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The Type 347G "Rice Bowl" I-band fire-control radar is found on Chinese Navy ships, in conjunction with the Type 76A dual-37mm automatic AAA gun.  Typically, the system includes 2 Type 347G fire-control radar with optical director, and 4 Type 76A guns.  They're used on the Luda, Luhu, Luhai, Jiangwei class surface warships, as well as the Houjian, Houxin, and Haiging class patrol boats.

Development
Development for an air defense radar system begun in July 1974, with design finalized in August 1975, consisted of two radars, the 1st being a search radar designated as Type 347S with S stands for search, and a 2nd fire control radar for guns, designated as Type 347G with G as gun. Design was completed by the 723rd Institute in May 1976 and finalized in October 1977. In the 1980s, China imported the OTOBreda (now OTO-Melara) Twin Fast Forty AAA  and Selenia (now AMS) SPG-74 (RTN-20X) fire control system from Italy for evaluation.  Although the Chinese navy didn't deploy the twin-40mm AAA, there are some similarities between the Type 347 and the SPG-74 radar, leading some commentators to claim that the Type 347 is based on SPG-74 technology. Subsystems tests on land were completed by the end of 1982. After further tests from November 1986 to September 1987, the system was accepted into service, and Type 347G radar subsequently renamed as Type 347 radar.

The distinct recognition characteristic of the Type 347 radar is the inverse cassegrain antenna with twisted polarization.

Type 347 radar is frequently but erroneously referred by many as either Type 349 or Type 348, because externally, all three radars look very similar, and all three are developed as fire control radar for small caliber guns. In reality, the three radars are different and they can be easily distinguished by the following features: When electro-optics (EO) are integrated with radar, EO is installed on the portside of Type 347 radar antenna, but for Type 348 and Type 349, EO is installed on the starboard side of the radar antenna. Furthermore, when incorporated as part of CIWS, Type 349 is slaved to Type 730 CIWS gun and thus does not rotate, because the gun rotates when searching/tracking. In contrast, Type 348 is not slaved to the Type 76 37mm twin guns, but instead, installed separately from the gun mounts, and thus Type 348 rotates when searching/tracking. The shape of antenna is also an important visual cue to distinguish three radars. The tip of Type 349 radar is a conical, which is missing on Type 347. Instead, the tip of Type 347 radar antenna is a small circular flat surface, missing the tip of the cone. The antenna of Type 348 radar differs from both Type 347 and Type 349 radars in that most of the cone is missing, only the base remains, so the antenna of Type 348 radar has a very large circular flat surface, resulting in Type 348 radar resembles a scaled down version of another larger fire control radar for larger caliber guns (76 mm or greater), Type 344.

Specifications
 System Band: X band
 Range: 30 km against 2 m² RCS aircraft ; 15 km against: 0.1 m² ASM
 Tracking accuracy: ≤1mrad
 Beam width: 1.8°
 Tracking coverage: 360° (Az); -25°~85° (El)
 Antenna type: Circular parabolic antenna
 Polarization: Vertical
 Beam width: 1.8°±0.2°
 Transmitter / Receiver
 Pulse peak consumption: 150 kW
 NF: <8 dB
 Ambient temperature
Antenna: -25–+70 °C
 Power supply
 115 V/50 Hz 3-phase AC: 5 kW
 115 V/400 Hz 3-phase AC: 1 kW
 Other features:
 Uses a coherent pulse doppler design
 Non coherent Moving Target Indicator/Detection (MTI, MTD), CFAR (Constant False Alarm Rate)
 Antinodding, anti clutter capability (A well advertised feature of the RTN family)

See also
Chinese radars
Naval Weaponry of the People's Liberation Army Navy
 Luhai class destroyer
 Luhu class destroyer

References

External links
 Monopulse Automatic Tracking Surveillance Maritime / Ground Based Radar Systems
 China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC)
Naval radars
Military radars of the People's Republic of China
Military equipment introduced in the 1980s

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Kamaru Usman after defeating Colby Covington in Las Vegas. USA Today
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Obamacare (As Seen On TV)
written by Ross Kaminsky October 24, 2013
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Ross Kaminsky is the host of the Ross Kaminsky Show on NewsRadio 850 KOA in Denver, and a columnist and blogger for The American Spectator. He received his Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Columbia University in 1987 before embarking on his career as a self-employed financial markets trader.With strongly libertarian leanings, Ross has been actively involved in and thinking about public policy for 25 years, and served as a member of the Board of Directors of The Heartland Institute. An avid traveler, Ross has been to over 60 countries and is working to instill in his children an appreciation for and curiosity about the world -- along with a love of liberty and the (theoretically) freedom-loving nation they one day may have the ability to influence.
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Well, that was embarrassing.
On Tuesday morning, the President of the United States became a salesman, hawking Obamacare in an "As Seen On TV" performance that would have Billy Mays cringing.
President Obama was forced into the White House Rose Garden appearance by the deluge of news stories — a deluge that would have started two weeks earlier but for the government shutdown — about the utter failure of the Obamacare website, healthcare.gov.
Americans can't log in, can't set up accounts, can't get through the security questions, can't get basic information without giving the government personal information, and most of the time, if they get that far, can't find a good product at a good price. Instead, the few plans that have nominally small monthly premiums come with enormous deductibles and cost-sharing.
Polls showed, as liberals will remind you giddily, that Obamacare's popularity increased during the government shutdown. Now that the shutdown is over, the issue of the disaster that is federal government involvement in health insurance will become disconnected from the (un)popularity of the Tea Party or Ted Cruz or even President Obama. The brief moment of hope for Obamacare supporters will quickly fade.
Even the most "mainstream" of media sources are pushing headlines such as "Obama pledges quick fixes for health care site" and "Obama admits flaws in website but defends law."
The cesspool of Obamacare is leaving a stench on a president who, despite feeling a momentary surge of post-shutdown victory, is in the midst of a yearlong decline in popularity. On Monday, Gallup reported that "President Barack Obama averaged a 44.5% job approval rating during his 19th quarter in office, a decline of more than three percentage points from his 18th quarter. That is one of the largest quarter-to-quarter declines of his presidency…"
All this forced Obama to the stage on Monday, introduced by the first person to buy health insurance through the Obamacare exchange in Delaware (one wonders if she is the only one), trying to convince Americans to buy his faulty product from a barely-functional website that was designed by an over-paid Canadian company supervised by Obama campaign staffers and bureaucrats rather than IT professionals. Even Jon Stewart is ridiculing the Obamacare website's repeated failures. A new poll says that 12 percent of Americans believe the Obamacare rollout is going well. (I wonder what percentage of them work for HHS and never watch the news.)
But it's hard to sell a product less user-friendly than Chop Magic and less credible than the Deluxe Spin Mop.
I mean, I actually have some interest in chopping an onion quickly and without tears. And the Chop Magic doubles as a six-cup mixing and measuring container! Now that's a benefit I can believe in. Unlike, for example, "free" birth control.
When you read some of Barack Obama's "As Seen On TV" lines, you can't help but think of Billy Mays selling OxiClean ("It's Amazing!"), or Vince "the hooker bit my tongue" Shlomi pitching the ShamWow ("It sells itself!):
"(T)he Affordable Care Act is not just a website. It's much more."
"You may not know it, but you're already benefiting…"
[Y]ou can get health insurance for what may be the equivalent of your cellphone bill or your cable bill. And that's a good deal."
"[U]nlike the day after Thanksgiving sales for the latest PlayStation or flat-screen TVs, the insurance plans don't run out." (He neglected to note that you don't have to keep paying for a PlayStation every month.)
"The product, the health insurance, is good. The prices are good. It is a good deal."
"The phone number for [healthcare.gov] call centers is 1-800-318-2596."
Yes, the President of the United States gave — and then repeated — an 800-number for Americans who can't use his program's website to call in order to be told how many weeks of bureaucracy they'll have to muddle through to buy an over-priced product whose primary "benefit" will be to make sure that the costs of pre-existing conditions are dumped on everybody else. After all, why should my illness be my financial problem when I can make it your financial problem?
As if this isn't bad enough, even the phone number doesn't work. The UK Daily Mail reports that "a number of tests by journalists ended with busy signals or dropped calls" and the Wall Street Journal says "we called the hotline on Monday and the automated menu redirected us to Healthcare.gov, which in turn told us to get in touch with someone at the call center." Sean Hannity reached the phone number and was told that the web site will be down for two days, and that an application can only be taken over the phone if an account is set up online first; the friendly operator noted that nobody actually likes the Obamacare exchange. (I wonder if she still has her job, given the vindictiveness of this administration.)
So even Obama's solution to the website debacle accomplishes little but wasting our time. But then what do you expect from a phone number which can also be given as 1-800-F1U-CKYO?
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## Functionality

### check-puppet-last-run.rb
Validates Puppet last run. Alerts if last Puppet run was later than threshold or it has errors

```
Usage: ./bin/check-puppet-last-run.rb (options)
    -a, --agent-disabled-file PATH   Path to agent disabled lock file
    -c, --crit-age SECONDS           Age in seconds to be a critical
    -C, --crit-age-disabled SECONDS  Age in seconds to crit when agent is disabled
    -d, --disabled-age-limits        Consider disabled age limits, otherwise use main limits
    -i, --ignore-failures            Ignore Puppet failures
    -r, --report-restart-failures    Raise alerts if restart failures have happened
    -s, --summary-file PATH          Location of last_run_summary.yaml file
    -w, --warn-age SECONDS           Age in seconds to be a warning
    -W, --warn-age-disabled SECONDS  Age in seconds to warn when agent is disabled

```

### check-puppet-last-run-report.rb
Validates Puppet last run report. Alerts if last Puppet run was later than threshold or it has errors

```
Usage: ./bin/check-puppet-last-run-report.rb (options)
    -a, --agent-disabled-file PATH   Path to agent disabled lock file
    -c, --crit-age SECONDS           Age in seconds to be a critical
    -C, --crit-age-disabled SECONDS  Age in seconds to crit when agent is disabled
    -d, --disabled-age-limits        Consider disabled age limits, otherwise use main limits
    -i, --ignore-failures            Ignore Puppet failures
    -r, --report-restart-failures    Raise alerts if restart failures have happened
    -f, --report-file PATH           Location of last_run_report.yaml file
    -w, --warn-age SECONDS           Age in seconds to be a warning
    -W, --warn-age-disabled SECONDS  Age in seconds to warn when agent is disabled

```

### check-puppet-errors.rb
Validates only Puppet run errors regardless of the execution time

```
Usage: ./bin/check-puppet-errors.rb (options)
    -a, --agent-disabled-file PATH   Path to agent disabled lock file
    -s, --summary-file PATH          Location of last_run_summary.yaml file
```

### metrics-puppet-run.rb
Provides metrics from Puppet last run in graphite format.

```
Usage: ./bin/metrics-puppet-run.rb (options)
    -s, --scheme SCHEME              Metric naming scheme
    -p, --summary-file PATH          Location of last_run_summary.yaml file
```

## Files

* /bin/checkpuppet-last-run.rb
* /bin/metrics-puppet-run.rb
* /bin/check-puppet-errors.rb

## Installation Options
### Asset registration

Assets are the best way to make use of this plugin in Sensu Go. If you're not using an asset, please consider doing so! If you're using sensuctl 5.13 or later, you can use the following command to add the latest version of this asset:

`sensuctl asset add sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-puppet`

If you're using an earlier version of sensuctl, you can download the asset definition from [this project's Bonsai Asset Index page](https://bonsai.sensu.io/assets/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-puupet).

### Gem Installation

[Installation and Setup](http://sensu-plugins.io/docs/installation_instructions.html)

## Notes

As the sensu user doesn't have read access to `/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/cache/state/last_run_summary.yaml` it is necessary to create an appropriate entry in `/etc/sudoers.d` and call `check-puppet-last-run.rb` or `metrics-puppet-run.rb` using `sudo`.

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This powerful potion originates from medieval Europe, actually from the period when people suffered from numerous diseases and epidemics.
This formula has helped millions of people throughout the centuries to fight the deadliest diseases.
Its benefits resulted in the overcoming of many viral, bacterial, parasitic and fungal diseases and even plague!
In fact, this remarkable tonic is an antibiotic that kills gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
This plant- based remedy has a powerful antiviral and antifungal formula, increases blood circulation and lymph flow in all parts of the body. It is also a fantastic choice for the fight against candida.
The Master Tonic can also cure many chronic conditions and diseases. It purifies blood and encourages blood circulation. Its power should most certainly not be underestimated. The secret of the power of this incredible potion lies in the combination of high-quality natural and fresh ingredients!
Apparently, this tonic is effective in the treatment of all diseases, assists in the most severe infections, successfully strengthens the immune system, acts as an antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal and antiparasitic medicine.
You may feel a need to wear gloves during the preparation of the tonic, especially when handling hot peppers, because it is difficult to get the tingling off your hands! Moreover, take care, its smell is very strong, which may stimulate the sinuses instantly.
- Mix all the ingredients in a bowl, except for the vinegar.
- Put the mixture to a Mason jar.
- Pour in some apple cider vinegar and fill it to the top. If possible, try to make 2/3 of the jar to consist of dry ingredients, and fill in the rest with vinegar.
- Close the jar well and shake it.
- Keep the jar in a cool and dry place for 2 weeks. Every day, shake the jar several times.
Squeeze well so the whole juice comes out.
You can use the remained dry mixture when cooking.
The master tonic is prepared! It will last long, so you do not need to refrigerate it.
The master tonic can also be used in the kitchen, – if mixed with some olive oil, it can be used as a salad dressing or in stews.
Take 1 tablespoon every day to strengthen the immune system and fight cold. Increase the amount every day until you reach a dose of 1 small glass per day.
Gargle it and swallow. The flavor is very strong and hot, so be careful! You can also eat a slice of lime, lemon or orange after you take it in order to ease the burning sensation and heat.
Do not dilute it in water, since you will reduce the effect in that way.
In case of more serious disease or infection, take 1 tablespoon of the tonic 5-6 times a day.
The master tonic is safe for pregnant women and children, since all its ingredients are all-natural and contain no toxins.
Extra tip: Start with a teaspoon for the first two times, and do not use on an empty stomach. It is potent and can cause nausea or vomiting if you are not used to it.
Apple cider vinegar must be especially valuable and healthy since it was used by the father of medicine, Hippocrates, around 400 BC because of its healthy properties.
It is believed that he used only two remedies: honey and apple cider vinegar.
It is made from fresh and ripe apples which are later fermented and go through rigorous process to give the final product. Apple cider vinegar contains pectin, which is a fiber that regulates blood pressure and reduces bad cholesterol.
As people get old, they need more calcium according to health experts.
Vinegar helps the extraction of calcium from foods it is mixed with, which helps in the process of maintaining bone strength. Apple cider vinegar is rich in potassium. Potassium removes toxic wastes from the body. Studies have shown that potassium deficiency results in slow growth.
Moreover, the potassium deficiency leads to a variety of problems, like runny nose, sinusitis, hair loss, brittle nails and teeth. The regular use of apple cider vinegar eliminates all these problems.
Beta-carotene maintains skin firm and young and prevents damage caused by free radicals.
Apple cider vinegar is effective in the process of losing weight. It breaks up fat which supports a natural weight loss process. Apple cider vinegar contains malic acid, which is efficient in the fight against fungal and bacterial infections. This acid also dissolves uric acid deposits that form around the joints, and thus alleviates joint pain. Dissolved uric acid is later eliminated from the body.
Moreover, people believe that apple cider vinegar is useful in treating conditions like diarrhea, eczema, sore eyes, indigestion, high cholesterol, mild food poisoning, hair loss, chronic fatigue, constipation, headaches, arthritis, weak bones, high blood pressure, obesity, and many other health problems.
They are extremely powerful circulation stimulators. Their antibiotic properties are beneficial in the fight the disease where it is mostly needed.
Turmeric is the most perfect spice, useful in various treatments.
Turmeric blocks the development of cancer, and prevents dementia.
It is especially beneficial for those who struggle with joint pain. Turmeric also cleanses infections and reduces inflammation.
This powerful herb is efficient for sinuses and lungs. It opens sinus channels and increases circulation, where common colds and flu usually begin, as most doctors would agree.
Ginger is a strong circulation stimulant and has strong anti-inflammatory properties.
We all know garlic as a powerful antibiotic with a wide range of health benefits. It acts differently than chemical antibiotics that kill millions of friendly bacteria needed in the body.
Garlic's only goal is bacteria and microorganisms. It also encourages and increases the level of healthy bacteria. It is a powerful antifungal agent and destroys any antigen, pathogen, and harmful disease-causing microorganisms.
Being garlic's closest relative, it has similar, milder effects. In a combination, they are a remarkable duo.
To sum up, the master tonic is a remarkable, extremely powerful drink which protects our health and cures numerous different conditions.


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Associated Students of UC Merced (ASUCM)
ASUCM is the undergraduate student government of UC Merced. ASUCM has plenty of ways for you to get involved.
The Office of Student Life Business Center is committed to providing outstanding customer service and resources for student clubs and organizations and the UC Merced community. Our resources include accounting, purchasing, room reservations and equipment rental for clubs.
With nearly 200 registered clubs and organizations, it's easy to find ways to get involved. Check out this area for all the forms and information your club will need.
Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) exists to enhance the collegiate experience through leadership, scholarship, service, and social development. FSL will also serve to educate students on the positive nature and goals of Greek membership while building unity through the creation of strong and lasting relationships.
LGBTQ+ Initiatives is the newest addition to the Office of Student life and provides opportunities for educating yourself on issues related to sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression.
The Office of Student Conduct (OSC) is responsible for administering the student disciplinary system, promoting ethical growth and development of students involved in the discipline process, and upholding the university's standards of excellence. The Student Code of Conduct is available here, and all students are expected to comply with the regulations included.
Social Justice Initiatives provides scholars to explore their identities, intersections and topics related to equity, diversity and access.
Student Activities and Events
Last year, the Office of Student Life hosted or assisted with more than 600 events on campus - that means there's always something happening on campus!
Want to know more? Explore this area to find out more about programs like Welcome Week, Family Weekend and the Winter Formal just to name a few.
Womxn's Programs
Womxn's Programs exists to provide opportunities for the UC Merced community to learn, grow and reinforce the leadership and well-being of women. Womxn's Programs will establish a strong network of support and an inviting space for all.


At the Stencil Store, you can find great sizes, shapes & images to add a personal touch to your Home Decor projects, gifts, scrapbooking, card making and many other crafting items.
You can use these on any surface - paper, wood, ceramic, glass, tile, fabric, metal, plastic, wax and more for letters, numbers, symbols, shapes, or patterns.
Above 12 x 12 by Crafter's Workshop.
These two Scrapbook Layouts are from the Club Scrap Kit Sonoma from October 2010. The Beautiful Deep Purples, Tans and Taupes of this kit are perfect for any number of great layouts.
These are Club Scrap Layout Designs from their Assembly Line Scrap Book (ALSB) designs that come with every Kit. The Stencils of the Grape Leaves and Grape Bunch are used on both pages with the ink color that matches the papers - all of which are supplied with the kit. Also included is a ribbon which changes from purple to green with a silver edging.
After inking, I added some Glitter Glue (Stickles would work also) to portions of the inked areas, which really made the layouts elegant.


The Pearl Timbao has a plastic head and is made of a light weight fiberglass body which is very durable. The size is 34″ high, with a 14″ diameter head and 5 tuning lugs. It weighs 19 pounds and a strap is included. In Brazil the Timbao is much like the Conga drum. It is normally played standing and with a shoulder strap. It is tuned to a high pitch.
The Pearl Travel Conga Stand Bridge, model number PPS-50TC, connects two Pearl Travel Conga Stands together for a double Pearl Travel Conga setup. Stands are sold separately.
The Travel Conga Stand is designed for fast set-up and break down while using the Pearl Travel Conga. It's a solid, secure stand for standing or sitting and will not creep while performing. A carrying bag is included with the stand. Stands are sold by size of Travel Conga. For multiple travel conga drum set-ups, the Pearl Travel Conga Stand Bridge is available and sold separately.
The PC 300W double conga stand is a light-medium weight stand designed with Quick Release and a wing nut-less feature for faster set up and tear down. Legs are double braced for added stability. Although a light weight stand, it will support full size congas.


The English peer tutor drop-in service helps students review their errors in written work with the aid of a student who is strong in English. Students are also invited to practice their oral presentations before the peer tutors.
The service is available to all students.
Please contact an English coordinator or teacher (listed in our Directory).


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The role of fetal adipose tissue thicknesses measured ultrasonographically in the prediction of gestational diabetes
A novel approach for gestational diabetes
Yasin Altekin Bursa Yüksek İhtisas Training and Research Hospital
Emin Üstünyurt Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Health Sciences University Bursa Yüksek İhtisas Training and Research Hospital, Bursa, Turkey
Süleyman Serkan Karaşin Bursa Yüksek İhtisas Training and Research Hospital https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4837-5114
Ömür Keskin
https://doi.org/10.46328/aejog.v4i2.113
Fetal Soft Tissue Thickness, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, 50 gr Oral Glucose
This study aims to investigate whether second-trimester fetal adipose tissue components reflect glycemic control in diabetic pregnancies and their role as an auxiliary method in predicting gestational diabetes.
This study was designed prospectively, cross-sectionally in 300 pregnant women 24-28 weeks of gestation between April 2020 and July 2020. The adipose tissue thickness of the humerus, femur, scapula, and abdominal circumference was examined by transabdominal ultrasound. The age, body mass index, family history of diabetes, and diabetes history in previous pregnancies of the groups were questioned.
The anterior abdominal wall adipose tissue thickness of the fetuses we included in the study was 5 ± 0.8 mm, femur adipose tissue thickness was 4 ± 0.7 mm, humerus adipose tissue thickness was 3.7 ± 0.7 mm, scapula adipose tissue thickness was 4.1 ± 2,2 mm. The total adipose tissue thickness was 16.9 ± 2.9 mm.
A statistically significant correlation was found between femoral adipose tissue thickness (p = 0.001) and humeral adipose tissue thickness (p = 0.023) in gestational diabetes groups.
Patients with a diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (n = 60) constituted the first group, patients without GDM (n =240) constituted the second group. In our independent analysis of two groups, femur and humerus adipose tissue thickness were found to be statistically significantly different between both groups (p= 0.002, p = 0.043, respectively). Other parameters did not differ significantly between groups.
Between three groups (healthy, impaired glucose tolerance, and gestational diabetes groups). Femoral adipose tissue thickness was statistically significant among the three groups (p = 0.005). As a result of binary logistic regression, if the femoral adipose tissue thickness was above 4.1 mm, the possibility of developing GDM was observed with 63.8% sensitivity and 65% specificity.
In the prediction of gestational diabetes, fetus femoral adipose tissue thickness may be significant
Altekin Y, Üstünyurt E, Karaşin SS, Keskin Ömür. The role of fetal adipose tissue thicknesses measured ultrasonographically in the prediction of gestational diabetes: A novel approach for gestational diabetes. Aegean J Obstet Gynecol [Internet]. 2022 Sep. 1 [cited 2023 Feb. 1];4(2):39-44. Available from: https://aejog.com/index.php/aejog/article/view/113
Copyright (c) 2022 Yasin Altekin, Emin Üstünyurt, Süleyman Serkan Karaşin, Ömür Keskin
Mehmet Emin Güneş, Ömür Keskin, Ayşe Rabia Şenkaya, Comparison of vitamin D, calcium and phosphorus values of essential hypertensive, preeclamptic and normotensive pregnant women , Aegean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology: Vol. 3 No. 1 (2021): Aegean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology


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Q: Eigenvalues from pandas rows I have a pandas DataFrame with rows representing a symmetric matrix component.
                            sxx         syy             szz         sxy         syz         sxz
    NodeID      time
    1500000     20921.0     2504729.0   -16524560.0     -3966213.0  5058878.0   8026349.0   390275.7
                20923.0     2541577.0   -16459500.0     -3930280.0  5047995.0   8019404.0   393201.3
                20925.0     2582004.0   -16384690.0     -3891037.0  5035703.0   8011226.0   396850.2
                20927.0     2618859.0   -16313310.0     -3855520.0  5024095.0   8003384.0   400578.7
                20933.0     2703961.0   -16133460.0     -3773937.0  4995101.0   7985394.0   411183.2

The matrix will look like the following.
[[sxx, sxy, sxz],
 [sxy, syy, syz],
 [sxz, syz, szz]]

What is the fastest way to calculate the eigenvalue from each row?
I tried 'applying' np.linalg.eigvalsh on every row. However, it takes quite long when I have close to a million lines.
Edit
To give the complete context, I should also mention that this DataFrame is part of an object definition. object.df is the DataFrame. Below is the related code.
    def s1(self):
        """Returns the first principal stress for every node every timepoint"""
        return self.df.apply(principal, axis=1, label="s1")

def principal(s, label):
    principals = np.linalg.eigvalsh(
        np.array(
            [s.sxx, s.sxy, s.sxz, s.sxy, s.syy, s.syz, s.sxz, s.syz, s.szz]
        ).reshape(3, 3)
    )
    if label.lower() == "s3":
        return principals[0]
    elif label.lower() == "s2":
        return principals[1]
    elif label.lower() == "s1":
        return principals[2]
    else:
        raise ValueError("Invalid Input, choose from s1, s2, or s3.")

A: You can set the order of the columns to generate a view and then pass it to an array using .values (faster than np.array(..)), then apply eigvalsh to an (n, 3, 3) array:
values = df[['sxx', 'sxy', 'sxz', 'sxy', 'syy', 'syz', 'sxz', 'syz', 'szz']].values.reshape(-1,3))
eigh = eigvalsh(values.reshape((-1, 3, 3)))
eigh

>>array([[-21253030.07083309,  -1397298.11167328,   4664284.18250638],
       [-21184732.23304478,  -1361435.36228467,   4697964.59532944],
       [-21106512.77176102,  -1322433.70013306,   4735223.47189408],
       [-21032246.72681734,  -1287171.41922922,   4769447.14604654],
       [-20847979.70886149,  -1205613.19093403,   4850156.89979552]])

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Milan Gajić (1986), voetballer, spelend bij FC Vaduz
 Milan Gajić (1996), voetballer, spelend bij Rode Ster Belgrado


Transfer by coach to your hotel at Niagara Falls. The journey takes you past the shores of Lake Ontario, Hamilton and St Catherine's along the QEW highway into the heart of Niagara Falls.
Overnight hotel stay at Niagara Falls. Enjoy an exciting helicopter flight over falls. Perhaps book an exhilarating boat ride to the base of the falls on the famous Maid of the Mist, try your luck in the casino or enjoy the views from the top of the Skylon Tower .
Overnight hotel stay at Niagara Falls. This fertile region of Canada has many orchards, vineyards & wineries; and picturesque Niagara On the Lake is not to be missed ! This was the original capital of Canada and is now a Heritage Town full of shops. restaurants and pristine groomed sidewalks and gardens. The famous Floral Clock and Brocks Monument are also interesting sights to see.
Between Niagara Falls & Manhattan. The journey takes approximately 11 hours through the lush greenery of Upstate New York past the Finger Lakes region, Adirondack Mountains, Cranberry Lakes and through some major historic landmarks. Arrive in Manhattan in the evening for an overnight stay at the four-star Wyndham New Yorker Hotel opposite the station.
Located on one of the world's great natural harbours, Halifax is adorned with landmarks like the Citadel fortress, Pier 21 (Canada's Ellis Island), and the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic - which is well worth a visit to see the artefacts recovered from the Titanic. Learn about the formation of World War II convoys which gathered here to run the gauntlet of U-Boats across the Atlantic and the gun ship collision during World War I which caused as catastrophic explosion and flattened the city. Another interesting spot to visit is the graveyard of the victims from the Titanic disaster which were recovered by the local fleet. Beyond the city, you can discover the weather-beaten landscape of Nova Scotia's south shore. See craggy coastlines, and the German village of Lunenburg - a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
This charming town is situated on the Bay of Fundy which has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world. The St John rivers empties into the Bay of Fundy here and when the tide is low the water cascades one way and when the tide is high the water reverses and cascades the other. Many people come here for this reason to take white water ride in the reversing falls.
Visit Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park - a stunning mix of sea-scoured shores, towering cliffs, and forested mountains. Acadia's 35,000 acres are studded with natural wonders: In addition to the stunning landscape, some 50 species of mammals including moose, black bear and white tail deer roam the park.Bar Harbor attracted the wealthy at the turn of the century, building Newport-style "cottages" that turned the quaint New England town into a fashionable summer resort.The town was rebuilt after a catastrophic fire in 1947.
Portland is perched on a peninsula, jutting out into the island-studded Casco Bay. This city of 230,000 people is a progressive, lively city incorporating the character of yesteryear into a modern urban environment. Historic architecture blends gracefully with the new as you stroll along her working waterfront or the cobblestone streets of the restored Old Port section of the city.
Disembark the ship and transfer to the airport for your overnight flight home.
This series of exclusive cruises delivers a unique travel experience full of sights and natural wonders. Travel to Canada and discover how different it is to the United States of America. The pace of life is slower, there seems to be much more space and the scenery seems to be more vibrant and fresher. Visit up to 4 different Canadian Provinces including the smallest of them all - Prince Edward island, the architecture of Quebec, the history of Nova Scotia and Ontario anchored around the vast lake. Enjoy the buzz, sights and shopping delights of Manhattan, sail through the island studded bay of Portland – Maine for fresh lobster and explore the colonial charm of Bar Harbor Maine.
Niagara Falls Adventure pass including Hornblower boat tour, Journey Behind The Falls and Niagara Fury Imax cinema ticket.
The largest and most luxurious Falls view accommodation in Niagara Falls. Its location, directly across from the Falls and in the heart of Niagara's premier Falls view tourist district makes it the perfect base to fully enjoy the splendour of the magnificent Falls. This hotel is beautifully designed with modern architecture and equipped with modern amenities. This hotel is beautifully designed with modern architecture and equipped with modern amenities. It features 670 well-appointed guest rooms with the best falls views guaranteed.This comfortable hotel is located directly across from the breathtaking Niagara Falls. The American and Horseshoe Falls, the Maid of the Mist boat ride, and the wonderful Niagara Park can all be reached in about 4 minutes on foot. It is about 20 minutes' walk to the city centre.
This large Art Deco style hotel comprises 1,014 rooms spread over 40 floors and is perfectly situated on 34th St just across from Madison Square Garden and New York Penn Station. On the same street - just 2 blocks away you will find Macy's Department Store and a little further on the Empire State Building graces the skyline. Renovated in 2000, this air-conditioned city hotel welcomes its guests through revolving doors into a large and impressive lobby. It is also centrally located close to Times Square, countless restaurants, shops and bars.
Cruise itinerary and duration varies - call for details.
27 August departure includes an 11 night cruise from New York to Quebec City with an overnight stay on board in Quebec City.
10 September departure includes a 9night cruise from Quebec City to New York with an overnight hotel stay in Chateau Frontenac.
20 September departure includes a 12 night cruise from New York to Quebec City with an overnight stay on board in Quebec City.
05 October departure includes a 13 night cruise from Quebec City to New York with an overnight hotel stay in Chateau Frontenac.


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file és una ordre de la família dels sistemes operatius Unix, que permet detectar el tipus i  format d'un arxiu. Per aconseguir-ho, analitza els encapçalaments i els  nombres màgics o bé el contingut que l'arxiu tingui.

Descripció
L'ordre file és una utilitat que realitza una sèrie de proves (test) per determinar el tipus i format d'un arxiu. Més precisament les proves són tres, i la primera que permeti assolir un resultat fa que l'anàlisi finalitzi.

Es detallen a continuació les proves, en l'ordre en què es duen a terme per aquesta ordre:
 Sistema d'arxius: s'intenta determinar si l'arxiu a examinar és un arxiu del sistema mitjançant la crida al sistema stat. Gràcies a aquesta prova es pot determinar si és un dispositiu, enllaç simbòlic, una canonada, etc.
 Nombres màgics: S'intenta determinar el tipus, analitzant determinats bytes ubicats en posicions específiques dins de l'arxiu. Aquests bytes se'ls anomena nombres màgics, i solen estar al començament de la capçalera. La informació per a realitzar aquesta anàlisi figura en l'arxiu / usr / share / misc / magic.mgc.
 Prova de sintaxi: aquesta última prova consisteix a determinar quin tipus de sintaxi té un arxiu de text. Aquesta prova només es realitza sobre els arxius que s'hagi determinat que siguin text pla. Bàsicament consisteix a buscar la presència de determinades paraules claus que permeten identificar la sintaxi usada dins d'aquest arxiu.

Mode d'ús
La invocació de l'ordre file té el següent format:
  File [PARÀMETRES] ARXIU ...

Els paràmetres possibles, segons l'especificació POSIX, són:
-D Realitza les proves de sintaxi i de nombres màgics del sistema. Aquesta és l'opció per defecte, si no s'utilitza -m o -M
-H Si l'arxiu a analitzar és un enllaç simbòlic, l'identifica com a tal.
-I No oferir una classificació addicional més enllà de la del tipus bàsic.
-m arxiu Realitza una prova addicional de nombres màgics amb l'arxiu indicat
-M arxiu Similar a -m, llevat que no realitza les proves de sintaxi i de nombres màgics per defecte del sistema.

En els sistemes operatius GNU/Linux, aquesta comanda va ser enriquit amb molts més paràmetres, entre els quals es troben:

-B No imprimeix el nom del fitxer a cada resultat.
-I Mostra el tipus mime juntament amb la codificació utilitzada.
-I prova Exclou de realitzar la prova indicada. Entre les opcions que podem indicar, es troben:
 Apptype Tipus d'aplicació EMX (només per EMX).
 Ascii Diversos tipus d'arxius de text. Aquesta prova intenta determinar la codificació, més enllà de la indicada dins del propi arxiu.
 Encoding Diversos tipus de codificacions per a la prova suau de nombres màgics.
 Tokens Cerca cadenes conegudes dins dels arxius de text.
 CDF Mostra detalls dels arxius CDF (Compound Document Files). Per exemple SVG, XHTML, etc.
 Compress Analitza i busca dins dels arxius comprimits.
 Elf Mostra detalls d'arxius ELF.
 Soft Consulta d'arxius màgics.
 Aportar Analitza arxius tar.
 - Mime-type similar a -i, llevat perquè només mostra el tipus mime.
-Z Examina els arxius comprimits.

Exemples
Visualitzar informació del tipus i format d'un arxiu:

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This brick structure was built in 1890 to serve as a blacksmith's workshop, and has housed various industrial uses since then. In 2003 it was bought and converted into a two bedroom residence by designer Richard Peters. Entrance to the 74 m2 (797 ft2) home is via a large barn-style sliding door that replaced the original overhead garage door. Other than that, the street façade was left largely unchanged.
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Hail and (Never) Farewell
by The Eye-Dancers in On Writing Tags: adventure, childhood, fantasy, magic, nostalgia, ray bradbury, writing, YA
Have you ever wondered, "What if?" What if you could fly–not with the aid of an eighty-ton aerodynamic metal ship, but simply with the rising and falling of your arms? What if you could travel to Mars, or Jupiter, or Venus, and, once there, discover that other forms of life, non-earthly forms of life, exist elsewhere in our solar system? What if you could go backward in time, millions and millions of years, to a green, jungled past inhabited by monstrous flying reptiles and larger-than-life thunder lizards that we of today can scarcely imagine?
Have you ever asked?
Of course you have. We all have. "What if?" it can be argued, is the great creative expression, the launch pad to unforgettable stories and adventures.
One of my favorite authors, Ray Bradbury, frequently asked, "What if?" And, in fact, he asked the very questions presented above.
The stories that resulted, masterpieces such as "Here There Be Tygers," "The Long Rain," and "A Sound of Thunder," among many others, are gems of the highest order.
But there was another "What if?" question the prolific author asked . . . What if you never had to grow old? What if you could stay forever twelve, forever young, regardless of the date printed on your birth certificate?
The resulting story, "Hail and Farewell," is not as well known perhaps as some of Bradbury's more recognizable tales. But that takes nothing away from the story's impact, power, and poignancy.
"Hail and Farewell" is about a twelve-year-old boy named Willie. When we first meet Willie, and indeed, when anybody first meets Willie, he seems like any other twelve-year-old. He looks twelve; he's not inordinately big for his age–in fact, he is quite small. If you were to walk by Willie on a street corner, you probably wouldn't look twice–just an ordinary boy, perhaps returning home from school or strolling to a Saturday matinee or walking over to a friend's.
But Willie is not your average, normal twelve-year-old boy–not by a long shot. Willie is not, in actuality, twelve at all. He is forty-three. That's what his records show, those are the facts. But Willie discovered, long ago, that, in terms of outward appearance, he is forever twelve. He cannot grow old. He'll never wrinkle, lose his hair, acquire the maladies and infirmities of old age. A blessing of the highest order? Perhaps. But Willie also has a price to pay . . . a repeating cycle with no end.
He can never settle in, never remain. He is a drifter, moving from town to town, school to school, state to state. He learns of couples with no children, patiently, thoroughly researching his opportunities, trying to discover the people in whose lives he can inject some love and laughter, if only for a little while. And then–Willie just appears. He knocks on a door, rings a bell, and when the door opens, he introduces himself, and, if the stars are aligned, he will have found a new home, a new temporary set of parents. He will stay with them, love them, bond with them. But then he will need to leave. After all, how can a boy remain twelve forever? Classmates will mature, graduate, go on to college and careers. Parents will gray and grow old, all while Willie stays a boy, always on the threshold of adolescence, but never quite reaching it. So he can stay for two years, maybe three, and then he is gone . . .
Bradbury's story essentially asks the question, "Would it be a blessing to remain forever young? Or a curse? Or maybe a little of both?"
Those are questions each reader must answer for him- or herself.
But there is another way each of us can remain forever twelve. In our own way, we all have a little bit of Willie in us . . .
In The Eye-Dancers, main characters Mitchell Brant, Joe Marma, Ryan Swinton, and Marc Kuslanski are all twelve years old. They are all also inspired by friends I knew growing up; and so, as I wrote the novel, I was, in many ways, twelve years old again. I spent the better part of three years continually entering the minds and consciousness of my pre-teen characters, seeing the world through their eyes, hearing it, feeling it, experiencing it as a twelve-year-old might. (Some might argue I operate that way anyway, all the time, as my default mode! But that is a post for another day.)
It is also my hope that readers of The Eye-Dancers are able to share in that experience, too, hopping on, as it were, a literary time machine traveling back, back . . . to younger days–days that seem, sometimes, almost forgotten, like yellowed pages in a time-worn scroll. But then, when you rediscover them, when the aroma and memories and sights and sounds and experiences flood back in, you realize–they were there the whole while, stacked in a neat pile just outside the door.
The door just needed to be opened.
"But of course he was going away," Bradbury writes in "Hail and Farewell," as Willie must leave another couple, and begin anew. . . . "His suitcase was packed, his shoes were shined, his hair was brushed, he had expressly washed behind his ears, and it remained only for him to go down the stairs, out the front door, and up the street to the small-town station where the train would make a stop for him alone. Then Fox Hill, Illinois, would be left far off in his past. And he would go on, perhaps to Iowa, perhaps to Kansas, perhaps even to California; a small boy twelve years old with a birth certificate in his valise to show he had been born forty-three years ago. . . .
"In his bureau mirror he saw a face made of June dandelions and July apples and warm summer-morning milk. There, as always, was his look of the angel and the innocent, which might never, in the years of his life, change."
We are all like Willie, I think, each in our own way. But where Willie lives in a perpetual state of comings and goings, hellos and good-byes, bonding and heartbreak, we need not have to experience his gift in such a transitory manner.
As writers, readers, dreamers, we can all say "Hail," without the need of ever having to say, "Farewell."
"Nick of Time"–Or, a Three-Month Holiday Promotion!
by The Eye-Dancers in Eye-Dancers General Stuff, TV Shows, Twilight Zone Tags: Christmas, contest, gift card, gifts, holiday season, holidays, kindle, promotion, reading, twilight zone, YA
In a second-season Twilight Zone episode titled "Nick of Time," newlyweds Don and Pat Carter, on a honeymoon trip cross country to New York City, are temporarily stranded in the small town of Ridgeview, Ohio, while their car is repaired. With several hours to kill, they enter a nondescript diner.
As they sit down at a booth, they notice a "mystic seer"–a penny fortune-telling machine. "Ask me a Yes/No question," the machine reads. "One cent per question."
Don, up for a promotion at his place of employment and obsessing over the outcome, honeymoon or no, inserts a penny and asks the machine about it. Has he been promoted at work? He presses down on the lever, causing the machine to jingle, and a slip of paper spits out.
"It has been decided in your favor," the slip reads.
Don decides to make a long-distance call back home, to the office, to find out if this is really true. It is. He's made it.
"And he knew," Don says, sitting back down at the booth, pointing at the mystic seer.
Amused, he decides to ask the fortune-teller another question. Would they really have to wait four hours for their car to be fixed?
"You may never know," the machine responds.
Taken aback, Don asks more questions. The answers are cryptic, threatening even, but they always fit, always make sense. He grows more frantic, while his wife becomes concerned. Why is he taking this thing so seriously?
The seer suggests they should remain in the diner until three o'clock. Looking at his watch, Don sees it's only quarter after two.
"If we don't stay here till three, something bad will happen to us?" he asks the seer.
The machine answers, "Do you dare to find out?"
With each answer, Don's wife grows more upset. "Let's go," she says. But Don stalls, says he hasn't finished eating, hasn't ordered ice cream yet. Finally, at five minutes before three, Pat coaxes him to leave the diner.
As they walk outside and cross the street, a car nearly runs into them. They escape unscathed, but it was a close call. Don looks at the church tower clock across the street as soon as they reach safety. Exactly three o'clock–just as the seer warned.
He convinces his wife to go back inside the diner. Why is the machine so accurate? He is determined to find out.
"You don't really think that gizmo can foretell the future, do you?" Pat asks him once they're back inside.
"Well, it foretold ours," he says.
She refutes this, saying it was Don himself who provided the machine with the details. All the seer did was churn out vague generalities.
Don asks the machine if it knows about the car that almost hit them.
"What do you think?" the ejected card reads, in response.
He then asks if it will still take four hours for their car to be fixed.
"It has already been taken care of," the seer responds. Not a minute later the mechanic from across the street steps inside and tell them, by a stroke of luck, the part he needed turned up, and their car is all set.
Once again, the "mystic seer" is proven to be right.
Pat is still unconvinced. Don tells her to ask the seer a few questions. She tries to trick the machine, asking if they'll reach Columbus by tomorrow, even though they don't plan on driving through Columbus at all.
In response, the seer answers, "If that's what you really want."
Question by question, Pat becomes more agitated, more unglued.
"It's not possible to foretell the future, is it?" she asks.
"That's up to you to find out," the machine replies.
"You're just a stupid piece of junk, aren't you?" Pat shouts.
The seer answers, "It all depends on your point of view."
That does it. Pat has had it. She tells Don they need to leave, that he can't let this machine run his life for him.
He is torn. The machine is predicting his future! How can he just walk away?
His wife implores him. She tells him he can decide his own life. He doesn't need some penny fortune-telling machine to decide it for him. "I don't want to know what's gonna happen," she says. "I want us to make it happen." It is up to them to make the most of their lives, to determine the roads and byways they travel along.
Don understands. He gets up, tells the seer they will go where they want to go, whenever they please. He has been freed from the grip of fear and superstition . . . in the "nick of time."
If there were in fact a "mystic seer" available to me, I might even now know who will win The Eye-Dancers promotion that runs today straight through the holiday season, and into 2015. As it is, it will have to remain a mystery until the promotion ends.
The details of the promotion are simple. Between today's date and January 4, 2015, if fifty copies of The Eye-Dancers are sold, a winner will be chosen to win a $125 gift card to a retailer of their choosing. Amazon? B & N? A favorite restaurant or department store? The choice is yours.
Beginning today (October 12) and ending January 4, 2015, if you buy The Eye-Dancers, wherever it is sold, in either paperback or ebook format, please notify me–either with a comment on this website, or via email at michaelf424@gmail.com. I will keep track of each person who buys the book during this time frame and then, on Monday, January 5, 2015 , the day after the promotion ends, I will randomly select the winner of the $125 gift card–provided, of course, that fifty copies of the book have sold during the promotional period.
The Eye-Dancers, the ebook, is available for purchase at the following online retail locations . . .
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Eye-Dancers-ebook/dp/B00A8TUS8M
B & N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-eye-dancers-michael-s-fedison/1113839272?ean=2940015770261
Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/255348
Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/books/The-Eye-Dancers/nKFZETbWWkyzV2QkaJWOjg
And The Eye-Dancers, the paperback is sold at . . .
Amazon, http://www.amazon.com/The-Eye-Dancers-Michael-S-Fedison/dp/0692262784/ref=tmm_pap_title_0/190-9007348-1553839
and CreateSpace, https://www.createspace.com/4920627
Even without the aid of the Twilight Zone's "mystic seer," I hope you'll take part in this promo!


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Carbon emissions cap may halt 3rd Heathrow runway
19.9.2009 (Evening Standard)
by Paul Waugh, Deputy Political Editor
Plans for a third runway at Heathrow came under fresh assault today as the Government's own climate change adviser
called for deep cuts in Britain's carbon dioxide emission levels.
The Committee on Climate Change proposed a global cap on aviation emissions and
warned that households and industry would have to slash their carbon output if
flights were to be protected.
Its report came as leading Labour backbencher Jon Cruddas also urged Prime Minister Gordon Brown to abandon his plans for the third runway at Heathrow, a move that puts at risk
a swathe of marginal seats in west London.
Mr Cruddas, who told the London School of Economics that Mr Brown was heading for defeat at the next election, said it made environmental
and political sense to halt the new runway before it was too late.
The Tories are firmly against the idea and have already warned companies not
to sign contracts on the deal.
The committee, which was created by the Climate Change Act last year, said that
Britain may have to cut emissions of greenhouse gases by 90 per cent by 2050 so
the aviation sector can continue to grow.
The move would mean even bigger cuts than the 80% drop on 1990 levels already
planned for homes, cars and industry.
David Kennedy, the committee's chief executive, said for the first time that
Heathrow's new runway could be included in its review of the issue this December.
He questioned whether it was "plausible" to double demand in air travel. "We
could take it upon ourselves to talk about Heathrow in our aviation review," he
said.
The committee says that, if left unchecked, global aviation could account for
15 to 20% of all the man-made CO2 produced in 2050.
Mr Kennedy, who admitted to flying long-haul with his family every two years,
told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the runway was "an open question".
"It is vital an agreement capping global aviation emissions is part of a Copenhagen deal," he added.
"We are calling for a cap that would not require people to fly less than today,
but would constrain aviation emissions growth going forward."
Green groups pointed out that just 10 % of the population are currently responsible
for 50% of all flights.
Critics claim that exempting aviation will therefore impose unfair costs on motorists
and homeowners.
Hugh Raven, of the Sustainable Development Commission, said that aviation should
not be allowed a "disproportionate" share of Britain's emissions.
He added: "Why is [the Government] prepared to treat aviation so differently from every
other sector of the economy?"
In a letter to Transport Secretary Lord Adonis and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband, the committee says the aviation industry will have to cut emissions to 2005
levels by 2050.
The experts say planes might use biofuels or aviation might cut emissions below
2005 levels through new technology. Airlines may also buy permits in international
emissions trading.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23741826-details/Carbon+emissions+cap+may+halt+third+Heathrow+runway/article.do
To read the full letter from the CCC – click here for letter
Government to be challenged by Committee on Climate Change over expanding aviation
The Government is likely to be challenged by its own climate change advisory
body on its decision to approve a third runway at Heathrow and permit a doubling
in air travel by 2030. The Committee on Climate Change believes rapid expansion
of air travel is inconsistent with the Government's legally binding commitment
to cut overall CO2 emissions by 80% on 1990 levels by 2050. Allowing aviation
to expand at the rate proposed by the Government could place an unacceptable burden
on other industries to achieve the cut.
Air passenger numbers grew from 102 million in 1990 to 240 million in 2007 and
are due to reach 470 million by 2030. In a letter published today, the committee says that if aviation emissions are
at 2005 levels in 2050 the rest of the economy will have to make 90% cuts to achieve
the overall 80% emissions reduction target. The Committee also says airlines
cannot rely indefinitely on offsetting their emissions by buying allowances. 9.9.2009 More …..
Posted: Thursday, September 10th, 2009. Filed in News about Airports.


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Ministerium für Arbeit und Soziales steht für folgende Ministerien:

 Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales, Deutschland
 Bundesministerium für Arbeit, Soziales und Konsumentenschutz, Österreich
 Ministerium für Gesundheit, Arbeit und Soziales, Japan
 Ministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (Namibia), Namibia

Ministerien von deutschen Bundesländern:
 Ministerium für Soziales und Integration, Baden-Württemberg
 Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Arbeit und Soziales, Familie und Integration, Bayern
 Sozialministerium, Berlin
 Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Soziales, Gesundheit und Gleichstellung, Niedersachsen
 Ministerium für Arbeit, Integration und Soziales des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Nordrhein-Westfalen


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London Bombings survivor: "I will not continue the hatred that's been shown to me, this ends here."
If you're looking for detail on the Sydney siege and related tributes, see this post.
For details on the hostages of the Sydney siege, see this post.
Survivor of the London bombings, Gill Hicks is urging Australians to remain united in the wake of the Martin Place siege in Sydney.
The South Australian of the Year lost both her legs in the 2005 London bombings and has since become an advocate for peace. Speaking on 891 ABC Adelaide this morning, Dr Hicks said she was "incredibly proud" of the#illridewithyou campaign which began on Twitter yesterday to show support for Muslims in Australia.
"When society says 'no, terrorism isn't going to win here', then that is an incredible message that we've told the world last night, we've told each other as a nation and indeed I hope that those who have an extremist persuasion and belief have also heard it very loudly," Dr Hicks said.
She said while Australians cannot control random acts of violence, they should focus on what they can control and how it reacts to these events.
"It's nine years since my event where I've lost both my legs so I could never escape the permanent injuries and the life-changing effect that has had on me, and absolutely I'm angry," she said.
"I'm angry every day of all the things that have been lost in my life that I can do".
"However, it is using that anger as a positive fuel to make a difference. I was very clear from the beginning that this cycle of violence has to end with me. I will not be looking for retribution, I will not continue the hatred that's been shown to me, this ends here."
Australians must talk about causes of extremism: Hicks
She said while some may criticise the extensive coverage of the siege, now was the time Australia needed to look more closely at the root causes of extremism.
"It's time to be looking at the root causes. Why does this happen? What is happening to our young people? Who is being influenced by the messaging around extremism? And let's get to the root causes," she said.
"And I think opening up and shining a light on this problem and indeed creating and starting a conversation is vital to ensure that we're all aware, that we're all on the same page and that we are all again saying we will not bow down and be in fear of terrorism."
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Australian's showing the watching world that terrorism will Not divide us. So proud. #walkwithyou #standwithyou #austproud
— Gill Hicks (@MADforpeace) December 15, 2014
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Thoughts are with those who were killed – their families and loved ones. Tragic day for Sydney , tragic day for Australia #westandwithyou
#walkwithyou #standwithyou what unites us is far stronger than what tries to divide. Proud of Australian's not allowing terror to win
Islamic Society of South Australia president Walleed Al Khazrajy said the local community was shocked to hear about the attack in Martin Place.
He described the attack as terrorism, but said it was important to remember not all terrorism is associated with a religion.
"Yes it is an act of terrorism, every act of taking people as hostages or attacking the innocent, going about their normal life and they come under attack from any person is an act of terrorism," Dr Al Khazrajy said.
"And terrorism should not at all times be associated with a religion, and this time, with Islam.
"The people who commit these acts and engage in acts of terrorism or any act of spreading fear and damage across the globe, not only here, has nothing to do with our religion."
Local community 'not equipped to rehabilitate extremists'
Dr Al Khazrajy said it was hard to offer support to young Australians being swayed into extremist views.
He said while he would always work hand-in-hand with state and federal communities, the Islamic Society was not equipped to rehabilitate youths with extremist views.
"We are not really equipped, we are not specialised in dismantling, and treating and addressing these youths," he said.
"When reports come saying there are 70 people here in Australia [with extreme views] unfortunately we don't know where they are because they don't come to the natural outlets of our community.
"They don't come to our celebrations, they don't come to our events. They immediately go and withdraw themselves and be outsiders."
He said past terrorist attacks had proven that even those close to the extremists, including their families, were unaware of their intentions to commit acts of violence.
Dr Al Khazrajy said he was confident Muslims in Adelaide would not be targeted after this attack.
"This time I feel more comfortable and I feel like Australia and the Australian community is more mature towards these events, because it is now quite clear in everybody's mind it is an act of individual and nothing to do with the religion and nothing to do with the smaller community," he said.
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