The web is not wireless but is made up of huge warehouses of servers and data storage capacity. Here's 10 photos from Google's data centres.
Today, we think of nothing of sending a quick email, searching and browsing the internet, enjoying online shopping, or storing and sharing photos and videos.
But a vast physical network of data centres (also known as server farms) – full of servers and storage capacity – around the world is needed to support the explosion in the use of the internet.
To get a sense of the scale, here's a selection of pictures of the inside and outside of data centres owned by Google, the world's biggest search engine and provider of multiple online services.
These data centres – also known as server farms – can be so big that workers need transport to get around, for example on bicycles.
1 BILLION people used Facebook on Monday – Wow!


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Q: Appropriate way to replace a string? my input is abc@xyz.com
I want to replace xyz.com with mnop.com
So the final result will be abc@mnop.com
The present way
var input = "abc@xyz.com";
var output = input.Split('@')[0] + "@mnop.com";

What is the appropriate way?Any regular expression?

A: Replace function sample (with correct exception handle)
/// <summary>
/// replace email domain
/// </summary>
/// <param name="email"> email </param>
/// <param name="newDomain"> new domain </param>
/// <returns></returns>
private string ReplaceMailDomain(string email, string newDomain)
{
    if (email == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("email");

    int pos = email.IndexOf('@');
    if (pos < 0)
    {
        throw new ArgumentException("Invalid email", "email");
    }
    else
    {
        return email.Substring(0, pos + 1) + newDomain;
    }
}

Usage:
string email = ReplaceMailDomain("abc@xyz.com", "mnop.com");

A: If you know before hand the string you are looking for, you can simply use the normal Replace(string toFind, string replacement). You can use indexof and substring to get the domain name.
Given the below:
        string input = "abc@xyz.com";
        string domain = input.Substring(input.IndexOf('@') + 1);
        Console.WriteLine(input.Replace(domain, "mnop.com"));

It yields
abc@mnop.com

A: If you just want to "take something before @ sign and append some domain name", then one of possible approaches is
var input = "abc@xyz.com";
var output = input.Substring(0, input.IndexOf('@')) + "@mnop.com";

It is slightly "lightweight" than using Split because it doesn't creates array (and in fact you doesn't need array since you're using only its first element).

A: Assuming the address will be valid, meaning there is only one @ character, you can use the simple Replace() function
var domain = "xyz.com";
var newdomain = "xyz.com";

var input = "abc@xyz.com";
var output = input.Replace("@" + domain, "@" + newdomain);

Regexps would be overkill for this.
If you want to remove any domain name and replace it, then use Substring() and IndexOf() for that
var output = input.Substring(0, input.IndexOf('@') + 1) + newdomain;

Note that this will throw an exception if the string doesn't contain the @ character.

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Fibrinolysis syndrome  is characterized by an acute hemorrhagic state brought about by inability of the blood to clot, with massive hemorrhages into the skin producing blackish, purplish swellings and sloughing.

Symptoms
Hemorrhages (this includes severe bleeding of any particular area. Be it: nasal, rectal, oral, it also includes bleeding from scrapes, cuts, bruises (big bruises that do not disappear in the first two to three days).

Cause
The cause for Fibrinolysis syndrome, is the inability of the body to produce blood-coagulates to stop bleeding. What causes the body to not produce blood-coagulates are the low levels of fibrin, or therefore non-existent fibrin.

Diagnosis

Treatment

See also
 Skin lesion
 Hemorrhage
 Fibrin

References

Vascular-related cutaneous conditions
Syndromes

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Boeing's X-32 Was The Ugly Duckling In JSF Competition
Wendell Barnhouse
A question with no answer: Would Boeing's X-32 have been the better choice for the Joint Strike Fighter program?
As the Joint Strike Fighter concept developed over a decade ago, Lockheed and Boeing each developed their own prototype. Lockheed's X-35 won the competition but the Lightning has faced and continues to face technical issues that has delayed development and forced massive cost overruns.
Considering the challenges that has hexed the F-35, perhaps Boeing was better off finishing second. The program to develop a do-it-all fifth-generation aircraft can be considered for a "bridge too far" designation.
It's entrant in the competition was designated as the X-32 – "x" is the typical designation for experimental but in this case "x" also stood for x'ed-out.
In October of 2001, the Department of Defense awarded the $200 billion contract to Lockheed Martin and hindsight makes one wonder if the right choice was made.
What was wrong with the X-32? Would it have been a better choice?
Like hindsight on the F-35, predicting that the X-32 would have ultimately been the better choice is mostly guess work. And considering the F-35's issues, it's easier to say the wrong choice was made.
The marching orders from the Defense Department for the JSF program were idealistic. The goal was to produce a jack-of-all-trades aircraft, a Swiss Army knife. Putting all the prerequisites in one plane led to what one would expect by a project designed by a committee.
Boeing's approach was to produce two prototypes – the X32A for conventional takeoff and supersonic demonstration and X-32B for VTOL. Boeing's plan was to then turn two prototypes into one.
That promise was a tough sell for the Department of Defense to believe.
Performance wise, the X-32 fell short of the promised X-35 performance, particularly in its ability to hover.
While from functional and airworthiness aspects the X-32 might have met the requirements, putting all of the systems into one plane produced an ugly duckling. If it were a beauty contest, the X-32 would have finished a distant third in a competition of two. The high-set the carbon fiber delta wing along with the bulky air-intake system required that its landing gear be exceptionally long. So during takeoffs and landings and even when airborne, the X-32 looked more awkward than sleek.
With the Department of Defense making its choice, Boeing's two test aircraft became museum relics. The X-32A is at the National Museum of the United States Air Force while the X-32B is at the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum.
Wendell Barnhouse is a veteran journalist with over 40 years of experience as a writer and an editor. For the last 30 years, he wrote about college sports but he has had an interest and curiosity about aviation since he was in grade school.
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CoffeeShop "Thanksgiving" Digital Paper Pack!
What are your family plans for Halloween? The last few years I would buy the kids a "scary" t-shirt from Walmart (I am too cheap and lazy to mess with costumes, BAD MOM) and we go trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. They get what seems like 20 pounds of candy (from approximately 20 houses) and we read the ingredients and realize it is really bad for us so we toss it all in the trash. I hand out some organic 85% chocolate bars I happened to stock up on as I knew I would toss their candy, and the boys are happy because chocolate is chocolate.
I feel guilty that we are begging for candy that we toss in the trash, especially when there are starving people in the word. But I don't think anyone takes Halloween candy donations, and I would feel guilty giving someone else diabetes… The kids don't care because they are all about collecting the candy, but I hate feeling like a bad mom/neighbor every Halloween (wasting "food" AND stealing candy from my children).
Rather than send out an email asking all of the neighbors to give out healthy treats (apples) and little fun toys (certainly leading to our house getting toilet-papered and having all of the neighbors think I am the crazy rat-lady at the end of the street), I sat down with the boys and we decided to start a new Halloween tradition that does not involve going from door to door begging for junk food. We are going to have a Twilight Zone/Munsters movie night with popcorn, cheeses, grapes, olives, fancy meats, etc. and I will make my delicious gluten-free almond flour brownies for desert. If it is cool enough we will also sit outside and roast hot dogs and apples on the fire pit.
My kids were actually really excited about our plans and I think this will be the best Halloween ever. I know you might think I am a horrible and neurotic mom (candy won't kill them, they are kids and kids need junk food, it is an important part of childhood you horrible mean mom!), but years past we had so much candy that they were eating sugary treats daily through Easter.
We will still buy our yearly scary t-shirts from Walmart so we will be properly dressed for our Halloween Celebration.
On to one of my favorite holidays, Thanksgiving. I had so much fun making a new digital paper pack for Thanksgiving-themed designs. These 10x10 inch papers that would be perfect for website/blog backgrounds, storyboards, frames, greeting cards, and Facebook covers. They are free for you to use personally or commercially, no attribution necessary. I just ask that you don't sell them "as is" since I want to keep them free.
I used free clipart from Clker to create the patterns for these designs.
I hope you find a use for these papers! Download the free CoffeeShop "Thanksgiving" Digital paper set. You can also download it here.


Every Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Last Sunday at 5 p.m.
Every Wednesday at 9:15 a.m.
Every Saturday at 9:15 a.m.
A weekly opportunity to call in from 09.15am to our parish room for refreshments, home baking and a chat. A weekly raffle takes place, and a number of prizes are distributed. Finished at 11.30am.
For youngsters, between the ages of 7 and 11, the club offers a variety of actvities. There is usually also an annual residential during school holidays. For further details, please ring the Reader Mrs Margaret Holmes on 01924 280371.
Every First Sunday at 5 p.m.
Every Saturday at 9:30 a.m.


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How system integrators, plant owners should collaborate on an automation project
When a plant owner and an automation system integrator are planning an automation project, both sides have to agree on the direction for the project to ensure success as well as understand and respect each other's priorities and expectations to develop a fruitful, long-term relationship.
By Tim Gellner March 29, 2016
Here are two pitches for the same control system integration project:
This new process unit will be a technological showcase: no control room-everything will work from hand-held human-machine interfaces (HMIs); software in the cloud and maximum connectivity via the web. Wireless sensor networks will be everywhere.
Or perhaps something different:
This unit must be reliable, so only tried-and-true technologies will be used-basic analog field devices, all hard-wired; standard PC-based HMIs like the older systems at this site. We know what works, and we will stick with it.
Obviously those two approaches represent extremes of the technology spectrum. The question is, who is making the suggestion in each case? Is it the plant owner who is always conservative while the automation system integrator wants to push the envelope? Or vice versa? The answer can go either way, but in most cases the situation lands somewhere in the middle. There might be some separation on the spectrum, but it's not on opposite ends.
Separation, to any extent, has to be worked out, and the technology gap has to be closed. Sometimes it's an action requiring patience and compromise on both sides, but when done well, it will improve an automation project.
Isn't the customer always right?
Some project discussions begin with the owner taking a strong position and telling the integrator: "I am the customer, and it's your job to do the project the way I want. Here is the scope, fill it as described, and charge appropriately."
This approach works for projects where the scope is tightly defined, and there are few options for forming an alternative solution. Many automation projects, however, become more complex for a variety of reasons. Entering into a more open discussion goes a long way toward a successful conclusion.
The table lists reasons for involving an integrator in the technology selection and implementation process, and these points are discussed in detail below.
Choosing the DCS
The number of process plants launching major control system upgrades, including full distributed control system (DCS) replacements, is increasing. Many companies trying to run plants using 30-year-old systems find the risks and costs of nursing such old platforms intolerable. Problems caused by breakdowns and replacement part shortages interrupt production, and vulnerabilities to outside cyber attackers pose major threats.
When a DCS must be replaced, the first hurdle is supplier selection. For some companies, the choice is simple: for reasons of history, supplier relationships, corporate engineering policy, or whatever, there is only one choice. The DCS will come from Supplier X. If this is the case, any system integrator working on the project will have to live with this decision or not accept the project.
For the owner, stating the selection at the outset might thin out the number of integrators bidding on the project. An integrator not familiar with Supplier X has to make a choice: Bow out or take the project believing it can train internal personnel quickly or hire appropriate talent. In most cases, the integrator will not be able to pass those extra costs to the client and must look at it as an investment. Hopefully, another project will come along where those new skills can be used again.
In a situation like this, a large integrator with extensive experience across a range of suppliers and platforms has a distinct advantage. It's simply a matter of assigning the right people to the project.
If supplier selection is open to discussion, an integrator can play a critical role. The process begins with the plant owner's engineers examining operational needs: Here is what the system must be able to do as a minimum, and here is what we would like it to do in addition to improve process control.
The integrator's project team looks at these requirements, and internal platform experts representing each DCS supplier draw on knowledge and experience to make a case for why a particular system best meets the owner's requirements. When a consensus is reached, the best one or two possibilities are presented to the owner by the integrator with a clear explanation as to why specific recommendations are being made. Often the integrator's cumulative internal experience plays a major role in the process. Memories of where a given platform worked well or poorly in particular applications are very important and guide the selection as a result.
Having this unbiased experience is paramount for such a decision. The internal engineers at a given facility don't have the time to research products along these lines and in necessary detail. If they have only the sales pitches from DCS suppliers to go on, their view might not be entirely accurate. Because the integrator often has hands-on experience with the platform in a variety of applications, it is easier for the integrator to achieve a higher level of objectivity than the owner can alone.
If the integrator feels the customer's selection is not the best for the situation, the internal expert for the specific platform will explain the reason for the misgivings. The integrator will point out where gaps exist between functionality needs and the system's capabilities. If the owner accepts the evaluation, but sticks to the original selection, the next step is to figure out how to overcome the deficiencies. The integrator's role in this process is critical.
In some cases, the integrator's project leader may have to sit down with the DCS supplier's representative and be very clear as to where problems lie, allowing the company an opportunity to offer a solution. If the DCS supplier sees the plant owner as a critical customer, it may be glad to have the opportunity to solve the problem and further cement the relationship. The alternative may be for the integrator to bridge the gap with its own fix, either independently or in concert with the DCS supplier.
Learn more about challenging DCS situations and what to do when opinions clash.
The toughest DCS situation
The most difficult situation for everyone is when an entire plant changes hands. The new owner with its engineering staff moves in to find an environment where it had no prior involvement whatsoever. That is, no control of supplier selection, no influence on control strategy, and existing intellectual property is a black box. Some of the plant's existing engineers may have remained behind and can help, but it's hard to depend on this kind of cooperation over the long term.
An integrator working with a new owner is in the same position of bewilderment at the outset. The task is to make sense of what is there, identifying which systems need help and how the automation infrastructure can be improved. This is another situation when having an integrator with a deep technological bench is important. The particular plant may be unfamiliar, but if there are experts within the staff capable of working with the major process units and automation systems, moving through the learning curve can be much faster.
The new owner and integrator need to analyze the entire plant, from one end to the other and evaluate the processes and supporting automation systems. As problems emerge, they need to be prioritized according to their ability to disrupt production. Those bad actors need to be fixed first to stabilize the operation.
The next step is to look at where improvements can be launched to improve throughput and gain efficiencies. These are normally treated as incremental programs, marching methodically through the systems one-by-one while the plant remains in production. It's rare to see the new owners of a working facility shut it down and make all the improvements at once.
The same guidelines for technology selection also apply. The owner may decide to leave the existing systems in place for cost reasons, or it might want to bring the new plant up to its current engineering standards. Changes will be based on a variety of influences while balancing costs and benefits. The ability to analyze and quantify those steps is where an integrator can be very helpful, bringing an external view to the situation combined with practical experience with other similar plants, processes, and automation systems.
When DCS opinions clash
Most integrators with any amount of experience can remember situations where a client wanted something contrary to the advice from the integrator. An engineer for the owner may be convinced of an approach, but the integrator disagrees.
Sometimes the owner's approach does not reflect the integrator's first choice, but it still represents good engineering practice and should be sustainable over the long term. In such a case, the integrator will probably state its opinion but will proceed and implement the solution.
Other situations may be more serious because the owner's choice could be untenable in the integrator's view with respect to plant performance, safety, a critical operations parameter, or nonconformance to accepted industry best practices. In these scenarios, the integrator has to be clear and honest in explaining the reasons why that approach doesn't work as well as the likely outcome for the long term. If the integrator views the situation as something capable of causing an incident or other unsafe situation, it may be necessary to refuse the project and document the reasons why.
These kinds of cases are rare, but they do happen. Few plant operators become so stubborn as to insist on a truly destructive course. Generally as things move up and down the chain of command more moderate views and sensible plans emerge. An integrator pushed to follow a valid approach different than the preferred choice should look at such situations as learning opportunities.
Long-term DCS collaboration
A more common situation is where an integrator is asked to follow a strategy appropriate for the situation but does not believe the plant owner can sustain it over the long term. It's unfortunate, but in this post great-recession environment, and with oil and commodity prices at low levels, producers have cut costs to the bone and are often operating with minimal plant operations staffs.
When an integrator finishes a project and hands it over to the customer, the moment of transfer might be the best the plant runs. In spite of the operator and personnel training, when the integrator is gone, the owner may not have the wherewithal to sustain the improvements made.
A few years ago, this was a common occurrence. Most companies had not realized the extent to which all the personnel cuts were hobbling their effectiveness. The truth has set in over time, and producers realize they need help. They still operate with minimal staffing, but they understand the need for getting help from external resources; this often means engaging the integrator's services over a longer term.
Many automation projects no longer have a defined beginning, middle, and end—so an ongoing relationship is needed to maintain peak performance and ensure safe operation. The integrator stays on the site in one way or another to ensure gains made with the project are maintained as well as to suggest and implement improvements. Individual operators get to work with the engineer who designed the solution, and the integrator can optimize and fine-tune the project over time.
Plant owners who understand the value of production in dollars and cents realize what an effect such an ongoing relationship can have. The ability to increase throughput or avoid an interruption can have a huge positive effect, far beyond the cost of this type of service arrangement with the integrator.
When an integrator knows it will be on a site for the long haul, it has a different stake in the project and technology selections. Both sides—integrator and owner—are now working together with the knowledge that finishing a project is the first step.
This has an influence for selecting an integrator as well. If developing this type of relationship is critical, the integrator has to have the capability to support it. There have to be enough skilled people available to have one or more available for the client at all times. Just as a deep bench is necessary for evaluating and applying the widest variety of automation technologies, it is also necessary when providing personnel resources over the long term. The ideal situation is where key individuals responsible for designing a solution can remain in place to support it.
The most effective projects and relationships are those where the plant owner and system integrator cooperate as trusted partners, instead of just as a vendor and a customer. This partnering relationship creates the highest value for both sides.
Tim Gellner, senior consultant, Maverick Technologies. Maverick Technologies is a CFE Media content partner. Edited by Chris Vavra, CFE Media, Control Engineering, cvavra@cfemedia.com.
Many automation projects become more complex for a variety of reasons; entering into an open discussion goes a long way toward a successful conclusion.
When disagreements occur, the system integrator needs to decide whether there is room for compromise and to decide whether the changes being asked are acceptable.
The most effective projects and relationships are those where the plant owner and system integrator cooperate as trusted partners.
What other aspects of a project should a system integrator consider before deciding to embark on a project?
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There are 1 recall actions in UK related to LEXMOTO FALCON. The latest recall action was on August 15th, 2017.
Check also how many LEXMOTO are Still on the road in UK.
Click on a LEXMOTO FALCON recall Action number to see the detail of the retail action and the affected VIN (Serial) numbers.
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The Pinnacle is sure to satisfy all your spa needs. There is room for six, but the best seats are the "no float" lounger, the captain's chair and the open "love seat." Aspen Spas features a full selection of options to help you design the spa that's the perfect fit for you and your family. Every spa is designed with different seats, seat heights, jet sizes and jet patterns to create a personalized spa experience that is custom crafted to be relaxing soothing and refreshing.


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On May 26, Helena Bonham Carter, queen of teen goths everywhere, turns 50. But just because you ditched your Bellatrix T-shirt years ago doesn't mean you shouldn't stop looking up to Carter.
Love or hate her fashion sense, she's always been unapologetic about her personal style. And her likes and dislikes. And just about everything that makes her, her. She does gravitate toward the dark side of things, but she always has a sense of humor about her passion for the macabre.
Calm in the face of creepy, Carter has perfected the art of not caring. After going through a few Sweeney Todd songs (or Corpse Bride, if you prefer), let some of Carter's more confident moments inspire you. Whether that means letting a rude comment roll off your back or trying out those long lacy gloves you weren't quite sure about, ahead, bow down to the queen of giving no fucks.


Hello everybody, my name is CHEESY124 Entertainment and I'm basically interested into making crossover videos like the one I'm making right now, the Sonic Heroes Crossover Series. And for the mean time, I also make other videos rather than the Crossover ones like, I made a playlist where I extended some video game music, and I made a playlist on videos on how I made fun of YouTube trolls by speeding them up to make them sound like the Alvin and the Chipmunks characters. And also my censored series which I started in April of 2016 where I censored the profanity from other troll users' videos to make it even more hilarious!


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Q: How to optimize a pre-trained TF2.0 model for inference My goal is to optimize a pre-trained model from TFHub for inference. Therefore I would like to use an object detection model with multiple outputs:
https://tfhub.dev/tensorflow/ssd_mobilenet_v2/fpnlite_640x640/1
where the archive contains a SavedModel file
https://tfhub.dev/tensorflow/ssd_mobilenet_v2/fpnlite_640x640/1?tf-hub-format=compressed
I came across the methods optimize_for_inference and freeze_graph, but read on the following thread that is is no longer supported in TF2:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/56384808/11687201
So how is optimization for inference done with TF2?
The plan is to use this one of the pre-trained networks for transfer learning and use this network later on with a hardware accelerator, the converter for this hardware requires a frozen graph as input.


PETA's demand for changing idioms so they aren't specieist is still fodder for comedy on social media.
This tweeted meme was the fuel.
I have to say, I sort of like "stop feeding a fed horse" as an idiom. I'm not going to abandon "beat a dead horse," but I might start peppering in "feed a fed horse" into my vernacular.
And I'm always going to pepper my chicken. Speaking of which, PETA will never get men to stop choking the chicken, especially if they recommend "choking the tofu" as the PC alternative.
There were 47,000 replies to their meme.
I'm offended on behalf of: -Test tube babies -Overweight horses -Croissants that don't have homes -Flowers that have been groped against their will and -People who don't know WTF a scone is! You really screwed the pooch on this one, PETA!
I find "bringing home the bagels" to be somewhat antisemitic.
Pretty sure I have the freedom of speech to say whatever I want, even if you don't like it.
Thanks for showing us, there's more than one way to skin a cat!
The folks at PETA are even less fun than snakes on a plane.
PETA: Pathetic Excessive Tasteless Aresoles.
I find the term "specieist" at best specious.
So what are kids supposed to play Conservative Conservative Liberal instead of Duck Duck Goose?
What about Pin The Tail On The Donkey?
"You really screwed the pooch on that one" Bwahahahaha, perfect.
The bastards showed up at the Omak Suicide Race about ten years back and the Tribe basically told them to go screw themselves.
they beat peta like a rented mule.
PETA – Proof that communists are hiding their true intent behind "good causes".
Kind of like a wolf in sheeps clothing.
Peta is a clever leftist scam.
They do just enough good to gift money and power.
Don't forget they rUn kill shelters worse than any inner city's.
Betcha can't say shitting kittens anymore either. That wouldn't nice to the poor little kitties.
— Hey, man! Don't have a cow!
— You're not gonna weasel out of this one.
— Stop wolfing your food.
— I'll dog your heels until you stop monkeying around.
— He's as timid as a mouse and when he's scared his voice gets husky and his arms get chicken skin.
For every one they save, I'll kill and eat three.
I'll change when pigs fly or it stops raining cat and dogs.
Making fun of PETA is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Can I still say: Beat the Meat?
That sounds vaguely like a lyric from an old Beatle's song.


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explain the following: The importance of statistical analysis within the field of Education.
by Christopher R. Teeple | Jan 24, 2023 | Statistics
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Indicate what data set you have chosen and why.
Submit the Milestone One Worksheet Word Document. In this milestone, you will address the following: Indicate what data set you have chosen and why. If you chose a particular data set to align with your concentration in psychology, describe in a sentence or two why...
What probabilities would you use in the case of uncertainty when probabilities are not known?
by Christopher R. Teeple | Jan 7, 2023 | Statistics
A decision tree aligns probabilities with possible outcomes. Where in your opinion do the probabilities come from? What probabilities would you use in the case of uncertainty when probabilities are not known? When a decision tree indicates that the risk of a positive...
Briefly describe the population along with your rationale.
The normal distribution appears in many natural phenomena. However, some populations exhibit other distributions such as Beta, Uniform, and Triangular, to name three. Consider a population that in your opinion would not follow the normal distribution. Briefly describe...
what response would you provide to the authors about this footnote?
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do you see any of his 14 points in contemporary American society?


It's cool enough for a light sweater this morning, so I wrap my robe around me, not caring who might see. I'm just giddy for the opportunity to feel chilled, then clothed. Twenty-two summers later, and I still despise Arkansas heat. This Yankee would never survive a mile further south. My blood runs hot and is about the only thing unsuited for this area.
Last night I pulled weeds along the garden edge by the light of a fire. First fire since the heat wave showed up. The smell of wood burning is probably one of my very favorites. Sometimes I'll throw a scrap of cedar in there just for the aroma. I decided to water the garden late because of a full day ahead.
I had a moment when I was showering the sunflowers from above, making the biggest rainbow of water I could with my thumb over the hose. They stand well beyond reach by now, and I imagined they might enjoy their heads washed. Then, for a mere 10 seconds, the view was serendipitous: the water cascading down these gentle giants; the crackle and flicker of flames; the clear starry night as the backdrop. I felt myself smile wide and I held it there, unintentionally. Just simple and perfect pleasure. Then suddenly, a shooting star. Right in my line of sight. It was like a movie. It was the most incredible handful of seconds. I felt like God winked at me right then. I winked back, just in case. Such a different sonnet than my panicked morning. A lullaby. A tucking in. Put my heart right to rest.


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Little Armenia (en français, « Petite Arménie ») est un secteur de Hollywood, quartier de la ville de Los Angeles, en Californie.

Présentation
Située dans la partie Est de Hollywood, Little Armenia est le quartier de la communauté arménienne de Los Angeles, d'où son nom.

Son nom vient du grand nombre d'Arméniens qui y vivent et aussi du grand nombre de commerces et magasins arméniens ouverts au début des années 1970.

L'église arménienne apostolique Saint-Garabed est une des églises arméniennes du quartier située sur l'avenue Alexandria. Construite en 1978, elle est située en face de l'école arménienne Rose et Alex Pilibos.

Bien qu′Hollywood était autrefois le foyer de la plus grande communauté arménienne de la région, la ville de Glendale la surpasse en nombre et proportion d'arméniens.

En 2011, le Grand Los Angeles compte plus de  descendants d'Arméniens.

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On the weekend of January 23rd, 2016 the City of Baltimore was hit by an historic blizzard, "Superstorm Jonas". The more than two feet that fell from Friday through Sunday shattered the previous City snowfall record and created an unprecedented natural emergency, the effects of which were undoubtedly felt by every citizen, effectively shutting down the City and surrounding jurisdictions for days.
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Is the city of Montreal ready for the return of The Madness?
Posted on September 2, 2015 by Cliffy D. Pine
After what was easily the most tumultuous August that this team has ever been through, the Montreal Alouettes start a new month in a familiar place; the friendly confines of Percival Molson Stadium. And they will greet their fans with something the Alouette faithful have not yet seen in 2015: A winning streak.
Joining them for what will no doubt be a spirited romp will be the BC Lions, who the Alouettes beat a mere two weeks ago to start this streak of victories. This week's match will have a different look compared to that last tilt, as Alouettes starting quarterback Rakeem Cato will not be in the lineup. After leaving the game last week with a hip injury, Cato was back practicing but ended up not finishing and has now returned home with what has only been referred to as "personal reasons".
Those two words elicited a number of eye-rolls earlier this season and as a result, we won't speculate any further because the past is the past. So instead of the former Marshall University pivot, tonight will be the first official start since 2013 for one Tanner Marsh. The first time that fans at Molson Stadium laid eyes upon this young gunslinger, he coincidentally faced the BC Lions and was the straw that stirred the drink during that rain-soaked night.
Marsh was far from perfect that late August night, but he beat the Lions and instantly became a household name in La Belle Province. He was brought back down to earth after a few starts and a hand injury had prematurely ended his rookie season. When the Troy Smith experiment fizzled last season, Marsh was never really given the opportunity to regain the reigns of this team, bypassed instead for Alex Brink briefly and eventually Jonathan Crompton, who Tanner then backed up.
It would have been easy for the former member of the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys (yes, that's really what their team calls itself) to get down on himself, but Marsh soldiered on and ended up leading the team in rushing touchdowns in 2014. His mobility was unsurpassed, as he and Crompton became terrific read-option QBs under the tutelage of former QB coach Jeff Garcia. This duo was looking real solid to end the 2014 season and fans had reason to believe when training camp opened this past June that the quarterbacking situation would be in good hands.
Except the football gods can be very cruel. On the ninth day of training camp, Marsh rolled out to complete a pass and his knee buckled in frightening fashion. The end diagnosis was a severely sprained knee that landed the young Texan on the 6 game injury list to start the season. It was particularly gut-wrenching as Tanner had been phenomenal in camp up to that point, making smarter decisions as a pocket passer and possessing a great arm to go along with his educated feet.
Watching this young man come back to the Canadian Football League and lead this Alouettes team to victory last Thursday in such a hostile environment has been so gratifying. There are still some naysayers who clearly haven't seen all that this guy can do and as a result are not expecting much from Marsh. He wasn't perfect against the Tabbies but he played well and I fully expect Marsh to continue the Alouettes' momentum against the Lions, who also got a taste of "The Madness" out on the West Coast.
Tonight's game venue hasn't been particularly kind to the BC Lions over the years, including the last time they played here. In case you forgot, it was the 2014 Eastern Semi-Final and those who attended were witness to a complete annihilation by the Alouettes on a snowy November afternoon.
But this evening's tilt should be a far different affair; For starters, there is absolutely no snow in the forecast! But BC is coming off their second bye week and will have to get themselves in gear if they wish to make the playoffs again. There have been some growing pains with Jeff Tedford and his coaching staff as this team hasn't exactly lit the world on fire yet. It is worth noting however that Travis Lulay has managed to stay healthy and that will be crucial as the second half of the season begins.
There is some real talent on this Lions team and they will have to show up. Most notable is one Emmanuel Arceneaux, whose frustrations got the better of him after the Alouettes ended their BC Place drought two weeks ago. He spouted off angrily on the Lions' post-game radio show, stating that the Alouettes were not a good team and that he didn't respect anyone from Montreal. He also deactivated his Twitter account, possibly due to the heat he was getting from people (Arceneaux has since returned to Twitter, under a new alias)
I dismissed it as a temporary lack of judgment brought on by the heat of the moment, but Lions fans were not impressed with Arceneaux's churlishness. When given a chance to recant his flippant remarks, Manny stood by his original statement and refused to give any sort of credit to the Alouettes team that started his bye week off on a losing note.
Over the years, Manny has been one of the premier receivers in the league. But this year he is struggling, only notching 458 yards and three touchdowns. He hasn't been that deep threat for Lulay and it's got to be weighing on his mind, as guys like S.J. Green and Adarias Bowman are still considered the standard for excellence in the CFL when it comes to catching passes.
But when Lulay was picked off two weeks ago by Montreal DB Dominique Ellis late in the fourth quarter it was Arceneaux who was looked to be the intended target, but he seemed to have quit on the route he was running. If I were to venture a guess, that's where his true frustration lay and he decided to instead shift the focus to some disdain for the Alouettes as a whole. Except very few are buying it.
I doubt Arceneaux is going to read this column, but I hope for his sake that he spent the last two weeks preparing for this particular game. If Montreal is as poor a team as he thinks they are, then he'd better post some pretty impressive numbers when he takes the field. Otherwise when Alouettes Nation hears those three words that set off a social media firestorm, "Montreal Isn't Good", better believe they will reply with three of their own; "Neither Are You".
Be sure you swing by the original Alouettes tailgate if you're heading to the game. This will be the last Thursday night game played at Percival Molson Stadium this season, as the rest will be Sunday afternoon tilts with the exception of Thanksgiving Monday.
It looks to be another hot, sunny afternoon leading up to the game, so bring your grub/bevvies to the park on the stadium's east side for some good times with some great fans! Above all else, bring the noise for the defense! And if you don't like noise at a football game, then definitely swing by the tailgate for your complimentary set of earplugs.
Be sure to follow along on Twitter for last-minute news and a possible Periscope broadcast from the tailgate! Enjoy the game tomorrow, regardless of where you watch it.
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Q: How do I configure Ubuntu 14.04 LTS such that at the login screen, a brief power button press initiates a clean shutdown? I have a system that runs an up-to-date Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, with Xfce as the window manager and the default login/session manager. (LightDM with the Unity greeter? It certainly looks very similar to this.)
What I want to do is to ensure that whenever I press the power button briefly (to trigger an ACPI shutdown signal), the system immediately begins a clean shutdown.
In a logged-in session, I simply went into Applications > Settings > Power Manager (the Xfce Power Manager) > General and set When power button is pressed to Shutdown. This works nicely.
In a console session, without having made any changes to that effect (that I remember), when I briefly press the power button the system initiates a clean shutdown. That's what I want.
However, if I do the same thing on the login screen, then I am prompted for what I want to do. I don't want any kind of confirmation. (Yes, I am aware of the drawbacks of that, and am willing to live with them. No need to educate me about that.)
For that final step towards my ultimate goal: How do I configure the system such that also at the login screen, if I press the power button briefly then the system initiates a clean shutdown?
GUI or terminal-based solutions are equally welcome as answers. (For GUI-based solutions, please keep in mind the fact that I'm not running the Unity desktop manager.)
How to disable shutdown/reboot from lightdm in 14.04? seems to be basically the very opposite of what I want, and most of the other potentially useful questions I found are either dated or seem to only affect already logged-in sessions (which I have already solved). That said, if this really is a duplicate of some other question here, feel free to close as such.


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Urban Land > Planning & Design > Revisiting the Open-Office Revolution with Top Tech Employers
Revisiting the Open-Office Revolution with Top Tech Employers
By Anthony Paletta
A Gensler-designed open office in New York City combines both lounge-style seating for informal meetings, conference space, and traditional seated desks.
The conversion to primarily open-office floor plans over the past decade is now reaching adolescence, and like many revolutions has created problems as well as possibilities, panelists said at a ULI New York event in February. Industry experts from three tech companies that want to attract the best talent available described what they are seeing in the marketplace based on their considerable and far-flung office experiences.
Tom Vecchione, principal and design director at Gensler, cited a recent Harvard Business School study that showed a decline in both interpersonal interaction and productivity in open office settings. Open floor plans initially seemed like "the natural environment" for the focus of tech companies on "agility, flexibility, innovation," he said.
"Have we lost aspects of focus, accountability, hierarchy that might still be relevant?" Vecchione asked. He compared this reconsideration of open offices to the response to postwar suburbanization, saying, "Fifty years later we're stepping back and saying, well, maybe those weren't all the right things that we did."
The participants were not remotely ready to write off the open office, but they did stress that it is a model that requires care and innovation in application.
Brett Hautop, senior director of global design and build at LinkedIn, said his organization has found patterns prompting reconsideration of the use of space in its own offices. Allocations of space at LinkedIn were heavily skewed, he said, with open space greatly outweighing closed space.
"But then if you look at desk utilization rates in open spaces, it's lower than anticipated; and utilization rates in closed rooms are really high," he said.
A return to older models is not the solution, he said. "For us, there's no solution involved in which everybody gets their own closed space, because we're trying to create a dynamic environment that has a culture that people want to be a part of, that has energy. Our solution is to offer a variety of choices of workspaces on demand, such as soundproof telephone booths, four-person meeting rooms, or open collaborative spaces."
One tweak to the open-office model emulates spaces that are open and yet suppress noise and distraction: libraries.
"One of the big things we've been adding everywhere is library spaces," said Hautop. "It's basically another place to work, but there's no talking. It's super simple and basic, and it's what many people say they want. Libraries as a counterpoint to the open office, that percentage of space is increasing."
Paul Darrah, director of real estate for Google in New York City, also sees no signs that open office space is being abandoned. However, he does see a need to think closely and continuously about the configuration of that space.
Darrah cited a Desk First initiative, which is an opportunity to continually innovate the workplace. "We take a floor at a time and we iterate the design, so each year we expand and develop another floor and we tweak and refine the design.
"Each iteration we learn something new," he said, comparing the approach to the rings of a tree, providing the ability to gauge when a configuration was put into place and the results it produced. A recurrent prime consideration is where employees are most productive—a desk, a meeting room, or some other space altogether."
On stage from left to right: Tom Vecchione, design director and principal, Gensler; Brett Hautop, senior director of global design and build, LinkedIn; Elizabeth Haight, vice president of operations, Mathworks; and Paul Darrah, director of real estate NYC, Google, speaking at Gensler's office at 1700 Broadway.
Darrah stressed the importance of the "neighborhood" in the workplace and that it be a comprehensible and effective size.
"The sea of white sadness—which is the perpetual view of the open office plan—doesn't work," he said. "So, neighborhoods are now 40 to 60 people. We are breaking them up with space that enables you to see a collab room, know that it's empty, find your colleague, and sit down to have a five-minute meeting, without having to book the room."
Just as in residential development, there is no ideal neighborhood size, so the quest to tweak these environments is ongoing. Office space is "no different than a city street," Darrah said. "Retail is either successful or not successful, and the street changes on a cycle. If we notice that space isn't getting leveraged or utilized, we need to revisit what was the goal, what was the purpose, and reshape it so it does work. So that's how we've evolving space."
Elizabeth Haight, vice president of Mathworks, says her organization is going against the tide in offering an old-fashioned amenity—a closed office for all employees. "Everybody gets an office, they're all the same size, so it's easy to manage the space," she said. "Once it's built, it's built. I can move anybody anywhere without any retrofitting."
But the company's buildings are not cloisters: they offer a variety of amenity spaces, and all offices have glass fronts. "There are a variety of spaces people can work in, but we do find almost the opposite of that—everybody's in their office," she said. She emphasized the utility of this model for the kind of work that Mathworks employees are doing, which requires solitary concentration. "We hire knowledge workers we feel really need to get into the flow to develop this product," she said.
This is not merely a formula for work; it is also a great recruiting tool, Haight said. "Staff feel valued," she said. "You come in, you get an office."
Hautop noted that LinkedIn projects rely on constantly shifting teams, with the number of employees working on a given project changing as projects progress and are completed. A rigid environment would destroy interactivity. "When we have a hundred people and give them each a desk, it doesn't matter how hard we try—the first person and the 100th person never really have an ability to easily interact with each other because there is too much distance between them."
The challenge sometimes is to create an environment that is flexible without feeling impersonal, he said. We have open seating, he noted, but teams that are working together have designated neighborhoods.
"We aim to create an environment where everyone can be together with unassigned seats, yet they don't feel like they're on someone else's territory, invading, when they decide on a place to put down their laptop. We try to make sure to give people choices in workspaces. There's always a place for them to go that helps them complete their task at that moment. It's a good balance, but it's not always easy and there are sometimes problems."
Early experiments with unassigned seating have not been immediately successful. He noted that allowing completely mobile desk arrangements sometimes resulted in chaos resembling an architecture school studio, and in other cases some spaces once arranged, remained static for the life of the space, in spite of the built-in mobility of the desks.
Subtler changes can be essential, Hautop said.
"We have furniture that's swapped out and changed between floors; we have local artist programs where we rotate the art between floors—just things to make people who are in the space feel like there's some sort of new energy or something new to look at, something new to talk about," he said.
The company has also enabled easy rearrangement of items on walls with movable panels and Z clips in many offices to allow teams to create their own identity in their space and to bring utility to whatever activity is taking place there.
Other principles of the open office remain highly prized. Hautop noted that the quest continues for floor-to-floor heights of 15 to 16 feet (4.6 to 4.9 m) in urban spaces and a constant interest in creating simple and scrutable stairway connections in tall buildings to knit a workplace together without recourse to elevators.
Maximizing Use of Space
Panelists noted that for suburban employees, going out for lunch can turn into a multiple-hour distraction, making provision of cafeterias and amenities vital for keeping them in the office. But they have begun to wonder what to do with those spaces outside of mealtimes, when they often grow desolate.
Darrah returned to the theme of the effective use of space. "How do we take and leverage those spaces? Because they are excellent spaces," he said. Several panelists cited the importance of programming and ensuring that company leaders make clear the importance of using that space by using it themselves. The spaces themselves become a useful tool for drawing others into the office, whether it is located in an isolated suburban campus or an urban office building.
It is one step in what should remain an omnidirectional search for ideas, Darrah said. "We need to look outside of corporate real estate for the next inspiration," he said. "What are universities doing to create compelling workspaces? What are hotels doing? What are other inspirations?"
Retrofitting Aging Offices
Many older traditional office buildings are available but are difficult to configure for contemporary sensibilities, panelists noted, yet the constant tweaking espoused by tech employers has proved influential.
Darrah said other employers are taking note of Google's experiments. "Every single developer in New York is visiting Silicon Valley to look at what Google and others have created to understand what they need to do to make their buildings more compelling for tech. It's the open plan, as well as variable space with room for concentration and quiet that has become the new norm," he said. "The landlords are getting smarter now about placemaking."
The effort by employers to gauge and maximize productivity can involve a variety of metrics, but in the age of employee mobility and relatively liberal work-from-home policies, one very practical test is simply where employees choose to be.
"I don't know how you measure productivity, but we certainly can measure employee happiness and well-being, and that then enables attraction and retention of talent," Hautop said.
Darrah offered a similar view. "Believe it or not, people want to come into work," he said. "We think it's because they like the places we've created for them to work and connect with colleagues."


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Chicago Blackhawks top players should go for personal records this year
By Seth Stauffer
Patrick Kane #88, Chicago Blackhawks Mandatory Credit: Dennis Wierzbicki-USA TODAY Sports /
The development plan is in the works and appears to be paying off for the Blackhawks. However, this year should be about more than that, and no, the goal isn't winning the cup. This year, Chicago's top players should selfishly aim for personal records, as well as mentor the new guys.
Watching the game against Carolina on Friday, February 19, the contrast between where the Chicago Blackhawks are now, versus where they need to be was stark. Even in the press conference after the game, or as Paul Thompson at the Chicago Tribune said,
""The Chicago Blackhawks got a sobering reminder that for all their progress there's a reason hockey pundits aren't yet fully embracing them as playoff contenders.""
Chicago's veterans acknowledged the gap between the two teams when talking to the media. That understanding though means that Chicago has been afforded a bit of slack about what success is going to be defined as this season.
If the youngsters show growth on the ice, then this season is a winning one, despite not chasing the Stanley Cup. With so much focus on tomorrow's stars, there doesn't seem to be much for the veterans to look forward to, except maybe for personal records.
Since the Blackhawks are not going to win it all this year, why not make this season one to selfishly pursue their individual objectives?
It could be anything, and it would really depend on the player, but there's no better time. If Patrick Kane wants to try and go for a hundred points in a 56-game season, he absolutely should. Maybe Duncan Keith just starts firing pucks on the net like crazy to raise his own offensive numbers, or goes after some kind of iron man goal? Most minutes in a season for a 37-year-old? Again, why not?
I would personally like to see players take more risks on plays. We saw Kane's absurd spin-o-rama goal against Carolina. That highlight is almost certainly everywhere by now, but it's so ridiculous that's it almost impossible not to watch it maybe just one more time. I'd love to see more of that, and not just because it's fun.
The best way to learn is to try stuff and see what happens. The younger players should be doing this right now, but so should the vets. Taking risks and succeeding is exactly the kind of thing that will keep the season entertaining for Chicago's most-established players.
Hey @SportsCenter you might want to take a gander at the latest Patrick Kane highlight ?@NBCSChicago | #CHIvsCAR pic.twitter.com/WBFMMZ6pQJ
— Chicago Blackhawks (@NHLBlackhawks) February 20, 2021
Kane is a great example. Incredible cheat-code goals aside, the season is longer than a single tally. Maybe Kane tries to push himself to add to his highlight reel of a career. It's obvious that he wants to win, but he has to be aware of the team's deficiencies.
At the very least, he's been in the league long enough to know the difference between a mediocre team and a Cup contender. He knows that Chicago isn't a particularly talented group right now, and he likely didn't need to lose to Carolina to know that. With that understanding in place, how do the veterans like Kane make the best of the situation?
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Whether it's points, hits, takeaways, ice-time, or whatever this year should be about veteran players working to achieve their own personal goals, as much as it's about developing younger players and helping the team win when it's possible. Chicago will win games this year, but probably not the Stanley Cup. That's OK. The team can focus on other stuff to keep it interesting for themselves and the fans watching at home.


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  depends_on "go" => :build
  depends_on "make" => :build
  depends_on "xz" => :build

  def install
    # The GNU Make that ships with macOS Mojave (v3.81 at the time of writing) has a bug
    # that causes it to loop infinitely when trying to build cockroach. Use
    # the more up-to-date make that Homebrew provides.
    ENV.prepend_path "PATH", Formula["make"].opt_libexec/"gnubin"
    # Build only the OSS components
    system "make", "buildoss"
    system "make", "install", "prefix=#{prefix}", "BUILDTYPE=release"
  end

  def caveats; <<~EOS
    For local development only, this formula ships a launchd configuration to
    start a single-node cluster that stores its data under:
      #{var}/cockroach/
    Instead of the default port of 8080, the node serves its admin UI at:
      #{Formatter.url("http://localhost:26256")}

    Do NOT use this cluster to store data you care about; it runs in insecure
    mode and may expose data publicly in e.g. a DNS rebinding attack. To run
    CockroachDB securely, please see:
      #{Formatter.url("https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/secure-a-cluster.html")}
  EOS
  end

  plist_options :manual => "cockroach start --insecure"

  def plist; <<~EOS
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
    <plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
      <key>Label</key>
      <string>#{plist_name}</string>
      <key>ProgramArguments</key>
      <array>
        <string>#{opt_bin}/cockroach</string>
        <string>start</string>
        <string>--store=#{var}/cockroach/</string>
        <string>--http-port=26256</string>
        <string>--insecure</string>
        <string>--host=localhost</string>
      </array>
      <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
      <string>#{var}</string>
      <key>RunAtLoad</key>
      <true/>
      <key>KeepAlive</key>
      <true/>
    </dict>
    </plist>
  EOS
  end

  test do
    begin
      # Redirect stdout and stderr to a file, or else  `brew test --verbose`
      # will hang forever as it waits for stdout and stderr to close.
      system "#{bin}/cockroach start --insecure --background &> start.out"
      pipe_output("#{bin}/cockroach sql --insecure", <<~EOS)
        CREATE DATABASE bank;
        CREATE TABLE bank.accounts (id INT PRIMARY KEY, balance DECIMAL);
        INSERT INTO bank.accounts VALUES (1, 1000.50);
      EOS
      output = pipe_output("#{bin}/cockroach sql --insecure --format=csv",
        "SELECT * FROM bank.accounts;")
      assert_equal <<~EOS, output
        id,balance
        1,1000.50
      EOS
    ensure
      system "#{bin}/cockroach", "quit", "--insecure"
    end
  end
end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Q: gam (from R mgcv package) fitting fails unexplicably I'm trying to use gams in R and encountered weird behaviors using Duchon splines.
Here is my code :
> fit <- gam(Load ~ s(Date, k=3, bs='ds'), data=data0)
Error in qr.qty(qru, t(qr.qty(qru, D)[-ind, ])) :
  'qr' and 'y' must have the same number of rows

> fit <- gam(Load ~ s(Date, k=4, bs='ds'), data=data0)

data0 is a dataframe of dim 3028, 20
Load and Date are the names of two of the columns of data0 (with numeric values)
Can someone enlight my on why it pass with k>=4 and fails with k=3 ?
In my understanding qr referer to the design matrix of the model and y to the response variable, and there are the same in both cases...
Thanks for the help.


text:
United States of America: Tariffs on steel imports under the national security provision of U.S. trade law
IMPLEMENTATION LEVEL
AFFECTED FLOW
Inflow
ANNOUNCED AS TEMPORARY
NON-TRADE-RELATED RATIONALE
TARIFF PEAK
← back to the state act
Inception date: 23 Mar 2018 | Removal date: open ended
Still in force
Import tariff
On March 8, 2018 President Trump signed an order providing for the imposition of 25% tariffs on imports of steel from countries other than Canada and Mexico (pending renegotiation of NAFTA). The action was taken in the name of national security, although the president claimed in his remarks that the imports in question had been dumped and also alluded to the "Buy American" principle. The restrictions will take effect on March 23, 2018. He also stated that the order provided a means for the removal of barriers for countries that reached agreements with the United States, directing U.S. Trade Representative Lightizer to lead these negotiations. The president implied that the negotiations might deal not just with trade issues, but also defense spending. It is unclear which countries may respond to this announcement by entering into such negotiations, and which may respond by imposing retaliatory measures on imports from the United States (with or without first bringing a formal complaint to the WTO).
The substance of the order is as follows:
For the purposes of this proclamation, "steel articles" are defined at the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) 6‑digit level as: 7206.10 through 7216.50, 7216.99 through 7301.10, 7302.10, 7302.40 through 7302.90, and 7304.10 through 7306.90, including any subsequent revisions to these HTS classifications.
In order to establish increases in the duty rate on imports of steel articles, subchapter III of chapter 99 of the HTSUS is modified as provided in the Annex to this proclamation. Except as otherwise provided in this proclamation, or in notices published pursuant to clause 3 of this proclamation, all steel articles imports specified in the Annex shall be subject to an additional 25 percent ad valorem rate of duty with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on March 23, 2018. This rate of duty, which is in addition to any other duties, fees, exactions, and charges applicable to such imported steel articles, shall apply to imports of steel articles from all countries except Canada and Mexico.
The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the United States Trade Representative (USTR), the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and such other senior Executive Branch officials as the Secretary deems appropriate, is hereby authorized to provide relief from the additional duties set forth in clause 2 of this proclamation for any steel article determined not to be produced in the United States in a sufficient and reasonably available amount or of a satisfactory quality and is also authorized to provide such relief based upon specific national security considerations. Such relief shall be provided for a steel article only after a request for exclusion is made by a directly affected party located in the United States. If the Secretary determines that a particular steel article should be excluded, the Secretary shall, upon publishing a notice of such determination in the Federal Register, notify Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security concerning such article so that it will be excluded from the duties described in clause 2 of this proclamation. The Secretary shall consult with CBP to determine whether the HTSUS provisions created by the Annex to this proclamation should be modified in order to ensure the proper administration of such exclusion, and, if so, shall make such modification to the HTSUS through a notice in the Federal Register.
Within 10 days after the date of this proclamation, the Secretary shall issue procedures for the requests for exclusion described in clause 3 of this proclamation. The issuance of such procedures is exempt from Executive Order 13771 of January 30, 2017 (Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs).
(a) The modifications to the HTSUS made by the Annex to this proclamation shall be effective with respect to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on March 23, 2018, and shall continue in effect, unless such actions are expressly reduced, modified, or terminated. (b) The Secretary shall continue to monitor imports of steel articles and shall, from time to time, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the USTR, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and such other senior Executive Branch officials as the Secretary deems appropriate, review the status of such imports with respect to the national security. The Secretary shall inform the President of any circumstances that in the Secretary's opinion might indicate the need for further action by the President under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended. The Secretary shall also inform the President of any circumstance that in the Secretary's opinion might indicate that the increase in duty rate provided for in this proclamation is no longer necessary.
On March 22, 2018 President Trump temporarily suspended additional tariffs on steel and aluminum products with respect to imports from the 28 member countries of the European Union as well as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and Korea. The tariffs took effect on March 23 with respect to shipments from all other countries.
On April 30, 2018 the president signed an executive order providing as follows:
5. The United States has agreed in principle with Argentina, Australia, and Brazil on satisfactory alternative means to address the threatened impairment to our national security posed by steel articles imported from these countries. I have determined that the necessary and appropriate means to address the threat to national security posed by imports of steel articles from Argentina, Australia, and Brazil is to extend the temporary exemption of these countries from the tariff proclaimed in Proclamation 9705, in order to finalize the details of these satisfactory alternative means to address the threatened impairment to our national security posed by steel articles imported from these countries. In my judgment, and for the reasons I stated in paragraph 10 of Proclamation 9711, these discussions will be most productive if steel articles from Argentina, Australia, and Brazil remain exempt from the tariff proclaimed in Proclamation 9705, until the details can be finalized and implemented by proclamation. Because the United States has agreed in principle with these countries, in my judgment, it is unnecessary to set an expiration date for the exemptions. Nevertheless, if the satisfactory alternative means are not finalized shortly, I will consider re-imposing the tariff.
6. The United States is continuing discussions with Canada, Mexico, and the EU. I have determined that the necessary and appropriate means to address the threat to the national security posed by imports of steel articles from these countries is to continue these discussions and to extend the temporary exemption of these countries from the tariff proclaimed in Proclamation 9705, at least at this time. In my judgment, and for the reasons I stated in paragraph 10 of Proclamation 9711, these discussions will be most productive if steel articles from these countries remain exempt from the tariff proclaimed in Proclamation 9705.
7. For the reasons I stated in paragraph 11 of Proclamation 9711, however, the tariff imposed by Proclamation 9705 remains an important first step in ensuring the economic stability of our domestic steel industry and removing the threatened impairment of the national security. As a result, unless I determine by further proclamation that the United States has reached a satisfactory alternative means to remove the threatened impairment to the national security by imports of steel articles from Canada, Mexico, and the member countries of the EU, the tariff set forth in clause 2 of Proclamation 9705 shall be effective June 1, 2018, for these countries.
On May 31, 2018 the president signed an executive order modifying the application of these restrictions. The order provided that as of June 1, 2018, tariffs will no longer be suspended for steel imports from Brazil, Mexico, Canada, the Republic of Korea or the European Union, see related state act.
On August 29, 2018 President Trump signed a proclamation setting out procedures for granting exemptions from these tariffs. It provides in part that the secretary of commerce may "provide relief from the quantitative limitations ... in limited circumstances."
This case began on an April 27, 2017 when President Trump signed a presidential memorandum for the secretary of commerce, directing the initiation of a case under the "national security" provision of U.S. trade law. Section 232(b)(1)(A) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 provides broad authority for the imposition of restrictions on imports that are found to impair national security, typically in cases where those imports are alleged to suppress domestic production and/or lead to dependence on foreign sources for items that are considered vital to national security. The statute and its predecessors date to the 1950s, and has often been associated with energy security. It has rarely been invoked, and it reached its high-water mark in the 1970s and 1980s.
The law may be invoked if the secretary of commerce finds that steel is being imported into the United States in such quantities or under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security. Such a finding may lead him to recommend actions and steps that should be taken to adjust steel imports so that they will not threaten to impair the national security; the imposition of those measures would be a policy decision. The secretary has up to 270 days to conduct the investigation. The memorandum directed the secretary of commerce to base his determination on such factors as —
the domestic production of steel needed for projected national defense requirements; the capacity of domestic industries to meet such requirements; the existing and anticipated availabilities of the human resources, products, raw materials, and other supplies and services essential to the national defense; the requirements of growth of such industries and such supplies and services, including the investment, exploration, and development necessary to assure such growth; and the importation of goods in terms of their quantities, availabilities, character, and use as those affect such industries and the capacity of the United States to meet national security requirements[.]
Other factors to be taken into account include "the close relation of the Nation's economic welfare to our national security, and consider the effect of foreign competition in the steel industry on the economic welfare of domestic industries," "any substantial unemployment, decrease in government revenues, loss of skills or investment, or other serious effects resulting from the displacement of any domestic products by excessive steel imports," and "the status and likely effectiveness of efforts of the United States to negotiate a reduction in the levels of excess steel capacity worldwide."
On February 16, 2018 the U.S. Department of Commerce released the results of its investigations into the national-security impact of imports of steel mill products and from imports of wrought and unwrought aluminum. The department found that the quantities and circumstances of steel and aluminum imports "threaten to impair the national security," as defined by Section 232. The president is required to make a decision on the steel recommendations by April 11, 2018, and on the aluminum recommendations by April 19, 2018.
The recommendations of the steel report propose that the president consider the following alternative remedies to address the problem of steel imports:
A global tariff of at least 24% on all steel imports from all countries, or
A tariff of at least 53% on all steel imports from 12 countries (Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, India, Malaysia, Republic of Korea, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam) with a quota by product on steel imports from all other countries equal to 100% of their 2017 exports to the United States, or
A quota on all steel products from all countries equal to 63% of each country's 2017 exports to the United States.
Each of these remedies is intended to increase domestic steel production from its present 73% of capacity to approximately an 80% operating rate, the minimum rate needed for the long-term viability of the industry. Each remedy applies measures to all countries and all steel products to prevent circumvention.
Some observers believe that the original intent behind the Section 232 investigation was to coerce steel- and aluminum-exporting into the negotiation of an orderly marketing arrangement -- that is, a global quota regime -- as a means of managing excess capacity in the metals sector. In addition to the arrangements made with Argentina, Brazil, and Souh Korea (see next intervention), that speculation was supported by press reports that Australia had averted tariffs by agreeing to the imposition of a monitoring regime. That latter arrangement bears some of the hallmarks of a voluntary export restraint, albeit one that is not formally acknowledged by either the U.S. or Australian governments and for which no precise limits are publicly known. There remains speculation that the United States may not lift the tariffs on other partners without reaching some arrangement that restricts trade on a putatively voluntary basis, whether on a bilateral or a collective basis. That potential was hinted at in the aforementioned August 29, 2018 proclamation signed by President Trump, which also states that,
The United States continues to hold discussions with countries on satisfactory alternative means to address the threatened impairment to our national security posed by steel articles imports. Should these discussions result in an agreement concerning such alternative means, I will take further action as appropriate.
(In a related development, on August 10, 2018 President Trump wrote the following tweet: "I have just authorized a doubling of Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum with respect to Turkey as their currency, the Turkish Lira, slides rapidly downward against our very strong Dollar! Aluminum will now be 20% and Steel 50%. Our relations with Turkey are not good at this time!" While this action builds on the Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum, the underlying cause concerns a dispute between the U.S. and Turkish governments over the detention of an American citizen. GTA does not report on trade sanctions that are imposed for reasons of foreign policy. On May 6, 2019 President Trump determined that it is necessary and appropriate to remove the higher tariff on steel imports from Turkey imposed by Proclamation 9772, and to instead impose a 25 percent ad valorem tariff on steel imports from Turkey, commensurate with the tariff imposed on such articles imported from most countries.)
On May 17, 2019 the United States reached an agreement with Canada and Mexico to remove the Section 232 tariffs for steel and aluminum imports from those countries and to remove all retaliatory tariffs imposed on American goods by those countries. The agreement provides for what the USTR called "aggressive monitoring and a mechanism to prevent surges in imports of steel and aluminum," such that if "surges in imports of specific steel and aluminum products occur, the United States may re-impose Section 232 tariffs on those products. Any retaliation by Canada and Mexico would then be limited to steel and aluminum products."
AFFECTED SECTORS AND PRODUCTS
411 Basic iron & steel
7207 Semifinished products of iron or nonalloy steel.
720711 Of rectangular (including square) crosssection, the width measuring less than twice the thickness
720712 Other, of rectangular (other than square) crosssection
720719 Other
720720 Containing by weight 0.25 % or more of carbon
7218 Stainless steel in ingots or other primary forms; semifinished products of stainless steel.
721810 Ingots and other primary forms
721891 Of rectangular (other than square) crosssection
7224 Other alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms; semifinished products of other alloy steel.
412 Products of iron or steel
7208 Flatrolled products of iron or nonalloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, hotrolled, not clad, plated or coated.
720810 In coils, not further worked than hotrolled, with patterns in relief
720825 Of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more
720826 Of a thickness of 3 mm or more but less than 4.75 mm
720827 Of a thickness of less than 3 mm
720836 Of a thickness exceeding 10 mm
720837 Of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more but not exceeding 10 mm
720840 Not in coils, not further worked than hotrolled, with patterns in relief
7209 Flatrolled products of iron or nonalloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, coldrolled (coldreduced), not clad, plated or coated.
720915 Of a thickness of 3 mm or more
720916 Of a thickness exceeding 1 mm but less than 3 mm
720917 Of a thickness of 0.5 mm or more but not exceeding 1 mm
720918 Of a thickness of less than 0.5 mm
7210 Flatrolled products of iron or nonalloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, clad, plated or coated.
721011 Of a thickness of 0.5 mm or more
721030 Electrolytically plated or coated with zinc
721050 Plated or coated with chromium oxides or with chromium and chromium oxides
721061 Plated or coated with aluminiumzinc alloys
721070 Painted, varnished or coated with plastics
7211 Flatrolled products of iron or nonalloy steel, of a width of less than 600 mm, not clad, plated or coated.
721114 Other, of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more
721123 Containing by weight less than 0.25 % of carbon
7212 Flatrolled products of iron or nonalloy steel, of a width of less than 600 mm, clad, plated or coated.
721210 Plated or coated with tin
721230 Otherwise plated or coated with zinc
721250 Otherwise plated or coated
721260 Clad
7213 Bars and rods, hotrolled, in irregularly wound coils, of iron or nonalloy steel.
721310 Containing indentations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process
721320 Other, of freecutting steel
721391 Of circular crosssection measuring less than 14 mm in diameter
7214 Other bars and rods of iron or nonalloy steel, not further worked than forged, hotrolled, hotdrawn or hotextruded, but including those twisted after rolling.
721410 Forged
721420 Containing indentations, ribs, grooves or other deformations produced during the rolling process or twisted after rolling
7215 Other bars and rods of iron or nonalloy steel.
721510 Of freecutting steel, not further worked than coldformed or cold finished
721550 Other, not further worked than coldformed or coldfinished
7216 Angles, shapes and sections of iron or nonalloy steel.
721610 U, I or H sections, not further worked than hotrolled, hotdrawn or extruded, of a height of less than 80 mm
721621 L sections
721631 U sections
721632 I sections
721633 H sections
721640 L or T sections, not further worked than hotrolled, hotdrawn or extruded, of a height of 80 mm or more
721650 Other angles, shapes and sections, not further worked than hot rolled, hotdrawn or extruded
7217 Wire of iron or nonalloy steel.
721710 Not plated or coated, whether or not polished
721720 Plated or coated with zinc
721730 Plated or coated with other base metals
7219 Flatrolled products of stainless steel, of a width of 600 mm or more.
7220 Flatrolled products of stainless steel, of a width of less than 600 mm.
722012 Of a thickness of less than 4.75 mm
722020 Not further worked than coldrolled (coldreduced)
7221 Bars and rods, hotrolled, in irregularly wound coils, of stainless steel.
722100 Bars and rods, hotrolled, in irregularly wound coils, of stainless steel.
7222 Other bars and rods of stainless steel; angles, shapes and sections of stainless steel.
722211 Of circular crosssection
722220 Bars and rods, not further worked than coldformed or coldfinished
722230 Other bars and rods
722240 Angles, shapes and sections
7223 Wire of stainless steel.
722300 Wire of stainless steel.
7225 Flatrolled products of other alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more.
722511 Grainoriented
722530 Other, not further worked than hotrolled, in coils
722540 Other, not further worked than hotrolled, not in coils
722550 Other, not further worked than coldrolled (coldreduced)
7226 Flatrolled products of other alloy steel, of a width of less than 600 mm.
722620 Of high speed steel
722691 Not further worked than hotrolled
7227 Bars and rods, hotrolled, in irregularly wound coils, of other alloy steel.
722720 Of silicomanganese steel
7228 Other bars and rods of other alloy steel; angles, shapes and sections, of other alloy steel; hollow drill bars and rods, of alloy or nonalloy steel.
722810 Bars and rods, of high speed steel
722820 Bars and rods, of silicomanganese steel
722830 Other bars and rods, not further worked than hotrolled, hotdrawn or extruded
722840 Other bars and rods, not further worked than forged
722850 Other bars and rods, not further worked than coldformed or cold finished
722880 Hollow drill bars and rods
7229 Wire of other alloy steel.
7301 Sheet piling of iron or steel, whether or not drilled, punched or made from assembled elements; welded angles, shapes and sections, of iron or steel.
730110 Sheet piling
7302 Railway or tramway track construction material of iron or steel, the following : rails, checkrails and rack rails, switch blades, crossing frogs, point rods and other crossing pieces, sleepers (crossties), fishplates, chairs, chair wedges, sole plates
730210 Rails
730230 Switch blades, crossing frogs, point rods and other crossing pieces
730240 Fishplates and sole plates
7303 Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, of cast iron.
730300 Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, of cast iron.
7304 Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, seamless, of iron (other than cast iron) or steel.
730411 Of stainless steel
730423 Other drill pipe
730424 Other, of stainless steel
730431 Colddrawn or coldrolled (coldreduced)
7305 Other tubes and pipes (for example, welded, riveted or similarly closed), having circular crosssections, the external diameter of which exceeds 406.4 mm, of iron or steel.
730511 Longitudinally submerged arc welded
730512 Other, longitudinally welded
730520 Casing of a kind used in drilling for oil or gas
730531 Longitudinally welded
7306 Other tubes, pipes and hollow profiles (for example, open seam or welded, riveted or similarly closed), of iron or steel.
730611 Welded, of stainless steel
730630 Other, welded, of circular crosssection, of iron or nonalloy steel
730640 Other, welded, of circular crosssection, of stainless steel
730650 Other, welded, of circular crosssection, of other alloy steel
730661 Of square or rectangular crosssection
730669 Of other noncircular crosssection
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