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Godfall: Does it Have Cross-Play?
Godfall has been the topic of conversation along with the PS5 launch. The game is beautifully crafted, and even for solo play, you will be required to have an internet connection.
This means that this game is always online. It will be probably among the biggest PvE titles on the new console. But being online, will it support any cross-platform play?
Godfall – Does it Have Cross-Play?
Godfall is a PS5 exclusive. This means that this game will be only available for the newest PlayStation console. Thankfully though, it is also available for PC, but not for Switch or Xbox.
This raises the question: Are there cross-play capabilities in Godfall?
For now, we don't know. The developers have been silent on the topic. However, we can speculate that there will be in fact cross-platform play capabilities.
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Why Should Godfall Have Cross-Play?
Well, for starters, Godfall is largely PvE, with no apparent PvP mechanics. This means that certain platform advantages won't be present.
Furthermore, having cross-play will largely populate the game. In other words, the game will feel much more populated, and you might get to experience the journey much more, knowing that there are many players on it.
Also, we have seen a great shift in what's important on this gaming systems these days. Much more emphasis is being put on cross-platform play and save capabilities.
The main motive is to bring together platforms, to ultimately increase the quality of play. Being the focus of today's console makers, it means that next-gen consoles like the PS5 and Xbox Series S and X are likely to offer much more freedom when it comes to this.
Summing up, we don't know whether Godfall will have cross-play capabilities, but if we look at it from a technical standpoint, it makes a lot of sense.
And if we can see it, chances are the developers and Sony see it too. Let's hope that PC and PS5 players are united again for Godfall!
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Q: Hide Proceed to Checkout in Wordpress/WooCommerce Using Wordpress and WooCommerce and I need help adding two user roles. I got it working with one role, but need to also apply this to another role.
Below I am using user role 'wholesale', but there is also another user role that this rule needs to apply to 'us_wholesale'.
Here is my code in functions.php:
    add_action( 'woocommerce_checkout_process', 'wdm_wu_minimum_order_amount' );

function wdm_wu_minimum_order_amount() {

    $current_screen_user = wp_get_current_user();
    if( in_array( 'wholesale', $current_screen_user->roles ) ) {

      $minimum = 150;

    if ( WC()->cart->subtotal < $minimum ) {
       if( is_cart() ) {
           wc_print_notice(
               sprintf( 'You must have an order with a minimum of %s to place your order, your current order total is %s.' ,

                   wc_price( $minimum ),
                   wc_price( WC()->cart->subtotal )
               ), 'error'
           );

       } else {
           wc_add_notice(
               sprintf( 'You must have an order with a minimum of %s to place your order, your current order total is %s.' ,

                   wc_price( $minimum ),
                   wc_price( WC()->cart->subtotal )

               ), 'error'
           );
       } } } }

And my override in woocommerce cart-totals.php:
<?php

   $current_screen_user = wp_get_current_user();

    if( in_array( 'wholesale', $current_screen_user->roles ) ) {

      $minimum = 150; // Set the minimum amt.
      $cart_amt = WC()->cart->subtotal; // cart sub_total, this is actual total excluding discounts and shipping.

                if ( $cart_amt < $minimum ) {
          if( is_cart() ) {
        //Added notices for cart page.
              wc_print_notice(
                  sprintf( 'You must have an order with a minimum of %s to place your order, your current order total is %s.' ,
                      wc_price( $minimum ),
                      wc_price( $cart_amt )
                  ), 'error'
              );
          } else {
        //Added notice msg for checkout page.

              wc_add_notice(
                  sprintf( 'You must have an order with a minimum of %s to place your order, your current order total is %s.' ,
                      wc_price( $minimum ),
                      wc_price( $cart_amt)
                  ), 'error'
              );
          }
      } else {
          do_action( 'woocommerce_proceed_to_checkout' );
      }
    } else {
      do_action( 'woocommerce_proceed_to_checkout' );
    }
    ?>

A: Since you only have two roles you're checking, why not just replace the following line:
if( in_array( 'wholesale', $current_screen_user->roles ) ) {

with
if( in_array( 'wholesale', $current_screen_user->roles ) || in_array( 'us_wholesale', $current_screen_user->roles ) ){

That way your current (presumably working?) functions will run if the current user has either wholesale or us_wholesale as a user role.

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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Staff Head for Malawi
Medical staff from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) are currently being recruited to spend seven weeks working for a mental health charity in Malawi.
The Scotland Malawi Mental Health Education Project provides speciality registrar psychiatrists to teach students at The College of Medicine in Blantyre and the health board supports the scheme by allowing staff to take extra study leave, annual leave and paid leave to deliver the training over seven weeks.
Husband and wife Drs Neil Masson and Julie Richardson went to Malawi earlier this year and both say that they have gained from the experience.
Dr Masson, who is based at Riverside Mental Health Resource Centre in Partick, Glasgow, said that he'd waited two years to before being picked to make the trip to the African country:
"There was a lot of poverty but the country is really beautiful and I can understand why Malawi is known as the 'warm heart of Africa', the people are so friendly.
"Of course there are strong links with Scotland and many of the people we met were familiar with Scots.
"The mental health problems we saw were more serious there but there is a similar issue of stigma.
"And while there is more family support this means that by the time people contact the hospital they have been quite unwell for sometime."
As well as teaching the two doctors also learned more about psychiatric conditions in a cultural context.
And the volunteers hope to leave a lasting legacy of having encouraged more medical students to specialise in psychiatry:
"This is basically why we go out, to teach students psychiatry and to encourage them to stay and work in their own country."
Dr Richardson, who works with the mental health service Esteem, also in Glasgow, added that she benefited by being able to hone her teaching skills:
"The trip has improved my public speaking and lecturing ability and I also enjoyed going with the students to the local psychiatric hospital to give them face to face time with real patients."
The College is the only medical school in Malawi and Dr Richardson went on: "We worked with 40 medical students in a country with a population of 15million, so they were the brightest in Malawi, they really were the crème de la crème."
Dr Linda Watt, Medical Director of NHSGGC's Mental Health Partnership, said: "We are delighted to make this annual contribution to developing psychiatric services in Malawi.
"And the gains are two-fold, staff not only bring their training and expertise to the students, but always return with a positive experience of applying what they have learned in a different culture."
Picture shows Dr Masson with some of the medical students.
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Welcome to the Madhouse – with Michael Mann and Tom Toles
Miles O'Brien 06.11.18. 5 Comments
Communicating the science of climate change, with its overwhelming expert consensus, seems like it should be easy. However, a science-averse media and strong fossil fuel lobby make it exceedingly difficult. Climatologist Michael Mann and cartoonist Tom Toles have teamed up to put climate change in context in their new book, The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy. I talked to both of them at this year's Annapolis Book Festival.
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Hello and welcome to Miles To Go, I'm Miles O'Brien.
On this edition: the Madhouse Effect. It's where we are in the world right now as we systematically ruin our planet, our fragile little home, that pale blue dot, as Carl Sagan put it, in the infinite black void. Our little spaceship–we're soiling it, in a big way. And we're ruining the climate.
We do this even though the science is overwhelming that climate change is real, existential, and largely caused by our addiction to fossil fuels. Those are facts, folks–can't deny them. Well, you can deny them, but you're not very smart if you do that.
I really worry about what life is going to be like for my children and their children. It really keeps me up at night.
So, why is all this happening?
Well, as any reporter worth his or her salt will tell you: always follow the money. It's all about short-term greed, folks. We have a fossil fuel industry willing to line its pockets in the short term without caring a bit that it might lead to nothing less than our extinction. Think about that! That is the power of greed, isn't it?
It is, indeed, a madhouse. And there's a new book that invokes that term and, in a very interesting way, lays bare the hypocrisy, the obfuscation, and the outright lies of those who deny this reality.
It's called The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy. Good title, right?
It's written by two towering figures in their respective fields
Michael Mann and Tom Toles.
Now, Mann is a climatologist at Penn State University who has made some very significant contributions to climate science over the years, including a milestone paper that he co-authored in 1999 that reconstructed global temperatures over the past thousand years. The graph rises sharply along with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. It looks a little bit like a hockey stick.
Michael Mann is also a great science communicator. He teamed up on this book–and this is where it gets a little ingenious–he teamed up with Tom Toles, who is one of my favorite political cartoonists. Toles is at The Washington Post, as you probably know. He sits in the chair–or, I guess, maybe it was a throne–occupied for so many years by the legendary Herblock.
In 1990, when Toles was working in Buffalo, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his work. He has an uncanny talent for capturing the absurdity of those who deny climate change. And he's really fired up about it–as Michael Mann is and as I am.
I caught up with the two of them at the 2018 Annapolis Book Festival in April. We did a conservation about their book, which aired on C-SPAN, and there's a link to that if you'd like to see it on the webpage at milesobrien.com.
The Annapolis Book Festival is hosted at the Key School, and the only quiet place for us to talk during that madhouse of a day, if you will, was an elementary school classroom.
We should tell you we're sitting on seats designed for a second grader right now, so we won't talk down to you but we are down literally.
So thanks guys both of you for being with us. Give me the origin of the book. How did this begin? Who, where did this idea come from? Go ahead, Michael.
Michael:
Thanks Miles. It's great to be with you here. So this came together. We actually had a mutual friend who was my publisher at Columbia University Press for a previous book I had written that actually led to me using some of Tom's cartoons in that previous book. Tom was kind enough to let us do that at no cost.
And we sort of all kept in touch and Patrick came to us a few years later and said "Have you guys thought about combining forces?" Working together using Tom's cartoons to tell the story in a new way. Bringing humor, satire, ridicule, irreverence to a topic that has become so partisan, so ideological to some people that it's difficult to reach people through sort of the normal means. You have to sort of think outside the box. How can we reach people who have been immune to the message of what the science has to say? And of course satire, humor…it's a secret weapon.
And so for me to be able to work with, in my view, one of the great satirists of our time, Tom Toles, was a once in a lifetime opportunity. And I jumped at that opportunity. I'd like to say we had a lot of fun writing the book. I mean to the extent that you can have fun about writing and describing an existential problem that we face. But it was very enjoyable to work with Tom on this project.
So Tom when you when he called you up and said let's try this. Did you immediately think this is a great idea.
Yes. I said yes before I heard any of the details. The dinner that I met our mutual friend, Patrick, at…I had been spending a lot of time at that dinner talking about climate which is kind of an unusual topic for a cartoonist to be talking about. It's also questionable social hour dinner table conversation. But —
I've had those conversations before. I know what that's like.
Yes. Well anyways, I think about how to communicate all the time. But I also think about what are the important subjects and climate just floated up because, A, it is maybe the most important subject we're facing right now. Problem we're facing right now. And secondly, it has been so badly covered by the media when we did our panel.
Ouch, ouch really. You're killing me already. Alright, go ahead.
There's been several problems with the coverage. One is it has been under covered. Secondly, as you mentioned earlier today in our panel, the false equivalence and the providing two sides to the story when there really only was one factual side to it. And now even that the coverage has gotten past those two things, is getting covered, and is being covered better, what is now missing is…I feel that the subject ought to be page 1 material all the time and the media is not communicating the degree of crisis that it is.
But anyway, my interest in cartooning. It's never been like the most popular cartooning topic because, A, it's undercovered. B, it's a little hard to understand and the problems have been in the future for most of the time I've been cartooning and now the problems are here. Now the visuals are so much easier because you've got the actual fires, the flooding, the tornadoes, the hurricanes…there's lots to draw now that it's actually happening. So it's gotten to be easier to cartoon.
But my thrill to work with Michael Mann is that, as interested as I've been in the subject, I'm not an expert. People say "Well I'm not a climate scientist." I'm not a climate scientist either. But I happen to know one now. And so when there's something that I'm dealing with. Or, just going through the book with him, I was testing my understanding about what he was writing. I was pretty close on most things, but it was always education for me and a testing of my understanding of the topic against the actual facts. So it was it was great to work with Mike also.
So at least on paper what you have here is a melding of right and left brain here, right? The scientist meets the artist and, in theory, that can be a very powerful thing. I'm curious from your perspective, Michael…As a scientist, you know I know you've been forced into the public domain because of your work. I assume over time you get kind of used to being in the fray. But when you're when you're trying to reach the general public what are you trying to keep in mind?
I know a lot of scientists struggle with trying to be true to their work. Sometimes they can't filter or edit out what they've done and share it in a way that's cohesive and coherent to people. And yet, you know, the other side of it is you don't want to mischaracterize what you do. Do you struggle with that?
Yeah it's a real interesting learning process to be somebody who's trained within the culture of science and then you go out into the real world. Whether you choose to do so, you're forced into the spotlight as I was back in the late 1990s when our hockey stick study first appeared. And you learn that the rules of engagement are actually very different in the scientific world than in the public sphere.
There are so many examples of how scientists…the way we tend to frame things when we're talking to our fellow scientists is actually antithetical to the way that communication experts tell you, you should be framing things. For example, we lead with the uncertainty. We love to talk about what we don't know and what the uncertainties are because, as scientists, that's where we spend our time. At that horizon. And yet, when you're speaking to the public, you want to start with what we do know. You want to make sure that they don't tune out immediately. You start talking about all the uncertainty and we don't know anything, and then they flip the channel.
So you lead with what we do know. What's the importance? What's the conclusion? What's the bottom line? What's the one thing you want them to come away with? And you can layer that if you have the opportunity, in nuance and context. If you have time to go into the details, but you have to think about what is it that I really want people to come away with. You've got to get away from using jargon. Which, scientists are used to speaking in jargon.
The rules of scientific engagement are almost the opposite of the rules of effective communication, and that's the real challenge as a scientist. To begin working with communication experts, begin working with people in that domain, and learning from them, and learning what works and not sort of approaching it from the way that all too often scientists approach a problem. That is "You just tell me what the problem is and I'll figure out how to solve it."
No. You actually have to work with experts outside of the discipline. Experts outside of the field of science if you want to communicate your science.
I have this strong feeling these days that scientists no longer have the luxury not to do this. I mean I think we can all agree there are some scientists who shouldn't come out of the lab ever, right? They don't do us any good and we know who they are. Let them stay there and do their work. But those who can communicate, I really think should, must almost, at this point. Because not only are we talking about climate change here. We're talking about faith in the scientific process, support of science, support of federally funded science. All of that is in jeopardy right now.
Would you go along with that? Would you think that you would tell your fellow scientists that you must be doing this if you have the skill set?
Yeah, it's a great question and it reminds me of a book that some colleagues wrote some years ago. Chris Mooney, who's now at The Washington Post. Cheryl Kirschenbaum wrote this book Unscientific America, and it's sort of about the legacy of science, and science funding, and sort of the Cold War. You know, where scientists didn't have to make their case. It was understood that we needed to fund basic scientific research if we were going to win the Cold War, if we were going to develop the technological innovations that society depends on.
And somewhere along the lines, their thesis is scientists sort of lost the inclination to make the case to the public because the money was just coming their way. They didn't need to do that. There was also, and this is something you and I have talked about, the Sagan Effect. The fact that those scientists who did choose to be public spokespeople and communicators were often pilloried for doing so. In the case of Carl Sagan, a great scientist who certainly should have been in the National Academy of Sciences based on the fundamental scientific work he did. But he was blackballed from the academy because some of his fellow scientists didn't like the fact that he was out there in the limelight doing something that the many of them felt was beneath them: communicating to the public.
A scientist should never sit on Johnny Carson's couch, right?
So Tom, you have the power of the pen here. Going back to Thomas Nast, cartoonists have had the ability to…A picture does speak a thousand words, right?
When you're talking about climate change, are you particularly challenged, as an artist, to come up with ways to symbolize it? I noticed you, in one of your cartoons, you had something that looked like the love child of Shrek and Jabba the Hutt as climate change. But it's hard. This the same struggle I have doing TV pieces. It's big, it's amorphous, it's slow moving. What is it, and do you have a hard time putting it into a cartoon?
Well certainly not anymore. Early on, before the symptoms started showing up, it was more just a matter of bringing the subject matter out into the the page. And sometimes I would do expository, conversational things that outlined the subject matter, some of the defects in the opposition's thinking, and pilloring the people that were starting to stand in the way. Singling them out as human beings and political figures, and shining a light on what they were doing that was against the public interest.
It has gotten almost too easy. I can fill the panel with every manner of natural or unnatural disasters. Fires, the flooding, high waves, everything. It's all there. Much easier now. Unfortunately, it's easier because we're farther into the problem and the problem is that much harder to solve now.
You know, in my side of the journalism realm. I have to constantly defend my stories to editors. And Jeff Zucker the current boss of CNN, my old place of employ, famously said "We'd do more climate change but people are bored with it", which I think is a cop out, of course. It says a lot about journalism in general.
In the opinion world, you're kind of sheltered from some of the requirements that I would have to try to sell a story. Can you just you know tell the opinion editor at The Post "This is what I'm doing for a cartoon"? And if it's climate change, nobody gives you a hard time?
Yes. The freedom I have to do what I want has evolved but, essentially, quite some time ago I got pretty close to complete autonomy. Which is great. It changes the nature of the work to being much more personal, honest, heartfelt. And I think that communicates over time, maybe not in every single cartoon.
But in the question of climate, I faced the same thing. Early on it was "Nobody cares about this. Nobody can understand that. You're not going to get any readers with this." And I thought "Okay, I understand that I would draw climate cartoon and it would rarely be one of the most popular ones."
But then I'd look back at the problem and I said "Wait a minute, this is the problem of the 20th century. There's no way I can not do this." My job here is not to guess which is the most popular subject to do a cartoon about. But to try and try and try again to find ways to communicate this, and that has been a challenge.
But part of finding an audience and getting people to understand things is not to cater to their conceptions or their preexisting interests. Sometimes just repetition will get people to understand something. So I figured even if I didn't hit the ball out of the ballpark every single time with a climate cartoon, if I kept hitting singles, and bringing the subject back to their attention, they would start to…Readers understand by the repetition. Not only that this is something that you care about. It brings it closer into their awareness as something that maybe they should care about too. So repetition and trying every single thing I could think of was the way I approached this subject.
You're a lucky person in the world of journalism to have that kind of…I mean, you've risen to the top and you have autonomy that most of us don't have. But I have seen changes.
I remember, back in the early days of CNN, we did regular science reports. We used to have a weekly science show back in the day. Imagine that. It's all gone now. But I remember one time bringing a story down. We used to have to play them for the supervising producer before they went on the air. And I played him something. It was something obscure. It was something about Bucky Balls or something really scientifically… It was a difficult reach for the typical poli-sci guy in the newsroom, right?
I played the thing and he said…He watches it, and he's got his hand on his chin. The piece is over two and a half minutes and he said "You know, I know that's science but that was actually interesting."And so there is this kind of…we're against a sense in the newsroom that it's complicated, it's difficult to understand, they probably have PTSD over the periodic table from eighth grade, whatever the case may be.
So I am curious, and I'm going to direct this to you, Michael, what can we do? You know I struggle for ways to…For the longest time, it was always the polar bear on the ice cube story, right? Which really got old, but at least it was a picture. And what you're talking about, Tom, is how this is changing because it's happening now. That's the good news and the bad news, from my perspective. I can start telling this story in a way that gets people's attention.
The question is, is it too late? But you've seen the media operate long enough now, Michael, too to some insights. What do you think we should be doing that we aren't to try to reach the public and get them engaged in this subject as they should be?
Yeah, well this is something you alluded to earlier. There are these constraints. As a journalist, your editor may have a certain view about the need for some balance. And they are answerable to advertisers. And one of the things, one of the real challenges, is the working of the refs, I call it. It's basketball season…The working of the refs, the other side, the fossil fuel interests and their paid lobbyists and advocates, are very good at targeting journalists and journalistic outlets.
If they do hard hitting commentary on the things that matter, because people don't really care about polar bears all that much. Some people do, and we should. But what do they care about? They care about epic wildfires and droughts and super storms that they are seeing play out in real time, that they are being impacted by directly. Rupert Murdoch… His house was damaged in the worst California wildfire of all time. Of course, Murdoch funds one of the principal climate change denying media outlets, Fox News.
And so there's all of this working of the refs. And the journalists hear from the climate change deniers, and they're attacked if they start to connect the dots on the things that matter. Those are the things…That when people start to understand that the worst flooding event of all time, Hurricane Harvey, that Maria this monster storm that basically destroyed the infrastructure of Puerto Rico, the worst California wildfire on record happened out of season. It happened during what's supposed to be the wet season. People get it. They know something's going on.
But too often, media outlets fail to really connect the dots in their coverage of these extreme weather events. Often they fail to note that there is a connection with climate change. And some of that, I think, is historical in nature, and it sometimes seems too wonkish. And maybe your audience doesn't care about that context. But some of it is because of the pressure that's being exerted from the other side to not connect those dots. And I've seen it. I've actually seen stories, a draft of a story, and then the revised version of that story when it came back from the editors. And you can see that, that happens.
Yeah it does. Just this past year, and I do have to toot our own horn here at the PBS NewsHour a little bit because we do strive to do that. I push very hard for these…I call them the teachable moments that news gives us, right? When there's a fire, let's get on record right now and make that connection because what has happened over the years is interesting.
Not only do you have newsrooms filled with these liberal arts people who are afraid of science and confuse the political journalistic technique of on the one hand, other hand which doesn't really work in the case of peer review versus the Cato Institute. So when you make that connection, I think it's really important to seize those moments.
But if you think about one of the great missed opportunities in this country, it's that the local weathermen and women who historically have been acolytes of the likes of John Coleman, very noted climate change denier, or Bill Gray in Colorado. Also a big skeptic at least. And the weather people have seldom made those connections.
Now you're at Penn State. That's a big mineralogical school. One of the things, I wonder, is if they're teaching them better to put this in the greater context of climate.
And I will take some responsibility. Our program, at one point twenty five percent of all broadcast meteorologists in the country have come through our program, one of the oldest programs in meteorology, at Penn State University. And we had climate change contrarians on the faculty that helped create this generation of contrarian weather people, meteorologists.
And, you know, so there is that historical context. And then there's just the fact that if you're studying the day-to-day fluctuations in the weather that are so large in their magnitude it can be difficult sometimes to appreciate the more subtle background changes that are climate change that represent the shifts in those weather phenomena. As we said earlier, that's changing now because the extreme weather events that we are seeing now so clearly have the imprint of climate change that there's a natural opportunity to connect the dots.
But for these historical reasons, sort of our best messengers when it comes to the science of climate change…Broadcast meteorologists around the country who have almost a personal relationship with their viewers. There's a connection there people trust their their local weather person and there's a real opportunity to educate. But if it's too heavy-handed people tune out.
They want to know whether or not they have to bring an umbrella to work tomorrow, not climate change. And so there's a real skill in finding a way, and you guys at the NewsHour do that very well and I want to thank you for being a shining exception to the rule. The rule is to not connect those dots because it can be difficult to do.
There are ways to do that, and the broadcast meteorology community has really come a long way in part because there are groups like Climate Central, which is an organization that has spearheaded this effort to help educate broadcast meteorologists on how to provide that context and way that's natural, that works. It doesn't seem forced and communicates the reality.
Yeah, and you have people like Marshall Shepherd running the American Meteorological Society who gets it. He understands the difference between weather and climate. I think he said, he had a great analogy for me.. I don't know if he'd agree with it. He said "Weather is your mood. Climate is your personality." That's one of those analogies that I'm always —
It's a great analogy. I use that myself, and I do believe that I heard it from Marshall.
Alright, Tom. When you look at the other side of the house, the non-opinion side of the Post – and I'm putting you a little bit on the spot, but since you have such autonomy you can you can say what you want – Do you see better reporting, more reporting, since the ownership change at the Post? I think that overall the quality has been pretty good.
But we are in a world where, you know, I used to be an eight person Science Unit at CNN. I was a part of that. It's no longer. And people who kind of devote their careers to really understanding these concepts and finding ways to talk about the mood versus the personality, ways to relate it…There aren't many people doing that any more professionally in the mainstream popular media. Do you see much movement where you sit at the Post?
I think the Post has been fairly strong on climate in the time that I've been there, since 2002. They got off to a pretty good start. Maybe not a start, but a pretty good base, with Jill Alper, and did some wonderful climate work. And Chris Maloney is doing some great stuff now.
My complaint now with the Post coverage in particular, and media in general, is twofold. My complaint is not with the stories, the factual matter and presentation within the stories. I think it's frequency and intensity. As I said before this is a crisis. It is factually a crisis but we are not…
Treatment, placement frequency of stories is part of the message of what is important. And when those climate stories appear in the print edition on page 4 or 5 instead of on page 1, when it's presented as here's another collection of facts but without the sense of crisis…When there is a disaster, I would want to see a prominent box with every disaster story that asks the question "Is this what we are creating for ourselves here?" and now go through the list of similar disasters that have happened, potential disasters can happen. Treat it like a crisis.
And the second thing that I would ask for in coverage is the Post's unofficial motto: Follow the money. The story of climate is not just science. It is players, and these players are aggressive. They are using money to distort the coverage. And I want to see those players named, their funding, who they fund, how this has happened. This did not just happen. It's the tobacco story all over again. They're selling doubt, they're selling confusion, and they're selling things that are not true.
For the media to lie down in the face of this and not call it out is dereliction of responsibility. And even if they have to step outside, as Michael has, from their traditional comfort zone to communicate what has actually been happening…It's a mandate for media to be able to look at themselves in the mirror and say: "We're doing our jobs to educate the American people so they can participate meaningfully and effectively based on fact in their own government." And we have veered so far off this natural, needed, healthy sense of how a democracy works. And the media has a role and they have not fulfilled it.
So is it a simple question, and I'll let you weigh in too Michael, but is it a simple question of resources? Imagine the number of reporters covering politics at the Post versus those covering science. Part of it is the people who cover politics,. I watched all those nauseating debates at times. Right? And I think there might have been one question throughout all of them on the subject of climate. So political reporters can't get off scot-free here either just because "I'm not the science guy".
Can you think of another important issue that they could get away with not even asking a question over?
Not to the same degree. I mean, the other issue in American politics that is downplayed in a way that's very damaging is wealth inequality. And I think you find some of the same problems there, but we're not here to…That's a whole different podcast.
That's another podcast, yeah.
Why I emphasize climate in my cartoons… You run your radar across the world landscape and you say "What's important?" And my unofficial question to myself every day is "What needs saying?" And it's not just a matter of leveraging off the latest goof that a politician does to get a funny chuckle. I mean I'll do some of that too. Readers love it, I enjoy it. But you have to keep asking yourself "What needs saying?" And that's part of the job of journalism. And this is the thing that needs saying the most.
Alright, so Michael's dying to get in here. Go ahead.
Well I was just going to say "Amen". I'm not normally at a loss for words but I think Tom has very succinctly described the predicament. I do think things are changing. And it's something we talked about earlier.
There is now this movement away from a false balance where the media feels like they need to put a member of the flat earth society along with a NASA astronaut. You know, we don't do that and yet we used to do the same thing when it came to climate change – contrasting the overwhelming voice of the scientific community with some fossil fuel funded lobbyists. And the media's getting away from that.
I think the challenge now is what Tom alluded to before. This is a one above the fold story, and the excuse that "Well, you know, the public isn't interested in climate change…" That's only true if the problem isn't framed for the problem it actually is. Because it turns out that the national security catastrophes that we're dealing with today: the Syrian uprising, ISIS, and there was a presenter at this conference earlier who talked about how the Syrian uprising really is a manifestation of tensions over food and water and land that arose out of an unprecedented drought in Syria.
So when Donald Trump says "We shouldn't be distracted by non-problems like climate change. We need to focus on international terrorism…" There's a deep fallacy there. Actually, our national security community says that the greatest security threat that we face today is the increased competition for diminishing resources brought on by climate change. And so if it's framed in that way, if it's recognized that when we're talking about national security, when we're talking about terrorism, when we're talking about unprecedented weather disasters, each one of those has a climate change component to it. And yet too often that component is neglected.
Those are the dots that we need to connect in our media if we're really going to communicate the reality and threat of this problem.
That's the challenge for us. Connecting the dots. And as you say the consistency, the repetition, not ignoring it.
Okay. We're about out of time. I know you guys gotta get going. But just a final thought, a few words, on what you hope to accomplish with the book Madhouse Effect. I really enjoyed the read. It's a great compilation. It's very accessible to people who haven't been dialed into the hockey stick like I have for 20 years. What do you hope to accomplish with it?
Well thanks, Miles for the kind comments. It was a lot of fun to be able to work with an artistic genius like Tom. I mean that's a once in a lifetime opportunity. To be able to use all the tools that he brings to the table to talk about this story in a different way, and that's what we're trying to do.
Too often people tune out. If you try to barge through their front door with graphs and equations, they tune out. And we need to find new ways of talking about this problem, side doors that we can approach people who are unconvinced that the problem is even real. Often that grows out of sort of an ideological, sort of tribal, sort of identity.
When it comes to climate change, it's become a politically divisive issue. So you're not going to reach those folks through the usual sort of approaches. You need to find a new way to do that. And frankly, I think humor and satire is a secret weapon. I think people lower their guard when you approach a problem using humor, using satire and using ridicule, where it's appropriate. Being irreverent. I think there's an opportunity to reach people who have thus far been unreachable on this issue.
I think it's the same reason that the hardest hitting commentary in The Washington Post is Tom's cartoons, and the hardest hitting commentary on television today is Stephen Colbert. It's because there's a license that comes with presenting things with humor and satire that allows you to talk about topics that otherwise are considered too politically divisive, and climate change has become one of them.
I'd put John Oliver in that category as well with the 97 scientists versus the three, which I thought was just perfect.
Tom, just takeaway thoughts on what you hope to accomplish.
I agree with Michael. The overt reason and hope for the book is to present the subject matter in a somewhat different way to disarm and engage the reader, simultaneously, with a different take on it. To open a new door into the subject. And through that, to move the public another step forward. It's not going to be the one thing that changes everything, but the problem has been so difficult and so ignored that you look for every single opportunity.
That's why I said "Yes" to this project before I had heard any of the details. What I heard when I was hearing the pairing…I said "This might help, sign me up." I didn't care, I didn't ask how much money there was in it. I mean, you're not going to make it a zillion dollars on something like this anyway. It didn't make any difference. I wanted to do it, and I enjoyed every minute.
The other thing I would say is just as the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a slow killing of the planetary health, the subtext of the book is the slow accumulation of dishonesty and outright lying in American politics. The book is not overtly about those things, but it's definitely a huge part of the story. And that is not limited to the subject of climate. It's something that is infesting our whole democratic system, and it's infecting every other subject to a greater or lesser degree. To the degree we can highlight that process of the destruction of truth as an idea, that is also another hope that I have had for the project.
Excellent. More to come on all of this. Class is dismissed. Mrs. Beagle's second grade class, time is up. There will be a quiz on this later. Tom Toles, Michael Mann, thank you so much for your time.
I highly recommend this book to you. I have read just about everything on this subject and this one is maybe one to give to skeptics you know who might be rethinking their opinions on all of this. I have gotten to the point now where I don't try to debate this issue with outright deniers. It's just a waste of time.
It is maddening to read it and it is so frustrating that it even has to be published in the first place. The fact that we're still debating settled science by some of the world's greatest minds in their fields just irks me.
Those of us who lose sleep at night over this issue just need to keep chipping away at this, one person at a time. For me, one story at a time. For Michael Mann and Tom Toles, maybe one book at a time. Whatever it takes. Eventually, the fossils, if you know what I mean, will die off, I suppose.
Young people are not so easily confused by all this nonsense. They see the problem, they understand the consequences, and they seem ready to tackle it. I just hope we don't hand it to them after it's too late…
Again the book is The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy.
If you'd like to see how our conversation played out at the Annapolis Book Festival, it's on C-SPAN, on their site and we'll have a link for you at milesobrien.com.
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Tim King says
06.11.18. at 8:40 pm
Great stuff Miles. The radio guy in me appreciated that you kept it to a manageable length and didn't skimp on the details.
Good to hear Michael again. Our paths have crossed a few times at Penn State. Wish we could get the world to pay more attention to him.
Miles OBrien says
06.17.18. at 8:32 am
Thanks Tim! He has been in the trenches for a long time…I admire his work and tenacity.
Paul Hearty says
Really enjoyed your interview Miles! Kudos to Michael and Tom for their wit and wisdom in their book "The Madhouse Effect"
Thanks Paul! It's a book worth sharing.
I did buy and read "The Madhouse Effect" last week. An important factor only addressed at the very end of the book are the mine workers who are holding on to their only source of employment and income in areas that are already economically devastated. Would solar panel production plants be set up down the road (literally) and these workers recruited away from the mines and trained in a new field? Would taxpayers be given the option to receive solar panels from these companies in lieu of tax refunds by government buy-in? Would that make it more feasible to motivate people to convert their homes to solar power? Probably too far-fetched for private enterprise to consider and especially this administration.


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In one of the best Model X videos yet, Mark Coker captured two Model X SUVs (as well as an accompanying Model S) as they exited the parking lot of a Denny's, where a Supercharger is located. Have a watch.
Not sure if there's much else to say here, but I do think the Model X is shaping up to look quite sharp. Admittedly, I'm not an SUV guy, but I think it looks hot and I think it's the best-looking SUV on the market.. even without the full monty revealed yet!


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La abadía de Saint-Pierre de Méobecq es una iglesia abacial francesa. Se encuentra en el territorio de la comuna de Méobecq, en el departamento de Indre, en la región Centro-Valle del Loira.

Situación
La abadía está ubicada en la localidad de Méobecq, en el centro del departamento de Indre, en la región Centro-Valle del Loira.  Está ubicado en la región natural de Brenne.  La iglesia abacial depende de la archidiócesis de Bourges, el decanato de Val de Creuse y la parroquia de Saint-Gaultier.

Historia
La iglesia fue construida entre el  y el . Cuenta la leyenda que san Cyran fundó el primer monasterio merovingio de Méobecq. De la nobleza de Bourges y criado en la corte de Borgoña, decidió retirarse del mundo y fundó dos comunidades en Brenne, sin duda durante el reinado de Dagoberto I (628-638). Animados por el mismo ímpetu espiritual y un fuerte espíritu de aventura, varios hombres se unieron a él y trabajaron arduamente en la construcción espiritual y temporal de la abadía.

El 3 de septiembre de 1048 se redactó y firmó el histórico documento fundacional de la abadía, la dedicación, en presencia de los obispos de Tours y Bourges. Esta carta exalta el prestigio de la abadía: afirma haber recibido la protección del rey Dagoberto I así como del Papa Sixto V, quien habría ofrecido preciosas reliquias de San Pedro. La abadía recibe un privilegio de inmunidad que la hace independiente del poder señorial.

El edificio fue catalogado en 1840 y catalogado el 24 de junio de 1994 como monumento histórico.

Descripción
La iglesia tiene una sola nave enmarcada y pasillos abovedados.

El crucero está cubierto con una cuna.

El ábside tiene cinco capillas escalonadas: el ábside está abovedado con cuna y fondo de horno, las capillas laterales con bóveda de crucería.

Frescos del
La decoración pintada mejor conservada se encuentra entre las ventanas y representa personajes en pies, identificados por inscripciones: SCS LEOBALDUS (san Loyau), SCS SIGIRANNUS (san Cirán, fundador de la abadía), SCS MARTIALIS (san Marcial, evangelizador de la región) y SCS PETRUS (san Pedro, patrón de la iglesia de Méobecq y fundador de la Iglesia Romana). Son los padres fundadores de la abadía quienes apoyan todo el programa iconográfico desarrollado por el artista.

Arriba, la visión de San Juan se desarrolla con la representación de los jinetes del Apocalipsis en los esquineros de las ventanas. Queda uno: el corcel blanco es montado a pelo por un arquero coronado por la mano divina. Dos personajes están en profunda conversación: un ángel se dirige a un hombre con aureola y cabello blanco, San Juan.

Aún más arriba, sobre un fondo verde, podemos ver en los extremos del ábside un par de pies descalzos apoyados en una rueda. También se encuentran los restos de dos animales, ciertamente los que acompañan a los evangelistas. Por último, debemos imaginar en el callejón sin salida a un Cristo en gloria que ha desaparecido con el tiempo.

Capiteles
En el coro y sus capillas, los capiteles del  sorprenden por la calidad de su trato y su parentesco con el estilo de Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire: mismo tipo de cesto adaptado de la antigua orden corintia, hojas de acanto, palmetas, confrontadas animales. El único capitel historiado al norte del coro representa sin duda a un mártir romano o Daniel en el foso.

Referencias

Abadías de Francia del siglo XI
Centro-Valle de Loira
Abadías de Francia clasificadas monumento histórico en 1840
Monumentos históricos de la región de Centro-Valle de Loira

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Bonnie Russavage (10 juli 1976 in Orange County) is een Amerikaans actrice.

Russavage was vanaf 1993 als Vicki Needleman te zien in de tienerserie Saved by the Bell: The New Class. Al na één seizoen werd ze ontslagen van de spin-off van Saved by the Bell. De studio vertelde aan vernieuwing toe te zijn. In 1994 had ze nog een kleine rol in De televisiefilm Roseanne: An Unauthorized Biography. De film is een biografie over het leven van actrice Roseanne Barr. Sindsdien is ze niet meer op televisie te zien.

Over haar recente leven is niks bekend.

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Just over a century ago, on Jan. 10, 1901, a gusher of oil erupted from a well on Spindletop Hill near Beaumont, Tex.–by far the biggest strike the world had ever seen. Almost overnight, black gold became the capital that funded the growth of powerful corporate empires and paved the way for the automobile. But these days, petroleum engineers are more likely to hit pay dirt in Texas warehouses stuffed to the rafters with magnetic tapes. "Those tapes contain a lot of information that was poorly looked at," says Michael J. Zeitlin, chief executive of Magic Earth Inc. "You could find a lot of oil in there with today's technology."
He's talking about data mining, his Houston company's specialty. Data mining harnesses artificial intelligence and slick statistical tricks to unearth insights hiding inside mountains of data. The software is so thorough, and so clever at spotting subtle relationships and associations, that it regularly makes fresh discoveries. The results can point to new business opportunities, novel products, and better manufacturing processes–especially when the results are presented graphically, by means of sophisticated visualization systems. Since the mid-1990s, data mining has taken root in industry after industry (table). "This is basically becoming a business imperative," declares Harry R. Kolar, head of strategy at IBM's business intelligence unit. "It's coming up everywhere, because information sources have just gone crazy."
Human minds simply can't cope with the torrents of data unleashed by computers and the Internet. Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley recently plumbed this flood, and the numbers they calculated are dumbfounding. All the information ever produced since mankind began painting pictures in caves and writing on papyrus comes to roughly 18 exabytes. That's 18 followed by 18 zeros. But what's really crazy is that 12% of it was generated in 1999 alone. And two-thirds of that, or 1.5 exabytes, was digital.
SECRECY. Among this year's Top 50 elite, more than one-third are energy and finance companies. Those two sectors just happen to be two of the pioneers of data-mining technology. Now, it would be a stretch to assume that Amerada Hess (AHC) and Phillips Petroleum (P), or Capital One (COF) and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (MWD), made the list because of data mining. The technology is still fairly new, after all. But there's little doubt it is becoming a lucrative asset in the battle for market share. Many companies refuse to discuss details, presumably for fear of tipping off rivals.
At Texaco Inc., data mining has clearly paid off in a big way. It played a key role in discovering the huge Agbami oil field off the coast of Nigeria, containing an estimated 1.45 billion barrels of oil. The telltale signs of oil were spotted by reassessing seismic data with Texaco's GeoProbe data-mining system, which uses animated images to help geologists sift out salient features. Traditional methods with static images had missed the oil. Test wells in 1999 and 2000 confirmed it was a major deposit, and Agbami's potential value probably was a factor in Chevron Corp.'s (CHV) $35.2 billion takeover of Texaco (TX) last October.
In finance, even small banks are joining the action. Two years ago, Dallas Teachers Credit Union decided to become a full-fledged community bank. But where to build the branch that would launch the initiative? "We had to get it right the first time," says Jerry Thompson, DTCU's chief information officer. "Competitors won't cut you any slack."
So Thompson called in IBM's data miners to help comb through demographic data. One target: pockets of people who might open checking accounts. To bankers, that's "cheap money," he notes. When DTCU analyzed its customer data, out popped a big surprise:"If a branch was within a 10-minute drive, we had a checking account. But if the drive was 10 1/2 minutes, we didn't. It was that stark," says Thompson. Plotting 10-minute drives around prospective sites produced very irregularly shaped markets, he adds. "That's something you wouldn't have gotten from a spreadsheet."
SEISMIC SCREENS. Last November, DTCU opened the branch in north Dallas. It turned profitable in only 90 days. Normally, a new branch takes a year to climb into the black, says Thompson. "Needless to say, we have already entrusted the computer with selecting our next branch location."To help Texaco spot pockets of oil, Magic Earth's Zeitlin headed the team that built the first theater for data mining in 1996 (Texaco spun off the technology last year to Zeitlin and nine members of his crew). It features a 25-foot-wide, 9-foot-tall screen on which seismic data are projected by a supercomputer from Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) SGI installed the next big-screen center in 1997, at Atlantic Richfield Co., now part of BP Amoco (BP). Occidental Oil & Gas Corp. was among the 25 companies to get one in 1998–and it has slashed the time for making drill/no-drill decisions industry. Chevron has four.
SGI dominates the visualization scene because its computers make the data come alive, as an interactive movie. Geologists can swoop through subterranean rock formations that are color-coded to highlight underground channels and changes in rock density. When the data are transformed into moving images, "something magical happens," says Zeitlin. "Details you didn't notice before suddenly pop out at you." He believes moving images tap a primordial part of the brain. Prehistoric humans became conditioned to pay special attention to things in motion, he says. "It's what saved our early ancestors from being eaten by Africa's lions."
Other times, just the sheer size of the image makes the difference. That happened at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1999, says Terri M. Quinn, assistant head of scientific computing. For days, a physicist had searched his desktop display in vain for the software glitch that was causing a bomb-related simulation to, well, bomb. Then he ran the top-secret simulation on Livermore's SGI system–and spotted the error in minutes.
To bring data mining to mainstream markets, three Microsoft Corp. (MSFT ) managers left cushy jobs and founded digiMine Inc. in March, 2000. The startup's CEO, Usama M. Fayyad, got fed up with a string of data-mining failures. Microsoft was working on pilot projects with several large companies, "and they all said the technology was like magic," recalls Fayyad. But within a few months, the operations would begin decaying. The databases weren't kept up to date, so they "effectively turned into large, glorious, expensive data tombs," he says.
Lack of talent was the chief problem. Programmers and engineers with experience in artificial intelligence and advanced statistics are not easy to find. So Fayyad figured many companies would willingly shell out $10,000 a month to get the whole show taken off their hands–maintaining a database, mining it for key measures, and providing online reports. He hoped his Bellevue (Wash.) venture could attract 10 customers in year one. Actually, digiMine ended up with 30, including Nordstrom, etrieve, and Dialpad.com. Next, Fayyad wants to branch out into manufacturing–an area where he enjoyed some success at Microsoft. Harris Semiconductor and Hughes Electronics (GMH ) use data mining to unmask the causes of problems in factories.
Perhaps no group is being info-inundated more than scientists. The volume of research getting published online is skyrocketing. Now, help is on the way thanks to data mining. For example, a team led by Kurt D. Bollacker at NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J., has developed CiteSeer, a program smart enough to rank the importance of new scientific papers on the Web, in part by evaluating the number and significance of the citations and links to other papers.
201 BEAMS. Data mining also promises to help scientists do their jobs, judging from the results of a contest at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. It pits a neurosurgeon against a data-mining program. The challenge is to devise a plan for treating a brain tumor with radiation. While eyeballing X-ray slices of the patient's brain, the surgeon mentally packs the tumor with as many buckshot-size doses of radiation as possible. Then he decides how to deliver the radiation, using 201 beams on the inside of a giant helmet–part of the Gamma Knife system from Elekta Instrument.
After the computer runs through the same process, the neurosurgeon picks the better plan. Since the trial started in January, "the doctor has tossed out his own plan every time and used the computer's," boasts Michael C. Ferris, a computer scientist with the University of Wisconsin's Data Mining Institute. Ferris developed the software with David M. Shepard, a former student who now works as a medical physicist at the University of Maryland.
So far, the bulk of these nascent data-mining applications has been painstakingly developed in-house at companies like Texaco. On the Web, though, the technology is spreading rapidly. Web sites use it to analyze their visitors' behavior and tailor customer service or suggest related links. Such software is available from scores of vendors: giants such as SAS Institute, Oracle (ORCL), and NCR (NCR), along with newcomers like ClearForest, Megaputer, Quadstone, and Surfnotes. If this new way of finding gold in vast amounts of data maintains its current pace, its long-term impact could rival that of the big Texas gusher of 1901.
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As a result of this, it is now clear that IT leaders and IT managers need more than just IT skills in the traditional sense. They need legal, commercial and financial skills more than they have ever needed them. They need to understand how to get the best "bang for your buck", something that IT procurement departments have understood for a long time now. However, the training and development offered to IT procurement departments is very different to that offered to IT operational departments.
All this will need to change in the near future. More focus in IT will need to be on what typically we might have called business skills. These include negotiation, supplier management, finance, commercial penalties / credits and contract law. The devil of contracts is in the detail and to some extent this plays into the hands of the skills of existing IT professionals. Of course, IT professionals will still be expected to know their Java from their .NET and their Linux from their Solaris.
Of course we must not forget that the real IT work still needs to be done. And even though more and more of this is being done offshore, there is still going to be a need for seasoned IT professionals to manage this from onshore as part of a balanced onshore / offshore ratio. However, even in those roles, there will be offshore delivery managers that will need more of a technical and typical IT bias, leaving those onshore with roles that require them to do more and more customer relationship management and value-add activities. All offshore contracts expect at a minimum that IT services will be delivered within expected timescales and costs. More and more of the value-add roles are therefore about innovation and ensuring that the customer is seeing increased service levels, reduced cost and the kind of benefits that large outsourcing companies can provide such as access to seasoned industry professionals and tried and tested products that can be easily relocated from one account to another.
All in all, the future is still bright for IT professionals in the UK if they focus on the skills that are going to be needed longer term. They are not the skills that they may have needed a number of years ago however for those that dedicate themselves to developing the right skills, then they are in a strong position as business and IT skills together ensures that people are incredibly marketable.


ST. LOUIS (AP) The St. Louis Cardinals have placed Michael Wacha on the 15-day disabled list with shoulder inflammation, a day after his latest start, and purchased the contract of top prospect Alex Reyes from Triple-A Memphis.
Reyes will pitch out of the bullpen. General Manager John Mozeliak said Tuesday another highly touted prospect, Luke Weaver, will likely make Wacha's scheduled start Saturday and a corresponding roster move would be made then.
To make room for Reyes, catcher Brayan Pena (left knee) was transferred from the 15-day DL to the 60-day DL.
The 21-year-old Reyes started for the World Team at the Futures Game during All-Star week and is 2-3 with a 4.96 ERA in 14 starts and 93 strikeouts in 65 1-3 innings. The start of his season was delayed by a 50-game suspension after testing positive for marijuana use.
Reyes is 20-21 with a 3.50 ERA in 69 career minor league starts. He has hit triple digits on the radar gun, but the key for Reyes will be control.
The injury is similar to the one the prematurely ended Wacha's 2014 season.
Weaver, 22, spent most of this season at Double-A Springfield, but pitched six scoreless innings in his Triple-A debut on Monday.


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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Several passengers were on a Port Authority bus Wednesday morning when it slid on ice in Pittsburgh's Uptown section and crashed against the side of a building.
According to the Port Authority, the 61C bus was on Seneca Street around 10 a.m. when it started to slide back down the hill and jackknifed.
The accordion-style bus then crashed against the side of an abandoned building.
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Heating engineers in court over asbestos
A Stockport heating engineering firm were sentenced after two of its engineers were exposed to asbestos while working at a Manchester school.
Trafford Magistrates' Court heard Flueclean were contracted to replace boilers in the boiler room of the school.
However, two of Flueclean's gas engineers were exposed to asbestos when they took the side panels off boilers which had asbestos insulation on the boiler casing.
Flueclean Installations Services Limited Lytham Street Works, Shaw Heath, Stockport, Cheshire, pleaded guilty to breaching Regulations 6(1) and 11(1) of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 and was fined £4,000 for each breach with £3,517 costs.
HSE inspector Kevin Jones said after the hearing: "Asbestos is the greatest cause of work related deaths in the UK with over 4,000 deaths arising from past exposure.
"Contractors have a duty to ensure they protect their workers from the risk of exposure to asbestos and must properly plan any work which is likely to disturb it.
"In this case, Flueclean Installations Services Limited failed to carry out a suitable and sufficient risk assessment which if they had would have clearly identified that the work should have been carried out by a licensed asbestos contractor. As a result of this failing, two of their operatives were exposed to asbestos."


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import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { ProjectsService } from '../projects.service';
import { Project } from '../model/projects.model';

/**
 *
 *
 * @export
 * @class ProjectViewComponent
 * @implements {OnInit}
 */
@Component({
  moduleId: module.id,
  selector: 'sd-project-view',
  templateUrl: 'project-view.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['project-view.component.css'],
})

export class ProjectViewComponent implements OnInit {

   /**
    *
    *
    * @type {Array<Project>}
    * @memberOf ProjectViewComponent
    */
   public projects: Array<Project>;
   /**
    *
    *
    * @type {string}
    * @memberOf ProjectViewComponent
    */
   public errorMessage: string;

  /**
   * Creates an instance of ProjectViewComponent.
   *
   * @param {ProjectsService} projectService
   *
   * @memberOf ProjectViewComponent
   */
  constructor(public projectService: ProjectsService) {}

  /**
   *
   *
   *
   * @memberOf ProjectViewComponent
   */
  ngOnInit() {
    this.getProjects();
  }

  /**
   *
   *
   *
   * @memberOf ProjectViewComponent
   */
  getProjects() {
    this.projectService.getProjectList()
		     .subscribe(
		       projects => this.projects = projects,
		       error =>  this.errorMessage = <any>error
		       );
  }
}

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There was no sound save the burring of some night insect over his head. Stealthily, and keeping in the shadow of the trees, he began to climb the grassy avenue towards the chateau.
It is covered with stiff spines, which stick to fur and clothing and can be quite difficult to extract. The burs can also be quite painful when landed on such as during football games. They littered the playing fields and campus before these areas were tilled and seeded with grass.
He was glad, he said, to find himself alive; and his two friends, clapping and rubbing their hands twenty times in an hour, declared, that now, once more, he was all himself -- the charming'st fellow in the world; and they would follow him to the farthest part of the globe. I threw a bur upon his coat now-and-then; but none would stick. Your Lordship knows, that there are many things which occasion a roar of applause in conversation, when the heart is open, and men are resolved to be merry, which will neither bear repeating, nor thinking of afterwards.
Individuals of this species may look like grass, but they aren't. Individual American bur-reeds can grow to be between two and four feet. American bur-reed plants flower during the summer.
If you could have heard the Story Girl's "bur-r-r-r!" Not old Mr. Forbes himself could have invested it with more of Doric scorn.
We shall meet our obligations but in part, when we do all we can to save them. We have in bur Indian work eighteen schools and six churches, one new church having been added this year. In these, 68 missionaries have been doing noble service for the Indian and for the country.
There came a harsh burring sound from within both the shop and the house.
Then, having wiped his hands upon his knees, he drew the battered fragment of his sword, and using it as a paper-knife, opened the letter carefully, as a man opens letters which are not to be destroyed. Then his stomach turned cold and his tongue grew thick and burred. For the letter which Margaret had written to her lover was more cruel than the shell which had blinded his eyes and the bullet which was taking his life.
I was alone, he asked me to notice; and he was alone; but if he should go with me, which he would be glad to do, why, then, you see, we should be together. He stuck like a bur, and it was minutes before I got him well started off in his own right direction. I slipped to the Fontenettes' gate, as near as was best, and instantly saw, between one of its posts and a very black myrtle-orange, Fontenette himself, standing as still as the trees.
Due to this unfavourable characteristic the number of cultivated Bur trees remains limited. Bur dates are easily distinguishable from other date types by their nearly black colour.
"See, the burs don't open a bit, they are much too green to eat."
The woods were free from underbrush, but a coarse, wiry grass, unfit for fodder, and scattered through them in detached patches, was the only vegetation visible. The ground was mainly covered with the leaves and burs of the pine. We passed great numbers of swine, feeding on these burs, and now and then a horned animal browsing on the cypress-moss where it hung low on the trees.
This year the stem has blighted again and I have cut out the blight and sprayed it, and I shall now whitewash a large part of the stock with whitewash containing a little carbolineum. The graft now in its third year is bearing one big bur. The interesting point is that this tree has blighted every year for five years, and I have kept it going along by giving it attention.
Si-r-r, I shall bur-r-st if I d-don't laugh.
"Were you really there?" asked Miss Duncan, the eldest of the girls. "We heard it, of course, bur could scarcely believe it possible."
Then she showed them how to cut off the little clusters of burs and soon they had their baskets full.
I'm bur' you in de bush -- all but de heart.
The pigs are fattening fit to eat alive. Eli's been drunk some, bur his girls are really a good deal of help. There are going to be more elder-berries this fall than you can shake a stick at; they're just breaking the branches.
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Downs is definitely a throwback in his overall view of painting. Now in his late 50's, he was very fortunate to have had mentors such as Karl Benjamin and Frederick Hammersley in the mid 80's. Being in the presence of such noted painters impressed on him the importance and responsibility of being true to one's own vision. "By speaking clearly in a non object idiom, the goal is to make art that reflects modern day life. My process consists of layering spontaneous random marks that are sometimes completely obscured. By working and reworking surfaces, I expose the varying depth of color which creates spaces that expand and contract, communicating the work's shifting moods." In his latest body, the "Manhattan Series", Downs recalls when he first moved to New York in the mid 70's. Emotions of the average person were on a much more intense level as far as fear, crime and the overall lack of beauty in the city. For Downs, this was an opportunity to experience firsthand the gritty and raw energy to be used in his paintings to come. This body of work is his attempt to recreate the tension, movement and color of that era. The strength in these works are in the artist's understanding of color, balance and simplicity. Each mark is made by one tool, a single edge razor blade which is deeply scraped into the many surfaces of the painting. This process is very physical and demands great caution not to damage the canvas. His works emit a sense of risky adventure. They are created not of one heavily worked surface, but with four to five hundred painted layers of varying thickness and transparency, all of which subtly interact. Downs deconstructs layers of his paintings to reveal individual elements, which create the surface tension essential to animating his abstracts. The smallest patch of pigment can be taken as a whole, complete unto itself. The works bring one word to mind - energy, a sense of action. Downs has been painting professionally for over 30 years and has exhibited nationally and internationally. His work has been included in group shows with noted artists such as Andre Miripolsky, Mark Mothersbaugh and Karl Benjamin. Downs' works are included in private collections throughout the world.
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Local cafe celebrates a decade in Santa Monica
by Angel Carreras February 16, 2019 February 19, 2019
A prominent pastry and breakfast eatery in Santa Monica is ringing in its ten-year anniversary the only way it knows how – thanking their customers.
Huckleberry Bakery & Café, a comfort food cafe located off Wilshire (and 2018 Most Loved SM Breakfast/Brunch winner), will treat the community and longtime regulars this Monday, Feb. 18 to free mini sprinkle donuts in the morning and slices of birthday cake throughout the afternoon. As one more Thank You to Huckleberry regulars, staff will bring back dishes from the restaurants early days.
Owners Josh Loeb and Zoe Nathan say Huckleberry's longevity and support from the community have been a surprise they're both thankful for.
"It feels great," Nathan said. "I feel very proud of everybody that's worked here and the customers that have helped us last this long."
Did the married couple ever think they'd reach a decade of serving sweet and savory treats?
"I honestly don't think about that kind of stuff when we're starting out," Loeb said. "I just try to make sure it feels special and Huckleberry felt really special from day one. Super imperfect and a work in progress, but really special and unique."
Huckleberry initially started off as a series of Saturday Morning Breakfast Pop-Ups at Santa Monica restaurant Rustic Canyon. Nathan and Loeb and even Nathan's father chipped in to give Huckleberry the restaurant its own identity, Nathan's father helping flip pancakes and more when he could.
Nathan says the duo opened the restaurant as a place they would want to go to and take their family members to. This included eschewing any sort of hyper-healthy-eating-habits stereotypes or fads Santa Monica may be known for.
"We loved opening this place and opened it with our hearts," Nathan said. "We never changed for a gimmick. We've always had a good B.S. barometer and our customers get that and love what we do."
While they do indeed have healthy options, the cafe grew popular – with lines out the door – for the restaurant's stalwart menu items such as Dad's Pancakes and Fried Egg Sandwiches. An inventive pastry case that routinely includes items such as Maple Bacon Biscuits and Blueberry Cornmeal Cakes kept customers coming back and keeps them coming back.
"The food has always been really good, the ingredients have always been really good, and there's been so much love put into it day in and day out," Loeb said. "We've gone through rough patches for sure, but the spirit of Huck has always remained true and strong."
After ten years, what happens next for the couple? Nathan says they'll do what they did since day one– take it a day at a time.
"I don't really know what's next. If people keep loving it and coming, we'll keep going. We didn't open thinking of a ten-year plan. Me and Josh just never rest on our laurels. We still love getting organic ingredients and mixing things up. We still have love for what we do. We love waking up bright and early and making things fresh. I hope people will keep waking up and loving us, too."
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Another thing, and to me an even a bigger thing, is their model of building a "family" of restaurants by developing relationships with not only their customers but their crew. It is evident they are supportive because they have launched new additions through nurturing those ambitious to take that dive and create. Far from a chain/franchise model, they value variety (diversity sounds a bit too heavy a term here), and this too I believe has built loyalty. Happy Anniversary Huckleberry! May you always be warm and welcoming 🙂


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The sea urchins, a class of Echinozoa having a compact body enclosed in a hard shell, or test, formed by regularly arranged plates which bear movable spines.
Alternatively, given that relatively few echinoplutei have been cultured to metamorphosis, arm flexing and the associated increase in the complexity of larval musculature could be distributed among several echinoid lineages.
Reproductive periodicity of the echinoids Diadema and Echinometra on the two coasts of Panama.
Local or random movement has been observed in previous movement studies of echinoids (Dumont et al.
Diademasetosum (Leske, 1778) (Echinometra: Echinoidea: Diadematidae) also known as long-spined black sea urchin, is one of the most common echinoids that widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean especially in coral ecosystems,and have profound biological, ecological and aquacultural significance (Lessios et al.
Agassiz, 1863, Lytechinus variegatus (Lamarck, 1816), Tripneustes ventricosus (Lamarck, 1816), and Diadema antillarum Philippi, 1845, are the most common littoral echinoids in the Caribbean.
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The sand dollar echinoid Periarchus lyelli (Conrad) is a distinctive and well-known element of the fauna of Upper Eocene (Jackson) marls and limestones across the eastern Gulf of Mexico and lower Atlantic coastal plain.
Trophic relationships of macrofauna within a Jamaican seagrass seagrass meadow and the tole of the echinoid Lythechinus variegatus (Lamarck).
These included the common echinoid Clypeaster cotteaui and two species of scallops assigned to the genus Chlamys, including the common C.
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Q: SQL - Converting similar data while keeping different data I will try to explain this as detailed as I can if the details are insufficient please help edit my question or inquire about the lacking details for me to add in.
Problem Description
I am required to write a SELECT Statement to convert the data within ORDERED_BY from the REQUESTED_AUTHORS table into AUTHOR_NAME data. For example, JJ as shown in ORDERED_BY must be converted into Jack Johnson as shown in AUTHOR_NAME. Therefore the end results will be Jack Johnson instead of  JJ. Below shows my 2 tables:
REQUESTED_AUTHORS
+-----------+
| ORDERED_BY|
+-----------+
|   JJ      |
+-----------+
|   AB      |
+-----------+
|  JonJey   |
+-----------+
|   Admin   |
+-----------+
| Tech Assit|
+-----------+
|  Dr.Ob    |
+-----------+
|   EL      |
+-----------+
|   TA      |
+-----------+
|   JD      |
+-----------+
|   ET      |
+-----------+

AUTHOR_LIST
+----------------+---------------------+
|  ORDER_INITIAL |     AUTHOR_NAME     |
+----------------+---------------------+
|      JJ        |    Jack Johnson     |
+----------------+---------------------+
|      AB        |    Albert Bently    |
+----------------+---------------------+
|     AlecBor    |    Alec Baldwin     |
+----------------+---------------------+
|     KingSt     |      KingSton       |
+----------------+---------------------+
|    GaryNort    |     Gary Norton     |
+----------------+---------------------+
|     Prof.Li    |    Professor Li     |
+----------------+---------------------+
|      EL        |     Elton Langsey   |
+----------------+---------------------+
|      TA        |    Thomas Alecson   |
+----------------+---------------------+
|      JD        |    Johnny Depp      |
+----------------+---------------------+
|      ET        |   Elson Tarese      |
+----------------+---------------------+

Solution Tried (1)
SELECT  ru.*, al.AUTHOR_NAME
FROM REQUESTED_AUTHORS ru, AUTHOR_LIST al
WHERE al.ORDER_INITIAL = ru.ORDERED_BY;

But this did not work as I intended it to, as there are different data in both ORDERED_BY and ORDER_INITIAL. I tried using DECODE function in order to convert it but I am stuck there.
Solution Tried (2)
SELECT ru.ORDERED_BY,
       al.ORDER_INITIAL,
       DECODE(ru.ORDERED_BY, (ru.ORDERED_BY != al.ORDER_INITIAL), ru.ORDERED_BY,
                            (ru.ORDERED_BY = al.ORDER_INITIAL), al.AUTHOR_NAME)results
FROM REQUESTED_AUTHORS ru, AUTHOR_LIST al;

What I intend on doing is changing the data with are similar to the other but keep the different data as how they are.
Meaning that the data as shown below are to be kept the same and not converted as there is nothing for it to convert to.
+-----------+
| ORDERED_BY|
+-----------+
|  JonJey   |
+-----------+
|   Admin   |
+-----------+
| Tech Assit|
+-----------+
|  Dr.Ob    |
+-----------+

My Question:
How may I write a query to convert the similar data and keep the different data?

A: You need an Outer Join (another reason to avoid old-style joins):
SELECT  ru.*,
   -- if there's a match return AUTHOR_NAME, otherwise keep ORDERED_BY
   COALESCE(al.AUTHOR_NAME, ru.ORDERED_BY)
FROM REQUESTED_AUTHORS ru
LEFT JOIN AUTHOR_LIST al
ON al.ORDER_INITIAL = ru.ORDERED_BY;

A: Use left outer join here
SELECT  ru.*, nvl( al.AUTHOR_NAME , ru.ordered_by)
FROM REQUESTED_AUTHORS ru, AUTHOR_LIST al
WHERE   ru.ORDERED_BY =  al.ORDER_INITIAL(+);


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I love banana bread, but it's one of those things that I never really make because you really need to use super soft bananas for it and I've usually already used them all up by then. I've been really craving some banana bread lately though, so I purposely bought some bananas and left them for a week so that I could make this. And it was so perfect for a little Easter Sunday afternoon snack!
I don't really like baking cakes and stuff with flour, and much prefer a gluten free version – I find them a lot lighter. So I searched through my recipe books for a good gluten free version and found this one by Hemsley + Hemsley's book The Art of Eating Well. I made a few changes though, so I thought I'd post my adapted version here, because it was delicious!
1. Preheat the oven to 170ºc and line a loaf tin with buttered baking paper. Soak the dates in 5 tbsp boiling water.
2. Mash 3 of the bananas with a fork in a large bowl to a pulp, then add in the cinnamon, vanilla, eggs, bicarbonate of soda, lemon juice and a pinch of salt and mix well. Remove the stone from the dates and mash them to a paste with the boiling water.
3. Add in the ground almonds, ground flaxseed, walnuts, milk and date puree along with the melted butter to the bowl with the rest of the ingredients and mix well.
4. Spoon the mixture into the loaf tin then slice the 4th banana in half lengthways and push into the batter facing up. Cook on the middle shelf for 1hr 10 mins or until a skewer comes out clean. If the loaf starts to burn on top, cover with tin foil for the last 20 mins or so.
5. Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin, then remove, slice up and serve warm or at room temperature with some butter.
This is my fave banana bread recipe and it's so so easy to make too! As there's no sugar or preservatives in the banana bread, it will need to be stored in the fridge for a few days. You can also slice it up then freeze it to keep it longer. Then grill it to warm it up as needed. I'd love to try making them in little muffin tins too, to just grab and go.
Let me know if you make them!
Mmmm, this recipe sounds delicious! I love banana bread and used to make it all the time since it's a fairly healthy treat, but haven't recently. I just might try out your recipe this weekend.
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