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Mueller Report Released: Reads, Reactions, and Takeaways
April 20, 2019 April 21, 2019 Robert Martin (CN Staff) News Article, Politics
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report was released by Attorney General William Barr Thursday. Roughly a third of the report contained at least one redaction, and twelve pages were entirely blacked out. Many of the redactions centered around the actions of the Internet Research Agency, Russia's infamous troll farm.
Republicans reacted with glee Thursday, turning the end of the Mueller investigation into the first day of campaign season, 2020. "Democrats want to keep searching for imaginary evidence that supports their claims, but it is simply not there," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said in a statement. "What we do need to be talking about it why this started in the first place," added Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC).
Democratic Senator, and presidential candidate, Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) urged Congress to begin impeachment proceedings Friday, following the release of the report. "The Mueller report lays out facts showing that a hostile foreign government attacked our 2016 election to help Donald Trump and Donald Trump welcomed that help," Warren said on Twitter. "Once elected, Donald Trump obstructed the investigation into that attack."
The Mueller report, argues Yoni Applebaum in The Atlantic, reads like an impeachment referral. "The accused is entitled to a fair defense and a chance to clear his name. Every American is entitled to this protection, from the humblest citizen all the way up to the chief executive," Applebaum says. "And that, Mueller explained in his report, is why criminal allegations against a sitting president should be considered by Congress and not the Justice Department."
President Trump's strong tweets regarding the Mueller investigation were echoed by Byron York in the Washington Examiner. "At its heart, the Trump-Russia probe was about one question: Did the Trump campaign conspire, coordinate, or collude with Russia to influence the 2016 election?" York writes that none of the subsequent convictions produced by the Mueller investigation, from Paul Manafort's tax and bank fraud to Michael Flynn's false statements to the FBI, would have occurred, "were it not for that question."
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'I need to go to the hospital,' SLO jail inmate said before deadly heart attack
The jail is the subject of a civil rights investigation by the FBI, which officially began in May. An FBI spokesperson was not immediately available for comment on the status of that investigation early Wednesday.
According to an autopsy report written by Detective Coroner Rory Linn, he and Carter reported to the jail to investigate the death and found Hammer lying on the concrete floor in a walkway between I Deck and O Deck. He was hooked up to an oxygen machine, intravenous fluids and defibrillator pads, the report says.
Linn wrote that there were no signs of external trauma.
During the transport in a wheelchair, the decedent became unresponsive.
Autopsy report written by SLO Sheriff's Detective Coroner Rory Linn
Jail staff reportedly told Linn that Hammer contacted them from his single-person cell saying he was short of breath.
"Medical staff was immediately notified and jail staff began transporting the decedent to the medical facility at the jail," the report reads. "During the transport in a wheelchair, the decedent became unresponsive."
Linn wrote that after life-saving efforts failed, staff examined Hammer's cell, finding no evidence of drug use, foul play or criminal activity.
Hammer's autopsy was performed the next day, with Carter finding congestion in the pulmonary lobes of Hammer's lungs and blood clots within dilated veins in his calf, according to the report. Linn wrote that aggravating factors included Hammer's peripheral vascular disease and cellulitis in his left calf.
Hammer, who was initially housed in a dorm with other inmates after being booked on assault charges, was eventually moved into a single cell "for mental health concerns," Linn wrote. The Tribune previously reported that court records show Hammer was accused of stabbing his wife with a butcher knife and charged Nov. 8 with corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant and assault with a deadly weapon, both felonies.
Records show he was in the care of San Luis Obispo County Mental Health from at least Nov. 8 until Nov. 13, when his attorney declared a doubt of his mental competency to stand trial. A Superior Court judge suspended his criminal case and appointed two forensic psychologists to perform psychiatric evaluations. Hammer was due back in court in December for review of doctors' findings.
His death is the latest in a series of deaths that have brought attention to questionable treatment of inmates with mental and medical health needs by jail and county health staff. In July 2017, the county awarded $5 million to the family of former inmate Andrew Holland, a mentally ill Atascadero man who died after being held in a restraint chair for nearly two days.
The parents of Andrew Holland, who died in custody at the San Luis Obispo County Jail on Jan. 22, 2017, led a candlelight vigil and march Monday — a year after the 36-year-old man's death. "We've got a lot of warriors here," Carty Holland said. An
The county has implemented a host of policy reforms for mentally ill inmates and is separately awaiting results of a review by a third-party consultant tasked with providing other recommended changes. Results of that review are expected within the coming months. A request for proposals to contract outside medical and mental health services at the jail is also expected to be released early this year.
The jail is expecting to open its newly constructed medical facility building in May.
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Attorney Paula Canny talks about the circumstances surrounding Andrew Holland's death in San Luis Obispo County Jail. Holland died of an embolism Jan. 22 after spending 46 hours strapped to a restraint chair.
In-custody deaths at the SLO County Jail, 2012-17
The following people died while in custody of the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office since January 2012.
Jan. 5, 2012: Kevin Lee Strahl, 53. Cause: Hepatic failure, liver fatty change
Nov. 12, 2012: Joseph Morillo, 43. Cause: Cardiac arrest due to thickening of heart muscle and morbid obesity
Jan. 27, 2014: Rudy Silva. Died in hospital care. Cause: Acute hypoxic respiratory failure, septic shock, Influenza A and Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia
March 12, 2014: Josey Richard Meche, 28. Cause: Cardiac dysrhythmia with acute methamphetamine toxicity
May 30, 2014: Timothy Richard Jancowicz, 29. Cause: Respiratory arrest due to heroin toxicity
Jan. 11, 2015: David Thomas Osborn Sr., 63, Cause: Acute myocardial infarction, Atherosclerotic coronary artery disease, hyperglycemia
March 24, 2015: Sean Michael Alexander, 33. Cause: Microscopic encephalitis, marked pulmonary edema
Sept. 20, 2016: Jordan Benjamin Turner, 36. Cause: Suicide with razor blade
July 16, 2016: Nicole Honait Luxor, 62. Died in hospital care. Cause: Complications from gallbladder cancer
Jan. 22, 2017: Andrew Chaylon Holland, 36. Intrapulmonary embolism
April 13, 2017: Kevin Lee McLaughlin, 60. Cause: Cardiac arrhythmia due to acute chronic ischemic heart disease
November 27, 2017: Russell Alan Hammer, 62. Cause: Pulmonary thrombo-embolism, deep vein thrombosis
Note: Unless stated otherwise, death occurred at the San Luis Obispo County Jail
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Deep Denial wins the 2017 Indie Book Award for Current Events/Social Change, and was also awarded Finalist standing in both Historical Non-Fiction and Multicultural Non-Fiction categories.
No one speaks to racism and its cure better than David Billings, a white Southerner who has seen it all. His is a voice that needs to be heard. It is a voice with perfect pitch.
– Charlayne Hunter-Gault, award-winning journalist, former correspondent NPR, MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and CNN; civil rights pioneer
Deep Denial, part popular history and part personal memoir, documents the 400-year racialization of the United States and how people of European descent came to be called white. Author David Billings focuses primarily on the deeply embedded notion of white supremacy and tells us why, despite the Civil Rights Movement and an African-American president, we remain, in the words of the author, a nation hard-wired by race.
A master storyteller, Billings starts each chapter with a disarming and intimate vignette from his personal life, beginning with his white, working-class boyhood in Mississippi and Arkansas. He then situates these telling moments in a broader historical context that will be new and disturbing to many readers.
Part I covers the origins and evolution of white supremacy from 17th century Virginia through World War II. Part II focuses on the Civil Rights Movement, how it emerged in the post-WWII era, and why it subsequently devolved from a vibrant community-led, issue-based movement into the bureaucratic, government-sponsored, needs-based, nonprofit industry of today. An epilogue discusses strategies for dismantling white supremacy and undoing racism in America.
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We were treated to four amazing presentations by our student guests, Lauren Gallant, Kirsten Smythe, Sawyer Stoyanovich, and Adelle Strobel. Judges awarded Lauren, a Ph.D. Candidate from the University of Ottawa, the prize for best presentation. She won a gift certificate to the Clock Tower Brew Pub, our long time venue. Lauren shared her research project on the identification of historical sites used by the ancient Thule people and their impacts on Arctic lake systems as a means to better understand how human activity can impact the chemistry of remote Arctic Lakes. We thank all of the students for their participation. We're looking forward to doing this again next year!


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Whereas many exhibitions in Europe are being cancelled, the FlowersExpo in Moscow, Russia continued. Last week, from September 8-10 the Crosus Expo in Moscow opened its doors. Of course, with less international exhibitors, the exhibition was different from past editions, but still there was a lot to see, both on the exhibition floor as well as online.
The in-person edition in the Crocus Expo in Moscow welcomed 9,857 visitors and the number of visitors on the online platform was 1,870 from 38 countries.
Dekker Chrysanten, was one of the few foreign exhibitors and they were the only Dutch chrysanthemum breeder and grower with a physical booth at the exhibition. "Dekker is a dyed-in-the-wool exhibitor at this exhibition and we didn't want skip this edition. Particularly because these are uncertain times and the need for information is high", says Warja Abrosimova, Marketing Manager Eastern Europe at Dekker. Besides Dekker also Straathof Young Plants, seller of Dekker cutting material in Russia was present.
Even though the amount of booths was a lot lower than usual, the number of visitors was more or less similar to other years. "The physical exhibition had over 10,000 visitors and online over 1,800 took part, including me.", she says. "With a heavy heart, I had to cancel my trip to Russia, because of 'code orange'. This also meant that we had to improvise, but Russians like me are good at that."
Every day, she was virtually present at the exhibition, every time from a different location in the Netherlands. "Every day, I was in a different greenhouse in the Netherlands showing the varieties of Dekker that growers are growing for the Eastern European market. Besides, we've made a video with our growers, especially for the exhibition. Also that was highly valued." Visitors could see the videos and her broadcasts live at the exhibition.
Dmitry Turcan
The booth of Dekker was manned by their local marketing colleague and a famous Russian arranger and influencer Dmitry Turcan, who reaches millions of people on social media. "We are cooperating with Dmitry for a while. He is extremely popular and partly due to his presence, our stand was 'the place to be'. Literally thousands of pictures have been taken", Warja says. "Even with corona, the exhibition was a huge success for us. It has been a very good decision to participate, particularly now and it has been valued by our relations. At the booth, we had a book in which the visitors could leave a message. After the first day, it was already completely full, even with poems and personal messages. Very special and heart warming."
Left: Marketing specialist Olga Mamomova, together with Dmitry Turcan.
On the right, people from Souzsvetorg, a retail chain in Moscow with 50 shops, visiting the booth.
At the booth, Dmitry Turcan gave the visitors more information about the santini assortment of Dekker. "Of course, Dmitry knew our varieties already, but he explored the options and quality of our santinis more. He told me that he started to love the santinis even more." Besides, also new varieties were presented, like Montes. The white spray chrysanthemum Montes is on the market for about half a year now and differentiates itself from other spray chrysanthemums as the flower further develops in the vase. The varieties of Dekker were also used during the Russian Florist Cup and the Russian Florist Award during the exhibition.
Warja in the Nederlands being busy at the exhibition
During the FlowersExpo, a conference took place where Warja held a presentation about the turbulent market during the corona crisis and the future market developments. Also further digitalisation was discussed, for example at FloraHolland. The presentation was a hit. "We were contacted and asked if the presentation was for sale. A compliment, but also a signal that people are really looking for information and particularly in these uncertain times."
"Despite we've rather had a usual exhibition, we got in touch with many new people. Particularly because there weren't that many exhibitors. The Russians attach a lot of value to loyalty, and we've shown that we are there, in good and challenging times. Many visitors really missed the Dutch growers who are usually exhibiting. Partly therefore, many came to our booth to ask for price lists, but that's not how it works. We always work with the Dutch growers, exporters and importing wholesalers. We only redirect. We know the chain very well and we can speak the language of the local market. This combined with our outstanding varieties disbud and spray chrysanthemums and of course santini, makes Dekker a strong partner Our producers have lost a lot at the FlowersExpo in Moscow".
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Julie Rose is able to update her own photographs in the grid gallery, shown below, which makes all photos the same height. Each can be clicked on to view them at full screen in a lightbox.


Excel Invoice Manager is the most flexible billing software/invoice software available. This level of flexibility of the billing software/invoice software is implemented both on the front-end and on the back-end. On the front-end, it uses Excel invoice templates/forms, which allow you to easily customize the fonts, colors, images, locations, even the formulas, with all the tools provided by Excel. On the back end, it provides a tool called Database Designer, which allows adding any custom fields to the Customer, Invoice Header, Invoice Body and Product tables - e.g. you can use custom-fields feature to easily create 9-column invoice template - a complete example is included in this installer, and the tutorial is given in the help file. The Pro edition of the software has built in network support, which allows you to share data with your colleagues over a network. The Pro edition supports up to 3 templates opened concurrently. For detailed information about the different between editions, please see the document included in the help file. The Pro edition of the billing software/invoice software includes a powerful search bar, which is available in all the main windows - customers, products, invoices. For any field available, you can choose from the following operators to define your search criterion: Is Less Than, Is Greater Than, Contains, Starts With, Ends With, Equals. For example, to find the customer whose name contains "Bill", you can define your search as "Customer Name Contains Bill". To list all invoices with which you sold out products that have word "Billing" in the names, you can define your search as "Product Name Contains Billing" in the Invoices window. This new version introduced a new feature with which overselling of product could be disabled by using a new option on the Workbook tab of the Settings window.


I've read about Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead a time or two. But when I read John's account again last week, something new grabbed my attention.
Which is something I adore about scripture. But that's a different post.
After Jesus, exhibiting God-like qualities, raised Lazarus from the dead, John reports that a lot of Jews started believing in Jesus. This ticked off the Jewish leaders, in part because they didn't believe Jesus was God, and in part because they didn't want to catch flack from the Roman government over the Jesus brouhaha.
So guess who the Jewish leaders wanted to kill?
Verse 11 tells us the logic the Jewish leaders were using to justify their desire to murder Lazarus, "…for on account of him many of the Jews were going over to Jesus and believing in him," (John 12:11).
Jews weren't believing Jesus was the Messiah because of Jesus' teachings or the disciples' following Him or the rumors they'd heard about Jesus' miracles in distant lands. They were putting their faith in Jesus because Lazarus – a man they knew from their town – was living proof of Jesus' power.
Not only was he most likely verbalizing his belief in Jesus' deity, Lazarus' very life – his breathing and walking – was a testimony to Jesus' godness.
Lazarus' existence was so compelling, the Jewish leaders felt they needed to eliminate him.
As I read verse 11, you can guess what questions came to mind. On account of me, are many people believing in Jesus? Are any?
I talk a lot about Jesus. I say the Gospel often. But does my existence – my life – what I do – encourage others to believe?
Believers in Christ have been born again in a spiritual sense – resurrected from spiritual deadness and given new life through Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:17). In a much more significant way than Lazarus, we've been raised spiritually. We have a story to tell. A story that will compel others to come to Jesus and believe in Him.
We have the ability to live new lives by the power of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8, Romans 8:11-12). Our existences – our breathing and our walking – should look supernatural to those who don't know Christ.
Who is believing in Jesus on account of you?
That's a big question. My gut reaction is Hebrews 11:1 – "Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see." But lest we think sincere faith in ANYTHING is right and good, we need to read the rest of chapter 11 and into chapter 12 to discern what we are to have faith – confidence – in. 12:2 reveals the answer – "Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Faith in Jesus – assurance that through His death and resurrection our sin debt is cancelled and we are given the gift of eternal life for the taking (Romans 6:23) – is what matters.


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The 3 Best IT Services Companies to Buy in 2017
By Anders Bylund – Jun 2, 2017 at 9:28PM
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Read on to see how these three investment ideas from the IT services industry could fit into your portfolio.
IT services is a thriving industry. Enterprises and small businesses around the world are leaning heavily on high-tech solutions to their business needs and problems, and they often need professional help to set up and then manage the right systems. Market indices and exchange-traded funds tracking this industry have been beating the S&P 500 market barometer hands-down over the last five years.
For investors hoping to tap into the IT services industry in 2017, I put together the three best investment opportunities the sector can offer right now. Read on to see how IBM (IBM -0.04%), EPAM Systems (EPAM -0.80%), and ServiceNow (NOW -0.91%) earned their spots on this short list of top IT services names.
Bargain-bin deals on an evolving veteran
When Ginni Rometty took the CEO office at IBM five years ago, she immediately started taking Big Blue in a new direction. The old one-stop-IT-shop model that had worked so well under her predecessor Sam Palmisano is still being dismantled, In its place, you'll find an IBM with a much sharper focus on a small handful of core business operations.
That process has been drastic in some ways and painfully slow in others, leaving investors to question whether this train is going anywhere. As a result, IBM shares have traded sideways since 2012 while the S&P 500 more than doubled:
IBM Total Return Price data by YCharts
What we have here is an evolving giant, trading at a generous discount to its true value. And the strategic makeover is starting to pay dividends.
In the first quarter of 2017, IBM saw its so-called strategic imperatives deliver 13% revenue growth over the year-ago period, contrasted against an 11% decline in all other sales. Strategic imperatives includes IBM's products and services in the fields of cloud computing, data security, mobility, social media technologies, and data analysis under the Watson umbrella. These operations accounted for 42% of IBM's total sales over the last four quarters -- up from 37% a year earlier -- and will only continue to grow.
That's good news for IBM's revenue growth trends and profit margins in the long run. At the same time, IBM is establishing itself as an early leader in important new markets such as artificial intelligence and cloud-based data analysis.
Management expects several divisions to see a marked sales improvement in the second half of 2017, thanks to some technology service contract signings slipping into the later quarters and an upcoming refresh of Power servers and zSystem mainframes. And while those traditional operations work through their issues, strategic imperatives should continue to deliver strong growth and generous profit margins.
On top of that, Big Blue shares currently come with one of the highest dividend yields its investors have seen since the early 1990s. At 3.9%, IBM's dividend yield sits among the five highest yields among the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks. Locking in that yield while share prices are low will set you up for even greater long-term gains.
Watch for a short-term stumble, then pounce
If IBM is retooling itself to exploit the cloud computing market, ServiceNow was built from the ground up to live in that market sector.
The company specializes in moving unstructured data collections and workflows onto its cloud-based information sharing platforms. Its products are built around widely accepted industry-standard data protocols, making it easy to drop in ServiceNow's tools as a direct replacement of older and clunkier systems.
ServiceNow always looked like a potential buyout target for larger IT companies like IBM, especially since it was founded by a collection of tech executives coming together to start something new after their former businesses were bought out.
Until that day comes, ServiceNow is doing pretty great on its own. Annual sales have grown sixfold in four years to $1.5 billion, and the share price followed suit with a few drastic drops along the way.
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It's safe to say that ServiceNow runs a fundamentally sound business that should be able to withstand the occasional headwind. If the stock looks too expensive for your tastes today, just stock ServiceNow on your watch list and wait for an opportunity to pounce if share prices tumble again for short-sighted reasons.
Acres of growth runway ahead
EPAM Systems is a rising star in the IT services universe. The company has been around since 2002, but didn't joined the public stock market until 2012. In the five years since, EPAM has more than tripled its annual sales and quadrupled free cash flow. Investors enjoyed a sixfold return over the same time span, including a 30% surge in the first five months of 2017.
These massive growth figures are the result of a sprawling global IT services network with over 22,000 software engineers and IT consultants. The company also keeps an itchy trigger finger ready to make quick plug-in deals that expand EPAM's localized services in strategically important markets.
If you're looking for a smaller IT services company with a longer potential runway for growth ahead of it, EPAM delivers that alongside some high-octane growth and quality management. At the very least, this company and stock belongs on your watch list in the IT services space.
Anders Bylund owns shares of IBM. The Motley Fool recommends EPAM Systems. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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Vue.js caught my attention since its first public release mainly for its simplicity. Unfortunately, I've never had the opportunity to put my hands on it. Finally, that time has come.
Over the past few years, I had some experience with Angular 1.x. I remember I've stumbled upon it back in 2012.
I remember quite clearly my excitement about how I was able to transform a static web-page in a reactive web-app using a couple of magic custom HTML tags.
For some reason, I've skipped totally the React/Angular(2/4) battle in the last couple of years. There was something that blocked me doing it. I hadn't test them yet.
The mentioned experience with Angular 1.x helped a lot my confidence with Vue.js.
I've immediately felt at home with it.
I like Vue.js because it tries to stay lightweight by design, borrowing the best parts of both React and Angular as well.
I like it also because it doesn't try to add new language flavours (TypeScript and JSX, I'm looking at you!). I used to be careful with opinionated language extensions. I'm happy with my decision to not embrace Sass and CoffeeScript when they still were a thing. I do prefer W3C standards.
I've conducted a getting started time with the library, trying to discover some peculiarities, learning a couple of useful bits. I'm going to outline this first experience for sharing purpose and future reference.
Now, editing the array (adding, deleting, updating an object or property) will be reflected in the view automatically thanks to the reactive system of Vue.js.
I really hope to go deeper with Vue.js. I like it.
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Q: Show loading image while running PHP script I've been reading the answers on this questions but I can't figure it out. Mostly because I know zero AJAX and javascript.
I have a page with a button, when the user clicks that button... a php script scans a folder in the server and do all kinds of stuff with a database.
I want to show a loading gif while this happens. The user doesn't send information or receive anything, just clicks on a button.
My first try was to send the user to the php file... which is something like this (just an example). And put a div that shows an image while the DOM loads.
But that doesn't work, in fact, it doesn't even show a blank page, I can still see the page in which I click the button and, because the end of the php script has a redirection, I only see the loading icon of the browser as indicator of something happening.

        <title></title>

I understand that I have to separate the php part from the "view" part. So my question is... how do a I make the button show a loading gif... while in some way I run the php script from server-side.
I've also tried:

But it's not working either. I disabled the redirection on the script and when it finishes running it takes me to that page instead of remaining on the one I made the call from.

A: The Javascript you show is fine, and is the right approach.  Do not redirect anywhere, don't include any other JS.  If I understand this correctly:

I disabled the redirection on the script and when it finishes running it takes me to that page instead of remaining on the one I made the call from.

you mean that clicking your button sends you to script.php.  You haven't included your button HTML, but I guess your button is inside a <form>.  When you click it, your jQuery click handler is fired, but the form is also being submitted, as it would if you had no Javascript at all.  That will send you on to script.php, which is what you are seeing.
You need to stop the default form submission, so that only your Javascript handler is fired.  You can do that as follows:
// Event handlers are passed an event object as a parameter
$('#buttonid').click(function(e){

  // Prevent the normal action this event would cause, in this case
  // submitting the form
  e.preventDefault();

  // ... continue with the rest of your code
  $('.loader').show();

More info in the jQuery docs.

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The sandwich joint than two sleek tube-in-tube connection
With the development of novel Sandwich Towers also raise questions about the connection technology had to be answered. Therefore a new connection type was proposed by Schaumann and Keindorf , which should come as steel sandwich tower for use in the favored combination. On the DEWEK 2008, the principle of the compound was presented (see list of publications), which sandwich joint was chosen for the connection type of the term.
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New type of connection between steel and sandwich tower sections
The principle and structural behavior of a sandwich joints
Within the overlap region, the friction forces and moments are transmitted from the upper steel tube over the composite material in the inner and outer tubes of the sandwich tower section. The power transmission takes place via shear forces in the composite material, as is the case in a similar manner with grouted joints. So far as the composite material not only serves as a stiffening but also as a force-transmitting element between the tower sections. As a result, two annular flanges and a plurality of screws, in the proposed connection variant, the sandwich joint, can be saved.
Compared to the grouted joint of the sandwich joint has the advantage that it is one of the two sleek tube-in-tube connections. For in analogy to two-shear bolted connections he has two shear bands, as it illustrates the comparison in the following figure. As a result, the sandwich joint able to transmit the thrust for the same double overlap length. In this case, higher tower head loads could be forwarded with the same material used. Conversely, it is possible to shorten the overlap length LÜ with the same amount of force F, which material is saved in the connection area (length of the additional length of pipe).
Force transmission in the analogy to one and two-shear bolted connections
Advantages and disadvantages of the sandwich joints against ring flange
Unlike bolted ring flange connections can use the sandwich joint misalignments and imperfections, such as Runouts are equalized. Furthermore, doing away with some fatigue-critical areas (hot spots), because no screws and ring flanges are available. Also, no maintenance is required to control the bolts to possibly biasing force losses. On the other hand, the assembly work at sandwich joint is rated higher. Therefore, the advantages and disadvantages for a better overview are tabulated.
The force transmission within the Sandwich Joints
As part of the Doctoral thesis of Christian Keindorf stress analysis for the sandwich joints were done in consideration of the adhesion contact to show the stress in the filler material. To a bending moment was applied, in which the upper steel tower section (ST 355 = 28 mm with TST) reaches the yield strength (S355) on the bending pressure and Biegezugseite. Inner and outer tubes of the lower sandwich section each have a sheet thickness of t-1 = t +1 = 12 mm consisting of the higher-strength steel S460. As such, the sandwich tower section is referred to in this case with SES 460.
By means of the shear stress distribution can be seen to occur at the edges of the overlap area spikes. The curve corresponds qualitatively to the expected form (see above, Notes to the principle).
Furthermore, the normal stresses must be known in the steel pipes and the filling material in order to make a sizing for the sandwich joint can. For this purpose, the normal stress gradients are shown in the second image over the height of the support structure. Based on the stress plots can be seen that a continuous power transmission from the upper steel tower section takes place to the inner and outer tubes of the sandwich tower section.
At the bottom of the sandwich transition joints, the assumption is confirmed that the filling material against the sliding of the upper steel tube has a resistance as a function of its stiffness and compressive strength, providing as it has direct pressure contact with the latter. At this position, the compressive stress reached a peak value of the characteristic, however, remains below the compressive strength in the filling material. Also, be confirmed by the stress gradients further insights. For example, these include the theoretically calculated stress differences between the inner and outer tube and the participation of the filling material on the load transfer within the sandwich tower section. Due to this involvement of the filler load transfer at the inner and outer tube of the sandwich pipe be relieved significantly to the bending pressure side so that they are not stressed to its yield point.
Not least, increased structural damping is expected by the sandwich joint, because the steel tubes are not pushed each other directly. The filler material between the tubes has a higher material damping than steel, whereby the transfer of oscillations to the lower load-bearing structures (sandwich tower section, foundation section, anchor basket or monopole) can be reduced.
Shear stress distribution in the filling material [dissertation Keindorf, 2010]
Normal stress gradients in the steel pipes and the filling material [dissertation Keindorf, 2010]
Further design variations of the sandwich joint
Different material combinations for sandwich joint
Further design variations (onhsore and offshore)
On the basis of experimental results in this thesis by Christian Keindorf come for the sandwich tower sections that are to be connected with steel tower sections, several material combinations considered. In the variant with an elastomer filling no shear ribs and adhesion promoters are required because the tested composite material has an extremely high tensile bond strength on grit blasted steel surfaces.
Alternatively, a grout with adhesion-promoting additives in the connection area are used, which also should have a good pump and fluidity and high compressive strength. For this variant, shear web, recommended as the grouted joints to the strut bearing capacity to significantly increase both in the ultimate limit state and serviceability limit state of fatigue. This effect was demonstrated by measurement / 2009 explained in detail in Bautechnik Heft 11/2009 , with reference to the experimental results, a design proposal was derived.
In an onshore location, for example, can a foundation section a frictional transmission between sandwich tube and foundation are obtained. In this case ("reverse power flow") the forces and moments are analogous to the connection to the top steel tower section is initiated.
The use of a sandwich tower section is in principle also possible offshore, with offers of sandwich joint for connection to the central tube of a monopile or tripod. For the sandwich joint, however, the specific design requirements of the offshore towers must meet. However, further annular flanges and screws could be saved by this new connection variant. For the required mounting technique already exist many years of transferable experience in unrealized Grouted Joints for offshore wind turbines.


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Q: How to set userAgent property in node-phantom? How can I set custom userAgent property?
I tried to use

page.set('settings.userAgent','myCustomUserAgent')

But it doesn't seem to work.
I also tried to check the changes via 'page.get'

page.get('settings').then(function(settings){console.log(settings);}).catch(function(err){console.error(err);})

But the only thing I see is:

    {
      XSSAuditingEnabled: false,
      javascriptCanCloseWindows: true,
      javascriptCanOpenWindows: true,
      javascriptEnabled: true,
      loadImages: true,
      localToRemoteUrlAccessEnabled: false,
      userAgent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/538.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) PhantomJS/2.1.1 Safari/538.1',
      webSecurityEnabled: true
    }
Here is my code
'use strict';
const async = require('async');
const phantom = require('node-phantom-async');
process.setMaxListeners(Infinity);

const uri = 'http://www.my.uri';

function parseCatalogLinks(callback) {
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        phantomPath: require('phantomjs').path,
        ignoreSSLErrors: true
    })
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        })
        .then(function (page) {
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                    console.log('settings', settings)
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                .catch(function (err) {
                    console.error(err);
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            return this.page.open(uri);
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        .catch(function (err) {
            console.error('Error while opening main page', err);
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A: Frustrating layers of API abstraction :(
What worked for me is following the API guidelines from node-phantom:
https://github.com/amir20/phantomjs-node#page-object-api
PhantomJS uses page.set(.. whereas phantomjs-node uses page.setting(.. both to read and write.
camelCased for extra confusion ;)
  this._page.setting('userAgent', 'foobar');

  return this._page.setting('userAgent'); // returns 'foobar'

I had the same issue just now, and your question helped me narrow this down. Thanks!


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A magnified view of the four hooked genitalia of the newly identified fish species Gambusia quadruncus. Credit: Brian Langerhans, NC State University
Fishing hooks aren't the only hooks found in east-central Mexican waters. A new species of freshwater fish described by a North Carolina State University researcher has several interesting – and perhaps cringe-inducing – characteristics, including a series of four hooks on the male genitalia.
Females of the new species – the llanos mosquitofish, or Gambusia quadruncus – also have distinguishing characteristics, including a colorful anal spot.
A paper describing the new species, which lives in a diversity hotspot and seemingly branched off from its closest relative more than one million years ago, appears in the Journal of Fish Biology.
Dr. Brian Langerhans, assistant professor of biology at NC State and the lead author of the paper, says that these interesting characteristics may play important roles in mating control and success.
While more research is needed, Langerhans says that four-hooked genitalia on males can serve a purpose when females attempt to block or restrict mating attempts.
This shows a male Gambusia quadruncus. Credit: Brian Langerhans, NC State University
"Typically, reproduction is more costly in females, so females favor ways of reducing mating with 'lower quality' males," Langerhans says, "but reproduction is cheap in males and so selection favors ways of mating with as many females as possible. In Gambusia, some females, including G. quadruncus, have evolved modifications that appear to function as a blocking device – essentially a big ball of tissue blocking most of the genital pore – restricting entry of the male's gonopodial tip. Thus, the female would have to behaviorally allow the male to mate or the male would have to evolve a counter response to avoid this problem."
The four-hooked genitalia could be that counter-response, Langerhans says.
"Having four hooks on the gonopodium may provide a means of overcoming female resistance, latching on to the gonopore and transferring sperm in a manner that facilitates effective sperm transfer. Or it may serve to stimulate the female in a manner that causes responses in the female that facilitate effective sperm transfer," Langerhans says.
Somewhat similarly, the colorful anal spot on females appears to serve as a signal that only certain males are desired for mating.
"The differing, species-specific female anal spots appear to influence male mating behavior by signaling the location of the gonopore to the male, sometimes indicating the reproductive status of the female, and distinguishing fish of their own species from fish of other species to reduce costly cross-breeding, which can result in fish with reduced fitness," Langerhans says. "So it may be that G. quadruncus evolved different anal spots to help reduce interspecies matings and possible formation of hybrids."
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More information: Gambusia quadruncus (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae): A new species of mosquitofish from east-central Mexico, Brian Langerhans, North Carolina State University; et al, Online September 2012, in Journal of Fish Biology.
Gambusia quadruncus n. sp., the llanos mosquitofish, is described from east-central Mexico. The region inhabited by the species represents a hotspot of diversity of Gambusia, and G. quadruncus sometimes coexists with at least three congeners. The species differs from its closest relative, Gambusia affinis, in several characteristics with plausible effects on reproductive isolation, e.g. body size, body and fin morphology, male genital morphology (distal tip of gonopodium) and female anal spot morphology (colouration near the urogenital sinus). Moreover, combined analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequence data (c. 2158 total base pairs) indicates reciprocal monophyly of G. quadruncus and its sister species G. affinis, with levels of genetic divergence suggesting the two species diverged from one another over a million years ago. The origin of G. quadruncus may reflect a vicariant event associated with Pliocene orogenesis in the Tamaulipas Arch and a frontal section of the Sierra Madre Oriental (Lleran Mesas). Gambusia quadruncus inhabits a variety of freshwater habitats across several river drainages, with its range spanning at least 350 km from north to south, covering over 25 000 km2. A key to aid identification of the species is provided.
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Citation: New fish species offers literal take on 'hooking up' (2012, September 27) retrieved 18 January 2020 from https://phys.org/news/2012-09-fish-species-literal.html
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import os.path
import theano
from theano import Apply, Variable, tensor

from theano.compile import optdb
from theano.compile.ops import shape_i
from theano.gof import local_optimizer, COp
from theano.scalar import as_scalar, constant

from . import opt
from .basic_ops import (as_gpuarray_variable, GpuAllocEmpty,
                        infer_context_name)
from .type import gpu_context_type
from .opt_util import alpha_merge, output_merge

try:
    from nervanagpu.nervanagpu import GPUTensor, NervanaGPU
    nerv = NervanaGPU()
except ImportError:
    GPUTensor = None
    nerv = None

def to_gputensor(a):
    assert a.flags.c_contiguous or a.flags.f_contiguous
    return GPUTensor(a.shape, dtype=a.dtype, base=a,
                     gpudata=a.gpudata + a.offset,
                     strides=a.strides, is_trans=a.flags.f_contiguous)

def ensure_float(val, name):
    if not isinstance(val, Variable):
        val = constant(val)
    if hasattr(val, 'ndim') and val.ndim == 0:
        val = as_scalar(val)
    if not isinstance(val.type, theano.scalar.Scalar):
        raise TypeError("%s: expected a scalar value" % (name,))
    if not val.type.dtype == 'float32':
        raise TypeError("%s: type is not float32" % (name,))
    return val

class Gemm16(COp):
    __props__ = ('relu', 'inplace')
    _f16_ok = True
    params_type = gpu_context_type
    KERN_NAMES = ('nn_128x128', 'nn_128x64', 'nn_128x32',
                  'nn_vec_128x128', 'nn_vec_128x64', 'nn_vec_128x32',
                  'tn_128x128', 'tn_128x64', 'tn_128x32',
                  'tn_vec_128x128', 'tn_vec_128x64', 'tn_vec_128x32',
                  'tn_vec_128x16', 'nt_128x128', 'nt_vec_128x128')

    def __init__(self, relu=False, inplace=False):
        COp.__init__(self, ["gemm16.c"], "gemm16")
        self.relu = relu
        # relu = True will require more work in optimizations.
        assert self.relu is False
        self.inplace = inplace
        if self.inplace:
            self.destroy_map = {0: [0]}

    def make_node(self, C, alpha, A, B, beta):
        if GPUTensor is None:
            raise RuntimeError("Can't use Gemm16: nervanagpu not found")
        ctx_name = infer_context_name(C, A, B)

        A = as_gpuarray_variable(A, ctx_name)
        B = as_gpuarray_variable(B, ctx_name)
        C = as_gpuarray_variable(C, ctx_name)

        alpha = ensure_float(alpha, 'alpha')
        beta = ensure_float(beta, 'beta')

        assert C.dtype == A.dtype == B.dtype == 'float16'

        return Apply(self, [C, alpha, A, B, beta], [C.type()])

    def get_params(self, node):
        return node.inputs[0].type.context

    def c_headers(self):
        return ['gpuarray/types.h', 'numpy_compat.h', 'gpuarray_helper.h',
                'string.h']

    def c_header_dirs(self):
        return [os.path.dirname(__file__)]

    def get_op_params(self):
        return [('GEMM16_INPLACE', '1' if self.inplace else '0')]

    @staticmethod
    def cubin_to_code(name):
        fname = 'hgemm_{0}.cubin'.format(name)
        with open(os.path.join(nerv.cubin_path, fname)) as f:
            cubin = f.read()
        bcode = ','.join(hex(ord(c)) for c in cubin)
        return "static const char bin_%s[] = { %s };" % (name, bcode)

    @staticmethod
    def init_gpukernel(name, fail):
        return """
bcode = bin_%(name)s;
sz = sizeof(bin_%(name)s);
if (GpuKernel_init(&k_%(name)s, c->ops, c->ctx, 1, &bcode, &sz,
                   "hgemm_%(name)s", 13, types, GA_USE_BINARY, NULL)
    != GA_NO_ERROR) {
  PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError, "Could not initialize kernel %(name)s");
  %(fail)s;
}
""" % dict(name=name, fail=fail)

    def c_support_code(self):
        codel = []
        for name in self.KERN_NAMES:
            codel.append(Gemm16.cubin_to_code(name))
        return '\n'.join(codel)

    def c_support_code_struct(self, node, nodename):
        codel = []
        for name in self.KERN_NAMES:
            codel.append("GpuKernel k_{0};".format(name))
        codel.append(super(Gemm16, self).c_support_code_struct(node, nodename))
        return '\n'.join(codel)

    def c_init_code_struct(self, node, nodename, sub):
        codel = [super(Gemm16, self).c_init_code_struct(node, nodename, sub)]
        for name in self.KERN_NAMES:
            codel.append("memset(&k_{0}, 0, sizeof(GpuKernel));".format(name))
        codel.append("const char *bcode;")
        codel.append("size_t sz;")
        codel.append("PyGpuContextObject *c = %s;" % (sub['params'],))
        codel.append("int types[13] = {GA_BUFFER, GA_BUFFER, GA_BUFFER, "
                     "GA_BUFFER, GA_INT, GA_INT, GA_INT, GA_INT, GA_INT, "
                     "GA_INT, GA_FLOAT, GA_FLOAT, GA_INT};")
        for name in self.KERN_NAMES:
            codel.append(self.init_gpukernel(name, sub['fail']))
        return '\n'.join(codel)

    def c_cleanup_code_struct(self, node, nodename):
        codel = []
        for name in self.KERN_NAMES:
            codel.append("GpuKernel_clear(&k_{0});".format(name))
        return '\n'.join(codel)

@opt.register_opt()
@opt.op_lifter([tensor.Dot])
def local_dot_to_gemm16(node, ctx_name):
    if nerv is None:
        return
    A = node.inputs[0]
    B = node.inputs[1]
    if (A.ndim == 2 and B.ndim == 2 and
            A.dtype == 'float16' and B.dtype == 'float16'):
        fgraph = node.inputs[0].fgraph
        C = GpuAllocEmpty(dtype='float16', context_name=ctx_name)(
            shape_i(A, 0, fgraph), shape_i(B, 1, fgraph))
        return Gemm16()(C, 1.0, A, B, 0.0)

@opt.register_opt()
@alpha_merge(Gemm16, alpha_in=1, beta_in=4)
def local_gemm16_alpha_merge(node, *inputs):
    return [Gemm16(relu=node.op.relu)(*inputs)]

@opt.register_opt()
@output_merge(Gemm16, alpha_in=1, beta_in=4, out_in=0)
def local_gemm16_output_merge(node, *inputs):
    return [Gemm16(relu=node.op.relu)(*inputs)]

@local_optimizer([Gemm16], inplace=True)
def local_gemm16_inplace(node):
    if type(node.op) != Gemm16 or node.op.inplace:
        return
    inputs = list(node.inputs)
    C = inputs[0]
    if (C.owner and
            isinstance(C.owner.op, GpuAllocEmpty) and
            len(C.clients) > 1):
        inputs[0] = C.owner.op(*C.owner.inputs)
    return [Gemm16(relu=node.op.relu, inplace=True)(*inputs)]

optdb.register('local_gemm16_inplace',
               tensor.opt.in2out(local_gemm16_inplace,
                                 name='local_gemm16_inplace'),
               70.0, 'fast_run', 'inplace', 'gpuarray')


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News / Scotland
VIDEO: Magic and adventure coming this Autumn with country park's fantasy event
by Natasha Mckim
October 5, 2016, 7:34 am
Fans of fantasy movies and books, such as Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter will love this event which harnesses the imagination. Fun for adults and children, Dragon Matrix mixes good old staging and lighting with modern technology to create an adventure which will suck you into an alternative world.
This autumn the dark woods of Monikie Country Park will be lit up by the creatures of fairytale's. The theatrical spectacular will see visitors embark on a quest in an installation located within the woods. With the help of the Dragon Quest app, you can become a hero just like from your favourite book.
Symon Macintyre is the artistic director from Vision Mechanics, the minds behind the event and who developed the original concept for the production. They will liven up the woods with illuminated installations and gigantic figures against a backdrop of music.
Symon said: "The concept for Dragon Matrix was inspired by Scotland's rich folklore, heritage and natural environment, as well as by technological innovations.
"My work uses a range of artforms and technology to transform urban and rural environments, whilst firing audiences' imaginations further through the use of narrative structure."
This is the second in a series of Dragon events, as Dragon Quest took place in October 2015. Dragon Matrix is popular as an evening out for all the family. It can be enjoyed by all ages and differs from other outdoor lighting shows in that it contains a strong storyline involving the mysterious disappearance of two scientists and subsequent efforts to save the Monikie Dragons from extinction, with audience members invited to join the quest to find six missing Dragon Stones.
Symon said: "As well as interactive installations, imaginative lighting and soundscapes, Dragon Matrix is the first live theatre event to incorporate 3D augmented reality, accessed through an app – on smartphone or tablet – which further enhances the storyline through allowing audience members to glimpse magical creatures which talk to them."
Participants can download the Dragon Matrix app before the event from dragonmatrix.org.uk but the experience can be enjoyed without the app too. Once the app is installed it will not need Wi-Fi to function during your woodland adventure. As you journey through the forest you can use technology to catch a glimpse of magical creatures, normally invisible to the human eye.
Monikie Country Park is the perfect place to embark on an adventure such as Dragon Matric. It has accessible woodlands and a lakeland park to act as the stage. Originally Symon and Vision Mechanics were invited to hang giant sculptures in the park as part of a different project. Their relationship with the council and the countryside rangers has evolved to bring this experience to the public.
"We hope the combined experience of a live event, augmented reality, along with a walk through the woods at night will make for a really memorable experience for those attending and fire their imaginations", said Symon.
"On another level in Dragon Matrix the Dragon Protection League is there to help protect the dragons and their habitat and so I hope audience members will reflect on how important it is for us to take care of rare species which are in danger of becoming extinct."
Dragon Matrix takes place in Monikie Country Park until October 31. See www.dragonmatrix.org.uk
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Declaring a water emergency
Governance Perspectives Water Security
Quentin Grafton and John Williams, Australian National University, Australia
This article was originally posted on Policy Forum, November 2019
The current drought in Eastern Australia has focused the attention of all Australians on water but effective policy responses are missing in action. Isn't it time to call it a water emergency?
Putting people before profit
The dictionary defines an emergency as "a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action". If there is a climate emergency 1 – and 330,000 Australians have already signed a petition 2 to the Australian Government to declare a climate emergency – then surely there must also be a water emergency here, right now, in Australia. As in any emergency,3 it requires that we be told the truth and, importantly, act on the truth.
Political leaders, however, prefer the word 'drought' because Australia has experienced it in the past and it is 'solved' when the rains come. Politicians cannot be blamed for acts of nature. 'Drought relief'4 also gives politicians the opportunity to pretend to fix the problem while showing compassion for those doing it tough.
Income support in the form of a farm household allowance for eligible households with less than $5 million in assets,5 and that pays more than $30,000 per farming couple per year for up to four years, is, no doubt, very welcome to those who qualify. Unfortunately, it does not solve our water emergency. In this make-believe narrative, all blame accrues to the heavens.
The current drought 6 began in 2017, and came less than 10 years after the Millennium Drought ended.7 Yet the nation's elected leaders are surprised by another major drought. Like rabbits on the road facing the full beam of an approaching vehicle, they seem unable to move beyond last century solutions to respond to this water emergency.
Instead, they announce multi-billion dollar commitments of taxpayer money for dams,8 many of which won't be completed for years and would never fill until the drought ends. Water extracted from the dams would also be subject to water extraction limits under the Basin Plan.
So why do Australian political leaders support dam building 9 as a solution knowing that dams don't make it rain or snow? Is it because they are stuck in the past ,10 trapped in myths or delusions,11 or asleep at the wheel ?12
If only this were true. Australia could then solve the water emergency by simply 'briefing' the Prime Minister, Premiers, and Water Ministers about the 21st Century solutions to the water emergency.
They could be informed of solutions like comprehensive water accounting so that everyone knows who has the water and what it is being used for.13 Other solutions include water planning that leaves sufficient water in the dams for people to drink by setting 14 enough water aside for the worst droughts, and water recycling 15 and reuse by communities to reduce extraction. Or even managed aquifer recharge 16 to reduce surface water evaporation, and dynamic water pricing 17 that increases the volumetric price paid when dams have less water – the list goes on.
So what is getting in the way of implementing these solutions? Money, power, and influence. Both rent-seeking and regulatory capture,18 represent the demand for and the supply of water respectively, and are affecting decision-making that benefits particular interests, rather than the broader public interest.
Rent-seeking is when actions are undertaken by people and organisations outside of government to influence decision-making for self-interest, rather than for the sake of improving the decision. Many forms of rent-seeking are legal in Australia, including lobbying-19 a multi-billion-dollar business.
Rent-seeking allows privileged access to our elected leaders and advisors to those with the means to get it. For example, between 2014 and 2018 the NSW Irrigation Council had more than 25 water-related meetings with New South Wales Ministers,20 yet many non-industry and non-irrigation entities had only one meeting. All combined, Indigenous, catchment, and environment entities had just 20 per cent of the total number of ministerial meetings given to irrigation and industry entities in the period.
So what does privileged access mean? Decision-making that the NSW Natural Resources Commission 21 has described, in relation the Barwon-Darling River Water Sharing Plan, that has "…increased allowance for extractive use at lower flow classes that are critical to the environment. These provisions benefit the economic interest of a few upstream users over the ecological and social needs of the many".22
This decision-making 23 contributed to the dire situation in the Murray-Darling Basin 24 and the massive fish kills along the Darling River in January 2019.25 Sadly, it is just one of many examples of water decision-making not made in the public interest,26 and described by the South Australian Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission in January this year as "gross maladministration".27
Billions of dollars in expenditure on irrigation infrastructure, including the construction 28 of private dams, highlighted 29 in the ABC's Four Corners program in July 2019 Cash Splash, and supported by evidence in peer-reviewed academic research,30 shows that such subsidies are likely 31 to reduce return flows from irrigators' fields to groundwater, streams, and rivers.32
Yet, the Australian Government has spent some $4 billion on subsidising irrigation infrastructure in the Murray-Darling Basin without any cost-benefit analysis or even comprehensive measures of the impacts on stream flows.33
To add to our water woes, more billions of dollars have been allocated to further subsidise water infrastructure, including dams, and announced as a 'solution' to the water emergency. Such spending is highly unlikely to generate a net public benefit.34
As Rome burns, people in towns like Wilcannia on the lower Darling get their drinking water from 10 litre cartons delivered from the back of trucks. In a desperate cry of help, and defiance, one Barkandji Elder from Wilcannia, Kerry 'Sissy' King, has a message for politicians to "Come out here and see how you feel about living [with no water]. They've taken it from the nation that lives off the river system. Come and sit in the gutter with us."35
Australia must stop blaming the river and recognise that capture by special interests has led to this water emergency. It is not simply an act of God; it has arisen from a lack of planning and decision-making that benefit the few at the expense of the many.36 Neither drought relief nor dams are solutions. Instead, Australia needs its political leaders to lead, to put the national interest first, and to make decisions that place people before profit.
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https://cdn.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/770767/AJEM-Managed-Aquifer-Recharge.pdf
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6454821/big-challenges-need-flexible-approach/
R. Quentin Grafton & John Williams (2019): Rent-seeking behaviour and
regulatory capture in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia, International Journal of Water Resources Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2019.1674132
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/corporate-lobbying-a-billion-dollar-business/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LXLwOL4CkBbNUTOg4shoKbN9mIUgFIb80tMsBp8-r3k/edit#gid=1568882241
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Natural Resources Commission (NSW) (2019). Review of the water sharing plan for the Barwon-Darling unregulated and alluvial water sources 2012: final report. p7. Retrieved from Analysis and Policy Observatory Website: https://apo.org.au/node/257461
https://www.nature.org.au/media-releases/2019/01/fish-killed-by-poor-river-management/
https://wentworthgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/MDB-flows-summary.pdf
https://www.policyforum.net/toxic-what-is-rotten-in-the-murray-darling-basin/
https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/water-demands-of-companies-trump-the-needs-of-local-communities/
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/31/murray-darling-basin-royal-commission-report-finds-gross-maladministration
https://www.tai.org.au/sites/default/files/P796%20Dam%20shame%20%5BWeb%5D.pdf
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John Williams & R. Quentin Grafton (2019) Missing in action: possible effects of water recovery on stream and river flows in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia, Australasian Journal of Water Resources, DOI: 10.1080/13241583.2019.1579965
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R. Quentin Grafton FASSA is Professor of Economics, ANU Public Policy Fellow, Editor-in-Chief of Policy Forum, executive editor of Global Water Forum, Convenor of the Global Actions on Human Water Security, Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy (CWEEP) at Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University and Director of the Food, Energy, Environment and Water (FE2W) Network. In April 2010 he was appointed the Chairholder, the UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance.
Dr John Williams FTSE is a founding member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and holds the prestigious Farrer Memorial Medal for achievement and excellence in agricultural science. John retired recently after nearly six years as Commissioner of the NSW Natural Resources Commission (NRC). He was former Chief Scientist, NSW Department of Natural Resources following his retirement from CSIRO as Chief of Land and Water in 2004. John is currently Adjunct Professor in Public Policy and Environmental Management at Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University and Adjunct Professor, Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, Institute Water, Land and Society, Charles Sturt University. He is also Director of John Williams Scientific Services Pty Ltd, which provides strategic advice and analysis in Agriculture and the Natural Resource Sciences.
The views expressed in this article belong to the individual authors and do not represent the views of the Global Water Forum, the UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance, UNESCO, the Australian National University, Oxford University, or any of the institutions to which the authors are associated. Please see the Global Water Forum terms and conditions here.
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