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Tucson shooting still seems unreal for parents of Christina-Taylor Green, who never got to grow up
Karina Bland
TUCSON — Christina-Taylor Green would have been 14 years old.
Her parents imagine that she would have been a star athlete and on student council.
She'd have talked her big brother into driving her and her friends to the mall. She would have volunteered for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, no matter that her dad's a Republican.
She would have shopped with her mom for a dress for her eighth-grade graduation in May.
Her parents imagine because they can do no more.
Five years ago, on Jan. 8, 2011, Christina-Taylor died in front of a grocery store outside Tucson, the only child among the six people killed by a gunman trying to assassinate then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Thirteen other people, including Giffords and Christina-Taylor's neighbor and companion that morning, were wounded when the gunman fired into the scattering crowd, a gathering of constituents who lined up on a Saturday morning to talk to their congresswoman.
The gunman, Jared Loughner, was tackled at the scene and arrested. He pleaded guilty in the attack and, in November 2012, was sentenced to seven life sentences — one each for killing Christina-Taylor and five others and one for trying to kill Giffords — and more than 140 years in prison for shooting the 13 others.
In the five years since the horrific scene unfolded, some of the survivors have become activists. Giffords and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, founded Americans for Responsible Solutions and have lobbied tirelessly for gun-safety and gun-control measures. Some of the survivors wrote books, testified before Congress, protested. Some have quietly resumed their lives, weary and wary of an unblinking spotlight.
Gabrielle Giffords shooting: A fatal chain of events unfolds
The Greens have done both. They have not always joined other survivors at public events, but they traveled to Washington, D.C., this week to stand with President Barack Obama as he outlined a series of executive actions addressing gun safety. But Friday morning, as other survivors and their friends assemble to ring bells to mark the time of the shooting, the Greens, John, Roxanna and 16-year-old son Dallas, will remember Christina-Taylor privately, as a family.
From their house, they should be able to hear the thousands of bells that will ring at once across the city at 10:11 a.m., the exact time that the shooting happened, an annual shared symphony of mourning and loss, of joy and hope.
Then, on Saturday, the Greens will announce plans to create a memorial desert garden for the community in honor of their daughter.
Five years and forever
For the Greens, five years feels like forever — or an instant, depending on the day.
John and Roxanna Green sat close together on a low wall at a park near their home, where their daughter used to play. It was the day after meeting the president at the White House. There, it had been cold and harried. The next morning at the park, the temperature was in the high 50s, the sun coming out from behind the clouds after a morning rainstorm.
"Sometimes, it feels like forever, and then sometimes, you just can't even believe it, like, 'Did that really happen?'" Roxanna said.
"Of course we know that it did, but it's just sometimes, I can't believe it," she said. "She's on a trip, or she's going to come home from Pennsylvania from visiting her grandparents, or some kind of thing like that."
Because how Christina-Taylor was killed was so unbelievably mad, it still almost seems impossible.
After five years, they still can't understand why anyone would shoot a little girl.
On that sunny Saturday, Christina-Taylor stood hand-in-hand in the Safeway parking lot with her friend and neighbor Suzi Hileman as they waited to meet Giffords.
They had plans to get their nails done afterward.
When the shooting started, they ran together, still holding hands.
Hileman was hit three times, one bullet narrowly missing her heart, but survived. Christina-Taylor was shot once, in the back, the bullet passing through her chest, and died at the scene.
"I think that part's the hardest because she was taken. She was robbed of her life. She was taken away from us," Roxanna said.
"It's not like a car accident or a cancer, and those two things obviously are equally as horrific, but it's just not the same," she said. "As a parent, you just have guilt, a 'why?' You're just supposed to protect your children, even though I know there was nothing I could have done."
In that moment, everything changed.
"One day we were a beautiful family of four, and the next day, we woke up, and we had three — with no real preparation, no warning, no nothing," John said. "It jars every part of your life."
"Really, we were a balanced family" — a father and mother, a son and daughter — "and then when that happened, we were unbalanced," he said. "We are still unbalanced, but we are learning how to deal with that unbalance. That's always going to be there."
The sheer shock of the first year or so has lessened. Some days, John said, are fine. On others, one, or two, or all of them can struggle.
"I'll find myself looking through photographs and just not be able to compose myself," John said.
Or, he'll come home to find Roxanna in tears because she had seen a young girl with her mother at a park or shopping at a store. Dallas often wonders aloud what his sister would have thought of a place they visit or a movie on TV.
"The pain is always going to be there. I think we can tell that now," John said.
Roxanna leaned against him. "They say that time heals all wounds, but I know for a fact, especially because I have a lot of survivor friends and the work I do, that this is one wound that will never completely heal," she said. Roxanna, a nurse, has traveled the country to meet with people affected by gun violence.
"You always have a hole in your heart and you miss that person, especially a child because parents aren't supposed to bury their children," she said.
A quiet house
Even after five years, there's no getting used to Christina-Taylor being gone. John Green, a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers, still half expects her to run out to meet him when he comes home from his travels.
"I still get that when I pull in late at night, and Roxanna or Dallas will peek their head out the garage door and see that I'm there," he said. "But that's when she would definitely be jumping up and down that her dad was home. It think of that a lot."
The house still feels too quiet. It used to echo with the quick rhythm of Christina-Taylor's feet running across the tile — she hardly ever walked if she could run — her voice singing along with Beyonce's "Single Ladies" in her bedroom or her chatter on the phone with girlfriends.
Dallas was the quieter of the two. Without Christina-Taylor calling out to him, he's not calling back.
It's not just the house that has changed. John said they are more grateful for the time they have together as a family, on vacation or just sitting together for dinner. They check often with friends and family to make sure all is well.
"I've learned to appreciate every single moment. I don't complain as much as I used to. I'm just so grateful for everything," Roxanna said.
"When something as terrible as losing a child happens to you, especially in the way it happened to us, you really appreciate each other," she said. "You pick your battles. You forgive quicker, and you love more."
Because they know everything can change in an instant.
It is not difficult for the Greens to imagine what might have been. Over the five years, they have watched Christina-Taylor's friends grow up, attended their games and dance productions.
"It's wonderful to see her contemporaries, her friends, doing well, but it tugs at your heart," John admitted.
Soon, Christina-Taylor's friends will start high school, learn to drive, graduate and start college.
"We're going to miss all that, and that's really tough. That's the hard part for her mom and myself," John said.
So they turn to their memories of their daughter, confident and sassy. Christina-Taylor wanted to be the first woman in the major leagues and a politician, a doctor and a dancer. She told her mom she would be a star.
"What kind of star?" Roxanna had asked. "A singer? Dancer?"
"I don't know yet, but I'll be a star," she had replied.
There was no reason to doubt her. At 7, she had announced she wanted to play baseball. Her mom had said, "You mean softball." No, Christina-Taylor had said, baseball. Her mom said she might be the only girl, but Christina-Taylor didn't care: "I just want to play baseball."
Maybe Christina-Taylor would have continued to play baseball and dance. She had also loved gymnastics and volunteering.
"We know she would have been very engaged in the community, whatever she did," her father said. "Because whatever she did, she did full bore."
Like the time in third grade when she decided to run for student council at Mesa Verde Elementary School, even though the campaign had been underway for a month, the election only a week away.
"She jumped right on board," John said.
For the little girl who had campaigned with her grandmother for Obama and sat with her mom for hours watching the funeral of Sen. Ted Kennedy, her campaign had to be substantive. Her mom warned that it likely would be more of a popularity contest. But Christina-Taylor promised her schoolmates, "I will work hard to make Mesa Verde a better place for all of us" — and she won.
Her father thinks she would have followed this year's presidential race closely. He laughed, "She would have found the varying viewpoints very interesting."
Because Christina-Taylor always wanted everyone to get along. She mediated squabbles on the playground and rounded up kids with no one to play with for a soccer game.
When other kids picked on a new boy on the school bus, Christina-Taylor sat next to him, for two weeks, until it stopped.
She had never told her parents about the boy; John and Roxanna learned of what she had done from the boy's mother just before Christina-Taylor's funeral.
It was her nature, Roxanna said. From the time she was in kindergarten, maybe even earlier, Christina-Taylor went with her brother, mom and grandmother to soup kitchens, not just at the holidays but throughout the year, and helped collect food and clothes.
"I think she would be really interested in continuing to help those who are less fortunate like she did in the nine exceptional years she was here," Roxanna said. "I think it would have just get bigger and better because she would be older."
The coat off her back
Christina-Taylor was the kind of kid who would have taken off her coat and given it to someone who was cold. Her mother was reminded of that about a year after her daughter died when a friend who was a teacher told her about a student who didn't have a coat.
At the time, Roxanna avoided going into Christina-Taylor's bedroom, which was still very much as she had left it. A pink polka-dotted comforter. A dollhouse in the corner.
But Roxanna could almost feel Christina-Taylor pushing her to go in there to get her purple coat with matching gloves and hat that she had worn just a few times. Roxanna gathered her warm coats and some other clothing, three large shopping bags full, and helped her teacher friend pack it into her car.
Since then, Roxanna and John have given away many of Christina-Taylor's things, certain items to her friends, others to charity.
"I just know she is really proud of that," Roxanna said.
But there are some things her parents will keep always. Ballet tutus. Christmas dresses. The white dress she wore for her First Communion. The one she wore to be flower girl in her uncle's wedding. Her Supergirl Halloween costume. Her baseball jersey, hat and glove.
They are reminders of times they don't have to imagine.
A safe, beautiful place
Just weeks after Christina-Taylor's death, on Feb. 28, 2011, a portion of the Cañada del Oro River Park, a 1-mile stretch from Thornydale to Magee roads, was renamed after the little girl.
A sign at the entrance says so: the "Christina-Taylor Green Memorial River Park."
It already had been a favorite place for the Greens to play.
Christina-Taylor and Dallas would ride their bikes here. Her father said she and her brother would play in the wash, even when the rain turned its bottom to mud. Roxanna said Christina-Taylor would jump in the puddles here after it rained, and the memory of it makes her laugh.
Now Pima County has offered the Greens a 2-acre portion of the park at Shannon and Magee roads to create a desert garden in their daughter's honor. On Saturday, they will launch a campaign to raise $85,000 to pay for renovations that will include picnic tables, seating and a nature trails with signage about the plants and flowers along the way.
Much of the infrastructure is already in place, such as restrooms and lighting. The county will cover costs of construction management and landscaping materials and will maintain the park.
There's an existing monument there, one side of it engraved with a scene of birds rising into the air that will be painted by schoolchildren, and the other covered by mosaic tiles in honor of those who donate. At the top will be a butterfly.
Christina-Taylor loved butterflies. She loved to draw and drew mostly butterflies, filling in their wings with bright colors. Even as a toddler, she chased after butterflies, not trying to catch them, just catch up.
The garden at the park will include plants — whitebrush, Wright's desert honeysuckle — that attract butterflies.
"She loved it here. She loved to be outside," Roxanna said as she walks through the area now spotted with desert trees and cactus, the sun warm on her shoulders. John said he can imagine families picnicking here and then wandering the trails and gardens, learning about the vegetation. Roxanna smiled at the thought.
"I think it's a positive, safe, beautiful place where people can come, and if they recognize the name, they can remember this beautiful little girl who wanted nothing but goodness," she said.
They imagine Christina-Taylor would approve of the changes.
"I think she's just really proud this is in her community and in her neighborhood and all her friends and neighbors can enjoy it," Roxanna said.
They can imagine her here, meeting up with her friends on their bikes, bemoaning the fact that it would be two years before they could drive themselves.
They can imagine her here, caught in that time between being a girl and a woman, going for a run along the trail with an eye out for butterflies and even jumping in puddles left from a morning rain.
They imagine she misses them every day, as they miss her everyday.
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Reach Bland at karina.bland@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-8614.


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Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, 98, was a trending topic on Twitter last week. She's the most talked-about person in the NCAA March Madness tournament, and early Tuesday morning, she appeared on the news show Good Morning America.
"I'm just having a lot of fun and it seemed to mushroom all of a sudden," she said on the show.
Sister Jean said on the show that multiple people across the country reached out to her including students she taught decades ago.
"It just brought so many happy memories to me and I'm really happy to be saying good morning to all of America today," she said.
Many Loyolans view the nun as an icon, and now she is becoming a self-proclaimed international sensation.
Sister Jean has been the men's basketball team's chaplain since 1996 and offers prayers, advice and analysis to players before and after games. The team has advanced to the Sweet Sixteen off two, back-to-back wins during the NCAA March Madness tournament.
She taught for 30 years in Mundelein College until it became affiliated with Loyola in 1991, The PHOENIX previously reported.
The PHOENIX collected some students' favorite memories for her 97th birthday. Sister Jean also shared her love for Frank Sinatra's music, demystified rumors about the Mundelein Center and was inducted into Loyola's Hall of Fame.
The official NCAA March Madness Twitter account shared multiple photos and GIFs of Sister Jean to recognize the team's wins.
Several national news outlets wrote about her role with Loyola. ESPN, The New York Times and The Chicago Sun-Times wrote profiles on Sister Jean. USA Today shared her advice to the team before they competed against the University of Tennessee Volunteers.
A segment aired on ABC World News featuring Sister Jean as part of its #AmericaStrong series — which highlights people who made a positive impact in their communities — and she was a guest on the Chicago-based talk show, Windy City Live.
Sister Jean said she likes talking with reporters, and she thinks the attention will benefit Loyola overall.
A petition with more than 4,300 signatures is circulating online to have talk show host Ellen DeGeneres bring Sister Jean on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. A similar campaign ran in 2013 to have her featured on the show's "Everyday Heroes" series, The PHOENIX previously reported. Sister Jean said she was open to appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres Show in the article.
Ellen DeGeneres did not respond to The PHOENIX's multiple requests for comment.
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And of course, there are memes. Twitter user and Loyola senior Emily Glon tweeted her support for Loyola and Sister Jean Mar. 15 after the team won its game against the University of Miami Hurricanes.
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Carl Anders Lorentz Johansson, född 23 maj 1994 i Lund, är en svensk fotbollsspelare som spelar för danska Randers, på lån från IFK Göteborg.

Klubbkarriär
Johansson började spela fotboll i Höörs IS som femåring. Som femtonåring fick han provspela med Helsingborgs IF:s P15-lag, vilket resulterade i att han erbjöds ett ungdomskontrakt. Han spelade som innermittfältare men blev omskolad till mittback i HIF:s ungdomslag.

Under 2013 fick Johansson spela i HIF:s farmarklubb HIF Akademi i division 2. Efter ett halvår flyttades han upp i A-truppen där det blev en match från start samt två inhopp under hösten i Allsvenskan 2013.

I november 2018 värvades Johansson av Falkenbergs FF, där han skrev på ett tvåårskontrakt. Den 15 december 2020 värvades Johansson av IFK Göteborg, där han skrev på ett treårskontrakt. Den 31 januari 2023 lånades Johansson ut till danska Randers på ett låneavtal fram till sommaren.

Landslagskarriär
Johansson landslagsdebuterade den 9 oktober 2013 för Sveriges U19-landslag i en match mot Finland som Sverige vann med 2–1. Den 5 juni 2014 gjorde han sin debut i U21-landslaget i en match mot Island. Sverige vann matchen med 2–0 och Johansson blev inbytt i den 86:e minuten mot Joseph Baffo.

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Spelare i Helsingborgs IF
Spelare i Falkenbergs FF
Spelare i IFK Göteborg
Spelare i Randers FC
Spelare i Fotbollsallsvenskan
Spelare i Superettan
Idrottare från Lund
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It's been a long time since the Gunners played a match, so to get you in the mood we thought we'd take a look at the Ospreys, the Gunners' next opponents, and how this fixture at Liberty Stadium might affect our title chances.
The champions' crown has seemingly slipped a bit. A quick glance at the table suggests the Gunners have a real chance of snatching vital away points from this one, with the Ospreys trailing the Gunners by 16 points and lying a lowly 9th in the table. Yet that does not tell the whole story. For a start the Ospreys have a game in hand, thanks to the fixture pile-up all the Welsh clubs are suffering as a result of their participation in the Powergen Cup. They are also due to gain a further four points for their second "Free weekend", points that the Gunners have already banked. Suddenly that gap doesn't look quite so big.
Then there is form. The Ospreys have had an up-and-down season. The undoubted highlight was victory at home against Stade Francais in the Heineken Cup, with other notable victories including home wins against Montferrand and Leinster and an upset victory over Ulster at Ravenhill. Their bitterest defeat thus far must surely be the two-point loss at home at the hands of Leicester. And yet..... they lost to The Borders at Netherdale, won the return fixture in February by just four points, have been absolutely hammered both home and away by Cardiff of all people and scraped past Connacht at home by a single point.
So could the defending champions yet make a late run for the title? Possibly, but in all probability they will fall short. Whilst not mathematically out of it yet, it is unlikely they will amass enough points, particularly given their inability to collect bonus points (just one all season). Nevertheless, the Ospreys could still be a major factor in deciding who wins this season, since they are now the only other team that all the title contenders must face.
First up, of course, are our own Gunners. The Ospreys home record this season is Won 6 - Lost 3. In the Celtic League however they stand at 4-1, which certainly looks more respectable. Yet their four home wins (against Leinster, Dragons, Connacht and Borders) are by a combined margin of just +13 points, and that single defeat is the 28-9 drubbing they received at the hands of Cardiff. The Gunners record on the road this season is the mirror image of the Ospreys' home record: Won 3 - Lost 6. However, the Gunners' away record in this year's Celtic League fixtures is a very respectable 3-3, with two of those wins coming against Welsh opposition in the shape of Llanelli and Cardiff, whilst the other was victory over Leinster.
Suddenly, things begin to look more hopeful for the Gunners. But this year's Ospreys team has been marked by their ability to turn it on for the big games, as evidenced by some of their results in the Heineken Cup, whilst they have failed to show-up for games against "lesser" opposition; in some ways they appear more French than Welsh. In other words, this game may be too close to call, and could depend on which Ospreys team turns up on the day.
Meanwhile, of the remaining teams currently occupying the top five places in the league, only Leinster do not have to go to Liberty Stadium. Instead they will face the Ospreys at home at the end of April, looking to avenge that defeat from the opening weekend of the campaign. Llanelli play the Ospreys twice in a pair of fixtures that could well determine which of these two teams ends up with bragging rights in Wales. Munster go to Liberty Stadium at the beginning of May, whilst Ulster's visit to the Ospreys is their last, and possibly most vital, game of the season.
Given all this, how the contenders perform against the Ospreys (and vice-versa) could play a vital role in determining which team is crowned champions at the end of the season. The Ospreys may not end the season as kings, but they could yet be the kingmakers.


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AAP comes out in support of marriage equality
There are moments I'm really proud to be a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Their just released policy statement, "Promoting the Well-Being of Children Whose Parents are Gay or Lesbian":
To promote optimal health and well-being of all children, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) supports access for all children to (1) civil marriage rights for their parents and (2) willing and capable foster and adoptive parents, regardless of the parents' sexual orientation. The AAP has always been an advocate for, and has developed policies to support, the optimal physical, mental, and social health and well being of all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In so doing, the AAP has supported families in all their diversity, because the family has always been the basic social unit in which children develop the supporting and nurturing relationships with adults that they need to thrive. Children may be born to, adopted by, or cared for temporarily by married couples, nonmarried couples, single parents, grandparents, or legal guardians, and any of these may be heterosexual, gay or lesbian, or of another orientation. Children need secure and enduring relationships with committed and nurturing adults to enhance their life experiences for optimal social-emotional and cognitive development. Scientific evidence affirms that children have similar developmental and emotional needs and receive similar parenting whether they are raised by parents of the same or different genders. If a child has 2 living and capable parents who choose to create a permanent bond by way of civil marriage, it is in the best interests of their child(ren) that legal and social institutions allow and support them to do so, irrespective of their sexual orientation. If
2 parents are not available to the child, adoption or foster parenting remain acceptable options to provide a loving home for a child and should be available without regard to the sexual orientation of the parent(s).
This is a follow-up to a previously published analysis, "The Effects of Marriage, Civil Union, and Domestic Partnership Laws on the Health and Well-being of Children":
Gay and lesbian people have been raising children for many years and will continue to do so in the future; the issue is whether these children will be raised by parents who have the rights, benefits, and protections of civil marriage. Same-gender couples are denied the right to civil marriage in every state except Massachusetts and the right to civil union except in Connecticut and Vermont. The federal government and other state governments do not recognize those civil marriages and civil unions.
There is ample evidence to show that children raised by same-gender parents fare as well as those raised by heterosexual parents. More than 25 years of research have documented that there is no relationship between parents' sexual orientation and any measure of a child's emotional, psychosocial, and behavioral adjustment. These data have demonstrated no risk to children as a result of growing up in a family with 1 or more gay parents. Conscientious and nurturing adults, whether they are men or women, heterosexual or homosexual, can be excellent parents. The rights, benefits, and protections of civil marriage can further strengthen these families.
The AAP sometimes takes longer to get their policy pieces out than I'd like, and they sometimes wind up pleasing no one in an effort to please everyone. But this time they got it right. It's thoughtful, reasoned, and evidence-based. It's worth reading in full.
AAP, marriage equality


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Wisconsin survives upset, beats Georgia State 23-17
Caleb Bailey | Sep 17, 2016 4:22 pm | Apr 27, 2018 12:15 pm
The first two weeks of the 2016 college football season for the Wisconsin Badgers went pretty well after they upset LSU in Week 1 and then destroyed Akron last week. However, Week 3 was almost the charm for them to lose as they just barely escaped against Georgia State.
The Badgers did not look good in the first half at all as they only put six points up. They also needed a late rally to pull ahead of the Panthers.
Early in the fourth quarter, the Panthers trailed 13-10 when Conner Manning led his team down the field. They capped off the big drive with a nine-yard scamper by Kyler Neal.
However, the Badgers wouldn't be beat as they continued to play hard. They used another pair of Raphael Galianone field goals to reclaim the lead with just over three minutes left in the game.
For Georgia State, Manning finished with 269 yards and a touchdown to Robert Davis, who finished with 93 yards on a team high eight catches. Glenn White led the team with 131 yards on five receptions.
The Badgers were without Corey Clement in the backfield, but Dare Ogunbowale and Bradrick Shaw did a good job of filling in for him with 127 yards between them.
The Badgers barely move to 3-0 on the year and now begin a tough Big Ten stretch with a road trip to Michigan State next week. Georgia State is no 0-3 and will look to record their first win of the season as they open Sun Belt playon the road against Appalachian State on Oct. 1.
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Q: How do I create a scheduled task using Python Win32com that runs every 5 seconds? I am trying to create a scheduled task in Python using Win32com. I am able to create a daily trigger. However, I cannot find a way to create a trigger every 5 seconds or every minute for that matter. Does anybody have any pointers on how to do that?

A: As said in a comment, if you want to do stuff with this frequency you are better off just having your program run forever and do its own scheduling.
In a similar fashion to @Barmak Shemirani's answer, but without spawning threads:
import time

def screenshot():
    # do your screenshot...

interval = 5.
target_time = time.monotonic() + interval
while True:
    screenshot()
    delay = target_time - time.monotonic()
    if delay > 0.:
        time.sleep(delay)
    target_time += interval

or, if your screenshot is fast enough and you don't really care about precise timing:
while True:
    screenshot()
    time.sleep(interval)

If you want this to run from the system startup, you'll have to make it a service, and change the exit condition accordingly.

A: pywin32 is not required to create schedule or timer. Use the following:
import threading

def screenshot():
    #pywin32 code here
    print ("Test")

def starttimer():
  threading.Timer(1.0, starttimer).start()
  screenshot()

starttimer()

Use pywin32 for taking screenshot etc.

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Q: Determine whether $U$ is a subspace of $\mathbb{R}^n$ where $n\in\mathbb{N}$ The homework question states: Given a vector space $V$ and a subset $U$, determine whether $U$ is a subspace of $V$? And
 $ V = {\mathbb{R}^n}{\text{ }}\left( {{\text{where }}n \in \mathbb{N}} \right);\;U = \left\{ {\left( {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}}
   {{x_1}} \\
   {{x_2}} \\
   \vdots  \\
   {{x_n}}
   \end{array}} \right)\left| {{x_1} \leqslant {x_2} \leqslant  \ldots  \leqslant {x_n}} \right.} \right\} $.
 Since this is my first exposure to Linear Algebra 1, I unfortunately do not know how to start out with this question.
 I have thought of: First choosing any $n\in\mathbb{N}$ e.g. $3$, but I'm not sure if I should then choose specific $x_1,x_1$ and $x_3$ for $u,v\in U$ such that ${x_1} \leqslant {x_2} \leqslant {x_3}$ for example $1 \leqslant 2 \leqslant 3$ and $4 \leqslant 5 \leqslant 6$ and then proceed with checking if $\underset{\raise0.3em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle-}$}}{0}  \in U$ and if $U$ is closed under addition and closed under scalar multiplication?

A: Think about the primary checks we need to make to show its a subspace. I will explain them in words as opposed to symbols to see if you can get an intuitive idea behind them
First, is the sum of any two vectors in your space also in your space?
Second, is the vector of all $0$'s in your space?
Third, can you multiply any vector by a scalar and stay in your space? (this one often tricks people; remember to multiply by both positive and negative numbers)
There are other things that vector spaces require, but they often come for free from the fact that the real numbers behave nicely. These I find are the three biggest things to check. So with this in mind, do all of these properties hold?

A: I think you have the right idea: check if $U$ is closed under addition or scalar multiplication. For example, if $n=3$, the vector $(1,2)$ is in $U$. Is every scalar multiple of this vector also in $U$?
It's a good idea to choose $n=3$ for now, just to get an idea of how the argument works. Then think about how to extend your argument to work for general $n$.

A: Clearly $(-1,1,...,1)\in V$ and $-2(-1,1,...,1)=(2,-2,...,-2)∉ V$ and hence $V$ is not closed under scalar multiplication and hence not a vector space over $\mathbb{R}$


MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Aviat Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVNW), the leading expert in microwave networking solutions, today announced a new project with United States Geological Survey (USGS), valued at approximately $3.0 million. This federal government agency will purchase microwave, router and video surveillance hardware, software and services to improve earthquake related communications throughout California. The new system will be used by the Earthquake Science Center (ESC) to transport geophysical and seismographic data as well as security video to/from various sites across the State.
Aviat's hardware and software solutions will be deployed for reliable and secure communications under the most severe emergency situations. USGS will also depend on Aviat for design, installation, and maintenance services for a full turnkey implementation. USGS was previously using National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) Advanced Wireless Spectrum 3 (AWS3) spectrum for these communications. As part of the requirements of the AWS3 auction, USGS needed to release frequencies in the 1755-1780 MHz band which required a system upgrade.
Aviat's radios are approved for all licensed NTIA fixed frequency bands with key certifications such as DOD J/F-12, DISA UC-APL and NIST FIPS 140-2 Level 2. In addition to these capabilities, other factors contributing to this win include: NTIA approved products, high product reliability, turnkey capabilities, and Made-In-America products, services and support.
"Aviat has a strong presence in Federal networks including DOD, DHS, DOE and their supporting agencies," states Michael Pangia, president and CEO, Aviat Networks. "Aviat's prior AWS experience combined with our proven performance in executing complex microwave deployments in California, enabled Aviat to meet the tight timelines involved with this project. The need for secure communications across Federal, state and local networks is increasing and we believe we're well positioned to support customers, such as USGS over the coming years."


BOEING CO, considered the frontrunner in the race to supply the Indian navy with new fighter jets, is now in contention for a much bigger US$15 billion order after the government abruptly asked the air force to consider the twin-engine planes.
Until recently, Lockheed Martin Corp's F-16 and SAAB AB's Gripen were in a two-horse race to supply at least 100 single-engine jets to build up the Indian Air Force's fast-depleting combat fleet.
Both had offered to build the planes in India in collaboration with local companies as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's drive to build a domestic industrial base and cut back on arms imports.
But last month, the government asked the air force to open up the competition to twin-engine aircraft and to evaluate Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet, a defence ministry source said. That jet is a finalist for the Indian navy's US$8-9 billion contract for 57 fighters.
The defence ministry plans to issue a request for information (RFI) within weeks. That is the first stage of a procurement process, for a fighter to be built in India. The competition will be open to both single and twin-engine jets, the official said, but both Lockheed and SAAB said that they had not been informed about the new requirements.
The latest change of heart is a major opportunity for Boeing, whose only foreign Super Hornet customer so far is the Royal Australian Air Force.
It also illustrates how dysfunctional the weapons procurement process and arms industry are in the world's second-most-populous country. The need for new fighters has been known for nearly 15 years, but after many announcements, twists and turns, the country's air force has only three-quarters of the aircraft that it needs.
An indigenous light combat aircraft, the Tejas, is still not operational, 35 years after it was first proposed.
An Indian Air Force (IAF) source said that fighter procurement was urgent - the branch's operational strength has fallen to just 33 squadrons, its weakest level in four decades, as it decommissions Soviet-era MiG-21s.
"The IAF wants the RFI issued within weeks and get the process started," said the source, who declined to be identified because he was not authorised to speak to the media. "The problem is that government keeps shifting what it wants."
Over the next decade, 13 more squadrons will be retired as their aircraft age out of service, parliament's standing committee on defence said in a December report.
The defence ministry declined to comment on the air force's aircraft modernisation programme, saying that it was not in a position to do so.
Lockheed, which had offered to shift its F-16 production line in Fort Worth, Texas, to India, said that it had not been told of any change to the Indian plan for single-engine fighters.
"Our proposed F-16 partnership with India stands firm," the company said. Last year, it picked Tata Advanced Systems as its local partner and said that it was in talks with dozens of firms to build up the supplier network.
"The government of India has not yet issued formal requirements but we are continuing to support government-to-government discussions, and engage with Indian companies about F-16 industrial opportunities," Lockheed said.
Sweden's SAAB was also caught off guard. "We have seen the reports in the Indian media, but no new formal communication has been made to us regarding the fighter programme," said Rob Hewson, SAAB Asia-Pacific's head of communications.
France's Dassault Systemes SE's Rafale, the Eurofighter Typhoon and Russian aircraft are also potential contenders under the new requirements, the air force source and industry analysts said.
Harry Harris, the head of US Pacific Command, told the US House Armed Services Committee last month that India was considering the stealthy F-35, among other options. But the Indian air force said that no request had been made to Lockheed for even a briefing on the aircraft.
An order the size of India's is rare. The only comparable opportunity for the Super Hornet is Canada's request for 88 fighters, which could be worth as much as US$14.6 billion.
The Indian air force competition has echoes of a 2007 tender for 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft, for which Dassault was selected for exclusive negotiations. But the talks quickly bogged down over local production and prices, and in the end, the government ordered just 36 Rafales in 2016 for US$8.7 billion.
The air force ideally would like a combination of lighter single-engine and twin-engine jets, as well as stealthy aircraft, but cannot afford such a range of foreign systems, analysts said. A twin-engine foreign fighter would perhaps offer the best value while the Tejas finishes development, they added.
India's annual defence capital procurement budget of US$14-15 billion has to be spread over the army, navy, air force and the indigenous defence research organisation.
"The operational costs are going up with increased manpower, higher wages and general inflation. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) doesn't have the luxury to go for too many platforms despite the rapidly falling squadron strength of the air force," said Amber Dubey, partner and India head of aerospace and defence at global consultancy KPMG.
Boeing India president Pratyush Kumar said that the company was ready to respond to any request from the air force. "We will follow the MoD's lead on their process, and will be responsive to their needs if we are asked to provide any information," he said. Mr Kumar said that Boeing was committed to building the planes in India and had offered to help with India's plans to develop its own advanced medium combat aircraft.
But the experience with the Rafale contract has made experts sceptical that the latest tender will proceed as planned. Richard Bitzinger, visiting senior fellow at Singapore's S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, said that he did not expect a resolution in even the next two to three years.
"I am never surprised by what the Indians do when it comes to their procurement tenders. They are constantly changing the rules, changing their minds, and often even cancelling orders mid-way through," he said. "The Indians have a remarkable knack for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory."


Always In search of new sounds to make us discover them, Victor Kiswell explores various musical styles, like the Indian and Italian soundtracks, the South American Latin jazz, Afro-beat, krautrock, libraries and European groove. Its research undertakes it thus worms of the areas where the funk appears non-existent… like Romania, Pakistan, Finland, Argentina, or East Germany.
Not disavowing its first loves, it constantly establishes the link between the oldschool grooves and the hip-hop: he always have in mind the discovery of new samples and fresh breaks! He plays records for ten years in various clubs in Paris, in particular at the Cithéa in 2005 for "Brasilatin", at Le Divan du Monde for its evenings "Trotter Earth" parties in 2005 and "Kings & Queens of Bollywood" in 2006 ( Indian funk, electro-disco & psychedelic music). His main activity is selling rare records to collectors, DJs and producers.


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Charges: Drunk driver accelerated 'to jump barricade' in crash that killed protester
Prosecutors say it was "an extreme and violent intentional act."
Melissa Turtinen
Deona Marie Knajdek.
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The man who is accused of plowing into a crowd of protesters in Minneapolis Sunday night, killing Deona Marie Knajdek Erickson and injuring three others, admitted he sped up to "jump" a barricade, charges say.
Nicholas Kraus, 35, of St. Paul, is charged with intentional second-degree murder, accused of being drunk when he crashed into protesters. He is also charged with two counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon.
At the time of the fatal crash, he had multiple DWI convictions, he didn't have a driver's license and his SUV was registered in another person's name.
Erickson and others were near West Lake Street and Girard Avenue South Sunday evening protesting against the June 3 law enforcement killing of Winston Smith. At around 11:39 p.m., a motorist plowed through the gathering, injuring three people and killing Knajdek, police said.
Erickson's brother, Garrett Knajdek told the Star Tribune she'd parked her car as a barricade to protect protesters when the SUV struck her vehicle and then her vehicle hit her.
According to the criminal complaint, Kraus told investigators he saw a car that was being used as a barricade and he believed he needed to get over it, so he floored it in an attempt to jump the barricade.
He told police there were a number of people in the area, including some people next to the barricade, charges say. He admitted he thought he may have hit a person or people as he was driving at the barricade.
Witnesses had told police the vehicle accelerating as Kraus approached the barricade, the complaint states, noting surveillance video confirms witness accounts the vehicle was speeding up before the crash.
One witness, who suffered leg and rib injuries, said he was standing next to Knajdek when he saw the SUV coming toward them, noting the SUV hit the vehicle that was set up as a barricade and that vehicle hit them.
Another protester, who was also injured, told police he was on the sidewalk when he heard people yelling "Car" and when he looked up, he saw the SUV accelerating toward the group, hitting the barricade vehicle, noting he got pushed into a chain-link fence.
"The defendant, Mr. Kraus, in the Uptown fatal incident in which he struck and killed a peaceful female protestor while intoxicated, and injured additional protestors, is an extreme and violent intentional act. His behavior and admittance to intentionally driving towards the protestors is one important reason why we have charged him with intentional second-degree murder," Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said in a statement.
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Kraus will make his first court appearance at 1:30 p.m. on June 17.
A number of activists have denounced Kraus as a "terrorist" and "white supremacist" on social media. The criminal complaint makes no note of any political motivation in Kraus' actions.
Knajdek, originally from Pine City, was a mom of two daughters, ages 11 and 13; worked as a program manager at The Cottages Group in Burnsville; and was active in social justice issues. She was outspoken about law enforcement and police shootings. On social media in the days before her death, she posted a photo of Smith saying "we are going to get change for you and all the others."
Knajdek was set to turn 32 the week after her death, as well as mark one year of sobriety.
Protesters have continued to gather in Uptown, holding vigils to remember Knajdek and Smith. On Tuesday night, police cracked down on protesters along Lake Street and removed barricades activists had set up to block traffic.
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New preschool and daycare to be built in Eagan
The 12,600-square-foot building will be constructed on vacant land.
Charges: Suspect said 'family problems' led to Uptown Target burglary, arson
Surveillance footage captured the incident.
Six-year-old run over by school bus, whose driver initially left scene
Police were later able to locate the driver.
Hamline University faculty urge President Fayneese Miller to resign
Fayneese Miller has served as president since 2015.
Man in 40s dies in Minneapolis shooting
MN Property
Gallery: Historic former jail in Duluth transformed into apartment units
Would you live in a former jailhouse?
Burnsville High School student killed in crash involving 15-year-old driver
The single-vehicle crash happened shortly after midnight.
Watch: Driver sent airborne after being struck by sliding car
The person was seen on MnDOT cameras tending to their vehicle prior to the crash.
Minneapolis shifting to one-sided street parking starting Thursday night
EMS vehicles, firetrucks and buses have struggled to drive on city streets due to snow.
Family involved in highway collision with moose near Sax-Zim Bog
A moose can weight up to 1,500 pounds.
MN Weird
Here are the 60 finalists for the Minnesota snow plow naming contest
Voting is open until Feb. 3.
Watch: 2 arrested north of Twin Cities after burglary, police pursuit
The suspects are seen on MnDOT cameras attempting to flee law enforcement.
Woman killed after man drives into crowd of protesters in Uptown
Three people were injured.
Man charged in shootout, crash that killed 18-year-old on scooter
Autumn Rose Merrick was with a friend near the Holiday gas station.
Loved ones identify woman killed in Uptown as Deona Marie Erickson
She was among the protestors Sunday night when a motorist drove through the crowd.
County attorney: Winston Smith killing justified, no charges for deputies
The prosecutor who reviewed the case recommended against any criminal charges for officers involved.
Memorial garden near Winston Smith shooting site is removed
The property owner cited ongoing destruction and violence as reasons it removed the tribute to Smith and Deona Marie Knajdek Erickson.
Charges: Man set fire to dumpster at Stella's, causing about $70K in damages
He's accused of starting the fire during the early hours of July 6.
Charges: Woman chased St. Paul man down with SUV, killing him
She told police he stole her belongings.
Frey vows removal of Lake Street barriers, lays out protest response plan
"We can't have a major commercial corridor like this shut down," the mayor said.


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Leading Lights: NVIDIA Researchers Showcase Groundbreaking Advancements for Real-Time Graphics
At summer's top graphics conferences, NVIDIA is presenting work that advances real-time path tracing and content creation tools for artists, creators and gamers.
August 9, 2021 by Matt Pharr
Computer graphics and AI are cornerstones of NVIDIA. Combined, they're bringing creators closer to the goal of cinema-quality 3D imagery rendered in real time.
At a series of graphics conferences this summer, NVIDIA Research is sharing groundbreaking work in real-time path tracing and content creation, much of it based on cutting-edge AI techniques. These projects are tackling the hardest unsolved problems in graphics with new tools that advance the state of the art in real-time rendering.
One goal is improving the realism of rendered light as it passes through complex materials like fur or fog. Another is helping artists more easily turn their creative visions into lifelike models and scenes.
Presented at this week's SIGGRAPH 2021 — as well as the recent High-Performance Graphics conference and the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering — these research advancements highlight how NVIDIA RTX GPUs make it possible to further the frontiers of photorealistic real-time graphics.
Rendering photorealistic images in real time requires accurate simulation of light, modeling the same laws that govern light in the physical world. The most effective approach known so far, path tracing, requires massive computational resources but can deliver spectacular imagery.
The NVIDIA RTX platform, with dedicated ray-tracing hardware and high-performance Tensor Cores for efficient evaluation of AI models, is tailor made for this task. Yet there are still situations where creating high-fidelity rendered images remains challenging.
Consider, for one, a tiger prowling through the woods.
Seeing the Light: Real-Time Path Tracing
To make a scene completely realistic, creators must render complex lighting effects such as reflections, shadows and visible haze.
In a forest scene, dappled sunlight filters through the leaves on the trees and grows hazy among the water molecules suspended in the foggy air. Rendering realistic real-time imagery of clouds, dusty surfaces or mist like this was once out of reach. But NVIDIA researchers have developed techniques that often compute the visual effect of these phenomena 10x more efficiently.
The tiger itself is both illuminated by sunlight and shadowed by trees. As it strides through the woods, its reflection is visible in the pond below. Lighting these kinds of rich visuals with both direct and indirect reflections can require calculating thousands of paths for every pixel in the scene.
It's a task far too resource-hungry to solve in real time. So our research team created a path-sampling algorithm that prioritizes the light paths and reflections most likely to contribute to the final image, rendering images over 100x more quickly than before.
AI of the Tiger: Neural Radiance Caching
Another group of NVIDIA researchers achieved a breakthrough in global illumination with a new technique named neural radiance caching. This method uses both NVIDIA RT Cores for ray tracing and Tensor Cores for AI acceleration to train a tiny neural network live while rendering a dynamic scene.
The neural network learns how light is distributed throughout the scene. It evaluates over a billion global illumination queries per second when running on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 GPU, depicting the tiger's dense fur with rich lighting detail previously unattainable at interactive frame rates.
Seamless Creation of Tough Textures
As rendering algorithms have progressed, it's crucial that the 3D content available keeps up with the complexity and richness that the algorithms are capable of.
NVIDIA researchers are diving into this area by developing a variety of techniques that support content creators in their efforts to model rich and realistic 3D environments. One area of focus is on materials with rich geometric complexity, which can be difficult to simulate using traditional techniques.
The weave of a polo shirt, the texture of a carpet, or blades of grass have features often much smaller than the size of a pixel, making it difficult to efficiently store and render representations of them. NVIDIA researchers are addressing this with NeRF-Tex, an approach that uses neural networks to represent these challenging materials and encode how they respond to lighting.
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Complex geometric objects also vary in their appearance depending on how close they are to the viewer. A leafy tree is one example: Close up, there's enormous detail in its branches, leaves and bark. From afar, it may appear to be little more than a green blob.
It would be a waste of time to render detailed bark and leaves on a tree that's on the other end of the forest in a scene. But when zooming in for a close-up, the model should be as realistic as possible.
This is a classic problem in computer graphics known as level of detail. Artists have often been burdened with this challenge, manually modeling multiple versions of each 3D object to enable efficient rendering.
NVIDIA researchers have developed a new approach that generates simplified models automatically based on an inverse rendering method. With it, creators can generate simplified models that are optimized to appear indistinguishable from the originals, but with drastic reductions in their geometric complexity.
NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH 2021
More than 200 scientists around the globe make up the NVIDIA Research team, focusing on AI, computer graphics, computer vision, self-driving cars, robotics and more. At SIGGRAPH, which runs from Aug. 9-13, our researchers are presenting the following papers:
Neural Scene Graph Rendering
An Unbiased Ray-Marching Transmittance Estimator
StrokeStrip: Joint Parameterization and Fitting of Stroke Clusters
Don't miss NVIDIA's special address at SIGGRAPH on Aug. 10 at 8 a.m. Pacific, revealing our latest technology, demos and more. Catch our Real Time Live demo on Aug. 10 at 4:30 p.m. Pacific to see how NVIDIA Research creates AI-driven digital avatars.
We're also discussing esports as a real-time graphics challenge in a panel on Aug. 11. An interactive esports demo is available on demand through the SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies program.
For more, check out the full lineup of NVIDIA events at SIGGRAPH 2021.
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California Correctional Center (CCC) reported the Dec. 4, 2018, passing of retired Physician and Surgeon George Starcevich.
He began his career as a physician and surgeon at Calipatra State Prison in 1997. He transferred to Pelican Bay State Prison in August 1998 and to CCC in October 1999. He retired from state service on March 31, 2016.


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Articles on Mars
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People do live outside Earth – on the International Space Station! But humans have had to find a way to make the conditions there more like what we're used to at home. Flickr/NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
Jonti Horner, University of Southern Queensland
The short answer is yes, but it's really, really difficult.
Mars should be the next destination for humankind. Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com
Young Americans deserve a 21st-century Moonshot to Mars
Vahe Peroomian, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Americans need a new multi-decade Moonshot that will inspire several generations to shoot for the stars and pursue careers in space engineering and exploration.
Methane detected at Mars' Gale Crater (the centre picture). Kevin Gill/Flickr
Methane on Mars: a new discovery or just a lot of hot air?
Monica Grady, The Open University
For the first time, an instrument orbiting Mars and a rover on the surface have detected methane simultaneously – raising hopes for finding life on the red planet.
What makes more sense: Sending a human or a robot to Mars? Juergen Faelchle/Shutterstock.com
Are astronauts worth tens of billions of dollars in extra costs to go to Mars?
Steve Swanson, Boise State University
As commercial spaceflight companies lower the cost of reaching space, nations can launch more missions. But while astronauts are great for whipping up enthusiasm, is a manned mission worth the cost?
Scientists conduct research in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park to practice for Mars landings. Shutterstock
Rehearsing for the Mars landings in Hawaii and Idaho
Allyson Brady, McMaster University
To prepare for future Mars missions, scientists collect samples and simulate communications conditions from volcano parks on Earth.
Artist's depiction of a moon base with a view of Earth in the distance. Pavel Chagochkin/Shutterstock.com
Mining the Moon
Paul K. Byrne, North Carolina State University
Scientists are figuring out how to reduce the cost of space travel – to and from the Moon and possibly to Mars. One approach is to mine the Moon for resources necessary for interplanetary travel.
Minutes after launching the Falcon Heavy rocket, SpaceX was livestreaming footage from the Tesla Roadster it released into space. SpaceX
How SpaceX lowered costs and reduced barriers to space
Wendy Whitman Cobb, Cameron University
SpaceX's advances in space technology have reduced barriers to space and changed the direction of American space policy, but it is not without its challenges.
Opportunity in Endurance Crater. NASA
Farewell, Opportunity: rover dies, but its hugely successful Mars mission is helping us design the next one
Andrew Coates, UCL
Rovers including 'Rosalind Franklin' will pick up where Opportunity left off – trying to answer the question of whether there is, or ever has been, life on Mars.
The solar system's largest volcano Olympus Mons on Mars, seen by Viking 1. NASA/JPL
From volcanoes on Mars to scarps on Mercury – how places on other worlds get their names
David Rothery, The Open University
Naming features on other worlds is a trickier issue than you might think.
It's core to life on Earth. Shutterstock.
Curious Kids: what would happen if the Earth's core went cold?
Paula Koelemeijer, UCL
The Earth's core is cooling down, and one day it will be completely solid – when that happens, Earth might look a lot like Mars.
Artist's impression of InSight after its scientific instruments have been deployed. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Mars InSight: here is what's next after the tricky landing
Bob Myhill, University of Bristol
From turning on instruments to gathering the first data, the next few months will be busy for Mars scientists.
Signs of life on Mars? These are the tracks of NASA's Curiosity rover exploring the Martian landscape. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Our long fascination with the journey to Mars
Paulo de Souza, CSIRO
Mars has long captured our imagination, from claims of canals to Martian attacks and now our latest NASA exploration to look inside the red planet.
If you went to Mars, you'd need to be able to survive an extremely punishing environment. This picture, taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, gives you an idea. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.
Curious Kids: What are some of the challenges to Mars travel?
I've worked with NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Project for 16 years. If you got yourself a ticket to Mars, here's how I'd advise you to prepare. And by the way, any mistake could kill you.
Once people get there, Mars will be contaminated with Earth life. NASA/Pat Rawlings, SAIC
Colonizing Mars means contaminating Mars – and never knowing for sure if it had its own native life
David Weintraub, Vanderbilt University
NASA's InSight Mars lander touches down Nov. 26, part of a careful robotic approach to exploring the red planet. But human exploration of Mars will inevitably introduce Earth life. Are you OK with that?
Mars seen by the Viking orbiter. NASA/JPL/USGS
Sponges from Mars? Study suggests water on the red planet could support life
There's enough dissolved oxygen in the salty lake below Mars' surface to support simple lifeforms such as sponges. Here's what that means for space exploration.
Enjoying the planets lined up in a row. Derek Bruff/flickr
Five in a row - the planets align in the night sky
Tanya Hill, Museums Victoria
The five planets visible to the naked eye since ancient times are putting on a dazzling display this month, in a night-sky dance along with the Moon.
The south polar cap of Mars is hiding a subsurface lake, according to new research. NASA/JPL/MSSS
What on Earth could live in a salt water lake on Mars? An expert explains
John E. Hallsworth, Queen's University Belfast
Studies from our own planet shed light on whether there could be life in a subglacial lake on Mars.
Five reasons to forget Mars for now and return to the moon
Ian Whittaker, Nottingham Trent University and Gareth Dorrian, Nottingham Trent University
The moon is our closest neighbour and our best hope for building capacity to explore space.
U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence speaks about the creation of a United States Space Force on Aug. 9, 2018 at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
How Canadian technology could protect Space Force troops
Fiona E. McNeill, McMaster University
Could Canadian technology play a part in the newly announced U.S. Space Force? A team at McMaster University has developed an instrument that could keep Space Force troops safe from radiation.
Earth experiences constant volcanic activity - here's Indonesia's Mount Anak Krakatau (Child of Krakatoa) photographed in July 2018. EPA/AAP
I've Always Wondered: Why are the volcanoes on Earth active, but the ones on Mars are not?
Helen Maynard-Casely, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Compared to Earth, more "oomph" is required to bring magma to the surface of Mars, and this is probably why we haven't seen any recent eruptions on the red planet.
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Helen Maynard-Casely
Instrument Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Monica Grady
Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
Andrew Coates
Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
David Rothery
Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
Christian Schroeder
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science and Planetary Exploration, University of Stirling
Kevin Orrman-Rossiter
PhD Research Student, History & Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne
Simon Redfern
Professor in Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Tanya Hill
Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne and Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria
Malcolm Walter
Professor of Astrobiology, UNSW
Jonti Horner
Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
Associate member of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, UNSW
John Bridges
Professor of Planetary Science, University of Leicester
Michael Smart
Professor of Hypersonic Aerodynamics, The University of Queensland
Alice Gorman
Alice Gorman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
Marion Anderson
Researcher, School of Geosciences, Monash University


1 movies and series starring Ami Ayalon.
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Meet six leaders of Israel's secret service, the Shin Bet, which has dealt with conflict amid the quest for peace for nearly 50 years.


It is mind boggling and disturbing to see the credibility and moral ground of the United States being tarnished for the personal vendetta by nobody but the Ambassador who was put to protect the US national interest and agenda over any personal grudge. Yes, it is sad to see how low US Foreign policy has dropped to. Instead of looking for a sensible, fair and comprehensive solution to the growing crisis in the HORN of AFRICA, Ambassador Susan Rice has chosen to defend a regime that had committed genocides against its own people in the Gambela, Ogaden and Oromia regions of Ethiopia. A regime that had massacred innocent university students in an open day light on the streets of Addis Ababa and a regime that believes Peace in the Horn of Africa be it in Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan or even in its own country as a threat for its survival is being taken as a poster regime of cooperation. It is sad, heartbreaking.
For any fair minded official in the diplomatic arena, the genocidal regime in Addis Ababa is the most indefensible regime one can ever think of. But and unfortunately Ambassador Susan Rice enthusiastically and even some times sarcastically is continuing to defend and give it diplomatic cover. It is mind boggling and unbelievable.
It is time that Susan Rice humbly understands that the position she is occupying at the UN is that of the American People not her own Fiefdom. She needs to work to prevent another bloodbath in the Horn of Africa before it is too late and not put the first African-American President�s genuine promise for change in jeopardy. Instead of going after Eritrea on trumped up charges, she should work for the implementation of the final and binding ruling of Eritrea Ethiopia Boundary Commission. Let the genocide in Rwanda that happened under her watch be a lesson for her! Ill-conceived, narrow-minded and misguided policies that gives her a short-term gratification, but ultimately go against the best interest of the American public, and perpetuate injustice and create cycles of conflict and war should not be allowed to tarnish the good name of the peace loving people of the USA.


The Wine Tasting Experience, Now Brought Online. | crazy curious.
E-commerce has truly exploded in the past 10 years. Ordering things through the net used to be reserved for small-ticket items (remember eBay & blogshops?), and other items you don't mind "taking a chance" on. Now it has evolved to include premium items, from clothing (Inverted Edge), to lifestyle products (HipVan), and even furniture (Just Enjoy Life)!
Coming onboard the e-commerce bandwagon is The French Cellar, an online store that promises a unique wine tasting experience via monthly subscriptions, customised to your duration preference (3, 6 or 12 months) and of course, price points. For those of you familiar with the e-commerce subscription model, it's almost like Vanity Trove for premium wines! It's a great time to pick up a new hobby too, for those of you who love new year resolutions.
As a subscriber, you will receive two bottles of French wines specially handpicked by their Sommelier, Nicolas Rebut, former Chef Sommelier at the fine-dining palaces Louis XV (three stars, Monaco) and Le Meurice (three stars, Paris) every month. The wines are imported directly from the vineyards and delivered to your doorstep for your convenience, along with wine tasting and wine pairing notes. Talk about translating a value-added experience from online to offline!
The inspiration and idea behind The French Cellar came about when co-founders Vincent Morello and Eric Joubert saw how difficult it was to for wine lovers in Singapore to select and get hold of quality wines. After all, how many of us have adequate knowledge on selecting wines, beyond the cursory "acidic backbone"? And what does that even mean, really?
Morello and Joubert aim to make it easier for wine lovers to get good quality wines delivered directly to their homes, saving them the trouble of going through thousands of vineyards and appellations. This new concept provides an unique wine tasting experience to any of their subscribers, whether they are wine connoisseurs, burgeoning oenophiles or the occasional wine lovers.
They picked Nicolas Rebut as their sommelier after going through several rounds of interviews with a wide range of sommeliers. 38-year-old Nicolas Rebut is a consultant for different companies in France and trains aspiring sommeliers for many established and famous restaurants. His passion for wines developed during his days as a student, when he was initially planning to become a Chef. Now, as an entrepreneur, he has more opportunities to work on different projects, travel and meet more winemakers.
To up the ante, The French Cellar has also brought on the world-renowned Le Comte Alexandre de Lur-Saluces, a great personality from the legendary Chateau d'Yquem, and the outstanding Chateau de Fargues, as their brand ambassador.
Wine is part of our culture and a basis of our civilisation. It is a wonderful bridge between countries who look towards the future of mankind. Wine carries civilisation through what it represents.
– Alexandre de Lur Saluces.
The French Cellar plans to use Singapore as the Asian hub of wine tasting to expand in the region in the coming years, and aims to increase the awareness of their unique service through collaborations with clubs, restaurants and media while also organising private events like wine and cheese tastings.
Remember, you heard about them through us first!
(1) Vineyard Gems: The perfect wines for your drinking pleasure and for any occasion. Each month, subscribers get to discover a new terroir and the hidden gems from talented winemakers.
(2) Tasting Voyage: Subscribers get to enjoy a superb wine tasting experience with the best of French wines regions. Each month, they receive a selection of high quality wines from renowned estates and sought-after appellations.
(3) Cellar Icons: An exclusive experience for the few privileged subscribers who will have the chance to taste some of the best wines France has to offer. Each month, subscribers get to appreciate the best vintages from iconic Chateaux, directly from their cellars.
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Q: How can I make Webpack 5 available in my Docker container? I am trying to use the latest webpack version that was just released last October 2020, which is v5, but I am having trouble as docker cannot find webpack. But if I used the earlier versions of webpack like v4 it works. I would like to use the latest webpack with docker in my current project. How can I fix this? How can I make webpack v5 be available in my docker container. Thank you.
This is the output if I run docker-compose up:
    Attaching to frontend-react2_app_1
    app_1  |
    app_1  | > frontend-react2@1.0.0 start /usr/src/app
    app_1  | > webpack serve --mode=development
    app_1  |
    app_1  | sh: webpack: not found
    app_1  | npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
    app_1  | npm ERR! syscall spawn
    app_1  | npm ERR! file sh
    app_1  | npm ERR! errno ENOENT
    app_1  | npm ERR! frontend-react2@1.0.0 start: `webpack serve --mode=development`
    app_1  | npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
    app_1  | npm ERR!
    app_1  | npm ERR! Failed at the frontend-react2@1.0.0 start script.
    app_1  | npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
    app_1  |
    app_1  | npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
    app_1  | npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-11-06T11_30_34_220Z-debug.log

This is my package.json
{
  "name": "frontend-react2",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "webpack serve --mode=development",
    "build": "webpack --mode production",
    "format": "prettier --write src/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}",
    "lint": "eslint --fix src/**/*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "^17.0.1",
    "react-dom": "^17.0.1"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@babel/core": "^7.12.3",
    "@babel/plugin-transform-runtime": "^7.12.1",
    "@babel/preset-env": "^7.12.1",
    "@babel/preset-react": "^7.12.5",
    "@babel/preset-typescript": "^7.12.1",
    "@babel/runtime": "^7.12.5",
    "@types/react": "^16.8.24",
    "@types/react-dom": "^16.0.5",
    "@types/webpack": "^4.41.24",
    "@types/webpack-dev-server": "^3.11.1",
    "babel-loader": "^8.1.0",
    "eslint": "^7.12.1",
    "eslint-config-airbnb-typescript-prettier": "^3.1.0",
    "html-webpack-plugin": "^4.5.0",
    "prettier": "^2.1.2",
    "sass": "^1.29.0",
    "sass-loader": "^10.0.5",
    "ts-loader": "^8.0.9",
    "ts-node": "^9.0.0",
    "typescript": "^4.0.5",
    "webpack": "^5.4.0",
    "webpack-cli": "^4.2.0",
    "webpack-dev-server": "^3.11.0"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
}

My Dockerfile:
FROM node:14.15-alpine3.10

WORKDIR /app

COPY package*.json ./

RUN npm install

COPY . .

CMD ["npm", "run", "start"]

This is my docker-compose.yml:
version: '3.8'

services:
  app:
    build: .
    volumes:
      - .:/usr/src/app
      - /usr/src/app/node_modules
    working_dir: /usr/src/app
    ports:
      - 3000:3000

Thank you.


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Parlamentsvalget i Portugal 1887 blev afholdt i Portugal den 6. marts 1887. Resultatet var en landsdækkende valgsejr for Partido Progressista, som vandt 113 mandater.

Resultater

Resultaterne udelukker de seks pladser vundet på nationalt plan, og dem fra oversøiske territorier.

Noter og referencer

Politiske valg i Portugal
Portugal 1887


Can you guys comment on the music thingy that I have up? I haven't had that for a long time and I put it on there when I was needing to convey more than just the words, but the feel of what we were going through. That post is now on page two and I think I can remove the music player... but I wanted opinions on whether you guys liked it, or not. I am totally ok either way as the service it was to me is now complete... so please, give honest comments. Thanks so much!
Nothing personal. I don't like music on any blog. I am the type that is easily distracted. When I read I need silence.
I do love reading your blog!
I actually really like it and I've left your blog open when I'm done reading and gone on to other sites. I think it is great way to get a feel for what other people like to listen to.
I generally mute my computer before visiting blogs, because I don't like to be suddenly surprised by music.
Here is a second questions... would those of you who do listen to it turn it on if I didn't have it on Auto? Then those who don't like it, wouldn't automatically get it, but those who do like it, could find it??? Would that work?
Funny you should ask this today. I shared your blog with a group of friends today and my friend Becca who is prego (going to ID to be her doula at her hb in May)mentioned that she loved it and wanted to copy it. She said you had a playlist for labor that she wants to steal! LOL On the other hand, as I'm typing this Adam is playing a video game....looked over at me and said "Is that your computer?" translation- "that's bugging me. Turn it off."
LOL But I usually just keep my whole computer muted all the time and only turn on the sound when I'm going to watch a video, so until today I had never heard the music on your blog.
Oh Jenn... I can make her a birthing cd via you. ;) I have tons of birthing music that I use when I am laboring. I'll give it to you later.
I have to admit that I am torn when it comes to music on others blogs. Sometimes it can bring something to a post that just the words can not. BUT... what you say (those opposed) is true... it can be a bother when you have a slow computer, or when you have your speakers turned up, but didn't notice because you were not listening to music at the time.
So... I think that I will leave the list up, but turn it off auto.
Thank you all for your suggestions! For those of you that do like my choices in music, please, let me know about music you find that is similar. I don't listen to the radio, so really, word of mouth is how I find tunes. :) THANKS SO MUCH!
I love to hear other peoples play lists it often introduces me to new artists. I like it.
I don't like visiting blogs that have music that turns on automatically. If you want to have a playlist, I like it better if it's optional for the rest of us to listen to -- that way I don't have to scramble to find the mute button when I'm surfing my blogs... already a big improvement with the music turned off, thank you!
I appreciate the music very much as it does introduce me to some new artists and songs (and some that I get to say ohhh...I love that song!) It also gives your readers even more of a sense of who you are. I say keep it but on the home page so people can have the option of muting it. Really, how difficult it to just hit mute or pause?
I know you will come up with a great solution for this! It sounds like music plays a large part in your life and how you express yourself. If that's true, keep it!
I'm a little late with my vote but I don't like music on blogs. I always turn my speakers off if someone has music. I find the music distracting. I like to read quietly.
I'm glad you kept the play list up -- but appreciate that not everyone wants to listen.
By the way, was it hard to create?


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Tired but stoked Billy set to help make Olympics history
Securing a near-certain spot at surfing's Olympic Games debut in Tokyo next year is a dream come true for Raglan's Billy Stairmand, who's "taking a breather" back home this month before heading off to compete next in Hawaii.
"I'm a little bit burnt out," the soon-to-be 30 year old told the Chronicle of his seven-week stretch away competing overseas. But at the same time he's "stoked" to have achieved a goal he set himself some 18 months ago after tying the knot at Whale Bay with his girlfriend of five years, Liana Parker.
"I wanted to represent New Zealand – and Raglan of course," he says of his campaign to become an Olympian. "This is a dream come true."
Billy contested an astonishing five heats in mid-September at the ISA World Games in Japan – where he came up against some really big-name surfers – to secure his place in the Tokyo Olympics.
He beat out fellow Kiwi Kehu Butler, and earlier his old rival Ricardo Christie, to claim the qualification spot.
Billy says he was focused at the time only on "making heats" and not worrying about the Olympics, but came away with his name on one of the 20 places available in the men's competition at the Games which start the last week of next July.
The only other Kiwi to earn provisional qualification is Whangamata surfer Ella Williams who is set to be among the 20 women Olympians.
Competitively Billy's had an impressive year with just being there in the ISAs a boost to his confidence, let alone doing better than expected. But it's been "pretty crazy" too, he reckons, with two major events since he qualified.
And he's still in competition mode as there's another goal he set himself at the time of his wedding. "I also want to make the (World Surf League) Championship Tour … I need to get a few more good results."
Constantly travelling and competing however takes its toll. "Obviously being away from home is the hardest thing," Billy says, casting a glance Liana's way with their dog Obie alongside.
And losing is hard. "In surfing you lose way more than you win," he reveals. "You've got to learn how to lose."
That might mean feeling "gutted" for a while, maybe calling or messaging family and friends for some reassurance – pretty much whatever it takes to adjust his mindset.
Yet this year has been consistently "amazing", he says, in terms of having body, mind and equipment aligned. He just wants to "keep it going" and to surf at international level for the next five years or so.
The kid with the long blond hair who grew up riding Raglan's waves – encouraged first by his father Alec, then trained through the local surf academy – no longer has a coach as such. Instead, Billy says, he relies on informal sessions with a friend to ensure he's physically and mentally in top form to do justice to a career on the pro surfer circuit.
But it's to coaching or perhaps running surf camps he's looking at himself when considering starting a business of his own sometime because "it's all I've ever known".
Meanwhile Billy's amped on achieving his WSL goal, and of course on a good showing at the Olympics.
Although last month's ISA qualifying series took place at Miyazaki in Japan, he's unfazed at competing in Tokyo. It may be a different beach but he's surfed it before, coming away with a third placing.
And this time round he'll have Liana there for support.
Edith Symes
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Reader's Notes: So I had a ton of fun reading oldspice_kinkmeme and wanted to make some podfic out of it. Normally I don't think anything of women reading men's character's but something about Old Spice made me want a man to read it, so I bribed my cousin stargate_sg1sg1 into reading most of this for me.
It's kinda rough for a podfic from me, and at times you can almost hear me directing stargate_sg1sg1 in the background as he reads but it's lots of fun too.