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California Attorney General Kamala Harris, California Sen. Kamala Harris, Oil trains, Valero Benicia Refinery, Valero Crude By Rail
Kamala Harris sent 2 important letters to the City of Benicia
August 12, 2020 Roger Straw
By Roger Straw, August 11, 2020
Future Vice President Kamala Harris remembered in Benicia for her strong support
Kamala Harris, former California Attorney General and current Vice Presidential running mate for Joe Biden
Joe Biden's nominee for Vice President, California Senator Kamala Harris, has a remarkable connection for many of us here in Benicia. Her support for a safe and healthy world was incredibly important in the 2016 defeat of Valero Benicia's dirty and dangerous oil train proposal. The story should be told now, to honor Harris' candidacy and to encourage support for a Biden/Harris ticket among all who care about clean air, land and water.
During our 3½ year battle to defeat Valero Benicia's Crude By Rail proposal, then California Attorney General Kamala Harris wrote two letters challenging Valero's project and the City of Benicia's environmental review. Her support was critical in support of local organizing efforts by Benicians for a Safe and Healthy Community and others far and wide.
Harris' first letter came on October 2, 2014. The letter is summarized and linked here:
CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL LETTER CRITICAL OF VALERO DEIR
OCTOBER 8, 2014, Summary, from p. 2: Unfortunately, the DEIR for this Project fails to properly account for many of the Project's potentially significant impacts pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act(CEQA). Specifically, the DEIR: 1. … Continue reading California Attorney General letter critical of Valero DEIR→
Harris' support added incalculable weight to the credibility of local and regional organizers, and caught the attention of news agencies across the country:
BLOOMBERG: CALIFORNIA AG REJECTS TRADE-SECRET CLAIMS FOR CRUDE-BY-RAIL
OCTOBER 22, 2014, Repost from Bloomberg News By Victoria Slind-Flor – California Attorney General Kamala Harris expressed reservations about the trade-secret provisions in a proposal for a crude-by-rail project in Benicia, California. In a letter to the city's Community Development Department, she said the draft environmental impact report for … Continue reading Bloomberg: California AG Rejects Trade-Secret Claims for Crude-by-Rail→
RAILROADS FILE SUIT AGAINST STATE OF CALIFORNIA
OCTOBER 9, 2014, Repost from The Sacramento Bee – By Tony Bizjak and Curtis Tate – The battle over crude oil trains in California intensified this week, reaching into the legal sphere with potential national repercussions. The state's … Continue reading Railroads file suit against state of California→
A year and a half later, on April 14, 2016, Harris sent a second letter asserting that Benicia's Planning Commission and City Council have every right to deny a land use permit for Valero's proposed Crude by Rail offloading rack. I highlighted her convincing prosecutorial language in my headline:
CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL: "FOR BENICIA TO TURN A BLIND EYE…"
APRIL 15, 2016, By Roger Straw – California Attorney General Kamala Harris: letter disagrees with City of Benicia staff, consultants and Valero Today the City of Benicia received a letter from California Attorney General Kamala Harris disagreeing with City staff, consultants and Valero Refinery. The letter asserts that Benicia's Planning Commission and City Council have every right to deny a … Continue reading CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL: "For Benicia to turn a blind eye…"→
And again, her challenge was picked up by media outlets far and wide. A sampling:
EAST BAY EXPRESS: ATTORNEY GENERAL HARRIS: BENICIA HAS POWER TO REJECT OIL FACILITY
APRIL 15, 2016, By Jean Tepperman – In a strongly-worded letter sent Thursday to City of Benicia officials, California Deputy Attorney General Scott J. Lichtig wrote that Valero, the City of Benicia's planning staff, and an outside attorney advising the … Continue reading EAST BAY EXPRESS: Attorney General Harris: Benicia Has Power to Reject Oil Facility→
SACRAMENTO BEE: CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL KAMALA HARRIS CHALLENGES BENICIA OIL PLAN
APRIL 14, 2016, By Tony Bizjak – HIGHLIGHTS: • Harris said Benicia has the right to say no, is not pre-empted by federal law • Two 50-car oil trains would travel daily through downtown Sacramento • Valero spokesman: 'We remain confident … Continue reading SACRAMENTO BEE: California Attorney General Kamala Harris challenges Benicia oil plan→
Finally… Benicia wasn't the only recipient of Harris' environmental support during those days. See also…
DIANE BAILEY: CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL LETTER, PROTESTS IN PITTSBURG 1/21/14
JANUARY 18, 2014, Repost from Diane Bailey's blog, Switchboard, Natural Resources Defense Council California Attorney General Tells Major Oil Terminal Developer, WesPac, to Hold Up in Pittsburg Posted January 17, 2014 by Diane Bailey in Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil The California Attorney General, Kamala D. Harris, sent a stark letter to the City of Pittsburg this week warning of … Continue reading Diane Bailey: California Attorney General Letter, Protests in Pittsburg 1/21/14→
For a trip down memory lane, see my permanent archive: The successful effort to STOP oil trains in Benicia, California
(beniciaindependent.com/crude-by-rail-archive/)
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Benicia City Council to consider findings for FINAL denial of Valero CBR
October 4, 2016 Roger Straw
By Roger Straw, October 4, 2014
Benicia City staff released the AGENDA for the October 4 City Council meeting, including an important staff report, CONFIRMATION OF THE RESOLUTION TO DENY THE USE PERMIT FOR THE VALERO CRUDE BY RAIL PROJECT.
At the September 20, 2016 City Council meeting, the Council denied the use permit for the Valero Crude By Rail project and requested a revised resolution be brought back for final approval at the October 4th Council meeting. Per the Council's direction, the proposed resolution incorporates some General Plan policies as well as issues raised by the state Attorney General, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and Caltrans.
The agenda also included the following important documents:
The REVISED Resolution of the City Council of the City of Benicia Denying a Use Permit for the Valero Crude By Rail Project (10-04-16)
A REDLINE version of the Resolution to Deny, showing all changes from the draft submitted to Council on 9/20/16
Various attachments – letters submitted previously for the record by the California Attorney General, Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). (Be patient – a very large download.)
A 9/28/16 letter from the law firm Adams Broadwell Joseph & Cardozo offering proposed findings for denial of the permit. Along with Adams Broadwell, the letter was submitted by attorneys representing Natural Resources Defense Council, Center for Biological Diversity, Communities for a Better Environment and the Sierra Club, STAND, San Francisco Bay Keeper and Benicians For a Safe and Healthy Community.
It will be an important Council meeting tonight. Plan to attend if you can – 7pm in Council Chambers, 250 East L Street, Benicia.
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DAVIS ENTERPRISE: Benicia hears oil-train concerns from Davisites
April 6, 2016 Roger Straw
Repost from the Davis Enterprise
[Editor: I know Lynne as a strong advocate against Valero's Crude By Rail proposal. Her fair-minded coverage of both sides of the debate in this article is amazing and admirable. A good overview of the hearing on Monday. – RS]
Benicia hears oil-train concerns from Davisites
By Lynne Nittler, April 06, 2016
BENICIA — Davis was well-represented at a Benicia City Council hearing Monday for Valero Oil's crude-by-rail project. Of the approximately 48 people who spoke, 12 came from Davis or Dixon, and another six were from Sacramento.
The speakers voiced their opposition to the oil company's proposal to expand its refinery and accept 100 rail cars daily full of North American crude oil on a route that comes directly through downtown Davis.
The hearing continues with more public testimony tonight plus April 18 and 19 at the City Chambers in Benicia.
The evening began with a rally of those opposed to the project counter-balanced by a gathering of Valero workers and supporters of the project. A busload of 23 people from Sacramento stopped to pick up seven more in Davis, arriving just as the hearing began in the packed chambers.
Officials were allowed to speak first, beginning with Yolo County Supervisor Don Saylor, who also represented the Sacramento Area Council of Governments. He traced Yolo County's effort over the past three years to communicate the serious safety concerns and to offer possible mitigation measures that were acknowledged but not addressed in the EIR.
He said 500,000 of the 2.4 million residents in the SACOG area — the counties of Yolo, Sacramento, Sutter, Yuba, Placer and El Dorado — live in the blast zone of the railroads, i.e., within a quarter-mile radius of the tracks. Of those, 260,000 are residents, 200,000 work in the area and 28,000 are students.
While acknowledging that Valero and its jobs are important, Saylor emphasized that this project "requires a shared commitment to protecting public safety." He said the project should not be approved until the safety concerns are resolved.
Matt Jones of the Yolo Solano Air Quality Management District represented all seven districts that have responded jointly in writing to three versions of the environmental impact report for the Valero project. He said the EIR documents the impacts correctly, but fails to offer or respond to any mitigations, even when the Sacramento Metropolitan AQMD offered staff time to work out an off-site mitigation plan.
Jones reminded the Benicia council that San Luis Obispo County is examining a similar crude-by-rail proposal, and Phillips 66 has voluntarily offered such off-site mitigations.
Eric Lee, a city of Davis planner, made a plea for Benicia council members to uphold the decision of their Planning Commission, which voted on Feb. 11 not to certify the final environmental impact report and denied Valero's permit.
He added that Davis believes that legally, the local jurisdictions are not pre-empted by federal rail regulations and that up-rail cities are entitled to have their comments addressed in the EIR.
He concluded by saying that the city of Benicia has a legal obligation to safeguard the public.
"I continue to be concerned about the Valero crude-by-rail project regarding the significant air quality impact," state Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, wrote in a letter to the Benicia council, read by her representative, Alex Pader. Wolk recommended specific steps, and if said they cannot be met, then the project should not move forward.
She reminded the council members that her own obligation is to protect the public from harm, which she has done with two pieces of legislation on oil-train safety, and said their obligation to safeguard the public is no less.
Marilyn Bardet, spokeswoman for Benicians for a Safe and Healthy Community, encouraged the council members to use their ethical judgment, and read all the material from the past years, plus what is pouring in now, to inform themselves at this crucial juncture in the decision-making process. She urged them to uphold the decision of the Planning Commission.
After a break, a mix of speakers pro (12) and con (16) spoke for up to five minutes each.
One Valero proponent said America has a tremendous thirst for oil; therefore, don't we have a responsibility to produce it?
Jasmine Powell, a resident of Benicia, said Valero never risks its outstanding safety record as indicated by its high OSHA ratings.
Michael Wolfe, senior vice president of an engineering services firm, said California crude is increasingly scarce and Alaskan crude is running out as well. Valero is seeking to purchase North American oil to avoid importing more foreign oil. California already imports more foreign crude than any other state, Wolfe said.
Seven other Valero workers and supporters spoke of their trust in Valero's high safety standards.
On the other side, Frances Burke of Davis spoke of the Planning Commission's work as "epic," and made an eloquent plea for the up-rail communities not to be dismissed as collateral damage.
Don Mooney , an environmental lawyer from Davis, said in his 25 years in environmental law, he had not seen a case with more uniform opposition, where so many have stood opposed for the same reasons.
Katherine Black simply read the list of officials and organizations opposing the project for five minutes, including all seven air quality management districts, all 22 cities and six counties who belong to SACOG, the California Office of Spill Prevention and Response and the California attorney general.
The Benicia City Council will hear more testimony tonight.
California Attorney General Kamala HarrisCalifornia Office of Spill Prevention and ResponseEl Dorado County CAPlacer County CASacramento County CASutter County CAYolo County CAYolo-Solano Air Quality Management DistrictYuba County CA
Air Quality, Benicia City Council, Benicia Industrial Park, Benicia Planning Commission, CPC-1232, Crude By Rail, Derailment, Explosion, Fossil fuels, Global warming, Greenhouse gas emissions, Oil spill, Revised Draft EIR (RDEIR), Significant and unavoidable risks, Tank car design, Valero Crude By Rail
OPEN LETTER: Oppose Valero Crude By Rail
October 12, 2015 Roger Straw
Letter received by email from the author, Lawrence (Larnie) Reid Fox
To the Benicia City Planning Commission and City Council:
By Larnie Fox, October 12, 2015
I'm writing to request that you oppose Valero's Crude Oil by Rail project.
The Revised Draft EIR states that:
Potential train derailment would result in significant and unavoidable adverse effects to people and secondary effects to biological, cultural, and hydrological resources, and geology.
Impacts to air quality would be significant and unavoidable because the Project would contribute to an existing or projected air quality violation and result in a cumulatively considerable increase in ozone precursor emissions.
Impacts to greenhouse gas emissions would be significant and unavoidable because the Project would generate significant levels of GHG and conflict with plans adopted for reducing GHG emissions.
What more do you need to know?
There have been more crude-by-rail explosions and spills in the last two years than in the previous 40 years. The new crudes are demonstrably more hazardous than the crudes that have been processed in our community in the past, and have led to many horrendous accidents in other parts of North America. Accidents can and will happen.
The Revised Draft EIR states that Valero proposes to use non-jacketed Casualty Prevention Circular (CPC)-1232-compliant tank cars.
The National Transportation Safety Board has said that the CPC-1232 standard is only a minimal improvement over the older tank DOT-111s. NTSB officials say they are "not convinced that these modifications offer significant safety improvements."
There is overwhelming and passionate opposition to the project here in Benicia. There is also strong opposition from hundreds of individuals who live up-rail and from all over our state, and also from government entities including the Sacramento Area Council of Governments and our state's Attorney General.
If there is a spill or an explosion and fire, I for one, do not want my community to be culpable. We need to show the state and the world that we stand for safety and environmental responsibility, even if it cuts into corporate profits and tax revenues.
The bottom line is that fossil fuels are going away, sooner or later, and Benicia will need to adapt, sooner or later. We need to take a longer-term and wider-scope view of the issue. We may reap short-term local gains by approving this project, but the cost is unacceptably high. In doing so, we would be putting our Industrial Park at risk, and inconveniencing them with the long trains. This area should be the economic engine for the next 100 years. We would be ignoring the legitimate concerns of communities up-rail from us. We would be responsible for putting environmentally sensitive areas at risk. We would be contributing to global warming and thus sea level rise, which poses a clear threat to our community and the rest of the world as well. We would be contributing to decimation of the old-growth forests in Northern Canada.
It's up to us to guard our own welfare, and also, as a City, to be responsible citizens of California, the USA and our fragile planet.
Lawrence (Larnie) Reid Fox
Air QualityBenicia City CouncilBenicia Industrial ParkBenicia Planning CommissionCalifornia Attorney General Kamala HarrisCPC-1232Crude by RailDerailmentexplosionFossil FuelsGlobal warmingGreenhouse gas emissionsoil spillRevised Draft EIR (RDEIR)Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG)Significant and unavoidable risksTank car designValero Crude by Rail


I've been riding the shuttle (or fx, as most people call it) for more than a year. I spend an average of 2-3 hours in the shuttle daily. And if I'm not sleeping (which has become a talent), I spend my time observing commuters.
Some commuters are funny but some are just annoying. And worst, they can drive you crazy.
- She wants the same seat every time. She would rather wait for another shuttle than sit anywhere else. Though another passenger will explain 'sa malapit lang po ako', she would say: 'sige lang. kahit malapit ka lang'.
I don't know if she'll turn into a stone if she sits somewhere else, I guess I have to find out.
- He thinks the shuttle is one big bedroom and his co-passengers are pillows. Too bad if he sits besides you, and worse, if he drools while he's sleeping. Worst, if he snores.
- She puts on her earphones as soon as she gets on the shuttle. She is momentarily deaf. She can also be a sleepyhead or sleepyhead extreme at the same time.
- This is either a passenger who isn't exactly 'passenger-sized' or a passenger who has too many bags. Either of these persons won't have the heart of paying for more than one. The non-passenger sized person assumes that the other passengers are thin enough so she could fit in. The passenger who has too many bags seems to assume that the other passengers do not mind being squished by her bags, and mind you, she paid the same fare as yours.
I was victimized by this once, I was only half-sitting, I used my other leg for support. Once the shuttle arrived at the terminal, I gave her my murderous look.hahaha!
Note: this is not to offend, but please have the heart of paying the right amount. You know what I mean.
- He doesn't have a 100-peso bill or any amount below 500 and 1000 pesos. He is far too rich to have smaller bills. He doesn't care if the whole terminal would have a hard time giving him change for the 1000-peso bill he paid. The fare is just 50 pesos.
- No, she's doesn't look like a penguin. But she's cannot understand why she can't have the aircon all to herself. It seems like she doesn't realize that this is a tropical country, and non-summer days can also be as hot as hell. She just wants the aircon to be at its maximum and the air vents toward her--only.
- Be patient. If the other passenger thinks she's Mariah Carey (read: diva), let her be. Take it as a challenge.
- Be strategic. If you are a sleepyhead, try to sit where you will not disturb the other passengers. If you can, sleep at home.
- Simple tip: have your bills changed into smaller bills at the bank after you withdraw from the ATM. This is a tip from a good friend. I also practice this.
- Be observant. Be responsible for your belongings.
I had an entry like this one before haha but mine was about jeepney passengers...mas diverse ang mga tao kasi doon hehe.
LOl at rich kid haha 1k bill?he should've gotten a cab na lang.
Hi Hokage! Me too, I'm a music lover.hahaha!
Hi Madie! Can you send me the link?
Yeah, I have encountered Rich Kids many times. as in hindi sila nagpapabarya muna. Kawawa yung driver minsan.
You've been a keen observer. I can't wait you blogging about eksena naman sa jeepney.
Nakakainis yung mga penguins feeling nila sila lang anak ng Diyos hahahaha I've encountered those types many times.
Annoying, right? :) Minsan hindi nila maintindihan na kaaandar lang ng sasakyan kaya mainit pa yung aircon.


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how to make sound loop louder than 1.0?
Asked by 6b61,
Madelaine McMasters
Nefarious Barbarian
Hi 6b,
1.0 is as loud as you can go. There is a viewer setting that can reduce the roll-off rate as you move away from the sound source, but that's an entirely local effect. That setting is called "AudioLevelRolloff" and is available via Debug Settings in the Advanced Menu. You can get to it more directly in Firestorm on the Sound & Media -> Medial tab of Preferences.
There's nothing you can do to make your sound source louder to others. And that might be a good thing.
;-).
ETA: I'll add to Rolig's suggestion to make the sound louder via a tool like Audacity. Most audio tools have a "normalize" function somewhere, which amplifies the entire sound so that the loudest portion is (a specified amount) below clipping. Use that. You could also try "compressing" the sound a bit. That will bring up the quiet passages in a clip without clipping the loud parts (which are effectively compressed). That technique might make your sound "feel" even louder.
You really can't. The maximum volume is determined by the loudness the uploaded sound file had. If you made the sound, put it back in Audacity and amplify the sound so that it's almost painful (but not clipping unnecessarily) and then upload it again. If it's not your sound, you don't have much choice. You can try playing the sound from several prims but it doesn't take much for them to be out of sync and terrible, even if you have them scripted with llLoopSoundMaster and llLoopSoundSlave.
The only other thing you can do is play the sound through a HUD. You'll get a MUCH louder sound that way, but the only person who will hear it is the person wearing the HUD.

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We are based in London, but are available to record in any UK venue, or outside the UK by arrangement.
Do you manufacture CDs / distribute recordings?
No, we are not a record label, but can advise on possibilities. We provide masters to record labels and for other distribution formats.
Costs vary according to the size of the project, location, and type of ensemble – we will provide you with an all-inclusive quotation for the project. You can view our current fees guide here.
What does the quoted price include?
The price includes a recording engineer and (usually) a producer for your recording sessions, followed by editing and post-production to soundfiles to the specification required. This includes up to three rounds of edits, which will be provided to you for comment at each stage, so that we can get a final product that you are happy with. Recording and editing only (if you are providing a producer), and live recording arrangements are also available – please contact us for details.
Do you provide a recording venue?
We do not directly provide a venue, but we have relationships with suitable venues, including harpsichord and piano (period and modern), which can be hired at reasonable cost.
What is not included in the price?
The price does not include the venue, CD manufacturing, artwork, or distribution – although we can advise on possibilities for all of these. It also does not include additional recording sessions beyond the expected number, or further editing beyond the three that are included – although small final tweaks are free. Overruns are rare, and we will let you know in advance the cost of an extra session or edit.
Generally, a CD's worth of material can be recorded over three full days, each consisting of two three-hour sessions – so about 10 to 12 minutes per 3-hour session. Of course this varies with the size of the ensemble, the repertoire, and the venue (for example, if a venue is susceptible to external noise, the recording might take longer; very familiar solo repertoire may take less time). We will then normally provide the first edits within three weeks. We can also do smaller or larger projects, or projects where the sessions are spread out or in different locations – contact us for details.
What equipment do you use?
We use mostly Schoeps and Neumann microphones with RME preamplifiers.
Do you offer video recording?
We offer video recording of recording sessions with up to three static camera angles (using Blackmagic cinema cameras), synced and edited to the audio. You can see an example here. We can also recommend specialist videographers if your video requirements are more sophisticated or artistic, or if you wish to film a live concert.
Can you provide Apple Digital Master files?
Yes. John Croft is recognised by Apple as an Apple Digital Master Provider.
Can you provide Dolby Atmos / Apple Spatial Audio versions?
Yes. Atmos versions can be prepared and mastered for submission alongside the standard stereo versions. These mixes are checked in a fully equipped Atmos 7.1.4 studio calibrated by Dolby.
Can you create a Dolby Atmos version of an album that has already been recorded?
Yes. Best results will be obtained if the complete multitracks from the original recording are provided. The final stereo master will also be needed if the stereo version has already been released.
Can you improve an existing recording?
In many cases, yes – we can remove both constant background noise and individual noises, improve the overall sound quality, and to some extent improve the presence of a too-distant live recording – please contact us for details.


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Q: How to load page based on JQuery dropdownlist value I've got a ASPX webpage that I'm building to generate reports based on filter criteria's. I've got a jqxwidget that I use to get my dropdown list, which gets it's values from a var I've created:
var sourceRptType = [
            { value: '0', label: 'Hours & Labour Cost By Employee' },
            { value: '1', label: 'Hours & Labour Cost By Project' },
            { value: '2', label: 'Premiums & Allowances By Employee' },
            { value: '3', label: 'Premiums & Allowances By Project' },
            { value: '4', label: 'Daily Labour Costs & Allowances By Employee' },
            { value: '5', label: 'Daily Labour Costs & Allowances - Raw Data' },
            { value: '6', label: 'Daily Labour Costs & Allowances By Employee w/ Premiums' },
            { value: '7', label: 'Daily Labour Costs & Allowances By Employee w/ Allowance Breakout' },
            { value: '8', label: 'Daily Labour Costs & Allowances w/ Premiums - Raw Data' },
        ];

I want my button to load a webpage based on the value selected above. How can I get my button to load the selected dropdownlist value?

A: You did share the HTML output or mention the select element ID but I guess it to be report_type and let's say you have a table with ID report_table where the report data will be displayed.
$('select').first().on( 'change', function() {
    // get the report ID
    var reportID = $(this).val();

    // pass that to your API endpoint or any file to process your request
    // via AJAX
    $.ajax({
        url: 'someFile.asp',
        data: {
            report: reportID
        },
        success: function( response ) {
            // let's suppose your response is in JSON

            // target table
            var table = $('#reports_table');

            // insert the data
            response.each(function( index, row ){
                table.append('
' + row.title + '
');
                // depends on your data but should not be hard to guess
            })
        }
    })
} );

Note: The code above is not tested and might have some errors and may vary depending on your data and environment.
Let me know if it helps and if you need further assistance.

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Recharge Program/
On January 2, 2003, the Central Arizona Project (CAP) began delivering water to the Hieroglyphic Mountains Recharge Project (HMRP). The direct recharge facility is located in the West Salt River Sub-basin of the Phoenix AMA, west of the intersection of 163rd Avenue and the CAP canal. The project has an annual permitted recharge capacity of 35,000 acre-feet (AF) per year. The project was developed and constructed using State Demonstration Project funds.
HMRP consists of three basins that cover approximately 38 acres along a one-mile stretch of the CAP right-of-way. The basins are divided into a total of seven cells with each cell capable of being operated individually. Water is diverted from the CAP canal to the project through a pump station. The pump station consists of four electric turbine pumps that can deliver up to 25 cubic feet per second (cfs) each. The flow is measured by an acoustic flow meter with an accuracy of +/- 0.5%.
Initial deliveries to the project, January 2, 2003 (Basin 2B)
Currently water is being stored for the Arizona Water Banking Authority and the Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District. The cities of Goodyear and Peoria have entered into water storage agreements at this facility for the future.
Project Facts
Permit Capacity: 35,000 AF per year for 20 years
Cost: $5.47 million
Volume Stored Through April 2004: 30,208 AF
Basins: Three basins, divided into 7 cells, totaling 38 acres
Location: T5N, R2W, Section 23 and 24 South ½
Project Operational: January 2003
Operational Delivery Capacity: 50 cfs
Facility Components
HMRP is composed of three basins, divided into seven individual cells. The cells range in size from 1.8 to 8.4 acres, for a total of approximately 38 acres of recharge basins. The water is pumped from the CAP canal using four electric turbine pumps rated at 25 cfs each. The deliveries average 40 to 45 cfs; therefore, only two pumps are used for deliveries with the other two ready as back-ups. The pumps are housed in individual sound reducing cabinets to protect the nearby neighbors.
Pump station at HMRP
The pumps are manifolded into a 42-inch pipeline with an acoustic flowmeter recording the flows every 15 minutes. Water is delivered to each basin through an upturned pipe with an apron of riprap to act as an energy dissipater. Flows to the individual cells are not measured. Pressure transducers installed in stilling wells record the water level in each cell. The normal operating level is less than 2 feet.
Inlet pipe with riprap and the basin stilling
Data is collected for the amount of water pumped, water levels in each basin, and pump status for each pump. Geomation Measurement and Control Systems provide remote monitoring and control for the facility. The data is relayed to CAP Headquarters through the existing fiber optic line where it is displayed in real time.
HMRP is located southwest of the Hieroglyphic Mountains in the West Salt River Valley Sub-Basin of the Phoenix AMA. The mountains are composed of Tertiary and Cretaceous intrusive and Proterozoic metamorphic rocks, with minor Tertiary volcanics. The project is located in the Basin and Range Physiographic province.
The surficial geology maps prepared by the Arizona Geological Survey classify the site as alluvial fan deposits of Holocene age. The surface deposits form a broad and gently sloping plain with a dendritic drainage pattern. HMRP is unique within the CAP recharge facilities in that it is not built near a stream channel; rather it is constructed on alluvial fan deposits near the margin of the Salt River Valley alluvial basin.
View of the alluvial fan with the Hieroglyphic
Mountains in the background
The subsurface hydrogeology in the West Salt River Basin has been subdivided into three hydrogeologic units: Upper Alluvial Unit (UAU), Middle Alluvial Unit (MAU), and the Lower Alluvial Unit (LAU). The UAU consists of unconsolidated interbedded clay, sand, and gravel typical of basin fill material. Underneath HMRP, the UAU is approximately 265 feet thick and is dry. The MAU is predominately clay with interbedded sand and gravel lenses. Beneath the site, the MAU extends to a depth of approximately 510 feet. The LAU is semi-consolidated to consolidated sand and gravel and is the principal aquifer for the region. The groundwater is under semi-confined conditions with water levels at approximately 480 feet below ground level prior to beginning recharge operations.
Groundwater flow is from northeast to southwest in the vicinity of HMRP. Trenching and drilling at the site show interbedded sandy silt, silty sand, clayey gravel, and weakly cemented gravel zones. In general, the unsaturated zone beneath the basins (UAU and MAU) is dominated by silty sand and gravel.
The underground storage facility permit issued by the ADWR requires that each project operator monitor responses from the recharge operations on the regional water table and potential perched conditions as well as water quality. The HMRP has ten piezometers and two monitor wells to measure the impacts of the recharge operations. In addition, each of the seven basin cells has a pressure transducer installed in a stilling well to measure water levels.
Basin stilling well with pressure transducer mounted
inside to measure water levels in the basin (Basin 2B)
The ADWR requires weekly water level measurements in the piezometers and monitor wells and quarterly water quality sampling from the two monitor wells. After 2 years of operation, the operator can petition the ADWR to reduce the monitoring to monthly for the water level measurements and semi-annual for the water quality sampling.
The nested piezometers are constructed to monitor potential mounding beneath the basins. During the exploration phase of the siting study, two relatively shallow 4 to 8-foot thick, fine-grained layers were encountered at depths of approximately 40 and 90 feet below ground level. The observed mounding follows a similar pattern seen at the other recharge projects: at start-up of a basin, the recharged water forms a mound above the fine-grained unit then dissipates as the fine-grained becomes saturated.
Alert levels are established in the ADWR USF permit issued for the project. Water levels in the wells cannot be less than 20 feet below ground level and the water quality analytes cannot exceed the ADEQ NAWQS standards. CAP monitors water quality both in the groundwater and source water. CAP monitors inorganic constituents as well as organic constituents such as herbicides and pesticides. Since operations have begun, there have been no exceedences of any of the established alert levels.
Deliveries began on January 2, 2003 with water being stored primarily for the AWBA and the CAGRD. In December 2003, the City of Goodyear obtained a Water Storage Permit from the ADWR and plans to store water at the facility in 2004.
Water levels are measured in each basin with depths typically held at 2 feet or less. As water levels rise, basin rotations are utilized to dry each basin and rejuvenate the infiltration rates. Initial infiltration rates in the individual cells ranged from 3.1 to 6.8 feet per day and have remained over 3 feet per day for the project has a whole. At the end of 2003, infiltration rates dropped to less than 2 feet per day due to clogging and, in January 2004, the project was dried and ripped. Since the ripping, infiltration rates are again over 3 feet per day.
Basin 2 with the northern cell wet and
the southern cell in a drying cycle
During normal operations, approximately 80% of the basin area is wetted with 20% in the drying mode. The basins are rotated approximately every two weeks to give the unused basins sufficient time to dry. Flows to the project average 40 to 45 cfs with two of the four pumps operating. The pumps are alternated monthly.
Maintenance is required to maintain good infiltration rates, ensure that the electrical and mechanical equipment operates properly, and to manage weed growth. Maintaining good infiltration rates is imperative with recharge projects and is accomplished through a combination of basin rotation and mechanical scraping and ripping. The physical attributes of the project, pumps, valves, remote data acquisition system, all require regular preventative maintenance (PM) to ensure reliable operations.
The basins are operated with approximately 80% of the basin area wet and 20% dry. By rotating the wet/dry cycle through the seven cells, algae growth is kept to a minimum. Since beginning operations in January 2003, only one mechanical ripping of the basins has been required to keep the infiltration rates over 3 feet per day.
HMRP basins with the northern basin in the wet
cycle and the southern basin in the dry cycle
The pumping station has four electric turbine pumps that require regular PM's. The maintenance includes lubricating the pump shafts, inspecting the impellers, and monitoring the pump vibration. Also, the trash rack between the forebay and the canal requires regular cleaning. During periods of monsoons, tumbleweeds clog the intake to the pumps and require back flushing.
Electric pump at the HMRP turnout
Trashrack between the forebay and the canal at
the HMRP turnout with the tumbleweeds beginning to build up
In the past, weeds were controlled through the use of the chemical Rodeo. Starting in 2003, goats have been brought in twice a year to control weed growth. The goats are especially effective on controlling tamarisk. Also, starting in 2003, additional weed control will be managed with a truck-mounted burner.
Water Deliveries
Water deliveries to HMRP are measured at the turnout by an acoustic flowmeter at the pump station on the CAP canal. Deliveries to the individual basins are not measured. In 2003, water was stored for the AWBA and the CAGRD.
Water deliveries are tabulated daily for each basin and added up for the month. Evaporation losses are calculated using the 1970 Cooley Method that calculates a maximum daily evaporation dependent on the time of year and the number of wetted acres for that day. Average evaporation losses are less than 1% of the stored volume. The deliveries are reported to the ADWR each month and are used by CAP to bill the individual customers storing water at the project.
In 2003, 23,848 acre-feet of water was delivered to the project. Due to high customer demand, the project was left dry in May, and then in September the project was shut down for approximately 4 weeks due to storm damage to the CAP canal upstream of the project. The highest monthly total delivered to the project was 2,802 acre-feet in March 2003 with the average being approximately 2,500 acre-feet per month.


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Farmed Atlantic Salmon make Seafood Watchs avoid list
Environmentalists and an aquaculture company disagree about the findings of a new report from the United States that advises consumers to avoid some farm-raised Atlantic Salmon.
"It's not surprising, it's clear that we need to have improvements in Canada. If we want to even be nearly equivalent to some of the better practices that are happening in Norway and Scotland," said Susanna Fuller, a Marine Conservation Coordinator with the Ecology Action Centre.
The report from Seafood Watch states that consumers should avoid buying Atlantic Canadian salmon that are raised in enclosed ocean pens.
The Seafood Watch program is a research initiative organized by the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California.
It monitors the sustainability of both the fish farming and fishing industry.
Report not all bad for fish farms
Cooke Aquaculture, a company that raises salmon in ocean pens in both Atlantic Canada and Maine, doesn't see the ratings it received as negative.
"We're actually celebrating the report. It's extremely good news for the salmon farming industry," said Nell Halse, vice president of communications for Cooke Aquaculture.
Halse said while their Atlantic Canadian Salmon are still in the "avoid" category, the company's farmed salmon in Maine is now considered a good alternative for consumers.
"This is a huge step for us, they've recognized that ocean farmed raised salmon is a sustainable option," she said.
Halse said the company's salmon farming operation in Maine is run almost exactly the same as the farms in Atlantic Canada.
"We believe that some of the data that they've used to make the assessment for Atlantic Canada is older data and that has affected the rating."
She said Cooke Aquaculture will provide Seafood Watch with more up to date data on its operations in Atlantic Canada and that should lead to a better rating.
Environmentalists want tighter regulations
Fuller said there's a lot to be learned from the Seafood Watch report and hopes governments take note.
She said Atlantic Canadian fish farms use far too many chemicals and antibiotics on their fish and there's a risk that farmed fish will escape and pass diseases to wild salmon.
"The lesson I would take if I were, I guess, the Atlantic Canadian governments, I would be having a meeting fairly quickly to figure out how do we work together to make sure we have extremely strong regulations."
More than 1,000 businesses across North America use Seafood Watch's science to inform their purchasing decisions, the organization says.
The Seafood Watch report breaks down its seafood rankings into three categories: best choice, good alternative and avoid.
The "best choice" according to Seafood Watch, should be at the top of everyone's grocery list, it considers fish in this category to be well managed.
It states that "best choice" fish that are caught or farmed cause little harm to habitats or other wildlife.
By contrast, the "avoid" designation means it recommends consumers shouldn't buy a product because it's caught or farmed in ways that harm other marine life or the environment.
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Keith Ellison handily secures DFL attorney…
Keith Ellison handily secures DFL attorney general nomination; Wardlow wins Republican nod
Leading candidates for Minnesota Attorney General race (left), Republican Doug Wardlow and Democrat Keith Ellison.
By Tad Vezner | tvezner@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: August 14, 2018 at 9:18 p.m. | UPDATED: October 9, 2018 at 4:08 p.m.
Democratic attorney general candidate Keith Ellison dominated the race for his party's nomination Tuesday, despite eleventh-hour domestic abuse allegations that threatened to derail his campaign.
With 97 percent of the state's precincts reporting, Ellison commanded a full 50 percent of the vote. The next-highest contender, state Rep. Debra Hilstrom, had 19 percent.
Ellison, a U.S. representative who also is the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, also ran against former commerce commissioner Mike Rothman; DFL-endorsed Minneapolis attorney Matt Pelikan; and former long-time Ramsey County attorney Tom Foley.
The attorney general's race included a swath of newcomers after the office's current occupant, DFLer Lori Swanson, announced in June that she would run for governor instead of seeking a fourth term as the state's top lawyer.
Less than a week before the primary vote, the son of a woman Ellison once had a relationship with — and later the woman herself — alleged Ellison physically abused her in 2016. The woman, Karen Monahan said in media interviews that there was a video of the alleged abuse on a flash drive, but she didn't want to release it and didn't know where it was.
Ellison has denied any such video exists because, he says, "I never behaved in this way, and any characterization otherwise is false."
Speaking to a crowd of supporters Tuesday evening, and later to a group of reporters, he twice reiterated that the allegations were "not true," and told reporters he would address them further "in the next couple days."
Ellison, first elected to Congress in 2006, advocated for better working conditions and wage and benefit protections throughout his campaign, as well as using antitrust law to fight corporate consolidation in farming. He has also spoken of the need for the attorney general to join other states in protecting the Affordable Care Act.
"I will fight every day to put Minnesota families ahead of powerful special interests, to increase access to affordable health care, make our economy more fair, and expand opportunity for all," Ellison said in a written statement following his victory.
On the Republican side, Doug Wardlow — an attorney and former state representative from Prior Lake — declared victory with a healthy 46 percent of the vote, with 97 percent of precincts reporting.
In his own written statement issued late Tuesday, Wardlow focused largely on Ellison.
"With Keith Ellison's primary victory, Minnesotans now have a clear choice in November. I will defend the rule of law, not undermine it. I will fight to protect all Minnesotans, not use the office to push extremist policies. I will stand will with our law enforcement, not against them. And lastly, I will bring integrity and morality to the office, not allegations of domestic violence or clouded judgement," Wardlow said.
Ellison went on the attack as well in his statement.
"Tonight, Republicans nominated someone who wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and revoke a woman's right to choose; supports so-called right to work laws; and has proudly worked for an anti-LGBTQ hate group," he said, referring to the Wardlow's work for Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal-advocacy group.
Wardlow was unopposed when securing his party's endorsement, though later former DFL state senator "Ol' Trapper" Bob Lessard switched parties to the GOP to challenge him. Perennial candidate Sharon Anderson, who secured the party endorsement for attorney general in 1994, also joined the race.
With 97 percent of precincts reporting, Anderson secured 32 percent of the vote, and Lessard snagged 21 percent.
Wardlow said he would work to rein in "out-of-control rules and regulations" by state agencies, and also bolster the AG office's criminal law division, to give county attorneys the "backup they need to put criminals behind bars" and combat human trafficking and the opioid epidemic.
"I promise to defend and protect every law-abiding Minnesotan. I look forward to sharing our message of law and order across the state and am confident that we will be victorious in November," Wardlow said.
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Madonna has added 13 new North American Tour Dates to her "The Celebration Tour" due to overwhelming demand.
Produced by Live Nation, the 35-city global tour now includes second shows in Seattle, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas along with a third show in New York.
The highly anticipated tour will kick off on July 15 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, with stops in Phoenix, Chicago, Los Angeles.
In Europe, Madonna will perform in 11 cities throughout the fall, including London, Barcelona, and Stockholm, among others. "The Celebration Tour" will wrap on December 1 in Amsterdam at Ziggo Dome.
Following Madonna's viral video that announced the tour last week, the response has been incredible, with fans looking forward to seeing the best-selling female solo touring artist of all time perform her unmatched catalog of music from the past 40 plus years in a live setting.
Bob the Drag Queen a.k.a. Caldwell Tidicue will perform as special guest across all dates on the global tour.
Tickets for performances in Phoenix, Denver, St. Paul, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Washington, and Atlanta will go on sale on January 27 at 10 am local time.
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Property tax is calculated by multiplying the Annual Value (AV) of your land with the prevailing property tax rate.
The AV of land and development sites is determined at 5% of the estimated freehold market value.
For land purchased in an en-bloc sale, please refer to the e-tax guide on Property Tax Treatment of En-Bloc Sales Sites (83KB).
IRAS will notify you on the Annual Values (AVs) of newly completed condominium units within 2 weeks from the issuance of the Temporary Occupation Permit (TOP) to assist you in tax apportionment.
Upon receiving the AV listing in advance, you will be able to work out your share of property tax from the date of TOP to the date which the buyer is responsible to pay tax. Thereafter, you should pay this amount directly to the buyers.
You will receive VNs for the individual units and settle the property tax in full with IRAS before the payment due date. Subsequently, your conveyancing lawyers will have to seek reimbursement from the buyers for their share of property tax.
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The assessment on the land parcel will end from TOP date.


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package org.scalaml.supervised.hmm

import org.scalaml.core.Matrix
import org.scalaml.core.Types.ScalaMl._
import HMMConfig._

		/**
		 *
Implementation of the Alpha pass (forward algorithm). The Alpha parameter
		 * is computed during instantiation. It is the probability of being in state S(i) given
		 * a sequence of observation {0, 1,   t}

		 * @constructor Create a Alpha pass for the evaluation canonical form of the hidden
		 * Markov model (HMM).
		 * @param lambda Lambda (pi, A, B) model for the HMM composed of the initial state
		 * probabilities, the state-transition probabilities matrix and the emission probabilities matrix.
		 * @param obs Array of observations as integer (categorical data
		 * @param alpha Alpha coefficient for the forward pass in the evaluation form of HMM
		 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if lambda, or  observations are undefined
		 * @see org.scalaml.supervised.hmm.Pass
		 *
		 * @author Patrick Nicolas
		 * @since March 13, 2014
		 * @note Scala for Machine Learning Chapter 7 Sequential data models / Hidden Markov Model
		 * - Evaluation
		 */
final protected class Alpha(lambda: HMMLambda, obs: Array[Int]) extends Pass(lambda, obs) {
	/**
	 * Alpha variable computed through the recursive forward algorithm. The value is
	 * computed the initial value alpha (M1 formula). normalize the alpha values (M2)
	 * and finally invoke the summation of the normalized value (M3).
	 * @see Chapter 7 Sequential Data Models / Hidden Markov model / Evaluation  / Alpha pass
	 */
	val alpha: Double = {
		alphaBeta = lambda.initAlpha(obs)
		normalize(0)
		sumUp
	}

		/**
		 *
Compute the sum  log of the conditional probability p(X|Y) for each feature. Exception
		 * thrown during the computation are caught in the client code.[M4 formula]

		 * @return sum of the logarithm of the conditional probability p(xi|Y)
		 * @see Chapter 7 Sequential Data Models / Hidden Markov model / Evaluation / Alpha pass
		 */
	def logProb: Double = foldLeft(lambda.getT, (s, t) => s + Math.log(ct(t)), Math.log(alpha))

			/*
			 * Compute the alpha(t) = SUM{ alpha(t-1)).a.b (M3), then normalized to generate c(t)
			 * value and finally compute an estimate for the alpha(t)
			 */
	private def sumUp: Double = {
		foreach(1, lambda.getT, t => {
			updateAlpha(t)		// Implements first equation of M3
			normalize(t)			// Normalized wit the sum of alpha(i), t 0 -> N-1
		})
		foldLeft(lambda.getN, (s, k) => s + alphaBeta(lambda.d_1, k))
	}

		/*
		 * Update the value of alpha at observation t by summation of alpha(i).a(i).b(i)
		 * for the previous observation t -1 across all the N states
		 */
	private def updateAlpha(t: Int): Unit =
		foreach(lambda.getN, i => {
			val newValue = lambda.alpha(alphaBeta(t-1, i), i, obs(t))
			alphaBeta += (t, i, lambda.alpha(alphaBeta(t-1, i), i, obs(t)))
		})
}

		/**
		 * Companion object for the Alpha pass that defines the constructor applhy
		 * @author Patrick Nicolas
		 * @since March 13, 2014
		 * @note Scala for Machine Learning Chapter 7 Sequential data models / Hidden Markov Model /
		 * Evaluation
		 */
object Alpha {
		/**
		 * Default constructor for the class Alpha
		 * @param lambda Lambda (pi, A, B) model for the HMM composed of the initial state
		 * probabilities, the state-transition probabilities matrix and the emission probabilities matrix.
		 * @param obs Array of observations as integer (categorical data
		 * @param alpha Alpha coefficient for the forward pass in the evaluation form of HMM
		 */
	def apply(lambda: HMMLambda, obs: Array[Int]): Alpha = new Alpha(lambda,obs)
}

// --------------------------------  EOF -------------------------------------

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Elk Campground is situated in the Blue Mountains. So many local attractions and such a wonderful variety of outdoors recreation are magnificent reasons to come.
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Points Trail is an average hike that necessitates roughly six hours. A good 6.3-mile-long backcountry trail boasting a good 1,892-foot variation between top and bottom can be encountered in the neighborhood.
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" My heart is loud, my brain is clear. "
The BeatHeart Foundation was created in response to the sudden and devastating death of our close friend Jake Czuczwa to an opioid overdose, just one day after his 24th birthday. Jake was an incredible friend and a gifted musician, songwriter, and producer who was truly passionate about music. Growing up in Reading, MA, Jake played trombone at Coolidge Middle School and Reading Memorial High School in concert, marching, and jazz band. He was a skillful guitar player who played with an expertise that had rapidly surpassed his teacher. He was also a member of RMHS's drama club, but his true passion was creating and playing his original music.
Jake's passing was and continues to be excruciatingly painful but it also fuels our movement. By raising awareness and educating people about addiction, we want to push the issue and make sure that our community is made aware of the growing heroin/opioid epidemic. There are no racial or socioeconomic boundaries when it comes to heroin addiction; this disease does not discriminate. We are striving to create a movement that will combat the rapid increase of opioid use within our community as well as support and educate families and loved ones that were unprepared to face this overwhelming crisis. We wish to create a world where all individuals feel supported and empowered as valued members of the community and are encouraged to express themselves without fear of judgment, regardless of their current or past struggles with addiction or mental illness.
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Kolkata, Dec 6 (IANS) Seven-time national champion swimmer Arun Kumar Shaw died here on Thursday following prolonged illness, Bengal Amateur Swimming Association confirmed in a statement.
Shaw, 82, is survived by his wife.
Shaw, who was the first swimmer from the state to receive the Arjuna Award in 1967, bagged his maiden national championship in 1958 as a member of the Bengal team before joining the South Eastern Railway.
Shaw won national championships in 1959, 1962, 1964, 1965-67 and set national records many times.
Shaw was also a national selector for several years.
"We pay our respectable homage to the departed soul of Arun Shaw and pray Almighty may his soul rest in peace.
"We have also received a condolence message from Shri Virendra Nanavati, Vice-President, IOA and CEO, Swimming Federation of India, which is also sent to you for your kind information," Bengal Amateur Swimming Association president Ramanuj Mukhopadhyay said.


In spreading the message of economic and social inequality more widely than the Occupy Wall Street movement and forcing the discussion of this fundamental unfairness into the political discourse is and will remain Bernie Sanders' merit.
But when populists are buoyed by large, enthusiastic, oftentimes fanatic crowds, their egos get into the way of reason. Drawing the "us" versus "them" card becomes the everyday rhetorical diet regardless of the broken dishes left behind.
In justifying his claim that he and not Hillary Clinton can beat Donald Trump in the November election Bernie Sanders relies on poll results. But should he and should we trust those polls?
I do not think so; and here is why: As underdog in the Democratic race Bernie Sanders has not been scrutinized by rivals on the Democratic or the Republican side or by the media. Of late Donald Trump sides openly with Bernie. Since he is assured of the GOP nomination Trump can now watch with glee how Bernie attacks Hillary in his quest to somehow wrestle the nomination away from her.
I am sure though that Capitalist Trump would love to run against Socialist Sanders knowing full well that even in a crazy election year like this one a socialist will not be elected as president.
As noted, so far nobody has laid a glove on Bernie Sanders or his closest adviser, wife Jane. That's the underdog advantage. While reporters and pundits press Trump for the release of his tax returns and Clinton for the transcripts of her Goldman Sachs speeches, nobody seems to mind that Mr. and Mrs. Sanders have not yet produced their 2015 tax return. Nobody has tried to dig out controversies that may have occurred in the past of Bernie and Jane.
Even when events point to questionable actions and result in some news coverage, nobody seems to care. Earlier this week, for example, there were reports of the forthcoming closure of Burlington College in Vermont with references to Jane Sanders and her role in the demise of the tiny private institution. As past president, Mrs. Sanders made allegedly a controversial real estate decision that saddled the college with a heavy and eventually fatal debt burden. Years before the end of Burlington College Sanders departed reportedly with a hefty $200,000 severance package.
Were Trump and Sanders to face each other in the general campaign, the latter and his family would not merely be attacked by The Donald but also scrutinized by the media.
For Bernie, then, the polls would no longer be as tempting as they are today.
In the last phase of the presidential primary season Bernie Sanders and his most fervent supporters are tireless in their attacks against the Democratic Party, its candidate selection process, the party's establishment, the platform, and the as of now leading presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Huge and enthusiastic crowds tend to feed the egos of populists and sharpen demagogic appeals. In the process, populists and their followers lose easily touch with reality.
Self-proclaimed revolutionaries and their movements are not interested in protecting whatever party vehicles they choose to ride to power.
Today, a perhaps irreparable schism seems more likely with respect to the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
To be sure, Donald Trump fought the establishment of the party of his choice, the GOP candidate selection process, and his more than a dozen primary competitors relentlessly, even savagely, until he was the sole survivor and sure presidential nominee. Many inside and outside the Republican Party predicted the end of the GOP in its current form.
But now the notion of the GOP's demise seems dead. Ever more party factions and establishment leaders fall in line behind Trump.
Unlike Trump, Sanders is neither the winner nor the frontrunner in the primary competition on his side. His chances of becoming the nominee are slimmer than slim.
Earlier I questioned here whether Sanders might help Republicans win the White House. As Clinton's calls for partisan unity are failing, I drop the question mark concerning the consequences of Bernie's intensified attacks on her and the Democratic Party.
For someone who grew up in Europe more so than for native Americans the U.S. political system is so interesting because of the differences between the basic institutional and electoral arrangements in liberal democracies there and here.
And nowhere are the differences more profound than in the characteristics of political parties and the candidate selection process as the current presidential primary season once again attests to.
In Europe, you have ideological parties with card-carrying members who support their parties' platforms. Those who come to disagree with their party's programmatic stance or reform ideas tend to leave and join or at least vote for another party. Because of the proportional electoral system in Europe that allots seats in legislatures according to popular votes won by each party, there are a multitude of viable parties.
This is in sharp contrast to the American winners-take-all system that favors the two major parties at the expense of minor ones.
As a result, a candidate who should be running under an alternative party banner becomes the insurgents in a major party a la Trump and Sanders.
There are problems in both the American and the European system with the latter often weakened by too many parties. But that is the stuff for a separate story.
The now certain presidential GOP candidate for the highest office in the land did not spend a lot of money for paid media in form of television ads during the primary months.
He did not have to. Trump got all the free media he wanted to promote his brand—the Donald.
Whenever and wherever he spoke, he got live coverage on the cable networks and plenty on the broadcast networks' newscasts. In this respect, he loomed from the outset large over all other Republican and Democratic candidates.
Only when his competitors switched to attack mode, did they occasionally get sudden attention. And live coverage. Thus, when Bernie Sanders sharpened his criticism of Hillary Clinton, this earned him the same privilege.
Conflict is what newsrooms are after.
Whenever Trump called into the morning shows, he was granted access—certainly not in order to ask him tough but important questions.
After all, TV executives were and are convinced that Trump's outrageous rhetoric is driving up ratings and advertising prices.
But nothing demonstrated the news media's insatiable appetite to showcase Trump than NBC's decision to move its entire "Nightly News" broadcast on Wednesday night to Trump Tower, where Lester Holmes interviewed Trump and continued to anchor the rest of the program from the GOP's candidate's office.
Perhaps, the rest of the TV networks will follow suite and relocate to the Trump building which would save the real estate mogul turned TV Reality celebrity turned presidential candidate trips to TV studios.
Film-maker Rob Reiner noted in today's "Morning Joe Show" on MSNBC that the media gives Trump a free pass simply because he is a celebrity. "The words that come out of his mouth, you'd see a guy in a park, a lunatic in a park on a soapbox and you'd walk right past him."
Indeed! And there is no reason to believe that the coverage will change for the rest of the primary season and during the general election.
Populists and demagogues were always news-makers; but in today's highly competitive media landscape they are more so than ever before.
That's one reason why nobody should underestimate Trump's chances to win in November.


Wreck Diving on the Haerlem Wreck in Algoa Bay is an experience not to be missed. Here you can see the Leopard Sharks, Cat Sharks and Pajama Sharks swimming gracefully in their artificial home.
Cape Salmon and Batfish can also be spotted here along with a variety of other sea life such as Heart Urchins and the very popular Crowned and Black Nudibranchs.
A torch will come in handy when spying through the ships old portholes in search of the magnificent marine life that lies within.
The reef was created when a South African Navy Frigate was sunk here in 1987. The deck is split in two and is 18 meters long. No diving into the ship form the broken deck is allowed at any time.
WhereAlgoa Bay, South End, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape.


Is it a good idea for children to be eating when they are in their child car seat?
Why should children travel in a rear-facing position for as long as possible?
What kinds of objects should children not be using in the car?
Rear-facing Day: Why is it so important for children to travel in rear-facing child car seats?
The 1st Rear-facing Day has been held in order to address the importance of child restraint systems which enable children to travel in a rear-facing position.


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Curtis Brainard
Curtis Brainard is the Managing Editor at Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States, founded in 1845. He has served on the governing board of the World Federation of Science Journalists since 2013, including two years as President. He speaks frequently at conferences and events worldwide about science journalism and communications, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Popular Science, Columbia Journalism Review and other publications. He is a graduate of and former adjunct faculty member at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, home of the Pulitzer Prizes. He lives in New York City.
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Das Dutch Darts Masters 2012 war ein Ranglistenturnier im Dartsport und wurde vom 26. bis zum 28. Oktober 2012 zum ersten Mal von der Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) veranstaltet. Es war das fünfte Event der European Darts Tour 2012, welche im Rahmen der Pro Tour 2012 durchgeführt wurde. Austragungsort war das Van der Valk-Hotel in Nuland.

Der erste Sieger der Turniergeschichte wurde Simon Whitlock.

Format
Das Turnier wurde im K.-o.-System gespielt. Spielmodus in allen Runden war ein best of 11 legs.
Jedes leg wurde im double-out-Modus gespielt.

Preisgeld
Bei dem Turnier wurden insgesamt £ 82.100 an Preisgeldern ausgeschüttet. Das Preisgeld verteilte sich unter den Teilnehmern wie folgt:

Zudem erhielten alle 32 nicht gesetzten Spieler eine Startprämie von £ 100.

Teilnehmer
Für das Dutch Darts Masters 2012 waren folgende 64 Spieler qualifiziert:

 Die 32 erstplatzierten Spieler der PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit – Stand 25. September 2012 –, von denen alle gesetzt waren
 Die 20 Gewinner des Dutch Darts Masters UK Qualifier vom 5. Oktober 2012
 Die 8 Gewinner des Dutch Darts Masters European Qualifier vom 13. Oktober 2012
 Die 4 Gewinner des Dutch Darts Masters Dutch Qualifier vom 13. Oktober 2012

PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit
  Phil Taylor
  Simon Whitlock
  Wes Newton
  Andy Hamilton
  Terry Jenkins
  Mark Webster
  Raymond van Barneveld
  Justin Pipe
  Kevin Painter
  Dave Chisnall
  Ronnie Baxter
  Paul Nicholson
  Vincent van der Voort
  Mark Walsh
  Mervyn King
  Andy Smith
  Colin Lloyd
  Robert Thornton
  Brendan Dolan
  John Part
  Michael van Gerwen
  Colin Osborne
  Jamie Caven
  Wayne Jones
  Denis Ovens
  Peter Wright
  Kim Huybrechts
  Steve Beaton
  Mark Hylton
  Steve Brown
  Alan Tabern
  Co Stompé

Dutch Darts Masters UK Qualifier
  Johnny Haines
  Steve Hine
  James Hubbard
  Peter Hudson
  Andy Jenkins
  Mark Jones
  Arron Monk
  Dennis Priestley
  Scott Rand
  Dennis Smith
  Michael Smith
  Ross Smith
  Terry Temple
  Mick Todd
  Tony West
  Ian White
  Dean Winstanley
  Brian Woods
  Dave Ladley
  Jim Walker

Dutch Darts Masters European Qualifier
  Max Hopp
  Ronny Huybrechts
  Per Laursen
  Kevin Münch
  Bernd Roith
  Tomas Seyler
  Davyd Venken
  Jyhan Artut

Dutch Darts Masters Dutch Qualifier
  Toon Greebe
  Roland Scholten
  Dick van Dijk
  Gino Vos

Ergebnisse

Übertragung
Im deutschsprachigen Raum wurde die Veranstaltung nicht im TV ausgestrahlt.

International wurden alle Spiele durch die PDC auf pdc.tv übertragen.

Weblinks
 Bericht auf darts1.de
 Turnierverlauf auf dartn.de

Einzelnachweise

2012
European Darts Tour 2012
Sportveranstaltung in 's-Hertogenbosch


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Idaho Div. of Veterans Services Deny Lesbian Veteran Burial Wish
TOPICS:anti-gay idahodomagay marriageidaho division of veterans servicesjean mixnerktvblesbian veteranmadelynn taylormarriage benefitsmarriage equalitysame-sex couplesu.s. supreme court
Posted By: TRT Editor May 12, 2014
By: D'Anne Witkowski*/Special to TRT—
Imagine that your spouse is dead. You spent 17 years of your lives together, caring for and loving each other. Now her ashes are in a box in your closet. It is your wish that when you die, her ashes will be interred alongside you in your state's veterans' cemetery because you are a veteran and she is your spouse. Sounds like pretty standard end of life planning, doesn't it?
Ah, yes. But there's a catch. The thing is, you are a woman. And that complicates things.
This is, unfortunately, the situation 74-year-old Madelynn Taylor finds herself in after the Idaho Division of Veterans Services refused her request to be buried with her late spouse, Jean Mixner, because Idaho doesn't recognize their marriage. [pullquote]This is, unfortunately, the situation 74-year-old Madelynn Taylor finds herself in after the Idaho Division of Veterans Services refused her request to be buried with her late spouse, Jean Mixner, because Idaho doesn't recognize their marriage.[/pullquote]
In 2006 Idaho voters passed Amendment 2, which reads, "A marriage between a man and a woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state."
And thank heavens voters added that to the state's constitution, otherwise Idaho's dead veterans might have to face the injustice of two dead lesbians fouling up their cemetery.
Granted, Taylor could just go be buried someplace else. It's not like the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery is her only option. Except for the fact that Taylor is an Idaho veteran who wants to be buried there.
"I just feel that it's the right place for me. You know, I'm a veteran. So they should let me," Taylor told KTVB. "In fact they would let me alone, be in that crypt…But I don't want to be alone. I want Jean with me."
(I'll pause here so you can get some tissues.)
To add insult to injury, Taylor served in the Navy from 1958-1964. Coming as she does from a military family ("It's what we did. When we were 18, you picked a service and joined," she told KTVB), she likely would have served for longer had they not kicked her out for – you guessed it – being gay. [pullquote]To add insult to injury, Taylor served in the Navy from 1958-1964. Coming as she does from a military family ("It's what we did. When we were 18, you picked a service and joined," she told KTVB), she likely would have served for longer had they not kicked her out for – you guessed it – being gay. …Taylor told KBOI that she wasn't surprised by the state's refusal, "I've been discriminated against for 70 years, and they might as well discriminate against me in death as well as life."[/pullquote]
Taylor told KBOI that she wasn't surprised by the state's refusal, "I've been discriminated against for 70 years, and they might as well discriminate against me in death as well as life."
Make no mistake, she doesn't really mean the "might as well" part. Despite her friendly disposition in her TV news interviews, she's fighting back. She's joined the Add the Words campaign, which seeks to get "sexual orientation and gender identity" added to Idaho's nondiscrimination law. Hopefully, too, Idaho's anti-gay marriage amendment will be overturned like so many others across the country have been.
What Taylor is asking for is hardly extravagant. Her partner was cremated. She wants to be cremated. Which means that burying them together is logistically very easy. It's not like the cemetery has to dig two six-foot holes in the ground. All they have to do is put two containers in one drawer. Something they do for opposite sex spouses all the time.
"It's not taking up any more space to have both of us in there," she told KBOI. "And I don't see where the ashes of a couple old lesbians is going to hurt anybody."
According to news reports, Taylor, who has health problems and worries she might die before this injustice is righted, plans to have someone hang on to both her ashes and her wife's ashes until they can rest, together, in peace.
*D'Anne Witkowski has been gay for pay since 2003. She's a freelance writer and poet (believe it!). When she's not taking on the creeps of the world she reviews rock 'n' roll shows in Detroit with her twin sister.
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ANALYSIS: How Come President Buhari's Assets Did Not Appreciate or Depreciate In Four Years? By Kelechukwu Ogu
Kelechukwu Ogu
Since President Buhari is protected by immunity, he has for now escaped the misdemeanor Saraki was accused of. Going by the media circus Nigerians were entertained with during the Onnoghen and Saraki trials, it is expected that the ninth Assembly will amend section 140 subsection 1 of the 1999 constitution to make...
On Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari declared his assets in fulfillment of Section 140 subsection 1 of the 1999 constitution.
The section reads, "A person elected to the office of President shall not begin to perform the functions of that office until he has declared his assets and liabilities as prescribed in this Constitution and he has taken and subscribed the Oath of Allegiance and the oath of office prescribed in the Seventh Schedule to this Constitution."
In keeping up with his title of Mr. Integrity, could the president have unwittingly lied before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), like former Senate President Bukola Saraki was accused of doing?
The opaque nature of Buhari's asset declaration in 2015 and 2019, as well as the failure of the constitution to mandate full public disclosure of assets, makes it is impossible to make such a claim. However, there are items in that asset form as listed by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu in 2015 that should have either appreciated or depreciated in four years.
The 270 Cows
Buhari said in 2015 that he had 270 cows. The breed and a breakdown of the purpose of the cows in the herd- for pet, for breeding, for beef or for milk was not given.
A certain percentage of the president's herd that is reared for dairy products are expected to live for an average of 5-6 years while an unknown percentage that is purposed to produce beef should live for 12 to 24 months before finding their way to the butcher's slab. Also, the unknown percentage of Buhari's cattle kept for breeding would last for 8 to 12 years, if the herder chooses to keep some as pets, then those lucky ones could live to be 20 years old.
If Mr. President last added dairy cows to his herd in 2013, then all of them would have most likely passed on by now and his herd would have depreciated. His cow population would have also lost cows to the butcher's slab. Only if they are reared for status and ceremony would the herd not contain those fattened for Salah.
Studies show that the average calving rate of grazing cows in Nigeria is at least an interval of two years. These cows start giving birth when they are five years old. Cows in controlled environments like ranches, however, could begin producing offspring when they are three years old. This means they would have a shorter interval between their first set of children and the next. Whether President Buhari's cattle are in a fattening room receiving plenty healthy food or in the scorching arid lands of the semi Savanah and the Sahel, they would have added offspring that would have caused a 'significant' increase to his 270 cows.
One major purpose of rearing cattle is to milk the udder and produce cheese, butter, yogurt, fura, milk, and other dairy products for our consumption. Although Nigerian cows are said to produce one liter or less of milk daily, the beef suckler cattle breed is about the lowest milk producing species of cattle in a ranch setting and it produces four liters of milk a day. President Buhari's list of cows might include local breeds like the White Fulani or the Red Bororo but considering the popularity of the Holstein-Friesian species- present in 150 countries, we could say that this brand will be in Mr. President's flock. The minimum liter of milk produced by this breed is 28 liters.
During lactation which lasts for at least 10 months, there are cow breeds that can produce at least 60 liters of milk and up to 100 liters at most. Besides those cattle sold at a minimum of N100,000 for burials, religious and traditional festivities, Buhari will earn N150 on each liter of fresh pasteurized milk sold on his behalf in Nigeria or a minimum of N5,000 on every kilogram of milk he exports based on current global export prices. Mr. President's account would have surely soared if his herd are well managed or he might have needed to draw some money out of his N30 million to maintain the herd if his cows have not been producing.
25 Sheep
Ewe- female sheep are quite productive. They have a short lambing interval and produce one-two offspring every time they give birth. The breeds of sheep in Nigeria produce 25 to 56 kg of milk per lactation period which usually lasts for 70 to 91 days. If President Buhari was selling all the sheep in his flock and maintaining just 25, he would have at least grown his N30 million from the sale of wool, milk, ram, ewe, and lamb for slaughter. The average lifespan of a sheep is 10-12 years.
Economic Trees
These plants are referred to as being economic because they generate income. The vagaries of the asset declaration made by the President gives no information on where these trees are located, does he have a forest range or does he have several plantations where these trees are grown. These trees provide medicine, food, domestic and other industrial needs. Or might Mr. President be keeping them for status purposes? PMB also has an unspecified number of orchards.
Farmlands
The loophole in the constitution which permits just the minimum requirement of declaring your asset gave the President a French window sized space to escape telling us just how many hectares of land he has and the average earning he makes from his farms. While he was gracious to state that he has five houses including a mud one, he probably could not number his farmlands or maybe Mr. Shehu refused to tell us. What is obvious though, is that the farmlands would have yielded crops for Mr. President which would have been exchanged for money.
For instance, the average yield per hectare of maize in Nigeria is between 1,528 to 2,000kg per hectare. For cereals, it is 1,591.80 and 3 tons per hectare for rice. It is therefore inconceivable that Mr President's uncountable hectares of farmland will be producing less than these averages. Except PMB spent all his money on Yusuf's treatment in Germany, Zara's wedding and the purchase of the cursed power bike that almost killed his priceless son, it is difficult to accept that N30 million is still the sum in his two bank accounts.
Accusing Fingers
Under Mr. Integrity's regime, Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Walter Onnoghen, the disgraced former Chief Justice of Nigeria, were brought before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on accusations of declaring false assets.
The Code of Conduct bureau that is quoted to have commended the President for 'leading by example by declaring his assets in accordance with the law, slammed 13 charges on Saraki. The bureau said he failed to declare some assets he acquired while in office as governor, allegedly acquiring assets beyond his legitimate earnings, operating foreign accounts while being a public officer – governor and senator, etc. On his end, Onnoghen was stung with six charges. He was accused of funding several bank accounts with foreign currencies, failing to declare his assets every four years and not doing the same after he assumed office as CJN.
Since President Buhari is protected by immunity, he has for now escaped the misdemeanor Saraki was accused of. Going by the media circus Nigerians were entertained with during the Onnoghen and Saraki trials, it is expected that the ninth Assembly will amend section 140 subsection 1 of the 1999 constitution to make asset declaration a transparent affair.
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Found this interesting fact on Dr Joe Dispenza's Facebook page.
feelings are the language of the body.
So the moment you begin to feel the way you think, because the brain is in constant communication with your body, you begin to think the way you feel, which makes more chemicals for you to feel the way you think, and then you think the way you feel, and then you feel the way you think, and then you think the way you feel. Now, the redundancy of that cycle, over time, creates what I call a state of being. And a state of being is when your mind and body are working together, or your thoughts and feelings are aligned to a concept. So thoughts are the language of the brain, and feelings are the language of the body.
Your body is in constant dialog with your brain, the command center. Anything that happens to you is filtered through your brain and your body just executes the commands it receives from the brain.
In my work with Reboot Tapping a form of EFT I have discovered that our body does nothing on its own.
If you cut yourself, there is that short time when there is no blood flowing and it feels like eternity while you are waiting. The reason for this is that the body first has to tell the brain what has happened and wait for the command from the brain as to what to do. Once that command is received by the body the blood starts to flow or sometimes gush.
That's why Reboot Tapping focuses on how you feel because you have a problem and not on the problem directly. Repeated testing has shown that focusing on what you can't do or don't have to do because of your problem leads to a deeper and faster result than focusing on the pain.
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Q: Catch the query, which runs on any php file I have 3 files, one from the database connection, and the other with querys!
I want to save all queries that are executed in any php file!
Maybe they will help me! maybe Something in the connection file that catches all queries that run.
If you need more details of what I want, just ask.
Thanks

A: You can use the mysqlnd_qc_get_normalized_query_trace_log ( void ) : array function
or you can configure a log for the MySQL queries.


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Pauline Boty
Pop art pioneer
Onscreen, Onstage, Radio
Works by category
As subject
Interview with Derek Boshier
Pauline Boty (6 March 1938 – 1 July 1966) was a founder of British Pop art and the only female painter in the British wing of the movement.
Boty's paintings and collages often demonstrated a joy in self-assured femininity and female sexuality, and expressed overt or implicit criticism of the "man's world" in which she lived. Her rebellious art, combined with her free-spirited lifestyle, has made her a herald of 1970s feminism.
From Wikipedia [link]
Untitled [self portrait], c. 1955
In her short life she also appeared onstage, in film and in numerous TV productions, hosted a fortnightly radio programme, regularly danced on Ready Steady Go!, introduced Bob Dylan to London, inspired Julie Christie's role in the 1965 film Darling — and so much more…


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The Gateway to the Rocky Mountain National Park
Estes Park has long been a small quiet resort town lost in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. It's a tourist destination. And it's the gateway to the Rocky Mountain National Park.
Estes Park is a popular summer resort town in north central Colorado, located in the southern end of Larimer County, at an elevation of 7,522 feet above sea level. The population of 5,400 people (2000 census) hosts in excess of four million tourists every year as visitors flood in to explore the natural wonders of the Rocky Mountains. Estes Park is named after Joel Estes, a prospector who settled in what he called the Estes Valley in 1859. Estes Park is the home of The Stanley Hotel which was built in the early 1900s by Freelan and Francis Stanley, founders of the Stanley Steamer Company. This hotel was Stephen King's inspiration for the fictional Overlook Hotel in The Shining and also appeared in Dumb and Dumber as Hotel Danbury. Estes Park sits on the eastern boarder of the Rocky Mountain National Park and is connected to Grand Lake, on the park's western boarder by the 50 mile long Trail Ridge Road, a part of U.S. Highway 34. Trail Ridge Road is the highest continuously paved highway in the United States, reaching an elevation of 12,183 feet just east of Milner Pass, where it crosses the Continental Divide. The highest mountain in the 415 square mile Rocky Mountain National Park is Long's Peak, reaching an elevation of 14,259 feet.


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Cleavage Fracture Toughness
Understanding material fracture toughness is a key part of the development of the preventative measures which should be identified to help prevent brittle fracture in a range of applications.
Various experimental and theoretical studies, including specific stress models, show that although the process is understood, more advanced quantitative methods should be used to help drive improvement of knowledge in this area.
The brittle-to-ductile transition (BDT) in Body Centered Cubic (BCC) metals and alloys is of both technological and scientific importance. In order to prevent brittle fracture in steel structures such as large ships and offshore structures, it is critically important to predict fracture toughness by clarification of the crack initiation mechanism. It is widely known that fracture appearance transition temperature of Charpy impact testing is linearly changed with the reciprocal of the square root of grain size.
The reason is, however, not clarified completely. It is also known that the fracture toughness depends on the size of the brittle phase such as cementite. In addition, several formulations to evaluate the influence of microstructures including the size of ferrite grain and brittle phase are proposed by Almond et al. (1969), Petch (1986) and Bingley (2001).
Although these proposals are significant the problem of improved accuracy still remains. The cleavage fracture of steel is generally interpreted by the weakest link mechanism which is differentiated from yielding and work hardening. The scatter in the fracture toughness is therefore its most essential property. This is a principal reason of the difficulty to quantify the influence of microstructures on fracture toughness.
It is generally accepted that the transgranular cleavage fracture of steels in the transition temperature range is governed by the propagation of micro-crack nucleated at carbide particles, non-metallic inclusions and martensitic islands. McMahon and Cohen had first demonstrated that the cracking of carbide particles at ferrite grain boundaries represents a primary cleavage fracture mechanism in steels.
Many authors demonstrated up to the present day that brittle cleavage fracture in steels initiates at some particles that are harder and more brittle than the surrounding ferrite matrix. The cleavage fracture is promoted by factors that produce locally elevated tensile stress, since tensile stress governs the propagation of a micro-crack as a Griffith crack.
The cleavage crack once initiated can propagate with low energy dispersion and results in unstable propagation. It implies that the fracture obeys the Weakest Link Analogy and statistical distribution of the critical fracture stress shows the Weibull distribution. Formulation of the Weibull stress criterion to describe the cleavage fracture of steels was first performed by Beremin and Mudry.
The cleavage fracture toughness of steels is quite sensitive to metallurgical factors, and it strongly depends on temperature, strain rate and constraint due to variation in the specimen thickness, in the notch depth and in the scale of yielding at the crack tip. Degradation in the toughness due to pre-straining, irradiation and strain aging, has been often reported. However, the factors that deteriorate the toughness have not been individually and experimentally discussed in recent times. The dislocation theory and other microscopic approaches may significantly contribute for analysis on the fracture and toughness of steels, while they give little quantitative information on mechanical factors responsible to the toughness.
On the other hand, the mezzoscopic description or formulation of the toughness can be expected to give more comprehensive, and a more quantitative understanding of all subjects responsible for the toughness, and it may lead to the development of the general improvement of material toughness.
The Weibull Stress Model
The Beremin model adopts a two-parameter Weibull distribution to describe the cumulative failure probability
.... (1)
Here σw represents the Weibull stress defined as the integral of a weighted value of the maximum principal (tensile) stress (σ) over the process zone of cleavage fracture (i.e., the crack front plastic zone).
In Equation (2), Vp represents the volume of the cleavage fracture process zone, V0 is a reference volume and m denotes the Weibull modulus which defines the shape of the probability density function for microcrack size in the fracture process zone.
Previous studies, e.g., Beremin, show that the probability density function for microcracks having size a has the form f (a) = c where c is a constant and γ defines the shape of the microcrack distribution. The relationship between m and γ follows m = 2γ − 2. In Equation (1), σu represents the scale parameter of the Weibull distribution and defines the microscale material toughness when the cumulative failure probability is 63.2%.
Finding fracture mechanics data in the Total Materia database
Total Materia Extended Range includes the largest database of fracture mechanics parameters for hundreds of metal alloys and heat treatments conditions. K1C, KC, crack growth and Paris law parameters are given, with the corresponding graph of crack growth.
Monotonic properties are added for the reference, as well as estimates of missing parameters based on monotonic properties where applicable.
After clicking the material from the resulting list, a list of subgroups that are standard specifications appears.
Because Total Materia Extended Range fracture mechanics parameters are neutral to standard specifications, you can review fracture mechanics data by clicking the appropriate link for any of the subgroups.
The data are given in a tabular format, with the Paris curve (Region II) where applicable. Explicit references to the data sources are given for each dataset.