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Ken Cooley
California State Assemblyman, 2012...
Accountable Govt: In 2017 I published the California...
Support Foster Youth: As Chair of the Select Committee...
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Cathy Cook
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Accountable Govt: In 2017 I published the California Assembly Legislative Oversight Handbook and as Chair of Assembly Rules, I have kept promoting active exercise of this vital duty.
Support Foster Youth: As Chair of the Select Committee on Foster Care, my focus is how the system is working and where it may be strengthened to the betterment of these kids.
Earthquake and Disaster Planning: A 1976 job led to a life interest in Earthquake policy and safety. I've sat on the Seismic Safety Commission in many roles since 2007.
Profession:California State Assemblyman, 2012 to present
Assemblymember, California State Assembly — Elected position (2012–current)
Commissioner, Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission — Appointed position (2015–current)
Chair, Assembly Committee on Rules, California State Assembly — Appointed position (2016–current)
Chair, Joint Rules Committee of the California Senate and Assembly, California State Senate and Assembly — Appointed position (2017–current)
Principal Consultant, California Senate Standing Committee on Insurance (and its predecessor, Standing Committee on Banking, Finance and Insurance) (2009–2012)
Founding Councilmember, City of Rancho Cordova — Elected position (2003–2012)
Legal Counsel, State Farm Insurance (1991–2008)
Chief Counsel, California Assembly Standing Committee on Finance, Insurance and Commerce (1988–1991)
Legislative Counsel, California Land Title Association (1985–1988)
McGeorge School of Law — J.D., Law (1984)
U.C. Berkeley — B.A., Political Science (1977)
Chair, California Capitol Annex Project Executive Committee, This 3 person committee provides direction Joint Executive and Legislative Branch guidance to the Capitol Annex Project. (2015–current)
Co-Chair, Legislative Oversight Working Group, Council of State Governments - West (CSG-West) (2014–current)
Guest Lecturer/Program Participant Moot Court/Master's Public Policy, McGeorge School of Law (2005–2019)
State and Divisional Leadership, League of California Cities, League of California Cities (California's Municipal League) (2004–2009)
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Answer from Ken Cooley:
Earlier this year I publicly announced my support for Governor Gavin Newsom's comprehensive plan to reduce homelessness in California.
Governor Newsom has proposed a $1.4 billion plan to combat homelessness in California by allocating money to help pay rents, build more affordable housing, construct more shelters, and expand services. Governor Newsom has also directed agencies to locate public land that can be utilized for emergency shelters.
In Sacramento County's Assembly District 8, we already have several supportive housing communities, including the Mather Veterans Village, Mather Community Campus, and the Adolfo Housing residence for emancipated foster youth on the site of the former Mather Air Force Base. I know from my experience in Rancho Cordova that when you provide housing and then place supportive services around that housing, it is very compatible with outstanding community life.
I have long been a committed advocate for people experiencing homelessness both in my City of Rancho Cordova role but also consistently across my five-year rise to the top leadership level of the League of California Cities. At the League of California Cities, my service included serving as 1st Vice President and President of the League's Sacramento Valley Division (58 cities/16 counties from Sacramento to Oregpon) and service as an At-Large Member of its Governing Board in 2006-2007, then its statewide Second Vice President (2008) and 1st Vice President (2009) (A job change led me to resign my League leadership role in April 2009 so as to avoid any hint of a possible conflict of interest; that hard decision was made less than 5 months before I would have been installed as the League's State President for 2010).
While at the League, I Chaired it's Housing, Community, and Economic Development Committee; and while on the League Board, Chaired it's Homelessness Working Group. In the State Assembly beginning in 2013, I served as a member of the Select Committee on Homelessness and in 2015 authored legislation to increase funding for "rapid rehousing" services.
It is my view that while housing and homelessness are crises in our State, we must not let our fears or apprehensions undermine our confident belief in a better future for all Californians. Instead, we must bring confidence to the conversation and then add the full resources needed to properly meet this challenge, including evidence-backed solutions and partnerships between state agencies, local governments, and private organizations. I know my reputation for being very deliberative in appraising the pros and cons and fitness and viability of the ideas in pending bills has given my votes an outsize impact in the Assembly these last seven years. It has made me a de facto leader on many issues once they reach the Assembly Floor, even if it traveled to the Floor via committees I do not serve on. I expect I will continue to play this bellwether role in a manner consistent with my oath of office throughout 2020.
I support new water impoundment strategies and also efficiency in reuse that furthers maintaining a healthy environment for California's delta and the great estuary of San Francisco Bay, but I am mindful that here in Sacramento, the water we use, gets re-used as it travels downstream and this means we should have some credit for not sending our precious water immediately out to sea as is true for so much of coastal California.
I will continue to work to implement the policies of AB 296 which I successfully presented to Governor Newsom last year and which I believe he erred in vetoing. My approach specifically included carbon capture – which supports the specific interest of the Bee in carbon neutrality – but it had a much broader vision.
We put our future at risk if we are not engaged in a broad-based search for any ideas that can come to our aid in the present era. That was the idea behind my AB 296. I said it was subject to a veto, but that was due to a late-arising hesitation about where to place and structure it within state government rather than disagreement over its essential innovative vision.
We cannot risk failing because we missed a simple, obvious thing. Every time I presented this bill, my closing statement made its centerpiece recitation of a famous 14th Century nursery rhyme to vividly highlight why California should support broad-based innovative research:
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the message was lost.
For want of a message the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
To avoid failure of "all for the want of a horseshoe nail" variety, my AB 296 would have established a Climate Innovation Grant Program to award grants to research, develop, and accelerate innovations and technologies that mitigate and improve adaptability to the impacts of climate change. Specifically, AB 296 would have funded projects that neutralize or remove emissions and pollutants to minimize current and future risks to human health and safety, quality of life, economic growth, ecosystems and the environment.
Although current law requires conservation of precious resources and limits the emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria air pollutants and other contaminants into the environment, it is shortsighted for it lacks a holistic approach to understanding how to best address the removal of emissions and pollutants from the environment to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
Climate change impacts are being felt across the state with more extremes of weather and greater repetition of drought fire and flash flooding episodes. Seeking out innovations that address the direct causes of, and vital systems affected by, climate change can limit negative impacts. To that end, AB 296 proposed to use a peer review system to award matching grant funds to projects that create new innovations in such fields as carbon storage and capture, clean, reliable and affordable electric and transportation solutions, and air, water and soil quality. These are all topics current state climate change policy – despite its well-deserved reputation for being cutting edge – overlooks.
Education, including early childhood education is a vital tool in this toolkit as is provision of mental health services and strong partnerships at the local level of city governments that strategically coordinate parole, education and code enforcement services that support quality housing for all residents.
More than 2 million adults—about 8% of the population—are affected by potentially disabling mental illnesses every year in California. In 2004 California voters passed Proposition 63, the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), to transform the mental health system. The purpose of Proposition 63 was to expand services while improving the quality of life for Californians living with or at risk of serious mental illness. It was the voters' intent that Prop 63 funds are spent in the most cost-effective manner and that services are provided following best practices, with local and state oversight.
Prop 63 envisioned that it would infuse into all California communities programs comprised of the following "building blocks" which are relevant to how we keep people out of prisons and promote safe and just communities. The building blocks are community services and support, capital facilities and technological needs, workforce education and training, prevention and early intervention and, finally innovative programs.
I believe California needs to do a better job of supporting all the state's 58 counties to fashion mental health programs of these types in ways that make sense for local communities, constituencies and families.
One-size-fits-all solutions from Sacramento rarely advance safety and justice. Rather, approaches are needed that provide a core package of program assets and resources, including funds, but provided in a way that lets local governments release their own local energies and vision on the problem.
This was done in 1982 when during an economic downturn Governor Brown committed to providing funds to all the state's counties to fund a brand new program – child abuse prevention – that had been overlooked by the state up until that time. That program, with resources and funds put in the hands of committed and energized locals, proved to be a brilliant success.
This strategy of empowering local solutions is also how voters like things to be done. In 2006, when Governor Schwarzenegger proposed raising funds to improve our state's roads, he heeded the counsel that came out of a meeting of the Sacramento Valley Division of the League of California Cities (I was President at the time when we met in February in Chico.) My Division's cities told the Governor his proposed bond program was a non-start because it did not guarantee a secure block of funds for every city and county in California. Our insistence on a local "release of energy through local problem-solving" strategy led to a re-writing of the Governor's bond plan before it went before the voters and then Proposition 1B was passed resoundingly.
I believe this type of approach to education, pre-school, mental health, human dignity and re-integration into society can yield success like the 1982 child abuse prevention breakthrough did so long ago.
I oppose changes to Proposition 13.
The beneficiaries of Prop 13, while broader than single family homeowners, includes many, many small businesses. In the 8th AD, it is apparent that as average ages increase, so that older residents go out less frequently or opt to spend less to conserve their retirement dollars, the result is greater pressure on the ability of small businesses, even long-established small businesses like popular restaurants or other service providers, to survive. Accordingly, I know in the 8th Assembly District of central Sacramento County, and I suspect statewide, the benefits that small businesses enjoy under Prop 13 to slow the increase in property taxes they are subject to grows more critical every year.
Accordingly, I do not favor altering Proposition 13.
I favor growing the available housing stock through building more homes, including new and improved multi-family properties.
In our county, most cityhood efforts in recent decades were strongly backed by home builders. But back in 2002, I got myself elected by going door-to-door citywide for months, it's still my favorite method of campaigning. Back then it was not just a campaign tool, but a political philosophy. I felt certain that if elected, I would be a better public official if no developer could pull me aside before a critical vote and say "Remember Ken, my financial backing made you. Now I need your help."
I have never regretted that decision and it put my public service life on a very satisfying footing that I have never, ever regretted.
So I favor building housing since it means that people have clean, safe and up-to-date housing which reflects their dignity as individuals. On the Rancho Cordova City Council, I led the successful fight to ensure an affordable housing element component in new home communities during an epic City Council meeting in Spring 2006 that only adjourned after 2 a.m. In Rancho Cordova, with 5 percent of the county's population, when the City formed in 2003, 38 percent of Sacramento's emergency and transitional housing was in the city limits at the former Mather Air Force Base. Those populations, supported by outstanding wrap-around services, never posed a problem for city residents.
Our city has also led, or supported, new housing for formerly homeless or disabled veterans one block south of the VA Hospital, housing for 58 emancipated foster youth and through our code enforcement process we have aggressively pursued maintenance and upkeep of Rancho Cordova multi-family housing.
When the city formed, over 50 of the city's housing stock was multi-family rentals. With so many residents dependent upon rental housing, an aggressive effort to inspect and prod property upgrades made sense. But the city did more. In one especially distressed neighborhood, we bought up a set of parcels and built a brand new multi-family property (less than 24 units as I recall) so that the adjacent property owners – to their shame – had an example of up-to-date quality housing just down the block. That was done to induce improvement as indeed it did.
I believe the task of the public realm is to invest strategically, build housing that reflects the dignity of people, and do so in a way that it yields the double benefit of constructive change that spurs the further release of energy as a change agent. The only thing that can spur an upgrade to existing housing stocks in investing monies in their improvement and I favor that as the kind of change that carries the message to all who live there that their circumstances are improving and their value as people is being acknowledged.
Neither my legal nor my business background involve pharmaceuticals but that life experience makes me respect the nature of specialized knowledge and the difficulty in translating such knowledge into tangible processes, systems and equipment to reliably produce any complex product. I do not support the state diverting its scarce resources to become a venture Capitalist with taxpayer funds in such a complex and specialized knowledge enterprise. I believe there are other tools that fall more uniquely to the State as a governmental enterprise that would remain, for me, the preferred tools of choice to help bend down the cost curve on pharmaceuticals generally.
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EXECUTIVE BRANCH OVERSIGHT BY CALIFORNIA'S STATE ASSEMBLY
Executive Branch Oversight by California's State Assembly
In our system of checks and balances, the Legislature's power to enact policy includes the power to safeguard the well-being of Californians by monitoring compliance with previously adopted laws. In this way, a Session's legacy is made not just by the enactment of new laws but also by its efficacy in holding the Executive Branch accountable for how it administers current law, including its attentiveness to ensuring that all others subject to current law meet its dictates.
Such oversight efforts play the vital role of upholding the rule of law as the foundation for California society and commerce. In a unique way, oversight inquiries enable Members of the Assembly to fulfill the body's pledge, emblazoned in Latin above the Assembly Dais – Legislatorum Est Justas Leges Condere – "It is the duty of the Legislature to make just laws."
Oversight efforts help ensure that the accumulated body of California law, of which the Executive Branch is bound to be both steward and servant, remains apt to its intended purpose and administered fairly and in accord with its intent, to the benefit of California.
Oversight's key premise is that it can be far more impactful than merely passing new laws. In particular, through focused inquiry and follow-up, an agency's priorities can, in time, be realigned to be more accommodating to the Legislature's view of intended priorities.
Policy committee oversight efforts are fact-based examinations of the conduct and work of an entity or system of entities with a view to determining facts about the current activities and operations of the organization. The committee focuses on those areas of state government administration or program responsibility within the committee's subject matter jurisdiction. In this way, a thoughtful Chair and their committee colleagues can open their committee's entire jurisdiction to inquiries not tied to the timing, process, and germaneness limits of the bill cycle.
Committee Chairs have the option to use oversight hearings to get a close look at state agencies subject to the panel's policy oversight. These hearings can inform the committee of each unit's organization, programs, available resources, administrative priorities, challenges and recent accomplishments. Beyond the information value of such a hearing, it begins to establish the concept that the Executive Branch's duty of program administration carries with it the prospect of periodic briefings and updates to the appropriate legislative policy committee with jurisdiction over the subject matter of current programs. Then, as more law or program-specific oversight hearings are conducted, the principle has been established that the relevant agencies should expect to be present and a part of the Assembly's review process.
Within this co-equal branch of government oversight framework, a subject is researched and examined and the resulting facts are used to evaluate whether, for the effort and resources being expended, appropriate results are being obtained, and if changes or improvements can be made to achieve better, more needed, or different high-value outcomes.
As important as oversight is, our system of governance relies upon the power of enacting new laws as an important check and safeguard within government and for the public. The emphasis upon oversight supports the value and propriety of sound, well-crafted, timely change and evolution in California law. Times do change. Markets evolve. New behaviors emerge and technological advances reframe our understanding of the tools and resources available to address particular problems. For this reason, a fit topic for oversight will frequently be how an emergent issue fits with an existing facet of state government and how a "hole" in the law, or a straitjacket imposed by current law, must give way to a new solution.
The ultimate purpose of oversight is enhanced governance that is responsive to the need of Californians. Given this fact, California's State Assembly recognizes that under the leadership of Committee Chairs and Vice Chairs, and professional subject matter staff, inquiries which are structured to enhance our understanding of the challenges facing contemporary governance, so as to permit the fashioning of innovations that are responsive to those challenges, are fit topics for oversight whether the focus is on a current law, or a new one.
Oversight in the California State Assembly gives committees a means to touch Californians by holding agencies & others accountable to the laws already in place.
More accountable California governance is the result.
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Email - ken@kencooley.com
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Answer from Cathy Cook:
The State Housing Department estimates we need to build 180,000 new housing units per year to keep prices stable. Right now we're averaging less than half of that, causing more shortages and higher prices. We need to "fast track" projects that modernize and re-develop urban apartments and condominiums by reducing the red-tape of multiple layers of government reviews. We need to review and streamline the approval process for new housing developments and re-zone areas to allow for innovative projects that promote eco-friendly communities that are more bike friendly and walkable.
There is no "one size fits all solution" for California's water shortage. We need to create new supplies by building new reservoirs and desalinization plants, modernize our existing infrastructure to increase capacity, conserve and reuse water supply that we already have through reclaiming runoff water, upgrading our inefficient appliances and implementing precision irrigation practices. We need to build new reservoirs and expand the capacity of existing reservoirs. Sites Reservoir is a project that should be green-lighted. It is an alternative to damming, Sacramento River water would be pumped into Sites during high flows via pipeline to save as much as 1.8 million acre-feet when full of runoff water, and then released back into the river as needed. Our last major water project was completed in the 1960's, meanwhile our population has increased by over 40 million people. We are overdue in dealing with our increasing need for water and I will make it a priority to solve our water supply before we have the next drought.
I will support new, clean hydroelectric power projects. Not only will this generate more electricity, but it will increase our water storage capacity and modernize our aging infrastucture. I also support exploring a partnership/demonstration project with a company like Bill Gate's TerraPower to build smaller, advanced technology nuclear power plants that convert depleted uranium already considered "waste" into clean energy.
According to CAL MATTERS, "Jails and prisons have become default psychiatric institutions. Over 30% of California prisoners currently receive treatment for a serious mental disorder". Since 1995, California has lost nearly 30% of its psychiatric hospital beds. Is it any stretch of the imagination to conclude that California has neglected our mentally ill population? We need to build more small-scale, community mental health care facilities and train more mental health care providers to take care of our mentally ill and we need to provide more outpatient services to treat people before they reach crisis level emergency care.
Absolutely do not change the Property Tax System set up by Proposition 13. California already has some of the highest property taxes in the Country. It is a major reason businesses and fellow Californians are fleeing our State. If approved, this bill will increase the cost of living on every person in California through higher rents, higher prices on goods and services and put thousands of small businesses "Out of Business". California has a budget surplus ... why vote for the largest property tax increase in the history of California?
The best way to lower rent costs is by increasing the supply of rental properties. Rent caps result in reducing the supply of rental properties, causing shortages and end up ultimately raising the cost of renting. A more effective approach would be for lawmakers to reduce the administrative costs, regulations and permit fees for building new affordable housing. Allow private developers to make a modest profit and they will build affordable housing without rent caps or raising our taxes.
It is a worthwhile goal to make prescription drug prices more affordable. The proposal would allow the California Department of Health Care Services to negotiate with drugmakers to demand lower prices competitve with countries such as Canada. The current proposal would create a new Office of Health Care Affordability. The key is to determine whether the new office would save Californians more in lower drug prices compared to the administrative costs of a new government program.
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Q: How can I inject an environment variable into the startup script for gcloud compute instances create? I am creating a GCE VM with the gcloud compute instances create command and I am using the --metadata-from-files argument to pass in a startup shell script for some provisioning.
However, I need for a variety of environment variables to be pre-populated with specified values in order for the startup script to work. They can't be hard-coded into the startup script because they will be different for different users of the overall script I am writing (eg the env vars passed into the new instance might be based on the $USER invoking the script).
I tried adding key value pairs with the --metadata argument as well, but this does not work, and the referenced shell variables are still unbound in the execution of the startup script.
How can I issue a gcloud compute instances create command that forwards some set of environment variables that will be populated into the environment for the startup script to consume them?
The --metadata parameter seems like it should be correct since the docs say,

Metadata to be made available to the guest operating system running on the instances.

A: You should be able to use this documentation to generate the appropriate curl commands to extract your metadata:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/storing-retrieving-metadata
You can then use the extracted values to set your environment variables.
(Edited to fix the URL.)

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More on the history of Matilda Bay Brewing Co.
October 3, 2012 by Phil Jarratt Leave a Comment
With the resurgence in interest in craft brewing, there is also huge interest in brewery history. Yesterday's article by James Davidson looking at the history of the Matilda Bay had a huge response, so I thought it might be of interest to republish a number of articles looking at the brewery's history.
The first is an article first published in the September 1985 edition of Transair, the magazine of the now defunct Trans Australia Airlines, then republished in the February 1986 edition of Beer Matters, the official journal of the also defunct Australian Beer Society.
The most interesting aspect of this article is that it was a contemporary account of the origins of the Sail & Anchor and Matilda Bay Brewing Company. Apart from the brewery's history, it is also fascinating to read Phil Sexton's comments on the beer market 25 years ago. [Ed]
The article is republished with the generous permission of the author.
Brewing Boutique Beer
By Phil Jarratt, 1985
Phil Sexton didn't invent the term "boutique brewing" but in just over a year he has successfully defined it for Perth's legion of beer connoisseurs.
At Sexton's beautifully restored Sail and Anchor Hotel opposite the Fremantle markets, no fewer than a dozen beers are served on tap, ranging from such universally appreciated European lagers as Heineken and Lowenbrau to the brewed-on-the-premises "Anchor" ale and stout. But it is the local brews which are best received, indicative perhaps of the fact that Phil Sexton's is the first new blood in Australian brewing for a hundred years.
In 1885 the Foster brothers arrived from New York and revolutionised the marketing of beer by selling their light lager to Melbourne pubs complete with ice, so that it could be sold at the temperature at which the brothers believed it should be served.
In 1985 Phil Sexton is revolutionising the drinking habits of the West by showing that an appreciation of beer can be every bit as "upmarket" as an appreciation of wine. And Perth drinkers are falling over themselves to sample the amber fluids that flow from the Anchor's highly polished brass taps, so much so that a second beer connoisseurs' heaven – the Chelsea Tavern at Nedlands – was opened by Sexton and his partners in the second half of the year to accommodate the overflow.
Just down the road from this second public house, Sexton was putting the finishing touches on the sophisticated machinery of the Matilda Bay Brewing Company, the boutique brewery which will eventually supply the group's two pubs, its own retail liquor stores and a few selected restaurants. Clearly, there is money in thinking small.
Phil Sexton, Melbourne born, raised in Busselton in the West's wine country and a Perth resident for most of his adult life, had made up his mind to become a winemaker when he took a summer job at the Swan Brewery after completing a degree in biochemstry. The idea was to save some quick money and put himself through wine school, but almost immediately Sexton became immersed in the trickiest problem faced by brewers everywhere over the past decade – how to keep the flavour in light beer.
This challenge was so demanding and engrossing that Sexton gave away his wine-making ideas and became indentured as a brewer, ultimately becoming one of the four who developed Swan Special Light, regarded by many Australians as the finest light in the land.
Sexton then took a two-year break from Australian brewing and did a master's degree in biochemistry in Britain, specialising in the fermentation of beer. Armed with this valuable theory and the practical knowledge that comes from breasting the bar of many a fine English tavern, he then returned home and set about finding backers who were interested in an entirely new approach to selling beer to Australians.
[pullquote]Sales of beer in Australia have actually declined in the past ten years, and when you look at that against the increase in population it's quite frightening if you are a brewer. ~Phil Sexton, 1985[/pullquote]Says Sexton: "Sales of beer in Australia have actually declined in the past ten years, and when you look at that against the increase in population it's quite frightening if you are a brewer. But I had the feeling that one of the reasons for this was that the macho, down-market image of the beer drinker had been used for a long time and that people were starting to get sick of it. The big companies were all pushing large quantities of beer out in cans and were pretending that only real men drank it.
"I thought there might be room for someone to try a different approach, based on the social use of beer in other countries, particularly in Western Europe".
Shopping his idea around town, Sexton ran into Perth businessman Peter Briggs who had long held the dream of opening a brewery to rival Swan. Sexton and his friends quickly talked him out of that and into small-scale gourmet brewing. A man who drinks only the best himself, Briggs soon fell into line with their thinking and the Anchor Brewing Company was born, wedged between the ground-floor bars of what was once the Freemason's Hotel.
Matilda Bay followed soon after once the partners had found a suitable site and purchased the right equipment to produce larger quantities of traditional ale and lager. But it is the glass-fronted brewing room in the Sail & Anchor which attracts all the attention in suddenly tourist-conscious Fremantle. Two-pot screamers and serious drinkers alike are drawn to the windows like metal to a magnet, there to watch the birth of the actual beer they are drinking.
And fine beer it is too. While Phil Sexton has trimmed the size of the Anchor down to almost nothing, he has sacrificed nothing in quality. The 4500 litres brewed there each week include some of the finest lager, best bitter, milk stout, mild and special ales brewed anywhere in the world.
Patrons in the packed bars of the huge hotel put away their pints or half pints accompanied by pork pies, pickles and steak and kid. The drinking is by and large scholarly rather than sporting, except on those special occasions when the specialty of the house – the infamous Dogbolter – is fitted to the taps.
At around ten percent alcohol, Dogbolter is an ale to be reckoned with. A recent batch came out at 12.5 percent in fact, rendering it the world's strongest beer according to the Guinness Book of Records.
[pullquote]I don't see inebriation as a side effect of the enjoyment of beer…[/pullquote]"The regulars love it," says Sexton, "but they tend to forget it's as strong as it is and, well, the tone of the place gets lowered a little I suppose. I don't see inebriation as a side effect of the enjoyment of beer, so we tend to only serve Dogbolter on special occasions."
Not that Sexton or any of his pub staff are wowsers. There seems to be an almost permanent air of celebration around the Sail & Anchor. And visitors can only wonder whether it is in anticipation of next summer's yacht racing or in appreciation of the constant tinkle of the cash register.
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More Polls...Americans Not As Eager To Shut Gitmo As We've Been Led To Believe
In fact, they seem pretty dead set against it. Who knew?
Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to closing the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and moving some of the detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds.
By more than 2-1, those surveyed say Guantanamo shouldn't be closed. By more than 3-1, they oppose moving some of the accused terrorists housed there to prisons in their own states.
The findings underscore the difficult task President Obama faces in convincing those at home that he should follow through on his campaign promise to close the prison in Cuba, especially in the absence of a plan of where the prisoners would go.
In many parts of the world, however, Gitmo has become a symbol of U.S. arrogance and abuse, and Obama has cited its closure as a way to lay the foundation for better relations. He is scheduled to deliver a major address aimed at the Muslim world on Thursday from Cairo.
Here's my pet peeve....how exactly did Gitmo " become a symbol of U.S. arrogance and abuse"? Maybe it had something to do with all the screeching from people on the left like Obama, Andrew Sullivan and the rest. Gitmo wasn't self-discrediting, it took the work of people opposed to the US taking strong measures to defend itself in the wake of 9/11.
The newest lefty talking point is the General Petraeus wants to close Gitmo and said that we have violated the Geneva Conventions in some unspecified way.
Andy McCarthy takes a look at the General's statements and walks through why there's not much there there.


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A: Open the page in a browser, right click on an image, and click View Image. What is the path in the address bar? Is it what you expected? If so, what are the URLs you're storing in the database table?


Why:An adventure to Australia's controversial capital city to investigate the NewActon cultural precinct (a new fangled melting pot of creative talent) and check out some galleries.
Local bric a brac a plenty.
Hotel from outside – with complimentary ray of light.
Entrance – 'A Place for People People,' apparently.
Buzz off – for late arrivals. Couldn't have put it better myself.
As the saying goes – TIM-BER… lobby staircase, incredible.
Hotel nerd - a geek of monumental proportions. Living room light – design tastic.
Suitcases – feel like packing it in here, and becoming a lady of leisure forever. TIM-BER take 2.
Corridor – it's like the labyrinth – I'm doing Bowie proud. Bikes – free to hire and hit one of many excellent local galleries, all aboard!
Bedroom – mood lighting, ding ding!
Gallery style bedroom – art choice off the hook.
The bath – rub a dub dub, check out that dang tub.
Aesop – one word… WIN.
Bath salt (in a neat little arrangement) - get involved.
Toilet bag – tailor made and super stylin'.
The incredible Hotel façade – geometric to boot.
The eye for detail – from the Aesop products in the rooms to the ecologically considered toilet bags and hotel stamp stationary at reception, there is NOTHING that this hotel hasn't thought of. This place gives the word 'considered' a whole new destination to dance.
Art and the creative vibe – from the Lucy McRae mirror in the lobby to the tiles turned into a mosaic in the lobby (an age old collection belonging to Saskia Havekes of Grandiflora's grandfather) to the gazillion books in the lobby library, this place is a mecca for art and culture enthusiasts.
The design with local artisan touches – it's rare to find a hotel that manages to marry design genius with a low key and comfortable vibe. It's a mish mash of design genius that is somehow entirely ingenious and works in a day-to-day setting. Best of all, it's ecologically sound and sustainable. So much so that the Australian Department of Climate Change is based within the Nishi building, of which Hotel Hotel is a part.
Everything everywhere here is made by artisans and handmade. Bath salt containers, hotel glasses (one Amos Enders-Moje created the glassware from recycled bottles locally and exclusively for the hotel).
The bikes – my ride around town was smooth as silk. I wanted to fly this baby home and ride it round the streets of Redfern.
Nothing to fault. Nada. Nothing.
Two words. Design. Hotel. It doesn't get more design nerd than this.
Relaxed design hotel meets melting pot of artisans and creative luminaries.
In the heart of Canberra's NewActon cultural precinct, which is a mecca for art and culture enthusiasts. This place boasts a Palace movie cinema, a bike shop and regularly plays host to local art exhibitions and collective gatherings. Just a short walk over the bridge is Lake Burley Griffin, which is the focal point for all things Canberra culture. The National Museum, Library, Parliament House, The Gallery of Australian Design, and The National Gallery are all within a short cycle away.
99 rooms including 33 apartments, with collaborations by 56 (and counting) artists, designers and makers.
Of the now, but not annoyingly so. One of the hero tracks from the Trainspotting album was playing while I sipped my glass of local Shiraz (it may or may not have been Underworld, but I was enjoying it so much I forgot to ask). Perfection.
If only this were a straightforward question. Hotel Hotel is a jigsaw puzzle of perfectly connected creatives. It occupies 3 floors of the newly constructed Nishi residential building. Designed by Australian architectural firm (the masterminds behind Australia's acclaimed Museum of New and Old in Tasmania), in close collaboration with Japan's Suppose Design Office. The foyer and grand stair lobby are designed by March Studio in collaboration with Oculus, NewActon's landscape Within that space, new fangled pieces from Broached Commissions reflect Canberra's design history while complementing the hotel architecture.
No pool and no gym, but plenty of Lake Burley Griffin to run around + free super duper bikes to borrow.
In and around this hotel, there are lots of different dining spots. The bar and lounge on the hotel's ground floor serves an impressive list of local wines from around Canberra (try the Riesling), paired with a lazy lounge room with adapted Danish furniture and a fireplace to boot. Chef Sean McConnell serves up a carefully selected array of dishes in both the hotel restaurant (yet to open) and bar.
Yes – with a wine and cocktail list to die for. Pair some wine with the oysters topped with lychee. It's a winning combination.
I've said it once, I'll say it again. Most of the time when it comes to design hotel protocol, leave them at home.
From $285 – an absolute bargain for what you can get room-wise.
A menu to die for, locally sourced and produced food - I know it's embarrassing, but their bacon and egg roll was killer.
Borrow a bike from the hotel and ride it around the city and Lake Burley Griffin, it's mandatory.
It got chilly in the evening.
Canberra is flat, so get running!


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An update to Grand Theft Auto Online for both PS3 and Xbox 360 gamers should fix missing cars, mods that disappear, and an exploit which allowed the same vehicle to be sold multiple times, as developer Rockstar Games addresses the issues in the overwhelmed multiplayer title. The glitches were down to a cloud save failure, Rockstar Games said, while also pointing out that it had tweaked the algorithms in the character creator so that default "random" generations would be better looking. Meanwhile, there's also news for Xbox Live Games on Demand users.
As of today, Grand Theft Auto 5 is available to download from the Xbox 360 on-demand service. Previously, Xbox gamers had needed to pick up a physical copy of the game.
The online update follows several weeks of instability and patchy uptime, as GTA Online was hammered by eager gamers. Access to the online arena – which allows up to sixteen players to compete in the same GTA environment simultaneously – was bundled with Grand Theft Auto 5 itself, but Rockstar was surprised by sales of the game, and struggled to keep the online side functional.
Meanwhile, Rockstar has also commented on when the first chunk of cash from the placatory "stimulus program" should arrive in gamers' virtual accounts. The studio said it would give out half a million game-dollars per player for those impacted by the issues GTA Online has encountered.
"We're aiming to make the first deposit of $250,000 in all players accounts early next week" the company said today, "once we've confirmed that any remaining game progress issues have been fixed for the community in this latest title update."
Still unclear is when – or indeed if – Rockstar will release GTA5 for PC gamers, who have been increasingly vocal at their dissatisfaction that the best-selling title is console-only. Rumors recently suggested that the title wouldn't hit PCs until sometime in Q1 2014.
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Weddings started after 1960s when families arrived, used pubs for weddings and halls.
The Asian population was very low so there were no festivals celebrated in public such as Eid or Divali. We now celebrate at Spinneyhill Park.
I remember playing in the streets, whip and top was one of our favourites. I mean, for every Easter we used to have a new whip and top, and my dad was very clever with his hands, he still is. He used to make us these beautiful tops, and he used to decorate all the tops of them so that when they spun round. We'd got the best ones because our colours were brilliant.
I can remember that we used to play ball and get into trouble, because in the avenue, where the first house on Biddulph Street was, there was a huge wall into the avenue, and we used to all play "Double ball up" against the wall. I can remember my aunty Madge (we used to call all our neighbours 'aunty' or 'uncle', it was disrespectful to do any other) coming out and playing hell with us! We'd all run off because all she could hear was bang, bang, bang, from these balls going up, or our feet going up.
Was there a lot of empty housing in the area then?
No, no but houses for sale were immediately bought, yeah. We had been buying and that's how we bought our church there you see. We bought the church with cash.
Was the church empty when you bought it?
Yes it was. It was owned by the Baptists. That church, (you probably will not remember) was built where the present railway station is 120-130 years ago. It was transferred to Melbourne Road brick by brick then we bought it for fifteen thousand pounds. It didn't have a roof and was very neglected. It was leaking all over the place. We got some money together and bought it and that's why there was a sort of Polish ghetto there at that time in the Highfields area.
What year are we taking about?
There was no racism, people were not bothered about colour. People did not celebrate Eid and Vasakhi. After 1970 people started to celebrate in their homes. Now people celebrate in public, eg. Spinneyhill Park.
The first Mosque was bought in 1965 – Sutherland Mosque. 2A Sutherland Street Islamic Centre and Mosque. Before that I used to go to Birmingham . All this has been built recently.
How did you feel about living in the home?
We didn't mind it at all really, because on Saturday afternoon we went to the Evington cinema and if we didn't, we'd go to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
There was a family of Catholics who came to live with us as well and they went to the Sacred Heart up the hill. They were given priority really because they had to go to confirmation classes after school and things like that. They got a bit more time to get out of the home than we did, you know? And then from the end of the war we went a bit further afield, because when we went to the Evington cinema, the manager there saw us and I had asked him if he could save us some seats! Sometimes we were a bit late getting there. The Evington cinema manager was Mr Bowland. I think he was something to do with the councillors of Leicester. He let us into the cinema for free! We all went upstairs and then instead of spending the pocket money we went for a walk to one of the girl's father's houses. We went and cleaned up for him. He used to work at the Leicester Mercury offices. He was a shift worker and course it was nice for him to come home and have his fire made and table laid for one.
So you saw your parents?
Yes, we used to go to the hospital for our chest X-rays.
Ah, did your parents have tuberculosis?
Every Christmas morning we had our photograph taken with the Lord Mayor outside the receiving home on Mill Hill Lane. Then Councillor Court, he used to give us all sixpence, and where the sixpences went, who knows. I don't know where they went. We never spent them!
Where there any places of religious worship?
There was no established places. People of different faiths used to hire a school building on Sundays. Things have changed. Hindus have temples, Sikhs have Gurdwaras and Moslems have Mosques. I could not think of such a change. Some people used to think we must have a place of worship, many used to go to India to perform a religious ceremony. Still many did not bother about religion at all. Everybody thinks individually. Anyway it was a great act to establish your own religious places.
Were there any fairs in those days in Spinney Hill Park?
No. There was no such a thing in those days. All these things have come with Asian immigrants. Religion and culture are now here. There were no religious processions at all. The celebrations were limited.
Did you have a Christmas Tree?
Oh yes, we always had a Christmas tree and decorations. We used to have streamers I seem to remember that we had a lot more white Christmas's as well, you know, a lot more snow at Christmas times.
Did you used to go to the church quite often?
We did, I always went to Sunday School, and we went on a few outings, things like that. Sunday School outings used to be out to Bradgate Park and we used to go and climb over the rocks and everything.
In 1967, Indian ladies started praying in various houses in Highfields. In 1969 a co-operative shop was purchased at the corner of Cromford Street and Chatsworth Street. This shop was later made into the praying hall. In June 1969, the deities of Lord Radha-Krishna were installed and the place was turned into a Hindu Temple. This was the first Hindu Temple in UK.
We started many activities such as religious services, mother tongue Gujarati classes, celebrations of religion festivals, children's art classes etc. Up to 1989, this place was very active serving the Hindu community living in surrounding areas. Slowly our people stated to move to the other areas of the city.
There were 10-12 Asians in Highfields area. We could not worship but later on we started to hire a room in schools to worship.
Weddings were in the house with 4-5 people. Not like now. There were no meals, parties etc. in the parks.
Used to warm water on gas in kettles and then wash clothes. The clothes took ages drying on coal fires. Coal was cheap could get as much as you wanted.
Can you tell me, did you have any problems with religion, with funerals or weddings?
Oh yes, yes. We had to overcome lots of hurdles when we came. We had to make a cultural awareness to the local community, to local institutions, to the local councils, even local MPs and politicians were not aware of our culture. We had to tell them our requirements, our needs in schools and funerals, or our religious functions. Take the Eid Festival, we had to explain why our children could not come to school on that particular day. Most of the people were not aware, they thought we were all Asians with one religion. We must all be Hindu or we must all be Moslem. They did not realise the diverse religions and inter-cultural community amongst the Asians.
We used to hire church halls mostly on London Road. We used them for our Eid prayers and things like that. There weren't that many halls available. So we made do wherever we could find a small hall, even the school halls were not available at particular times. Only nowadays, you find schools are giving away their halls on weekends. But when we came we had a big struggle.
When we first moved there was one Mosque on Berners Street, which is called Masjid-E-Noor and there was another Mosque which is called Sutherland Street Islamic Centre. There were only two Mosques in the whole of the city of Leicester.
When did the others come?
The others just came because the demand was there and there was a big influx of the Moslem Community in Leicester coming from Malawi. They were coming from Zimbabwe, South Africa, East Africa. As the Moslems started coming to England, alot chose to make Leicester their home. Then the need was there because Masjid-E-Noor was a very small Mosque and even Sutherland Street was a one terrace house through Sutherland Street, so I don't think these two Mosques could have taken the influx of the population, then increasing Moslem population in Leicester. So the demand was there at that particular time.
How would you celebrate Eid at that time?
We used to go early in the morning. We used to hire a hall on London Road. A church hall, and we would perform our Eid there. Then we would come home and celebrate with our family, mother, sisters, brothers, cousins and then we would go and visit families and friends' houses and that was Eid. Then we realised that we must do more than that. So I myself took an initiative in 1982/1983 to get an Eid Festival on a proper footing. I went to the council, I got a planning application to set up a proper Eid Festival in Spinney Hill Park, with different stalls, food stalls, book stalls, and a sports function. Then I also went and saw the local fun fair chap, Billy Bates. He was quite willing to accept our offer. The first Eid Mela we celebrated with the Lord Mayor and the local MPs, councillors, local dignitaries, scholars from London, they came down and we had our first Eid Mela in the whole year. Leicester was the first city to establish Eid Mela.
there was a need for young children to celebrate their Eid because it's an event, Eid itself is happiness. A child needs to identify what Eid means to him or her. So when the Mela came, most of the children were blessed with Duas.
You know people were coming from Birmingham, Manchester, London, Slough. We met people from all over the country for Eid Mela. It was a success! It was just not for Moslems. Everyone came to it. It was open to everyone regardless of colour, creed or race.
Sunday was a busy day. If we had been good during the week we would sometimes find a little treat tied to the brass bedhead, usually a whipped cream walnut (then 2d. each). After breakfast (always egg and bacon), dad would polish our shoes till they shone, and wearing our Sunday 'best' we went off to morning Sunday school held in Gopsall Street. This was presided over by Miss Glover who I believe was also a day school teacher. We all sat in small classes of 5 or 6, were told a Bible story after we had each to do a drawing. At least 3 hymns were followed by prayers – one of which sticks in my mind was for 2 Burmese children 'Eethet' and 'Weesoe' (spelling undoubtedly wrong), but the pronunciation is accurate! We were given a penny for collection and I can honestly say the morning collection went in the bag! Alas, when after a roast Sunday lunch we were again dispatched to afternoon Sunday school (so that our parents could enjoy a nap), I have to confess I would only put 1/2d in the other collection. I would quietly take the other 1/2d. round to Mrs Norman's shop and buy chocolate raisins (which remain a weakness to this day).
My earliest memories are of the Methodist Church, also situated on Melbourne Road, but higher up the hill. A plain yet sturdy building, it faced the main road, but the entrance we little ones were allowed to use was in the side street. There were two large halls, underneath the body of the church, both used for Sunday School classes which were divided into groups according to your age. The cosy, newly-polished smell greeted us as we filed in on Sunday afternoons, leaving our parents in peace for a few hours. I loved the tiny wooden chairs, circling for protection from the outside world around our teacher�s lap.


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The airline business has been effected severely by the Obama administration. The administration allowed for many of the businesses to merge together in order for the airline business to be made up of 4 primary airlines. Continental was taken over by United, American was taken over by US Airways, and Delta took over Northwest. Due to the merging of these companies, an oligopoly was formed between the 4 primary airlines. This lead to many issues such as a decline in customer satisfaction. New fees appeared, seats became less comfortable, leg room room disappeared, and higher fares appeared. In the future, the airline oligopoly is only predicted to become stronger. Virgin America would be the deciding factor if the airline were to be taken over by one of the primary 4. With more companies there is higher competition. This leads to a higher incentive for companies to create the most quality experience for their consumers. However, due to the oligopoly, there is way less competition and therefore less incentive for companies to attempt and outperform their competitors. Conclusively, the oligopoly in the airline business can only lead to less and less desirable flying experiences.
This is an interesting article. I think that this is actually a relatively serious problem within this specific industry. Even though it may seem like there are so many airlines choose from, there are actually just a few people controlling each individual airline, and those few people take advantage of their power in order to increase their profits, and reduce customer satisfaction.
As much as I agree with you, Southwest airlines is still a major player in the market, and I think that they're taking advantage of these falling satisfaction rates by offering everything the other airlines aren't. Southwest has no bag fees, allows you to choose your seats, and has no change fees for flights. Even though they only fly domestically, they're becoming one of the leading airlines, and I think they will become more successful in the coming years.


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All too often people train year in and year out without ever getting one single step closer to their goals.
Way too often you see people dieting like crazy, losing the weight, only to gain it and often more back again in a short time.
So why is it not working? Is it my genes? Is it that I just don't do it right? Or is it that I shouldn't expect results?
If I can achieve one thing, right now, as I have you reading this, I want to convince you that YES you should expect results! I am not a magician; these are not overnight results – but steady, continuous, awesome results. Step-by-step, they will transform you into who you really are. That dream of yours… That dream IS who you really ARE!
Your body will ONLY change when it has to, when it is pressed to, when the circumstances urge it to.
If you just go to the gym, and do your well known routine, go to the same classes week after week (like most of the girls), well then the body is kind of used to that, and it gets no what so ever indication that it needs to improve in order to keep up. Therefore there are absolutely no changes happening.
In order to improve you need to continuously make new challenges for your body to overcome; then it will wake up and understand, wow I got to make some improvements here in order to endure that program.
Change your weight routine, incorporate new stuff, e.g. TRX, BOSO, functional training, with power bags and so on.
Make zero breaks between sets and make active breaks instead (e.g. aerobic breaks with squat- jumps, or plank -squat -jumps, skipping between sets is perfect).
And for the girls: stop doing ONLY aerobic programs- it is time to do some weights too, and use the weights, you can lift more than 1 kg, come on, you do that every day in the supermarket anyway, or when you carry your kids.
Weight training can be fun, if you use different exercises every time.
Think of yourself as an athlete.
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Distances from Killeen
#1 KilleenKilleen, Bell County, Texas, United States of America Killeen, Bell County, Texas, United States of America
Latitude: 31.117119 31° 7' 1.6284'' N
Longitude: -97.727798 -97° 43' 40.0728'' E
Local time: 15:34 (17.01.2021) : (America/Chicago)
Distance facts
North pole: 4,069.69 mi (6,549.53 km)
How far is Killeen from the North Pole? Killeen is located 4,069.69 mi (6,549.53 km) south of the North Pole.
Equator: 2,150.66 mi (3,461.15 km)
How far is Killeen from the equator and on what hemisphere is it? Killeen is 2,150.66 mi (3,461.15 km) north of the equator, so it is located in the northern hemisphere.
South pole: 8,370.92 mi (13,471.69 km)
How far is it from Killeen to the South Pole? From Killeen to the South Pole, it is 8,370.92 mi (13,471.69 km) in the north.
Antipode: -31.117119,82.272202
Where do I get to when I dig a hole in Killeen through the centre of the earth? This is the point on the Earth's surface when you draw a straight line from Killeen through the centre of the earth.
Furthest cities from Killeen
Which city (at least 500,000 inhabitants) is furthest away and what is the distance from Killeen?
Perth (16,848 km)
Bandar Lampung (16,291 km)
Bogor (16,286 km)
Antananarivo (16,286 km)
Depok (16,268 km)
Airports near Killeen
HLR Hood Army Air Field 1.69 mi (2.71 km)
Fort Hood, United States
GRK Robert Gray Army Air Field Airport 6.91 mi (11.12 km)
Killeen, United States
Cities nearby Killeen
Fort Hood (5 km), Harker Heights (7 km), Copperas Cove (17 km), Belton (26 km), Gatesville (35 km), Temple (37 km), Georgetown (54 km), Leander (61 km), Hewitt (63 km)
Distance Killeen to
Round Rock (68 km), Waco (73 km), Austin (95 km), College Station (144 km), Fort Worth (183 km), Arlington (189 km), Grand Prairie (194 km), San Antonio (202 km), Irving (203 km), Dallas (205 km), Mesquite (212 km), Carrollton (219 km), Richardson (224 km), Garland (225 km), Lewisville (225 km), Plano (233 km), Denton (240 km), Abilene (241 km), Frisco (242 km), McKinney (254 km), San Angelo (260 km), Tyler (267 km), Houston (272 km), Pasadena (289 km)
Distances from Killeen to worldwide cities
Mexico City (1,308 km), Los Angeles (1,947 km), New York (2,378 km), Bogotá (3,847 km), Lima (5,285 km), Santiago (7,725 km), London (7,840 km), Madrid (8,140 km), São Paulo (8,159 km), Casablanca (8,173 km), Rio de Janeiro (8,357 km), Buenos Aires (8,392 km), Berlin (8,582 km), Saint Petersburg (8,838 km), Moscow (9,472 km), Abidjan (10,058 km), Istanbul (10,308 km), Harbin (10,373 km), Tokyo (10,476 km), Yokohama (10,498 km), Changchun (10,602 km), Ankara (10,620 km), Ibadan (10,680 km), Lagos (10,688 km), Kano (10,821 km), Shenyang (10,881 km), Pyongyang (11,016 km), Seoul (11,081 km), Alexandria (11,162 km), Busan (11,181 km)


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Q: Interprocess Communication with pipe and file i'm using linux as operating system and trying to communicate three processes with pipe and file. It should work with any file put on STDIN.
And pipe works just fine, but second process is unavailable to write one char into file properly or third to read.
Firstly of course i initialize function as semlock and semunlock and opening pipe is also there. I appreciate any help cause i have no clue.
if (!(PID[1] = fork ())) {

    int BUF_SIZE = 4096;
    char d[BUF_SIZE];

    while (fgets (d, BUF_SIZE, stdin) != NULL) {
        write (mypipe[1], &d, BUF_SIZE);
    }
}

if (!(PID[2] = fork ())) {

    int reading_size = 0;
    char r;

    close (mypipe[1]);
    semlock (semid1);
    while (reading_size = read (mypipe[0], &r, 1)) {

        if ((file = fopen ("proces2.txt", "w")) == NULL) {
            warn ("error !!!");
            exit (1);
        }
        fputc (r, file);
        fclose (file);
        semunlock (semid2);
    }
}

if (!(PID[3] = fork ())) {
    char x;

    semlock (semid2);
    do {
        if ((plikProces3 = fopen ("proces2.txt", "r")) == NULL) {
            warn ("Blad przy otwarciu pliku do odczytu !!!");
            exit (1);
        }

        i = getc (plikProces3);
        o = fprintf (stdout, "%c", i);
        fclose (plikProces3);
        semunlock (semid1);
    } while (i != EOF);
}

A: What makes you think the child runs first?  You haven't waited for the child process to finish so can hit EOF reading the file, before the previous child has written.  Shouldn't the last fork() call be a wait, so you know the file was written?  As it stands you have 4 processes, NOT 3!!
Then you are closing the mypipe[1] in the 2nd child process which as it is a forked copy, does not close the pipe inthe first child.  You also are trying to write BUFSIZ characters, so you appear to be trying to write out more characters than were written, try "write (mypipe[1], &d, strlen(d));".
It looks very odd, to have the fopen() & fclose() within the character read/write loop.  You really want to re-open & re-write 1 character into the file over and over?
Similarly the process2 file seems to be re-opened so the first character within would be written again and again, if it's non-empty.
There are bound to be other bugs, but that should help you for now.


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Home / EUROPE / Registration of Nigerians in Europe for National Identification Number Takes Off
The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Mr Mohammed Babandede, has announced that anybody without a National Identification Number (NIN) issued by the NIMC would not be able to procure Nigerian passport. This is why it's important for every Nigerian, both home and abroad, to get their NIN! / NDC
Registration of Nigerians in Europe for National Identification Number Takes Off
In pursuant of its strategic objectives and core values, Nigerians in Diaspora Organization Europe (NIDOE) has finalized arrangements to commence the pre-enrolment of Nigerians in Europe in the National Identity Database.
The pre-enrolment is to ensure that all Diaspora Nigerians are well documented in the National Identity Management System (NIMS) of the Federal Government of Nigeria.
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has the mandate to carry out the enrolment of citizens and legal residents as provided for in the Act establishing it, create and operate a National Identity Database, issue unique National Identification Numbers to qualified citizens and legal residents.
The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Mr Mohammed Babandede, announced in August 2017 that from 1 January 2018, anybody without a National Identification Number (NIN) issued by the NIMC would not be able to procure Nigerian passport. The condition applies to both first-time applicants and those renewing their expired passport.
Even though the regulation has not yet been universally applied in Nigerian missions abroad, it will soon come into effect, according to reliable sources in official circles.
This is why it's important for every Nigerian, both home and abroad, to get their NIN!
The pre-enrolment to be carried out by NIDOE is to ensure that Nigerians in Diaspora do not repeat the frustrating experience of the Bank Verification Number (BVN) registration, where some Nigerians had to travel to Nigeria or outside their base to beat the BVN registration deadline in order not to lose their deposits in Nigerian banks.
Generally, the pre-enrolment exercise will enable the NIMC to register all Nigerians outside the shores of the country as is the standard practice in many countries, providing the much needed data for Diaspora voting, economic data for developmental planning and pooling the huge Diaspora human resources.
To achieve this objective, NIDOE is partnering with NIMC's specialists in information management services and database management to facilitate NIMC Diaspora population data capture. Data obtained through the pre-enrolment exercise are EU privacy laws and GDPR compliant.
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This partnership further portrays the commitment of the Federal Government of Nigeria to ensuring that the data of all Nigerians, irrespective of country of residence does not filter beyond Nigeria and Nigerian authorities.
In the meantime, NIDOE will commence a road show across Europe to sensitize and mobilize the Nigerian community in Europe to take advantage of the Diaspora pre-enrolment to avail them the opportunity of getting a National Identity Number (NIN).
The pilot pre-enrolment will be officially flagged off during the Diaspora Global Development Conference in London, UK from 26 -28 July 2018 by Hon. Rita Orji, the Chairperson, House Committee on Diaspora Affairs. Venue is the CEME Conference Centre, Marsh Way, Rainham, Essex RM13 8EU.
In its quest to foster and promote Diaspora participation in the Nigeria project, NIDO is recognized by the Federal Government as a rallying ground for all Nigerians in the Diaspora, promoting their interests through advocacy and networking.
For further information, visit www.nidoeurope.org
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The (robotic) doctor will see you now
Study finds patients are receptive to interacting with robots designed to evaluate symptoms in a contact-free way.
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A majority of patients interacting with a health care provider via a video screen mounted on a robot said it was similar to an in-person interaction with a health care worker.
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Patients were interviewed about their symptoms via video connection, using an iPad carried by a quadruped robot developed by Boston Dynamics.
In the era of social distancing, using robots for some health care interactions is a promising way to reduce in-person contact between health care workers and sick patients. However, a key question that needs to be answered is how patients will react to a robot entering the exam room.
Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital recently set out to answer that question. In a study performed in the emergency department at Brigham and Women's, the team found that a large majority of patients reported that interacting with a health care provider via a video screen mounted on a robot was similar to an in-person interaction with a health care worker.
"We're actively working on robots that can help provide care to maximize the safety of both the patient and the health care workforce. The results of this study give us some confidence that people are ready and willing to engage with us on those fronts," says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the senior author of the study.
In a larger online survey conducted nationwide, the researchers also found that a majority of respondents were open to having robots not only assist with patient triage but also perform minor procedures such as taking a nose swab.
Peter Chai, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a research affiliate in Traverso's lab, is the lead author of the study, which appears today in JAMA Network Open.
Triage by robot
After the Covid-19 pandemic began early last year, Traverso and his colleagues turned their attention toward new strategies to minimize interactions between potentially sick patients and health care workers. To that end, they worked with Boston Dynamics to create a mobile robot that could interact with patients as they waited in the emergency department. The robots were equipped with sensors that allow them to measure vital signs, including skin temperature, breathing rate, pulse rate, and blood oxygen saturation. The robots also carried an iPad that allowed for remote video communication with a health care provider.
This kind of robot could reduce health care workers' risk of exposure to Covid-19 and help to conserve the personal protective equipment that is needed for each interaction. However, the question still remained whether patients would be receptive to this type of interaction.
"Often as engineers, we think about different solutions, but sometimes they may not be adopted because people are not fully accepting of them," Traverso says. "So, in this study we were trying to tease that out and understand if the population is receptive to a solution like this one."
The researchers first conducted a nationwide survey of about 1,000 people, working with a market research company called YouGov. They asked questions regarding the acceptability of robots in health care, including whether people would be comfortable with robots performing not only triage but also other tasks such as performing nasal swabs, inserting a catheter, or turning a patient over in bed. On average, the respondents stated that they were open to these types of interactions.
The researchers then tested one of their robots in the emergency department at Brigham and Women's Hospital last spring, when Covid-19 cases were surging in Massachusetts. Fifty-one patients were approached in the waiting room or a triage tent and asked if they would be willing to participate in the study, and 41 agreed. These patients were interviewed about their symptoms via video connection, using an iPad carried by a quadruped, dog-like robot developed by Boston Dynamics. More than 90 percent of the participants reported that they were satisfied with the robotic system.
"For the purposes of gathering quick triage information, the patients found the experience to be similar to what they would have experienced talking to a person," Chai says.
Robotic assistants
The numbers from the study suggest that it could be worthwhile to try to develop robots that can perform procedures that currently require a lot of human effort, such as turning a patient over in bed, the researchers say. Turning Covid-19 patients onto their stomachs, also known as "proning," has been shown to boost their blood oxygen levels and make breathing easier. Currently the process requires several people to perform. Administering Covid-19 tests is another task that requires a lot of time and effort from health care workers, who could be deployed for other tasks if robots could help perform swabs.
"Surprisingly, people were pretty accepting of the idea of having a robot do a nasal swab, which suggests that potential engineering efforts could go into thinking about building some of these systems," Chai says.
The MIT team is continuing to develop sensors that can obtain vital sign data from patients remotely, and they are working on integrating these systems into smaller robots that could operate in a variety of environments, such as field hospitals or ambulances.
Other authors of the paper include Farah Dadabhoy, Hen-wei Huang, Jacqueline Chu, Annie Feng, Hien Le, Joy Collins, Marco da Silva, Marc Raibert, Chin Hur, and Edward Boyer. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Hans and Mavis Lopater Psychosocial Foundation, e-ink corporation, the Karl Van Tassel (1925) Career Development Professorship, MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the Brigham and Women's Hospital Division of Gastroenterology.
Paper: "Assessment of the Acceptability and Feasibility of Using Mobile Robotic Systems for Patient Evaluation"
Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a robotic dog outfitted with a tablet that allows doctors to visit with emergency room patients remotely. "The robot could therefore avoid the risk of exposure to Covid-19 by healthcare professionals and help save the personal protective equipment necessary for each visit," writes Ruggiero Corcella of Corriere della Sera.
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Prof. Gio Traverso speaks with CNN's Jeanne Moos about his new study examining how comfortable patients were interacting with Dr. Spot, a robotic dog outfitted with a computer tablet that allows ER doctors to engage with patients remotely. "The robot looks like a dog, and dogs are endearing to many, so actually, the reception was very positive," said Traverso.
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NY Post reporter Asia Grace writes that MIT researchers have found that patients are comfortable with allowing robotic assistants perform medical evaluations, as part of an effort to help reduce the spread of Covid-19. "People are very positive and accepting of robotic systems in health-care settings, particularly during the pandemic," says Prof. Giovanni Traverso.
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