I was told more than once that I needed a flag on my recumbent bike so that I wouldn't get run over by a semi. In fact, when I pedaled across streets, I sat so low to the ground that there was even an element of danger that a mini cooper driver would not see me.
Originally I was responsible enough to have a bike flag installed, but but when my teenager rode my bike, he thought it looked dorky so he took it off. Then I didn't want to be road kill so I put it on to ride, then he took it off and rode it, then I put it on, and he took it off, and after a few hundred times, it broke.
But never fear, I have not been flattened! I found a solution.
LTUE (Life the Universe and Everything) 2014!
and Judi Collings, enthusiastic mother of best-selling author Michaelbrent Collings and wife of veteran author Michael Collings!
What a way to start out a life together! When I saw this "Just Married" car parked on the street just outside the cemetery, I thought maybe the couple was just visiting some dearly beloved family members' grave, but hours later the car was still there. It wasn't by a motel or anything, just sitting on Main Street outside the cemetery. The car was dead. I could only hope they'd laugh about it and have a great story to tell their kids and grand kids.
When I went arrived a bit at my friend's daughter's reception, they were still setting up because of a flat tire fiasco. From across the room, I watched the bride's aunt set the bride figure on the cake. The reception line formed while the cake remained groom-less, but I went ahead, greeting the couple and their families. When I stopped by the cake to see why there was no groom, to my amazement, I saw that the bride held a frog wearing a little top hat. The bride's mouth was puckered, ready to kiss the frog.
When I was a kid on long road trips, we would play riveting games such as "The License Plate Game," where we would strive to spy a license plate from every state in the union, or "The Alphabet Game" where we had strict rules for not using license plates to find the alphabet letters in order (license plates were reserved for the former game.) Another staunchly enforced alphabet rule was that another person could not use the same letter that someone else had already claimed on a passing sign, even if it was the coveted "Q" from a few-and-far-between Quaker Oil sign. We also sang "100 More Miles" (or however many miles it was to our destination.) The full lyrics (besides substituting the number "100" for however many miles you are traveling) go like this: "100 more miles, 100 more miles, 100 more miles to go-o, just pick up your feet and swing your arms, 100 more miles to goooo." First of all, it was a miracle that I never recall my parents telling us to stop singing That Song. Secondly, it was a great disappointment when I realized that finishing a verse before subtracting a mile from the total and singing it again did not result in one full mile passing beneath our rolling station wagon wheels. (There were 8 children. We needed a station wagon.) I felt that whoever had written the song was never a dedicated traveler and had no business putting a song like that out there with insufficient lyrics to cover a full mile.
Now we have a new generation of travelers, ones who watch TVs in the car and play electronic games while all those license plates and billboards pass them by. We also have those who write on bananas.
Oh, yes. Banana writing was invented when a traveler wished to practice writing Roman Numerals only to discover that while someone had the foresight to bring food, there was no readily available paper. Hence, writing numerals on the nearby banana.
Can you read the Roman Numeral banana?


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using AspectCore.Extensions.Reflection.Benchmark.Fakes;
using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;
using BenchmarkDotNet.Jobs;

namespace AspectCore.Extensions.Reflection.Benchmark
{
    [AllStatisticsColumn]
    [MemoryDiagnoser]
    public class MethodReflectorBenchmarks
    {
        private readonly MethodInfo _method;
        private readonly MethodInfo _virtualMethod;
        private readonly MethodInfo _staticMethod;

        private readonly MethodReflector _staticReflector;
        private readonly MethodReflector _callReflectorWithCallOp;
        private readonly MethodReflector _callReflectorWithCallVirtOp;
        private readonly MethodReflector _virtualReflectorWithCallOp;
        private readonly MethodReflector _virtualReflectorWithCallVirtOp;
        private readonly MethodFakes _instance;

        public MethodReflectorBenchmarks()
        {
            var typeInfo = typeof(MethodFakes).GetTypeInfo();
            _method = typeInfo.GetMethod("Call");
            _staticMethod = typeInfo.GetMethod("StaticCall");
            _virtualMethod = typeInfo.GetMethod("CallVirt");
            _staticReflector = _staticMethod.GetReflector();
            _callReflectorWithCallOp = _method.GetReflector(CallOptions.Call);
            _callReflectorWithCallVirtOp = _method.GetReflector(CallOptions.Callvirt);
            _virtualReflectorWithCallOp = _virtualMethod.GetReflector(CallOptions.Call);
            _virtualReflectorWithCallVirtOp = _virtualMethod.GetReflector(CallOptions.Callvirt);
            _instance = new MethodFakes();
        }

        [Benchmark]
        public void Native_Call()
        {
            _instance.Call();
        }

        [Benchmark]
        public void Reflection_Call()
        {
            _method.Invoke(_instance, null);
        }

        [Benchmark]
        public void Reflector_CallWithCallOp()
        {
            _callReflectorWithCallOp.Invoke(_instance);
        }

        [Benchmark]
        public void Reflector_CallWithCallVirtOp()
        {
            _callReflectorWithCallVirtOp.Invoke(_instance);
        }

        [Benchmark]
        public void Native_CallVirt()
        {
            _instance.CallVirt();
        }

        [Benchmark]
        public void Reflection_CallVirt()
        {
            _virtualMethod.Invoke(_instance, null);
        }

        [Benchmark]
        public void Reflector_CallVirtWithCallOp()
        {
            _virtualReflectorWithCallOp.Invoke(_instance);
        }

        [Benchmark]
        public void Reflector_CallVirtWithCallVirtOp()
        {
            _virtualReflectorWithCallVirtOp.Invoke(_instance);
        }

        [Benchmark]
        public object Native_StaticCall()
        {
            return MethodFakes.StaticCall();
        }

        [Benchmark]
        public object Reflection_StaticCall()
        {
            return _staticMethod.Invoke(null, null);
        }

        [Benchmark]
        public object Reflector_StaticCall()
        {
            return _staticReflector.StaticInvoke();
        }
    }
}

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Is This Social Justice?
It began with a puff piece featuring a small, local restaurant, and ended with acrimony and Yelp's team stepping in to stem a tide of abusive reviews.
To put it mildly, I have some misgivings about stepping into this issue. There are plenty of reasons I shouldn't, but I also feel compelled to speak up because I think this entire situation has spun out of control.
Food magazine Bon Appetit ran a profile a few days ago of a restaurant in Philadelphia called Stock. It's categorized on Yelp as "Vietnamese, Thai, American (New)". This would imply that it's a fusion restaurant, and that appears to be exactly what it is. One of the star dishes is chef Tyler Akin's rendition of pho, a classic Vietnamese dish of broth, rice noodles, and meat. Akin has a vegetarian version that relies on mushrooms and tofu, which is a fairly unusual variation of the pho recipe. Based on the Yelp reviews, this seems to be what attracts a fair amount of his business.
Bon Appetit made a big mistake, though: they ran with the headline, "This is how you should be eating pho." Second, along with the article was a 2-minute video in which Akin expresses his thoughts about altering the flavor of a dish you've just been given, as well as demonstrating his particular chopstick technique to get the most noodles into your mouth in a single go. The former point is not at all unusual among chefs: Akin would prefer people not add sauces to their pho broth before tasting it. Most chefs would like agree with this, regardless of the dish. His chopstick technique is explicitly his own way of doing things–by no means does he suggest it's the only right way. Indeed, nowhere does Akin make more than suggestions.
The magazine's more assertive framing ended up painting a target on Akin and his restaurant. The original headline was an unsurprising bit of hyperbole that was eventually replaced with, "We're in love with this pho." That's fair enough. But Bon Appetit also failed in making a white guy the "voice of pho." Given that there are plenty of other Vietnamese restaurants in the area–run by people actually of Vietnamese descent–this seems like an egregious oversight. Bon Appetit clearly made a mistake here.
What I have issue with is the disproportionate vitriol aimed at Akin, who probably had no idea this kind of shitstorm would erupt just from him talking about the pho he makes and how he eats it, with BA's prompting. As soon as the story went viral, the restaurant's Yelp page was inundated with new reviews–some of them 1-star reviews full of insults and attacks, and others 5-star reviews defending Akin and his restaurant, or at least attacking the negative reviewers. Yelp had to take special action to address the situation, which is remarkable given Yelp's well-known stance against tampering with the reviews people post.
Although a lot of reviews were purged due to Yelp's intervention, I got to see a number of them before they were taken down. Many personally attacked Akin for things the writer(s) of the BA article said, rather than anything Akin said or did. It was claimed that Akin was telling Vietnamese people how to eat their pho, which he didn't, although BA's spin was probably forceful enough to give some readers that impression.
People being nasty online is nothing new, so that part doesn't surprise me. But I'm troubled by the use of a platform like Yelp to attempt to kill a business because the proprietor was, at worst, a bit clueless. Bad Yelp reviews can seriously damage a business' overall prospects. My position on what consequences people should face for being openly bigoted has evolved over time. I don't necessarily have an issue with someone losing their job because they're openly bigoted–indeed, if such attitudes would in any way impact the job at hand, an employer might be considered derelict in keeping on an employee who might mistreat customers based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, and so forth.
But nothing like that happened here. A local restaurant proprietor was asked to participate in a piece about pho, and so he did. Should he have directed the Bon Appetit staff to a Vietnamese restaurant run by actual Vietnamese people? I have a hard time imagining that being a common practice–almost any business owner is going to take the opportunity to promote their business. So I would suggest that more responsibility lies with BA, in that they chose a single representative of pho: a white guy making what are quite obviously not authentically Vietnamese versions of pho, and then proclaiming them as the way pho "should" be eaten.
There are also broader questions of whether a white man running a restaurant featuring Asian cuisine is inherently appropriative. I have seen compelling arguments in both directions. My own view would be that as long as the proprietor shows an appropriate level of respect for the original culture, it's not necessarily problematic. I will grant that this can be very difficult to determine, though, and anyone who wouldn't want to patronize such an establishment due to such concerns is entirely within their rights to do so. Going by the Yelp reviews and other comments I saw, at least, there was no clear consensus on whether Akin's restaurant is appropriative–there were plenty of comments by self-identified Vietnamese people taking positions on both sides. At best, there is no clear answer here, and it's certainly not for me to say which Vietnamese people are right or wrong about Akin's approach to pho.
But ultimately, I think the approach taken against Akin and his restaurant doesn't make for a positive example of what social justice efforts can be. This was an attempt to ruin one man's business because he was featured in an article put together by people who didn't show much cultural sensitivity, care, or respect. Those same writers have apologized (sort of), but never really took responsibility for their role in this mess. Had the article been approached differently and assembled with more diverse voices than just Akin's, all of this could have been avoided. But I have a hard time seeing Tyler Akin as responsible for the final article, or even the 2-minute video featuring him, since it's an edited, small portion of what sounds like a relatively lengthy discussion and interview session.
This instance is regrettable, but one I don't think is indicative of a larger trend of "social justice warriors run amok," as some hand-wringers like to frame it. I'm sure this incident will be cited by the Jon Chaits of the world as proof that callout culture is out of control. I don't think that's the case, but it's certainly an ongoing risk that should be considered carefully. It's always possible for well-intended movements to spin out of control and acquire targets who haven't done anything worthy of that ire. It is my hope that the outcome of this induces some soul-searching in all parties–and that would especially include the Bon Appetit staff, who created this mess, however inadvertently, with their careless approach to what was bound to be a sensitive topic.
I'll close with a quote from Khanh Ho's Huffington Post examination of the issues involved:
> > The larger issue for me is not poor Tyler who is really a pawn in the media game. It is Bon Appetit. Bon Appetit could have used any number of really great Vietnamese chefs, writers, critics to disseminate this message. Why not Andrea Nguyen, who has a masters and actually performed research in Asia about foodways and has several bestselling books on Vietnamese cuisine? Why not Diep Tran, who comes from a Vietnamese family famous for her pho—a restauranteur who has been consistently named to Pulitzer Prize Winning Critic Jonathan Gold's List of great places to eat? > > > > These people are not only great chefs, they are highly educated. AND they not only speak amazing English but have stage presence. There are literally dozens of great chefs, restauranteurs, writers who are Ivy-League trained and fully capable of talking about the food. > >
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Q: Can I increment some value during database update? Can i do something like that?
int somevalue=500;
string getUpSql = "UPDATE money FROM bank SET Money= @Money + somevalue WHERE UserId=@UserId";

I'm trying to plus some money to an account that clicks button
    protected void BtnWork_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        MembershipUser currentUser = Membership.GetUser();
        Guid currentUserId = (Guid)currentUser.ProviderUserKey;
string ConnectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConnectionString"].ConnectionString;
string getUpSql = "UPDATE money FROM bank SET Money= @Money + somevalue WHERE UserId=@UserId";
 using (SqlConnection myConnection = new SqlConnection(ConnectionString))
        {

           SqlCommand myCommand = new SqlCommand(getUpSql, myConnection);
 myConnection.Open();

 myCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Money",SqlDbType.Int);

 myCommand.ExecuteNonQuery();

            myConnection.Close();
        }

A: The syntax for an UPDATE statement to increment a column called Money by the amount in a parameter called @somevalue is
UPDATE  bank
SET     Money = Money + @somevalue /* Can use Money += @somevalue if 2008 */
WHERE   UserId = @UserId

A:
UPDATE money FROM bank SET Money= @Money + somevalue WHERE
  UserId=@UserId

Are you sure you want @Money? If you want to increment the value stored in the column Money by somevalue you need to write it like Money = Money + @somevalue and you have to bind somevalue as a parameter, not Money.

A: You are not incrementing the value. You are setting it to @Money + somevalue, where @Money  is set to whatever the value of SqlDbType.Int is.
Change your SQL to this...
UPDATE money FROM bank SET Money = Money + @somevalue WHERE UserId = @UserId

...and then set the @somevalue and @UserId parameters like this...
int somevalue = ... ;
myCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("somevalue", somevalue);
TypeOfUserId UserId = ... ;
myCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("UserId", UserId);

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The Morris K. Udall Scholarship Program was created to honor Congressman Morris K. Udall and his legacy of public service by awarding scholarships to those who intend to pursue careers in addressing environmental issues on a local, national, or global scale OR issues impacting Indian country in the areas of health care or tribal policy. The scholarship covers eligible expenses for tuition, fees, books, and room and board, up to a maximum of $7,000. Scholars also attend a fully funded four-day orientation in Tucson, Arizona, where they meet in early August with fellow Udall Scholars, elected officials, and environmental and tribal leaders. Juniors are eligible for one year of support; sophomores may be renominated during their junior year and compete for a second year of support.
Candidates for all Udall Scholarships must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, have outstanding academic credentials, and be able to demonstrate a strong commitment, through academic and extracurricular activities, to the environment or to Native health care or tribal policy.
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Q: Can I add standard ivars and properties to an NSManagedObject? Can I add standard properties to an NSManagedObject. I don't expect these objects to be saved, but I would like them to persist for the lifetime that the application is running.
Can I add a getter and setter backed with an ivar?

A: Yes, you can add your own properties and methods to a class derived from NSManagedObject. I do this all the time. You can declare the properties @dynamic (if using Core Data), or simply @synthesize them.

A: In this case "transient properties" are commonly used. You declare them in your Core Data Model like your other Entity properties but flag them as "transient" in the data model inspector. They are part of your Core Data model, but not persisted!


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Sharek or Shalek could have been a poorly known ancient Egyptian pharaoh during the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt.

Attestation
He is only attested on a non-contemporary document, a genealogy of a priest named Ankhefensekhmet who lived at the end of the 22nd Dynasty – thus several centuries after Sharek's supposed reign; perhaps for this reason, Danish Egyptologist Kim Ryholt doubts his existence. On the document, Sharek is placed one generation before the well-known Hyksos pharaoh Apepi of the 15th Dynasty. The genealogy of Ankhefensekhmet is now exhibited at the Neues Museum in Berlin (inv. no. 23673).

Identification
Both Nicolas Grimal and William C. Hayes have proposed that Sharek should be identified with a king named Salitis, given as the founder of the Hyksos 15th Dynasty in Manetho's Aegyptiaca, a history of Egypt written in the 2nd century BC. They further propose that Sharek/Salitis is the same person as Sheshi, a ruler during Egypt's Second Intermediate Period mentioned on nearly 400 scarab seals.

References

17th-century BC Pharaohs
Pharaohs of the Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Second Intermediate Period of Egypt
People whose existence is disputed

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Editorial: Our endorsement of Cory Gardner was…
Editorial: Our endorsement of Cory Gardner was a mistake
The senator's vote on border wall is a failure of leadership
Sen. Cory Gardner speaks during a town hall meeting in Lakewood on Aug. 15, 2017.
By The Denver Post Editorial Board |
PUBLISHED: March 14, 2019 at 7:00 pm | UPDATED: March 14, 2019 at 8:22 pm
We endorsed Sen. Cory Gardner in 2014 because we believed he'd be a statesman. We knew he'd be a conservative voice in Congress, to be certain, but we thought his voice would bring "fresh leadership, energy and ideas."
We see now that was a mistake – consider this our resolution of disapproval.
Gardner has been too busy walking a political tight rope to be a leader. He has become precisely what we said in our endorsement he would not be: "a political time-server interested only in professional security."
Gardner was not among the 12 Republicans who joined Democrats in rejecting President Donald Trump's use of a national emergency declaration to allocate funds to a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
We fully expect to disagree with our lawmakers from time to time — in fact we've been critical of Gardner but stuck by him through tough but defensible votes including the attempted repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
RELATED: Cory Gardner: Border security funding is Congress' job
But these are extraordinary times. This is a bogus emergency that takes executive over-reach to an extreme not seen even under President Barack Obama. Trump's declaration is an abuse of his power, a direct overturning of Congress' deliberate decision to pass a federal budget without funding for a wall.
Put simply this is a constitutional crisis and one of Colorado's two senators has failed the test.
These times call for a courageous bipartisan repudiation like that shown by Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican from Ohio.
"It's imperative for the president to honor Congress' constitutional role. A national emergency declaration is a tool to be used cautiously and sparingly," Portman said on the floor of the Senate before voting in favor of the disapproval resolution.
To be honest we were surprised by Gardner's vote. It's completely inconsistent with every stance he has taken on Trump's presidency. He told reporters in 2017 that "I don't think the wall is the best idea," and in a telephone town hall a month later he said, "I believe we have to have border security, but I do think billions of dollars on a wall is not the right way to proceed."
Gardner said in a statement Thursday posted online (we called after business hours on Thursday and Gardner was traveling and not available for comment): "There is a crisis at the border and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have prevented a solution. As a result, the president has declared a national immigration emergency, legal authority which he clearly has under the 1976 law, a law invoked 56 times by every previous president since Jimmy Carter. Between October and February, border patrol apprehensions were up nearly 100 percent and since 2012, border patrol methamphetamine seizures are up 280 percent."
If Gardner truly believes there is a crisis at the border and that a wall would substantially help with the situation, why wasn't he lobbying his fellow Republicans to pass a budget in December prior to the shutdown that included Trump's requested $5.7 billion for a wall?
In Gardner's defense, he said he voted to open the government because he opposes shutdowns as a matter of principle, a position we lauded him for at the time. But we're surprised he doesn't feel the same twinge of principle when it comes to an executive order that is so blatantly a repudiation of Congress' will.
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Gardner could still prove to be a great senator for Colorado, a man who puts his state and his principles above party and politics. It's a rare person these days who can take that road. In our endorsement this November of former U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, a Republican from Aurora who was soundly defeated by Rep. Jason Crow, we stuck by someone who had shown a willingness to oppose that which he found morally reprehensible in his own party.
In contrast, Gardner was a never-Trumper in the primary who in recent months endorsed the president's re-election campaign even as Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation continues to unveil the worst of this administrations web of lies and deceit. Tuesday's vote was the last straw.
We no longer know what principles guide the senator and regret giving him our support in a close race against Mark Udall.
To send a letter to the editor about this article, submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by email or mail.
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Avon Fire and Rescue Service is "not a safe place to work" if you are Asian, claim former employees.
Two women claim they were discriminated against because of their race while working for the service.
Nelum Arshad, who served for 28 years in the service, said she was unfairly dismissed from her job and Nila Rehman claims she was ignored or subjected to racist remarks while working for the organisation.
The comments were made at the first Avon Fire Authority meeting since the publication of a damning government report last week.
Carried out by the Home Office, the investigation identified a series of failing in both the fire service and authority, including a lack of diversity in its workforce and "endemic bullying".
The fire authority – which is made up of 25 councillors from Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Bath & North East Somerset (B&NES) and North Somerset – faced jeers and heckles from former employees who attended today's meeting at the service headquarters in Temple Back.
There was initially some debate as to whether Ms Arshad would be able to speak at the meeting and read out Ms Rehman's statement.
After a short break the former employee was able to address the meeting and urged the authority to look in to her case again.
She said: "I was dismissed largely for ignoring people.
"I urge you once again to begin the process of accountability. You need to carry out a full investigation in to my claim of racial discrimination. I am the only member of staff to be dismissed for misconduct ever.
Ms Rehman did not attend the meeting but Ms Arshad read a statement on her behalf, in which she cited several examples of what she said was racist behaviour and discrimination by her former colleagues.
She claimed to have been asked to reapply for her BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) advocacy role, only to find out that it was given to another candidate who did not meet the job description, as they did not speak a second language.
Ms Rehman – who does speak a second language – successfully managed to appeal the decision and was reinstated.
Afterwards, the meeting heard, she said she was ignored by her managers and was subject to racist behaviour, which she claims included being offered cake while on a religious fast and told that "Asian clothes are all bed clothes".
Ms Rehman also claims that after an in-house training day she was asked to make up the hours missed while her white male colleagues were not required to pay the time back.
She said: "All this might seem small, but it combined to contribute to my isolation.
Fire Authority members also heard from the Stand Against Racism & Inequality (SARI) group, which said it "welcomes" the Home Office Report but finds the lack of diversity in the organisation "shocking, given the diversity of Bristol".
The report found that on average BAME employees make up four percent of staff in the UK's fire services. In contrast, just two percent of Avon Fire and Rescue employees come from a BAME background.
Chair of the fire authority Donald Davies apologised for the failings highlighted in the report and thanked the former employees who had come forward.
Speaking after the meeting, he said: "It was really important to get the public engagement, particularly from the BAME community.
"It was really valuable to hear what they had to say, and you understand the depth of the anger, which is not always possible to perceive from reading a document.
Mr Davies said he has been in contact with SARI and has offered to meet with former BAME employees to discuss their cases.


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This is a delightful ancient Roman intaglio, dating to the 2nd century A.D. It is nicely cut of a transparent chalcedony gemstone, with the bust of Eros. It is a fine Roman gem, of the type often copied by the Georgians during the 18th century (but this piece is certainly ancient). The gem would have originally been set into a gold or silver signet ring, used to seal and authenticate letters and transactions. Today this ancient gem has survived down to us in perfect condition, suitable for remounting or to add to your collection.


Len Lye's artworks are finally being installed inside their new multi million-dollar home.
Construction of the gleaming gallery is finished and the final touches are being added in preparation for the grand opening on July 25.
The New Plymouth District Council's project director Gaye Batty said the excitement was starting to creep in for everyone working on the $11.5 million Len Lye Centre.
"Construction is basically finished and the art is starting to be installed. In the last week the latest milestone is the technician installing the wide screen and connecting the sound in the cinema," she said.
The footpath on Devon St West had been finished and, weather permitting, the path on the Queen St side should be done this week.
"That means we can then take the final and lower PVC covering off (the facade)."
The full unveiling of the 32-tonne stainless steel facade will signal the beginning of the countdown to a week of festivities for the opening.
Friends of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery will be treated to the first tour on Tuesday July 21, while Friday July 24 will see media from around the world get their first glimpse inside New Zealand's only gallery dedicated to a single artist.
Major funders have a preview on the same Friday night and the public will get their first glimpse inside the building on Saturday July 25.
Two days of entertainment and presentations have been pulled together for the opening and hundreds of people are expected to converge on the centre.
Batty said the project was on time, but not quite on budget.
"We've said the combined budget for the two galleries [the Len Lye Centre and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery] was $17m. We are half a million over, but that has been funded through the investment of funds, and the Len Lye Centre Trust.
"We always said we wanted to complete the Len Lye Centre with no ratepayer funding and it is great to have that achieved," she said.
She said the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery side of the project, including the earthquake strengthening, had gone well.
"Govett-Brewster is looking good, of course. I think the people coming through who know the old Govett-Brewster will be very impressed."
Gallery director Simon Rees said the artwork for the Govett Brewster opening exhibition had been moved in last week and blessed.
Len Lye's master work the Giant Fountain had also been installed in the Large Works gallery, he said.
"I have to contain my excitement until the week after the opening," he said.
"We still have three hard weeks of work ahead of us. I think our community will have a great time at the opening."
The public are invited to the opening festival on Saturday July 25 and Sunday July 26. Admission to the galleries and the presentations will be free.


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John Rula and Prof. Fabián Bustamante of AquaLab are coauthors of the paper, titled, "In and Out of Cuba: Characterizing Cuba's Connectivity."
EECS Ph.D. Student Zachary Bischof of AquaLab will be presenting research from his paper, titled, "In and Out of Cuba: Characterizing Cuba's Connectivity" at the 2015 Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), held in Tokyo, Japan on October 28-30, 2015.
The paper's coauthors, including EECS Ph.D. Student John Rula and Prof. Fabián Bustamante (also of AquaLab), have started to characterize the state of Cuba's access to the wider Internet. Their first paper on the topic reports on some of their early findings, including high RTTs to websites hosted off the island, even after the addition of ALBA- 1, a high degree of path asymmetry in traffic to/from the island that partially traverse high-latency satellite links, and several web services that return invalid responses to requests originating from the island. They plan to continually make a periodic status reports on the state of the Internet in Cuba and publish the associated data available to the research community.
Paper Abstract: The goal of our work is to characterize the current state of Cuba's access to the wider Internet. This work is motivated by recent improvements in connectivity to the island and the growing commercial interest following the ease of restrictions on travel and trade with the US. In this paper, we profile Cuba's networks, their connections to the rest of the world, and the routes of international traffic going to and from the island. Despite the addition of the ALBA-1 submarine cable, we find that round trip times to websites hosted off the island remain very high; pings to popular websites frequently took over 300 ms. We also find a high degree of path asymmetry in traffic to/from Cuba. Specifically, in our analysis we find that traffic going out of Cuba typically travels through the ALBA-1 cable, but, surprisingly, traffic on the reverse path often traverses high-latency satellite links, adding over 200 ms to round trip times. Last, we analyze queries to public DNS servers and SSL certificate requests to characterize the availability of network services in Cuba.
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#include "serial_proto.h"
#include "commands.h"
#include "../utils/char_buffer.h"

#define SERIAL_PROTO_BUFF_SIZE 9

// Buffer for proto data
static struct char_buffer serial_buffer;
static char serial_buffer_data[SERIAL_PROTO_BUFF_SIZE];

void serial_proto_init(void) {
	// Initialize char buffer
	char_buffer_init(&serial_buffer, serial_buffer_data, SERIAL_PROTO_BUFF_SIZE);
}

void serial_proto_reset(void) {
	// Reset the char buffer
	char_buffer_reset(&serial_buffer);
}

// Get command stuct for current buffer
// Returns 0 for invalid command
struct command_info *serial_proto_cmd_info(void) {
	return command_get((uint8_t)serial_buffer.data[0]);
}

// Returns serial proto length of cmd
uint8_t serial_proto_cmd_length(struct command_info *cmd) {
	return cmd->args_length + 3; // ID (1) + args + CR(1) + LF(1)
}

void serial_proto_got_char(char ch) {
	// Each time we get a char we perform the following:
	// Append the char to the buffer
	// Check that we have a valid command in the buffer
	//  * Since the first byte is cmd_id it should always be valid at this
	//  * stage.
	//  * If command is not valid reset buffer and return.
	// If we have a full command in buffer:
	//  * Check end CR + LF
	//  * * If invalid then reset
	//  * Run command handler

	// Append char to current buffer and increment buff ndx
	char_buffer_append(&serial_buffer, &ch, 1);

	// Check to see if we got a full command
	struct command_info *cmd = serial_proto_cmd_info();
	if(!cmd) {
		// Invalid command, reset buffer
		serial_proto_reset();
		return;
	}

	// Length of command in buffer when completed
	uint8_t cmd_len = serial_proto_cmd_length(cmd);
	uint8_t buff_len = char_buffer_length(&serial_buffer);

	// If we have a complete command in the buffer
	if(buff_len == cmd_len) {
		// Verify end tag
		if(serial_buffer.data[buff_len-2] != '\r' ||
		   serial_buffer.data[buff_len-2] != '\n') {
			// Invalid end tag
			// Reset and return
			serial_proto_reset();
			return;
		}

		// Null out start of end tag so args end in '\0'
		serial_buffer.data[buff_len-2] = '\0';

		// Run command
		command_run((uint8_t)serial_buffer.data[0], serial_buffer.data+1, buff_len-3);

		// Reset
		serial_proto_reset();
	}
}


We were looking for Aussies because our motley crew of travelers had already gathered an Olympic level of nomads: Irish, English, French, one Swede and a solitary American. The French had given up early—before we wandered the four blocks to Polk Street—but we strongly suspected the Aussies, if we could find them, would be a good time. Somewhere in the chilly San Francisco night, we found them.
It's a strange thing to be a foreigner in your own country.
I came to San Francisco yesterday to meet a Tennessee friend for dinner and to help with a Photoshop project. With all of the nearby campsites booked (a shame because they're on the bay with perfect views of the city), my friend recommended that I find a hostel. So, for the contextually exorbitant rate of $57, I grabbed the top bunk in the basement of an aging building in a San Francisco alleyway. A man with a heavy British accent greeted me behind the check-in counter, took a $10 cash deposit and sent me downstairs, "through the kitchen" and into the Golden Gate room at the Adelaide Hostel.
The Adelaide comes replete with a full selection of bagels, a few community showers and your assignment of nine roommates. At roughly 10:00 p.m., the place was bustling. The kitchen was full of like-minded, weary travelers from around the globe.
I was the only American, and perhaps a bit of a novelty.
Until this year, the last reported fatal bear attack in Sweden was in 1902.
"Be careful! That's a strong drink," she said to the Frenchman. "I know what it is!" he scoffed, glancing sullenly at a notoriously weak bottle of Smirnoff Ice.
And so the night rolled on. First in the kitchen under the stairs, then to Polk Street and after a few American interventions with panhandlers, safely back to the Adelaide—no bears, no guns. The group, by that point, had split up. I wandered in sometime around two. By 7:00 a.m., I was down the road at a suburban San Francisco coffee shop, busy at work, a little dizzy from the night before, and hoping, maybe, to meet the Irish at Yosemite.


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Slickrock – A Sticky Situation
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Flowing sandstone – it mirrors waveforms in its unique pattern of uplift. A wild saturated red, orange. The expanse seems endless – almost imaginary, the way the rocks bend and flow miles-bound. Towering walls of vibrant varnish loom over areas of the trail – the wind etches carvings into seemingly impermeable layers. Whooom! Dust kicks up in the sky, filling the air with a strong haze as bike tires buzz into the faint distance. Yee-haws and hoo's echo through the barren landscape – they are absolutely ripping!
This area, coined "Slickrock Trail," resides in Moab's Sand Flats Recreation Area, and has captured the utmost attention of mountain bikers and outdoor recreationists alike. If you've ridden the trail, you already know why. "I have always loved trails that were more about flow than purely technical features – and these trails, I think, are an incredible balance between the two," said Wilson Rawlings, an avid mountain biker and student at CU Boulder. If you haven't ridden there, check out this video and start daydreaming.
However, in February, the area caught the gaze of the oil and gas industry who sought after its potentially rich underground. Sweet, sweet fossil fuel. Portions of Sand Flats, technically owned by the Bureau of Land Management (read: your public lands), were anonymously placed on the leasing docket for extractive purposes. After immense public outreach on local and national levels, the BLM removed the land parcels containing Slickrock trail from the list. It turned out to be an epic example of the power of public voice––heck yeah, that's what we're talkin' about! However, many BLM lands experience the same process with more turmoil. It's a sticky situation.
BLM – What's the Deal?
For starters, BLM land is public land––however, it sits under a multiple-use mandate, and those uses can include everything from recreation, to grazing, to extraction. "The underlying mission of the BLM is sustaining the future yield of all of these multiple uses," said ICF Environmental Planner Meghan Henegan. So, how does a BLM land parcel get on the docket for potential leasing?
1. An open auction is held to lease BLM land for one of the multiple-uses. For example, an auction is held for oil and gas drilling-related leases. Here's the schedule if you want to keep up with the action.
2. An analysis of impact by the National Environmental Protection Agency. "It's sort of the bedrock environmental rulemaking process that all of these land management agencies have to go through," said Henegan.
3. Bombs away. While the NEPA Analysis lays out all potential impacts for various forms of development on the land parcel, the BLM does not necessarily have to go with the option of the lowest impact. They just have to go through the analysis.
Through the above processes, a whopping 1 billion barrels of oil were produced on public lands last year. That's a thirty percent increase from Obama-era oil production, credited to the Trump Administration's call for heightened energy independence. Nowadays, if solely U.S. public lands were a country, they would rank fifth in the world on emissions according to the Wilderness Society. In an era where climate change is the most apocalyptic threat to the world as we know it, the idea of increasing oil production so heavily is… frankly a bad one.
Fret-not, though, because a new house bill aims to cut public lands emissions to zero by 2040. This represents one of those top-down approaches that we value so much––think about i––the number five emitter in the world, gone. That's really rad. However, it would carry a massive impact on one of the multiple-uses of public land, and may be difficult to execute. "We want electric cars on the roads en mass by 2030. Electric cars need lithium. Where do we get it? If we can't grow it, we have to mine it," said Henegan, noting the dichotomy of mining for non-renewable gains vs. mining in favor of a renewable future. It's a sticky situation.
Our public lands are our great escapes––home-away-from-homes, places where we are free to romp about as we please. Our public lands fuel our adventures––pleasant ones, character-building ones, type 1 and type 2 fun-ones. They are critical to our lifestyle as outdoor enthusiasts. So please, help me in retaining my sanity and that of people like you and I by getting more involved with POW to support renewable energy and retain radical experiences.
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