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31Jul '13
The Time Capsule
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In our small bay of refuge, we rest for the evening. The trials of a day tangling with ice flows has been both physically and emotionally taxing, and we enjoy a moment of reprieve.
The bay we're moored in is crescent shaped and has several pieces of sea ice nestled to its far side. It's defined by a sweeping band of gravel separating the ocean from a smaller lagoon behind, a patch of calm that visually extends our bay back to appear like a triangle of water with an arc of gravel tracing through it.
Sheltering the bay to the east is a small hillside of shattered limestone stacked in benches, almost castle like in form. I stroll to the top to take in the view of Sellwood Bay and stumble upon two small oval depressions in the landscape each surrounded by large pieces of rock. Both depressions are similar in size, roughly 10ft x 5ft, and are cut into the hillside to garner protection from the wind, the wind that's been strafing us today.
Seven years ago while walking the beaches of King William Island with local historian Louie Kamookak we would discover a similar site. It was over 800 years old, caribou bones still scattered about the floor, evidence of a meal long ago eaten, frozen in a time.
Several months ago, before embarking on this adventure, I decided I'd share my journey with my two young daughters in a very special way. I'd write a message to each of them (Caitlin 9 and Arianna 7) and address them as my daughters in the future, to the two young women I anticipate they'll become. It was more emotional than I anticipated as I was transported to a time when I may no longer be with them. I rolled each note into a small scroll, added a personal item for each girl and placed them in a small sealed PVC tube. I have the PVC tube with me now and I place it adjacent to one of these ring sites, one snapshot in time resting beside another.
If my daughters want to retrieve their notes they'll need to travel north to find them. They'll need to experience the arctic themselves, they'll need to experience a place that is deeply important to their father, a place that may be profoundly changed when they get here.
I place the small time capsule under a large piece of limestone and take a GPS reading. The rest is up to my girls.
~Kevin
A Tough Day At The Office
We definitely had our hardest and most eventful day so far yesterday. Things started to go pear shaped around 7am. Denis and myself were on the oars and the last 2 hours of our shift had been great with very calm conditions. The next hour saw a strong wind whip up, the swell became very choppy and there were dark clouds on the horizon. We pulled as hard as we could for the next hour to try and get in behind a headland to take some shelter but Mother Nature was too strong.
We put out the sea anchor to try and halt our backwards progress, it wasn't ideal but we couldn't make any progress with the oars. We rested for a few hours and Kevin and Frank tried to make some progress but again to no avail. Our depth was ok to use the ground anchor so they deployed that and we agreed to rest up for a few hours in the cabin and go again as soon as conditions would permit. We were all exhausted and fell asleep.
We then woke to the crunching sound of a large ice berg nudging up against the boat. The ice berg had pinned our anchor line and hard as we tried, we couldn't free the line. Because the berg was moving, the nose of the boat was starting to be pulled underneath it so we had to cut the line and in doing so say good bye to our anchor. We then spent the next few hours trying to battle our way out of the choppy conditions but again we simply couldn't make progress into the wind and find a safe place to shelter.
The best option (out of a bunch of bad ones) was to use some ice screws and anchor the boat to an ice berg that was anchored to the ground and close to shore. So we did this and fell into the cabin once again exhausted. After a few hours the berg cracked and shifted so we had to scamper quickly to free the ice screws and quickly work to prevent the boat hitting the rocky shore line where it could have been damaged.
At this point the wind had whipped up to about 20 – 25 knots and was pushing us hard onto shore. Kevin and Frank were still in their dry suits. Denis and myself weren't but that didn't matter it was all hands on deck. Frank and Kevin released the ice crews, Denis and myself attended to our centre board and rudder. By now we were virtually on shore so all four of us jumped into the water to physically hold the boat from grounding into the rocky shoreline.
At this point Denis and I were in our socks and underclothes absolutely soaked. Frank and Kevin held the boat while we jumped into our dry suits. We tried to use our winch to pull the boat safely up on shore using some logs as rollers but there wasn't anything on the shore we could use that was a strong enough anchor point so we simply had to try and row the boat away from the shore. It was like rowing on a treadmill and we were pulling as hard as we could to simply stop running aground. 20 minutes of this and one would be absolutely shagged so we rotated into 20 minute shifts for the next few hours.
This was back breaking stuff but we managed to get away from the shore line and eventually we found a place where we could safely beach the boat, take some shelter and regroup. We used the opportunity to dry our clothes and the cabin (everything was soaked), we lit a fire, had a big feed and got the spirits up again after our adventurous day.
We all agreed that we will now have to wait for a decent weather window before we can push on so hopefully this comes soon. We have been cautious up to now and rightly so. We are far too remote to be taking any stupid risks and doing so would be absolutely foolish. One thing we are all very clear on now is that we can only move when we have half decent weather conditions. If the weather is rough but in our favour, that's fine but anything that is pushing us backwards or dangerously towards rocky shorelines means we just have to shelter and proceed again when its safe. That is the reality of moving up here in Arctic……
~Paul
Close Call – The Battle Of The Ice
A peculiar rapping sound against the hull wakes me up. All four of us are asleep, the Arctic Joule held fast on the ground anchor in the midst of a heavy windstorm. I lie in such a way that I face out the cabin door, able to survey water conditions by just sitting up. I bolt upright with the banging noise but don't see a churning sea like I expect. "Holy shit!!, I shout, "It's ice!!"
In seconds we're all on deck facing down a 100ft x 100ft ice flow that has wedged itself up against our bow. It's being pushed hard from the storming wind and is moving directly over us. We try to release our anchor but it's stuck as this multi-ton piece of ice some 30-40ft thick has positioned itself above it and is making it impossible to retrieve. We push the bow away to gain a few meters of slack to loosen the anchor but it's of no us. The ice sheet is being pressed against us and we can't move. Our anchor line becomes steel cable tight and the boat begins to moan under the strain. The nose of the bow starts to drop, being pulled down by the anchor line and the weight of the moving ice. We need to do something immediately or we're going to be swept under the ice.
It all started off smoothly enough a couple days ago traversing a 35km section of open water across the bottom of Franklin Bay. We worked through a band of small debris about 3 kms in width and made it to the Parry Peninsula without much effort. A favourable current and tail wind followed us down Franklin Bay granting us a staggering 120 kilometres of travel in 24 hours, a distance of over double our previous longest mark. Nearing the coast we notice a wall of dark cloud approaching from the north east as a massive low is currently camped over the Beaufort Sea (bad enough that we received a cyclone warning from one authority) and is forecast to throw ugly weather our way
Within an hour the storm is upon us and the sea builds wild again. The shoreline is steep and rocky and no place for a surf landing. This makes for a few tense minutes negotiating breaking waves and strong winds until we find shelter in a tiny gravel lee – as hostile and exposed as a lee can be – and some protection from the storm. We spend the rest of the evening rocked by the sea, a growl of any angry gale our only company.
By morning the wind has died again and it's easy going for three hours until once again a menacing grey mass begins to build in the north west. When the wind storm hits we are about half way across an exposed 15km traverse from one headland to another. The push from the wind is so hard that we can't keep our line and we're swept into the open waters of Sellwood Bay. We're moving in the wrong direction so we elect to drop the sea anchor to slow the negative push.
A sea anchor works like an underwater parachute and, depending on it's size and drag, can stop a boat in the water or significantly slow its movement. Our sea anchor is too small for the job and allows us to be pushed at nearly 1km/hr towards the far shore of the bay. We retire to the cabin knowing there's nothing we can do but wait.
As we're slowly pushed to the far shore of Sellwood Bay the depth of the water becomes shallow enough to deploy a ground anchor allowing us to replace slow negative movement with no movement at all. A quick scan of the horizon indicates no ice and we all lie down for some rest.
This chunk of ice that appears across our bow is completely unexpected. There had been no ice around us when we retired to the cabin an hour ago. And even if there had been, we present such a small bulls-eye on a such massive target that the chance of a piece of ice actually hitting us seemed very remote. Somehow this big chunk of ice has found us.
The groaning of the boat and the dipping of the bow leaves us no choice. Like having your coat tails caught under a steam roller, there's only one outcome here. I pull out the serrated knife from my PDF, crawl to the bow of the boat and cut the anchor line. "Ping" The rope is as tight as piano wire and explodes with the touch of the blade. We spring free.
We're a couple kilometres from shore and the wind begins to push us in quickly. One dilemma switches to another as we sail head long towards a rocky beach with no anchor to keep us off it.
As we get closer we do everything in our power to keep ourselves away but it is all a matter of time. With wind unabated we're forced to find as smooth a section of beach as possible and head in. The moment the bow of the Arctic Joule runs up onto the gravel we jump out and prevent the stern from swinging broadside to the waves. The water is waist deep and icy cold and we take turns standing in it to keep our bucking bronco from breaking free and breaching.
Just when all seems hopeless another ice flow appears a few hundred meters off shore heading in our direction. This one is smaller than the behemoth we tangled with earlier but still carries enough girth to be imposing. It will be on top of us soon.
We make a sharp effort, push off from shore and head into the lee of the incoming ice. It becomes grounded on the seabed as we had hoped and we take the opportunity to use it as a moorage. Clambering atop the slab we place two ice screws into the ice and are able to rig a satisfactory anchor – in reality an ice climbing anchor – that we hold fast to. We're in the lee of the ice a short distance from shore and safely out of the wind.
Denis is a secret fan of the 80′s pop rocker Chris de Burgh and on a number of occasions after particularly challenging days on this trip has threatened us with a serenade of a de Burgh classic. He's so happy with our mobile ice moorage that he names it Chris, Chris de Berg, the iceberg that is.
Moored to Chris, out of the storm, we take a deep breath after our ordeal but no sooner are we out of our drysuits do we hear a thundering crash outside and a thump against the boat. Chris is disintegrating, pounded from the waves. As he breaks up he may twist, tumble and somersault and we're attached to him. It's another mad frenzy of donning drysuits, leaping onto a disintegrating berg to free ourselves and then be cast again into a breaking surf and winds.
We're at wits end and start rowing intensely a mere meters from shore. We put ourselves on 20 minute shifts, the effort required being so high, and just to keep going. Over the course of several hours we creep along the edge of shore and discover a tiny bay partly choked in ice that will provide us protection. We slip in to our safe harbour, finally out of the wind and out of the storm.
The Smoking Hills Of Franklin Bay
The temperatures have sky-rocketed since arriving on Nicholson Island and the mosquitos have emerged on their hunt for blood. Their presence is overwhelming, their numbers incalculable. I know why the caribou run stir-crazed down the beaches of this island.
We leave Nicholson on calm seas heading east to the Bathurst Peninsula. It's a shocking change from previous days with seas like glass and temperatures in the mid-20′s. We row continuously for the next 26 hours through smooth waters and positive currents but, in the arctic, good things never last long.
As we begin to round Cape Bathurst the wind begins to build. It's subtle at first, a light riffle across an otherwise glass like surface, but it builds quickly. The cape presents a vertical black wall of permafrost that rises some 40 ft from waters edge, a green carpet of tundra bends and tumbles from atop its upper surface pulled seaward by the eroding bank. It's an imposing sight, a shear wall extending itself into the icy mist, and one that makes retreat impossible if things turn bad. And they turn bad.
The wind has built into a strong blow and is white-capping now pushing us directly onto shore. The water here is very shallow and as the seas build so do the steepness of the waves. By the time we reach the most exposed section of the cape the wind is in a frenzy as is the sea. Waves begin to break randomly around us, finding the shallow spots to in the undulating sand shoal surface below. Rowing through big waves is one thing, handling breakers is another. Waves begin to wash across the deck and we realize we'll need to find find shelter from this storm sooner than later. It will take another hour of hard rowing before a foaming sand shoal presents an option. On the other side of the shoal is calmer waters, a lagoon with seas dampened and broken. There appears to be one section of the sand bar that's deeper as waves aren't breaking as aggressively across its surface. We turn the nose of the Arctic Joule and dash for the opening. A yell to the cabin to lift the rudder at exactly the right moment and we scud across the sand and into protected waters. It's raining, it's cold and the wind is howling but we're in calmer waters for the moment.
We leave our shelter on calmer seas but the weather is cloudy and is now very cold. Rounding the cape we move from the Beaufort Sea and officially enter the Amundsen Gulf. We're excited by the moment but are sobered by the reality that this next phase brings the ice.
The body of water in the Amundsen Gulf that we now need to contend with is a large body of water called Franklin Bay. At about 125kms across it's mouth (from Cape Bathurst to Cape Parry) and 150kms in length, Franklin Bay looks like a large pizza slice removed from the pie that's the arctic coast. There's significant ice throughout the bay and our only choice is to travel south, deeply into it, until we find and adequately safe point to cross.
The wind begins to build again as we start heading South but this time, for the first time, they're square at our back. Small ice flows are everywhere and we use considerable caution to negotiate a path but by end of day we are virtually sailing down the coast, our rowing motion simply show, adding little to the overall speed.
In 1826 John Franklin travelled these shores and chartered this landscape for the first time. The quest for the North West Passage was underway and Franklin travelled up the Mackenzie and headed east in hopes charting a potential route. He would discover and name a unique geological phenomenon on the shores of the bay that bears his name, the Smoking Hills.
The Smoking Hills are exactly that, mountainsides of billowing smoke that appear as swaths of unhindered forest fire, without the forest. On a technical level they contain strata of hydrocarbons (oil shale's) auto-ignited by sulfur-rich lignite deposits within the surface. On a non-technical level they are plumes of grey smoke, similar in look and smell to the clouds emanating from a volcano that rise from the flanks of the hills. They've been burning continuously for centuries.
Frank and I are on our shift in the early hours of the morning, the wind has calmed and the sky is painted with charcoal bands of cloud backlit by the deep orange of a dying arctic sun. Ice forms, contorted into the exotic and the grotesque, float among us, tinged in pink, mirrored on the flat sea. Clouds of smoke rise from black cliffs marching to the horizon. A large whooshing sound to my right. Mist rises from the sea and a dark serpent slides above the water to disappear again, the gentle flick of a tail sending it to the depths. A humpback whale, in this Tolkienesque world.
The Tide Slips Away at Dew Line Station
Our rest in the sandbar lee is a short lived affair as we're eager to make our first big open water crossing across Liverpool Bay to the Bathurst Peninsula. If we had our choice we'd have made a number of larger crossings already but conditions have made this impossible.
Since entering the Beaufort Sea two weeks ago we've been hampered by relentless Easterly and North Easterly winds. For a vessel travelling under motor or sail winds such as these (15-35Kn) might be manageable but for our 2500lb behemoth, presenting lots of windage for very little relative forward propulsion of two people rowing, strong winds stop movement in its tracks.
For the Arctic Joule strong winds in open water mean being pushed backwards or being anchored and holding fast. Strong winds close to shore mean options: the use of island lees and peninsulas to hide and maneuver behind and beaches that can be used to drag the boat when rowing is impossible. The strategy is working, albeit slowly.
Strategy or not, we need to make an open crossing and move out across Liverpool Bay in the early hours of this evening. Winds are predicted to dissipate by midnight and our hope is that the seas will diminish as well. The moment we pull out from the sandbar lee however we are hit with a jolt. The waves are sharper and tighter in rhythm than before. A strong sense of ill-ease washes over me but we're committed to our line and we keep our tempo high. The steep faces of water that bear down on us have such a menacing presence that I get in the habit at focusing on them only after the've rolled up under the boat and are charging away from us. My ostrich approach to discomfort seems to work
The boat rocks wildly and for the first time this trip a mild sensation of nausea starts to well up in my gut. I put it out of my mind and focus on watching for the next wave, trying to time my oar stroke to catch it and trying not to hit Frank's oars in the process.
Our plan is to make a direct line across to Cape Wolki on the Bathurst Peninsula but the strong north wind does not subside as was forecast and we're driven further south to Nicholson Island, home to a cold-war era distant early warning (DEW) line radar station and about two-thirds the way across the bay.
Nicholson Island is roughly 10 kms long and 3 kms wide and rises to a height of roughly 300ft. On this summit sits the DEW line station with a 60ft radar tower standing guard over a low lying single story metal clad structure, a series of diesel storage chambers and a couple of large white geodesic domes.
We decide to stretch our legs, anchor the boat in knee deep water and head out on the island for some exploration. The DEW line station is several kilometres away so we stick closer to our moorage and poke around. Within minutes a large arctic fox comes to investigate us but scampers off when he catches our scent. We haven't bathed in nearly three weeks so our scent comes easily. Hawks fly overhand screeching at us in alarm. We're confronted by an agitated herd of caribou on the beach, driven mad by swarms of mosquitos, and intent on passing us to get to the water in order to escape their pursuers They quiver uncontrollably, powerless to the insects, and charge pass us with wild-eyed, crazed abandon.
By the time we get back to the boat we realize the tide has slipped out faster than we anticipated and we're now beached, stuck until the next high tide. Frustrated but resigned we take the forced break set about cleaning up the boat, drying out gear and doing a little more exploring.
Kevin~
We rounded the tip of the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula after two weeks of hard effort, sand bars and unfriendly winds. We've been looking forward to this moment for days, to finally feel a little wind at our stern heading south into Liverpool Bay. Murphy was an Irishman I suppose and must be taking a keen interest in our expedition as the wind shifted to an East North East when we made the turn and, although forecasted to weaken, built into a stormy blow. We held firm, convinced the winds would subside, and kept pushing down the coast. The waves grew larger and steeper until we were in the largest seas we'd seen on this expedition. The water at Cape Dalhousie is exceedingly shallow and big rollers become very dangerous breaking waves in moments. Sand bars loom everywhere, potential time bombs in a turbulent seascape.
By the time we're looking for an exit strategy we realize a way out on the coast is barred by a continuous sandbar running parallel with the shore. A calm body of water lies tantalizingly close on the other side but is impossible for us to reach. Trying to negotiate this surf zone would be dangerous for us and potentially catastrophic for the Arctic Joule.
Paul and Denis finish their shift and Frank and I take over. It's a tenuous shift change as the potential of a wave swamping the boat is always a risk when crew members are moving in and out of the cabin. I stand behind Paul at his rowing station, he gets up, I jump in and Denis keeps rowing to keep the boat on the correct angle to the waves. I take on this roll as Frank changes places with Denis. A moments inattention could see the boat swing broadside to the waves and be rolled.
I've never paddled or rowed in seas this large and feel both anxiety and exhilaration. Steep walls of water build out of nothing and run at us, tips frothing, their intent unknown. But no sooner are they upon us, they're sweeping under our bow and marching deftly to an explosive end on shore. We're not in their cross-hairs it would seem but we keep a close eye on this angry mob, ensuring no change in will or intent.
A break in the sandbar appears after 90 tense minutes of rowing and we decide to go for it, turning the boat into shore and running with the waves. This is the most dangerous position to be in as a large wave can surf the boat, swiftly turn it broadside and roll her. My hearts in my mouth as a large wave begins to build behind us, roll up on our stern and begin to push us aggressively.
The Arctic Joule is a big gal. Her weight and girth are a challenge into headwinds and over sandbars but she's in her element here. The wave doesn't push AJ around, she holds her course perfectly. Our big lady is comfortable in these waters. After a few tenuous minutes were whisked into calmer waters and anchor until the wind subsides. We're happy the Arctic Joule is exactly the way she is.
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The Coffee Bluff Marine Rescue Squadron turns 60 this year, which means Dwight D. Eisenhower was president when the volunteer group pulled off its first water rescue back in 1959. The Tybee Island MRS was the very first such unit, but the Coffee Bluff version was only slightly behind it.
The Coffee Bluff unit doesn't plan any special celebration of the milestone birthday, but you can still wish them congratulations this Saturday when you swing by the group's annual fundraising barbecue. Some 2,800 pounds of pork will be prepared, and the group expects to sell more than 2,500 dinners (barbecue, coleslaw, Brunswick stew and a roll) at $10 apiece.
The proceeds fund the all-volunteer group, where members use their own boats and buy their own gas when they head out to rescue distressed boaters or help look for drowning victims.
"Contrary to what you may see on television, there are some good people in this world and they want to do the right thing," says member Denis Robertson.
As proof of his statement, he points out that the group of 30-some active members has a waiting list of folks who want to join and lend a hand.
The problems they address are as mundane as a boat that runs out of gas and as intense as the search for drowning victims. Additionally, they chip in when the U.S. Coast Guard, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources or law enforcement need extra manpower on the water.
"We get our calls, usually around 11 o'clock p.m., and we go out to find people. When that light shines out and someone's out of gas, and they've been out there all day, and their kids are in the boat, and they're sunburned and mosquitoes are biting them, and our light hits them, they're pretty happy folks," said Ted Robertson, Denis' brother. Membership tends to run in families — the newest, and youngest, member is Denis Robertson Jr.
The barbecue is as much a part of the Coffee Bluff MRS tradition as the approximately 12,000 missions they've run over the past six decades. This will be the 25th barbecue Denis has worked, and he has no difficulty remembering the time frame — he had to leave his first one when his wife Teri went into labor with their first child.
There are 13 marine rescue squadrons scattered throughout Georgia and South Carolina. Tybee Island's is the granddaddy of them all, but there are units as far inland as Sylvania, and up into Hardeeville and Bluffton, S.C. Earlier this spring, they all got together for their annual meeting, this time in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Denis Robertson ended up being elected commodore of the national group.
The Robertson brothers explain that the various squadrons grew out of an unmet need in 1959. The Coast Guard handles water rescue, but mainly on the open seas and the Coast Guard boats of the day were too big to easily navigate the streams and creeks on the other side of the beach.
An added complication was the frequent rotation of manpower, meaning Coast Guard personnel never got the opportunity to gain familiarity with tricky inland waterways. Enter locals, using their own boats and training to help others as part of a tight-knit community.
"At our 50th anniversary, we had surpassed 10,000 missions, and I think we're probably in the 12,000 mission area at this time," said Denis Robertson.
The various MRS units help one another out, responding with mutual aid when manpower is thin or a mission stretches out over days. A tragic example just a few weeks ago was a boating accident in South Carolina, where the Coffee Bluff unit joined in the search for a young woman who was killed in a boat crash.
Another recent mission was training, with members ferrying personnel from the Chatham Emergency Management Agency out to barrier islands to practice search-and-rescue missions, complete with dogs.
The volunteers deploy in any number of different boats: kayaks, airboats, Sea-Doos, boats equipped with side-scan sonar. Boat ownership is a prerequisite of membership, and some keep their boats in the water while others are bring them in on trailers, so when a call goes out, the response can be quick.
Saturday's barbecue is a major fundraiser for the organization. Not only is it for a good cause, but also, the members have become pretty good at cooking barbecue over the past few generations.
"We don't ask for money when we help people and we don't compete with commercial services. We are there because it is the right thing to do," said Denis.


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Q: a2ensite does not create log files I have a simple bash script which should generate Apache site.conf file and then run a2ensite site.name
Everything works fine but a2ensite does not generate log files automatically. Then when I run sudo systemctl reload apache2 it throws me an error Cannot access directory '/var/log/apache2/www/site.name/' Bash file looks like:
#!/bin/bash

read -p 'Write url without www and http prefixes: ' url

template=$(</home/Camo/custom-scripts/apache/site-template.conf)
# Next line is string substitution
template=("${template//__URL__/$url}")

configFile=${url}'.conf'
configDirPath="/etc/apache2/sites-available/"
wwwDirPath="/var/www/html/$url"

mkdir $wwwDirPath
chown -R www-data:www-data $wwwDirPath
chmod 644 -R $wwwDirPath

echo "$template" > $configDirPath$configFile

sudo a2ensite ${configFile}
sudo systemctl reload apache2

and here is site.cong file created by previous script
<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin xxxxx.xxxxx@gmail.com
        ServerName camo.publicvm.com

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/www/camo.publicvm.com/error.log
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everything looks ok so why are log files missing? Thanks for any help.

A: Log files are not generated automatically, so you will have to create them manually:
touch ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/www/camo.publicvm.com/error.log
touch ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/www/camo.publicvm.com/access.log

And don't forget changing its ownership:
chown root.adm ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/www/camo.publicvm.com/error.log
chown root.adm ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/www/camo.publicvm.com/access.log

Then check if everything looks fine and if it does, reload apache2 service:
apachectl configtest
systemctl reload apache2

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Welcome back to Girl Reporter Fridays, where I channel my inner Lois Lane to bring you the most interesting stuff from my Google Reader. This week there's tabloid drama, Lewis Carroll whimsy, fugly prom dresses, and more!
Life & Style sunk quite low (even for a tabloid) when they twisted this stylist's words to criticize 3-year-old Shiloh's boyish clothing. There's a lot to be said about gender and clothing here.
As a longtime Lewis Carroll fan, I was delighted by this article on fashion taking inspiration from Alice.
Did you see any coverage of the 60s-inspired Rochas show? I adored the hair!
I thought Jezebel's post on the joke of the violent woman was incredibly insightful.
Also on Jezebel, Dodai's commentary on the Anthro catalog is never to-be-missed.
More Jezebel, but I just had to share: prom dresses have always had a bad rap as fugly, but I can't believe it's come to this.
I loved Feministing's "In Praise of Johnny Weir."
Will you be watching the Oscars this Sunday? This article provides an interesting lens through which to view the fashion.
Sorry but you're really bottom-dragging here, Gertie. Trash the post, and return to fashion for women. Please.
Wow, if you don't want to just don't read it. As Gertie said, she finds it interesting so there's no need to be rude about her own personal tastes.
Love it! Prom dresses are always an interesting little fashion niche. On one hand, you're right that they're often hideous and the one that you showed there is no exception, but at the same time, if there's ever going to be a time in your life when you can act on your urge to wear a turquoise lame ruched ruffled floor-length gown from crazyland, prom would be it! Make these mistakes when you're 17 and don't know any better, because you're certainly not going to welcome that dress when it comes to you as a bridesmaid gown :D It's only when the prom fashion starts becoming indistinguishable from stripper fashion that I really start to bristle.
I have been a lurker on Gertie's site for a while and I have to say that I love all of Gertie's posts, including the "Girl Reporter" set. A lot of those links are to posts about fashion for women, she's just introducing to us other people's thoughts, not just her own. I was motivated to (finally) comment, Digs, because your comment does not seem to be consistent with the atmosphere of positivity and respect for others that Gertie tries to maintain in both her posts and her comments section.
haha the jezebal article on prom dresses was right on... and what IS the deal with those prom garters?!?
I can't believe all the crazytalk over Shiloh's wardrobe and haircut. The kid is old enough to have some choice in what she puts on in the morning, and obviously she gravitates towards less girly outfits. Her parents aren't forcing her into it, and it's certainly not harmful. Jeeze. It also really gets me that when people were up in arms over Suri Cruise wearing heels and lip gloss, the argument was that she shouldn't be "allowed" to dress like that, whereas Shiloh is being "forced" - as if a little girl would never choose not to dress like a princess!
You think those prom dresses are bad. My daughter received a catalog in the mail a few weeks ago and it was chuck full of crazy dresses. They were high on tacky and very low on style.
I just started my daughters prom dress on Monday. I am still is muslin mode. You'll love this, my daughter picked red silk with tiny white polka dots. So cute.
I made my prom dresses in high school. I still look back and cringe. I hope she wont do the same when she is my age.
Thanks for your Girl Friday post. It's nice to change it up.
Oh! Well I just checked out nearly all of those links! Keep posting about what you want to post about Gertie, after all that's what blogs are for- and most of us seem to like what you're into!
I love your Girl Reporter posts! Shiloh's look- it does make me question my ideas on gender appropriate clothing. I don't have any children, but if I had a daughter I would probably encourage her to dress more femininely. I would want my kid to be who they want to be, but I would also want her to be proud of her girly-ness, ya know? But I think the main question should be, why does this magazine feel it is their job to "out" celebrities as bad parents based on paparazzi pictures of their kids?
I bet there's another reason for Shiloh's haircut... like bubblegum stuck in it or a game of barbershop gone wrong. My sister had a similar haircut due to her best friend cutting a chunk out of it when she was four.
great articles, gertie! i really look forward to your girl reporter posts after a long week of work, life, etc.
Thank you for this kind of article, Gertie.
Coming from a different culture, my knowledge of tabloids habits is not very good (although this kind of press has rapidly grown in France these last years), and I don't have any idea of what really is a prom night or a prom dress (except of course through series I used to watch as a kid, which I don't consider as a reliable source of information), so I actually find it quite interesting!
Do all high-school girls go to the prom? Do they usually dress in such a poofy, shiny, tacky way or is it just a marginal behaviour? Do they all read 'seventeen' or take its advice quite seriously? I might certainly be called naive, but well, it's sort of clothing/cultural anthropology to me (ok, in a very light and funny way)!
I love Gertie Girl Reporter and look out for it every Friday. It's not just about the selection of articles that have caught Gertie's eye, but also the wide range of comments - many of which are most articulate and thoughtful - that come in their wake. Sometimes I start out with a really clear-cut view of where I stand and soon realise that things aren't so straightforward. What I love about this blog is that it isn't a 'cosy echo chamber' like some Anonymous put it the other day - quite the reverse sometimes. If the sewing community wants to put a new spin on the word 'neutral colour', then so be it; language is a living thing and it evolves constantly. If Gertie wants to explore gender stereotypes within the media and world of fashion, I'm interested in hearing what people have to say.
Being in France, like Carlotta, I don't know who half the people you talk about are, but I still like to read your weekly article because it's like a window into US society from a woman's point of view, and I find this very interesting. I agree that the Rochas collection is fabulous!
Thank you, ladies! I appreciate your feedback. I know the Girl Reporter features aren't for everyone, which is why I do it as a second post on Fridays (when I do it). So hopefully there's something for everyone to read!
P.S. I think a see a prom dress post in my future!
Thank you for posting this! I've NEVER been so offended by a magazine cover in my life - as though a 3 year old deserves to be poked fun at on the cover of a national magazine! It's a good thing she's too young to know it - but regardless, take the piss out of the parents not the kids!
On a happier note - prom fashion can be rad if you keep it vintage! There's alot of prints happening in prom fashion lately that make the dresses look more like beach wear that I don't like - I prefer classic colours like gold or pink, and lots of tulle!!!


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October 6, 2020 October 6, 2020 Divine Debris
Fall into Pumpkins! With the Cute Pumpkins Mug Rugs Free Crochet Patterns
Coasters, Crochet, For the home, Patterns
The calendar says that it's October but the weather is still so warm here that, I really don't know. Usually October is my favorite month of the year, I love to watch the leaves change to beautiful colors. And of course, Halloween candy and the beginning of pie season! So that's why this week's design is a 2 pack – the Cute Pumpkins Mug Rugs with the bonus Cute Jack-O-Lanterns Mug Rugs.
The reason I included 2 designs in this pattern is because I couldn't decide which one I liked more. Pumpkins would work great all season long, you could have pumpkins out from September to December, ya know? But as I said before, I love Halloween and jack-o-lanterns are so cute that I really wanted to make them too. So I just said, whatever it's been a hard year, we should just have some joy in our lives.
Both of these designs are super easy. I think I made both of them in one day when I was designing them. And I went back to the fringe, because something about full fringe just feels Halloween to me, as opposed to the crab stitch I used on my Cute Cups Mug Rugs (although you can totally make the crab stitch on these and have them be cute).
Anyway, I do hope you like these little home decor touches I've been designing lately. I love personally love how quick they are to make and how much personality they have. Although, I think I'll make a pillow for next month. What do you think of mug rugs? Let me know in the comments!
I hope where ever you are you're having a great time and being safe and healthy. Hugs friends. Wash your hands and masks
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US G (4.00 mm) crochet hook
Size #4 worsted weight yarn
.5 – 1 oz. / 20 – 40 yards
3 -4 colors
Notions: scissors, measuring tape, yarn needle
Hot Glue and Glue Gun (optional)
Stick (for stem)
18 rows x 18 scs = 4"
Terms/ Stitches used
Ch: chain
This pattern is worked from the bottom up, flat, in back and forth rows, with a turn at the beginning/ end of the row.
Every stitch in this pattern is a single crochet. The directions will only tell you what color (ie: Color A, Color B, etc…) and the number in the parentheses tells you how many scs to make.
The ch 1 at the beginning of the row does not count as a stitch.
Your mug rug may need some light blocking.
In the example, the inactive yarn is carried behind the active. If this is confusing, you might want to check out the helpful Moogly video on tapestry.
Color A is white, color B is orange, Color C is green, and color D is black (all stash colors).
You can buy a pdf with both graphs in it in my Ravelry Shop.
Cute Pumpkins Cute Jack-O-Lanterns
Width: 5.25" (not including fringe)
Yarn: .5 oz / 20 yds total Height: 4"
Yarn: .6 oz/ 25 yds total
Approx finished product dimensions (measurements may vary by gauge and yarn used)
Cute Pumpkins Mug Rug pattern instructions
(RS) Row 1: A: Ch 25, sc into the second ch from the hook and the next 23 — 24 sc
Row 2: A: Ch 1, turn, (24) — 24 sc
Row 3: A: Ch 1, turn, (3), B: (6), A: (6), B: (6), A: (3) — 24 sc
Rows 5 – 10: A: Ch 1, turn, (1), B: (10), A: (2), B: (10), A: (1) — 24 sc
Row 11: A: Ch 1, turn, (2), B: (8), A: (4), B: (8), A: (2) — 24 sc
Row 12: A: Ch 1, turn, (3), B: (2), C: (2), B: (2), A: (6), B: (2), C: (2), B: (2), A: (3) — 24 sc
Fasten off color B.
Rows 13 – 14: A: Ch 1, turn, (5), C: (2), A: (10), C: (2), A: (5) — 24 sc
Fasten off color C.
Rows 15 – 16: A: Ch 1, turn, (24) — 24 sc
Fasten off, weave in your ends. Block if necessary.
Cut 32 4" pieces each of yarn in color B. Loop each piece through the row ends on each side of the mug rug.
Cute Jack-O-Lanterns Mug Rug pattern instructions
Row 1: A: Ch 25, sc into the second ch from the hook and the next 23 — 24 sc
(RS) Row 2: A: Ch 1, turn, (3), B: (6), A: (6), B: (6), A: (3) — 24 sc
Row 4: A: Ch 1, turn, (1), B: (3), D: (4), B: (3), A: (2), B: (3), D: (4), B: (3), A: (1) — 24 sc
Row 5: A: Ch 1, turn, (1), B: (2), D: (2), B: (2), D: (2), B: (2), A: (2), B: (2), D: (2), B: (2), D: (2), B: (2), A: (1) — 24 sc
Row 7: A: Ch 1, turn, (1), B: (10), D: (2), B: (10), A: (1) — 24 sc
Rows 8 – 9: A: Ch 1, turn, (1), B: (4), D: (2), B: (4), A: (2), B: (4), D: (2), B: (4), A: (1) — 24 sc
Row 10: A: Ch 1, turn, (1), B: (10), D: (2), B: (10), A: (1) — 24 sc
Row 11: A: Ch 1, turn, (1), B: (1), D: (3), B: (2), D: (3), B: (1), A: (2), B: (1), D: (3), B: (2), D: (3), B: (1), A: (1) — 24 sc
Fasten off color D.
Row 13: A: Ch 1, turn, (1), B: (10), A: (2), B: (10), A: (1) — 24 sc
Row 18: A: Ch 1, turn, (24) — 24 sc
Cut 18 3" pieces each of yarn in colors B and D. Loop each piece through in alternating colors on the row ends of both sides of the mug rug.
Tada! There it is, the Cute Pumkins Mug Rugs crochet pattern! I hope you love it and use the hashtag #DivineDebris on Instagram and I'll share it in my stories!
Tagged coasters, Falloween, mug rugs, pumpkins, tapestry
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3 thoughts on "Fall into Pumpkins! With the Cute Pumpkins Mug Rugs Free Crochet Patterns"
Kim Anne Lennie says:
These rug mugs are so cute, love them. I vote for a pillow.
Deborah L Nelson says:
How do you change colors on the mug rugs? I'm not the best crochet Ed.
Divine Debris says:
The same way you change colors doing single crochet, just pull through the new color on your last pull through. There are some good tutorials out there for it 🙂

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Can this university-subsidized condom handle your love?
Will your NU love last?
These roommate pairings were just the first of freshman year mistakes.
NBN knows having a roommate is hard. And sometimes, like going out on weeknights, creating a state budget or talking about politics on Facebook, it just doesn't always work out. We wanted to know more about some of Northwestern's worst roommate stories, so we interviewed students whose living situations freshman year truly crashed and burned. Every roommate pair broke up by Winter Quarter.
"As far as chemistry goes, it is kind of hard to [find] when you're talking over Facebook," Medill sophomore Marty Johnson says. Johnson found his freshman year roommate through the Class of 2019 group. "It seemed like a good match," Johnson says. "We came into it expecting to be friends." For the first couple weeks on campus, they were. "We would watch football on Sundays. He seemed pretty chill," he says.
This roommate relationship turned out to be less chill when Johnson accidentally took the wrong jacket home from a party in Fall Quarter. He ended up having to wear it for a few days before being able to return it. Johnson's roommate confronted him; scolding him for such an egregious transgression. Later Johnson realized his own North Face was missing. "I [was] going through all my friends' rooms," Johnson says. "I tend to leave things places all the time." His roommate told him he had not seen the missing jacket. Johnson eventually found the North Face – hidden under his roommate's bed.
When Willgohs' long-distance boyfriend came into town, her roommate had him sleep on the floor. "I'm like, these are her rules, okay," Willgohs says. "So he sleeps on the floor." The next morning, Willgohs and her boyfriend were cuddling and talking on the floor. Her roommate woke up and was furious and uncomfortable. She informed Willgohs that she would prefer if her boyfriend never stayed in the room again.
Temperature contention reigns among roommate controversies. Isabella Rischall, a McCormick freshman from Minnesota, preferred her room cold. "My house during the winter is like low 60s," Rischall says. Her roommate, a California native, liked it warmer, and Rischall struggled. "I would wake up in the middle of the night sweating, and I'd have to walk up and down the hall to cool off," Rischall says. For Rischall, outward agreements often turned into a covert battle over the dial. Her roommate would turn it up, and then Rischall would turn it down. Their temperature see-saw continued until they managed a temporary treaty at 75 degrees, with the help of an RA.
"I didn't feel the need to be constantly with her," McCormick Freshman Deirdre Willgohs says. This was difficult, because they shared a major and a friend group. "We ate basically every meal together," Willgohs says. Her roomate wanted a close relationship, whereas Willgohs did not. "I was just focused on doing my own thing," she says.
Tension and miscommunication around this grew when Willgohs and her roommate were both running late to Orgo in Tech. Willgohs speed walked and her roommate fell behind, arriving to class a few minutes behind Willgohs.
Her roommate told a mutual friend that Willgohs was trying to run away from her. Even when the pair was on time, Willgohs was quiet on the walk to this class. "I'm just not a morning person," Willgohs says. This also hurt her roommate's feelings.
The lesson here is that if you take Orgo at 8 a.m., everyone will think that you hate them.
Smaller dramas avalanched into shouting for these ex-roommates.
For Rischall, living arrangements seemed like they weren't going to work out right before their compromise with their RA. Other issues, like futons piled with dirty clothes, hooks with the wrong bathrobes and slamming cabinets in the morning, made the temperature of the room unbearable for the both of them (literally and figuratively). In the middle of Fall Quarter, after a fruitless argument and mediation session, Rischall moved out.
After the drama, Willgohs and her roommate argued about issues they had not been able to confront as roommates. Their friends tried to help with the negotiation, but in the end, Willgohs moved out before the end of Fall Quarter.
© North by Northwestern, March 6, 2017.


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Local TV On Satellite Signs Growing List Of Broadcast Retransmission Consent Agreements
Jeff McIntyre, LTVS
919/788-2005, jmcintyre@localtv-satellite.com
Local TV On Satellite Signs Growing List Of Broadcaster Retransmission Consent Agreements
Las Vegas, NV— Local TV on Satellite announced today that it has been successful at negotiating long-term retransmission consent agreements with station group owners Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc., Clear Channel Broadcasting, Inc., E.W. Scripps Company, Landmark Communications, Inc. and Lin Television Corporation, which represent almost 50 stations covering 25% of US TV households. These stations will join the 178 PBS member stations who have already agreed to participate in the LTVS plan covering approximately 75% of the nation. Paul Karpowicz, Vice President of Television for Lin Television Corporation stated that, "The Lin Television group looks forward to working with LTVS in the delivery of our local broadcast signals to DBS subscribers and applauds them for their extraordinary vision as it relates to forward HDTV compatibility. LTVS has taken great care to build a system that combines the best-of-the-best as it relates to the dissemination of the broadcaster signals back into the local market place via satellite."
Further accolades were received from Terry H. Schroeder, Vice President Television Station Group for E.W. Scripps Company. He stated that, "LTVS' business strategy was extremely persuasive. Combining their interest in carrying the entire 19.4 Mbs broadcast signal with reciprocal payment for use of that signal was very attractive to our group. We look forward to a long lasting relationship, one that we believe will help foster a cooperative relationship between broadcasters and DBS providers."
Local TV on Satellite has positioned itself in the DBS marketplace to become the "common platform" local-into-local program provider thereby allowing existing DBS providers to comply with recent must-carry legislation, penetrate more markets and enhance digital signal quality to the full high definition standard.
LTVS will launch two Ka-band spot beam satellites with service to approximately 75% of U.S. TV households. These signals will be broadcast in the full 19.4 Mbs digital standard format to be adopted by all commercial TV stations by mid-2002.
Since its inception, many broadcasters have been outwardly supportive of the LTVS business plan and indicate they may soon be joining the list of participants. Ed Quinn, President for McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Company stated that, "LTVS' plan to deliver the full 19.4 Mbs digital broadcast signal back into the local marketplace via satellite is exactly what the broadcast industry needs." John Hutchinson, Executive Vice President and COO of LTVS stated that "the LTVS business plan is a win-win situation for the consumer, Broadcaster and DBS provider. The Broadcasters' entire signal will be available in their local market via satellite thereby preserving localism. The DBS providers will be able to conserve scarce capacity for expanded national services because the LTVS spot beam satellites will bear the burden of relaying up to 800 local signals. And subscribers to DBS will be assured a forward digital compatibility to receive all their local news, weather, sports and entertainment favorites as well as an emerging array of new services including multicasting and datacasting."
Local TV on Satellite offers a simple one-dish, one-box seamless solution for expanding existing DBS services into the high-demand local broadcast signal arena.
Local TV on Satellite was founded in 1997 by Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc., and its subsidiary, Microspace Communications Corporation to develop and implement a plan to deliver via satellite all local television stations' signals in each market served. Using "spot beam" satellite technology, LTVS will enable DBS providers to be fully competitive with cable through the addition of local signals.
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  message_http.open('GET', 'ajax/' + id, true);
  message_http.send(null);

  return true;
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function toggleMessage (msg_num)
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total number of packets sent and received per second.
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number of interrupts per second.
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'The Stand' To Premiere On CBS All Access This December
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{
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All photos taken in this photo gallery are by Norman Jameson or from the archives of Knollwood Baptist Church.
In this "Singing Our Faith" series, we learn about Ken Wilson's hymn-teaching process and the love for hymns he instilled in the children at Knollwood Baptist Church during three decades of ministry.
We also examine some of the trends and changes in church music and ministry.
Hymns for a Lifetime is a series about retired music minister Ken Wilson from Knollwood Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, N.C. and the process he used to make sure children and youth are taught to sing hymnic heritage, led to sing these hymns regularly and to enjoy singing these hymns. This series in the "Singing Our Faith" project is part of the BNG Storytelling Projects Initiative. Music is integral to our faith but some individuals and congregations take this expression of ourselves to a new level. In "Singing Our Faith," we explore this relationship between music and faith and the creative ministers, church leaders and congregations leading the way.


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A Descriptive Catalogue of Indian Astronomical Instruments
Sarma, Sreeramula Rajeswara; V. Sarma, Ananda | tredition | A Descriptive Catalogue of Indian Astronomical Instruments
The large masonry instruments designed by Sawai Jai Singh and erected in his five observatories in the early eighteenth century mark the culmination of a long process of development in astronomical instrumentation. But what kind of astronomical instruments were used in India before Jai Singh's time? Sanskrit texts on astronomy describe the construction and use of several types of instruments. Are any of these extant in museums? Such questions led me to an exploration of nearly a hundred museums and private collections in India, Europe and USA for about a quarter century. The present catalogue is the outcome of this exploration.
This catalogue describes each instrument in the context of the related extant specimens, while laying special emphasis on the interplay between Sanskrit and Islamic traditions of instrumentation. Therefore, each instrument type is organized in a separate section identified by the letters of the alphabet. These sections begin with introductory essays on the history of the instrument type and its varieties, followed by a full technical description of every specimen, with art historical notes. Moreover, all engraved data are reproduced and interpreted as far as possible.
In some 4300 pages, it contains 600 entries, with introductory essays and long extracts from two important Sanskrit texts, namely Mahendra Sūri's Yantrarāja and Padmanābha's Dhruvabhramādhikāra, along with English translations.
Following a suggestion that a shorter version of the Catalogue, consisting of all the introductory essays and appendices, but excluding the catalogue proper, would be easier for the general reader to handle, this Abridged Version has been prepared. The pagination here remains the same as in the Catalogue. Those who wish to read about individual instruments can always consult the Catalogue.
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Award-winning Elvis tribute artist coming to Lacombe Performing Arts Centre
Darren Lee will perform two acts featuring 1950s, 1970s Elvis Presley
Todd Vaughan
An award-winning Elvis Presley tribute artist from Edmonton is bringing some hunka, hunka burnin' love to Lacombe.
On Feb 15, Darren Lee, who received the Queen Diamond Jubilee Award in 2012, will bring his rendition of the King of Rock n' Roll to the Lacombe Performing Arts Centre (LPAC).
"There will be sets of Elvis tributes: One being a tribute to the 1950s Elvis, which is the early rock n' roll stuff and then the 1970s which is the jump suit and the bigger songs like My Way and Burnin' Love," Lee said.
Each song features a video produced by Lee, who has performed extensively is Las Vegas and Maui, and the show is designed be an interactive experience.
Lee said his fascination with Elvis came after hearing "Hound Dog" for the first time around the age of five. His interest grew form there.
"I was 10 when Elvis died and my mother had his records all over the house," he said.
Lee went to a Catholic school where one of the nuns there taught him guitar chords.
"I had a pretty good ear for music and I realized the chords she taught me were the same ones on the Elvis record," he said.
Lee didn't think his interest in Elvis would ever be a career until he and a friend entered an Elvis contest at an Edmonton venue.
"A friend of mine came third and I came in second; he went on the road and about a year later there was a show called Elvis, Elvis, Elvis. They were looking for a guy to be young Elvis and he recommended me," he said.
Lee's career would take off from there, winning the prestigious Best Elvis Tribute Artist in Memphis, Tennessee and the aforementioned Queen Diamond Jubilee Award.
Lee said the icon of Elvis is a timeless expression of rock n' roll.
"In my opinion he is the best singer of all time. He could sing anything, rock n roll, gospel, rhythm and blues — you name it. He become this giant icon that surpassed him. His icon is bigger than the person was and it keeps going," he said.
Tickets for the show cost $30 and are available at the Mary C. Moore Public Library. Part of all the ticket sales will go to the Lacombe Food Bank.
Lee hopes guests to the show leave LPAC thinking they saw the best Elvis tribute artist on earth.
"I want them to say I am the best they have ever seen. It is Valentine's Day and this is the alternative to taking your wife or your girlfriend out for a a crappy dinner or buying her flowers that die. Come see something you both will enjoy," he said.
todd.vaughan@lacombeexpress.com
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UA Scientist Identifies Cellular Gene Signatures for Heart Muscle Regeneration
Repairing heart muscle damaged by a heart attack or other cardiovascular diseases is one of the "holy grails" for cardiovascular scientists. The ability to repair heart muscle — especially by using a person's own cells — would be a significant advance that could enhance quality of life for the millions of people who suffer from a heart attack or have a chronic heart condition.
Researchers believe that human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) are the key to unlocking this regenerative ability. By taking a tiny bit of blood, scientists can generate an individual's patient specific stem cells and then convert them into any cell type in the body — including cardiomyocytes, the cells that make up the heart muscle. The research, however, is in its infancy and the technique is not yet ready to be deployed for human heart disease regenerative purposes.
Now, researchers at the University of Arizona are one step closer to understanding hiPSC cardiomyocytes and how they may better be utilized to repair heart muscles. In a study published this month in Nature Communications, Jared Churko, PhD, assistant professor of cellular and molecular medicine at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson, used a systems-based approach encompassing single-cell transcriptomics, single-cell proteomics and CRISPR gene-editing to identify different subpopulations of cardiomyocytes.
Transcriptomics is the study of the transcriptome — quantification of the types of RNA produced within the cell.
Proteomics is the study of proteomes, the proteins expressed by a cell, tissue or organism.
CRISPR gene editing is a technology for modifying an organism's DNA code at the single-cell level. This has the potential to correct cells that are known to cause a heart condition.
The research reveals multiple subpopulations of cardiomyocytes expressing specific transcription factors (NR2F2, TBX5 and HEY2) — with different spatial and biological functions as observed in the heart. Dr. Churko believes this new understanding of cardiomyocytes can be used to better repair heart muscle injuries in the future.
"Understanding the gene signatures of different populations of hiPSC-CMs will impact our understanding of how to use such cells to discover drugs, model heart disease and repair a damaged heart," Dr. Churko explained.
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Dr. Churko's research team included scientists from Stanford University and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Churko is associated with the Center for Innovation in Brain Science, an assistant professor of physiological sciences and genetics in the UA Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs, member of the Center for Applied Genetics and Genomic Medicine and the UA BIO5 Institute and director of the UA iPSC Core in the UA Sarver Heart Center.
The Nature Communications article is titled, "Defining human cardiac transcription factor hierarchies using integrated single-cell heterogeneity analysis." Co-authors include Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD, Priyanka Garg, Haodi Wu, Jaecheol Lee, Quinton Wessells, Wen-Yi Chen, and Arun Sharma from Stanford Cardiovascular Institute. Other Stanford co-authors are Barbara Treutlein, Shih-Yu Chen, Gary Mantalas, Norma Neff, Garry Nolan and Eric Jabart.
Dr. Churko received funding from Canadian Institute of Health Research (201210MFE-289547), National Institutes of Health (1K99HL128906), and NIH Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium (PCBC_JS_2013/3_03). Dr. Wu received funding from NIH R01 HL126527, NIH R01 HL141371, NIH R01 HL130020, NIH R01 HL123968 and NIH HL128170.
Heart Disease Facts
Each year in the United States:
About 610,000 people die of heart disease; that's about 1 in 4 deaths.
About 735,000 people have a heart attack.
Coronary heart disease causes about 370,000 deaths.
About 5.7 million adults have heart failure.
Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center's 150 members include faculty from cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, pediatric cardiology, neurology, vascular surgery, radiology, endocrinology, emergency medicine, nursing, pharmacy and basic sciences. The UA Sarver Heart Center emphasizes a highly collaborative research environment, fostering innovative translational or "bench-to-bedside" research; dedicated to innovating lifesaving patient care. If you would like to give permission for Sarver Heart Center to contact you about heart research studies, please complete a Cardiology Research Registry Information Form. The academic mission of the Sarver Heart Center encompasses for fellowship programs in cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology, advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology, and electrophysiology.
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Edition de 50 exemplaires. MCB, engendre une étude géométrique des substances cristallines conduisant à un nouvel état de la matière.
The book of talismans, amulets, and zodiacal gems by William Thomas and Kate Pavitt. First published in 1914. This is a reproduction of second and revised 1922 edition.


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Q: Listview builder not taking full List Map data Flutter I have set of List> data which contains the values name, amount and date of products. I am passing the data into a listview builder to render as a list of cards for each product.
The product list passed:

[{name: Product 1, amount: 24.5, date: 2019-07-14 00:00:00.000}, {name:
  Product 2, amount: 29.5, date: 2019-07-14 00:00:00.000}, {name: Product 3,
  amount: 29.5, date: 2019-07-15 00:00:00.000}]

The listview works fine, However I am trying to add a function where the listview filters the products by the date created. For this I'm passing a date through the datetime picker (using setState and the default value is DateTime.now()) and comparing the products date with selected date from the datetime picker.
Please find the code below:
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:learning_app/product.dart';
import 'package:intl/intl.dart';

class BuildProduct extends StatelessWidget {
  final List<Map<String, dynamic>> products;
  final Function updateProduct;
  final DateTime selectedDate;

  Tasks(this.products, this.updateProduct, this.selectedDate);

  Widget _buildCard() {
    DateTime _currentDate = DateTime.now();

    Widget ProductCard = Center(
      child: Text('No Products added'),
    );
    if (products.length > 0) {
      ProductCard = ListView.builder(
        scrollDirection: Axis.vertical,
        shrinkWrap: true,
        itemCount: products.length,
        itemBuilder: (BuildContext context, int index) {
          print("Product List: " + products.toString());
          print("Product Name: " + products[index]['name'].toString());
          print("Product Date: " + products[index]['date'].toString());
          print("Selected Date: " + selectedDate.toString());
          if(DateFormat.yMMMd().format(products[index]['date']) ==
                DateFormat.yMMMd().format(selectedDate)) {
            return ProductCard(products[index], index, updateProduct);
          }
        }
      );
    }
    return ProductCard;
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return _buildCard();
  }
}

The problem with the code is that if I select a different date to a new product (i.e the third product), the listview builder does not take it in the loop, even worse when i pass a new date as the number of products in the loop decreases by 1. Please find the print statements below for reference(The one in the codes)
When the page is opened with the default date:
I/flutter (11152): Product List: [{name: Product 1, amount: 24.5, date: 2019-07-14 00:00:00.000}, {name: Product 2, amount: 29.5, date: 2019-07-14 00:00:00.000}, {name: Product 3, amount: 29.5, date: 2019-07-15 00:00:00.000}]
I/flutter (11152): Product Name: Product 1
I/flutter (11152): Product Date: 2019-07-14 20:13:05.838550
I/flutter (11152): Selected Date: 2019-07-14 20:15:32.687104
I/flutter (11152): Product List: //same list as above
I/flutter (11152): Product Name: Product 2
I/flutter (11152): Product Date: 2019-07-14 20:13:32.398186
I/flutter (11152): Selected Date: 2019-07-14 20:15:32.687104
I/flutter (11152): Product List: //same list as above
I/flutter (11152): Product Name: Product 3
I/flutter (11152): Product Date: 2019-07-15 00:00:00.000
I/flutter (11152): Selected Date: 2019-07-14 20:15:32.687104

and when i select another date (i.e 2019-07-15) :
I/flutter (11152): Product List: [{name: Product 1, amount: 24.5, date: 2019-07-14 00:00:00.000}, {name: Product 2, amount: 29.5, date: 2019-07-14 00:00:00.000}, {name: Product 3, amount: 29.5, date: 2019-07-15 00:00:00.000}]
I/flutter (11152): Product Name: Product 1
I/flutter (11152): Product Date: 2019-07-14 20:13:05.838550
I/flutter (11152): Selected Date: 2019-07-15 12:00:00.000Z
I/flutter (11152): Product List: //same list as above
I/flutter (11152): Product Name: Product 2
I/flutter (11152): Product Date: 2019-07-14 20:13:32.398186
I/flutter (11152): Selected Date: 2019-07-15 12:00:00.000Z7104

I want to render only the products(cards) with the same date as the selected date when the date is selected. Please help me find the error in my implementation or suggest a better method for achieving the goal. Any help is appreciated, thanks :)

A: Ok, I think this will help you rather than converting it to strings and then comparing use the difference() method available in DateTime class. You can also use inDays property just to get the difference in days
code:
if(products[index]['date'].difference(selectedDate).inDays == 0) {
  return ProductCard(products[index], index, updateProduct);
}


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