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Carbon Dioxide Sensors in 2 Urban Areas Registered Big Drop in Emissions During COVID-19 Pandemic
Scientists show they can reliably track changes in urban emissions by directly measuring CO2 in the air above cities.
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Carbon dioxide emissions in Los Angeles fell 33% in April of 2020 compared with previous years, as roads emptied and economic activity slowed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study in Geophysical Research Letters. In the Washington, D.C./Baltimore region, emissions of carbon dioxide, or CO2, dropped by 34% during the same period.
The study was led by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Notre Dame.
While the emissions reductions are significant, the method that scientists used to measure them may have the greater long-term impact.
In both locations, scientists had previously installed networks of sensors on rooftops and towers to monitor the concentration of CO2 in the air. They used the data from those sensor networks to estimate the drop in emissions.
This might seem an obvious way to estimate emissions, but this is not how it's usually done. Most cities estimate their emissions by tallying up the effects of activities that cause emissions, such as the number of vehicle miles traveled or the square footage of buildings heated and cooled. These are called "bottom up" methods because they are mostly based on activities on the ground.
This new study demonstrates that "top-down" methods, based on measuring the concentration of CO2 in the air, can produce reliable emissions estimates. Scientists were able to test those methods when emissions suddenly dropped due to COVID-19.
"This was a completely unanticipated experiment, and one we don't ever want to do again," said lead author and JPL data scientist Vineet Yadav. "But our results show that we were able to detect the onset of emissions reductions to within a few days."
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Scientists have been developing top-down methods for measuring CO2 emissions for several years. "This study shows that the technology has matured enough to produce reliable results and can be put into operation," said NIST scientist and co-author Kimberly Mueller. That would give cities an important new tool in their efforts to reduce emissions.
Top-down estimates are difficult to achieve because most of the CO2 in the air above cities is not from local emissions. Most of it is there naturally, and some is emitted outside the city's borders and comes in on the wind. The trick is to figure out how much of the CO2 in the air above the city was generated locally.
"My Ph.D. adviser used to describe the atmosphere as a big cup of coffee," said Mueller. "You've added cream, and you're trying to unstir the coffee to see where and when you put the cream in."
To unstir the atmospheric coffee, scientists used data on wind speed, direction and other factors. This allowed them to estimate where within a city the emissions originated and how large they were.
Though difficult to achieve, top-down measurements have several advantages. First, they can provide relatively quick feedback on whether efforts to reduce emissions are working. If a city changes traffic patterns or increases public transit, for instance, top-down estimates can provide data on whether those efforts actually lead to reduced emissions.
"This study shows that the technology has matured enough to produce reliable results and can be put into operation." —Kimberly Mueller, NIST scientist and co-author
In addition, a recent study, also co-authored by Mueller, indicated that U.S. cities often underestimate their emissions when using bottom-up methods alone. Another recent study showed that combining bottom-up with top-down methods increases accuracy. (Both studies were partly funded by NIST.)
"Accurate measurements are key to any strategy for managing greenhouse gas emissions," said James Whetstone, leader of NIST's greenhouse gas measurements group and a co-author of the study. "That's the only way to know if you are making progress toward your goals."
NIST, NASA and other research partners are using the sensor networks in Los Angeles and the Washington, D.C./Baltimore region to develop and test top-down methods as a way of achieving more accurate emissions estimates. This research project focuses on cities in part because cities account for a large and growing share of the world's CO2 emissions.
The 33% and 34% emissions drops in Los Angeles and the D.C./Baltimore region represent reductions relative to the average April emissions of the previous two years. The researchers used three different methods for detecting the change in emissions based on atmospheric measurements, all of which detected the drop occurring at the same time.
"These independent statistical tests on different pieces of the puzzle gave consistent results," said Notre Dame computational scientist and coauthor Subhomoy Ghosh. "This gives us confidence in the findings."
In addition, the methods appeared to work well in both locations, despite very different environmental conditions. In Los Angeles, relatively clean air comes in off the Pacific. D.C. and Baltimore, on the other hand, regularly receive emissions from cities and power plants to the west. Also in D.C. and Baltimore, emissions models have to account for the effects of spring, when plants turn green again and start pulling CO2 from the air. Los Angeles experiences less seasonal variation in uptake by plants.
"These methods were robust enough to work in very different settings," Mueller said. "The fact that these methods worked in both locations mean the results were not a fluke."
Paper: V. Yadav, S. Ghosh, K. Mueller, A. Karion, G. Roest, S.M. Gourdji, I. Lopez-Coto, K. R. Gurney, N. Parazoo, K.R. Verhulst, J. Kim, S. Prinzivalli, C. Fain, T. Nehrkorn, M. Mountain, R.F. Keeling, R.F. Weiss, R. Duren, C.E. Miller and J. Whetstone. The impact of COVID-19 on CO2 emissions in the Los Angeles and Washington DC/Baltimore metropolitan areas. Geophysical Research Letters. Published online June 7, 2021. DOI: 10.1029/2021GL092744
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'Green' activists are planning a demonstration at Tate Modern in London this Sunday to protest at the art gallery's 20-year sponsorship links with BP.
The intended sit-in is timed to mark the first anniversary of the explosion on the oil giant's Deepwater Horizon platform, which killed 11 men and leaked millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico.
The protestors' anger would be better directed if they joined cause with Tate Modern to urge the Chinese government to release dissident artist Ai Weiwei, a symbol of the many the Beijing regime have been banging up for questioning its authority.
Ai's Sunflower Seeds installation in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall provides a focus to remind the world that capitalism may be now shaping China's economy, but freedom of expression remains suffocated by the country's ruling Communist Party.
In any case, Tates Modern and Britain are right to take BP's money, as does the British Museum, the Royal Opera House, and the National Portrait Gallery. If the oil company hoped to win respectability by such largesse then it has been sorely mistaken.
I'm sure if the same activists were around when Sir Henry Tate was presenting his art collection to the nation, some would reject the offer because the philanthropist's fortune was based on sugar, which contributes to obesity and heart disease.
It hardly makes sense to refuse support for the arts from almost any legal quarter at a time when the Coalition government is wielding the costs axe over our cultural heritage. There will always be something to disapprove of with any patron of the arts – almost by definition. How did they come by so much money they can afford to give it away?
Sometimes it backfires as with case of the London School of Economics accepting Colonel Gadhafi's bungs. But I say take the money and run exhibitions.
We'll see on Sunday, in a democracy people are free to express their displeasure as with the opportunity to expose BP's 'crimes' in the glare of publicity.
There is so much info out there about so many issues, that re 'protest', it's 'horses for courses'.
BP has a lot of problems in the USA and Russia. There might not be a BP to protest against soon.
Speaking now with hindsight, the actual protest in London was more than just the usual suspects as it included people from the USA's Gulf region who had suffered as a result of the disaster.
The Chinese government's response to your concerns about Ai Wei Wei, would probably be that socially and politically the individual's rights must be subsumed to the greater good of the progress of the people and the nation state; while we in the West value individual human rights as a value more important than anything else. [But not, I suspect when it comes to the crunch!].


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Q: Should I write a unit test for a simple interaction with RxJS Let's say we have a simple class that emits a new event to RxJS subject on window.resize event. Pay no attention that perhaps it's too complicated. The key thing is this class emits some event.
        export class ResizeService {
          private resizeSubject = new Subject();

          public onResize(): Observable<Window> {
            return this.resizeSubject.asObservable();
          }

          constructor(private eventManager: EventManager) {
            this.eventManager.addGlobalEventListener('window', 'resize', (e) => {
              this.resizeObject.next(<Window>event.target)
            })
          }

          private onResize(event: UIEvent) {
            this.resizeObject.next(<Window>event.target);
          }
        }

The question is, speaking of unit tests for this class, should we check if new event, that we emit to RxJS subject is actually going to be received by the client, that called method onResize. Something like this:
it('should emit a value', fakeAsync(() => {
     let subscriptionWorks = false;
     fireWindowResizeEvent(new Event({width: 600; height: 400});
     resizeService.onResize().subscribe(() => subscriptionWorks = true);
     expect(subscriptionWorks).toBeTruthy();
  })
)

And then in case if some developer change onResizeMethod to this, the test is going to fail:
public onResize(): Observable<Window> {
  return this.resizeSubject.asObservable().skip(10);
}

A: What I think you are describing is actually an integration test between your ResizeService and your client. So no you do not. No need to unit test that.

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Q: Does PostgreSQL need VACUUM or ANALYZE schedule to make use of indexes? When creating indexes on PostgreSQL tables, EXPLAIN ANALYZE followed by an SQL command shows which indexes are used.
For example:
EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT A,B,C FROM MY_TABLE WHERE C=123;

Returns:
Seq Scan on public.my_table  (cost=...) <- No index, BAD
And, after creating the index, it would return:
Index Scan using my_index_name on public.my_table (cost=...) <- Index, GOOD
However, for some queries that used the same index with a few hundred records, it didn't make any difference. Reading through documentation, it is recommended that either run ANALYZE or have the "Autovacuum" daemon on. This way the database would know the size of tables and decide on query plans properly.
is this absolutely necessary in a production environment? In other words, will PostgreSQL use the index when it's time to use it without need to analyse or vacuum as an extra task?

A: Short answer "just run autovacuum."  Long answer... yes, because statistics can get out of date.
Let's talk about indexes and how/when PostgreSQL decides to use them.
PostgreSQL gets a query in, parses it, and then begins the planning process.  How are we going to scan the tables?  How are we going to join them and in what order?  These are not trivial decisions and trying to find the generally best ways to do things typically means that PostgreSQL needs to know something about the tables.
The first thing to note is that indexes are not always a win.  No plan ever beats a sequential scan through a one-page table, and even a 5 page table will almost always be faster with a sequential scan than an index scan.  So PostgreSQL cannot safely decide to "use all available indexes."
So the way PostgreSQL decides whether to use an index is to check statistics.  Now, these go out of date, which is why you want autovacuum to be updating them.  You say your table has a few hundred records and the statics were probably out of date.  If PostgreSQL cannot say that the index is a win, it won't use it.  A few hundred records is going to be approaching "an index might help" territory depending on how selective the index is in weeding out records.
In your large table, there was probably no question based on existing statistics that the index would help.  In your smaller table, there probably was a question and it got answered one way based on the stats it had, and a different way based on newer stats.


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2018 Longines Rising Ski Stars winners and Swiss siblings Mélanie and Loïc Meillard in Saint-Imier for the visit of Longines' headquarters
The Swiss watch brand Longines was delighted to welcome today in Saint-Imier the winners of the 2018 Longines Rising Ski Stars Mélanie and Loïc Meillard for a visit of the company's headquarters. Accompanied by Longines Vice President and Head of International Marketing Juan-Carlos Capelli, the Swiss siblings and world-class skiers had the opportunity to discover the various stages of the exciting process of the production of a Longines watch, as well as the brand's museum, which retraces the brand's fascinating history through the ages.
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Q: Run a background task with asp.net mvc core I am working on an asp.net mvc core 2 application.
I want to run a kind of cron task in background on my application which launch something every 10 minutes.
I have wrote a console application to do this but i am wondering if there is a way to put this code directly in asp.net mvc core project (Startup.cs ?)

A: In ASP Core, you use IHostedService
See:
Implement background tasks in microservices with IHostedService and the BackgroundService class

A: It should be the same with the console application. There is a main function in an asp.net core application. Also, you can put it in StartUp.cs.
The only issue is if you are hosting your application in IIS for example. Usually after sometimes without incoming request, your application will be put in to sleep mode (killed) and so does your background task. So you need to verify it carefully.

A: Adding something to your Startup.cs is a way this could work.
You can implement your job like that:
public class YourCronService: IHostedService
{

    public Task StartAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
    {
        Task.Run(TaskRoutine, cancellationToken);
        return Task.CompletedTask;
    }

    public Task StopAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Sync Task stopped");
        return null;
    }

    public Task TaskRoutine()
    {
        while (true)
        {
            //Do what ever you want to do all 10 Minutes

            //Wait 10 minutes till next execution
            DateTime nextStop = DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(10);
            var timeToWait = nextStop - DateTime.Now;
            var millisToWait = timeToWait.TotalMilliseconds;
            Thread.Sleep((int)millisToWait);
        }
    }
}

After implementing your service you just have to add the following Line of Code into your Startup.cs right into the ConfigureServices method:
services.AddSingleton<IHostedService, YourCronService>();

If your doing it this way you should defenitly check if your server is "always on". The job won't be executed if your server is in standby-mode. An good example herefor would be an Auzure Web App. If your web-app isn't used in a while it will set into standby-mode until the next request unless you put the "always on"-feature on.

A: I have been able to do this in MVC Core with HangFire.
Hangfire
I added Nuget Packages:
Hangfire.AspNetCode, HangFire.Console and HangFire.SqlServer
Configure Services:
services.AddHangfire(x => x.UseSqlServerStorage(connectionForHangFire));

Configure:
app.UseHangfireDashboard();
app.UseHangfireServer();


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Nardini, Pietro: Sonata in mi minore n. 5 "Noseda", per due flauti e violoncello (With Parts)
Composer(s): Pietro Nardini
Edition: Da Vinci Edition, TMT-Tesori Musicali Toscani
Format: A4 - Paperback
Genre: Chamber
Instrumentation: Cello, Flute
Period: Classical
Nardini, Pietro: Sonata in mi minore n. 5 "Noseda", per due flauti e violoncello (With Parts) quantity
SKU: DVTMT 20661 Category: Da Vinci Edition
Pietro Nardini
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Cello, Flute
Pietro Nardini: (b Livorno, 12 April 1722; d Florence, 7 May 1793). Italian violinist and composer. He displayed an early musical talent and received his first lessons in the town of his birth. In 1734 he was accepted as a pupil of Tartini in Padua and soon became his favourite student (according to Leoni and Burney). He then undertook an intensive programme of teaching and giving public and private concerts, for which he often went abroad for long periods. In 1760 he was in Vienna at the wedding festivities of the crown prince; from October 1762 until March 1765 he served at the court in Stuttgart under the direction of Jommelli, returning to his own country only for short visits; in 1765 he went to Brunswick, and in May 1766 he returned to Livorno. Two years later he was appointed solo violinist, and later music director, at the chapel of the court of the Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany in Florence, where he remained until his death. The Florentine orchestra was made up of eminent musicians, including Campioni and Dôthel, who helped raise the musical and cultural level of the town: Nardini, for example, was a close friend of the poet Corilla Olimpica-Maddalena Morelli, and was himself a member of the Arcadia under the name of Terpandro Lacedemone. His one absence from Florence was during Tartini's final illness, when, according to Burney, he cared for the dying maestro with true filial affection and tenderness.
Nardini was famed not only for his orchestral playing but also for his solo performances, which he gave until the 1790s. He performed at the court of Ferdinand III of Bourbons in Naples, in Rome at the Gonzaga residence and in Pisa in the presence of Emperor Joseph II in 1784. His compositions reflect his abilities as a performer. He was noted for his perfect technique, excellent bow control and a superb sound. Leopold Mozart heard him play in 1763 and remarked: 'The beauty, purity and evenness of his tone and his cantabile cannot be surpassed'. He was particularly famed for his performance of adagio movements, which were more suited to his lyrical rather than dramatic nature. According to Schubart, he managed to move even the most insensitive listeners by the deep emotions expressed so effortlessly and naturally. His compositions, accordingly, combine two traits typical of the Italian style in the 18th century: cantabile and passionate writing in slow movements and fluency in fast ones.
It is difficult to establish a chronology of Nardini's works, which include larger-scale works and chamber music for flute, strings and harpsichord. Stylistically they seem to fall into three main periods. 12 violin sonatas and four violin concertos, all unpublished, and the six sonatas op.5 and concertos op.1 date from about 1760. The overtures, harpsichord sonatas and Adagios brodés were composed about 1765–6, while the six quartets, other violin sonatas and the flute concertos were written after 1770. The sonatas show the influence of Corelli and Tartini, and mainly follow the sequence slow–fast–fast. The tonality remains the same for all three movements, which normally have a bipartite structure. The first allegro is often bithematic and the most developed, whereas the last movement is usually a dance, rondo or set of variations. The adagio movements, which are generally in free form, are the most lyrical. The concertos, although influenced by Tartini, are written in the order fast–slow–fast. Less well known are Nardini's works for flute, which reveal his excellent knowledge of the instrument and display the same deep emotion found in his works for the violin. His overtures were much influenced by Jommelli, while the simple and musically attractive harpsichord sonatas are indebted to Alberti and Pasquali. The string quartets differ most from Tartini's works in their structure, phrase syntax, thematic invention, development of ideas, dynamic contrast, characterization of parts and emancipation of the basso continuo. Nardini's disciples included Gaetano Brunetti, Cambini, Campagnoli, Giulini, Gozzi, Lucchesi and Manfredi in Italy and Joseph Agus, Thomas Linley (ii), Pichl and F.W. Rust abroad.


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Tobacco packaging is projected to post a negative 1% volume CAGR over the forecast period to reach 45.5 billion units in 2019. The 'blind market' and other restrictive measures, under discussion by the Russian government, will damage sales. One of the main factors impacting tobacco packaging will be the increase in the minimum price of a pack of cigarettes. A new draft law sets the minimum price of a pack at RUB0.55 from 2015. The price will be adjusted each year, informed by changes in excise taxes and inflation. According to Veronika Skvortsova, the Minister of Health, excise taxes will increase by an average of 10%, annually. This will force consumers will switch to less expensive cigarettes, primarily imported from Kazakhstan and Belarus. As a result the cheapest packaging solutions will be demanded to allow manufacturers to restrain prices, especially given the economy stagnation in the country.
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SoftBank Group CEO Son's stake rises to more than a third
1 min read . Updated: 08 Dec 2022, 02:41 PM IST Reuters
SoftBank Corp's logo pictured at a news conference in Tokyo, Japan. (REUTERS)
Hit hard by steep share price declines in its portfolio companies and a regulatory crackdown by Beijing on Chinese tech companies, SoftBank has launched a series of large buybacks
SoftBank Group Corp CEO Masayoshi Son's stake in the company has risen to 34% - a key threshold level that gives him more control. Son now owns 34.2% of the tech investment giant, up from 32.2% as of the end of September, the company said, declining further comment.
A shareholder in a Japanese company with more than a one-third stake is able to block special resolutions brought by other investors at shareholder meetings.
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Son's stake has grown in percentage terms as a result of a recent series of massive share buybacks, a SoftBank spokesperson said.
Hit hard by steep share price declines in its portfolio companies and a regulatory crackdown by Beijing on Chinese tech companies, SoftBank has launched a series of large buybacks.
It announced a buyback of up to 400 billion yen ($2.9 billion) in August which followed its November 2021 buyback announcement of up to 1 trillion yen or almost 15% of its shares. It completed a 2.5 trillion yen buyback in May 2021.
"It's a good thing for shareholders in general.
This (higher stake) is another reason for Mr. Son to work even harder to drive the company's growth," Ichiyoshi Asset Management director Mitsushige Akino said. "If things are the other way around and he was shedding his stake, that would not be very good." Bloomberg, which first reported the news, said the increase in Son's stake has taken him closer to the point where he could mount an effort to take the conglomerate private.
SoftBank has considered going private, sources have previously told Reuters. Son has often complained about investors valuing the company well below the combined market value of its investment portfolio which includes a 14.6% stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd . Ichiyoshi Asset Management's Akino said he believes there is a good chance of a management buyout.
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Glenn Grundtisch was born in Buffalo on October 29, 1926 and passed away on April 14, 2019 after a short illness. He was a life-long resident of Buffalo, NY and a graduate of Bennett High School. After which he joined the Army and served honorably during the 2nd World War between 1944-1946 as a logistics technician on the Island of Japan.
Following his service he attended Canisius College on the GI Bill and graduated as a member of the DiGamma Honor Society. He was a student at the University School of Business administration and went to become a Vice President of Hewitt Robbins, where he was instrumental in developing the hosing that was used to provide in-air aeronautical fueling.
In the early 1970s when the Buffalo Sabres were awarded a National Hockey League franchise Glenn and a business partner decided to build and operate Ice Hockey Rinks. In 1972 he developed Leisure Rinks in Orchard Park , NY initially and then purchased Holiday Twin Rinks in Cheektowaga, out of bankruptcy in 1975. Both of these rinks have been privately operated continuously since he took over. These are the only 2 of over 30 private ice rink facilities initially proposed that remain in operation without government assistance.
Glenn was also an avid Golfer, Tennis player a lover of political discussion as well as a Master Bridge Player. He was also the former chairman of the CEF (Christian Education Fund) and has always been a strong advocate of school choice, and a parents right to choose where their children are educated. Glenn extended his love for education to his children, grand-children and great grand-children and his legacy of fairness and love will remain strong for generations.
You and I graduated from Neumann together and were in a number of classes together. I just wanted to offer my heartfelt condolences for your loss. Your Dad sounded like an amazing man, and I never knew that he was involved in attempts to save the school. I drive by the building everyday to and from work, and it always brings back memories. Your Dad definitely made his mark and left his mark. May you find comfort in faith and family during this difficult time.
I am so very sorry for your loss. Your Dad was much more to me than the person who gave me my first job. From the mid-1970's, making $20 per week (and sometimes a roll of hockey tape and a hockey stick, wooden Northland model RTX19K) and through the later years as one of his first Zamboni drivers. Your Dad helped put me through continuing education and helped me achieve the career I've had for the last 35 years or so. I met my wife at the rink and my family and I have continued the passion of the sport of hockey as a volunteer for a very long time. Your Dad instilled in me the work ethic I still have and the commitment to help others. He will be sadly missed by all and I will always remember my roots and the person that allowed me to plant my first seed.
Glenn and I, along with Patrick Lucey and Harold Boreanaz worked on a Committee trying to save Neumann High School from a sudden closure by the Buffalo Catholic Diocese in 1979.
basically ignored! And the School closed! Tim Weppner was a Senior, and Matthew a sophmore. My sons John, Mark and Andrew were planning to attend Neumann also. It was a sad time for our family and I know Glenn felt the same.
The Courier Express Newspaper for Feburary 26, 1979 carried our committee's work and Individual pictures of the four of us on the Front page of Sunday's edition !
One of my fondest memories was going with my sisters and all of the Dongian cousins to the spend the day at the cottage. Uncle Glenn convinced me Jersey cows produced only chocolate milk. Took my parents some time to make me stop believing the story. He will be missed.
I am very sadden to hear of the loss of your father. He was a good man. I got to know him in 1975 when ECC started hockey and I came to him to buy ice time for the college's team. That started a friendship I enjoyed for over 40 years. Negotiations with him for ice time was an "Experience". I would always tell him how poor the school was, we didn't have that much money and had other sports at the college that needed money too! Then it was Glenn's turn. He spoke so eloquently about the troubles of running two rink establishments, that he was trying to give his employees enough money to feed their families, that he had personal financial concerns for his family's welfare and on and on, that after a hour of negotiations, not only did I concede to his ice time charge but told him to add a few more dollars to help his buisness out! I missed those days with him. Glenn was a true gentleman and I know he will do a good job running those ice rinks in heaven.
To the Grundtisch Family, Sorry for your loss, Our thoughts and prayers are with your family. Remember and cherish all the good times and memories. The Suburban Emergency Room Crew.
We are so sorry for the loss of a great and beloved Father, Grandfather, Grampy, Husband, Friend, Colleague . He will always be known for his infectious smile. He will never be really gone but treasured in the hearts of all those who knew him as his memory will be a blessing to all those who knew him and an inspiration to those who come behind him.
So sorry for your loss. He was such a special person.
Hilton Head with the cousins!
Where is the on button ?
A very proud Grampy with his beautiful grand-daughter.
Survivors include his wife Marcia Studer Grundtisch. 3 sons, Gregory, Mark & Paul. Pre deceased by a son Gary and daughter Cynthia. Step father of Gregory Graesser, Catherine Brogan, Ann Finn, Christine Gertner. Also survived by 15 grandchildren & 3 great grandchildren. Pre deceased by his first wife Maureen Donigan Grundtisch a sister Lois and brother Donald. A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered Monday April 22nd, 9:30 am at Christ the King RC Church Snyder NY, followed by Military Honors.


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Q: how to set value for translateX with css in typescript I am using typescript to set a style of a element dynamically, this is the code looks like:
export function showTranslateButton(e: MouseEvent){
  let translateBtn = document.getElementById("translate-btn");
  if(translateBtn){
    translateBtn.style.width ="40px";
    translateBtn.style.backgroundColor="red";
    translateBtn.style.height="50px";
    translateBtn.style.transform.translateX=e.pageX;
  }
}

when I set the translateX value, shows error that:
Property 'translateX' does not exist on type 'string'.ts(2339)

what should I do to set the translateX value? I have tried this:
translateBtn.style.transform="translate("+e.pageX+ ","+ e.pageY+")";

it compile success but the style did not add success, the style did not contain the transform block.

A: I think you should just add "+'px'" add the end of "e.pageX".
Because the value should be a number + the unit (px,rem,precent ...)
Tell me if it helps you or not.


Back in 2012, Captain Brad Arleth of the Spokane Police Department approached Ed Byrnes, a professor at Eastern Washington University. Arleth wanted to know if it was possible to track interactions between police officers and citizens by race. Three years later, the two are ready to present findings from the first five months of data collection. The results are less than flattering for the SPD, but Byrnes and Arleth are optimistic.
Byrnes delivered the analysis of the first five months of data to a room full of local community leaders Tuesday. According to data from March to July 2014, Spokane police officers initiate contact with African Americans and Native Americans at a disproportionately higher rate than their representation of Spokane's population, which is 2.5 percent and 1.7 percent respectively. African Americans and Native Americans are the only two over represented racial groups.
Spokane Police are also more likely to search and arrest those two racial groups than any other. However, there are two findings in the data that are cause for optimism: there was not a disproportionality among racial groups in instances where officers had to use force, and only 4 percent of searches were "officer safety searches." The rest were done leading up to or after an arrest, which is standard protocol, Arleth says.
"This is part of our process for transparency," says Chief Frank Straub. "We need the broader community to help us explore these issues."
Although the overall results showed SPD officers giving disproportionate attention to people of color, many of those in attendance applauded Arleth and Byrnes' efforts. They see the data as the first step in initiating conversations about race and policing.
"I am so proud of living in Spokane and having a police department that's so proactive in addressing these issues that are so critical," says Gloria Ochoa, a local attorney and director of local government and multicultural affairs for the mayor's office. "Other communities are not as fortunate as we are. The numbers don't look good, but if you know what you're working with, it's a starting point."
- African Americans came into contact with police in 6.1 percent of the 7,021 recorded interactions despite comprising only two and a half percent of the total population.
- Native Americans accounted for three percent of police interactions even though they make up less than two percent of the population. For comparison, white people are 87.1 percent of the population, and accounted for 84.6 percent of police contacts.
- African Americans account for 10.4 percent of searches. Native Americans account for 8.4 percent of searches.
- African Americans accounted for 10.9 percent of arrests (despite being only 6.1 percent of total police contacts) and Native Americans accounted for 7.6 percent of arrests (despite being only three percent of total police contacts). For comparison, whites make up 76.4 percent of arrests, but 84.7 percent of all contacts.
- Finally, the study reveals the possibility for optimism as race was not found to be a significant factor in reasons civilians are arrested or searched.
Byrnes began collecting data last March, and plans to release another report that will include a year's worth of interactions this fall. The data is collected through a computer program loaded onto squad car computers each time an officer initiates contact with a civilians and there is at least the possibility of detaining them.
"I just want to make it really clear that the data I present and continue to collect in the future is by no means intended to be an inclusive finding," Byrnes says. "It's always meant to be a stimulator of conversation."


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Q: Can I run a Select query on an SQL dump? Here is my issue. I've a backup system, that creates an SQL Dump from a DB cluster every day. Works fine, yade yade. The cluster died one day and we realized, the sql dump were wrong for the past 1 month. They were created and everything, just outdated data. (no details, this is not the question)
The question is: Is there a way to check if the sqldump really has the most up-to-date data in it? On an sql server, I usually run a select query ordered by the "last_login_at"  and just limit 5, see if the last 5 logins are recent or not. IDK if this could be used with an SQL file.
Any ideas? Thansk !

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Is there a way to check if the sqldump really has the most up-to-date data in it

Short answer: No.
Longer answer: Yes ...
... but only after restoring it into a running mysql instance.
Unless, of course, your dump file is taken in a readable (i.e. SQL Text) format, in which case (with a suitable [text] editor) you can open the dump file directly and search it for the data you would otherwise query.


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Home/Tech/Disclosure of the new release date – Nerd4.life
Disclosure of the new release date – Nerd4.life
Maggie Benson April 8, 2021
DeathlopeArkane's new match expected May 21 has been postponed. The new release date is September 14, 2021. The information comes directly from the development team.
Deathloop Director Denga Bacaba and Technical Director Sebastian Mitton said, "We have made a decision to delay the launch of the Deathloop until September 14, 2021. Our goal is to create a high-quality game and Make sure we respect the ambitions of our Deathloop teamWhile ensuring the safety and health of all Arkan employees. We will use the extra time to achieve our goal: to create an enjoyable, elegant and wonderful experience. "
Then he added:We apologize for the extra wait and thank you for your passion. It is the fuel that stimulates our creativity and motivates us to work hard. We can't wait to show you more about Dithloop. "
Deathlope
Deathloop was expected for 2020, but in August of last year the game was postponed to 2021, and in November the date was set for May. Now, however, the game is again postponed. The new release date has been set, as initially mentioned, on September 14, 2021. Arkan is by no means the only one to experience production delays. For example, The Lord of the Rings Gollum has also been postponed: Here's the new release period.
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Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India or data.gov.in is a platform for supporting Open data initiative of Government of India. This portal is a single-point access to datasets, documents, services, tools and applications published by ministries, departments and organisations of the Government of India. It combines and expands the best features of India government's India.gov.in and the U.S. government's data.gov project.

History
After announcing the launch of the site in June 2011, the site was launched in October 2012. part of the Open Government Initiative  was launched during October 2012, in compliance with the National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP) of India, Gazette notified in March 2012.

According to the preamble of NDSAP, there has been an increasing demand by the community that data collected with the deployment of public funds should be made more readily available to all, for enabling rational debate, better decision making and use in meeting civil society needs.

The policy envisages proactive dissemination of data by Government ministries, departments, organizations.

Overview
The site is based on Drupal Framework, and has four major modules:
 Data Management System (DMS): This facilitates publishing of datasets/applications by authorised users from Ministries/Departments/Organisations.
 Content Management System (CMS): This module is used to update or create content and functionalities for Data Portal India.
 Visitor Relationship Management (VRM): This module facilitates collation and dissemination of feedback/suggestions received on Data Portal India.
 Communities: People with specific interest can connect through online communities.

The product is developed based on the Open Government platform and its source code is available on GitHub.

Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India

Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India  was developed jointly by India & US government as a result of announcement made by President Obama and Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh during the Indo-US Open Government Dialogue  in 2010.

Open data platform is a being implemented in US as their data.gov. In India the platform was further customised by  National Informatics Centre (NIC) in line with the National Data Sharing Accessibility Policy to develop the Data Portal India.

Open data platform is also being offered to other countries. Ghana and Rwanda are also being powered by Open data platform.

See also
 National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy – Government of India
 data.gov
 data.gov.uk
 India.gov.in
 My Gov
 USAFacts
India Data Portal

References

External links
 Data Portal of India
  NDSAP

Open data
Government services web portals in India
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)
Open government in India
Open data portals

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Where are you compared to where you expected to be 2 years ago?
JB: We expected to be released two years ago. [laughs] A lot's changed, really. I guess that depends what you're asking. We I would say throughout last year we sort of knew we would be releasing around this time, we just weren't sure exactly when so we stopped talking about a release date.
Why is that? Would you say it's your lack of experience, or would you keep adding stuff to the game?
JB: Both. Probably more so our lack of experience. We've never done this before. All of us, this is our first real game so… we knew what we were doing as far as making it and we were happy that we were making it and it was solid and people were enjoying it. We just weren't really sure how long it as going to take throughout.
People always say that the last 10% takes the same amount of the time as the first 90%. That's very much been true.
Towards the end of last year we were getting more and more confident about early next year we'd be releasing and then it was February, then it was March and now it's April. We're dead set on that now. April 2nd.
All the stuff about Peter Molyneux [recently] – has that affected you in any way?
JB: No, it's not really affected us. We've read it, obviously, and there's not really much to say. It happened. I would say a lot of Kickstarters have those problems. They say a lot of things and so early on in the development and there's a reason that the big triple-A games, studios, don't talk to people until 12 months before release.
If you were to do an interview with, I don't know, Bleszinski, 6 months into development of Gears of War and then 12 months before release, and you'd compare the answers, everyone would murder him.
Kickstarter is difficult in that way because you have to just guess and assume and stuff changes as you're developing a game. If you were to go in and say stuff during the kickstarter and then just do exactly that, the game wouldn't end up very good. As you're making a game, it's gonna change. It's a creative process.
You guys were very open.
JB: Yeah. I mean, stuff has changed throughout the years. We removed stuff, we've added stuff, we've changed stuff. The thing is, we've just told people exactly what's been going on and I think that's been one of our biggest strengths. We've delayed the game, I don't know how many times, and people seem to not mind because of how transparent we're being. And of course, they have it on Early Access so they can just play it. It's not like we're hiding anything from them. You see it and we tell them exactly what's going on. There doesn't seem to be any problems.
Do you worry more about doing press than you did?
JB: I can understand people's reservations because a lot of people aren't as transparent as us. The level of transparency that we try to retain would probably make some people uncomfortable to start with, so going into press and them asking questions about stuff they don't want to talk about, I can understand that. We've just been completely transparent with everything so I don't mind so much.
Are you looking at eSports at all?
JB: It would be cool. I'm not sure. I have no idea if that's gonna be a thing. It's difficult. I, personally, am a fan of League of Legends, LCS I watch, a lot. Some of the people on the team are big fans of DOTA, Starcraft, stuff like that. So it would be nice to see but I don't know if it's going to be a big enough game for that, to be honest. It could happen.
I mean the thing about all those games is, it happened organically. For the original Starcraft and the original DOTA, it was all very organic. Obviously with DOTA 2 and League of Legends, Valve and Riot are throwing millions of dollars at it. Initially, it was pretty organic. Nor do we have millions of dollars.
Do you think the multiplayer has the depth and balance that could support it?
You look at that picture of the original League from what, 2011? It's like, 12 guys in a room.
JB: We're not going to force it at all.
Certainly we're going to keep an eye on the balance because that's just making the game fun. But yeah, we're not going to get out of our way to try and force eSports. We might host a tournament or two just for fun but we're not going to like, make a league.


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IACHR team rounds up Bolivian assignment
Peru: Boluarte favors moving elections forward, perhaps this year
Evo declared "persona non grata" by Peru's Congress
Chilean government in contacts with Mapuches to find solution to the conflict
Wednesday, January 16th 2013 - 05:57 UTC
President Piñera sent two ministers to talk with the Mapuche people
The Chilean government started contacts in an attempt to ease tension and find solutions to the escalating conflict with the indigenous Mapuche in the southern province of La Araucania which has seen killings and properties torched.
Interior minister Andres Chadwick and Social Development minister Joaquin Lavin are holding meetings in Temuco, capital of the conflict area, with lawmakers, Mapuche mayors and councillors, farmers, relatives of victims and the business community.
The conflict dates back to the nineties when Mapuches, the largest indigenous group of Chile started claiming land they consider ancestral and is currently managed by private farmers. The worst incident occurred early January with the deaths of wealthy landowner and forestry businessman of German descent Werner Luchsinger and his wife Vivian Mackay after a hooded gang set their home on fire. There has been an only arrest so far.
Mapuches complain that they are the only community to which the Chilean governments apply the ferocious "Anti-terrorist law", a legacy of the Pinochet regime.
"We don't want to generate great expectations because we know there are many pending issues, from years back and we can't resolve them overnight" said Lavin speaking to the media in Temuco. He added that one of the issues addressed was the acknowledgement of indigenous peoples' rights in the Chilean constitution and the political participation of Mapuches, whom have no representation in Congress.
"I think the government has a great opportunity to negotiate not only with the organized groups but with the whole Mapuche community", said Juan Carlos Reinao who is a local councillor and a surgeon trained in Cuba. He belongs to a group which the Chilean government considers 'subversive'.
Another Mapuche leader and mayor of a local town, Fernando Huaiquil demanded 'dialogue guaranties', a withdrawal of Carabineros who have Mapuche communities 'under siege' and to dismiss those members of the Police involved in the killings of Mapuches.
However the Chilean Minister of Interior said the government does not accept conditions to begin discussions but is confident they will continue talking next week and sent a strong signal. An invitation originally discarded, was finally accepted by the government and it will be sending a representative, as an observer, to a summit of Mapuche communities next Thursday.
Following the 4 January deaths the Chilean government reinforced police patrolling in the area where there has been a string of similar attacks on property, and at the same time announced it will apply the anti terrorist law against those found guilty.
President Piñera also announced that he would reactivate the so called 'Hinzpeter Bill', a controversial public order measure to protect government and private property which has been strongly criticized by student organizations, the media and some constitutional experts.
According to Chile's Attorney General Office data published in a Santiago daily the number of reported crimes in La Araucania linked to the Mapuche conflict increased 77% in twelve months: from 169 in 2011 to 300 last year.
Categories: Politics, Latin America.
Tags: Andres Chadwick, Chile, Hinzpeter Bill, Joaquin Lavin, La Araucania, Mapuches, Sebastián Piñera.
ManRod
"Mapuches complain that they are the only community to which the Chilean governments apply the ferocious "Anti-terrorist law""
Well, what curious coincidence!
Their organized movement is the only one left in the country, that acts as a terroristic movement, like seen last week @ killing and burning alive innocent and peaceful families like the Luchsinger.


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Q: 3-Tier .NET applications resources A friend of mine doesn't have much experience on 3-Tier applications design and development and he would like to broaden his knowledge on this subject. Can you point me to good online resources or books on it? It would be great if they started from the principles. I was thinking of this tutorial as a good starting point.
What resources do you best like?
Cheers.

A: You could have a look at
http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/aspnet/Three-Tier-Architecture-With-ASP-NET.aspx
and
http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2006/08/13/3_2d00_tier-architecture-wtih-asp.net-2.0.aspx
MSPress have quite a few books for the .NET MCP Exams as well that would cover this.

A: He might want to start with the following book:
Fundamentals of N-Tier Architecture (.NET 2.0)

And then look at the following book for more up-to-date info:
WCF Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ
Book cover http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ckQayArLL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

A: You can look inside this site...
https://stackify.com/n-tier-architecture/#:~:text=N-tier%20architecture%20is%20also,functions%20physically%20and%20logically%20separated.

A: I don't have the impression the link you mention is telling something about 3-tier (or N-tier).
Maybe you are mixing the definitions of N-layer and N-tier? These have different meanings.
A very good explanation about N-tier can be found on this site: What is N-Tier architecture?.
N-layer is not the same, but I would start by understanding N-layer before examining N-tier. Since the link you mentioned is ASP.NET, I think the tutorials on using layers in ASP.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 3.5 found on Imar.Spanjaars.com are very interesting.

A: The very right place for you is the series of articles written by Imar Spaanjaars. You can find the series here and here.
http://imar.spaanjaars.com/QuickDocId.aspx?quickdoc=476
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Here are the list souvenirs I'd love to receive from Japan. Also I gave them to my girl friends in the states and they loved it!
You forgot to buy it during your trip? You still have hopes! Some of them can be bought online.
Isshindo Honpo offers various designs like kabuki, KISS, Cats, and all kinds of Anime. Research what you gal likes before hand and you will hit her spot!
Girls love fruity stuff! Japanese plum wine is really good and I personally love it too. If your girl doesn't like her booze too sweet, add tonic and big chunk of ice. For wiskey lovers, there are Yamazaki plum wine definitelly is a catch.
No doubt, you can buy Uniqlo a lot cheaper in Japan. I recommend getting Heattech for people from warm weather and AIRLIST for cold weather. I personally love Heattech because it gets super cold in Japan and it keeps me extremely warm like I'm wearing heat packs all over my body.
You can easily buy it in your country too, but it wouldn't be as cheap as in Japan.
You can find authentic Japanese home cooking books in English! If your gal is into cooking or food, this is a great choice.
This cool wine bottle covers got many deign prize and looks great for many different occasions. I brought this for wedding dinner for a gift (of course with a bottle of wine in it), and people loved it.
This is one thing you CANNOT buy other than Japan. Prices are between roughly 24USD to 60USD depending on designs.
Isn't this just cool and fun? When I don't know what the person likes, I just get this fun tissue case. It's about 15 USD.
Who hates Kit Kat? It seems like a real basic souvenir for a long time but new flavors keeps coming out.
Sendai Choco is only sold at Palace Hotel Tokyo. It's chocolate plate looks just like Japanese paper (washi). Of course it taste good. Who doesn't like beautiful paper that taste delicious.
When you visit Asakusa, you can find chopstick stores in Nakamise which is by Senso-ji. The one I go to is MORITA. It takes time to finish writing names so be sure to go there in the early time of the day or you might have to come back on the next day.
Yojiya is a brand from Kyoto that all of Japanese ladies know. You can buy it at the airport theses days, so it's a good last minute buy.
Even thought she can't read Japanese, pictures will entertain her just fine. For edgy street fashion, get NYLON or VIVI. For girlie gals, SWEET, GIRL, or CAMCAN. For lady-like grownups, GISELE, GINGER, BAILA or GINZA are the best choice.
You don't have to go to book stores to get it because any convenience stores sells.
I hate hello kitty stuff because that's all I got for gift when I was kid but I'm adding this in the list because all of my girlfriends love it.
You can simply go to any Saneio stores and find Japan only goods. There are several cool Hello Kitty stuff for grown-ups like these cameras, bangles and aprons so.. I guess it's not that bad.
I hope this list help you to please your girlfriends!


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The Lifelong Feud Between the Sisters Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine
The rivalry between the actresses encompassed their childhood, careers, love lives and even the Academy Awards.
Sara Kettler
Photo: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images
Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine were born 15 months apart and both found success as actresses in Hollywood's Golden Age. But instead of bringing them together, these similarities exacerbated a rivalry that sprang up in childhood and lasted a lifetime. Yet even though they were rivals who became estranged, Olivia and Joan managed to respect and even admire each other — in a feud, you always care what the other is up to, of course.
Olivia and Joan were childhood rivals
Olivia and Joan didn't get along as children — younger sister Joan felt Olivia was favored by their mother. Olivia once said, "Our biggest problem was that we had to share a room." Though they did occasionally play together, their clashes were frequent, featuring slaps (Joan) and hair-pulling (Olivia). Joan also accused Olivia of tearing up her outgrown clothes because she didn't want them to go to her younger sister, and also of breaking Fontaine's collarbone when she tried to pull her older sister into a swimming pool.
A profile of the two in LIFE magazine in 1942 revealed one low point in the relationship: "At the age of 9, Joan decided she would kill her sister. She thought it all out carefully: she would let Olivia hit her once, and then again, in silence. But after the third blow, she would plug Olivia between the eyes." Joan's plan was to plead self-defense, but fortunately for American cinema, she didn't go through with it. Instead, the rancor between the two sisters would simply take different forms as they grew older.
Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine at a party in Saratoga, California, circa 1934
Joan initially lived in Olivia's shadow in Hollywood
When Joan returned home from spending a couple of years with their ex-pat father in Japan, she found her sister on the verge of a career in Hollywood and decided she wanted the same thing. Olivia instead tried to send Joan to finishing school. Olivia later admitted to Vanity Fair, "I suppose the way I saw it then was that I wanted Hollywood as my domain, and I wanted San Francisco society to be hers." But Joan insisted to her older sibling, "I want to do what you're doing."
So Joan came to live with Olivia and their mother in Hollywood. But Olivia, who was under contract with Warner Brothers, didn't want Joan to work at the same studio as her. And as she believed there was room for only one de Havilland in Hollywood, she encouraged her sister to use a different last name. Joan didn't like this, but when a fortune teller advised her that she needed a stage name ending in "e" to achieve success, she began using Fontaine, her stepfather's name.
Yet the name change remained a source of bitterness for Joan, who later said, "Joan Fontaine. I don't know who she is." She also hated having to be her sister's chauffeur, driving her to and from the studio, even though Olivia had given Joan somewhere to live in Los Angeles as she tried to launch an acting career.
The sisters became Hollywood rivals
While Olivia found success co-starring with Errol Flynn in Captain Blood (1935) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Joan flopped with Fred Astaire in A Damsel in Distress (1937). Joan did manage to marry one of her sister's old boyfriends, tying the knot with Brian Aherne in 1939. At the time a woman getting married was seen as a way of completing her life, so marrying before her older sister was a coup.
Olivia's career reached new heights when she played Melanie in Gone With the Wind (1939), and Joan's took off when she starred in Rebecca (1940). Still, the sisters didn't let the other taste success without claiming some credit. Joan said that when she'd been turned down for Melanie for being "too stylish," she'd suggested her sister for the part. And when Olivia's Warner Brothers contract kept her from starring in Rebecca, she agreed Joan would be perfect for the role because her sister was blonde and co-star Laurence Olivier had dark hair.
The sisters' rivalry played out in front of the world at the Academy Awards ceremony in 1942. Olivia and Joan were both nominated for Best Actress, Olivia for Hold Back The Dawn and Joan for Suspicion. Olivia was expected to win, but Joan received the Oscar instead. She then seemed to ignore her sister's congratulations when she went to collect her statuette.
When Olivia was triumphant herself on Oscar night in 1947, winning the Best Actress Academy Award for To Each His Own, she, in turn, snubbed her sister. But this wasn't exactly payback for Joan's earlier snubbing — instead, it was payback for Joan's sniping. After Olivia had married novelist Marcus Goodrich, Joan had said, "All I know about him is that he's had four wives and written one book. Too bad it's not the other way around."
Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland during Marlene Dietrich's party in September 1967 at the Rainbow Room in New York City
Photo: Ron Galella/WireImage
Olivia and Joan were estranged when Joan died
Olivia and Joan had some closer moments in the years to come, such as when they attended a party for Marlene Dietrich in 1967. But when their mother became ill with terminal cancer, Olivia went to take care of her while Joan was on tour with a play. After their mother died in 1975, Joan accused her sister of not helping her see their mother, and of not inviting her to the memorial service (though she did attend).
In Joan's 1978 memoir, No Bed of Roses (which Olivia dubbed "No Shred of Truth"), she didn't hold back from sharing her resentments toward her sister, such as the "paralysis" that overcame her when she won her Oscar, giving her flashbacks to their childhood animosity. In an interview with People to promote the book, Joan said, "You can divorce your sister as well as your husbands. I don't see her at all and I don't intend to." She also declared, "I got married first, got an Academy Award first, had a child first. If I die, she'll be furious, because again I'll have got there first!"
At an Oscars reunion in 1979, the two were placed on separate ends of the stage. Ten years later, Joan changed hotel rooms when she found out she was booked next to Olivia's. But, contrary to what Joan had expected, Olivia expressed her sadness after her sister's death in 2013.
In an interview for her 100th birthday in 2016, Olivia addressed her relationship with Joan, saying, "A feud implies continuing hostile conduct between two parties. I cannot think of a single instance wherein I initiated hostile behavior." Olivia also stated she had sometimes been "defensive," and added, "On my part, it was always loving, but sometimes estranged and, in the later years, severed."
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