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Lawsuits are piling up. Hundreds of military veterans are filing suit against manufacturing company 3M. They claim their hearing loss was caused by defective ear plugs sold by the company.
Combat noise is a hazard for soldiers in training or fighting on the front lines on the ground, at sea and in the air. To protect their hearing, between 2003 and 2015 the United States government issued 'dual ended combat arms ear plugs' made by 3M, but hundreds of soldiers say the ear plugs didn't work, and they're paying the price.
"They were supposed to seal. Well, the veteran thought they were sealed. They created the illusion that they were hearing fine in the ear when they weren't," said Attorney Jay Miller, of the Peter Angelos Law Firm.
Miller filed its first lawsuit against 3M in February.
"We represent hundreds of veterans who have been traumatized for life who have permanent hearing loss," Miller said.
The individual lawsuits come after 3M agreed to pay the U.S. government $9.1 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit last summer. The government claimed 3M knowingly sold the military defective ear plugs. There was no determination of liability.
Retired 1st Sgt. Matt Eversmann is not a party to the lawsuits, but has provided some expert advice on hearing loss. He knows what it's like. He constantly turns up the sound on the television to hear it.
The decorated war hero was portrayed by Josh Hartnett in the 2001 film "Black Hawk Down." The battle of Mogadishu, Somalia, on Oct. 3, 1993, is where Eversmann says he lost 60% of his hearing. He said they only had old-fashioned foam earplugs then. As a result, he wears hearing aids in both ears.
Eversmann is a motivational speaker and advocates for veterans on the issue of hearing loss.
"The battlefield is a loud place. It's a loud place to work. Gunfire is loud. Machine-gun fire is loud. Bombs are loud. Mortars are loud and (improvised explosive devices) are loud, to the point where your molars will shake at the sounds you experience on the battlefield," Eversmann said.
11 News contacted 3M about the allegations. The company replied with a statement, saying, "3M has great respect for the brave men and women who protect us around the world and their safety is our priority. We deny this product was defectively designed and will defend against the allegations in these lawsuits through the legal process."
Soldiers report hearing loss and tinnitus, as well.
"It's constant, annoying, like bad staticky radio turned up really loud on both sides of your head," Eversmann said.
Dr. David Eisenman, associate professor and director of the Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery Program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, said the area that houses the cochlea is an essential organ for hearing. He said damage to the area is not always evident right away, and can initially be apparent.
"Years down the line, there are changes that were initiated at the first bout of noise damage that will then present progressive loss where you have difficulty understanding people," Eisenman said.
Eversmann says he was given the 3M ear plugs during service between 2006 and 2007, but since his hearing was already damaged in 1993, he felt there was no point in suing. But he believes it is important to encourage others to get involved.
"If they wore the defective hearing protection, they should throw their hat in this and have it investigated, because all you're going to get from the VA, at best, is a new hearing aid," Eversmann said.
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French jobless total hits new record
Nearly 337,000 more people are out of work in mainland France than there were when Hollande was elected in May 2012.
French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday he was sticking to a target of cutting down unemployment by year-end, after fresh data showed that the number of jobless hit a new all-time high in April.
In a stark illustration of the challenge facing the Socialist president, the 3,264,400 registered job seekers in April marked two uninterrupted years of monthly rises and a 1.2 percent increase on March.
"Despite this data, despite what it means for many French people individually or for their family, I maintain the goal of reversing the unemployment trend by year-end," Hollande told a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
In Germany, despite a jump in May due partly to bad weather, unemployment is close to a reunification low, while in France it stands at the worst level since records began in 1996, highlighting the growing divide between the euro zone's two major economies.
To make things worse, young people have been the hardest hit by the April rise in unemployment in France, with a 2 percent monthly increase in the number of job seekers under 25. Just over one in six job seekers in France is now under 25.
Hollande, whose poll ratings have fallen faster than for any modern French president as the economy slid into recession, is pushing alongside Germany and other euro zone countries to speed up an EU plan to devote 6 billion euros for youth employment for in 2014-20.
GOVERNMENT HOLDS TO PLEDGE
The government is holding to its pledge to turn around the trend by year-end despite multiple forecasts to the contrary, hoping that the economy will start to pick up in the second half of 2013 and that subsidised jobs will help keep a lid on unemployment.
"We believe it may take between 6 and 12 more months to see the trend changing," said Dominique Barbet, economist at BNP Paribas.
"However, this rising unemployment is also the most effective incentive for the government to deliver the structural reforms that the European Commission asked for yesterday, and also the main reason why the public opinion is more open than ever to such usually painful reforms."
The European Commission, the OECD and France's own jobless benefit fund all see unemployment continuing to rise through 2014. The EU executive said on Wednesday it expects French unemployment to reach 10.6 percent this year after 10.2 percent last year and keep increasing to 10.9 percent in 2014.
Looking at the last five years, April was the 53rd month out of 61 showing a rise, highlighting France's chronic job crisis as the economy fell back into recession in the first quarter and jobless figures are being driven up by industrial layoffs.
During the past two years of uninterrupted rise alone, unemployment rose by over half a million in France's near-66-million strong population.
The labour ministry data is the most frequently reported jobs indicator in France, although it is not prepared according to International Labour Organisation (ILO) standards nor expressed as a percentage of job seekers in the work force.
France will publish first-quarter ILO data on June 6.
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The Unusuals is a comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC from April 8 to June 17, 2009 in the U.S. and Global in Canada. The pilot and first episode were written by Noah Hawley, a former writer and producer for Fox's Bones. An ABC press release described The Unusuals as "like a modern-day M*A*S*H" that "explores both the grounded drama and comic insanity of the world of New York City police detectives, where every cop has a secret". Its premise elaborated:
Detective Casey Shraeger (Amber Tamblyn) has just been transferred to the NYPD's Homicide unit from Vice and is instantly thrown into a setting of bullets and bodies. As she begins her new assignment, Casey finds that the squad is full of secrets, which serves her well, since she's keeping a few of her own.[1]
The initial series order was for 10 episodes. Show creator Noah Hawley announced via his Twitter account in mid-May 2009 that ABC would not be bringing the show back for a second season.[2]
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Amber Tamblyn as Detective Casey Shraeger, scion of a wealthy New York family who tries to hide her background
Jeremy Renner as Detective Jason Walsh, an experienced and respected detective with a painful past partnered with Shraeger after his partner is murdered
Adam Goldberg as Detective Eric Delahoy, Banks' witty partner
Harold Perrineau as Detective Leo Banks, who has an extreme paranoia of dying at age 42
Kai Lennox as Detective Eddie Alvarez, the oddball of 2nd Precinct who speaks of himself in the third person and lacks social skills
Joshua Close as Detective Henry Cole, a young detective who has a dark history
Monique Gabriela Curnen as Detective Allison Beaumont, one of the few female detectives at 2nd Precinct
Terry Kinney as Sergeant Harvey Brown, Commander of the 2nd Precinct
Susan Park as Dr. Monica Crumb, the 2nd Precinct's medical examiner
Det. Casey Shraeger transfers from Vice to NYPD's Second Precinct with a mission: to clean up Sergeant Harvey Brown's station at his request. Her new partner is Jason Walsh, whose previous partner was murdered the same night Shraeger was assigned to him. Shraeger was chosen mostly because Brown believes her to be incorruptible, since she comes from a wealthy family and chose to work for the police from a sense of doing good, rather than for money.
As soon as she meets her new partner, they start a quest for Walsh's ex-partner's killer. He was known to be corrupt, but he was also investigating others at the Second Precinct, particularly Det. Henry Cole who once lived by another name and robbed an armored car. Cole's partner, Det. Allison Beaumont, is later revealed to be Walsh's girlfriend.
Besides Shraeger, Walsh, Beaumont and Cole, the station has three more detectives: Leo Banks, who wears a bulletproof vest everywhere he goes, because he is afraid he will die at age 42, as his father, grandfather and uncle did; Banks' partner Eric Delahoy, who has a brain tumor (causing hallucinations) but refuses to notify anyone, for fear that treatment could kill or cripple him; and Eddie Alvarez who sees himself as a "lone wolf" and talks about himself in the third person.
The show's cancellation left Delahoy's fate unresolved.
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"Pilot" Stephen Hopkins Noah Hawley April 8, 2009 (2009-04-08) 101
Det. Casey Shraeger was working in vice until a fellow officer is murdered. She is quickly moved to homicide to help investigate the murder, and find out if he was crooked or not. Casey begins to find out some interesting facts about her new co-workers.
"Boorland Day" Constantine Makris Noah Hawley April 15, 2009 (2009-04-15) 102
A family of criminals has the detectives running all over the city until Walsh and Shraeger discover their motives and negotiate a stop to all the crime. Brown has Shraeger investigate Walsh's past because his former partner turned out to be a dirty cop. Meanwhile, Cole's former partner in crime returns, making it even more difficult for Cole to continue to hide his criminal past.
"One Man Band" Jamie Babbit Alexi Hawley April 21, 2009 (2009-04-21) 103
Banks and Delahoy run into trouble on an undercover sting while Casey discovers that a personal favor throws a wrench into another case.
"Crime Slut" Peter O'Fallon Bob DeLaurentis April 22, 2009 (2009-04-22) 104
Beaumont tries to keep her financial woes a secret after she's caught in the middle of a pawn shop robbery.
"42" Matt Earl Beesley Sarah Watson April 29, 2009 (2009-04-29) 105
Cole comes face to face with his hidden past when a fellow detective is shot, while Banks tries to defy fate by stopping a string of bus robberies.
"The Circle Line" Constantine Makris Gary Lennon May 6, 2009 (2009-05-06) 106
Walsh and Shraeger try to help fellow officer Lewis Powell (Corey Stoll), who believes he may have killed someone after he passed out during a night of drinking and woke up covered in blood with his gun missing. A dead woman is found in the hotel room Powell stayed in, but Walsh and Shraeger uncover that Powell is being framed by the woman's ex-boyfriend Earl Bentley (Ari Fliakos), who is arrested. Meanwhile, Banks and Delahoy learn they're both victims of identity theft when Banks' identity thief turns up dead. Delahoy confronts his identity thief, Bob Ryder (Eric T. Miller), but lets him go when he sees that Bob turned his life around. Delahoy's brain tumor causes him to hallucinate his high school girlfriend Karen Delmonte (Conor Leslie). He reveals his condition to Crumb and she agrees to treat him.
"The Tape Delay" Rosemary Rodriguez Treena Hancock & Melissa R. Byer May 27, 2009 (2009-05-27) 107
Casey and Walsh end up hunting down a wealthy businessman they were assigned to protect, while Banks and Delahoy chase an 87-year-old man on a crime spree.
"The Dentist" Matt Earl Beesley Jorge Zamacona June 3, 2009 (2009-06-03) 108
Alvarez is left in charge of the squad and promptly loses a thief and the evidence money to a massive collar. Banks locks himself inside his apartment, only to witness a murder outside.
"The Apology Line" Constantine Makris Noah Hawley June 10, 2009 (2009-06-10) 109
Shraeger and Walsh investigate a drug store owner's murder; Delahoy convinces the medical examiner to give him an MRI.
"The E.I.D." Ed Bianchi Danny Zuker June 17, 2009 (2009-06-17) 110
Beaumont and Cole go undercover to find a criminal who breaks into apartments and shoots adult films, while Shraeger finds herself invested in trying to help a serial accuser.
Home releases[edit]
The entire series was released on DVD on April 6, 2010, exclusively though Amazon. All ten episodes can be found on Netflix (via DVD only, not streaming), Hulu, Amazon.com, and free of charge on Crackle.
^ The Unusuals ABC Medianet (March 23, 2009) Retrieved on 3-23-09
^ The Unusuals Won't Do Time on ABC's Fall Schedule Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sunday, May 17, 2009) Retrieved on 5-20-09
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If you follow this blog, you know Scott has been a football fan for as long as he can remember. He talks about some of his earliest memories being of sitting on his father's knee as Coach Sigler reviewed films of his team's games. It's no accident that the Galactic Football League grew out of Sigler's scifi and sports soaked brain.
My stepdad Jake (aka my Fairy Stepfather™ for how much goodness and grace he brought to our family) is also a Jets fan. More than that, he's a fan of the whole game. He is a true blue member of the Gang Green Nation (the Jets Fandom) but is also the type of fan who is happy to watch whatever game is on TV once his team is done.
And just about as soon as it began, my nascent football fandom was crushed. Or, more precisely, broken just below the knee. A quarter into the game, New York Giant Lawrence Taylor crashed into Theismann on the 42 yard line at RFK Stadium. The hit broke the two bones in Theismann's lower right leg, with one of them breaking through his skin. It was a career-ending injury for the Washington Redskins' quarterback, and unsurprisingly put the brakes on my interest in football.
While I don't think anyone could blame me (I was a 14-year-old girl convinced that she would someday meet and marry John Taylor from Duran Duran afterall) I think I'm just as surprised as anyone that I remember so much of that moment so vividly.
It would take 24 more years for me to come back to the sport through the Galactic Football League. I ended up bonding with my Pops not over football, but rather over science fiction, and his abiding love for Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, which certainly helped when the football/scifi crossover THE ROOKIE came into my life.
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By Silk Threads Team Awards Boutique Business Customers Indian Fashion Indian Weddings New at Silk Threads November 10, 2017
By Jordan Jarrett, Plano Profile Magazine
Ruby Bhandari; photo by Cori Baker
HOW RUBY BHANDARI TURNED HER PASSION INTO A BUSINESS
I arrive at the Dallas-based Silk Threads studio in the middle of a crazy week; they are preparing for an impending charity gala and a fashion show in Las Vegas. Nevertheless, Silk Threads founder Ruby Bhandari greets me with a huge hug as if we are long-departed friends and treats me to the most divine Indian whipped coffee I've ever tasted.
Ruby quickly returns to pulling silk and sequined gowns off the rack for a woman with a distinct TV voice and personality: LeeAnne Locken, one of the Real Housewives of Dallas and the emcee for the eighth annual Silk Threads Charity Gala.
As LeeAnne twirls in one of the exquisite gowns, Ruby looks on with a seasoned eye and smiles.
"I used to think that my design inspiration only came from flowers, gardens and architecture," Ruby says. "Now, everything is interesting. From the river flowing over rocks, to the carpet we're standing on that I've had for 12 years. Suddenly that motif may be exactly what I need on a sleeve."
Ruby points out a gold elephant statuette decked in tiny jewels. It stood almost unnoticed on a powder blue shelf in Ruby's studio for 20 years until one day, it inspired her to design a long, white silk jacket with glistening embroidered elephants parading around the hem.
Such artistry is woven into every gown, jacket, sari and shoe at Silk Threads. The prints, the fabric, the textures and the embroidery are all authentically Indian.
Silk Threads began 25 years ago as the answer to an unmet need among second-generation Indians in America who were growing up without access to the designs of their homeland. The business has now extended its line of fusion fashion to anyone who wants something a little different—something fabulous.
"We Dallasites like our big hair and makeup," Ruby says. "We're a little more flamboyant than most. My clients want to look good and be different."
THE BEGINNING OF SILK THREADS
And it all began in the trunk of a college student's car. In 1989, as Ruby prepared to go to the The University of Texas at Austin, her father asked what she planned to do for a living. She initially said social work.
Her father had other plans; he said she could study engineering, law, pre-med or business. They compromised on a degree in finance and accounting.
"I've always wanted to help other people," Ruby says, "and I've always had a passion for fashion."
Ruby met her husband, Raj Bhandari, when she was a freshman. At that time, there were very few Indian clothing companies in the U.S., so when they travelled to India to meet Raj's family, Ruby designed some clothes of her own. She assembled them with the available materials that her future mother-in-law had showed her in a tour of New Dehli, and brought the finished garments back to home to the States to sell.
She began selling the clothes out of the trunk of her car, all while finishing school.
"We lived in a very small, old apartment. We paid about $300 a month," Ruby recalls with a grin. "Soon, we bought a brand new white Lexus Sports Coupe. I put the clothes into that trunk. It looked so much prettier in presentation, and everyone thought 'Wow, she's only been in this business for two years, and she's already successful!' My trunk was empty at the end of every week."
Later, however, when sales dwindled, she realized she needed new customers. Ruby and her husband went to a tiny local Indian grocery store with a rack of clothing.
"My first weekend, I only sold three outfits. And my clothes smelled of Indian Masalas," Ruby says. "I went home in tears. My bubble had burst … but my husband was so amazing."
Raj said to her, "We're going back next weekend, and I will stand with you." The second weekend they sold five outfits. Sales slowly grew, and finally they exploded.
On one of the couple's later visits to India, Ruby started working with her sister-in-law to open a fabric company and manufacturing units in India.
"We knew there would be a lot of trade involved," Raj says. "However, we underestimated the amount of effort we needed to do it."
Every garment imported to the U.S. needs a label classifying the material and where it's from. In 1991, when Ruby sent her first shipment of clothing back to the U.S. it was halted at customs in DFW. Of the 240 garments she shipped, none of them had the required tags.
"My stuff was going to be stuck at the airport for 10 days. Storage fees were $50 a day. At that time, that was a lot of money."
A sympathetic customs officer gave Ruby the idea to buy her own labels and write on them with a permanent parker.
"My wonderful friend Gauri helped me, in 25-degree temperature [inside the warehouse]!" Ruby says. "We had our gloves on and our needles and markers in hand. We hand-wrote 240 tags: '100% silk, made in India, dry clean only.' We'd take off our gloves and stitch a few tags. We'd put our gloves back on so we could feel our fingers again, then we'd stitch some more. I'll never forget that."
SILK THREADS, ALMOST THREE DECADES LATER
Today, Silk Threads has full dress, tunic and bridal lines (all of which have their tags!) and serves a wide variety of clients across the country. Ruby travels extensively throughout the year, and her products can be found in over 400 stores. Silk Threads even has a show room at the Dallas World Trade Center.
Their success has enabled the Bhandaris to help people—just like Ruby had always wanted.
In October, Silk Threads celebrated their 8th annual charity gala and, as a result, they have been able to set up a UTD scholarship for the arts to support enterprising young artists.
"If you have passion for something, you can probably go for it. But having the correct knowledge, the correct management and a plan are so important," Ruby says. "There's so much unhappiness out there. The way to create happiness is to follow your passion."
Ruby Bandari was one of the featured designers at Fashion X Dallas; photo by Cori Baker
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Home News Scottish Government urged to act over "rogue" electricians
Scottish Government urged to act over "rogue" electricians
Newell McGuinness
THE prospect of regulating the electrician profession in Scotland may have moved a step closer after SELECT and representatives from Unite the union met with Keith Brown, MSP, Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Jobs and Fair Work, to discuss the threat of "rogue" electricians.
SELECT had led a long-running campaign to have electricians officially recognised as professional people and minimise public safety risks by cracking down on untrained individuals posing as qualified tradespeople. They want the Scottish Government to make it an offence to work while unqualified to do so.
The trade body said Mr Brown has "agreed to explore what might be able to be done in relation to protecting the title of electrician and empowering consumers when they make decisions around the provision of electrical works in their homes".
Newell McGuinness, managing director of SELECT led the delegation to see Mr. Brown. He said, "We have worked constructively with Government officials over many months, assembling evidence and producing a detailed evidence report. We have also canvassed opinion and met with universal support.
"With Unite, we have pointed out that regulation will stimulate the apprenticeships upon which we set so much store and there is already in place a respected long established self-regulatory structure which can be built upon when protection of title is achieved."
Bernard McAulay, national officer of Unite the union added, "Safety is at the forefront of everyone's minds in the electrotechnical industry and it is vitally important that people can be assured that the electricians they employ are fully qualified and compliant with all regulations currently in force."


Sauté onions over medium heat about 10 minutes.
Stir in water and broth mix, and bring to boil.
Smoothly combine flour and milk, and add to saucepan.
Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil and thickens.
Add 3⁄4 cup (175 mL) cheese, stir until melted.
Ladle into 4 oven-proof soup bowls, sprinkle with buttered croutons, and top with remaining cheese.
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The JMBG protests were demonstrations in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina between June–July 2013. The acronym JMBG stands for Jedinstveni matični broj građana (), the identification number granted to citizens.

Due to political bickering along ethnic lines, the assignment of JMBG was allowed to expire in February 2013 by the politicians representing the ethnic groups that constitute Bosnia. As a result, children born after February were not assigned a JMBG number and, therefore, could not obtain medical cards or passports.

Etymology
The protests have been called Bebolucija () and the JMBG protests.

Background
In May 2011, the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the law on Unique Master Citizen Numbers (JMBG), which is needed to request passports and other administrative documents, was unconstitutional, due to the fact that one of its articles did not contain the new names of a handful of municipalities in the Serb entity, Republika Srpska.

The Serbs perhaps desire to have the Serb-majority Republika Srpska entity half of the country secede from Bosnia and become its own country.

The Court ordered the Bosnian Parliament to amend the law within six months. But as the six-month period elapsed and no decision was reached by parliament members, the Court suspended the law altogether in January 2013.

As a result of the blocked legislation, babies born after February 2013 did not have passports or health insurance because those demand a personal ID number.

Protests

The protests started on 5 June 2013 when a group of citizens gathered in front of the Parliament building to protest. As the protest grew, thousands more arrived, determined to stay until the issue was resolved. By 11 June, an estimated 10,000 protesters were present around parliament.

Continuing protests urged lawmakers to pass a law to prevent such situations in the future by passing legislation to put in place a new identification system. The government began issuing temporary identification documents, but protesters demanded a more permanent solution.

Young mothers with babies without personal documents pushed their carriages between protesters and special police forces, while Sarajevo cabdrivers blocked streets around the building.

At the midst of the protests, on 16 June 2013, three-month old Berina Hamidović died as a result of being denied entry into neighboring Serbia for emergency medical care because the infant couldn't get a passport due to not being granted an identification number. Protesters held a candle-lit vigil outside parliament to mourn her death and demand change. Protesters set the deadline of 30 June 2013 for a new law.

Reaction
Amnesty International released a statement saying the "delay in adopting a new law in Bosnia and Herzegovina, assigning personal identification numbers to the new born citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina constitutes an illegal attack on the country's citizens' basic human rights."

See also
2014 unrest in Bosnia and Herzegovina

References

External links

Protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina
2013 in Bosnia and Herzegovina
2013 protests

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Past four years hottest on record, data shows
World running out of time to combat climate change, warns meteorological organisation
by Fiona Harvey, The Guardian
Global temperatures have continued to rise in the past 10 months, with 2018 expected to be the fourth warmest year on record.
Average temperatures around the world so far this year were nearly 1C (1.8F) above pre-industrial levels. Extreme weather has affected all continents, while the melting of sea ice and glaciers and rises in sea levels continue. The past four years have been the hottest on record, and the 20 warmest have occurred in the past 22 years.
The warming trend is unmistakeable and shows we are running out of time to tackle climate change, according to the World Meteorological Organization, which on Thursday published its provisional statement on the State of the Climate in 2018. The WMO warned that, on current trends, warming could reach 3C to 5C by the end of this century.
"These are more than just numbers," said Elena Manaenkova, the WMO deputy secretary general. "Every fraction of a degree of warming makes a difference to human health and access to food and fresh water, to the extinction of animals and plants, to the survival of coral reefs and marine life."
The world has committed to keeping warming to no more than 2C above such levels, with an aspiration to limit rises to 1.5C, which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has said will cause the dieback of coral reefs, sea-level rises and extreme weather in many regions.
Greenhouse gas levels were also recently found to be at record levels, and a UN report this week said the world must triple its emissions reduction efforts to stay within 2C – and to stay within 1.5C, those efforts needed to be five times greater.
The IPCC found that continued rises in greenhouse gas emissions over the next 12 years could result in a breaching of the 1.5C limit.
On Monday, the Met Office said summer temperatures in the UK could be 5C hotter by 2070, making this year's heatwave the norm for the future, while winters could get much wetter. London could become increasingly vulnerable to storms and flooding owing to sea-level rises, with the water level in the capital likely to rise by 1.15 metres by the end of the century.
The WMO found the extent of Arctic sea ice in 2018 was much lower than normal, with the maximum in March the third lowest on record and the September minimum the sixth lowest.
The oceans have been absorbing record or near-record amounts of heat at certain periods. The year started with a weak La Niña event but by October there were signs of a return to El Niño conditions, which can raise global temperatures further.
There were a greater number of violent storms than usual, including 70 tropical cyclones in the northern hemisphere, compared with the long-term average of 53. Storms brought devastation to the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, Vietnam, the Korean peninsula and Tonga, while hurricanes Florence and Michael caused substantial damage in the US.
Wildfires raged in Greece, Canada, California and other areas, while floods devastated Kerala in India and displaced more than 1.4 million people. Japan also experienced serious flooding, as did east Africa.
Petteri Taalas, the secretary general of the WMO, a leading authority on climate change, said: "We are not on track to meet climate targets and rein in temperature increases. If we exploit all known fossil fuel resources, the temperature rise will be considerably higher.
"We are the first generation to fully understand climate change and the last generation to be able to do something about it."
Manaenkova added that every effort to reduce greenhouse gases and the impacts of climate change was worthwhile. "Every bit matters," she said, citing the harm done by temperature rises to every aspect of life, including economic productivity, food security, glacier melt and water supplies, and the future of low-lying islands and coastal communities.
Jens Mattias Clausen, Greenpeace's head of delegation at the UN climate change conference (COP24) in Poland, said: "The evidence, if we needed any more, continues to stack up. The record-high heatwaves, record-low Arctic sea ice, above average tropical cyclones and deadly wildfires are an alarm bell impossible to ignore. We're in the midst of a climate crisis and this meteorological report spells out the worsening threat in startling clarity. It's no longer our future that is in peril; our today is at risk.
"The recent IPCC report also showed that we still have hope. We have 12 years to move the needle and any leader who comes to COP24 unprepared to step up and take action needs to read the WMO report and understand it's time to stop talking and start acting on climate – while we still have the chance."
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Dumfries and Galloway CouncilFestival boosts local economyA festival run in the Borders by a farmer and a council employee is expected to generate more than £1.5million for the local economy.
Brian SouterStagecoach shortlisted at awardsTransport group Stagecoach has been nominated for three top honours at the National Transport Awards.
Dumfries and Galloway CouncilINBUSINESS: Ready for take off?The new government is shaking up the Scottish Enterprise network. Will it work?


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He have a number of photos posted on our Lewiston New York Photography page. We'd love to know what you think!


'The relationship between supply and demand fascinates me. What comes first, the climate that produces the desire for a certain colour, or the decision by the industry to create it? And how do we understand the relationship between local identity and global industry? While all Topshops are pretty much the same, why, for example, does the window display on The Strand, London, feel more 'calypso' than the store in Preston?' Becky Shaw, 2008.
Click here to view Becky Shaw's performance lecture for the 'Local Colour' project.
Click here to view Becky Shaw's artist page.


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Euphaedra persephona is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Douala region  of Cameroon.

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Butterflies described in 1983
persephona
Endemic fauna of Cameroon
Butterflies of Africa


Moving to a new country can be a challenging experience. Some people will face culture shock, many will meet foreign credential and employment challenges, and a few may become overwhelmed navigating new experiences. Many will also face blatant racial discrimination.


Recently, Brenda Herring from our Highland Home branch, was contacted by Polly DuBose, Career Coach for Crenshaw County Schools, to participate in a resume writing contest for the Seniors @ HHS.
Brenda Herring awarded these students with their checks February 28, 2017. Certificate Awards will be presented at Class Day for the contest.
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A NYC au pair agency dedicated to connecting families with warm, experienced, college-educated au pairs from the Southern US.
As my local friends start to contemplate summer plans, I wanted to call attention to Essie LeBlanc Au Pairs, a boutique NYC au pair agency dedicated to connecting families with warm, experienced, college-educated au pairs from the Southern United States.
Founded and managed by Brooklyn mom, Michelle Culhane, Essie's rates are some of the best in the industry. The women that Essie works with are mostly sorority members from southern colleges. To be considered for placement, they must have childcare experience, a 3.0 GPA, pass a drug and background test, and have impeccable references.
In addition to careful screening and placement of au pairs with families, Essie creates a community for the girls and helps them get acclimated to the city. No one wants a homesick au pair!
Michelle passionately described to me the girls she works with, how they bond with their families, fall in love with New York City, and have gone onto medical, dental, and law schools.
Essie LeBlanc's year-long and summer au pairs become available starting in May. For more information, visit essieleblanc.com.


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Reds vow to overthrow Duterte
Dec. 19, 2017 ZEA IO MING C. CAPISTRANO
Guerrilla fighters of the New People's Army prepare their formation at the start of the ceremony for the release of its two captive police officers in a village in Lupon, Davao Oriental on Friday, August 26, 2016. (Earl O. Condeza/davaotoday.com file photo)
DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Tensions rise between the Philippine government and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) as its armed wing on Monday, December 18, said it vows to remove the country's leader from power.
"The revolutionary forces join the broad united front of all peace-loving citizens in the country to oppose and oust Duterte and install a government respectful of justice, genuine democracy and freedom," Rigoberto Sanchez, spokesperson of the New People's Army (NPA) Merardo Arce Command said.
In a statement signed by Sanchez, the NPA described the president as a "drug-crazed monster," the "country's number one terrorist", and a "madman."
The NPA also referred to the first Mindanaoan president as the "Adolf Hitler of the South" who is "capable of exterminating millions of Filipinos should he continue to sit in power for the next four and a half years."
Sanchez said they are not deterred by the threats and escalating human rights abuses in Duterte's regime.
The revolutionary forces, he added, "join the broad united front of all peace-loving citizens in the country to oppose and oust Duterte and install a government respectful of justice, genuine democracy and freedom."
"It is his madman's dream to place the country under a perpetual police state, desperate as he really is, to hold on to power as a US puppet and chief representative of his cronies of the big bourgeoisie and landlord class in the country," said Sanchez.
Duterte, who last year likened himself to Hitler, signed on November 23 Presidential Proclamation No. 360 which formally terminated the peace talks between the government and the communists. On December 5, Duterte also signed Presidential Proclamation No. 374 which declared the CPP-NPA as a terrorist group.
The President criticized the communists for "insincerity" as their attacks against government troops continue.
In a speech on Monday, Duterte likened the NPA to the ISIS.
"I'm sick and tired of talking to you. Almost pareho kayo ng ISIS (You are almost similar to ISIS). It's an empty thing. There is no ideology except to destroy and kill," he said. (davaotoday.com)
Adolf Hitler of the South, Communist Party of the Philippines, Liberation Movements, merardo arce command, Rigoberto Sanchez, rodrigo duterte, Southern Mindanao
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Duterte's statement is unstateman's like. He talk like Hitler but of the 3rd world class, cruder and bandit like.


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Published Jan. 7, 2019 at 02:06PM
La Grande in 2018: warmer, less snow than usual
Last year was 1.5 degrees hotter than average
Max Denning
From intense heat and smoke-filled air to snow and ice, La Grande and its neighbors in Northeast Oregon saw a wide range of weather in 2018, but in general, the year was warmer and had significantly less snow than average.
According to statistics provided to The Observer by the National Weather Service in Pendleton, La Grande came close to setting records for the highest temperature and the driest July to September stretch since NWS began recording the data in 1966.
La Grande reached a scorching 106 degrees on both Aug. 10 and 13, which is the second-highest temperature ever recorded in La Grande. On July 13, 2002, La Grande hit a record high of 108 degrees. Those extreme temperatures in August were coupled with smoke filling the skies from fires in Southwest Oregon and Northern California, leading to multiple heat and smoke advisories.
Accompanying the torrid heat was an extremely dry three-month stretch from July to September. The NWS recorded zero measurable precipitation in July and just a trace in August and September, 0.21 and 0.06 inches, respectively. James Smith, observation program leader for the NWS station in Pendleton, said 2018 had the third-driest July to September stretch, with only 1991 and 2005 being drier over that three-month span.
Even with the inordinately dry summer, La Grande still saw slightly more precipitation in 2018 than the 1981 to 2010 averages that the NWS has calculated. The average is 16.52 inches of precipitation, and La Grande had 16.65 inches in 2018. This was less precipitation than 2017, which saw 18.07 inches, but more than 2016's total of 14.52 inches.
Although the year had roughly average amounts of precipitation, snowfall in La Grande was less than half the average from 1981 to 2010. Average snowfall for the 30-year period is 15.3 inches, and La Grande had only 7.7 inches of snowfall in 2018.
La Grande's significantly below average snowfall is perhaps not surprising considering the year's high temperatures, low temperatures and average overall temperatures were all warmer than average.
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In the first battle we played "Scenario 3: Control the River". We lined up, shot each other across the river, although I started shooting first, and probably because of that, I won. It wasn't a very interesting game.
In the second battle we played "Scenario 4: Take the High Ground". The scenario was more interesting than the three previous ones, because I started the battle with an outpost far forward of the rest of my troops.
In this battle I had a Mortar unit, something that was missing from the first battle. The Mortars fired over the top of the hill at the approaching Germans. This added a slight touch of interest to the game.
The deciding factor was that Tanks take half damage when on hills. Presumably this is to simulate Hull Down position. I benefited from this as Chris approached my outpost. But he concentrated on my Tank unit, destroyed it, and drove his two tank units onto the hill, and shot up my Mortar unit. That is when the Tank on a Hill rule went a bit weird. Hull Down makes sense if the enemy is ahead and on the flat. For the second half of this battle I had infantry on the hill with the German tanks, and to either flank to boot, but Chris still received the Hull Down bonus and wiped me out. It seems, in One Hour Wargames, the best troops for mountain warfare are tanks. Sigh.
Thank you for the report. I really appreciate your site/blog. Your battle report hit the nail right on the head. Not a big OHW fan. For me it's Rapid Fire although I hope with their new release they use either a 1d10 or 2d6 for their charts as this will give more needed modifiers. More importantly they go from 6 gun classes to maybe 10.
I have to agree with your assessment, Steven. The OHW rules, to me, don't "scratch the itch" that Mr Thomas' other rules seem to scratch (Wargaming: An Introduction and Napoleonic Wargaming come to mind). The scenarios in the book are probably more useful than the rules themselves in this instance.
So I should try the other Neil Thomas rules?
Two issues for the WWII rules. The anti-tank guns have a mobile capability that are perhaps more akin to assault guns and since the tanks can take 15 hits (like everything else), I really think that a tank unit needs to be represented by more than 1 model, so that visually it looks more like a platoon that is getting degraded by fire.
The rules are clever in what they can do in two pages, but would be much more-so in 4 to 5 pages and could still be classed as light and fast. For my own money, the mechanisms can rightly be thought of as having have been striped far enough back to still actually work, but too far to give me a satisfactory game.
I agree that 4-5 pages would make them better, and perhaps satisfactory.
I don't understand your point about two models for a tank unit. Please elaborate.
Don't worry Jose, I'm not looking for a Crossfire replacement.
We tried OHW as a variation on DBA. So for ancients and medieval.
The WW2 games were Chris's idea. I thought, if I were lucky, they might make an okay set for operational level games. But I don't think so.
The World War II rules from "Wargaming: An Introduction" have some very ingenious concepts in them (I love how HE fire from mortars, guns, and artillery is adjudicated) and give a decent game IMHO. They have a slightly old school feel to them, but they're slick and they play quickly.
Mr Thomas' Napoleonic rules score big with me as they deliver roughly the same results without as much fuss as other rules, although he leaves the reader to decide on certain things. The Wargaming: An Introduction have Napoleonic and ACW rules in them (as well as Ancients, and Pike & Shot).
My recommendation is to give that book a read through. You may be able to find it at the library without having to buy it?


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Greg's source code navigation tools
Greg's diary
Greg's home page
Network link stats
Greg's other links
This page is a log of an investigation I made of source code navigation and analysis packages in June and July 2005. It will necessarily remain incomplete, but I may update it.
I started the investigation because I was in the position of needing to cut a large program into two halves and insert a clean API between them. To do this I need to get a good understanding of how the control flow works, and I was looking for tools that might help me. Here are the tools I've seen so far, along with references in some cases to people who pointed me at them.
Packages I have investigated
I have at least looked at these packages; there are more below that I have not investigated.
etags
My usual tool is etags, but that doesn't really help show call graphs etags will follow the control flow downwards with the find-tag command (M-. in Emacs). It's useful at times, but a little pedestrian for what I want to do.
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:30:26 -0700
From: Darryl Okahata
cscope will show me all callers for a function. This is closer, but it's still not overly easy to read.
There's also the XEmacs interface to cscope, at sourceforge. I'm not sure how useful it is for you, but it's what I use for browsing (disclaimer: then again, I wrote that interface).
Source navigator
Jeffrey Hsu introduced me to Source Navigator in August 2004. It gives a graphical representation of the downwards control tree for a function. It doesn't seem to be able to go in the other direction, i.e show what functions call a specific function. The FreeBSD port also currently installs in a place you wouldn't expect, and the documentation doesn't match: you need to run the program /usr/local/sourcenav/bin/snavigator I have a bug report against this problem.
From: Evan Dower
doxygen documentation as well. That does fine in a downward direction, but in my case I'm trying to fit an API under the package, so I really need to see what is calling me, and doxygen doesn't do that. Arguably the graphic representation is nicer.
As I understand it, doxygen can be configured to produce both call graphs and called-by graphs.
kscope
I have spent enough time looking at kscope to dedicate an entire page to it. kscope is a KDE wrapper for cscope. KDE programs scare me, with reason: just installing it pulled in 86 (really!) other packages, including Samba and OpenLDAP.
Once I started it, it produced no useful output, and though I haven't given up, the interface turns me off: popups with windows too small to enter text in. It's reminiscent of k3b, with which I had so many problems in June 2005. After installing it, I couldn't get it to do anything useful, but the following day I managed to import some files (you have to specify the names as a subset wild card: * doesn't do anything). It can indeed display an upside-down calling function tree:
Image title: calltree
Dimensions of original: 527 x 466, 18 kB
Show for Thursday, 30 June 2005:
Once again I have this terrible layout; the window is far too small, the text too big, the fields are truncated, I can't find a way to change the default size of the window, and there are not even normal resizing buttons. I've already told it to use smaller fonts, which it does in some places, but not here.
This is the window thrown up after you manually enter the name of the function (bp_wrap_file_write) and click on all the + boxes up to the top level call (in this case, process_connection). But I'm left wondering if it's worth the trouble:
Having to type in the name of the function is a real pain.
Once you do, it gives you a too-small window in an over-large font with only part of the information.
To actually see the call tree, you need multiple mouse clicks per branch.
When you see the tree, it doesn't help you much. You can't get to the function.
In fact, the window contains (rather than displays) more information: it's hidden behind the scroll bars:
Image title: calltree 2
You still can't do anything with it; the corresponding cscope output is more useful, since despite its unfriendly interface, it at least allows you at the sources.
I've never liked eye candy and GUIs for the sake of it, but in this case a GUI would be a good idea. It's sad that it has failed so badly.
Elad complains
Shortly after writing the above, Elad Lahav, the author of kscope, sent me a message complaining that the criticism was unjust. Well, at least he made it clear to me that I could (should) have contacted him. I'll do so in such cases in future.
He sent a number of suggestions, which I left until I had time to explore them completely. I finally started again on 18 August 2005. In case some of the problems might be related to FreeBSD, I tried it on SuSE Linux 9.3 this time.
After installation, which went without problems, I started the program, and it asked me for the locations of cscope and ctags:
I don't know why: they were in the execution path. I selected Find and it started looking for them in the current directory.
Then I discovered the Guess button, but by then it was too late. It wouldn't take a guess, and after restarting it didn't present the dialogue, though I had canceled any change. To actually find the programs, I had to use the which utility:
=== root@deeveear
(/dev/pts/0) /src/BLFS/trunk.trunk/blockpool 48
-> which cscope ctags /usr/bin/cscope /usr/bin/ctags
The next step was to create a project. This was even more of a problem than last time. On the first attempt time it told me that the directory already existed, without specifying which directory. From the help file, it turns out that it tries to create a subdirectory with the name of the project, and this clashed with one of the existing subdirectories. I chose a different name and got:
Reading the help file shows that it wants a full path name; another example of the lack of UNIX-sensitivity. There's also no default for the path name, so when you start in the correct directory you still need to type in its (possibly long) directory name. When I did so, this message went away, so it seems that this error message is another way of saying "You didn't enter an absolute path name".
After that, added the source files to the project and got a transient message saying that a process couldn't be started; but then it claimed:
It stayed like that for a long time, over 10 minutes, with no evidence of any progress. I killed the process and restarted. It didn't know the process. I had to manually search for it with the directory tree tool, after which I got the same messages as before.
I gave up with Linux and went back to FreeBSD, where things went beyond this stage; building the project file was practically instantaneous.
Other observations
Getting images is really difficult: kscope keeps grabbing focus, and since it's full screen, I need to be careful not to move the cursor over a kscope window. I can't decide whether this is a KDE annoyance or a kscope annoyance; I suspect it's partially both of them. Many KDE windows seem to have this feature, but not all, so presumably the application developer can turn it on or off.
For some reason, each time I start a KDE application, it ends up further down and to the right, often going off the bottom right of the screen. I suspect this is an incompatibility between KDE and fvwm2.
cscout
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 11:06:23 +0400
From: Diomidis Spinellis
You could also try CScout. The latest version supports call graphs, including calls to / from / through function-like macros.
Diomidis didn't mention that he's the author. I've tried this. In FreeBSD there's a port, though strangely only for the "stable" version. I created one for the development version. Given that it was developed on FreeBSD, the port was trivial.
CScout looks good. A nit with the documentation: it recommends using the file example/awk.c in the distribution as an example, but it's not there.
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:34:52 -0700
From: Bakul Shah
A program suite called `global' was once part of freebsd which I liked quite a bit. It even created web pages where you can click on function calls to take you to their defn and so on. I believe there was a cross-ref as well (callers of a function). But it has been a while....
From: Gustavo De Nardin
I like Global: /usr/ports/devel/global, http://www.gnu.org/software/global/
a quick usage guide:
gtags
htags
lynx ./HTML
I discover that I have investigated global on a previous occasion. At the time I wrote:
[global] looks something like etags on steroids. It installed nicely and works pretty much like etags. I'll need to work out which of the additional functionality it provides is really of use; converting source files into hyperlinked web pages doesn't seem very useful to me, for example. One thing it doesn't do is to provide any easy way to get to the function declaration.
cbrowser
From: Denis Antrushin
Did you tried cbrowser? It's a tcl/tk GUI around csope, and if I recall correctly, it can show you code surrounding call. http://cbrowser.sourceforge.net or in ports/devel
cbrowser is another program without documentation. The only thing available is a README file, which gets installed as /usr/local/share/cbrowser/README. Most gives license and installation information; the only user documentation is:
The whole point of cbrowser is that it simplifies usage of source code
querying tools, therefore it is designed to be self-explanatory.  There is
some basic online help available to supplement anything that isn't
intuitively obvious.
Starting the program shows that there is in fact online "help". The window is empty, and the help says:
To perform a query, first enter the text of the query in the query field. Optionally select the query type from the Query menu. This will determine the type of results the query will yield. For more information on the types of queries, see the cscope manpage. Once the query value has been entered, simply press <Enter> or click the Submit button to perform the query. While the query is in progress, the Query button becomes an Abort button allowing you to cancel long queries.
It would be nice to know what the term "query" means, and how to enter it, but it appears to be one of the queries you can issue to cscope. It displays the code pretty much the way cscope would, except that it sets a very difficult-to-read reverse video, which apparently can't be changed. It doesn't really do any better than cscop at showing calling dependencies (i.e. only a single level). This is another package where I wonder if it's even worth the trouble to find out how it works.
The following are suggestions that I have received and on which I need to follow up. When I do, I'll move them to their own section above. I'm quoting mail messages here.
id-utils
You may also like the old id-utils package too...
l-graphvis
From: Ying-Chieh Liao
maybe this helps ? http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graphvis/
cflow, dot
From: gnn@FreeBSD.org
Go to www.codespelunking.com and look at tools. I recommend global over the old etags/ctags solution.
I recommend global+cscope+doxygen. Others also like cflow+dot for viewing call graphs.
understand for C++
From: Craig Rodrigues
Have you looked at Understand for C++ from Scitools? http://www.scitools.com/ucpp.html (available for Windows, Linux, and a few other Unixes).
Based on your description, I think it does quite a bit what you want to do, including Call Trees.
linux-understand_c
From: Jos Backus
Not free, but /usr/ports/devel/linux-understand_c should do what you want. It's a pretty nice code spelunking tool, too.
From: Michel Talon
Have you tried ncc? I has worked fine for me. http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/ncc/
CodeQuery
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 04:55:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ruben
I'm suggesting that you try my tool and list it on your page. Here it is: https://github.com/ruben2020/codequery
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Holidays Lounge recommends one of the most popular attractions for locals and visitors alike, the Art Walk.
Mazatlan, Mexico – Mazatlan is an exceptional and unique Mexican destination. Offering sun and fun and beautiful scenery, there is no shortage of activities and tours to keep visitors entertained. Mazatlan is also a very culturally rich city and offers something that most of the other Mexican tourist hot spots do not provide.
Holidays Lounge owners rate the historic district of Mazatlan as being a must-see for new or returning visitors. Mazatlan's Centro Historico is a very special place, with old buildings and winding cobblestone streets that make it truly magical. Art galleries and fine and casual dining spots line the streets of the historic center. Small plazas and courtyards make this one of the most scenic areas of the city.
Every Friday afternoon and evening from November to May, the art walk is free for visitors to enjoy. Locals and visitors alike will stroll along the streets and enter the many galleries to chat with the artists, enjoy refreshments and have a wonderful evening. The Historic District is the heart of Mazatlan, and several local artists and other international artists who now call Mazatlan their home will show off their beautiful creations.
Balloons mark each stop on tour, since there is no guide, and visitors stroll at their leisure from gallery to gallery until they feel like stopping for a bite to eat or to enjoy a cocktail in one of the many favorite hot spots.
Holidays Lounge always works on keeping members and guests informed on the most exciting activities in Mazatlan so they can plan and enjoy a vacation of their dreams.
Mazatlan is known for having a very diverse population, which makes attending events such as the art walk such a fun experience.
Visitors can see everything from photo art showcasing favorite places in Mazatlan and parts of Mexico to paintings and sculptures from the region and surrounding areas.
Holidays Lounge also notes that one of the most popular portions of the art walk is that the artists are on site, allowing each artist to introduce their work to visitors of the gallery. Guests can learn about the artists, as well as their collections, and it makes for a fun and exciting evening.
There are over 20 galleries in the Centro Historico who participate in the art walk, which provides a variety of different styles and collections.
Holidays Lounge knows that what makes a vacation special is the experience that travelers have while on holiday. So even if it is taking a stroll through the charming historic district or purchasing a piece of art to bring back home, the art walk should not be missed on an upcoming visit to Mazatlan.


Melt the butter in a sauce pan and set it aside but do not let it get hard. Separate the yolks from the eggs and place them in a mixing bowl. Beat them until they have approximately doubled in volume. Add lemon juice, a few drops of Tabasco sauce and half a teaspoon of mustard. Place the bowl with the yolk mixture over a pot with hot water (do not let the bottom of the mixing bowl touch the water) and slowly stir in the melted butter until the sauce is thick and smooth.
Peel and grate the potatoes (use the side of the grater with the biggest holes). Squeeze as much water out of the grated potatoes as you can and put them into a bowl. Dice the ¼ onion into tiny pieces and add them to the potatoes. Add a sprinkle of salt, pepper and garlic powder. Grate the cheddar cheese (using smaller holes on the grater) into the potatoes and mix it all together well. Heat a tablespoons of oil in a frying pan. Make small pancakes (it should make 4 pancakes about 8 - 10 cm in diameter) and place them in the pan when the oil is hot. Cook them until both sides are golden brown.
Boil water in a small pot. Break the egg into a small bowl being careful not to break the yolk. When the water begins to boil, hold a small slotted spoon (a spoon with holes in it) just above the water and drop the egg into the spoon. Quickly drop the spoon into the water with the egg sitting on it and let it boil for about 2 to 3 minutes.
Place a piece of fried ham (or bacon if you want) on the hash brown, followed by the poached egg and pour a tablespoons of hollandaise sauce over the whole thing.


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Q: "relocation truncated to fit" linker error. armhf gcc I'm trying to compile tensorflow on an embedded linux device and i keep running into this error,
/usr/lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9/libgcc.a(fp16.o): In function `__gnu_h2f_ieee':
(.text+0x11a): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARM_THM_JUMP11 against symbol `__gnu_h2f_internal' defined in .text section in /usr/lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9/libgcc.a(fp16.o)

From what i gather, the linker is trying to statically link a part of libgcc and the addresses run out of the range of the jump instruction.
The problem as i see it is that libgcc has been compiled with thumb enabled because the R_ARM_THM_JUMP11 is a Thumb16 instruction.
Am i looking at this the correct way? What can i do to get past this issue? I believe compiling a compiler is a big process and I'd like to avoid it.
Could i possibly use a different libgcc which was compiled without thumb? Can i recompile only the libgcc components of gcc?
edit: I tried forcing -shared-libgcc which from my understanding should fix the problem but it didnt make any difference

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Q: Cannot assign data from mysql to session array I have a checklogin page and followin codes;
$sql = "select * from users where username = '$username' and password = '$password'";
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die ( mysql_error() );
if(mysql_num_rows($result)>0)
{
    $line = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
    $count++;
}
if ($count == 1)
{
    $_SESSION['login'] = "true";
    $_SESSION['username'] = $username;
    $_SESSION['usertype'] = $line['type'];
}

And the $_SESSION['usertype'] is always 1 even though it is different in database, what am I doing wrong

A: I'd suggest you do a little debugging through the entire process.

*

*Verify that $username and $password are what you expect them to be before you run the query:
echo "Username: {$username} Password: {$password}
";

*Verify that your query is returning the right values:
$line = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
echo "
";
var_dump($line);
echo "
";

*If both of those tests return the expected values, then you may have to investigate your session - is it being started properly? Is it being reset somewhere?

A: $line is returning 1 because it is a boolean yes/no result. A result was found hence it returns 1.
You have to iterate through $line or access result set #1 directly with $line[0]['type'];
Or just fetch a single row:
Taken from the manual:
**Example #1 Fetching one row with mysql_fetch_row()**
<?php
$result = mysql_query("SELECT id,email FROM people WHERE id = '42'");
if (!$result) {
    echo 'Could not run query: ' . mysql_error();
    exit;
}
$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);

echo $row[0]; // 42
echo $row[1]; // the email value
?>

In you case, if you changed your select to "select type from users .... " instead of "select *"
$line[0]


This anime can be summed up in one word:unpredictable. Based around delinquets at the Cromartie high school in Japan, the series follows the antics of the normal kid Kamiyama Takashi who is dropped into the middle of the rather savage delinquet populace. The series is a comedy, and although i have only seen the first 5 episodes, there are some truely hilarious moments within these episodes. the reasons why a school has a rock star, gorilla, and a robot (which everyone thinks is a normal kid) are not yet apparant, and there does not yet seem to be a connecting plot line to the story. However that does not detract from the wacky humour and sometimes violent antics of the students of Cromartie High school. Definatly a must see, although many times you are left thinking on about how good it could of been. The graphics are a little crude at times, although the voices are hilarious and the music is quite catchy. epiisode three is my favourite, the entire school is caught up in humming this tune taht no one can remember the name to, hilarious cause all these tough looking guys are humming. oops spoilt a bit.
On a scale from 1 to 10; 1 being the worst, 10 being the best, how would you rate Sakigake!! Cromartie Koukou?