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by Tracy Renck Fri, 2019-06-21 20:33
Pro Stock Motorcycle pilot Michael Ray has no misconceptions about what he's trying to accomplish when he competes at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals June 21-23, in Norwalk, Ohio.
"It's like 100 percent R&D test mode for Matt (Smith) and MSR (Matt Smith Racing)," Ray said. "I'm entered for the next seven or eight events. If someone goes out there and they may a mistake and I drive good enough and things happen, I'm sure Matt isn't going to turn down the chance of having four bikes go rounds on Sunday."
Matt Smith, the reigning Pro Stock Motorcycle world champion, is riding an Erik Buell Racing motorcycle, Matt's wife, Angie also is on an EBR motorcycle, and Scotty Pollacheck is driving the third EBR motorcycle and Ray is aboard the Victory Magnum motorcycle that Matt Smith used to ride.
"Matt and I have been friends/competitors for almost 10 years now," Ray said. "I checked in on him over the winter and he voiced that he needed some help with the third bike with Scotty Pollacheck coming back onboard fulltime. I really didn't have anything fulltime and my business here at home (Sludge Net Solids & Fluids, trucking company in San Antonio) is doing pretty well. I sent him and email back and said I'm interested in the position, here's what I need as an employee and if it works for you as the employer, I would like the job. He called me back and said, 'If you're serious, I would love to have you.' I said yes. I'm 100 percent dedicated to it."
Ray's full responsibilities at Matt Smith Racing are taking care of Pollacheck's motorcycle – all the maintenance during the race.
"I'm the crew guy per se on his bike at the races," Ray said. "We started in Orlando (Fla.) two weeks before Gainesville and it has been my job for him all season. I love working with Matt. I have always had huge respect for the guys taking care of the motorcycles going up and down the race track. I feel that's the most important job on the team. I'm all about learning new things and having new challenges. Once I started checking goals off my list, I started creating new goals. I talked to my team here at my work and my work gave me the blessing and so did my wife, so I jumped back in and it is almost to me more fun than riding. For a crew guy, that 6 seconds is almost more anxiety than the two hours in between rounds putting everything back together and making sure it is done right."
On the driving side, Ray made his season debut at the Route 66 NHRA Nationals in Chicago May 30-June 2.
"I competed in Chicago and made the two qualifying runs," Ray said. "There were only 15 bikes there, so I kind of lucked into the field. I really didn't make any solid runs. I'm still getting up to speed and we are still learning a lot of the new parts and pieces on the bike. This weekend will be my second event entered and trying to make the quick 16 for Sunday."
Ray said there's a clear purpose for him riding the fourth MSR motorcycle.
"NHRA made available through rules a new fuel-injection software system," Ray said. "Matt is one of the first ones to have it and ultimately this is going to be the fuel injection of the future for the class. It is really taken over in other motorcycle drag racing sanctions so to be the first team in NHRA, I believe we are, to have it out there is a big thing. Matt is just using it as an inexpensive way to go testing. NHRA approved it in Charlotte (N.C., in April) and after Charlotte we started getting all the parts and pieces together to get it built and we wired it in Richmond (Va.) in the pits and we did a burnout on it Monday morning before Chicago. Matt said if I call you before noon you're entered if I don't call you don't worry because it means it didn't work. My phone was velcroed to my hand and as soon as I saw his name pop up, I was tickled to death."
Ray took a moment to describe what it was like to ride the new-look bike in Chicago.
"It had fuel-injection on it before, so it wasn't like we were going completely in the dark, but it was all new," Ray said. "My best comparison is like going from an original iPhone to getting an iPhone X. It is essentially the same theory, but the features are so much more advanced with the new stuff. To say that we learned a lot is an understatement. We made three attempts down the track and gained a lot of data in three attempts. It is going to show a lot of promise and I'm really humbled that Matt invited me to do this for him. He is a h*ll of a driver and a great team owner."
Ray competed in NHRA's Pro Stock Motorcycle class – part-time and full-time – from 2011 to 2016. He was full time in the class from 2012-14. He has three career national event wins – Dallas (2012) and Englishtown, N.J., and Chicago both in 2013 – and finished a career-best second in the points standings in 2013 to world champion Matt Smith, his boss now. Ray also was sixth in points in 2012 and 10th in 2014.
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# Schema

### Attributes

* [additionalProperties](#additionalProperties)
* [dependencies](#dependencies)
* [description](#description)
* [divisibleBy](#divisibleBy)
* [enum](#enum)
* [except](#except)
* [exclusiveMinimum](#exclusiveMinimum)
* [exclusiveMaximum](#exclusiveMaximum)
* [format](#format)
* [length](#length)
* [maximum](#maximum)
* [maxItems](#maxItems)
* [maxLength](#maxLength)
* [minimum](#minimum)
* [minItems](#minItems)
* [minLength](#minLength)
* [pattern](#pattern)
* [patternProperties](#patternProperties)
* [required](#required)
* [title](#title)
* [type](#type)
* [uniqueItems](#uniqueItems)

## AdditionalProperties

**Description**

This attribute defines a schema for all properties that are not explicitly defined in an object type definition. If specified, the value must be a schema or a boolean. If false is provided, no additional properties are allowed beyond the properties defined in the schema. The default value is an empty schema which allows any value for additional properties.

**Example**

```javascript
/**
 * Schema
 */
var schema = {
  type: 'object',
  additionalProperties: 'false',
  properties: {
    name: {
      type: 'string'
    },
    surname: {
      type: 'string'
    }
  }
};
```

## Dependencies

**Description**

This attribute is an object that defines the requirements of a property on an instance object.  If an object instance has a property with the same name as a property in this attribute's object, then the instance must be valid against the attribute's property value (hereafter referred to as the "dependency value").

The dependency value can take one of two forms:

* **Simple Dependency**

    If the dependency value is a string, then the instance object MUST have a property with the same name as the dependency value.  If the dependency value is an array of strings, then the instance object MUST have a property with the same name as each string in the dependency value's array.

* **Schema Dependency**

    If the dependency value is a schema, then the instance object MUST be valid against the schema.

## Description

**Description**

This attribute is a string that provides a full description of the of purpose the instance property.

## DivisibleBy

**Description**

This attribute defines what value the number instance must be divisible by with no remainder (the result of the division must be an integer).

**Examples**

```javascript
var schema = {
  type: 'number',
  divisibleBy: 2
};
```

## Enum

**Description**

This provides an enumeration of all possible values that are valid for the instance property. This must be an array, and each item in the array represents a possible value for the instance value.

**Example**

```javascript
var schema = {
  type: 'object',
  properties: {
    sex: {
      type: 'string',
      enum: ['female', 'male']
    }
  }
};
```

## Except

**Example**

```javascript
var schema = {
  type: 'object',
  properties: {
    username: {
      type: 'string',
      except: ['admin', 'administrator']
    }
  }
};
```

## ExclusiveMinimum

**Description**

This attribute indicates if the value of the instance (if the instance is a number) can not equal the number defined by the [minimum](#minimum) attribute. This is false by default, meaning the instance value can be greater then or equal to the minimum value.

**Example**

```javascript
var schema = {
  type: 'number',
  minimum: 100,
  exclusiveMinimum: true
};
```

## ExclusiveMaximum

**Description**

This attribute indicates if the value of the instance (if the instance is a number) can not equal the number defined by the [maximum](#maximum) attribute.  This is false by default, meaning the instance value can be less then or equal to the maximum value.

**Example**

```javascript
var schema = {
  type: 'number',
  maximum: 100,
  exclusiveMaximum: true
};
```

## Format

**Description**

**Example**

```javascript
var schema = {
  type: 'string',
  format: 'email'
};
```

## Length

**Description**

When the instance value is a string, this defines the length of the string.

**Example**

```javascript
{
  type: 'string',
  length: 5
}
```

## Maximum

**Description**

This attribute defines the maximum value of the instance property when the type of the instance value is a number.

**Example**

```javascript
var schema = {
  type: 'number',
  maximum: 100
};
```

## MaxItems

**Description**

This attribute defines the maximum number of values in an array when the array is the instance value.

**Example**

```javascript
var schema = {
  type: 'array',
  maxItems: 10
};
```

## MaxLength

**Description**

When the instance value is a string, this defines the maximum length of the string.

**Example**

```javascript
{
  type: 'string',
  maxLength: 45
}
```

## Minimum

**Description**

This attribute defines the minimum value of the instance property when the type of the instance value is a number.

**Examples**

```javascript
var schema = {
  type: 'number',
  minimum: 100
};
```

## MinItems

**Description**

This attribute defines the minimum number of values in an array when the array is the instance value.

**Examples**

```javascript
var schema = {
  type: 'array',
  minItems: 10
};
```

## MinLength

**Description**

When the instance value is a string, this defines the minimum length of the string.

**Example**

```javascript
{
  type: 'string',
  minLength: 10
}
```

## Pattern

**Description**

When the instance value is a string, this provides a regular expression that a string instance must match in order to be valid.

**Examples**

```javascript
var schema = {
  type: 'string',
  pattern: /^[a]{2,4}$/
};
```

## PatternProperties

## Required

**Description**

This attribute indicates if the instance must have a value, and not be undefined. This is `false` by default, making the instance optional.

**Examples**

```javascript
var schema = {
  type: 'object',
  properties: {
    username: {
      required: true
    }
  }
};
```

## Title

## Type

**Description**

This attribute defines what the primitive type or the schema of the instance must be in order to validate. A string indicating a primitive or simple type. The following are acceptable string values:

* `string` Value must be a string.
* `number` Value must be a number, floating point numbers are allowed.
* `integer` Value MUST be an integer, no floating point numbers are allowed. This is a subset of the number type.
* `boolean` Value must be a boolean.
* `object` Value must be an object.
* `array` Value must be an array.
* `function` Value must be a function.

**Examples**

```javascript
var schema = {
  type: 'object',
  properties: {
    username: {
      // ...
    }
  }
};
```

```javascript
var schema = {
  type: 'array',
  items: {
    // ...
  }
};
```

```javascript
var schema = {
  type: 'string'
};
```

## UniqueItems

**Description**

This attribute indicates that all items in an array instance must be unique (contains no two identical values).

**Example**

```javascript
var schema = {
  type: 'array',
  uniqueItems: true
};
```

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Q: Calling variables from one function into another I looked up similar questions but I still don't understand how to call values from string to propagate. When I try to run propagate I get an error that c isn't defined. I am assuming the same is true for delta t and x it's just that the error triggers on the first undefined variable it comes across.
def string(T, mu, length):

#legnth is just the number of elements in the array that represents the
#string, the strings length is 1m
delta_x = 1 / length
#c is the speed of the wave in the string
c = (T / mu) ** (0.5)
delta_t = delta_x / c

string_v = np.zeros((3,length))
return(string_v, delta_x, delta_t, c)

What do I have to do to allow the variables to be called in the next function?
def propagate(A, omega):

t = 0
r = c * delta_t / delta_x
string_v[0,0] = string_v[1,0] = A*np.sin(omega*t)
while t < 100:

    for i in range(len(length)):
        string_v[2,i] = 2 *(1 - r**2)*string_v[1,i] - string_v[0,i] + r**2(string_v[1,i+1] + string_v[1,i-1])

    for i in range(len(length)):
        string_v[1,i] = string_v[0,i]
        string_v[2,i] = string_v[1,i]

    t = t + delta_t
return(string_v)

A: Edit: You might be able to use some kind of function overloading. This answer's example is better than mine: Overloaded functions in python?
A class is not necessary nor would it be appropriate:

The purpose of a class is to bundle a data structure which represents
  some logical entity with the operations that work with this data
  structure.

Ref: [Tutor] When to use a Class or just define functions?
You're not working with objects or any entities with properties or data structures. As for as I can tell, you're doing calculations on "data". Just pass parameters when you need to use them:
def string(T, mu, length):

    #legnth is just the number of elements in the array that represents the
    #string, the strings length is 1m
    delta_x = 1 / length
    #c is the speed of the wave in the string
    c = (T / mu) ** (0.5)
    delta_t = delta_x / c

    prop_1 = propagate(A=5, omega=6)
    prop_2 = propagate(A=7, omega=8, c=9, delta_t=10, delta_x=11)

    return prop_1, prop_2

def propagate(A, omega, c=None, delta_t=None, delta_x=None):

    # check is any of these variables are not passed into this function
    if not all([c, delta_t, delta_x]):
        answer_a = 'c, delta_t and delta_x not used'
    # otherwise, all variables were passed in
    else:
        answer_a = 'all variables used'

    return answer_a

print string(T=1.1, mu=1.1, length=1)

output:
('c, delta_t and delta_x not used', 'all variables used')

A: You can either pass variables as parameters from one function to another or you can make the required variables global.

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Die Bahnstrecke Babanusa–Wau ist eine kapspurige Eisenbahnverbindung zwischen Sudan und Südsudan. Die Strecke zweigt in Babanusa von der Hauptstrecke Khartum–Nyala ab und führt nach Wau. Mit der Sezession des Südsudan zum 9. Juli 2011 fiel der südliche Teil der Strecke, 248 km, an den neuen Staat.

Geschichte

Die 445 km lange Strecke wurde von der Sudanesischen Eisenbahn zwischen 1958 und 1962 erbaut. Sie wurde in einer Zeit errichtet, als die Eisenbahn im landgebundenen Fernverkehr des Sudan nahezu noch ein Monopol innehatte. Der erste Abschnitt bis Al Muglad ging am 30. April 1959 in Betrieb. Im Februar 1962 war die Strecke durchgängig bis Wau für Güterzüge befahrbar. Der Personenverkehr wurde am 17. März 1962 aufgenommen. Die Fahrzeit von Khartum bis Wau betrug etwa sechs Tage. Der Betrieb musste im Sommer wegen Überflutung hin und wieder eingestellt werden.

Der Personenverkehr wurde aufgrund des Sezessionskriegs des Südsudan bereits 1986 wieder eingestellt. Der verbleibende Zugverkehr der folgenden Jahre diente ausschließlich dem Transport von Rüstungsgütern in die von der Armee des Sudan gehaltene Stadt Wau. Im weiteren Verlauf des Krieges wurde die Bahnverbindung zerstört.

Eine Untersuchung 2004 ergab, dass insgesamt 140 Kilometer Schienen und zwei Brücken fehlen. Eine Wiederherstellung schien zunächst nicht möglich. Mit Hilfe von UN-Mitteln wurde die Strecke jedoch wieder aufgebaut. Minenräumorganisationen begannen nach dem Ende des Bürgerkriegs die Trasse von Minen und Blindgängern zu räumen. Dabei legten sie mit Räumfahrzeugen zunächst einen 8 bis 25 Meter breiten Korridor an. Auf der wiederhergestellten Bahnstrecke im Südsudan erreichte im September 2009 ein von Babanusa kommender Zug Aweil. Im März 2010 war die gesamte Strecke wieder durchgängig befahrbar.  Der erste in Wau ankommende Güterzug wurde vom sudanesischen Staatschef Omar al-Baschir und dem südsudanesischen Präsidenten Salva Kiir Mayardit empfangen.

Ob die Strecke seit dem 9. Juli 2011 noch befahren und wie deren Betrieb organisiert wird, ist nicht bekannt.

Literatur

 Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas and Historical Summary 7 = North, East and Central Africa.o.O. 2009, S. 67ff u. Tafel 38. ISBN 978-954-92184-3-5

Einzelnachweise

Schienenverkehr (Südsudan)
Internationale Bahnstrecke
Bahnstrecke im Sudan
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OPINION [1701032] filed (Pages: 12) for the Court by Judge Williams. [16-1097]
USCA Case #16-1097 Document #1701032 Filed: 10/24/2017 United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT Argued September 19, 2017 Decided October 24, 2017 No. 16-1097 SIERRA CLUB, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY AND E. SCOTT PRUITT, ADMINISTRATOR, U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, RESPONDENTS On Petition for Review of Agency Action of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Robert E. Yuhnke argued the cause and filed the briefs for petitioners. Meghan E. Greenfield, Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for respondents. With her on the briefs were Jeffrey H. Wood, Acting Assistant Attorney General, and John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General at the time the brief was filed. Sue S. Chen, Trial Attorney, entered an appearance. Before: HENDERSON and GRIFFITH, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge. 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For want of jurisdiction we do not reach the substance of either the APA or the Clean Air Act arguments. In the case of PM2.5, petitioners have shown no instance where the change would be likely to have any adverse effect on them or their members; they therefore lack standing. In the case of PM10, the EPA's new provisions are not binding on the agency or affected parties and therefore do not constitute "final action" within the meaning of the Clean Air Act provision on which petitioners rely for our jurisdiction, 42 U.S.C. § 7607(b)(1). * * * Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA has established National Ambient Air Quality Standards ("NAAQS") for various pollutants including PM2.5 and PM10. To prevent uses of federal money that would take an area out of compliance with the NAAQS, the Act bars federal instrumentalities from supporting projects that would tend to do so. 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See Determining Conformity of General Federal Actions to State or Federal Implementation Plans, 58 Fed. Reg. 63,214 (Nov. 30, 1993).) To define the conformity requirement's scope, the regulations employ the Act's classifications of areas with respect to "attainment" of the standard for a particular pollutant. Under the Act, an area of a state that fails to comply with a given NAAQS is rated "nonattainment"; one that formerly did not comply but now does, but has yet to satisfy some transitional criteria, is designated "maintenance." An area is in "attainment" if it not only meets the standard but is not subject to the qualifications that would land the area in the "maintenance" category. 42 U.S.C. § 7407(d)(1)(A)(i)-(ii), (3)(E). The regulation applies Page 3 of 12 USCA Case #16-1097 Document #1701032 Filed: 10/24/2017 4 conformity requirements only to areas designated "nonattainment" or "maintenance." 40 C.F.R. § 93.116(a). Congress charged the EPA Administrator, with the concurrence of the Secretary of Transportation, with promulgating "criteria and procedures for demonstrating and assuring conformity in the case of transportation plans, programs, and projects." 42 U.S.C. § 7506(c)(4)(B). For CO and PM, the EPA created a so-called "hot-spot" analysis. It specified that project sponsors (typically state departments of transportation) should combine the baseline concentration with the expected increment resulting from the project, and compare the sum with the concentration permitted by the NAAQS. 40 C.F.R. § 93.123(c)(1); see also 75 Fed. Reg. 79,370, 79,370/3-79,371/1. In 2006, when the EPA first revised the hot-spot regulations to apply to PM2.5, the regulations said that the hotspot analysis "must be based on quantitative analysis methods" for projects of local air quality concern, including "[n]ew highway projects that have a significant number of diesel vehicles, and expanded highway projects that have a significant increase in the number of diesel vehicles." 40 C.F.R. § 93.123(b)(1), (b)(1)(i). But they also said that quantitative methods would not take effect "until EPA release[d] modeling guidance on this subject and announce[d] in the Federal Register that these requirements are in effect." 40 C.F.R. § 93.123(b)(4). Until then, rather vaguely described "qualitative" methods were to prevail. In fact, and of some importance for our analysis, the mandate to use quantitative methods took effect only after a two-year grace period following the EPA's issuance of the preferred methodology in December 2010. See 40 C.F.R. § 93.111(a)-(b); 75 Fed. Reg. at 79,370/2. Page 4 of 12 USCA Case #16-1097 Document #1701032 Filed: 10/24/2017 5 The EPA issued that guidance after employing notice and comment procedures specified by a settlement with environmental groups. See 75 Fed. Reg. 29,537, 29,538/1; see also Joint Appendix ("J.A.") 299-302. It announced the release in the Federal Register. See 75 Fed. Reg. at 79,370/2. The Guidance essentially required a summing of monitored PM on a specified extreme day (for the baseline) with the modeled PM increment for a specified extreme day (for the future). See Transportation Conformity Guidance for Quantitative Hot-spot Analyses in PM2.5 and PM10 Nonattainment and Maintenance Areas (EPA-420-B-10-040, Dec. 2010) ("2010 Guidance"), available at nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPURL.cgi?Dockey=P1009HVH.TXT. (In some cases, the baseline was to be adjusted by an estimate of possible changes independent of the project. See 40 C.F.R. § 93.123(c)(2); 2010 Guidance at § 8.3.3.) If the total (called the design value) was lower than the NAAQS, the project conformed. The rules for PM2.5 and PM10 differed simply in their identification of the extreme days to be evaluated. The 2015 Guidance—issued as we said without notice and comment—expressed an alteration of the EPA's view of the proper methodology for the design value for both PM2.5 and PM10. Given that we are not reaching the merits, and that all parties agree that at the margin the alteration tends to reduce the likelihood of a non-conformity finding, we need not describe the change. It essentially involved altering the designation of the extreme days for which the calculations were to be made. See Transportation Conformity Guidance for Quantitative Hot-spot Analyses in PM2.5 and PM10 Nonattainment and Maintenance Areas (EPA-420-B-15-084, Nov. 2015) ("2015 Guidance"), available at nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=P100NMXM.pdf. In both 2010 and 2015, the guidance documents further explained that, pursuant to 40 C.F.R. § 93.105(c), an Page 5 of 12 USCA Case #16-1097 Document #1701032 Filed: 10/24/2017 6 interagency consultation process "must be used to develop a process to evaluate and choose models and associated methods and assumptions to be used in PM hot-spot analyses." 2015 Guidance, § 2.3; 2010 Guidance, § 2.3. This consultation process requires that the state department of transportation sponsoring a project work with the EPA, the Department of Transportation, and relevant state agencies during the design and implementation of the hot-spot analysis. After the state department of transportation completes its analysis, it submits it to the Department of Transportation for a final conformity determination. 40 C.F.R. § 93.104; 2015 Guidance, § 2.9.2. * * * We find that petitioners lack standing to challenge the 2015 Guidance regarding PM2.5, and that we have no statutory jurisdiction under 42 U.S.C. § 7607(b)(1) to rule on their PM10 claim because the 2015 Guidance imposes no binding norm. PM2.5. The environmental organizations assert standing on the basis of the additional exposure to pollutants that they believe the change from the 2010 to the 2015 Guidance will inflict on their members. See Nat'l Envtl. Dev. Ass'n's Clean Air Project v. EPA, 752 F.3d 999, 1005 (D.C. Cir. 2014). Specifically, they point to possible effects on the legal viability of three highway projects—I-70 East in Colorado, South Mountain Freeway in Arizona, and I-710 in California. Their difficulty lies in their having failed to adduce evidence that the change will have any effect on any of the projects. See Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555, 560–561 (1992); Sierra Club v. EPA, 292 F.3d 895, 898 (D.C. Cir. 2002). Page 6 of 12 USCA Case #16-1097 Document #1701032 Filed: 10/24/2017 7 The first two—I-70 East in Colorado and South Mountain Freeway in Arizona—are not located in a nonattainment or maintenance area for PM2.5, so for these projects the regulations require no PM2.5 hot-spot analysis. That ends the matter as to those projects. The third project, I-710 in California, is within a nonattainment zone for PM2.5. But petitioners have made no showing that the 2015 methodology will be used by the I-710 project sponsors or that applying that methodology would make any difference. The only evidence in the record with regard to the I-710 project's conformity analysis is a 2012 draft Environmental Impact Study ("EIS"). J.A. 245-58. That study was not based on either the 2015 or the 2010 methodology: It was drafted in the two-year grace period between the EPA's release of guidance for use of quantitative methods and the date on which their use became obligatory. See 40 C.F.R. §§ 93.111(b), 93.123(b)(4); J.A. 257. And it obviously preceded release of the 2015 Guidance—in fact by more than three years. A supplemental draft EIS was released for the I-710 project in July 2017. Even if this post-filing development could alter our standing analysis, see Wheaton College v. Sebelius, 703 F.3d 551, 552 (D.C. Cir. 2012) ("[S]tanding is assessed at the time of filing . . . ."), it too would be of no help to petitioners. The supplemental draft EIS explains that no quantitative hot-spot analysis has yet been conducted for PM2.5 and that the I-710 project sponsors are in the process of developing the methodology they will use: "The PM hotspot analysis protocol is under development, and the interagency consultation process regarding this protocol has been initiated." See California State Department of Transportation & Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority, I-710 Corridor Project Recirculated Draft Environmental Impact Report/Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement Page 7 of 12 USCA Case #16-1097 Document #1701032 Filed: 10/24/2017 8 and Section 4(f) Evaluation, p. 3.13-15, available at http://www.dot.ca.gov/d7/env-docs/docs/RDEIR_SDEIS% 20July%202017.pdf. But nothing appears to suggest that the project will fall in that critical margin between the 2010 and the 2015 methods. Thus petitioners have failed to establish that the 2015 PM2.5 methodology will be used or that its use would result in a conformity determination different from the one that would have resulted if the 2010 methodology had applied—the latter a point counsel for petitioners conceded at oral argument. Oral Argument 7:30-7:47. The government concedes that petitioners have established injury for purposes of standing to challenge the revised PM10 hot-spot methodology. Oral Argument 21:3022:06. We have no reason to doubt the concession, but we need not address the question in view of our lack of statutory jurisdiction over the PM10 claims. See Ruhrgas AG v. Marathon Oil Co., 526 U.S. 574, 585 (1999) ("[A] federal court [may] choose among threshold grounds for denying audience to a case on the merits."). Even if we were to find that petitioners have standing to challenge the PM10 provisions, that finding would not create standing to challenge those for PM2.5. Standing is not evaluated "in gross." Lewis v. Casey, 518 U.S. 343, 358 n.6 (1996); see also Davis v. FEC, 554 U.S. 724, 733–34 (2008); DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno, 547 U.S. 332, 352 (2006). Because petitioners have not identified "any concrete application" of the 2015 PM2.5 methodology "that threatens imminent and concrete harm to the interests of their members," see Summers v. Earth Island Inst., 555 U.S. 488, 494-95 (2009), we hold that they lack standing as to that aspect of the 2015 Guidance. Page 8 of 12 USCA Case #16-1097 Document #1701032 Filed: 10/24/2017 9 PM10. Under the Clean Air Act, this Court has jurisdiction over a petition for review of any "nationally applicable regulations promulgated, or final action taken, by the Administrator under this chapter . . . ." 42 U.S.C. § 7607(b)(1) (emphasis added). In the absence of final agency action, we lack jurisdiction to hear an administrative challenge. Dalton Trucking, Inc. v. EPA, 808 F.3d 875, 879 (D.C. Cir. 2015); Portland Cement Ass'n v. EPA, 665 F.3d 177, 193 (D.C. Cir. 2011). In a case under the Clean Air Act, "the term 'final action' is synonymous with the term 'final agency action' as used in Section 704 of the APA." Indep. Equip. Dealers Ass'n v. EPA, 372 F.3d 420, 428 (D.C. Cir. 2004). For a purported guidance document, the basic question is "whether the challenged agency action is best understood as a non-binding action, like a policy statement or interpretive rule, or a binding legislative rule." Ass'n of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO v. Huerta, 785 F.3d 710, 716 (D.C. Cir. 2015). "Policy statements 'are binding on neither the public nor the agency,' and the agency 'retains the discretion and the authority to change its position . . . in any specific case.'" Id. (quoting Syncor Int'l Corp. v. Shalala, 127 F.3d 90, 94 (D.C. Cir. 1997)). In resolving the issue, we typically consider (1) "the actual legal effect (or lack thereof) of the agency action in question on regulated entities"; (2) "the agency's characterization of the guidance"; and (3) "whether the agency has applied the guidance as if it were binding on regulated parties." Nat'l Mining Ass'n v. McCarthy, 758 F.3d 243, 252-53 (D.C. Cir. 2014). In their claim that the change in the PM10 methodology is binding on project sponsors and on the relevant agencies, Page 9 of 12 USCA Case #16-1097 Document #1701032 Filed: 10/24/2017 10 petitioners disregard both the plain language of the Guidance and the way it has been administered. In both 2010 and 2015, the EPA explained that the recommended PM10 methodology was just that—a recommendation. The Guidance explicitly states that the EPA was open to considering better, alternative methods: More advanced methods of calculating a PM10 design value, such as combining modeled and monitored concentrations on a quarterly basis, may be considered on a case-by-case basis by the EPA Regional Office, OTAQ [Office of Transportation Air Quality], and OAQPS [Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards]. Any alternative methods for calculating PM10 design values must be evaluated and chosen through the process established by each area's interagency consultation procedures (40 C.F.R. § 93.105(c)(1)(i)). 2015 Guidance, § 9.3.4; 2010 Guidance, § 9.3.4. Contrary to petitioners' assertions, this is not a case in which the guidance document signals that the agency "will not be open to considering approaches other than those prescribed" therein. See Gen. Elec. Co. v. EPA, 290 F.3d 377, 384 (D.C. Cir. 2002); see also McLouth Steel Prod. Corp. v. Thomas, 838 F.2d 1317, 1321 (D.C. Cir. 1988). We said of the guidance at issue in Appalachian Power Co. v. EPA, 208 F.3d 1015 (D.C. Cir. 2000), that "from beginning to end . . . [it] reads like a ukase. It commands, it requires, it orders, it dictates." Id. at 1023. This is no ukase. As the quoted passage shows, it affirmatively invites the affected agencies to consider and apply improvements. The EPA's vow to remain flexible was not just talk, as shown by its conduct under identical language in the 2010 Page 10 of 12 USCA Case #16-1097 Document #1701032 Filed: 10/24/2017 11 Guidance. In August 2014, as part of the interagency consultation process, the EPA and the project sponsors for the I-70 East and South Mountain Freeway projects discussed how to properly perform the hot-spot analysis required by 40 C.F.R. § 93.123. See J.A. 195-97, 225-26. In two substantially contemporaneous communications with the project sponsors, the EPA explained that it had "recently provided technical assistance for another project" and that now "[a]nother option is available" for calculating the PM10 design value. J.A. 197, 227. "Based on implementation of the PM Hot-spot guidance to date," the EPA said that it "believe[d] that there is further flexibility in what air quality monitoring data is used for design value calculations for PM hot-spot analyses" and that the relevant project sponsors could adopt "a slightly revised methodology for PM10 design value calculations." J.A. 197, 227. The new possibility was ultimately to appear as the key novelty in the 2015 Guidance. On its face and as applied, the 2015 changes to the PM10 methodology are not binding. Petitioners contend that we should nonetheless find that the 2015 Guidance is a legislative rule because it purports to change another legislative rule. We agree, of course, that an amendment to a legislative rule must itself be legislative. Huerta, 785 F.3d at 718; Am. Mining Cong. v. Mine Safety & Health Admin., 995 F.2d 1106, 1109 (D.C. Cir. 1993). But petitioners are mistaken in their premise that the 2010 Guidance was itself a legislative rule. As we have just discussed, the 2010 PM10 methodology was not applied with unyielding rigidity; instead, the EPA modified its approach over time. And while the release of the Guidance in 2010 had the effect of triggering the effective date of the requirement that project sponsors use quantitative (as opposed to qualitative) methods to perform the hot-spot analysis, that consequence flowed from the issuance of the Guidance, not its substance. Page 11 of 12 USCA Case #16-1097 Document #1701032 Filed: 10/24/2017 12 Petitioners counter that the 2010 Guidance must be a legislative rule because it was promulgated with notice and comment. Even if petitioners were right that full APA procedures were used in the release of the 2010 Guidance (a point the EPA contests), an agency's decision to embrace additional process cannot convert a guidance document into a legislative rule. See Am. Tort Reform Ass'n v. OSHA, 738 F.3d 387, 394 (D.C. Cir. 2013). The EPA makes a host of guidance documents available for public comment. See Significant Guidance Documents, available at https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/significant-guidancedocuments. That doesn't transform them into legislative rules. Petitioners' theory, if adopted, would discourage agencies from pursuing the very public engagement they seek. In short, the PM10 design value methodology found in the 2015 Guidance "does not express a final agency action, and so we lack jurisdiction under the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7607(b), to consider" it. See Am. Petroleum Inst. v. EPA, 684 F.3d 1342, 1354 (D.C. Cir. 2012). * * * Because the petitioners lack standing with respect to the revised PM2.5 methodology and because we lack jurisdiction under the statute for their challenge to the revised PM10 methodology, the petition for review is Dismissed. Page 12 of 12

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Panthers TE Olsen can make $2 million in incentives
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Panthers Pro Bowl tight end Greg Olsen has restructured his contract, which could allow him to make an additional $2 million this season if he reaches certain incentives.
Agent Drew Rosenhaus said the incentives Olsen can reach include receptions, yards receiving, average yards per catch and postseason honors.
The 32-year-old Olsen was seeking a new contract from the Panthers after becoming the first tight end in NFL history to reach 1,000 yards receiving in three straight seasons. However, the team was reluctant to tear up his contract because he has two years remaining on the three-year, $22.5 million extension he signed in 2015.
The new incentives were in essence a compromise to reward Olsen for his productive play.
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Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego. Ekonomiczne Problemy Turystyki
2010 | nr 14 | 29--41
The Tourism Development Potential of a Mega Sport Event: 2010 FIFA World Cup
Bresler Nerine Cecilia
Rozwój potencjału turystycznego na przykładzie mistrzostw świata w piłce nożnej w Republice Południowej Afryki - 2010 FIFA World Cup
Możliwość organizacji wydarzenia turystycznego o skali globalnej niewątpliwie wpływa na potencjał turystyczny regionu. Właściwe wykorzystanie wydarzenia wymaga dostarczenia turystom doznań o oczekiwanej przez nich jakości, tak aby osiągnąć wzrost popytu turystycznego również po zakończeniu wydarzenia. W artykule przedstawiono porównanie potencjału turystycznego RPA dostarczanego przez sektor prywatny i publiczny na bazie badań ankietowych.(abstrakt oryginalny)
This paper will endeavour to elicit the risk of not reducing the legacy of Afropessimism from a visitor perspective. It will focus on the experience of predominantly international visitors to a comparable event in SA and their perception of the destination. In order to do so the paper is structured as follows: firstly a brief overview will be given of hosting mega events, followed by a description of the motives of event tourists, and then the challenges of delivering the desired experiences. The significance of the contribution lies in synthesizing various theories from a visitor perspective to elucidate challenges and successes in preparation for the 2010 World Cup, and in contextualising international literature. The findings can be used to iron out problems and to promote experiences that are deliverable.(fragment of text)
Turystyka Sport Potencjał rozwojowy
Tourism Sport Development potential
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
U. Davies, Managing the alchemy of the 2010 Football World Cup, in: Development and dreams: the urban legacy of the 2010 football world cup, U. Pillay, R. Tomlinson, & O. Bass (eds), HSRC Press, Cape Town 2009, pp. 33-34.
C. Deccio, S. Baloglu, Non-host community resident reactions to the 2002 Winter Olympics: the spill-over impacts, "Journal of Travel Research", No. 41.
Keller, Introductory report: World conference on sport and tourism, Barcelona 2002, World Tourism Organisation, 2001.
O'Brien, Event business leverage; the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, "Annals of Tourism Research" 2006, No. 33 (1), p. 241.
C. Lee, T. Taylor, Critical reflections of the economic impact assessment of mega-event; the case of 2002 FIFA World Cup, "Tourism Management" 2005, No. 25, pp. 596-602.
M.J. Daniels, Central place theory and sport tourism impacts, "Annals of Tourism Research" 2007, No. 34 (2), p. 335.
P. Van Meerendonk, 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa; winning strategies for revenue optimization, "Minneapolios" 2009, No. 24, p. 2.
C.M. Rogerson, Mega-events and small enterprise development: the 2010 FIFA World Cup opportunities and challenges, "Development Southern Africa" 2009, No. 26 (3), p. 337.
D. Whitelegg, Going for gold: Atlanta's bid for fame, "International Journal of Urban and Regional Research" 2000, No. 24, p. 803.
A. Smith, Reimaging the city; the value of sport initiatives, "Annals of Tourism Research" 2005, No. 32 (1), p. 227.
B. Mihalik, Host population perception of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics: support, benefits and liabilities, "Tourism Analysis" 2000, No. 5.
J.R.B. Ritchie, Assessing inthe impact of hallmark events: conceptual and research issues, "Journal of Travel Research" 1984, No. 22 (1).
H.J. Kim, D. Gursoy, S. Lee, The impact of the 2002 World Cup on South Korea: comparison of pre- and post-games, "Tourism Management" 2006, No. 27, p. 88.
Passion, pride, and profit: a survey of football, "The Economist" 30 May 2003, p. 2.
N. Kim, L. Chalip, Why travel to the FIFA World Cup? Effects of motives, background, interest, and constraints, "Tourism Management" 2003, No. 27, p. 695.
C. Lee, T. Taylor, Critical reflections of the economic impact assessment of a megaevent; the case of 2002 FIFA World Cup, "Tourism Management" 2005, No. 25, p. 599 ,601.
J.L. Crompton, S.L. McKay, Motives of visitors attending festivals and events, "Journal of Sport Management" 1997, No. 9 (1), p. 425.
Y. Yoon, M. Uysal, An examination of the effects of motivation and satisfaction on destination loyalty: a structural model, "Tourism Management" 2005, No. 26, p. 54.
B.C. Green, L. Chalip, Sport tourism as a celebration of subculture, "Annals of Tourism Research" 1998, p. 287.
J. King, Destination marketing organisations; connecting the experience rather than promoting the place, "Journal of Vacation Marketing" 2001, No. 8 (2), p. 107.
M.J. Daniels, W.C. Norman, M.S. Henry, Estimating the income effects of a sport tourism event, "Annals of Tourism Research" 2004, No. 31 (1), pp. 185- 186.
Q. Tang, D.M. Turco, Spending behaviours of event tourists, "Journal of Convention and Exhibition Management" 2001, No. 3 (2), p. 33.
A.D.A.M. Kemperman, C. Joh, H.J.P. Timmermans, Comparing first-time and repeat visitors activity patterns, "Tourism Analysis" 2003, No. 8, pp. 1-6.
G. George, Tourist's perceptions of safety and security while visiting Cape Town, "Tourism Management" 2003, p. 576, 581.
A. Williams, Tourism and hospitality marketing: fantasy, feeling and fun, "International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management" 2002, No. 18 (6), p. 493.
Ke Nako, Celebrate Africa's humanity, "2010 World Cup Update Magazine" 2009, June/July, FIFA, p. 4.
M. Saayman, E. Du Plessis, Competitiveness of South Africa as a tourist destination, "SA Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation" 2003, No. 25 (2), p. 60.
S. Jang, R. Feng, Temporal destination revisit intention: the effects of novelty seeking and satisfaction, "Tourism Management" 2007, No. 28, p. 586.


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Co-stars Rue McClanahan, left, and Betty White, right, congratulate Estelle Getty for her Emmy for best supporting actress in a comedy series for her role in "The Golden Girls" at a party following the 40th annual Emmy awards in Pasadena, Calif., Sunday, August 29, 1988. McClanahan and White won Emmy in previous years. The fourth star of the show, Beatrice Arthur, won an Emmy for best actress in a comedy series, giving all "The Golden Girls" an Emmy. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Estelle and Brian Hamilton
Al Hirschfeld drawing
Estelle Gettleman
Alicia Silverstone and Estelle
Arthur and Estelle
On the cover of PARADE
Arthur and Estelle at home
Estelle on the set of MASK
Estelle in New York, March, 1962
Estelle sailing.
Estelle, poolside bathing beauty.
Estelle in Central Park.
Cast and crew of Golden Girls
Estelle at the Friar's Club with Martin Landau.
Joyce, Estelle and Riley
Estelle, making a good impression!
Estelle and Carl at Disneyland, exiting Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.
Golden Palace cast and crew
On the set of Mask with Eric Stolz
Estelle's parents Charles and Sarah Scher
The girls in gold!
Lunchtime.
Estelle wins an Emmy at last!
Estelle and Sylvester Stallone
a Sophia doll


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Michel Colombier is Co-Founder and Scientific Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations. He monitors emerging subjects and the evolution of the scientific debate, participates in the Institute's planning process and guarantees the rigour of its work. He is also a member of the High Council on Climate and an associate professor at Sciences Po Paris.
An engineer and economist, he has developed a broad operational expertise in the field of energy and environment, maintaining a strong connection with the University teaching and research activities with University Bordeaux 1 (Science), Paris Nanterre (Economy) and Paris Saclay (Energy). He was previously Director General of ICE (International Consulting on Energy); Senior Advisor to the French Minister of Energy; Head of the "Strategy and Evaluation" Department at ADEME (French Agency for Environment and Energy); and Programme Manager at the Ministry of Environment in Portugal.
He served as a member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the GEF (Global Environment Facility) and the FFEM (Fonds Français d'Environnement Mondial – French Facility for Global Environment). He was also a negotiator in the UNFCCC process and Director of the Board of Climate Strategies (London). He is now Chairman of the Expert Committee for the Energy Transition in France.
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Citizen's Climate Convention: 149 measures for a new vision of ecological transition
Nicolas Berghmans,
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Neither euphoria nor despair: Understanding the fall and rise of global energy-related CO2 emissions
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← When superpowers reboot history
The hair of the dog. Or more precisely the tail. →
Some pundits pretend repealing Roe v. Wade is no big deal
I disagree. If you follow my blog regularly, you know that. Nevertheless, syndicated conservative columnist Kathleen Parker assures us that none of the judges want to go down in history as the ones who opened the floodgates for forced-birthers. Of course, as noted at the link, Parker also wrote in 2016 that Congress would rein in Trump's worst impulses so it wouldn't be a catastrophe if he got elected. I doubt her precognitive abilities have improved.
Ramesh Ponnuru insists that even if Roe goes the right to contraception is not in danger and there's no chance of a national abortion ban. Gay conservative Andrew Sullivan claims that gay marriage is totally different from abortion and so should be safe. It would be bad if gays couldn't marry you see, while making it possible for states to ban abortion is just fine with him.
I presume they're either clueless or trying to damp down the possibility of a pro-choice backlash in November. But plenty of politicians, including Mitch McConnell, feel confident enough to say that yes, they might ban contraception (assuming SCOTUS throws out the relevant cases) and yes, a national abortion ban is on the table. On the other hand the National Republican Senatorial Committee is telling this year's candidates to say they don't want to put women or doctors in jail or to take away access to contraception. For most candidates these will be lies, possibly finely parsed ("I don't want to put women in jail but if the sluts kill their babies, they have it coming.").
Even without any of that, anti-abortion laws post Roe will get worse. Christian pundit TIsh Harrison Warren, however, is more optimistic, suggesting the pro-life movement will now do positive things: better community resources, child care, economic support for mothers, etc. Other pundits have made similar claims. I think Warren's sincere, but she's also fooling herself; as LGM says, if Republicans wanted to do that, they'd already have done it. Nothing's stopping them. Except their own misogyny. For example South Dakota state Republican Wayne Steinhauer helped kill a bill offering more job protection for pregnant women: if their employer doesn't support them, they should just quit.
We have people like one guy crowing "your body is mine and you're having my baby." Or the online Trump-worshipping trolls who suddenly discover women have to be responsible (see here). Alito says it's a matter for the voters, ignoring that SCOTUS and Republicans are building towards minority rule. To say nothing of the draft opinion citing the domestic supply of infants as a relevant issue because that makes it harder for other women to adopt. Which is, I'm sure, linked to the conviction that America needs women breeders. And the neo-Nazi view that their wombs belong to men. I've said it before, I'll say it again, women are individuals with the right to make their own choices, not a means to an end, either society's or men's.
Then there's the question of how they'll enforce the ban. Monitor cell phone location data? Turn an ob/gyn's office into a room full of informers? Access period-monitoring apps and see if there are irregularities (which is normal and common, but I doubt they'll accept that)? Investigate miscarriages, Just In Case? As Jennifer Rubin says at the link "since the 'crime' takes place in a woman's womb, the enforcement mechanism by necessity will be intrusive." And abortion bounty hunters (as under the Texas law) aren't officially government agents so they aren't hindered by the Fourth Amendment at all.
One woman who went to her doctors with a miscarriage — up to that point, she hadn't known she was pregnant — saw how suspicious they could suddenly become. Texas pharmacies have begun refusing prescriptions for miscarriage treatments in case they're for secret abortions. Other women have gone to jail for miscarriages already. Misogynist Georgia lawmaker Bobby Franklin (he once proposed rape victims be referred to in the justice system as rape accusers unless there was a conviction) wanted the state to investigate all miscarriages as potential homicides. As Fred Clark points out, some conservative Christians believe miscarriages come from sin so it's perfectly reasonable to hold the mother responsible.
It isn't.
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Q: How to make OutputCache with SqlDependency dependent on a row in database for each request? I have a problem. Cannot find how to make OutputCache SQLDependency dependent on one row from database table.
E.g.
I have a Controller with one parameter.
ActionResult Index(int? id)

And for each request with same id I need to check database table table1(id int, last_updated datetime). If row with id = id and last_updated hasn't changed.
I use sql server 2005 or higher.
Which strategy should I use ?
I tried to use:
[OutputCache(Duration = int.MaxValue, VaryByParam = "id",
    SqlDependency = "DatabaseName:table1")]

but it works for whole table changes.

A: To avoid hitting the database for each webpage request (generally an expensive operation), Object Caching (introduced in .NET 4.0) can be used. This would result in fast serving of webpages because everything would be handled directly from memory. Database operations would occur only if the data actually changed, or if the cache was evicted from memory due to resource constraints or your CacheItemPolicy settings.
The practical strategy used in this case would be as follows.
Step-1. In your Model method where data for the "id" row is being modified/added/deleted, complete that database operation and then:

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*If your object already exists in the cache, evict it;

*Create a new cache entry for the object.

Step-2. Retrieve the object from cache whenever possible, refreshing from the db only if necessary:

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*From your Controller action method, call a Model method that returns the object identified by the "id" parameter;

*Within your Model method, check the cache for this id. If it is null, retrieve the data from your database and build the object as you would normally do, and then store the complete object in the cache;

*From the Model method, return the content of the cache (i.e. your specific object for this id) back to the calling Controller action method, and then let the action method populate and serve the View as usual.

(The MemoryCache class is the concrete implementation of the ObjectCache class).
With this approach, the OutputCache on the Controller method would not need to be used at all, and the data caching decisions would all be fully encapsulated within the Model. We would get a cleaner separation of concerns; much higher efficiency, better response times, and improved scalability; and a reduced dependency on costly database operations.

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North Dakota Health Information Exchange (HIE) director Shila Blend today announced that the state's Health Information Network (HIN) has expanded its reach through the Patient Centered Data Home (PCDH) initiative. The PCDH effort broadens the health information exchange footprint across the region and nation, providing more seamless exchange of patient-centered data between and among providers.
NDHIN has completed technical testing with the Quality Health Network, the Western Hub of the PCDH. The Western Hub connects to the Central and Eastern Hubs through Regional Gateway Connections. There are 45 HIEs participating in PCDH across the nation, serving a population of 177 million with over one billion event notifications exchanged to date.
The PCDH is a cost-effective, scalable method of exchanging patient data among HIEs nationally. It is based on a triggering episode alert, which notifies providers if a care event occurred outside of the patient's home HIE and confirms the availability and specific location of the clinical data, enabling providers to initiate additional data exchanges to access real-time information across state and regional lines and the care continuum.
Key PCDH features include:
Provides a vehicle to close the loop and communicate seamlessly on care when a patient is seen outside their normal care area;
Enables nationwide access to patient information that follows the patient and facilitates better treatment;
Links existing communities of trust established by health information exchanges;
Preserves local governance and protects information.
Serves as a key element of the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative that puts into practice the vision that clinical data should be available whenever and wherever care occurs. In this model, all clinical data becomes part of the comprehensive longitudinal patient record in the HIE where the patient resides.
The NDHIN team has also been at the center of North Dakota's COVID-19 response efforts as a key ND Department of Health partner. The NDHIN system has the capability to notify medical professionals in real time when a patient is admitted or discharged from the hospital, presents at an emergency department or has an abnormal lab or radiology result. This information is helpful to public health case workers in coordinating a timely response to positive and negative COVID-19 testing.
About NDHIN:
The NDHIN is a public/private partnership that resides within North Dakota's Information Technology (NDIT) department. Over the past decade, North Dakota has taken the concept of a statewide HIE from the drawing board to a functioning exchange. With initial funding from state appropriations and a federal ONC grant, NDHIN began operations in 2010 and currently has more than 240 signed participation agreements, representing 400+ locations/points of care across the state. A network model, statewide HIE, NDHIN provides value through a secure online network for electronic health information exchange, a robust patient data set, and an increasing number of connections among North Dakota hospitals, providers, and other related entities.


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Q: How to alias an IP address to make DLNA resource accessible from different IP network what I have
I have a home wifi network 192.168.1.0/24 having DLNA resource 192.168.1.100.
I have a TV with ethernet and a netbook with both wifi and ethernet interfaces.
I want to make my notebook behave like a router. That means it gets my home network over wifi and forwards it through the ethernet interface to TV.
what I want
I want to make my tv recognize my dlna resource in my home network.
what I have done
I've setup a dhcp server on the netbook's eth0 interface with following subnet:
subnet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
  range 10.0.0.5 10.0.0.10;
  option routers 10.0.0.1;
}

I've setup my eth0 interface on netbook like this:
ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1/24

i've enabled forwarding :
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

I've added forwarding rules to iptables:
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o wlan0 -j MASQUERADE
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o wlan0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i wlan0 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT

Now my TV gets a 10.0.0.5 ip address and I'm able to browse the internet, but my TV cannot find any DLNA resources.
Question
I think that the resource discovery only goes through 10.0.0.1/24, so my TV can't find the 192.168.1.100 resource.
Please, tell me how can I make some kind of alias, so 192.168.1.100 became alias like 10.0.0.10

A: DLNA is broadcast only.  So you will not be able to route broadcast packets from the 10.0.0.0/24 network to the 192.168.1.0/24 network.
The best approach would therefore be to not route at all, but instead use your notebook as a bridge, and put the DLNA resource and the TV on the same network.  These are the steps.

*

*Get rid of the dhcp server and IP table rules off the notebook

*Bridge the interfaces of the notebook.  How you do this is distribution dependent, so I'll give the debian/ubuntu syntax and you can adapt for your distro.

This is /etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo br0

iface lo inet loopback

iface br0 inet static
    bridge_ports eth0 wlan0
    address 192.168.1.x
    netmask 255.255.255.0

Replace x with your current laptop IP address.
3) Set your TV to use DHCP
And that should be enough.  The bridge will join the wired connection from the TV to the laptop with the wifi connection from the laptop to the rest of the network.  As it is a bridge, the DLNA broadcasts will be forwarded across the bridge, and the responses will come back.
Also the bridging means that the DHCP broadcasts from the TV will also traverse the laptop, which is why you don't need a seperate DHCP server, it can use the one on your home network.

A: Try adding DNS servers to your DHCP options.  Your TV may also need something else such as domain name.  If your TV worked with some other router, I'd look into a DHCP monitoring tool (don't know of one off hand), see what options that DHCP server handed out, and mimic them with your configuration.
Also, did you echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward?
Third, if your range stanza really looks like range 10.0.05 10.0.0.10 it probably needs to be changed to range 10.0.0.5 10.0.0.10.
Allright, after doing a little bit of homework, it seems DLNA uses SSDP as a discovery protocol.  From the "Simple Service Discovery Protocol" Wikipedia page:

SSDP is a text-based protocol based on HTTPU. It uses the User
  Datagram Protocol (UDP) as the underlying transport protocol. Services
  are announced by the hosting system with multicast addressing to a
  specifically designated IP multicast address at port number 1900. In
  IPv4, the multicast address is 239.255.255.250[3] and SSDP over IPv6
  uses the address set ff0X::c for all scope ranges indicated by X.[4]

I don't have a lot of experience with multicast traffic on Linux but it looks like you possibly need to enable reception and forwarding of multicast traffic for this to work.


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Veteran Hebron squad is primed for a playoff push
Jimmy Muncy, Reporter|May 6, 2016
The Hawks baseball team begins its playoff run this Friday night at Denton Ryan.
Hebron cruised to a 23-6 record, including a 13-3 district mark, and their stranglehold on the 6-6A title was never in any real danger. Now that the regular season is over, the caliber of their opponents will only get higher. But the team, loaded with 18 seniors, has veteran experience to match the task ahead.
"We could honestly do it," senior center fielder Evan Alexander said. "We don't look far ahead, but we know we're good, and we know we can beat anybody as long as we play good baseball."
The team seems to share the same air of quiet confidence that Alexander has. After all, they ended this season with a plus 97 run differential, enough for sixth best in the area. Not only that, but they also feature one of the best pitchers in the area: A&M commit and junior Zach DeLoach, who posted a 0.51 ERA and 80 strikeouts on the way to a 7-2 record, not to mention his 27 RBIs, which are best in the district.
Not that the seniors haven't chipped in a few spectacular seasons as well. Starting pitcher Nick Fraze earned eight wins this year, one more than DeLoach. Third baseman and catcher Michael Neustifter clouted five home runs, and Derek Mueller was among the area leaders in steals with 15.
The first series pits Hebron against Denton Ryan, a team that snuck into the playoffs by clinching fourth in its district, beating rival Denton Guyer 3-0 in the final game of the season.
"[Head] Coach [Steve] Stone told us not to take them lightly," said senior outfielder Josh Reidy.
The Hawks are sure to see much better teams if they advance deep into the postseason, they know that they can't take any opponent for granted. The idea of taking everything one game at time is something that Stone has drilled into the team since the beginning of the year.
Denton Ryan is no exception. This Hawks baseball team is aware of Ryan's strengths and weaknesses, and is hoping to use them to it's advantage.
"They used to be in our district two, three, years ago, so we know something about them," senior pitcher Ryan Diedering said. "They have one really good pitcher [senior Josh Mears]."
With Denton Ryan's minus two run differential in mind, the Hawks have a somewhat difficult decision in choosing the starting pitcher for Friday's opener at Denton Ryan. On one hand, Stone may want to put his best foot forward right off the bat and start Zach Deloach. On the other hand, the extremely capable Nick Fraze could handle Friday night's match, which would give Deloach an extra day of rest.
Heading into this weekend, the team is brimming with optimism. With above average players at every position, this could be the strongest Hebron team since the 2005 squad that featured current major leaguer Sam Freeman.
The Hawks would likely face off against baseball powerhouse Southlake Carroll in the second round, and if they get to the fifth, against the top ranked team in the state, Coppell. Far from being intimidated, the team looks forward to this final series of challenges.
"If we win second round, we're straight until the fifth round," senior Nick Fraze said as he looked ahead to probable matchups. "If we can get past Coppell, which I think we can, we could go all the way."
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Heart of Dixie is a 1989 drama film adaptation of the 1976 novel Heartbreak Hotel by Anne Rivers Siddons and directed by Martin Davidson.  The film stars Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen, Phoebe Cates, and Treat Williams.

Plot
Three sorority women at a 1957 Alabama college face the experience and difficulties of ethnic strife and integration.

Production notes
The expression "Heart of Dixie" is a nickname for the state of Alabama.

The fictional Randolph University is based on Auburn University in Alabama.

The movie was filmed in Oxford, Mississippi at the University of Mississippi, and in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

The soda shop featured in the film was a renovated gas station that became the original McAlister's Deli Restaurant.

Cast
 Ally Sheedy as Maggie DeLoach
 Virginia Madsen as Delia June Curry
 Phoebe Cates as Aiken Reed
 Treat Williams as Hoyt Cunningham
 Don Michael Paul as 'Boots' Claibourne
 Kyle Secor as Charles Payton 'Tuck' Tucker
 Francesca P. Roberts as Keefi
 Peter Berg as Jenks
 Jenny Robertson as Sister
 Lisa Zane as M.A.
 Ashley Gardner as Jean
 Eddy Kiihnl as Mitchell
 Richard Bradford as Judge Claibourne
 Barbara Babcock as Coralee Claibourne
 Hazen Gifford as Dean Howard
 Michael St. Gerard as Elvis

Reception

Noted film critic Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote:

Heart of Dixie is a clear-eyed, funny and affecting movie about the emotional awakening of a pretty, white Alabama coed in 1957, on the eve of the great racial struggles that would mark the 1960s throughout the South. ...  Mr. McCown's screenplay, based on the novel Heartbreak Hotel, by Anne Rivers Siddons, is refreshing in the way that it refuses to impose a long historical view on the immediate events it is recording. The movie is always aware of history, but it somehow avoids the awful self-assurance that comes with 20-20 hindsight. ...  Miss Sheedy is so good as Maggie that the character's liberation, and the rise of her social consciousness, appear to be genuine triumphs. Miss Madsen, who looks a little like Carole Landis as well as like Kim Novak, is also fine, as are Mr. Williams, Phoebe Cates (as Maggie's unconventional friend) and Don Michael Paul, who manages to play Maggie's Southern chauvinist fiance with a good deal of arrogant charm.

In contrast, Rita Kempley, staff writer at The Washington Post panned the film, writing, "Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen and Phoebe Cates combine their negligible talents in Heart of Dixie -- a melodrama so full of hams, it oinks. Led by Sheedy, the tedious trio plays giddy coeds caught up in the racist and sexist traditions of the South in the late '50s. They all sound like they've been gulping hush puppy batter ... Working from McCown's histrionic screenplay, Martin Davidson of Eddie and the Cruisers proves once again that he don't know nothing 'bout directing no movies."

Ally Sheedy was nominated for Worst Actress at the Golden Raspberry Awards, but lost to Heather Locklear for The Return of Swamp Thing.

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External links

 Heart of Dixie film trailer at YouTube

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How many times have you encountered the phrase "use it or lose it"?
I've used it as a mantra for years. It's given me that last little push to go the distance. It gives encouragement and motivation to consider the long term gain versus the short term pain.
Maybe it's recovering after an illness or injury and you want to regain mobility, strength, or endurance. Maybe it's weight loss or toning for health, vitality, or looking good. Maybe it's showing that you can do better or more.
Whatever it is, physical or intellectual, the idea is that if we don't use it, we will somehow lose what we already have. Whether we want to build on what we have or just keep what we already have. It could be we are working against time, injury, or our own desire to be something else.
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Scare, bully, or nag also fit the bill. We justify it to ourselves that whatever it takes, that's better than losing.
… People can't understand why you've changed.
I live with rheumatoid arthritis. My disease works constantly, tirelessly, to remove the good from my body and at the same time put bad into places it has no place being. The result is the same: inflammation, pain, and loss of function.
I can push against the pain. Hell, it's agony just opening a cupboard above my head some days, so I'm up for the challenge if it would do any good.
I can figure out new ways to open up my milk carton so I don't spill it because my fingers lose strength unexpectedly. Again, I'm up for the challenge because I'm already making accommodations on the fly as a matter of course.
I can even push back at people around me that tell me I should try a little harder because if I don't use it regularly, one day it'll be too stiff to move. After all, I know they mean well and for the most part I take what is good from their words. I am confident that I really don't have to do what they say at the end of the day.
Here's the thing: I used to believe in the phrase. I used to live by the phrase. I used to get so much from the phrase. It really ticks me off I can't use it anymore.
Because, it's a lie. For me, it's a lie. There is no use it or lose for me.
There will be days that it is too painful to be able to use it. There will be days that I cannot use it and then there will be days I can use it. But, I will lose it. That's just the reality of my disease.
See, it's not just about being motivated enough. It's not about working through the pain. It's not about anything other than some days you can, some days you can't, and one day you won't be able to.
What do I make of all this? I changed my mantra, naturally.
Use It Until You Lose It.
No denying it's going to happen. No sense crying over it either. Use it when you can, do something else when you can't. Be grateful when you can and kind to yourself when you can't. To the extent your disease allows, you determine when you can and when you can't by assessing your strength, ability, pain, needs, and wants.
It's about you; not anyone else … and definitely not anyone else's idea of what you should or shouldn't do.


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'I could not be more excited about this challenge': Lucas Digne raring to go at Everton after completing £18m move from Barcelona
France international Lucas Digne has completed his £18m move to Everton
The full back has spoken for the first time since swapping Spain for Merseyside
He revealed that Marco Silva played a big role in persuading him to join the club
By Harry Slavin For Mailonline
Published: 05:00 EDT, 1 August 2018 | Updated: 07:50 EDT, 1 August 2018
Lucas Digne insists he 'could not be more excited' after completing his £18million move from Barcelona to Everton.
The 25-year-old, who has lifted the league title in both Spain and France, has signed a five-year deal at Goodison Park until 2023.
The former Paris Saint-Germain left back missed out on selection for Didier Deschamps World Cup-winning France side this summer, despite the experience he possesses from playing for some of Europe's most illustrious clubs.
Lucas Digne has completed his move from Barcelona to Everton for a fee of £18milllion
The 25-year-old left back has put pen to paper on a five-year-deal until 2023 at Goodison Park
The France international posed for photos at Everton's USM Finch Farm base on Wednesday
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Having also pulled on the shirt for Roma, he believes in Everton he has found yet another home with a rich tradition.
'Everton is a big club with a great history. I want to play games, win games and excite the fans with the quality of our football,' Digne told Everton TV.
'I played good football in Rome and I played well, too, in Barcelona. I progressed a lot as a player and as a person by playing with the best players in the world.
'When you play with the best players it helps you build your character and, of course, it helps on the training ground and during games, too, because you want to give the best of you.
'I want to show my best football here and discover the best league in the world. Everybody loves the Premier League. I am loving the fact I am coming here.'
Digne revealed that he spoke to new Toffees boss Marco Silva before making the switch to Merseyside.
The left back said that Toffees boss Marco Silva had been an influence on his decision to join
And he admits that the Portuguese played a big role in convincing him this was the right move.
'My first impression on meeting the new manager was really good. I had a great feeling with him when we spoke,' Digne added.
'Immediately I said, "I want to come to Everton".
'The club has brought in a lot of players and we are building to bring some success in the Premier League.
'We will work together as a team to try to make this happen. That is what is important and I could not be more excited about this challenge.'
Silva took the reins at the club this summer following the departure of Sam Allardyce
The Portuguese believes the new addition will provide some much needed competition
Silva revealed he was impressed with Digne's hunger to join from the outset, and believes he will offer some much-needed competition for Leighton Baines.
'It is important to say that he is a player who, from the first moment he was contacted, showed enormous desire to play at Everton,' Silva said.
'Lucas is a player who will add competitiveness in a position where we only had Leighton Baines last season and he is accustomed to winning. This is his mentality having captured titles in his career and having these on his resume.'
Lucas Digne completes £18m Everton move from Barcelona


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Creating awareness on thalassemia
Repsol Malaysia recently collaborated with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Ministry of Education (MoE) to launch its Thalassemia awareness campaign, 'NowyouSEEme'.
This campaign aims to educate secondary school students on the medical condition to be better informed and to play an active role in society to manage and eventually eradicate the disease.
The 'NowyouSEEme' initiative gives students the opportunity to display their creativity in communicating their understanding and information about Thalassaemia on social media and through competitions organised in their respective schools. Fifty schools from Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang have been selected in the first phase of this campaign before it is continued in the other states.
Repsol Malaysia Director Pablo Ortolá Martínez said, "Since 2013, Repsol Malaysia has been committed to support the Thalassemia communities locally and the efforts to create awareness about this disorder.
"The goal we are working towards is to get the community involved in the fight against the disease to reduce the Thalassaemia birth rates in Malaysia by as much as 95 per cent by year 2038. With the support of the MoH and MoE on this campaign, we are able to achieve this by engaging an important group of people – the students – more effectively and impactfully."
Repsol Malaysia started its own efforts eight years ago in Sabah by working with local NGOs that are directly involved in supporting Thalassemia communities. They then expanded the effort to the rural areas of Terengganu working with a Hulu Terengganu hospital to set up the first Thalassemia Day Care centre by a private entity.
Speaking at the virtual launch of the event, Minister of Health Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba said: "Thalassemia is a medical condition that is common among Malaysians. As of 2018, there were officially 8,681 registered patients in Malaysia, and that number has been growing since. Education on the disease is crucial and that is why we are supportive of Repsol Malaysia's efforts in contributing towards the Thalassemia campaign."
Also attending virtually was Deputy Minister of Education 1 Muslimin Yahaya who said: "Education beyond classroom learning is important for students, especially with a topic such as Thalassemia. Repsol Malaysia's approach of tapping into the students' creativity and leveraging the online platform reflects how we will navigate this new reality of learning."
The 'NowyouSEEme' activities will officially run from March 15 to Aug 18 2021 whereby students will be submitting their contest entries online and through the facilitators in their respective schools. There are over RM18,000 cash prizes along with trophies which will be awarded to the winners on Oct 6, 2021.
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Pope Francis calls on Christians to recognize the face of Christ in migrants
Pope Francis celebrates Mass in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta July 8, 2020. | Vatican Media.
By Courtney Mares
Vatican City, Jul 8, 2020 / 05:05 am
Pope Francis offered Mass Wednesday asking the Virgin Mary to help Christians recognize the face of Christ in each migrant and refugee.
"As we undertake to seek the face of the Lord, we may recognize Him in the face of the poor, the sick, the abandoned, and the foreigners whom God places on our way. And this encounter becomes for us a time of grace and salvation, as it bestows on us the same mission entrusted to the Apostles," Pope Francis said in the Casa Santa Marta chapel July 8.
"May the Virgin Mary, Solacium migrantium, 'Solace or Comfort of Migrants,' help us discover the face of Her Son in all our brothers and sisters who are forced to flee from their homeland because of the many injustices that still afflict our world today," the pope said in his homily.
Invoking the new Marian title added to the Litany of Loreto in June, Pope Francis prayed for the migrants who are in detention camps in Libya and elsewhere who are often subject to abuse and violence.
He recommended words of Christ that can be used as a part of one's daily examination of conscience: "Truly, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me."
The pope said: "The encounter with the other is also an encounter with Christ. He himself told us. It is He who knocks on our door, hungry, thirsty, naked, sick, imprisoned, seeking an encounter with us and requesting our assistance."
Pope Francis offered Mass at his residence to mark the seventh anniversary of his visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, only the staff of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Vatican Department for Promoting Integral Human Development were in attendance.
"Today's responsorial Psalm urges us always to seek the Lord's face: 'Rely on the mighty Lord, constantly seek His face,'" he said. "This quest is a fundamental attitude in the life of all the faithful, who have come to realize that the ultimate goal of their existence is the encounter with God."
During his homily, the pope told the story of his encounter with an Ethiopian migrant during his visit to Lampedusa in 2013, recalling that he later found out that his translator at the time had "distilled" the migrant's story because of the intensity of the suffering recounted.
"This happens today with Libya," he said. "They give us a 'distilled' version. The war is bad, we know it, but you cannot imagine the hell they live through there in those detention camps. And these people only came with hope to cross the sea."
Pope Francis has frequently spoken out about the plight of migrants detained in Libya this year. On June 14 the pope called on the international community to "take their plight to heart" and to identify pathways and means to provide them with the protection that they need for a dignified condition, adding that the health situation with the coronavirus pandemic has aggravated the migrants' already precarious conditions.
Lampedusa, the southernmost part of Italy, is located 160 nautical miles from the Libyan capital of Tripoli. It is a primary destination for migrants from Africa seeking entry to Europe.
Pope Francis visited the Mediterranean island on July 8, 2013. The trip, his first pastoral visit outside Rome, signaled that concern for migrants would be at the center of his pontificate.
The pope quoted part of his Lampedusa homily in the livestreamed Mass. He said: "The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people, makes us live in soap bubbles which, however lovely, are insubstantial; they offer a fleeting and empty illusion which results in indifference to others; indeed, it even leads to the globalization of indifference."
"In this globalized world, we have fallen into globalized indifference. We have become used to the suffering of others: it doesn't affect me; it doesn't concern me; it's none of my business."
The pope then responded with a reflection on how the Apostles' lives were transformed by their encounter with Christ.
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Courtney Mares is a Rome Correspondent for Catholic News Agency. A graduate of Harvard University, she has reported from news bureaus on three continents and was awarded the Gardner Fellowship for her work with North Korean refugees.
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