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Q: what is the value of an object and when could it be null? I am starting to learn about object's array and I'm having some difficulties.
I found a simple code of the class Person and the class PersonArray and one of the methods in the PersonArray class is like this (m_Arr is a Person array):
public void Add(Person p)
        {
            if (p == null)
                Console.WriteLine("Error, param can't be null");
            if (m_Arr.Length <= m_Counter)
            {
                Array.Resize(ref m_Arr, m_Arr.Length + 10);
            }
            m_Arr[m_Counter++] = p;
        }

My question is when can p be null? I mean what values can object have so it won't be null? Also, I have another question - the m_Counter variable (which is a counter) is not initialized, but it's working without any problams. Why is it OK?

A: For p not to be null it must have been instantiated e..g
var p = new Person();
You cannot set any values for p in order for it not to be null, it has to be instantiated before you can set values on it.
As for m_counter, I'm guessing that is an integer data type, so it will be 0 by default.

A: If an object has not be instantiated then it will be NULL. When instantiated it would be an instance of a person so p = new Person(). You could also set it back to NULL like p = null;

A: m_Counter is a native type which will have it's default value.
For integer it will be zero
p can be null
to not to be null you should initialized it like
Person p = new Person();

before calling Add method

A: Every variable is initialized with a default value when you declare it (§5.2 in the C# specs.), since m_counter is an int, its default value is 0 (§4.1.2).
The compiler doesn't complain because m_counter is considered to be definitely assigned as soon as a new instance is created (§5.3.1).

A: p could be null if you write:
Person p = null;

the m_Counter seems to be a variable in the scope of the class, so it could be initialized in another part of the code, for example:
class SomeClass
{
    static int m_Counter = 0;
    static Person[] m_Arr = new Person[] { };

    public void Add(Person p)
    {
        if (p == null)
            Console.WriteLine("Error, param can't be null");
        if (m_Arr.Length <= m_Counter)
        {
            Array.Resize(ref m_Arr, m_Arr.Length + 10);
        }
        m_Arr[m_Counter++] = p;
    }
}


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package org.sonar.plugins.coverageevolution;

import java.math.RoundingMode;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.text.DecimalFormatSymbols;
import java.util.Optional;
import org.sonar.api.resources.Project;
import org.sonar.api.resources.Resource;

public final class CoverageUtils {

  public static final int MAX_PERCENTAGE = 100;

  private CoverageUtils() {}

  public static double calculateCoverage(int linesToCover, int uncoveredLines) {
    if (linesToCover == 0) {
      return MAX_PERCENTAGE;
    }

    return (1 - (((double) uncoveredLines) / linesToCover)) * MAX_PERCENTAGE;
  }

  public static String formatPercentage(double d) {

    // Defining that our percentage is precise down to 0.1%
    DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("0.0");

    // Protecting this method against non-US locales that would not use '.' as decimal separation
    DecimalFormatSymbols decimalFormatSymbols = new DecimalFormatSymbols();
    decimalFormatSymbols.setDecimalSeparator('.');
    df.setDecimalFormatSymbols(decimalFormatSymbols);

    // Making sure that we round the 0.1% properly out of the double value
    df.setRoundingMode(RoundingMode.HALF_UP);
    return df.format(d);
  }

  public static boolean roundedPercentageGreaterThan(double left, double right) {
    return (left > right) && !formatPercentage(left).equals(formatPercentage(right));
  }

  // SQ 6.x does not provide the effectiveKey anymore directly for files
  // It is still provided for modules, which makes the following code work for files and modules
  // for both SQ 5.x and 6.x
  public static String computeEffectiveKey(Resource resource, Project module) {
    return Optional.ofNullable(resource.getEffectiveKey())
        .orElseGet(() -> module.getKey() + ":" + resource.getKey());
  }
}

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Q: Script to recursively remove specific file from child paths? I've tried searching for this answer for awhile now, but can't seem to find what I'm after. Perhaps I'm wording it strangely.
I need a script that will recursively delete a specific file from each child directory in a network share.
For example:
\\\share\\*\a\b\file.settings

The * represents n number of child directories. The rest of the path will always be the same. It seems like I might be able to do this with a combination of Get-childitem and remove-item in Powershell, but I'm having trouble working out the exact command I need.
Any help would be immensely appreciated! Thanks.

A: Something like this should work:
Get-ChildItem '\\server\share' -Recurse | ? {
  $_.FullName -like '*\a\b\file.settings'
} | Remove-Item

If you're just interested in files .\a\b\file.settings in the immediate child folders of \\server\share you could simplify the code to something like this:
Get-ChildItem '\\server\share\*\a\b\file.settings' | Remove-Item

A: While I wasn't able to get this to work with Powershell, the below VBS I put together does seem to work well:
Set FSfolder = FSO.GetFolder(\\server\share)

For Each subfolder In FSfolder.SubFolders

    UserProfile=subfolder.Name
    SettingFile="\\server\share\" & UserProfile & "\a\b\file.settings"
    If FSO.FileExists(SettingFile) Then
        FSO.DeleteFile(SettingFile)
    End If

Next

A: Breaking out my comment code into long form:
$folders = Get-ChildItem "\\server\share\" -Directory

ForEach ($folder in $folders) {
    $file = Join-Path $folder.FullName "\a\b\file.settings"
    if (Test-Path $file) { Remove-Item $file }
}

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Q: Can't rebase Fedora 35 to 36 I am using Fedora 35 right now and would like to switch to version 36 but can't do that:
rpm-ostree rebase fedora:fedora/36/x86_64/silverblue
⠤ Receiving objects; 99% (366/367) 10,2 MB/s 214,5 MB
Receiving objects; 99% (366/367) 10,2 MB/s 214,5 MB... done
Checking out tree f470509... done
Enabled rpm-md repositories: fedora-cisco-openh264 updates fedora rpmfusion-free-updates rpmfusion-free rpmfusion-nonfree-updates rpmfusion-nonfree copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:lukenukem:asus-linux updates-archive
Updating metadata for 'updates'... done
Updating metadata for 'rpmfusion-free-updates'... done
Updating metadata for 'rpmfusion-nonfree-updates'... done
Updating metadata for 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:lukenukem:asus-linux'... done
Updating metadata for 'updates-archive'... done
Importing rpm-md... done
rpm-md repo 'fedora-cisco-openh264' (cached); generated: 2022-04-07T16:52:38Z solvables: 4
rpm-md repo 'updates'; generated: 2022-02-08T18:40:57Z solvables: 0
rpm-md repo 'fedora' (cached); generated: 2022-05-01T10:06:39Z solvables: 67991
rpm-md repo 'rpmfusion-free-updates'; generated: 2022-02-17T15:50:15Z solvables: 0
rpm-md repo 'rpmfusion-free' (cached); generated: 2022-04-29T12:28:10Z solvables: 506
rpm-md repo 'rpmfusion-nonfree-updates'; generated: 2022-02-17T15:50:29Z solvables: 0
rpm-md repo 'rpmfusion-nonfree' (cached); generated: 2022-04-29T12:52:47Z solvables: 225
rpm-md repo 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:lukenukem:asus-linux'; generated: 2022-02-10T06:11:29Z solvables: 4
rpm-md repo 'updates-archive'; generated: 2022-02-11T15:18:19Z solvables: 0
Resolving dependencies... done
error: Could not depsolve transaction; 3 problems detected:
 Problem 1: package kernel-devel-matched-5.17.3-302.fc36.x86_64 requires kernel-core = 5.17.3-302.fc36, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package akmods-0.5.7-7.fc36.noarch requires (kernel-devel-matched if kernel-core), but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both kernel-core-5.17.3-302.fc36.x86_64 and kernel-core-5.17.5-300.fc36.x86_64
  - package akmod-nvidia-3:510.60.02-1.fc36.x86_64 requires akmods, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
 Problem 2: package kmod-nvidia-3:510.60.02-1.fc36.x86_64 requires akmod-nvidia = 3:510.60.02-1.fc36, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-3:510.60.02-1.fc36.x86_64 requires nvidia-kmod >= 3:510.60.02, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package akmod-nvidia-3:510.60.02-1.fc36.x86_64 requires akmods, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package akmods-0.5.7-7.fc36.noarch requires (kernel-devel-matched if kernel-core), but none of the providers can be installed
  - package kernel-devel-matched-5.17.3-302.fc36.x86_64 requires kernel-core = 5.17.3-302.fc36, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both kernel-core-5.17.3-302.fc36.x86_64 and kernel-core-5.17.5-300.fc36.x86_64
  - package kernel-5.17.5-300.fc36.x86_64 requires kernel-core-uname-r = 5.17.5-300.fc36.x86_64, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
 Problem 3: package kmod-nvidia-3:510.60.02-1.fc36.x86_64 requires akmod-nvidia = 3:510.60.02-1.fc36, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-3:510.60.02-1.fc36.x86_64 requires nvidia-kmod >= 3:510.60.02, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package akmod-nvidia-3:510.60.02-1.fc36.x86_64 requires akmods, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package akmods-0.5.7-7.fc36.noarch requires (kernel-devel-matched if kernel-core), but none of the providers can be installed
  - package kernel-devel-matched-5.17.3-302.fc36.x86_64 requires kernel-core = 5.17.3-302.fc36, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both kernel-core-5.17.3-302.fc36.x86_64 and kernel-core-5.17.5-300.fc36.x86_64
  - package kernel-modules-5.17.5-300.fc36.x86_64 requires kernel-uname-r = 5.17.5-300.fc36.x86_64, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power-3:510.60.02-1.fc36.x86_64 requires xorg-x11-drv-nvidia(x86-64) = 3:510.60.02, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests

Not sure what is happening here to be honest.
Additional info:
uname -r
5.17.5-200.fc35.x86_64

rpm-ostree status
State: idle
Deployments:
● fedora:fedora/35/x86_64/silverblue
                   Version: 35.20220505.0 (2022-05-05T06:22:10Z)
                BaseCommit: 955f0c8da93ec5c97ba5f5999f9061ec9a0c7fe41c14cb5ab6f64fadcca0c511
              GPGSignature: Valid signature by 787EA6AE1147EEE56C40B30CDB4639719867C58F
       RemovedBasePackages: firefox 100.0-2.fc35
           LayeredPackages: akmod-nvidia asusctl docker-compose podman-docker rpmfusion-free-release rpmfusion-nonfree-release tlp tlp-rdw xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power

  fedora:fedora/35/x86_64/silverblue
                   Version: 35.20220503.0 (2022-05-03T14:12:49Z)
                BaseCommit: aef35d7e7acf22ce7251f954679c73047cd889371d91dd21b228ce7ac0688b27
              GPGSignature: Valid signature by 787EA6AE1147EEE56C40B30CDB4639719867C58F
           LayeredPackages: akmod-nvidia asusctl docker-compose podman-docker rpmfusion-free-release rpmfusion-nonfree-release tlp tlp-rdw xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power

  fedora:fedora/35/x86_64/silverblue
                   Version: 35.20220503.0 (2022-05-03T14:12:49Z)
                BaseCommit: aef35d7e7acf22ce7251f954679c73047cd889371d91dd21b228ce7ac0688b27
              GPGSignature: Valid signature by 787EA6AE1147EEE56C40B30CDB4639719867C58F
           LayeredPackages: akmod-nvidia asusctl rpmfusion-free-release rpmfusion-nonfree-release tlp tlp-rdw xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power
                    Pinned: yes

What can I do to update to newer version?

A: Assuming you've followed the instructions on pinning your current version, go ahead and do the following.
rpm-ostree reset

This will remove all the packages that have all sorts of dependencies on 35.
rpm-ostree rebase fedora:fedora/36/x86_64/silverblue

This performs your upgrade.
Now rpm-ostree install all your $oftware. To figure out what those packages are, rpm-ostree status will show you the pinned versions and the layered packages. If you used any fusion packages (which you probably did), you'll need to add those repositories before you can install. RPM Fusion Config instructions


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Q: what is the word to be used when describing your subordinate achievements what is the apt word that is to be used to describe the enthusiasm to learn and involve in work.

Completed the assigned work well within the time and also proactive in learning the subject.

Does the above statements make any sense, I would like to recommend his promotion also  please give suggestions

A: I would recommend
a quick study:
"one that can speedily learn the essentials of something to be done
especially : a performer (as an actor, musician) with a gift for learning with remarkable speed new material (as lines, stage business, scores)"
(Merriam-Webster's Dictionary


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•	Ask for a referral from your family members, current dentist or friends.
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You are here: Home / News / 2019 / November
Proposed Solar Farm – Yelvertoft
November 23, 2019 /in News /by Samantha Haywood
A solar farm is proposed for the land on Crick Road.
All residents are invited to a public exhibition where they can learn more and view the plans.
Tuesday 3rd December 2019, 4.30 to 7.30pm, Reading Room, High Street.
Plans are expected to be submitted in the first quarter of 2020.
0 0 Samantha Haywood Samantha Haywood2019-11-23 17:31:422019-11-23 17:31:42Proposed Solar Farm - Yelvertoft
Affordable Housing – Proposed new development in Yelvertoft
A representative from Daventry District Council (DDC) and a representative from Northants Housing Association (NHA) confirmed that following the housing needs survey carried out earlier in the year, there is a need for affordable housing. A plot of land at the top of Hillmorton Lane has been identified for four bungalows and five houses. Five of the properties will remain affordable in perpetuity. There will be a mix of rented, shared ownership, and market housing. This will be a rural exception site but will not set a precedent for future development outside of the village boundary. The Parish Council can be involved at all stages of the development.
The Parish Council have advised that they would prefer not to have responsibility for further street lighting. NHA confirmed that there are alternatives such as PIR lighting. There may be a need for a new street light at the top of Hillmorton Lane.
NHA confirmed that the properties will be eco e.g. airsource heat pumps. Solar panels can be considered.
NHA confirmed that the properties will meet national standards e.g. larger properties, bungalows having wet rooms.
0 0 Samantha Haywood Samantha Haywood2019-11-22 10:10:322019-11-22 10:10:32Affordable Housing - Proposed new development in Yelvertoft
Yelvertoft Parish Council
We, the undersigned, commit to honour the Armed Forces Covenant and support the Armed Forces
Community. We recognise the value Serving Personnel, both Regular and Reservists, Veterans and military families contribute to our business and our country.
The Armed Forces Covenant
An Enduring Covenant Between
The People of the United Kingdom
Her Majesty's Government
All those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces of the Crown
The first duty of Government is the defence of the realm. Our Armed Forces fulfil that responsibility on behalf of the Government, sacrificing some civilian freedoms, facing danger and, sometimes, suffering serious injury or death as a result of their duty. Families also play a vital role in supporting the operational effectiveness of our Armed Forces. In return, the whole nation has a moral obligation to the members of the Naval Service, the Army and the Royal Air Force, together with their families. They deserve our respect and support, and fair treatment.
Those who serve in the Armed Forces, whether Regular or Reserve, those who have served in the past, and their families, should face no disadvantage compared to other citizens in the provision of public and commercial services. Special consideration is appropriate in some cases, especially for those who have given most such as the injured and the bereaved.
This obligation involves the whole of society: it includes voluntary and charitable bodies, private organisations, and the actions of individuals in supporting the Armed Forces. Recognising those who have performed military duty unites the country and demonstrates the value of their contribution. This has no greater expression than in upholding this Covenant.
Section 1: Principles of the Armed Forces Covenant
We Yelvertoft Parish Council will endeavour in our business dealings to uphold the key principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, which are:
no member of the Armed Forces Community should face disadvantage in the provision of public and commercial services compared to any other citizen
in some circumstances special treatment may be appropriate especially for the injured or bereaved.
Section 2: Demonstrating our Commitment
2.1 We recognise the value of serving personnel, reservists, veterans and military families; and will aim to uphold the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, by:
Armed Forces Champion: appointing an Armed Forces Champion to promote support for the Armed Forces community;
Promoting the Armed Forces: promoting the fact that we are an Armed Forces-friendly Council, to our members and wider public; celebrating the work of the Armed Forces and encouraging positive interaction between them and members of the public;
Veterans: Recognising that military veterans are a valued part of our community; facilitating and encouraging their participation in civic and community events; providing a link to the Veterans Gateway on our website; encouraging local businesses to support the employment of veterans;
Service Spouses & Partners: encouraging local businesses to support the employment of Service spouses and partners;
Reserves: encouraging local businesses to support the employment of Reservists;
Cadet Organisations: encouraging support for and membership of local military cadet units;
Armed Forces Events: promoting Armed Forces events such as local Breakfast Clubs, Coffee Mornings, Armed Forces Day, Reserves Day, the Poppy Appeal Day and Remembrance activities;
Armed Forces Charities: encouraging support for Armed Forces charities;.
Commercial Support: encouraging local businesses to consider offering discounts to members of the Armed Forces community.
2.2 We will publicise these commitments through our social media and on our website, setting out how we will seek to honour them and inviting feedback from the Service community and our customers on how we are doing.
0 0 Samantha Haywood Samantha Haywood2019-11-21 10:39:052019-11-21 10:39:05Armed Forces Covenant
You may have heard about what3words. It can be very beneficial for remote villages. Northamptonshire emergency services are using the scheme.
what3words has divided the globe into 3m squares and given each one a unique 3 word address. It means everywhere can be located with just three words. For example ///kite.chats.dine will take you to a precise spot in a field next to the River Ouse in York.
what3words is available as a free app for iOS and Android and online map.
Very useful for those who enjoy countryside walks and horse riding.
For further info please visit https://what3words.com/news/emergency/uk-emergency-services-rollout-what3words-in-control-rooms-to-save-resources-time-and-lives/
0 0 Samantha Haywood Samantha Haywood2019-11-15 16:15:182019-11-15 16:15:18what3words
New Ultrafast Broadband for Yelvertoft
Work starts to install new ultrafast broadband by Gigaclear in November 2019 and will be completed by May 2020. A message from Gigaclear:
Gigaclear are currently building your ultrafast, full fibre broadband network. During this phase our contractors will be in your community installing the fibre cables needed to bring you the best broadband speeds in the country.
For any questions during the build phase, please contact our dedicated Network Build Care team:
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Your guide to key dates in General Election countdown
November 4, 2019 /in News /by Samantha Haywood
Residents are being advised of some important deadlines in the run-up to the General Election on 12 December.
Daventry District Council verifies and counts the votes for the Daventry Parliamentary Constituency, which includes Daventry District as well as to two wards from the borough of Wellingborough (Earls Barton and West) and the South Northamptonshire district wards of Harpole & Grange, and Heyfords & Bugbrooke.
People who are not already registered to vote have until midnight on Tuesday 26 November to do so if they wish to vote in this General Election. The quickest and easiest way to do this is at www.gov.uk/registertovote
The deadline to apply for, or cancel, a postal vote is 5pm on Tuesday 26 November. Once people have received their postal vote they should mark their vote on the ballot paper and send it back so that it arrives by close of poll, which is 10pm on Thursday 12 December.
Anyone who cannot get to a polling station and wishes to appoint someone to vote on their behalf can apply for a proxy vote up to 5pm on Wednesday 4 December, though if an elector falls ill or is called away on business after this date they may be able to apply for a proxy vote up to 5pm on 12 December
Proxy and postal vote application forms can be requested by contacting Daventry District Council's Electoral Services team at electoralservices@daventrydc.gov.uk or on 01327 871100.
0 0 Samantha Haywood Samantha Haywood2019-11-04 14:38:302019-11-04 14:38:30Your guide to key dates in General Election countdown


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Issue #23 (Summer 2011) - Personnel
Jeff Alessandrelli is the author of Erik Satie Watusies His Way Into Sound (Ravenna Press, 2011). Recent work appears in Octopus, DIAGRAM, Laurel Review, Western Humanities Review, Sentence, Hotel Amerika and Quarterly West, among others. He lives in Nebraska with his dog, Beckett.
Winner of this year's Amy Lowell travelling scholarship, Elizabeth Arnold is the author of three books, including Effacement, which was published by Flood Editions in March. Her poems have appeared recently in Poetry and Paris Review.
Matt Bialer's photography is in the permanent collections of The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of the City of New York and The New York Public Library. A book entitled The Best of America Watermedia II (Kennedy Publishing, 2010) will feature his landscapes. His poems have appeared in Green Mountains Review, Retort Magazine and Le Zaporogue.
Mark Bibbins has two books of poems, The Dance of No Hard Feelings (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), and the Lambda Award-winning Sky Lounge. He teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School, where he co-founded LIT magazine, and Columbia University.
Sean Bishop received his MFA from the University of Houston, where he was the managing editor of Gulf Coast from 2008-2010. His poems have appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Mid-American Review, The Minnesota Review, Ninth Letter, Poetry, and elsewhere. He was a 2007 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellow, and beginning in August 2010 he will be the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Luke Bloomfield lives in a Northeast void. He has poems in Invisible Ear and various online publications, chapbooks forthcoming from Brave Men Press and Factory Hollow Press.
Erika Jo Brown is from New York, where she founded Stretching Panties magazine. A recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, her work can be found at H_NGM_N, Spork online and some other places. Her chapbook, What a Lark!, was published by Further Adventures Press this year. Her wingspan is roughly equivalent to that of a turkey vulture.
Thea Brown is currently a second-year MFA student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an official Iowa City Dog Park attendant. Her favorite patrons tend to be basset hounds. She also co-curates the Monsters of Poetry reading series (www.monstersofpoetry.org) in Madison, Wisconsin.
Kai Carlson-Wee was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, grew up in Northfield and Moorhead, Minnesota, moved to California for a while, returned to Minneapolis, went abroad for a while, spent the last few years traveling around, living here and there, doing this and that, hiking to high places, surviving himself as a cook. He likes to drink coffee and watch movies and rollerblade. He is currently working on his MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MRB Chelko is a recent graduate of The University of New Hampshire's MFA program and Editorial Assistant of the unbound journal, Tuesday; An Art Project. She has poems in current or forthcoming issues of AGNI Online, Court Green, Clementine, DIAGRAM, Lake Effect, Weave and in back-issues of many other fine journals. Chelko's poems have been featured on Verse Daily and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook is What to Tell the Sleeping Babies (sunnyoutside, 2010). She lives in Central Harlem with her husband, Nick, and dog, Chuck.
Amanda Chiado is utterly swamped in research, busy kissing so many Monsters, Superheros and Bimbos for her nearly complete collection of poetry. Life is but a pot of gore, bravery and beauty, she thinks. Amanda teaches in San Jose, but sprung up from Albuquerque. Enchiladas are the only thing she really knows how to cook.
James Cihlar is the author of Undoing (Little Pear Press), and his poems have appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Quercus, Bloom, Minnesota Monthly, Northeast, The James White Review, Briar Cliff Review, Verse Daily, Emprise Review, Newport Review, and in the anthologies Aunties (Ballantine), Regrets Only (Little Pear Press), and Nebraska Presence (Backwaters Press). The Books Review Editor for American Poetry Journal, he has also published reviews in the Minneapolis Star Tribune and on the poetry site Coldfront. The recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship for Poetry and a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, Cihlar lives in St. Paul.
Jackie Clark is Editor-in-Chief of LIT magazine. She is also the series editor of Poets off Poetry on coldfrontmag.com, where poets write about music. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming from Sixth Finch, Fou and Realpoetik, among other places. She lives in Jersey City.
Evan Commander is a poet and current lead singer of the Sex Pistols cover band Johnny Rotten Scoundrels.
Nina Corwin is the author of Conversations With Friendly Demons and Tainted Saints and The Uncertainty of Maps (upcoming 2011, CW Books). Her work appears in ACM, H-NGM-N, Hotel Amerika, New Ohio Review/nor, Parthenon West, Southern Poetry Review and Verse and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A psychotherapist in daylight hours, she has twice served as guest editor for Fifth Wednesday Journal and curates literary events at Chicago's Woman Made Gallery.
Liz Countryman lives in Texas, where she is a PhD candidate at the University of Houston and a Poetry Editor at Gulf Coast. Her poems most recently appear in Washington Square and Hayden's Ferry.
Nick Courtright's poetry has recently appeared in The Southern Review, Boston Review, and The Kenyon Review Online, among numerous others, and a chapbook, Elegy for the Builder's Wife, is out with Blue Hour Press. He is a music critic and interviewer for the Austinist, and teaches at Southwestern and St. Edward's Universities. Despite insistent remonstrations, his young son, William, continues to throw his food.
J.L. Conrad's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Pleiades, H_NGM_N, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Southeast Review, Third Coast, The Brooklyn Review, Alligator Juniper, and The Cream City Review, among others. A Cartography of Birds, her first collection of poems, was published by Louisiana State University Press (2002). A chapbook, Species of Light, was published by Bellywater Press (2004). She is currently working toward a PhD in Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Weston Cutter is the author of You'd Be a Stranger, Too, the editor of Corduroy Books, and is from Minnesota.
Gro Dahle's debut poetry collection Audiens revived the Norwegian poetry scene in 1987. Since then, Gro has written over 30 books and has gained critical acclaim across Scandinavia. Her controversial collection A hundred thousand hours (Hundre tusen timer, Cappelen Damm, 1996) is her first collection to appear in English. She lives on the island Tjøme.
Adam Day's work has appeared in the Boston Review, American Poetry Review, Guernica, The Kenyon Review, FIELD, Verse Daily, The Iowa Review, BOMB, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for 2008 and 2009 Pushcart Prizes, and included in Best New Poets 2008. He is the recipient of a Kentucky Arts Council grant, and a Ragdale Foundation residency. He coordinates The Baltic Writing Residency in Latvia, and is a contributing editor to the online literary journal Memorious.
Sarah Dimick graduated with an MFA from New York University in 2010. She now lives in Minnesota, where she wakes up to the sounds of her neighbors' chickens and writes poetry underneath an industrial wind turbine.
Matthew Donne has had poems in H_NGM_N and InDigest. He's moving out of Montreal, Canada, and plans to re-assume form in Toronto.
Adam Fell is the author of I AM NOT A PIONEER and the chapbook Ten Keys to Being a Champion On and Off the Field both published by H_NGM_N BKS. He teaches at Edgewood College in Madison, WI, where he co-curates the Monsters of Poetry reading series.
Jessica Goodfellow's manuscript, The Insomniac's Weather Report, recently won the Three Candles Press First Book Prize. She also has a poetry chapbook, A Pilgrim's Guide to Chaos in the Heartland. Jessica's work has appeared in Best New Poets 2006, on Verse Daily and NPR's The Writer's Almanac. She is a recipient of the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize from the Beloit Poetry Journal. A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Jessica lives in Japan with her husband and sons.
A.T. Grant is from Tennessee and lives in Minneapolis. He writes poems. He also writes songs and plays in a band called New South Bear.
Sarah Green is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Ohio University. Poems of hers have recently appeared in FIELD, H_NGM_N, and The Cortland Review. She is the recipient of a 2009 Pushcart Prize.
Matthew Guenette's first book, Sudden Anthem, won the 2007 American Poetry Journal Prize from Dream Horse Press. His second collection, American Busboy, was named an Editor's Choice in the 2010 University of Akron Press Poetry Book Prize and will be published in 2011.
Carrie Hohmann is a graduate of NYU's Creative Writing program. Originally from Oil City, Pennsylvania, she currently resides in Brooklyn. If you ask nicely she will bake you a pie: peach, raspberry, blueberry, and pumpkin are most preferred.
Melanie Hubbard lives with her family in Ruskin, FL. They have a bat problem. In the attic. They also have a raccoon problem, or the problem of the missing chicken, and the smashed eggs in the pen. They have a gecko problem, though they're rather sweet, darting out over the bedroom walls at night. They do not, so far, have a possum problem or a rat problem. The cat-problem solves that. There is a snake problem, but only if you consider it to be a problem. They no longer have an ant problem, though there is the wasp problem. The poet problem is under a doctor's care.
Seth Landman lives in Denver, CO. He is the editor of Invisible Ear, a magazine and chapbook series, and also co-edits Agnes Fox Press. He has poems appearing or forthcoming in Glitterpony, Skein, Jubilat, Jellyfish, Boston Review, Sir!, VOLT, and other places.
John Loughlin works in technology sales in Chicago's Loop. He has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His poems have appeared in Anti-, Barn Owl Review, Drunken Boat, Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, and many others journals.
Rebecca Lehmann is originally from Wisconsin. Her poems have been published, or are forthcoming, in Denver Quarterly, Tin House, The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, Conduit, and other journals. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, has been a Resident at The Millay Colony for the Arts, and is currently a PhD candidate at Florida State University, specializing in poetry and literary theory.
Alex Lemon is a poet and memoirist. He is the author of Happy (Scribner), the poetry collections Mosquito (Tin House Books), Hallelujah Blackout (Milkweed Editions), Fancy Beasts (Milkweed Editions) and the chapbook At Last Unfolding Congo (horse less press). His writing has appeared in Esquire, Best American Poetry 2008, Satellite Convulsions, Tin House, The Bloomsbury Review, The Southern Review, AGNI and jubilat, among others. Among his awards are a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant. He is co-editor of LUNA: A Journal of Poetry and Translation and is a frequent book reviewer. He teaches at Texas Christian University and lives digitally at www.alexlemon.com.
Matt McBride's work has recently appeared in or is forthcoming from FENCE, Little Red Leaves, Meridian, Mississippi Review, New Collage, Packingtown Review, Ruminate, and Sub-Lit. His chapbook, The Space between Stars was released on Kent State's Wick Poetry Press in 2007. He works on staff at two journals, Memorious.org and the Cincinnati Review. He is co-curator, with Ruth Williams, of the Bon Mot/ley reading series.
Philip Muller is from Fort Pierce, Florida. His poems appear in jellyfish magazine and H_NGM_N. He is trying to figure out where to move next.
Jenna Nissan is originally from New York but currently teaches second grade in Hartford, CT through Teach for America. When she is not writing fiction, she is creating it in her classroom; her students believe in her close friendships with Spiderman and Harry Potter. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland, College Park. This is her first publication.
Alexis Orgera is the author of How Like Foreign Objects (H_NGM_N BKS, 2011) and two chapbooks, Illuminatrix (Forklift Ink, 2009) and Dear Friends, The Birds Were Wonderful! (Blue Hour Press, 2009). You can occasionally catch her talking shop at HTMLGiant.com.
Micah Perks is the author of a novel, We Are Gathered Here, a memoir, Pagan Time, and many short stories, published most recently in Chicago Quarterly Review, ZYZZYVA, and Encyclopedia Project. Her stories have twice been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and she received an NEA grant in 2008 for the first chapter of a novel she has just finished. She lives in Santa Cruz, California with her family.
Kiki Petrosino is the author of Fort Red Border (Sarabande, 2009). She lives and teaches in Louisville.
Jessica Piazza has seen some things. Terrible, terrible things. Right now she's getting a PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Southern California. She has had (or will soon have) poems in Agni, Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, Rattle, No Tell Motel, 42 Opus and a bunch of other fun places. Sometimes she writes fiction. Sometimes she writes fiction in iambs. Sometimes she writes personal essays about drug dealers, S&M and gourmet food. Occasionally she blogs for really cool folks like Best American Poetry and Barrelhouse. Her interests include her dog, Special, and being your best friend ever.
Nate Pritts is the author of 4 books of poems, most recently The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon) and Big Bright Sun (BlazeVOX). He is the founder and principal editor of H_NGM_N and H_NGM_N BKS.
Martin Rock lives in Brooklyn. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Tuesday; An Art Project, and NANO Fiction. He is the co-author, with Phillip D. Ischy, of the chapbook Fish, You Bird, which was published by Pilot Books. He recently learned to breathe under water, and would like to spend more time there.
Dan Rosenberg's poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Subtropics, Third Coast, 6X6, and Conduit, among others. His chapbook, A Thread of Hands, was just published by Tilt Press.
Jeff Sirkin is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing Department at the University of Texas, El Paso, where he teaches twentieth century literature and culture. In addition to writing poetry, he has written about the intersections between popular music and twentieth century fiction and poetry.
Lauren Shapiro received an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have been published in POOL, Passages North, Drunken Boat, 32 Poems, notnostrums, and Thermos, among other publications. She is an assistant professor at Herzing University in Madison, Wisconsin.
Amanda Smeltz holds an MFA in poetry from The New School. Her work appears in the anthology Why I Am Not a Painter and is forthcoming in Callaloo. She makes a living selling wine at a restaurant in Manhattan; her happy abode is in Brooklyn. If you make nice with her, she'll probably cook you something delicious.
Originally from the midwest, Tricia Taaca moved to New York to earn her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and become a cheesemonger. Currently, she lives in Harlem where she spends her days teaching aerobics, baking, writing poems, and cavorting with her dog, Mister Peanut. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Lumina, Chaffey Review, Sonora Review, Washington Square Review, and Harpur Palate. She teaches poetry at Berkeley College.
Paige Taggart lives in Brooklyn. Her chapbook Polaroid Parade is forthcoming with Greying Ghost Press. She has an e-chapbook, Won't Be A Girl with Scantily Clad Press. She was a 2009 NYFA Fellow. Peruse her blog: mactaggartjewelry.blogspot.com.
Michael Teig is the author of Big Back Yard (BOA Editions, 2003) and a founding editor of jubilat. Recent poems appear in A Public Space, Conduit and FIELD. He lives in Easthampton, MA, where he works as a freelance writer and editor.
Anthony Tognazzini's collection of short fiction, I Carry A Hammer in My Pocket for Occasions Such As These, is available from BOA Editions. He lives in Brooklyn.
Brian Trimboli completed his MFA at New York University. He has been awarded fellowships to Bucknell's Seminar for Younger Poets, the Catskill Poetry workshop, and was selected to help lead NYU's Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Writers Workshop. His poems most recently appeared in The Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, Third Coast, and H_NGM_N.
M.A. Vizsolyi teaches ice skating and ice hockey in Central Park in New York City, where he lives with his wife, the poet Margarita Delcheva. Recent work will appear in 6x6, Slice Magazine, Sixth Finch, and Lungfull!.
Rebecca Wadlinger is a PhD candidate at the University of Houston where she works as the managing editor of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art. She received fellowships from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. Her work appears in The Disco Prairie Social Aid and Pleasure Club anthology (Factory Hollow Press, 2010).
G.C. Waldrep lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania with five azaleas, three beds of peonies, a rose bush, two quinces, assorted hostas and rhododendrons, and a jack-in-the-pulpit. He edits the journal West Branch and serves as Editor-at-Large for The Kenyon Review.
W. Vandoren Wheeler was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He cracked his head open on the playground in the 2nd, 4th, and 6th grades; he began writing seriously in the 8th grade. His poems appear in H_NGM_N, Swink, and elsewhere. He lives and teaches in Portland, Oregon, and is tweaking his manuscript The Accidentalist.
Dean Young's most recent book is Fall Higher.
Matthew Zapruder is the author of three poetry collections: American Linden, The Pajamaist, and Come On All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon, 2010). He is an editor for Wave Books, a member of the permanent faculty in the low-residency MFA program at UC Riverside-Palm Desert, and was the Holloway Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley in the Fall of 2010. He lives in San Francisco.
Elizabeth Zuba is a poet and visual artist who lives in Brooklyn. Some of her work appears in Versal, Handsome, American Letters & Commentary and Aufgabe, among terrific others. She translates the work of Spanish poet Carlos Pardo and Argentine Arnaldo Calveyra, and recently co-edited an anthology of American poetry, La Familia Americana, for Cosmopoetica in Spain.


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The University of Maine(0-1) football team opened up the 2017 season with a little twist, heading to Durham to take on the No. 16 University of New Hampshire(1-0), a matchup that normally occurs in late November. What did stay the same was the end result, as the Black Bears fell for the eighth consecutive meeting, 24-23.
The Wildcats started the game off carving through the Black Bear defense, running the ball eight times for 56 yards. Third-year quarterback Trevor Knight connected with redshirt second-year wide receiver Nick Lorden for a 12-yard touchdown to put New Hampshire on the board 7-0 with 11:12 left in the quarter.
Maine was able to answer right back in their opening drive. Second-year running back Josh Mack popped off a 33-yard run on the first play from scrimmage into New Hampshire territory, followed by another run for 12 yards. The Black Bears kept chipping away with short to midrange gains, capped off by a four-yard touchdown pass from redshirt second-year quarterback Chris Ferguson to fourth-year wide receiver Jaleel Reed to knot the score at 7-7 with 7:21 left in the first.
The Wildcats struck back later in the quarter. Fourth-year defensive back Jason Matovu intercepted a pass at the New Hampshire 45-yard line, but the play was called dead on a Maine holding penalty. This gave the Wildcats another chance, and they capitalized on a trick play, with third-year wide receiver Neil O'Connor finding second-year receiver Malik Love for a 60-yard touchdown pass to put them up 14-7 with 33 seconds left in the quarter.
Maine would answer back with 8:31 left in the second quarter. The Black Bears chipped away with a drive before settling for a 35-yard field goal from first-year kicker Kenny Doak, making the score 14-10.
With 5:06 left in the half, New Hampshire would receive excellent field position, starting their drive at the Maine 41-yard line, then receiving 10 free yards on a Black Bear holding penalty. The Maine defense would hold the Wildcats to a field goal, running the score to 17-10 with 3:07 left in the half.
Both teams traded off possessions to start the second half, with neither offense able to get anything going. The Black Bears would finally break through after redshirt third-year Darrius Hart intercepted a pass. Ferguson found Reed for a 33-yard touchdown on the very next play, and Doak's extra point tied the game at 17 with 5:11 to go in the quarter.
The Wildcats would answer back in the fourth, wearing down the Black Bear defense with a 14-play drive covering 75 yards, capped by an 11-yard touchdown pass from Knight to third-year wide receiver Rory Donovan to put them up 24-17 with 13:41 to go in the game.
Maine would put a long drive together of their own with 13:35 left in the game. In his first game as a tight end, redshirt third-year Drew Belcher hauled in a pass for a 29-yard pickup down to the New Hampshire 22–yard line to give the Black Bears an excellent chance to score. A personal foul call put the Black Bears inside the 10, but they struggled to move the ball. Maine would finally put the dagger in when Ferguson found fourth-year tight end Jason Simonovich for a 4-yard touchdown. A missed extra point would help the Wildcats maintain a very slim 24-23 lead.
Maine had one last chance to go ahead, with 2:45 to go in the fourth. The Black Bears moved the ball into New Hampshire territory with ease, but the wheels then fell off for Ferguson, who was sacked at midfield and fumbled, luckily recovered by Maine. On the next play, Ferguson's pass was intercepted by the Wildcats' second-year linebacker Quinlen Dean, putting the game on ice.
Ferguson played well in his first collegiate game, going 23-44 for 239 yards and three touchdowns and two interceptions (both coming in the fourth quarter), while finding seven different receivers. Mack finished with 103 yards on 27 carries, while adding five catches and 20 yards. On the defensive side of the ball, redshirt second-year linebacker Jaron Grayer finished with 10 tackles to lead the team.
The Black Bears will play their home opener on Saturday, Sept. 9 against Bryant University. Kick-off is scheduled for 3:30. New Hampshire will travel to Statesboro, Ga. to play Georgia Southern on Saturday, Sept. 9. Their kick-off is scheduled for 6 p.m.


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A Hotelling Model with a Ceiling on the Stock of Pollution
Chakravorty, Ujjayant
Magné, Bertrand
Moreaux, Michel
Ujjayant Chakravorty
Michel Moreaux
The Kyoto Protocol aims to stabilize the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere, which is mainly caused by the burning of nonrenewable resources such as coal in power generation. We ask how a ceiling on the stock of emissions may a.ect the textbook Hotelling model. We show that when the ceiling is binding, both the low-cost nonrenewable resource (coal) and the high-cost renewable resource (solar energy) may be used jointly. Emissions may be reduced at any given time through abatement or by replacing coal with solar energy, but not both. If energy demand declines in the long run, we obtain a zigzag pattern of resource use: coal is used first, followed by the joint use of coal and clean solar energy when the ceiling is tight, reverting to coal again when emissions are no longer binding, and finally to solar energy when coal is exhausted.
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Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Q32 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q41 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
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KYR: Guides in Dari, Pashto for Afghan Refugees
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, released 'Know Your Rights' guides in Dari and Pashto for Afghan refugees arriving in the United States following attempts by xenophobic politicians to incite bigotry and discrimination against them.
Following the collapse of the former Afghan government last month, tens of thousands of Afghans fled the country, with thousands arriving in the United States. CAIR released the guides to help ensure that Afghans know their rights when dealing with law enforcement, when targeted by hate crimes, when travelling, and in school and the workplace.
White supremacists have threatened violence against Afghan refugees, and some right-wing politicians and media outlets have maligned them as dangerous.
In a statement, CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert S. McCaw said:
"Afghan refugees entering the United States face the challenge of rebuilding their lives in a new social, legal and cultural environment while also confronting the risk of bigots who may try to take advantage of their vulnerability. We must ensure that Afghan refugees know their rights so that they can stand up for their rights and safely establish new lives."
McCaw added that the Dari and Pashto-language civil rights materials may be printed out for distribution.
Download Guides Below:
SEE: CAIR 'Know Your Rights' Guides in Dari:
KYR As a Student
KYR As an Employee
KYR With Law Enforcement
KYR While Traveling
KYR Responding to Hate Crimes
SEE: CAIR 'Know Your Rights' Guides in Pashto:
CAIR also offers these guides in other languages as well as "Know Your Rights" workshops in which attorneys discuss protecting civil and religious rights.
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Immigration crackdown: a political squeeze play?
Is Bush using Chertoff to squeeze employers to squeeze Republican Senators?
Is it just possible that Bush hasn't lost hope of pushing comprehensive immigration reform through the Senate, and has unleashed Chertoff to put pressure on the employers of cheap illegal-immigrant labor so that they will in turn put pressure on their tame Republican Senators?
If that's the play, I doubt it will work.
In ordinary circumstances the rich, smart greedheads that make up the money half of the Republican coalition can outmaneuver the not-so-rich, not-so smart haters that make up the voting half, because the greedheads know the score and the haters are almost infinitely bamboozleable.
But when the haters are mobilized, as they are in this case, defying them is too dangerous. In politics, money is useful, but votes are essential.


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Unthinkable is one of the sickest, most mentally disturbing films in existence. Its deceptive marketing leads one to believe, it is a film about law enforcement honorably prevailing over terrorists. However, it is anything but that.
It stars Samuel L. Jackson, as a CIA operative named "H" who is used to interrogate terrorist suspects. However, the film quickly takes a nasty detour into torture. Very grotesque torture, might I add, which does not reflect well on the government or Hollywood for filming this nastiness, as it shall only incite terrorism, not discourage it.
Spoiler Alert: There are a group of scenes in which, an American born Muslim convert, named Yusuf, has turned to terrorism and is tortured by the U.S. government in very vicious ways. This makes for very graphic, unpleasant, stomach turning viewing.
When Yusuf refuses to break, his Muslim wife and small children are detained and brought into the torture chamber by the government, where he is forced to watch as his spouse's neck is spontaneously, mercilessly and viciously slashed by the CIA operative, leaving her to loudly gasp for air and bleed to death, right before his eyes.
Why Hollywood thought it appropriate to bring such a disgusting thing to the screen, testifies to their imprudence, insanity and lack of basic commonsense. How could such a sick film possibly help the U.S. government and America by default. It will only serve to provoke Muslims to rage. The Celluloid Film Review does not recommend this terrible, depraved film. Once again, Hollywood never knows when to quit.


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Earth Can Make Auroras Without Solar Activity
September 20, 2021 / Dr.Tony Phillips - NASA
Sept. 24, 2021: No solar storms? No problem. Earth has learned to make its own auroras. New results from NASA's THEMIS-ARTEMIS spacecraft show that a type of Northern Lights called "diffuse auroras" comes from our own planet – no solar storms required.
Diffuse auroras look a bit like pea soup. They spread across the sky in a dim green haze, sometimes rippling as if stirred by a spoon. They're not as flamboyant as auroras caused by solar storms. Nevertheless, they are important because they represent a whopping 75% of the energy input into Earth's upper atmosphere at night. Researchers have been struggling to understand them for decades.
Above: Diffuse auroras and the Big Dipper,
photographed by Emmanuel V. Masongsong in Fairbanks, AK
"We believe we have found the source of these auroras," says UCLA space physicist Xu Zhang, lead author of papers reporting the results in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics and Physics of Plasmas.
It is Earth itself.
Earth performs this trick using electron beams. High above our planet's poles, beams of negatively-charged particles shoot upward into space, accelerated by electric fields in Earth's magnetosphere. Sounding rockets and satellites discovered the beams decades ago. It turns out, they can power the diffuse auroras.
The video below shows how it works. The beams travel in great arcs through the space near Earth. As they go, they excite ripples in the magnetosphere called Electron Cyclotron Harmonic (ECH) waves. Turn up the volume and listen to the waves recorded by THEMIS-ARTEMIS:
Above: A great electrical circuit in space powering diffuse auroras. ECH waves were sonified by NASA's HARP (Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas) software.
ECH waves, in turn, knock other electrons out of their orbits, forcing them to fall back down onto the atmosphere. This rain of secondary electrons powers the diffuse auroras.
"This is exciting," says UCLA professor Vassilis Angelopoulos, a co-author of the papers and lead of the THEMIS-ARTEMIS mission. "We have found a totally new way that particle energy can be transferred from Earth's own atmosphere out to the magnetosphere and back again, creating a giant feedback loop in space."
According to Angelopoulos, Earth's polar electron beams1 sometimes weaken but they never completely go away2, not even during periods of low solar activity. This means Earth can make auroras without solar storms.
The sun is currently experiencing periods of quiet as young Solar Cycle 25 sputters to life. Pea soup, anyone? [Note: Solar Cycle 25 is accelerating. MS}
(1) Why do these electron beams exist? Earth's magnetosphere is buzzing with energetic particles. Many of them are captured from the solar wind. When these particles strike the top of Earth's atmosphere (the ionosphere), they dislodge electrons. Electric fields, which form naturally in Earth's spinning magnetosphere, grab the liberated electrons and accelerate them skyward in collimated beams.
(2) Why don't the beams ever go away? Short answer: because the solar wind never stops blowing. Even when the sun is quiet, Earth's magnetosphere is jostled and energized by the ever-present solar wind. As a result, electrons are always being knocked off the top of Earth's atmosphere as described in Note #1. Although solar storms are not required for this process, solar storms can help. For instance, when a CME strikes Earth's magnetosphere, the contents of the magnetosphere become extra-energized. Lots of particles furiously strike the top of Earth's atmosphere, liberating even more electrons than usual. Earth's electron beams can thus become super-charged. When the storm subsides, the electron beams may weaken, but they never vanish because even the quiet sun produces solar wind.
Zhang, X., Angelopoulos, V., Artemyev, A. V., Zhang, X.-J. (2021), Beam-driven ECH waves: A parametric study, Phys. Plasmas, 28, 072902, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0053187
Zhang, X., Angelopoulos, V., Artemyev, A. V., Zhang, X.‐J., Liu, J. (2021). Beam‐driven electron cyclotron harmonic waves in Earth's magnetotail. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028743. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028743s
https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2021/09/20/earth-can-makes-its-own-auroras/
ALSO... STEVE'S SIDEKICK:
Although STEVE is not an aurora, he has an aurora side-kick: the "picket fence." Evenly-spaced blobs of green light often appear alongside or underneath STEVE during geomagnetic storms. Alan Dyer photographed these specimens on March 13th:
"STEVE put on a great show, appearing first as the characteristic purple arc then developing green picket fence fingers rippling from east to west," says Dyer.
What are these green pickets? A team of researchers led by Toshi Nishimura of Boston University may have found the answer. Using data from NASA's THEMIS spacecraft, they pinpointed STEVE's power source. More than 22,000 km above Earth's surface, magnetic explosions called "substorms" hurl streams of hot plasma toward Earth. When the streams reach an altitude ~250 km above Earth's surface, they begin to emit a soft-purple light. This is STEVE.
The same explosions spray energetic electrons toward Earth. The electrons move even deeper into the atmosphere, all the way down to 100 km, where they ignite fingers of green auroras. This is the picket fence.
So when you see STEVE, look for his sidekick as well. Sometimes the picket fence appears first, so one can herald the other. Either way, it's a beautiful show.
A NEW TYPE OF AURORA--"THE DUNES":
A new type of aurora is rippling across Arctic skies. Citizen scientists who discovered it nicknamed it "The Dunes" because of its resemblance to desert sand dunes. A paper published in the Jan. 28th issue of AGU Advances describes the new form and the unexpected physics that causes it.
Above: Aurora dunes over Latilla, Finland, on Oct. 7, 2018. Credit: Pirjo Koski. [more]
Dune-shaped auroras form in a narrow altitude range 80 km to 120 km above Earth's surface. Turns out, this is an extremely hard-to-study layer of Earth's atmosphere. It's too high for weather balloons, and too low for rockets.
"Due to the difficulties in measuring atmospheric phenomena between 80 and 120 km, we sometimes call this region 'the ignorosphere'," says Minna Palmroth, Professor of Computational Space Physics at the University of Helsinki and the lead author of the study.
Sky watchers in the Arctic have been seeing Dunes for years without understanding what they were. A breakthrough came on Oct. 7, 2018, when multiple groups photographed the dunes from widely separated locations in Finland. Maxime Grandin, a postdoctoral researcher in Palmroth's team, analyzed the images, using triangulation techniques to decipher the Dune's geometry.
Conclusion: Dunes are located ~100 km high--smack-dab in the middle of the ignorosphere--and have a pure, monochromatic wavelength of about 45 km.
Above: An artists' concept of a mesospheric bore trapped in a high-altitude waveguide. [more]
The research team believes the Dunes are a "mesospheric bore"--a type of atmospheric gravity wave that springs up from the surface below and gets caught in a thermal waveguide ~100 km high. When solar wind particles rain down on the bore, they illuminate its rippling structure.
The discovery of Dunes may allow researchers to study the ignorosphere as never before. Monitoring Dunes can reveal previously hidden waves and waveguides at the boundary between Earth and space. Aurora photographers, have you seen a Dune? Submit your photos here.
Earth hit by highest energy photons ever recorded from the Crab Nebula
MIT Technology Review; Fri, 21 Jun 2019 18:43 UTC
The Tibetan Plateau is a vast elevated plain almost five kilometers above sea level, sometimes called the Roof of the World. It is bordered to the south by the world's highest mountain range and to the north by desert lands. It is one of the most isolated places on Earth.
But the extreme altitude makes it a useful place for scientists. In 1990, they built an observatory here to study the showers of subatomic particles that rain down from the upper atmosphere whenever it is hit by a high-energy cosmic ray. This work is better done at high altitude because there is less atmosphere to absorb the particles.
Since then, the so-called Tibet Air Shower Array has recorded vast numbers of high-energy cosmic rays, particles accelerated to huge energies by astrophysical phenomena such as supernovas, active galactic nuclei, and mysterious as-yet-unidentified sources.
But the array also picks up air showers caused by a different source - high-energy photons. These mysterious photons are also created by astrophysical phenomena such as the interaction between high-energy particles and the cosmic microwave background. Consequently, they can provide a unique insight into these processes and the environments in which they occur.
Over the years, the Tibet Air Shower Array has spotted plenty of these photons with energies up to dozens of teraelectronvolts (TeV 1012). That's roughly equivalent to the highest-energy photons that can be created on Earth. But nobody has ever observed more powerful photons.
Until now. Today, researchers from the Tibet Air Shower Gamma Collaboration say they have observed photons with energies above 100 TeV for the first time, including a remarkable photon with an energy of almost 500 TeV. This single photon has about the same energy as a falling Ping-Pong ball and is the highest-energy photon ever recorded.
The collaboration has also worked out where these photons are coming from: the Crab Nebula, the remnants of a supernova that occurred in 1054 AD in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way, some 6,500 light-years from Earth.
.... read more at https://www.sott.net/article/415559-Earth-hit-by-highest-energy-photons-ever-recorded-from-the-Crab-Nebula
ROCKETS DUMP CHEMICALS INTO NORTHERN LIGHTS:
Friday night (April 5th) in Norway, researchers at the Andøya Space Center launched two sounding rockets into a minor geomagnetic storm. The results were out of this world. Aurora tour guide Kim Hartviksen photographed glowing blobs of blue and purple caused by the rockets dumping chemical powders into the storm:
Photo credit: Kim Hartviksen of Aurora Addicts
"Residents for hundreds of miles were taken by surprise by these strange lights, which prompted calls to the police and 'The aliens are coming!' hysteria!" says Chris Nation who runs the Aurora Addicts guiding service.
When the night began, Nation, Hartviksen, and their clients were treated to a display of auroras, ignited by a stream of solar wind buffeting Earth's magnetic field. "As the auroras started to ebb away, our friends at Andøya launched their rockets into the fading lights," says Nation. "The show began anew as the rockets released their payload into the upper atmosphere."
An automated webcam operated by Chad Blakely of Lights over Lapland in Abisko, Sweden, caught the first puffs of powder emerging from the rockets. "It looked like an invasion of UFOs," says Blakley.
"Soon the glowing blobs evolved into more complicated structures--like two giant squid dancing in the northern sky with an impressive aurora display as its backdrop," decribes Blakley. "Our webcam has been taking a picture every five minutes for nearly 10 years. These images are by far the most exciting I've ever seen it record."
The name of the sounding rocket mission is AZURE--short for Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment. Its goal is to measure winds and currents in the ionosphere, a electrically-charged layer of the Earth's atmosphere where auroras appear. Specifically, the researchers are interested in discovering how auroral energy might percolate down toward Earth to influence the lower atmosphere.
The twin rockets deployed two chemical tracers: trimethyl aluminum (TMA) and a barium/strontium mixture. These mixtures create colorful clouds that allow researchers to visually track the flow of neutral and charged particles, respectively. According to NASA, which funded the mission, the chemicals pose no hazard to residents in the region.
Update--a movie! "Here is my realtime video of the surprise rocket launch last night from NASA/ASC," reports Ole Salomonsen of Tromsø, Norway. "I was shocked when I saw this in the night sky facing north, I was not aware of the launch.
SOUTHERN LIGHTS:
Last weekend, Nov. 10th, a stream of fast-moving solar wind hit Earth's magnetic field, igniting a ring of auroras around the South Pole. Minoru Yoneto saw the red-purple glow all the way from Queenstown, New Zealand:
"We were lucky to catch another Southern Lights display during my stargazing tour," says Yoneta. "Our guests were excited to photograph them using their own cameras."
Queenstown is at 45 degrees south latitude--a considerable distance from the South Pole. That's why the auroras looked red. Auroras circling the South Pole must reach very high above Earth's surface to be visible half a hemisphere away. At altitudes greater than ~200 km, auroras turn red. The ruby glow occurs when high energy particles from space hit oxygen atoms at the top of the atmosphere. Ionized molecular nitrogen adds a dash of purple to the high-altitude palette.
More red Southern Lights are possible on Nov. 18th or 19th when a new stream of solar wind is expected to arrive. The gaseous material is flowing from a relatively small hole in the sun's atmosphere. Queenstown stargazers, charge your cameras!
Astronaut captures image of orange light enveloping Earth during rare airglow
Laura Geggel; Live Science; Wed, 07 Nov 2018 09:34 UTC
Astronaut aboard the International Space Station captures image of orange airglow enveloping Earth
An eerie, marmalade-colored light show made Earth look like a gigantic orange lollipop, prompting an astronaut aboard the International Space Station to snap a photo of it on Oct. 7. And yesterday, NASA shared the glorious shot with Earthlings down below.
The enveloping orange hue is known as airglow - a mesmerizing luminescence caused by chemical reactions high in Earth's atmosphere, NASA reported. This ghostly glow usually happens when ultraviolet radiation from sunlight energizes molecules of nitrogen, oxygen, sodium and ozone in the atmosphere. These energized molecules then bump into each other and lose energy as they collide, resulting in a faint but spectacular afterglow, NASA said.
Airglow is best seen at night, as it's 1 billion times fainter than sunlight, NASA said. This particular photo was taken at an altitude of more than 250 miles (about 400 kilometers) above Australia.
The radiating blush, also known as chemiluminescence, is comparable to glowing chemical reactions here on Earth, including those seen in children's toys such as glow sticks and glow-in-the-dark silly putty, NASA added.
But airglow is more than an entrancing light attraction. It can also teach scientists about the workings of the upper atmosphere. For instance, it can shed light on how particles near the interface of Earth and space move, including how space weather and Earth weather are connected, NASA said.
Researchers are already using satellites - such as NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) - to study this dynamic zone.
Although this airglow emanated orange, the phenomenon isn't always the color of the snack food Doritos. In 2016, a photographer in the Azores islands in the Atlantic Ocean took a photo of a rainbow-colored airglow, according to Space.com, a sister site of Live Science.
THE CHILL OF SOLAR MINIMUM:
The sun is entering a deep Solar Minimum, and Earth's upper atmosphere is responding. Data from NASA's TIMED satellite show that the thermosphere (the uppermost layer of air around our planet) is cooling and shrinking, literally decreasing the radius of the atmosphere. If current trends continue, the thermosphere could set a Space Age record for cold in the months ahead: Full story.
www.spaceweather.co
EQUINOX CRACKS ARE OPENING IN EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD:
The northern autumnal equinox is only a week away (23 September). That means one thing: Cracks are opening in Earth's magnetic field. Researchers have long known that during weeks around equinoxes, fissures form in Earth's magnetosphere. Solar wind pours through the gaps to fuel bright displays of Northern Lights. It happened just last night in Rovaniemi, Finland:
"The auroras were totally awesome," says photographer Alexander Kuznetsov. "We weren't expecting a huge storm, yet this was the best display of the new season."
This is called the "Russell-McPherron effect," named after the researchers who first explained it. The cracks are opened by the solar wind itself. South-pointing magnetic fields inside the solar wind oppose Earth's north-pointing magnetic field. North and South partially cancel one another, opening a crack. This cancellation can happen at any time of year, but it happens with greatest effect around the equinoxes. Indeed, a 75-year study shows that September is one of the most geomagnetically active months of the year–a direct result of "equinox cracks."
NASA and European spacecraft have been detecting these cracks for years. Small ones are about the size of California, and many are wider than the entire planet. There's no danger to people on Earth. Our planet's atmosphere intercepts the rush of incoming particles with no harm done and a beautiful afterglow. Stay tuned for more Arctic lights as autumn approaches.
Last year's solar eclipse set off a wave in the upper atmosphere that was detected as far away as Brazil
Lisa Grossman; Science News; 30 April 2018
It was the eclipse felt 'round the world'. The August 21, 2017, total solar eclipse that crossed the United States launched a wave in the upper atmosphere that was detected nearly an hour later from Brazil (SN Online: 8/11/17). "The eclipse itself is a local phenomenon, but our study shows that it had effects around the world," says space scientist Brian Harding of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Harding watched the eclipse from St. Louis. But he and his colleagues activated a probe near São João do Cariri, Brazil, to observe uncharged particles 250 kilometers high in a part of the atmosphere called the thermosphere.
The probe recorded a fast-moving wave in the thermosphere go by half an hour after sunset in São João do Cariri and 55 minutes after the end of the total eclipse, the team reported April 24 in Geophysical Research Letters. The wave is produced by the motion of the moon's shadow, which cooled the atmosphere below it. That cold spot then acted like a sink, sucking in the warmer air ahead of it and causing a ripple in the atmosphere as the cold spot moved across the globe.
Previous eclipses also have launched waves at similar altitudes in the ionosphere, the charged plasma of the atmosphere, which overlaps with the electrically neutral thermosphere (SN Online: 8/13/17). This is the first time that scientists have observed a wave in the uncharged part of the atmosphere. Neutral particles are 100 to 1,000 times denser than plasma in the atmosphere, and it's important to know how they behave too, Harding says.
Science News: Published on Apr 30, 2018
This simulation predicts the atmosphere's response to a solar eclipse. Color shows how temperature changes, and black lines trace motion in the atmosphere. The moon's shadow cooled the atmosphere, producing a large wave that was visible from a research station in Brazil (black square) after the eclipse had ended. Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/g... Credit: B.J. Harding et al/Geophysical Research Letters 2018.
Half a world away: the above simulation predicts the atmosphere's response to a solar eclipse.
https://www.sott.net/article/384617-Last-years-solar-eclipse-set-off-a-wave-in-the-upper-atmosphere-that-was-detected-as-far-away-as-Brazil
INTERPLANETARY SHOCK WAVE:
An interplanetary shock wave hit Earth's magnetic field on April 19th around 23:50 UT. When the disturbance arrived, the density of solar wind flowing around our planet abruptly quadrupled and a crack opened in Earth's magnetic field. The resulting G2-class geomagnetic storm sparked unusual "electric blue" auroras.
"I've been flying airplanes for 20 years and photographing aurora for 10 years, but I've never seen anything like this before" reports pilot Matt Melnyk, who photographed the display from 39,000 feet. "Electric blue auroras!" he says. "This was while on a red eye flight from Edmonton to Toronto around 4 am over northern Manitoba. Unbelievable sky. I was able to grab some hasty shots with a cell phone."
Auroras are usually green--a sign of oxygen. Rare blue auroras are caused by nitrogen molecules. Energetic particles striking N2+ at the upper limits of Earth's atmosphere can produce an azure glow during intense geomagnetic storms.
What is an interplanetary shock wave? It is a supersonic disturbance in the gaseous material of the solar wind. These waves are usually delivered by coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Indeed, this one might have been a minor CME that left the sun unrecognized earlier this week.
Alternately, it might have been an unusually sharp co-rotating interaction region (CIR). CIRs are transition zones between slow- and fast-moving streams of solar wind. They contain plasma density gradients and magnetic fields that often do a good job sparking auroras.
See also: 'Strong New Moon, Solar Activity and Gateways Ahead' by Sandra Walter, Wayshower, Ascension Guide and Gatekeeper
TIDAL WAVE MIRAGE:
Last week, Spaceweather.com reader Honor Wheeler strolled along a beach at Cley next the Sea in North Norfolk, UK. "I was supposed to be bird watching, but was stunned to see an amazingly clear mirage," says Wheeler. "It looked like a tidal wave and in some photos I took people located over the horizon seemed to be floating into view. It was amazing."
Atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley explains what happened: "Cley (locals say Cly, rhyming with eye) on the English Norfolk coast has a picturesque windmill and a 7 mile long, high shingle spit. The raised spit and gentle wind from the cold sea and are the keys to this complex mirage."
"On the left side of the picture there are patches of sky mixed with the distant shingle," says Cowley. "This is the familiar 'hot road' mirage. Light rays bend as they pass between layers of air cooled by the sea and heated by the sun-warmed shingle. The scene is chaotic and changing as the air layers become turbulent. That's the easy part!"
"The mirage gets more complicated because in places rays pass through at least three air layers," he says. "There is sea-cooled air under spit-warmed air beneath a higher layer of cool air. The layers tilt as air drives upwards over the spit. Light passing through this complex thicket of thermal layers produced a fearsome-looking tsunami. A similar mirage over the river Danube shows this well." www.spaceweather.com
MAJOR X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE:
On Sept. 6th at 12.02 UT, sunspot AR2673 unleashed a major X9.3-class solar flare--the strongest solar flare in more than a decade. X-rays and UV radiation from the blast ionized the top of Earth's atmosphere, causing a strong shortwave radio blackout over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic Ocean (blackout map). The explosion also produced a CME, shown here in a movie from NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft. (The fast moving star-like object in the STEREO-A movie is the planet Mercury.) NOAA analysts are still modeling the trajectory of the CME to determine whether or not it is Earth-directed.
Many readers are asking about the historic context of this event. How epic is it? Answer: This is a decade-class flare. A list of the most powerful solar flares recorded since 1976 ranks today's flare at #14, tied with a similar explosion in 1990. Compared to the iconic Carrington Event of 1859, or even the more recent Halloween storms of 2003, this event is relatively mild. Modern power grids, telecommunications, and other sun sensitive technologies should weather the storm with little difficulty.
On the other hand, sky watchers could see some fantastic auroras before the week is over. And ham radio operators will surely be noticing strange propagation effects as the sun exerts its influence on our planet's ionosphere.Stay tuned for updates.
Above: The extreme UV flash from today's X9-class flare. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory
The source of today's major flare is huge sunspot AR2673, shown here in a Sept. 5th photo taken by amateur astronomer Philippe Tosi of Nîmes, France:
How big is AR2673? An image of Earth has been inserted for scale. The largest of AR2673's dark cores are as wide as our entire planet, and they are surrounded by dozens of smaller cores as big as continents. Amateur astronomers with safely-filtered solar telescopes will have no trouble seeing this behemoth. Overarching the complex collection of spots is a tangled magnetic canopy that harbors energy for strong solar flares. Stay tuned for more explosions...
"AURORA SPRITES" OVER NEW ZEALAND:
Last night in Otago, New Zealand, Ian Griffin counted more than a dozen "aurora sprites" dancing over Hoopers Inlet. "The display was very beautiful," says Griffin, "with ghostly auroral sprites putting on a display that lasted for several hours."
Also known as "picket fence auroras," these vertical rays trace lines of magnetic force connecting Earth to space. The luminous columns show where beams of energetic particles are being guided toward Earth's upper atmosphere by magnetic fields.
The solar wind stream that instigated the display has produced many enchanting auroral forms since March 1st. Browse the realtime gallery for more. www.spaceweather.com
Giant gravity wave spotted on Venus
Andrew Liptak : The Verge : 16 Jan 2017
The Japanese probe Akatsuki has observed a massive gravity wave in the atmosphere of Venus. This is not the first time such a wave was observed on the Solar System's second planet, but it is the largest ever recorded, stretching just over 6,000 miles from end to end. Its features also suggest that the dynamics of Venus' atmosphere are more complex than previously thought.
An atmospheric gravity wave is a ripple in the density of a planet's atmosphere, according to the European Space Agency. (This isn't a gravitational wave, which is a ripple in space-time.) We have these waves in Earth's atmosphere, too; they interfere with weather and cause turbulence. Scientists have observed atmospheric gravity waves on Venus before: the European Space Agency's Venus Express spotted several before the end of its mission in 2014. Since its initial observations, Akatsuki has spotted several smaller structures with its infrared cameras in April and May 2016.
Akatsuki spotted this particular gravity wave, described in a paper published today in Nature Geoscience, when the probe arrived at the planet on December 7th, 2015. The spacecraft then lost sight of it on December 12th, 2015, because of a change in Akatsuki's orbit. When the probe returned to a position to observe the bow-shaped structure on January 15th, 2016, the bright wave had vanished.
What sets the huge December wave apart from previously discovered ones is that it appeared to be stationary above a mountainous region on the planet's surface, despite the background atmospheric winds.
The study's authors believe that the bright structure is the result of a gravity wave that was formed in the lower atmosphere as it flowed over the planet's mountainous terrain. It's not clear how the wave exactly propagates to the planet's upper atmosphere, where clouds rotate faster than the planets itself — four days instead of the 243 days it takes Venus to rotate once.
The massive gravity wave might mean that the atmospheric conditions closer to the planet's surface are more variable than predicted.


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The D'Backs could take Hultzen, UCLA right-hander Trevor Bauer or high schooler Dylan Bundy third overall, according to Law.
It looks like the Orioles will take an arm fourth overall; they have Bundy, high schooler Archie Bradley and Cole in their sights.
If Bauer falls to the Indians, they'll take him, according to Law.
The Cubs "sent a small army" to watch outfielder George Springer at the Big East tournament.
The Padres are interested in UConn right-hander Matt Barnes and Vanderbilt right-hander Sonny Gray.
The top three players on one team's draft board are advised by agent Scott Boras, according to Yahoo's Jeff Passan.
Rendon's stock is down a bit because of a dip in production and injury concerns, writes Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic, but Rendon's coach at Rice, Wayne Graham, expects the third baseman to go within the top two picks.
The Giants shouldn't (and won't) alter their draft strategy in response to Buster Posey's season-ending injury, writes Jim Callis of Baseball America in a mailbag.


On Arch Linux, there are a number of ways for getting all the popular and useful software directly on your system. By default, the package manager "Pacman" is restricted towards the official Arch Linux repository.
However, by default, the official Arch repository wasn't meant to hold all the additional software you need. For that reason, there are other repositories like the AUR – a really powerful part of the Arch ecosystem. This repository allows community-developed packages to be installed in the easiest possible manner.
For installing a software from the AUR repository, there are 2 ways – building from source and using 3rd-party tools like Yaourt and Pacaur etc. Check out on enjoying Yaourt on your Arch system. Yaourt is getting older and obsolete, so why not switch towards a new one?
This particular AUR helper targets the "advanced" users. It's specially designed for minimizing the user interactions. If you're interested in Pacaur, make sure that you know on how the AUR software are installed in the classical manner (grabbing the source, building manually with "makepkg" etc.).
Pacaur is a great alternative to Yaourt. It's another AUR (Arch User Repository) helper that aims performance and speed while minimizing the user interactions. The best part is, Pacaur uses a very minimalistic, uncluttered interface while packing powerful punches (secured RPC interface for solving dependency tree etc.).
Using "pacaur", you can also search for any package name.
Note – my system is by beloved Manjaro Linux – an exceptionally good quality distro that's based on the Arch. Learn more on Manjaro Linux.
Pacaur is an AUR helper, so where else to go except AUR for grabbing it?
Then, it's time to grab the source code of "pacaur".
Download complete? Hurry up and start the building process!
Voila! The installation is complete!
Pacaur follows the command structure quite similar to the "pacman".
Let's start with installing a package from the AUR repository.
Does the Pacaur log output in the terminal bother you? You can easily disable the annoyance with the "–silent" flag.
THere are a lot of additional commands and features of Pacaur that you can start exploring right away! Check out Pacaur on GitHub.