compounds, binary mixtures and chemical reactions
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Go To: Top, Phase change data, Notes
Malaviolle, De Maury, et al., 1987
Malaviolle, R.; De Maury, G.; Chauvet, A.; Terol, A.; Masse, J., Study of the Binaries Khelline I - Nicotinic Acid and Khelline I - Nicotinamide, Thermochim. Acta, 1987, 121, 283. [all data]
Grady, Hays, et al., 1973
Grady, L.T.; Hays, S.E.; King, R.H.; Klein, H.R.; Mader, W.J.; Wyatt, D.K.; Zimmere, R.O., Drug purity profiles, J. Pharm. Sci., 1973, 62, 459. [all data]
Ribeiro da Silva, Gonçalves, et al., 2001
Ribeiro da Silva, Maria D.M.C.; Gonçalves, Jorge M.; Ferreira, Susana C.C.; da Silva, Luís C.M.; Sottomayor, M.J.; Pilcher, G.; Acree Jr, William E.; Roy, Lindsay E., Experimental thermochemical study of the enthalpies of formation and sublimation of isonicotinamide, picolinamide, nicotinamide, isonicotinamideN-oxide, and nicotinamideN-oxide. The dissociation enthalpies of the N--O bonds, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 2001, 33, 10, 1263-1275, https://doi.org/10.1006/jcht.2001.0839 . [all data]
Stephenson and Malanowski, 1987
Stephenson, Richard M.; Malanowski, Stanislaw, Handbook of the Thermodynamics of Organic Compounds, 1987, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3173-2 . [all data]
Negoro, Miki, et al., 1960
Negoro, H.; Miki, T.; Ueda, S., Yakugaku Zasshi, 1960, 80, 665. [all data]
Harutada, 1959
Harutada, N., Takamine Kenkyusho Nempo, 1959, 11, 66. [all data]
Good and Rodriguez-Hornedo, 2009
Good, David J.; Rodriguez-Hornedo, Nair, Solubility Advantage of Pharmaceutical Cocrystals, Crystal Growth & Design, 2009, 9, 5, 2252-2264, https://doi.org/10.1021/cg801039j . [all data]
Nicoli, Bilzi, et al., 2008
Nicoli, S.; Bilzi, S.; Santi, P.; Caira, M.R.; Li, J.; Bettini, R., Ethyl-paraben and nicotinamide mixtures: Apparent solubility, thermal behavior and X-ray structure of the 1:1 co-crystal, J. Pharm. Sci., 2008, 97, 11, 4830-4839, https://doi.org/10.1002/jps.21341 . [all data]
Negoro, Miki, et al., 1960, 2
Negoro, H.; Miki, T.; Ueda, S.; Sanada, T.; Okada, R., Yakugaku Zasshi, 1960, 80, 670. [all data]
Go To: Top, Phase change data, References
Tfus Fusion (melting) point
fusH Enthalpy of fusion
subH Enthalpy of sublimation
subH° Enthalpy of sublimation at standard conditions


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Tiffani Collins
Author of The Traveler's Journal series
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Reflections of a Tigress – Chapter 3
Leave a Comment / By Tiffani Collins
Blog | Author's Blog | Published 22 April 2021
It's All About Flash
"I cannot believe I let you talk me into this," my cousin Bran said to me using thought speech. It was a magical means of communicating that we had devised for ourselves back when we were plotting our escape from our family.
Oh, he could speak well enough as a raven since ravens could imitate human speech better than most parrots. Still, they could only manage very short phrases. It was simply easier for him to communicate with me via magic.
"You let me talk you into this because it's a brilliant idea. You're just sour about it because you couldn't come up with anything better," I told him as I stood back to admire my handiwork. I was well pleased with it.
He looked nothing like Bran O'Doyle Ó Griohtha.
Bran had been a remarkable looking man. The first thing people always noticed was that he was tall, almost six and a half feet, and storkish. His long legs gave him a stride that would have other people scurrying to keep up. The second thing they'd say was that he was striking. Not handsome per se. His face would never have prompted anyone to wax poetically about rugged good looks or harsh masculine beauty. Instead, people would say he was intriguing to look at, with his high chiseled cheekbones, his long lean face, his black wavy hair kept short and practical, and his deep-set black eyes that glittered with a razor-sharp intelligence.
In short, he'd been memorable, which was most inconvenient when one had gone to the great trouble of faking one's own death to hide from people who had the kind of resources and reach whole governments would beg for—and sometimes did.
Even worse would be to have word get around that a man of Bran's description was traveling with a woman looking like me.
Not that I had ever been described as the definition of girlish good looks either. But when you have snow-white hair, mismatched emerald green and sapphire blue eyes, and you're tall and curvy you kind of stand out in a crowd. Especially since odd eye and hair color were hallmarks of a high-bred Conduit. Such individuals were scarcer than phoenix eggs and more in demand than a cure for the common cold.
So, walking around looking like ourselves was a losing proposition.
There were any number of ways to change one's appearance, but any disguise we came up with had to stand up to serious magical scrutiny. To compound the problem, we had more than appearances to worry about. Our skills and abilities, while highly marketable, nevertheless made us as conspicuous as a peacock among wrens. Which meant our disguise had to lend itself to a certain kind of background that wasn't of a sixteenth generation Conduit and a seventh-son-of-a-seventh-son magical prodigy.
Bran had thrown around a number of possibilities, each more unlikely than the last, before finally admitting that my talents were best suited to the task.
As a Conduit, my relationship to magic was different than that of a Gifted. The Gifted needed props, rituals, and implements of all sorts to cast a spell in most cases. When I worked with magic, though, I did so by making something more of what it already was, or do what it already wanted to do. For this reason, when I worked magic, the results were far superior to what the Gifted could manage. It also meant that my craftings were much harder for them to detect or unravel—if they could at all.
I was especially deft at shapeshifting. I could turn myself into five different animals fairly easily because they shared a number of characteristics in common with me and each other. I could do the same for others with their permission—or without it if I possessed a link to them, such as blood, hair, or nail trimmings. Bran had given his consent to my magical manipulation long ago, so no samples required, thank you Lady.
As we were growing up, and even as adults, Bran had always reminded me of a raven. It hadn't been very difficult at all, then, for me to make a few minor adjustments to his music—which was how I perceived magic in general—in order to change his outward appearance to better match up with another aspect of his being. The difficult bit had been altering his form so that it was a hybrid of human and bird. It took some experimentation, but looking at him now, I thought I'd done a passable job of it.
I'd given him back his height. I'd always liked how tall he was and people tended to give larger people their space, maybe even think twice about picking a fight. Greater size tended to be a winning defensive trait in general, just ask an elephant. I'd also altered the articulation of his pelvis and spine to allow him to walk upright. He had a man's torso and arms, but those were about the only recognizable human bits I'd allowed for. The rest was all bird. His head was that of a raven. From the hips down, he was the same, with tail feathers and everything.
But what really annoyed Bran were his hands. The index fingers were freakishly long, nearly the length of his forearms, while the thumbs and other fingers were little more than vestigial nubs, the palms narrow and misshapen.
"I can't do anything with these!" Bran complained as he stood flexing his mutated digits, making strange grumbling noises that sounded a lot like a raven imitating the growl of a pissed off dog. "How am I supposed to feed myself? How am I to hold any tools for working enchantments?" he demanded of me with a black-eyed glare.
"It won't be permanent," I assured him, yet again. "It'll only be until we can establish our story. Then I'll fix your hands first thing. Promise."
Bran made a low croaking sound and eyed me with an avian twitch of his head. "When I said the best way to hide was in plain sight, I didn't mean for you to take it quite this far."
"You also said a good disguise was one that directed people's focus where you wanted it," I reminded him, sinking down on my haunches to rummage around in his travel sack for the final touches to his costume. "As peculiar as you look, trust me, people will definitely be thinking you're spectacularly weird, but they won't be thinking you're a fugitive Gifted wanted by the Ó Griohtha. Isn't that what we're after here?"
Aha! Found them.
I pulled out the kilt and broad leather belt with utility loops and pouches I'd snatched from a shop the other day. Thieving was easy as breathing when you could make yourself silent and invisible with a touch of glamor. I stood and held the kilt up to his waist, making sure it would fit his new form.
Still good.
Undoing the two straps holding the kilt closed, I said, "Here, let me put this on you. Your hands won't be able to work these buckles."
Bran lifted his arms away from his sides and out of my way, cocking his head to watch me work with one beady eye. "So, if I'm a raven who's been enchanted and bred for genius-level intelligence and magical potency, what are you going to be then?"
"I'm going to be the Dionysian tigress who's gradually helping you achieve your fondest wish of becoming a man with clever hands to work your clever magic," I said as I finished securing the belt around his hips and stood back up.
"And how is a Dionysian tigress able to do such a thing?"
"We're incredibly talented with shaping magic, didn't you know?" I told him with a grin and a wink. "We have powers and abilities that would make a Gifted weep with envy."
Bran groused again, shaking his head. "I'll grant you those beasts are filled with strong magic by their very nature, but they're no more intelligent or possessed of any special powers or abilities than your typical griffin or hippogriff."
I shrugged. "Who's to say? Dionysian tigers are so rare, few people even know they exist."
"The Romanovs will. It's their business to know the rare and exotic beasts. Their Menagerie is filled with them."
Which was true of course.
After doing a bit of research, we'd learned that the Romanovs had made a deal with the Wardens. Whenever the Wardens rescued animals and rare magical beasties from smugglers and black marketers, they turned them over to the Romanovs' circus where the animals were exhibited in the Menagerie while they recovered. They were then safely transported back to wherever they belonged. If an animal was too traumatized or injured to be safely released back into their natural territory, they were given a permanent home where they would be taken care of for the rest of their lives. I figured that meant the Romanovs' circus was the ideal place to blend in for the creatures that Bran and I were pretending to be.
The perfect place to hide in plain sight.
I shrugged again. "So, we say I'm another product of the same evil warlock's experiments that created you. Except I'm the experiment that eventually bit him in the ass. Literally." That made me grin again before waving my hands at Bran who'd opened his beak to protest some more. "Now hush. This next bit is going to take some concentration."
I turned to the full-length mirror standing in the corner of the living room of a small single-family bungalow we'd commandeered just outside Kumeyaay's city central. The occupants were currently out. We weren't sure when they would be back, so we had to finish up and get out of there as soon as possible.
We wouldn't have risked breaking in at all, except I needed a mirror. I had to be able to see myself in order to tailor this next form to look exactly like a Dionysian tigress should. I was hoping it wouldn't be too difficult. It was much like the beast form I'd come up with under duress. I would only need to make a few minor changes.
I shifted into my beast form to start. It was a matter of rearranging my own music. I pictured myself as an orchestra conductor, directing the phrasing and tempo of a symphony. By beckoning the strings to swell and the horns to simmer down I brought certain aspects of my character or spirit (or something, I wasn't exactly sure what) to the surface while tucking others way to be called back later.
It only took a moment.
In that short time, I felt a burst of tingling rush over me while a roaring like ocean surf filled my ears to deafness and flashes of light and color briefly blinded me. When I shook my vision clear I saw a seven-hundred-pound tigress in the mirror with the wings of an enormous great horned owl and an owl's grasping feet where my front paws should have been, each toe tipped with six-inch talons. Hints of my gray fox form could be seen in my large velvety ears and long bushy tail, though the tail was bushy not because of plush fur but long blunt owlish tail feathers.
I was still white, though, with one green eye and one blue. My animal forms were always white with mismatched eyes. I was going to have to do something about that. It was just too distinctive a combination and a dead giveaway if my family should hear of the Romanovs' latest addition to their Menagerie. But it was so much a part of my self-image that it was probably going to be the most difficult part of the process. I would save it for last.
Instead, I focused on my ears. I made them smaller, rounder, like a tiger's ought to be. Same with the tail, stripping away the feathers and the poisoned spines they hid. Away went the owl feet, to be replaced with proper tiger paws and I flexed my new retractable claws. Much better for walking, though I would miss the owl's more dexterous toes.
I tried to recall what kind of wings a Dionysian tiger had. Were they those of an eagle, like a griffin or hippogriff? The ancient cracked tile mosaic, which was the only image I'd ever seen of this breed of tiger, hadn't been detailed enough for me to know. I decided to leave my wings as they were. I wasn't sure I'd be able to change them anyway. The owl's silent flight seemed more fitting for a tiger that relied on stealth than the loud flapping of an eagle's wings. The more discordant the changes I tried to make with my magic, the harder it was to accomplish. If I failed in changing the wings, it would cast doubt on any further changes I wanted to make. Belief in my abilities was paramount; making doubt the deathblow of any casting I attempted.
I gambled that the style of my wings wouldn't be important enough to muck around with and so moved on to something that wasn't optional. One of the defining features of a Dionysian tigress were the goat horns and I focused all my will on them. I concentrated until the mental effort left me panting, struggling for more air as a twinging ache set in at two points on my skull between my ears.
There we are! A little more, that's it…
The horns grew, thickening, curling down and around until they encircled my ears and their tips turned back up, pointing forward just below my eyes, shielding the sides of my head. They were black with pronounced growth rings edged with white. I thought it was a very nice touch of contrast, myself.
Huffing out a huge sigh of relief, I turned my head this way and that to better study the horns in the mirror. They weren't half-bad. Not much like in the picture, I thought, but I decided I liked mine better. They made me feel more regal, like I was wearing a fancy headdress.
"You overdid it," Bran said, moving to stand behind me so he could see my reflection too. "The horns in the picture were small and short."
"Maybe the picture was of a juvenile," I said using thought speech as well now that I no longer had a human mouth. I gave my head a test shake. It was a little top heavy, but I guessed that was only to be expected. I'd just have to be careful not to throw my neck out with a careless head toss.
"You know it wasn't. The artisan who created the mosaic made a point of depicting her with full teats. She was clearly lactating, which meant she was a mature female. You should dial them back."
"No, I don't think so. Since I don't plan on mimicking lactating teats, I bet I can get away with not copying the horns exactly either. Relax, Bran. Some differences between individuals of a species are normal, right?"
"To a degree, perhaps, but too many differences and people who know what they're talking about will begin to question your authenticity. For instance, you're huge. Not even female Siberian tigers are as large as you. You've made yourself as big as a male—one for the record books at that."
There was a lurching sensation in my guts as a moment from my past rushed up and punched me…
… I was back in the family's manor, in the grand foyer.
I was fleeing the scene of my imminent rape as a hummingbird, frantic to escape those who were supposed to love me but who were bent on using me most cruelly instead. They'd managed to cage me by bringing a chandelier down on my head and were closing in when, in blind desperation, I'd taken on my beast form for the first time.
I needed to be bigger—big enough to drive them back. I had to be so big, so strong, so fierce that they would be terrified out of their wits …
I shuddered, my eyes squeezing shut against the remembered fear and anger that wracked me anew. It was a small eternity before I could shove the past back where it belonged and calm my racing heart. I became aware of tension in my front paws and looked down to see that I'd dug my claws into the floor, leaving ten deep gouges in the pale hardwood.
Shame and embarrassment rushed over me in a scalding wave and I quickly released my grip, jerking my claws free.
A glance into the mirror showed me Bran still standing where he'd been, watching me without comment, the tone of his music somber, sympathetic, and patient. He'd been wise enough not to try to touch me as I gathered my wits. He knew firsthand how explosive my reactions could be to unexpected or unwanted physical contact.
Thinking back on that episode brought bile burning up the back of my throat, forcing me to swallow hard. I looked away from him, my head sinking down between my hunched shoulders, my ears flattening to my skull and my tail wrapping tight about my front feet.
"I've told you before, Danny," Bran said and the old fury boiled up in his magic, still as molten hot as the day he'd returned from his studies abroad to find me a wrecked ghost of the girl he'd known growing up. "I don't ever want to hear you apologize for what happened."
I shrugged my wings in discomfort then resettled them again, still not looking at him. "Not that. For… falling apart just now. I try not to, but sometimes it just… sneaks up on me. A smell, someone's music, a piece of random conversation I overheard, and I'm trapped in one horrible memory or another. I just wish I could forget it all and move on already. It's been over a month since our escape."
"You need to be patient with yourself. You were tortured and abused for more than a year. It's going to take time to heal from such deep wounds. Time spent in a place where you can feel safe. Danny, I wish you'd reconsider this scheme of yours. You would heal much faster in Eire. You could have peace; build a life without these ridiculous charades. You would be free to be yourself there."
My gaze snapped up to meet his in the mirror. "And be perfectly wasted there as well. I will be of much greater use to my kind here."
Bran folded his arms over his bare chest and shook his raven's head at me. "There are people in the Old Country that need help too. I have friends there that—"
"That's exactly my point, Bran," I said, cutting him off, tired of the same argument we'd been having the whole time we were traveling from Boudicca to Kumeyaay, a city on the coast half way down the length of Maidu Province. "There's already a network of people working to free enslaved Nulls and Conduits over there, but no one here in Vineland has the balls to accept the challenge and do what needs to be done. I'm willing and more than able. I want to help my people here, where they need it most."
I turned my focus back on my reflection, determined to make this disguise work. Getting on at the circus was the first crucial step towards the work I'd set myself. With the circus, Bran and I had a good chance of creating a secret base for our rescue operations, as I liked to think of them.
The circus was essentially a small roving vacation town, bursting at the seams with floods of tourists and positively mad with the doings of people who were either determined to have a good time or trying to turn a profit. It had a large fluid workforce and was always on the move. An easy place to hide and transport fugitives on the run from vengeful masters, or so Bran had assured me when we'd been discussing logistics during the early phases of our planning.
Of course, other people might call our potential base a thieves' den since, legally speaking, we were talking about stealing and fencing stolen property. But I wouldn't piss on those people to put out the flames if they were on fire. They were the ones using Nulls like they were dumb beasts of burden and Conduits like me as though we were those disposable batteries people have out in Ten B.
Alright, Danny, focus already! I chided myself. I had to scrap the distractions and finish my disguise. The owners of the house would be coming home eventually and we couldn't be there when that happened.
Maybe I should tone down my size, I thought. It was more than a little silly to have a genius along only to blow off his advice all the time.
I stared at myself, concentrating hard, but I didn't seem to be getting any smaller. Not so much as an inch under four feet at the shoulder. I really was huge. And terrifying, just as I'd wanted when I'd confronted my family.
And that was the problem.
Aneirin, the Hound that had taught me how to use my magic as a child, had once told me that how I shaped magic wasn't with a spell but with a want. I had to have an intense desire to change what was into what I wished to be. Here and now, I didn't want to be smaller. Big things were almost always treated with deference—or at the very least a healthy dose of caution—whereas small things… well, small things got eaten.
I couldn't bring myself to make myself smaller, because then I'd be making myself more vulnerable.
"Danny?" Bran asked after the long silent moment in which I sat staring at my reflection stretched out to three. "There a problem?"
I swallowed and let out the breath I hadn't realized I'd been holding. "No. No problem. I was just thinking that I'll stay this size. Goes with the horns, you know? Everything about me says someone was trying too hard, right?"
Bran's shoulders rose and fell in a sigh and he rubbed at the point where his beak met feathers with the knuckle of one long forefinger. "Fine. But you have got to change your coloring. You're far too distinctive as you are. One glimpse of you and anyone in the family will know who you are."
"I know, I know, I'm getting to it!"
Yet my confidence had been shaken when I couldn't decrease my size. I didn't know if I could make myself an orange and black tiger like the one in the mosaic, and if I failed a second time I didn't want to know what that would do to my ability to work further magic. It hadn't been all that long ago that my control over my shapeshifting had been in tatters. Living with Bran if I was never able to restore him to normal would be miserable for both of us.
There were white tigers, though. They just looked subtly different than I did. I could make those minor tweaks, no problem, but first I'd need to see color better.
Tigers saw blues and greens okay, but they didn't see red very well at all. Neither did they see details as well as humans did. I would need to be able to see both as a human would to make sure I'd pulled off the necessary changes. It wasn't all that hard. I'd been practicing giving my human eyes a fox's night vision; this was simply a reversal of a sort. Even easier, since I already knew how everything should look. I just had to convince my eyes they saw what I knew they should be seeing.
I felt a brief sharp spasm as my eyes adjusted. An explosive sneeze gave me a rough shake and I had to blink away a few tears. Once my vision cleared, I could see the full spectrum of colors and the details I needed.
This new success helping to shore up my confidence, I focused my attention on my fur and feathers, tracing a tiger's traditional stripes over my pelt and brushing bands of darker color on each of my wings. At first, all that appeared were faint smokey gray smudges. It was a start, but not enough to look natural.
Remembering in as much detail as I could, I tried to match my markings to the deep rich brown of the stripes on the white tiger I'd once seen in a book. Like dark chocolate syrup swirled over vanilla ice cream. Then I moved the stripes themselves around into new patterns, having a little fun with them in the process. I gave the vague impression of a dragonfly with the short wavy lines on my forehead and the barest impression of a running fox down my back.
Next were the eyes. These were going to be harder. I'd always liked my eyes. I'd loved the clear vibrant jewel tones even as others had declared my gaze disconcerting. A man once told me I had daemon eyes. I couldn't possibly keep them as they were, but maybe I could have fun with them as I had the stripes.
I pulled magic to me, focusing for all I was worth to make my green eye match the blue. Then I poured on the mental effort to fade them out until they were like looking into the pale crystalline depths of a glacier. For the final touch, I added cold ghostly green flames dancing around the inner edges of the round irises. A little nod to Aneirin, my second oldest friend after Bran. Missing him was a constant ache in my heart. This way, I kept him a little closer.
I shifted my wings and craned my head this way and that, studying the results. I thought I looked pretty good. "What do you think?" I asked Bran.
"I think you're still white," he said with a rattling raven's grumble. "It's too flashy. Are you incapable of doing anything understated?"
"Are you serious? Understated? Too flashy? We're going to stand out no matter what. Might as well play it up to the hilt. The circus is all about showmanship and showmanship is all about flash. And besides, white is a good color. White animals are thought to be good luck. Like a white elephant or white buffalo."
"And a white deer or crow are thought to be death omens," Bran reminded me. "You're as likely to have us kicked out as welcomed in with open arms based on that thinking."
The front door rattling whipped both of our heads around. We'd just run out of time. As quietly as we could, we made a dash back out through the door that let out to the house's backyard. It was a tighter fit exiting than coming in, but I managed to hug my wings in close and squeeze through. Bran closed the door shut behind us and we set out for the Commons.
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Acoustic Soundboard: The Round-Shouldered Dreadnought Revival
By 1970, Gibson had abandoned the round-shouldered dreadnought body shape it had used since the 1930s. Commissioned in 1988 by vintage guitar dealer George Gruhn, Bill Collings built 24 round-shouldered dreads and thus helped pave the way for this body shape's revival. Collings Guitars still builds "slope D" instruments, as do many modern makers.
Despite the round-shouldered dreadnought's prominent role in Gibson catalogs from the 1930s through the 1950s, its parent company dropped the body shape in favor of the square-shouldered dreadnought by 1970. This left Gibson's original dreadnought shape absent from new guitar displays for over a dozen years, and even before the now-infamous "guitar drought" of the early 1980s, it was essentially little more than a jumbo dinosaur.
But the increased interest in vintage guitars kept it from being forgotten, especially as Gibson's Advanced Jumbo of the late 1930s took its rightful place as a high point of American "pre-war" flattop guitar design. With the rise of independent guitarmakers in the mid 1980s, it was only a matter of time before some luthiers stretched beyond herringbone dreadnoughts and turned their sights from Nazareth, Pennsylvania, to Kalamazoo, Michigan. You didn't see many new sunburst acoustics back then from individual builders, but if you were going to use Gibson's Advanced Jumbo for inspiration, the final product better be a 'burst, and luthier exhibitions soon became a bit more colorful.
The most prominent of these early efforts to recapture the Advanced Jumbo's magic was prompted by George Gruhn—long a champion of the Gibson originals. In 1988, Gruhn ordered a batch of two dozen guitars from a young luthier in Austin named Bill Collings, who was then working with just one assistant. The Gruhn-labeled, Collings-built reissue of the Advanced Jumbo gave both Collings and the model national exposure, making the term "AJ" almost as familiar as "herringbone."
The round-shouldered dreadnought's return took full flight in 1989, when the recently restructured Gibson company opened its acoustic division in Bozeman, Montana. Along with reissues of the iconic J-200 and Advanced Jumbo, Gibson wisely brought back its far more affordable mahogany Southerner Jumbo, J-45, and J-50. It also introduced some lower-priced versions that were not based on historic models. With widespread distribution and aggressive promotional campaigns to place Gibson guitars in movies and TV shows, the round-shouldered dreadnought was back in the spotlight, and back on music store racks as well.
Early 2019 saw the biggest increase in the number of new round-shouldered dreadnought models to hit the market, as both Martin and Taylor introduced their own, quite different, versions.
The acoustic guitar market was growing rapidly, and the rising prices for vintage Gibson guitar models sent demand for reissues of its iconic flattops into overdrive. Unfortunately, Gibson's new CEO pushed the Montana factory to meet that demand quickly, and quality control suffered, leaving the new reissues inconsistent as a result. This left a barn door-sized opportunity for smaller independent builders, and Collings Guitars was one of the first to offer its own versions of the round-shouldered dreadnought. Soon, plainer mahogany versions took their place alongside the deluxe rosewood and maple models, all under the collective CJ (Collings Jumbo) moniker.
Before the turn of the last century, the round-shouldered dreadnought had rebounded past any danger of extinction, but as the body shape stretched far beyond Gibson's borders, there was lingering confusion over what to call it. In Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars, the original Gibsons were described as "round-shouldered dreadnought," but somewhere in the 1990s the term "slope-shouldered dreadnought" gained traction, and "slope D" became a widely used shorthand. The "slope-shoulder" moniker is still used by most of the smaller acoustic guitar workshops that build their own versions, including Bourgeois, Santa Cruz, and Huss & Dalton, as well as Collings. This term is also used by the distributors of lower-priced import versions, such as Blueridge. Gibson, however, has persisted in dividing its dreadnoughts into "square-shoulder" and "round-shoulder" categories.
Scale length has been another point of confusion with new round-shouldered dreadnoughts. While all of Martin's D models were long scale (25.4") from the beginning, Gibson's earliest round-shouldered models had a 24 3/4" scale, and only the Advanced Jumbo came with the long scale. Throughout the '40s, '50s, and '60s, part of the charm of a Southerner Jumbo, J-50, or J-45 was the short scale, and there's nothing quite like the tone and playability of those deep-bodied mahogany dreadnoughts with the lower string tension and string-bending ease this scale length offers. Although Gibson's reissues stuck with the same scale length as the originals, most other makers have given round-shouldered D models the same long scale as their other dreadnoughts, leaving the short scale as an option.
Early 2019 saw the biggest increase in the number of new round-shouldered dreadnought models to hit the market, as both Martin and Taylor introduced their own, quite different, versions. Taylor actually discontinued its earlier dreadnought shape, throwing the company's considerable weight behind new Grand Pacific models featuring its new V-pattern top bracing. Martin's DSS dreadnoughts are an all-mahogany 15 Series model, plus spruce-topped versions in their 17 Series. (Martin had released a Custom Shop version in 2018.) It is perhaps fitting that these two giants of American acoustic guitar manufacturing join the ranks of those offering an alternative dreadnought shape: Martin calls theirs a D "slope-shoulder" (DSS), while Taylor refers to the Grand Pacific as a round-shouldered dreadnought. But no matter what you call it, the once-ignored "other dreadnought" is here to stay.
Richard Johnston co-founded Gryphon Stringed Instruments with Frank Ford in 1969. He later shifted from repairing vintage guitars to writing about them, and has contributed to dozens of magazines and several books, the most recent being Inventing the American Guitar. He appraises musical instruments for Antiques Roadshow on PBS.
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Amazon Restaurants launched in 2015 but has struggled to compete against Uber Eats, Grubhub and Doordash, which collectively hold about 80 percent of the US market.
Amazon is pulling the plug on its restaurant delivery service amid heated competition in the market.
Amazon Restaurants will close down in the US on June 24, the company said in a statement. No reason was given, but the service had been struggling to attract customers against Uber Eats, Grubhub, and Doordash, which currently dominate about 80 percent of the US market, according to market research from Edison Trends. Amazon Restaurants is not even considered a top vendor.
Amazon launched its restaurant delivery service in 2015 for Amazon Prime members starting in Seattle. The service then expanded to more than 20 cities across the country including New York, San Francisco, and Washington D.C., as well as overseas. But last year, the company shut down Amazon Restaurants in the UK following reports that it was also slashing jobs at the service's US division.
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Although Amazon Restaurants is shutting down, most of the employees with the service will remain with the company. "A small fraction of Amazon employees are affected by this decision, and many of those affected have already found new roles at Amazon," the company said. "Employees will be offered personalized support to find a new role within, or outside of, the company."
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namespace OmniXaml.Tests.XamlXmlLoaderTests
{
    using Classes;
    using Common;
    using Common.DotNetFx;
    using Xunit;

    public abstract class SpecialTests : GivenARuntimeTypeSource
    {
        [Fact]
        public void LoadWithRootInstance()
        {
            var dummy = new DummyClass
            {
                AnotherProperty = "Other value",
                SampleProperty = "Will be overwritten"
            };

            var loader = new XmlLoader(new DummyParserFactory(RuntimeTypeSource));

            var actual = loader.FromString("<DummyClass xmlns=\"root\" SampleProperty=\"Value\" />", dummy);

            Assert.IsType(dummy.GetType(), actual);
            Assert.Equal("Value", ((DummyClass)actual).SampleProperty);
            Assert.Equal("Other value", ((DummyClass)actual).AnotherProperty);
        }
    }
}

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Home Sweet Home, There's No Place Like Home, Home is Where the Heart Is and then there is the favorite around this time of year, Homecoming. There exist many sayings and celebrations around the home. So much of your identity comes from your home and for the first time in my life my home is feeling empty. I walked into my parents house recently and truly felt both my parents were gone, passed on. In their house I felt for the first time a solitude like never before and definitely a solitude I had never recognized inside my childhood home.
This time of year and the absence of my parents is reminding me just how important our ties to family and our faith are in making a home, your home. This year this season is telling me that my parents home is empty and it is up to me to carry on that family feeling of home in my house. Home needs to be where my heart's focus is now more than ever.
Advent season, the four Sunday's before Christmas, is the perfect time to refocus my efforts around my home. Advent is approaching quickly so it is best to get a head start before December 3rd. Advent happens during one of the busiest times of year. During Advent we are asked to slow it down and devote more time to prayer and reflection. Each year this seems unattainable with busy schedules around work, school and children. In my previous work, I was unable to slow it down especially around November and December because as everyone knows the holiday season is the busiest time of year for marketers. But this year I am making it a point to start out early and plan some thoughtful Advent activities for my family and especially for my children. This year I want to take the time to enjoy and celebrate the coming of Jesus in my home like never before.
Our faith asks us to take our time preparing for Jesus' arrival and not to rush the season through so fast. When you take a good look at the purpose of slowing things down, it begins to make sense. Taking more time to reflect on the meaning of the season and contemplate the approaching arrival of Christ helps us to see this waiting period as the period where a world in darkness awaits the light of its chosen King to arrive. Stepping away from the busy pace of Christmas, and our lives in general, gives us time to think about how our world is and how we wish it could be, how we are and how we wish we could be. Advent is when we can celebrate Christ's coming on Christmas and a time when we can continue to prepare for his second coming. The spirit of Advent is in the longing and the preparation for the coming of the one that is to save us. It is celebrating a truth about God, the revelation of God becoming man in Christ who came to save us and reinstate our relationship with God. We have to take it slow so as to give ourselves time to take it all in so that slowly we can experience a change and a transformation within us.
With a new slower pace I am going to focus on new Advent traditions. This year will be the first year my family creates an Advent calendar. I am saddened to admit it but I have never done this sort of activity around Advent for my family. We have only celebrated with an Advent wreath and that is only because my kids came home with one from school. Taking things slower this year will definitely include making a calendar. In this calendar I plan on celebrating the joy of Christ's love in daily readings and reflections chosen by none other than me, the Mom. I may also provide a small gift or note asking my kids to do a good deed for the day. I want each day to count as a memorable day and one that helps my kids grow in their faith and reminds them to always give to others.
Secondly I want to celebrate my parents and all parents, specifically Joseph and Mary. Joseph and Mary were faithful Jews and they too longed for a messiah. In faith they said yes to God. They traveled over 70 miles from Galilee to Bethlehem and probably learned to travel light. They took only what they needed to provide for their new baby. The Holy Family demonstrates how we too need to leave behind the baggage that is weighing us down on our road to meet Christ. Joseph and Mary did lots of work in preparing for their child and probably did so in a prayerful way knowing that they were preparing to receive our Savior. I want to reflect on their journey and their work as parents so that I too remember what it is like to celebrate simply, carefully and meaningfully knowing that the work I do is for my husband, my children, the ones I love and it is work that should be offered up to God. This year I will set up a nativity scene (the one that belonged to my mother) but first only with Joseph and Mary. I want to give time to reflect on the roles that we as parents have in the lives and faith of our kids. I will hide the baby Jesus and add in the animals, Shepherd and others as Jesus' arrival gets closer. I will take more time to deliver the story of baby Jesus' arrival in a way that is impactful and memorable to my kids...and to me.
I have to be honest and tell you that every year setting up for Christmas in my home felt always like a chore. It became so much of a chore that I used to have my housekeepers set up the tree and decorations for us. I worried more about how it looked and less of what it meant. I am so disappointed to know that I allowed my family to experience the coming of our Savior in such a secular and meaningless manner. It took me this long and a complete turnaround in my professional and personal life to finally realize what I had been depriving my family of and just how un-Catholic I had become in a season when I should be drawing in closer to my faith.
This year Advent is going to save Christmas in my home. The holiday preparations will be slower and thoughtful. Scripture will have a more pivotal role and I won't care so much about how things "look". This year I want my home to be a Home for the Holidays and a home prepared to receive our Lord Jesus Christ this Christmas as well as a home prepared for Him the second time He comes.


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Abba Kyari Surrenders To Covid- 19
Nigeria was put into mourning as news of the death of Nigerian Presidential Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, was made public in the early hours of Saturday, April 18, 2020. News of the death of the President's right hand man was made public by Presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu through a tweet that has left Nigerians sending messages of condolence to the deceased family. Kyari who had been diagnosed of the novel corona virus (Covid- 19), lost the battle to the invinsible enemy. Aside corona virus, Kyari had other underlying health problems including diabetes.
The Presidency regrets to announce the passing of the Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari…The deceased had tested positive to the ravaging COVID-19, and had been receiving treatment. But he died on Friday, April 17, 2020. May God accept his soul. Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly
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Kyari who is in his 70s was top aide to 77-year-old President Muhammadu Buhari and one of the most powerful figures in Nigerian politics. Since the outbreak of the pandemic corona virus in Nigeria, the country has recorded 493 cases and 17 deaths with Kyari becoming the highest ranking government official to loose his life to the virus. Abba Kyari is to be buried today in Abuja.
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Efforts at integrated management began in the Chesapeake Bay region in the 1970s after decades of steadily declining water quality. The Chesapeake Bay Program evolved from a well-funded scientific study to a national model for a participatory ecosystem approach that is very popular at the community level. Hallmarks of the Program include use of the best available science, consensus driven decision-making, strong public involvement in planning and implementation, adaptation of specific management goals, flexible methods for states to meet federal requirements, and significant long-term federal and state funding. Despite large and sustained investments and some notable environmental improvements, the overall health of the bay remains poor.
The Chesapeake Bay is the United State's largest and most biologically productive estuary. The Chesapeake lies along the nation's eastern seaboard and its watershed includes all or portions of six states: Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. About 15 million people live along the shore of the bay or its tributaries. Most of the population is concentrated in two large urban centres: Baltimore and Washington, DC. The watershed extends over about 172,000 km2, and the area of the Bay itself is 6,475 km2. Thus the watershed-to-estuary ratio is very high. The large watershed funnels in nutrient-rich freshwater from six tributaries. Nutrients and other non-point source pollution from his large area enters the bay as run off, and is then concentrated into the relatively narrow bottle neck of the estuary. Much of the Chesapeake's watershed is forest and agricultural land that contains some of the highest concentrations of livestock and intensive cropping in the United States.
The Chesapeake is renowned for its fishery production, recreational opportunities, and high value waterfront property. The two salient characteristics of the Chesapeake are its shallowness—the average depth is seven meters—and its very large watershed. This shallowness creates conditions where sunlight can penetrate to the bottom, allowing for the growth of seagrasses and abundant bottom-dwelling communities.
By 1970, significant losses in fishery resources, the disappearance of seagrasses, and the decline in oyster harvests all appeared to be linked to the very visible impacts of water pollution. It had been assumed that the construction of sewage treatment plants would solve these problems. Instead, the classic evidence of euthrophic conditions was becoming more prevalent each summer. In 1974, a group of legislators from the bay region were successful in convincing Congress to provide $27 million to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to undertake a five-year study of the Chesapeake. The initial findings scientific studies were controversial and inconclusive. In response to the inability of the scientists to agree on recommendations to address the issues, EPA established a resource users group in 1981 that succeeded in crystallizing the issues. It recommended that the program focus its efforts upon nutrient over-enrichment, pollution by toxics and the dwindling abundance of seagrasses. The program's early decision to involve non-scientists representing important stakeholders to identify policy choices was essential in turning around the image of the project from that of a well-funded research effort to a practical restoration effort. This time period coincided with the passage of the Federal Clean Water Act which mandated reductions in point sources of pollution. Section 117 of the Act provided significant funding for developing the Chesapeake Bay Program.
In 1983, spurred by mounting public concern, the governors of states bordering the bay, the mayor of Washington and the administrator of the EPA came together and negotiated the first Chesapeake Bay Agreement. This was a formal commitment by the states to participate in a regional decision making partnership, to commit to specific goals for restoring the bay's living resources, and to a sustained program of water quality monitoring.
The second Chesapeake Bay Agreement was signed in 1987. This was a specific plan of action that set forth a comprehensive set of 29 commitments. Its central goal was to achieve a 40 percent reduction in nitrogen loadings by the year 2000, using 1985 as the base year. The 1987 agreement became the model for the quantitative and time-limited goals that have been the keystone of the program's approach to ecosystem governance ever since.
The 1992 amendments to the 1987 Agreement called for the allocation of specific loads to each of the major tributary systems, and for the development of the strategies that would demonstrate how each tributary would achieve a 40 percent reduction by 2000 and sustain those nitrogen levels thereafter. However, this goal was not met—even though major reductions were achieved for point sources of pollution. The difficulties in achieving nutrient reduction goals lay in the unexpectedly large contributions of nonpoint sources. Controlling these dispersed sources of nutrients and other contaminants require major changes in land use, in the management of urban areas and in agricultural practices. Resent research has demonstrated that a major source of nutrients is atmospheric contamination generated within an "airshed" that is considerably larger than the Bay's watershed. Figure 2 for the State of the Bay Report Card highlights the continued pollutant loads, habitat degradation and low fish stocks for selected species. Figure 3 highlights the progress made towards the goals.
Chesapeake 2000 is the most recent statement of the program's goals. It is the result of the program setting increasingly more ambitious targets as it has learned more about the issues. While the 1987 Bay Agreement set the first quantitative target for nitrogen only, Chesapeake 2000 sets a more stringent target for nitrogen while also setting targets with timeframes for achievements on all the issues.
The Program made major investments in public education and this has contributed to sustained popular support. Focusing efforts on unambiguous goals signed by top-level elected state representatives and national government officials avoided difficulties associated with negotiating all-encompassing and detailed plans. Providing freedom to regional and local bodies to come up with their own solutions and plans to achieving the commonly agreed upon goals empowered a wide variety of groups including local communities and non-governmental organisations, and encouraged them to make a deep commitment, take practical steps and implement innovative ideas.
The Program has catalysed a number of environmental achievements. These include increase in the quality of fish spawning habitats that have produced improvements in the abundance of such important species as stripped bass and shad. By 1999, 476 miles of streamside forests had been restored. Although the goals have not been achieved for nutrient reduction, phosphorus and nitrogen loads have declined since 1988. Turbidity has also declined, but algal blooms continue to occur in the once-clear waters. Oysters, which used to filter the Bay's entire water volume in less than a week, are still only about 1% of the 1950's population level. Blue crabs remain a threatened fishery.
The Chesapeake Bay Program's management structure has evolved significantly. The initial management structure during the research and issue identification stage provided for a Policy Advisory Committee that oversaw the program and the activities of committees. Following the 1983 agreement, the Policy Advisory Committee was replaced by a higher level Executive Council composed of representatives of the states, the EPA. The 1987 Agreement further elevated the Executive Council so that these states are represented by their governors—the highest elected state official. The Council has met annually since 1987 and operates through directives, agreements and amendments. It defines the goals and the program's key management procedures.
The Implementation Committee is composed of state representatives, the Chesapeake Bay Commission, the EPA, and the 10 federal and state agencies that contribute most directly to the program.
Through the Science and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) the science community has played an essential role in identifying the issues that are most critical to the functioning of a healthy estuary and to bringing new insights into the processes of debate, evaluation and adaptation . The STAC establishes peer review systems for all bay program funded competitive research, reviews and comments on all proposed budget items, holds symposia and carries out technical reviews of key scientific issues.
The Citizens Advisory Committee has 23 members, with representatives from agriculture, business, conservation, industry, and civic groups. Since 1984, this group has provided a non-governmental perspective on the bay cleanup effort and on how bay program policies affect citizens who live and work in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
The program's strategy of focusing its efforts on unambiguous agreements signed by top-level elected state representatives and federal government officials has avoided the difficulties that come with negotiating the more usual and all-encompassing and detailed plans. The strategy has been to leave each state the freedom to decide how it will make its commitment to achieving each goal. This, in turn, encourages an atmosphere of competition and empowers local communities, NGOs and a wide diversity of groups and organizations to come forward with their own ideas and commitments.
A highly critical report to Congress, issued by the United States Government Accountability Office in 2005, has questioned the success and effectiveness of the Program. This report asserts that the Bay Program lacks an integrated approach for assessing progress towards its stated goals, and states that the Bay Program's reports do not realistically communicate the condition of the Bay despite direct and indirect state and federal funding that approaches $6 billion over the ten year period of 1995 to 2004. By 2008 there is evidence that these recommendations have been taken to heart. An easily navigable website provides a host of information and the new "Eco-check"  Bay report cards provide a new approach to tracking and reporting the health of waterways at both local and regional scales." These reports apply a Bay Habitat Health Index to present a score, or "grade" (A through F), for the health of each Bay's tributary. The 2007 Report Cards awarded scores for the tributaries and main stem of the Bay that range between B and D-. This new approach reaffirms the enormous difficulty of restoring lost qualities in a severely impacted estuarine ecosystem where nonpoint sources of contaminants dominate.
Hennessey, TM. 1994. Governance and adaptive management for estuarine ecosystems: The case of Chesapeake Bay Coastal Management. Journal of Coastal Management. Vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 119-145. 1994.
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Gayle King Responds To Kobe Bryant Backlash, Hurls CBS Under The Bus: "I Would Be Mad At Me Too"
"I am mortified. I am embarrassed and I am very angry."-Gayle King
Written By tffhthewriter | 02.06.20
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After being dragged by Black Twitter and multiple celebrities, Gayle King has decided to respond to the criticism behind her interview with WNBA legend Lisa Leslie.
On Thursday (Feb. 6) King took to social media to respond to the accusations that she berated Lisa Leslie with questions about Kobe Bryant's 2003 sexual assault allegation, stating that the clip released online was not the totality of the interview.
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"I've been up reading the comments about the interview I did with Lisa Leslie about Kobe Bryant, and I know that if I had only seen the clip that you saw, I'd be extremely angry with me too," Gayle King said on Instagram. "I am mortified. I am embarrassed and I am very angry. Unbeknownst to me, my network put up a clip from a very wide-ranging interview — totally taken out of context — and when you see it that way, it's very jarring. It's jarring to me. I didn't even know anything about it."
King went on to state that while she understands the backlash, her goal with the prodding wasn't to tarnish Bryant's legacy, it was to put a seal on the elephant in the room.
"I reached out to Lisa — because I know she's a longtime friend of Kobe's — to talk about his legacy and their friendship," King continued. "We had a really wide-ranging interview, talked about many things: his career, his passion, his sense of humor, the way he was mentoring other people, how he was starting his next chapter, it was wide-ranging. And yes, we talked about that court case because that court case has also come up. And I wanted to get Lisa's take on it as a friend who knew him well, what she thought, where that should stand. It was very powerful when she looked me in the eye, as a member of the media, to say, 'It's time for the media to leave it alone and to back off."
As previously reported, King was dragged online after a clip from the interview with the Los Angeles Sparks legend hit the web showing a stern King seemingly pressing Leslie to say something negative over the 2003 allegations.
"It's been said that his legacy is complicated because of a sexual assault charge which was dismissed in 2003, 2004," King asked. "Is it complicated for you, as a woman, as a WNBA player?"
Leslie, who was Bryant's best friend, responded that she doesn't feel Kobe's legacy is complicated at all before noting that the allegations made against Bryant in 2003 don't line up with the character that he was known to exhibit on and off the court.
"It's not complicated at all," Leslie responded. "I've just have never seen Kobe be the type of person to do something or violate a woman, or be aggressive in that way. That's just not the person that I know."
King states that the triggering clip from the interview was a result of CBS attempting to use that portion of the interview to garner ratings and not her attempting to tarnish Bryant's legacy.
"I felt really good about the interview … so, for the network to take the most salacious part when taken out of context, and put it up online for people who didn't see the whole interview, is very upsetting to me and that's something I'm going to have to deal with with them. There will be a very intense discussion about that," King explained.
Ultimately she states that she has nothing but respect for Kobe Bryant and his legacy and is also mourning his loss.
"I also want to say this. I have been with Kobe Bryant on many social occasions. He was very kind and very warm to me and I felt we had a friendly relationship. I too am mourning his loss just like everybody else. I still am shocked by it. It's tragic and untimely and the last thing I would want to do is disparage him at this particular time … and that's why I'm taking this time to speak to you directly, I've never done one of these before, but this is so important to me that I felt I had to say something. I don't want to sit up on a set and read a prepared remark. I wanted you to hear exactly where I'm coming from and how I'm feeling, and to let everybody know that no disrespect intended … I thank you for listening."
Check out Gayle. King's full response below.
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You Can Get Rid of Your Back and Knee Pain with an Anti-Inflammatory Diet!
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Expert Dietitian Tamar Demirçi gave important information about the subject. The prevalence of obesity has increased due to the difficult process we have been through, changes in eating style and increased inactivity. This situation brought with it many complaints. One of the most common complaints we encounter is the increase in pain caused by osteoarthritis, which is caused by obesity, in the waist and back region. It is possible to reduce these pains with an anti-inflammatory diet and weight loss.
With the general principles of anti-inflammatory diet; It aims to minimize the consumption of processed and fast food by directing the consumption of various and different types of fresh foods and abundant fruit and vegetables.
In this type of nutrition;
- According to the nutritional history, age, gender, socioeconomic status of the person, a completely personal and appropriate nutrition plan should be prepared in the presence of a specialist dietitian.
-Except potatoes and onions, plenty of vegetables and fruits should be consumed.
-Containing Omega-3; olive oil, flax seeds, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, salmon, mackerel should be included in the diet plan.
Refined carbohydrates such as white bread and rice, other refined grains, table sugar and sugar-containing products such as pastries, cookies, cakes, energy bars should never be consumed.
Lean protein sources such as chicken and fish should be included in nutrition programs.
- Red meat, eggs, fatty milk and yoghurt should be consumed in a limited way.
Attention should be paid to the consumption of anti-inflammatory spices such as ginger, curry, turmeric and rosemary.
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Wildfires Are Intensifying. Here's Why, and What Can Be Done.
Posted On 16 July 2021 By Abhi
By nearly every metric, the wildfires in the Western United States are worsening. They are growing larger, spreading faster and reaching higher, scaling mountain elevations that previously were too wet and cool to have supported fires this fierce.
They are also getting more intense, killing a greater number of trees and eliminating entire patches of forest.
"Ten years ago, we weren't really seeing fires move like that," said Lenya Quinn-Davidson, a fire adviser for the University of California Cooperative Extension, referring to 2021's Bootleg Fire, which began July 6 and at one point consumed more than fifty thousand acres in a single day.
Here's what is driving these changes and what can be done about it.
Why are wildfires worsening?
Wildfires require a spark and fuel. In the forests of the Western United States, half of wildfires are initiated by lightning. The other half are human-caused — frequently started by power lines, cigarettes, cars, camp fires or arson.
In recent years, there's been an abundance of very dry fuel. Drought and high heat can kill trees and dry out dead grass, pine needles, and any other material on the bottom of the forest floor that act as kindling when a fire sweeps through a forest.
Wildfire experts see the signature of climate change in the dryness, high heat and longer fire season that have made these fires more extreme. "We wouldn't be seeing this giant ramp up in fire activity as fast as it is happening without climate change," said Park Williams, a climate scientist at UCLA. "There's just no way."
These conditions have been exacerbated by fire-suppression policies. Before the modern settlement of the American West, forested land in the region burned naturally from lightning or else was intentionally burned by native communities as a form of forest maintenance. But for the past hundred years, most Western states have suppressed fires. That has led to increasingly dense forests and ample brush on the forest floors.
"We're primed for fire," Ms. Quinn-Davidson said.
So what exactly is an "extreme" fire?
Al Lawson, an incident commander for the Bootleg Fire in Oregon, described its behavior as "among the most extreme you can find." But what does that mean?
Experts think about wildfires according to metrics including intensity, rate of spread, and severity.
Fire intensity refers to its power, or the energy released from its blaze. Satellites measure the energy and temperature of fires, and research has shown that the power of these blazes has been increasing.
The rate of spread is one of the most important factors, because it suggests that a fire may be less predictable. Though the size, or acreage, of a fire is important, Ms. Quinn-Davidson said that it's more important to watch how quickly it is moving.
Severity refers to the consequences of a fire, for instance, how many trees are killed. If a fire is tall and burning to the tops of trees and killing them, it could be more challenging to control.
How bad is breathing the smoke?
Breathing in wildfire smoke is risky.
Like air pollution, wildfire smoke — and particularly the concentration of PM 2.5, or particles smaller than 2.5 microns — can affect the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, said Colleen Reid, an environmental epidemiologist and health geographer at the University of Colorado Boulder.
For people who are healthy, the smoke can cause a sore throat, coughing, shortness of breath or decreased lung function. Those already suffering from cardiovascular or respiratory illnesses are at risk of flare-ups and should take extra precautions even when air quality is considered moderate.
Scientists are still studying the chemical composition of wildfire smoke, which depends on what's being burned.
Trees and biomass, for instance, will produce a combination of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxides, whereas burning houses or cars could produce a whole range of compounds, including heavy metals.
Dr. Reid said a first step toward protection is to monitor the air quality where you live, using resources like this map from the Environmental Protection Agency or The New York Times's tracker.
On days when air quality is particularly bad, stay indoors, keep windows and doors closed and use HEPA filters if possible. If you don't have access to a HEPA filter, there's evidence that attaching a quality filter to a box fan can be protective. Outdoors wear a form-fitting N95 mask.
What can I do to protect my home?
Between 60 to 90 percent of homes lost to wildfire are due to embers carried by wind ahead of a fire. If an ember lands on a house, or on mulch beneath a window, or enters an attic through a vent, it can ignite, setting the house on fire.
In California, homes built in the past decade in what's called the wildland-urban interface — the areas that lie between, say, forests and towns or cities — have been required to have fire-safe features like noncombustible siding and double-sided tempered windows.
But for any home, experts say that even taking small steps, such as keeping gutters and roofs free of leaves and debris, can prove remarkably effective. As a next step, replacing things like vents with a finer mesh screen or replacing siding and roofing with more fire-resistant materials is valuable.
"We have good science that shows that homes that have been retrofitted or built in this way are more likely to survive wildfires," said Susie Kocher, a forestry adviser with the University of California Cooperative Extension.
Landscaping changes can make a difference, too. Fire experts think in terms of the 0-5 Zone, which refers to the five-foot perimeter around a house. That zone should be kept clear of debris, firewood, plants or mulch. "It looks nice to put a shrub under our window, and that's exactly the wrong thing," Ms. Kocher said.
Can better policies fix this?
Experts agree that prescribed burns — intentionally set fires that periodically clear underbrush or other fuels — are a key to reducing the severity of wildfires in the future. State and federal agencies have already committed to conducting more prescribed burns.
But experts also stress that there needs to be more federal and state legislation that prioritizes this technique. There are currently bills in the U.S. Senate and the California Assembly to provide more funding and training for prescribed burns.
Another important step is taking care of the landscape to remove dead trees and other fuel. After a huge die-off in the Sierra Nevadas in the 2010s, an estimated 150 million trees fell, but only 1 percent of those trees have been removed, creating more fuel for future fires.
But a long-term solution requires major changes, experts say. Importantly, the mind-set needs to shift from fighting fires toward mitigating the risk of extreme events that are causing them to worsen. "We've treated fire for so long it as if it's something we can fight. We don't fight hurricanes or earthquakes or floods," said Ms. Quinn-Davidson. "We need some radical shifts in the way that we do things in order to adapt, but, yes, I think we can."
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Loved the book. This forced me to complete in a day. Very good effort ! Keep it up.
There is also a strong message which is important for this generation.
Cover page should have been more colorful. It is bit dark than in the Flipkart picture. Quality of the paper is good!
From my opinion, author should have considered writing a Prologue. It should have given a complete picture.
Overall it is a great book! I recommend.


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Q: What is faster - replaceWith or insertAfter (and hiding old element) in jQuery I want to change some elements on the page. (for example I'll change inputs to divs' structures).
What is faster? To do it with replaceWith(). Or to insert div structure after the input, and then hide input?

A: If you talking about something like an inline editing function I would use...
replaceWith()

Otherwise you'd be duplicating content on your page which may cause other problems.
EDIT: In some cases I also use...
.empty().html()

All really depends on what you're trying to accomplish though.
EDIT: Here is a fiddle based on your comment...
http://jsfiddle.net/wdm954/WgjL5/2/
I would still go with replaceWith() instead of having multiple instances of a button in your code.

A: I've just made some tests with my script, and JS profiler showed no real difference between them (in speed I mean). So I prefer replaceWith in that script.


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Tom Bodett was born in 1955 and grew up in Sturgis, Michigan. He has been a cannery worker, a logger, an independent building contractor, and a commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." He is the author of a previous collection, As Far As You Can Go Without a Passport, and is the national media pitchman for Motel 6. He lives with his wife and son in Homer, Alaska, from where he hosted "The End of the Road Review," a nationally syndicated weekly radio variety show.


Build your next home here in Posey counties desirable Lawrence subdivision. This is a combination of two lots, lots 478 and 479 totaling approx. 0.50 acres. Utilities are available. Great location. Parcel ID#'s included: 65-15-05-220-011.000-017 and 65-15-05-220-012.000-017.


Based on Florida's Space Coast, Premiere Theaters L.L.C. offers a luxurious, high-end cinema experience, blending cutting edge technology with attention to classical design and ambiance. Their efforts have created an experience reminiscent of the movie palaces of the past. Premiere Theaters was cofounded in October 2002 by two Brevard County, Florida families. Unlike typical theaters, the Premiere Theaters Oaks 10 property in Melbourne, Florida broke tradition and simplified the "movie-ticketing ritual" by eliminating the box office. Moviegoers conveniently purchase tickets and refreshments at the same service counter. An active community participant, Premiere Theaters supports a variety of community groups and hosts the annual Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival at the Oaks 10 theater.
Premiere Theaters L.L.C. today announced that it plans to open a complete digital cinema multiplex using Dolby® Digital Cinema systems. The theater chain will deploy nine Dolby Digital Cinema systems in addition to the one installed in November 2005.


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(THUNDER BAY, ON) – Have you received your battery bag yet? Thunder Bay Curbside Waste Collection would like to remind the public that starting June 5th to 15th, battery pickup will be taking place on your regular recycling day.
Fill up your battery bag with your old batteries and put them on the curbside with your regular recycling. City Waste Collection will come by and pick up your bags.
If you didn't get your bag or you need extras you can easily print off this PDF insert http://www.thunderbay.ca/Assets/Battery+recycling+bag+insert+2018.pdf and use it in your own resealable bag. If you are a rural resident you will find your battery bag inside the advertising bag containing The Source.
The importance of recycling batteries is tremendous for our health and the environment. Batteries may not be harmful to us while we use them, but when they are disposed improperly they can have dangerous health and environmental consequences.


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The proposed Bukhakunga water project is situated in Bukhakunga village and it is a hand dug well developed by installing 3M diameter concrete casing covered with 4inch concrete slab and installed a Nira pump. The well was completed in the year 1989 and served the community well until 2012 when it got spoilt, the community found someone who came to repair the pump instead he was not able to get the required spare parts since they are not found on the market. The community then had no option other than go back to collect stream water for their domestic use.
This community gets its water from murram stream located 2km from the community and it is a very steepy valley where as the turbidity value is 85 below the WHO recommendation. The water is unsafe because its a running stream and the human activities around makes the water unsafe for human consumption hence causing water borne diseases to the consumers.
The community has a population of 35 to 40 households approximately 300 people who depend on this water source for domestic use.
At least every home visited there is a composite pit, latrines and cloth lines, clean water facilities and almost every homes have bathrooms and no dish racks and washing points. As you walk to the water source you can see people have organized compounds in that they have sheds where the animals sleep thus not littering the dug in the compound.
The project will greatly benefit the Bukhakunga community members and the Afrcan Divine Church(ADC) Primary school that is around.
There is need to rehabilitated this well by installing an Afridev pump so as to help the community access quality water that is sustainable and for their domestic use.
The Bridge Water project staff will strengthen the already existing Bukhakunga Community water committee. During the community education, the committee will be taught how to manage the improved water supply to ensure sustainability.
09/16/2013: Bukhakunga Community Project Complete!
We are excited to report that the project to rehabilitate a well in Bukhakunga, Kenya is complete! The well, originally constructed in 1989, is now a dependable source of safe, clean water for the community. We just posted a report from our partner in the field including information about the community, GPS coordinates, and pictures of the project. Take a look, and Thank You for your help!