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An Evening of Thanks
An Evening of ThanksCSUSM student scholarship recipients were invited to formally meet the people supporting their academic life at the third annual scholarship/donor reception on Thursday, Feb. 25, at the M. Gordon Clarke Field House/University Student Union. Over 100 students, donors, and campus administrators, faculty and staff filled the room in celebration of the spirit of philanthropy that has positively impacted so many students' lives.Vice President for University Advancement Neal Hoss emceed the event, sharing that he continues to have the pleasure to meet with our donors and to hear the reasons why they support student scholarships. "The reasons are as varied as the donors themselves. But they do have one thing in common - the belief that our students are the best hope we all have for our region's future," said Hoss.Among the students invited to share their story was Seth Tossel, a junior pursuing his nursing degree. Tossell is benefiting from the Assistance League of Inland North County Scholarship fund. "I realize that this is a substantial amount of money and I am very grateful for it," he said. "It is an understatement to say that this support has made a difference in my life at CSUSM and my life in general."Caitlyn Villarreal, a member of the women's cross country team, spoke eloquently about her appreciation to Bob and Ruth Mangrum, long-time friends of Cal State San Marcos who have given generously to athletic scholarships. Villarreal shared her frustration with finding scholarships that were relevant to her and thanked the Mangrums for believing in her and giving her the opportunity to continue forward unimpeded with her education."I wish you could have been on the podium with us when we received our [NAIA] National Championship banner. You have had such an important impact on our entire team," she expressed. In addition to scholarships, the Mangrums have been long-time supporters of CSUSM's athletics program. The Mangrum Track and Field is named for the couple.Manny Calderon, a graduating senior majoring in finance, was the final student to share his heartfelt gratitude for receiving a scholarship from the Elisabeth Crouch Scholarship Program. Since the fund was established in 2004, over $100,000 in scholarships to students have been awarded.President Haynes noted that "Over the last two decades, CSUSM has been very fortunate to be supported by a community of individuals, corporations, and nonprofit organizations who believe in the campus and its mission to educate the future leaders of our region." For more information on how to make a scholarship donation, contact University Advancement at 760-750-4400.
Tеl: (760) 750-4407
Email: publicity@csusm.edu


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We know the story, what's new?
"Hey, you wanna be a man?
Yeah I wanna be a man.
A man don't run tellin' mama everything he see.
Alright then man. You're a man now.
"You know what? I need to talk to you.
I don't think this is, working out for us.
I mean, I need some space. I mean no, I just wanna find myself, that's all.


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By The Times
Diesel tax anger as new models beat petrol in NOx pollution tests
Findings call into question planned road tax rise for diesels
SOME NEW diesel cars are much less polluting than new petrol cars, according to research.
Independent tests have identified 11 diesel models, including the Volkswagen Golf SV, Mercedes-Benz E class and BMW 5 series, that emit very low levels of toxic nitrogen oxides (NOx).
The findings by Emissions Analytics, a testing company that helped to expose the health threat from diesels, raise questions about the wisdom of road tax increases on diesel vehicles.
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The 2016 3.0 litre BMW 5 Series, the least polluting diesel, emits only 23 milligrams of NOx per kilometre, less than a third of the legal limit of 80mg/km. The 2016 petrol Renault Kadjar 1.2 litre emits 130mg/km, six times as much as the diesel BMW.
The results lend support to calls by motoring groups to Philip Hammond, the chancellor, to rethink planned rises in road tax, from April 2018, for diesel-powered models.
The cleanest 10 per cent of new diesel cars emit an average 70mg of NOx per kilometre whereas the dirtiest 10 per cent of the petrol models emit 129mg/km, according to the tests, which involve driving on roads in contrast to the official tests that are conducted under laboratory conditions.
Several councils have introduced higher parking charges for diesel cars regardless of their emissions. Islington council in London plans a £2 per hour surcharge from January for diesel vehicles of any age using short-stay parking.
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, plans to extend the toxicity charge introduced last month to cover all pre-2016 diesels from April 2019 and increase the daily fee from £10 to £12.50.
Nick Molden, founder of Emissions Analytics, said many new diesel models were still highly polluting but the results showed that it was wrong to "demonise" all cars with diesel engines.
"These real-world findings cast doubt on blanket taxes on diesels being the best policy," he said. "It makes no sense to punish or tax diesel as a technology per se, just dirty cars whatever their type."
He said car companies had reduced NOx emissions on the cleanest diesels by fitting more effective pollution controls. These tend to be selective catalytic reduction systems, which involve injecting urea solution into the exhaust fumes to neutralise NOx. They require a 10-20 litre tank for AdBlue, the commercial name for the solution.
Mr Molden said many car companies had previously opted for cheaper systems, such as lean NOx traps, which were less effective, partly to save money but also because they thought drivers would object to having a urea tank, which needs to be regularly refilled and takes up space in the boot.
Edmund King, president of the AA, said 17 years after the Labour government had ignored air pollution issues by encouraging diesel, there was now a danger of going too far in the opposite direction. "We could be shooting ourselves in the foot again," he said.
"For the next ten years we will need a range of fuels including diesel because for heavy trucks and towing vehicles it is still king and there is nothing better.
"If you don't live in a city centre and do a lot of motorway miles, a clean new diesel can be the best bet overall for the environment, balancing climate change and air pollution.
"New diesel taxes are a kneejerk reaction to the air pollution problem."
He said there was no need to heap more penalties on diesel owners. Sales of new diesels fell 30 per cent last month compared with October last year, with discounts 25.6 per cent higher on average than for diesels' petrol counterparts, according to data from What Car?
This article first appeared in The Times
Trump pardoned ex-Google self-driving car engineer
Outgoing President Donald Trump last night pardoned Anthony Levandowski, an autonomous car engineer charged with stealing trade secrets.
Safety tech only on 37 miles of smart motorway
A system designed to make smart motorways safer has only been installed on 37 miles of the network since it was announced in March 2020.
New EV battery 'cheaper, faster to charge'
Researchers at Penn State have found that lithium iron phosphate batteries could be a cheaper, safer alternative to the ones currently used.

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Биография и карьера
Бартош рос в Познани. Свою карьеру начал с 1999 года. Сотрудничал с музыкальными коллективами LPS, Ascetoholix и другими, с исполнителями Дониу, Либером, Овалом, Мезо, Сильвией Гжещак, Касей Вильк, Эвелиной Лисовской, Хоноратой Скарбек, Гжегожем Хыжи и другими. Продолжает сотрудничество с хоровым ансамблем «Саунд'н'Грейс». Живёт в Любоне.

Дискография

Альбомы, полностью спродюсированные Таббом

Альбомы, где Таббом спродюсированны отдельные композиции
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World Insurance Companies Logos - Insurance in America
Home > Africa > America > North America > Central America > South America > Asia > Caribbean > Europe > Oceania
World Insurance Companies Logos - Insurance in America. Click on the graphic mark of each Insurance companies in the Americas for getting a wealth of information on insurance issues that each provider have to offer by the Internet. At "world-insurance-companies.com" one may easily access the websites of Insurance Companies in the American countries.
List of Insurance Companies Logos and Names in America
Lis of Insurance Companies Logos and Names in America. Click on the map of each Continent to access to the Logos of Insurers of the selected Country and find there, the best insurance provider based on cost, coverage, customer service and claims support. Locate the Insurer you trust
Insurance Companies in North America
North American Insurance. The picture show a map of North America with logos and names of Insurance Companies based in North American countries
Directory of Insurance Companies Logos and names in North America. World Insurance Companies Logos
Insurance Companies in Central America
Central America Insurance. The picture show a map of Central America with logos with names of Insurance Companies, based in Central American countries
Directory of Insurance Companies Logos and names in Central America
Insurance Companies in Latin America
Latin America Insurance. The picture show a map of Latin America with logos with names of Insurance Companies, based in South American countries
Directory of Insurance Companies Logos and names in South America
Best Insurance Companies in American countries - World's Insurance Companies Logos
Find the Best Insurance Companies in American countries. Some tips to consider when choosing the best insurance company.
1 - Find the right coverage
First, it's important to gather information about the right coverage, and obtain insurances quotes from, a variety of insurers as part of your overall selection process. In order to do that, begin by determining the type of coverage you need in order to make a right comparison across multiple companies.
Now it's time to research the types of insurers from which to obtain that coverage.
2 - Check License Status
Insurers must be licensed by the country in which they sell insurances. For added peace of mind, be sure you're buying coverage from a licensed provider in your area by checking with the department of insurers of your Country, either online or by phone.
3 - Check financial stability
Finding out the financial stability of an insurer. One can research a provider's insurance financial strength ratings, in the websites of companies such as A.M. Best, Standard & Poor's, Moody's or Fitch. While most of the major insurers are safe bets, this is especially helpful when considering smaller, lesser-known providers.
4 - Check customer service and claims support
Check consumer complaint ratios. Many departments of Insurance websites publish consumer complaint ratios for the providers. A consumer complaint ratio tells you how many complaints an insurer received for every 1,000 claims its policyholders filed. It's also a good idea to check a company's complaint ratios in several other countries since a company might have great ratings in one, but not-so-great ratings in another. For added protection, look for companies with low consumer complaint ratios in a variety of countries.
Locate the Insurance Companies in the World you trust
Are lands in the Western Hemisphere that are also known as the New World, they cover 8.3% of the Earth's total surface area (28.4% of its land area)?
The topography is dominated by the American Cordillera, a long chain of mountains that run the length of the west coast. The flatter eastern side of the continent is dominated by large river basins, such as the Amazon, Mississippi, and La Plata. Extending 14,000 km (8,699 mi) in a north-south orientation, the climate and ecology vary strongly across the continent, from arctic tundra of Canada, Greenland, and Alaska, to the tropical rainforests in Central and South America.
When the continents joined 3 million years ago, the Great American Interchange resulted in many species being spread across the continent, such as the cougar, porcupine, and hummingbirds.
Humans first settled the continent from Asia between 40,000 BCE and 15,000 BCE. The second migration of Na-Dene speakers followed later from Asia. The subsequent migration of the Inuit into the new arctic around 3500 BCE completed what is generally regarded as the settlement by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
The voyages of Christopher Columbus from 1492 to 1502 resulted in permanent contact with European (and subsequently, other Old World) powers, which led to the Columbian exchange.
Diseases introduced from Europe and Africa devastated the Indigenous peoples, and the European powers colonized the Americas.
Mass emigration from Europe, including large numbers of indentured servants, and forced immigration of African slaves largely replaced the Indigenous Peoples.
Beginning with the American Revolution in 1776 and Haitian Revolution in 1791, the European powers began to decolonise the Americas. Currently, almost all of the population of the continent resides in independent countries; however, the legacy of the colonization and settlement by Europeans is that the Americas share many common cultural traits, most notably the predominant adherence to Christianity and use of Indo-European languages; primarily Spanish, English, and Portuguese.
More than 900 million people live in the Americas (about 13.5% of the human population), the most populous countries being the United States, Brazil, and Mexico, the most populous cities being Mexico City, São Paulo, and New York City.
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Q: TCP server returns an error when I run the curl command I have written a very simple TCP server, which reads a connections and responds back with HELLO WORLD.
import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "net"
)

func handleRequest(conn net.Conn) {

    buff := make([]byte, 10)

    _, err := conn.Read(buff)

    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    fmt.Println(string(buff))

    conn.Write([]byte("HELLO WORLD"))
    conn.Close()
}

func main() {
    ln, err := net.Listen("tcp", ":8080")
    fmt.Println("Listening on Port 8080")
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    for {
        conn, err := ln.Accept()
        if err != nil {
            log.Fatal(err)
        }
        go handleRequest(conn)
    }

}

What is the problem with this code? When I run curl http://localhost:8080, I get this output
curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
HELLO WORLD%

buff:=make([]byte,1024)

Now if I increase the buffer size, this code works fine and I do not get that error after running curl.
echo -n "Hello" | nc localhost 8080

If I run the above command it works without any issues.
I really don't understand the cause of this.

A: Curl sends a large-ish HTTP request. Try to print out (or log) what conn.Read got and you'll see it. Curl could be unhappy because it's not getting a proper HTTP response back.
conn.Read should not overflow the buffer anyway, it reads up to the buffer size.
On the other hand the pipe to nc just sends 5 bytes on the TCP socket.

Here's a sample TCP server that talks proper HTTP:
package main

import (
    "bufio"
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "net"
    "strings"
)

// handleConnection handles a single connected client.
func handleConnection(c net.Conn) {
    defer c.Close()

    scanner := bufio.NewScanner(c)
    // Scan first line for the request
    if !scanner.Scan() {
        log.Fatal(scanner.Err())
    }
    req := scanner.Text()
    for scanner.Scan() {
        // Scan until an empty line is seen
        if len(scanner.Text()) == 0 {
            break
        }
    }
    fmt.Println("req:", req)
    if strings.HasPrefix(req, "GET") {
        rt := fmt.Sprintf("HTTP/1.1 200 Success\r\n")
        rt += fmt.Sprintf("Connection: Close\r\n")
        rt += fmt.Sprintf("Content-Type: text/html\r\n\r\n")
        rt += fmt.Sprintf("Nothing here\r\n")
        c.Write([]byte(rt))
    } else {
        rt := fmt.Sprintf("HTTP/1.1 %v Error Occurred\r\n\r\n", 501)
        c.Write([]byte(rt))
    }
}

func main() {
    l, err := net.Listen("tcp", ":8080")
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    defer l.Close()
    for {
        // Wait for a connection.
        conn, err := l.Accept()
        if err != nil {
            log.Fatal(err)
        }
        go handleConnection(conn)
    }
}

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Hypocritical West balks at hostage swaps
Simon Tisdall
Jordan's willingness to free a prisoner who helped kill dozens of civilians in return for the release by the Islamic State of a captured Jordanian air force pilot will horrify some Western governments, politicians and diplomats. But in much of the Middle East, the exchange – if it goes ahead – is likely to be greeted with a shrug.
Hostage-taking and hostage swaps have been a common form of conflict zone commerce in the Middle East for as long as caliphs, emirs and tribes have fought for territory and power. Much the same held true in the Europe of the Middle Ages. Even popes sometimes fell victim, Leo IX being a prime example. Many princes certainly did. Hostages are currency. They are power levers. And they are usually more valuable alive than dead.
The Islamic State's approach to the use and abuse of hostages is different in significant ways. Its willingness to execute them in the most horrifyingly public manner has added to its notoriety – and to the fear and respect with which it is held in the areas it occupies in Syria and Iraq. Its use of videos and other media to magnify the drama adds to the horror – and to its negotiating strength.
Against such a background, any talk of doing a deal goes against the grain for Western leaders who believe hostage-taking is illegitimate, and that giving in to hostage-takers' demands, through negotiation or otherwise, is unforgivable in most circumstances.
This is the position usually espoused by the United States and British governments, which do not rule out negotiations but simultaneously oppose making concessions, thereby rendering any talks pointless.
When in the past the Italian and other European governments have paid ransoms of whatever kind to free their nationals, they have been accused of letting the side down – and encouraging more hostage-taking.
Yet the US flatly contradicted its own stated position last year when five Taliban detainees were freed from Guantánamo Bay in return for the release of US army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan. The decision was highly controversial.
Greater incentive
Republican congressman Mike Rogers condemned a "fundamental shift in US policy", which he said "signals to terrorists around the world a greater incentive to take US hostages".
The double-standards problem runs deeper. When critics suggest that holding suspected terrorists captive for years in Guantánamo without charge or trial is no different from taking hostages on the battlefield, those who decry hostage negotiations and say they are upholding the rule of law appear genuinely baffled.
Caught in the middle of this excruciating divide, on this occasion, is the Japanese government, which is trying to establish whether the freeing of a remaining hostage, Kenji Goto, is part of the Jordan-Islamic State swap. Japan has reportedly done deals with kidnappers in the past. On the other hand, it held firm when its Peru embassy was seized by left-wing guerrillas in 1996.
Shinzo Abe, Japan's right-wing prime minister, seems to incline towards the normally uncompromising US and British view on such matters. Japanese diplomats say the public is divided over the case. Many believe Goto is to blame for his own misfortune by travelling to Syria in the first place, whereas others see him as a brave man.
Abe, meanwhile, is left to fume and fret. He condemned as "despicable" a video of Goto accompanied by a warning that he and the Jordanian pilot had only hours to live unless Jordan gave in.
Jonathan Powell, a former chief of staff to Tony Blair, argues that governments nearly always find themselves eventually drawn into negotiations. In Powell's view, it is as well to open up lines of communication and start talking sooner rather than later.
From such contacts, Powell argues, the beginnings of a peaceful resolution, including prisoner releases and arms decommissioning, will flow, as happened in Northern Ireland when Blair's government finally talked directly to the Irish Republican Army. – © 2015 Guardian News and Media Limited
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Jan 28, 2015Author Emil Artin, one of the twentieth century's leading mathematicians, wrote in his Preface to this book, "I feel that this monograph will help to show that the gamma function can be thought of as one of the elementary functions, and that all of its basic properties can be established using elementary methods of the calculus."
In the English translation of The Gamma Function by Emil Artin (1964 - Holt, Rinehart and Winston) there appears to be a mistake in the formula given for the gamma function on page 24: $$\Gamma(x)..


Historical Marker The former home of Governor William B. Giles is surrounded by over 100 acres of farmland. It consists 18-rooms and under a gable roof and dormers. The house originally had 5 full baths, and includes 4 chimneys that serve 13 fireplaces. There are 65 windows in all, 17 of which are dormers. A window in a room in the basement has bars with attached shackles, and is thought to have been used to secure Union army prisoners in the War Between the States. After the governor died, the family of William Henry Harrison consisting of seven children resided there. A grandson of Harrison acquired the home temporarily in the 1960s in order to effect its restoration.


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[Elecraft] KBR1 ground-mount bracket update: desktop use
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Q: Passing large JavaScript object to C# backend without using JSON/strings (using IE11) This is my first Stack Overflow question as a newly-employed junior developer. I have done a lot of searching but can't seem to find an answer, apologies if I have missed it.
I have a couple of large JavaScript objects that I am looking to pass from the frontend of a web app to the C# backend. With the app I'm working on, we have been using JSON.stringify(object) to prepare data to pass to the backend. When it hits the backend we do ApplyMyData data = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<ApplyMyData>(json); - no issues normally.
EDIT: Here's how we post:

$.ajax({
    type: 'POST',
    url: '/Controller/MyMethod',
    data: {
        json: JSON.stringify(myObject)
    },
    success: function (response) {
        if (response.success) {
            // yay
        } else if (response.success === false) {
            // nay
        } else {
            alert('Something unexpected happened');
        }
    }
});

'Why not just keep using JSON?' I hear you ask!
Well, that's tricky. Thanks to client requirements, we must support IE11, which seems to have a limit on the size of strings. Reference:
What is the maximum possible length of a query string?
Therefore, the resulting JSON.stringify(object) is incomplete/invalid and when it's parsed, an error is thrown. We have no issues when users are on Chrome.
I have done up a quick fiddle to demonstrate this problem, try run it in Chrome and then IE11, then look at the console logs and you'll see what I am getting at:
https://jsfiddle.net/8yx7bqjs/.
IE11 truncates the string length at 1024 characters... sigh...
So to my questions:

*

*Is there another way I can send the JavaScript object 'unmodified' -or- 'unstringified' to the backend instead?

*Must all data sent to backend be in the form of a string?

*Is there a workaround for IE11 that can let you work with strings longer than 1024 characters? I can't seem to find any.

Thanks in advance.

A: You can make mock ajax requests in  Fiddle.
heres what I looked at really quickly:
https://jsfiddle.net/8yx7bqjs/1/
$.ajax({
    type: 'POST',
    url: '/echo/json',
    data: {
        "stuff": myArray
    }
}).done(function(res){
    console.log("success");
}).fail(function(res){
    console.log("test failed")
});

IE11 is showing no problems with actually sending the data.
Depending on the actual length of your string ASP.Net has a limitation of 102400 by default.

A: Thanks @robjam, this has helped me a lot. I'm using Raygun for error reporting and gives me with the POST form value. The form value is truncated in their console so I thought (probably wrongly) that the string was being truncated in the browser before it actaully gets POST-ed to the backend.
But looks like IE11 is stringifying just fine, maybe RayGun simply isn't printing out all the JSON in their error logging console which has thrown me off the scent.
Will investigate further, thanks.


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Forgo factoids, find facts
Gavin Gaddis, Staff Writer|August 11, 2017
The inventor of the guillotine was not executed with a guillotine. Goldfish don't have 15-second memories. Albert Einstein was not bad at math in his grade school years.
These are easily checked slices of so-called common knowledge, yet they persist to this day because they're incredibly easy to share and make the recipient feel smarter for having consumed such simple information.
It's time to kill the bad facts.
The biggest common thread throughout every school of education on this campus is the idea that every student should be able to employ critical thinking. We're all paying thousands of dollars to be here, might as well put that to good use.
It's even possible for a not quite correct image to be presented by simply deleting information one doesn't want to present.
Sure, the friendly-looking ex-CNN reporter seems to be reporting on the latest news from the White House, yet even the most cursory of research shows she's only talking about things that cast our government in a positive light, including skipping over the infamous health care bill's failure to pass the Senate.
Arguably the biggest piece of news on the airwaves at the time, yet Real News didn't cover it.
Huh, wonder why?
Given we live in an America where the executive branch of the government has started a Facebook video series akin to USSR state-run propaganda television, now more than ever it's important to keep one's wits about them.
As a student body, we should look for these false or cherry-picked facts as the semester progresses.
Just because someone with a doctorate tells you that for every five miles of highway one mile must be straight so that planes may land in a time of war, doesn't mean it's true. If anything, these easily communicated non-facts have much more interesting true roots to them than the actual factoid.
In the May/June 2000 issue of Public Roads, Richard Weingroff wrote a delightful piece on this very topic, digging up a 1943 plan that might have sparked the long-shared "one in five rule" myth.
In essence, Commissioner of Public Roads Thomas MacDonald proposed a plan to boost the economic growth of aviation in the United States by building many small air strips near highways, even going as far as to coordinate with nearby gas stations so they'd stock aviation fuel for said planes.
The plan was never executed, but for a brief moment we considered building an infrastructure that would've drastically changed the average American's interaction with air travel. It would've become much cheaper and easier to commute via small plane, and owning a smaller plane probably would've become much more achievable.
Of course, this truth doesn't fit in 140 characters as easily as simply telling someone every five miles of interstate highway has to have one mile of perfectly straight road so Air Force One could land in a time of war.
A skeptical approach often proves best, my friends in education.
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Eutrophication management scenarios
Ny vetenskaplig publikation
Evaluating eutrophication management scenarios in the Baltic Sea using species distribution modelling
Eutrophication is severely affecting species distributions and ecosystem functioning in coastal areas. Targets for eutrophication reduction have been set in the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) using Secchi depth, a measure of water transparency, as the main status indicator. Despite the high economic costs involved, the potential effects of this political decision on key species and habitats have not been assessed.
In a case study including species central to coastal ecosystem functioning, we modelled the effects of changing Secchi depth on the distribution of bladderwrack Fucus vesiculosus and eelgrass Zostera marina vegetation as well as recruitment areas of the main predatory fish species, perch Perca fluviatilis and pikeperch Sander lucioperca. Specifically, we explored the effects of changing Secchi depth on species distributions under a set of scenarios based on the BSAP, using three fundamentally different modelling techniques: maximum entropy, generalized additive and random forest modelling.
Improved Secchi depth (reduced eutrophication) was predicted to cause a substantial increase in the distribution of bladderwrack, while the distribution of eelgrass remained largely unaffected. For the fish, a large increase in perch recruitment areas was predicted and a concurrent decrease in recruitment areas of pikeperch. These changes are likely to have effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services.
The three modelling methods exposed differences in the quantitative predictions for species with a weaker coupling to Secchi depth. Qualitatively, however, the results were consistent for all species.
Synthesis and applications. We show how ecological effects of environmental policies can be evaluated in an explicit spatial context using species distribution modelling. The model-specific responses to changes in eutrophication status emphasize the importance of using ensemble modelling for exploring how species distributions may respond to alternative management regimes. A pronounced difference in response between species suggests that eutrophication mitigation will have consequences for ecosystem functioning, and thus ecosystem goods and services, by inducing changes in the simple food webs of the Baltic Sea. These model predictions form a basis for spatially explicit cost-benefit estimates under different scenarios, providing valuable information for both decision-makers and the wider society.
Full citation
Bergström U, Sundblad G, Downie A-L, Snickars M, Boström C, Lindegarth M., 2013: Evaluating eutrophication management scenarios in the Baltic Sea using species distribution modelling. Journal of Applied Ecology, 50:680-690, DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12083
Antonia Nyström Sandman
PhD Marine ecology
antonia.sandman@aquabiota.se


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Linda Crombeen, along with PWU Stewards Jason Elliott and Tim Crawford, presented a cheque for $750 to Kincardine Pride Directors on April 25!
Kincardine Pride Inc. wishes to thank Power Workers' Union for its generosity in sponsoring our second Annual Kincardine Pride Parade, to be held on June 23, and for supporting our efforts to demonstrate that Kincardine is an LGBTQ-inclusive community that celebrates gender diversity.
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Hundreds of workers at the Compass Minerals salt mine in Goderich walked off the job Friday afternoon.
In total, 341 miners, electricians and hourly employees are involved in the strike action.
The company and union have been in contract talks since March. Union leaders say seniority, overtime and benefits are among the major outstanding issues.
Compass Minerals says work will continue at the site with other employees.
Forty-eight of the mine's employees were laid off in February.
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The Coalition's Monash Forum claims its aim is to generate enthusiasm for coal-fired energy, but could it be as much about unseating Malcolm Turnbull as it is about fossil fuels? By Karen Middleton.
Monash Forum's puzzling energy agenda
While parliamentarians were gathered in Canberra last week ahead of the pre-budget break, the proponents of what is now calling itself the Monash Forum began circulating a "letter" about energy policy.
Many Liberals declined to sign it, believing it was so closely linked to poisonous leadership politics that it could not do anything but cause trouble.
The Monash Forum is named after General Sir John Monash, the decorated Australian World War I military commander who was also a pioneer of brown coal power generation in Victoria.
The Liberals who generated the group and its letter – Victorian MP Kevin Andrews, Tasmanian senator Eric Abetz and former prime minister Tony Abbott – gained the early signature of Queenslander and chair of the Coalition's energy committee Craig Kelly, along with those of former Nationals leader and deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce.
Some are saying privately they feel as though they were duped and that the forum is really a political stalking horse.
But it was Queensland Liberal National MP George Christensen, who sits in the Nationals party room, who was persuaded to circulate the statement among his Nationals colleagues and urge them to sign it.
In their Tuesday morning party meeting last week, Christensen presented it as a bid to amend the government's proposed energy blueprint, the national energy guarantee (NEG), ahead of its being put to the states and territories later this month.
The Saturday Paper has been told he explained that the letter was aimed at pressing the government to more firmly entrench the future of coal as part of the energy mix and demand an end to subsidies for renewable energy sources.
Many Nationals agreed to sign the letter on that basis, being strong supporters of coal. But now some are saying privately they feel as though they were duped and that the forum is really a political stalking horse whose agenda is at least as much about Malcolm Turnbull's leadership as fossil fuels.
Their names are being used to give the appearance of numbers behind the Monash Forum and weight to its demands, as well as to generate a debate many suspect has the party's leadership as its true focus.
Not actually delivered directly to the prime minister or energy and environment minister Josh Frydenberg, the Monash Forum letter was instead placed at the centre of public debate this week, just as the next Newspoll was about to be put into the field – the one expected to deliver the 30th negative result for the Coalition under Turnbull's prime ministership.
Turnbull and his supporters have been bracing for No. 30 since it became clear many months ago he would reach the very benchmark he nominated as a key reason for ousting Abbott in 2015.
The poll is being taken this weekend, with its results due to be published on Monday.
On Wednesday this week, Turnbull was in Rockhampton, alongside Nationals leader Michael McCormack and resources minister Matt Canavan, defending his government's energy policy.
Canavan's name had been linked to those initially endorsing the Monash Forum's statement. He later gave an interview to Sky News, distancing himself from the exercise.
"I don't think coal needs subsidies," he said. "It doesn't need government grants or investment. It competes on its own two feet and if we just allow the market to work, and that's what the government wants to do, and end a lot of the subsidisation of other types of energy, coal-fired power will work."
Despite this view, Canavan had been a public supporter of the Adani company's bid for a concessionary loan to build a railway line to its proposed Carmichael mine in the Galilee Basin, a bid that collapsed when the Queensland government used its veto power to block it.
Before the forum emerged, Turnbull and Frydenberg were already looking for ways to keep coal in the mix for longer, both to address the concerns of colleagues in coal seats and to avoid corporations using the closure of coal-fired power stations to force up power prices.
In recent weeks, the pair has moved again to push for the Liddell power station in the New South Wales Hunter Valley to be kept open beyond its scheduled closure in 2022.
Turnbull's alternative energy brainchild, a revamped Snowy Hydro scheme dubbed Snowy 2.0, cannot be operational until 2024-25, so the government needs something to stop prices surging in the interim.
Frydenberg met with Manufacturing Australia executives last week, where the Liddell issue was discussed.
Made aware that energy producer Alinta Energy was interested in increasing its share of the market, Frydenberg then contacted its chief executive Jeff Dimery to encourage him to make a bid for Liddell.
The owner of the Liddell power station, AGL, has resisted all encouragement to keep it open beyond 2022 and all offers to buy it, insisting its customers need the power it generates until then and that it has other plans for the infrastructure after that.
Having recently bought the Loy Yang B power station in Victoria, Alinta Energy approached AGL on Tuesday night and foreshadowed a $1 billion offer, conditional on being able to take over the station in September this year.
Dimery says his company has not received any government incentives or assistance, other than in brokering the talks. Turnbull contacted AGL managing director Andy Vesey the same night to encourage him to consider the proposal seriously.
"Really, AGL should do the right thing by their customers, by the community and really by their own shareholders by either keeping this plant going for another four or five years or sell it to somebody who is prepared to do so," Turnbull told journalists on Wednesday. "It is manifestly in the public interest that that happens."
At time of press, AGL continued to declare the asset not for sale.
Frydenberg and Turnbull are convinced AGL is only persisting in the plant's closure because it would push up prices and boost the value of its other plant at Bayswater.
They are understood to be equally convinced that the Monash Forum is much more a political ginger group than genuine energy lobby.
Group members Craig Kelly and Eric Abetz have both denied that, insisting it is about good policy rather than politics.
Supporting the Turnbull view is the timing of the group's public intervention and the fact that this is exactly the issue on which Turnbull's leadership foundered in 2009.
One of the forum's stated aims – to belatedly amend the NEG – is also puzzling some observers.
Back then, Abbott marshalled support against Turnbull's plan to have the Coalition support the then Rudd Labor government's proposed emissions trading scheme, and won the ensuing ballot by a single vote. Currently on his annual Pollie Pedal for charity, Abbott is due to ride through Victoria's coal-rich Latrobe Valley on Monday.
Critics of the forum also note that when he was leader Abbott was vehemently opposed to government subsidising industry. He refused to countenance a much smaller subsidy to rescue Australian fruit canner Ardmona but now wants the government to fund a power station.
Some conservative Liberals are downplaying the critics' suspicions.
"The idea that a group of backbenchers who might be speaking about policy is some sort of nefarious gathering I find very surprising," Liberal MP Michael Sukkar observed on Tuesday.
NSW Nationals senator John "Wacka" Williams hasn't signed the letter but says he backs the pro-coal push. "I support colleagues who are pushing for a reliable, cheap electricity supply," Williams told The Saturday Paper.
Unsurprisingly, the Labor side see the forum as an opportunity to criticise Turnbull and his party. "The No. 1 problem contributing to growing energy prices in Australia is the lack of policy certainty," Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said on Thursday. "Every time Mr Turnbull takes a position at breakfast time it's moved by lunchtime because the right-wing knuckle-draggers of his party keep beating him up. This is not the way to run a country."
One of the forum's stated aims – to belatedly amend the NEG – is also puzzling some observers, given the Coalition party room has already endorsed it.
Frydenberg secured that support late last year and is set to put it to state and territory energy ministers for preliminary approval on April 20.
Even if enough of them were to support an adjustment, Coalition MPs will have no opportunity to vote to endorse it until after that, when they meet again at the start of budget week in early May.
As it is currently designed, the NEG aims to push power prices down by making more energy available, while also increasing stability and reliability in the system.
The plan depends on the production of dispatchable power – power that can be stored and used as needed, rather than having to be used immediately.
Dispatchability has been what advantaged coal-fired power over most renewable sources because the technology had not existed until recently to enable wind and solar power to be stored.
It is only the development of that storage technology – and the fall in production costs for renewables as the capture technologies also advanced – that has made viable a policy such as the one proposed by the government.
The NEG puts two sets of obligations on energy producers.
The first is a reliability guarantee, requiring retailers to buy a minimum percentage of their energy from dispatchable sources that can be adjusted to meet the real-time demands of the grid.
As that storage capability develops, those will increasingly include the traditionally intermittent power sources such as wind and solar power along with baseload sources such as coal, gas and pumped hydro.
The NEG would remove the existing subsidies for renewables, relying on falling production costs and the improving technologies to make them competitive.
The reliability guarantee needs state and territory governments to also legislate it, just like the existing national electricity market.
The second obligation is described as an emissions guarantee, to be legislated federally, which requires retailers to ensure their overall energy mix from a range of sources stays below a set level of greenhouse gas emissions.
The contracts they entered would have to supply energy at specified emissions levels to enable Australia to meet its international commitment to cut emissions overall by 26-28 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030.
It's this second dimension that connects it to addressing climate change and, government sources argue, makes it the best chance of securing bipartisan support for a market-based mitigation system since the failed attempt of 2009.
Frydenberg is lobbying his state and territory counterparts for their support. Thus far, only the ACT Labor–Greens government is threatening to oppose it, arguing it would not transition away from fossil fuels fast enough.
Turnbull says the plan is designed to make that transition but rejects the Monash Forum's argument that the NEG, as designed, favours renewables over coal.
"The future for energy in Australia is one that includes all technologies," Turnbull told ABC Radio. "Coal, wind, solar, gas, hydro – they are neither good nor bad. They have no moral characteristics. They have got certain physical characteristics. All of them have a role to play."
The Monash Forum's proposal says coal remains the superior form of reliable baseload power. It focuses on the mothballed Hazelwood power station in Victoria, urging the government to buy and reopen it at a cost it estimates at no more than the $4 billion earmarked for Turnbull's alternative Snowy 2.0 proposal.
Some commentators have argued Turnbull effectively invited alternative proposals such as the one from the forum by unveiling Snowy 2.0 before conducting a feasibility study.
"We would rather government stick to things like building hospitals and running schools and let industry take care of the energy sector."
Treasurer Scott Morrison rejects the Monash argument, saying a new coal-fired power station would take years to build and the energy produced would cost twice as much.
He said even a revamped Hazelwood power station could not produce coal power as cheaply as previously because the cost of replacing old infrastructure would inevitably be passed on.
Morrison estimated that rather than producing energy at $30-$40 a kilowatt hour wholesale, electricity from a high-efficiency, low-emissions – or HELE – plant would cost more like $70-$80 a kilowatt hour in five or six years' time.
"It is false to think that a new coal-fired power station would generate electricity at the same price as old coal-fired power stations for the obvious reason that the asset has already been written off," Morrison told a Sydney seminar audience.
"So you don't just open up one down the road and all of a sudden it's producing power at the same price as Bayswater or any of the others. That's just not an economic fact."
The Grattan Institute's Tony Wood says government intervention in the market – a form of renationalisation – would spook the private sector and exacerbate the very thing causing the price problem: the lack of a bipartisan, stable policy direction on climate change and energy.
He says that with private investors abandoning the fossil fuel market, the likelihood of being able to sell off a government-owned coal-fired power station in future would be slim, turning it into a white elephant.
Alinta's Jeff Dimery says he also does not believe the federal government should be in the business of subsidising or nationalising coal production.
"We would rather government stick to things like building hospitals and running schools and let industry take care of the energy sector," Dimery told Sky News. "We're happy to step up to the plate. We've made big investments to this point and we're happy to fund the next lot of power stations. We do so on a commercial basis so we're only interested in this transaction if it's commercial."
The Monash Forum's interest is more complicated. But its choice of name has elicited a blunt response from Monash's descendants.
"We disassociate ourselves specifically from the Forum's use of the Monash name to give their anti-science, anti-intellectual argument an air of authority," seven of Monash's descendants said in a statement issued on Wednesday, asking that the name be dropped.
The family members acknowledged Monash had championed the use of coal but challenged the assumption that he would do so today.
"That was in the context of the time, almost a century ago, when coal-fired electrical generation was the leading technology," they said. "We are sure that, today, he would be a proponent of the new technologies – for example, wind and solar generation – rather than revert to the horse-and-buggy era."
Malcolm Turnbull will also spend next week energetically urging Australians – his colleagues in particular – not to look back.
But the real challenge will be to generate a sense that they have something to look forward to.
This article was first published in the print edition of The Saturday Paper on Apr 7, 2018 as "Coal loading". Subscribe here.
Karen Middleton
is The Saturday Paper's chief political correspondent.


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William J. Watkins, Jr. • Thursday March 19, 2015 6:00 PM PDT •
The Washington Times has an interesting article on the division among Republicans on patent reform. According to the article:
Two dozen prominent conservative political groups, led by the influential American Conservative Union, the Club for Growth and the Eagle Forum, sent a letter Wednesday to House Speaker John A. Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Democratic leadership seeking to block floor votes on the so-called Innovation Act.
The bill is being shepherded through Congress by Republican Reps. Robert W. Goodlatte of Virginia, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Darrell Issa of California to reform patent laws and diminish the rise of "patent troll" lawsuits in which parties seek to win money for infringements of obscure patents.
Republicans are split on the evil of patent trolls. As supporters of private property, many have trouble taking shots at the trolls when trolls acquire patents by purchase, not fraud, and simply use the court system to "protect" patent rights. Unfortunately, this is an oversimplification.
Our twenty-first century economy depends on innovation. Innovation is now imperiled by certain patent holders known as non-practicing entities (NPEs) or patent trolls. The NPEs obtain patents not for the purpose of producing an invention or a technology, but to license and enforce the patents. They garner all the benefits of patent protection, but offer society no benefit relative to increasing the store of knowledge.
Many NPEs employ no workforce (except trial lawyers), do not have physical facilities that produce things of value, and have very little invested in the patents themselves. They simply exist to shakedown companies that engage in productive activities.
Researchers at the Boston University School of Law have calculated that from 1990 through late 2010, NPE lawsuits were responsible for over half-a-trillion dollars in lost wealth (in 2010 dollars). Looking at a smaller window, they found that from 2007 through October 2010, the losses averaged over $83 billion per year in 2010 dollars.
This is a major problem for our economy.
The proposed reform buzzing about Washington is old hat. Reformers want to require plaintiffs to plead claims with specificity, limit discovery, make it easier to join interested parties in litigation, and shift litigation costs to the losing party if the underlying claim was questionable. Unfortunately, this does not really tackle the underlying problem of patent trolling.
As I have argued in the past, and in my monograph Patent Trolls: Predatory Litigation and the Smother of Innovation, Congress should consider broader reform proposals. Here are just two ideas that would make a world of difference:
1.) Require companies that want to file patent suits to prove that they are actively participating in the relevant industry. Trolls without plants, equipment, employees, or significant investments in the patents would not be allowed to bring infringement suits. This would not bar the courthouse to legitimate NPEs—such as research universities—that can show substantial investments in engineering, research and development, or licensing related to the patent. But it would make life much more difficult for the trolls.
The United States International Trade Commission ("ITC"), formerly known as the United States Tariff Commission, has imposed a similar requirement in cases alleging patent infringement against manufacturers of imported goods. Outside of this international trade setting, there is no "industry" requirement. The imposition of an industry requirement for patent plaintiffs suing in federal district court could be a game-changer.
2.) Patent law could borrow from trademark law and require that a plaintiff prove the intention of "use." A person or entity may file a trademark application based on the intent to use the mark in commerce. This means that the applicant must have bona fide, demonstrable intention to actually use the mark—that is, to sell products to the public with the mark attached. The rights to a trademark can be lost if the holder abandons or stops using the mark.
Likewise, patent holders who never show any intention of using the technologies covered would lose their right to sue. Trolls would undoubtedly try to devise nominal uses of the technology to meet the use requirement, but the courts could evaluate the alleged use and determine if it represents a good faith attempt to practice the invention or is merely a minimal effort meant to secure an open courthouse door.
Real patent reform is needed. Republicans should get on the same page and do something meaningful to secure innovation.
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