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Q: Backup SQL Server database using PHP I am trying to backup a MS SQL database calling a Stored Procedure using PHP.
When I execute de SP on SSMS, everything works fine. However, when I call it from the PHP script, I can see a ".bak" in the backup folder and right after the PHP finishes processing, the BackUp.bak file disappears.
Here is the Stored Procedure:
DECLARE @date VARCHAR(10)
SET @date = (SELECT date FROM tbl_date)

Declare @fileName VARCHAR(100)
SET @fileName = ('C:\db_backup\BackUp_' + @date + '.bak')

BACKUP DATABASE DbName
TO DISK = @fileName
   WITH FORMAT,
      MEDIANAME = 'SQLServerBackups',
      NAME = 'Full Backup of DbName';

Below is the PHP code I call the SP:
$serverName = "server";
$connectionInfo = array( "Database"=>"DbName", "UID"=>"UserName", "PWD"=>"P@ssword", "CharacterSet"=>"UTF-8", "ReturnDatesAsStrings" => "false");
$conn = sqlsrv_connect( $serverName, $connectionInfo);

$BackupDB = "Exec DBBackup";
sqlsrv_query($conn, $BackupDB);

I am running Apache 2.4.46 and SQL Server Express 2019.
My goal is to create a ".bak" file using PHP.
I tried using a SP because the original code is written in Classic ASP and it works flawlessly this way.
I am open to try different approaches.
Thank you.

A: Explanations:
You are using PHP Driver for SQL Server, so the following explanations are an additional option for solving your problem:

*

*It seems that this issue is probably a driver specific problem. SQL Server fills the output buffer of the connection with the result sets that are created by the batch - information about the count of the affected rows (in a case of INSERT\DELETE\UPDATE statements for example) or progress status (returned from BACKUP\RESTORE DATABADE statements). These result sets must be processed by the PHP script. It seems that this behavior is by design and the PHP script should flush all the pending result sets. After the result sets are fetched, SQL Server completes the execution of the batch. The appropriate functions\methods that you need to use are sqlsrv_next_result() (for SQLSRV version of the driver) and PDOStatement::nextRowset() (for PDO_SQLSRV version of the driver).

*For the SQLSRV version of the driver you need to change the error and warning handling using sqlsrv_configure("WarningsReturnAsErrors", 0);.

Examples:
I'm able to reproduce the issue from the question and the following examples are working solutions:
Using SQLSRV version of the driver:
<?php
// Server information
$server   = "server\instance,port";
$database = "database";
$uid      = "username";
$pwd      = "password";

// Configuration
sqlsrv_configure("WarningsReturnAsErrors", 0);

// Connection
$cinfo = array(
    "UID" => $uid,
    "PWD" => $pwd,
    "Database" => $database
);
$conn = sqlsrv_connect($server, $cinfo);
if ($conn === false) {
    echo "Unable to connect.";
    die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}

// Statement
$sql = "
    DECLARE @date VARCHAR(19)
    SET @date = CONVERT(VARCHAR(19), GETDATE(), 126)
    SET @date = REPLACE(@date, ':', '-')
    SET @date = REPLACE(@date, 'T', '-')

    DECLARE @fileName VARCHAR(100)
    SET @fileName = ('d:\backup\BackUp_' + @date + '.bak')

    BACKUP DATABASE dbname
    TO DISK = @fileName
    WITH
        FORMAT,
        STATS = 1,
        MEDIANAME = 'SQLServerBackups',
        NAME = 'Full Backup of dbname';
";
$stmt = sqlsrv_query($conn, $sql);
if ($stmt === false) {
    echo "Unable to execute query.";
    die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}

// Clear buffer
while (sqlsrv_next_result($stmt) != null){};
echo "Success";

// End
sqlsrv_free_stmt($stmt);
sqlsrv_close($conn);
?>

Using PDO_SQLSRV version of the driver:
<?php
// Server information
$server   = "server\instance,port";
$database = "database";
$uid      = "username";
$pwd      = "password";

// Connection
try {
    $conn = new PDO("sqlsrv:server=$server;Database=$database", $uid, $pwd);
    $conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
} catch( PDOException $e ) {
    die( "Error connecting to SQL Server".$e->getMessage());
}

// Statement
$sql = "
    DECLARE @date VARCHAR(19)
    SET @date = CONVERT(VARCHAR(19), GETDATE(), 126)
    SET @date = REPLACE(@date, ':', '-')
    SET @date = REPLACE(@date, 'T', '-')

    DECLARE @fileName VARCHAR(100)
    SET @fileName = ('d:\backup\BackUp_' + @date + '.bak')

    BACKUP DATABASE dbname
    TO DISK = @fileName
    WITH
        FORMAT,
        STATS = 1,
        MEDIANAME = 'SQLServerBackups',
        NAME = 'Full Backup of dbname';
";
try {
    $stmt = $conn->prepare($sql);
    $stmt->execute();
} catch (PDOException $e) {
    die ("Error executing query. ".$e->getMessage());
}

// Clear buffer
try {
    while ($stmt->nextRowset() != null){};
    echo "Success";
} catch (PDOException $e) {
    die ("Error executing query. ".$e->getMessage());
}

// End
$stmt = null;
$conn = null;
?>


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1. Before a depositary of public money can, in a suit against him by the United States for a balance, offer proof of credits for clerk hire, he must show by evidence from the books of the Treasury -- a transcript of the proceedings of the officers being a proper form of such evidence -- that a claim for such credits had been presented to the proper officers of the Treasury (that is to say, to the First Auditor and afterwards to the First Comptroller for his final decision), and by them had been, in whole or in part, disallowed.
such proper foundation for it having been first laid, it must be afterwards excluded, and all consideration of the claims withdrawn from their consideration. To allow them to remain, even with instructions whose purpose was to control and cure its effect or with any instructions short of withdrawal, is error.
3. Whether testimony in support of such claims was properly in the case, was a question for the court, and not for the jury.
This is an action of debt upon the bond of Gilmore, one of the defendants in error, as receiver of public moneys "for the district of lands subject to sale in the Territory of Nebraska," and also as a depositary of public moneys.
Upon the trial, the defendants claimed a credit for the hire of certain clerks employed by Gilmore as such depositary, and offered proof in support of the demand. The attorney of the United States objected to the admission of the evidence upon several grounds. One of them was that it must first be shown that the claim had been exhibited to the proper accounting officer of the Treasury and disallowed, and that the exhibition and disallowance could be proved only by the certificate of such officer.
"Whereupon the court stated it would permit the evidence, and control the matter by instructions to the jury. Objections overruled, and ruling excepted to by plaintiffs."
The same things occurred with reference to a claim for office rent, set up by Gilmore as such depositary.
"I presented these claims to the accounting officer, and they were disallowed."
To what officer they were presented is not disclosed. This is all the testimony the bill of exceptions contains upon the subject.
"In suits between the United States and individuals, no claim for a credit shall be admitted upon the trial but such as shall appear to have been presented to the accounting officers of the Treasury for their examination, and by them disallowed in whole or in part."
"to receive all public accounts, and after examination to transmit the accounts, with the vouchers and certificate, to the comptroller for his decision thereon."
The act of the 25th of April, 1812, [Footnote 3] created the General Land Office, and transferred to the Commissioner the duties of the auditor in respect to all accounts relating to the public lands. The Act of March 3, 1817, [Footnote 4] created four additional auditors and one additional comptroller. It gave the charge of all accounts accruing in the Treasury Department to the first auditor, and made it his duty to report them to the first comptroller. The language employed is the same as that used in the act of 1797. This did not affect the duties of the Commissioner of the General Land Office as to all accounts relating to the public lands, which the act of 1812 had devolved upon him.
Receivers and depositaries are required to keep accounts of their contingent expenses. Those accounts are separate and distinct from those of their receipts and disbursements of the public moneys. Where the offices of receiver and depositary are united in the same person, the expense accounts of the two offices are nevertheless required to be kept separately from each other.
that branch of Gilmore's duties which related to his office of depositary, and had no connection with his office of receiver. They should therefore have been presented to the first auditor for examination, and afterwards to the first comptroller for his final decision. If disallowed, the disallowances would have appeared in the "statement of the differences of account" transmitted by the auditor to the comptroller with the accounts, vouchers, and certificate, as required by the statute. If the comptroller had confirmed the decision of the auditor, a transcript of the proceedings of those officers would have been the proper evidence for the defendants to produce.
If the claims were not presented until after the account was closed upon the books of the Treasury, still it was necessary to submit them for examination to both those officers. The action of both was necessary. A transcript showing that action would have been sufficient. Parol evidence in such cases is wholly inadmissible. Evidence from the books of the Treasury in some form is indispensable.
These remarks have no application to those provisions of the section under consideration which have not been referred to.
exclusion from the testimony of everything irrelevant and incompetent is not less important.
Was the error committed by the admission of the testimony objected to subsequently remedied?
"The plaintiff requested the court to charge the jury as follows:"
"1st. That in this action no claim for credit can be admitted as a defense unless it is first shown to the jury that such claim was presented to the proper officer of the government for examination, and by such officer disallowed in whole or in part, or that the defendant, Gilmore, first shows that he was prevented from exhibiting such claim or account of expenses at the Treasury by absence from the United States, or some unavoidable accident."
"Which said two points were not given by the court in the form requested, but were substantially given in the oral charge of the court to the jury. The first point and the second were given with a modification, to which the plaintiffs then and there excepted."
What the modification of the first instruction was to which this exception relates is not shown. We cannot, therefore, consider it.
Whether the testimony in support of the claim was properly in the case was a question for the court, and not for the jury. Yet it was left to the latter for them to determine. It is clear that the incompetent testimony which had been admitted was not withdrawn from their consideration.
The judgment is therefore reversed and the cause will be remanded to the circuit court with instructions to issue a venire de novo.
1 Stat. at Large 515.
Act of September 2, 1789, id. 66.
2 Stat. at Large 716.


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Sentech 2008/09 Strategy and Budget
Chairperson: Mr I Vadi (ANC)
Sentech's overall message was that Sentech needed more government funding across the board so as to reach their Digital Terrestrial Television migration, 2010 FIFA World Cup, and Broadband goals at the right time. The members asked questions and made comments about government allocating more funds, the set-top box delay, the steep prices that Sentech was asking of community radio stations and concerns about the Dinaledi Schools project.
Sentech presentation
Dr Sebeletso Mokone-Matabane (Sentech Chief Executive Officer) presented on Sentech's Business Strategy and Budget for 2008/09. Looking at Broadcasting Signal Distribution, funding shortfalls by government were the chief challenge as well as the exchange rate. She explained that phase 1 and phase 2 of the migration to Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) had been successfully completed. However, phase 3 which commenced 1 April 2008 had a funding allocation of only R150 million out of the R262, 7 million required. The planned DTT roll-out giving 56% population coverage by 31 March 2009 would not be achieved due to the reduced funding allocation. Only 18 sites (40%) as opposed to 36 (56%) would be live. The exchange rate and funding shortfall had implications for dual illumination as well, when analogue and digital signals would co-exist. The government policy regarding the technical specifications for the set-top box required for network design had not been finalised yet so this was also identified as a challenge.
Dr Mokone-Matabane said that Sentech would meet their 2010 World Cup obligations. Funding of R300 million had been allocated. This funding would be used to acquire land at NASREC to build a second teleport and commence construction.
Addressing telecommunications / broadband projects, Sentech reported on its carrier of carriers and VSAT plans and performance. No final decision had been reached between the Department and Treasury about the business plan and funding model for the National Wholesale Broadband Network (NWBN) project. Again only R500 million of a R3,1 billion funding requirement had been allocated by government. The Dinaledi Schools Project, providing wireless connectivity for 233 Dinaledi schools, was not sustainable as a standalone project. It required R2,8 billion. Sentech had proposed that this project should be implemented as part of NWBN. Discussions were still in progress.
Sentech's 2008/09 budget for DDT capital expenditure and operating expenditure (dual illumination), 2010 FIFA World Cup, and Broadband was presented. Also shown was the discrepancy between funding requested and funding allocated for 2007 through to 2012. The overall amount outstanding was R3,8 billion.
Mr Khumalo (ANC) asked what Sentech was doing for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and why their equipment was too expensive so that small community radio stations could not afford acquiring such equipment.
Mr Pieterse (ANC) stated that the problem that Sentech was facing was due to the structuring of funding. If sufficient funding were allocated only at a later stage, that was too late as there would already be problems faced by this entity. He strongly suggested that government allocate more funds that would be sufficient so that Sentech could start demonstrating progress to FIFA in the following year.
Mr Dingane Dube (Executive: Regulatory and Government Affairs) replied to Mr Khumalo's question, saying that in broad terms, assets had been fully depreciated and that the equipment needed to be constantly maintained and such maintenance required a lot of money. He explained that Sentech's mandate to FIFA was to provide satellite distribution on a worldwide basis.
Dr Len Konar (Non-executive Director) commented that Mr Pieterse was correct in saying that the National Treasury needed to reach a consensus with Sentech about the allocation of funds.
The CEO stated that Sentech was not overcharging its clients. Prices they incurred as a company included illumination costs, electricity, and staff costs were also going up. She mentioned that the company did not own some of its transmission sites and rental for those sites was high. In some instances, Sentech had to spend a lot of money repairing roads where their transmission sites were located. Another challenge that they faced was the electricity crisis that required the company to purchase stand-by diesel generators. She elaborated that Sentech was not intending to focus solely on the Gauteng province but that a lot of work was done there because the province was densely populated meaning that demands were higher there. She stated that FIFA required a double redundancy fiber optic feed and satellite feed which was very important. She then explained that community radios and broadcasters where being charged equitably and equally, and that the Department of Communication had subsidised some of the community radios to assist them with their needs.
Mr Kholwane (ANC) asked how far Sentech had gone in the issuing of licences in terms of configuration and to what extent was the rollout of set-top boxes affected by the issuing of licences.
The CEO replied that it was ICASA who issued the licences and not Sentech. She elaborated that ICASA determined what network coverage its broadcasters receive. Sentech complied with ICASA, and Sentech could only advise the broadcasters as to the availability of spectrum. In terms of the set-top boxes, DTT needed technical specifications to feed the set-top boxes. She noted that the manufacturing of these boxes was not in the hands of Sentech
Mr Kholwane asked if there was a need for a re-configuration of the issues regarding frequency in order for Sentech to be granted channels.
The CEO replied that NFP, the infrastructure company, needed to extend its base by re-allocating certain broadcasting coverage in specific areas. Mr Dube added that frequencies were assigned to the respective broadcasters and not to Sentech.
Ms Smuts (DA) stated that it was evident that Sentech had reached a stalemate with regard to wireless broadband which was due to insufficient funds. Sentech's decision for delaying the process for implementing set-top boxes was wise and sensible. She said that it was not sensible for Sentech to be expected to finance the Dinaledi Schools project when its budget was already insufficient. She advised them that the Department of Education should be invited to intervene in the Dinaledi Schools project, as the matter could not be solely isolated to the Department of Communications (DoC).
Mr Pieterse said that the DoC was not sufficiently accommodating of Sentech and that technology played a significant role in the schools. He agreed that the MECs in the provinces needed to be invited to play a role in the implementation of the Dinaledi Schools project.
The members agreed that the Department of Education needed to be invited for this matter.
This meeting was adjourned.
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Morning Consult reporter: Trump's support among African-Americans has fallen
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Morning Consult political reporter Eli Yokley said on Friday that President Trump Donald John TrumpCNN's Camerota clashes with Trump's immigration head over president's tweet LA Times editorial board labels Trump 'Bigot-in-Chief' Trump complains of 'fake polls' after surveys show him trailing multiple Democratic candidates MORE's approval rating among African-Americans has fallen, suggesting that it could be tied to his criticism of NFL players who protest during the national anthem.
"It's gotten worse among African-Americans. He's losing African-Americans," Yokley told Hill.TV's Jamal Simmons on "What America's Thinking."
"I think a lot of it might be how this NFL thing that he keeps dabbling in, about the player protests. I don't think President Trump is showing that he understands what this protest is about, as he evidenced on Twitter this week," he continued.
A Politico/Morning Consult poll released this week found that only 6 percent of African-Americans strongly approve of the job Trump is doing as president, while 61 percent said they strongly disapprove of the job he's doing.
Trump on Friday took to Twitter to renew his attacks on NFL players who protest racial injustice and police brutality during the national anthem at games. On Thursday, players on several teams protested during "The Star Spangled-Banner."
"The NFL players are at it again — taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the National Anthem," the president tweeted.
"Be happy, be cool! A football game, that fans are paying soooo much money to watch and enjoy, is no place to protest," he continued. "Most of that money goes to the players anyway."
"Find another way to protest. Stand proudly for your National Anthem or be Suspended Without Pay!" Trump added.
The NFL players are at it again - taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the National Anthem. Numerous players, from different teams, wanted to show their "outrage" at something that most of them are unable to define. They make a fortune doing what they love......
.....Be happy, be cool! A football game, that fans are paying soooo much money to watch and enjoy, is no place to protest. Most of that money goes to the players anyway. Find another way to protest. Stand proudly for your National Anthem or be Suspended Without Pay!
— Julia Manchester
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Fr. Dennis
Dear brothers and sisters,
This week we will be celebrating the Feasts of All Saints and All Souls, November 1st and 2nd. These two Feasts are a reminder that we are members of the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church and that Mystical Body is more than the visible church we see in the world. The Church is made of the "Church Triumphant," those who are in heaven, the "Church Militant," those who are here in this world, fighting the good fight and seeking to be holy, and the "Church Suffering," the souls in purgatory; those souls on their way to heaven, but being purified from the temporal effects of their sins.
Why do Catholics pray for the dead?
The earliest Scriptural reference to prayers for the dead comes in the second book of Maccabees. The books of Maccabees were among the latest written books found in the Old Testament. The Church declared them inspired texts, but the protestants reformers would later remove them from the Old Testament. They recount the struggle of the Jewish people for freedom against the Greeks who occupied and persecuted the Jewish people, desecrated the temple, trying to extinguish their Jewish faith.
The second book of Maccabees recounts how Judas Maccabee, the Jewish leader, led his troops into battle around 163 B.C. When the battle ended he directed that the bodies of those Jews who had died be buried. As soldiers prepared their slain comrades for burial, they discovered that dead were wearing amulets (pagan jewelry promising protection of the gods), taken as booty from a pagan Temple. This violated the law of Deuteronomy and so Judas and his soldiers prayed that God would forgive the sin these men had committed (II Maccabees 12:39-45).
This is the first indication in Scripture of a belief that prayers offered by the living can help free the dead from any sin that would separate them from God in the life to come. It is echoed in the New Testament when Paul offers a prayer for a man named Onesiphorus who had died: "May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day"(II Timothy 1:18). The cave-like tombs outside the ancient city walls of Rome, which we call catacombs, bear evidence that members of the Roman Christian community gathered there to pray for their fellow believers who lay buried there. By the fourth century prayers for the dead are mentioned in Christian literature as though they were already a longstanding custom.
The practice of praying for the dead is rooted first in Christian belief in the everlasting life promised in Jesus' teachings and foreshadowed by his disciple's experience that God had raised him from the dead. After death, even though separated from our earthly body, we yet continue a personal existence. It is as living persons that God invites us into a relationship whose life transcends death.
Praying for the dead is also deeply embedded in our Christian faith in the Mystical Body of Christ, the Communion of Saints, the Forgiveness of sins, and everlasting life – sound familiar? We say these words in the Creed every Sunday at Mass. Members of this community who are living often assist each other in faith by prayers and other forms of spiritual support. Christians who have died continue to be members of the communion of saints. We believe that we can assist them by our prayers, and they can assist us by theirs.
At every funeral Mass we include at the Liturgy and later at the grave, prayers that express the hope that God will free the person who has died from any burden of sin and prepare a place for him or her in heaven. Death remains a mystery. As the Apostle John says in his first epistle:
"Beloved, we are God's children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure."
And St. Paul reminds us: "As it is written, what eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him" 1 Corinthians 2: 9. What incredibly hopeful words to us today as we look forward, not in fear, but in hope and joy to the promise of eternal life with God.


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The one who fucked it up?
or the ones who didnt make him stop?
Wonderfully relaxed sound with the voice carrying the energy from beginning to the end. Glad you reworked it, worth your time! Sounds beautiful and the song has a lot of power in it's simplicity. I'd even add another verse and make it longer, and if you don't mind me saying so...but if you substitute the f-word with something not quite as strong, you can take out the explicit note and you've got a song any radio station should play day and night!
I like this one Magnus. The starting lines 'He could have been another man - If he had finished what he planned' seems to fit to a lot of people I can think of... including my self.
Its not like I have to use the word, but it has a very long vowel sound that i like..... It will never be on radio anyway as well... :D And thank you for the comment!!
I really like the two note strum guitar accompaniment!! It gives a solid foundation for your lilting vocals. The keyboard is like ice cream on pie. Puts it over the top. Sweet tune and a fine job!
Seems like the stuff I heard from you before was all kind of "lo-fi." You've made a big step in production! The guitar sound is real clean and present. I really like the groove of this song, and the lyrics, too. The only problem spot in my mind are the vocal harmonies, particularly the first time you bring them in--gotta get those a little tighter for them to work.
Crisply played and adroitly sung - an excellent production.
Thank you very much for this fine constructive critics on the f word. I think you are right as well. Choosing the right words isn't always easy when English is not my native tongue. And naturally that results in a few cliches. I really apreciate your aproach on this F word. I don't care about radioplay, but i do care about writing better. Thank you very much sir!


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'This is a hard day:' NASA's Opportunity rover is dead, ending the longest-running Mars mission in history
Dave Mosher
NASA's Mars Opportunity rover in March 2014.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.
NASA's Opportunity rover hasn't phoned home in the months after a global dust storm tore across Mars.
Officials at NASA announced the Martian robot's death on Wednesday.
Now that both Opportunity and its identical-twin rover, Spirit, are silent, the longest-running Mars mission is history is over.
Opportunity was supposed to last 90 days but survived on the red planet for nearly 15 years.
Opportunity, the longest-operating robot on the Martian surface, has died from a one-two punch of aging hardware and a "historic" dust storm, NASA said on Wednesday.
In June, regional dust storms began to engulf Mars in a record-setting global tempest, prompting NASA to park the rover and hunker down. When the dust finally began to settle and sunlight returned, the the golf-cart-size rover did not phone home. NASA tried for months to contact Opportunity but was met with deafening silence.
On Wednesday, the US space agency held a press briefing to announce it had given up on Opportunity, and that its mission was over.
Combined with the previous loss of its identical-twin Spirit rover, this marks the operational finale of the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) program — the longest-running Mars mission in history.
"This was a historic dust storm," Abigail Fraeman, a MER deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said during a live broadcast of the briefing. "We needed a historic dust storm to finish this historic mission."
A plucky robot 14 years out-of-warranty
A panorama photographed by NASA's Opportunity rover during the Martian summer of 2014.
Opportunity and Spirit landed on Mars in January 2004.
Although each robot was designed to last a few months on the Martian surface, Spirit survived for more than six years and Opportunity for nearly 15 years. The latter rolled more than a marathon's worth of distance across the red planet's surface.
"When this little rover landed, the objective was to have it be able to move 1,100 yards and survive for 90 days on Mars," Jim Bridenstine, the administrator of NASA, said during the briefing. "Instead here we are, 14 years later, after 28 miles of travel, and we get to celebrate the end of this mission."
John Callas, the mission's project manager, expressed disbelief at the rover mission's overall duration and sadness at its end.
"We had no idea it would take this long," Callas said during NASA's briefing. "Even so, this is a hard day ... We sent our final command and it said nothing. So now we say goodbye."
NASA last heard from Opportunity on June 10, 2018, when the global dust storm began to build across Mars.
"This is the worst storm Opportunity has ever seen, and we're doing what we can, crossing our fingers, and hoping for the best," Steve Squyres, a planetary scientist at Cornell University and leader of the rover mission, told the Planetary Society at the time.
Though Opportunity had weathered other Martian dust storms before, this particular tempest — which NASA called "one of the most intense" ever seen — blocked a record amount sunlight to the planet's surface for an extended stretch of time.
"The sky was so dark we couldn't see the sun," Fraeman said.
It was too much for the aging rover, which relies on solar energy to keep its electronics healthy.
How darkness felled Opportunity
Simulated images show what NASA's Opportunity rover saw as a global dust storm on Mars blotted out the sun in June 2018.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/TAMU
The dust storm on Mars finally began to clear in late August.
With sunlight intensity growing, mission managers said at the time that Opportunity's solar panels should (in theory) begin gathering enough sunlight to recharge the rover's batteries. This prompted the team to begin attempts to contact the robot.
"If we do not hear back after 45 days, the team will be forced to conclude that the sun-blocking dust and the Martian cold have conspired to cause some type of fault from which the rover will more than likely not recover," Callas said on August 30.
That deadline passed in October, marking the end of an "active" campaign to contact Opportunity.
But the space agency did not immediately give up. In November, NASA started a 90-day effort of "passive" listening to see if the robot somehow woke up on its own.
Opportunity still did not respond, even as light intensity increased on the sun-facing hill where engineers had parked the rover before the storm.
A 3D illustration shows where NASA's Opportunity Mars rover was parked when a global dust storm enveloped the red planet.
Seán Doran/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0); Business Insider
Too much fine Martian dust likely coated Opportunity's panels, and no winds came soon enough to sweep it off. This probably impaired the rover's ability to store and use electrical energy, NASA said on Wednesday.
Cold is a major threat on Mars, since temperatures can drop to -100 degrees Fahrenheit near the equator in the winter. Such cold can shrink bits of metal in electronic circuits and snap them.
While little buttons of nuclear material called plutonium-238 help keep Opportunity's circuitry warm, they are well-decayed and not as hot as they used to be — and unable to protect the rover's systems on their own.
Read more: NASA's deep-space nuclear-power crisis may soon end, thanks to a clever new robot in Tennessee
Opportunity's batteries were also very old, and the longer such batteries remain uncharged, the more electrical storage capacity they lose. This can lead to a sudden dip in voltage called a "brown out," which puts the robot into an unrecoverable state.
Making matters worse, Opportunity developed a faulty heater in its robotic arm. The heater was "stuck on" when the rover was trying to preserve energy, Callas said, though engineers ultimately figured out a way to trick the arm into turning off.
But this trick relied on the rover's clock, which Callas said was likely "scrambled" when Opportunity's energy levels ran low. So if the rover did wake up from its dust-storm nap, it began using up all of its energy, leading to a battery brown out.
Spirit — Opportunity's sister rover — is presumed to have suffered the same fate in 2010. Engineers tried for more than a year to contact Spirit, but the rover never responded. NASA gave up trying to recontact the rover in May 2011 (during winter on Mars).
The scientific fruits of the Mars rovers
Opportunity caught these small spherules on the Martian surface near Fram Crater, April 2004. The area shown is 1.2 inches across.
NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / USGS
Spirit and Opportunity used their suite of drills, cameras, brushes, and microscopes to definitively prove that water once flowed across the surface of Mars.
Some of the first bits of conclusive evidence the rovers found were round mineral formations known as spherules, which were most fondly called "blueberries" (for their blue hue in false-color images).
Squyres said on Wednesday that everyone was initially very excited by the prospects of ancient Martian water and what that may mean for the prospects of alien life, though the minerals indicated there was a lot of sulfur in the water.
"It was really sulfuric acid on Mars," he said. "It was not evidence of an evolutionary paradise."
Read more: If aliens existed on Mars, they might have lived in oasis-like pools
Still, the rovers did eventually encounter clays that suggested there were also pools of neutral or non-acidic water on the red planet.
"That's the kind of water we could drink, and that's the kind of water in which we think life could have gotten started," Matt Golombek, a project scientist on the mission, said.
You can watch NASA's broadcast of the briefing below.
This story has been updated with new information.
SEE ALSO: 85% of Americans would give NASA a giant raise, but most don't know how little the space agency gets as a share of the federal budget
DON'T MISS: Elon Musk says SpaceX is on track to launch people to Mars within 6 years — here's the full timeline of his plans to populate the red planet
NOW WATCH: NASA released a time-lapse of 11-years of footage filmed on the surface of Mars
More: NASA Mars Opportunity Rover Space Exploration


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Q: Add argument/parameter to TFS Build Definition I have a single build process template that I use for a number different builds definitions. I want to be able to specify an argument/parameter that is different for each build definition. I'll use this value in one of the workflow activities defined in the template.
How do you create an argument/parameter for a build definition and pass it to the build process  template?

A: OK, I've got it. In the build definition I just need to Refresh the Build process file and the arguments I'd set up in the template appeared at the bottom in the Misc section.

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"This was my second time seeing moe. The first was at Moonlite Gardens at Coney where it was outside and drizzled rain all night. The Taft was drier and has much beter acoustics. Still haven't heard my favorite Rebubula live yet, but both sets here were amazing. The Floyd-like Skrunk and the frenzy of Silver Sun were highlights for me."
"OMG. Havent seen this band live in over a decade. Amazing night. Fantastic seats, fantastic lights........ Fantastic band. Love the drummers."


When designing content for your blog, email or website, keep your brand in mind. What emotions do you want your content and design to evoke? Carefully choose your design and visuals that help you achieve that tone. Expedia, for example, does a great job using their brand colors in emails; it's everywhere, from headers and footers to headlines and buttons. Consistent branding makes it easier for customers and prospects to recognize that a piece of content comes from you. And that image of a beautiful beach & palm trees absolutely makes me want to go there.
Articles with pictures get 94% more page visits and engagement, so use images to your advantage. The typeface you use can also influence the mood your content evokes in readers, so keep the font in mind when designing a web page or email template. And avoid comic sans at all costs.
If you have a long piece of content, break it up with visual hierarchy to make it easier to read. Whether you use bullet points, sub-headlines or images to break up text, this makes it much more engaging.
If you have a big team of designers and writers working on a single piece of content, it shouldn't come across that way. Maintain a consistent feel across all of your content — website pages, print materials– by establishing a specific tone and voice for your branded content. That does wonders for creating a unified brand experience for your audience.
Great design can really enhance a piece of content, but avoid going overboard. Sometimes, all you need is one simple image. That's right. You don't want to distract your audience from the message you're trying to get across. As they say, less is often more.


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Baleen Island, Nunavut Tide Chart
Local time: 2019-07-17 Wed 11:34 AM EDT
Baleen Island, Nunavut
2019-07-17 Wed  5:18 PM EDT   0.68 meters  Low Tide
2019-07-17 Wed 11:15 PM EDT   2.50 meters  High Tide
2019-07-18 Thu 12:00 AM EDT   Sunset
2019-07-18 Thu 12:30 AM EDT   Moonrise
2019-07-18 Thu  4:37 AM EDT   Sunrise
2019-07-18 Thu  5:33 AM EDT   0.90 meters  Low Tide
2019-07-18 Thu  6:29 AM EDT   Moonset
2019-07-18 Thu 11:21 AM EDT   2.56 meters  High Tide
2019-07-18 Thu  6:04 PM EDT   0.70 meters  Low Tide
2019-07-18 Thu 11:57 PM EDT   Sunset
2019-07-19 Fri 12:03 AM EDT   2.50 meters  High Tide
2019-07-19 Fri 12:42 AM EDT   Moonrise
2019-07-19 Fri  4:40 AM EDT   Sunrise
2019-07-19 Fri  6:22 AM EDT   0.92 meters  Low Tide
2019-07-19 Fri  7:53 AM EDT   Moonset
2019-07-19 Fri 12:06 PM EDT   2.53 meters  High Tide
2019-07-19 Fri  6:48 PM EDT   0.71 meters  Low Tide
2019-07-19 Fri 11:54 PM EDT   Sunset
2019-07-20 Sat 12:50 AM EDT   Moonrise
2019-07-20 Sat 12:50 AM EDT   2.52 meters  High Tide
2019-07-20 Sat  4:43 AM EDT   Sunrise
2019-07-20 Sat  7:11 AM EDT   0.93 meters  Low Tide
2019-07-20 Sat  9:17 AM EDT   Moonset
2019-07-20 Sat 12:52 PM EDT   2.50 meters  High Tide
2019-07-20 Sat  7:32 PM EDT   0.73 meters  Low Tide
2019-07-20 Sat 11:51 PM EDT   Sunset
2019-07-21 Sun 12:55 AM EDT   Moonrise
2019-07-21 Sun  1:37 AM EDT   2.53 meters  High Tide
2019-07-21 Sun  4:46 AM EDT   Sunrise
2019-07-21 Sun  8:00 AM EDT   0.93 meters  Low Tide
2019-07-21 Sun 10:39 AM EDT   Moonset


Explore, Dream, Discover, Snorkel Boy!
There's a world out there for you to EXPLORE!
And, a future that is yours to DREAM!
DISCOVER who you are, young one.
And create your own amazing life!
PSS - I do have prints available of this fanciful piece.


Finally, Real Life has let us get back to what we enjoy! Yapping about podcasts!
For real this time! So, keep reading…..
Episode 4 – Alt Reality & Geekbox!
Stefan Halley of www.PopSyndicate.com has given us forum home!


Scoop ! Look what I show new item soft lure at Daiwa France office !!! 8 inch(20cm) 58g Giant Grubin shad. This is so hot !!! Coming next season !!!
Baby sitter fishing Day 2 was so hard….
Bon Ba….. Baby sitter fishing day with Mayeul.C & Hiro today !
But, Baby Mayeul did Big mama Sandre !!! He is too lucky !!!! No. I should say. he is too good !
and We celebrated his big Sandre at PNY my favorite Hamburger shop in Paris at night.
Tomorrow will be day 2 for vertical Sandre fishing day !!!
PREDATORS magazine #55 now on sale !!!
PREDATORS magazine #55, now on sale !!! To go kiosk now !!!
There is my last Guyane baby Tarpon article with Daiwa AGS spinning rod performance !
And also My photo collection of Guyane !
I am so fortunate person that for my birthday. I received more than 700 Facebook messages and SMS, e-mail, phone call. I do not know how can I thank you to all of you !
Now,I am 43 years old. I will continue work hard, fish hard and enjoy hard !!!
I am very sorry that, I am not able to reply to all of you one by one. But, I appreciate all the message I received. All of messages gave me more motivation of my year 43 of life.
Thank you so much all of you !!!
Quick drive to Bruges Belgium.
Quick one day drive to Belgium Bruges 300km from Paris. It was nice visit and of corse mussel & French fries for lunch ! and also, Can not forget Waffle too !
I just discovered American style Hamburger place in Paris 11th area. It was bit far from my home. But, It is so good just like what I used to eat when I was living in USA. Not only for that, They have also NY style cheese cake & American Snapple ice tea !!!
I am sure I will come back very very soon again !!!
INFO: PNY (Paris New Youk) 96 rue Oberkampf, 75011 Paris.
Since long time I have not stay weekend at home. So, This weekend is relax weekend at home.
Afternoon tea time with Sri-Lanka tea which I bought from last Sri Lanka trip.
And also, Looking at my personal old reel collections makes me happy !
Voila bien longtemps que je n'ai pas passé un weekend à la maison. Donc ce weekend, relax.
Une après midi en compagnie d'un bon Thé fraichement ramené du Sri Lanka.
J'en ai profité pour faire un tour dans ma collection de vieux moulinets. Ca m'a fait vraiment plaisir.


I like to have some very unique chop sticks. The material is not important, but they have to be exceptional.The perfect amount would be 8 pairs of sticks.
This project has been realized by myself, Esther Oriku, in Kenya. Like all other projects on Urban Change Lab, it started with an idea or request from a customer in Europe. In this case our customer Johannes from Berlin requested the idea described above. I made an offer which Johannes finally confirmed. Please scroll down to find out about the journey from the idea to the product.
7 Euro is okay for me. You can surprise me with the design. It can be as crazy as possible.
But I like to start with just one set.
Hallo.kindly have a look of the written chopsticks.


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"""
calc Kd [M]
"""
from __future__ import print_function

import argparse
import math

from decimal import Decimal
from numpy import log as ln
from numpy import exp
from si_prefix import si_format

def get_parser():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description=__doc__, formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)

    #parser.add_argument('-', "--", help="", default="")

    parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose",
                        action="store_true", help="be verbose")
    parser.add_argument("-T", default = 310)
    parser.add_argument("dG", help="in kcal/mol", default="")
    return parser

if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = get_parser()
    args = parser.parse_args()

    x = float(args.dG) / (args.T * 1.98720425864083*10**-3)
    kd = math.e ** x
    print('Kd:', kd, 'M')
    #print(si_format(kd, precision=2)) # 3.59 f
    print('Kd: %.2e' % Decimal(kd))

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Insanity Averted - For Now
Here is an email that was sent out a few days ago by Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Executive Vice-President of Agudah:
To Distinguished Rabbonim and Leaders of Agudath Israel of America:
I write to give you a "heads-up" on an important upcoming public gathering, which is not an Agudath Israel function but nonetheless enjoys the strong backing of Agudath Israel's rabbinic leadership.
As we are all aware, the newly formed coalition government in Israel, which totally excludes the charedi parties, has made clear that it intends to institute major changes that will have significant impacts on the charedi population. Among other things, the new government is poised to enact legislation that will impose a quota on the number of full-time yeshiva students who are exempt from the military draft. Stated simply, the proposed new law would tear away thousands of serious yeshiva-leit from their shtenders, and dramatically reduce the population of full-time lomdei Torah in Eretz Yisroel. Gedolei Yisroel, both here and in Eretz Yisroel, see this change in the longstanding exemption policy as a devastating body blow against Klal Yisroel's lofty status as the Am HaTorah.
In a series of discussions and meetings among a broad array of Gedolei Yisroel in America, including the Chavrei Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, and in consultation with leading Roshei Yeshiva and Admorim in Eretz Yisroel, the decision was made by these Gedolei Yisroel to call an Atzeres Tefila and Kinus Hisorirus here in America. The main purposes of the Atzeres will be to help our own community better understand the nature of the tzara facing our brethren in Eretz Yisroel if the proposed new policy is implemented, to express our deep concern about this development, and to daven for rachmei Shamayim in the face of this impending gezeira. What the Atzeres most emphatically will not be is a demonstration or protest against the State of Israel, or an effort to enlist the American public or the American government in a campaign to fight the proposed new law.
The Atzeres is scheduled to take place early Sunday afternoon, 11 Iyar / April 21, in downtown Manhattan, and is expected to attract a broad cross-section of the American charedi community. Additional details will be made public within the next few days, along with a "Kol Korei" signed by a distinguished array of Gedolei Yisroel, but in the meantime I felt that our leadership should be alerted to this upcoming event, and be given a clear understanding of its purpose and goals.
A guten Shabbos to one and all.
Chaim Dovid Zwiebel
Baruch Hashem, this insane rally, planned for Lower Manhattan (?!?!?!) has been cancelled. But why?
Was it because someone with sanity and influence realized that notwithstanding Rabbi Zwiebel's nervous and emphatic declaration that the rally would not be "a demonstration or protest against the State of Israel, or an effort to enlist the American public or the American government in a campaign to fight the proposed new law," it would undoubtedly be perceived that way by many people?
Was it because Americans - Jew and non-Jew alike - would not be sympathetic to those who evade sharing the burden of security, especially in light of the Boston attack? (And to those who mention the Vietnam exemption for divinity students - no American government would tolerate such exemptions for upwards of ten per cent of the population, in such a serious situation as constantly faces Israel!)
Was it because it would also draw attention to how these yeshivah students also refuse to participate in the workforce, and end up as a drain on economic resources, which might draw unwanted attention to certain people in America who excel at milking a welfare system that was not intended to provide for people who have no intention of supporting their large families?
Was it because in light of the ultra-Orthodox looking like barbarians with their protest against parents giving informed consent for metzitzah b'peh, they didn't want to make things look even worse?
Baruch Hashem someone with influence apparently realized that this rally would make Orthodox Jews look even worse in the eyes of the general public than they already do.
In any case, just in case the idea of such a protest is resurrected in this form or another, it's important to set matters straight.
A "devastating body blow against Klal Yisroel's lofty status as the Am HaTorah"? But what about the Religious Zionist community? They seem to manage being a Torah community (unless you contrive some peculiarly chareidi definition of "Torah" that has no basis in tradition). And why can't charedim go back to yeshivah after army? How on earth is our status as the Am HaTorah devastated when some people take time off their studies to serve in the army?
In any case, what is the nature of the threat being protested? Rabbi Zwiebel warns of the "decree" that will "tear away thousands of serious yeshiva-leit from their shtenders" - as though the military police will be forcibly dragging people out of the Beis HaMedrash and into the army, or throwing them in prison. In fact, all that is being proposed to take place in four years' time is that those who do not share the burden of military service, and do not participate in the workforce, will not receive government funding for their lifestyle.
The government is not denying the chareidi community its right to choose to devote itself to full-time, permanent Torah study, and not contribute to the IDF or the workforce. It's just saying that the State of Israel will no longer finance such a lifestyle. Is that really so shocking? (Or are American charedim afraid that they will be asked to finance their brethren instead?)
The Agudah wanted to daven for rachamei Shamayim that the government's plans will be cancelled. I'd say that rachamei Shamayim was issued, and the Agudah's plans were cancelled.
UPDATE: In contrast to the Agudah, who are afraid of the impending gezerah, the editorial in this week's Yated says that there is nothing to worry about: "We are the ones of yesh atid. Ours is the party of the past, present and future... as they stumble about in darkness, without the light of truth, we will be basking in the glow of Abaye and Rava, Rashi and Tosafos, the Rambam, the Ramban and the Rashba..." Right, it is the charedim who are following in the tradition of Rashi the wine merchant, Rabbeinu Tam the wealthy wine merchant and financier, Rambam the physician (who forbade being funded for Torah study), Ramban the physician, Rashba the financier...


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Q: Putting if else condition in subquery during INSERT SELECT CODE * STATUS_CODE WHERE CODE IN (.....);

Above SQL is a subquery embedded in an insert statement to determine a column CLOSE_CODE to 'Y' (if query return) or 'N' (if query no return).
How can I put the query something like IF ELSE condition in the insert statement?
INSERT INTO CODE_REVIEWS (CLOSE_CODE)
VALUES (....)

A: You could do it with NVL(). Rewrite the query, so that it returns 'Y' if a record exists. Select 'Y'from DUAL and use EXISTS for that. If no such row exists, the result of the subquery will be NULL and NVL() will turn that NULL into 'N'.
NVL((SELECT 'Y'
            FROM DUAL
            WHERE EXISTS (SELECT *
                                 FROM STATUS_CODE
                                 WHERE CODE IN (....))),
    'N')

A more verbose version, which would also work in many other DBMS could use CASE and again EXISTS. WHEN such rows exists, 'Y'will be returned, ELSE 'N'.
CASE
  WHEN EXISTS (SELECT *
                      FROM STATUS_CODE
                      WHERE CODE IN (...))
    THEN 'Y'
  ELSE
    'N'
END


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Discussion in 'Scotland - Primary' started by sw31877, Jan 5, 2011.
Our establishment has been using HGIOS to evaluate school practice as a whole. Does anyone use a specific SE process for teacher only practice, day to day?


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Vince Friese took the 450SX main event holeshot over all of the past champions and whole slew of other solid riders. Friese was able to hold on to the lead for a half lap before Villopoto made a pass on him following the split lane section. Chad Reed, Justin Brayton, Ryan Dungey, Wil Hahn, James Stewart and Justin Barcia were all also able to advance past Friese as the field fought for positions in the opening laps. Out of the top-ten riders, Stewart did the most work in the first half of the race. He made rather quick work of Hahn before setting his sites on Dungey. Stewart was all over Dungey for a half lap before making the pass into fourth. Villopoto and Reed had opened up a comfortable gap by this point.
Stewart then took on Brayton for third. He made the block pass on Brayton, which opened up the door for Dungey as well. Dungey got Brayton just a couple corners later. Reed's comfortable gap over third place quickly diminished when Stewart began to do a quad in the rhythm section following the start straight. Dungey followed suit and started doing the quad as well, but had to stretch it out and would come up short every now and then. After closing the gap on Reed through multiple laps, Stewart put the pass on Reed for second place just a couple corners after the quad. Dungey closed up on Reed as well, but was unable to get close enough to make a move for the last spot on the podium. Villopoto continued to ride away unchallenged for his second win of the season, followed by Stewart in second and Reed in third.
In the 250SX main event, Dean Wilson fired out of the gate first , but his Monster Energy/Pro Circuit Kawasaki teammate Justin Hill made an inside pass for the lead in the following corner. Jason Anderson had a decent start and was able to move quickly through the pack and up to second place in the opening laps. Red-plate holder Cole Seely battled with Osborne for fourth while the top three riders began to separate themselves from the rest of the field.
Anderson put his flat-track skills to use to put a pass on Hill through the inside of the start-straight corner for the lead, but that pass only lasted for one lane. Hill was set up for the inside line going into the following corner and rode Anderson high to retake the lead, also allowing Wilson to move into second. Wilson then overtook Hill with a block pass in the corner following the whoops. Anderson passed Hill back in the same corner Hill block passed him one lap earlier to take back second. Wilson had quite a gap over Anderson with five laps to go, but Anderson was able to whittle away at the gap through lapped traffic. As Anderson neared Wilson, Wilson suddenly and unexpectedly rolled the first triple on the track and in turn handed the lead over to Anderson. It was too late for Wilson to make a late-race charge and Anderson went on to take his third win of the season. Wilson took second and Hill took third for his first podium appearance. Wilson later stated on the podium that his bike died and caused him to roll the triple.
Report by Aaron Hansel
Coming into the Oakland round of Monster Energy Supercross, the buzz was all about the possibility of having four different 450SX winners in four different rounds. And while that didn't end up panning out, the night's action was still jammed with great racing. Here's what went down in Northern California at the fourth race of the season.
Photos by Simon Cudby
Ryan Villopoto didn't holeshot the 450SX main event, but it didn't take him long to move to the front after starting in third behind Vince Friese and Justin Brayton.
Vince Friese was officially recorded as taking the 450SX holeshot, but he went backward pretty quickly after that, finishing the race in fourteenth.
Justin Brayton continued his string of excellent results by taking fifth, but he didn't quite have the same speed as last week when he came back on Villopoto for a heat race win. After the race he said he was having a hard time with the dragon's backs all night.
Roczen had a so-so night, finishing sixth, and was never a factor in the battle for podium positions.
Weston Peick ran as high as seventh, but DNF'd with what appeared to be a mechanical failure.
The crowd got to see another battle between rivals Chad Reed and James Stewart, but instead of racing for the win, they were battling over second place, where Stewart would eventually finish.
Justin Barcia had another night he'd likely rather forget. A bad start and a crash in the dragon's back resulted in a seventh place for Barcia.
After finishing the first lap in sixth place, Stewart was able to work his way up through the pack, but second place was as high as he would go. He was taking a little bit of time out of Villopoto's lead at the end, but Villopoto had a big lead and was in management mode. RV would win the race, taking the points lead in the process.
Dean Wilson nabbed the holeshot in the 250SX main event, but teammate Justin Hill ran him high in a corner, causing him to miss a triple and nearly get landed on. Ironically, when Wilson retook the lead a few laps later, he used the same move that Hill did on him in the same turn.
Hill showed some serious speed in Oakland, leading six of the 250SX main event's fifteen laps. He would eventually take third on the night, scoring his first ever podium as a pro.
Seely recorded a few laps that were pretty fast in the main, but he just didn't seem like he was on the same level that he was on at the first three rounds of the season. After going back and forth with Zach Osborne he took fourth and now sits second to Jason Anderson by six points.
Wilson was on point tonight. After taking the lead he held it for eight laps--a vast improvement from his performance at the first three rounds.
Unfortunately he ran into some bad luck on the final lap (in a his post-race interview Wilson said his bike momentarily cut out on him) that would prevent him from making a triple. Anderson was there to capitalize and seize yet another win on the final lap of the race.
Cooper Webb wasn't able to repeat his podium performance from last week. In a move that he would later take the blame for, Webb tried a move on Malcolm Stewart that left them both on the ground. Webb took ninth, while Stewart, whose rear brake pedal was torn off in the incident, finished in sixteenth.
After leading for just six of the season's first sixty laps, Anderson holds a six point lead going into A3.
450SX Results
1. R. Villopoto
2. J. Stewart
3. C. Reed
4. R. Dungey
5. J. Brayton
6. K. Roczen
7. J. Barcia
8. W. Hahn
9. J. Weimer
10. A. Short
11. J. Grant
12. I. Tedesco
13. M. Alessi
14. V. Friese
15. N. Wey
16. M. Goerke
17. K. Chisholm
18. J. Albertson
19. N. Schmidt
20. J. Decotis
21. K. Partridge
22. W. Peick
450SX Points
Ryan Villopoto, Poulsbo, Wash., Kawasaki, 84
Chad Reed, Dade City, Fla., Kawasaki, 77
Ken Roczen, Murrieta, Calif., KTM, 75
Ryan Dungey, Belle Plaine, Minn., KTM, 75
Justin Brayton, Cornelius, N.C., Yamaha, 71
James Stewart, Haines City, Fla., Suzuki, 66
Justin Barcia, Pinetta, Fla., Honda, 56
Andrew Short, Smithville, Texas, KTM, 49
Wil Hahn, Menifee, Calif., Honda, 43
Jake Weimer, Rupert, Idaho, Kawasaki, 37
1. J. Anderson
2. D. Wilson
3. J. Hill
4. C. Seely
5. Z. Osborne
6. M. Leib
7. J. Nelson
8. S. McElrath
9. C. Webb
10. D. Ferris
11. J. Canada
12. S. Champion
13. D. Tedder
14. V. Teillet
15. T. Ingalls
16. M. Stewart
17. C. Martinez
18. B. Scharer
19. R. Alanis
20. A. Burns
21. B. Burns
22. A. Siminoe
Jason Anderson, Rio Rancho, N.M., KTM, 93
Cole Seely, Lake Elsinore, Calif., Honda, 87
Dean Wilson, Wesley Chapel, Fla., Kawasaki, 72
Zach Osborne, Chesterfield, S.C., Honda, 69
Cooper Webb, Newport, N.C., Yamaha, 65
Justin Hill, Yoncalla, Ore., Kawasaki, 64
Malcolm Stewart, Haines City, Fla., Honda, 54
Jessy Nelson, Paso Robles, Calif., Honda, 49
Shane McElrath, Chesterfield, S.C., Honda, 42
Dean Ferris, Murrieta, Calif., KTM, 42


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Home World Australasia New global role for Australian unmanned aircraft industry association
New global role for Australian unmanned aircraft industry association
The association of Australian Certified UAV Operators Inc. (ACUO), Australia's peak industry association for commercial unmanned aircraft, is to take up a seat on the International Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Coordination Council, the pre-eminent global policy coordination body for this important sunrise industry.
ACUO has also secured a corporate seat on the Board of UVS International, the Paris-headquartered global unmanned systems industry association.
ACUO President, Mr Joe Urli, says the attainment of these two seats "provides global recognition for Australia's fledgling commercial unmanned aircraft industry. "It gives direct opportunity for development of new commercial and industrial linkages in the sector as it rapidly develops across the globe.
"It gives Australian industry a voice at the global table as key rules, regulations and strategic industrial relationships are established in this sector.
"The global unmanned aircraft industry is going to be vast, and the opportunities for Australia are immense. ACUO is proud to be carrying the flag."
The International Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Council emerged in 2008 as a forum for cross-border policy and information exchange between national unmanned aircraft industry associations, and national and international regulators.
Priority Council activities include support for a coherent global air traffic access regime for unmanned aircraft, particularly the smaller types which dominate the emergent commercial marketplace, and high level research into key issues such as insurance and safety.
Member nations on the council include Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom, each represented by their national unmanned aircraft industry association. Australia is the first southern hemisphere nation to join. Negotiations are currently underway with national industry associations in South America, Asia and the Middle East, as the Council expands to fully reflect international industry growth patterns.
UVS International, a global association, has instigated the International Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Coordination Council and facilitates its engagement with key bodies including the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the European Commission and its agencies, Eurocontrol, SESAR Joint Undertaking, the European Parliament, and Joint Authorities for Rulemaking on Unmanned Systems (JARUS).
UVS International President Mr Peter van Blyenburgh says "Australia has been an important reference nation during the long emergence of the global unmanned aircraft industry, both in terms of manufacturers and operators. Likewise former CASA specialist Mal Walker's pioneering national and international work on unmanned aircraft systems regulation should not be forgotten.
"The establishment of formal linkages with ACUO is a significant step in our ongoing effort to federate the international unmanned aircraft system operator's community and help harmonise international arrangements for safe airspace access.
"We see significant opportunities emerging from this relationship in relatively short order."
UVS International is a non-profit association registered in The Netherlands and operating out of offices in Paris, France. It was established in 1995 and is dedicated to the promotion of remotely piloted aircraft systems; it federates more than 800 manufacturers, operators, government entities, regulatory authorities, researchers and academia in 40 countries.
UVS International opened its Australian liaison office in Brisbane in June 2013, with this headed by the respected international unmanned aircraft industry analyst Peter La Franchi.
ACUO was established as a legal entity in March 2010 and currently represents one third of all entities holding Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority unmanned aircraft operator certificates. It is chartered to promote the growth and the expansion of the commercial unmanned aircraft industry in Australia and to ensure the safe and orderly growth of the sector.
Joe Urli
ACUO, Australia.
Tel: 61-408 382 165
Web site: www.acuo.org.au
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The cause for celebration was a photo series called Ma se Kinders, named after a colloquial term of endearment, meaning "mother's children." The setting is the fishing village of Hangberg in Cape Town, a place dear to Christian's heart. "This place is symbolic for me. It's a community of people who identify as indigenous Khoisan and colored, living on very elite land, with entire ocean views. There's a huge spirit of resistance there," says Christian. Under apartheid, Hangberg was a designated a colored residential area under the Group Areas Act, which resulted in the mass forced removal of non-white people from their homes. The legacy of the oppressive system continues to contribute to widespread poverty and unemployment; the community has gained a reputation for violence and gangsterism, as a result. Hangberg has also been the sight of frequent political protest and riots, a byproduct of an especially defiant ethos.
"A lot of my work was shot in the hood, for the last four years—in Cape Flats and generally in the roughest places. Ma se Kinders is a response to my time spent there, a reaction to the strength that I saw. I wanted to pay tribute to our mothers and grandmothers, who have upheld the hood, with love, since the beginning of time," says Christian. This homage to matriarchal pillars transforms scenes of daily life into dreamscapes and Hangberg into the heavenly. Locals are portrayed as mythical beings, the protagonists of a narrative that deviates in aesthetic and tone from the typical representation of "the hood" in popular culture—a dark place that a male lead must battle to overcome or rather that he succumbs to. Christian's work asserts that tales told here needn't always be of struggle, they can also be of beauty. "With Ma se Kinders we reclaim the power to explore not only our challenges, but also our triumphs. Our mothers and out children," he explains.
The striking intimacy in the portraits is a product of understanding both his subjects and their circumstances. "I'm also from the hood, not this hood, but Grassy Park, just south. So hood language and hood energy is part of my own foundation," Christian says. Before Ma se Kinders, he spent two years working with youth outreach programs, offering opportunities and training within the arts sectors to the kids of Hout Bay (which includes Hangberg). "I made myself part of the roots of the community, before I could extrapolate that energy and transform it," says Christian. He met the his young subjects through these arts outreach programs, and has built genuine relationships with them over time. "I know their parents, their aunties and their grandmothers. They're like my real brothers and sisters". Christian's insider status is conveyed in the subjects' calm and comfortable aura. This visible trust has allowed Christian to explore gender as a spectrum and to capture the feminine energy that exists in the Hangberg community, regardless of gender. Although the work is of a personal nature and tied to a nuclear place, it's by no means limited in its reach. "These are the original people. The world started here. The stories I'm telling are universal because we live in a country called Earth," says Christian.