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The Skylark
10 minutes with John R. Platt
John R. Platt is the editor of The Revelator. An award-winning environmental journalist, his work has appeared in Scientific American, Audubon, Motherboard, and numerous other magazines and publications. His "Extinction Countdown" column has run continuously since 2004 and has covered news and science related to more than 1,000 endangered species.
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I grew up just a few miles away from Love Canal — the New York neighbourhood built over a toxic-waste dump. That horrible disaster probably had a lot to do with shaping my environmental awareness. The case obviously wasn't climate-related, but it was just one of many stories in the 1970s and 1980s that made it clear that we were polluting the planet, poisoning people and causing irreparable harm to our ecosystems. That came to a head in 1988 with NASA scientist James Hansen's testimony to the Senate, which really drove the climate crisis home for me.
What environmental issues most concern you right now?
For me, it's the extinction crisis. We're losing species and habitats at an unprecedented rate, and it doesn't get nearly enough attention from the public or world governments. The pandemic is a side effect of the wildlife trade, so hopefully that will start to generate some attention — but we'll see.
What gives you hope?
The people working to make things better. I talk to scientists, activists, educators and other experts almost every day. Even if they don't have solutions (yet), they're working to understand the problems we face. Every new piece of the puzzle that we can communicate to people helps.
What's the most inspiring solution you've seen so far?
Sticking with wildlife issues, and going back a few years, I think it was the 1989 ban on ivory sales. At the time, elephants faced a poaching crisis that threatened to wipe them off the face of the planet. The world agreed that there would no longer be a market for elephant ivory, and as a result the poaching all but stopped. Simple.
Of course, they screwed that up a few years later by allowing a few one-off sales of ivory stockpiles, which reignited the market and kickstarted the whole poaching crisis into hyperdrive again. Now elephants are even worse off. Sigh…
But it's proof: We can do it. We need to base our decisions on science and give them the support they need — and maintain that support long enough for them to make a difference.
What do you do to feel connected to nature?
Well that's simple — I just take a walk!
Of course, that's too simplistic an answer. I live in a small town, on a walkable street, near plenty of trees and abundant wildlife — but at the same time, I see that nearby nature rapidly being chipped away by new development every time I walk around. These walks give me both a vital dose of nature and a harsh reminder of that it's all too easily lost. Eventually I may need to find a different neighbourhood to walk or a new way to stay connected to nature. That will be a mournful day.
What book or film would you recommend everyone reads or sees?
Oh geez, I review about a dozen books a month so it's hard for me to boil it down to just one. But I'll pick a brand-new book: All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Keeble Wilkinson. It's an amazing collection of essays by a wide range of experts who aim to enable and empower the next generation of women climate leaders. The advice can apply to any reader who wants to make a difference.
Who inspires you when it comes to tackling the crisis?
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. Not only is she an important researcher and leader in the scientific community, she's an especially effective communicator to the general public. Her videos, articles, social media feeds and interviews have made a huge difference.
Of course, I could list 127 more people without batting an eye…
If someone asked you what climate action they should take today, what would you say?
Vote, not just in this election but in every election, public referendum or whatever other opportunity you possess to shape the future. Check out the record and public statements of every candidate up and down the ballot, all the way down to dog catcher.
But don't stop there: Stay in touch with these representatives after the election and make your voice continuously heard. If they don't hear from you, then you (and the issues that matter to you) don't exist.
If you could implement one global policy tomorrow, what would it be?
We need to ban fracking. Natural gas was once positioned as a "bridge fuel" to a safer climate, but the evidence is now incontrovertible that it's a significant threat to the planet and to human health and wildlife. On top of that, the industry itself is a failure. It's a house of cards, with cratering profits and mountains of debt. No one will miss fracking once it's gone — except for the executives and bankers who have gotten rich off it.
What does 2050 look like to you?
Okay, look, I got my start writing horror fiction before moving into the extinction journalism beat, so my natural inclination is to go dark with this answer. And it wouldn't be a bad instinct for me to predict a future of flooded coastlines, killer storms, millions of people dead and uncountable extinctions, along with increased income inequality, hyper-partisanship and authoritarianism. The writing is on the wall.
But at the same time, I remain a bit of an optimist. I've seen the evidence of positive change. We've saved species from extinction. We've abandoned deadly chemicals and technologies. We've restored habitats. The old ways are dying out and the new sprouts are taking up the challenge for a better planet.
That's the oxygen we need. It won't be enough to make this planet a paradise by 2050, and a lot of people will suffer over the next three decades, but I think we can at the very least maintain the status quo and improve a few things along the way.
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Recap: The Amazing Race 18, Episode 3 – "You think I'm doing this lackadaisically? Good grief."
Episode 18.03: We Had a Lot of Bad Spirits Apparently
The Leg
The leg begins with the teams being shuffled onto an overnight train back to Sydney where they are let go from the train station. Zev & Justin get the clue first, telling teams to fly to Tokyo, Japan.
Teams head to the airport, travel agents, and the internet to find flights and there are two possible choices. One is a direct Qantas flight from Sydney to Tokyo. The other is a Cathay Pacific flight with a connection in Hong Kong that would get teams into Japan 15 minutes earlier.
Teams debate the pros and cons, but ultimately, Zev & Justin, Kent & Vyxsin, Margie & Like, Mike & Mel and Jaime & Cara take the Cathay Pacific flight. Meanwhile, on the direct Qantas flight are Ron & Christina, Kisha & Jen, the Globetrotters, Jet & Cord, and Gary & Mallory.
Looks like the sure thing was the best choice as the Cathay Pacific flight has maintenance issues, causing a delay and allowing the Qantas flight to arrive in Tokyo first.
Once in Tokyo, teams make their way to a rotating parking garage where they get their next clue telling them to ask the attendant for a car so they can drive themselves to the city of Kamakura and find the Yabusame Dojo at Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū for their next clue.
The second flight arrives an hour and half late, but all the teams are having trouble finding their way out of Tokyo.
Ron & Christina manage to get to the cluebox first and find the Road Block.
In this Road Block, teams will learn and perform the proper Yabusame ritual for shooting a bow and arrow from atop a wooden horse. After watching a demonstration, teams must properly perform the ritual in front of a master and then must shoot a target from atop a spinning wooden horse.
Ron decides to head in for the Road Block first and Gary, Jen, and Flight Time are right behind. The task is harder than it seems as the ritual is very detail oriented. This allows Jen to take a big leap and she and Kisha head out first.
Teams must now head to Minamiashigara and find the Kintaro Statue at the Daiyūzan Railway Station. Two cute children waving Japanese flags will be standing by their next clue.
Meanwhile, back in Tokyo, Jaime gets into an accident when she hits a guy's mirror. He calls the police, which delays them significantly.
At the train station, Zev & Justin and Gary & Mallory end up there first and find the clue for the Detour.
In this Detour, teams will take part in one of two Japanese rituals.
In Prayer of Purity, teams will take part in a Shinto religious cleansing ritual. After putting on traditional wardrobe, teams will learn a prayer that is both vocal and physical. They will then stand under a cascading waterfall for one minute with cold water straight from Mt. Fuji.
In Frog of Luck, teams strip down to their underwear and enter a large mud pit where they must search for a small frog while being pelted with mud by the onlookers.
Zev & Justin and Gary & Mallory decide to do Frog of Luck and finish quickly. The Globetrotters and Ron & Christina do Prayer of Purity.
When the Globetrotters finish the Detour first, they mistakenly pick up Ron & Christina's fanny pack and leave down the mountain. Ron & Chris, when they finish the Detour, go crazy as they look for it only to find it has been taken down the mountain back to the changing rooms.
They are not happy.
Time for the Pit Stop, the Commodore Perry Monument in Kurihama, Yokosuka. Zev & Justin claim another first place finish and a trip to Costa Rica. Gary & Mallory finish 2nd.
The Globetrotters check-in 3rd. However, Phil asks Ron & Christina, arriving 4th, why they seem so upset, so they tell him about their fanny pack with their travel documents getting taken down the mountain and Phil says that the Globetrotters will be issued a 30 minute penalty. That makes Ron & Chris officially Team #3. Kisha & Jen come check-in as Team #4, dropping the Globetrotters down to 5th.
Jet & Cord, Kent & Vyxsin, and Margie & Luke finish 6th through 8th, leaving Mel & Mike and Jaime & Cara.
It is dark now and while Mike wants to stop at the Frog Detour, Mel wants to keep going. Eventually, both Mel & Mike have to be taken to an ambulance on standby as Jaime & Cara manage to arrive and finish the Detour before the father and son are done warming up.
Jaime & Cara officially arrive at the Mat 9th, though full expecting elimination, as Mel & Mike have to make their way to the Pit Stop with them bidding farewell instead.
Let's get right to it. In the name of Don & Mary Jean, the penalty handed to the Globetrotters was completely justified and Ron & Christina had every right to bring it to Phil's attention, if he and TAR prod didn't know already.
For any new or blinded TAR fan, Don & Mary Jean of TAR6 had mistakenly taken the car of Adam & Rebecca after a Detour. All their belongings were in the car and Don & Mary Jean had not realized their mistake until a while after they left the location all while Adam & Rebecca were running around looking for the car.
Don & Mary Jean brought the car back to the Detour, everyone got into the right car and neither got eliminated, but Don & Mary Jean were still issued a 30 minute penalty.
There is also a TAR rule that outside of a U-Turn or Yield, teams can not impede the progress of another team, especially not by messing with their belongings. Intentional or not, it's a rule.
TAR production probably should and did know about the penalty, but if they didn't (and it wouldn't be the first time), Ron & Christina had every right to bring it up at the Mat. They ended up in the Top 3, but what if they were eliminated because they were looking for their pack that was taken and not returned to where it was found. The Globetrotters should've brought it back to where they found it, but since they didn't and especially because they didn't, the penalty was more than deserved.
Elsewhere, the episode was simple but fast-paced. Japan looks beautiful in TAR HD. The Road Block and Detour were good. Anytime the teams get pelted with things is always awesome.
And Japan must really be a trip to drive in. I guess I'll stick to walking whenever I get the chance to visit.
And more kids on The Amazing Race please! Always awesome! Maybe next time, some random grandmas and grandpas showing their national pride?
Leg Three Itinerary
(As long as there's a Mat, it's a leg.)
Central Railway Station
DESTINATION CITY
ROUTE MARKERS
Rotating Parking Garage
Kintarō Statue @ Daiyūzan Station
Minamiashigara, Japan
ROAD BLOCK
Yabusame Dojo @ Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū
Kamakura, Japan
Commodore Perry Monument
Kurihama, Yokosuka, Japan
Departure Times
Zev & Justin 11:57am
Flight Time & Big Easy 12:07pm
Jet & Cord 12:08pm
Kisha & Jen 12:09pm
Margie & Luke 12:10pm
Mel & Mike 12:14pm
Kent & Vyxsin 12:15pm
Jaime & Cara 12:24pm
Gary & Mallory 12:26pm
Ron & Christina 12:28pm
Who Did the Detour?
In order of completion
PRAYER OF PURITY
FROG OF LUCK
Mel & Mike were not shown completing the Detour.
Road Block Count
In order of completion; Italics indicate who did this week's Road Block
Who wants to go back a thousand years in time?
1 Kisha
Jen 1
0 Zev
Justin 2
2 Flight Time
Big Easy 0
1 Gary
Mallory 1
Christina 1
1 Margie
1 Jet
Cord 1
1 Kent
Vyxsin 1
1 Mel
1 Jaime
Cara 1
1 Amanda
Kris 0
Order of Finish
1st Zev & Justin (=)
2nd Gary & Mallory (+7)
3rd Ron & Christina +7)
4th Kisha & Jen (=)
5th Flight Time & Big Easy (-3)
6th Jet & Cord (-3)
7th Kent & Vyxsin (=)
8th Margie & Luke (-3)
9th Jaime & Cara (-1)
Eliminated Mel & Mike (-4)
My Subjective Team Rankings for Leg 3
Ron & Christina – They're quickly becoming the standout team this season. They Raced pretty well this leg, but like last week, it is the lackadaisical moments of consternation that are gold. They continue to be entertaining and apparently, they can rile up the casual TAR fan who might not know any better. That's definitely gold for TAR. And looking at TAR12, they can be pretty good Racers too. Looking forward to more from them.
Gary & Mallory – Is it just me or is Mallory a little too full of expressions this season. Either she is totally playing up to the camera with her crazy, wide-eyed expressions, or TAR editors decided to put more in than they did last season. Anyway, they continue to be a solid team as long as they keep away from fatal errors. Stay positive and don't give in to Mallory's freneticness.
Kisha & Jen – They're proving their worth on the Race. They've Raced very solidly, without hiccups and are gliding through it seems. They appear to have settled into their groove as they did in TAR14. Hopefully they can keep it up.
Mel & Mike – Well, seems like age finally caught up to Mel. If I were Mike, I wouldn't want my father to be rolling around in freezing mud in the middle of the night either. But kudos to Mel for always wanting to continue. Sad to see them go, but not sure they would've made it further anyway.
Kent & Vyxsin – Maybe the real lackadaisical performance this Leg was from Kent & Vyxsin. They continued following other teams and sticking to their tails instead of going it on their own and finding the way themselves. They can be a solid team if they were able to depend less on the others.
Jaime & Cara – Well, they didn't run over a human, but if it wasn't for the accident, they might have done a lot better this leg. I don't doubt they can rebound next week.
Zev & Justin – Honestly, a very surprising 2nd win in a row. They may have the potential to make it far this season.
Margie & Luke – Okay leg from them. They did take a backseat to the other teams this week, but they did make a big move by ditching Jaime & Cara and working with Mel & Mike instead. I wonder if that'll come back to haunt them in the future since Jaime & Cara were supposedly their best friends.
Jet & Cord – Okay leg for them, though getting themselves lost like that doesn't signal good things for future drives.
Flight Time & Big Easy – Well, they've proven that they're useless at tasks (how many Road Blocks handed to them by other teams already?), and now they've proven that they don't mind playing a less than stand up Race. Back in TAR15, they taunted Mika to tears. Now, they hinder another team by taking and not returning their travel documents. Pretty lame if you ask me.
Quotes from Episode 18.03
Christina: "Daddy, can you go a little faster?"
Ron: "You think I'm doing this lackadaisically? Good grief."
Ron: "She told us to go here, so we might be screwed because of her ineptitude."
Christina: "Really Daddy? Come on, don't be rude to her. She helped us."
Ron: "Yeah, she was helpful, my apologies."
Ron: "You just caused a consternation."
Kisha: "Guess I'll learn to keep my mouth shut."
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Dubai Investment News Jul 24, 2013
Dubai airport confirmed as world?¢'Ǩ'Ñ¢s second busiest
Dubai International Airport has been confirmed as the world's second busiest airport for passenger traffic, according to official aviation industry data.
Latest figures published by Airports Council International showed Dubai moving ahead of Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport for the first time.
Since the start of the year, Dubai International has moved up two positions in the global rankings and now has London Heathrow's title as the world's busiest international airport firmly within its sights.
Dubai Airports has seen a 13 percent increase in passenger traffic to 10,640,120 passengers in the first two months of this year, up from 9,413,286 for the same period in 2012.
Dubai Airports CEO Paul Griffiths said: "It is extremely gratifying to see Dubai International leap up two places in the international passenger rankings in a single year.
"It is a clear signal that more people are choosing Dubai as their preferred hub not only for its extensive global network but the superb facilities on the ground too.
"Given our surging growth rate and London Heathrow's capacity constraints we are well placed to overtake them as the world's busiest airport for international traffic by 2015."


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6 more horses found shot and killed in Kentucky after gruesome discovery last week
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Bloody Tijuana: a week in the life of Mexico's murderous border city
In a country with nearly 100 murders a day President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has vowed to tackle the social roots of crime but change is slow to come * Mexico in the drug war: 'A cemetery of bodies with no story, and stories with no body' * This article contains images some readers may find distressingPolice and emergency workers descend on a petrol station in Tijuana last month after a drive-by shooting left four men injured, one critically. Photograph: Emilio Espejel/The GuardianBrianna Rojas seemed her usual breezy self as she set off for work."I'll see you later!" friends remember the 20-year-old calling out as she headed to her insurance company's bright yellow offices on Tijuana's Calle del Carmen.But by lunchtime Rojas was dead – shot in the head at close range by an unknown assassin whose attack pushed the number of homicides here to almost 1,800 so far this year, and nearly 26,000 nationwide.series linkerWhen first responders arrived they encountered a fearful scene: the victim slumped backwards in a black swivel chair, her arms flopping downwards towards a pool of blood as if she had been caught completely by surprise."She was a decent girl, a good-looking girl – she was always smiling," said her longtime boyfriend's father as shellshocked relatives gathered outside and crime scene officers prepared to transport Rojas's body to the city's overburdened morgue."It's devastating what is happening here," said the man, who asked not to be named. "It is out of control."A white forensic science van waits to remove the body of Brianna Rojas from her Tijuana workplace after she was murdered there on 8 October 2019. Photograph: Emilio Espejel/The Guardian Pacifying MexicoWhen Andrés Manuel López Obrador became Mexico's president last December he vowed to "pacify" one of Latin America's most violent nations by waging war on the social roots of crime.But nearly a year later there is scant sign of progress, as the country reels from a series of humiliating high-profile attacks and murder statistics surge to levels not seen even during the darkest days of Felipe Calderón's 2006-2012 "war on drugs".Calderón sends in the armyMexico's "war on drugs" began in late 2006 when the president at the time, Felipe Calderón, ordered thousands of troops onto the streets in response to an explosion of horrific violence in his native state of Michoacán.Calderón hoped to smash the drug cartels with his heavily militarized onslaught but the approach was counter-productive and exacted a catastrophic human toll. As Mexico's military went on the offensive, the body count sky-rocketed to new heights and tens of thousands were forced from their homes, disappeared or killed.Kingpin strategySimultaneously Calderón also began pursuing the so-called "kingpin strategy" by which authorities sought to decapitate the cartels by targeting their leaders.That policy resulted in some high-profile scalps – notably Arturo Beltrán Leyva who was gunned down by Mexican marines in 2009 – but also did little to bring peace. In fact, many believe such tactics served only to pulverize the world of organized crime, creating even more violence as new, less predictable factions squabbled for their piece of the pie.Under Calderón's successor, Enrique Peña Nieto, the government's rhetoric on crime softened as Mexico sought to shed its reputation as the headquarters of some the world's most murderous mafia groups.But Calderón's policies largely survived, with authorities targeting prominent cartel leaders such as Sinaloa's Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.When "El Chapo" was arrested in early 2016, Mexico's president bragged: "Mission accomplished". But the violence went on. By the time Peña Nieto left office in 2018, Mexico had suffered another record year of murders, with nearly 36,000 people slain."Hugs not bullets"The leftwing populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador took power in December, promising a dramatic change in tactics. López Obrador, or Amlo as most call him, vowed to attack the social roots of crime, offering vocational training to more than 2.3 million disadvantaged young people at risk of being ensnared by the cartels. "It will be virtually impossible to achieve peace without justice and [social] welfare," Amlo said, promising to slash the murder rate from an average of 89 killings per day with his "hugs not bullets" doctrine.Amlo also pledged to chair daily 6am security meetings and create a 60,000 strong "National Guard". But those measures have yet to pay off, with the new security force used mostly to hunt Central American migrants.Mexico now suffers an average of about 96 murders per day, with nearly 29,000 people killed since Amlo took office.Last month Mexico's security chief, Alfonso Durazo, claimed the crisis was reaching "inflection point" – only for his upbeat message to be imploded by a week of mayhem which saw cartel gunmen slay 13 police officers and then paralyze a major city in order to free the son of Mexico's most famous drug lord, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.In the first nine months of this year, Mexico suffered an average of close to 100 murders a day.Tijuana has seen a methamphetamine-fuelled murder epidemic which produced a record 2,518 murders in 2018 and looks set to cause even more this year."The state has lost control," said Victor Clark, a security expert and activist based in the city.A man carrying a Mexican flag walks through downtown Tijuana to celebrate the country's recent independence day. Photograph: Emilio Espejel/The Guardian 'Killings that matter to no one'To explore the violence blighting Latin America's number two economy the Guardian spent seven days reporting from Tijuana – one of the world's most deadly cities – between 4 and 11 October.The Guardian's week had an unusually peacefully start, with not a single murder recorded in the first 24 hours, according to the newly elected mayor, Arturo González Cruz.González, a López Obrador ally, claimed that had not happened in several years and voiced frustration the media had ignored the achievement.But by day two the slaughter had resumed. At 6am a man's body was found dumped in the eastern neighbourhood of Emperadores. At 11.35am a decomposing pair of legs were spotted on wasteland in the city's south. And at 2.45pm an unidentified killer barged into a home on Calle Tamaulipas, pulled out a gun and brought an unidentified male's life to an end.."Municipal police officers mounted an operation to track down the person thought responsible for the attack," one local tabloid reported – though in a country where more than 90% of crimes go unpunished there was no indication they had succeeded.Outside Tijuana's general hospital a bullet-riddled people-carrier bore witness to the latest gunfight.What had happened? "An accident," a police investigator snapped, shooing reporters away as forensic science officers marked each of the entry holes with white cards marked A-K.The next evening 30-year-old Jesús Bernal staggered into an alley off Calle Belice, blood oozing from at least four separate gunshot wounds in his legs and wrists.Red Cross first responders treat 30-year-old Jesús Bernal after he was found with at least four separate gunshot wounds in his legs and wrists. Photograph: Emilio Espejel/The GuardianAs ambulance technicians strapped the blood-spattered man to a stretcher with silver duct tape, a police officer claimed he was a convicted burglar probably shot while trying to rob a local home."It's a punishment … a message," speculated one of the first responders.But like so much of the bloodletting, the case would go unreported by newspapers, unnoticed by society and unsolved by the police."These are killings that matter to no one," Clark said.Tijuana's new mayor, Arturo González Cruz, said the city's murder crisis would only be solved by rehabilitating the city's 'social fabric'. Photograph: Emilio Espejel/The Guardian 'An era of great psychological terror'It has been just over a decade since a savage turf war for control of drug smuggling routes into the United States made Tijuana one of the most ill-famed cities on Earth.There was an explosion of carnage in 2008 as El Chapo's Sinaloa cartel tried to muscle in on what had long been the domain of the locally based Tijuana mob.Corpses were hung from bridges and shootouts raged, even in the city's most glitzy corners. In one of the most disturbing episodes 12 corpses were abandoned with their tongues hacked out and placed nearby in a black plastic bag."You couldn't go out because you were scared of what might happen," recalled Dora Elena Cortés, a local journalist whose Agencia Fronteriza de Noticias chronicled the butchery. "It was an era of great psychological terror."Negative headlines sparked government action and by 2012 the number of annual murders had plunged. But Tijuana's murder rate is now soaring once again with the slaughter so routine that one local newspaper features a muertómetro (deathometer) to help readers keep track.Authorities and academics blame the new wave of violence on a largely hidden dispute for Tijuana's drug trade – particularly that of crystal meth – although Brianna Rojas's murder did not seem to fit that mould."These deaths aren't about the fight for control of the routes into the US. They're fighting over the local market," said Clark.That appeared to be what was at stake on the night of 8 October when dozens of heavily armed police descended on a petrol station after a drive-by shooting left four men injured, one critically.Illuminated in the the red and blue lights of emergency vehicles, a half-naked man lay in a pool of blood, shot through the thigh and fighting for his life.Police officers interrogate one of four men injured in a drive-by shooting at a Tijuana petrol station on 8 October. Photograph: Emilio Espejel/The GuardianAfter a 10-minute race to the hospital, he was carried in past police with white skulls stamped on to their black uniforms and rifles slung from their shoulders. Investigators barked questions at the man's three accomplices as they lay bleeding in the corridor.Mayor González admitted it was "unreal" to expect an immediate end to Tijuana's murder crisis but hoped the body count could be reduced and insisted the city's "economic dynamism" remained unaffected.During an interview at Tijuana's brutalist city hall he reiterated the president's doctrine that crime would only be stopped by rehabilitating Tijuana's "social fabric" and eradicating corruption."Corruption is the mother of all evils, because it affects everything," González said.Clark, the expert who has spent decades tracking Tijuana's security situation, was pessimistic such tactics alone would work. "So far nothing has changed – absolutely nothing," he said of López Obrador's first year in power."I don't doubt he has good intentions. But what they are doing isn't enough."For residents of Boulevard Fundadores, where Tijuana's public mortuary is located, change cannot come fast enough.An addict approaches a hillside shooting gallery in Tijuana to buy drugs just minutes after a man was shot in the head inside. Photograph: Emilio Espejel/The GuardianOn the afternoon of 9 October, as Brianna Rojas's mother came to recover her daughter's corpse, the cloying stench of decomposing bodies hung in the air. "It's horrible. Every single day we breathe death," fumed one local woman who has been campaigning to get the morgue moved.The woman reached for her smartphone to show a series of macabre images depicting conditions inside. One showed perhaps two dozen naked corpses sprawled on the floor, a putrid tangle of bloodied limbs. "At night it's like there are 60 dead dogs lying out here," the woman complained of the reek. "We can't open our windows."Forty-eight hours later – as the week reached a bloody peak – emergency workers from Mexico's Red Cross raced westwards to collect their latest cargo from a tumbledown community called Francisco Villa.A man was hauled semi-conscious from a hillside shooting gallery and hoisted into the ambulance, his arms bound with bandages to prevent him lashing out. "He got shot in the skull," one of the team said.Would he survive? "50-50," they replied.Additional reporting by Jordi Lebrija
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This week in the impeachment inquiry: bombshell testimony and Trump fury
October 28, 2019 Sexual Health
After a chaotic week in Washington, even more damning testimony for Trump could lie aheadSteve Scalise and two dozen other Republican lawmakers stormed into the room used by the House impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump at the US Capitol. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPAAs a watershed week full of bombshell testimony and presidential fury at the impeachment inquiry receded, Washington is now looking ahead to another week promising bombshell testimony – and more presidential fury.For sheer spectacle, Republicans will be hard-pressed to top an invasion last week by lawmakers of the secure area where witnesses were being questioned. And for sheer malice, Donald Trump will have to sink far indeed to go lower than his claim to be the victim of a lynching.Republican senators have been scurrying away from reporters trying to ask about testimony last Tuesday that advanced the central charge in the impeachment inquiry, that the Trump administration had withheld military aid for Ukraine in an extortionate effort to manufacture bad news about Joe Biden.What could the senators say? Trump's defenders have almost universally stopped trying to deny or defend his conduct, resorting instead to complaints about how Democrats, who are going by rules written by Republicans, were running the process.But even more damning testimony for Trump could lie ahead, with the scheduled appearance on Thursday of the national security council senior director, Timothy Morrison.Morrison has emerged as a key witness to conversations between diplomats and Trump himself linking the military aid and the Biden ask. Morrison had a "sinking feeling" about those conversations, he has been quoted as telling one colleague."I am lowering my expectations for this testimony. Highly partisan guy," wrote Tom Nichols, a professor at the US Naval War College and notable never-Trumper. "But also, a professional who, one assumes, will tell the truth – because he had a career before Trump and would likely want to have one after Trump."Behind Morrison lies a potentially bigger witness, Morrison's former boss John Bolton, who has been quoted as saying he wanted "no part of whatever drug deal" aides to the president were cooking up. Bolton resigned as Trump's national security adviser under tense circumstances in September.Bolton's lawyers are working toward an agreement in which he would testify before the congressional committees running the impeachment inquiry, according to multiple reports."I think there is a high likelihood that the committees will turn their sights to John Bolton precisely because he was not, strangely enough in some ways, an accomplice to this," Ned Price, a former CIA officer and national security council spokesman, told Renato Mariotti on the On Topic podcast. "He was against this. He in fact played a key role."With an increasing number of threats arrayed against him, and the weight of evidence piling up, Trump has become ever more reliant on the support of Republican colleagues, especially in the Senate, which has the power to remove Trump from office.But instead of currying favor with fellow Republicans – allowing them, perhaps, to float light criticisms of him in exchange for their promise to protect him with their votes – Trump has resorted to threats and shaming, declaring Republicans who oppose him to be "human scum".Trump has also continued to make highly controversial moves – abandoning the Kurds in northern Syria, temporarily awarding himself federal contracts to host next year's G7 summit – that Republicans warned made defending him increasingly difficult.A move by the Republican Lindsey Graham to demonstrate support for Trump in the Senate on Thursday was slow to draw all the Republicans, with three – Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Mitt Romney of Utah – declining to sign on to a resolution criticizing the impeachment process now playing out in the House. About 20 Republican senators would probably be required to oust Trump from office.Public approval of the impeachment inquiry, meanwhile, keeps climbing, with 55% approving and 43% disapproving, up from 51% approval one week prior, according to a new Quinnipiac poll backed up by polling averages.Republicans have complained that the impeachment inquiry has not allowed the White House and other agencies to send lawyers along with testifying witnesses, and has no mechanism for Trump to call his own witnesses to mount a defense.But as the head of the executive branch, Trump "has access to all the witnesses/documents he would need, many of which are being withheld from House Democrats", wrote Nate Jones, a former national security council and justice department official."His real problem: the facts are indefensible."Other expert observers agree with that analysis."President Trump's substantive defense against the ongoing impeachment inquiry has crumbled entirely – not just eroded or weakened, but been flattened like a sandcastle hit with a large wave," wrote the Brookings Institution senior fellow Benjamin Wittes in Lawfare. "The only defense that remains to the president is that it does not amount to an impeachment-worthy offense – an argument difficult to square with either the history of impeachment or its purpose in our constitutional system."
EU will delay Brexit until February if Johnson fails to ratify deal this week – The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times has reported bit.ly/2p1UfbJ that the European Union will delay Brexit until February 2020 if Prime Minister Boris Johnson is unable to get his deal past parliament this week. The delay would be "fungible", meaning that Britain could leave earlier, on Nov. 1 or 15, December or January, if his deal is ratified before the extension ends, the newspaper said, citing diplomatic sources.
Tropical Storm Priscilla to unleash flooding rainfall across southwest Mexico early this week
A newly strengthened tropical storm will bring a heightened risk of flash flooding and mudslides to southwestern Mexico through Monday.The new tropical threat formed about 105 miles (169 km) south of Manzanillo, Mexico, early Sunday morning, and was upgraded to a tropical storm just a few hours later.As of 8 a.m. EDT Sunday, the storm was moving north at 7 mph (11 km/h) with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (64 km/h). This satellite image shows newly formed Tropical Depression 19 off the southwestern coast of Mexico early Sunday morning. (NOAA/GOES-EAST) The storm is expected to hold its intensity as it moves inland over southwestern Mexico.Wind gusts of 40-60 mph (64-97 km/h) can occur where the system makes landfall."Once inland, the system will quickly weaken and dissipate Sunday night," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Rob Miller said.No matter the status of Priscilla, heavy rainfall is expected to be the main impact from the system. AccuWeather meteorologists expect widespread rainfall totals of 3-6 inches (76-152 mm), with an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ of 10 inches (254 mm).Portions of Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima and Michoacan are expected to bear the brunt of this rainfall."This rain will lead to the risk for dangerous flooding and mudslides across the region," Miller said.The area's steep terrain will heighten the risk of fast-moving, potentially life-threatening debris flows.This system is designated a less than 1 on the AccuWeather RealImpact™ Scale for Hurricanes. The AccuWeather RealImpact™ Scale for Hurricanes ranges from values of less than 1 to 5.Elsewhere in the East Pacific basin, there are no other immediate tropical threats this week. Download the free AccuWeather app to see the latest forecast and advisories for your region. Keep checking back for updates on AccuWeather.com and stay tuned to the AccuWeather Network on DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon Fios.
Impeachment's hectic fourth week ends. Here's what to look for next week.
The fourth week of the Democrats' impeachment inquiry in Congress was the busiest so far, with five different depositions, a fractious meeting of Republicans and Democrats at the White House, and a shocking press conference by President Trump's chief of staff.
Disney Skyliner reopens with modified hours after stranding passengers last week
Disney's Skyliner is back in action after the new aerial cable car system stranded passengers for hours the night of Oct. 5.


This is TOO COOL! The 11" tall glass bottle is a replica of the FORTNITE in game power-up. When you slowly tilt the Mini Shield Potion Wave Bottle from side to side, it create a visually appealing display of ocean waves inside. This is due Hughes Wave Motion Machines wave fluid formula. Best of all, the liquids are BLACK LIGHT REACTIVE, so all you need is a strong fluorescent black light in a dark room for it to produce a bright glow!
The fluids are non-toxic and the bottle has been sealed with a two part epoxy. Great for Cosplay or FORTNITE-themed birthday parties, The FORTNITE Mini Shield Potion Wave Bottle will be made in limited numbers, so purchase while they are available! Decal color may vary between purple or white. There is a 5 business day lead time prior to shipping, so please take this into consideration if needed by a certain date.


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Q: Write CSV File Line by Line I'm trying to create a CSV output file in VBA but I can't seem to get it. I need to loop through a spreadsheet and pull numbers from column 'I' based on whether column D has a "1" in it or not. Could someone please help with the syntax? I'd like to incorporate the following loop portion.
Dim iRow as Integer

'Loops through worksheet starting at row 2
For iRow = 2 To ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count
'Determines whether there's a 1 in column D or not. If there is, copy the file number from row I
If Trim(range("D" & iRow)) <> "" Then
'insert code to pull file numbers from row I and then output it to a CSV file
End If

A: Dim iRow As Integer
Dim stringToWrite As String

For iRow = 2 To ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count
    If Cells(iRow, 4) = 1 Then
        If Len(stringToWrite) > 0 Then stringToWrite = stringToWrite & ", "
        stringToWrite = stringToWrite & Cells(iRow, 9)
    End If

Next iRow

Open "c:\Test.csv" For Output As #1
    Print #1, stringToWrite
Close #1

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const { combineReducers } = require('redux');

const { reduceAllies } = require('./allies');
const { reduceBattleBoard } = require('./battle-board');
const { reduceBullets } = require('./bullets');
const { reduceCursor } = require('./cursor');
const { reduceEnemies } = require('./enemies');
const { reduceGameStatus } = require('./game-status');
const { reduceSortieBoard } = require('./sortie-board');
const { reduceUnitStateChangeLogs } = require('./unit-state-change-logs');

const reduceApp = combineReducers({
  allies: reduceAllies,
  battleBoard: reduceBattleBoard,
  bullets: reduceBullets,
  cursor: reduceCursor,
  enemies: reduceEnemies,
  gameStatus: reduceGameStatus,
  sortieBoard: reduceSortieBoard,
  unitStateChangeLogs: reduceUnitStateChangeLogs,
});

module.exports = reduceApp;

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Whether you're at an outdoor love-in, a hush-hush 4 a.m. loft afterparty, or a massive EDM banger like Bud Light's Sensation—which, as we detailed ..
You may have heard of it – the massive festival that scoured Europe for years – Sensation (formally Sensation White, a trance ..
Camel Audio releases "Biolabs: Light Space" for Alchemy and Alchemy Player.
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The Postal Service Reunion ??
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This Saturday Earmilk is invading the Locals Only Food & Music Festival in Toronto. Basically it's a full day of food, great music & ..
Normally, I shun previews, teasers and those non-delectable tasters that get sent our way. Call me new-fashioned or just simply greedy, but I tend ..
With this track we wanted to combine two things that people love and hate on more than anything on this planet: Lana Del Rey & Dubstep ..
A couple of weeks ago, we announced the release of Only At Night – Vol. 1, the first volume of what is planned to be an ongoing series. ..
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I am a true Sri Lankan. I like my high tea to be full of oily patties, iced coffee, faluda and patties. But it's not the true essence of a high tea. A true high tea has to have different tea flavours complementing the sweet and the savoury bites. Recently, Bakes by Bella broke the wall that stopped us from enjoying this, when they expanded their little place and opened up an Alice in Wonderland themed high tea experience. It's called the Blue Velvet by Bella.
The food is paired with perfectly brewed tea that is from the premium Ceylon tea range from PMD. It comes with Smoked Salmon Crepes and cream cheese on toasted brioche bread. Roasted red onion with goat cheese on mini beetroot burger, pesto sun-dried tomato and feta cheese wrap - these three options were my favourites out of the whole platter.
You can never go wrong with cheese. Adding a Sri Lankan spin is Bella's favourite Isso Wade with a lime and chili kick. Not forgetting the sweet items, I have picked my favourites from that lot - the fruit tarts that crack in your mouth with the custard popping out.
The other one was the raspberry éclair; if it could hear, I would have asked it to marry me. It's priced at LKR 3800 for two, and it's a must try.
"wanted to bring the true high tea experience to Sri Lanka."


As we all known that when working we usually need use Milling machine.It's usually dangerours, so i will share some knowledge about installation rules of Beam Face Milling Machine.
1. To load and unload workpieces, the tool must be removed, cut in the middle, and the hand must not come close to the milling surface.
2. Asahi is the use of milling machine when the knife, you must jog or hand into, not fast forward, take the knife, are not allowed to stop.
3. When the rapid advance and retreat knife attention Xu Aspen milling machine handle will hit people.
4. Feed too fast, are not allowed to suddenly change speed, Asahi milling limit stoppers should be adjusted.
We can supply double base positioner,Welding Positioner.If you need,welcome to contact us.


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Q: making library: conflicting types in header and source file I have trouble understanding c header files and source files. I have:
something.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include "something.h"

typedef struct {
    int row, col;
} point;

point
whereispoint(point **matrix, int rows, int cols)
{
   ..... Does something ....
   printf("something...");
}

something.h
typedef struct point * p;

p whereispoint(p **matrix, int rows, int cols);

main.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include "something.h"

int
main(void)
{
   int row, col;
   p **matrix=malloc(bla, bla);
   .....Something.....
   p=whereispoint(matrix, row, col);
   return 0;
}

Now when I don't actually know how to compile this... I tried gcc -c main.c something.c
but that doesn't work, I tried to compile separately gcc -c main.c and gcc -c something.c
then main.c works but something.c does not.
I am actually trying to make a library out of something.c but as I am not able even to compile it to object code I don't know what to do. I guess there is something wrong with the struct type and the typedef of it in something.h but I can't figure out what...

A: In the header, the function whereispoint() is declare as returning a struct point* (the typedef p) but the definition returns a struct point, not a pointer.
Personally, I find typedef pointers confusing and think it is clearer in the code if * is used to denote a pointer:
/* header */
typedef struct point point_t;

point_t* whereispoint(point_t** matrix, int rows, int cols);

/* .c */
struct point {
    int row, col;
};

point_t* whereispoint(point_t** matrix, int rows, int cols)
{
   ..... Does something ....
   printf("something...");
   return ??;
}

A: The following:
typedef struct {
  int row, col;
} point;

typedefs a nameless struct to the type point.
In something.h, you then typedef "struct point" (an undefined struct type reference) to "*p".
Typically, you should define all your "interface types" in the header file, instead of trying to hide the implementation (C needs to know the implementation to access anything).
Try doing something like this in something.h:
typedef struct point {
  int row, col;
} *p;

Or, if you are unsure exactly how typedefs work, simply do:
 struct point {
  int row, col;
}

That declares a struct type.


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Babić is a native Croatian red wine grape common to the Northern Dalmatia region. Typically grown in and around the towns of Šibenik and Primošten, it can also be found on some Croatian islands such as Korčula.  While officially listed as a National Cultivar in Croatia (NN 159/04), the name of this grape is also a common Croatian family name.

History
Like many grapes in Croatia, the history behind Babić is largely unknown other than the fact it has been actively grown in the Northern Dalmatian region for hundreds of years.  One theory is that it is a localized clone of Dobričić.  Another suggests that it is connected to Dobričić via a parent/offspring relationship.  Until more genetic testing has concluded, it will not be known for certain.

Characteristics

The wine produced from this grape is dark and thick. It typically has a high degree of tannins as well as alcohol. Higher-end versions of the grape are thought to be able to age well.

Wines that are typically considered to be of the highest vrhunsko grade are made from the grapes that grow on the historic stone terraces that surround Primošten.

Synonyms
Given the far-flung spread of this grape along the coast of Croatia, a great number of synonyms have arisen, including Babic Crni, Babic Mali, Babic Pivati, Babic Pluskavi, Babic Veliki, Babica, Babica Crni, Babica Gresljivka Crni, Babica Mala, Babica Vela, Babica Velika, Babicevic, Babicevica, Babinka Vela, Babić, Babičević, Babytch, Crnac Rani, Grastavac, Gresljivka, Pazanin, Pažanin, Rogoznicanin, Roguljanac, Roguljanak, Sibencanac, and Šibenčanac.

References

Further reading

Grape varieties of Croatia
Dalmatian grape varieties
Red wine grape varieties

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Great communication. They looked after our place really well and would happy for them to return.
Pleasant couple of guests - no problem to host. Left cottage clean and tidy. Would recommend.
Lovely couple, thank you for leaving unit so very clean.


Webster Avenue in the Bronx is getting ready for its close-up.
A 1.5-mile long stretch of the busy thoroughfare between Fordham Road and Gun Hill Road, is the city's latest target for revitalization.
The goal is to transform that stretch of one of the Bronx's longest roadways—which weaves its way through Norwood, Fordham and Bedford Park—into a "Main Street" that will serve as a center of gravity for the area. The plan envisions new shopping areas, mixed-income housing, a business incubator, pedestrian-friendly streets and cultural activities. Currently, this stretch of Webster boasts low-density residential properties, vacant parcels and auto body shops--remnants of its previous industrial zoning.
Two years ago, the city rezoned the area to allow for at least 430,000 square feet of new commercial development and 950 new residential units to be constructed in the short- to medium-term future. Before that, the area had not been rezoned since 1961.
The idea for the revamping of Webster Avenue came from four major cultural and academic institutions based nearby: Fordham University, Montefiore Medical Center, The New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo. They approached City Hall with the idea.
The city then identified significant opportunity for new retail and residential development along Webster Avenue. According to the city's Economic Development Corp., there is $800 million of unmet retail demand just from households along that corridor. That number doesn't include 15,000 employees and 18,500 students at the nearby Fordham University who would also spend money in the area if presented with the right mix of restaurants and shops.
The plan "provides a roadmap … for integrating historic Bronx institutions with new business and residential development that holds promise for the borough's future," said Seth Pinsky, president of the city's Economic Development Corp., in a statement.


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package config

import (
	errs "github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/pkg/api/errors"
	"github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/pkg/api/meta"
	"github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/pkg/client"
	"github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/pkg/runtime"
)

// ClientFunc returns the RESTClient defined for given resource
type ClientFunc func(mapping *meta.RESTMapping) (*client.RESTClient, error)

// CreateObjects creates bulk of resources provided by items list. Each item must
// be valid API type. It requires ObjectTyper to parse the Version and Kind and
// RESTMapper to get the resource URI and REST client that knows how to create
// given type
func CreateObjects(typer runtime.ObjectTyper, mapper meta.RESTMapper, clientFor ClientFunc, objects []runtime.Object) errs.ValidationErrorList {
	allErrors := errs.ValidationErrorList{}
	for i, obj := range objects {
		version, kind, err := typer.ObjectVersionAndKind(obj)
		if err != nil {
			reportError(&allErrors, i, errs.NewFieldInvalid("kind", obj))
			continue
		}

		mapping, err := mapper.RESTMapping(version, kind)
		if err != nil {
			reportError(&allErrors, i, errs.NewFieldNotSupported("mapping", err))
			continue
		}

		client, err := clientFor(mapping)
		if err != nil {
			reportError(&allErrors, i, errs.NewFieldNotSupported("client", obj))
			continue
		}

		if err := CreateObject(client, mapping, obj); err != nil {
			reportError(&allErrors, i, *err)
		}
	}

	return allErrors.Prefix("Config")
}

// CreateObject creates the obj using the provided clients and the resource URI
// mapping. It reports ValidationError when the object is missing the Metadata
// or the Name and it will report any error occured during create REST call
func CreateObject(client *client.RESTClient, mapping *meta.RESTMapping, obj runtime.Object) *errs.ValidationError {
	name, err := mapping.MetadataAccessor.Name(obj)
	if err != nil || name == "" {
		e := errs.NewFieldRequired("name", err)
		return &e
	}

	namespace, err := mapping.Namespace(obj)
	if err != nil {
		e := errs.NewFieldRequired("namespace", err)
		return &e
	}

	// TODO: This should be using RESTHelper
	err = client.Post().Path(mapping.Resource).Namespace(namespace).Body(obj).Do().Error()
	if err != nil {
		return &errs.ValidationError{errs.ValidationErrorTypeInvalid, name, err}
	}

	return nil
}

// reportError reports the single item validation error and properly set the
// prefix and index to match the Config item JSON index
func reportError(allErrs *errs.ValidationErrorList, index int, err errs.ValidationError) {
	i := errs.ValidationErrorList{}
	*allErrs = append(*allErrs, append(i, err).PrefixIndex(index).Prefix("item")...)
}


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I finally took some track time and went to Gore Rd at mile 50 of the Galt sub for CP 147 and another westbound, and over to mile 30 for CN 385, 339, and 422.
Steve called me to let me know that 580 had just left Cambridge with a dimensional. I took off down highway 24 and saw it crossing ahead of me at the crossing. I went back for it at Wellington Rd 32, and then waited for the light there to change. It never did, and after several minutes I turned south on highway 24 and turned around, going to CN Guelph Junction for it coming off the Fergus sub and heading west on the Guelph.
We got an early start, leaving Guelph at 6:30, and chased a plow run from Stratford to Goderich on the GEXR. We then returned to Stratford to shoot some parked Class 66s (in tarps) and some KCS units in the yard, then headed to Zorra where we reported a defective crossing and shot CP 153, 138, T69, and 245. From there we went to Ingersoll and shot VIA 76 and CN X368, an army move that I did not know was coming. We chased that to Creditville and called it a (good) day.
We started our day in Rouses Point, New York, where we found the D&H quite quiet. We crossed Lake Champlain over to St. Albans, Vermont, where the NECR showed equally little sign of life, so decided to follow the VRS through Rutland to get to Brattleboro, our destination. Not long after leaving Burlington, we heard two extras being set up to meet in Chester, Vermont. Being two hours from there we had lots of time to wonder if we'd see it, and along the way we were distracted by an SBU blaring around New Haven, Vermont. We knew we were near a train on the Rutland-Burlington line but after trying to find it unsuccessfully for a while, we pushed on, ultimately reaching Chester about an hour after the meet had taken place. We caught the westbound in the woods about 5 miles out of town, but didn't get ahead of the eastbound until Bellows Falls, where the train was headed.
We woke up to the sound of horns and heard NECR #611 heading through town. We chased it to the main crossing in Vernon.
We left Brattleboro on the morning of the 16th and went to NMH, where I caught up with some of my old teachers and classmates for most of the day. In the late afternoon, we cut across Mass. to the Hoosac tunnel in Florida, but the Guilford gods did not love us and no trains were forthcoming, although a local railfan reported a Bow coal empty was supposed to be on its way. We slept in Utica that night and on the 17th we started the day there, shooting the Mohawk, Adirondack, and Western and an NYSW unit from afar that came in by surprise. We chased the MHWA to Rome, where we followed the wrong spur and took a while to find it out in the industrial park on the east side of town. From there we chased CSX Q091, the ultra-high priority vegetable train to Lyons, catching it only once at Syracuse yard, and there only barely. From Lyons, where we missed Q091 by about 7 minutes, we headed up to Geneva to see what we could find on the FGLK, and chased the Lyons job back to Lyons before heading out to the Rochester and Genessee Valley Railroad Museum south of Rochester and finally completing our trip by getting back to Guelph a few minutes past 10pm.
We went to Ingersoll for a wedding and stopped at the station for a few between it and the reception.
We heard about an EMD move of Egyptian Class 66s and went to Guelph station for them. We got the GJE leaving southbound and then began the waiting game. After several hours, we received word that the train was stopped in Stratford and went home, and immediately got word it had left. Trevor and I headed up to Breslau to get it and then chased it back to Guelph before calling it a day.
I went to Wolverton to see the new yard there, just missing 152 and T69. Heard T69 switching at Ayr and went for it there, barely catching it, then headed to Paris, just missing 385, then to Killean for T69 one more time on the way home.
We went to east switch Puslinch for an eastbound and #243 with two GEVOs.
We took off on a cloudy morning to Guelph Junction, found silent tracks, and moved over to mile 30. CN 339 and 385 came through in short order and we took off back to Puslinch to see a 7000 foot 243 meet an eastbound. We didn't make it to Puslinch in time to get 243 arriving, and chased it to Galt where it had to set off two units. As soon as 243 cleared the bridge, the sun came out and remained out for the rest of the day, and, as a consequence, that was the last train we could find in four more hours out.
With a serious case of cabin fever setting in and beautiful weather outside, we went to the Galt sub for an unidentified westbound, came back for lunch, then went to mile 30 for an eastbound and rerouted CN Q199. With nothing else in the area we headed up to Tottenham to shoot the South Simcoe tourist train and then went to VIT for a southbound before returning home.
On my way back from errands I ran across OSR at Woolwich/Speedvale heading north, so turned to follow them and shot them (video only) crossing Woodlawn, then chased 580 back down to Alma St./CN Guelph Junction and went home.
Greg warned of a CN 5722-CN 5244-AMT 270-AMT 293-GOT 521-GOT 533-GOT 524-GOT 522-GOT 529-GOT 534 lashup on 422. I went to mile 30 for it and shot it between sunspots and rainshowers.
I went down to London for an interview, and stopped at EMD to see what was up on the way back. I then took the scenic route following the Guelph sub home, and narrowly missed VIA 85 on the St. Mary's viaduct and saw a very short 433 leaving Stratford not worth stopping to shoot (4019 + two cars).
The Guelph Historical Railway Association put on a rare miles tour with the Guelph Junction Express, runnint into the industrial tracks in Guelph and doing two photo runbys. I volunteered on the train and took a few photos and some short video clips while not otherwise occupied using my wife's point-and-shoot camera rather than the bulky SLR I normally use.
On our way to the wedding of one of my oldest friends in rural New Hampshire, we stopped in to see the Ontario Midland, CSX, HRRC, and PVRR, finding very little running. We brought our camera in for a cleaning, and it was returned to us without charge because of an apparently immutable piece of dirt on the sensor, so another railfan trip goes into the record with a great big spot in the upper-right corner of all my photos.
Travelling from southern Vermont to eastern New Hampshire for a wedding, we explored tracks north out of Concord and into Meredith.
Back in Brattleboro, we got up early to see NECR 324 heading through town.
Steve picked me up and we went to Galt to see what we could find in an hour. We caught an eastbound, fruitlessly chased Hagey job, and found some MoW equipment working a tie replacement program at the Highway 24 crossing on the Fergus sub.
I headed down to mile 30 to catch up with a once stalwart local railfan returning for a visit and caught CN 384, 148, and 339.
I headed down to New England for my high school reunion and picked up WJED at Brattleboro with a PanAm painted unit meeting the northbound Vermonter.
After arriving at NMH before my classmates, I headed back out to the tracks for a bit for Amtrak 55 and NECR 323.
On my way home from reunion I stopped to chase the Batten Kill, which operates exclusively with the venerable RS-3. I asked the crew at Greenwich shops where the train was and was told it was parked at Cambridge, so headed up there to wait for them to come on duty and chased them to Greenwich Junction where I broke off and headed for Whitehall. There I caught CP 253 and continued north. Coming into the Laurentians I saw QGRY rather than CP power at Ste-Therese yard so bailed off the 15 and went for a closer look.
We landed at Gatwick airport and took the train up to Reading, connected to Maidenhead, and were picked up at Bourne End.
We were invited to stay with a family friend in Wellington, near Taunton, and tour the West Somerset Railway. We boarded the train at Reading station and went across to Newport, Wales, returning via Bristol and heading down to Taunton for the next day's trip. At Newport, we went to a bridge and watched for about 30 minutes. Moments after we left, a train came over with a pair of rare Class 67s! Grumbling at the loss, I was more than a little surprised to have the same train return a few minutes later and take us to Taunton.
We spent the day touring the West Somerset Railway, and headed up to Dunster Castle.
After a wonderful day and a half in Wellington and on the West Somerset Railway, we headed back to High Wycombe as only a trainspotter could -- via Birmingham and Water Orton station.
We headed from High Wycombe up to Barnetby, a busy freight location every trainspotter we met told us we had to visit.
We travelled from Barnetby across to Darwen, north of Manchester, to meet a friend, and then headed back to Wycombe.
We went to Oxford for a couple of hours in the afternoon and were graced with the unexpected arrival of the Tornado, Britain's freshly built steam engine.
We came home, returning to Gatwick by train.
I waited at Erindale GO to pick a friend up from work nearby to go to Parry Sound for his bachelor party, only seeing a single GO train while I waited.
I spent the day around Parry Sound, based out of Oastler Lake Provincial Park, catching 3 CP intermodals, all with DPU, at Reynolds, the connection point between CN and CP for the Parry Sound<->Sudbury directional running.
A 'blue banana', a Babcock and Wilcox 505-ton steam generator component, the first in about 5 years, spent 9 days sitting in the yard at Guelph. I received a report shortly after waking up in Parry Sound that it had left Guelph at 08:40. With the help of MDC, I was able to intercept it at Bramalea GO station with about one minute to spare. It spent the rest of the day winding its way down to Toronto harbour. While I had originally planned to chase it, the extremely bad weather dissuaded me.
I went up to Sarnia for Mischa's wedding, stopping for 394 just short of the city, missing 383 and 397 and getting 385 and 301 at the Via station, all back/cloudlit.
I received a scramble for an EMD extra coming into Guelph with assorted export units and got it just after sunset at Guelph station along with Steve, Chris, Bill, and Trevor. The train had: HLCX 6091-HLCX 6522-EMDX 11002-Veolia Transport (France) 077501-077502-077503-Egyptian Railways 2157-AAST2-2161-2159-2154-2150-2151-2155-2152-2158-2160-2162-2156-2149-2153-2163-EMDX 11001.
With a few hours to kill on a rare beautiful but cool day, I went to mile 30 and Guelph Junction to meet Mischa and see what would come. CN #392 was first up with a BCOL C40-8M, then saw CP #525, #426, #242, and #421.
I went flying over lunch hour and saw the Guelph Junction Express, then later went back out for GEXR X431 with the recently arrived FEC unit at the Alma St crossing.
I was downtown at the right place at the right time for OSR heading southbound with three rockets by the River Run Centre, and then caught GEXR 431 with 2 CN units at last light at the station before going home for the day.
Trevor had American Thanksgiving off and so picked me up first thing in the morning to head up to Goderich and see what was happening. We left the house a little after 9, catching Via 84 at P&H in Breslau. P&H's sign is gone and there's a rezoning application at the facility, but the backtrack is still full of grain hoppers. After that, we hopped over to the bridge coming into Kitchener and saw GEXR 580, found nothing at the station in Kitchener, and went on to Stratford where we found 433 with 4001-6061 preparing to head east. We went back to Shakespeare to shoot 433 on the bridge over Highway 7, got out of the car, and heard a loud hissing noise. We abandoned the chase and returned to Stratford to rectify the rapidly flattening tire and have lunch. It worked out well, as when the car was ready and we had eaten, 433 returned from Kitchener. We shot it working and then shot 85 at the station, then pushed on to Goderich, where we happened upon the two CN units GEXR is using moments before they headed into the salt mine. Don't know the last time CN power worked that mine...
Got a scramble wakeup call at dawn that a Canadian Forces extra was westbound by West Toronto. Went to Puslinch for it, but was fogged in, so shot it (no video) at Galt bridge.
I went to Terrebonne to meet local railfans Sam and J-F. They took me on an excellent adventure along the CN Lac-St-Jean subdivision to chase CN 369 with DPU south back to Shawinigan and catch VIA 601 with ex-GO units. We caught both of those and CN L522 in Shawinigan, finding out only after returning to Terrebonne about a wind turbine train on the QGRY that we silently passed in Trois-Rivières. Excellent, if extremely cold, day over all. The time between shots and videos was mostly taken up warming the camera batteries so they would have enough strength for the next set of shots, not always succeeding as the video camera frequently gave up from the cold -18C + windchill chase.


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Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz is expected to be healthy enough to fully participate in the team's offseason program in April, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Wentz is currently recovering from a stress fracture in his back that is expected to take two-to-three months to heal. He missed the Eagles' last five games as a result - including two playoff contests.
Schefter adds that the star pivot's back ailment could potentially be related to the knee injury that ended his 2017 campaign.
Despite Wentz's injury history, Eagles head coach Doug Pederson recently confirmed that the former No. 2 overall pick will be the team's starting quarterback moving forward.
Nick Foles took over as Philadelphia's starter for a second consecutive season after Wentz was lost for the year, leading the team to the NFC divisional round.


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Soak the lentils in water overnight.
In a saucepan, heat a drizzle of olive oil and saute the chopped shallots and the bay leaf, until the shallots are translucent.
Add the bacon in cubes and fry.
Then add the peeled and chopped tomato and the wine. Simmer until the wine completely evaporates.
Add the curry powder and mix well.
Add the hot water, bring to a boil, and add the drained lentils.
Season with salt and hot sauce.
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US Open Tips 2022
danielhulbert / Jun 15, 2022
Find the latest special offers, betting tips and info for the second Golf Major of the season with bettingpro.com's ultimate guide to betting on the US Open.
The 2022 US Open Golf Championship will be the 122nd edition of this great event. It wil take place at the Country Club At Brookline in Massachusetts on the 16th June, with a full field of 156 players looking to write themselves into the history books and win one of Golf's four Major titles. Below we take you through the US Open, with a look at the history, the course and the world's top professionals who are likely to feature in this event, which was won last year by Jon Rahm at Torrey Pines. Plus we pick ou a few selections to back, with our friends at Boylesport, who are offering a massive 11 places on the event!
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The U.S. Open Championship is the third Major of the year and our friends at Boylesport will be continuing their excellent coverage of the event, with multiple markets available each day, the best pricing around and extra places available for those backing pre-event.
With eleven places available on the US Open and a Bet £10 – Get £20 sign-up offer, it pays to look further down the tournament for extra value, alongside an outright pick. With that in mind, check three of our picks below, worth looking to back, as an outright and each-way selections.
For the Outright, Rory McIlory, is ticking the majority of boxes at 9/1, with the Northern Irishman coming into this event off the back of a win in the RBC Canadian Open, heading the field by 2 strokes. He has been strong in Majors this year too, with a 2nd in the Masters and an 8th in the PGA Championship, whilst statistically leading the Tour in SG: Tee-to-Green and adjusted scoring. He ended his Canadian win, with a round of 62 last Sunday and if he continues in that vein, he will be tough to beat.
The first of two longer priced, each-way selections is Corey Conners at 40/1. The Canadian finished sixth in the RBC Canadian Open last week and actually matched Rory McIlroy's round of 62 on the Sunday, as he finished his home event in style. He has placed in the Top 20 in five of the last eight events played, including three Top 10's and ranks 4th on Tour for Greens In Regulation, 13th in Scoring Average and 19th in Shots Gained: Total. If he continues his upward trend here, he is very likely to feature.
The second of two each-way picks is Mexican, Abraham Ancer at 50/1. Although form has been a little up and down for the former FedEx St Jude Invitational winner, he has grabbed a Top 10 in two Majors, including the recent PGA Championship. His biggest strength is his Driving Accuracy, for which he ranks 3rd on Tour and on a tight track like Brookline, this could well be a boon. He has room to improve, but he has the right mentality for Majors and could well feature on Sunday, with the big price worthy of some interest.
US Open Golf Championship Form Guide
The current World Number 1 and joint favourite for the event is Scottie Scheffler, with the American in fine form this year, winning three of his last eight events, including the U.S. Masters at August National, when three strokes clear of the field.
It's not diffcult to see why he ranks at the top of the pile and leads the FedEx standings, when he ranks 2nd on Tour for Greens In Regulation (GIR), 3rd in Birdie Average and 5th in Putting Average. he is the very definition of a "machine" at the moment and if he is on his game, he will be almost impossible to beat.
One man who will fancy their chances is the other joint favourite and current World Number 2, Jon Rahm. The Spaniard won this event last year, beating Louis Oosthuizen by a stroke at Torrey Pines and has two events wins since, taking the Tour Championship and the Mexico Open last month. He picked up a Top 10 finish at the Memorial Tourament a fortnight ago and will be raring to go, as he lookes to defend his title.
His all-round game is super strong and he leads the Tour in SG: Off The Tee and ranks 5th for SG: Total, which is no mean feat and is helped by leading the Tour for GIR and 5th placed ranking for Driving Distance. It really would not be a surprise to see Rahm and Scheffler being the final pairing on Sunday.
The betting market usually reflects form well and thats no different, when you see the trio of players just behind the aforementioned two. Collin Morikawa won the Open Championship last year and despite fluctuating form, a fifth at the U.S. Masters showed he is clearly a big game player. Statistically he ranks highly in Driving Accuracy and Scoring Average and SG: Approach The Green, with that consistency key to his successes so far..
The next of our five is Aussie, Cameron Smith, who has won twice this year, including the Players Championship and T3 in the recent U.S. Masters. It surely looks a case of when, rather than if, the mullet haired star wins a Major and this looks a course that will suit his game.
Lastly, Northern Ireland's very own Rory McIlroy looks back to his best this year, having placed 2nd at Augusta and then 8th in the USPGA Championship. He may not have won this year, but he keeps knocking at the door and off the back of those strong Major performances, the man from Holywood, County Down could bag a fifth major and second US Open title.
US Open Golf Championship Trends and Betting Insight
It can be difficult picking through the 156 player field, but there are some general trends within the US Open that offer a little help in whittling down the list of potential players to back for the event.
Dating back to 2010, nine of the last eleven winners of the US Open Golf Championship have resided in the World's Top 25 ranked players. Experience of this event is crucial too, with all previous winners since 2010, previously finishing in the Top 25 in this tournament, while nine of those had played at least three US Open's before winning.
As well as experience, form of sorts does play a key role, with nine of those eleven previous victors, winning an event on Tour within the current season or in the season prior. This can help to a degree, while previous performances in the Farmers Insurance Open can also be a guide, with this event played at Torrey Pines every year. Looking at that event alone, suggests Spaniard Jon Rahm could be a dark horse for the tournament, having won the Farmers event in 2017 and runner-up in 2020.
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Who Won the 2021 Event?
Spaniard Jon Rahm won the event, with a late surge to beat South African golfer, Louis Oosthuizen to the title. Rahm birdied the final two holes of the tournament to take the victory and the coveted prize.
US Open Golf Championship Defending Champions
Defending champions have had a tough time trying to retain their title, with only three players in the history of the event winning back to back US Open's: Brooks Koepka (2017,2018), Curtis Strange (1988, 1999) and one Willie Anderson, who is the only player to win three in a row (1903,1904, 1905). Anderson himself also joins Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan and Jack Nicklaus as four-time winners.
And it's not great for runners-up either, with Phil Mickelson missing out on the top spot by one place on six occasions!
What are the Best US Open betting markets?
Outside of the Outright winner market, there are plenty of interesting betting options on the US Open, with the Each-way market a valuable option for bettors looking for bigger odds. A lot of bookmakers offer extended places for these events, with some offering as many as 10 places prior to the tournament, giving players more betting options from the 156 man field.
Over interesting markets are the Three-Ball Market usually attributed to the first and second rounds. These basically create a mini competition between the players of the various groupings throughout the opening few days, with players betting on who scores the lowest round of the group (usually 3 players). This gives bettors an extra dynamic to the betting on the tournament, with the focus away from the top players.
Other bets include a Top 20 Finish at the end of a tournament, a Make The Cut bet, for a player to qualify for the weekend's play and The Top American, European or British player market, which narrows the field by nationality or region, through to Prop bets on everything from a Hole In One being scored to a player Parring every single hole in a round. In the week prior to the US Open, it is wise to keep an eye on your favourite bookmaker for specials and enhancements to further the value of your selections
The US Open Golf Championship History
The first ever US Open Golf Championship was played in one day on October 4, 1895 over 36 holes at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island. Just eleven players entered the event, with ten pros and an amatuer. The first ever winner was Englishman Horace Rawlins, which started a period of British dominance in the event, winning all editions through to 1911, when John McDermott became the first ever "home" champion.
The American domination has continued throughout, ever since, with the remaining 104 editions of the US Open to 2020, won just 19 times by non-American players, with South Africa winning five tournaments, via Gary Player, Ernie Els and Retief Goosen
The Country Club at Brookline
Known simply as "The Country Club" and located in Brookline, Massachusetts, this is venue is one of five founding clubs that helped to set up the United States Golf Association, with the golf played here in 1893, when six holes were originally built by Willie Campbell
It took a while for the course to grow, but now houses a total of 27 holes, split into three nine-hole courses called Squirrel, Clyde and Primrose. A combination of holes from these three smaller track, makes up the Championship course that will be used for this years U.S. Open tournament. The first ever event held here was the U.S. Women's Amateur event, back in 1902 and this will be the fourteenth time, the course has been used for a large tournament, with this being the fourth ever U.S. Open to be held here, having previously hosted in 1913, 1963 and 1988.
The course is probably most famous for its hosting of the Ryder Cup in 1999, which was labelled the "battle of Brookline" due to rather contentious behaviour by the US team during the match and rather unsavoury behaviour by the gallery, which met with widespread condemnation.
For the 2022 U.S. Open, the course will change slightly, with a Par 4 hole, replaced by a Par 3, thus changing from the usual Par 71, to a Par of 70 and playing to around 7,312 yards.
US Open Betting Tips FAQ
Who are the best bookies for the US Open Golf Championship tournament?
The majority of bookmakers tend to offer plenty of enhancements and extra places on the US Open Golf Championship, but in particular, the likes of Boylesport, Sky Bet, Paddy Power and bet365 tend to go that extra mile for bettors, offering the most extra places compared to other bookmakers, along with plenty of other markets and prop bets on the event. In the week leading up to the tournament, these bookmakers also offer enhanced specials on the biggest names involved in the event
How can I watch the US Open Golf Championship in the UK?
The US Open Golf Championship is usually shown live on Sky Sports Golf in the UK and Ireland, with the BBC showing highlights of the event too. Coverage is also available on radio across the BBC, while most bookmakers and news outlets will have rolling updates on their website, with the likes of bet365 potentially offering live streaming via their website.
Who is the favourite to win the 2021 US Open Golf Championship
The joint favourite to win the event at the time of writing are Scottie Scheffler and Jon Rahm (12/1). The players are World Ranked 1 and 2, with Scheffler recently winnng the Masters at August National, while Jon Rahm, who recently won the Mexico Open is looking to regain the title, he won last year. Behind those: Collin Morikawa, Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy and Cameron Smith, all wait in the wings.
Where is the US Open Golf Championship held?
The US Open Golf Championship will be held at the Championship course at The Country Club, Brookline, Massachusetts and will be the fourth time this course has hosted the event, since Curtis Strange beat Nick Faldo in a play-off back in 1988. The course is made of a combination of holes from three nine-hole courses, called Squirrel, Clyde and Primrose.
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