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Innovation rush aims to help farmers, rich and poor, beat climate change
LONDON, July 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In decades to come, African farmers may pool their money to buy small robot vehicles to weed their fields or drones that can hover to squirt a few drops of pesticide only where needed.
Smartphones already allow farmers in remote areas to snap photos of sick plants, upload them and get a quick diagnosis, plus advice on treatment.
Researchers also are trying to train crops like maize and wheat to produce their own nitrogen fertilizer from the air – a trick soybeans and other legumes use – and exploring how to make wheat and rice better at photosynthesis in very hot conditions.
A gene that helps plants to remain healthy during times of stress has been identified by researchers at Oxford University.
As warmer, wilder weather linked to climate change brings growing challenges for farmers across the globe – and as they try to curb their own heat-trapping emissions – a rush of innovation aimed at helping both rich and poor farmers is now converging in ways that could benefit them all, scientists say.
In a hotter world, farmers share "the same problems, the same issues," said Svend Christensen, head of plant and environmental sciences at the University of Copenhagen.
Agricultural researchers, who have teamed up to boost harvests and fight the major blight of wheat rust are now forming an international consortium in a bid to make wheat stand up to worsening heat and drought.
"There was a real shift in terms of the intensity of what we do together when we became aware of climate change," said Hans-Joachim Braun, who heads the global wheat program for the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), based in Mexico.
For each 1 degree Celsius global temperatures rise above pre-industrial times, wheat harvests drop 5-8%, he said.
That means the world will likely see a 10% drop in harvests even if governments hold global warming to "well below" 2C, as they have agreed, he said – and that drop would come even as the world's population grows and demand for food rises.
Finding ways to breed wheat that can cope better with heat could help farmers from Australia to India and China, as well as the people who depend on their grain, he said.
"It doesn't matter where you use this trait – it will have an impact," Braun said.
One idea scientists are working on is to fundamentally reshape how crops such as wheat and rice carry out photosynthesis, to make them better able to continue producing in hot weather, especially if less water is available.
The process – like efforts to help wheat and maize start making their own fertilizer – is hugely complex and will likely require decades of work, scientists say.
"It would be a mega-breakthrough. Many people think it's dreaming a little bit because it's so difficult," said Bruce Campbell, director of the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
But early tests to improve photosynthesis in tobacco have shown a 40% boost in production – and the technique is now being tested with crops from cassava to maize, said Kathy Kahn, a crop research expert with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Nick Austin, who directs agricultural development for the foundation, said such changes "are going to benefit the poor and rich worlds together" – and could play a key role in keeping food prices affordable.
"These technologies… are going to be globally relevant," he predicted. MORE
Author gaianicityPosted on August 1, 2019 Tags agriculture, corn, drones, food, heat and drought, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), legumes, photosynthesis, rice, wheatLeave a comment on Innovation rush aims to help farmers, rich and poor, beat climate change
The Democrats Finally Debated the Green New Deal
There were 12 minutes of climate discussion Tuesday night.
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The Democratic candidates sounded the alarm on climate change in the first presidential debates, but the discussion in June was so limited that they never really got into the details of how they'd solve the crisis.
It was a different story this time around. It took more than an hour to get there Tuesday night, but during the 12 minutes of discussion of global warming policy, two of the frontrunners—Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders—became the first candidates to substantively embrace versions of a Green New Deal in the debates. The concept of a Green New Deal—pushed by lawmakers like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)—has become a favorite idea for progressives. It outlines a vision for economic, infrastructure, and clean energy investment while aggressively ramping down to net-zero emissions as soon as possible.
Elizabeth Warren didn't actually use the words "Green Neal Deal" or tout AOC's specific resolution Tuesday night, but she did capture its ethos by touting her plan for investing $2 trillion over 10 years in green manufacturing. "The climate crisis is the existential crisis for our world," she said. "I have a plan for a green industrial policy that takes advantage of the fact that we do what we do best, and that is innovate and create." She promised that her plan would produce roughly 1.2 million manufacturing jobs. "This could revitalize huge cities across this country," she added.
Bernie Sanders also embraced the Green New Deal on stage, albeit briefly. "The Green New Deal is a bold idea," he said. "We can create millions of good paying jobs. We can rebuild communities in rural America that have been devastated."
As he often does, Sanders pledged to fight back against the fossil fuel industry, noting that it continues to receive tax breaks and subsidies adding up to hundreds of billions of dollars globally. "I get a little bit tired of Democrats afraid of big ideas. Republicans are not afraid of big ideas," he said. "Please don't tell me that we cannot take on the fossil fuel industry." MORE
Harris, Ocasio-Cortez unveil first step of Green New Deal
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BP and Shell planning for catastrophic 5°C global warming despite publicly backing Paris climate agreement
Companies are trying to 'have their oil and drink it' by committing to 2°C in public while planning for much higher temperature rises, says shareholder campaign group, ShareAction
Neither company sets targets to reduce emissions and BP's total investment in renewable and clean technologies has actually shrunk since 2005, the report said ( Getty Images )
Oil giants Shell and BP are planning for global temperatures to rise as much as 5°C by the middle of the century. The level is more than double the upper limit committed to by most countries in the world under the Paris Climate Agreement, which both companies publicly support.
The discrepancy demonstrates that the companies are keeping shareholders in the dark about the risks posed to their businesses by climate change, according to two new reports published by investment campaign group Share Action. Many climate scientists say that a temperature rise of 5°C would be catastrophic for the planet.
ShareAction claims that the companies' actions put the value of millions of people's pensions at risk. Two years after BP and Shell shareholders voted resoundingly in favour of forcing the companies to make detailed disclosures about climate risks, the companies have made unconvincing steps forward, according to the reports.
ShareAction said that Shell and BP are meeting their legal requirements, but are putting shareholders' capital at risk because of numerous failings in their plans for the future.
Neither company sets targets to reduce emissions and BP's total investment in renewable and clean technologies has actually shrunk since 2005, the reports said. That's despite the company's public-facing image of being "beyond petroleum".
BP invests just 1.3 per cent of its total capital expenditure in low-carbon projects while Shell has pledged to invest 3 per cent of its annual spend on low-carbon by 2020.
Both companies assess the resilience of their businesses against climate models in which temperatures warm by between 3°C and 5°C. MORE
Fossil fuel burning leaps to new record, crushing clean energy and climate efforts
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The Socialist Case for Automating Our Jobs Away
Let robots do the drudge work. Give workers a basic income.
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For decades, you've been told to fear automation. Robots are stealing factory jobs; self-checkouts are gutting the service sector; artificial intelligence will replace even the most skilled laborers with whip-smart algorithms. The economy will grow, but you'll be out of work.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks it doesn't have to be that way. "We should be excited about automation," Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic Socialist and one of the sponsors of the Green New Deal, told an audience at the South by Southwest conference in March. "The reason we're not excited by it is because we live in a society where if you don't have a job, you are left to die. And that is, at its core, our problem.
Ocasio-Cortez represents a growing number of socialists bucking the conventional wisdom — crystallized in a bevy of new books predicting a robot takeover — that automation should be feared. For these thinkers, sometimes united under the slogan "Fully Automated Luxury Communism," automation need not kick workers to the curb. In a world where people do not need to work to live, mechanization could actually prove a boon to workers, relieving them from toil, and freeing them up for more satisfying tasks.
But for automation to live up to such promises, it must accompany a transition away from the current model of waged work — a model that squeezes workers out of well-paying jobs, makes work precarious, and condemns the unemployed to poverty, anxiety, and death.
Enter socialism.
Socialist proposals, including a Universal Basic Income (UBI), ultimately aim at replacing the wage system with a more humane economic arrangement geared towards maximizing social well-being instead of profit. Such an arrangement would enlist machines to produce the goods people need, while guaranteeing those without work the means to live decently.
Utopian? Perhaps. But not new. Writing in the 19th century, Karl Marx observed that employers tend to replace laborers with machines that work faster and for less. When British manufacturers installed power looms in their factories, workers lost their jobs, and the unemployed masses, desperate for work, dragged down wages for everyone. Those who remained, produced more in less time, earning greater profits for their bosses even as wages slipped. Mechanization simply meant workers spent a greater fraction of their day producing value for someone else. While technology has made U.S. factories safer and produced some extremely useful things (like MRI devices and iPhones, say), bolting machines to the factory floor has often been a bid to juice profits.
In response, labor has mostly raged against the machines. Two centuries ago, Luddites destroyed mechanical looms to protest automation in the textile industry, fighting to return to factories William Blake called "Satanic mills." And through the 1970s, unions in the U.S., fearing layoffs and deskilling, made controlling automation a key feature of collective bargaining agreements.
Marx thought automation could be good for workers, but only if laborers were able to take the extra time they were working for bosses and spend it working for themselves. While automation tends to increase exploitation, Marx wrote, "this tendency creates the conditions for labor emancipation by opening the possibility of increased leisure time."
In a world where people do not need to work to live, mechanization could prove a boon to workers, relieving them from toil, and freeing them up for more satisfying tasks.
Some Marxists now see "the possibility of increased leisure time" as the great promise of automation, and the best case for socialism in the U.S. Kathi Weeks argues in The Problem with Work that automation creates the conditions for a "post-work society" where machines produce basic goods, and anyone whose labor isn't needed receives a "sufficient, unconditional, and continuous" basic income that frees them up for more fulfilling activities. For Aaron Bastani, and other proponents of "fully automated luxury communism," the post-work society is already here. Even when official unemployment is low, the number of people in low-wage, Uber-type jobs remains persistently high (a third of U.S. college grads are underemployed). Let machines do the drudge work, Bastani proposes, and give workers a UBI.
Beyond giving cash to workers, UBI has another advantage: It decouples income from work, limiting bosses' power to compel people to labor for a wage. The less workers depend on employers to live, the more they can bargain over pay, conditions, and hours. While not "revolutionary," robust welfare policies, like UBI and universal healthcare, are steps toward socialized production, where people, empowered to work on their own terms, can redirect the economy towards new goals: promoting human health and well-being, building rich social and cultural lives, and guaranteeing environmental sustainability. MORE
Author gaianicityPosted on August 1, 2019 August 1, 2019 Tags automation, Karl Marx, labour, leisure time, post-work society, UBILeave a comment on The Socialist Case for Automating Our Jobs Away
It's 'just the beginning' of justice for Heiltsuk Nation after a company was fined $2.9-million for oil spill
Yím̓ás (hereditary chief) Wígvíɫba-Wákas (left) and Yím̓ás Nác̓i Gary Housty (right) stand beside Heiltsuk tribal councillor Yáláƛí Megan Humchitt at the hearing on July 16 in Bella Bella. Photo provided by Megan Humchitt
The company responsible for devastating an indispensable food harvesting site for the Heiltsuk community in Bella Bella, on the northwest coast of British Columbia, has been charged almost $3 million for violating three different acts. The penalty will be directed towards a government fund. Despite the judge's decision Tuesday, Heiltsuk leadership and community members say no amount of money can change the devastation that has taken place.
In October 2016, the second mate operating a U.S.-owned tugboat fell asleep. The tug and barge ran aground, spilling 110,000 litres of diesel fuel, lubricants, heavy oils and pollutants into the water, contaminating the community's breadbasket, a sacred site that sustained abalone, black cod, clams, cockles, crab, halibut, herring, salmon and more.
"It has been an emotional rollercoaster for our community," elected Chief Councilor Marilyn Slett told National Observer over the phone. "We all were impacted by the event, and it was triggered again today … The hearing brought us back to that moment, when we found out the Gale Pass had been contaminated."
Gale Pass is one of many food harvesting sites off the coast of Bella Bella, a community of around 1,400 people. The coastal nation, which has one grocery store in town, has always relied on a healthy ocean for sustenance into the future. When news broke out about the tug running aground, it was a moment of terror, an experience no outsider could fully grasp.
The Nathan E. Stewart tug and barge sinks in the Seaforth Channel, spilling tens of thousands of litres of contaminants intotraditional Heiltsuk territory on Oct. 22, 2016. Photo by Tavish Campbell
The Heiltsuk Nation is a self-governing nation that has occupied their traditional territories since time immemorial. They have always exercised their inherent and constitutionally protected rights, including rights to steward and harvest resources. Heiltsuk has never surrendered its ancient rights to the lands and marine areas of their traditional territories.
The trauma of the incident has lived on. But if it's true that trauma can activate a flight or fight response, Heiltsuk fought.
Heiltsuk laws breached
The nation held healing ceremonies for members, launched an investigation report on the incident, joined partnerships advocating for adequate marine response technologies and filed a claim against the federal and provincial governments, as well as the Kirby Corporation, which operated the ship.
A committee was established to review the investigation report and determine whether Heiltsuk traditional laws, Ǧviḷás, were breached in the event. The committee determined that their Ǧviḷás were indeed breached by the Kirby Corporation and the government, which they documented in an adjudication report. The 68-page report, outlines Heiltsuk jurisdiction as one of the most complex maritime Indigenous societies in the world. Rich in Heiltsuk culture, geography and history, the report identifies the spill as an assault on Heiltsuk antiquity. MORE
The Indigenous nation exposing the lie of Canada's "world class" oil spill response
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The Canadian state seems like an immovable object. But Indigenous women are an unstoppable force.
Tiny House Warriors install solar panels. Photo via Tiny House Warriors' Facebook page.
It's Monday in the colonial state; Canada enters its 152nd year.
It's been barely two weeks since the federal government released Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.The chief commissioner has said that the homicides, disappearances, and violence experienced by Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people are the result of a "persistent and deliberate pattern of systemic racial and gendered human and Indigenous-rights violations and abuses, perpetuated historically and maintained today by the Canadian state, designed to displace Indigenous people from their lands, social structures and governments, and to eradicate their existence as nations, communities, families and individuals." She named it Canada's genocide. And yet, amid an admission of genocide, the colonial project continues apace; its existence met with celebration for another year.
Survivors of violence and family members of missing and murdered Indigenous women have put together a deeply researched report with a tangible set of actions. Activists, media, and communities must now insist upon the implementation of the report's 231 Calls for Justice – supporting survivors, family members, and Indigenous peoples in overcoming the disinterest and dismissal of the Canadian public.
And yet, amid an admission of genocide, the colonial project continues apace; its existence met with celebration for another year.
I have come to realize that ignorance and apathy amongst Canadians should be expected, but not tolerated. Settler colonialism relies on indifference, reinforced by myths that protect the settler state from critical examination. When critical examination is undertaken, like in Reclaiming Power and Place, the true nature of the state is revealed. Canada is a project with the deliberate aim of destroying Indigenous nations in order to assert control over Indigenous lands, waters, and peoples. Poor health outcomes, criminalization, and violence that exist in Indigenous communities are not the symptoms of peoples who have failed to modernize, nor can they be dismissed as the inevitable consequence of competing ways of life.
With this in mind, it becomes clearer why settler governments are willing to include Indigenous women in decision-making in some areas, but not others.
Federal, provincial, and territorial governments have been willing to cede control – financial responsibility and liability – over the design and delivery of services through legislation that does not include a statutory requirement for funding. These services, which include language restoration and child welfare, are crucial components to ending violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people. They address multi-generational issues that vary from family to family based on those families' particular experiences and interactions with structural racism and settler colonialism. Overcoming these issues requires a multi-year effort, if not a lifelong commitment. These programs are costly to administer and critically important to the survival of Indigenous peoples. As a result, communities who assert their jurisdiction in these areas take on massive amounts of liability and financial burden, alleviating the Crown of that responsibility.
What you are not likely to see is policy-making that cedes decision-making and financial control to Indigenous women in areas where it would impact the accumulation of capital from Indigenous lands – like in the decision to twin the Trans Mountain pipeline. (I know you're thinking about the few chiefs – mostly men – who, without clear community support, suggest their communities may want to share ownership and profit of the project. To that, I say: I said what I said.)
This includes the right to survival, to say no, and to determine for ourselves and our communities the best way to protect waters, lands, and children.
But having Indigenous women at the table is not enough. We have seen how damaging it can be when colonial oppression is internalized and perpetuated, through lateral violence and toxicity,by Indigenous women themselves. Each of us, including Indigenous people, must critically examine our own role in upholding a status quo that tolerates indifference to the basic human dignity of Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people. We must question what makes our society unwilling to hear the needs and aspirations of Indigenous women, unwilling to do the critical work required to empower us, and what barriers exist to our political mobilization.
Indigenous women have collective and individual rights that include "the right to participate in decision-making in matters which would affect their rights." These rights are inherent, affirmed by human rights conventions and declarations like Article 18 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This includes the right to survival, to say no, and to determine for ourselves and our communities the best way to protect waters, lands, and children. When it comes to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, Kanahus Manuel, a leader with the Tiny House Warriorsand member of the Secwepemc Women Warriors has said, "We're reclaiming our ancestral village and bringing our traditions back to life. If Trudeau wants to build this pipeline, he will need to empty this village a second time; in doing so, he would make continued colonization and cultural genocide part of his legacy of so-called reconciliation. Trudeau may have agreed to purchase this pipeline to make sure it gets built, but we're here to make sure that it doesn't. This pipeline is unfundable and unbuildable. It's time Trudeau and all potential financial backers of this pipeline realized that we will never allow it to destroy our home." MORE
'The world should have stopped': An Indigenous woman responds to Canada's admission of genocide
Author gaianicityPosted on August 1, 2019 August 1, 2019 Tags 231 Calls for Justice, deliberate goal to destroy Indigenous Nations, fiduciary responsibility, genocide, Indigenous women, Kanahus Manuel, MMWG Report, Trans Mountain Pipeline, Trans Mountain pipeline expansionLeave a comment on The Canadian state seems like an immovable object. But Indigenous women are an unstoppable force.
Power to Change: A New Deal for Climate Action and Good Jobs
A clean economy that works better for people
Our plan to fight climate change will create at least 300,000 new jobs, save families money, and take on big polluters. The time for delay and denial is over – it's time to act.
…It's time to fight climate change like we actually want to win. But we also know that a plan that leaves workers or communities behind is no plan at all.
Our plan lays out a path that will make life more affordable, create good jobs, and ensure our environment is protected for our kids and grandkids.
We'll create at least 300,000 good jobs in communities across the country, and provide training and supports for workers as our economy changes.
We'll improve the buildings where we live, go to work, and go to school with retrofits that reduce energy demand – while cutting down energy bills for families.
We'll make it easier to own a zero-emission vehicle, and make sure those cars are made in Canada. We'll move to 100% electric transit, help communities work towards free transit, and improve access to affordable bus and rail service in rural and remote communities.
And instead of giving billions in subsidies to huge oil and gas companies, we'll invest in a future where Canadians have good jobs, clean air and water, and can afford to live a good life.
And we'll do it with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis as our full and equal partners.
The time to act is now. Together, we have the power to change. SOURCE
Author gaianicityPosted on August 1, 2019 Tags clean air and water, free public transit goal, Indigenous full and equal partnership, just transition, national housing retrofitting, removing oil and gas subsidies, zero-emission vehiclesLeave a comment on Power to Change: A New Deal for Climate Action and Good Jobs


Create random colors from photos in 3Ds Max®.
The included Material Manager LE makes preset handling easy and the 70 included color palettes will serve a huge color range.
COLOR EXTRACT is a shader map plugin for 3Ds Max that extracts up to 100 colors from any photo to be randomly assigned to objects, elements, faces, or even other procedural maps; a very fast and easy way to assign grass colors to grass blades, tree colors to leaves or sand colors based on real photos.
COLOR EXTRACT extracts up to 100 colors from any photo and randomly assigns them to objects, object elements or even procedural maps in 3Ds Max. Just load any photo, extract colors, select distribution mode and render.
What is Color Extract ?
AND WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR ?
It has never been faster before to create or assign multiple colors at once. And it has never been easier to exchange and use multiple natural colors from photos before.
Whenever you need to enrich your scene with many colors to get more realism in your scene, Color Extracts helps to assign multiple colors at once just by extracting up to 100 colors from any bitmap and assigning these to geometry. The selection of distribution modes in Color Extract includes options from randomizing colors to objects, elements, faces as well as using BerconTile for colored tiles and Forest Pack Pro or Multiscatter for more colors on scattered objects.
COLOR EXTRACT starts where one color ends. Any bitmap can be used to extract up to 100 most common colors from the bitmap. These colors can be used to randomize any material, map, object´s color or other map channel to enhance richness and create more variation in a scene. It´s as simple as loading a bitmap, assigning a distribution mode and rendering.
Per object distributes the colors based randomly or in a sequence on objects.
Per face distributes the colors based on the faces / polygons of an object. This example uses three colors on faces of a plane and cube.
BerconTile ID distributes the colors randomly on a brick pattern, in this case just the pure diffuse colors.
Per vray Instance distributes the colors on strands of vray fur, so that every strand has a different color.
Per Input Map maps the colors on any other map based on the brightness of the input map. In this example, the stones and ground use a noise map with different colors mapped on the noise brightness.
Per Element distributes the colors based on the elements of an object. This example maps different colors on each leaf of the tree.
Per Omnitiles ID distributes the colors based on Omnitiles tile IDs. Each tile has a different color, in this case matched to the repeating pattern.
Per Particle ID distributes the colors based on particles from Particle Flow.
COLOR EXTRACT includes the Material Manager Lite Edition, which makes preset handling a very fast and easy task. Material Manager is directly connected to Color Extract so that loading, saving and changing presets can be done in a single tool. Forget about missing bitmaps, forget about searching through folders, once you know the benefits of Material Manager, you won´t want to live without it anymore.
The COLOR EXTRACT library includes 70 presets of color sets for use as grass, leaves, stones, wood, skies or even unusual use for lights and many more.
The COLOR EXTRACT online reference guide includes a detailed description of each parameter with rendered examples of the most important parameters and their results. For more information, please take a look at the reference guide.
The reference guide is also available through a link from within the Color Extract user interface header.
You choose: The standard product COLOR EXTRACT, the full PLUGINS COMPLETE bundle with all plugins for 3DS MAX or the VP COMPLETE Bundle with all VP Products, including Color Extract plus much more.
Perfect time saver easy to use. Useful if you want to archive realistic renderings.
Very useful plugin for color variation of the multitude of objects. thanks for the time saved.


Pain across the bottom of the foot at any point between the heel and the ball of the foot is often referred to as "arch pain" Although this description is non-specific, most arch pain is due to strain or inflammation Bunions Hard Skin of the plantar fascia (a long ligament on the bottom of the foot). Wearing inappropriate footwear or foot problems like athlete's foot and Morton's neuroma are some of the factors that cause burning feet sensation.
Achilles tendonitis is inflammation of the tendon, usually resulting from overuse associated with a change in playing surface, footwear or intensity of an activity. The Achilles tendon is surrounded by a connective tissue sheath (paratenon, or 'paratendon'), rather than a true synovial sheath. The paratenon stretches with movement, allowing maximum gliding action. Near the insertion of the tendon are two bursae – the subcutaneous calcaneal and the retrocalcaneal bursae.


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Beloved Chihuahua reunited with owner who offered $3K for dog's return
The beloved Chihuahua who was stolen in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on Saturday has been reunited with his owner, thanks to the pooch's "mom and crime fighting aunts."
Jess Gary, 37, got back her 15-year-old arthritic pup, Fidel, Sunday afternoon after receiving a call from a woman who spotted the dog around 1 p.m.
"We canvassed and flyered [sic] the area all day," read a post on an Instagram page dedicated to Fidel called thetinywolves, which announced the good news.
"We were about to call it a day when we spotted him," the post read, which added the encounter was "a scary altercation."
No other details were provided on how Gary rescued Fidel, who does modeling work.
"THANK YOU everyone who helped posting online and in person. We are so moved by the community that rallied around us both in NYC and LA. This was an amazing effort — we did this together!!!!" the post read.
Gary told The Post that Fidel was walking behind her during off-leash hours at Prospect Park around 8 a.m. Saturday when she heard him yelp and turned around to find the dog was gone.
Gary could not be immediately reached for comment Monday.
Source nypost.com

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#AskAlan: What's up with golf's slumping TV ratings?
Well, that was one of the better golf weeks of the year. Lots to chew on, so let's get to it…
"How much revenue is Ollie Schniederjans leaving on the table by not wearing a sponsored hat?" – Kevin (@kmo11)
More than a little. When it comes to endorsements, a pro golfer's person is sliced up like a prized steer, and headwear is the most valuable cut, as it's visible in every TV shot and photograph and interview. (Second most coveted spot is the left chest/sleeve.) On the other hand, it's hard to stand out on the PGA Tour and Ollie's luscious head of hair is very effective brand-building, so long-term maybe he makes it back in other ways.
"With Ollie hitting an iron 320+ off the tee courses need to be 10k yards. Right?" – Jerome (@ESPN_SwingCoach)
Down the stretch on Sunday he actually smashed a 1-iron 341 yards. It was a thrill to watch those low bullets but poor Donald Ross must've been rolling over in his grave. At 7,117 yards, Sedgefield played so laughably short Henrik Stenson didn't deign to carry a driver and he still went a tournament-record 22-under. I'm still taking shrapnel for my column noting that when it comes to the major championships 9,000 or 10,000 yards is how long a course needs to be to properly challenge the pros. Various rebuttals pointed out that there are other deterrents to scoring, but Sedgefield boasted tiny, well-protected greens, narrow fairways and thick rough and still it got shredded. It was quite entertaining golf and for a slow spot on the schedule, that's enough. But 7,100 yards has become a joke if we really want to challenge the pros.
A 9,000-yard course would be nuts, but it's also fast becoming a necessity
"Given the absurd distances the male pro golfers hit the ball, I feel that watching the ladies is watching a much more REAL golf. Agree?" – @TurtleTraderBR
Well, they're simply different games. What the men can do to a golf ball is awe-inspiring – not only the distances off the tee but the spin and control with the wedges, too. The women's game is much more about finesse. They play 6,500 yards courses, just like many of us do, and hit the ball comparable distances. So it's highly instructive to watch them take apart a golf course they can't simply overpower. I don't know if the women's game is more real but it's certainly more relatable for the average golf fan. Of course, Lexi Thompson is an outlier, which is part of why she's a dominant force on the LPGA tour.
"While great, the Solheim Cup seemed to be missing a polarizing figure (Poulter/Reed). Who becomes that figure and elevates the event? #AskAlan" – @TroyBlamer
Yes, it's enough to make one long for the spiciness of Dottie Pepper, whose likeness was once affixed to an actual punching bag by the Euros. Suzann Pettersen could be that kind of polarizing figure but she seems conflicted about playing the heel. Cristie Kerr has potential but she merely irritates the opposition, not makes their blood boil. Part of what makes Poulter and Reed so effective in that role – and before them, Seve and Zinger and Monty and Payne Stewart and a handful of others – is that they embraced the hate, from the other team and their fans. I'm not sure any of the players in the women's game want that kind of blowback, which is understandable.
"Why did Stenson play the Wyndham Championship – isn't his Tour card secure already for 2018?" – Oskar (@tallboy199)
Yes and no. He has all the playing status he needs from his British Open victory but to be a full-fledged member of the Tour – to vote on policy matters and other accoutrements – you have to play a minimum of 15 tournaments. Heading into the Wyndham, Stenson had teed it up in only 11 Tour events and was a mere 75th on the FedEx Cup standings. He was thinking that if he didn't make it all the way to the Tour Championship he would fall short of his 15 events. Now he's up to 23rd in the standings, giving him a strong chance to make it to East Lake and even have a chance to take the Cup if he stays hot.
"Did the USGA pay the U.S. Amateur finalists to not wear club manufacturer's hats to exude the spirit of the game? Cubs and Peachtree lids were a refreshing look! #askalan" – David (@isaacson_dji)
I love the image of Mike Davis slipping these kids a few Benjamins. I wasn't at Riv so I don't know what kind of back-channel communication there was but I agree it was a great look. And you have to respect Doug Ghim wearing a Masters hat for his semi-final match…with a invite to Augusta National on the line!
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There's been lotsa talk about this over the last week or so in the golf salon. I think people are still making the mistake of using the Tiger era as a yardstick; it's not a coincidence that Wolken is citing the years since 2008, which coincides with Wood's steep decline. He was a once-in-a-century combination of talent, hype, results and star quality. Tiger fooled a lot of people into forgetting that golf is a boutique sport. Justin Thomas is an immensely likable guy but I'm not sure he resonates with the casual fan: they see a little dude in preppy clothes whose dad is a pro at a country club and it reinforces a lot of stereotypes about the game. We all follow the sport closely but for the occasional fan, who maybe watches only the majors, how many of them had even heard of Brooks Koepka before Erin Hills? I think the players (and the Tour) have to work harder to break out of their little boxes. The money is so big, and social media is so easy and mindless, a lot of today's young players (and their handlers) are loathe to do anything beyond a few Snaps and the obligatory post-round Golf Channel interviews. I have a little insight because SI is a more general interest magazine that reaches the coveted casual fan. The features I did over the last 18 months on Kevin Na and Pat Perez were, according to our metrics, very, very well read and impactful. Both of those guys gave me a lot of time and access and that allowed me to tell rich, compelling stories. Many times I've pitched similar in-depth profiles to the handlers of the game's young stars and they simply have no interest. It's symptomatic of golf's myopia. To reach a larger audience the players have to get out of their comfort zones and try a lot harder. Until they do I'm afraid Wolken might be right.
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Q: FTS - Index rebuild causing CPU issues (SQL Server 2008 R2) I am encountering some critical issues on SQL Server 2008 in a production environment; We have a database that contains a FTS index; we also have a maintenance job that rebuilds the FTS index and updates statistics like this:
alter fulltext catalog [ftCatalogName] rebuild
update statistics [tableNameWithFtIndex]
The job runs weekly, Monday at 9AM; it finishes in around 1minute and always succeeds;
Now the problem: everytime after the job finishes, the CPU of sqlserver.exe process goes up to 99%; regularly the CPU stays at around 70-80% (i know it is very high and we are trying to improve this); and the only way to make it go back to it's regular state (70-80%) is only if we stop the IIS on all front-end servers (we have a webfarm) and then start them up again - this way the CPU for sqlserver.exe goes to 0% when the IISs are stopped, and back to 70-80% when the IISs are restarted back up;
Also i've analyzed the behavior of CPU during the rebuild process:
- start FTS rebuild job (above statements)
- sqlserver.exe CPU=75% (normal); fdhost.exe=20-25% (normal during rebuild)
- job finishes in 51 secs and fdhost CPU goes to 0%, and sqlserver.exe goes to 99% and stays like this until i apply the flow described above (start/stop IIS on front-end servers)
Does anyone have any idea about why this happens? At least an explication... or some ways to optimize this index and make it less resource hungry at rebuild...
Thank you in advance!

A: Your statement just TRIGGERS the rebuild job, not DOING it.
So - you triggered the job by ALTER FULLTEXT statement, now you can wait until it completes like that:
WHILE (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sys.fulltext_catalogs WHERE FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY(name, 'PopulateStatus') IN (1, 6, 7, 9)) > 0
    WAITFOR DELAY '0:00:00.1'

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Siasat.com/News/Man shot at by unknown assailants in Delhi's Rohini
Man shot at by unknown assailants in Delhi's Rohini
Neha| Published: 18th May 2019 2:17 pm IST
Rohini (New Delhi): In a horrendous incident, a man was shot at by unknown assailants in Rohini Sector-11.
Manish, a resident of Kheda Khurd village was travelling in an Accent car with his friends when a Swift car overtook their car and some unknown persons came out of the latter car and started firing indiscriminately.
Manish ran for his life but was allegedly hit by four bullets. He was immediately taken to Dr B R Ambedkar Hospital. Later, he was referred to Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh for better treatment.
As the injured's condition is critical, he has been kept under the observation of doctors.
An FIR has been lodged at K.N Katju Marg police station and an investigation is underway.
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Clint Eastwood Net Worth
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Clint Eastwood Net Worth (Celebrity Net Worth)
Clinton Eastwood Jr. is his full name, an American actor, musician, filmmaker, and political figure. Clint Eastwood Net Worth, He rose to international fame with his role as the Man With No Name in Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns. Read about his net worth today. (Clint Eastwood Net Worth)
What Is Clint Eastwood's Net Worth ?
As of July 2020, Clint Eastwood net worth is estimated to be roughly $375 million.
Clinton Eastwood
Income Source Actor, Musician
Nationality California, USA
Related – Net worth: Oprah Winfrey Net Worth
Early Life And Career Of Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood studied at Oakland Technical High School, and during this time he took up various odd jobs such as a lifeguard, paper carrier, forest firefighter and golf caddy. When he turned 20 years old, he was called for military duty at the Army Special Services. Clint Eastwood appeared for a screen test at the Universal Studios and bagged his first role in the science fiction films, 'Revenge of the Creature' and 'Tarantula', released in 1955. (Clint Eastwood Net Worth)
Clint Eastwood has been in films such as 'Dirty Harry' (1971), 'Million Dollar Baby' (2004), and 'Gran Torino' (2008). He later starred in the CBS series, 'Rawhide'. The series lasted for eight seasons. The movie, 'Million Dollar Baby' was released in 2004 and became one of his finest films of all time. The film earned him rave reviews and was a major box office success. It also won several awards, including the Academy Awards.
Clint Eastwood Age, Parents And Children
Clint Eastwood was born in San Francisco, California on the 31st of May, 1930. Clint Eastwood his parents are "Clinton Eastwood, Sr. and Margaret Ruth". While his father was a migrant worker, his mother was employed at a factory.
Nevertheless, In 2006, Clint Eastwood began to work with Steven Spielberg. They later came up with two films depicting World War II, 'Flags of the Fathers' and its sequel 'letters from Iwo Jima'. Both of the films were well received by the audience. Clint Eastwood Net Worth.
After 2 years, Clint Eastwood starred in the film 'Gran Torino'. The film was a big success at the box office, grossing over $268 million in theatres worldwide. In 2010, the film 'Hereafter' was released, and the following year, he released a biopic of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, which starred Leonardo DiCaprio.
Clint Eastwood Wife And Height (Clint Eastwood Net Worth)
Clint Eastwood Wives are Maggie Johnson m. 1953–1984 and Dina Eastwood m. 1996–2014
Clint Eastwood has a house in Los Angeles that cost $30 million. He also owns a ranch in California. The legendary actor owns a lot of pets as well, which can cost a lot of money to provide for. (All About Clint Eastwood)
Facts And Highlights Of Clint Eastwood
Here are some of the best highlights of Clint Eastwood's career:
Dirty Harry (Movie, 1971)
Academy Awards (Best Director, 1989) – Won
Golden Globe Awards (Best Director, 2004) – Won
Gran Torino (Movie, 2008)
The Mule (Movie, 2018)
Favorite Quotes Of Clint Eastwood
"There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends." – Clint Eastwood
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Q: Is there a way to get headers from an url in python? Is there a way to get the headers from url in any format like charles proxy does in python.

A: Yes, there is a way to get headers from an URL in Python programming language. The requests module provides a way to do this.
import requests
url = "https://www.google.com"
response = requests.head(url)
print(response.headers) # prints the entire header as a dictionary
print(response.headers["Content-Length"]) # prints a specific section of the
dictionary

https://www.folkstalk.com/tech/python-get-response-headers-with-code-examples/


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My mom *almost always* sets email "Subject" lines to the day of the week, no matter the actual content of the email. It's not helpful but super cute.
@annika My dad's subj lines always end with "from Dad". Sometimes the Subj is "Hi from Dad", and once I simply got a "From Dad"


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The largest cargo ship to ever land in the US is just too big for the business
Scott Varley/ The Daily Breeze via AP
CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin unloading in the Port of Los Angeles.
Published May 11, 2016 This article is more than 2 years old.
The mega-cargo ship CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin is as long as the Empire State building is tall, but the ship's marketers will need to find a more country-appropriate analogy for its size now that it has been pulled from US trade routes.
Why? It's just…too big.
The ship, which can hold 18,000 20-foot long cargo containers, debuted in the US this year with visits to west coast ports; no bigger vessel had ever touched these shores. Its owner, shipper CMA CGM, said its massive efficiency would help their company compete with two major competitors, Maersk Moller and MSC.
Typical cargo ships carry as many as 13,000 containers, but in the last year or so even the Benjamin Franklin has been eclipsed by vessels carrying 19,000 containers built last year. Firms around the world are increasingly using bigger and bigger ships. But shipping analysts say there just isn't enough cargo for these outlandishly large sizes—growth in global trade can't keep up with the potential number of containers that can traverse the world. In other words, there is a shipping glut.
Equally problematic for the Benjamin Franklin is that US ports are simply not prepared to offload a ship of its size efficiently, lacking the cranes, deep-water channels and infrastructure to get its cargo out of the port. The ship could not work at its full capacity without significant investments by US ports.
This spring, CMA CGM is purchasing a smaller Singapore-based shipper, Neptune Orient Lines, for $2.4 billion. CMA CGM intends to deploy Neptune in concert with three other Pacific shippers to form the Ocean Alliance, a partnership to compete for US-Asia trade work.
With all that cargo capacity steaming for US ports, it appears that the Benjamin Franklin will be redundant. It's likely to be re-deployed to the Asia-Europe trade route, where larger ports can take better advantage of its efficiencies.


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Mike La Donna leads West Islip in rout of Centereach
Quarterback Mike LaDonna has West Islip off and running to a 5-0 start. Credit: Daniel De Mato
By Jordan Lauterbach jordan.lauterbach@newsday.com @jlauterbach1 Updated September 15, 2018 7:13 PM
The West Islip Lions have roared into 2018. Two games in, the second seeded team from Suffolk II is 2-0. Yes, that's a lot of twos, but it's also a lot of W's – something West Islip hopes to continue as the fall moves along.
Their latest triumph – an 38-0 win over visiting Centereach Saturday afternoon showed that the Lions have the quarterback, and the defense, to be a force in the county.
"I think it shows that we're an elite team and we can do great this year," receiver/defensive back Max Albanese said. "I think we could go all the way."
Quarterback Mike La Donna rushed for 148 yards on seven carries and two touchdowns and completed 5 of 7 passes for 107 yards and two touchdowns. It was an all-around great day for the Lions and La Donna.
"That was a great team win," La Donna said. "We worked hard all week. We had a close game last week, so we knew we had to battle this week and that's what we did."
He's referring, of course, to West Islip's 29-28 win at Bellport last week. Despite the heat, there was no sweating this one out.
After a scoreless first quarter that was littered with penalties, West Islip took over in the second – scoring 21 unanswered points and flexing some defensive muscle. La Donna smashed a defensive battle to bits when he found Luke Alicea on an out-route with 10:34 left in the second quarter. Alicea sprinted towards the left sideline and ran 58-yards for the touchdown and the lead.
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For a moment, it looked as if the defensive battle would turn into an old-fashioned shootout. Centereach drove down the field on their next drive, but Albanese's tight coverage on a 4th down and 12 forced an overthrow in the end zone and allowed West Islip to take over with 5:56 left in the first half.
Then, the fireworks started.
After a nearly five minute delay to sort out a pair of penalties, La Donna broke through his line and ran 91-yards down the middle of the field. As Centerreach defenders chased the speedy quarterback, he barely avoided a few outstretched hands before reaching the end zone to give the Lions a 13-0 lead with 5:22 left in the second quarter.
"The end came up the field, I pulled the ball, had a great block, and was off to the races," La Donna said.
West Islip's defense stymied any chance to let Centereach climb back into the game. A sack by Jack Pollock with 4:25 left in the second brought up a third-and-19 and eventually forced a Centereach punt.
La Donna ended the first half by throwing a 22-yard touchdown pass to Albanese with 3:02 left in the second to give the Lions a 20-0 lead.
La Donna's 12-yard touchdown run with 7:23 left in the third put West Islip ahead 27-0. Kicker Bobby DiCapua, in addition to five extra-points, nailed a 43-yard field goal late in the third quarter to give the Lions a 31-0 lead.
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Jordan Lauterbach joined Newsday's sports department in 2012. He covers running and the Long Island Ducks independent baseball team. Lauterbach graduated from C.W. Post University in 2010 with a degree in electronic media.
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ACS Congressional Fellow, 2018-2019
Seeking to transition her 17-year career as a researcher into public policy, Dr. Teresa Williams spent her fellowship year in the U.S. House of Representatives on the Committee on Energy and Commerce (majority), lending her scientific expertise to help guide policy on the Energy and Environment & Climate Change subcommittees.
For the previous decade Dr. Williams worked as a researcher at The Molecular Foundry, a U.S. Department of Energy nanoscale science user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. She collaborated with scientists from around the world helping them solve their nano-focused research challenges through sharing her expertise in organic, polymer, and nanocrystal chemistries and electron microscopy techniques. Prior to joining Berkeley Lab, Dr. Williams was a researcher at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research where she was responsible for the first synthesis and scale-up efforts of Raf265 for Phase I clinical trials of metastatic melanoma. She is the co-author of 23 peer-reviewed publications, holds five patents, and speaks to global audiences about her research and unusual path to a career in STEM.
Dr. Williams is committed to global efforts supporting the next generation of women in STEM. As a volunteer professional mentor since 2016 with TechWomen, a U.S. Department of State mentorship/exchange program through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, she hosted women scientists from Tunisia, South Africa and Kenya while at Berkeley Lab. She was competitively selected for week-long delegation trips with the State Department to Egypt (2018) and Kenya (2017) for mentorship and science/technology outreach with local women and girls. Dr. Williams received her Ph.D. (2017) and M.S. (2014) in Applied Science and Technology from the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley, with dissertation research on interactions and assemblies of polymeric materials and inorganic nanocrystals. She also holds a B.S. in Chemistry (2001) from UC Davis.
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Was the team lead for electric vehicle infrastructure and wrote two bills focused on alternative fuels and emissions reduction. She also contributed to legislation on chemical regulation, energy efficiency, and workforce development.
Met the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Prof. Frances Arnold, at the Embassy of Sweden
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Men's art-carved wedding band found!
I received a call from Michelle a few weeks ago. She and her husband, Chris, have only been married seven months and he already lost his ring! The good news is he knew where it happened. The bad news was it was 12 feet deep in the bottom of their friend's swimming pond. We coordinated a search for 5:30 last Wednesday, and my friend Brian P. arrived with two sets of diving gear. I'm PADI Open Water certified, but don't own any gear, so feel quite lucky that Brian is a much more experienced diver and he has a passion for recovering wedding rings. We searched for about 20 minutes and Brian found it with his Fisher 1280x, which can go down to 200 feet! Soon, Michelle was smiling and driving the art-carved wedding band back to her groom. It's beautiful, with diamond inlays. Nice!


July 4th in the U.S. is all about freedom. Freedom from the British, freedom to shoot fireworks, freedom to eat hot dogs and go swimming. It's a day on which everybody celebrates the fact that the country has been around for more than two hundred years.
Many of us at TARGIT are new to the Independence Day thing, but we wanted to get involved. So we chose July 4th as the release date for our Decision Suite 2013. We know that nobody's working (at least in the U.S.) that day, but it's one way we can help celebrate freedom. We're showing off how Decision Suite is about the freedom to act.
I could write at length about all of the new features in Decision Suite 2013, from the new visualizations to the Intelligent Wizard to the in-memory Xbone analytics. But we've got a guide that explains all that, so I'll just point out that TARGIT makes it incredibly easy for non-technical people to learn everything there is to know about the data in their organization. You don't need to be a programmer to use TARGIT to figure out what all of the data means. And that gives users the freedom to act.
We talk about needing the "courage to act". It's our new slogan, in fact. But it's not just courage you need, it's freedom. Having all of the information you could possibly need frees you from wondering, "am I doing the right thing" when you make a decision. And TARGIT frees you from needing the IT department to be involved when you want to run an analysis, which makes it that much easier to get that information.
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OCTOBER REVOLUTION: Американския условия общаго мира. Декларация пресидента Вилсона. [American Conditions for the World Peace. Declaration of President Wilson].
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A rare broadside in Russian Cyrillic, published by the American Press Office in Saint Petersburg only weeks after the October Revolution, lists the Fourteen Points by President Woodrow Wilson, a statement of principles to end World War I peacefully, for which he was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize.
Thomas Woodrow WILSON (1856 – 1924) – American Press Office.
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Американское Бюро печати. Петроградский отдѣлъ. [American Press Office, Petrograd Department] [January] 1918.
Broadside, 46 x 63 cm (18.1 x 24.8 inches). Condition report: fragile paper with small tears in margins and loss of paper in the text area. Due to institutional nature of the document the broadside h
A broadside in Russian Cyrillic lists the so called Fourteen Points, outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson, as a statement of principles how to end World War I in a peaceful way. The broadside was published by the American Press Office in Saint Petersburg in early 1918, only two months after the beginning of the October Revolution.
The Fourteen Points called for the abolition of secret treaties, a reduction in armaments, an adjustment in colonial claims, and freedom of the seas. They were also a direct response to Vladimir Lenin's Decree on Peace of November 1917, following the success of the October Revolution, which proposed an immediate withdrawal of Russia from World War I.
Wilson's speech was well received by Vladimir Lenin, as it promised the Bolsheviks they would receive a better peace from the Allies, to undermine the German support.
The broadside was published by the American Press Office in Saint Petersburg. The office was a part of Public Information Committee, established on April 14, 1917, a week after the United States joined the First World War, and it was an official propaganda agency of the US government. According to the imprint, free copies were only obtainable at the American Press Office.
The broadside is very rare. We could not trace any other examples in institutions worldwide.
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Sometimes investment bankers in a large institution possess juicy, very material, non-public information concerning a publicly traded company.
And sometimes traders, within the same institution, would actually step over the warm bodies of their mother (in-laws) to get their hands on that information.
But generally a self-imposed Chinese Wall stops that flow of knowledge. (Otherwise known as; a company policy that says "you are not allowed to share information like that").
In crypto-land, some are worried that Coinbase - the largest cryptocurrency exchange - and its new Venture Capital arm might not be as vigilant about its own Chinese Wall as Wall Street (theoretically) is.
This month Coinbase announced it plans to allocate capital in $100,000 to $200,000 bursts to cryptocurrency startups, namely stablecoins and decentralised exchanges.
In the week following that announcement, it snapped up Earn.com, a paid messaging platform for a reported $100 million. Which is...more than $100,000 and not a stablecoin or a decentralised exchange.
Regardless, the ball is rolling!
But Coinbase has been pretty open that it will look to "enthusiastically invest in ideas from our own alumni network", and that has a few investors raising eyebrows.
Especially given in December last year, a group of investors filed a class action lawsuit against Coinbase, accusing employees of tipping off outsiders about its support for Bitcoin Cash.
And Charlie Lee, who created Litecoin, was still an employee at Coinbase when the exchange added the alternate coin to its list. In the weeks before that, the price of Litecoin enjoyed considerable buying support, possibly thanks to Lee's enthusiastic tweeting.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Coinbase is in talks to become an SEC-regulated broker, rather than just a cryptocurrency exchange. This would force greater control and transparency, so it might have to formally erect a Chinese Wall.
Meaning the employees operating the exchange and those operating the fund will have to work hard not to give each other the eyes over their desks.
Another way crypto is becoming more Wall Street-ed.
Google isolates voices in a crowd.
Scientists call it the "cocktail party affect": the nifty way the human brain can focus on one source of audio while filtering out others.
It has been the next step for Google researchers for some time and this week a team within the search engine giant announced they'd cracked a way for a machine to isolate voices.
Using an "audio-visual" model (using voices within videos), the team developed an algorithm that watches for when a person's mouth is moving.
The researchers gathered 100,000 videos of "lectures and talks" on YouTube, extracting nearly 2,000 hours worth of segments from those videos featuring unobstructed speech, then mixing that audio to create a "synthetic cocktail party" with artificial background noise added.
Then the machine practiced splitting that mixed audio by finding the "face thumbnails" of people speaking and matching it to a spectrogram (an electronic visualisation of all the voices at the party). Their system was able to determine which voice belonged to which face and create separate speech tracks for each person.
Given the reliance of video in this tech, it's likely Google will apply this to its Hangouts and YouTube features.
Remember the disgraced unicorn that raised $US700 million by telling investors they'd invented a portable blood analyser, but actually hadn't?
And then a month ago the SEC sanctioned them for investor fraud?
Well, that company just asked those investors for more money.
Buzzfeed has published a letter that Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and chief executive officer of Theranos, sent to shareholders that is a weird mix of optimistic, embarrassed and kind of grumpy.
"Unfortunately, we are behind schedule on our first product milestone under the Fortress loan, and as a result will soon face a cash shortage," it reads.
Though, "in light of where we are," it acknowledges, "this is no easy ask".
Theranos is in a tough spot; it might default on a $US100 million loan from Fortress Investment Group because the FDA hasn't approved its most recent Zika virus product and the company has been forced to layoff the vast majority of its 125 staff.
That they've had to ask investors for money to keep the doors open, makes sense?
But, remember the investor fraud?
"Holders of Series C-1B and Series C-2A Preferred Stock should also be aware that their failure to participate in a financing having a purchase price of less than $5 per share would result in mandatory conversion of their shares into nonvoting Series C-1B or Series C-2A Preferred Stock,"
"Fortress would be entitled to control a foreclosure sale and/or monetization of the assets and to realize up to a three-times return on its investment."
One could read that as a warning that if investors don't front up more money, then they will be (more) hosed.
Ah, and then Theranos employees made a game where you shoot the investigative journalist who exposed the starup's major problems.
At least they made one thing that worked.


How to get a players ping?
Discussion in 'Plugin Development' started by WolfMaster, Jun 21, 2013.
Can anyone tell me how to get a players ping?
EDIT: Yes, it returns an integer (source).
What is your code? You have to add CraftBukkit to your build path to use NMS code.
So you need to add the bukkit api and the craftbukkit jar?
WolfMaster yes, you need to add CraftBukkit to your build path. Get the latest recommended build here.
How would you get CraftBukkit 1.5.2 on maven?


buffalo tooth were used as a form a currncy in the old days .papua people use this neclace as bribewealth payment and also an item of prestige .There were only worn on special occasions like marrige or special ceremonies .
Made of buffalo tooth , cowry shells and red coral-wood beads.
item sold with custom stand .


2015 April « Healthy Foods In a SNAP!
Some supermarkets have scoring systems to help you choose healthier foods. But a single score can't tell you everything you need to know in order to make healthy choices. The best way to judge the nutritional value of foods is to use the Nutrition Facts panel right on the food package. Use the Nutrition Facts to see which foods are lower in fat, saturated fat, sugars, and sodium. Sometimes great foods such as canned vegetables get low supermarket scores because of a single factor such as sodium, when you can rinse much of it off before using the vegetables. Use all of the nutrition information you can and make the choice that's right for you.
Did you know that pound for pound, parsley has more than 10 times the vitamin A, 8 times the iron, and more calcium and vitamin C than raw broccoli? It even beats raw spinach for most of these same nutrients. Many fresh, dried, or ground herbs and spices can add vitamins and minerals to your diet and help you eat less sodium. Use more herbs and spices instead of salt – not just for great flavor, but for good nutrition, too! Try one new herb every few months, or plant some in a little window pot!
Spring and summer are just around the corner, and so is the time to start enjoying fresh, local fruits and vegetables! Produce is often less expensive when it's in season, and that's also when it's the freshest. The local farmers' market is a great place to get produce in season. Visit www.farmfresh.org to see exactly when and where the closest farmers' markets take place. The website also has a calendar to show when fruits and vegetables are in season. Follow this blog's monthly posts to learn more about how to buy and prepare fruits and vegetables when they're in season. The farmers at the market are often happy to help, too. Plan a trip to a farmers' market this season and see all it has to offer!


I was very honoured this month to be selected by House & Garden as one of their Women Of Influence in this issue on women in design. It was such a pleasure to be featured alongside such inspirational designers, makers and entrepreneurs.
Arguably the world's most renowned forecaster, Li Edelkoort's influence extends well beyond product or brand development. Edelkoort's concepts, curatorial style, approach to both print and online publishing and ability to translate societal shifts into everything from colour trends to the re-imagining of an entire city makes her a powerhouse of inspiration for anyone aspiring to a career in forecasting.
These ladies have wowed me at every turn since I first came across their work, partly through their designs but primarily through their refreshingly unique approach to a multidisciplinary practice. Self described as the global authority on pattern, their work reaches into all sorts of areas and applications. Go and browse their website for a design hit.
As well as being founder of the Stijlinsituut Amsterdam, Anne Marie Commandeur is a leading member of the Heimtextil trendtable and renowned for expressing forecasts through their concept-based exhibitions. Her ability to distil and translate a concept to make it widely accessible without losing the nuances of what makes it interesting made a striking impression when I began my forecasting career in Europe.
I was fortunate enough to have Mary Tonkin as my drawing teacher through my BFA. As well as being an outstanding artist, she had a really disciplined approach to teaching and while a lot of professionals in that field try to teach students how to draw, she had a way of teaching her students how to see. Which is considerably more abstract and difficult to articulate but has been fundamental in the way that I have approached all of my work since. Thanks for being a hard taskmaster, Mary.
And finally – my mum, Barbara. By far the most insightful and generous creative mind I'm ever likely to come across. Courageous, articulate and always a step ahead.
Life Instyle is here and in keeping with this season's theme, Come Together, we've teamed up with some exceptional designers to work with us on the show floor.
Take some time to enjoy the Memphis inspired imagery by Spencer Harrison in the show entrance and Life Instyle Cafe.
Colour, pattern and play will follow you through the show with an exclusive installation in the Kids Instyle Cafe in collaboration with Beci Orpin, Arro Home and Radford Furnishings.


International research involving Bath health scientists shows extended periods of time in orbit does not negatively impact the body's ability to fight off infections.
With a new crew arriving at the International Space Station (ISS) this week, astronauts will be relieved to know that they won't have to worry about a major aspect of their immune system being compromised.
While researchers know much about astronauts' skeletal and muscular health during spaceflight and when they return to Earth, much less had been known about how spaceflight affects immunity. It was generally thought that spaceflight had a detrimental impact on all aspects of the immune system.
But a new study, published in the Journal of Applied Physiology involving Dr John Campbell from the University's Department for Health, suggests a major part of the immune system is not compromised in any significant way.
The research, which involved testing bloods for astronauts before, during and after a six-month mission on the International Space Station, focused on so called 'B-cell immunity' – the white blood cells produced to fight off infections. B-cells are an essential type of white blood cells responsible for producing antibodies that will target harmful pathogens. Optimal B-cell immunity is crucial to ensure long-term protection against disease-causing bacteria and viruses and is the cornerstone of vaccine efficacy.
Until now, due to spaceflight's logistical constraints, the majority of space immunology has been conducted during short-duration missions or by comparing pre- to post-flight measures of immune function. Incredibly, for this study, bloods from ISS astronauts were sent down to Earth from the ISS by Russian Soyuz descent capsules during the mission for analysis.
These findings may support the use of in-flight vaccine-based countermeasures to protect astronauts from immune dysregulation and symptomatic latent viral reactivations that are known to occur in longer duration missions, such as eventual travel to Mars. Dr John Campbell explained: "This is the first study to comprehensively show that long-duration spaceflight in human astronauts has limited effect on B-cell frequency and antibody production.
Lead author from Louisiana State University (LSU) in the US, Dr Guillaume Spielmann added: "Long-duration orbital spaceflights are associated with increased levels of psychological stress, acute and chronic exposure to space radiation and microgravity-induced changes, all of which are known to detrimentally impact the immune system. However, the effects of spaceflight on B-cell immunity - a major arm of the immune system – have to date remained unclear."
On Monday University of Bath alumna, Lt Col Anne McClain, blasted off to the International Space Station. Learn more about her Bath connection and the trip.


Albury /ˈɔːlbəri/ is a major regional city in New South Wales, Australia, located on the Hume Highway on the northern side of the Murray River.
Albury Australia Hotels in map.
Weather for Albury Australia with a 5 to 10 day forecast.


Shiva may no longer be the antler-anihilator she once was but we still have to work hard to keep her toys intact for longer than five minutes. Below is a picture of the alien Tuffie toy we bought for her Gotcha Day. This was taken before she first got her teeth on it.
Quite impressive stitching, don't you think?
I am thrilled the toy resembles its original form. Green Alien Man has not lost a single body part in over fourteen days! It is completely unprecedented.
That's right, my PH can sew.
Our home is now an official safety zone for dog toys. No more will they cower in fear when we enter the store. Once word gets out, toys will be fighting for the chance to come home with us.
Don't worry toys. There will be no more mindless violence under our watch. Shiva's murderous ways are over.
Well, as long as we're in the room anyway. If a toy "just happens" to fall off the shelf when we're not around… Green Alien Man is on his own.
How's that going?? Lenny destroys every stuffed toy… if not in a matter of hours, it's just a matter of days. Is she being more gentle or are you just managing better? Oh the joys of the beast.
Giving Elka a stuffed toy means 10 minutes or so typically. Granted, I haven't shelled out for one of the super cool ones like that; maybe it could stand a supervised ten minutes. A good lesson, though. Toys need not perish!
That's why I try to avoid getting stuffies with a lot of filler. Otherwise, I'd be picking up fluff for hours.
I love tuffie brand toys. Although I love the look of their "cute" toys, i'm a big fan of their simple ring toy and have had good luck with it surviving (with some help by me being careful to lot let it become a 'chew' toy).
That alien is SUPER cute!
Well now you are taking all of the fun out of having stuffies. 🙂 I usually won't spend very much money on the stuffy, I know they will destroy in fairly short fashion. Of course on their birthdays I spend a bit more, and sometimes the toys don't last.
Sometimes I just restuff the toys (without sewing) and let them pull it out again, but good for your PH for restuffing and resewing the toys.
I love that pic of Shiva waiting patiently for the PH to finish sewing. Priceless!
We do a lot of that here too! I have a whole collection of toys in the hospital, really should keep them more handy so I sew while I watch TV or something. Luna is pretty good about making toys last though, especially if it has a squeaker as then she just plays with it… and it it is fury she love bites it more than chews it. Guess I have gotten better at picking toys too.
As I mentioned to Flo's owner you may want to check out Kyjen dog toys… they have all sorts of tuff and cool toys. Go Dog is another good brand with double chew guard fabric layers and double stitching… and We have quite a few Hugglehound toys laying around here too.
Good work with Shiva and her toys!! you are proof that it can be done.
Actually many toys are alien creatures bent on destroying the world and only the dog can save us from them.
Cooper destroys toys so fast that I've started putting all stuffies away until he's at doggy daycare, then getting them out for Emmett and Lucas to play with in peace! How on earth did you get her to be gentle with them??
Awwww come on! Shiva's humans wou;dn't stop her from a perfectly satisfying stuffie hunt and murder…WOULD THEY?! One of Kol's great joys in life is killing a toy – although, somehow the Felix has designated a large number of those toys as his and Dog help Kol should he destuff one. Felix is badass, man.
Every other bit of news in this post has just flown by me because I'm still stuck on the caption that reads…PH can sew.
Could you please, please clone him and send me one?


Title: The Urocoptid mollusks from the mainland of America in the collection of the United States National Museum.
Description: Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 31: pp. 109-160, 3 plates of photos, 16 figs., tables. Extract, plain new wrappers.


I once wrote a blog post about how I had told my Jewish children that Santa Claus isn't a real person, and just a nice story that some families tell their children around the Christmas holidays.
I got some pretty negative feedback from that piece. Most notably from a few parents who accused me of siphoning off all the "magic" from my children's lives, like they lived in a gulag. The irony was one thing: um … we're Jewish? But what struck me as particularly insidious about the backlash was this idea that parents are responsible for making their kids' lives magical. And the more magic the better.
I'll just say it: I'm not here to make my children's lives magical. I'm here to feed, clothe and love them, and I'm also here to provide them with some opportunities for learning, growth and fun. I'm also here to support them, part of which involves stepping back and letting them try — and sometimes fail, and hopefully try again — on their own.
But magic? Magic is not in the job description. 'Magic' isn't on some master parenting checklist, like dentist appointments and vaccination reminders might be. Magic is not a task that you can cross off when it's complete, like toilet training.
I believe we do a disservice to our children when we insist that their lives must be some unrelenting series of magical moments, and that the magic of childhood lies in grand, bucket list-type gestures: a pile of presents under the tree from Santa Claus, trips to Disneyland, or a new puppy with a bow around its neck.
These are all lovely things — possibly even magical — and I'm not suggesting that you cancel that trip to Orlando or that you outlaw Santa Claus. Enjoy them! Have fun!
But what our kids need more than grand gestures is to learn how to find the extraordinary in the ordinary: like the bunny that hops across the trail path; the moment when you finally get your balance on your bike or kick your way across the pool; finding raspberries in the back lane; breaking that skin of ice over each puddle on an early winter walk to school; tickle fights; getting lost in a book; and popping each bubble in the bubblewrap that protected that Christmas gift in the first place.
Kids also need to understand that sometimes the ordinary is just ordinary, that life involves unmagical things like setting the table, taking out the garbage, practicing new skills and flossing. I mean, if life is a constant onslaught of magic, then magic by definition is no longer special.
And don't get me wrong: there are many times when my kids watch TV or play on a phone, but there are also times when I leave them to their own devices, without devices, and they spend hours getting lost in making marble runs, figuring out how to knit, and building multi-story houses with cardboard and glue guns.
Magic isn't always, or even often, a thing you plan. Magic is something that happens in those unscripted moments when ordinary life unfolds in profound or exciting or breathtaking ways, and you have the presence of mind to pay attention to it.
Life itself is magical — I don't need to augment it for my kids. I just have to show up, pay attention and, sometimes, get out of the way.


Autumn Budget: The revival of High Streets?
On Monday 29th October the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, presented the Autumn Budget. The general theme of the Budget was an end to austerity and an increase in public spending although this only briefly touched on planning reform.
Mr Hammond announced that he was creating a £675 million fund to help councils transform their high streets. The aim is for part of this money to be used in turning unused high street shops or commercial buildings into homes to not only facilitate the redevelopment of under-used retail and commercial areas and but also to increase the government's provision of housing. The government hopes that this will not only fill the ever emptying high streets but also provide much needed footfall to other high street businesses.
As part of this process the government have released a consultation paper proposing reforms to the planning system to simplify the process of converting commercial buildings into homes here.
The consultation paper proposes new permitted development rights to allow greater flexibility for change of use from typical high street uses to a wider range of uses, such as gyms, libraries and houses; use of the airspace above existing buildings for additional new homes and extensions; make permanent the time-limited rights for the change of use from storage or distribution to residential use, and for larger single storey rear extensions to houses. In addition, the government wants to explore the feasibility of a new right to allow for the demolition of existing commercial buildings for redevelopment as residential.
Permitted development rights aim to provide a more streamlined planning process and greater certainty for developers/owners. The permitted development right proposed by the government would allow shops (A1), financial and professional services (A2), hot food takeaways (A5), betting shops, pay day loan shops and laundrettes to change to office use (B1) without the need for obtaining planning permission. It is also proposed to allow hot food takeaways (A5) to change to residential use (C3) as a permitted development right.
As well as the proposed permitted development rights for permanent changes of use, the government have also proposed a number of rights regarding the temporary change of use in a bid to encourage start-up businesses. The permitted development right proposed by the government would allow the temporary change of use of shops (A1), financial and professional services (A2), restaurants and cafes (A3), hot food takeaways (A5), offices (b1), non-residential institutions (D1), assembly and leisure uses (D2), betting shops, pay day loan shops and laundrettes to change to shops (A1), financial and professional services (A2), restaurants and cafes (A3), and office use (B1) for up to 2 years.
As for the Use Classes Order the government are welcoming views on how the A1 use class could be simplified to ensure that it accommodates new and future business models as well as modern shopping preferences. They go further to suggest that the new A1 class could provide a mix of uses within different use classes beyond what is considered ancillary in support of the diversification of the high street.
Opposition opinion is that the relaxation of planning regulations is likely to result in creating "some of the most appalling housing in the country and only benefit rogue landlords".
The public consultation will close on 14 January 2019.
Keith specialises in planning law, advising in major projects and infrastructure, energy and renewables in the commercial, industrial and residential sectors.
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Venezuelan NGO denounces gov't targetting radio broadcasters
Presidents Petro and Lasso deepen Ecuador-Colombia cooperation
Peru's Congress agrees to reconsider moving elections forward
Venezuelan opposition leader sentenced to 13 years in prison; Unasur statement expected Friday
Friday, September 11th 2015 - 06:03 UTC
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Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was convicted inciting violence and sentenced to 13 years in prison on Thursday for his leading role in the 2014 street protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro that spiralled into bloodshed, killing more than 40 people. A statement from Unasur (Union of South American Nations) is expected on Friday. Read full article
The slide into a fascist state accelerates.
Sep 11th, 2015 - 09:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0
Jonaz_BsAs
The LIE that is LatAm "democracy" anno 2015 is getting exposed.
SebaSvtz
Where are the self-called `human rights supportes´s now?
Where are all the ` progressive ´LatAm leaders ? will they call out against this, or it´s fine because it´s done by one of them ?
Further proof that they are nothing but liars.
This coup bandit thought that the United States would save him. He was very lucky as elsewhere his sentence would be life imprisonment or the death penalty.
Your such a fucktard Brasshole, even this early in the morning!
You are crazy. The guy incited violence that killed forty people all in the name of his personal ambition for power.
13 years is too little. Death penalty now!
@6. Strange. In the most advanced societies, inciting a riot might result in a sentence of 4 or 5 years. Then there would be the small matter of proving "intent". Noteworthy that the joke that is the Venezuelan "government" failed in a previous attempt to silence him and refuses to abide by the ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Sovereignty is not open for discussion!
Sep 11th, 2015 - 12:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
Mendoza Canadian
This is a direct warning to the opposition: oppose me and you go to prison. Simple as that. Venezuela will be a one party state by the time of the December "elections".
Man, you are so on the wrong side of history. Useless to speak to you now, though.
Troy Tempest
8 Brasso
Tell that to the Malvinistas
The end of human rights, end of democracy, and the end of freedom.
And this is the model Lula, Rouseff, CFK, and Correa hold dear.
Correa is now eliminating human rights groups in Ecuador.
What is he setting the stage for?
When will Assange report on this??
ilsen
"In a closed-door trial human rights advocates decried as politically motivated and deeply flawed, the judge allowed only one of the 60 defence witnesses proposed by his lawyers, and rejected 30 proposed exhibits, according to his lawyers.
Before the verdict was handed down, a defiant López told the judge in a three-hour address to the court: "If the sentence is a conviction, I know that you will be more afraid pronouncing it than I will be hearing it because you know I am innocent."
During Thursday's hearing, López had planned to show video mapping out the protests in February 2014, in which he is seen calling for a peaceful march. But he was reportedly denied the use of a video to show it to the court."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/11/venezuela-opposition-leader-leopoldo-lopez-sentenced-to-14-years-in-jail
A Travesty and a Crime against Lopez, Venezuela and Humanity.
Brasshole, when will you learn that socialism never works, it's an excuse by wankers like Maduro and Lula to maintain power and steal, and it will eventually fail. Ask yourself how rich your PT mates are now and how poor remain the majority of people in your country.
@8. Dictatorship IS. Over years we've learned to recognise the dictatorial faggots. Rousseff, da Silva, Kirchner, Correa, Un, Putin, Bachelet. All dictators pretending to be democrats. All deserving of death so that countries can be freed.
Brasshole,
There a reason kids used to throw rotten figs at you when you were young.
Even today you continue to grind everyone's patience with your pathetic support of a dictator.
ChrisR
Just like TDC, when you think the Chavistas cannot be more bat-shit crazy than they are they go and prove you wrong.
This nonsense will really come back and bite MADuro and his bunch of thugs really badly.
It's very difficult to see how an armed conflict between the two sides can, or should, be avoided.
The opposition should try their best at getting whatever they need to remove this undemocratic government. We all remember the huge number of dead people who voted for Maduro: he needs to be among them, asap.
Want to change a government? This has certain day and time: ELECTIONS
The rest is Nazism Ukrainian model!
Venezuela hasn't experienced elections without massive fraud for at least the last generation. Chavez -> Maduro has now become a full blown dictatorship.
@4,6,8,17 asshole from BR.
So much crap. Not worthwhile wasting my time on. VSF !
Poor Brasileiro with his limited intellect and education.
He simplistically believes that elections make a democracy.
Elections are just the final and easiest part of a democracy. Venezuela is not a democracy. Which is comical when you consider how much Brasileiro says he supports democracy.
golfcronie
Democracy in Brazil, HaHaHaHaHaHa Pissed myself laughing, please stop my stomach hurts
No, Brazil is a democracy. Admittedly a democracy with faults, but it doesn't seem in any danger of becoming a non-democracy.
Which is what makes the Brasileiros all the more hypocritical. They accept the benefit of democracy. They rail against the merest hint of losing that democracy. But when a neighbouring country starts destroying their democracy. When it sentences someone without due process and on charges they can't even prove, it is farcical that this is supported because it somehow screams INDEPENDENCE from the west.
The west isn't hurt or damaged or belittled by this decline in democracy in Venezuela. Venezuela's government hasn't affected the west at all. I can't think of one single change to the west by Chavez or Maduro being in power.
It is the Venezuelans that are affected. The Brasileiros will happily sacrifice Venezuelans because they think that they have to chose the 'side' that is against the west - the Venezuelan government.
Venezuelan governments will come and go. But the Venezuelan people will still be around. And they will remember who side people and countries chose.
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