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Q: C++ - Unwanted characters printed in output file This is the last part of the program I am working on. I want to output a tabular list of songs to cout. And then I want to output a specially formatted list of song information into fout (which will be used as an input file later on).
Printing to cout works great. The problem is that tons of extra character are added when printing to fout.
Any ideas?
Here's the code:
    void Playlist::printFile(ofstream &fout, LinkedList<Playlist> &allPlaylists, LinkedList<Songs*> &library)
{
 fout.open("music.txt");
 if(fout.fail())
 {
  cout << "Output file failed. Information was not saved." << endl << endl;
 }
 else
 {
  if(library.size() > 0)
   fout << "LIBRARY" << endl;
  for(int i = 0; i < library.size(); i++)           // For Loop - "Incremrenting i"-Loop to go through library and print song information.
  {
   fout << library.at(i)->getSongName() << endl;     // Prints song name.
   fout << library.at(i)->getArtistName() << endl;     // Prints artist name.
   fout << library.at(i)->getAlbumName() << endl;     // Prints album name.
   fout << library.at(i)->getPlayTime() << " " << library.at(i)->getYear() << " ";
   fout << library.at(i)->getStarRating() << " " << library.at(i)->getSongGenre() << endl;
  }
  if(allPlaylists.size() <= 0)
   fout << endl;
  else if(allPlaylists.size() > 0)
  {
  int j;
  for(j = 0; j < allPlaylists.size(); j++)           // Loops through all playlists.
  {
   fout << "xxxxx" << endl;
   fout << allPlaylists.at(j).getPlaylistName() << endl;
   for(int i = 0; i < allPlaylists.at(j).listSongs.size(); i++)
   {
    fout << allPlaylists.at(j).listSongs.at(i)->getSongName();
    fout << endl;
    fout << allPlaylists.at(j).listSongs.at(i)->getArtistName();
    fout << endl;
   }
  }
  fout << endl;
  }
 }
}

Here's a sample of the output to music.txt (fout):
LIBRARY
sadljkhfds
dfgkjh
dfkgh
3 3333 3 Rap
sdlkhs
kjshdfkh
sdkjfhsdf
3 33333 3 Rap
xxxxx
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    enter code here
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A: Most likely, one of your methods returns an improper char * string (not null terminated).
Edit: actually, not just one: getPlaylistName(), getSongName() and getArtistName().


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David Christensen's career has had many chapters, but the storyline has always been about mentoring. He spent six years teaching ninth grade in the LDS Church Education System. Then he was in a corporate environment for half his career before teaching religion at Ricks College and then BYU-Idaho.
His educational training came to play as he served as both an LDS mission president and MTC president, where David became concerned with Latino missionaries who didn't know what they were going to do after taking off the name tag.
"The mission had given them new vision and desires, but many didn't have a home to go home to and didn't know how to create the life they now wanted for themselves and their future families," he says.
David's skills and wills culminated in his role as executive director of Lifting Generations, which is combined from the previous entities One Life At a Time and Cause For Hope.
Now he has countless stories of lives changed and opportunities opened for grateful faces around the world. For example, he tells of a single mother making 1,000 tortillas a day and earning $160 a month. As she went through the Self-Reliance Services program of the LDS Church, she acquired a mentor and began making $400-$500 a month.
David resides in Lindon but oversees projects around the world. He knows his work is only possible when the dollars roll.
One of David's favorite compliments is that he's a collaborator. Lifting Generations works hand-in-hand with the LDS Church, Reading Horizons, TestOut, the Academy for Creating Enterprise, LDS Business College, Weber State and many others.
Lifting Generations needs its own lift through donations of time and money. "Sometimes people think you've got to have a lot of money to make a difference in the world," David says. "But if we get 1,000 people giving $10 or $20 a month, it really adds up." Other needs include mentors and volunteers to help on projects already integrated with Lifting Generations, such as building out orphanages and providing medical services. Visit liftinggenerations.org to learn more.


URBAN areas can become the world's food basket. So said Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, the crown prince of Dubai, in a holographic address at the seventhWorld Government Summit, WGS 2019, in Dubai on Monday, February 11.
Hamdan said future cities should provide 80 percent of all services within 20 minutes of their residents, and horizontal farms will feed the world's growing population.
The seventh WGS also learned that Dubai aims to become a driverless city in 50 years. Speaking of which, the Roads and Transport Authority's, RTA, latest driverless transport was on display. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai jumped aboard to review the futuristic Sky Pods with his son Sheikh Hamdan. The Pods use 5 times less power than existing systems and can travel at 150km/h.
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Beans & Powder
Making Perfect Coffee
Choosing Equipment
Coffee-based Recipes
Common Coffee Questions
Best Coffee Pods for your pod coffee machine
Arabica coffee & Robusta coffee – what's the difference?
Best instant coffee for that quick hot drink
Review of Hiwill Travel Coffee Mug
Best Travel Mugs for your commute coffee
Review of Thermos Travel Mug (Stainless Steel)
How to make Aeropress coffee
How to make Vietnamese Coffee
Ca Phe Sua Da – Iced Vietnamese Coffee
What is a mocha? Coffee drinks explained
Coffee grounds – remarkable benefits from waste
What is crema in coffee?
Understanding Coffee Bean Types – 7 Common Questions About Coffee Descriptions
Our 7 Most Common Questions About Coffee Bean Types
The Mystery of Coffee Bean Descriptions and Coffee Jargon
1. What is the difference between  Arabica coffee and Robusta coffee beans?
2. Where are the "best" coffee bean types grown?
3. How does coffee from different regions/countries taste?
4. Do schemes like Fairtrade and direct trade help coffee farmers?
5. What are Single Origin Coffee Bean Types?
6. Are Single Origins Better than Blended Coffee Bean Types?
7. Are Flavour Descriptions Useful, or Just Marketing & Pretentiousness?
The Mixed Blessing of Increased Choice of Coffee Bean Types
With the increasing popularity of coffee comes a great increase in the range and quality of coffee bean types available. Supermarkets now stock beans to satisfy discerning coffee drinkers, and online specialists supply beans you could only read about a few years ago.
But with this popularity of coffee comes a couple of downsides. Firstly, brands and stores have to work harder to distinguish themselves. Second, there are many people selling coffee who sound like experts, but don't know as much as you (or they) may think.
Coffee Bean Descriptions - Sometimes Helpful, Often Confusing
This means increasing amounts of flowery language to describe coffee in stores and on packaging. There are also more folks offering opinions and advice on what to drink. Both the opinions and descriptions can be helpful, but some are less useful, even misleading.
It's not at all uncommon to feel confused or uncertain by what is written or said about coffee bean types you're thinking of buying. It's not obvious what information to rely on, and what to ignore.
How to Figure Out What Descriptions Really Mean
One practical answer is to but from a store where you can rely on what they tell you. We have a few favourite spots where we believe they know what they're talking about. We occasionally profile these, and are always on the lookout for new places to try out.
Another approach is to increase your own coffee knowledge a little, enough to make informed choices about the coffee bean types available.
Below is a good place to start. It's the first in a series explaining common terms used in describing coffee beans. It's based on questions we've frequently heard about choosing coffee bean types.
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1. What is the difference between Arabica coffee and Robusta coffee beans?
What you need to know about Arabica coffee and Robusta coffee
Arabica and Robusta are the two species of coffee plant used to make virtually all the coffee bean types you will find.
There are many more, but virtually all the coffee grown commercially is made up of these two. There's a third called Liberica, but you'll rarely if ever come across it, so can ignore it for most purposes. Some consider a Excelsa a fourth, but it's technically a variant of Liberica, although with very different flavour.
Most coffee grown around the world is Arabica coffee – around two-thirds to three-quarters. The rest is Robusta coffee, apart from around 2% Liberica.
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Many people choose Arabica coffee, because they believe it taste better than Robusta. While it's true that good Arabica usually tastes better than good Robusta coffee, things aren't so simple. Good Robusta beans can taste better than average Arabica, poor examples of both are equally unpalatable, and a blend of both can range from exquisite to dire.
Robusta coffee is cheaper, because the crops are hardier, and are less "fussy" about where and how they're grown. It's used to good effect in some blends to enhance the flavour. But it's also commonly used in blends and instant to keep prices low.
Robusta beans have more caffeine than Arabica coffee, so are often used in espresso blends. (Caffeine levels aren't as high in espresso as other brewing methods).
Should you care what species your coffee beans are? In our view, no – let the roasters deal with that, and choose based on flavour. You can't automatically infer anything about the bean species from whether the coffee tastes great or lousy.
The next time someone says Arabica coffee beans are the only great coffee beans to buy, you know the answer is that it doesn't have to be the case.
Not a particularly meaningful question in our view, but nevertheless people ask variations on this question up to 10,000 times a month online.
One way to answer the question is based on price, assuming the best coffee bean types are the most expensive. But that puts Indonesia's Luwak (better known as Civet or "Cat's Poo" coffee!) towards the top – and it's hard to argue this is the best tasting coffee around.
(By the way, if you're intrigued by coffee beans that have been digested by a cat, you'll want to find out about the less well-known Black Ivory coffee, consumed by elephants.)
If it's about the best-tasting coffee bean types, the opinions you'll find vary tremendously of course, as it's a subjective answer that depends on what flavours a given reviewer likes.
The true answer is that the best coffee in the world can come from anywhere, and the quality is down to the quality of the beans, how well the roasting matches their character, and whether they've been blended to bring out the best of the available flavours.
In practice, there are some countries that are better than most at growing exceptional tasting coffee beans. These include Brazil, Kenya and Ethiopia.
Then there are a set of more niche places that are known for producing small quantities of distinctive coffee, or have one stand-out bean that has become famous. These include St Helena (whose coffee was first made famous by Napolean), Jamaica and Panama.
Here's an alphabetical list of beans that regularly feature on "best in the world" polls. For what it's worth, we like most of them, but don't drink any on a regular basis. Our favourites tend to be blends from great roasters near us.
Blue Mountain – Jamaica
Fazenda Santa Ines – Brazil
Finca El Injerto – Guatemala
Geisha Esmeralda – Panama
Los Planes - El Salvador
Kenyan AA – Kenya
Kona – Hawaii
Mandheling – Sumatra
Mocha – Yemen
Peaberry – Tanzania
St Helena Coffee – St Helena
Yirgacheffe – Ethiopia
First, a caveat – the flavour of a bean depends on more factors than just its country of origin. As well as the quality of the bean, you have variations by the conditions of growth, the individual species of bean, and of course how it's processed, roasted and made.
World Coffee Bean Belt
Having said that, there are some flavours you can expect from different coffee bean types grown in different regions of the world:
South America: "Classic", balanced, mellow, some cocoa/nuts, complex
Central America: "Bright", a little sweet, subtle flavours
Africa/Middle East: Fruity or floral, often quite sweet, some are spicy
Asia/Pacific: "Heavy", smooth, generally quite simple flavours
And here's what you are likely to taste in coffee bean types from individual countries:
Brazil: Classic, mellow, smooth, slightly sweet – often with tones of chocolate
Burundi: Reasonably sweet, some spice flavours
Colombia: Bright, can be fruity, often with floral hints
Ethiopia: Primarily fruity or floral, depending on how it's processed
Hawaii: Mild, with fruit and floral notes
India: Smooth, mild, creamy, designed for South Indian filter makers
Indonesia: Earthy, heavy, mainly a mix of spicy and cocoa flavours
Kenya: Sweetish with hints of chocolate
Panama: Geisha beans are floral in flavour, others more fruity but less sweet
Tanzania: Citrusy and floral in nature
Yemen: Spicy, but very variable in quality. Good beans are great, others can be very poor.
One of the biggest issues around the ethics of coffee bean production is the treatment of farmers, especially the poorest. For years, few were aware of how little of the money paid by consumers made its way back to the farmers, most of who lived in poverty.
Various schemes have been set up over the years to help address this. They work in different ways, but all try to encourage more money from coffee sales back to farmers, and more attention to working conditions.
The biggest of these is "Fairtrade", which has been in place for several decades, and works in all the major coffee growing countries. It's beyond doubt that it has made things better than they were before, and has raised awareness of the issues very successfully.
Fairtrade works by using global certification to enforce standards that improve how farmers are treated. This includes how certified coffee is packed, distributed, marketed. This certification and monitoring is managed by Fairtrade International, a global body that consists of national and regional fair trade labelling organisations.
Critics say that Fairtrade is costly and overly-centralised, and claim the benefits are questionable. There is evidence for and against this point of view, but as with most big industries, there are complex motivations and agendas on both sides of the debate.
One of the common arguments against the Fairtrade model is the cost to producers and packers of getting certified. Those who support this view believe that money could be better spent on the farmers themselves.
An alternative often advocated is "direct trade", where roasters work directly with the farmers whose beans they use. But almost by definition there's no central certificate that "proves" farmers of such coffee are better treated than any others.
Ultimately, coffee is a multi-billion dollar industry with many people taking a cut of the profits, from the coffee shop owner to the shipping companies. As it's a traded commodity, people in the financial markets also make money from it, without having to go near a bag of the stuff. But most of it is grown and processed in poor and developing parts of the world, by small businesses and family farms.
So it's perhaps naïve to believe that the share of proceeds going back to the growers is ever going to be "fair". But in our view, that's all the more reason to do something as a consumer, even if it ought to or could be more.
Our personal opinion is that Fairtrade and direct trade coffee are better for farmers than alternatives, and the difference in price is nominal for coffee drinkers.
If you buy direct trade coffee, we'd suggest you don't just accept the label at face value – ask for some reassurance or details, then use your own judgement.
Single Origin coffee means all the beans were grown in the same place, and so should have the same flavour. Unfortunately, that doesn't tell you anything about the quality or flavour of those beans, and so is no guarantee that the coffee is any good.
That's because there's no definition or control over how the term is used. The greatest difficulty comes from huge variety in what is meant by "the same place" where the beans were all grown. It could be a farm, or even a specific set of plants on the farm. But it may also mean a set of farms in a region, or even many different coffee bean types all grown in the same country.
Previously, the term was mostly used to describe a specially picked set of beans from the same farm, assuring a higher quality batch chosen for great flavour. But as the term became more widely used and adapted, it's now often a marketing label to justify a higher price.
One of the most important aspects of a good single origin coffee is its traceability. It should be possible to know for sure exactly where the beans were grown, in the best cases down to the farm and plants used. This allows roasters and growers to work together to create a roast that brings out the best characteristics of beans grown there.
If a single origin coffee is labelled direct trade, then that traceability means it's also more likely that the growers are getting a better deal financially from their crop. It's not only the farmers that benefit from this. A good relationship with the roasters means there's more incentive to innovate with the crops, adapting the bean from year to year to create better flavours that respond better to processing and roasting.
Conversely, a mass producer of coffee may label all their Ethiopian coffee as single origin, regardless of where in the country it comes from. That may be a good thing, such as with some of Starbucks' single origins. They vary which Ethiopian beans they use year to year, so that there's a consistent flavour, regardless of weather or other variations. But others may not be as scrupulous as this. It's not unknown for a premium priced single origin coffee to simply be beans from the same country, regardless of what else they have in common.
As always, where you buy your beans from and what brands you choose are the main ways of ensuring that you get what you expect from your beans, particularly if choosing single origin coffee bean types. But most importantly of all, rely on your taste buds to guide you.
Why not read about some of the UK coffee roasters you should know?
In a word, no!
Unlike scotch whisky, where a single malt (the whisky equivalent of single origin coffee) usually tastes better than a blended whisky, a good blend coffee will often taste as good as a good single origin. And a poor single origin will taste as bad as a poor blend.
The reason why is that coffee roasters tend to work their magic on a set of beans to create the best flavour possible, and usually have a flavour in mind they're aiming for. The art of blending is about understanding how different flavours from different beans will work together, so it's possible to improve a bean's flavour by adding others to it.
It also depends on how you make your coffee. Espresso machines subject beans to quite an intense, quick process to extract flavour. As a result, they bring out flavours differently to say Aeropress or pour-over, where there's much more time taken.
That's why you'll often see stores recommending a blend for espresso and a single origin for Aeropress. Good stores will usually have a couple of choices of each, catering for different flavour preferences.
It should be no surprise to hear we think there's no easy way to choose good beans – single origin or blend – without tasting them. If you're in a hurry or can't be bothered, use the flavour descriptions or recommendations of somewhere reliable. Ideally, create your own preferred flavour profile, so you can choose based on flavours you know you like.
Just like wine and whisky, coffee is full of complex, subtle flavours, for which a special lexicon has developed to describe them. Unlike its alcoholic counterparts, coffee tasting is relatively modern, and the expertise is less widely understood.
It's also a very subjective art, like anything to do with flavour. The skill of the coffee taster is in finding a relatively objective way of describing and comparing flavours. This is where the industry helps, but creating standards, references and training.
With the success of the coffee industry, there are new coffee stores appearing all the time. However, only a few take the time (and spend the money) needed to hire and train staff in industry training on flavours.
As a result, for every trained coffee taster, there are many less well trained staff bandying around terms they've heard, without necessarily appreciating what they mean. That extends to the marketing departments of coffee companies and chains, where packaging descriptions are first and foremost designed to increase a customer's desire to buy.
As a consumer, there are only two ways past this, if you want to rely on coffee flavour descriptions to choose your beans. Firstly, find a store or brand whose descriptions you can rely on. Secondly, equip yourself with enough knowledge to form your own views of coffee flavours, and try before you buy.
The key to describing coffee flavours professionally is the Coffee Taster's Flavour Wheel, an international standard approach to describing flavours. It's built on many years' work, and is a fascinating tool if you are even slightly interested in coffee flavours. It takes effort and time to learn to use it properly, but it's not difficult for a regular coffee drinker to learn the fundamentals. If you do, it quickly becomes clear from reading descriptions whether the writer is following this approach. Even if they're not, it's still pretty straightforward to translate what you're reading to the more formal terms used.
So unfortunately, the answer to the question isn't very helpful: Yes, flavour descriptions can definitely mean something useful when choosing beans; but they can also be mostly about marketing hype.
The good news is that with a little education you can learn to spot the difference; or by picking where you buy carefully, you can avoid the latter.
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Microsoft: Live Blogging The E3 Kinect Media Briefing; New Xbox With 250 GB Drive; ESPN Content On Xbox Live (Updated)
June 14, 2010 1:31 pm ET
I'm here in Palo Alto this morning...which is pretty much where I am every morning. But that's not stopping me from live blogging the Microsoft (MSFT) Media Briefing this morning on Kinect, the new name for the controller-free interface which used to be known as Project Natal. The company held an elaborate debut for Kinect last night, featuring performers from Cirque Du Soleil, but gave few hard details on the launch. We should get more concrete information from the briefing. The briefing is the first major press event of this year's edition of the E3 trade show in Los Angeles.
If you want to keep up on all of the doings at E3, there's a special YouTube page with live video.
Update: In a release, the company said Kinect will roll out in North America November 4. I'm still not seeing any pricing, though, other than the $299 price for the new version of the Xbox the company disclosed today.
10:30 Well, let's get the show on the road.
10:31 Hmmm...am I coming in to the middle of something? I'm seeing a demo for the game Call of Duty: Black Ops from Activision (ATVI). The game launches November 9. Many impressive explosions! The game goes on sale November 9.
10:39 Don Mattrick, SVP for interactive entertainment from Microsoft, is on stage. He says all Call of Duty add-ons will launch on Xbox first in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The Xbox is now 10 years old, he says.
10:41 Mattack makes the first mention of Kinect.
10:42 Hideo Kojima is on stage. He's the creator of Metal Gear Solid. He introduces another guy, who is going to demo Metal Gear Solid: Rising . The game features, well, impressive violence with swords! It's a video clip, though; I don't think anyone is actually playing the game.
10:46 Phil Spencer, from Microsoft Game Studio, is next on stage. He says the company is passionate about creating blockbuster games. He brings out Cliff Bleszinski , who developers the Gears of War games. Wow, lots of explosion, again; this time there are actually people on stage playing the latest version of the game - Gears of War 3 - but with controllers, not with Kinect. Some dude is trying to kill a many-tentacled, something or another. Much applause. End of demo.
10:54 Peter Molyneux from Microsoft Game Studios Europe is next, to demo a game called Fable III , which ships October 26. It's the latest chapter in a sword-and-sorcery style role playing game. Again, video, rather than an actual demo.
10:56 Bungie creative director Marcus Lehto is on stage to talk about Halo Reach , the new version of the Halo first-person shooter series. It ships in September. We're seeing more video. There's a lot of digital bloodshed. Some of it is space-based carnage!
11:04 Marc Whitten, corporate VP for Xbox Live is next. He notes that there are 25 million people using the service. He's talking about the use of Kinect on Xbox Live. He brings out an engineer for a demo. Wave to sign in. Wave again to get to controller-free menu. Kinect Hub to find games, friends and other content. No controller required to select something. Can choose a feature with voice commands. Say Zune, go to the Zune feature. Select movie you want to watch with hand gestures. Also use hand gestures to move through the movie to get to the scene you want. Also can pause/resume movies with voice commands. Will be in every country where Xbox 360 is sold.
11:11 Next, new experiences on Xbox Live. With Kinect, he says, you can communicate with video calls. Laura the engineer is going to do the demo. The service is called Video Kinect, natch. She's talking to her twin sister in Texas. You can watch things together - movies, say. You can also watch news, sports other entertainment at the same time. Kinect will track you as you walk around the room to keep you in the shot. You can use voice commands to end the chat session.
11:15 Whitten is back. He says the Video Kinect service will also be available on Live Messenger.
11:16 They are doing a deal with ESPN for sports content on Xbox Live. Trey Wingo and Josh Elliott from ESPN show up on stage. They are doing a demo of ESPN on Xbox. Over 3,500 live events in the first year. You can request replays with voice commands. Real-time polls. Trivia. Game scores. Stats.
11:22 All of it free to gold members at no additional cost.
11:22 Next up: Kudo Tsunoda, the creative director for Kinect. He's going to show off six games, all only for Xbox 360.
11:24: Kinectimals, a game for playing with a pet tiger. In this case, a little girl on stage is playing with Skittles the virtual tiger. There are 40 animals you can adopt, who can interact in 30 activities.
11:27 Next, Kinect Sports. You can play against other plays in various avatar-based athletic pursuits. The live demo was hurdles. A video shows soccer, bowling, various track and field events, ping-pong, boxing, volleyball.
11:30 Next, car racing. Kinect Joy Ride. The game is controlled with a virtual steering wheel. You can race, but also do stunts.
11:32 And next, Kinect Adventures. It's game which involves a lot of jumping, ducking, and other movements; the game is showing the virtual player on a platform on a track with various obstacles. The game can be played by two players at once. A second demo of the game involves a raft that is navigated in and out of the water - including into the clouds. (The game they were playing is called River Rush.)
11:37 Moving on, there's a demo of an Ubisoft game called Your Shape: Fitness Evolved . It is less a game than a workout experience. It's a long demo.
11:46 And now, from MTV Games/Harmonix, Dance Central. As the name implies, it is a dance-based game.
11:50 Serious buffering problems with Microsoft's site. Darn. Switching to the YouTube broadcast.
11:51 I seem to have missed the Star Wars game demo. Update: Turns out the game won't be coming until 2011.) Darn. Anyway, they have moved on the a demo of a Ferrari racing game.
11:56 Don Mattrick is back, so we must be getting close to the end. He's summing up about how wonderful Xbox and Kinect are. He unveils a new Xbox 360: 250 GB drive with built in 802.11n. Stays $299. Ships to retailers today. Available in stores later this week. But they are giving them out to the people in the audience.
And that's it.
I'm here in Palo Alto this morning.


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The north-east coast drainage division or north-east coast basin is the area of Queensland between the Great Dividing Range and the Pacific Ocean. It lies between Torres Strait and an arbitrary line drawn along the Queensland - New South Wales border.  In the north it meets the Gulf of Carpentaria basin to its west while further south lies the Lake Eyre Basin and the Murray-Darling Basin.  In the south the Australian south-east coast drainage division continues to the east of the Great Divide.

The basin covers 450,705 km2 across 46 river catchments.  It is the seventh largest out of twelve separate drainage divisions covering Mainland Australia.  Just under one half of all Australian freshwater species are found in the north east coast division.

See also

 Southwest corner of Western Australia
 Indian Ocean drainage division: see Pilbara region of Western Australia
 Timor Sea drainage division: see Top End and Kimberley region of Western Australia
 South Australian gulf drainage division
 Western Plateau

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Mykonos Airport
Mykonos is a beautiful island in Greece popular with celebrities and businessmen, it is why Mykonos is also called "the new Ibiza". Due to the growing popularity, the number of overnight stays and the number of passengers at Mykonos Airport is rising. In 2019, for the first time in history, the airport handled more than 1.5 million passengers. Mykonos counts only 10,000 inhabitants and is sometimes written as Mikonos. Besides, the capital Mykonos Town is also known as Chora.
Where is Mykonos Airport situated?
The airport is located southeast of Mykonos Town, in the western part of the island.
How many terminals does Mykonos Airport have?
Mykonos Airport consists of one terminal, the renovated terminal was taken into use in 2021 and is now 50% bigger than the previous terminal. The modern terminal of Mykonos Airport is beautiful and very recognizable because of its Cycladic architecture.
A good alternative for flying to or from Mykonos Airport are the following airports, sorted by distance from the airport. You can also take a look at the complete list of airports in Greece.
Santorini Airport 116km
Athens Airport 135km
Kos Airport 170km
Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport (Turkey) 185km
The distance from Mykonos Airport to the centre of Mykonos Town is 3 kilometres. By car, it takes 10 minutes to get to the centre of Mykonos Town.
From JMK Airport to Mykonos Town City centre by Car
It is possible to travel to and from Mykonos Airport by public transport. If you opt for public transport to and from Mykonos Airport you can travel by bus. Visit the Mykonos Airport transportation page for the possibilities.
A taxi is the quickest and most comfortable way to get to and from Mykonos Airport. The price for a taxi ride from the airport to the centre of Mykonos Town is about € 15.-. Book your taxi at Mykonos Airport and discover the comfort of pre-booked taxis.
From JMK Airport to Mykonos Town City centre by Taxi
At Mykonos Airport you can rent a car from car rental companies Avis, Budget, Sixt, Hertz and local providers. It is most convenient to find and book a car well in advance. By doing so, you can save money and time at the airport.
Mykonos Airport offers various official parking options, from premium to low cost. In addition, alternative parking options are available near the airport. If you want to park as cheaply as possible, it's wise to book online!
Do you want more information about facilities, currency exchange, services, free Wi-Fi, lounges, etc. at Mykonos Airport? Check our at the airport page for a complete overview of all facilities and services at Mykonos Airport.
Looking for departure times and/or arrival times? Find the latest flight status information for flights departing from and arriving at Mykonos Airport.
Which airlines fly from and to Mykonos Airport?
We offer you a list of airlines at Mykonos Airport. The main airlines at the airport are:
Looking for the best hotels near Mykonos Airport? We have selected the best hotels near the airport in different price ranges. Take a look at our accommodations page for more information.
Queen Boutique Suites, Mýkonos City
Queen Boutique Suites is located 2.8 km away from Mykonos City and 3.4 km from Paradise Beach. It has a swimming pool and offers tastefully decorated units opening out to a patio and terrace with pool and garden views.
AC Village Christoulis, Mýkonos City
Offering a pool and a hot tub, the traditionally built AC Village Christoulis are 2.5 km from Super Paradise Beach. They feature self-catering accommodation with free WiFi. The property is 1.8 km from Mykonos Old Port.
Hotels in Mykonos
Looking for the best hotels in Mykonos? We have selected the best hotels in the city in different price ranges. Take a look at our accommodations page for more information.
Hotel Alkyon, Mýkonos City
Alkyon Hotel is a 10-minute walk from Mykonos Town. It offers a swimming pool, and spacious rooms with balconies. Free Wi-Fi is available throughout the hotel.
Cavo Tagoo Mykonos, Mýkonos City
Within proximity of Chora in Mykonos, the awarded hotel Cavo Tagoo features an infinity pool with a 40-metre aquarium bar, and a fully equipped spa with indoor pool. Most rooms enjoy sea views.
Studio Eleni, Mýkonos City
Situated right in the centre of Mykonos Town, Studio Eleni offers great value accommodation next to the trendy bars, cafés and the windmills. Studio Eleni has a warm and friendly atmosphere in the heart of Mykonos Town.
It is possible to book tickets, activities and tours in the city and near Mykonos Airport. You can avoid queues and save money by buying your tickets online. Planning a trip and wondering what to do, we give you some inspiration!
Mykonos: Delos and Rhenia Cruise with Swim and Greek Meal
Have some fun at sea on this multi-stop Mykonos sailboat trip to Delos and Rhenia Island, including wine, lunch, and more. Swim, snorkel, and enjoy plenty of free time to explore.
From Mykonos: Delos Guided Tour with Skip-the-Line Tickets
Take a trip back in time on the island of Delos. Explore the archeological site with a guide and marvel at exceptionally well-preserved monuments.
From Naxos: Round day trip to Mykonos Island
Take this chance to visit the famous Mykonos Island, one of the top must-see destinations in the world. You will have 6 hours of free time on the island to spend as you wish.
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Have you visited Mykonos Airport lately? So far, 2 airport passengers have written an airport review about Mykonos Airport. This airport has an average score of 3 out of 5. Provide other airport travellers with essential airport information and tell us about your airport experience.
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Simone Crisci
My evening flight from Mykonos to Milan was canceled due to technical problems with the plane. 180 passengers needed accommodation for the night, as well as transport from the airport to the hotel and vice versa. The assistant George E. Alexandrakis was able to handle the situation in the best possible way, speaking cordially with each passenger and above all by staying with us until we were all on the direct transport to the hotel. It was 4 in the morning and when I took the plane the next day, he was still there to say hello and thank us.
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Thai divers advance as cave search for lost boys gains ground
Cave Rescue
Search Effort
Missing Football Team
At least four boys rescued from Thai cave - medical team
Rescuers race to drain water inside Thai cave before rains
Rescue begins to pull remaining boys, coach from Thai cave
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Divers re-enter Thai cave to search for 12 boys, coach stranded by floods
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Rescue divers inched closer to a spot in a flooded cave where 12 boys and their football coach have been missing for more than a week after days of bad weather beset the grueling search.
Rescuers make their way down at the entrance to a cave complex where 12 boys and their soccer coach went missing, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand, Sunday, July 1, 2018. The frantic effort to locate them in the cave for a week picked up pace as a break in the rain eased flooding in the system of caverns and more experts from around the world joined the anxious rescue mission. (AP)
Rescue divers cleared a key hurdle on Sunday in the increasingly desperate search for 12 boys and their soccer coach who went missing in a cave in northern Thailand more than a week ago, officials said.
The search picked up pace Saturday, as a break in the rain eased flooding in the system of caverns and more experts from around the world joined the rescue mission.
A team led by Thai navy SEAL divers pushed through the murk of a kilometre (half-mile) long chamber to a passageway that could lead to where the missing may have taken shelter, said the SEALs' commander, Rear Adm. Arpakorn Yookongkaew.
But Arpakorn said even though the divers made some progress in their effort to find the missing, they're not yet where they want to be.
"It's still tough as the water stream is quite strong," he said.
The divers have been stymied again and again by muddy water rising to the ceiling of the chamber, forcing them to withdraw for safety reasons. When water levels dropped, the divers went forward with a more methodical approach, deploying a rope line and extra oxygen supplies along the way. The teams that swam Sunday included the SEALs, Australian divers and rescuers from the Thai city of Ayutthaya.
The effort had rebounded from earlier Sunday, when it appeared divers were making little progress.
"Today we made good progress, and it was a positive improvement, very positive," Chiang Rai Gov. Narongsak Osatanakorn told reporters.
The divers' goal is to get to an area of the cave known as Pattaya Beach. That section of the cave has a higher elevation, and authorities hope it remained dry and the 13 missing took shelter there.
The search has been going slowly, largely because flooding has blocked rescuers from going through chambers to get deeper into the cave. Pumping water out of the cave hasn't solved the problem, so other teams have been looking to divert groundwater.
Eight days into the search, there has still been no contact with the boys, aged between 11 to 16, or their 25-year-old coach who entered the sprawling Tham Luang Nang Non cave after a soccer game on June 23, but near-constant rains have thwarted the search for them.
Authorities have nevertheless expressed hope that the group has found a dry place within the cave to wait, and that they are still alive.
Reflecting that hope, a medical evacuation drill was held Saturday morning to see how long it would take to get rescued people out of the cave, into 13 ambulances and to the nearest hospital.
Soldiers and rescue workers carry out a simulated victim during a drill, near the Tham Luang cave complex, as a search operation continues for members of an under-16 soccer team and their coach, in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand, June 30, 2018. Medics and police staged practice drills to prepare for the quick and complex evacuations that will be required if and when the boys are found. (Reuters)
Other efforts have focused on finding shafts on the mountainside that might serve as a back door to the blocked-off areas where the missing may be sheltering.
Teams have been combing the mountainside looking for fissure that might lead to such shafts. Several have been found and explorers have been able to descend into some, but so far it is not clear whether they lead to anywhere useful.
"We surveyed all areas and there were reported to be about 20, and out of that there are about 10 with the possibility of having shafts," Gov. Narongsak said. "But at the moment, we have narrowed it down to two. Today we are working inside those two shafts."
Experts in cave rescues from around the world continued to gather at the site. An official Australian group has now followed a U.S. military team, British cave experts, Chinese lifesaving responders and several other volunteer groups from various countries.
Navy divers had still to navigate their way through three km (nearly 2 miles) of dark, flooded cave passages on Sunday to reach the spot rescuers believe would give 12 missing boys and their soccer coach a better chance of survival.
With the boys' way out blocked by flood waters from the heavy rains, rescuers are hoping that they made it through to an elevated rock mound in one of the underground chambers far under the mountain. Cavers have nicknamed the potential safety spot "Pattaya Beach" after one of Thailand's best known tourist destinations.
Rear Admiral Apakorn Yuukongkaew, commander of Thailand's elite navy SEAL unit said divers had reached 'chamber three', having been driven back by rising floodwaters when they reached the same point earlier in the week. "From chamber three to the intersection and then onto Pattaya Beach, this area is all flooded and dark," Apakorn told reporters. "It's about 3 kilometers from chamber 3 to Pattaya Beach."
Dr Somsak Akkasilp, director-general of the Medical Services Department, said the group's survival depended on whether they found fresh drinking water, but he was concerned about the risk of infection from unclean water, or contact with some animal inside the cave.
"They should be okay without food for eight days," he said.
Rescue teams have also been scouring thick jungle on the mountainside for alternative routes into the cave.
Helicopters were seen flying over the cave complex on Sunday morning dropping supplies to police and other rescue teams that camped there overnight.
On Saturday, members of a police search team were lowered down a 50-metre shaft drilled from the surface to the cave, but it was unclear what progress they had made.
This photo taken and released by the Royal Thai Navy on July 1, 2018 shows Thai Navy Seals navigating a flooded section of Tham Luang cave at the Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in the Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai province on July 1, 2018, as the rescue operation continues for a missing children's football team and their coach. Twelve Thai boys and their assistant football coach spent their eighth night trapped in a flooded cave, as a round-the-clock search was aided by better weather on July 1. (AFP)
"Today is a bright day for me and our team. We have sunlight today, roads are easily walkable," Narongsak Osottanakorne, governor of Chiang Rai province, told reporters on Sunday afternoon.
He said water levels in the cave had decreased and that almost 60 foreign and Thai divers were involved in the rescue effort.
"Today what we have to do is to rush to the kids," Thai Navy Seal commander and Rear Admiral Apakorn Yookongkaew said earlier at the site. "We will not stop until we find them."
Responders are placing extra oxygen tanks, strong ropes and LED lights along the cave's walls in hopes they can provide a path to an airy chamber called Pattaya Beach where officials believe the 13 are taking refuge because of its elevation.
Rescuers have advanced 600 metres from the base towards the Pattaya site, while heavy drilling at separate chimneys outside the cave has started in an attempt to establish communication with the boys.
"I'm feeling happy like I've never felt in a long time. Many good signs," the football team's head coach Nopparat Khanthavong, 37, told AFP on Sunday.
"The rain has stopped and rescue teams have found potential ways to reroute the waterway", diverting its flow so no more enters the cave, he said. "The families are feeling much better too."
"Every single day the conditions are changing," Jessica Tait, a spokeswoman for the US troops, told AFP. "With the improvement with the weather, hopefully some other areas and some of the efforts are becoming easier."
"We still expect some difficulties, because we have to drill not vertical, but inclined," Suthisak Soralump, a geotechnical engineer leading up the effort, told AFP. "But anyway we put our best team in Thailand to come. So let us try."
Technicians lift water pumps to the drilling site near Tham Luang cave, at the Khun Nam Nang Non Forest Park in Chiang Rai province on July 1, 2018 as the rescue operation continues for a missing children's football team and their coach. Twelve Thai boys and their assistant football coach spent their eighth night trapped in a flooded cave, as a round-the-clock search was aided by better weather. (AFP)
Officials said Friday that they were dropping care packages into the shafts in hopes the missing might retrieve them. Each package contains food, beverages, a phone, a flashlight, candles, a lighter and a map of the cave.
Aside from bicycles and soccer boots left near the cave's entrance, and some handprints seen on the walls, the searchers have found no trace of the boys, aged between 11 and 16, or their 25-year-old assistant coach.
As the search for the boys hit its eighth day, attention turned to their chances of survival inside the cave with little or no food and light.
The group likely has access to fresh water -- either dripping in through rocks or rushing in through the entrance -- but experts warned that runoff water from nearby farms could carry dangerous chemicals or bacteria.
"If they drink the water in the caves and it makes them sick it could hasten the problem that they are in, but if they don't drink it then they are also in trouble," Anmar Mirza, coordinator of the US National Cave Rescue Commission, told AFP.
But even without food he said young, athletic boys could "easily live for a month or a month and a half" with the main challenge their mental resolve.
"The biggest issue that they are facing right now if they are alive is psychological because they don't know at what point they might get rescued," Mirza said by phone from the US state of Indiana.
Andy Eavis, retired head of the British Caving Association and one of Britain's most accomplished speleogists who has led numerous sub-terranean exploratory expeditions around the world, says it's just a matter of time before the group is found.
Stretching 10 kilometres (six miles) and with complicated, snaking pathways and narrow corridors, Tham Luang is one one of Thailand's longest and toughest caves to navigate.
Officials said the boys know the site well and have visited many times before, buoying hopes that they might have trekked to a large airy chamber in the centre.
Rescuers found footprints and handprints in a chamber near that spot earlier in the week, further in from where they found the kids' football boots, backpacks and bicycles.
Relatives kept a vigil, with prayers led by a Buddhist monk, near the mouth of the cave.
"I am still hopeful and hope the children will come out safely," Kampon Paree, 39, an uncle of three of the missing boys, told Reuters.
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St. Francis Fountain Draws Old-Timers and Newbies Alike
by Ayako Mie February 6, 2009 September 28, 2020
St. Francis Fountain on 24th and York Street
By AYAKO MIE
The east side of 24th Street is usually crowded with mothers buying fresh produce from Mexican grocery stores, and old men smoking on the steps. But most weekend afternoons, a throng of hipsters waiting to get into St. Francis Fountain joins the scene.
The corner of 24th and York streets is one where history meets 2009. It's an example of how the older population of Irish, Italian and German immigrants became Latino, and how the old melds with the Mission's younger, hipper, newer residents.
Change. It's something residents in the Mission District are once again considering as Valencia Street debates the good and bad of American Apparel moving in.
Lavon Kazarian knows that debate well. When he bought St. Francis Fountain in 2002, locals hated the idea of a landmark being turned over to an outsider. "They thought we were going to destroy it," Kazarian said. "People were writing notes saying 'Please do not go away.'" He said the front window of the diner was covered with the notes when he purchased it.
The diner has a long history. James Christakes, a Greek immigrant, founded it in 1918, the same year World War I ended. The family kept it, serving homemade ice cream, chocolate and other sweets until 2000. That year, Ramon Mondrigal bought it and ran the soda fountain for two years, but then became too busy with a printing business.
At that point, Kazarian and his business partner Peter Hood, who worked at the breakfast place Boogaloos on Valencia, saw it vacant. The two were friends from their high school days in Sacramento, and immediately looked into leasing the building.
"I am honored to have this place," said Kazarian. "I have known this place forever, and used to come here every once and while. I thought they would never sell. I didn't even ask them if they wanted to."
The 42-year-old said he knew the restaurant's history well. He knew, for example, that the Morabito brothers who owned a lumberyard nearby often lunched at St. Francis and, as legend goes, hatched the idea there in the late 1940s to buy the franchise for the Forty-Niners.
The changes Kazarian and Hood ended up making were small. They repainted the walls white from bright pink, and built a full kitchen in an area once used for storage.
The menu went from the offerings of a soda fountain—floats, sandwiches and omelets—to a full menu for breakfast and lunch.
But much of the aesthetic of the old place remains. The candy case where the owners once sold their chocolate has been filled with old-fashioned bubble gum. Pictures of the old days hang in the front window, and the original 49ers sandwich—egg salad, bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayo—is still on the menu.
Some old-timers still miss the diner's earlier days. "They do not make their own candy and ice cream any more," said Bill Nizuk, a regular who runs a TV repair store down the block.
Kazarian said that when they bought the business, the ice cream maker, which produced St. Francis' signature ice cream, was broken. Instead of fixing it they decided to buy ice cream from Mitchell's, an ice creamery based in San Francisco for more than 50 years.
To pay respect to that past, Madrigal's wife Regina runs a lingerie store called the Candy Kitchen Lingerie Boutique in the part of the Fountain where sugar and cream once turned into ice cream and brittle. "A lot of the neighbors said I should keep the name on the sign," said Regina Madrigal. So she repainted it and rehung it out front.
A bigger change came with the Mission's newer residents. "It was very much middle-aged and older white people, and now it's sort of a young spot," said Peter Delacorte, a writer based in San Francisco who used to lunch at the old soda fountain in 1970s. Still, Delacorte is happy it's still there at all. "I think it's wonderful, that you can keep something like this. It's very unusual," he said.
The so-called hipster clients who wait outside on weekends say they are unfamiliar with the diner's past. "But I love the food. It's so hard to find a good diner in the Mission," said Luke Ramoce, a thirty-something who works and lives in the neighborhood.
Others appreciate the updated menu. "I'm a vegan, and a vegan dish is something you do not expect in American diners," said Ben Kruer, a waiter at St. Francis Fountain.
For Jennifer Baghern, the draw is simple. "The food is classic, and I like the way they kept the place old-fashion," she said, sipping a strawberry shake with whipped cream.
Others like the diversity of the neighborhood. "I like restaurants with character in different neighborhoods," said Lisa Blades, a personal assistant who lives in the Mission. Blades, who eats at the diner once a month, thinks that unlike other gentrification in the Mission, the diner is in harmony with the neighborhood. "Gentrification is good in some aspects, but it takes away a lot of character. But this place still has a balance," she said.
Kazarian said preserving the place ultimately became more important than who would own it. "A lot of people have memories in this place. So it was nice to keep it open and preserve and fix it up and make a nice place that people want to go to again," he said.
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