The Tri-Cities area is a major hub of transportation in the Pacific Northwest. The area offers excellent highway linkages, service from two national mainline and one shortline railroad companies, commercial air service and barge service providing intermodal service.
The Tri-Cities is served by Interstate Highway 82, which connects the Tri-Cities directly to the three nearby transcontinental Interstate Highways, I-84, I-90 and I-5.The Tri-Cities location provides accessible, alternate routes to I-5 corridor cities. This flexibility may become important if weather conditions or accidents block either Interstate option.
The Tri-Cities offers mainline rail freight service by both Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific Railroads. It is the only major metropolitan and major manufacturing area between the Cascade and Rocky Mountains offering this level of service by these two major national rail carriers. Shortline service is provided by Tri-City and Olympia Railroad Company. In addition to these rail carriers, the Tri-Cities offer a unique alternative for your rail needs – Railex. Railex Northwest is an innovative distribution platform designed to enhance logistics, distribution, consumer demands, and inventory control. The Railex platform features five refrigerated, mega-transload distribution centers – Northeast (Rotterdam, NY), California (Delano, CA), Northwest (Wallula, WA), Southeast (Jacksonville, FL), and Midwest (Chicago, IL). Railex Northwest (Wallula, WA) specializes in fine wines and fresh food and has two highly-specialized cold logistics infrastructures – one geared to wine; the other to perishable food – both with customized capabilities to meet diverse customer needs.
The Columbia-Snake River System is one of the most modern inter-modal transportation networks in the world. This commercial waterway extends 465 miles from the Pacific Ocean into the North American continent. This system includes eight dam and lock complexes allowing the numerous barge lines serving the river system to transport commodities to and from locations throughout the world. Barge service is available through the Port of Pasco and the Port of Benton.
The Tri-Cities Regional Airport is the third busiest airport in Washington State. The facility is served by Delta Connection/Sky West, Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air, United Express/Sky West, and Allegiant Air. Flights to and from the major hubs of Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Minneapolis are available daily. Through these connecting hubs, destinations across the nation and around the world are linked to the Tri-Cities.


April 3, 2018, 6 p.m.
A very common and popular question we hear is "How do I get all that data out of Jira to easily report and visualize with my team?" Come find out in this small, focused, and interactive session where we will cover one possible solution (there are several) to this question with the EazyBI team.
Lauma, Ilze and Zane, all Client Support Consultants at EazyBI, will speak on reporting out of Jira and how the current reporting limitations can be solved with a marketplace tool such as EazyBI. They will speak on common business reporting problems, how EazyBI approaches reporting and visualization, and run through use cases with an interactive demo. We will have time for an extended Q&A, so bring your questions and issues as we plan to have an open discussion with them and your fellow AUG members.


On Sunday, I'll be appearing at one of my favorite places, Island Books, on Mercer Island, for their Local Author Festival. Come by, hear about my memoir, SPLIT and share your own story. Have a snack with me and several other local writers whose work you'll want to know about.
There will be a gift certificate giveaway too. Bring a friend, join the fun!


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Q: Update Golang 1.13 to 1.14 I'm using version : 1.13 now I want to update 1.14 because I want to develop application in wasm, How I can do this [Without uninstall]
Version : 1.13.3/amdlinux
Ubuntu : 1.18.4
Thankyou for your help

A: You can't without uninstall, at least if you follow the installation method suggested in the official docs.
As the docs quote:

If you are upgrading from an older version of Go you must first remove the existing version.

One option you have is to extract the go1.14 binary to a separate directory not in your $PATH, and create a file/symlink go1.14 in your $PATH which points to the actual go 1.14 binary.

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package admission

import (
	"bytes"
	"reflect"
	"testing"

	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/unversioned"

	configapi "github.com/openshift/origin/pkg/cmd/server/api"
	configapiv1 "github.com/openshift/origin/pkg/cmd/server/api/v1"

	_ "github.com/openshift/origin/pkg/api/install"
)

type TestConfig struct {
	unversioned.TypeMeta

	Item1 string   `json:"item1"`
	Item2 []string `json:"item2"`
}

type TestConfigV1 struct {
	unversioned.TypeMeta

	Item1 string   `json:"item1"`
	Item2 []string `json:"item2"`
}

type OtherTestConfig2 struct {
	unversioned.TypeMeta
	Thing string `json:"thing"`
}

type OtherTestConfig2V2 struct {
	unversioned.TypeMeta
	Thing string `json:"thing"`
}

func (obj *TestConfig) GetObjectKind() unversioned.ObjectKind         { return &obj.TypeMeta }
func (obj *TestConfigV1) GetObjectKind() unversioned.ObjectKind       { return &obj.TypeMeta }
func (obj *OtherTestConfig2) GetObjectKind() unversioned.ObjectKind   { return &obj.TypeMeta }
func (obj *OtherTestConfig2V2) GetObjectKind() unversioned.ObjectKind { return &obj.TypeMeta }

func TestReadPluginConfig(t *testing.T) {
	configapi.Scheme.AddKnownTypes(configapi.SchemeGroupVersion, &TestConfig{})
	configapi.Scheme.AddKnownTypeWithName(configapiv1.SchemeGroupVersion.WithKind("TestConfig"), &TestConfigV1{})
	configapi.Scheme.AddKnownTypes(configapi.SchemeGroupVersion, &OtherTestConfig2{})
	configapi.Scheme.AddKnownTypeWithName(configapiv1.SchemeGroupVersion.WithKind("OtherTestConfig2"), &OtherTestConfig2V2{})

	configString := `apiVersion: v1
kind: TestConfig
item1: hello
item2:
- foo
- bar
`

	config := &TestConfig{}

	expected := &TestConfig{
		Item1: "hello",
		Item2: []string{"foo", "bar"},
	}
	// The config should match the expected config object
	err := ReadPluginConfig(bytes.NewBufferString(configString), config)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("unexpected: %v", err)
	}
	if !reflect.DeepEqual(config, expected) {
		t.Errorf("config does not equal expected: %#v", config)
	}

	// Passing a nil reader, should not get an error
	var nilBuffer *bytes.Buffer
	err = ReadPluginConfig(nilBuffer, &TestConfig{})
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("unexpected: %v", err)
	}

	// Passing the wrong type of destination object should result in an error
	config2 := &OtherTestConfig2{}
	err = ReadPluginConfig(bytes.NewBufferString(configString), config2)
	if err == nil {
		t.Fatalf("expected error")
	}
}

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Context is a scholarly tour business betting that digital marketing will let it replicate its model profitably worldwide. Other experiential tour businesses will watch with a skeptical (but hopeful) eye.
Lots of small travel companies get relatively small amounts of fundings. By that measure, news that Context Travel, a provider of walking tours and activities based in Philadelphia, took in a $5 million in investment from a private equity firm isn't that remarkable.
But the deal becomes more notable when it is seen as being representative of something a bit larger: Many travel companies are wrestling with how to meet the demand for a curated selection of experience-heavy travel at scale.
It is easy for travel industry types to quote surveys suggesting that more people — especially luxury travelers and millennials — prefer experiential travel over checklist or package tourism. There's a similarity to how to these middle- and upper-income people tend to buy travel instead of physical goods.
It's also easy to point to a growing demand for educational experiences, from the doubling of museums in the past couple of decades to the explosion of niche, skill-oriented workshops like cooking classes.
But it is harder for travel companies to figure out how to build a business addressing this perceived market with significant volumes.
Context Travel, which is a tour operator and not an aggregator, has faced a similar challenge of getting much bigger with its selective approach to tours, which emphasize very small groups "for the intellectually curious traveler." It's a problem that several of its tour operator rivals also face.
Context's differentiation is in hiring scholars, professionals, journalists, chefs, and other specialist professionals to lead its tours, which are typically limited in size to no more than six people.
If you broaden the category from more than just afternoon walking tours to educationally themed package tours and multi-day trips, this is a significant sector that includes names like Abercrombie & Kent, ACE Cultural Tours, Cazenove+Loyd, G Adventures, Martin Randall, National Geographic / Lindblad Expeditions, Intrepid, Remote Lands, and Smithsonian Journeys, among many others.
Founded in 2003, Context Travel only grossed about $8 million last year, an amount the company will need to ramp up for Active Partners, a London-based firm, to earn a multiple on its investment one day.
Active Partners has experience in finding so-called product-market fits for consumer brands, and then adding the jet fuel of equity to help replicate the model in a broader market quickly.
Over a decade, Active Partners helped the clothing maker Rapha become a market leader for high-end bicycling gear via direct-to-consumer sales, and Evans cycles to become a popular brand among cycling enthusiasts. In the past few years, the firm has similarly helped rapidly spread the opening of Leon and Honest Burger franchises in London.
But can travel follow the same model? Nick Evans and Alex Gilmore of Active Partners hope so. They will join Context co-founder Paul Bennett on the company's board.
How viable is the strategy? Airbnb, for one, is investing large amounts of money in its Trips product, which was launched late last year, and aims to cash in on a growing interest in "authentic" tours and activities.
Airbnb's gains appear to be meager, to date. Skift looked in depth at Airbnb's experiences product, talking to operators/hosts who participate in Trips.
One issue: Airbnb has had to be high-touch in its involvement, and it has probably not been making a profit. One expert estimated at the time that Airbnb only made about $10,000 in the Bay Area since launching Trips in November 2016.
Bennett, who cofounded Context Travel with his wife Lani Bevacqua, said that the competitive set broadly breaks down into two groups.
At the beginning of the year, Context had 15 full-time staff. It added four people, including a sales director. With the funding, the plan is to add about 10 more positions in technology and marketing. The company has a presence in 42 destinations, up from 13 destinations in 2011. It has about 1,500 English-speaking tour guides who lead about 700 tours.
Context plans on hiring a new CEO based in Philadelphia or New York City to execute the business plan and help take the company to the next level, with the co-founders stepping into a more consultative role.
Scaling involves challenges on both the demand and supply sides of the equation.
On the demand side, the company will need to invest in digital marketing — an effort that it has largely avoided until this year.
It has work cut out for it. A year ago, on a trip to Rio de Janeiro during the Summer Olympics, this reporter took several Context tours with friends, and the tour guides said that there had been few customers coming in during the past year.
Most of its business appears to come in Italy and France, with travelers giving the company high satisfaction ratings but only associating it with that specific country as opposed to being a multi-destination brand.
Active Partners is betting that issues like that are a function of poor marketing and that shoppers are out there and can be reached cost-effectively. "This was the first year we ever paid for customer acquisition online and more sophisticated and automated email marketing, and we grew 50 percent in our sales," said Bennett.
That suggests that, at least for a couple of years, the company has some "low-hanging fruit" that it could claim through applying best practices in marketing. Yet is there an upper limit to growth?
On the supply side, Context needs to produce tour guides, which it calls "docents," that meet its quality standards. On a recent look of tour availability in Japan in November, there is a dovetailing in the availability of tours in places like Kyoto and Tokyo that have higher-than-usual numbers of English-speaking masters and Ph.D. students than elsewhere in Japan.


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Tag Archives: sea captain
The Mad Hatter through the looking glass.
(2016) Fantasy (Disney) Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen, Rhys Ifans, Matt Lucas, Lindsay Duncan, Leo Bill, Geraldine James, Andrew Scott, Richard Armitage, Ed Speleers, Alan Rickman (voice), Timothy Spall (voice), Paul Whitehouse (voice), Stephen Fry (voice), Michael Sheen (voice), Barbara Windsor (voice). Directed by James Bobin
Like most normal movie fans, I don't mind some eye candy now and again – and I'm not talking about the good looking member of the opposite sex. I mean special effects that transport you to strange exotic places, create unusual and astonishing creatures and in essence bring awe, magic and wonder to the movies. However, like most movie critics, I'm not thrilled with special effects for their own sake.
Tim Burton's 2010 Disney fantasy Alice in Wonderland was a surprise hit – not a surprise that it was a hit so much but how big a hit it became. Grossing over a billion dollars worldwide, it was natural that the studio was eager for a remake but considering the A-list nature of some of the stars and Burton's own reluctance to make a sequel (James Bobin of The Muppets Most Wanted eventually got the job) has delayed this to the point where some have forgotten how good the first one was.
And it was rather good. I thought it was one of Burton's best ever, which has gotten me a lot of razzing in the film buff community I hang out in, but I stick to my assessment – it's imaginative and fun with less of Burton's neuroses to make it too dark. I'm guessing that the experience Burton had with Disney didn't stick too well with him, because he has chosen not to direct the sequel and it suffers from his absence.
Alice (Wasikowska) is now a young woman and not just any young woman, but the captain of a sea ship, the Wonder which was once her late father's ship. Attacked by pirates, she takes an incredible chance against them and (of course) escapes with a daring maneuver. Point for Alice.
However her former fiancé Lord Hamish (Bill) in a fit of pique has taken over her father's old company and has ordered the Wonder taken away from Alice and that she be reduced to a clerk in the organization. He sneeringly threatens to take away her mother's home which he coincidentally owns the mortgage on if she doesn't accept his terms. Turns out he's not just a twit but a spiteful one as well.
Searching his office for a clue as to how to get out of the situation, Alice is overheard and with nowhere to escape, discovers that the mirror may provide a useful means of egress. She goes through and ends back up in Underland, the world she fell into years ago and saved when she slew the Jabberwocky (which appears in a flashback here but sans dialogue since the voice of the original was the late Christopher Lee). It seems that a calamity has occurred.
The Mad Hatter (Depp) is in a deep depression. He believes he's found evidence that his family whom he once thought slain by the Red Queen (Carter) is still alive but nobody will believe him – including Alice. However, she determines that the only way to save the Hatter is to save his family from death and the only way to do that is to go back in time.
However, it turns out that Time is a person (Cohen) who doesn't much appreciate people meddling with the events of the past. However, Alice steals an orb that will allow her to go back in time and warn the Hatters' family about their impending demise, but what she doesn't realize is that the Orb powers the Great Clock which is what regulates Time itself and without it, everything will cease to be.
The plot goes on from there and if you want to find out more, see the bloody movie but let me just say that the problem with this movie is the problem that all time travel movies have – they are generally confusing, contradictory and make the viewer's head ache if they think about it too much. Given that this is a family film, the wee ones will probably be able to just accept the situation and keep going from there – kids are remarkable that way – but their parents will end up scratching their heads and wondering why they didn't stay home and paint that spare room.
That's not to say that this movie is less interesting than watching paint dry, far from it. Once again, some of the images are fantastic, such as Time contemplating an eternity of watches, each representing a human being who is still alive. When their watch stops, so do they and Time collects the stopped watches. Time is a bit of a melancholy fellow.
And Cohen plays Time with great depth and many layers. While I'm not sure why he had to give him a Yiddish/German accent other than that Cohen always plays with accents, nonetheless this is one of Cohen's less strict comedic parts. There are moments when Cohen gets to cut loose as a comic but he tempers those with moments that really touch the heart.
Wasikowska is plucky not only in character but as an actress; the role, as written, is pretty colorless and she does what she can with it but I would have liked to have seen more depth to her. When her mother's situation becomes apparent to her, we see her determination to save the day, but nothing of the emotions behind them. Alice is as two-dimensional here as the paper the original story was written on.
And again, this has little to do with the book Charles Dodgson a.k.a. Lewis Carroll wrote, so purists beware. Not that the plot matters overly much; Bobin clearly exists more time and energy in the special effects than he does on character development and plot (perhaps writer Linda Woolverton, who wrote the first Alice might bear some responsibility for this) which frankly is a mistake. As undiscerning as American audiences are, give them characters they care about in an environment that makes them slack-jawed with wonder and they'll return again and again to see your movie. It really isn't a very difficult concept to follow.
I was sorely disappointed in this sequel as I loved the first movie so much. This is more or less mediocre, not the crash and burn some critics made it out to be but certainly not a home run either. Audiences have reacted accordingly, with a resounding "not interested." It will likely recoup its budget and maybe make a little bit more after its home video run, but this Alice isn't as inviting for a return trip to Wonderland as the last.
REASONS TO GO: Some truly amazing images. Cohen gives his best performance ever.
REASONS TO STAY: Over-emphasis on effects over plot. Time travel is confusing and contradictory.
FAMILY VALUES: Some mild rude language and plenty of fantasy action and violence.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: This is Sacha Baron Cohen's first appearance in a film distributed by Disney.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Snow White and the Huntsman
NEXT: Captain America: Civil War
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PISCATAWAY, N.J. (October 18, 2014) – It was defensive battle for both teams for much of the night, as No. 19 Northwestern used two second half goals to exit Yurack Field with a 2-0 win over the Rutgers men's soccer on Saturday night.
Rutgers, facing its fourth ranked opponent of the season in Big Ten play, fell to 4-8-1 overall and 1-4-1 in the league. Northwestern improved to 7-2-4 on the season and 2-1-2 in the Big Ten.
The scoreless stalemate broke in the 59th minute with Northwestern's Drew Rosenberg making a pass across the front of the Rutgers goal, where Cole Missimo punched the ball in from the right post, for his team-leading fifth score of the year.
The Wildcats added in their second goal in the 82nd minute. Grant Wilson served the ball to the front of the Scarlet Knight net where Nikko Boxall took a header that hit the crossbar. Mike Roberge collected the rebound and fired into the back of the RU net for his first goal of the season.
The Scarlet Knights ended the night outshooting the Wildcats, 9-7, including a 6-2 advantage in the first half.
Redshirt freshman Jack Young (Saddle River, N.J.) had Rutgers' lone shot on net of the night early in the contest. Young evaded the Northwestern defense at the right corner of the 18, however his shot was saved by Tyler Miller in the 18th minute. For Miller, who ranks 12th in the country in save percentage, it would be his only stop of the evening.
Ten minutes later, as the Scarlet Knights moved the ball around the front the Wildcat net, sophomore Erik Sa (Watchung, N.J.) was able to get an open look, but his attempt went high over the NU goal.
RU also had several chances as the clock wound to zero in the first half. Freshman Miles Hackett (Montclair, N.J.) made several attempts to make a cross from the left post and eventually had a shot block and a free kick by Mitchell Taintor (Storrs, Conn.) sailed wide right of the net. The Scarlet Knights also got off a corner in the closing seconds, but a Dante Perez (East Windsor, N.J.) header also landed wide right.
After the Wildcats went up 1-0, the Scarlet Knights had a chance at an equalizer in the 76th minute of action. Sa played the ball into Wildcat territory to RU leading scorer Jason Wright (Kingston, Jamaica). The play drew out Miller out of goal allowing Wright to shoot over the defense and the keeper from 30 yards out, but his shot went just wide right of the net.
Sophomore Mitchell Walier (Holmdel, N.J.) garnered his second straight start and finished with a pair of saves. He came up with a huge stop in the game's 53rd minute when NU's Sam Forsgren played the ball off a defensive miscue and fired off to the left corner, but was thwarted by a diving Walier.
The Rutgers men's soccer team returns to action on Tuesday, Oct. 21 against Army in nonconference play at Yurcak Field at 7 p.m. The first 500 fans can receive a free USA "R" magnet.


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Regina Romero becomes the first Latina mayor of Tucson, Arizona
By Lisann Ramos November 6, 2019 2 Mins Read
Regina Romero hits the stage with her family on Tuesday, November 5, election night. Photo by Manuel Ruiz Photography, courtesy of Regina Romero's campaign.
Tuesday, November 5 is a day this Latina won't soon forget. It's a date that proved victorious for Democrat Regina Romero, who was elected as Tucson, Arizona's first Latina mayor. This makes her the only mayor out of the 50 most populous cities in the United States, who is Latina.
As if the significance of being the first Latina mayor wasn't enough, Regina will also be the city's first female mayor, according to Tucson.com.
Her path to this role as the leader of Tucson started long ago. She first served on the Tucson City Council in 2007. She also used to work at the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson as the director of Latino engagement.
This savvy politician is the daughter of immigrant farmworkers who was raised in Somerton, about three and a half hours away from Tucson, according to her campaign website.
Although Tucson's population is about 43% Hispanic, the city has never before elected a Latina mayor. The city is a blue dot in a historically red state, but Regina hopes to change that and is gearing up to create more of those blue dots. "We want to change the face of politics in Arizona, one city at a time…we have politicians with new ideas, we want to reflect the diversity of the state," Regina said in an interview with Telemundo.
While on the city council, Regina backed progressive causes and policy. She led the city in passing a resolution prohibiting Tucson from contracting with companies that profit off of the construction of Trump's border wall, and she's tried to keep local police from enacting federal immigration laws, says her campaign website.
In her new role, Regina says she plans to expand affordable housing in the city and put Tucson on the path to be carbon neutral by 2050.
Progressive groups have their sights set on a shorter timeline, to the 2020 elections. " With 2020 right around the corner and Arizona becoming a battleground state, her voice and leadership will be critical for Democrats' victory next November," said Executive Director of the Latino Victory Fund, Mayra Macías, about Regina's win.
Author Lisann Ramos
Lisann Ramos (she/her/hers) is a Content Writer for Pulso. She is a Cuban American writer, audio producer and reporter. She produces a podcast called Now That We're Friends for O, Miami. She lives in Miami, Florida, where she was born and raised. 📧: [email protected]


They say "A picture paints a thousand words." Look deep into this picture and you will see what the New World Order is all about – False Flags – Natural Resources & Money – Chip and Pin for everyone – Mass depopulation by whatever means including WMD's (depleted urnnium), Vaccinations (HPV, Swine Flu and other toxic jabs), Mind Control, Forced removal – Imprisonment – Assasinations/Deaths – Matial Law – Police State – Drones – CCTV/Internet/Phones Monitoring and Total Control of your life!! Basically do what they say or have your chip switched off making it impossible for you to go to the bank, go shopping, go to hospital or see a doctor etc without these basic needs ones fate is clearly sealed!!
This is only for USA, what about the rest of the world?


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U.S. Air Force F-15C Eagles, F-15E Strike Eagles, assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing, and Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4s escort B-1 Lancer Bombers, assigned to Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, during a bomber task force mission in the North Sea Region, Nov. 10, 2021. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Koby I. Saunders
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Air Force is 120 Airplanes Smaller Since 2020, But Fighters and Bombers Stay About Level
Nov. 24, 2021 | By John A. Tirpak
The Air Force trimmed 120 airplanes from its fleet in fiscal 2021, gaining the most aircraft among its F-35 fighter squadrons and giving up the most from its B-1 bomber units, according to data provided by the Air Force. With puts and takes, the Air Force's kinetic shooter fleet, not including special operations, stayed about the same, at 2,301 aircraft.
The F-35 fleet gained 61 aircraft in 2021, with the most—33 airplanes—filling out squadrons at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, in Pacific Air Forces, which now has 43 jets. Another 13 bolstered Air Education and Training Command's training squadrons, giving it 115 in total. Air Combat Command picked up six F-35s, for a total of 122, and the Air National Guard gained nine, for a total of 20. Air Force Materiel Command has two for test. The Air Force had 302 F-35s as of Sep. 30., the end of the fiscal year. The F-35 fleet is now second only to the F-16 fleet in size.
Global Strike Command gave up the 17 B-1B aircraft the Air Force asked Congress to let it retire last year, leaving it with a force of 45 of the bombers, which remain distributed between Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, and Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. The other two bomber fleets—the B-2A and B-52H—remained at 20 and 76 airplanes, respectively. Eighteen B-52s are in the Air Force Reserve Command and two "belong" to Air Force Materiel Command, for testing, although former Air Force Global Strike Command chief Gen. Timothy M. Ray predicted as many as 12 may switch from AFGSC to AFMC to support testing of a variety of new weapons, particularly hypersonic missiles.
The F-22 fleet remained static at 185 aircraft, but eight airplanes apparently transferred from Air Combat Command to Pacific Air Forces.
While ACC gained two brand-new F-15EX aircraft, U.S. Air Forces in Europe and the Air National Guard each gave up an F-15C. Air Combat Command has just 23 F-15C/Ds, while the ANG has 136, PACAF owns 53 and USAFE 20, with AFMC having five for test, for a total of 237 F-15C/D.
The F-15E fleet of 218 aircraft are mostly in ACC, with 158; while USAFE has 55 and AFMC has five for test.
The F-16C/D fleet of 937 aircraft—down just one from 2020—is mostly in the Air National Guard, which has 332 of the jets. The next largest operator is ACC, with 168, followed by PACAF, with 135 and AETC, with 134. USAFE has 78 F-16C/D while AFMC, which uses them as chase planes as well as for test purposes, has 36.
The A-10C fleet, which the Air Force says it will not reduce further until around 2030, is at 281 aircraft; unchanged from 2020. The bulk of those, 115, are in ACC, while the ANG has 85, Air Force Reserve Command has 55, and PACAF has 24. The remaining two are with AFMC for test purposes.
The MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft fleet increased by 33 airframes to 323. AETC gained 24 Reapers for training.
Air Combat Command gained one AT-6 light attack aircraft for development of tactics and partnership concepts with coalition nations.
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DOD Condemns Iranian-Backed Houthi Attack on Partner UAE
Iranian-backed Yemeni Houthi rebels attacked U.S. partner the United Arab Emirates on Jan. 17 with a combination of drone and missile strikes targeting two of the country's airports and an oil refinery, killing three and setting off multiple explosions in the capital of Abu Dhabi. The Defense Department condemned the…
Air Force's Major Accidents Trending Down Slightly
The trend for Air Force major accidents is down over the past five years, with fewer Class A accidents and fewer deaths. However, Class B accidents, which are less destructive, are on the rise, according to data released by the service Jan. 18 and current as of Dec. 15.
Air Force Activates Two New Fighter Generation Squadrons at Moody
The Air Force inactivated one squadron and activated two new ones at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., on Jan. 14, as Air Combat Command continues working to better align fighter operations and maintenance. The 23rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron is making way for the 74th and 75th Fighter Generation Squadrons. The…
USAF Looks to Small Businesses for Some F-22 Upgrades
The Air Force Research Laboratory is looking for small businesses to help upgrade the F-22 Raptor. The stealth jet would get new helmet-mounted weapon cuing systems, artificial intelligence systems to help plot optimum intercepts and drive escort drones, and predictive maintenance gear, among a list of 14 potential opportunities, but…
GBSD, LRSO, B-21, NGAD All Face Lengthy Delays if Continuing Resolution is Extended, Brown Warns Congress
Billions of dollars are on the line if Congress cannot pass a defense appropriations bill in the coming month and instead decides to fund the Defense Department through a continuing resolution for the rest of fiscal 2022, service chiefs and top Pentagon officials warned a House panel Jan. 12. A…
Collins Aerospace Will Update B-52 Power Generation
Collins Aerospace, part of Raytheon Technologies, will upgrade the B-52 bomber's power generation system, the company said. The improvements are meant to boost the B-52's range while reducing its carbon footprint.
USAF Aircraft Availability on Long Downward Trend, CBO Says
The Air Force and Navy are both seeing a long-term, downward trend in aircraft availability and flying hours per aircraft, which is actually worse than the Pentagon reports because of the way the Defense Department counts aircraft as ready for duty, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget…


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Q: Friendship self referential association I've been trying to implement a Facebook style friend system. I've read several tutorials and can't understand what I'm doing wrong. The friendship controller and the links in the views for adding friends work, but on the database level it throws an error.
When I open the rails console and put:
User.find(1).friends << User.find(2)

I get:
SQL (0.4ms)  INSERT INTO "friendships" ("user_id", "friend_id", "created_at", "updated_at") VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)  [["user_id", 1], ["friend_id", 2], ["created_at", "2017-10-14 15:01:28.364691"], ["updated_at", "2017-10-14 15:01:28.364691"]]
(0.1ms)  rollback transaction
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: SQLite3::SQLException: no such table: main.friends: INSERT INTO "friendships" ("user_id", "friend_id", "created_at", "updated_at") VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)
from (irb):1

user.rb
has_many :friendships, dependent: :destroy
has_many :friends, through: :friendships

# these are used in the controller

def befriend(user)
  friends << user
end

def unfriend(user)
  friends.delete(user)
end

def friends?(user)
  friends.include?(user)
end

friendship.rb
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :friend, class_name: 'User', foreign_key: "friend_id"

validates :user_id, presence: true
validates :friend_id, presence: true

I'm using Devise for authentication.

A: You aren't creating friends (the other user already exists), but friendships.
user.rb
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :friendships, dependent: :destroy
  has_many :friends, through: :friendships, source: :friend
end

friendship.rb
class Friendship < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  belongs_to :friend, class_name: 'User'
end

console
User.find(1).friendship.create(friend_id: User.find(2).id)

A: I created two tables named User and Friendship
> rails g model User first_name:string last_name:string
> rails g model Friendship user:references friend:references
> rake db:migrate

In user.db, defined two has_many associations:
class User < ApplicationRecord
    has_many :friendships, dependent: :destroy
    has_many :friends, through: :friendships
end

In friendship.rb:
class Friendship < ApplicationRecord
   belongs_to :user
   belongs_to :friend, class_name: 'User'
end

In rails console, I created two sample users and made them friends:
> User.create(first_name:"Blue", last_name:"Sky")
> User.create(first_name:"White", last_name:"Cloud")
> Friendship.create(user:User.first, friend:User.second)
> Friendship.create(user:User.second, friend:User.first)

Or:
> User.first.friendships.create(friend:User.second)
> User.second.friendships.create(friend:User.first)

Now you can retrieve all friends that belong to one user. For example:
> User.first.friends


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Egypt's new Cabinet has been sworn in, in a reshuffle that keeps the ministers of defence and interior in power, days after the country's interim president chose a new prime minister.
State television aired the ministers being sworn in live from the presidential palace, led by new Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab on Saturday.
The new Cabinet keeps Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as the country's defence minister.
59-year-old Sisi is widely expected to be running for president.
The country's interior minister, Mohammed Ibrahim, who oversees the country's police has faced widespread criticism of his performance in handling rising violence and for using heavy-handed tactics against dissent.
The new Cabinet is led by former Housing Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, who held a senior position in the now dissolved party of ousted Hosni Mubarak.
Mahlab will keep 20 ministers from el-Beblawi's government and appointed 11 new ones, mostly technocrats.
The surprise resignation of the Cabinet earlier this week, including then Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi, comes a few months before the presidential vote.
The forthcoming presidential election is seen as a major step in a roadmap outlined by the interim military-installed authorities after Morsi's ouster.
Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected and civilian president, was removed after mass protests against his year-long rule.
On Saturday, an appeals court postponed a request by lawyers to appoint new judges in Morsi's trial to Monday, judicial sources said.
Morsi is on trial for multiple offences including breaking out of jail during the 2011 uprising against former president Hosni Mubarak and for conspiring with foreign powers and movements to destabilise Egypt.
Also on Saturday, the youngest son of Morsi was detained by police on suspicion of drug possession, the country's official news agency reported.
The MENA news agency said police detained Abdullah Morsi, a 20-year-old university student, after a police patrol found two rolled hashish cigarettes in the car.
Police officer Hazem Saad told the agency that Morsi's son confessed to possession of the hashish.
Abdullah's older brother, Osama, rejected the accusations, calling them fabricated.
He said his brother just had been transferred to prosecutors and could not have confessed since there had not been an interrogation yet.
"This is an attempt to smear our image," Osama Morsi, a lawyer, told to The Associated Press. "Half the members of this government consume alcohol and they are now accusing Morsi's son of consuming a substance that alters consciousness."
Morsi's family so far has stayed out of legal trouble amid an intensive government crackdown on Morsi supporters and leading members of his group, the Muslim Brotherhood.


Long Island's Opt Out Movement Has Made The Grade—Now What?
Long Island's Opt Out Movement Has Made The Grade—Now What?
Early this month, Betty Rosa, New York State's new education chancellor, was on Long Island to visit Medford Elementary School, where she met with students, teachers and staff. Children in the dual language kindergarten program easily conversed with her in both English and Spanish.
As the highest ranking member of the state's Board of Regents and the state's education czar, the teachers and the superintendent regarded Rosa with respect. After all, she is the boss, with a capital B. But the kids took to her with the natural curiosity and comfort of childhood that essentially said, "She's one of us." She spoke their language. Literally.
The friendly scene was in stark contrast to the heated battle pitting the governor, the teachers unions and grassroots public school advocacy groups against one another. The struggle came to a head during this spring's testing season, culminating in a giant win for Long Island Opt-Out, a parent-led group that organized an historic number of test-refusals this year with almost 100,000 students—more than half of the student population in Nassau and Suffolk counties—opting out of state tests. Their message has been effective: No more Common Core. Despite incremental fixes promised by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his so-called "Common Core Task Force," they are still demanding concrete changes.
Yet, it remains to be seen how this evolving protest movement will improve or replace the current education agenda.
Rosa had spoken out against high-stakes testing at a press conference in March after the Board of Regents had selected her to the leadership post. She said that if she were not a board member herself and her children were elementary-school aged, she would opt them out of taking New York's Common Core tests. On May 3, at the elementary school in Patchogue, she told the Press that she doesn't believe the state should have the right to withhold funds from school districts with significant numbers of students who had refused to take state tests in April.
But no sweeping changes can be made to a school's education policy without the support of the local district's board of education. Perhaps no one understands this better than Jeanette Deutermann, founder of Long Island Opt-Out Info, the popular Facebook page with more than 24,000 members that transformed into a robust-and powerful advocacy group. Deutermann told the Press that the election of nearly 100 Opt-Out members to local school boards, coupled with a new Regents chancellor, means that the tide is turning.
A key part of Long Island Opt Out's strategy for the last two years has been to promote local supporters to their individual district's school boards. So far, Long Island Opt Out has helped elect 94 candidates; 34 out of 57 this year, including local advocates Anthony Griffin and Sara Wottawa, who were elected on May 17 to their respective school boards.
Griffin, an English teacher in Central Islip and co-founder of Lace to the Top, an advocacy group that promoted bright green laces to signify that "children are more than test scores," was an LIOO-backed candidate who won a seat on the South Country school board. He's hoping to influence his children's public education experience from the local level.
Wottawa is an outspoken parent in the Sachem School District. She joins two other LI Opt Out-endorsed board of education members who were elected last year to serve on the nine-member board.
Though she's in the minority on the school board, Wottawa is upbeat.
The special April 19 election of Assemb. Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach) to the State Senate to replace disgraced former GOP Senate majority leader Dean Skelos is seen as a key step in a populist-driven shift in the state's education agenda, according to Diane Ravitch, a research professor of education at New York University and a former assistant Secretary of Education in Washington, D.C. under President George H.W. Bush. During the Clinton administration she was appointed to the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the federal testing program.
Kaminsky drew wide support from New York public school advocates after he sponsored three bills in the Assembly in February that would repeal several components of Cuomo's Education Transformation Act. The bill would decouple teacher evaluations from test results, create an alternative pathway for graduation for students who do not wish to take or are unable to pass Regents examinations and repeal a provision that allows the state to place struggling or failing schools into receivership. Kaminsky's recent election—although he'll have to run again in November—allowed him to introduce his Assembly bills in the State Senate, where they have been referred to the education committee, which has until the middle of June, when the current legislative session ends, to determine their fate.
Kaminsky's win at the polls came after public education advocates were buoyed by the Board of Regents' 15-0 election of Rosa as Chancellor to replace Meryl Tisch, who was seen as a proponent of the high stakes testing.
Putting the emphasis back on teaching and learning may seem like a broad idea for education reform, yet Rosa cites her long history that includes her role as superintendent of a New York City community school as a key to her goals moving forward. It is that particular background that motivates her to embrace the vision of Michael Hynes, superintendent of Patchogue-Medford schools.
In direct opposition to Common Core, Hynes, has spearheaded a five-year "Whole Child" program, which he said can "save education" and be the "answer to Albany." He presented it to the board of education on May 16.
Rosa said she agrees with the approach.
She also supported Cuomo's recent emphasis on community schools.
Hynes' focus on the whole child comes as a result of his background in psychology and as a former elementary teacher in Bellport. He bases it on the simple concept that kids can have fun and learn in school simultaneously.
"They can play and utilize highly developed divergent thinking skills at the same time," Hynes said. "We need to teach our children how to socially and emotionally excel. On the flip side, we also need to teach them how to recalibrate when they are having difficulty with something.
This idea is in stark opposition to the EngageNY curriculum that the State Department of Education has been pushing to coincide with the Common Core standards. New York's curriculum is taught from firmly established modules that give teachers little room to waver from. Because the high-stakes tests are based upon this strict curriculum—and because teacher evaluation had been directly tied to the test results—the idea of learning through play had been replaced with a high-pressure classroom atmosphere that Hynes said benefits neither the educator nor the student.
On a cold rainy Tuesday in early May, kindergarten children at Medford Elementary joyfully showed off their Spanish skills in a counting song to Rosa's obvious delight. The dual language program facilitates fluency in Spanish at a young age.


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Searching for the authentic desert experience
Charles Darwin University lecturers and researchers will play a major role in the Desert Knowledge symposium in Alice Springs next month.
Research findings in tourism will be delivered by Associate Professor Pascal Tremblay and researchers Andrew Taylor, Dean Carson and Alicia Boyle.
PhD research student Damien Jacobsen will also take part in a forum session.
Indigenous Research Fellow Josie Douglas will discuss the harvesting of bush food as a business, while lecturer Dr Naomi Rea, from the School of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, will explain Aboriginal participation in resource development and the recognition of their rights and cultural values.
The symposium, hosted by the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre will bring together speakers from around the world, including the US, Namibia, United Arab Emirates, South Africa and Niger to explore the work being done in desert communities to develop sustainable economies.
An important element of the symposium will be the tourism potential of desert communities, with CDU research being presented to help build a bigger picture of the opportunities, especially in national parks and Indigenous communities.
Associate Professor Tremblay's paper will deal with the role played by protected areas such as national parks in developing desert tourism economies.
Andrew Taylor and Dean Carson will explore various aspects of the impact of the 4WD motoring market on desert tourism, an increasingly important issue as Baby Boomers retire and head out into the desert for its unique landscape and cultural experiences.
Alicia Boyle will deliver her paper on education entitled Leaving a Legacy in the Desert.
Associate Professor Tremblay says there has been a growth in demand from tourists for the 'authentic' Indigenous experience as the 4WD drive-yourself market becomes more adventurous.
"Most tourists will not say that their main reason for going into the desert is to see Indigenous culture, but they do expect it to be there," he says.
As a result, there was now considerable research being done in the best way to set up entrepreneurial enterprises involving cultural awareness in Indigenous communities.
"But it can be very tricky to achieve," he says. "It is quite a complex task to set up a tourism venture that offers an authentic experience, yet at the same time offer tourists the levels of comfort, convenience and facilities that they expect.
"But it is necessary not to raise false hopes among tourists as to what they are likely to experience, but it would also be irresponsible not to attempt to set up these ventures because it was thought they were too difficult."
The Desert Knowledge symposium will run from November 1-3.