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We Bought a Zoo (2011)
tags: Angus MacFayden, Cameron Crowe, Colin Ford, David J. Fowlie, Elle Fanning, film, J.B. Smoove, John Michael Higgins, Maggie Elizabeth Jones, Matt Damon, Patrick Fugit, Scarlet Johansson, Stephanie Szostak, Thomas Hayden Church, We Bought a Zoo
written by: Cameron Crowe and Aline Brosh McKenna
produced by: Cameron Crowe, Marc Gordon & Julie Yorn
directed by: Cameron Crowe
rating: PG (for language and some thematic elements)
U.S. release date: December 25, 2011
Whether or not the latest film from director Cameron Crowe works for you depends on whether or not you get all choked up or find yourself basking in the glow of the manipulative warmth radiating from the screen. Cinematic manipulation isn't a bad thing as long as you acknowledge and accept it, and aren't insulted, bored, or upset by it. I get what Crowe is doing here and knew what he was aiming for going in. At no point did I feel hoodwinked or bamboozled by what the movie was trying to get me to feel. It was all pretty obvious. The story here has just the right ingredients to hit my sweet tooth: one cute little girl, sprinkled with an assortment of animals in need of care, and a dash of mourning widowed husband. Crowe may not have "had me at hello" with "We Bought a Zoo", but I did find enough in this family-friendly feature to tug one or two of my heartstrings.
Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon) used to be an adventure-seeking journalist, interviewing Middle East leaders about WMDs and visiting areas devastating by natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes. But after his wife (Stephanie Szostak) died, the dangerous assignments he had to face head-on were of a different kind of adventure, one that requires multi-tasking lunches, play dates, and juggling the school schedules of his children. These children of his, the too cute daughter, Rosie (Maggie Elizabeth Jones) and her rebellious tween brother, Dylan (Colin Ford), are token staples for just about any movie family, especially a single parent family. the 4 year-old spouts irresistibly adorable lines, while the 14 year-old seemingly hates his father and spends his time drawing disturbing images in his sketchbook. Stereotypes through and through, but man did I ever go along with them.
It's hard enough to deal with the loss of his wife and his kid's mother, but he's starting to realize that any chance of harmony in his fractured family is beginning to fade. Benjamin feels a change is needed, like maybe moving to a new place. His realtor (J.B. Smoove, for comedy relief) shows him a farmhouse, away from everything that reminds him of his wife, and on an impulse – he buys the place. The only catch? You guessed it. Actually, it's a dilapidated animal reserve that still serves as a place of employment for a colorful motley zoo crew (consisting of Crowe's "Almost Famous" alum Patrick Fugit, Dakota Fanning, and Angus MacFayden) led by zookeeper Kelly (Scarlet Johansson), who is understandably suspicious of her new employer's potential, let alone his motives – but hey, he's kinda cute, right?
Well, the thrill of the initial purchase (hearing lions roar from inside your home or visiting tigers on a short stroll is pretty cool) quickly fades as Benjamin pours all of his finances into restoring the zoo in order to turn into a place suitable for paying visitors. Not only does Benjamin have to earn the trust of his eclectically bohemian employees, but they all have to work together to meet the standards of an uptight government inspector (John Michael Higgins) in order to win his stamp of approval. With the help of his brother, Duncan (Thomas Hayden Church), and splattering of classic rock montages and warm-fuzzy heart-to-heart chats, everything just might come together. Like you thought they wouldn't.
This is the kind of crowd-pleasing "based on a true story" that moviegoers eat up and it should do just fine with its release during the holiday season. Or will it? I don't know. I've heard folks dismiss it based on the trailers alone, even making fun of Damon for taking the role. Whoa, wait a minute – isn't there a place for crowd-pleasing sap that's grounded with genuine emotions of loss and love with elements of redemption and reconciliation? Alright, I may be giving Crowe's film more credit than it deserves, but it does work on those levels, albeit thinly – but it works nevertheless.
That is mostly due to the cast, specifically Damon who seems to ground every movie he's in lately (he did it with "Contagion" too) with an authentic aura that is so easy to follow. I also really bought he and Church as brothers, it's rare in movies that you see two actors who feel like they actually could be related, but that's what you get here. I have to mention how refreshing it is to be reminded that Scarlet Johansson can act without accentuating her assets and I was so glad the screenplay downplayed any romance between Kelly and Benjamin, seeing as how getting over his wife is such a major thread throughout the film. As for the kids – well, they never really rise above the typical Crowelandian kids we see in his films, except for maybe Fanning, but there was something about her character that was slightly off.
In adapting Mee's book, screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna ("Morning Glory"), along with co-writer Crowe, broadly recreates the facts (Mee's wife died after they bought the zoo) as well as relocating England's Dartmoor Zoo that it's based on to rural SoCal. One would think with all the recent headlines and the great recent documentary, "The Elephant in the Living Room", that mid- Ohio would've been a good place to buy a zoo. While I was somewhat disappointed to see Crowe include so many clichés (like eventually the father and son must have it out) and familiar plot points (one reprehensible bit comes from a surprise amount of cash Benjamin stumbles upon), I can't say I didn't enjoy it.
Just like his previous work, music plays a big part in Crowe's film. The former music journalist always has a hearty helping of his favorite rock/fol rock artists (Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Cat Stevens) to serve audiences. In fact, he spent the majority of the year promoting to music documentaries, "Pearl Jam Twenty", chronicling the Seattle band and "The Union", which focuses on the recent collaboration between Leon Russell and Elton John. But this time he does well to give the majority of the soundtrack responsibilities to Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi, who populated the movie with some of his well-known tunes as well as 11 new compositions. His ethereal and atmospheric sounds are rousing in places, but they actually save the film from becoming overly saccharine by giving it appropriate reflective moments where needed.
Being a fan of the majority of Crowe's movies, I wanted "We Bought a Zoo" to work and I'm glad that it at least does just that, even though it doesn't do anything more. It may not be the Capra or Wilder picture that Crowe seems to be striving for, but at least we get to see Damon and Johansson take a break from playing action heroes. Considering the similarities, this could be the feel-good mainstream version of "The Descendants", Alexander Payne's latest about a father with his hands full.
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Nice review. Without Cameron Crowe on the director's chair, or the whole cast that this flick assembled, I honestly think this would have been just another cheesy, schmatzly, and way too sentimental pic. However, it's heart is in the right place and I found myself fairly pleased leaving the theater. Check out my review when you can.
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In January 2016 (and beyond!) readers in cities and towns around the world came together to discuss Suad Amiry's memoir Sharon and My Mother-in-Law and, in some cases, hear from author Amiry herself.
After a launch event with Amiry in Brooklyn, NY (video), reading groups in North America, Europe, and the Middle East attracted audiences ranging from intimate groups of fewer than 10 people to scores in some Italian cities.
In Sondrio, Italy, people came not only to talk about the book but also to experience an actor's reading and music by a violinist. Following the performance, many people spoke about the moving quality of Suad's writing, throwing you into the situation, while others pointed out the humorous side, explained the organizer. Some Palestinian solidarity activists in attendance shared their knowledge, and the topics went from BDS, land and water grabbing, home demolitions, the apartheid wall, the popular resistance, and the importance of promoting the abundant literary production coming out of Palestine.
Ramallah organizers brought together a panel of speakers including Amiry (via Skype). Dr. Roger Heacock discussed the importance of the book from a historical point of view, as well as the importance of oral history and the role of Adel Yahya, one of the most famous oral historians in Palestine. Arabic literature researcher Ala Qaraman then talked about the ability of Palestinians to write tragic/funny books about their daily suffering under the Israeli Occupation, and the importance of Suad's book in Palestinian literature where we can find other writers (Ibrahim Tuqan, Mahmoud Darwish, Abed-Alkareem Alkarmy) who use a similar style in writing.
A discussion coordinator in Pittsburgh told LAP, "We all had a great time. What stood out for me was the parallels we were drawing between Palestinian experience in occupied territories and experiences of people of color in this country and specifically in our city and in prison. We also talked a lot about our privilege as American middle class white people. Another core topic was peoples' ability to stay human and keep a sense of humor in the face of oppression and suffering." A Detroit organizer said, "Discussion focused on institutionalized oppression and history of Palestine. Some participants drew connections to experiences of oppression in Detroit."
In Bologna, participants first watched Suad Amiry's 2011 talk at the TEDx conference in Ramallah and went on to have a lively conversation about Palestinian history, Israeli occupation, humor-style, Amiry's life, the importance of culture in facing occupation, and more.
In Toronto, a participant with Palestinian family who hadn't previously learned much about the region commented that this book was the perfect intro: it was informative, but also lightened by humor. The group as a whole shared reflections on what it means for the occupation to 'ruin the spirit.' This raised thoughtful insights into the interwoven nature of politics and spirituality. We also spoke of Amiry's positionality and relative privilege, and how this might alter her experience living under occupation/curfew/etc.
January (and beyond) 2016! One Book, Many Communities: Sharon and My Mother-in-Law, by Suad Amiry.
December 14, 2015. NYC launch event with New York-based LAP members and author Suad Amiry, Interference Archive. Brooklyn, NY, U.S. (video)
January 13, 2016. Private group. Brooklyn, NY, U.S.
January 20, 6-8pm. Detroit Public Library, Main Branch Room E, 1st Floor South Wing. Detroit, MI, U.S.
January 23, 4pm. Resource Center at Tamer Institute. (flyer) Joint meeting with Tamer Institute for Community Education and IBBY Palestine, with guests Dr. Roger Heacock, Dr. Alaa' Qaraman, and Suad Amiry via Skype. Ramallah, Palestine.
January 23, 5pm. Centro Evangelico di Cultura in Malta Street n. 16. Sponsored by The Association Oltre il Mare-Beyond the Sea. Will feature an actress reading and a violinist. Sondrio, Italy.
January 23, 6pm. Centro Culturale Candiani, Piazzale L. Candiani, 7 Mestre. Venice, Italy.
January 24. 11:45am (after the 10:30am worship service). First Church, 110 North Pearl St. Albany, NY, U.S.
January 24. Private group sponsored by Adalah-NY. New York, NY, U.S.
January 26, 7pm. Madison Central Public Library. Sponsored by Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP) and Peregrine Forum. For more information contact rafahsistercity (at) yahoo com or visit www.madisonrafah.org. Madison, WI, U.S.
January 27, 5:30pm. Biblioteca Amilcar Cabral. Bologna, Italy.
January 27, 6:30-8pm. The Book Tavern, 936 Broad St, Ste 101. Sponsored by CSRA Peace Alliance. Augusta, GA, U.S.
January 29, 5-7pm. Antioch University Seattle, room 204. 2326 Sixth Ave. Sponsored by the Library and the Center for Teaching and Learning. Seattle, WA, U.S.
January 30, 2pm. Plymouth UCC, 4010 Kalamazoo Ave S.E. Copies of the book will be available at Schuler Books and Music on 28th St on the Book Club table under "One Book, Many Communities." To RSVP or for more info: 616.455.4260, plymouth (at) plymouthchurchgr org. Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.
January 30, 5pm. Contact ulku.tekten (at) gmail com for details. New York, NY, U.S.
January 30. New Orleans, LA, U.S.
January 31, 1:30-3:30pm. RSVP to philly (at) jewishvoiceforpeace org for address. Sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace – Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA, U.S.
January 31. Private group. Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.
February 3, 6:30-8pm. Cloverdale Public Library. Cloverdale, CA, U.S.
February 3, 7-9pm (doors open at 6:30). Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. Suggested donation $5-10 (pay what you can). Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
February 22, 7:30pm. 98 Sderot Yerushalayim. Sponsored by All That's Left. Jaffa, Israel.
March 12, 2pm. Ella McClatchy Library, 2112 22nd St. Contact SacramentoBethlehem (at) yahoo com for details. Sacramento, CA, U.S.
March 13, 7:30pm. English-speaking feminist book club. RSVP to ray DOT wofsy (at) gmail com for address. Paris, France.
Related Suad Amiry appearance
February 18, 6:30-8:30pm. "Palestine: Nothing Makes Sense Why Should I?: A Book Performance by Suad Amiry." CUNY Graduate Center, The James Gallery, 365 Fifth Avenue, First Floor. (Facebook event page) New York, NY, U.S.
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Choose a venue. Remember that library, community center, bookstore and other public venue schedules can fill up fast, so schedule your event as soon as possible.
Pick a date in January 2016. Make sure you get it on the schedule of your venue. If January proves impossible and you need to schedule your group at a different time, that's okay, too.
Choose a facilitator/leader for the discussion. Find someone who's excited to read and help generate conversation around the book.
Plan the format. Depending on the size and nature of your event, this could be an informal conversation, a structured discussion around particular questions, a talk featuring a guest speaker, or even a group that meets on an online platform.
Tell LAP about your event. We will list and link to it on our own site and Facebook page.
Coordinate with your venue or host to ensure you understand logistics. What is the maximum number of people? Will there be refreshments? What is the seating (all participants should be able to see and hear one another)?
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If your event is open to the public, publicize it:
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Let participants know where they can obtain the book:
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Document it. Take photos (with participants' permission). Record any presentations. Live tweet the discussion! Remember to use the hashtag #lap1book.
Share tips for leading a great book discussion with your facilitator:
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If possible, talk with co-participants in advance about your wishes and goals for the group. What would you and they like to get out of the experience? This could help you structure your meetings and build in time for refreshments, media viewing, etc.
If you have time (and perhaps an online platform), consider collectively brainstorming questions about the book before the first meeting. This will give all participants a chance to help shape the discussion.
Talk about your experiences of reading the book. Explore how the book made you feel, and the emotions, themes, and questions it brought up.
Talk about any preconceptions you had before reading the book that changed after you read it, how did this book transform your attitudes and perceptions? What did you learn from it that you didn't know before?
Pick a passage that strikes you as interesting, moving, and/or thought-provoking. Read it aloud to the group. Discuss.
Use secondary sources (including dictionaries, history texts, film, photography, see our resource guide [PDF] for ideas) to place the novel in new contexts. For instance, look up a historical event to learn more about it.
If you could ask the author a question about the book, what would it be?
Ask one or more of these questions that LAP designed specifically about Sharon and My Mother-in-Law:
Sharon and My Mother-in-Law began as a series of emails that Amiry wrote in English (not her native language) to friends outside of Palestine, which makes up the second half (Part Two) of this book. Part One was originally published as a separate book that had been written later. What does the text's first intended audience mean for the book as it stands now? How does the book as a whole read to you?
Suad Amiry deliberately uses humor as an instrument to explain and respond to Israeli oppression of Palestinians. In a talk at TEDx Ramallah, she says she's made the decision that "writing humor and making fun of the situation is the best mechanism to go through life." What do you think of this approach?
During the airport incident that makes up the book's first anecdote, Amiry reflects, "I have always believed that the occupation ruined the spirit of both Israelis and Palestinians." In what ways is this true? What does a "ruined spirit" mean for Jewish Israelis versus for Palestinians?
The book's preface begins: "I don't think I ever understood or, for that matter, forgave my parents, or the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled their homes in 1948, until my husband and I had to flee our home in Ramallah on 18 November 2001." How does displacement come up throughout the book?
"Oh, how un-heroic Palestine and Palestinian lovers can be!" Amiry sighs as she signs an anti-PLO statement in order to re-enter the West Bank and reunite with Salim. Is "un-heroic" an appropriate way to characterize her action? What are the different ways we see people cope with being occupied? [Other examples: the International Women's Day protest; the pots and pans demonstration; neighbors collaborating with Israeli officials; small individual rebellions such as Amiry's staring at the Israeli soldier.]
As a middle-class professional woman in Ramallah, how does Amiry resist the Israeli occupation in ways that Palestinians not of her class, ability, or gender may not be able to?
"To be able to move about freely and stay out late at night was what we enjoyed most. We realized we had totally forgotten what normal life is all about," Amiry writes after a relaxing trip (involving much logistical planning and juggling of travel documents) to Egypt. What other aspects of "normal life" are people we meet in the book missing out on?
Amiry describes being interviewed on the prominent U.S. news program "60 Minutes" and fantasizes about a conversation with President George Bush (the first). Discuss how American politics and the perception of Palestinians in the U.S. are relevant to the Israeli occupation and other events in the book.
[For discussions among people already involved in Palestine solidarity work.] How can this book be used to spread awareness of the issues that Palestinians face? How is Amiry's approach effective? What are its limitations?
Distribute any additional resources to discussion participants. You can use our resource guide (PDF) for Sharon and My Mother-in-Law for additional information and suggested further readings.
Encourage participants to keep the conversation going. Suggest that people donate their no-longer-needed copies of Sharon and My Mother-in-Law to a local public, university, or school library or other community center (but check first to make sure they take book donations!).
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Q: Angular web component shows nothing I have the following problem. I need to something reusable across different UI frameworks or just plain html/css/js. I found that I can create a web component within Angular framework so I did test app. Everything seems alright but when I open the index.html which includes the script which loads the .js file and tag with my app there is nothing of it in browser. Does anybody know where I have something wrong?
tsconfig.json:
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In package.json I have this script:
"build:elements": "ng build --output-hashing none && node build-elements.js"

build-elements.js:
const fs = require('fs-extra');
const concat = require('concat');

(async function build() {
  const files = [
    './dist/ng-element-demo/runtime-es5.js',
    './dist/ng-element-demo/runtime-es2015.js',
    './dist/ng-element-demo/polyfills-es5.js',
    './dist/ng-element-demo/polyfills-es2015.js',
    './dist/ng-element-demo/scripts.js',
    './dist/ng-element-demo/main-es5.js',
    './dist/ng-element-demo/main-es2015.js'
  ];

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})();

Then I am trying this in index.html:
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But browser render just "Hello" even when the ng-element.demo.js is successfully loaded (can be seen in dev tools).
Thank you for any help

A: I think what you need to do is to place the file inside assets folder. You can create a js folder there and add the ng-element-demo.js inside it. Then in your angular.json file, you need to add it there under scripts.
So you will have something like this
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The i30 Fastback N will be only the second model from Hyundai's N performance sub-brand to be sold in the UK. It is actually the division's third model, but the US-market Veloster N isn't due to come here (much like the America didn't get the i30 N).
Aside from having a swoopier roofline than the i30N hatchback - Hyundai's product planners would have us call it a four-door coupe - the i30 Fastback N also has retuned dampers and a number of other suspension tweaks that make it more comfortable and compliant, and a little less demanding on a bumpy road.
If the i30N hatchback is the tearaway, the i30 Fastback N is the more studious sibling. A little more sophisticated, and concerned with style as much as performance – although its engineers insist it's still fun to drive.
Weight is up ever so slightly, although the powertrains are completely unchanged. The 2.0-litre turbo petrol engine is available in two states of tune, producing 247 or 271bhp. The only gearbox option is a six-speed manual.
The car tested here is a pre-production prototype in Performance Package spec. That means it uses the more potent engine and also gets a limited slip differential, 19-inch wheels, bigger brakes, Pirelli P Zero tyres and a switchable exhaust.
The car will make its public debut at the Paris motor show this autumn before going on sale in the UK in February next year. The most obvious aesthetic difference between this model and the familiar i30N hatch will clearly be that roofline, but we will notice a handful of other styling changes once the camo wrap is peeled away.
What's the i30 Fastback N like?
There is only so much that can be gleaned about a car from a single fast lap of a circuit – even one as long as the Nurburgring Nordschleife – but what is abundantly clear is that by pursuing a slightly more compliant and refined set of dynamics, Hyundai's engineers have not made the i30 Fastback N dull or lifeless to drive. In fact, out on the Nordschleife it isn't any less thrilling than the hatchback i30 N.
Much like the hatchback version, the i30 Fastback N is very easy to drive at 90 per cent of its performance potential from the first mile onwards, but to get anywhere the final few percentage points would take time, familiarity and plenty of consideration. That gives the car a very definite appeal right across the board - beginners, the more experienced and Nurburgring wizards alike.
The Pirelli P Zero tyres generate lots of grip, bleeding into moderate understeer at the limit. Even then, there's enough adjustability in the chassis that the whole driving experience on track isn't entirely one dimensional. In fact, the i30 Fastback N, like the hatchback, has a reasonably lively and entertaining balance. You can tell by the pedal weights, and how well they match up with the throw of the gearshift and the steering response, that Hyundai's engineers have lavished care and attention onto the important details. This is no half-baked effort.
The firmest suspension mode is a little too unyielding for a bumpy track like the Nurburgring. The car tends to bounce and skip around, but even so there are occasions when the body squirms and fidgets around, the suspension not quite able to keep the vertical forces in check. The car feels tough and sometimes harsh in that damper setting, but body control still isn't completely iron-fisted. That, more than anything else, is what distinguishes the i30 Fastback N from the hatchback model on circuit. We're talking margins, though.
The heftiest steering mode is slightly too weighty, but the medium setting is very well judged. You get a good idea of how hard you're working the front tyres and the rate of steering response is entirely intuitive. The limited slip differential, meanwhile, is effective without making the front end so nervous and darty that you wish it wasn't there.
Instead, you just get very good traction and a sweet sense of the car being hauled out of corners the moment you open the throttle.
Elsewhere, the gearshift is quick and direct, although the pedals could be better spaced for heel-and-toe shifts - there is a very good rev match function, however - and the engine is strong without ever feeling rampantly powerful the way a Honda Civic Type R's motor can do. A pity, though, that the Hyundai's 271bhp lump is a little flat and lacking in energy. At least throttle response is sharp.
We will have to wait until we drive the car in the UK to say for certain, but it wouldn't be at all unreasonable to expect the slightly more compliant i30 Fastback N to be better suited to our bumpy, potholed roads. A consequence of making this model more comfortable might yet be that it's actually more fun to drive than the tightly-wound i30N hatchback on our craggy tarmac.
If the i30 Fastback N is as good-looking as the people who are paid to say nice things about it tell us it is, it could well be the quick i30 of choice. It's a unique concept, too; a supposedly stylish four-door coupe with genuine hot hatch performance and dynamics, at an affordable price point (there is no confirmed price, although it will be very similar to the that of the i30N hatchback).
There is plenty of promise here and Hyundai's N performance division is coming along very nicely indeed. We will see further high performance Hyundais in the coming years, although not exactly a flurry of them, and a little later on there will even be a purpose-built Hyundai N halo car. For now, that is all we're being told.
Isn't a four door coupe an oxymoron?
Or is it just an alternative way of trying to sell a 4-door saloon? Either way, it will be interesting to see what the sales split is between the regular hatch and the new "coupe".
Maybe Honda is missing a trick in not marketing a Type-R version of its new Civic Coupe, which would be a direct competitor?
Agree the four door coupe tag is nonsense, its a fastback hatch like the civic and octavia, for me this is great as I've always preferred this style to the golfs estate style hatch and with its slightly softer set up this could be the N to have.
Kind of looks like an.....A Class Merc, no bad thing really, wonder if it'll be a mild Hybrid too?
I think the 4 door coupe tag is more apt here than it was, for example on the Rover P5 coupe of the early 1960s. I really like this fastback version of the i30: Whilst the A-Class might look similar to the hatch, Mercedes could only dream of having a compact vehicle as attractive as this.
I too really like this version of the i30, but I prefer fastback to four door coupe as I think it is more apt. But either way in standard specs its a great looking car imo and in N spec it'll probably look even better.
Exciting but get existing i30N owners back on the road!
The N range is a very exciting development for Hyundai. However, as an owner of a new i30N hatchback that is afflicted with the fuel pump ECU problem affecting many owners, please get us back on the road. 4 weeks of driving then 6 weeks waiting for a replacement ECU is not the way to win new owners to the brand.


"Brilliant jewelry is an absolute necessity to the modern mode," says Vogue. And Mother's Day is essentially a good occasion to consider jewelry embellished with diamonds and other precious stones as your ultimate gift to mom. Not quite sure which dazzler to get? Here's a quick primer to help you out.
Ancient Indian Vedic tradition associates this durable and nearly perfect gemstone with Venus, the planet of love. They're made of crystallized carbon that reflects light, and though they appear colorless, these stones have actually subtle tones of yellow or brown. Diamonds symbolize clarity, confidence, empowerment, and purpose in life.
Pearls are another classic, given their versatility with formal and everyday wear. Favored heavily by style icon Grace Kelly during her days as an actress and even when she became Princess Grace of Monaco, pearls don't require special cutting or polishing, allowing them to retain their natural beauty. In ancient societies, pearls symbolize the moon and believed to have magical properties. These gemstones also symbolize emotional healing and abundance.
Did you know that JFK proposed to Jackie O with an emerald stunner? Or that Elizabeth Taylor's emerald set came from the Grand Duchess Vladimir in Russia? A fine emerald may be two to three times as valuable as a diamond. Aristotle was said to be great fan of this stone, believing that it aids its owner in business speeches, wins trials, and soothes the eyesight. Many cultures have associated this rare gem with birth, fertility, and spring.


The Chinese Lantern Festival takes place on the 15th day of the first lunar month of the Chinese New Year. Chinese lanterns may be any colour, but red is traditionally used alongside other colours. Red represents happiness and good luck, and represents the element of fire.


Above: Pixel 2 in Kinda Blue. The phone made by Google will also be available in Just Black, Clearly White.
Google Lens visual search preview is available for Pixel smartphones only.
Camera stabilization, HDR, and machine learning combine for the highest-rated camera ever for Pixel 2.
Without being asked, Google Assistant can now identify music for you.
Squeeze the sides of Pixel 2 phones for Google Assistant or other functionality.
Always-on display means you always see the time as well as icons for calendar events, emails, and the like on your lock screen.
Unlike the first-generation Pixel devices, Pixel 2 has active edge, or an edgeless display with rounded edges, akin to the Samsung S8.
The original Pixel and Pixel 2 both have 5-inch screens. At 6 inches, the QHD+ display for the Pixel 2 XL is slightly bigger than its 5.5-inch predecessor. Battery size — 2700 mAh for the Pixel 2 and 3520 mAh for the Pixel 2 XL — and RAM (4GB for all four phones) remain about the same. See this article for a complete specs comparison between the Pixel and Pixel 2.
The HTC-manufactured Pixel 2 is available in Just Black, Clearly White, and Kinda Blue on October 19. The LG-manufactured Pixel 2 XL ships in Just Black and Black & White on November 15. The Pixel 2 is available for $649 (64GB) and $749 (128GB), while the Pixel 2 XL comes in at $849 (64GB) and $949 (128GB). Australia, Canada, Germany, India, the U.K., and the U.S. will be getting the phones first, while Italy, Singapore, and Spain will get them later.
Though the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL offer some hardware improvements compared to their predecessors, it's largely software — led by Google Lens and Google Assistant — that differentiates the Pixel 2 from other Android phones.
Lens is Google's service for computer vision and later, when it becomes available with Google Assistant, will be used for a live augmented reality with computer vision experience.
Overall, Lens in Google Photos is fun. Though it may vary in accuracy, it offers an experience that is not yet natively available in other smartphones.
Lens can easily pull phone numbers from billboards or websites from flyers with surprising accuracy, even when URLs are small and hard for the human eye to read. This is likely the result of the well-trained machine learning Google uses for things like translation.
While it might lead to a cluttered camera roll, taking a picture of the side of a bus and doing a Lens search is often faster than typing in a URL.
Lens can also recognize works of art — like music, books, or video games — as well as landmarks. Lens does, however, get a bit confused when presented with multiple works of art, like a series of books.
Results for this stack of books, for example, toggles between two titles — Life 3.0 and Good People — when there are actually five.
This photo is another good example of the feature's shortcomings. There's an ad for UC Berkeley extension on the side of a bus, Morning Brew Coffee & Tea in the background (on the left), and a San Francisco Muni bus logo. Among the three, Lens can't seem to decide which to highlight.
In tests by VentureBeat, Lens recognizes California Street, where cable car trolleys often run, but struggles to identify landmarks. After repeated attempts, Lens failed to identify the most recognizable landmarks in San Francisco, from the Transamerica Pyramid to the Golden Gate Bridge and Salesforce Tower. In fairness, Salesforce Tower is still being built, but it's going to be the tallest building on the west coast of the United States, and it has, well, towered over the city for about a year.
It's odd that the new Pixel phones can't recognize San Francisco landmarks, since they were unveiled in the heart of San Francisco, and virtually every tech screenshot you've ever seen features tests in San Francisco.
Until Lens gets better at identifying multiple objects, user can try to zoom in and select a specific portion of a photo for Lens to scan.
Google's biggest hardware event of the year ushered in more than a dozen updates for Google Assistant, like a male voice, apps for kids, and other new features. Most of these are available for Google Assistant users on all Android devices, though some are exclusive to the Pixel 2, like music identification.
Google calls this music feature Now Playing, but if you were dreaming of a phone that catalogs every single song playing within earshot, think again. Now Playing can only capture one song at a time, meaning each time a new song is captured, the old song is forgotten. The only way to save a song is to bring it up in Google Assistant.
When a song is identified, it will appear on your Lock screen and in your Notifications drawer. To open it in Google Assistant, double tap the notification on your Lock screen or tap the notification, and you'll be shown song lyrics, artist, album, year of release, and other information, depending on the artist or song. You'll also be given options to listen to the song on YouTube or Spotify, or to purchase the song from Google Play.
In its ambition to help people identify songs, Google Assistant joins Alexa, which recently became part of the Amazon Music app, and Siri, which also identifies songs and has a personal DJ function for iOS 11.
For now, this isn't a Shazam-killer, as Now Playing doesn't offer a list of the songs it's identified.
Now Playing also has some ground to make up when it comes to other identifiers, as it seems to have difficulty recognizing certain songs. In tests for this review, the Pixel 2 had trouble recognizing songs from Macklemore, Justin Bieber, and other artists currently on Spotify's Global Top 50 pop songs.
Google's new Pixel Buds will be able to deliver Google Assistant notifications and, exclusively for Pixel phones, carry out the kind of on-the-spot translation that wowed a lot of people when the earbuds made their debut alongside the Pixel 2 on October 4.
The Pixel 2 camera received a DxOMark score of 98, surpassing the iPhone 8 Plus and Samsung Galaxy Note 8, which both received scores of 94 and which both feature two rear cameras. By comparison, the original Pixel by Google received a score of 90.
DxOMark bases its rating on things like autofocus, dynamic range, performance in bright light, zoom, color definition, and other features.
Above: 13th Street in downtown Oakland at dusk.
Pixel 2 video also scored five points better than the earlier Pixel video. That seemed to hold up when VentureBeat took the Pixel 2 for a spin around San Francisco. Notably, new stabilization tech means videos are less shaky.
The Pixel 2 brags in its "Questioning" commercial that the Pixel can "see at night." That's overselling it, but the Pixel 2 can capture some pretty cool low-noise shots at night.
Above: Standing in Dolores Park looking toward the San Francisco skyline.
Also new with the Pixel 2 is Motion mode, or 3-second videos shot after a photo is taken. This feature is similar to Apple's Live Photos.
Just like with the original Pixel, Pixel 2 owners get unlimited space for photo and video storage via Google Photos.
One new hardware feature that comes with the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL phones is the ability to summon Google Assistant or silence the phone just by squeezing it.
The squeeze means you can speak to Google Assistant faster, but just like speaking with Google Assistant any other way, you won't be able to do anything until you enter your password.
The squeeze feature can be adjusted based on your grip strength, meaning it can be made easy whether you have a firm grip or a soft one.
Changing the settings for Google Assistant can have negative results, though. Make it too loose and the squeeze setting can go off when you're doing simple things like picking up the phone or trying to slip it into a pants pocket. If you're somebody who likes listening to music, these interruptions can get annoying.
Another major hardware difference between the original Pixel and the Pixel 2: The Pixel 2s have no headphone jack.
If you have an iPhone 7 or iPhone 8, you know about that dongle lifestyle and its drawbacks. Unless you get wireless headphones, if you insist on sticking to the old headphone jack there will be pain points.
The Pixel dongle is also a bit larger than the iPhone dongle. This might mean you lose it less often, but it also means you may have a noticeable dongle bulge in your pants (chuckle).
Years from now, wireless headphones may be the norm, but if you're like most people still using the old headphone jack, you may have a tough time, especially if you lose that adapter. Perhaps forecasting this eventuality, Google dropped the price for USB Type-C dongles to $9 last week.
There's a lot to like about the new Pixel 2s, from their illustrious screens to the sexiest camera on the planet to the exclusive features at launch.
But as experiences with Lens and Now Playing make clear, the Pixel 2s' biggest advantages are still very much works in progress.


Jerri-Lynn here. This article pulls its punches somewhat in its criticisms of Obama's climate change record and to my mind doesn't fully live up to the promise of the headline. Nevertheless, please persevere until the end, when the author hits a bit harder as he discusses the US rise to the position of the world's third largest fossil fuel producer, in part as a result of the fracking boom. While Obama and company have squawked about climate change, administration policy has actually fuelled that particular trend in fossil fuel extraction.
The underlying New York Times article that sparked the author's post (and the video interview embedded herein) comprise part of the ceaseless drumbeat of legacy journalism as the Obama administration stumbles toward its finish line. Am I alone in being absolutely sick of these assessments, which serve to whitewash what has been a very sorry presidency for progressives, featuring a long litany of disappointments? So, as I do, I suggest you substitute "long litany of disappointments" for that L word whenever you see some article assessing Obama's legacy, and then I find it's somewhat easier to stomach whatever propaganda is being sent your way.
By Farron Cousins, who is the executive editor of The Trial Lawyer magazine, and whose articles have appeared on The Huffington Post, Alternet, and The Progressive Magazine. He has worked for the Ring of Fire radio program with hosts Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Mike Papantonio, and Sam Seder since August 2004, and is currently the co-host and producer of the program. He also currently serves as the co-host of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV, a daily program airing nightly at 8:30pm eastern. Farron received his bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of West Florida in 2005 and became a member of American MENSA in 2009. Follow him on Twitter @farronbalanced. Originally published at DeSmogBlog.
On September 8, The New York Times published an interview with President Barack Obama in which he discussed the rapidly approaching, and already present, dangers of climate change, along with the threats that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would pose to the environment as president.
Reflecting on his climate legacy in the interview, President Obama reinforced his concerns about and dedication to acting on climate change, but his rhetoric fails to match up with his broader record, which notably includes overseeing the United States' rise to the top spot among fossil fuel producers worldwide.
Indeed, in the interview, President Obama referred to climate change trends as "terrifying," a statement which is hard to argue with considering the overwhelming scientific evidence. The Times also mentions the president's successes in putting the Clean Power Plan in place and his role in committing the United States to the Paris climate agreement.
The article goes on to discuss the number of ways that the president has reached out to other countries to help fight climate change, and how he's talked about the issue at length, especially during his second term as president. But there is one vital piece of information missing from The Times' coverage of Obama's climate legacy: The fact that he has done even more for the fossil fuel industry than his predecessors, including the ones who literally used to work for oil companies.
There are two very distinct issues here: The first is the president's limited success in actually reining in carbon emissions and protecting the environment, and the other is his simultaneous approval and expansion of fossil fuel projects.
When discussing the limitations of President Obama's record of action on climate change, it is important to factor in the obstruction coming from the climate change-denying Republican Party that currently holds majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
With the legislative branch of government currently dominated by a party that overwhelmingly denies the reality of climate change, it isn't very surprising that the president's environmental agenda has struggled as a result.
For example, the cap and trade legislation that President Obama championed was shot down in 2010 in part by Republican obstructionism in the Senate, allowing a business-as-usual scenario to continue for greenhouse gas emissions, which were slowed somewhat by the Great Recession but have since rebounded along with the economy. The Times article also notes that the Koch brothers and their Tea Party super PACs played a considerable role in killing that legislation.
And even though President Obama was able to make the Clean Power Plan a reality, legal challenges from Republican officials and fossil fuel industry lawyers have delayed the implementation of that plan, which would require states to regulate emissions from the electricity sector.
Sadly, it isn't just Republicans providing opposition to the president's climate plans; plenty of "centrist" Democrats have joined in as well. The most notorious Democrat fighting the climate agenda in Washington, D.C. is Senator Joe Manchin from coal-dominated West Virginia. As a notable example, Sen. Manchin helped destroy a bipartisan bill that would have reduced power plant emissions years before the Clean Power Plan was drafted.
Perhaps President Obama's shortcomings on climate change action could be forgiven or even dismissed, if it weren't for his administration's willingness to open up federal lands and waters to fossil fuel industry exploitation. That's where the real disappointment lies.
Looking at some of the numbers on this issue reveals a pro-industry approach toward energy production. When President Obama took office in 2009, domestic oil production was at about 5.1 million barrels a day. By April of 2016, that number had climbed to 8.9 million barrels a day, which CNN notes is a 74 percent increase in just 7 years.
Under President Obama's watch, the United States has become the largest fossil fuel producer on the planet when accounting for both oil and liquefied natural gas production. In terms of just crude oil production, the U.S. falls to third place, behind Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Oil and gas obtained via hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") now accounts for 50% of U.S. oil production, and, thanks to the Republican-controlled Congress, the 40-year-long ban on crude oil exports was lifted.
Meanwhile, the government is still auctioning offshore oil and gas leases, even after President Obama presided over the largest ever oil spill in U.S. waters. Fracking continues its incredible boom, despite reports showing a rise in human-caused earthquakes related to fracking wastewater injections.
While the president may not have personally approved all of these projects, as leader of the United States and a purported leader on climate action, he bears the responsibility for allowing them to happen and not doing more to stop them during his administration.
What the president said in his New York Times interview is true; climate change trends are absolutely terrifying. But the United States will be hard-pressed to make meaningful progress on climate while continuing to give the fossil fuel industry so much support and access for a purpose so utterly opposed to that goal.
This entry was posted in Environment, Global warming, Guest Post on September 11, 2016 by Jerri-Lynn Scofield.
74% increase in U.S. oil consumption during the Obama Administration, Not much of a surprise. Short term interests have outweighed the inevitable long term destruction of the climate. The neoliberal Dems, the red hunting Joseph McCarthys of the 2010s (see HRCs perpetual warnings on Trump and Putin), have managed to increase crude output in conjunction with Saudi Arabia, coincidentally concurrent to the Annexation of Crimea and thereafter- A short term success story really: we have managed to squeeze the heavily oil dependent Russian economy, at what future cost? Who knows, all the fossils are going to be consumed anyways, perhaps that is President Obama's logic.
It's a 74% increase in oil production, not consumption. Our consumption profile wasn't covered in the post above.
About domestic oil production: In 2009 we were in a recession, domestic production of oil had been declining since about 1988, and oil prices had been climbing since 1998. Those high prices had allowed the development, by fracking, of oil resources that had not been economic to develop before. The industry took the bit between its teeth and production took off. Obama inherited that; to start at 2009, point to the climbing production, and say "Obama" is either dishonest and manipulative or the result of ignorance and lazy thinking.
And apologetics for doing nothing over the last 7 years is not "ignorance and lazy thinking"?
Read the post again and then state, in one sentence, what the point of the post is.
Hint: It is not to defend Obama.
When they see it, in the form of sea level rise IT WILL BE TOO LATE.
On the current path, between 100 million and 200 million US citizens will become impoverished and homeless as rising sea levels destroy the sewage plants, refineries, and other coastal infrastructure needed to live in their homes.
My advice? Sell now and move ahead of the rush. Only buy if the sewage plant serving new home is over 150 ft above sea level, or it has a septic system and is over 200 ft above sea level.
What I have experience wrt people having difficulty with AGW is they find it a "Tax" on their Freedumbs ™….
Americans can't define what freedom is. They equate self indulgence with freedom which has the result of destroying civic responsibility.
Fish swimming through the streets of New York and Miami presents a graphic image that belongs in a B movie, but it also serves to divert attention from the real threats to the future of homo sapiens on this planet. Millions of years ago shallow seas capable of supporting only a mono-culture of algae covered much of the planet. Quadtrillions died and with time, heat, and pressure eventually became the oil and coal that humans are burning to support a temporary industrial civilization and exponential growth in population.
The planet's oceans form a giant sink for the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels. But as carbon dioxide is absorbed it changes the PH acidity of the oceans. And at the base of the food chain pyramid quadtrillions of organisms depend upon a delicate balance of acidity in order to form their skeletal structures. Without them the entire oceanic food chain will collapse, and with it a major food source for humans. But never mind— after a few hundred million years new oil may be created.
On land we are precipitating the Sixth Extinction at a pace unheard of in planetary history. At this rate half of the species on earth will be extinct within a century. We may not miss metafundia like the elephants or our cousins the great apes, but we certainly will miss honeybees that pollinate our apples or the soil bacteria that allow us to grow grains.
In the end, for all their individual brilliance, humans are just another species like yeast or lemmings, obeying the imperatives of their biology and social organization. From the standpoint of planetary health we are a toxic weed species. The planet doesn't need us and we cannot live on it while doing our utmost to destroy it.
Well put. I would add that as supposedly the only sentient species on the planet we have the power of consequential thought. Sadly ,and ultimately catastrophically though ,we only use this ability for short term self interest ,and our success at doing so is causing mass extinctions and climate change. The only solution is to rise above our basic instincts and control our population.
Unfortunately our economic system is utterly addicted to endless growth, and religions all push the line, either implicitly or explicitly ,that their believers have a greater right to populate(or overpopulate) the earth.
There should be a huge business opportunity for composting toilets and graywater recycling systems.
That is not to say those would be sufficient to offset the loss of treatment plants, but it would not be realistic to suggest that nothing would be done when governments and individuals finally began to confront the change. Granted the habitual behavior of governments does not inspire confidence, they have occasionally dealt successfully with reality.
Agree! We will need to learn how to use our night soil and waste waters. I do wonder whether running water will be all that available. We must adapt a lot of habits. Wells and cisterns seem a good idea. My knowledge of agriculture is deplorable as is my knowledge of other practical arts.
I've become very fond of having light at night but I'm wary of the silicon based solar panels — they don't seem all that robust. How would they stand up to golfball sized hail and strong winds?
Exactly right. Water sources and water quality, location in relation to fresh food sources and future viability of transportation networks are other things to consider before settling anywhere. And how lucky you are if you get to choose!
Of course the big one will undoubtedly take out part of the Pacific coast in one fell swoop but that's the exception. Elsewhere it's not a sunami coming in one wave. How weird that everybody sees only the end results and forgets the consecutive waves of illness, accidents, accidents, riots, progressive migration and ineffectual temporary fixes that will precede the final destruction of some coastal areas.
Question: how can Obama and other "movers-and-shakers" in the US and elsewhere, who have at their disposal the most information/data rich resources on the planet with which to make decisions, both hold the view that the future is scary if we burn more fossil fuels and then introduce policies that increase the production and subsequent consumption?
Sure there are maniacs who love money so much that they live only to accumulate more and more and more, and fossil fuels are big money getters. To hell with their grandchildren and every other living organism on earth.
OTOH: Is it possible that the Obamas and many of their ilk elsewhere feel as helpless as the rest of us? Sure, they would like to cut fossil fuel consumption but are their electorates willing to change? Are we willing to live on a fraction of the energy we now use and give up our lifestyles and adopt hardships? Is there any program and series of steps that allow for a calm and dispassionate downpowering from the heady heights of energy-industrialism to some other more perceived "primitive" lifestyle. Would even suggesting that we must accept a less materially consumptive world past muster with any of our complex and modern societies?
Such a political platform would garner how many votes?
Maybe there are no scapegoats like there seems to be no easy path towards a collectively sane down-powering.
It is increasingly plausible that our political system, and quite possibly all others across the planet, are simply incapable of addressing and fixing problems at this scale.
I mean look at the proposal for "cap 'n' trade" proposal of 2010 whose defeat is blamed on Republicans: That bill, as any cap 'n' trade proposal, is a terrible idea: Most economists agree and vastly prefer a steep Carbon Tax (itself not without its problems, well beyond political ones). Cap 'n' trade lets the least deserving continue to pollute at the expense of those least off, it is difficult and expensive to enforce, relying upon self-reporting, and it is easy to cheat. Naturally, it was seen as workable, because, well, the companies who cared knew how to get around it. Major environmentalists opposed the legislation because it was just a fig leaf.
The trouble with solving problems of this kind with the political system is that a fix requires X, and the political system demands compromise so, instead, you get X/4. Alas, the X is not arbitrary, it's a threshold: If you don't do X the problem isn't fixed.
This is the science that hasn't successfully been communicated to the public and to policy, for whatever set of reasons you want (too depressingly, too economically disruptive, too whatever), that climate disruption comes from cumulative long term emissions, not emissions intensity. It is unlike most other environmental problems which address spewing toxic stuff into the environment. There, clearly, reducing the amount of spew is better than doing nothing, as long as the reduction is significant. What people need to realize is that the only fix is going to zero, not a "significant reduction". And this has not been communicated.
See http://goo.gl/59k0zG if you want to understand why this is the case.
But we can change. Recent examples include successful anti smoking, anti domestic violence and anti drink driving campaigns, all of which have reduced destructive behaviour which was accepted, or at least condoned, a generation ago.
It is a matter of political will – or political won't.
Sadly, we get only the best democracy that (Big) Money can buy, rather than a valid representation of our opinions.
never forget this is the president who appointed the Queen of Fracking and Arctic Oil, Sec. Sally Jewell.
Our Best & Brightest, the Professional Class. For them it's a lifestyle choice.
These actions are from the Reagan playbook, where the regulators were hand picked from the very industries that they worked in.
A three part article by Spencer Ackerman for the guardian. Much of the new information comes from Daniel Jones who spent 6 years of his life reading the millions of CIA documents and the lead author in the 6,700 page report. A little over a 500 page summary was finally published after years of delay and suppression and even hacking the Senate computers, by the CIA, which is a criminal charge and a violation of separation of powers.
The original Senate staff team to review the issue early on was reduced to democrats only as the republicans on the team withdrew. Unlike every other oversight action by the legislature, they did not do their work in their own buildings, they did it in a remote CIA building in the basement with security and good lighting. The CIA provided documents to the "secure" Senate computers to be used for the study, but lots of crap when on like poor search tools at the start, and various ways to delay and suppress the documents.
An earlier Panetta report of an internal audit of the CIA was in line with the conclusions of the Senate effort and the CIA tried to supress that document, it was "lost" and only the actions of Daniel Jones saved the document which was instrumental in getting legislative support to publish.
The particular point of this comment is that at the end of the study, after the election in which republicans took the senate, the Obama administration attempted to run out the clock and with the new senate, the report might have never seen the light of day.
This is the link to the second article. The third part has not yet been published.
Part 3 of the article has now been published.
There are two videos in the article, one of which is CIA director Brennan refusing to admit that CIA spied on senate investigation. Brennan wants to continue as CIA director under a Hillary administration and if he does, expect more efforts to hide the truth from the American people and continue the military, security, industrial complex which along with corporations and oligarchs run the place.
Brennan uses the excuse of partisanship, the blanket used to hide immense sins of government failures. And like the videos of torture which CIA destroyed (and the man who did it wrote a book), they are continuing to attempt to destroy the full 6,700 page report. Daniel Jones, the staff member who did much of the important work, argued that the 100 page index be published to show the breadth of what the CIA did.
It's always fascinating to me how little anyone, even in these kinds of pieces, ever mentions the c word: coal. Coal is responsible for 43% of CO2 emissions, and that doesn't even take into account all the other waste products that result from burning coal. Oil and natural gas are terrible as well, but it seems like even the well-meaning won't touch the elephants in the room. Coal, I imagine, is an especially touchy subject, since it's the primary means of generating electricity the world over, and electricity is what makes all our futuristic gadgets run.
And I'm not sure you can blame this reticence entirely on "the people," even if we're merely talking about "the ones who vote," because massive de-industrialization hits them far less hard than it does the pocketbooks of the people who make modern politics what it is. People, within a single generation, managed to adapt to a world replete with screens and networked devices, so I think within a single generation they could just as easily adapt to something else. Industry, on the other hand, and the corporate masters who profit most handsomely from its wastefulness, might not recover. Therein lies the rub.
Exactly. Coal is the climate killer and its use is increasing worldwide, except in the US and a few other big economies.
Japan and South Korea, for example, are two of the very largest importers of liquified natural gas (LNG) but are cutting its use and switching more to coal because of its lower cost. India has a population of 1.2 billion and will overtake China within twenty years in number of people, and by then might be using more coal than China does, too. The IEA calculates that the Asia-Pacific region will account for most of the increase in coal use over the next decades, and the number of people living in that region approaches two billion today; we can expect the population there to grow.
Coal should be of much more concern, with regard to dealing with climate change, than it is.
Korea has nothing on US. Here in Kansas, we have been fighting the Holcomb Pant expansion for 15 years, with Democrats either being MIA or out-right supporting the plant expansion.
The plant is still in limbo. A resent SCOTUS ruling said that a plant expansion must comply with current regulations and those 15 year old permits are no longer applicable give the many changes in regulations since then.
But worry not, Holcomb is not dead. The TPP could bring it back to life.
The message to our elected officials from the Deep State is they cannot fix the country's problems so said elected officials should line up and grab what they can while the country is being looted.
The oil&gas industry stands ready to reward Mr. Obama with $500K+ speaking fees and donations to the Obama Foundation. Remember, the Clinton Foundation's behavior is not a warning, but an instruction manual to our sElected Officials.
Do you think the Dakota Tribes are going to pay Mr. Obama similar to the oil&gas industry if he rules in the Tribes' favor? That said, do you think that any of the lukewarm Climate Change victories will stand up to the provisions of the TTP, TTiP, & TISA?
It will be very interesting to see the design and siting of the upcoming Obama Presidential Library given Obama's expressed concern about climate change.
Perhaps the library will be built on a high mid-western hill?
If the Obama Library is in a re-purposed oil tanker floating on Lake Michigan, then Obama is taking no climate change chances with his legacy.
@John Wright – I'm not sure of the topology, but the Obama library is going to be at the University of Chicago: "The Barack Obama Presidential Center is the planned presidential library of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. The center will be hosted by the University of Chicago, and will be located in Jackson Park on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.
The 0bama Liebarry will lie (pun intended) on the path of migratory birds headed to nearby Wooded Island in Jackson Park (less than 1/2 mile away). Wooded Island is a bird sanctuary, a favorite for bird watching, and important for the protection of so many migratory species. The Liebarry will obtain whatever LEED rating is deemed necessary to greenwash 0bama's legacy, but the fact is that many birds will die because of it, be it from colliding with the copious amounts of glass that will no doubt be part of the exterior cladding, or from the loss of park habitat, or be driven off by the larger crowds and increased noise.
Well, that's a damn shame!
The new Obama Library will be built on the island of Nilhau just offshore from Kauai in Hawaii. As one of the final acts of his presidency, Obama expropriated the island and removed all the native Hawaiian residents in order to provide a suitable site for the 200,000 sq ft .Library featuring as its centerpiece the display of his Nobel Peace Prize.
The island's security will be continually monitored by overflights of the latest model Predator drones.
That's a shame. It makes it so must harder to drive by and contribute a loose brick to the Obama Library.
What's not good is there is the vagueness on how companies will maintain these emission targets ( my bet is Cap and Trade gets forced through some backdoor ).
"…his rhetoric fails to match up with his broader record.
That pretty well sums up everything about Obama, in every area. Obama has never been fully candid or truthful, but then what politician has. And at the end of the day Obama's legitimate accomplishment si that he is a very good politician.
Obama falls way short in environmental protection, particularly with respect to climate change. His protection of financial criminals ranks him almost as a co-conspirator. His unwillingness to address income and wealth inequality have been staggering. From lies about numbers of civilian deaths from drones, shielding frackers, BP and other environmental perpetrators from full accountability, to prosecutions of whistle blowers and lies about TPP, Obama has consistently showed us who he is by actions, and his actions are oftentimes at complete odds with his words.
I am incredibly glad for the phrase "Soft Climate Change Denial." That has really helped my thinking on this and many other topics.
Please explain how the phrase helped your thinking? I don't understand.
Am I alone in being absolutely sick of these assessments, which serve to whitewash what has been a very sorry presidency for progressives, featuring a long litany of disappointments?
No you're not. I've been making lists of offenses against progressivism since he took office in 2009. I believe his presidency is a great failure. And his climate efforts have been a travesty. Eight years of marking time while we lose whatever chance we've had of containing climate change.
I don't credit political excuses either. The Republicans got their great victory in 2010 due to Obama's failures up to that time and also because he was asleep at the switch in recognizing how important the 2010 decennial election was. It was sheer political malpractice.
Sorry Joe, but the assessment of the Obama presidency as a failure is incredibly naive. He was elected as the Not-Bush harbinger of Hope and Change, but acted solely in the interests of the ruling elite who selected and groomed him for office. He has been the most successful politician of this century, delivering precisely the policies that the Overlords who created him favor.
—Presided over and facilitated the greatest theft of wealth in history, destroying the middle and working classes and transferring their savings and wealth into the coffers of a small elite of banksters and billionaires.
—Suspended the rule of law regarding the right to life, liberty, and property and replaced it with an expanded National Security State started under his predecessors.
—Directed a fleet of remote control assassin drones prowling the globe and killing at his command.
—Expanded the scope of the Permanent Warfare State and allied it with supposed mortal enemies like Al Qaeda/Nusra Front in Syria and Libya while maintaining the facade of peaceful nation building.
–Unilaterally attacked Russia with acts of economic warfare and created a path to nuclear war where none had existed before.
— Orchestrated the sham killing of Osama bin Laden, who had been dead for years, crudely disposed of the empty casket, and got everybody to believe in it.
—And all the while convinced naive Liberals that he was acting on their behalf.
Hi Crazyhorse, I was evaluating Obama's presidency from the normative point of view of public purpose rather than from the point of view of his overlords. So, while I agree that he may well be viewed as a great success by them and therefore someone who merits extremely high speaking fees and other favors really soon now, I do not agree that the inference ought to be that he was not a failure.
The proper standard for evaluating him is the public purpose standard. By that standard he has been, and continues to be an abject failure, because he fell way short of what needed to be done for the nation he was elected to serve.
This is not complicated. As citizens we all get to evaluate presidents according to how well they have served most of us individually and collectively, and it is simply irrelevant for such an evaluation what his masters may think, or how they would evaluate his performance in office. So, using your own view of public purpose during his term, don't you agree that he has fallen far short of achieving it? And, if not, then why not?
I appreciate your well reasoned and civil answer to what was an intentionally a provocative post. In the end it comes down to a matter of perspective. If you believe that the US is a functioning democracy and that Presidents are public servants then it makes sense to evaluate them according to how well they serve the general public.
If however you believe that the US is an oligarchy where a few thousand Lords monopolize control over the economy, own/control the major mass media, determine the legitimacy of what is taught in the leading universities, and spend half the world's total military budget maintaining a global empire to further their aims it makes little sense to evaluate one of their chosen servants by any standard except how well he/she serves it's masters.
I think the preponderance of evidence supports the latter perspective.
Kinda like overpopulation – the true underlying cause of all sustainability ills – eh, Mr. President? But that would require actual courage to mention.
Luckily, Hillary – or whichever skinwalker team D picks to inherit the human suit after today's right-wing-conspiracy health scare – is hard at work on addressing the too-many-humans issue. They just need to figure out how to work things so that the coming nuclear war with the godless commies will kill mostly the 'deplorables'!
Or better still, something like a human version of myxomatosis, but which only kills the 90% who have no regard for the other species with which we share the planet. After all we are overpopulating the planet like a bunch of predatory, polluting rabbits.
There will be no escape, no mitigation, no adaptation to the destruction of habitat, the conflagration and inundation, and the pandemic disease that will overtake the human species in the decades to come. All claimed efforts to "fight climate change" are but a mirage.
The Oil Industry lie a lot of us bought was NG was a Transitional Fuel. The other was the Oil Company was going to pivot towards becoming an Energy Industry. There was also the surprise of Methane.
They stopped showing the drill pipe cap at about 400 feet down typically supposed to prevent aquifer gas & pressure chemical fluids out of the water because it doesn't work. The gas & oil seeps up through cracks that do not localize, like a bad screw in an old tin roof.
That they took that out of long pants high heeled executive girls commercial to make fracking seem wonderful, maybe for something an attorney would say later.
I asked a guy to design an electric road, and he did. Chris Gorman is his name. Before banned from CR4 I asked after these things.
Great leaders ask for their engineers. We don't hear enough of that, and I wonder if it is all locked down by the spies in markets that they are assured will pay more than the people who financed their development.
I've kept up with Exoskeleton development, way behind its day.
It was Gingrich who went for scientific social engineering in a big way so successfully destructive I could hate the guy.
The slop of a system is overcome by the informal work between people who have shared dinners.
The system, is a better system when it is not completed except by handshakes, dinners together, a same day of walking around as at work together to serve together for the good of the people of one nation, not the world, just one nation.
We can blame the real breakdown on Gingrich, and for what it means now that Sanders is defeated is nearly certain doom considering the time that is running out so much faster they are cruising the Northwest Passage.
Obama, man, even the ACA is all sabotaged, since Carter all the sabotage.
Science fiction has lost all charm.


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Q: Get search result count in Magento 2 How to get Search result count and keyword in result.phtml in magento2.
I have overriden the Magento_CatalogSearch/templates/result.phtml file.
I need to show the count returned from the search result as well as the key searched here.
Is that possible to get it. Please anyone suggest on this.
Thanks

A: You can get  Search result count $block->getResultCount()
and  use keyword for get $this->helper('Magento\CatalogSearch\Helper\Data')->getEscapedQueryText()

A: To get Search Result count :
$resultCount = $block->getResultCount();

To get Search Keyword :
$helper = $this->helper('Magento\Search\Helper\Data');
$searchKeyword = $helper->getEscapedQueryText();

A: If you use Magento\CatalogSearch\Block\Result this block in your custom module. Then you can use this below code :
For search keyword :
$this->catalogSearchData->getEscapedQueryText()

OR
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For count :
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Q: Problem with a function to filter results defined in a computed property on vue.js I'm studying vue.js and I create a little project: https://codesandbox.io/s/focused-gould-hs7k5?file=/src/components/Modal.vue
. I've created two components: Home and Modal. When I click on a button defined in the Home I opened a modal. In this component I used two dependencies: axios and infinite scroll. I create a function "loadMore" that I invoke on mounted property. This function load elements, that I stored in "photos" variable, from a GET call. After this I wanted to implementes a search filter bar. I created an input tag with a v-model "searchString". I defined this property in the data and I created a function "filteredResources" that filters the results.

This is the template:

        <slot name="body">
          <input type="text" v-model="searchString" placeholder="Enter your search terms">

Title: {{photo.title}}

        </slot>

If in the v-for directive I tried to put filteredResources instead of photos, for doing a search, I get an error:
"[Vue warn]: Error in render: "TypeError: Cannot read property 'searchString' of undefined"
But if I try to debug when filteredResources is invoked the 'searchString' variable is defined like an empty string.

A: Try this :
 computed: {
    filteredResources: (){
      if (!this.searchString || this.searchString == '') return this.photos;
      let regex = new RegExp(this.searchString, "i");
      return this.photos.filter(photo => regex.test(photo.title));
    }
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Multivariate statistical analysis for seismotectonic provinces using earthquake, active fault, and crustal structure datasets
Takashi Kumamoto, Masataka Tsukada, Masatoshi Fujita
Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology
Seismotectonic zonation for seismic hazard assessment of background faults and earthquakes by the Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion (HERP [1]) is based on the results of the seismotectonic boundaries of Kakimi et al. [2]. However, several unsolved problems, such as map scale, remain in this approach for better prediction of the magnitude and frequency of blind earthquakes. The aim of this study was to construct a new quantitative and objective seismotectonic province map for the main islands of Japan (Honshu) for rational earthquake size estimation of blind faults and earthquakes. The resolution of the map was set as the second-order map grid of ca. 10 by 10 km of the Geographic Survey of Japan. Then, the parameters of (1) observed seismicity, (2) distribution of active faults converted to earthquake moment release rate, (3) width of the seismogenic layer, and (4) Bouguer gravity anomaly were assigned independently to each grid for principal component analysis. The first principal component of the principal analysis in this study represents the degree of tectonic activity for both the northeastern and southwestern Honshu islands. The resulting principal component scores were then applied to a cluster analysis to conduct quantitative classifications, and the result provided three and nine seismotectonic provinces in the northeastern and southwestern Honshu islands, respectively.
Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks: Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident
Springer Japan
Multivariate Statistical Analysis
seismotectonics
crustal structure
active fault
hazard assessment
gravity anomaly
Seismotectonic province map
Kumamoto, T., Tsukada, M., & Fujita, M. (2016). Multivariate statistical analysis for seismotectonic provinces using earthquake, active fault, and crustal structure datasets. In Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks: Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident (pp. 31-41). Springer Japan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55822-4_2
Multivariate statistical analysis for seismotectonic provinces using earthquake, active fault, and crustal structure datasets. / Kumamoto, Takashi; Tsukada, Masataka; Fujita, Masatoshi.
Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks: Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident. Springer Japan, 2016. p. 31-41.
Kumamoto, T, Tsukada, M & Fujita, M 2016, Multivariate statistical analysis for seismotectonic provinces using earthquake, active fault, and crustal structure datasets. in Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks: Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident. Springer Japan, pp. 31-41. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55822-4_2
Kumamoto T, Tsukada M, Fujita M. Multivariate statistical analysis for seismotectonic provinces using earthquake, active fault, and crustal structure datasets. In Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks: Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident. Springer Japan. 2016. p. 31-41 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55822-4_2
Kumamoto, Takashi ; Tsukada, Masataka ; Fujita, Masatoshi. / Multivariate statistical analysis for seismotectonic provinces using earthquake, active fault, and crustal structure datasets. Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks: Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident. Springer Japan, 2016. pp. 31-41
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Temple Terrace PD: Man kills his 3-year-old daughter, then kills himself
by: John Rogers
A 3-year-old Temple Terrace girl was murdered by her own father before he then killed himself.
We're learning new information about the man's background.
On Monday afternoon, a woman asked Temple Terrace police to conduct a welfare check on her daughter.
When officers arrived at the home on Skylake Place, they made a gruesome discovery.
Three-year-old Ela Aytes had been murdered by her own father, 48-year-old Ayhan Aytes.
He then committed suicide.
"Anytime a child is involved in a crime, it's heartbreaking," said Temple Terrace Police Department spokeswoman Laurie Hayes.
News Channel 8 has learned Aytes was a former communications professor at the University of South Florida.
He was first hired in Dec. 2016 for one semester in a temporary position as a visiting assistant professor in the Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications.
His contract expired in May 2017. He was then brought back in Aug. 2017 for two semesters and his contract expired in May 2018.
Just this past spring, he taught a graduate class on computer games and virtual reality.
After receiving his doctorate from UC San Diego, he shared his research at university conferences around the country.
Ayhan was married to a fellow USF professor, but records show the pair divorced early this year and the two shared equal custody of 3-year-old Ela.
"Our officers have responded to that address eight times in the past years," said Hayes.
Police were called to his home last Wednesday after Aytes did not give Ela back to his ex-wife.
The family released this statement:
"Our family is devastated at the loss of our beloved Ela. At this point we need time to grieve together and we ask for privacy."
Officials are not able to disclose the manner of death at this time.
If you have any information to help in this case, call the Temple Terrace Police Department.
More Hillsborough County Stories
by WFLA 8 On Your Side Staff / Jul 18, 2019
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) - City crews are working to repair a wastewater main break on West Waters Avenue.
The break was discovered Thursday, just west of Hanley Road.
by Meredyth Censullo / Jul 18, 2019
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) - A viewer named Rob contacted me with his Road Rants complaint about a massive project underway where Lithia-Pinecrest Road intersects with Lumsden, Durant, and Bell Shoals roads in Brandon.
Rob writes:
Pedestrian seriously hurt in collision on Highway 92 and Walton Way
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) - A man was not using a crosswalk when he was struck by a car on U.S. Highway 92 on Thursday, authorities said.
The collision occurred on Highway 92 near the Walton Way Intersection at about 8:12 a.m.
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