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Log Jam Threatens Bridge Over Bird Creek
Monday, May 5th 2008, 7:03 pm
A massive log jam is causing all sorts of problems on Bird Creek. The News On 6's Chris Wright reports thousands of pounds of debris from December's ice storm are clogging a stretch of the creek in Tulsa County.
Officials say the log jam is causing erosion problems, and if not removed, it could threaten a heavily-used bridge.
The debris backup beneath the bridge near 66th Street North off of Highway 75 is massive. It's so big; in fact, it can easily support the heavy equipment that is working to get rid of it.
"It has to be done before any problems develop in this area," said Kenna Mitchell with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation.
ODOT says those problems are erosion-related. Because of the log jam, water is being diverted around the debris, and is threatening the surrounding banks. If the debris is not removed, officials worry the water could eventually erode the bridge's support structures, and threaten its integrity.
"That's why we've decided to come in, treat this as an emergency situation, and get it cleaned up as soon as we can," said ODOT's Kenna Mitchell.
Making matters worse, recent heavy rains have swept more debris in from upstream, and the log jam has grown quickly.
All this debris has been piling up for months now. It has all made its way downstream since the December ice storm. It has also created what ODOT believes may be the biggest log jam in Tulsa history.
"They said it's also something pretty rare. They don't remember seeing one this size before here in Tulsa," said ODOT's Kenna Mitchell.
On Monday, ODOT awarded an emergency contract to an Oklahoma City-based construction firm. The contractor will have 30 days to remove the more than 9,000 cubic yards of logs and limbs. ODOT is confident they will get the job done, unless of course, there is more heavy rain, and more leftover debris swept downstream.
Engineers have checked the 66th Street bridge, and say it is structurally sound. ODOT has also looked at every other major bridge in the Tulsa area.
News On 6 A massive log jam is causing all sorts of problems on Bird Creek.
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Missing Arundel woman's body pulled from pond
Paula Gagne, 54, tracked via cellphone
Updated: 7:58 AM EDT Jun 20, 2016
David Charns
WMTW SOURCE: WMTW
York County sheriff's deputies and the Maine Warden Service are investigating how a 54-year-old woman's body ended up in a small pond.York County Sheriff Bill King said the body of Paula Gagne, of Arundel, was found in the pond Saturday afternoon.King said it appears Gagne drowned. She had been reported missing last week.Deputies tracked Gagne's cellphone to a wooded area, King said. The track ended near the water's edge, he said.Gagne was found face down in the middle of the pond, King said.No foul play is suspected, but an autopsy is scheduled for this week.Deputies met up with Gagne last year in Arundel, finding her in a snow bank. She had told a passerby that relatives were abusing her, King said.Gagne had two warrants for failure to appear for violating a protective order and violating conditions of release. She tried to flee during the March 2015 arrest and attempted to smash out a cruiser window with her head, King said.No other information was released.Get the WMTW App9234908
ARUNDEL, Maine —
York County sheriff's deputies and the Maine Warden Service are investigating how a 54-year-old woman's body ended up in a small pond.
York County Sheriff Bill King said the body of Paula Gagne, of Arundel, was found in the pond Saturday afternoon.
King said it appears Gagne drowned. She had been reported missing last week.
Deputies tracked Gagne's cellphone to a wooded area, King said. The track ended near the water's edge, he said.
Gagne was found face down in the middle of the pond, King said.
No foul play is suspected, but an autopsy is scheduled for this week.
Deputies met up with Gagne last year in Arundel, finding her in a snow bank. She had told a passerby that relatives were abusing her, King said.
Gagne had two warrants for failure to appear for violating a protective order and violating conditions of release. She tried to flee during the March 2015 arrest and attempted to smash out a cruiser window with her head, King said.
No other information was released.

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Jesus Cares Nursery and Primary School,
Construction of ten classrooms and administration space. Classrooms could be built in blocks of 2, 3 or 4 at a time.
$9,000 per classroom or estimated cost of $110,000 for the complete school
Bricks, labour for site preparation
Jesus Cares Nursery and Primary School was started in 2010 in the Kisinga Trading Centre, Kasese District of Uganda, in rented facilities. The five founding pastors had a vision to improve the education, living standard and health of the community. These pastors were keen to see the establishment of a Christian school. They had seen the impact of other Christian schools, such as the nearby Rwentutu school, on their communities. They were impressed by the teachers' dedication and the quality of education that could be made available to children from low income families .
In 2016, two hectares of land were purchased by the school and six temporary classrooms erected. The current enrollment is over 100, in Nursery through P6 grade levels. Preparations are now being made to construct permanent classrooms. The community is making bricks for the building and application was made to Classrooms for Africa for help fund the buildings.
Representatives from Classrooms for Africa have visited the school and recommend the project to their donors.


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Wild escape, also known as daguai luzi (Mandarin: ; pinyin: dà guài lù zi)  or the joker's way  is a card game originating in Shanghai, China.  It is a team game for 6 players and played with three decks of cards.

Setup
 6 people are divided into 2 fixed teams.  The players sit in alternating order, so no team members are sitting next to each other.
 If this is the first round, the offense leader is determined randomly.  Each player draws a random card and the player with the highest card is the offense leader.
 3 decks of cards are dealt out to all 6 players. Each player has 27 cards.  Jokers are used in the game, and there is differentiation between the "big joker" and the "small joker".

Objective
The objective of the game is to score, and increase one's level.
 Only the offense team can score.
 The offense team must have the first person to "escape", i.e. play all of his cards.
 The rest of the offense team must escape, before the defending team escapes.  When one team escapes, the remaining team players are "trapped".  The more players that are trapped, the higher the "tribute" that is paid to the winning team.

A team wins the round .  If one of the conditions is not achieved (i.e. one team makes the initial escape, but fails to fully escape before the other team), the round is a draw.  If the offense team wins the round, they score and their level advances.  The team with the highest level wins the match, and the game is usually played until one team reaches a specific level.  The first person to escape becomes the offense leader in the following round.

Terminology

Offense leader
The first person to play in the round.  Only the offense team can score (and raise the level).  The first person to escape in a round is the offense leader in the next round.

The offense leader of the first round is decided by a random card draw.

Trump card
Trump cards are higher than all other cards except jokers. Trump cards are determined by the offense's team level in each game. The trump cards starts the game as the 2s, and can go up to aces, as the offense's team level advances.

Escape
A player who has played all of the cards in hand has said to have "escaped".

Trapped
A player is trapped at the end of a round, if still holding cards after all the players on the opposing team have escaped.

Rules

Legal hands
A player can start a turn by playing:
 1 card: any single card can be played by itself.
 2 cards: two cards must be a pair of the same rank (e.g., two 5s).
 3 cards: three cards must be of the same rank (i.e., three of a kind).
 5 cards: five cards must be one of the following poker-hand patterns:
 Straight
 Flush
 Full house
 Four of a kind + any single card
 Straight flush
 Five of a kind – a non-poker hand, and only available in multi-deck play

Rank of cards and hands
 Card rankings: big joker -> small joker -> trump card -> A, K, Q, J, 10, ... 2
 Five-card hands: five of a kind → straight flush → four of a kind → full house → flush → straight
 Poker-hand rankings only take into account the . For example, a full house of 666JJ is the same value as 66622.
 All suits are equal.

Wild cards
Jokers can be used as wild cards. A wild card can become any single lower card in order to form a multi-card hand.  For example, a joker and an ace may be played as a pair of aces.  The highest possible rank of the play will be taken, for instance, joker-6-7-8-9 always counts as 6-7-8-9-10, rather than 5-6-7-8-9.

Gameplay
 The offense leader starts the game with any legal play of his choice.
 The next player (usually clockwise) must continue the turn with a legal play using the same number of cards, or else pass to the next player.
 Play continues this way until all other 5 players pass.
 The last player to play on that turn wins the turn.  He can then start a new turn, with any legal play of his choice.
 The play continues until all players in one team have escaped.  The round is over.

During the game, a player can ask any other player for number of cards remaining in his hand. The other player must answer truthfully if he has 10 or fewer cards, otherwise he is not allowed to answer.

Scoring
Scoring is determined at the end of each round.  The offense team is the team that started the round.  The defending team is the opposing team.
 Offense team player escapes first, and at least one defending player is trapped: Offense team won the round.  Offense team scores, and advances to the next level. Trapped players pay a tribute in the next round.
 Offense team player escapes first, but offense team player is trapped: Draw.  No tribute.  The offense team remains the offense team.
 Defending team player escapes first, and at least one offense team player is trapped: Defending team won the round.  Defending team will be the offense team in the next round.  Trapped players will pay tribute in the next round.
 Defending team player escapes first, but defending team player is trapped: Draw.  No tribute.  Defending team will be the offense team in the next round.

As stated earlier:
 Only the offense team can score (advance to the next level)
 The first player to escape determines the offense team in the next round.
 Trapped players pay tribute  if their team lost the round.

Advancing levels
If the offense team scores and advances a level, the trump card changes.  At the start of the game, the trump card is 2.  For example, when the offense team scores, the trump card becomes 3.

Tribute
Each defending player who was trapped, has to pay a tribute to the offense team.  A tribute is the highest card in his hand. The trapped player (#6) has to give one card to the player who escaped first (#1).  If two players were trapped, then #5 has to give one card to #2.  If three players were trapped, then #4 would have to give one card to #3.

If the tribute card is not a Joker, the receiver returns a single card of his choice.  Some players use a rule if the tribute card is a Joker, the tribute receiver must offer two cards. The tribute giver can keep one of the two cards, or keep both cards and return a card higher than either card.

The tribute and return cards are made public to all players.

Strategies
 Teamwork is critical to winning in wild escape.
 Always help the player in your team who has the best hand to escape first.
 Support hands played by your own team, and oppose hands played by the opposing team.

See also
 Big two
 Dou dizhu

References

Shedding-type card games
Chinese card games

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Efforts to prevent trade remedies evasion, origin fraud
A plan has been designed to strengthen management and prevention of trade defence evasion and origin frauds, aiming to fulfill international trade commitments and export/import development.
VNA Tuesday, July 09, 2019 11:29
Hanoi, (VNA) – A plan has been designed to strengthen management and prevention of trade defence evasion and origin frauds, aiming to fulfill international trade commitments and export/import development.
Illustrative image (Source: VietnamPlus)
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed Decision 824/QD-TTg on issuing the plan to "Strengthen management and prevention of trade defence evasion and origin frauds."
The plan aims to improve the effectiveness of international economic integration, particularly with free trade agreements Vietnam has signed, ensuring the effective implementation of the commitments within the framework of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and free trade agreements.
The plan is also designed to prevent trade defence evasion and origin frauds and preclude other countries from rerouting export goods via Vietnam. The move aims to effectively tap international commitments, promote export-import sustainability and protect Vietnams rights in international trade.
Under the plan, the Government will tighten management and supervision of export-import and foreign investment activities, as well as improve the effectiveness of implementing regulations on trade remedies, origin and customs and trade remedies.
The Government will also review, amend and supplement legal documents on the prevention of trade defence invasion and origin frauds while strictly punishing trade safeguard evasion and origin frauds.
According to the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Vietnam is in the process of extensive integration into the regional and global economies. The country needs a favourable environment for investment and production to lure more investment, improve domestic production and encourage exports.
Dealing with trade defence evasion and origin frauds has become more urgent amid increasing trade protectionism worldwide and the US-China trade conflict.
"To address the situation, the Prime Minister signed the Decision No. 824/QD-TTg on issuing a plan to 'Strengthen management and prevention of trade remedies evasion and origin fraud'" said the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
Under the plan, authorities are required to tighten their management of export-import and foreign investment activities. Early warnings are needed to prevent trade defence evasion while strengthening control of granting C/O to export goods in order to avoid origin frauds.
State management will also be strengthened to monitor foreign investment activities, including changes of ownership, mergers and acquisitions and management of foreign investment projects in vulnerable business domains.
The plan also noted diversifying export markets is among focuses to avoid dependence on certain markets, while increasing resources and capability to detect and tackle trade safeguard evasion and origin frauds.
Previously, the Ministry of Industry and Trade issued a comprehensive programme in response to trade protection measures to develop several Vietnamese industries.
Accordingly, the Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam (TRAV) is responsible for building a system for reporting import products involved in trade protection probes and connecting it to the single-window customs system.
The TRAV, Industry Department, Import-export Department and relevant goods associations will monitor import affairs and assess their impact on domestic production to begin investigations and apply protection measures if necessary.
These agencies will run projects on improving trade protection capacity and step up the application of an early warning system for excessive imports, dumping and trade defence evasion.
The number of investigations into trade remedies evasion on Vietnamese exported products has increased in recent years.
By the end of May this year, Vietnamese exported products had to face 83 cases of anti-dumping, 30 cases of safeguard, 19 cases of anti-dumping duty evasion and 14 cases of anti-subsidy.
Besides, authorities have detected many products imported from other countries or made in foreign countries under outsourcing contracts and labelled "made in Viet Nam" are available in the domestic market or exported, actions have undermined the reputation of Vietnamese exports and deceived local consumers.-VNA


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Арманте́ль () — колишній муніципалітет у Франції, у регіоні Окситанія, департамент Верхні Піренеї. Населення —  осіб (2011).

Муніципалітет був розташований на відстані близько 690 км на південь від Парижа, 125 км на південний захід від Тулузи, 55 км на південний схід від Тарба.

Історія

До 2015 року муніципалітет перебував у складі регіону Південь-Піренеї. Від 1 січня 2016 року належав до нового об'єднаного регіону Окситанія.

1 січня 2016 року Армантель було приєднано до муніципалітету Луданв'єль.

Демографія

Розподіл населення за віком та статтю (2006):

Економіка

Посилання
 Армантель на сайті французького Національного інституту географії
 Армантель на сайті французького Національного інституту статистики й економічних досліджень
 [ Розташування муніципалітету Армантель на мапі Франції та сусідні муніципалітети]

Див. також
 Список муніципалітетів департаменту Верхні Піренеї

Примітки

Колишні муніципалітети департаменту Верхні Піренеї


Read the official novelization to get the full story of this terrifying movie! From Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Drew Goddard, writer of the monster movie phenomenon Cloverfield, comes the horror film to end all horror films! The details of the plot are a closely guarded secret, though Joss himself has described it as "a straight-up, balls-out, really terrifying horror movie," adding,"it is not just a slasher in the woods. It's a little more complicated than that..."
This exclusive companion book features an extended interview with Joss and Drew, the full script, and over 150 photos and stunning pieces of production art.


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Celebrities Social Media Isaiah McDaniel: Top 10 Must-Know Facts About YouTuber
Isaiah McDaniel: Top 10 Must-Know Facts About YouTuber
Isaiah McDaniel (YouTuber) was born on the 11th of March, 1996. He was born in 1990s, in Millennials Generation. His birth sign is Pisces and his life path number is 3. Isaiah's birth flower is Daffodil and birthstone is Aquamarine. What does this all mean? Let's find out!
Discover all the facts that no one tells you about Isaiah McDaniel below ↓
NAME: Isaiah McDaniel
REAL NAME: Isaiah McDaniel
NICKNAME: Isaiah
PROFESSION: YouTuber
BIRTHPLACE: Knoxville
Isaiah McDaniel, best known for being a YouTuber, was born in Knoxville on Monday, March 11, 1996. YouTuber who has become famous for his reactions to viral videos by some of YouTube's most popular stars, including Jake Paul and Tanner Fox. His reaction videos have racked up more than 5 million views so far.
Family: He is the son of multiple-time Pro Bowl NFL cornerback Terry McDaniel. Isaiah McDaniel father's name is under review and mother unknown at this time. We will continue to update details on Isaiah McDaniel's family.
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2. Isaiah McDaniel's zodiac sign is Pisces
Isaiah McDaniel zodiac sign is a Pisces. Dates of Pisces are February 19 - March 20. The Pisces zodiac sign are the dreamers and mystics of the zodiac. Many of them have lives filled with fantasy, magic and wonder. They are mystical, intuitive, creative, romantic, compassionate, sensitive. Although, they can be unrealistic, submissive, self-pitying, dependent, codependent
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RULING PLANET: Neptune
The youtuber has been alive for 9,445 days or 226,691 hours. There were precisely 320 full moons after his birth to this day.
BORN: March 11, 1996
BORN ON: Monday
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4. On Isaiah McDaniel's birthday
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7. Isaiah McDaniel's life path number is 3
Life Path Number 3 represent 'The Socializer '. Those who walk a Life Path with Number 3 have unlimited creativity and almost superhuman abilities. 3 reminds us that we are born both Human and Divine Spark. Its energy is that of the Bringer of Change. The values are creativity, self-expression, fun. The challenges are to remain optimistic — yet realistic — in the face of difficulties.
Isaiah McDaniel was born in the middle of Millennials Generation.
9. Isaiah McDaniel's birthstone is Aquamarine
Early sailors believed that aquamarine talismans, etched with the likeness of the sea god Neptune, protected them against ocean dangers.
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Daffodil symbolizes rebirth, new beginnings, promise happiness and joy.


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Wrongly-jailed mobster to take stand, hope for 'sympathy' in new extort rap
By Rich Calder
Scott Fappiano, imprisoned for a rape he didn't commit, now faces new legal woe. Gregory P. Mango
Reputed Italian mobster wanted to give reporter 'two hits with a mallet'
Italian cops and FBI agents bust 19 Mafia suspects in joint raids
How this mob boss orchestrated a bloodless coup from prison
Genovese 'made' man cops to loansharking, gambling scheme
A reputed Columbo crime-family mobster who spent 22 years behind bars for a rape he didn't commit is planning to play the sympathy card with jurors at his extortion trial next month.
Scott Fappiano, 52, of Staten Island became a poster boy for DNA-crime-scene testing in 2006 when he was cleared in the rape of a cop's wife after more than two decades in the slammer.
Fappiano is now headed to trial in Manhattan Federal Court on Jan. 21 for allegedly helping to orchestrate a massive gangland effort to control the New York-New Jersey garbage-carting industry.
And he will "likely" testify on his own behalf, said his lawyer, Lee Ginsberg, to Judge Kevin Castel during a Dec. 20 hearing.
"I realize there's parts [of the story the jury shouldn't hear] because it would be viewed as sympathetic. But, if he testifies, in order for him to explain his life … I think it will have to come up,'' Ginsberg said.
"I can't put a client on the stand in a case where the jury has a 22-year hole that I can't explain."
When reached at his Todt Hill home on Friday, Fappiano told The Post that "it's hard to tell'' if jurors would be sympathetic after learning his story.
He pointed out that he won his freedom in the state court system and, "It's a whole different ballgame in federal court.
"The deck is stacked against you there, but we'll see," he said.
Reputed wise guys rarely volunteer to testify in court because it could subject them being cross-examined about mob activities.
Fappiano was originally sentenced to 20 to 50 years in prison after a Brooklyn jury found him guilty of raping and sodomizing the woman in a brutal Dec. 1, 1983, attack. The woman's cop husband was bound and forced to watch the horror.
At the time, Fappiano was a 22-year-old Bensonhurst wiseguy wannabe on probation for a juvenile sex offense.
The cop's wife identified him from a mug shot, and prosecutors brought the case to trial despite Fappiano being a half-foot shorter than the 5-foot, 10-inch Italian-looking man she described as her attacker.
He remained in Attica before the Innocence Project got involved and cleared his name. The non-profit group's lawyers tracked down a private Texas lab that had samples of jogging pants the victim was wearing at the time of the rape and found through testing that the male DNA on it didn't match Fappiano.
But even after his stunning release, Fappiano still managed to find trouble.
He was one of 127 people arrested in 2011 in the biggest US mob racketeering crackdown ever.
He was sentenced to one month of time served and three years of probation after copping a plea to loan-sharking and extortion charges.
The Brooklyn federal judge who sentenced him, Kiyo Matsumoto, said Fappiano's wrongful conviction in the rape case played a "very significant" role in her decision to not send him back to prison.
At his sentencing, Fappiano recounted some chilling prison ordeals, including having his face crushed with a pipe and cut with a razor blade and being stabbed in the back with an ice pick.
But he still couldn't keep clean.
He was busted again in January along with 31 other reputed mobsters for allegedly scheming with rival Mafia families to shake down owners of legitimate garbage companies and secretly assume control of their operations.
Fappiano, a reputed Columbo member who is charged with trying to extort a waste-hauling company owner, has ties to the Gambino crime family, too.
He had three "made" uncles who rose to power in the Gambino ranks, including two notorious capos-turned-canaries, Frank "Frankie Fap" Fappiano and Michael "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo.
His third Mafia uncle, the late Frank DeCicco, was "Dapper Don" John Gotti's first underboss.
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Fake News: Democrats Did NOT Vote 228-197 In Favor Of Allowing Illegals To Vote
(Thu, 11 Jul 2019 14:32:31 Z)
Did Democrats vote 228-197 in favor of allowing illegals to vote? And is that "insanity" because they have been fighting against "foreign involvement in our elections" for two years? No, that's not true: the claim made in a viral internet image is based on a wrong interpretation of a vote that did take place on March 8, 2019 which did not give illegals the right to vote and which actually included one Republican on the side with 228 votes.
An example of the viral image can be seen in a Facebook post (archived here) where it was published on July 11, 2019. The text on the image read:
INSANITY: Democrats spent 2 years fighting "foreign involvement in our elections" then voted 228-197 in favor of allowing illegals to vote.
Here is the image in question:
The results of the vote can be seen here: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll117.xml
It was a vote during the process to get HR 1 passed (but not the actual House vote on HR1, which passed 234 - 193 in the end):
H.R.1 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): For the People Act of 2019
Summary of H.R.1 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): For the People Act of 2019
The 228-197 vote was in response to a proposal from Dan Crenshaw (R) to add some language to the end of the text:
(1) Voting is fundamental to a functioning democracy.
(2) The Constitution prohibits discrimination in voting based on race, sex, poll taxes, and age.
(3) It is of paramount importance that the United States maintains the legitimacy of its elections and protects them from interference, including from foreign threats and illegal voting.
(4) The city of San Francisco, California, is allowing non-citizens, including illegal immigrants, to register to vote in school board elections.
(5) Federal law prohibits non-citizens from voting in elections for Federal office.
... It is the sense of Congress that allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of United States citizens.
Crenshaw himself described the change as follows in a tweet:
Today I offered a motion to recommit #HR1 reaffirming that only US citizens should have the right to vote.
Dems rejected it.
Next time you go to the ballot box, keep that in mind. The future of their party is in cities like San Fran, where illegals can vote. Let that sink in.
-- Rep. Dan Crenshaw (@RepDanCrenshaw) March 8, 2019
Voting against that motion does not give anyone the right to vote, so the claim that 227 Democrats (and one Republican) voted to allow illegals to vote is definitely a stretch.
Note that the motion (and HR1) are about Federal elections and the reference in Crenshaw's tweet about San Francisco is about local elections. But it is factually correct:
San Francisco will allow noncitizens to vote in a local election, creating a new immigration flashpoint
San Francisco in November will become the largest city in the nation to allow noncitizens the chance to vote in a local election, making the city once again a flashpoint in the debate about immigration. Noncitizens, including those without legal status, will be allowed to vote only in a school board race and just a little more than 40 have registered to vote so far.
The similar versions of mostly the same hoax were debunked earlier by other fact checkers:
No, Democrats did not vote to allow noncitizens to vote
A misleading social media post suggests that House Democrats want to give the right to vote to noncitizens. "House Dems 228 yes 197 GOP no to allow illegal aliens to have right to vote. Let that sink in America!" stated a March 9 Facebook text-post that was posted on a page called Donald Trump for President Martin County, Florida.
FACT CHECK: Did U.S. House Democrats Pass a Bill to Allow Immigrants to Vote?
Misinformation and misapprehension surrounded two U.S. Congressional votes related to voting rights and immigration in March 2019. On 8 March, Facebook users began widely sharing a post by Brad Parker, which claimed: "HR 1 passed. Allowing illegal immigrants (foreigners) to vote.
Always check if it is actually true before liking/sharing a statement making strong claims.


Oskar and Ulani had a terrific afternoon out in the bright, warm sun. This particular encounter was actually begun by my boy. He doesn't really wrestle any more, but he does enjoy their own brand of play.
After a minute, Ulani was distracted by a sound. There's a cold frame under the pile of snow and she was convinced a critter was in there. And what do you know, she was right! A little squirrel raced out the back of the pile and along the house. Ulani was so startled it took her a minute to chase off in pursuit -- enough lead time for the squirrel to race into the tree unharmed.
That's SO cute! Ulani looks wonderful with a snow beard.
They are cute, sweet and beautiful.


The Universe we see in a clear night sky looks astonishing: so beautiful, rich and full of structures such as stars, gas clouds, galaxies, clusters... Yet, it is a tiny fraction of what actually exists out there: around 4%, as many astronomical and cosmological observations in recent years have established. What makes up the rest? Unknown particles dubbed Dark Matter (DM) and an even more mysterious substance dubbed Dark Energy (DE).
Discovering what they really are is the challenge in front of us for the next decades. Thousands of physicists, astronomers and cosmologists spend days and nights trying to detect one of those DM particles in underground experiments shielded by entire mountains, or trying to identify their subtle traces in cosmic rays using devices on board of the Space Station or even trying to produce some of them directly in the Large Hadron Collider of CERN.
Thousands others struggle to constrain the nature of this 'fluid' DE and to make sense of the mathematical infinities that it would imply in our current theories.
This talk will be a quick journey through the physical evidences of DM and DE, their main features and the huge experimental and theoretical efforts they spur.


Bloomberg are reporting that when Russia's biggest tanker operator launches four new vessels next year, they will not just be carrying oil to northern Europe but the hopes of the LNG industry.
Sovcomflot's Aframax ships, capable of shifting 600 000 barrels of oil through the icy waters of the Baltic Sea to the port of Rotterdam, will be the first tankers run on LNG.
That is great news for fuel supplier Royal Dutch Shell Plc and the other energy companies that have invested more than US$700 billion in LNG projects over the past decade. Although Energy Aspects Ltd. estimates that LNG as a marine fuel will account for less than 2% of total demand by 2025, Russian tankers and Mediterranean cruise liners will still help ease a global glut.
Since 2014, the spot price of LNG has dropped by two-thirds to US$5.4 per million British thermal units as supply swelled, crude slumped and large buyers such as Japan and Korea slowed purchases. That is pushing the industry to look beyond long-term contracts with power utilities to find other sources of demand.
At the same time, stricter environmental standards are pushing shipowners to consider cleaner fuels such as LNG, which contains virtually no sulfur. The International Maritime Organisation will from 2020 impose a sulfur cap of 0.5% on marine fuel, down from the current global limit of 3.5%.
Against that favourable backdrop, the number of LNG-fuelled ships will more than double to 200 by 2020 from 77 last year and just five in 2005.
That will boost LNG bunkering demand, excluding fuel burned by LNG carriers, to 1 million t in three years and as much as 5 million to 7 million t by 2025.


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The role of spatially selective attention in the tactile perception of texture
K. Sathian, H. Burton
Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
Penn State Neuroscience Institute
During manual sensing of object attributes like surface texture, the tactile receptor sheet is conjointly activated at numerous loci. What is the role of spatially selective attention in perception under these conditions? We show that the requirement for spatial focus of attention is minimal in the detection of an abrupt change in texture. In contrast, spatial attention may help in a variety of other tasks of comparable difficulty. These include detecting the absence of a texture change at one of many loci, distinguishing its direction, and discriminating between different textures. Attentional demand appears to vary along a continuum in these tasks, rather than being all-or-none.
Perception & Psychophysics
Touch Perception
Sathian, K., & Burton, H. (1991). The role of spatially selective attention in the tactile perception of texture. Perception & Psychophysics, 50(3), 237-248. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03206747
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Coffee – the fourth most valuable crop in Hawaii – is a significant piece of our agricultural pie. And as Hawaii is the only state in the country that produces coffee, the world-famous beans are quite unique. More specifically, coffee from Kona is known for distinct, delicate flavor. Even Mark Twain expressed his love of Kona coffee, writing in his Letters from Hawaii, "I think Kona coffee has a richer flavor than any other be it grown where it may".
So it was a bit shocking for a local farmer to find Safeway selling its own "Kona" coffee blend on the mainland. Paul Uster, owner of Mokulele Farms, was on a vacation in California when he discovered the Safeway blend selling for $8.99 per pound. Pure Kona coffee can command $25 for just 8 ounces.
It wasn't the idea of the blend that surprised Uster, as blends are not uncommon. It was the lack of labeling and the fact that he had not seen this particular item offered at any Safeway in Hawaii.
Hawaii state labeling laws require that all coffee sold as Kona blends (1) must contain at least 10% Hawaii-grown Kona coffee and (2) must be properly labeled with the term "coffee blend", the percentage of the Hawaiian coffee used, and the origin of the beans.
The fact that Safeway did not properly label the coffee it is advertising as "Kona" coffee is arguably deceptive to customers and disrespectful to Hawaii coffee farmers. Uster explained in an Associated Press article, "It degrades the reputation and the quality of Kona coffee. When consumers are not informed it makes it harder for me to make a living".
Uster brought his concerns home to the Hawaii Department of Agriculture. But given that the labeling laws are state laws, there is little the Department of Agriculture can do to stop Safeway from selling unlabeled coffee in California. In April, the Department of Agriculture did send a letter to grocery chain's corporate office asking them to respect and voluntarily comply with Hawaii's labeling laws.
After several months and a claim that the letter from the Department of Agriculture was lost, Safeway is just now addressing the issue. The company spokewoman along with several Safeway representatives met with Uster this week and promised to take a closer look at the blend and make a decision by September 1st as to whether the company will make any changes to the label.
Ideally, Safeway will comply with the Department of Agriculture's request and adjust their labels accordingly. However, if they continue selling a falsely advertised "Kona" coffee, our local farmers and the coffee industry in Hawaii may suffer. In response, the Kona Coffee Farmers Association may call for a longer term, nationwide boycott of Safeway stores. The clear issue here is labeling laws – the protection they can provide to both farmer and consumer – and the question of the responsibility of the federal government to enact and enforce labeling laws that prevent situations like this from happening.


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Q: Anyone remember the name of this iOS sharing app? A long time ago, there was an iOS app that was quite innovative for the time. The way it worked was that two iDevices on the same Wi-Fi network that wanted to share data (for instance a picture) would launch this app and come to a virtual "table". The edge of the table would be a recipient. To send the picture, the sender would choose what to share and bring it to the table, and then swipe the picture off a particular edge of the screen, and it would slide in on the recipient's device. As far as I can recall, the UI was white.
Can anyone name this app?

A: Mover

Put something — a contact, a photo, a video, a file — on the Mover table, connect two iOS or Mac OS X thingies to the same Wi-Fi network and slide away. It's that simple, really.
  (Yep, you can also use Bluetooth between iPhones, iPod touches and iPads, if you're on the go!)

∞labs, the developer of Mover, shut down a while ago and the app is no longer available.

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Political Thriller, Short Story, Thousand Word Challenge
1000 Word Challenge – SECURING THE RED BUTTON
SECURING THE RED BUTTON
Mike Elphick
In 2017, the US had a newly elected President— a Tea Party President. Rick Walker had been Governor of one of the Red states. To achieve smaller government (except for defense spending) he wanted to eliminate six segments of the Federal Government, including Environmental Protection. Most of the country set record temperature lows on Election Day 2016. In the minds of voters, that supported his argument that "Global warming is bullshit."
Walker's biggest problem was alcoholism. That had been rumored during the election campaign, but the GOP leadership had managed to keep it concealed until after the election. They then built a sober Cabinet to control Walker. They brought back Condoleezza Rice to head the State Department, and they gave Walker a short list of candidates from which to choose a Defense Secretary. Walker selected Henry Goddard–not a career politician, but a vice president of Boeing.
Though the US and Russia had sealed disarmament agreements, the POTUS still carried a black box with a red pushbutton that could authorize a missile launch. Because of Walker's alcoholism, the Defense Department redesigned the black box so that it now included an alcohol detector. Henry Goddard and a couple of technicians brought the new box to the White House so that it could be installed and tested.
Walker didn't like it.
"What's that stuff on top?" he asked.
"That's a set of new biometric sensors for improved security."
"Why the mouthpiece?"
"You blow into it to be tested for alcohol—like a Breathalyzer test for an automobile driver."
"I don't want that. It will make people think I'm an alcoholic."
"Nobody will know you're taking the test unless you tell them. We'll just send out a press release saying we've upgraded the security in several ways, but the details are classified"
A couple of months later, an international crisis erupted. Iran had developed an atomic weapon. Israel's Netanyahu said if the US did not immediately destroy the Iranian weapons plant, Israel would go it alone. Russia's Putin said that both Iran and Israel must leave the Middle East nuclear free. If Israel attacked Iran, then Russia might have to attack Israel.
Unexpected activity in Russia's Siberian missile launch sites triggered a conference in the White House Situation Room. Attendees included Rice and Goddard, but not Walker. He was partying after a country music concert in the East Ballroom. The Siberian activity was puzzling. If the Russians were attacking Israel, they would use one of their Western missile sites. Rice called Vladimir Putin, and told the office manager to get Walker sobered up.
"Mr. Putin, this is Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State. We have reason to believe you may be readying a missile attack on the US. "
"Where's Walker? I don't negotiate with female functionaries."
"Our President had earlier commitments but he will be here in a few minutes. Meanwhile, perhaps you'd like to discuss your military posture with our Defense Secretary, Henry Goddard."
"We are not readying an attack against the US. Apparently, your military intelligence is just as pathetic as it was when I headed the KGB. "
Goddard quickly put Putin on hold. "The Russians just launched their missiles while the lying SOB was talking to us. The only puzzling part is that they're headed South instead of East. Where is Walker? We urgently need to respond."
"Sorry, they still haven't been able to get him sobered up."
"Cancel everything," shouted Goddard. "We just got a clearer satellite picture. The activity we saw was the migration of a flock of large birds. The flashing lights were the Aurora Borealis."
Goddard slumped forward with his head on the table. "Thank God for our drunk POTUS. We almost triggered World War III."
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The Swiss government is completely wrong. Coffee is not essential for life.
The Swiss government wants to put an end to its emergency stockpile of coffee after declaring that it is "not essential" for human survival.
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If your aim is merely to make something sharp enough that it can cut, you can make a knife out of a whole lot of things. Virtually any sort of metal, to begin with, so long as you have the heat to make it malleable, tools to beat it into shape, and a stone to sharpen the edge. If you want to go further, you can dabble with beer and bacon, or old batteries.
But as Youtuber kiwami japan demonstrates, you can get much, much more extreme with a little bit of basic chemistry knowledge. Say, for instance, you need a knife that can float. Why not just go to town on some styrofoam?
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Between 2000 and 2014, 236 Canadians were killed after their car smacked into a moose. Add in collisions with deer, elk, bears, cougars, bison and coyotes, and in the last nineteen years, we've lost about as many Canadians to wildlife crashes as died in the Korean War.
If you don't want to be the next driver killed by a wayward ungulate, follow the tips in the video above to avoid wildlife collisions and, if that fails, how to properly smash your car into majestic Canadian fauna.
Three naked Florida women told a trooper they were "air drying" at a rest area after showering on Wednesday, but they didn't stick around to explain much more, troopers said.
As the trooper gathered details at the Interstate 75 northbound rest stop in Pasco County, the women ran to a Nissan Sentra and drove off on the highway around 11 a.m., according to a news release from Florida Highway Patrol. The trooper chased after them but gave up because the pursuit didn't meet Highway Patrol guidelines, the news release said.
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Exploring the Psychology of Why Astronauts Feel Awe
BY Kate Horowitz
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For obvious reasons, scientists are very concerned about the effects of space travel on the human body. Between the radiation, the pressure, and the lack of gravity, astronauts can expect to undergo some pretty weird physical changes once they leave Earth. But many astronauts also report experiencing spiritual and emotional awakenings in space, and scientists have begun to take notice. Researchers investigate these trends in a recent issue of Psychology of Consciousness.
Natural phenomena like the northern lights, meteor showers, and full moons have inspired wonder and awe in humans for about as long as we've been human. It's no surprise, really, that those effects are magnified for people looking back at the Earth from space. This spiritual awakening is so common that it has its own name: the overview effect.
"Space is so fascinating because it's a highly scientific, highly secular environment, so it doesn't have these connotations," lead author David Yaden said in a press statement. "We think of people who do a lot of meditation or climb mountains, people who are awe junkies, having these experiences. We don't [often] think of these very strict scientists reporting these blissful moments."
But they do.
"[You] suddenly get the feeling that, 'Hey, this is just one small planet which is lost in the middle of space,'" reported one astronaut participant in a study at the University of Central Florida. "[You get a] very important feeling about the fact that we're just drifting through an immense universe … [Y]ou become a little more conscious about the fact that we shouldn't be doing silly things on Earth like fighting and killing each other."
Yaden and his colleagues wanted to understand the emotional roots of the overview effect. They compiled statements from astronauts all over the world and analyzed them, looking for commonalities. They found that the space travelers' experiences were remarkably consistent, with recurrent themes of unity, connectedness, tranquility, vastness, perspective, and becoming completely overwhelmed with awe and wonder.
"We watch sunsets whenever we travel to beautiful places to get a little taste of this kind of experience. These astronauts are having something more extreme," Yaden said.
The researchers hope that their work, like the experiments on astronauts' bodies, will help space programs design and prepare future missions. The next era of spaceflight is going to involve some very long trips, which could really benefit from an understanding of astronaut psychology.
The paper's authors also believe their work may lead to a better quality of life for people down on the ground. A follow-up study will include virtual-reality headsets to give Earthbound study participants a little taste of what it's like to orbit the Earth. "In the end, what we care about is how to induce these experiences," researcher Johannes Eichstaedt said. "They help people in some ways be more adaptive, feel more connected, reframe troubles."
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There are two types of technology for generating electricity from solar power – photovoltaic and solar-thermal. These two concepts exploit the sun as an energy source, but differ in terms of their manageability and their adaptation to demand.
Population growth poses a challenge for humanity, as it leads to an increase in the demand for electricity. The solution to this challenge is complex because it requires the development of clean and sustainable electricity systems. Only in this way can we limit the effects of climate change, which has been definitively linked to the greenhouse gas emissions produced as a result of human activity. Solar power is one of the major alternatives in this field, involving the use of two main types of technology:
Solar-thermal technology concentrates the sun's power to obtain thermal energy. This thermal energy is used to generate steam, which in turn operates a conventional turbine that produces electricity. Solar-thermal power generates electricity in a manageable way, in other words, on demand. There are two main types of commercial solar-thermal technology – tower and parabolic trough technology. At present, these account for almost 4 GW of installed power, of which 3,370 MW comes from parabolic trough plants and 538 MW comes from solar-thermal tower plants.
" Solar-thermal power can be managed to adapt energy production to demand at any given time.
The market for solar-thermal technology is determined by direct solar radiation (known as Direct Normal Irradiance or DNI), which is the radiation that reaches the earth's surface directly from the sun without interference from particles, clouds or other elements. The United States and Spain are the countries with the largest installed capacity of solar thermal technology. However, important growth is being recorded in countries like South Africa and Morocco and it is also set to become part of the energy mix in Chile, India, China and other countries in Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa.
Photovoltaic energy
Photovoltaic technology uses solar radiation to generate electricity by exploiting the chemical properties of certain materials. This technology generates electricity directly via the photoelectric effect, in other words, as a result of the effect of solar radiation on semiconductor materials. The impact of solar energy on the atomic structure of semiconductor materials generates a continuous electrical current. Photovoltaic modules use this process to generate power when this material comes into contact with light.
" The development of photovoltaic power is dependent on the development of storage systems to overcome the issue of intermittent production.
Photovoltaic technology is used worldwide, mainly in China, Germany and the United States. The total global installed power is currently 145 GW, much of which is devoted to self-sufficiency. The evolution of this technology is dependent on the ability to overcome its major challenges – development of the module manufacturing market and, above all, storage system innovation in order to overcome the intermittent nature of photovoltaic energy production.
Thermal Photovoltaic
Manageable, which means production can be adapted to energy demand. Low-cost.
Can be hybridized with fossil fuels like natural gas. In conventional plants, this can reduce pollution from atmospheric gas emissions. This can also prolong its useful life. Wide geographical area of application.
Promotes socio-economic development by creating employment and industrial infrastructure, which encourage technological development, innovation and entrepreneurship. Low maintenance costs: photovoltaic technology does not need major economic investment and human resources for its maintenance.
Luis Rejano Flores,
Abengoa Solar
Thank you for letting us know different types of solar energy uses. Sir can we use photovoltic type in domestic use.
MOHIT THAKUR
yes you can, that is what we are putting on our roofs and in backyards currently!
kelles
In home we use solar panel known as solar cell
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In desertic areas, the solar-thermal energy is very attractive due to the great amount of sun light. However, how to solve the lack of water, used to produce steam, in these areas?
Regis Navarro
1. I believe that as the steam generated within this system passes through the turbine (giving up its thermal energy to create mechanical energy to spin the turbine) its temperature drops and it returns to the liquid state. I hope the author is watching and could confirm this. 2. "Production can be adapted to energy demand". How does this apply only to solar thermal and not to photovoltaic as well?
Gary Garnier
Operation of the steam turbine is based on the Rankine cycle, a thermodynamic cycle where an operating fluid is continuously evaporated and condensed. High pressure fluid enters the boiler from the feed pump and is heated to its saturation temperature. Further addition of energy causes evaporation of the liquid until it is fully converted to steam. Steam comes into the turbine at a specific temperature and pressure, normally recommended by the manufacturer. This steam spins a rotor axis, producing work which may be converted to electricity, while its temperature and pressure decreases. When it comes out of the turbine, the vapor-liquid mixture leaving the turbine is condensed using a cooling system. There, it recovers its original features and starts the process from the very beginning. The working fluid in a Rankine cycle follows a closed loop and is reused constantly. 2. PV generates electricity directly from solar radiation on PV cells, which means PV is an intermittent source of power: it only generates electricity when it is sunny (when the energy source is available). Power generation cannot be controlled. However, operators of solar thermal plants can control the generation of electricity by regulating the temperature at the receivers, both in tower and parabolic trough, as well as the input of steam into the turbine. Additionally, these power plants can incorporate thermal energy storage systems that allow thermal energy to be stored. These systems allow energy to be dispatched during cloudy periods, after sunset, before the sun rises or even in the middle of the night. As a result, these plants can produce electricity when needed. This allows the plants to better meet the demand of grid operators and utilities, resulting in a more stable supply and significant advances in the integration of renewable energy into the grid. So STE does not have the same drawback as PV, in terms of energy production profile. Dispatchability allows STE plants to better meet the demand of grid operators and utilities, resulting in a more stable supply and enabling a high penetration of renewable energies in the system.
No mention has been made here regarding the cost/benefit ratio or break-even points of these two technologies. Most so-called "green" energy sources are do expensive and resource intensive up front that they will not reach start to pay for themselves (break even) for decades. Many will be either worn out or obsolete long before then anyway. Safe nuclear, ideally the still elusive cold fusion) is still the most likely replacement for fossil fuels at this stage of technology. That is where the smart money should be invested.
Truthseeker
Could you expand on; Solar-thermal power generates electricity in a manageable way, in other words, on demand. Doesn't solar-thermal have the same drawback as photovoltaic, when producing power?
Solar Thermal Electricity (STE) and Photovoltaics (PV) are different technologies. PV generates electricity directly from solar radiation on PV cells, which means PV is an intermittent source of power: it only generates electricity when it is sunny (when the energy source is available). Solar thermal technology uses the heat of the sun to generate steam and then uses the steam in a conventional turbine to produce electricity. These power plants can incorporate thermal energy storage systems that allow thermal energy to be stored. These systems allow energy to be dispatched during cloudy periods, after sunset, before the sun rises or even in the middle of the night. Because storage allows solar plants to produce electricity when the sun is not shining, the plants can provide electricity when needed, operating as a peaker or even as baseload. Solar thermal electricity is therefore dispatchable; which means production can be totally adapted to the demand for electricity. It differs from intermittent renewables in the fact that their production depends on the presence or absence of the energy source. So STE does not have the same drawback as PV, in terms of energy production profile. Dispatchability allows STE plants to better meet the demand of grid operators and utilities, resulting in a more stable supply and enabling a high penetration of renewable energies in the system. This being the main difference between PV and STE, there are also others: - in terms of radiation: PV uses the GHI (Global Horizontal Irradiation) to produce power, while STE uses DNI (Direct Normal Irradiation). This is the reason why STE is only commercially viable in the solar belt of the Earth, while PV can be used in less sunny regions, such as Germany or Japan. - in terms of display: PV is a modular technology from some few kW up to GW if needed. This makes it suitable for utility-scale generation, but also for distributed power. STE, however, though modular (it can range from a dozens of MW up to GW, if needed), is only commercially feasible at a utility scale. Some particular applications, such as industrial systems, which are STE systems at lower temperatures, producing industrial heat and/or steam, are applicable for distributed uses. - in terms of cost: STE is a different product than PV and, as well, it has a different cost. NREL estimates the value provided by dispatchability in ~6c$/kWh.
I recently had the good fortune of reading your post regarding "Thermal and photo-voltaic power". It is perfectly written and, contained sound, practical advice with valid facts and figures. I look forward to read your next informative write-up. Agatha http://www.coa-languedoc.fr/
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Homs Governor: Airfield Attacked by US Plays Key Role in Fight Against Daesh
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https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201704071052385936-syria-airfield-key-role-fighting-daesh/
Governor of Homs Province Talal al-Barazi said that the Shayrat (Ash Sha'irat) Airfield in Homs Governorate, Syria, which came under a US missile attack late on Thursday, plays a key role in supporting Syrian government forces in their fight against Daesh terrorists.
© Sputnik / Alexander Astafyev
Syrian Personnel, Equipment Evacuated From Airfield Ahead of US Strike
DAMASCUS (Sputnik) – The Shayrat (Ash Sha'irat) Airfield in Homs Governorate, Syria, which came under a US missile attack late on Thursday, plays a key role in supporting Syrian government forces in their fight against militants from the Islamic State (Daesh) terrorist group, Governor of Homs Province Talal al-Barazi told Sputnik.
"The Syrian army and armed forces are fighting terrorism, especially in the east of Homs. And recently significant progress has been reached, gas fields have been liberated as well as the city of Palmyra and its surroundings. This base to the east of Homs plays a key role in supporting military operations against IS, particularly in the eastern part of Homs," al-Barazi said in a phone interview.
On Thursday night, the United States launched over 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Syrian military airfield in Ash Sha'irat, located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the city of Homs. US President Donald Trump said the attack was a response to the alleged chemical weapon use in Syria's Idlib on Tuesday, which Washington blames on the Syrian government.
Russia to Demand Urgent UN SC Meeting Following US Missile Strike on Syria
US Maintains Broad Range of Military Options in Syria After Thursday US Strike
Russian Foreign Ministry to Make Statement on US Strikes in Syria
missile strike, Terrorism, Daesh, Homs, Syria, United States


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Q: Is there a way to debug namenode or datanode of hadoop using eclipse? I think it is very good for me to understand Hadoop in detail if I can debug the real working mechanism of namenode and datanode in either pseudo-distributed or fully-distributed mode.
I think that apaceh hadoop team or.. any major developers of hadoop, hdfs or mapreduce can do this, but there is no document mentioning this method.
Every document mentioned how we can debug mapreduce with eclipse in local environment. This meanse LocalJopRunner is running and we can see that how LocalJobRunner run.
Thanks.

A: You can find detailed information on this on the Developing Hadoop Wiki. It has detailed info on stuff like How To Setup Your Development Environment, How To Develop Unit Tests etc.
HTH

A: To debug hadoop daemons as opposed to How to debug hadoop mapreduce jobs from eclipse? then you can add Java debug options to the /etc/default/hadoop-daemon-name
E.g. to debug the name node add the following to /etc/default/hadoop-hdfs-namenode
export HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=8000"

Then you can remote connect to your namenode on port 8000 from eclipse.
Obviously remove this after as it opens your name node to potential abuse from anywhere in the world!


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William Henry Spackman wrote the first angling book to be both written and published in New Zealand. It was called Trout Fishing in New Zealand: Where to Go and How to Catch Them, published in 1892. Spackman was the joint owner of a fishing hut at Selwyn Huts. The picture above is of Spackman Avenue. The Selwyn River is to the right of the picture just over the stopbank.
George Ferris once described the Selwyn, in its hey-day, as being looked on as the best brown trout river in the Dominion. Though this exalted status is no longer fitting, Canterbury 's Selwyn River nevertheless still yields many a good fish, with brown trout weighing up to nine pounds or more not uncommon. I have been told many stories by older anglers of the countless evenings – and whole nights – they spent fishing the lower Selwyn. A good number of Canterbury anglers would descend upon the lower reaches on a Friday night after work and would not cease fishing, in many cases, until the sun began to rise on Saturday morning! Such was the allure and productivity of this water. Many built holiday batches (or cribs) at Selwyn Huts and Lower Selwyn Huts in order that a degree of comfort might accompany their fishing. Prior to about 1930, the entire 90-kilometre length of the Selwyn River flowed above ground. Nowadays, a 30 kilometre stretch, between Coalgate and Boyles Ford, flows below ground only, over the summer months. The reduction of above ground flow to nil during the greater part of the year results from the terrain below Coalgate being more porous. This condition continues until a few kilometres above Chamberlains Ford (Chamberlains Lure) where the river resumes its normal flow. This drying up of the Selwyn below Coalgate has, as you might imagine, not helped the fishery. Fish salvage operations were frequently carried out in the pools left high-and-dry, though many trout from fingerlings to mature fish are lost each year. Lower Selwyn River Trout Fishing Access MAP.
Mark Ho with a huge sea-run brown trout he caught from the Selwyn River on 8 November 2012. It tipped the scales at 10 pounds. Mark caught it just on dark with a black and gold Toby. Click on picture to enlarge.
Some of the anglers who fished the Selwyn mouth during the 20s and 30s developed their own lure patterns. The best known of these "Canterbury Lures" is the Hope's Silvery. David Hope was, in the late 1920s, curator of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society (now the North Canterbury Fish and Game Council). Hope studied the life history of inanga (whitebait) and the role of whitebait as a trout food. This work no doubt providing him with many good ideas for his trout flies, which were in effect whitebait or silvery imitations. His Hope's series of flies are still extremely popular today and are sold by all the leading Canterbury fishing tackle stores. The same lures used so successfully on the big trout of the Selwyn River and Lake Ellesmere are used with equal success on nearby Rakaia River sea-run brown trout. Other anglers around this time also developed their own lures. The patterns they came up with are still fished in Canterbury. In fact, many successful Canterbury lures are now used to good effect throughout the country. Other Canterbury lure patterns include Red Shadow, Harts Creek (named after the small stream of that name which also enters Lake Ellesmere ), Yellow Terror, Red Terror, Brunton, Christie, Wooster's Silvery, and others. Most of these Canterbury patterns are relatively bulky affairs often made with wider hen feathers. Perhaps this was intended to give the Selwyn River brownies every chance of seeing them should the water be at all discoloured. Fishing for trout with live bullies has long been a popular and successful method in the relatively slowing moving water of the Selwyn's lower reaches. I know many frown upon bait fishing but it is a perfectly legitimate means of fishing. The stomachs of trout caught in the Selwyn, and Lake Ellesmere, are often found to contain large numbers of bullies and silveries. So these small fish obviously form an important part of the trout's diet. The deep, slow-moving, murky water in the lower Selwyn is ideally suited to bully fishing. The usual method is to lip-hook the bully and cast it out upstream to drift along with the current. No float is needed unless fishing with spinning gear. The idea is to use no weight, or as little as possible, to allow the bully to be presented naturally to the trout. After the bully has drifted down and into the bank, it is retrieved and the upstream cast repeated. As stated, there can be big fish in the Selwyn; some of the sea-run browns can reach double figures. This makes extremely light tackle inadvisable. Should a big fish head downstream thick willows and other bank vegetation make following it an impossibility? Many regard the Selwyn mouth as fishing best at night. Under cover of darkness, brownies move from Lake Ellesmere and enter the Selwyn chasing bullies and silveries. Easy access to the banks of the Selwyn adds to the ease of fishing there at night. In many places, you can park your car and climb just a few metres over the stopbank to be fishing a good spot. Only a few miles upstream are Coe's Ford and Chamberlain's Ford. These have been favoured picnic spots for day trippers and anglers alike. They were perhaps the best fishing stretches of the river during its heydey. All methods are appropriate here including dry fly, wet fly and lures (streamers). My choice of spinning hardware would be a small black and orange ticer or black and gold Toby. Veltics and Mepps are also popular. Their spinning blades creating more life when fished in the slow-moving brackish water near the mouth. Lake Ellesmere, like its nearby neighbour Lake Forsyth, is periodically opened to the sea when flooding of bordering farmland becomes a problem. On several occasions in recent years, such flooding has turned the area around the Lower Selwyn Huts into a miniature " Venice of the South," albeit perhaps with not quite so picturesque results. A boat can, on such occasions, be a handy asset for checking the mailbox! "The last three miles of the Selwyn River, in Canterbury, are very deep, and with scarcely any current, just enough to keep the bait moving, and this is the favourite haunt of the all-night angler. Up till last year, probably not less than a tonne weight of trout was annually taken out of these last three miles of water, the supply of fish being constantly kept up from Lake Ellesmere." The previous paragraph is an excerpt from Trout Fishing in New Zealand – Where to go and how to catch them – by W.H. Spackman, published in 1892. Mr William Spackman was writing about night fishing in the lower Selwyn River in the years around 1890-1891. The fishing method under discussion being live-baiting with lip-hooked bullies and smelt. Give the lower reaches of the Selwyn River a try. There are still some very big brown trout lurking there. You can also experience the chance to relive a little of Canterbury 's early angling history! See also Night Fishing the Rivers that Flow into Lake Ellesmere with Keith Chin.


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Former Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles Seeks to Put Longstanding Lawsuit to Rest
Mark Karpeles, the former CEO of the now-defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, is seeking to put an end to litigation filed by a former exchange user back in 2014.
Mark Karpeles, the former CEO of the now-defunct Bitcoin (BTC) exchange Mt. Gox, is seeking to put an end to litigation filed by a former exchange user back in 2014.
In papers filed in a Chicago federal court on Jan. 8, Karpeles contended that he is entitled to summary judgment as the main plaintiff in the case as Gregory Greene readily admitted that his initial claims were either untrue or unsupported.
A summary judgment can be awarded by a court on behalf of one party against another "summarily" - i.e. without the process of a full trial. It is typically pursued when the moving party believes there to be "no genuine issue as to any material fact" and they are thus entitled to the judgment as a matter of law. In their introduction to the filing, Karpeles' lawyers argue that:
"After the resolution of the claims against the other defendants in mid-2018, rather than withdrawing claims based on allegations that Mr. Greene readily admitted in subsequent discovery were not true or unsupported, Mr. Greene doggedly pursued these claims. The time has come to end this litigation in its entirety."
Conversion, negligence and consumer fraud claims
Karpeles is seeking that summary judgment be granted in his favor on three counts: conversion, negligence and consumer fraud. As regards the first, Karpeles argues that there is no evidence to support Mr. Greene's claim that Mr. Karpeles converted his, or any other user's, Bitcoin or fiat currency custodied on Mt. Gox.
To recover for conversion under Illinois law, the plaintiff must prove that the defendant has either wrongfully or without authorization "assumed control, dominion, or ownership over the property."
On the second count, negligence, Karpeles contends that Greene lacks evidence to support his claim that Mt. Gox lacked adequate safety procedures to manage the Bitcoin it custodied.
Moreover, on a purely legal basis, the former CEO contends that Greene has failed to establish "a duty of reasonable care" owed to him that would be recognized under Illinois law. This alone, per Karpeles' lawyers, is enough to warrant a summary judgment on this count:
"Where there is an absence of Illinois law recognizing a particular duty, the Court 'generally choose[s] the narrow interpretation which restricts liability, rather than the more expansive interpretation which creates substantially more liability.'"
Karpeles further argues that Illinois' economic loss doctrine bars Greene's negligence claim, which he claims rests on an allegation of a purely pecuniary injury.
In a lengthy review of the multiple points made in Greene's original testimony, Karpeles has lastly claimed he is due a summary judgment for the third count, consumer fraud, on the basis that Green's account ostensibly contradicts itself and is unfounded.
Past battles
As Cointelegraph reported in December 2018, Karpeles pleaded not guilty to prosecutors' charges of allegedly embezzling approximately 340 million yen (around $3 million) from Mt. Gox and manipulating the exchange's ledgers to inflate its cash balance.
In March 2019, the former CEO was acquitted of embezzlement charges but found guilty of tampering with financial records. Specifically, he was charged with having combined his personal finances with those of the exchange in order to conceal the platform's losses to hackers. The erstwhile CEO has since appealed this conviction as well.


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Ammunition is of the separate loading type, with a total of four projectiles and charges being carried for immediate use. The remainder of the ammunition load is carried by another vehicle, usually a truck. The standard HE round, designated the ZOF 43, weighs 43 kg with a maximum muzzle velocity of 960 m/s and a maximum range of 37.5 km.
In addition to the HE projectile other types of projectile can reportedly be fired including concrete-piercing, tactical nuclear and possibly chemical.


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