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The History of Sport Under Capitalism (Part III) - Sport, nationalism and imperialism
Submitted by ICConline on 10 February, 2013 - 11:01
In the previous article in this series, we saw that sport concentrates nationalist ideology and that it is an instrument at the service of imperialism. It expresses all the monstrosity of decadent capitalism.
The "political neutrality" of sport is a myth! Along with the media, sport never ceases to cultivate the identification with chauvinism and nationalism. Sport is even a privileged means for distilling this noxious poison. After the trauma of the First World War, "the gap between the private and the public world was (...) filled in by sport. Between the two wars, sport as a mass spectacle was transformed into an interminable succession of gladiatorial combats between persons and teams symbolising the nation states"[1] .
Sport: a concentration of nationalism
Nationalism has thus been permanently maintained against the exploited by the rituals and symbolism which surround sporting encounters. Using sport for propaganda ends, contrary to what official history tells us, is not a particularity of Nazism or Stalinism, but a practice generalised throughout every country. To be convinced of it we only need to recall the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 or London 2012, or the entry of the national football teams at big matches. The grand sporting spectacles provoke strong, collective emotions that are easily manipulated towards the universal codes of national symbols: "Which gives to sport a unique effectiveness in inculcating nationalist sentiments (...) it is the facility with which individuals (...) can identify themselves with the nation being symbolised"[2]. International competitions are often accompanied by military music and are systematically preceded or closed by hymns: "These matches are confrontations where the national prestige is at stake"[3]. In brief moments of sacred unions social classes are 'dissolved', denied, as spectators openly called to stand up and sing with their eyes fixed on the national flag or on the team which embodies it through its colours.
In South Africa for example, in the name of the fight against Apartheid, the colours of the rugby team were thus used by Mandela's ANC to channel the class struggle towards the national mystification[4]. Great sporting victories can also prolong this principle of blind submission in a sort of collective hysteria (as was the case with the victory of the Spanish team during the football World Cup of 2010, that of Italy some years earlier, or those of the French team in 1998...). The celebrations of these occasions are infested by flags and prefabricated national myths[5]. Finally, the war of titles, medals, nation against nation, tries to maintain, as at the front during military conflicts, this mental dependence by sowing the seeds of xenophobia and nationalist violence. Sport embodies the spirit of the state and is accorded the same ritual as the army: decorations, citations, medals, march pasts... As Rosa Luxemburg said during World War I: "The national interests are only a mystification having the aim of putting the labouring masses at the service of their mortal enemy: imperialism"[6].
An instrument at the service of imperialism
Sport has always been used in imperialist confrontations. The Olympic Games in Berlin 1936, for example, were the spearhead of the militarisation prefiguring the aggression of the Axis military bloc which fought for its 'vital space'. For the Nazis, the champions had to be "warriors for Germany, ambassadors of the 3rd Reich". According to Hitler, the sporting youth of Germany should be "as resistant as leather, as hard as Krupp steel"[7]. Sport prepared you for imperialist war and thus justified the "superiority of the Aryan race", despite the victories of the black American sprinter Jesse Owens, who made the Fuhrer explode with anger[8]. Every sporting meeting was a means for the Nazi regime to symbolically wave its flag over its coveted territories.
For the opposing military camp, sports meetings were also a way to physically and mentally prepare the resistance. Stalinist and social-patriotic organisations tried to organise a 'counter-Olympics' in Barcelona in July 1936, aiming to dragoon proletarians behind the flag of anti-fascism. If this sporting project didn't happen, due to the Francoist coup d'etat, it didn't stop the ideological adhesion to the future bloc of the Allies. Sport thus made its own small contribution, in one way and the other, to what was to become a new world butchery resulting in over 50 million deaths!
On the still-smoking ruins of this terrible conflict, the world sporting arena would then be dominated by the Cold War right up to the end of the 1990s. International competitions were now marked by the context of East-West opposition, the latter not that far from turning into a nuclear holocaust. During the whole phase of decadent capitalism, sports meetings had all been marked by tensions of an imperialist nature. The universality symbolised by the Olympics is a sinister piece of hypocrisy; these games represent a real basket case of divergent capitalist interests. In the 1920s for example, the vanquished, like Germany, were removed from the Games through revenge and reprisal. In 1948, Germany and Japan were excluded. At the Games of 1956 in Melbourne, the boycott by some countries (Holland, Spain, Switzerland...) was allowed, demonstrating a political reaction against Russian tanks in Budapest and feeding Cold War tensions. Let's note, on the other hand, that at Mexico in 1968, during the massacre of 300 students at the Place of Three Cultures, the great democracies were allowed to participate without any concern for the Games! In 1972, the Olympic Games in Munich were the theatre of acts of war. The Israeli team was taken hostage by Palestinian commandos: the outcome was a bloodbath, the massacre of 17 people! In the 1980's, the Moscow games, a real military hymn to the glory of the Stalinist regime, was boycotted by a good number of western allies of the rival American bloc, including China, this time in opposition to the Russian intervention in Afghanistan! Balanced on the side of American imperialism, China also made use of the political dimension of sport with its "Ping-Pong" diplomacy. Today, the growth of the power of China onto the world imperialist scene, especially faced with the United States, is accompanied by very aggressive sporting records, revealing its heightened ambitions.
Every time, the states engaged have always presented athletes doped to the eyebrows as if they were 'at war', with 'the enemy', whether in the framework of rival military blocs, within the same bloc or, after their disappearance, between nations. Football has largely illustrated these tensions, feeding the climates of hatred in the crowds. Among the plentiful examples we can take up is the tragic episode of the match between Salvador and Honduras in 1969 for the 1970 World Cup qualifiers. This match was the prelude to a war between the two countries which ended up with at least 4000 deaths!
A mirror of the barbarity of decomposing capitalism
Sport more and more clearly expresses the rottenness of a bourgeois society without a future. The absence of perspectives, unemployment and misery gave birth in the 1970's, and above all the beginning of the 80's, to hordes of xenophobic hooligans under the influence of alcohol, sowing terror and hatred, particularly in the stadiums of the big cities hit by the crisis. They have regularly infested football matches in Britain and elsewhere, as was the case for example in May 1990 with the match of Dynamo Zagreb against Red Star Belgrade which ended up with an arranged battle resulting in hundreds of injuries and several deaths. This in itself contributed to the aggravation of the already existing nationalist tensions which eventually unfolded in the war in ex-Yugoslavia. Among the most radical Serb supporters was their war boss Arkan, specialist of ethnic cleansing and the nationalist later looked for by the UN for crimes against humanity.
Outside of this episode, of which there are many more examples, popular bourgeois sense has it that this growing violence comes from the fact that sport is more and more "gangrened by money and mafias". This obscures the reality that sport is itself a mafia and a pure product of capitalism! Football receives massive investments from a financially hypertrophied sector, from billionaires and broadcasting companies, behind which, in the final analysis, is the state itself. In the context of a catastrophic economic crisis, sport becomes a real casino game, the very symbol of a bankrupt mode of production. The big international sporting authorities, as the IOC (International Olympic Committee) or FIFA (International Federation of Football Associations), the big clubs that feed the hooligans and gangsters, some of which play the role of eminent representatives, the politicians and shady speculators, are involved in one scandal after another where the embezzlement of funds is only the tip of the iceberg[9]. Some brutal financial operations for building sporting complexes, as in China and South Africa in these last years, also witness the widespread violent practice of the expropriation of people living in misery who are thrown out onto the street for the occasion.
Every state and every kind of mafia speculates in the economic sector of sport and gambling. Some even buy entire clubs, like Qatar's purchase of Paris-Saint-Germain, putting a great deal of money into this unproductive sector. It's the same in Britain for the big clubs. During the transfer window, a real 'meat market' of footballers, the transactions regularly serve to launder 'dirty' money. According to Noel Pons (a specialist in criminality): "Football clubs are of a type CAC 40, the phenomenon of money laundering must thus be at the same level as it can be for these enterprises"[10].
The other side of this coin is super-exploitation: aside from the overpaid stars and the shady agents, thousands of young sportsmen find themselves without contracts and pauperised. This is notably the case with some very young Africans who have been enticed with wonderful promises of life in Europe, who are then unscrupulously thrown onto the streets and who sometimes become paperless. Then there are the fixed matches which have affected an incalculable number of European and world matches. Italian football, which has a lot to answer for, shows that numerous players and leading figures are clearly linked to the political world and organised crime. Even sports which are presented as clean by the media, such as handball in France, are subject to some fixing and corruption. It's more the case with tennis, where the players paid in the corridors do not hesitate to lose matches in order to get more money.
All these gangster practices, which in the last instance are those of the state, don't stop there. They sometimes even threaten the security of the spectators, as for example in 1985 tragedy of the Heysel Stadium in Belgium. Here, under the weight of excited supporters, barriers gave way killing 39 with more than 600 injured! These tragedies are not unique. Built at low cost, overcapacity and crowd movement lead to catastrophes such as at Hillsborough, Sheffield in April 1989: 96 dead and 766 injured. At the Furiani Stadium in Bastia on May 5 1992, down to a question of profitability, a temporary terrace suddenly collapsed just before kick-off leading to 18 deaths and 2300 injured.
Doping: a pure expression of this decadent world
We don't want to finish without raising the frantic and scandalous exploitation of the athletes themselves, in particular being doped to their physiological limits and even to death. At the beginning of the last century, doping substances such as strychnine was already commonplace. Very soon, for the state, "sport became the experimental science of body output which demanded the creation of laboratories of sporting medicine, perfecting experimental material and various tools and opening specialised sporting institutes"[11]. In 1967, everyone was shocked by the death of the British cyclist Tom Simpson on the slopes of Mount Ventoux, but doping had been institutionalised for a long time. As the old doctor of the Tour de France, Jean-Pierre Mondenard underlined: "At this high level sport is a school for cheating". Today the medical aspects and doping are intimately linked. Steroids, anabolics, EPO, blood-transfusions are used all the time in competitions, surrounded by the medical teams of all the big stables. It goes without saying that this phenomenon affects all sports at the highest levels. Rugby for example is concerned with the formation of young players. This is shown in the testimony of a young player of 24 years old, today sick, his career broken: "We arrive at the training centre. Here there's much talk about 'real' doping. Some of my team-mates are injecting themselves with substances, some veterinary products provided by a doctor who tours around the club. There's talk of clenbuterol and salbutamol, calf and bull anabolics. You don't buy anything on the internet but try to meet the right person. The doctor makes the first injections and you do the next". He adds precisely: "Omerta is already very strong in the sporting milieu and it's even more so when it concerns adolescents"[12]. Used up and prematurely ruined, sports people suffer from very serious troubles: cardiac and circulatory incidents, renal and hepatitis insufficiencies, cancers, impotence, sterility, problems for pregnant women, muscular-skeletal sicknesses, etc. A good number of athletes of the highest level die before forty! The example of the East German women swimmers, which already revealed all the brutality and capitalist horror of state planning, has since been largely surpassed. All the same, we can recall that like other athletes, these swimmers were doped by force, unknown to themselves. Watched by the special services (Stasi, KGB) in all their movements, these athletes could not communicate with people in the west on pain of reprisals against their families. Some became 'men' on the hormonal level (strong pilosity, libido trouble, hypertrophied clitoris...) thanks to pills and daily injections given by specialised doctors[13]. They were subjected to all sorts of blackmail and to silence by the state. One survey counted more than 10,000 victims! Today we have the very well known case of cycling, the Festina affair[14]. Here the deception of the riders is as much as victims and scapegoats, as the cyclist Lance Armstrong who has recently been stripped of his titles with the loss of 7 of them including the Tour de France and his yellow jerseys. This is witness to the fact that the laws of capital stop at nothing in front of profit.
The 'sporting ethic' is that of capitalism! It can be summed up in a few words: ambition, cheating, corruption, hypocrisy, fight to the death, violence and brutality! The paraplegic sports and games show the same logic of a sordid competition unfolding into a sort of 'war of the prostheses'.
Sport today reveals itself only a pure illusion. It is at best a reactionary utopia and at worst a real swindle.
Conclusion: sport and communism
The attempts to utilise sport in decadence to promote workers' struggle has only accentuated an opportunist gangrene and stimulated conservative forces. There can't be any 'proletarian sport'. At the time of the world revolutionary wave of 1917-23, the setback of the programme of the Red Sport International (founded in 1921) was linked to the historical and political conditions of the moment, those of decadent capitalism and the tragic isolation of the revolution in Russia. The sporting Central Asian Games, organised in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) by the Bolsheviks in 1920, aroused nationalist sentiments and strengthened the local states, a real mosaic of the ex-Russian empire, which only increased political confusion. Worse, it solidified the cordon sanitaire of the Entente troops around the besieged Russian soviets. The Spartakiades of Moscow in 1928, completed the defence of the 'socialist country' through sporting games which already embodied the counter-revolution. The only real 'triumph' was that of Stalinism, exhibiting with pride his 'Bolsheviks of Steel'! Marx underlined that communist society would make "the practical demonstration of the possibility of uniting learning and gymnastics with work and vice-versa". This in the perspective of realising "the complete man"[15] If Lenin and the Bolsheviks defended such a vision at the beginning, they didn't have the time or the possibility of seeing this work accomplished. Stalinism created the opposite: a medicalised caricature of monstrous robots! It's naturally difficult to glimpse the communist society of the future. But it is certain that sport, such as it exists now, will disappear in a society without social classes. It's much more difficult for an amateur to conceive of that today because it's dependent on seeing a world without addictions[16]. To all sorts of artificial separations between physical and intellectual activity, to forced opposition between players and spectators, must be substituted a human world, unitary, creative and free. Thus, "the complete man" dear to Marx, will find in communism his true social nature: "Only through the objectively unfolded richness of man's essential being is the richness of subjective human sensibility (a musical ear, an eye for beauty of form – in short, senses capable of human gratification, senses affirming themselves as essential powers of man) either cultivated or brought into being…Just as through the movement of private property, of its wealth as well as its poverty – of its material and spiritual wealth and poverty – the budding society finds at hand all the material for this development, so established society produces man in this entire richness of his being produces the rich man profoundly endowed with all the senses – as its enduring reality."[17]. This 'rich' man will thus express his true individuality within a superior harmony, through the dialectical unity of body and mind.
WH (December 20, 2012)
[1]E. Hobsbawn, Nations and nationalism since 1780, History folio.
[2]Op. Cit.
[3]J-M Brohm, Sociologie politiqe du sport 1976, re-edition: Nancy, P.U.N., 1992.
[4]Note that we are now seeing German national flags in the crowds at sporting occasions, conforming to new German imperialist ambitions; this after years of quiet imposed by an awkward past.
[5]As for example the "black-blanc-beur" ideology in France: an allusion to the tricolore "bleu-blanc-rouge" and national unity, beyond skin colour and origins, behind the Republican state in a type of sacred union.
[6]Junius Pamphlet, 1915.
[7]www.memorialdelashoah.org
[8]There wasn't much more enthusiasm for him from the American bourgeoisie which was then marked by divisive and bloody racial prejudices. In fact, black minorities were marginalised from the 1904 Olympic Games in Saint-Louis. Special competitions called "anthropological days" were even organised and reserved for those the "officials" considered as "sub-human". Victims of segregation and lynchings, black minorities later reacted by struggling on the basis of identity, including the famous "Black Panthers", embodied on the podium of the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico, by the raised fists and black gloves of the runners Smith and Carlos.
[9]One scandal among others was the candidatures of Salt Lake City to the Winter Games of 2002, where members of the IOC accepted bribes to influence the election.
[10]www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2012/08/30/blanchiment-d-argent-l-autre-mer...
[11]J-M Brohm, Sociologie politique du sport, 1979, re-edition: Nancy, P.U.N., 1992.
[12]www.rue89.com
[13]Note that the East German trainers even got their sports women pregnant; at three months, the women would have produced more testosterone and would have performed better!
[14]In order to give an idea of the phenomenon of doping today, an example: the record of the Australian Stephanie Rice (400 metres at Peking in 2008) is inferior by 7 seconds to that of the ex-champion of the east , Petra Schneider (1980 in Moscow), reputed to be loaded up with steroids!
[15]Marx quoted by J-M Brohm, Sociiologie politique du sport 1976, re-edition: Nancy, P.U.N., 1992.
[16]In July 1998, the boss of the cycling team Festina, Willy Voet, was arrested by customs. He was carrying ampoules of EPO, amphetamine capsules, solutions of hormone growth and flasks of testosterone.
[17] Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, 'Private property and communism'
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Q: Developp concatenation function Challenge: find the function $conc(a, b)$ resulting in the concatenation of the number a and b.
Example:
$$conc(1234, 56) = 123456$$

A: Answer

 We assume that very simple function counting the digit amount in a number :
 $$f(x)\left \{ 0 \right \}=1+\left\lfloor log_{10}x \right\rfloor$$

 Now it's pretty simple :
 $$conc(a, b)\left \{ 0 \right \} = a * 10^{1+\left\lfloor log_{10}b \right\rfloor} + b$$

 Example:
 $$conc(1234, 56) = 1234 * 10^{1+\left\lfloor log_{10}56 \right\rfloor} + 56$$
 $$conc(1234, 56) = 123456$$

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Seinen ersten Vertrag unterschrieb Yōjirō Takahagi 2003 beim Zweitligisten Sanfrecce Hiroshima. Gleich im ersten Jahr wurde erm mit Sanfrecce Vizemeister und stieg in die erste Liga auf. 2006 wurde er an den Ehime FC ausgeliehen. Mit dem Verein  aus Matsuyama spielte er 44-mal in der zweiten Liga, der J2 League. Nach der Ausleihe kehrte er Anfang 2007 zu Hiroshima zurück. Ende 2007 musste er mit dem Klub wieder in die zweite Liga absteigen. 2008 wurde er mit Hiroshima Meister der zweiten Liga und stieg direkt wieder in die erste Liga auf. 2012 und 2013 feierte er mit Sanfrecce die japanische Fußballmeisterschaft. Von Januar 2015 bis Juli 2015 spielte er in Australien bei den Western Sydney Wanderers. Der Verein aus Sydney spielte in der ersten australischen Liga, der A-League. Direkt im Anschluss wechselte er nach Südkorea zum FC Seoul. Mit dem FC Seoul gewann er 2016 die südkoreanische Meisterschaft. Anfang 2017 kehrte er nach Japan zurück und schloss sich dem FC Tokyo an. Der Verein aus der Präfektur Tokio spielte in der ersten japanischen Liga, der J1 League. Im Finale um den J.League Cup 2020 besiegte Tokyo am 4. Januar 2021 Kashiwa Reysol mit 2:1. Im Juli 2022 wechselte Takahagi auf Leihbasis nach Utsunomiya zum Zweitligisten Tochigi SC. Für Tochigi bestritt er 15 Zweitligaspiele. Nach der Ausleihe wurde er zu Beginn der Saison 2023 im Februar fest von Tochigi unter Vertrag genommen.

Nationalmannschaft
2013 debütierte Takahagi für die japanische Fußballnationalmannschaft. Takahagi bestritt drei Länderspiele.

Erfolge
Sanfrecce Hiroshima
 J2 League: 2008
 J. League Division 1: 2012, 2013
 Supercup: 2008, 2013, 2014

FC Seoul
 K League Classic: 2016

FC Tokyo
 J.League Cup: 2020

Auszeichnungen
 J. League Best Eleven: 2012

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Teilnehmer an den Asienspielen (Japan)
Japanischer Meister (Fußball)
Fußballspieler (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)
Fußballspieler (Ehime FC)
Fußballspieler (Western Sydney Wanderers)
Fußballspieler (FC Seoul)
Fußballspieler (FC Tokyo)
Fußballspieler (Tochigi SC)
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Hruby awarded Dollar General Youth Literacy Grant
Dr. Alison Hruby, associate professor of English at Morehead State University, has been awarded the Dollar General Youth Literacy Grant.
The $2,000 grant will benefit students at Rowan County Senior High School in Morehead by giving them access to more extensive libraries in their English classrooms.
"Research has demonstrated that access to substantial classroom libraries significantly improves students' investment and skill in reading," Hruby said. "I am excited to work with the English teachers and students at Rowan County Senior High School to choose books from the classroom libraries, especially books that represent diverse authors and experiences."
To learn more about MSU's Department of English, visit www.moreheadstate.edu/english, email english@moreheadstate.edu or call 606-783-9448.


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Q: Can Facebook/Google cause site to not load? This might sound like a silly question, but yesterday none of our sites would load. After contacting the hosting company they said that

In this instance, it would appear that your site is hanging waiting for a response from an external component / website (looking at your code, I see references to Facebook, Google and online apps at a glance).

We've never had this problem before and the sites have been using the social plugins for months so I wondered if anybody else experienced this problem yesterday?
Thanks

A: Without knowing the details, I can tell you that when you load Javascript via  tags the browser waits for the request to finish before moving on. So, if you load JS files in the  section, nothing will render on-screen until they load successfully. 404s here will kill you, as will slow connections.
If you have in-line JS, it's best to put it at the very bottom of your  section so that it does not interrupt browser rendering. Do this for JS files in your  section if your code architecture allows it.

A: Just a random stab in the dark but I wonder if this was related in any way to the anonymous threats on Facebook. I have experienced similar problems before with a twitter plugin, it could take a few seconds for the plugin to ping back the tweets and the rest of the page was hanging while twitter was doing their thing.
To ensure this doesn't happen again you could call your social plugin's on page load if its a viable solution. At the end of the day do you want your page load time to depend on other services outside of your control or not?
edit: @Jason McClellan 's answer is spot on. I believe the combo of out answers sort out your question. I Never include script in the head if I don't control the resource! That can indefinitely hang your page.
edit2: Don't know why I'm getting down rated for this answer was just trying to relate it to an experience of mine. I'm not extremely experienced with Facebook plugins but when I was noticing an issue with my twitter plugin, I did exactly what @Jason McClellan has said with his answer to make sure that all your html gets rendered before the scripts are even requested, then ensured that the page could display correctly with or without the twitter content so the user experience was not dependant on an external resource. The twitter plugin I was using had an initiation function which I had to call to fire up the script. The simplest way to call this would be with:

if you have another script you are loading with the page you could use something along the lines of
    window.onload = function() {
        init();
    }

from within your external script.
Sorry I can't give an answer specific to the Facebook plugin. Maybe someone with more experience in the Facebook plugins could elaborate in the comments :D
edit3: also this community based tool suggests that quiet a few people where seeing a bit of facebook downtime when you experienced it - Facebook status at DownRightNow
edit4: I dont have the "Privelages" to comment on Jason's q as im pretty new here ... but in answer to your comment there, the stuff in the head that you describe is what loads in the schema for facebook mark-up language (fbml) , so a mark-up language like html, but geared up for you to use the facebook api. So you can do stuff like:
    <fb:comments xid="titans_comments" canpost="true" candelete="false" returnurl="http://apps.facebook.com/myapp/titans/">
    <fb:title>Talk about the Titans</fb:title>
    </fb:comments>

To wack some comments straight into your page - fbml developers guide
Your comment there also suggests you are not including a script for your page to load so it renders our previous answers not as important, you need to include the fbml stuff in the head before you use fbml in your page so don't move it :D
but @jason McClellan's answer is something that everyone should do on their project (unless there is a reason not to) as it allows for the user to see something before the browser fires off requests for the scripts. At the end of the day we're in this game to make pretty stuff for our users!
Good luck


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Q: .getMembers() & .getGroups() in Google GroupsApp listing unexpected results I have a member in each group on our domain and I want to list all the members and the groups that are members of each group. I am getting errors when there are banned members in a group as it appears to list some of those members and when it iterates through the groups that are members it fails if there are banned members with an access error.
function listGroups() {
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();

  var groups = GroupsApp.getGroups();
  var results = [];

  for (var i = 0; i < groups.length; i++){
    if(groups[i] != ""){
      Utilities.sleep(1000);
      results.push([groups[i].getEmail(),groups[i].getUsers().length +" Members in Group"]);
      if(groups[i].getUsers().length > 0){
        Utilities.sleep(1000);
        var members = groups[i].getUsers();
        for (var j = 0; j < members.length; j++){
          if (members[j] != ""){
            results.push([groups[i].getEmail(), members[j].getEmail()]);
          }
        }
      } // end members check
      if(groups[i].getGroups().length > 0){
        results.push([groups[i].getEmail(),groups[i].getGroups().length + "Member Groups"]);
        Utilities.sleep(1000);
        var groupInGroup = groups[i].getGroups();
        for (var k = 0; k < groupInGroup.length; k++){
          if (groupInGroup[k] != ""){
            results.push([groups[i].getEmail(),groupInGroup[k].getEmail()]);
          }
        }
      } // end Groups in Groups check.
    }
  }

  var outputSheetName = 'Group Listing '+ new Date();
  ss.insertSheet().setName(outputSheetName);
  var outputSheet = ss.getSheetByName(outputSheetName);

  outputSheet.clear();
  outputSheet.getRange(outputSheet.getLastRow()+1,1,results.length,results[0].length).setValues(results);
}

Possibly only listing Group Members by role would get past these errors but it seems to be a problem with .getMembers() and .getGroups()
Am I right in thinking the only way round it is listing the members by role?


Q. What do I do when trying to view the online resources alphabetical list and my computer says "navigation to the webpage was canceled"?
When you get an error message "Navigation is canceled" or "Page cannot be displayed", refresh the screen. Most of the time the page you are trying to access will display properly. If this does not work, clear cookies and cache, close the browser, relaunch and then try again. Page should load normally.
If you continue to have problems, contact your Campus Library/ARC.


A local resident who asked not to be named told Vientiane Times the ferry was carrying about 40 people, including the skipper, villagers, teachers and a motorbike, and was sitting very low in the water.
Fortunately the 30 other people in the boat survived the disaster because they could swim or were assisted by others.
"The ferry capsized when it reached the middle of the river. For its size, it should have been carrying only 10-20 people," one witness said.
The Vientiane Rescue Team, including divers, immediately headed to the scene after receiving a telephone call from local residents, a team member said.
More than 10 divers searched for the missing children in the river but were unable to find them because of the strong current.
The rescue team official said the divers might take a couple of days to locate those who were still missing, adding "but we hope to discover them soon".
Pakngum district Governor Mr Vongdeuane Bounyasaeng said district authorities had sent officials to investigate the incident after detaining the ferry boat skipper who will be interviewed to establish his level of responsibility.
One concerned citizen said that to prevent further tragedies all ferry boats should be equipped with life jackets and passengers should be made to wear them.
There has been an outpouring of support on social media for those still missing as well as for their families. Authorities are continuing their efforts to ascertain the whereabouts of the missing children.
Local residents said this was the third such incident involving small riverboats in the last three to four years, but yesterday's accident was by far the most serious. River communities have been urging authorities to build a bridge across this section of the Nam Ngum to prevent further tragedies.


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Q: Comparing field values for soil polygons using ArcPy? Occasionally NRCS will update their soils layer for each county.  When they do, we get an email from our clients because they have been notified of the change.  The problem is, sometimes it's just a metadata change.  And we don't know until we run the full analysis and compare the soil types (MUSYM).
I'm trying to write a script that will compare the soils layer on file with the supposed "new" soils layer. If the unique values in the MUSYM field are the same for both features, I would like it to print "no new soils".  If not, print "new soils added".  The data is stored in a File Geodatabase.  I'm using version 10.5 of Arcmap.  I've looked through some of the other posts but I'm too green yet to figure this out.
import arcpy, os
arcpy.env.workspace = "H:\\SoilsUpdate\\SoilsUpdate.gdb"

#INPUTS:
fc1 = "R:\\State Soils\\gSSURGO_KS.gdb\\MUPOLYGON"

fc2 = "C:\\County\\Assessor.gdb\\NRCS\\Soils"

#set up cursors
cursor1 = arcpy.da.SearchCursor(fc1, ["MUSYM"])

cursor2 = arcpy.da.SearchCursor(fc2, ["MUSYM"])

#make a dictionary and store values
soil_lst = {}

for row in cursor1:
  soil_lst[row[0]] = row[1]

#loop through other table
for row in cursor2:

  if row[1] = soil_lst[row[0]]:

   soil_lst.append(row[0])

    print "no new soils".format(row[0])

A: The ordering of the polygons in the MUPOLYGON feature class may change from one update to the next. Instead of doing a feature-to-feature comparison with cursors (trying to run 2 cursors simultaneously is generally considered a bad idea), I would Union the two feature classes, then search the results for polygons where the MUSYM values from the source feature classes differ.


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KANSL2 () – білок, який кодується однойменним геном, розташованим у людей на короткому плечі 12-ї хромосоми. Довжина поліпептидного ланцюга білка становить 492 амінокислот, а молекулярна маса — 55 042.

Кодований геном білок за функціями належить до регуляторів хроматину, фосфопротеїнів.
Задіяний у такому біологічному процесі, як альтернативний сплайсинг.
Локалізований у ядрі.

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Please note that the Box Edition is currently in preorder, as the first pressing sold out on preorders. The second press will ship cirka Mid April.
This item weighs around 1.5 kilograms, so shipping is pricey.
Created back in the 1990s and originally released in a highly limited edition form, Secrets Of My Kingdom provides an unforgettable insight into the otherworldly creations of dark ambient godfather Mortiis. An utterly unique and compelling collection of writings and illustrations (created by a number of talented artists), it significantly fleshes out the rich universe that is glimpsed within those early musical releases. Considered a legendary tome by fans, the rare original changing hands for literally hundreds of dollars today.
Considerably expanded with 100 pages of new material, this ambitious 240 page large format (30x21cm) hardback bookcontains the original in its entirety as well as previously unseen text and illustrations, an extensive new interview with Mortiis, plus words from peers, the book's illustrators, musicians from the growing dungeon synth movement (including Mark Riddick, David Thiérrée, Albert Mudrian, Juha Vuorma, Proscriptor, Balrog, Forgotten Kingdoms, Chaucerian Myth and more).
Available in standalone edition or in a luxurious special edition signed boxset with exclusive 2 sided shirt featuring new artwork by Mark Riddick, deluxe embossed box, a 12 piece 350gsm art print set featuring exclusive artwork and images never before seen in colour, a certificate of authenticity signed by Mortiis himself and a 16 page recreation of the rare 1993 'Født...' booklet, originally limited to 50-100 copies.
Deluxe boxset complete contents:
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Many Vermont barns have been around to witness more history than any of its living residents. In this case, a sense of time's passing and the endurance of the human spirit seem to rise from the sagging roofline and weathered siding. The barn is beautifully painted, and the foreground vegetation is so natural in appearance. Well done!
How do you find all these nice places for painting? What a pleasure to explore Vermont though your eyes. Your painting depicts also rural realitiy. This ensemble of barns is spectacular and it's breathing the history of a hard working life.
I just follow my heart, nose, and artistic sensibility, Doris. Of course that sensibility has been honed over many years. At this point, the subjects find me as much as I find them.
Thanks Carol, and happy painting!
I love old barns but feel such a sense of loss when they're at the point of collapse. They've stood, in many cases, more than a century and deserve better. Hurts my heart.
Hi Charlotte, the old times are gone. In old country houses and barns we often find the spirit of hardworking farmers and their families. Really it's a pity and a loss that they disappear.
So great to see one of the remaining barns in my hometown, Cornwall, being painted and appreciated. Nicely done, as usual!
Peter again it is the Fall,,,,, and deer season is upon us out and about loving it !!! So proud of you and your segment on channel 3 way to go with PBS too! The more exposure the better, way to share the culture and your talent. Your BFF Rick.


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Clint Eastwood, the Legend, turns 85
By Unknown May 31, 2015
Turning 85 today and still showing no signs of stopping (fortunately for moviefans all over the world) is Hollywood Legend Clint Eastwood.
With a career that spans over 60 years, starting of as a bit player in various films, he first tasted success with the television series Rawhide, where he portrayed the character of Rowdy Yates for 216 episodes, between 1959 and 1965. But he scored really big, with his (European) Man with No Name-Trilogy, directed by the legendary Sergio Leone: a Fistfull of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The good, The Bad and the Ugly in 1964, 1965 and 1966.
After a few more so-called spaghetti-westerns, he was finally discovered in America as well.
1971 became his turning year, it was the year he worked on two films directed by his friend Don Siegel: The Beguiled (in my opinion a highly under-appreciated masterpiece) and the box-office smash Dirty Harry (a character he would portray four more times in the years to follow), but it was also the year he started directing for the first time and delivered the chilling Play Misty for Me.
In 1985 the first collaboration between Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg materialized, when Clint directed one of the episodes in the first season of Steven's Amazing Stories, called Vanessa in the Garden. The episode featured Harvey Keitel and Sondra Locke (at that time Clint's real-life lover).
In 1990 he was thanked on the credits for Back to the Future Part III, without having to do much, other than agree upon the use of his name and (man-with-no-name) image from his famous Italian Western-Trilogy.
5 years later, in 1995 Clint returned in/for 2 Amblin productions: he did an (uncredited) cameo in Casper, The friendly Ghost and he directed and starring in The Bridges of Madison County (the latter marking the first time he took over a directing job from Steven Spielberg).
After having directed 1 film a year during most of his career, in 2006 he changed that habit by presenting 2 films that were both released by/thru DreamWorks. The Flags of Our Fathers,
and Letters From Iwo Jima.
The latest film (to date) Clint directed for/with DreamWorks was Hereafter, starring matt damon, that he made 5 years ago.
Last year he (once more) took over the directing duties for a film from Steven Spielberg, it turned out to be his commercially most successful film until this day: American Sniper.
Happy 85th Birthday to the Man who definitely has (earned himself) a Name.
And Thanks for 'Making My Day' for all those years (and hopefully for many to come.
Ronny.
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Star Wars VII Movie Poster - Every End Is A New Beginning
By welshslider February 02, 2013
Just saw this Star Wars VII movie poster on Kyle Newman's Facebook feed. The poster is by Lyndon Berresford and Paul Bateman.
I am loving this. Who do you think the two characters are? Lando and Leia? Han and Leia's children?
Have you seen other Star Wars VII movie posters? Let me know.
@welshslider
I need your Star Wars memories for a book
Did Paul Freeman Accidentally Eat A Fly In Raiders of the Lost Ark?
By welshslider March 12, 2016
The Famous Indiana Jones Fly In Belloq's Mouth Scene. Did It Really Happen? I've always wondered if Paul Freeman unintentionally consumed a fly in this scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark? It's the scene where Indiana Jones shouts down to Bellosh...I mean Belloq and threatens to blow up the ark. Did a fly go in his mouth?
I remember watching this scene back in the early eighties and my ten year old mind thought he definitely had a snack while filming. I recall talking about 'flygate' in my school playground at the time and the general consensus with my friends was that Freeman definitely had a sneaky snack.
Paul Freeman talks about the famous 'fly' scene in an interview with TheIndyExperience.com and settled 'flygate:'
This is a bit of a dicey question so don't get too upset. (Laughs) A movie's always got bloopers in it, some have a lot, and some only have three or four. And the most remarkable blooper was right before the opening of the Ark scene.…
Pinewood Studios To Expand To The Usa
BBC News have reported that Pinewood Studios are to expand to the USA. This is great news for the famous studio that is rich in movie history.
UK film studio Pinewood Shepperton has announced plans to build its first sound stages in the United States. The Pinewood Atlanta complex will be built on 288 acres of land south of Atlanta, Georgia, as a joint venture with a US investment company. Georgia has been among the US states drawing film-making away from Hollywood with tax incentives in recent years. The deal is the latest sign of expansion at Pinewood, the home of the James Bond franchise. Earlier this month it announced a joint venture with a Chinese media group, potentially giving it access to the fast-growing Chinese market.


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Toyota Invests $1.7M To Diversify Engineering Workforce
Beginning Fall 2021, 35 students over a five-year period will be selected to receive full-tuition scholarships.
One of the world's largest automakers is teaming up with three institutions of higher education in Kentucky to help change the face of engineering. Today, Toyota announced a $1.7 million investment to increase opportunities for underrepresented students and assist them in earning engineering degrees.
Toyota announced a $1.7 million investment to increase opportunities for underrepresented students and assist them in earning engineering degrees.
The program will provide full-tuition scholarships to female and minority students, along with needed resources to earn an engineering degree from either the University of Kentucky (UK) or University of Louisville (UofL). Bluegrass Community & Technical College (BCTC) is also part of the collaboration with students first acquiring a two-year associates degree before enrolling in an engineering program in the commonwealth.
"Building a stronger Kentucky will require deliberate and sustainable efforts to provide equal access to quality education," said Susan Elkington, president, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky. "This program will give more people a chance to build great careers in fields like engineering. Toyota is committed to providing resources, time and knowledge to help build stronger communities in which we operate. We're thankful for great education partners that have the same mission."
Beginning Fall 2021, 35 students over a five-year period will be selected to receive full-tuition scholarships. The students will also be mentored by Toyota engineers and participate in a paid co-op opportunity with the company earning $17-$21 per hour. Additionally, students will complete two to three co-op rotations that will provide critical hands-on experience in multiple areas of the field.
"Toyota has been a long-time partner of UK since locating in Kentucky nearly 35 years ago," said Rudolph Buchheit, UK College of Engineering Dean. "This is another example of Toyota seeing a need and stepping up to do something about it. It's imperative to increase gender and ethnic diversity among our faculty, staff and students."
Emmanuel Collins, dean of the University of Louisville's J.B. Speed School of Engineering also highlighted the program's focus on increasing diversity and inclusion in engineering.
"There is critical shortage of women and minorities in the engineering workforce," said Collins. "Toyota's investment and partnership to help diversify our talent pipeline perfectly aligns with the university's goals and we are grateful to be a part of this collaboration."
Stephen Brennen, vice president of production engineering at PEMC, agrees that strengthening the industry's talent pipeline and staying ahead of customer demands will require new ways of thinking. "Not only for the continued growth and innovation of the field, but also to help Toyota move forward as we work toward our mobility vision for the future."
BCTC's provost, Greg Feeney echoed the others and added that "diversity creates rich and productive workplaces and communities. We are pleased to join Toyota and our university partners to create opportunities for students."
To help inspire the next generation for a career in STEM-based fields, including mobility, Toyota launched its virtual education hub at www.TourToyota.com with an immersive experience and chance to visit many of our U.S. manufacturing facilities. The hub also includes a series of free STEM-based lessons and curriculum through Toyota USA Foundation partners, virtual field trips and more.
In this article:Engineering, scholarships, STEM, Toyota
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A Massachusetts man is scheduled to embark on a cross-country run next month from San Diego to New York in observance of the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
George Chmiel, an extreme athlete from Charlestown, plans to begin the two-month journey Sept. 11 at the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier Museum.
Hundreds of runners are expected to accompany him in the early stage of the run.
Chmiel hopes to raise $1 million for the Guardian for Heroes Foundation, founded by the late Chris Kyle, subject of the film "American Sniper." The nonprofit helps combat veterans navigate physical, mental, and emotional struggles through physical fitness.
"We need to do a much better job of taking care of our vets," Chmiel said.
Chmiel plans to pass though Kyle's hometown of Midlothian, Texas, during the run and also go by the Walter Reed National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He's scheduled to arrive at the site of the former World Trade Center towers in New York on Veterans Day, Nov. 11.
Organizers of the run said Chmiel has completed 100-mile races on six continents, including 155-mile ultra-marathons in the Sahara Desert, the Australian Outback, the Atacama Desert in Chile, Nepal, the Gobi Desert of China and Antarctica. He has also finished 21 marathons.


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Five Fantastic Machines That Take the Work Out of Chopping Wood
Why swing an ax when you don't have to?
Wood has been around for somewhere between 395 and 400 million years. Axes, by comparison, have only been around since 4,000 BCE at best. But humans have never been the type to let a late start get in the way. In the years since, we've found and invented remarkably different ways of chopping wood, once that don't require nearly as much effort.
PONSSE Bear C6
A sliding boom crane, the C6 works efficiently on each section of a tree. Ponsse's website notes that the "benefits of a sliding boom crane are especially evident on steep hills." Capable of pulling a tree out of a ground, it moves with a surprising quickness. It's definitely head and shoulders above taking something down with hand tools.
Mighty Ox LS-30
If you've got way more wood than you could ever hope to handle manually, the Mighty Ox can handle up to 1,200 pounds of wood at once. With a six-wedge splitter, it can split logs that are over 36 inches in diameter. All this can be your for a price of $12,490. A lovely machine for sure, but maybe not worth it unless you're cutting wood for a living.
Wood-Mizer LT 15
No, you can't. Wood-Mizer calls its LT-15 a portable sawmill, and this haul video shows why. Wood-Mizer calls it a "compact, powerhouse sawmill for hobbyists, small businesses, and timber framers" and can saw logs up to 28 inches in diameter. There are extensions for longer logs, and the entire things comes in at the relative bargin of $7,495.00.
Metal Cylinder Chopping Machine
Of course, you don't need the fanciest new tools to cut wood. This DIY rig that uses an uneven cylinder mounted to a tractor can't cut wood at particularly high speeds or in particularly crazy volumes, but it does reduce the work involved to simply pushing a log forward every now and then. Not bad at all.
DIY Mini Oil Crane
The device is made out of a spring, possibly from a car shock absorber. It's a simple lever, and looks to be about as efficient as a kitchen knife cutting steak. There are faster ways to do things, but unless you're professional you've got no choice to go as fast as you can with what's around you. Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Carolina Panthers vs. Green Bay Packers Pick 12/19/20
by Ted Walker | Dec 15, 2020 | nfl
Carolina Panthers (4-9 SU, 7-6 ATS) v. Green Bay Packers (10-3 SU, 8-5 ATS)
When: Saturday, December 19 at 8:15 pm ET
Where: Lambeau Field - Green Bay, WI
Point Spread: CAR +8.5/GB -8.5 (SportsBetting.ag - Bettors love their website!)
Over/Under Total: 51.5
The NFC Playoff picture is becoming clearer with Green Bay clinching a division title last week. The Packers will enter Week 15 as the No. 1 seed in the NFC after New Orleans fell to Philadelphia, and there are now just a few details for Green Bay to attend to in order to wrap up a playoff bye. The Carolina Panthers head to Lambeau Field, having lost seven of the last eight overall, but many of those contests have been decided by one score, and the Panthers have performed much better against the spread, going 7-6 ATS this season. Green Bay couldn't cover a 9.5 point spread against the Lions last week and are just 4-5 ATS after winning each of their first four against the spread to start the season. Aaron Rodgers may be angling toward another MVP award. He can carry a game on his own, but this game may get a shot of star power with Christian McCaffrey possibly suiting up in a long awaited return from injury.
Carolina failed to cover last week but has been one of the better bounce-back teams this season with a 4-0 ATS record in the week following an ATS loss. The Panthers are 5-0 ATS in their last five road contests and have been one of the best underdogs, going 7-1 against the spread in their previous eight when getting points. Those are strong trends but will go directly against Green Bay's 6-2 ATS mark when playing at home as the favorite, and the Packers are also 7-3 against the spread in conference games. The OVER is 4-1 in the last five Carolina games overall, and also 4-1 when the Panthers are underdogs. The UNDER is 6-0 in the previous six Green Bay games in December and 5-1 when the Packers play an opponent with a losing record. These teams did play last season with Green Bay on the right side of a 24-16 decision. That game was notable, perhaps in that Carolina held Rodgers to zero touchdown passes, but Aaron Jones was able to find the endzone on three occasions.
Spinning the Tires
With close calls against top-end teams like Kansas City and New Orleans, Carolina has often looked the part of a mid-pack contender, but the losses have piled up with the Panthers mostly unable to put together a four-quarter effort. That theme showed again last week as they were outscored 19-3 by the Broncos after taking a second-quarter lead, and a fourth-quarter comeback fell just short. There are a lot of mediocre metrics in Carolina right now, including the 15th ranked passing game and 19th best scoring offense at 23.6 points per game. Teddy Bridgewater has been efficient in completing 70% of his passes with a 96.1 QB rating, but Carolina's 15 touchdown passes as a team is the 5th-fewest in the league. Despite the lack of scoring, the passing game could produce two 1,000 yard receivers as Robby Anderson (996 yards), and D.J. Moore (924) are both closing in on that milestone. Moore has been activated from the Covid reserve list and should be available for Saturday. Mike Davis has filled in admirably for McCaffrey and leads the team with 555 rushing yards while adding 371 receiving. His seven total touchdowns lead the team, with McCaffrey's six sitting second even though he has played in just three games. The defense is similarly average, ranking 15th in rushing and 22nd in passing, but Carolina's 19 sacks are the 5th-fewest, and their 3rd down defense is 2nd-worst. Green Bay is second in total yards gained and first in points per game, so it looks like Carolina is going to have to find a way to get a bunch of points on the board to stay in this one.
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Kings of the North
Green Bay is a division winner for the seventh time in the last ten seasons, and they are arguably the best team in the NFC with a head-to-head win over the Saints, who are the current #2 seed. The Packers' offense has been the catalyst for success, and it has come with the 2nd best passing game and the league's 10th best rushing attack. Aaron Rodgers has thrown for 39 touchdowns, but Aaron Jones is averaging 5.1 yards per carry and has seven total scores. Davante Adams has scored in eight straight contests, and his 14 total receiving scores is tied for the NFL lead. TE Robert Tonyan is second on the team with nine touchdown receptions, and the TE group in Green Bay has thirteen scores on the year. The defense has been soft at times and allows 24.8 points per game, but they are 8th in total yards allowed and have one of the better pass rush units in the league. Za'Darius Smith leads the team with 10.5 sacks while Rashan Gary has five, and the team is 10th in the league with 35 total. Green Bay does allow 4.6 yards per rush and could be in for a long day if McCaffrey and Davis can work the middle with success.
Green Bay Cages the Cats
Detroit was able to hang with Green Bay last week in a game with a similar line, but there were some strange circumstances that kept the Lions in that game that I don't expect to continue. Green Bay wound up with an eleven-minute edge in time of possession and held Detroit to 51 rushing yards, but the Lions were able to keep the ball thanks to twelve Green Bay penalties. That was the second-highest total in the league last week and double what the Packers typically average, and I do not expect another high penalty total. Green Bay also made it through without allowing a sack or a turnover in what was a very cleanly executed gameplan. The potential return of Christian McCaffrey gives this game a little intrigue as he is one the premier playmakers in the league, but I do not see Carolina giving him the kind of touch volume it would take for him to have a significant impact overall. The weather forecast is near-freezing temps in Green Bay, but no precipitation, and that will allow Green Bay to throw the ball effectively. A bad weather scenario may have actually helped Carolina to a certain extent, and their passing game is much less vertical and less susceptible to poor conditions. It will be a quiet night in Lambeau without any fans, but it will be another multi-TD passing game for Rodgers, with the run game finishing off a 33-20 Packers win.
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RWE scraps Atlantic Array offshore wind farm in UK
Power Engineering International - Kelvin Ross - November 27, 2013
Offshore Wind UK
Ben Warren, environmental finance leader at consultants EY, said that some investors were wary of the U.K. because of the government's Electricity Market Reform, an overhaul of the electricity market that affects everything from nuclear to renewables. "Uncertainty surrounding the current energy framework in the U.K. is widening the time gap between investors announcing their intentions and taking action."
LONDON -- Germany's RWE has scrapped plans to build the 4 billion Atlantic Array offshore wind farm in Britain because of "market conditions and significant technical challenges."
These challenges are understood to relate to the seabed of the Bristol Channel, in southwest England, where the wind farm was to have been built.
Paul Cowling, director of offshore wind at RWE Innogy, said the decision was not "taken lightly, however given the technological challenges and market conditions, now is not the right time for RWE to continue to progress with this project." (Watch his explanation in the video clip below.) He said RWE would instead "focus on the other less technically challenging offshore projects within our extensive offshore pipeline of up to 5.2 GW" and added that "offshore wind remains one of the strategic objectives for RWE and the U.K. has a major role to play within our portfolio."
"The commercial reality means that in the current market conditions, overcoming the technical challenges within The Bristol Channel Zone would be uneconomic for RWE at this time," Cowling said.
The 220-turbine Atlantic Array... more [truncated due to possible copyright]
LONDON -- Germany's RWE has scrapped plans to build the £4 billion Atlantic Array offshore wind farm in Britain because of "market conditions and significant technical challenges."
The 220-turbine Atlantic Array was planned in an area of 200 square kilometers, about 16.5 km from the English coast and 22.5 km from the south Wales coast. Its proximity (13.5 km) to the Lundy Island nature reserve had generated strong opposition from environmentalists.
Ben Warren, environmental finance leader at consultants EY, said that some investors were wary of the U.K. because of the government's Electricity Market Reform, an overhaul of the electricity market that affects everything from nuclear to renewables.
"Uncertainty surrounding the current energy framework in the U.K. is widening the time gap between investors announcing their intentions and taking action. As a result, the sector, and offshore wind in particular, are left susceptible to that mood of uncertainty," he said. "What we see is a trend for developers to walk out of the U.K. market or push back investment decisions and primary funds for the construction of new renewable energy plants in the U.K. falling by 45 per cent between 2009 and 2012.
"If this trend continues, it could jeopardize billions worth of investment and thousands of much needed jobs."
Huub den Rooijen, head of offshore wind at The Crown Estate, took a more pragmatic view of the Atlantic Array decision: "Now that the industry has been developing projects for a number of years, there is a much deeper understanding of the characteristics of successful projects and we will see further attrition in the time to come."
He added that "paradoxically, this is a positive development, because it provides greater clarity to key stakeholders such as supply chain and consenting bodies, and brings greater focus to the investment opportunities."
Gordon Edge, director of policy at trade body RenewableUK, said: "Wind turbine technology is evolving extremely rapidly, so it's reasonable to expect that sites which aren't viable now will become so in the future. For example, a unique project to build an offshore wind farm with turbines on floating platforms in U.K. waters has just been announced. We're continually learning how best to harness some of the most powerful forces in nature, so that we can make a successful transition from fossil fuels to cost-effective low-carbon renewables."
Source: http://www.renewableenergyw...
https://www.windaction.org/posts/39172-rwe-scraps-atlantic-array-offshore-wind-farm-in-uk


Community policing helped homicides, shootings decline in two neighborhoods.
Anita Aydin (left) and Shawn Hudson (center) talk with Shawn Moore on N. 25th Street. Photo by Jabril Faraj.
Around dusk on a Thursday night in early August, a group of about 30 black men parade down the 4300 block of N. 25th Street in Garden Homes.
The goal of the group, comprised of Safe Zones ambassadors, members of Muhammad Mosque #3 — some in suit-and-tie and others sporting orange t-shirts emblazoned with the words "Milwaukee Peacemakers" — and employees of the City of Milwaukee Office of Violence Prevention (OVP), is to intervene in a dispute between neighbors. The situation, a territorial dispute between longtime residents and a family that recently moved into the neighborhood, had been growing slowly until it came to a head the night before when the back window of a maroon SUV was shattered by a gunshot, which ambassadors said was clearly a warning.
The men, accompanied by Common Council President Ashanti Hamilton, eventually gathered in front of one of the homes; Shawn Moore, a co-founder of the Safe Zones initiative, went to speak with the other party.
Monica Hunter, grandmother of the five boys whose family recently moved in, said when the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) was notified that their neighbor pulled out a gun days before, officers recommended that her daughter get a restraining order. Though police were on the scene immediately after the shooting the night before, Hunter said she didn't feel any safer. This night was different.
There will always be disagreements, conflicts and frustrating situations, according to Safe Zones co-founder Khalil Coleman. But he said the display that August night, and the many other mediations ambassadors engage in daily, establish the ability to talk through differences, and avert violence.
Hamilton said he was there to see ambassadors in action, and was impressed by what he saw. He called Safe Zones "an investment" and said he believes people can be inspired to take ownership of their communities, and help to make their neighborhood safer, without having to rely on the police.
Ambassadors stop at the intersection of N. 27th Street and W. Burleigh Street during a patrol. Photo by Jabril Faraj.
Earlier the same day in Garden Homes, Moore and a group of ambassadors strike up a conversation with a group of women on 25th Street who have lived in the neighborhood for years. They talk about the local corner store, undesirable adult activity at nearby Garden Homes Park and how police officers are largely inaccessible to them when they really need help.
Toni Eskridge has lived in the neighborhood for about 15 years, at three different houses on the same block. Eskridge recalled a recent instance when two women — a neighbor and someone she didn't know — got in a fight in front of her home. Her neighbor was being beaten, so she called the police. After waiting for a bit, she called back. According to Eskridge, it took about 45 minutes for a squad car to arrive.
Raquel Russell, 43, a Franklin Heights resident for more than 25 years, stands near a tree adorned with flowers, ribbons, teddy bears and pictures of her son Javontae Buford, 23, who was shot and killed in November 2015. Other young men, friends of Buford who Russell refers to as her children, mill about on the 2400 block of West Auer Avenue.
Russell lights up as a team of five or six Safe Zones ambassadors approach her. She uses words like "hope," "support" and "love" to describe their relationship.
"First of all, we embrace — we always hug — then, they say … 'What do you need? You need anything?'" said Russell.
But the conversation quickly turns. The street is alive with activity. Idling cars, bits of litter along the curb and young men, some with drinks, line the street. The mood appears cheerful.
"They come here to get together because of him (Buford), get together because this is their neighborhood," she said.
She said police officers need to "stop being so judgmental" and that there needs to be a better relationship between the area's residents and those who enforce the law.
A 40-year-old resident of Garden Homes who identified himself as "Preacher" said there needs to be a balance between enforcing the law and helping youth who may be part of the trouble find a more positive direction. But that balance, he added, doesn't exist.
Raquel Russell stands by the memorial for her son who was shot and killed in November 2015. Photo by Jabril Faraj.
The Milwaukee Police Department declined to comment for this story.
Russell is excited about the work Safe Zones is doing. She noted that though she loves her neighborhood it could be a little "better-kept," which, she adds, might change the perception. Still, Russell urged police, and others, to look a little deeper.
"[Just] because it looks a certain way doesn't mean it is a certain way," she said.
Since Safe Zones began in the summer of 2015, resources have been scarce. In 2015, Safe Zones received $50,000 in Community Block Grant funds to employ neighborhood ambassadors to de-escalate and prevent potential violence in Garden Homes. The group initially sought $300,000 to work in four neighborhoods.
Last year, Safe Zones received $75,000 from the City of Milwaukee, with an additional $37,500 coming from Milwaukee County, to expand operations to Franklin Heights. The 2017 city budget includes another $75,000. MPD, whose 2016 budget was 45 percent of the city's total budget, will receive $23 million more in 2017 than it did last year. According to Coleman, Safe Zones would be able to operate fully staffed zones in 20 neighborhoods for $5 million.
Hamilton, the alderman who has sponsored the initiative, did not respond to requests for comment regarding funding.
The initiative, which emerged from demonstrations supporting Dontre Hamilton after his death in 2014 at the hands of a Milwaukee police officer, is largely based on the Cure Violence model, which views violence as a public health issue. Earlier this year, representatives from Cure Violence gave a presentation in Milwaukee on the model and contributed to the weeklong training ambassadors received.
A September 2016 report by Cure Violence, which was consistent with multiple independent evaluations, showed that funding cuts to the CeaseFire program are correlated with substantial increases in violence. The Cure Violence model is known as CeaseFire in Chicago. August 2016, Chicago's deadliest month in almost 20 years, came only 16 months after CeaseFire funding was suspended by the State of Illinois in March 2015, after which staffing levels dropped dramatically. The report estimated a citywide implementation of CeaseFire could save more than $2 billion that is spent on the aftermath of untreated violence.
The model, similar to Cure Violence, is to employ people who may have a record, or who have been affected by violence, and are from the neighborhood where they work. Because of the limited funds, however, Safe Zones has only operated for nine of the last 19 months.
The bright yellow shirts ambassadors wear while on the clock make them visible, and the fondness of neighbors toward them is clear. As the group patrols on a night in early September, ambassadors receive hellos, handshakes, hugs and even the occasional honk of a car horn.
"We've just been bonding with the neighborhood and bonding as a team. This job is about building relationships, and that's what we do," said Terrence Holmes, an ambassador in Franklin Heights.
Holmes, 37, is respected among the group, which includes two 18-year-olds. Experienced as a cement finisher, Holmes is studying masonry. Despite not knowing how long Safe Zones will operate, he chooses to work as an ambassador.
The ambassadors all say they love their jobs. And, for most, it's personal in some way. Some have lost friends and family to violence. Others were once part of the problem and have found a different direction.
According to Coleman, the consistency of being there every day and building relationships gives residents, and ambassadors, hope and a sense of belonging.
Summone Staples, 18, is one of the youngest ambassadors. After her mother passed, she developed a short temper and would start fights regularly. Staples said she wanted to change but didn't have an outlet. Then, at the beginning of the summer, her brother told her about Safe Zones and handed her an application.
According to data from the city Office of Management Analysis and Planning, between April and September, homicides in Garden House and Franklin Heights dropped 66 percent from 2015 to 2016, with none reported while ambassadors were on the street. Non-fatal shootings were down 40 percent, from 20 to 12, over that same period.
From mid-July through the end of August, ambassadors documented more than 430 interactions with individuals, 16 conflicts that were interrupted and 10 successful mediations.
Great story. Sounds like a program that deserves support.


Closer Look at the Nike Air Max 2016 "Pixel"
The Nike Air Max gets another upgrade for 2016. As the new year is approaching, we get a preview of the new Nike Air Max 2016. The "Pixel" is the first colorway to surface, but expect more colorways to begin popping up.
The Nike Air Max 2016 takes on a FB style, with the Nike swoosh branding on the forefoot. The front of the "Pixel" colorway features navy blue and as you move towards the heel, the colors "Pixile" onto a red hue. Blue appear on the sole and air unit as well as on the Flywire, laces, and tongue branding.
The Nike Air Max 2016 "Pixel" is scheduled to hit retailers on December 31st, 2015. Who will be grabbing a pair?


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Q: Get length of string before Dot "." How can I get the number of characters before a dot in a string in Excel (VBA)?
For example:
213123.2321321 would become 6 and 33.2312312 would be 2.
I need it to change how my code works, and I think this should be fairly easy to do.
More Info:
What I want to do is this:

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*If I have 123.123, I want it to become 0.123123

*If it's 1.23123, I want it to become 0.0123123

*and if it´s 4 digits, 1111.123123, then 1.111123123

A: You can use Int to get the integer part of a number and then use Len to count how many digits.
Practical example:
Function ChangeNumber(n As Double)
    Select Case VBA.Len(Int(n))
        Case 1: ChangeNumber = n / 100
        Case 2, 3, 4: ChangeNumber = n / 1000
        Case Is > 4: ChangeNumber = n / 10000
    End Select
End Function

Sub Test()
    Debug.Print ChangeNumber(123.123) //Prints 0.123123
    Debug.Print ChangeNumber(1.23123) //Prints 0.0123123
    Debug.Print ChangeNumber(1111.123123) //Prints 1.111123123
End Sub

You can amend the Case statement to suit your needs i.e. whether to divide by 100, 1000, 10000 or whatever you choose.


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Gluten-Free Road Trip: What Happens in Vegas ...
Though we usually head to Florida between Christmas and New Year's Day with our boys, this time around we opted for something different - going west. It had been more than 15 years since my wife and I were last in Las Vegas and much has changed since then. This time around, however, we had to be mindful of gluten-free dining options. I'm happy to report that both on and off the Strip, Sin City has many accommodating restaurants.
Topgolf (above) and M&M World are among the non-gambling
attractions on the Las Vegas Strip
While gambling and Vegas go hand in hand, you don't have to be a high roller to enjoy the area's many activities and sights. We used one of the many hotels on the Strip - Mandalay Bay at the southern end - as the base for our week-long stay. Since we were flying to and from the East Coast, two days were effectively for travel, leaving us with five full days to sight-see. We flew back on New Year's Eve, but as you can imagine, Las Vegas is a popular draw for holiday revelers, so the city was crowded throughout the week. (Artists as varied as Drake, Bruno Mars, Elton John and Sting were performing in town on the 31st.) During the week, we saw the always-entertaining comedy-magic act Penn & Teller (who are in residence at the Rio), America's Got Talent-winning illusionist Mat Franco (at the Linq) and the incomparable Jerry Seinfeld at one of his two shows at Caesars Palace, whose set was as funny as ever. Must-see Strip attractions include the Mirage volcano, the Bellagio fountains, the gondola rides at the Venetian's Grand Canal Shoppes, M&M World and the Coca-Cola store (where you can sample soda flavors from around the world), the Stratosphere tower, and the Topgolf golf entertainment complex at the MGM Grand (there's one opening in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey in late 2017; gluten-free flatbreads and burger buns are on the menu).
Winter in Utah's Zion National Park
We alternated our days between spending time in Las Vegas proper and taking road trips to explore the surrounding area. If you plan to visit places away from the Strip during your stay, it's worth your while to rent a car compared to the cost of paying for a tour, particularly for more than two people - the drives themselves are priceless. On one of the days, I made the nearly three-hour, one way trek though Nevada and Arizona to Utah's Zion National Park - a breathtaking sight, especially in the winter.
The gateway to Zion National Park is a small Utah town called Springdale. We stopped for lunch at Cafe Soleil, where our son had the Southwest Chicken Salad. Gluten-free options are noted on the menu and there were pre-packaged snacks and cookies available.
Within an hour's drive from Las Vegas is the Hoover Dam (above)
and Valley of Fire State Park
Our other - shorter - road trip was to the majestic Hoover Dam, traversing back alongside Lake Mead and through Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park, where we walked several trails.
We found it easy to dine gluten free at the Strip hotels we visited. At Mandalay Bay, our waiter at the SeaBreeze Cafe was diligent about making sure our son's breakfast (eggs, potatoes and bacon) were made separately. For dinner one evening, the chef at Lupo by Wolfgang Puck prepared his gluten-free spaghetti in a clean pot with fresh water and tossed it with a Bolognese sauce. Though we didn't get to many of the other restaurants at Mandalay Bay, most can accommodate and note gluten-free options on their menus, including Border Grill, Fleur by Hubert Keller and House of Blues.
The Shoppes at Mandalay Place have gluten-free-friendly
restaurants that include Burger Bar (above) and Rick Moonen
RM Seafood
At the adjoining Shoppes at Mandalay Place, our older son enjoyed a delicious burger (with gluten-free bun), separately prepared steak fries and a shake at Burger Bar. For dessert on another evening, we went to Rick Moonen's RM Seafood for "Rick's Tasting Game," 16 flavors of ice cream and sorbet served blind. (We asked to make sure that all flavors were gluten free.) We were given a sheet to write down our guesses and if we got all correct, the dessert would be on the house. Though we only got about half right, we had a fun time trying them all. RM Seafood lists gluten-free options on the lunch and dinner menus.
Lupo by Wolfgang Puck (above) and El Segundo Sol are
among Las Vegas's many gluten-free-friendly
The Lettuce Entertain You chain of restaurants out of Chicago has long had a reputation of being gluten-free-friendly, and the Vegas outposts we went to were no exception. My wife commented that the chicken fajitas she had for lunch at El Segundo Sol were the best she'd ever had. We took advantage of some refills of the unlimited tortilla chips (prepared in a dedicated fryer) and our older son had a chicken quesadilla made with grilled corn tortillas. On the night my wife went to see the Michael Jackson-themed Cirque de Soleil show (which she highly recommends), the boys and I ate at Mon Ami Gabi, the chain's French bistro at the Paris Hotel. (There are East Coast locations in Bethesda, Maryland and Reston, Virginia.) Not only did the restaurant bring out warm gluten-free bread for our older son, he had French onion soup with gluten-free croutons for the first time as the prelude to a wonderful salmon entree.
Incidentally, we ended up at Mon Ami Gabi because our original plans were scuttled. We had a reservation at Brooklyn Bowl at The Linq Promenade but had to cancel after after there was a gas outage in the shopping complex. We were looking forward to some gluten-free fried chicken (prepared in a dedicated fryer) but will have to wait for next time - or at least until we get to the original location in Brooklyn.
We did try one hotel buffet for breakfast, the aptly named MORE at the Luxor. The chef came out to speak with us about safe options and several items were clearly labeled gluten free. However, the food was fair at best and not worth the $20 per person that would have been better spent elsewhere.
We also dined at a couple of spots with New York connections. Although the original Carnegie Deli in New York City just served its last pastrami sandwich at the end of 2016, a subsidiary remains open at the Mirage, where our son had corned beef sans bread with a side of cole slaw. He had an ahi tuna salad and a banana split at the Las Vegas outpost of Manhattan coffee shop Serendipity 3, which closed since the time of our visit.
The gluten-free crepes at Crepe Expectations are worth
a drive off the Las Vegas Strip.
Off the Strip, popular West Coast fast-foodery In-N-Out was careful to prepare protein-style burgers and fries. One morning, our son had his first crepe - made with gluten-free batter, Nutella, bananas and strawberries - at Crepe Expectations. The staff uses one of the griddles for gluten-free crepes and cleans it thoroughly when not in use exclusively for them.
Although the Joseph James Brewing Company in nearby Henderson does not have a taproom or offer tours, visitors can find the brewery's gluten-free Fox Tail Pale Ale sold in local bars, markets and liquor stores. The beer, sold in cans as a four-pack, is made with organic rice as a base.
You can find more Las Vegas restaurant recommendations posted at Gluten Free in Las Vegas, where Vegas resident Lisa writes about her favorites, and at Alexis's Gluten Free Adventures.
Labels: beers, Las Vegas, Nevada, restaurants, Road Trip, Utah
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