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12/01/2009 | J. Karol Argasinski and Marcel E. Loosbergh
A fiberglass-reinforced plastic FRP/Halar stack liner was installed at Vattenfall's 300-MW Unit 2 at the Nordjylland Power Station in 1995. The 112-meter-high (367-ft) stack, protected from corrosion by the ECTFE liner, is still in excellent condition and has not required any repairs during more than 13 years of service. (ECTFE is short for ethylene chlorotrifluoroethlyene polymer, marketed under the brand name Halar ECTFE [Halar] by Solvay Solexis.)
The original power station was built in 1977 and was designed to supply energy to Denmark's North Jutland region. During 1991 the plant was upgraded with a SNOX-exhaust (sulfur and NOx abatement) gas treatment system by Haldor Topsoe Engineering.
In addition, a new 112-m-high concrete stack (with an inside diameter of 4.6 m), internally protected with 100-mm-thick (3.9-inch), state-of-the-art acid-resistant brick, was erected (Figure 5).
5. No longer a problem. Vattenfall's 300-MW Nordjylland Power Station Unit 2 experienced significant deterioration in its brick liner caused by extremely corrosive exhaust gases. In 1995 the 112-meter-high stack was relined with an FRP/Halar liner that remains in as-new condition to this day. Courtesy: Solvay Solexis
Tough Operating Conditions
The power plant was originally designed to burn crude refinery residue with high sulphur content — a very difficult range of operating conditions for the stack liner (Table 1). In fact, the condensation formed on the stack liner is sulfuric acid with a concentration of 70% to 80%.
Specifications for polymer stack liner. The exhaust gas constituents at Vattenfall's 300-MW Unit 2 at the Nordjylland Power Station formed corrosive acids when condensed in the stack. Source: Solvay Solexis
Shortly after the SNOX-exhaust treatment was installed, operators discovered that the acidic condensation was attacking the "acid resistant" inner brick lining and forming large quantities of aerosol particles that detached from that lining. In addition, acidic droplets were carried up the stack by the high-speed flue gas. Those airborne solid particles, together with acidic droplets, settled over a wide rural area around the plant.
Start-up conditions
Maximum service conditions
Note: NA = Not applicable.
O2 (%) 2 – 20 2 – 6
H2 O (%) 0 – 3 6 – 9
SO2 (ppm) 0 – 200 50 – 200
SO3 (ppm) 0 – 40 5 – 15
NOx (ppm) 0 – 100 20 – 50
HCl (ppm, maximum) NA 200
HF (ppm, maximum) NA 25
Temperature (Celsius) 10 – 110 100 – 110
Temperature rise (C/minute maximum) 0.7 NA
Temperature drop (C/minute maximum) 0.7 NA
Flue gas flow (x10 5 Nm 3 /min) 9 9 – 10
Flue gas speed (m/s maximum) NA 28
Underpressure (Pa) NA 175
Overpressure (Pa) NA 375
Selection of the Brick Liner Replacement
During 1995, Nordjylland decided to install additional de-misters and provide the chimney with a new trouble-free acid-resistant inner liner. Based on the maximum operating conditions of the flue gas, 110C (230F), and the presence of sulphuric acid, a high-performance thermoplastic fluoropolymer was needed to resist the extremely corrosive conditions inside the stack.
The plant owner selected Halar as the best option. Its choice as a corrosion protection liner was primarily based on its good chemical resistance and excellent permeation resistance to chemical compounds produced during the burning of crude oil. Other factors considered were the outstanding abrasion resistance and the exceptional surface smoothness of the ECTFE polymer.
The available chemical resistance data show that the ECTFE resin performs very well when exposed to concentrated inorganic acids. The Halar resin retains most of its mechanical properties and is not chemically attacked when exposed to 98% sulfuric acid at 140C or to 65% nitric acid, 49% hydrofluoric acid, and 37% hydrochloric acid at 100C after 30 days of immersion tests.
The good chemical resistance of the resin does not guarantee that the liner can provide sufficient corrosion protection. If the permeation rate is high, a substantial amount of chemicals passed through the liner will chemically attack the fabric backing and the substrate to which the liner is attached, causing failure of the structure.
The ECTFE resin was selected because on its excellent permeation resistance to water and acids, one of the best of all fluoropolymers, at temperatures as high as 100C.
Installation of the Halar/FRP Liner
Tunetanken, the Danish FRP fabricator, was selected to do the fabrication of the Halar inner liner. The 4.3-m-diameter/112-m-high stack was relined with seven modular sections, each about 14 m high. The Halar/FPR sections were prefabricated using 2.3-mm-thick Halar fiber-backed sheets from Quadrant (formerly Symalit), which were assembled to a total height of 92 m. The individual prefabricated sections were introduced and lowered into the chimney from the top by a crane capable of operating at heights of 120 m or higher (Figure 6).
6. Stack gets stacked liner. Seven prefabricated stack liner sections, each about 14 meters high, were dropped into place by crane to line the entire stack. Courtesy: Solvay Solexis
Each Halar module was constructed with a male socket sleeve at the bottom, which fit the female top of the section below. These sockets were then bonded in place with high-temperature adhesive, and the various modules were welded together by experienced PRP welders, operating from scaffolding platforms mounted inside the stack. (In 1995, Tunetanken was relatively new to Halar lining and welding; consequently, Halar expertise was provided by subcontractor PRP from Finland.) The total weight of Halar ECTFE resin used to produce the fiber-backed sheet of 2.3-mm nominal thickness for this project was estimated to be 5 metric tons.
Initial work started at the end of August 1995, and by October 1995 the stack was ready to enter service.
Liner Performance
Start-up of the power station with its new stack liner took place in November 1995. Since then, the plant has operated between 80% and 90% of the time. No maintenance or repairs have been performed since the liner was installed. Inspection of the chimney stack performed by Tunetanken personnel in September 2006 confirmed that the Halar liner was in excellent condition and looks practically new (Figures 7 and 8).
7. Just like new. The light brown discoloration of the Halar polymer at the inlet of the chimney and on part of the flexible joint was caused by exposure to the high-temperature gases exiting the furnace. However, this discoloration did not affect the polymer properties, and the liner maintained its excellent corrosion protection properties. The black stain visible on the edge of the inlet is a paint used for other parts of the chimney. The white residue present on the bottom of the inlet was easily wiped off. Courtesy: Solvay Solexis
8. Smooth sailing. Inspections of the manhole and the bottom part of the chimney during a September 2006 inspection confirmed that all parts of the liner showed no signs of chemical attack on the ECTFE resin by the chemically aggressive exhaust gas and that no cracking was present on the surface of the liner. Courtesy: Solvay Solexis
The liner was further evaluated by the Danish Technological Institute (DTI) in 2008. Results of the DTI evaluation showed that the liner was in excellent condition after approximately 13 years of service. The DTI's conclusions were summarized in the May 2009 letter from Mr. Torben Martens Knudsen, project manager of DTI's Plastics Technology: "Samples taken from the ECTFE lining of the stack at Nordjyllandsvaerket Power Plant have been tested last year. Two drilled out samples were taken at level 24 and analyzed using infrared-spectroscopy at test samples taken from inside surface and from the middle part of the lining. There were no signs of degradation of the polymer. Polished cross-sections of the samples were examined in microscope; a darker color was observed in a depth of 0.1 mm from inside surface. The joint between lining and glass fiber-polyester layer was fully intact. It was concluded that the ECTFE-lining was not influenced by the service conditions after approx. 13 years of service."
-Contributed J. Karol Argasinski (karol.argasinski@solvay.com), market development manager for Solvay Solexis Inc. and Marcel E. Loosbergh, director of M.E.L. Consultants, Overijse, Belgium
[Editors' note: Minor corrections in product naming were made to the online version of this article 12/10/09.]


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Regardless of Trump's EPA, California Continues To Drive The Clean Car Market
Jeff Cobb June 21, 2017
Last week U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said California's right to regulate its own auto emissions was not being reviewed – sending a sigh of relief for some, uncertainty for others, but the state intends to hold the line come what may.
California is defiantly moving ahead on rules the Trump administration has put the brakes on, but unclear is whether the road ahead will be rocky or smooth.
At issue is the state's waiver permitted under the 1970 Clean Air Act enabling it to apply to the EPA to set its own emissions standards. In his confirmation hearing earlier this year, Pruitt rattled a saber that in addition to federal rules for 2022-2025 being brought under review, California's legal precedent may also be challenged.
At the behest of the auto industry lobby, the EPA has since put the federal rules on hold until a new determination can be made next year. These call for "54" mpg over the "36" mpg of today – on 2017 window stickers the average is actually around 26 mpg, and by 2025, if rules remain unchanged, it may rise to high 30s.
But last Thursday, Pruitt seemed to back down against California whose rules are in part or whole mirrored by 13 other states.
"Currently the waiver is not under review," Pruitt said in response to a pointed question by Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Corona), who observed the state has long received bipartisan support for its right to set its own rules – which Pruitt in turn acknowledged.
"This has been something that has been granted going back to the beginning of the Clean Air Act because of the leadership California demonstrated," Priutt said, and in doing so he stoked optimism that the Trump administration would leave California alone.
Whether the Trump EPA will or can afford to do so remains an open question among environmental advocates hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst.
"I'd characterize it as a temporary reprieve," said the Natural Resource Defense Council's Roland Hwang, director of its energy and transportation program. "Note that Pruitt said 'currently' the waiver is not under review. This reflects the reality that there is neither a technical nor a legal basis for withdrawing the waiver. It looks like a clear loser in court."
It also appears the automakers for now are OK with the decision too.
"We've not asked for the agency to review that decision," said Daniel Gage, a spokesman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers to the LA Times.
Bill Magavern, policy director for Los Angeles-based Coalition for Clean Air, told the Times Pruitt's words were "a rare bit of good news out of the Trump administration," but really, time will tell.
"It's good news, but it's only good news if they don't end up changing their minds," said Kate Larsen, an Oakland-based director at the Rhodium Group, which tracks climate policies to the Times.
Meanwhile, in California, it's full steam ahead – or should we say they are fully charged? In any case, in March California's Air Resources Board moved forward in unanimously approving its clean air laws.
It also reaffirmed its policy calling for more than one-million plug-in hybrids and/or electric vehicles on the road by 2025 – a four-fold increase from today. The U.S. EPA has no such corollary to the California ZEV rules, and the law in question does not pertain to these.
They've been a reality however, and automakers have historically built cars for California rules, and so it's believed and/or hoped they will still do so even if the EPA bows to automakers to reverse course on federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) rules.
"They will certainly try, otherwise why would they bother redoing the final determination?" asked Hwang of the Trump EPA attempting to weaken federal rules. "This is a very polluter friendly administration and probably the worst EPA administrator ever. During Pruitt's days as Oklahoma Attorney General, he essentially had polluters write his policies. The auto industry has carte blanche to rewrite these rules. The only thing stopping them from doing so is perhaps their own better judgment that they ultimately can't win a battle with California, environmental groups and the courts."
Uncertain though is how aggressively they'd want to cut back, because being global companies, they still are developing vehicles for the rest of the world which is following increasingly strict rules.
And then there is also California, standing as a bastion for policies the Obama administration embraced, and which the new one wants to shy away from.
Presently, 13 states have in place California's LEV III rules – about 40 percent of the nation – but only 10 states including California are following the aforementioned ZEV (Zero Emission Vehicle) rules.
That's still a big market, so while Pruitt says "currently" California's waiver is not being reviewed, if it is never reviewed and ultimately challenged, even if federal CAFE rules are rolled back, automakers will still be forced to develop cars for that large market.
This in turn sets up a potential legal showdown, and talk by California and pro-environment supporters has been openly made for the past few months of willingness to aggressively engage in a legal battle.
"There are only two routes to block California, that's Congress and the courts," said Hwang. "Taking away California's authority in either venue is extremely tough, but they may not stop them from trying like in the past."
This, he says is the case despite other pundits offering that the EPA administrator may easily revoke California's waiver with a "stroke of a pen."
Because of "the rule of law," and California's longstanding precedent, even if a fast move was tried by the EPA, it would not be so easily upheld in court, contends Hwang.
So, for now, while the jury is out on federal resolve to clean tailpipe emissions and raise mpg for passenger vehicles from 2022-2025, California stands as the holdout.
It actually already was, as even the present CAFE rules written under the Obama administration allowed workarounds to manufacturers so as not to force them to build plug-in vehicles if they do not want to. Former National Highway Transportation Safety Administrator David Strickland said in 2013 only 1-3 percent of vehicles would need to be plug-in electrified to meet CAFE standards by 2025 as they stood under Obama.
"Our analysis at NHTSA projects that the automakers can meet these standards largely through advantages in internal combustion engines," said Strickland in 2013. "We project that the automakers will only need to produce about 1 to 3 percent of electric vehicles from plug-ins to meet the 2025 standards."
Thus, with the prospect of an even weaker standard, and no ZEV rules on the federal level, California's role in pushing the EV agenda becomes all the more clear.
"California will continue to play its role to lead the nation, as it has for over 50 years, on clean cars," said Hwang. "CARB has already stated its intention to develop the next phase of its rules beyond 2025."
And if the political winds change later, there would be a fight.
"If Priutt and automakers want to take a run at the waiver," said Hwang, "it will be a long, hard legal battle, one that will back them up to lead time issues and the next administration."
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Q: Copy an existing Xcode project results in files with wrong references I have a working project that builds ok. (Xcode 6.0.1)
There were images added that were at one folder (/Downloads) and were substituted by new ones (/MyDir/MyProject).
At adding files process copy options, group and add to it's targets were selected.
After a copy and paste at Finder from the root project folder to the new project some images contain references at Targets / Build Phases / Copy Bundle Resources to old folder (Downloads) while they are ok at original project.
I've deleted the .git from initial project to make sure it's not a git problem.
Already tried
rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/

Any ideas? Thank you

A: In the rightmost panel, which contains Identity and Type, check to see if the "Location" field is Absolute Path, Relative to Group, or Relative to Project, and set each file accordingly to what it should be.  Xcode seems to create new files with creative ideas on how this should be set.

A: check in your project build phases if there are some missing references and delete the one you don't need

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Duke Blue Devils Outlast Texas Tech
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Toward the end of Duke's 78-73 win over Texas Tech on Thursday night in the Sweet 16, the Blue Devils fans who'd swarmed Chase Center were suddenly unsure if they were witnessing the continuation of a career or the end of one.
In a competitive game that featured 11 ties and 13 lead changes, the fans realized they might be watching the final minutes of Mike Krzyzewski's tenure, with Duke battling a team that entered the night with the nation's top defense.
But Krzyzewski listened to his players late in the game when they told him it was time to go back to a man-to-man defense after a zone had disrupted Texas Tech's flow in the second half. His trust in them helped the program secure a trip to the Elite Eight and a matchup against Arkansas.
"It was like a Catholic boys' choir," Krzyzewski said about his players' collective call for the second-half tweak. "It was a chorus. They all said it. They all said it, and they said it with enthusiasm: 'We want to do this. We want to go man.' God bless them. What a great group, these kids. They've grown up so much in the last 12 days. It's such a joy. It's an amazing thing."
The change seemed to confuse the Red Raiders, and, more importantly, it helped Duke regain its confidence. With the win, Duke extended Krzyzewski's final season with key decisions and clutch plays down the stretch
The Blue Devils scored on 12 of their final 15 possessions and made their final eight shots from the field.
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Kit Harington 'Happy' He Went to Rehab for 'Mental Health Difficulties'
Sharing his truth. Kit Harington opened up about why he decided to go to rehab in 2019 and he has no regrets.
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"I went through some mental health difficulties after [Game of] Thrones — and during the end of Thrones, to be honest — and I think it was directly to do with the nature of the show and what I've been doing for years," the Eternals star, 34, said during a Friday, July 30, interview on SiriusXM's The Jess Cagle Show.
Kit Harington. KCS Presse/MEGA
In May 2019, the British actor checked into a Connecticut rehab facility for stress and alcohol abuse ahead of the show's series finale. "Kit has decided to utilize this break in his schedule as an opportunity to spend some time at a wellness retreat to work on some personal issues," his representative told Us Weekly at the time.
Harington played Jon Snow, one of the HBO series' main characters, since the show premiered in 2011. Throughout Game of Thrones' run, he was open about how the grueling shoots affected the actors.
"The last season of Thrones seemed to be designed to break us. Everyone was broken at the end," he told GQ Australia in January 2019. "I don't know if we were crying because we were sad it was ending or if we were crying because it was so f—king tiring. We were sleep deprived."
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The Pompeii actor echoed that sentiment on Friday, saying that he needed some rest after eight years of playing Jon. "I think I took a sort of break after Thrones where I said, 'I don't want to work for a year. I want to really kind of concentrate on myself,'" he explained. "I'm really happy I did that."
Harington wed his former Game of Thrones costar Rose Leslie in June 2018. The couple welcomed their first child, a baby boy, in February.
"Everyone goes, 'Look, it's big, what you're about to go through is big,'" the Modern Love star told Access Hollywood of fatherhood on Friday. "You have no way of knowing that until it happens. Then, what surprises you is you go, 'Oh, this goes on forever.' Like, you don't get a break from it."
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Despite the steep learning curve that comes with parenthood, Harington is thankful the COVID-19 pandemic allowed him extra time to focus on his family.
"What we were gifted with this was forced time together," he told SiriusXM. "And because of that, we ended up having a baby. That's the major thing that came out of the pandemic for me, was becoming a father. I had a quite profound and amazing experience during this last year and a half."


Racing season is underway at Delaware International Speedway.
DELMAR — May 2 was a beautiful day on the Delmarva Peninsula.
Temperatures were in the mid 70s, a warm breeze blew and the sun played hide and seek behind puffy white clouds: perfect conditions for the surface of US-13 Kartway's 1/5-mile dirt oval.
The sun was just warm enough to heat it a tad without drying it out for round two of the 'Maxxis Tires Race At The Beach' five-race series. This one sponsored by Chip's Repair and Towing.
The track was wicked fast that day and so was Rhodesdale, Md., driver Nick Helgason. Helgason was not only a triple winner; he took the top purse of $1,500, and on his way to winning Animal Heavy he turned the fastest lap ever recorded at the Delmar dirt oval. Helgason blistered the 1/5-mile track with 10.166 seconds on the mid-race lap beating his former record of 10.40 seconds.
It all started with Helgason hitting his marks for Animal Heavy Warm Up's top starting spot. His fast time of 10.372 seconds in qualifying was just 0.066-seconds faster than legendary engine builder and racer fellow Marylander Kevin Colburn.
With a ton of talent behind them Helgason and Colburn led the field to the green flag. Helgason hustled into the early led. Colburn surrendered second to Stony Creek, VA based Adam Beville, who took after Helgason, but it was too late, Helgason's Hustler Racing Engines powered Millenum kart was at the stripe with a comfortable 1.260 seconds advantage.
Beville finished a distant second, 1.260 seconds later. Colburn crossed third, Ritchie Hornsby was fourth and White capped the top five.
Dustin Pleasanton dominated Animal Heavy's qualifying with a 10.615 seconds trip. Stephanie Lambert turned an 11.051 seconds lap for the outside pole. Behind them Zack Bullis, of Millsboro, and Dillion Adams lined up in row two. Further back Richie Hornsby and Helgason occupied row three.
Pleasanton and Lambert rocketed off front row while Helgason and White worked their way through traffic. Helgason got there first while White had more real estate to cover coming from a tenth place start. Helgason reached Pleasanton and took the lead while White continued working his way through the field. In the final laps White reached second and was quickly closing in on Helgason. But time and distance were his enemies.
White finished 0.799 seconds behind Helgason. Beville blasted by Pleasanton and Bullis for third fourth and fifth.
Beville earned four poles and two wins. He earned Pro Animal's win with a blistering 10.348 seconds rounding. Kevin Colburn was a close second at 10.436 seconds. Behind them in row two were Helgason and White with times of 10.440 and 10.468 seconds.
Beville blasted into the early lead with Helgason and White coming after him. White quickly advanced to second with Helgason locked on his tailpipe. White took the lead and then surrendered it to Helgason. Beville made it back to second, but was 0.478 seconds late at the stripe.
Colburn came in third Midlothian, Va.-based Jason 'Higgy' Higginbotham following in fourth, Hornsby in fifth.
Beville did better in the clone classes capturing checkers in Clone Heavy where he battled his way from sixth for the win and H.P. Speed Shop sponsored PRO Stock Clone. Evan Dennis dominated Clone Heavy's qualifying spinning an 11.582 seconds lap that was almost 2 seconds quicker than the outside pole winner Chris Grier's fast time of 11.443 seconds. Beville started sixth, but was there when it counted with fifth fastest qualifier Chris Stelljes following 1.400 seconds later. Beville's CKE Racing Engines powered Charger Racing Chassis took charge of the field just before mid-race and never relinquished it.
Dennis crossed third, Bullis stayed where he started in fourth followed by Lewes driver J.P. Gates who finished fifth.
Beville blasted around the track in 10.661 seconds for Pro Stock Clone's top starting spot. Colburn was 0.042 seconds off that pace for the outside pole. Stellijes and White were behind them in row two followed by White and Bullis.
Beville took a never surrendered lead from the start with Colburn challenging him the entire trip. Other than a lap five caution nothing slowed Beville who took the win just 0.210 seconds ahead of Colburn. White was a close third 0.991 seconds behind Beville. Further back Stelljes and Bullis rounded out the top five.
Milford based Mike Stratton is a veteran kart racer who's earned many local, regional and national championships. Saturday he was in victory lane twice. He led Animal Super Heavy and PRO Super Heavy wire-to-wire. In both races the battle was for second.
Stratton blistered the track with a 10.791seconds rounding for Animal Super Heavy's pole. Alec Conklin claimed the outside pole with an 11.077 seconds trip. Behind them Andrew White and Nicholas Brost sat in row two.
Stratton broke away from the field as soon as the race started. That left Brost and Conklin battling for second letting Stratton get away from them. Brost finally captured second, and tried to run down Stratton who reached the stripe with a comfortable 1.110 seconds win margin. Conklin and White were third and fourth.
A 10.851 seconds lap put Stratton on Pro Super's pole. He finished the race 3.7l0 seconds ahead of Brost. White was third across the stripe.
Jayden Johnson spun Junior 1 Heavy's fastest qualifying lap in 11.25l seconds. Phantom Icon pilot Brandon Kelly, of Lincoln, earned the outside front row starting position with an 11.365 seconds lap. Johnson led the field around five times before the caution flag waved for a spinner in turn 2. Johnson led the restart with Kelly close behind. Several laps later Kelly slipped by Johnson for the lead that he took to the stripe.
Ryan McKinney raced his way from a fifth place start to a second place finish trailing Kelly by 1.866 seconds. Fourth fastest qualifier Gage Fitchett advanced to third and Colin James, the third fastest qualifier crossed fifth.
An 11.104 seconds qualifying lap earned Kelly PRO Junior 1's pole. McKinney shared front row with a 9.267 seconds lap. Johnson and James were behind them in row two.
Kelly jumped into the early lead. He built a huge over the rest of the field by halfway. Then, without warning, the caution flag flew erasing that lead. When racing resumed Kelly went back to work building a huge lead in the second half. Fitchett tried in vein to catch him, but trailed 4.233 seconds at the end.
Following Fitchett in the top five were Johnson, McKinney and James.
Zach Fields and Jacob King finished Junior 1 Heavy the way they started. Fields, of Camden, DE, earned the pole with an 11.001 seconds rounding and King's top qualifying lap took 11.186 seconds, he was off the pace by 0.188 seconds.
The race was only five laps old when the caution waved followed by the red flag. When green flag racing returned Fields and King continued their battle down to a narrow 0.083 seconds difference at the stripe. Behind King in the top five were Liam Garrison, Spencer Warren and Olivia Powell.
Fields was just as quick in Pro Junior-2. He flew around the track in 10.847 seconds. Rounding it in 11.138 seconds put Carter Sylvester on the outside pole. Brock Vincent and Warren were third and fourth fastest qualifiers.
Cole Neibert collected a pair of wins that Saturday. The 14-year-old Greenwood native led the event's first race Junior 3 then later showed Bryan Bradford Racing/Phantom Racing sponsored Pro Junior 3's field across the finish line.
Garrett Himmighoerfer grabbed Junior 3's pole with a 10.747 seconds lap. Denton, MD driver Trent Reed won the outside pole with a 10.774 seconds trip. Jake Tucker and Neibert turned lap times of 10.780 and 10.876 seconds for row two.
The first green flag of the day flew and so did Neibert who shot by Tucker and Reed before going after Himmighoerfer. Neibert kept his Finish Line Performance powered Charger chassis rolling passing Himmighoerfer with Reed in tow.
"The kart felt pretty good it was a little tight, but Shane had the tires figured out and we went on and did our thing," Neibert said after his first win.
Reed held onto second but couldn't catch Neibert who owned a second and a half lead at the stripe. Himmighoerfer finished a distant third followed in the top five by Cody Oliver and Jim Tyre.
Himmighoerfer recorded his second pole with a 10.558 seconds run in Pro Junior 3. Reed was second fastest at 10.709. This time Neibert started third. Himmighoerfer hustled into the early lead with Reed and Neibert battling to get by. They drafted by him. The led swapping battle continued until the end where hundredths of a second separated them.
Himmighoerfer was just 0.401 seconds behind Neibert Reed finished 0.996 seconds later. Tucker and Oliver were fourth and fifth.
Jeffery Allaband and Matt Fitzgerald earned Animal Senior Stock front row starting positions. Allaband rounded the dirt oval in 10.807 seconds for the pole and Fitzgerald grabbed the outside pole with a 10.905 seconds fast time.
Fitzgerald grabbed the early going with Chris Scholtz and Allaband all over him fighting for the lead. Once his kart settled in Fitzgerald ran away with it finishing comfortably 2.822 seconds before Scholtz.
"The Phantom Icon handled pretty good. My crew chief Chad Reed from Super Speed Motorsports did pretty good with it. We just had it dialed in pretty good for that race," explained Fitzgerald of Milford.
Beville captured Clone Heavy's win. By mid race he'd opened over a second lead over the field. Stelljes tried to catch him but was 1.400 seconds late at the stripe. Dennis, Bullis and J.P. Gates grabbed the remaining top five spots.
Logan Shockley, of Snow Hill, MD led the way in Junior 1 Rookie. Shockley piloting a Tod miller Racing Engines powered Titan kart was third fastest qualifier cranking out an 11.541 seconds effort. Pole winner Michael Southard shot into the early lead. Behind him Shockley worked by Chandler Wisseman for second. Once securely in second, 7-year-old Shockley went after Southard. Shockley powered past Wisseman for the lead while Clayton Peters climbed from fourth to second. Peters almost beat Shockley to the stripe turning his fastest lap on the 19th time around. He almost made it, but Shockley beat him out in a door-to-door battle to the finish where they were separated by a mere 0.085 seconds. Southard and Wisseman scored third and fourth.
Peters produced the Junior 1 Trophy win. Shockley was second and Southard was third. Six-year-old Taz Power Racing Engines powered Falcon Kart pilot Ivan Godwin, of Dagsboro, DE, soloed the Junior Stars.
Macey Thompson did it all in Junior Unrestricted. She set the pole time in a track blistering10.844 seconds. From there she beat second place challenger Neibert. Jacob Maske was third.
Veteran kart racer Mike Ellerbusch dialed in the Outlaw pole time of 10.689 seconds. Chris Simonson shared front row with a 10.720 seconds lap for a 0.031 seconds difference. Later he would be part of the finish line fray.
Ellerbusch quickly took the early led. Three laps into it the caution flag flew for the first of three times keeping the leaders from breaking away. Ellerbusch and the others barely got their karts rolling again when caution flags flew again. Another lap later they were forced to restart again.
Finally they got real racing underway. The top three were nose to tail all trying a shot at the lead. Then in the final laps Ellerbusch broke away building a comfortable 2.169 seconds lead over third fastest qualifier Cody Rose. Simonson was third followed by the father/son team of Clarence Edgens and Clarence Edgens IV.
Jacob King was crowned Pro Junior 2 winner. It wasn't easy, double winner Zack Fields was on his tailpipe the entire trip finishing only 0.046 seconds later. Spencer Warren was third, Brock Vincent followed in fourth ahead of Ricky Johnson who capped the top five.
Alex White topped one of the days dicier battles beating Pikesville, N.C. based Ty Bass to the stripe. Trent Vanvorst was top qualifier turning an 11.137 seconds lap for the pole. White was second fastest at11.019. Bass struggled in qualifying with a 11.032 seconds trip.
When the initial green flag flew Vanvorst and White began battling for the lead while Bass was battling through the field. Bass fought his way to second and began challenging White for the lead. Behind Bass were Kenny Brown, Taylor Pleasanton, who won the first race of the season, and Davis who started third.
Bullis did it all in Semi-Pro Clone. He spun the pole-winning lap in 10.542 seconds then fended off outside pole winner Evan Dennis who trailed him 1.628 seconds. Third, fourth and fifth fastest qualifiers finished in their starting positions. They were Jordan Cropper, Zach Stair and Gates.
Ty Bass made Stock Flat Head one of the day's most exciting races. Bass was eighth fastest qualifier. In the 20-lap feature Bass blasted by seven faster qualifiers for the lead and the win over third fastest qualifier Kyle Ayers. John Davis, the fourth fastest qualifier finished third, pole winner Kenny Brown Jr. crossed fourth and Taylor Pleasanton started where she started in fifth.
Racers in the Maxxis Race at the Beach will return to U.S. 13 Kartway Saturday June 27th 2010. On July 17th and 18th the Big Dogs will be in town to challenge local racers with U.S. 13 Kartway's hosting of the Dyno Cam Tri-State/Mid-Atlantic Northeast Tour presented by Maxxis (JR. MAXX DADDY). This will be the area's largest kart race since the club hosted a World Karting Association (WKA)/Briggs & Stratton National Dirt Series race in the mid 1990's.
Race No. 4 of the Maxxis Battle @ The Beach will be held Aug. 29 and the series will end Oct. 10 with the fifth and final Battle At The Beach. Later that month the U.S.-13 Kart Club will hold its 8th Annual Diamond State 550 Shoot-Out.


text:
The Battle of Sirte took place on January 6, 2020 during the Second Libyan Civil War. The Libyan National Army of Marshal Khalifa Haftar took the city from the forces of the Fayez el-Sarraj Government.

Background

In 2011, during the First Libyan Civil War, Sirte formed the last stronghold of dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who died there on October 20.

In 2015, during the Second Libyan Civil War, the city fell into the hands of the jihadists of Islamic State. It was taken in December 2016 by the forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA), after a six-month battle and more than 700 dead from the Misrata Brigades.

After the defeat of Islamic State, Sirte was controlled by the Misrata Brigades, a group within the Al-Bounyan Al-Marsous coalition, and by Brigade 604, a Madkhalist Salafist militia. All of these troops are assembled within the "Sirte Protection Force." Brigade 604 claimed not to take sides between Sarraj and Haftar, its declared enemies being the Muslim Brotherhood and the jihadist Salafists, however most of its fighters are Ferjani, the tribe of Field Marshal Haftar. Also in 2019, Rabee al-Madkhali called on his supporters to support Haftar.

Sirte and its region are mainly populated by two tribes: the Qadhadhfa - the tribe of Muammar Gadhafi - and the Warfalla, considered to be faithful to the memory of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

Battle
On January 4, 2020, the forces of the Libyan National Army (LNA) of Marshal Khalifa Haftar began a sudden attack on the city of Sirte. Ghardabiya Airport, south of the city, was captured and its defenders surrendered. Soldiers of the LNA then entered the city through five axes to the south and east. Special forces seized the port from the sea. The 604 Brigade then defected and attacked the Misrata Brigades on their rear. Disorganized, the latter retreated and abandoned the city. After only three hours of fighting, Sirte thus passed into the hands of the LNA forces, which faced only weak resistance. Haftar's soldiers were greeted with enthusiasm by locals waving posters bearing the likeness of Gaddafi and green flags of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

The Libyan National Army declared that "Sirte has been totally liberated (...) from terrorist groups." LNA spokesman General Ahmed al-Mesmari said the offensive was the subject of "careful preparation which lasted for months," with regular air raids against the "Sirte Protection Forces."

Aftermath
With the capture of Sirte, LNA forces looked next to the city of Misrata, located 250 kilometers to the northwest, while their brigades actively participated in the 2019–20 Western Libya campaign.

References

2020 in Libya
January 2020 events in Africa
Military operations of the Second Libyan Civil War
Battles in 2020
Sirte

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Is it legal for bait shops to sell Asian crabs? Just curious because a lot do and one person said it may be illegal.
It is considered an invasive species, so not sure there is any harm.
whats the difference between asian crabs and our crabs?
Asian crabs are a invasive and destructive species that don't belong here.
First showed up sometime in 1988 in NJ.
Green Crabs ? Your supposed to get rid of them and theyre everywhere why not sell em ? Saves us a trip to the water to gather .
Green crabs and Asian crabs are 2 different things.
correct. and both are invasive.
i think greens are called european shore crabs or something like that.
Might as well add them to the list!
Interesting, didn't know that about green crabs.
Another thing, I read somewhere that striped bass were introduced to the West Coast a while ago and are now considered a trash fish there. Not sure if this is true or not but is related to the original thread.
If i find more I'll get pics.
A few state representatives here want to consider stripers trash so they can continue draining N. CA water and pumping it to S. CA.
Very, very few fisherman or fish eaters out here feel that way!
I believe the theory of how they came to invade was being transported within the bilges of large cargo ships coming from or back from Asia that would, as they pulled into port, pump out their bilges and infest us with the crabs.
My local Bait & Tackle in Long Island, NY told me it is illegal for them to sell them. I guess as an invasive species they don't want to open any market for them as that would promote growth and development of the species.
He also mentioned they are pushing out the local green crabs and fiddlers. We found tons of asians overturning rocks at low tide in LIS.


text:
/**
 * Generated by Scrooge
 *   version: 3.13.0
 *   rev: 0921444211eb6b3d2ac9fd31a1bf189f94c6ae85
 *   built at: 20140325-114520
 */
package com.twitter.zipkin.gen

import com.twitter.scrooge.{
  TFieldBlob, ThriftException, ThriftStruct, ThriftStructCodec3, ThriftStructFieldInfo, ThriftUtil}
import org.apache.thrift.protocol._
import org.apache.thrift.transport.{TMemoryBuffer, TTransport}
import java.nio.ByteBuffer
import java.util.Arrays
import scala.collection.immutable.{Map => immutable$Map}
import scala.collection.mutable.Builder
import scala.collection.mutable.{
  ArrayBuffer => mutable$ArrayBuffer, Buffer => mutable$Buffer,
  HashMap => mutable$HashMap, HashSet => mutable$HashSet}
import scala.collection.{Map, Set}

/**
 * This sums up a single Trace to make it easy for a client to get an overview of what happened.
 */
object TraceTimeline extends ThriftStructCodec3[TraceTimeline] {
  private val NoPassthroughFields = immutable$Map.empty[Short, TFieldBlob]
  val Struct = new TStruct("TraceTimeline")
  val TraceIdField = new TField("trace_id", TType.I64, 1)
  val TraceIdFieldManifest = implicitly[Manifest[Long]]
  val RootMostSpanIdField = new TField("root_most_span_id", TType.I64, 2)
  val RootMostSpanIdFieldManifest = implicitly[Manifest[Long]]
  val AnnotationsField = new TField("annotations", TType.LIST, 6)
  val AnnotationsFieldManifest = implicitly[Manifest[Seq[TimelineAnnotation]]]
  val BinaryAnnotationsField = new TField("binary_annotations", TType.LIST, 7)
  val BinaryAnnotationsFieldManifest = implicitly[Manifest[Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation]]]

  /**
   * Field information in declaration order.
   */
  lazy val fieldInfos: scala.List[ThriftStructFieldInfo] = scala.List[ThriftStructFieldInfo](
    new ThriftStructFieldInfo(
      TraceIdField,
      false,
      TraceIdFieldManifest,
      None,
      None,
      immutable$Map(
      ),
      immutable$Map(
      )
    ),
    new ThriftStructFieldInfo(
      RootMostSpanIdField,
      false,
      RootMostSpanIdFieldManifest,
      None,
      None,
      immutable$Map(
      ),
      immutable$Map(
      )
    ),
    new ThriftStructFieldInfo(
      AnnotationsField,
      false,
      AnnotationsFieldManifest,
      None,
      Some(implicitly[Manifest[TimelineAnnotation]]),
      immutable$Map(
      ),
      immutable$Map(
      )
    ),
    new ThriftStructFieldInfo(
      BinaryAnnotationsField,
      false,
      BinaryAnnotationsFieldManifest,
      None,
      Some(implicitly[Manifest[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation]]),
      immutable$Map(
      ),
      immutable$Map(
      )
    )
  )

  lazy val structAnnotations: immutable$Map[String, String] =
    immutable$Map[String, String](
    )

  /**
   * Checks that all required fields are non-null.
   */
  def validate(_item: TraceTimeline) {
  }

  override def encode(_item: TraceTimeline, _oproto: TProtocol) {
    _item.write(_oproto)
  }

  override def decode(_iprot: TProtocol): TraceTimeline = {
    var traceId: Long = 0L
    var rootMostSpanId: Long = 0L
    var annotations: Seq[TimelineAnnotation] = Seq[TimelineAnnotation]()
    var binaryAnnotations: Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation] = Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation]()
    var _passthroughFields: Builder[(Short, TFieldBlob), immutable$Map[Short, TFieldBlob]] = null
    var _done = false

    _iprot.readStructBegin()
    while (!_done) {
      val _field = _iprot.readFieldBegin()
      if (_field.`type` == TType.STOP) {
        _done = true
      } else {
        _field.id match {
          case 1 =>
            _field.`type` match {
              case TType.I64 => {
                traceId = readTraceIdValue(_iprot)
              }
              case _actualType =>
                val _expectedType = TType.I64

                throw new TProtocolException(
                  "Received wrong type for field 'traceId' (expected=%s, actual=%s).".format(
                    ttypeToHuman(_expectedType),
                    ttypeToHuman(_actualType)
                  )
                )
            }
          case 2 =>
            _field.`type` match {
              case TType.I64 => {
                rootMostSpanId = readRootMostSpanIdValue(_iprot)
              }
              case _actualType =>
                val _expectedType = TType.I64

                throw new TProtocolException(
                  "Received wrong type for field 'rootMostSpanId' (expected=%s, actual=%s).".format(
                    ttypeToHuman(_expectedType),
                    ttypeToHuman(_actualType)
                  )
                )
            }
          case 6 =>
            _field.`type` match {
              case TType.LIST => {
                annotations = readAnnotationsValue(_iprot)
              }
              case _actualType =>
                val _expectedType = TType.LIST

                throw new TProtocolException(
                  "Received wrong type for field 'annotations' (expected=%s, actual=%s).".format(
                    ttypeToHuman(_expectedType),
                    ttypeToHuman(_actualType)
                  )
                )
            }
          case 7 =>
            _field.`type` match {
              case TType.LIST => {
                binaryAnnotations = readBinaryAnnotationsValue(_iprot)
              }
              case _actualType =>
                val _expectedType = TType.LIST

                throw new TProtocolException(
                  "Received wrong type for field 'binaryAnnotations' (expected=%s, actual=%s).".format(
                    ttypeToHuman(_expectedType),
                    ttypeToHuman(_actualType)
                  )
                )
            }
          case _ =>
            if (_passthroughFields == null)
              _passthroughFields = immutable$Map.newBuilder[Short, TFieldBlob]
            _passthroughFields += (_field.id -> TFieldBlob.read(_field, _iprot))
        }
        _iprot.readFieldEnd()
      }
    }
    _iprot.readStructEnd()

    new Immutable(
      traceId,
      rootMostSpanId,
      annotations,
      binaryAnnotations,
      if (_passthroughFields == null)
        NoPassthroughFields
      else
        _passthroughFields.result()
    )
  }

  def apply(
    traceId: Long,
    rootMostSpanId: Long,
    annotations: Seq[TimelineAnnotation] = Seq[TimelineAnnotation](),
    binaryAnnotations: Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation] = Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation]()
  ): TraceTimeline =
    new Immutable(
      traceId,
      rootMostSpanId,
      annotations,
      binaryAnnotations
    )

  def unapply(_item: TraceTimeline): Option[scala.Product4[Long, Long, Seq[TimelineAnnotation], Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation]]] = Some(_item)

  private def readTraceIdValue(_iprot: TProtocol): Long = {
    _iprot.readI64()
  }

  private def writeTraceIdField(traceId_item: Long, _oprot: TProtocol) {
    _oprot.writeFieldBegin(TraceIdField)
    writeTraceIdValue(traceId_item, _oprot)
    _oprot.writeFieldEnd()
  }

  private def writeTraceIdValue(traceId_item: Long, _oprot: TProtocol) {
    _oprot.writeI64(traceId_item)
  }

  private def readRootMostSpanIdValue(_iprot: TProtocol): Long = {
    _iprot.readI64()
  }

  private def writeRootMostSpanIdField(rootMostSpanId_item: Long, _oprot: TProtocol) {
    _oprot.writeFieldBegin(RootMostSpanIdField)
    writeRootMostSpanIdValue(rootMostSpanId_item, _oprot)
    _oprot.writeFieldEnd()
  }

  private def writeRootMostSpanIdValue(rootMostSpanId_item: Long, _oprot: TProtocol) {
    _oprot.writeI64(rootMostSpanId_item)
  }

  private def readAnnotationsValue(_iprot: TProtocol): Seq[TimelineAnnotation] = {
    val _list = _iprot.readListBegin()
    if (_list.size == 0) {
      _iprot.readListEnd()
      Nil
    } else {
      val _rv = new mutable$ArrayBuffer[TimelineAnnotation](_list.size)
      var _i = 0
      while (_i < _list.size) {
        _rv += {
            TimelineAnnotation.decode(_iprot)

        }
        _i += 1
      }
      _iprot.readListEnd()
      _rv
    }
  }

  private def writeAnnotationsField(annotations_item: Seq[TimelineAnnotation], _oprot: TProtocol) {
    _oprot.writeFieldBegin(AnnotationsField)
    writeAnnotationsValue(annotations_item, _oprot)
    _oprot.writeFieldEnd()
  }

  private def writeAnnotationsValue(annotations_item: Seq[TimelineAnnotation], _oprot: TProtocol) {
    _oprot.writeListBegin(new TList(TType.STRUCT, annotations_item.size))
    annotations_item.foreach { annotations_item_element =>
      annotations_item_element.write(_oprot)
    }
    _oprot.writeListEnd()
  }

  private def readBinaryAnnotationsValue(_iprot: TProtocol): Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation] = {
    val _list = _iprot.readListBegin()
    if (_list.size == 0) {
      _iprot.readListEnd()
      Nil
    } else {
      val _rv = new mutable$ArrayBuffer[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation](_list.size)
      var _i = 0
      while (_i < _list.size) {
        _rv += {
            com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation.decode(_iprot)

        }
        _i += 1
      }
      _iprot.readListEnd()
      _rv
    }
  }

  private def writeBinaryAnnotationsField(binaryAnnotations_item: Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation], _oprot: TProtocol) {
    _oprot.writeFieldBegin(BinaryAnnotationsField)
    writeBinaryAnnotationsValue(binaryAnnotations_item, _oprot)
    _oprot.writeFieldEnd()
  }

  private def writeBinaryAnnotationsValue(binaryAnnotations_item: Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation], _oprot: TProtocol) {
    _oprot.writeListBegin(new TList(TType.STRUCT, binaryAnnotations_item.size))
    binaryAnnotations_item.foreach { binaryAnnotations_item_element =>
      binaryAnnotations_item_element.write(_oprot)
    }
    _oprot.writeListEnd()
  }

  private def ttypeToHuman(byte: Byte) = {
    // from https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/master/lib/java/src/org/apache/thrift/protocol/TType.java
    byte match {
      case TType.STOP   => "STOP"
      case TType.VOID   => "VOID"
      case TType.BOOL   => "BOOL"
      case TType.BYTE   => "BYTE"
      case TType.DOUBLE => "DOUBLE"
      case TType.I16    => "I16"
      case TType.I32    => "I32"
      case TType.I64    => "I64"
      case TType.STRING => "STRING"
      case TType.STRUCT => "STRUCT"
      case TType.MAP    => "MAP"
      case TType.SET    => "SET"
      case TType.LIST   => "LIST"
      case TType.ENUM   => "ENUM"
      case _            => "UNKNOWN"
    }
  }

  object Immutable extends ThriftStructCodec3[TraceTimeline] {
    override def encode(_item: TraceTimeline, _oproto: TProtocol) { _item.write(_oproto) }
    override def decode(_iprot: TProtocol): TraceTimeline = TraceTimeline.decode(_iprot)
  }

  /**
   * The default read-only implementation of TraceTimeline.  You typically should not need to
   * directly reference this class; instead, use the TraceTimeline.apply method to construct
   * new instances.
   */
  class Immutable(
    val traceId: Long,
    val rootMostSpanId: Long,
    val annotations: Seq[TimelineAnnotation],
    val binaryAnnotations: Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation],
    override val _passthroughFields: immutable$Map[Short, TFieldBlob]
  ) extends TraceTimeline {
    def this(
      traceId: Long,
      rootMostSpanId: Long,
      annotations: Seq[TimelineAnnotation] = Seq[TimelineAnnotation](),
      binaryAnnotations: Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation] = Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation]()
    ) = this(
      traceId,
      rootMostSpanId,
      annotations,
      binaryAnnotations,
      Map.empty
    )
  }

  /**
   * This Proxy trait allows you to extend the TraceTimeline trait with additional state or
   * behavior and implement the read-only methods from TraceTimeline using an underlying
   * instance.
   */
  trait Proxy extends TraceTimeline {
    protected def _underlying_TraceTimeline: TraceTimeline
    override def traceId: Long = _underlying_TraceTimeline.traceId
    override def rootMostSpanId: Long = _underlying_TraceTimeline.rootMostSpanId
    override def annotations: Seq[TimelineAnnotation] = _underlying_TraceTimeline.annotations
    override def binaryAnnotations: Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation] = _underlying_TraceTimeline.binaryAnnotations
    override def _passthroughFields = _underlying_TraceTimeline._passthroughFields
  }
}

trait TraceTimeline
  extends ThriftStruct
  with scala.Product4[Long, Long, Seq[TimelineAnnotation], Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation]]
  with java.io.Serializable
{
  import TraceTimeline._

  def traceId: Long
  def rootMostSpanId: Long
  def annotations: Seq[TimelineAnnotation]
  def binaryAnnotations: Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation]

  def _passthroughFields: immutable$Map[Short, TFieldBlob] = immutable$Map.empty

  def _1 = traceId
  def _2 = rootMostSpanId
  def _3 = annotations
  def _4 = binaryAnnotations

  /**
   * Gets a field value encoded as a binary blob using TCompactProtocol.  If the specified field
   * is present in the passthrough map, that value is returend.  Otherwise, if the specified field
   * is known and not optional and set to None, then the field is serialized and returned.
   */
  def getFieldBlob(_fieldId: Short): Option[TFieldBlob] = {
    lazy val _buff = new TMemoryBuffer(32)
    lazy val _oprot = new TCompactProtocol(_buff)
    _passthroughFields.get(_fieldId) orElse {
      val _fieldOpt: Option[TField] =
        _fieldId match {
          case 1 =>
            if (true) {
              writeTraceIdValue(traceId, _oprot)
              Some(TraceTimeline.TraceIdField)
            } else {
              None
            }
          case 2 =>
            if (true) {
              writeRootMostSpanIdValue(rootMostSpanId, _oprot)
              Some(TraceTimeline.RootMostSpanIdField)
            } else {
              None
            }
          case 6 =>
            if (annotations ne null) {
              writeAnnotationsValue(annotations, _oprot)
              Some(TraceTimeline.AnnotationsField)
            } else {
              None
            }
          case 7 =>
            if (binaryAnnotations ne null) {
              writeBinaryAnnotationsValue(binaryAnnotations, _oprot)
              Some(TraceTimeline.BinaryAnnotationsField)
            } else {
              None
            }
          case _ => None
        }
      _fieldOpt match {
        case Some(_field) =>
          val _data = Arrays.copyOfRange(_buff.getArray, 0, _buff.length)
          Some(TFieldBlob(_field, _data))
        case None =>
          None
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Collects TCompactProtocol-encoded field values according to `getFieldBlob` into a map.
   */
  def getFieldBlobs(ids: TraversableOnce[Short]): immutable$Map[Short, TFieldBlob] =
    (ids flatMap { id => getFieldBlob(id) map { id -> _ } }).toMap

  /**
   * Sets a field using a TCompactProtocol-encoded binary blob.  If the field is a known
   * field, the blob is decoded and the field is set to the decoded value.  If the field
   * is unknown and passthrough fields are enabled, then the blob will be stored in
   * _passthroughFields.
   */
  def setField(_blob: TFieldBlob): TraceTimeline = {
    var traceId: Long = this.traceId
    var rootMostSpanId: Long = this.rootMostSpanId
    var annotations: Seq[TimelineAnnotation] = this.annotations
    var binaryAnnotations: Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation] = this.binaryAnnotations
    var _passthroughFields = this._passthroughFields
    _blob.id match {
      case 1 =>
        traceId = readTraceIdValue(_blob.read)
      case 2 =>
        rootMostSpanId = readRootMostSpanIdValue(_blob.read)
      case 6 =>
        annotations = readAnnotationsValue(_blob.read)
      case 7 =>
        binaryAnnotations = readBinaryAnnotationsValue(_blob.read)
      case _ => _passthroughFields += (_blob.id -> _blob)
    }
    new Immutable(
      traceId,
      rootMostSpanId,
      annotations,
      binaryAnnotations,
      _passthroughFields
    )
  }

  /**
   * If the specified field is optional, it is set to None.  Otherwise, if the field is
   * known, it is reverted to its default value; if the field is unknown, it is subtracked
   * from the passthroughFields map, if present.
   */
  def unsetField(_fieldId: Short): TraceTimeline = {
    var traceId: Long = this.traceId
    var rootMostSpanId: Long = this.rootMostSpanId
    var annotations: Seq[TimelineAnnotation] = this.annotations
    var binaryAnnotations: Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation] = this.binaryAnnotations

    _fieldId match {
      case 1 =>
        traceId = 0L
      case 2 =>
        rootMostSpanId = 0L
      case 6 =>
        annotations = Seq[TimelineAnnotation]()
      case 7 =>
        binaryAnnotations = Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation]()
      case _ =>
    }
    new Immutable(
      traceId,
      rootMostSpanId,
      annotations,
      binaryAnnotations,
      _passthroughFields - _fieldId
    )
  }

  /**
   * If the specified field is optional, it is set to None.  Otherwise, if the field is
   * known, it is reverted to its default value; if the field is unknown, it is subtracked
   * from the passthroughFields map, if present.
   */
  def unsetTraceId: TraceTimeline = unsetField(1)

  def unsetRootMostSpanId: TraceTimeline = unsetField(2)

  def unsetAnnotations: TraceTimeline = unsetField(6)

  def unsetBinaryAnnotations: TraceTimeline = unsetField(7)

  override def write(_oprot: TProtocol) {
    TraceTimeline.validate(this)
    _oprot.writeStructBegin(Struct)
    writeTraceIdField(traceId, _oprot)
    writeRootMostSpanIdField(rootMostSpanId, _oprot)
    if (annotations ne null) writeAnnotationsField(annotations, _oprot)
    if (binaryAnnotations ne null) writeBinaryAnnotationsField(binaryAnnotations, _oprot)
    _passthroughFields.values foreach { _.write(_oprot) }
    _oprot.writeFieldStop()
    _oprot.writeStructEnd()
  }

  def copy(
    traceId: Long = this.traceId,
    rootMostSpanId: Long = this.rootMostSpanId,
    annotations: Seq[TimelineAnnotation] = this.annotations,
    binaryAnnotations: Seq[com.twitter.zipkin.gen.BinaryAnnotation] = this.binaryAnnotations,
    _passthroughFields: immutable$Map[Short, TFieldBlob] = this._passthroughFields
  ): TraceTimeline =
    new Immutable(
      traceId,
      rootMostSpanId,
      annotations,
      binaryAnnotations,
      _passthroughFields
    )

  override def canEqual(other: Any): Boolean = other.isInstanceOf[TraceTimeline]

  override def equals(other: Any): Boolean =
    _root_.scala.runtime.ScalaRunTime._equals(this, other) &&
      _passthroughFields == other.asInstanceOf[TraceTimeline]._passthroughFields

  override def hashCode: Int = _root_.scala.runtime.ScalaRunTime._hashCode(this)

  override def toString: String = _root_.scala.runtime.ScalaRunTime._toString(this)

  override def productArity: Int = 4

  override def productElement(n: Int): Any = n match {
    case 0 => this.traceId
    case 1 => this.rootMostSpanId
    case 2 => this.annotations
    case 3 => this.binaryAnnotations
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Q: Auto save system for a simple city building game I am making a city building game by Unity3D, want to design and implement an auto-save system.
The game is like this.

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*I have to save both structures and people.

*The map is large and there are A LOT of people, may be more than 1 million!.

*People are not all the same. They have their own role, like worker, boss, bartender, kindergartener.

*People doesn't interact with each other, they only interact with structure (join into the structure). To keep the game simple, I will animate "chit chat sound text effect" over a cafe or a bar instead of having people chatting on the road.

*People only have 2 state: inside a structure, walking on the street.

*People can change their role after come in and out from a structure. It is like they graduate from a school after... 1 minute.

*People density of every place are not the same. There may have roads with only 1 person but other roads with full of people. People stuck on the road will not able to come to the destination on time.

*We can see people walk on street all the time. No day no night no sleep no rest. Simple routine.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/zrubp.png
What I did

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*Save all structures into a list

*Save all people into another list

*Serialize all them into a json

*Save to playerpref
Problem:

*There are so many "people" so the frame-by-frame saving have a big problem: cost too much time to serialize and save to player pref.

Any idea for an auto-save system for this game? Thank you very much?


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24 June, 2011 ▪ Yaroslav Pidhora-Hviazdovskiy
Gold for Vroda
Cannes Film Festival winner Maryna Vroda speaks about contrasts, life without cinema and having choices
Ukrainian Maryna Vroda's winning a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for the best short film is an extraordinary, honorable and highly interesting accomplishment. It is the second time that Ukraine has beaten competition in this category - Ihor Strembitsky blazed the trail six years ago with his Wayfarers (Podorozhni). The Ukrainian Week spoke with Vroda about why Cross was selected by the jury and how the awards ceremony went.
U.W.: On your way to Cannes, did you have doubts about entering the same river twice? Ihor Strembitsky with his Wayfarers was, after all, the first Ukrainian to win a Palme d'Or and for the best short film at that.
I did have my doubts. But on my way to Cannes, I knew I could win it, because the film is interesting, I think. It is hard to watch and describe in words. In fact, my victory came when my film was chosen for participation. Everything that followed was just a show and a reward for this first victory. As they announced the winners, I was confused and couldn't grasp whether I won the main prize or something else. When I realized it was the Golden Palm, a thought crossed my mind: "Now I'm in for it." I exhaled and decided to get it over with as soon as I could: I received the prize, met with the journalists and spoke to the media so that I could return to work.
U.W.: Did Michel Gondry, who chaired the short film section, tell you why the jury picked Cross?
I was not his favorite as I learned from the jury members themselves after the awards ceremony. This is only understandable: he is not my director, just as I am not his director. He plays with other forms and speaks about other things. But he is quite nice. I like being friends with people I don't understand. By the way, the first thing he asked me was whether I was going to kill myself with this prize. He said he knows many directors who were content to win a Palm d'Or and that was the end for them. It's not that I am indifferent to this prize, but what can it change? After I said this, Gondry relaxed and we had a laugh at a French director who, as she received the prize, was "dying" on the stage, was obviously nervous, stuttered, etc.
U.W.: Regarding your speech, we were not fortunate to hear it, but I remember what happened to Strembitsky: Joel Chapron, a great Russophile and former vice director of UniFrance for East European countries, asked him to speak in Russian, but he chose Ukrainian. How was it this time around?
First, everyone knew that I speak English. Second, I said some general things. Everything was simple.
U.W.: Was it easy to shoot the film? You had financing from France, didn't you?
Initially, our cooperation relied on friendly relationships. Since the time I studied at the institute I have never counted on anyone very much. I made all my short films thanks to personal contacts. A girl I made friends with several years ago happened to be French. She was able to properly submit the application and the film script to France. This is how we obtained financial support. Ukraine was represented by my team, the idea and the intellect.
U.W.: So the French as it were gave the award to their own film?
Ukraineand France share the rights to the film in equal measure, even though the latter paid all travel and operating expenses. I shot the film with my camera, but the French also paid for the conversion to meet DCP requirements and then to 35-millimeter film; they covered the labor costs of post-production and my trip to Cannes. Breaking down who paid what to whom is boring. The interesting thing is that it all worked out and my team members were able to work as free artists instead of just toiling for people here.
Actually, this is what I made the film for, because I believe my team is no less professional that those of world-renowned directors. We edited the entire film in Ukraine and only did the audio and such similar things in France. When we worked in the studio, our work was praised, both the audio and color correction. The latter was praised even by the person who worked on Aleksei German Sr.'s Khrustalyov, My Car! In a word, we felt confident and capable and realized that our work could generate interest in Europe and beyond. Now Cross will be screened at the Kinotavr festival in Sochi. I am interested in obtaining criticism.
U.W.: So what do you want to say with it? I understand that, as Wilhelm Wenders, Alexander Sokurov and Yuri Lotman said, the author does not have to explain anything. But still, is Cross a symbol of life or of continuous pointless motion?
I have always been interested in contrasts and contradictions, such as life and death. This film emerged at the crossroads of social and personal things as a reaction to the environment: as I wandered in the park, I was overwhelmed by disgust with our way of life and, at the same time, interest in why things are the way they are. Therefore, the social aspect of Cross was transformed under the influence of the poetic one. At its foundation lies highly compressed time. I tried to understand it and myself in it. Indeed, I raise more questions for myself in the film than give answers. These are the questions that come up every day: Why is our standard of living so low? What am I doing about it? What can I do? We are in massive hibernation, but people themselves are largely to blame for it.
U.W.: Can visualized issues like this command the interest of our viewers?
Our viewers have long stopped taking interest in anything. But then there's the question: What viewers? My neighbors in the building where I live will not be interested.
U.W.: All right, do you target any viewing audience, or do you make your films regardless of it?
In Cannes I watched the Turkish movie Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. It is fairly complicated and long. It runs for three hours but is simply marvelous. Emotionally, it is a closed film which in no way encourages you to continue watching it. Only after two hours of watching it do you begin to feel something. I had such profound emotions only when I watched Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice. And I don't really know who will endure watching it here. But then, maybe they will.
What does it depend on? What makes a person read books and listen to music in general? In a word, I am not responsible for the viewer, only for my work. Honestly, the viewer's reaction to my film now depends more on you than on me. Whether people will watch it depends, perhaps, even on one's interpretation and one's review.
The Arthouse Traffic distribution company wants to show my short film before feature-length movies. First, the viewer needs to be respected in any case, so I will not lower the bar. Second, the viewer has a choice and can simply ignore the film, because watching it is not a must. And in general, you can feel great without cinema. You can grow cabbage and be supremely content with everything, while remaining a spiritually rich person at the same time. Life is not limited to cinema alone.
U.W.: But not in your case, I understand. A short film means "short" responsibility. Are you considering a feature film like Gondry did when he finally shot Human Nature 12 years into his directing career?
I would like to do another short and then move on to a feature film. I have an idea and the same producer that I worked with on Cross, even though I can now choose.
U.W.: Are you starting to take advantage of the bonuses the prize has brought?
What are these bonuses good for? Do you need them for living? No, you need them, of course, for work, and that's their essence.
Not for profit or Art for art's sake
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Fortunately, unlike Marge, you live in a 3-D world where you have control of your strands. No matter what kind of locks you were blessed with—straight, curly, fine, or thick—there are many ways to change up your usual look through cut, color, styling, and accessories. We turned to expert Timmy Willy, a stylist at Chicago's Blow by Blow dry bar and an artistic educator for Matrix, to get his tips on how to rock your 'do with a little more variety.
We asked Willy for his absolute must-haves, and he gave us four tools he says every woman should always have at the ready.
• A no-crease scrunchie: When you've had a blowout or curled your hair, you can go to the gym and the scrunchie will keep the style (unlike simple elastics, which can leave dents).
• Dry shampoo: No one has time to style their hair every day, so you can save time and keep your look longer with dry shampoo. It also means you'll wash less, which helps to maintain your hair's moisture.
Blow-dry bars are popping up across the country and can help you get a new look at an affordable price, fast! "What's great about a blow-dry bar is that professional stylists can achieve looks women can't at home," says Willy. Plus, "you're in and out in 40 minutes, and on average, spending only about $35." Not only can a trained pro open your eyes to a new style that you never thought would work, he or she can also give you some tips for approximating the look on your own.
Willy says updos are becoming more and more popular at his salon—and not just those of the stereotypical, traditional wedding variety. "Updos can be more casual and dressed down," he notes, adding that braids are a great option for a more relaxed look. "The great thing about an updo is it will last a few days and when you pull the pins out, the curls that develop will last a few days more." You may even get a week's worth of hair styling out of it.
Besides pulling a Britney and shaving your head, changing your color is perhaps the most seismic shift you can make to your style. The process can be daunting, so Willy gave us some tips.
First, he recommends starting with an acid-based demi-permanent color so you can get a shift in tone but not necessarily color level. "This enhances your hair color without a major change and adds shine and gloss while protecting against UV rays," he says, making this choice especially good during summer months.
If you want to try blonde, Willy suggests going for natural-looking medium tones, which are more modern than the chunky highlights of yesteryear. With red, you have to be careful to preserve your color. Make sure to stay away from chlorine pools and use a color-treated protectant to maintain longevity. "This is especially important in summer because the sun will take the color right out of your hair," says Willy.
A more temporary effect is washable color like hair chalk from Kevin Murphy or Anastasia Beverly Hills. "You can add pastel to your ombré and increase the vibrancy, and it washes right out the next time you shampoo," says Willy.
"If you're ready for a new cut, know that you are making a big commitment and marrying it for at least six weeks until you see some grow-out," says Willy. He recommends consulting with your stylist before trying anything new. "Many times people come in with a picture from a magazine and want a carbon copy, but it's often not the best look for their face," he says. Ask your stylist for recommendations specific to your facial structure.
Hair accessories like pins, headbands, and hats can really finish off a new look or at least provide some different options for those less willing to go for bold cuts or color. According to Willy, an updo is unfinished until you pair it with an accessory. "It's like an outfit without jewelry—it just looks awkward," he says.
• Every time you change your haircut or color, plan on playing around with your wardrobe and makeup to complement your new look.
• To keep it healthy, change your hair color no more than once every 6 weeks.
• Plan any drastic cuts for the summer—one, it will give you relief from the heat, and two, hair grows faster in the warmer months due to vitamin D from the sun.


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The chief of the defence force, Angus Campbell, told the foreign affairs and defence estimates hearing that it is better practice for the military to be told before the media about factors that influence "force protection measures".
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The Labor leader in the Senate, Penny Wong, noted the media reports were public the night before and asked if the media therefore found out before commanders ordered to conduct the review. "If that is the timing of the announcement then yes," Johnston conceded.
When Wong asked if it was concerning the media found out before commanders, Campbell replied that the "the force protection measures that are in place across our operational theatres were proved to be very adequate for that additional consideration".
Johnston said he was "not concerned for the force protection of our people, I am comfortable that they remained at all times safe and measures in place were appropriate".
When Campbell noted the announcement was just one "additional issue" to consider in force protection, Wong replied "where an Australian embassy is located in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a small issue".
Campbell noted the Australian government was only considering a move of the embassy and had not made a final decision, although Johnston conceded it was a "good point" that may not be how the message had been received.
After the lunch break, Wong asked if it was "better practice" for the defence commanders to be informed before the media.
"Yes senator," Campbell replied after a pause.
The Asio bulletin first published by Guardian Australia is marked secret, AUSTEO (Australian eyes only) and was circulated on 15 October. It notes that the putative shift would "attract international attention".


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Mayo Clinic Minute: Fall prevention tips for kids
In conjunction with the first day of fall in mid-September, Falls Prevention Awareness Week is a national health campaign observed to raise awareness about injuries due to falls.
Many injuries and even deaths in children can occur because of falls.
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Every year in the U.S., roughly 2.2 million children under 15 are seen in emergency departments for injuries related to falls.
"You can see things as simple as little cuts and bumps and bruises, to broken bones to big head injuries," says Dr. Neha Raukar, a Mayo Clinic emergency medicine physician.
About half of those injuries occur in toddlers, kids 4 and under.
"If you think about kids and how they're exploring their environment, it's good to just be aware of what they're doing," says Dr. Raukar.
While falls can occur anywhere, windows and stairs are common causes of fall-related injury and death in young children. To keep your child safe, install window guards and stops. Keep windows locked and closed when not in use. And for those kids that like to climb, move furniture away from the windows, and use approved safety gates at the top and bottom of stairs.
As kids get older, injuries from falls outside the home, such as bicycling or on the playground, are more likely to occur. Falls on the playground account for almost 200,000 trips to the emergency room each year.
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And when biking, skateboarding or other fun stuff, protect the head by wearing a helmet.
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