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New multihull record for Maserati Multi70 at Rolex Middle Sea Race
2 days, 1 hour, 25 minutes and 01 seconds
At exactly 14 00' 01" today, Maserati Multi70 sailed across the finish-line of the 37th Rolex Middle Sea Race after a 608-nautical mile gallop, stopping the clock in the multihull category of the Royal Malta Yacht Club - organised event at 2 days, 1 hour, 25 minutes and 01 seconds.
Aside from her victory, Maserati Multi70 has also set a new multihull record for the legendary Maltese race, slashing just over 10 hours off the previous one set by Phaedo3 in 2015 (2 days, 11 hour, 29 minutes and 41 seconds).
Relive the race!
Maserati Multi70 won! It's record!
Multihull category victory and record for Maserati Multi70 in the 37th Rolex Middle Sea Race.
At exactly 14 00' 01" today, Maserati Multi70 stopped the clock at 2 days, 1 hour, 25 minutes and 01 seconds.
Maserati Multi70 took the lead of the Rolex Middle Sea Race overnight
Maserati Multi70 took the lead after a tactical error by Phaedo3 which, after a blistering match race with the Italian trimaran, rounded the island of Linosa rather than Lampedusa as specified in the race rule. Phaedo3's skipper Brian Thompson commented: "We're having a fantastic race with Maserati Multi70. Last night we scored a bit of an own goal but we've recovered from that now and we're heading for the final destination".
Maserati Multi70 is sailing straight for Malta, making a speed of 17 knots in a 20-knot SE wind. She holds a 30-nautical mile lead over Phaedo3 and is 48.5 nautical miles from the finish-line at Malta where she is expected to arrive in three hours' time.
The team sailed well and problem-free throughout the night, beating in a good wind and making a slew of unerring tactical choices.
Giovanni Soldini comments the race from Maserati Multi70
"Racing within sight of Phaedo3 has kept us on high alert. There was a gap of about 20 miles between us but we completely made that up by looking for wind offshore. We're now leading and trying to defend that position by beating from San Vito Lo Capo to Malta. But all is good aboard. Morale is high – despite the fact that we were more affected by the lack of wind than Phaedo3, the boat is responding perfectly. We made a tactical choice that is now paying off and we're really giving it our all".
Maserati Multi70 catches up with Phaedo3
Having now covered over half of the 608 miles of the Rolex Middle Sea Race route, including a spectacular passage past the Stromboli volcano at first light and with the Aeolian Islands now in her wake, Maserati Multi70 has just caught up with Phaedo3, which had been leading the fleet since the start, and the duo are locked in a heated battle for first position.
The Italian trimaran made up the ground thanks to a tactical decision by Giovanni Soldini to stay offshore to look for wind.
With San Vito Lo Capo behind them, the trimarans will run into the Sirocco (SE) which will fresh to a maximum of 25 knots.
Maserati Multi70 and Phaedo3 will have to beat all the way to the finish-line at Malta, which is now under 300 miles away. They are separated by a tiny distance and are making similar speeds of between 12 and 20 knots.
The two trimarans should cross the finish-line off Malta's Grand Harbour in the late morning or early afternoon of tomorrow.
Maserati and Phaedo still within sight of each other off the Aeolian Islands
After a spectacular night-time passage of the Stromboli volcano, the heated battle between Maserati Multi70 and Phaedo3 continues off the Aeolian Islands. The English craft has been leading the Rolex Middle Sea Race since the start, but currently the two trimarans are racing about 18 miles apart in a 10-knot SE off Salina and Filicudi. MaseratiMulti70 is making a speed of 21 knots (381 miles from Malta) while Phaedo3 is making 19.1 (363 miles from Malta). The weather conditions will remain stable as far as Palermo but just before San Vito Lo Capo, the wind will freshen and turn southerly so that the two MOD70s will be sailing increasing into the wind and will have to beat all the way to Malta.
The 37th Rolex Middle Sea Race has started
The Rolex Middle Sea race fleet sailed out of the Grand Harbour in 10-knot NW. In the multihull category, the two MOD70s, Maserati Multi70 and Phaedo3, started at 12.40 with the English boat skippered by Brian Thompson first across the line tailed closely by her Italian rival.
The clash between the two MOD70s in the multihull grouping (Mocra) looks set to be very much a clash of equals thanks to Maserati Multi70's new configuration featuring a Mod rudder and C-foil on her starboard side.
Weather forecasts confirm the fleet will initially be racing in weak NW winds, so both MOD70s in the competition will be beating to windward. However, winds will freshen for the second half of the route from Stromboli on
Soldini confirms the conditions may make it a tougher race for Maserati Multi70
"It'll be slightly torturous near Messina because our centreboard still has the short fin of the standard MOD. I'm not sure how we'll do compared to Phaedo3 because the boats have a different trim: our daggerboard is a metre shorter, it has an attached wing and a larger wetted surface. That could work to our advantage in certain conditions but in others it penalises us a bit. The wind should be freshening as we get to the western tip of Sicily where we're expecting to be beating in 25 knots of wind. As ever, we'll be giving it our all to the last".
A tight team that have clocked up a long series of circumnavigations, ocean races, unbeaten records
On the team are sailors that have flanked Soldini on many of his adventures over the years and who have come up through the ranks of Italian offshore sailing, including Guido Broggi and Francesco Malingri, respectively Maserati Multi70's boat captain and mediaman. Also aboard is French professional sailor Jean-Baptiste Vaillant, a leading player in many ocean races aboard maxis such as Banque Popolaire V, and a consultant to Oracle. These offshore veterans are joined by two young but expert Spaniards, both of whom sailed aboard MaseratiVolvo70: Carlos Hernandez, who has two Volvo Ocean Races to his credit, and Oliver Herrera Perez who sailed IMS, Swans and J80s before taking to the oceans with Soldini.
The team is completed by Monaco-born Pierre Casiraghi, who began his career aboard Maserati in 2014 and makes a welcome return fresh from racing GC32 foiling cats on the 2016 Racing Tour 2016.
Motivated and ready to set sail from Malta tomorrow morning
Sailors of 25 different nationalities will be competing in the race with Italians making up the lion's share as per tradition. The regatta continues to attract an international following as attested to by the jump in Russian and British entries and the return of Danish, Ukrainian and Swedish competitors after several years' absence.
The boat has been repaired
The Maserati Multi70 Team has won its first race against time, fixing in record time the starboard foil and rudder destroyed during the incident that happened on the night of October 16, and will join the rest of the Rolex Middle Sea Race fleet at the start-line at 11.00 am on Saturday, October 22.
Giovanni Soldini described how the incident unfolded
"We were making 30 knots on a reach in 22 knots of wind off the south-west of Sicily when we heard a sharp bang and the rudder was gone. We don't know what we hit. The bearings (inside which the rudders rotate) were torn out. We lost the lot: rudder, fitting and sector".
A serious damage for Maserati Multi70 that sailed into port at Malta's Grand Harbour yesterday morning
On the night of October 16, the Italian MOD70 was involved with a high speed collision with an unidentified floating object 150 miles off Malta en route from La Spezia. Her starboard rudder, rudder tubes and one of the sectors attached to the rudder arm were all completely destroyed in the incident.
Despite the severity of the damage, however, Maserati Multi70's crew managed sail the craft safely and unaided into the Maltese port.
Soldini says about the race
"We had agreed that we'd all race together in both the Rolex Middle Sea Race and the RORC Transatlantic Race, but we'll only be competing against Phaedo at Malta because Oman Sail capsized last August off Newfoundland during the Québec-Saint Malo, and the Concise team changed their mind at the last minute.
This is our first race with Maserati Multi70. It'll be an excellent opportunity to test out the boat and try to improve on our weak points. We're at an experimental stage. When we get the boat foiling, she performs brilliantly. However, we are at a disadvantage on some levels: Maserati Multi 70 has a much larger wetted surface than her direct rivals and can be slow in manoeuvres because it's more difficult to adjust the foils and T-foil rudders and so they're less suited to races like this one where there is a lot of manoeuvring.
The race is usually technically very varied from a weather perspective which demands a huge effort and a lot of strategizing. The passage through the Strait and then the run back to Malta are the best bits. We'll be giving it our all.
We are just at the start of a very long road. The Middle Sea Race is our first opportunity to compete side by side with a trimaran that's very similar to Maserati Multi70. We're sure it'll be a very valuable experience. "
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It is told about the modernization of systems of water disinfection at waterworks of St. Petersburg using sodium hypochlorite and ammonium sulphate. It has allowed to liquidate completely the threat of affecting the city's territory and population with highly toxic substances (gaseous chlorine and ammonia) owing to possible failures at industrial sites of the State Unitary Enterprise Vodokanal Sankt-Peterburga and at transportation of liquefied chlorine and ammonia solutions, and also to exclude chlorine and ammonia influence on the environment in the case of equipment depressurization. Introduction of the technology of water disinfection with ultra-violet irradiation has favored the realization of the concept of multiple barriers at potable water disinfecting at the city's waterworks.
Csaba Haranghy, Géza Csörneyi, Pand'ianski Attila, Kostyuchenko S. V., Volkov S. V., Levchenko D. A., Baranov V. L.
The biggest in European Union UV water disinfection complex has been successfully operated at Kmegier, the Budapest water treatment plant with a capacity of 600,000 m3/day in Hungary. The municipal water supply system uses surface waters as a water source (The Danube River). The water body is not protected from possible input of various pathogens that can cause serious infectious disease outbreaks among the population. In addition viruses and cysts of pathogenic protozoa are highly resistant to traditional chlorination. The experts of Budapest water supply system Fvrosi VZMVEK Zrt. in cooperation with Russian LIT Scientific-Production Association carried out a series of tests at the pilot unit as a part of serial DUV 150/21 UV-system with low pressure lamps; and then industrial tests at DUV 36А/120 UV-systems. Blending the infiltrate water fed to the UV-system with river water abstracted directly from the Danube in the amount of 3% of the total flow rate was provided. Water quality analytical studies were carried out before and after disinfection by VZM-VEK Laboratory. In the process of studies the efficient UV-irradiation dosage of 60 mlJ/cm2 was determined for underflow (infiltrate) river water in definite operation conditions. The use of advanced combined water disinfection technology (chlorination + UV-irradiation) ensures minimizing the level of chlorination, reducing the risk of byproducts formation and improving the water safety.
Kostyuchenko S. V., SMIRNOV A. D., Tolstoi M. Iu.
The chemicals used in liquid and gaseous media treatment and purification either stay intact in the processed environment or disintegrate and react with the processed environment or admixtures in it and form numerous secondary and often toxic products. In this context chemical free methods of media purification aiming at their environmental safety are of most interest. Chemical free methods of treatment do not result in the formation of such a big amount of secondary products; whereas the efficiency of their use is often higher because they less depend on the type and structure of the targeted substance or admixture as well as on the conditions of use. Ultraviolet irradiation has been the most efficient and widely used method of chemical free disinfection of effluents both in Russia and abroad. The capital expenses for UV-disinfection are significantly reduced since there is no need in constructing contact tanks for chlorination and dechlorination; in addition the absence of chemical consumption eliminates the need in constructing a chemical plant and installing dosing systems. Using the example of the Siberian Region the advantages of using UV-irradiation in wastewater treatment is described.
Volkov S. V., Tkachev A. A., Piskareva V. M.
In order to ensure reliable disinfection of drinking water in relation to viruses, protozoa and other pathogenic organisms resistant to chemical methods, i. e. to prevent waterborne diseases increasing the dosages of chemicals – chlorine or chlorine-containing substances is needed. However at that, chlorination by-products including trihalomethane are formed. The use of multibarrier disinfection schemes is one of the most actual solutions in drinking water purification that provides for the high efficiency at significant reduction of unfavorable side-effects. One of the prevailing multibarrier technologies of drinking water disinfection is the combined use of ultraviolet irradiation and chlorination. Ultraviolet irradiation has become one of the basic technologies of multibarrier schemes. The experience of using UV-irradiation in combination with different chemicals at the water treatment facilities in Russian and foreign cities – Nizhny Novgorod, Budapest, Vienna is described. Retrofitting advanced multibarrier schemes of purification and disinfection of surface water will provide for improving significantly the sanitary and epidemiologic protection of the population and improving drinking water quality.
Kostyuchenko S. V., Baranov V. L., Tkachev A. A.
The current regulatory requirements to effluent disinfection with chlorine agents demand an obligatory dechlorination stage. In the present context physical methods of wastewater disinfection can be an alternative solution. The method of wastewater ultraviolet radiation with the wave length of 253.7 m and low pressure amalgam lamps is most efficient and widely used. The given method is characterized by the high disinfection efficiency in relation to all types of microorganisms including viruses; by the absence of negative environmental impact; by the absence of disinfection by-products in wastewater, and equipment compactness. Engineering and economical comparison of the two methods of disinfection is presented: with the use of chlorine agent and ultraviolet radiation. It is shown that the method of ultraviolet radiation disinfection is more cost effective. The absolute value of the annual economic effect of using the equipment for UV disinfection of wastewater is increasing with the increase of the capacity of the facilities as a result of significant operational costs saving even at minor increase of the amount of the wastewater treated.


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THE RISE OF THE ROCKET GIRLS!
Jacket cover: RISE OF THE ROCKET GIRLS
With a major political party in the United States finally nominating a woman to run for President--truly a history-making development--I thought it would be good to explore some of the contributions made by women to our Space Program.
One of the great, untold stories of the post-war era is about the remarkable group of women who "propelled us" into space. A wonderful new book by Nathalia Holt (published in April 2016), titled RISE OF THE ROCKET GIRLS, is a terrific place to begin your exploration. Divided into four sections that focus on the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s to the present, the book focuses on the fortunes (and misfortunes) of four particular women (though others--like Barby Canright, Marcie Roberts, and Janez Lawson--are mentioned and explored more briefly): Barbara Paulson, Helen Ling, Susan Finley, and Sylvia Miller.
Here's a portion of the liner notes:
"In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible. . .. For the first time, Rise of the Rocket Girls tells the stories of these women--known as "human computers"--who broke the boundaries of both gender and science. Based on extensive research and interviews with all the living members of the team, Rise of the Rocket Girls offers a unique perspective on the role of women in science: both where we've been, and the far reaches of space to which we're heading." © 2016 Little, Brown and Co.
http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Rocket-Girls-Propelled-Missiles/dp/0316338923?ie=UTF8&keywords=rise%20of%20the%20rocket%20girls&qid=1465323511&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1
The early women at NASA. "The Human Computers."
AN OVERVIEW: Here are articles and transcripts that give lovely overviews of the "Rocket Girls."
Jet Propulsion Labs: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=1327
National Public Radio: http://www.npr.org/2016/04/05/473099967/meet-the-rocket-girls-the-women-who-charted-the-course-to-space
POPULAR SCIENCE MAGAZINE: http://www.popsci.com/meet-amazing-women-who-launched-americas-first-rockets
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/nasas-rocket-girls-are-no-longer-forgotten-history-180958791/?no-ist
THINK PROGRESS: http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2016/05/19/3779620/the-forgotten-rocket-girls-of-nasa/
Dr. Sue Finley
Here are sites that focus on two of the "Rocket Girls":
SUSAN FINLEY: Sue Finley has been an employee of NASA's JET PROPULSION LABORATORY (JPL) since January of 1958, making her the longest-serving woman in NASA. Two days before EXPLORER 1 was launched, Finley began her career with the laboratory as a so-called human computer, calculating rocket launch trajectories by hand. She now serves as a subsystem engineer for NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). At JPL, she has participated in the exploration of the Moon, the Sun, all the planets and other bodies in the Solar System. © Wikipedia
A Wikipedia entry devoted to Susan Finley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_G._Finley
A short interview with Finley made by JPL and now available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4QF570F5hs
A solid article on NASA's website about their 50-year employees includes a solid section on Finley (with photo) in the portion about JPL; you'll have to scroll down the page after a few other (equally interesting) biographies. Of course, what stands out is that she's the only woman among the group of a dozen or so scientists: http://www.nasa.gov/50th/50th_magazine/50yearsEmployees.html
SYLVIA MILLER: Sylvia Miller joined JPL in 1968 and has worked on advanced planning for future Mars missions since 1995. She is currently the program manager for Mars Advanced Sub-Surface Access. She received NASA's Exceptional Service Medal for her work on IRAS.
A Los Angeles Times article that focuses on Sylvia Miller: http://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/community/tn-gnp-me-0406-rocketgirls-20160405-story.html
Flight plan to the moon
BARBARA PAULSON, VICKIE WANG, HELEN LING
TWO MORE!
I have to add two more remarkable women to the group. One is Nancy Roman. The other is Mary Sherman Morgan.
MARY SHERMAN MORGAN: Mary Sherman Morgan (November 4, 1921 – August 4, 2004) was a U.S. rocket fuel scientist credited with the invention of the liquid fuel Hydyne in 1957, which powered the Jupiter-C rocket that boosted the United States' first satellite, Explorer 1
WIKIPEDIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sherman_Morgan
A fine story about how Morgan's son restored his mother's long lost legacy: http://www.womenyoushouldknow.net/rocket-girl-son-restores-mothers-lost-legacy-americas-first-female-rocket-scientist/
The book written by Morgan's son: http://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Girl-Sherman-Americas-Scientist/dp/1616147393?ie=UTF8&keywords=rocket%20girl%20george%20morgan&qid=1465332744&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
NANCY ROMAN: At age 91, Nancy Roman is still going strong. She's an American astronomer who was one of the first female executives at NASA. She is known to many as the "Mother of Hubble" for her role in planning the Hubble Space Telescope. Throughout her career, Roman has also been an active public speaker and educator, and an advocate for women in the sciences. Here are other web links about her:
NASA's website has a full-page interview with Roman. A great read: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/people/romann
Here's a wonderful article written by Roman for the June 2013 edition of the magazine ASTRONOMY BEAT: https://www.astrosociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ab2013-112.pdf
In 2011, The Voice of America had a lovely presentation about Roman as "The Mother of Hubble": http://www.voanews.com/content/mother-of-hubble-always-aimed-for-stars--127751383/163252.html
Sylvia Miller
Dr. Nancy Roman

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Severnaya Verf shipyard launches longline factory ship of Project МТ 1112XL
The ship named Marlin is intended for Globus LLC
Severnaya Verf shipyard has launched a longline factory ship of Project МТ 1112XL today, 12 November 2020, reports IAA PortNews correspondent. The ship named Marlin is intended for Globus LLC established by the association of the Arkhangelsk Region's fishing farms.
The ceremony has been attended by Ilya Shestakov, Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation and Head of the Federal Agency for Fishery; Aleksandr Beglov, Governor of Saint-Petersburg; Aleksandr Tsybulsky, Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region; Sergey Mitin, First Deputy to the Chaiman of the ad hoc committee of the Federation Council; Igor Orlov, General Director of Severnaya Verf shipyard; and representatives of the customer.
The shipyard's current backlog of civil orders numbers 18 fishing ships including 10 processing trawlers of Project 170701 and four long-liners of Project 200101 for NOREBO; three longline factory vessels of Project МТ1112XL for Fishing Company "Virma" (Gandvik-1, Gandvik-2 and Gandvik-3) and one longline factory ship МТ1112XL named Marlin for Globus LLC (Marlin).
A longline factory vessel features high-technology and ecological fishing method with automated installation and hauling lines, with equipment for complete, non-waste processing and storage of the catch directly on board the ship. The longliner reference design documents was developed by Norway based Marin Teknikk AS. Detailed engineering, technological and operational documentation will be developed by a Russian naval architecture and marine engineering firm.
The vessel's displacement is over 2,000 tonnes, length - 58.6 meters, width - 13 meters.
As of today, the mechanism of investment quotas encouraging the construction of fishing ships at domestic shipyards has been foreseen by contracts signed for construction of 53 ships with total investment of RUB 171 billion: 28 for the Far East Basin and 25 for the Northern Basin. By 2024, modernization of the fishing fleet will cover 40% in the Far East and 80% in the North.
Severnaya Verf shipyard (corporate member of United Shipbuilding Corporation) is among leading shipbuilding companies of Russia's defence industry. The company was founded on November 14, 1912, as Putilovskaya Shipyard. Since then the shipbuilding company has built more than 600 warships and commercial vessels, including cruisers, destroyers, minesweepers, patrol vessels and submarines destroyers, research and passenger vessels, timber cargo carriers, trawlers, container ships and Ro-Ro vessels, tugboats and floating docks. The shipyard's backlog of orders currently includes the series of frigates, corvettes and other vessels.
Longline factory ship Marlin laid down by Severnaya Verf shipyard to feature 40% of local content >>>>
Severnaya Verf shipyard lays down longliner of Project МТ 1112XL, Marlin, for OOO Globus >>>>
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Q: Websphere error SRVE0133E: and reason RC: 107 I am getting this error on WebSphere Server Log(s)
SRVE0133E: An error occurred while parsing parameters. java.io.IOException: Async IO operation failed, reason: RC: 107  Transport endpoint is not connected
can anyone help me and guide me about the reason of this error?
Thanks :)
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SRVE0133E: An error occurred while parsing parameters. java.io.IOException: Async IO operation failed, reason: RC: 107  Transport endpoint is not connected
    at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.runEventProcessingLoop(ResultHandler.java:679)
    at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler$2.run(ResultHandler.java:881)
    at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1497)

A: This can occur if the client (e.g. a browser) requests content from the server,
then closes the connection before the server sends the response.

A: There are some tech notes which relates to this.
http://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM10292
Does that apply to your case?
You also have to place in a few more lines from the stack for people to see what is likely happening under the hood.
HTH

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Q: first_or_initialize is not working for relative model and creating new record each time ccs.each do |cd|
  relative_model = main_model.relative_model.where(start_date: XYZ, end_date: XYZ).first_or_initialize
  relative_model.capacity = cd['capacity'].to_f
  relative_model.save!
end

As per above code, first_or_initialize is not working for relative model and creating new record each time.
Here is the query run at background for both inr:
SELECT `capacity_commitments`.* FROM `capacity_commitments`  WHERE `capacity_commitments`.`participants_subscription_id` = 1 AND `capacity_commitments`.`start_date` = '2016-11-16' AND `capacity_commitments`.`end_date` = '2016-11-21'

SELECT `capacity_commitments`.* FROM `capacity_commitments`  WHERE `capacity_commitments`.`participants_subscription_id` = 1 AND `capacity_commitments`.`start_date` = '2016-11-16' AND `capacity_commitments`.`end_date` = '2016-11-21'

NEED INITIAL HELP OR POINT OUT WHAT IS WRONG IN ABOVE CODE?

A: Try to use find_or_initialize_by method
relative_model =  main_model.relative_model.find_or_initialize_by(start_date: XYZ, end_date: XYZ)


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Q: How to render this Joomla module to another position without loosing its connection to the article This is code from the Dizi-images module (plugin/content/images/images.php) for Joomla. This works, it publishes a image or image gallery at the end of a specific article.
But if I want to publish the image/image gallery to another position (by changing its position in Joomla admin and the getModules-value in the code below) it looses its "connection" to the article. It shows up on every article on the site.
Is it possible to make this code below to be able to publish the image/image gallery to another position without loosing its connection to the specific article?
/*
 * load front end images module
 */

public function onContentAfterDisplay( $context, &$row, &$params, $limitstart = null )
{
    $jinput = JFactory::getApplication()->input;
    $option = $jinput->get('option', '', '');
    $view = $jinput->get('view', '', '');

    if( $context == 'com_content.article' && ( $modules = JModuleHelper::getModules( 'images' ) ) )
    {
        return JModuleHelper::renderModule( $modules[ 0 ] );
    }

    return '';
}

Thanks
Magnus

Screenshot of the modules that I change position on (Joomla Admin/Extensions/Module Manager/)
The plug-in I use is "Dizi images gallery"-extension.

This shows the Dizi-images Tab. Where you add images/image gallery to the article your in.

A: These three lines of code will allow you load and render any existing modules as needed.
jimport( 'joomla.application.module.helper' );
$module = JModuleHelper::getModule('mod_myimagemodulename', 'Images Gallery');
echo JModuleHelper::renderModule($module, array('style' => 'xhtml'));

If you want to manage from the back end, you will need to make a duplicate of the existing module with different menu position assignments.  It sounds like the only limitation is the source images folder, so the module should not mind!
** EDIT **
To create a new position like "right", you would need to add a new jdoc element to your templates index.php where you would like the new position:
<jdoc:include type="moduels" name="right" style="xhtml" />

Then in your templates manifest XML file, add the new position to list of existing positions:
<position>right</position>

Now if you navigate to the module copy you want to place there, you would be able to select the newly created "right" position.
** EDIT **
Noticed something in how the module instance is being loaded, the name should reflect the the module type and name.
$modules = JModuleHelper::getModules( 'images', 'Images gallery' )

And definitely migrate away from JRequest.

A: Why not just create a new instance of the module for the other position? That way this module stays just as it is and the new module is published elsewhere without conflicting with the code you have.
Also agree with Lodder, use JInput.


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PROGRAMME ASIA HORSE WEEK 2019
FEI CLEAN SPORT SEMINAR
AHW 2018
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China's journey to be an equestrian hub examined in depth during the sixth session of Asia Horse Week
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The sixth session of the Asia Horse Week covered the future of equestrianism in China from the viewpoint of riders and trainers, with the speakers delving into topics such as Olympic equestrianism, China's perception of the horse and where China's riding industry will go in the next few years.
A consultant to the Hong Kong Equestrian team, Mr. Ludger Beerbaum, began the session by talking about his work with equestrian sports in China, which he has been involved in since 2006, two years before the Beijing Olympics. To grow the sport in the country, he talked about the importance of making it more accessible. He said China needs to create a competition structure and keep records of all the results.
Standardised training programs need to be developed as well, and more riders and coaches should be sent out to experience different equestrian systems. Since the sport in China is expanding fast, it's important for them train under qualified results, he said. "Riding is more than a sport, it is feeling and trust – riding is a lifestyle and pure fascination," he summed up.
A key professional Chinese rider who is familiar with China's system is Mr. Quanwei Meng, and he followed on from Mr. Ludger Beerbaum by revealing how much the sport has grown in the last five years. "International shows held in China have contributed significantly to the rapid growth of the sport and have brought the equestrian industry on the right track," he said. With a new generation of riders coming up in China, the future looks bright, he concluded.
Another Chinese professional rider Mr. Alex Hua Tian ended the session with a somewhat autobiographical talk, which also delved into the status of the equestrian industry in China. As an ambassador for his nation and his sport, Alex Hua Tian won a Silver Medal for China at the 2014 Asian Games and is the youngest eventer ever to compete at an Olympics. He spoke of his Olympic journey and explained how he has come to respect the slow-burning athletic process that is involved when competing at such a professional level. Using a house as an analogy, he said the process is like building a home, brick by brick. "After competing in two Olympic Games I've learned to respect the process and the time it takes to build riders, the team, and the support structure that surrounds you," he said.
He also offered some advice on how countries who are developing their equestrian sports could go about it. He suggested they take a long, patient approach. "In this region the growth is so fast and so strong, that I hope federations will be more focused on a long-term strategy and invest in the future – especially in China," he commented.
During a question and answer session, Mr. Ludger Beerbaum talked about how to progress the sport in the region, and he said open borders and free trade are the main limitations holding everything back. Although the ball has begun rolling with the One Belt One Road Initiative and Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Europe, a lot more needs to be done. "Free trade and open borders – I think this is what we are really missing to get everything going. If rectified, more than anything else, this would be a massive push for the development of our sport in this region," he concluded.
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What Do I Want to Research? 0101.4.1 0101.4.2. Questions to ask yourself: What do I like? What do I want to write about? Why am I writing? Who will read.
2 Questions to ask yourself: What do I like? What do I want to write about? Why am I writing? Who will read what I write?
3 I really like dogs, but sometimes they are too loud when they bark. Why do they bark like that? Do all dogs bark? I could write a report about dogs and why they bark. Maybe most of my friends do not know why dogs bark so much.
5 Let's do a K-W-L Chart to organize our information! K – What do I know? W – What do I want to find out? L – What did I learn?
6 What do I know? Dogs bark when they seem mad or excited. What do I want to know? Why do dogs bark?
7 Dogs bark. Dogs bark when they are mad. Dogs bark when they are excited. Dogs bark when they want to communicate. Dogs bark when they want attention.
8 Now I have enough for a short report! Here's what my report might look like: I like dogs, but sometimes their bark can be annoying. Dogs bark for different reasons. A dog may bark when he is mad or excited. Dogs communicate with each other and with people by barking. At other times a dog may be barking just to get your attention. Even when they bark, dogs are still fun to have around.
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I've had the pleasure this year of screening a number of selections from this year's Tribeca Film Festival, which took place April 13th-24th.
Films often tell more than one story, and while they may seem to be unconnected at first, figuring out how they are related is a big part of a film's exposition. "A Kind of Murder" begins with two parallel stories, one of a man whose wife has been found murdered at a bus rest stop and the other of a man whose wife drives him crazy. The former's situation entices the latter, who moonlights as a crime novelist, and the line between fact and fiction is hard to decipher in this dark, brooding drama set in the 1960s.
Walter Stackhouse (Patrick Wilson) is an architect who lives in a beautiful, spacious home that he designed. He hosts lavish parties with his wife Clara (Jessica Biel), but it is evident that, despite the presence of many people around her, she latches on only to Walter's extended conversation with an attractive young woman, Ellie Briess (Haley Bennett). Her jealous behavior infuriates Walter, who is no angel given the fact that he does indeed lust for an affair with Ellie, anything to get him away from his possessive and sometimes suicidal spouse. His fascination with the unsolved case of the murdered Helen Kimmel and her husband (Eddie Marsan), the prime suspect, leads to events that seem to suggest that Walter is going to kill his wife too.
This is a film that very much frontloads its plot, with its title giving away a good portion of the film's events and leading to the big question of what crime exactly both Walter and Kimmel have committed if they are indeed innocent of the actual physical murder of their wives. Aside from short, spoken protests, neither man does much to argue for his innocence with his behavior. Kimmel is a man who keeps to himself and seems not to enjoy conversation with anyone, and Walter is a boastful, social man who couldn't be any less interested in his wife. The dogged, aggressive nature of the detective (Vincent Kartheiser) in hot pursuit of both of them is just about the only thing that makes either of them sympathetic.
Wilson spent time recently in the past on the other side of the law hunting criminals in the second season of "Fargo," and while he was an endearing hero there, he can definitely play the part of the smarmy smooth talker. Marsan is a talented actor extraordinarily suited for this role. Kartheiser makes the eccentric and passionate Detective Corby hard to forget, giving the film three layered characters, none of whom can be described as likeable. While it presents interesting questions and intriguing characters, this film doesn't do a great job of taking them anywhere, leading to a middling and unexciting resolution.


For Father's day 2018, I decided do a Space Day. What Space day was, was a day to rent a Tesla Model S, visit the SpaceX headquarters and tour the NASA JPL campus during their open house. It was a fun day that I'll never forget.
However, during my time driving around in the Tesla Model S, I wished there was some sort of app that I, a renter, could download to help me keep track of the battery power in the car, open doors or even contact the owner of the car.


Chili peppers are a small, fiery variety of capsicum and have a lot of varieties worldwide. They can be green, yellow, orange, red or black. They are some people who can't stand the hot and spicy taste on their meals but they are also many people who loved this on every meal they have, including me! Food tastes boring without chilies for me. Are you a chili pepper lover too? Do you demand heat and flavor with your meals? Did your garden bless you with an overabundance of this fruit? Okay, let's now explore recipes with chilies!
Warm your winter days with Turkey Chili. Healthy, nutritious and oh so good! It's an extraordinary quick meal that you can prepare, freeze and reheat when you need it!
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Powerful dish to end your day! Filled with aromatic herbs and appetizing chili blend with crispy lamb giving you a hearty meal.
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What if time isn't actually on our side?
Don Gillmor: It is amorphous and difficult to quantify, but hope is seen as fundamental to human progress
"We never seem able to live in a Golden Age and we're never headed toward one; it always happened in the past."Getty Images
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Don Gillmor
The time on the symbolic Doomsday Clock remains at two minutes to midnight, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced last Thursday. Though the clock has not moved in a year, Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the organization, says that's far from a good sign. "We have in fact entered a period that we call the new abnormal," Bronson said. "This new abnormal that the world now inhabits is unsustainable and unsettling. We appear to be normalizing a very dangerous world."
The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 by atomic scientists who had worked on the Manhattan Project. It symbolizes how close we are to man-made global catastrophe. The original setting of the clock was seven minutes to midnight, with midnight signifying the end. With the vivid spectre of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the threat of nuclear annihilation worried us all. But we got used to it. Other, more palpable threats — the environment, the economy — overtook the fear of nuclear winter.
By 1991, the clock was at 17 minutes to midnight, the farthest we've ever been from catastrophe. But that hope faded. A decade later we were back to seven. In 2007, the clock was amended to include climate change and technological threats as well as nuclear annihilation. Its current setting is two minutes to midnight, the closest it's been to the tick of annihilation since the Soviets tested a thermonuclear device in 1953.
As it inches toward midnight, it continues to measure the collective decline of hope.
What is hope exactly? The dictionary definition is "a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen." It is amorphous and difficult to quantify, but hope is seen as fundamental to human progress, so psychologists have come up with a way to measure it.
The Adult State Hope Scale consists of six statements, with graduated responses that range from Definitely False to Definitely True. The lowest score is six and the highest (most hopeful) is 48. I scored a middling 26, a glass half-empty kind of guy. But the questions only addressed individual issues – "There are lots of ways around any problem that I am facing now." If they had been on a more macro level – "Will my children survive climate change?" "Will Toronto commute times ever get shorter?" – I might have scored in the single digits.
On the other side of the psychological coin, there is the Beck Hopelessness Scale, which shows respondents' pessimism for the future. It features true and false questions such as, "I never get what I want, so it's foolish to want anything." (Mostly true.)
Both hope and hopelessness scales are somewhat subjective, and neither takes into account the evolution of our fears. A generation ago, people feared nuclear war. Prior to that, we were embroiled in the Second World War and fearful of a new world order. Before that, our collective fear was that the Depression would never end. In making their latest announcement about the Doomsday Clock, scientists said they took several issues into account, including nuclear weapons, climate change and cybersecurity.
This predilection toward worry prompts a simple question about our history: has any generation ever been hopeful for the future?
In a study titled, "Baby Boomers: The Gloomiest Generation," the Pew Research Center outlined the current nature of boomer pessimism. We worry that our incomes won't keep up with inflation (despite having the highest incomes in any age group), we worry that our standard of living is lower than our parents, we worry about the environment, nuclear war and getting old. Generation X is even less hopeful. The middle child of generations, sandwiched between Boomers and Millennials, their biggest fear is climate change according to an Australian study, closely followed by not having enough money for retirement. In terms of hopelessness, however, Gen X has nothing on Millennials. Only 37 per cent of that generation have "quite a lot of confidence" in the future. Their two top fears are climate change and war.
And while every generation has its own worries, each is convinced the next one is in even more trouble than they are. An Ekos poll of 2,443 Canadians showed that only 13 per cent said things would be better for the next generation, while 56 per cent thought things would be worse.
Both the Greatest Generation (born 1910-24) and the Silent Generation (1925-1945) had the threat of nuclear holocaust to contend with. You would think the post First World War crowd would be candidates. They survived the war and Spanish flu, but that didn't necessarily bring hope.
In Europe especially, the war left an indelible mark. Yale history professor Jay Winter argued that ever since 1918, "Europe has felt an underlying pessimism." They weren't called the Lost Generation for nothing. At any rate, anyone who was filled with hope in the Roaring Twenties had it dashed by the Depression. My grandmother lived through the Depression, but emerging out of those times didn't make her hopeful for the future. It just made her fearful that another Depression was coming.
In a world bereft of meaning, there's no point in pretending to be hopeful
What if all this is enough? Amazon's Forever prompts an uncomfortable but familiar question
We never seem able to live in a Golden Age and we're never headed toward one; it always happened in the past. In Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, Owen Wilson plays a writer who is transported back in time to 1920s Paris, his idea of a Golden Age. There he meets a character who feels the 1920s are empty and desperate; she longs for the Belle Epoque (1871-1914), which she sees as the Golden Age. Of course it was only named that in retrospect, after the horrors of the First World War. It's all a matter of perspective.
As a child I was hopeful for the future. It was going to bring more leisure time, time travel and individual rocket packs. Back then, the future was doled out sparingly; a good year might see the introduction of cassettes and touch tone phones. But each new development made our lives better. Now the future arrives weekly in confusing clumps that often seem to threaten something: privacy, employment, health, coastal cities.
It may be that hope is less generational than age-related. We start out hopeful but it dissipates as we grow older, replaced by experience, and finally, fear. We come to see the world as a daisy chain of unintended consequences and one big Ed Burtynsky photo waiting to happen.
"We are made wise not by the recollection of the past," George Bernard Shaw wrote, "but by the responsibility for our future." By that metric, wisdom seems in short supply these days.
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Emerging European Electronic Music band "Close To Monday" has been breezing through career milestones at breakneck speed since their inception as a collective in 2020. Now "Close to Monday" presents the remix of the track "Guns" performed by a bright Russian DJ and multiinstrumentalist Biicla ready to debut in Formula Indie the December 24th
The remix is available on all streaming platforms from
October 15 – https://linktr.ee/closetomonday
Biicla colored the "Close to Monday"s track "Guns" with his signature sound that combines the hard-hitting
elements of future bass with grungy synths, hip-hop grooves, and experimental nuances. His look is a refreshing
take on the original theme of the track, which leads to a decidedly alternative listening experience.
And this amazing track transformation is not accidental. Biicla has established himself in the music industry as
an original producer creating uniquely-styled tracks combining unusual blends of electronics, vintage samples
and live vocals. Not by chance, his debut immediately received critical praise from the industry taste-makers
like Billboard.
For "Close to Monday", this remix has become a wonderful continuation of a series of collaborations with bright
representatives of the electronic music scene, being a confirmation of the interest in the band's music from the
industry fellows. The alliance with the famous German producer Ron Flatter in the middle of summer has
resulted in the release of the band's first remix. And in early autumn, "Close to Monday" released an incendiary
remix of the track "Time" performed by the established techno and house master Dirty Doering.
"At some point, it seemed to us that everything happening in the world is terribly oppressive. There are so many
deaths and so much injustice. It felt as if we needed God's hand, but that of a tough God who would come and
put an end to the evil. "Guns" track is the feeling of anticipation of a righteous and tough hand" – Close To
ABOUT "CLOSE TO MONDAY" – In 2021, the band released a brand new album "Interference", which is
subsequently holding a second place position in the German Alternative Charts (being in the TOP 10 for eight
consecutive weeks); standing as the only representative of independent music across the full chart. Another of
the album's shining successes was the track 'Step By Step' which made it to #1 in both the LRDR Radio (France)
and Klangwald Radio (Germany) charts.
ABOUT BIICLA – Biicla is a Russian multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer. He is from an
extremely small town in Russia called Labytnangi (born in Dubna), which population is less than 30,000. He's
had success in Russia and has recently began to make waves in the US with his unique and irresistibly catchy
international brand of future bass mixed with house music influences.
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In search of the lost journalism
Alex Ross' collection of New Yorker writing Listen to This, recently published in paperback, is a salutary reminder of the depths to which music journalism has sunk elsewhere in the mainstream media. But where to find an alternative to the standard diet of reheated press releases other than in The New Yorker? Well, Amazon customer reviews may seem an unlikely source, but most professional music journalists could learn a thing or two from this contribution from Paul Magnussen:
This album forms one of a pair on the Nimbus label (the other being Cante Flamenco). Among Nimbus's laudable qualities at this time were first-class recordings, first-class (though not necessarily famous) artists, and careful attention to acoustics.
Especially notable, however, was an almost obsessive preoccupation with performances that were whole and 'live' -- not sewn together, Frankenstein fashion, from the usable parts of corpses. In accordance with this objective, the present album presents Gypsy artists, not in the recording studio, but in a small private club in Morón de la Frontera -- with no chance of retakes! Here Nimbus were really taking to the air without a parachute, because the difficulties of producing a first-class performance to order are legendary. Artists unused to being recorded may get self-conscious and seize up; others may be jealous of each other, or too tired, or too drunk, or not drunk enough...
Classical music is desperate to reach new and young audiences, yet the vital role of the music journalist as animateur is completely overlooked. The current generation of "another day another press release" music journalists would do well to reflect on Hesketh Pearson's tribute to a great music writer of the past, George Bernard Shaw.
The qualities in him that specially appealed to youth were his irreverence for tradition and office, his indifference to vested interests and inflated reputations, his contempt for current morality, his championship of unpopular causes and persecuted people, his vitality and humour, and above all his inability to take solemn people seriously.
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Andrew Morris said…
There does seem to be a lot of marketing masquerading as music journalism about. I'd like to think that the job of a music critic/writer (or at least the sort I'd like to be) is to be an intrepid explorer of lost musical continents, filing reports on their discoveries and experiences and inviting others to look more broadly at the cultural world around them. Or they could all just go on a jolly to the RFH every time Abbado or whoever rolls into town (nothing against him, btw; rather against the wall to wall coverage from all quarters), which is no doubt less time consuming.
Andrew, with the vision of "inviting others to look more broadly at the cultural world around them" and turns of phrase like "an intrepid explorer of lost musical continents" I think you should be considering a seond career.
Totally agree with you about the quality of some Amazon reviews. You need to sift, but not that hard. One can more or less dispense with professional critics nowadays.
I also love some YouTube comments. I love it when someone hears Mahler's adagietto or Mars from The Planets and less obvious things as well, who has obviously never listened to any classical music in his or her life, and is clearly transfixed by this "amazing song".
Philip Amos said…
I rather think that Pearson was there giving his view of Shaw in general, rather than as a music critic. I acknowledge him as one of the great music critics, but I have a considerable problem with some of Pearson's words, and I really can't let it pass.
There is a big dollop of irony in Pearson's reference to Shaw's "...championship of unpopular causes and persecuted people...". He certainly was the first, but the second? His support of Stalin after he met him in the early 1930s was absolute and unbending. In the play On the Rocks, one of his characters speaks of the need for the Cheka and for OGPU, their purpose being to question people about whether they are, to put it simply, pulling their weight in Soviet society. Those who cannot justify their existence, should be liquidated. This is not a satire or such: Shaw was deadly serious. I suspect he thought Stalin to be one of the 'supermen' he had much earlier written would emerge through a natural eugenic process. He did write a condemnation of pogroms on the grounds that they are anarchic: the killing of the undesirable, he said, should be humane.
I think the most appalling correspondence I have read is that between Shaw and Freda Utley. Utley, distinguished academically and a notable journalist (though not always reliable in her later life when, like many other former supporters of the Soviet system in the US, to which she had emigrated, she travelled very far to the Right) who moved to the USSR in 1928 after marrying a Russian functionary, Arcadi Berdichevsky. The turn came when her husband was arrested as a suspected Trotskyist in 1936, and Utley returned to the UK.
Once home, she tried to enlist her friends, and she had many in high places, and others in a campaign to get Berdichevsky released. She wrote to Shaw, and his replies, in their wording, are nigh on psychopathic in their lack of sympathy. He offers none, and says that if her husband has been imprisoned, obviously he must have done something to deserve it. Utley showed the Shaw correspondence to Bertrand and Peter Russell, who had been campaigning for Berdichevsky's release (Russell had turned against Bolshevism as early as 1920), both thought it disgusting, but very tellingly, Russell pronounced it typical Shaw and advised Utley to consider him a lost cause and not bother to write to him further letters.
Russell sometimes wrote rather silly things, especially as his dotage approached, but I have never found cause to doubt his sincerity. After reading those letters, and thinking also of Shaw's notions re eugenics, his support for Eamon de Valera when he wrote a letter of condolence upon the death of Hitler, and rather a lot of other skeletons in Shavian closets, I came to the conclusion that, music apart, in Shaw's writing, especially much of that on politics and society, his inconsistency is so vast that you can hardly trust a word he wrote.
DavidD, I totally agree with you, but would go further. Rather than "One can more or less dispense with professional critics nowadays" I would say "Professional critics have nowadays more or less dispensed with themselves".


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Q: Python - How to make multiply a given number to a given string I want to display a deck and output the number of cards.
Here are the cards:
side note: middle column is the power, last column is the number of cards for that name.
Admiral,30,1
General,25,1
Colonel,20,2
Major,15,2
Captain,10,2
Lieutenant,7,2
Sergeant,5,4
Corporal,3,6
Private,1,10

The number column represent the number of cards there is for that name. I want it to print out the following below using append. I know I'm suppose to append the rank column to the deck using a for loop, but I'm not sure how to code that.
The output is suppose to be:
['Admiral', 'General', 'Colonel', 'Colonel', 'Major', 'Major', 'Captain', 'Captain', 'Lieutenant', 'Lieutenant', 'Sergeant', 'Sergeant', 'Sergeant', 'Sergeant', 'Corporal', 'Corporal', 'Corporal', 'Corporal', 'Corporal', 'Corporal', 'Private', 'Private', 'Private', 'Private', 'Private', 'Private', 'Private', 'Private', 'Private', 'Private']
There are 30 cards in the deck.

my code here:
while True:
    text = rankFile.readline()
    #rstrip removes the newline character read at the end of the line
    text = text.rstrip("\n")
    if text=="":
        break
    data = text.split(",")
    rankList.append(data[0])
    powerList.append(int(data[1]))
    numberList.append(int(data[2]))

    for i in range(0, len(rankList)):
        rankList.append(numberList[i])  # this wont work since number is an integer but how can I modifiy this...

rankFile.close()

print(50*"=")
print("\t\tLevel 3 Deck")
print(50*"=")
print (rankList)
print (powerList)
print (numberList)

A: You can use also list.extend method to add specific number of cards:
cards = []
with open('cards.txt', 'r') as f_in:
    for line in f_in:
        r, p, n = line.strip().split(',')
        cards.extend((r, p) for _ in range(int(n)))

ranks, powers = zip(*cards)

print(ranks)
print(powers)

Prints:
('Admiral', 'General', 'Colonel', 'Colonel', 'Major', 'Major', 'Captain', 'Captain', 'Lieutenant', 'Lieutenant', 'Sergeant', 'Sergeant', 'Sergeant', 'Sergeant', 'Corporal', 'Corporal', 'Corporal', 'Corporal', 'Corporal', 'Corporal', 'Private', 'Private', 'Private', 'Private', 'Private', 'Private', 'Private', 'Private', 'Private', 'Private')
('30', '25', '20', '20', '15', '15', '10', '10', '7', '7', '5', '5', '5', '5', '3', '3', '3', '3', '3', '3', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1')


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Lawmakers looked to write a PHMSA reauthorization bill that gives the agency the flexibility to complete those outstanding regulations before focusing on other issues.


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Sri Lankan Opposition Leader Arrested
By AMANTHA PERERA / COLOMBO Monday, Feb. 08, 2010
S. Kodikara / AFP / Getty
A party worker remains inside the campaign office of Sarath Fonseka in Colombo shortly after he was arrested by the military police on Monday night
General Sarath Fonseka, the defeated candidate in Sri Lanka's recent presidential election, was arrested by military police at his Colombo residence Monday night, Feb. 8. The government said Fonseka, the former army commander, had been arrested on charges of "committing military offenses," but it offered no details. Lakshman Hulugalle, director general of the Media Centre for National Security, told state TV that Fonseka will be court-martialed. No date was given for any possible court appearance.
The government has previously accused Fonseka of organizing a coup and planning to assassinate President Mahinda Rajapaksa and two of his brothers, Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and member of parliament Basil Rajapaksa. Fonseka, who was once a powerful ally of Rajapaksa, led the military campaign that defeated the Tamil separatist insurgency last May. Soon after, he was named Chief of Defence Staff — a move that sidelined him and left him without any effective command. Fonseka later fell out with the Rajapaksa government and put himself forward as the opposition candidate in last month's elections.
(See a bio of Mahinda Rajapaksa.)
Despite predictions that the contest would be a close one, Rajapaksa won by a comfortable 1.8 million votes. But Fonseka did not go quietly. He has accused the government of harassment after the defeat and was meeting with opposition political leaders when military police arrived at his house Monday night. Witnesses at the scene told TIME that Fonseka had informed the military that he wanted police to be present when the arrest was made, but despite his protests, he was taken away by military police.
The arrest follows two weeks of drama that began with Fonseka and his close aides moving into a posh Colombo hotel during the evening of Jan. 26, election day. The hotel was soon surrounded by military. Fonseka complained that there was a threat to his life and that the government was limiting his movements. Authorities claimed that security had been increased around the hotel as a precaution, although several former military officers working on the Fonseka campaign were arrested as they left the hotel. The drama ended late in the evening on Jan. 27 when Fonseka finally left the hotel, although the war of words between the two sides has escalated since.
(See the top 10 news stories of 2009.)
The government is expected to dissolve parliament in the next few days and call legislative elections. Fonseka had indicated that he would be a candidate and had been negotiating an electoral pact with opposition parties when the arrest took place.
Fonseka's arrest is likely to fuel opposition protests that have remained lukewarm until now. The opposition held a protest rally in Colombo on Feb. 3 in which Fonseka participated. Opposition parties had vowed to continue with protests even before the arrest.
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