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Addressing the province, Gordon Campbell makes his case for the HST
by Travis Lupick on October 27th, 2010 at 5:08 PM
B.C. premier Gordon Campbell has announced cuts to provincial income taxes and defended the Liberal government's introduction of the harmonized sales tax.
In a paid political address broadcast on television tonight (October 27), Campbell explained why he believes the unpopular HST will strengthen the financial position of middle class families.
"The new HST provides us with the ability to attract investment," he said. "It provides us with the opportunity to provide more jobs."
The cost of 80 percent of goods and services in B.C. has not changed, he emphasized.
"Should we have consulted you more?" Campbell asked. "I sure would have liked to."
Campbell then went on to announce that effective January 1, 2011, there will be a 15 percent reduction in tax rates on all income up to $72,000.
"This will help lift our economy up and stabilize the opportunities here in British Columbia," he said.
A referendum on whether or not to scrap the HST has been scheduled for September 2011.
Education was also discussed in the premier's address. Campbell pledged that within five years, all children who leave grade four will do so reading, writing, and performing arithmetic at a grade four level.
An October 16 poll by Angus Reid Strategies saw Campbell score a nine percent approval rating. That's two points lower than the 11 percent approval rating former NDP premier Glen Clark scored at the depth of his unpopularity.
In recent months, the embattled premier has seen his popularity in the province plummet. Large segments of the public suspect Campbell lied to them about not planning the HST before the 2009 election. The HST combines the five-percent GST with the seven-percent PST, and extends it over many new services. In addition, many are unhappy with the conclusion of the B.C. Rail case. On October 18, Dave Basi and Bob Virk pleaded guilty to breach of trust and accepting benefits in connection with the government's sale of B.C. Rail assets to CN Rail. Prior to the 2001 election, Campbell promised not to privatize the publicly owned railway.
Campbell has held his position as premier since June 2001.
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Oct 27, 2010 at 9:08pm
They may have lowered taxes but he didn't say anythinig about how everything we pay for has also gone up. Much more than we've saved in tax reducdtions. Also he never said anything about the 12% we are now paying on services that were not taxed before. More of Gordy's B/S.
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Its time for Gordonochio to leave.
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(From other stream as well) - Premier on HST says "I would have liked to consult you more" --on Referendum September 2011 he says "you get to play finance minister for a day" -- I told CKNW - my wife got up and left ---;
On tax cuts - benefits aren't realized until 2012 (April filing for 2011).
From now until the announcement --- Christmas retail shopping, - HST/HST - Recall in the news -- 2010 income taxes -- nobody sees any benefits on taxes --- confusion;
The Premier needed to make a bold move TODAY - I suggested on call in to NW that we might see first polling deficit --
News --tried to spin Carole James -NDP- against tax cuts/callers said not fair that's not what Carole said (said she would look at them in context) - Christy Clark says to me 'glen I agree--- but Campbell was looking for wedge issue' - they shut the phone off while she talked - but I would have replied -a starving man needs baloney not pie -- a wedge issue? you see a wedge issue in a fight - not at 9%.
Campbell doesn't have a clue what people in the province think - sometimes I get the feeling the press doesn't as well.
Oct 27, 2010 at 10:38pm
Forget taxes: the real question is why a Premier would have to promise that grade four students can perform at the grade four level. That should go without saying, right? You might as well admit that your funding formula doesn't work and increase spending to where it should be. Too bad you chose to piss money away on tax cuts instead.
Only thing that interested me was the income tax cut and education. However, the tax cut seemed a desperate move (so tax us then give us a tax cut?!?!?!) and they seem to be contradicting themselves by wanting to close schools?!?!?! I can't believe they think I or others can swallow that garbage.
What is more galling is that we as taxpayers just paid for that commercial. And make no mistake it was a sales pitch. Saying the same things over and over again.
Don't you get it Gordo? We don't trust you.
Gordon Campbell is living in the same dream world as Gregor Robertson.
Tell me Gordon if you are doing such a good job why are there 10,000 homeless people in BC? Why is the biggest use of the food bank in Canada in BC? Why do 40% of the children in BC live under the poverty line? Why are numerous small businesses being forced out of business because of high taxes and rents and how will his tax breaks help the poor and struggling people in this province feed and cloth their familes. This premier is the same guy who seems to forget how to forecast the econony as the $500,000,000 overun on the convention centre proves. This guy is the same guy whose finance minister put out two deficit numbers. This is the guy who instead of supporting schools approved a $500,000,000 roof on BC Place. This is the guy that approves casinos but cuts funding for programs to help gambling addiction. This is the guy who has cut legal aid monies to the many who cannot get a fair trial without full legal aid, especially women. This is the guy who said he was not doing the HST before the last election. This is the guy who built the Sea to Sky highway and the Canada Line and said it was not part of the Olympic's expenditures.This is the guy who said back and let the lie that the security for the Olympics would be $175,000 when in fact it is more like $500,000,000 to $900,000,000.The list goes on and Gordon's failure as premier must end. The liberal party of BC must call on Gordon to quit now.
His speech tonight evaded the HST issue with his attempts to buy off the opposition to the HST with tax relief promises. It did not work.
Please say goodbye Gordon.
Saph
Oct 28, 2010 at 4:18am
Pretty useless for struggling familes who don't make enough to pay taxes in the first place, but now have to pay taxes on all adult size clothing for thier children, Even in second hand stores...
Campbell just told Bill Good at CKNW that tax payers paid Shaw/Global TV $240,000 - about one quarter of one million dollars so he could go on TV with that---over $20,000 per minute of Campbell appearing to be fully constipated ---most of that money related to saying the same things about the HST.
Folks, we need to get some common sense into BC politics - and get this crazy person out --- BC needs change right NOW -- I'm asking GS readers--Carole James and NDP - the new BC First Party - Greens, Conservatives to think about that $240,000 --and to think about the damage this man is doing each and every day he stays on.
Please STOP the calamity - its time to get rid of Gordon Campbell now.
We need to change.
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Oct 28, 2010 at 10:57am
I resent the spin on the HST. They would NEVER have implemented it unless it guaranteed more money for the gov't. They purposely kept HST was kept quiet during the election, otherwise Gordo would have lost.
I like the line about his mother raising four children on a secretary's allowance more than 40 years ago. There was no HST, and I know that wages and cost of living were far more realistic back then. Housing and groceries eat up most of my wages.
I have never complained about paying taxes, I only complain when my hard earned tax money gets wasted.
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Everybody prepare for a lot lot less.
As Gandi would say" renunciate and enjoy"


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"Flag razing" (False flags)
The term "false flag" refers to the naval warfare tactic of a ship flying a banner other than its battle ensign in hopes of luring enemy ships within striking range. Similar tactics have been used on land, with soldiers dressing in enemy uniforms. In a more generic sense, false flag refers to a government perpetrating an atrocity, then blaming it on another entity, generally an enemy.
They have been happening for a long time. There are conflicting opinions about whether Nero set the fire that burned parts of Rome, then blamed it on Christians. The sinking of the Maine may have been a false flag, though it might have been caused by an internal coal explosion. In either case, when artist Frederic Remington told publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst that there were no hostilities in Cuba to illustrate, Hearst replied, "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." The resulting art work was a false flag, albeit a rare one that was perpetrated by a powerful private person rather than the government.
There are other examples. Japan staged a railroad bombing and blamed it on the Chinese to justify its 1931 Manchurian invasion. Later that decade, Nazis dressed in Polish uniforms and set off explosives as a pretext to launch World War II. The CIA's Operation Gladio was likely responsible for acts of terrorism that the U.S. blamed on Communists. And in the Lavon Affair, Israel staged minor terrorist attacks against Western targets and tried to pin them on Nasser.
So governments and yellow journalists have staged or supported false flag events. While it might be reasonable to think these still occur, there are some people for whom the default position is that any terrorist attack or invasion is a false flag. It is a major flaw in a theory if the conclusion is reached first, then evidence is sought to support it. Especially if contrary information is rejected solely for being contrary.
Let's take the 9/11 Truther assertion that no plane hit the Pentagon. Believers base this on there being no clear shot of the impact, just a blurred horizontal image, followed by an explosion one frame later. They also insist that the hole is seemingly being too narrow for an airplane to have passed through it.
However, USA Today reporter Mike Walter witnessed the attack and he reported seeing a plane flying very low, then banking lower still and colliding with the building. Initially, he was a darling of the Truther movement because a couple of European journalists had printed only part of his interview with CNN and made it appear as though he said a missile had hit the Pentagon. In fact, he had made it clear he had seen an airplane, but described its movement as being "like a cruise missile." Walter made an explanatory video about this, showing the full CNN interview and reiterating his eyewitness account. He included that he saw the wings fold back upon impact and that explained why the hole was the size it was.
The Truthers' answer to this was that he was lying. In what passed for their evidence, they wrote, "His eyes are darting, which indicates deception," and "You can tell he's reading from a script." While eyewitness accounts are unreliable, it would be supremely unlikely that multiple people would misidentify a plane slamming into the world's largest office building. But to a Truther, the words of Walter and the others contradicted their favored narrative so the witnesses became part of the plot.
Regulars to conspiracy theory websites pride themselves on continually questioning mainstream accounts of such events, yet seldom extend this scrutiny to claims made by fellow theorists. So they will accept unsubstantiated assertions about prevaricating Pentagon witnesses, but never point out that in 16 years, theorists have yet to produce one person who saw a missile.
Nor do Truthers explain what happened to the crew or passengers listed on the manifest or to the airplane. The call from Barbara Olson to her husband is likewise unexplained. In fact, all Truther points I've encountered are in the form of negative evidence. Even if Walter and the rest were lying, even if there was no airplane, even if explosives brought down the three towers in New York, even if Flight 77 passengers are holed up in a bunker, where is one piece of evidence that the Bush administration is responsible?
Since 9/11, nearly every terrorist attack or mass casualty is considered by some conspiracy theorists to be fabricated. They continue to call these false flags, though they are misusing the term. The examples cited so far, from Nero to the World Trade Center, all featured persons being slaughtered and buildings or equipment being destroyed. This is a key point because conspiracy theorists today use the traditional definition of false flag to mean something quite different, specifically that no one was harmed. A false false flag, I suppose. They are not claiming that the Boston Marathon bombing or Orlando nightclub shooting were perpetrated by government agents, they are saying they never happened. In these and similar tragedies, they label as liars the witnesses, victims, reporters, emergency workers, and family members of those slain.
Another crucial difference is that the verified false flags were used as a pretext for invasion. By contrast, the string of mass shootings and bombings that theorists have labeled false flags were followed by no action. The government has not blamed these on an entity they then engage, nor have they commenced with a roundup of undesirables or a confiscation of guns.
On the more extreme sites, it goes beyond insisting that plane disappearances, mass shootings, and bombings were staged. Even train derailments, hostile police encounters, and videos of racists railing in checkout lanes are considered scripted. Anyone with contrary information is part of the plot. Anyone arguing with the conclusions is being paid by the government to do so.
Advocates of these theories are almost always vague as to the reasons this is being done and are hostile about the question even being raised. They can offer nothing more than the government is engaging in psychological warfare on its citizens. Usually no reason is given, though Billy DeMoss speculates that it is to weaken our resistance so that a mass extermination can wipe out two-thirds of humanity, with the survivors herded into FEMA camps. Projections like this always take place in what I call an Eternal Tomorrow. It is always so tantalizingly close, the signs are there and obvious to the woken people, yet it never quite arrives.
These websites feature self-congratulation and the deriding of sheeple and skeptics who can't see the clear truth. When a photo of hospitalized Oregon shooting hero Chris Mintz was released, theorists pounced on the fact that they didn't think he looked wounded enough. This caused one of them to fume, "Now they're just throwing it in our faces, making it so obviously fake. They're laughing at us." I suppose he got that last part right.
The most extreme of the extreme sites is nodisinfo.com, in which 100 percent of media accounts are labeled staged events. After a nonfatal collision between a bus and a semitrailer, the website claimed the blood streaming down one of the victim's faces had no cut from which it was emanating, but had rather been applied as makeup. After the Fort Hood shooting, they described soldiers who had been moved to safety as looking too calm. Later, the neighbor lady of the shooter posed with his picture for a photographer and the website said the fact that she was smiling proved the shooting never happened.
These are more examples of negative evidence. Because a skeptic cannot describe the precise thought process and actions of anyone in a given tragic situation, it means the theorist is right, no matter how ludicrous or unsubstantiated the claim.
Even possible future events are labeled false flags. There is an annual Army exercise in Indiana that simulates a nuclear dirty bomb being detonated in Indianapolis and at least one website argues this is a precursor to a false flag that will simulate the same.
Similarly, theorists will dig for any instance of a nearby emergency exercise having been held within six months of a shooting or bombing. They consider any training event proof it was rehearsal for a staged event. But military and law enforcement train for contingencies all the time. Training for a bombing's aftermath in an urban area, followed by an actual bomb 22 days later is an explicable coincidence that requires no coordination of government henchmen, media lackeys, and crisis actors. Speaking of which, in Conspiracy Theory Land, there are 100,000 crisis actors ready to be called on, none of whom are ever identified or outed by their friends, neighbors, or relatives.
Conspiracy theorists rely heavily on anomaly hunting. This is looking for one piece that doesn't seem to fit or seems contradictory. They scour photos, eyewitnesses' faces, and reporters' words, looking for anything that looks inconsistent, which they have a very loose definition of. Any photo that contradicts their claims will be labeled a PhotoShop forgery. Any inconsistency by spokespersons, witnesses, emergency workers, or reporters, no matter how minor, is considered rock solid proof the entire event never happened. Similarly, they consider consistency to be proof it was rehearsed.
One of the more well-known captures made by anomaly hunters is the Umbrella Man at Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963. The focus is on him, rather than the totality of the Warren Commission report, the autopsy, ballistic evidence, Oswald's slaying of J.D. Tippit, and Gerald Posner's book, Case Closed. The umbrella might be a signal to the shooter, heck maybe he's even a backup assassin – a poison pellet was once delivered via an umbrella after all. But the goal is not usually to prove any of this, it's just to invite endless speculation, ponder exciting possibilities, cast doubt on the popular idea, and offer self-praise for one's investigative acumen.
As Steven Novella put it, "Conspiracy theorists assume agency, deliberateness, and sinister motivations in the quirky details of events. When anomalies are inevitably found, it is assumed that they are evidence for a conspiracy. Conspiracy theorists tend to ask, 'What are the odds of a man standing with an open umbrella right next to the president when he was shot?' They should be asking, 'What are the odds of anything unusual occurring in any way with any aspect of the JFK assassination?'"
In events as massive as 9/11, there are many thousands of moving pieces, so finding an anomaly or two or even 10 will be easy. A BBC reporter announced Tower 7 had fell when it was still seen standing in the background. The theorist will consider this more consequential than the mounds of intelligence pointing to Osama bin Laden's involvement, phone calls from passengers and flight attendants describing Islamic terrorists with pepper spray and box cutters, audio of an air traffic controller conversing with Mohamed Atta, terrorist names' on manifests, images of them passing through security, and airline employees' accounts of them checking in.
In one supposed anomaly, some Truthers claim the Fight 77 manifest list had an extraordinary number of senior leaders in fields such as military science, aviation, politics, software, and security. Why this collection of relative bigwigs being onboard would matter is never explained. It's another example of asking questions for the sake of doing so and reflexively challenging what "They" say. Besides, this passenger list is what might be expected on a flight leaving from the hub of the U.S. military and security industries. Truthers offer no comparison flight lists to bolster their contention that Flight 77's passengers constituted an unusually successful group of flyers. Nor is any tie established between the list and Bush perpetrating the greatest mass slaughter in U.S. history.
Another issue they bring up is to ask how a passport could survive a plane crashing into a tower. Answer: The same way seat cushions did. The same way the mileage card of victim Lisa Frost did. Explosions incinerate some objects and send others hurtling. But Truthers aren't looking for this answer, or any other. They only intend to sow doubt on what government spokespersons and reporters are telling us.
For proof of this, consider the way hardened conspiracy theorists responded to Edward Snowden. If one was convinced the government was perpetrating misdeeds against its citizens and was being aided by a compliant media, news articles exposing NSA malfeasance would have been a dream. But theorists instead considered Snowden a plant. They are only interested in anything being exposed if they or their fellow theorists are the ones claiming to do so.
One of their favorite mantras is to dismiss mainstream accounts as the "official story." Except in infrequent instances such as reports by the 9/11 and Warren Commissions, there is no "official story." It is a manufactured term meant to drive a wedge between our big bad overseers and brave, enterprising truth seekers. And while "official story" is used to describe what government entities are saying, independent journalists, scientists, and amateur detectives often come to the same conclusions. At least according to the Man In Black looking over my shoulder.
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Can You Make Friends With Regret?
Hindsight – friend or foe, helpful or unhelpful? Hindsight is looking back on a situation with all the knowledge, experiences and information that's available to you now, that wasn't available or obvious to you in the past. It's when you're unhappy about an outcome and carrying regrets and dissatisfaction that, if only and should haves creep in, and the over-thinking and over-analyzing about how different information, and subsequently a different choice, could've changed things.
With hindsight you're reflecting with all the advantages contained within the present moment awareness and then speculating about how this new wisdom could've been or should've been applied.
IT'S OBVIOUS, ISN'T?
The problem is that there's a tendency to paint the past with a different brush, a pattern called hindsight bias, also known as the, "I knew-it-all-along" effect, and it's this phenomenon that causes people to exaggerate the predictability of an event, after it's happened. This effect can be torturous, because the pain or disappointment you're facing now seems so avoidable.
The problem is that what seems so obvious or easy now, obviously, wasn't the obvious choice then. This thinking only adds another layer of pain and shame to the story. This type of bias, disregards many of the other factors in how or why you reached a certain conclusion, opened a specific door or walked that particular path. It disregards the most important thing- it wasn't obvious, or it wasn't possible or it was a huge stretch to make that choice, create that outcome, get that result. Now, in the present, from an aerial view, you're convinced you should've seen it or that you did see it and just didn't listen.
"It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are."~ S.J. Watson
RESET VERSUS REGRET
Hindsight can be useful, but only when applied purposefully. Applying a reflective spirit to a current situation that you're unhappy with requires the willingness to embrace the discomfort, and to look back with non-judgement and compassion, lest you run the risk of staying stuck, missing the learning and feeling terrible about yourself.
Living from regret and focusing on what you perceive as wrong choices, missteps and poorly handled opportunities, is holding yourself hostage and frozen, and absolutely incapable of moving forward with confidence and ease.
Over the next couple of blogs, I'll explore how you can make friends with regret and avoid using hindsight as a form of torture. I'll share the skills to help empower you through the disappointing times, when things don't turn out as planned or as hoped, shifting you from wishing to wisdom, and from regret to reset.
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Over the past few months, we've covered Red Faction quite extensively. Whether it has been the game, the movie, or Red Faction: Battlegrounds, I've been personally excited about this title for quite some time. Having played the original on the Playstation 2, does Red Faction Armageddon continue the legacy of solid sci-fi gameplay?
Kind of. There are a few hiccups here and there and we'll get to those later on in the review. Red Faction: Armageddon is the follow-up to the Red Faction: Guerilla which received for the most part pretty solid reviews. THQ and Volition have taken the Red Faction: Armageddon marketing to the max, releasing a soundtrack, a tie-in film Red Faction: Origins, and the pre-order bonus game Red Faction: Battlegrounds. Plain and simple, Battlegrounds was awful, but luckily I was able to utilize the time I spent with Battlegrounds and stats I gained to assist me in my ranking on Red Faction: Armageddon, so all is not lost, right?
Armageddon features a linear storyline which is in contrast to the more open world environment of Guerilla. Some may knock linear style of gameplay, but I for one have had my fair share of sandbox games and like to be able to get from point A to point B without much getting in my way besides the obvious foe and environmental obstacles. Of course it has to be done efficiently in order for it to be successful. In the story, you play as Darius Mason (fans might remember Alec Mason from Guerilla–yup, they are indeed related) trying to restore order after a large disaster (caused by Mason himself) releases a bevy of bugs across Mars. Here's where one of the first problems comes in with the linear style of gameplay. It is hard to say that I was "playing" through the game, as I was trudging through it. There are bugs, bugs and more bugs–the same bugs. Sure, you can change your weapons loadout to add some variety and there are some environmental interactions to shake things up a bit, but ultimately levels blend together. So while the story is solid, the overall progression of it fails to ignite anything more than a couple variations in objectives.
While progression may be so-so, the game looks great. Voice acting is on par with most titles which I think is something that THQ has strived for as they have perfect their WWE franchise which is often a make or break for a lot of fans. Character models and environments look great, and explosions and destruction really exemplify the carnage you have just caused. Video embedded in the game leaves a little to be desired. Through compression, there is some loss of quality where many of the videos appear pixelated and while it obviously does not affect gameplay, it just looks plain ugly. Sound is impeccable. When I game, I use ASTRO A40s equipped with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound. You really cannot appreciate the sound of any game or film for that matter without using some kind of surround sound solution (whew, alliteration). The location of each sound is pinpointed to its specified location (which I guess is the premise of surround sound, right) down to the loudspeaker appearing in the upper left channel as you progress in the earlier stages of the game, as opposed to S.A.M, (Situation Awareness Module) appearing at mid-ear level.
Using Darius Mason feels solid. Controls are easy to use, and if you take advantage of the tools he has at his disposal (dodging, evading and using other abilities he acquires throughout the title) you can avoid bug attacks like a pro at the harder difficulty levels. The development team has done some pretty innovative things with the weaponry which makes Armageddon's Ruin Mode an absolute ball to play, more on that a little later.
There is no true competitive on-line mode, which is kind of a dissappointment. The game has a survival mode called Infestation that features the bugs and maps you see from campaign mode which you can play with up to four players. As I said in my opinion of the campaign above, the levels kind of all mashed together at the end of it. You spend most of your time fighting off these bugs, and honestly, by the end of it you are not really looking forward to have to do it again.
The really gem in the game however is Ruin Mode (similar to Wrecking Crew for those who played Guerilla). To me, it feels like the destruction levels in the Burnout series, which I was particularly a fan of. In Ruin Mode, you just, blow levels to the ground for points using the various weapons in the game. What could be better than that? Watching the world you just had to trudge through crumble around you is a very satisfying experience. One has to wonder why Volition did not include more of these levels in the game as they are pure fun and I enjoyed this much more than the campaign.
Overall, Red Faction: Armageddon is a tough sell at 59.99. You'll have fun playing it for a bit, but will ultimately become frustrated seeing much of the same things you saw in the levels you have already been through–killing off swarms of bugs, repairing areas and blowing stuff up. As I said before, I'm a fan of Point A to Point B titles, as long as they have some depth to them and unfortunately Armageddon for the most part does not. Ruin Mode is one of the saving graces of the title, along with some of the cooler weapons at your disposal, but the lack of competitive online multiplayer and dull game progression take away from many of the great aspects of the title.
REVIEW SCORE: 7.3/10
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Home Build a smarter future How sustainable engineering will secure a better world for longer
How sustainable engineering will secure a better world for longer
Sustainability. It's a term that's thrown around a lot these days, sustainable engineering in particular. Sustainable engineering involves designing or operating systems (think water supply, energy, transport and much more) with the environment and future generations in mind. It's all about supporting and maintaining environmental balance and human life.
For Engineers Australia, the national engineering body, sustainability is at the heart of engineering. "For our members, sustainability means that future generations will enjoy environmental, social and economic conditions that are equal to or better than those enjoyed by the present generation," says the organisation.
The big picture aim is to develop engineering solutions that repair and regenerate the environment, as well as improving human life by reducing social inequalities.
Check out the sustainability goals below and how engineering solutions are helping to kick them.
Sustainable goal: Clean power
Sustainable engineering solution:
Renewable energy is the name of the game here! Sustainable sources of energy (think wind, solar thermal, photovoltaics [solar panels], hydro and geothermal) will be key to transition away from our fossil-fuel based energy system. Check out more about jobs in renewable energy here and here.
Engineers are all about innovation, and when it comes to clean power, they've got some tricks up their sleeves. Chemical engineer Dr Jessica Allen is designing novel fuel cells, while mechanical engineering graduate Alex Post is working on new energy storage with solar thermal.
Plus, software engineers and data scientists are making sure renewables can deliver power 24/7 (even when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing) – check out more about smart energy.
Darren Lomman, founder of GreenBatch.
Sustainable goal: Eliminate waste
It's no secret that plastic is a problem. With over 448 million tonnes produced globally in 2015, only about 20 per cent was estimated to be recycled. In fact, of the plastic waste produced between 1950 and 2015, only 9 per cent was recycled. While reducing production and consumption is key to tackling the problem, engineers are also working on novel solutions to cleaning up the waste.
Mechanical engineer Darren Lomman is setting up a reprocessing facility in Perth that recycles PET bottles into 3D printer filament for schools and there's been a great response – follow the GreenBatch plant on FB.
Some up-and-coming future engineers already have developed amazing inventions that cut plastic waste, from Minh Nga Nguyen's water filter/plant fertiliser hybrid made from plastic waste to Angelina Aurora's biodegradable plastic.
E-waste is a growing problem.
Sustainable goal: Manage natural resources
Did you know that making just one desktop computer requires 1.6 tonnes of raw materials? To produce each chip (the core processing unit), at least 1.6 kg of fossil fuels are released, and over 1500 litres of water are needed. That's a lot of resources! Even more worryingly, levels of e-waste from unwanted appliances and tech are rising.
Luckily, engineers are working on green manufacturing solutions, which involves making each stage of the product life cycle as sustainable as possible. The first step is minimising the amount of raw materials needed to make the product. Next is reducing the amount of energy needed to manufacture the product (and using clean energy where possible). Finally, the product should be recycled as much as possible at the end of its lifetime.
Find out more about the UNSW Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT)'s goal to eliminate e-waste.
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Sustainable goal: Help the developing world
From sanitation systems to water infrastructure and access to electricity, opportunities abound for engineers interested in humanitarian projects. Non-profit organisations like Engineers Without Borders Australia connect volunteers with local and international projects, where they can use their skills to make a real difference.
EWB Australia director Kelsie Clarke has been involved since her first year of uni. She's taken part in a study tour to Cambodia to explore water infrastructure projects and worked with a WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) Team based in Vietnam. "The mission is to build a better life for people, using engineering skills to build a better world," says Kelsie.
ANU graduate Rebecca Watts joined Engineers Without Borders to provide clean, affordable power for 20 households and a school in Ta Ping, a village in Cambodia. "Working with local entrepreneurs, I was able to source good-quality solar panels and share information about renewable energy," she says.
There's heaps of humanitarian startups in engineering too. University of Sydney student Zarif Aziz travelled to Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia, to intern for engineering startup Okra Solar, which aims to give remote villages access to clean, cheap and reliable electricity.
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Sustainability isn't just about preserving the natural environment, but also reducing social inequalities and building safer communities.
Zoe Condliffe, founder of She's A Crowd and a PhD candidate at Monash University's XYX lab, is a gender advocate using digital mapping to make change by addressing gender-based violence.
Her digital mapping tool 'Free To Be', gathers first-hand stories of girls and young women in five major cities (Sydney, Delhi, Kampala, Lima and Madrid) to identify places where street harassment and attacks occur. That data is then aggregated and analysed to form in-depth insights into where gender-based violence occurs and help planners rethink city spaces with women in mind.
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Gateway sandbox -the latest advancement in security that you need to consider in order to remain protected
Author: Nicholas Lennon, Country Manager Mimecast Australia
on 31 March, 2016 12:57
Hackers, attackers and cybercriminals are no slouches when it comes to staying on the cutting edge of the tools of their trade. The black hats that seek to exploit our networks, applications and users are inventive and excellent problem solvers when it comes to finding new ways to break into our systems.
The white hats that seek to defend us often lament that hackers only need to be good at the job once to be a success, whereas security pros need to be good every day. We often cite the 'arms race' or The Red Queen Effect when it comes to staying ahead of the creativity of the hackers. Standing still for any length of time will not serve you well in this race.
Indeed, anyone who hasn't taken a fresh look at their email security infrastructure in the last eighteen months is likely to be behind the curve here. Given that rate of advancement of threats to our email security, relying on your last upgrade, 'a couple of years ago' means you're highly likely to be out of date in terms of protection.
The best example of this, and probably the biggest threat to email security right now, is the rise of the use of VBA macros(which can potentially deploy malicious actions) to create weaponised attachments in email. Hackers and cybercriminals are great experimenters and know exactly what types of protections are used to defeat their malware.
They even download and run freely available software trials of all the on-premises email security applications to work out how to circumvent their protections. It is from this 'reverse-engineering' that they've determined how to avoid classic signature detection techniques that would look for malicious code or traces of malware embedded in attachments. And, have graduated to using the embedded macros in Office documents to do the dirty work for them.
The trap here is obvious; a weaponised attachment with a malicious macro contains no 'viral payload' but becomes dangerous when the malware is downloaded by macro as the end user runs the attachment. Luckily modern versions of Office applications disable macros by default, but doesn't stop administrators re-enabling the functionality as a default, nor does it help the legions of office users who are running software that pre-dates the feature.
Using VBA macros within Office document attachments is a real demonstration of the ingenuity and dedication of cybercriminals. It shows us why we shouldn't rely on technology that hasn't been upgraded for a few years.
So what do we do? If classic signature-based detection is ineffective, hackers are avoiding legacy secure email gateway and desktop anti-virus protection and employees are at risk from infecting themselves with seemingly innocent looking office files, what is the solution?
Network sandboxing isn't a new technology, it's one that's been used in desktop antivirus for many years; Norman AS brought the concept to the enterprise desktop a couple of decades ago and it's been around on the network since. Recently the sandbox has also been applied to the SMTP secure email gateway, albeit with a latency overhead. It's here that we can start to unpack the problem of hidden macro code in attachments.
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Without an email attachment sandbox, weaponised attachments can pass straight through a classic secure email gateway. After all there's no malicious code in them to trigger a signature detection. A URL alone within the macro, obfuscated within that code and unique to that attachment doesn't in itself pose a risk. Until the macro is executed. This is where adding an SMTP gateway sandbox to your security stack helps to defend and protect against the macro threat.
Executing, exploding, detonating and other dramatic phrases are how we describe what the sandbox does. In short, it's simply running the attachment in an environment that detects anomalies with its behaviour. For example, if a sandbox is executing an Excel spreadsheet that a user has been sent as an email attachment. And, when run the macro calls out to a remote web server to download a ZIP or executable file we can largely assume that's not normal behaviour.
Now is the time to review the layers of protect you have in place against weaponised attachments. Adding a gateway sandbox is the latest advancement in security that you need to consider in order that you remain protected against advanced threats.
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							  test='test'
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  self.lines = {}
  self.data = ''
  return self
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setmetatable(M, {__call = construct})

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  if not self.method then
	_,_,self.method,self.uri,self.proto = line:find('^([A-Z]*) ([^ ]*) (HTTP/1.%d)$')
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	  self.request_line = line
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		self.socket:write('HTTP/1.1 100 Continue\r\n\r\n')
	  end
	  return true
	else
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	  _,_,self.method,self.uri = string.find(line, '^([A-Z]*) ([^ ]*)$')
	  if not self.method then
		-- Nope, just bad
		log('Bad request')
		buzz.error(self, 400, '')
		return nil
	  else
		self.request_line = line
		self.proto = 'HTTP/1.0'
		return true
	  end
	end
  else
	log('Already parsed request line')
	return nil
  end
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  local lines = self.lines
  if #lines == 0 then
	return false
  end
  if not self:parse_request_line(self.lines[1]) then
	return false
  end
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	local _,_, header, value = string.find(lines[l], '([^:]*): (.*)')
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	  self.cli_headers[header:lower()] = value
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Q: Database table insert locks from a multi threaded application I have a process that is running multi threaded.
Process has a thread safe collection of items to process.
Each thread processes items from the collection in a loop.
Each item in the list is sent to a stored procedure by the thread to insert data into 3 tables in a transaction (in sql). If one insert fails, all three fails. Note that the scope of transaction is per item.
The inserts are pretty simple, just inserting one row (foreign key related) into each table, with identity seeds. There is no read, just insert and then move on to the next item.
If I have multiple threads trying to process their own items each trying to insert into the same set of tables, will this create deadlocks, timeouts, or any other problems due to transaction locks?
I know I have to use one db connection per thread, i'm mainly concerned with the lock levels of tables in each transaction. When one thread is inserting rows into the 3 tables, will the other threads have to wait? There is no dependency of rows per table, except the auto identiy needs to be incremented. If it is a table level lock to increment the identity, then I suppose other threads will have to wait. The inserts may or may not be fast sometimes. If it is going to have to wait, does it make sense to do multithreading?
The objective for multithreading is to speed up the processing of items.
Please share your experience.
PS: Identity seed is not a GUID.

A: In SQL Server multiple inserts into a single table normally do not block each other on their own. The IDENTITY generation mechanism is highly concurrent so it does not serialize access. Inserts may block each other if they insert the same key in an unique index (one of them will also hit a duplicate key violation if both attempt to commit). You also have a probability game because keys are hashed, but it only comes into play in large transactions, see %%LOCKRES%% COLLISION PROBABILITY MAGIC MARKER: 16,777,215. If the transaction inserts into multiple tables also there shouldn't be conflicts as long as, again, the keys inserted are disjoint (this happens naturally if the inserts are master-child-child).
That being said, the presence of secondary indexes and specially the foreign keys constraints may introduce blocking and possible deadlocks. W/o an exact schema definition is impossible to tell wether you are or are not susceptible to deadlocks. Any other workload (reports, reads, maintenance) also adds to the contention problems and can potentially cause blocking and deadlocks.
Really really really high end deployments (the kind that don't need to ask for advice on forums...) can suffer from insert hot spot symptoms, see Resolving PAGELATCH Contention on Highly Concurrent INSERT Workloads
BTW, doing INSERTs from multiple threads is very seldom the correct answer to increasing the load throughput. See The Data Loading Performance Guide for good advice on how to solve that problem. And one last advice: multiple threads are also seldom the answer to making any program faster. Async programming is almost always the correct answer. See AsynchronousProcessing and BeginExecuteNonQuery.
As a side note:

just inserting one row (foreign key related) into each table, ...
  There is no read,

This statement is actually contradicting itself. Foreign keys implies reads, since they must be validated during writes.

A: What makes you think it has to be a table level lock if there is an identity.  I don't see that in any of the documentation and I just tested an insert with (rowlock) on a table with an identity column and it works.
To minimize locking take a rowlock.  For all the stored procedures update the tables in the same order.
You have inserts into three table taking up to 10 seconds each?   I have some inserts in transactions that hit multiple tables (some of them big) and getting 100 / second.
Review your table design and keys.  If you can pick a clustered PK that represents the order of your insert and if you can sort before inserting it will make a huge difference.  Review the need for any other indexes.  If you must have other indexes then monitor the fragmentation and defragment.
Related but not the same.  I have a dataloader that must parse some data and then load millions of rows a night but not in a transaction.  It optimized at 4 parallel process starting with empty tables but the problem was after two hours of loading throughput was down by a factor of 10 due to fragmentation.   I redesigned the tables so the PK clustered index was on insert order.  Dropped any other index that did not yield at least a 50% select bump.  On the nightly insert first drop (disable) the indexes and use just two threads.  One thread to parse and one to insert.   Then I recreate the index at the end of the load.  Got 100:1 improvement over 4 threads hammering the indexes.  Yes you have a different problem but review your tables.   Too often I think indexes are added for small select benefits without considering the hit to insert and update.  Also select benefit is often over valued as you build the index and compare and that fresh index has no fragmentation.

A: Heavy-duty DBMSs like mssql are generally very, very good with handling concurrency. What exactly will happen with your concurrently executing transactions largely depends on your TI level (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175909%28v=sql.105%29.aspx), which you can set as you see fit, but in this scenario I dont think you need to worry about deadlocks.
Whether it makes sense or not - its always hard to guess that without knowing anything about your system. Its not hard to try it out though, so you can find that out yourself. If I was to guess, I would say it wont help you much if all your threads are gonna be doing is insert rows in a round-robin fashion.

A: The other threads will wait anyway, your pc cant really execute more threads than the cpu cores you have at every given moment.

You wrote you want to use multi threading to speed up the processing. Im not sure this is something you can take as given/correct automaticly. The level of parallelism and its effects on speed of processing depends on lots of factors, which are very processing - dependant, such as whether theres an IO involved, for example, or if each thread is supposed to do in memory processing only. This is, i think, one of the reasons microsoft offer the task schedulers in their tpl framework, and generally treat the concurency in this library as something that is supposed to be set at runtime.

I think your safest bet is to run test queries / processes to see exactly what happens (though, of course, it still wont be 100% accurate). You can also check out the optimisitc concurrency features of sql server, which allow lock - free work (im not sure how it handles identity columns though)

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The Identity Panel Rule Engine is a dynamically typed interpreted expression language that operates on a context object and returns a value.
Like many DSLs (Domain Specific Language), the Rule Engine is not Turing Complete, which means it is not a full programming language. However, the Rule Engine is extensible, and new functions for the Rule Engine can be written in any .NET programming language.
Because the Rule Engine is used to support so many features, and because it represents one of the major points of extensibility for the Panel platform, users who want to do advanced administration tasks should familiarize themselves with Rule Engine syntax.
Generally, any field in Identity Panel that accepts rule engine formatting will have the '?' icon to display the rule engine helper. Generally the default context object is pre-selected in the Object Properties section of the rule engine helper. In other cases you can refer to the documentation for that section.
If the Rule Engine helper says the field uses templating, then any rule values must be enclosed in square braces.
Because it's based on the .NET runtime individual rule engine values have defined .NET types. However, the Rule Engine does automatic type coercion for comparison operands, function arguments, and string interpolation. Rules are also automatically type coerced e.g. to boolean, string, or number as needed when they are used by Identity Panel.
Not all types are coerced to all other types, only ones where a reasonable mapping is available. Sometimes handling is desired for an explicit type. In this ritual you can use type coercion functions.
See Rule Type Coercion for standard conversions.
Because it is possible to get into quite advanced expressions in the Rule Engine, Identity Panel includes a testing interface just for writing rules.
The rule tester uses the same dataset query interface as the reporting engine. You select a data type, then add parameters to constrain the result set.
Finally enter a Value Rule. This will be applied to the first 20 objects returned by the query and displayed. You may enter rules that operate on the object, or sometimes you may just enter a rule that produces a value on its own without reference to the context object.
Clicking on the magnifying glass in the results will show the JSON details of the object. This may be used for inspecting the structure of the object for property types and values to execute rules against.


Fed by one of the largest natural gas reserves in the world, the Darvaza gas crater in the Karakum Desert of central Turkmenistan is fittingly called "The Door to Hell" by locals. Aptly named, flames and the pungent odor of sulfur permeate the area.
Throughout our history, there have been many places, often found in areas of unusual geologic activity, that were reputed to be the entrance to the underworld. To gain entry into the "netherworld" mortals had to enter through a frightening and fiery portal, the "Gates of Hell."
Volcanic eruptions, such as this one in the Kamoamoa fissure eruption in Kilauea, Hawaii were often thought to be portals to the underworld.
But despite the many naturally occurring entrances to Hades found around the world, and there are a lot of volcanoes and other "hot" spots, it is not often that a gate to the underworld is man-made. Such is the case of the huge crater of burning methane gas in the Karakum Desert.
Sometimes our best efforts will lead to disaster, regardless of all our good intentions. This is exactly what happened in 1971, when Turkmenistan was still part of the Soviet Union. A team of Soviet scientists were looking for oil fields in Karakum, and they thought they had stumbled on a substantial oil field, so they erected a platform and began drilling.
Oil drilling rigs are heavy, as can be seen in this photo taken on August 18, 2011 of the raising of the stern of a Bakken oil derrick.
What the scientists didn't know was that their oil field was actually a very large pocket of natural gas which could not support the weight of the drilling platform and other equipment. The whole site collapsed, taking everything with it. The collapse triggered the crumbling of the sedimentary rock surrounding the site, creating a "domino effect" that caused the ground to collapse in other places.
The scientists were left with several craters, and luckily, no casualties. The largest of the craters measured 230-feet and was 65-feet deep. At its bottom lay the remains of the platform. The scientists realized they had an even bigger problem on their hands, the natural gas escaping from the crater.
Natural gas is a hydrocarbon gas mixture that is primarily methane gas, along with varying amounts of other gases. Methane is odorless and dissipates into the atmosphere over a period of around 10 years. Because methane displaces oxygen, and with so much of the gas seeping from the crater, scientists were concerned about desert creatures nearby not being able to breathe.
The Door to Hell (in the nighttime) / Turkmenistan, Darvaza.
They realized there could be a problem with flammability of the methane gas. There needs to be just five percent methane in the air for it to potentially explode. It was decided to set the crater on fire with the hope it would burn itself out in a few weeks. It was considered a good move at the time. After all, it's done frequently in oil-drilling operations in a process called "flaring."
But where flaring is used when a known amount of natural gas is burned off, the Soviet scientists had no idea how much natural gas was underneath them. So what was supposed to be a fire that lasted a few weeks has turned into the "Fire from Hell," and it has burned for over 40 years.
Crater as seen in the daylight.
In 2010, Turkmenistan's president Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, worried that the burning crater of gas would threaten the country's ability to develop oil fields in the area, ordered local officials to come up with a plan to cover up the crater. To date, nothing has been done, and the crater continues to attract unsuspecting wildlife and hundreds of international tourists every year.


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National Success for Victoria College Sixth Form
The start of a new term has brought national success for Sixth Form students at Victoria College alongside a number of impressive accolades.
ALPS (A level Performance System), a UK based company who work on benchmarking academic standards nationally, listed Victoria College in the top 10% for A level progress. This is a measure of the added value from the quality of teaching at A level, and is based on data collated over a 3 year period. The College was rated against 2996 other schools and colleges across the nation.
Further to this national recognition of outstanding A level progress, the College is proud to announce that Year 13 student, Lysander (Pippin) Mawby, has received an offer from Oxford University to study Physics at Edmund Hall College in September. Lysander is currently studying Further Maths, Physics and Chemistry and is completing his Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) on 'Chaos Theory'.
Alongside studying for A levels, students can choose to take an extra qualification that is recommended by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) as preparation for university – the EPQ. Students choose a topic, carry out research and either write an extended essay or create a unique artefact over the course of Year 12, learning essential research and essay skills. 12 Sixth Form students received their EPQ results this week, with a 100% pass rate, with grades from A*-B.
Mr. Alan Falle, Head of Sixth Form says, "Our recent ALPS, Oxford and EPQ successes are perfect examples of how hardworking and aspirational our students are. With sustained effort they will continue to succeed in all aspects of school life, and I am looking forward to supporting them in doing so."
Mr. Alun Watkins, Headmaster says, "We are delighted with our recent ALPS Score, and praise is due to our fantastic students and hard-working teachers for their combined efforts in achieving this outstanding certification.
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Barack Obama was due to tour some of the areas hardest hit by superstorm Sandy as he and his rival Mitt Romney sought to navigate the tricky political waters stirred up by disaster.
With less than a week to go until the presidential election, Obama has left the campaign trail to focus almost exclusively on dealing with the aftermath of the disaster. He appears to be gaining an early political advantage from his handling of the crisis, with a prominent Mitt Romney supporter, New Jersey governor Chris Christie, describing the president's response as "outstanding".
The White House said on Tuesday night that Obama will travel to New Jersey to inspect the storm damage with Christie. He is due to meet people recovering from the storm as well as members of the emergency services involved in the rescue operation.
Romney, stuck on the sidelines in Ohio and frustrated over two lost campaign days, is to take a gamble by returning to the campaign trail on Wednesday in Florida. The risk is that he could alienate voters with partisan speeches at a time when most are still focused on the damage and deaths resulting from the storm.
Wednesday could provide one of the striking image of the election: Obama touring the stricken sites in New Jersey alongside Christie, a Republican, contrasting with Romney campaigning in Florida. Obama can present an image of standing above politics as he co-ordinates rescue and clean-up operations.
Sandy could turn out to have a decisive role in the outcome of next Tuesday's election in much the same way that the response of Obama and his opponent John McCain did in the face of the economic collapse in 2008.
Although the early benefit appears to be going to Obama, there is danger, too, for the president if complaints begin to emerge of incompetence. The public mood could also quickly sour if there are long delays in restoring power to the millions across the east coast currently without electricity.
Obama, after declaring New York and New Jersey to be disaster areas, which opens the way for federal aid, held a video conference from the Situation Room at the White House with members of his cabinet and the emergency services to ensure that help is getting to the stricken areas and that power will be restored as quickly as possible.
A White House statement said: "The president told his team that their top priority is to make sure all available resources are being provided to state and local responders as quickly as possible and directed them to identify and resolve any potential bottlenecks or shortfalls should they arise."
Obama has been careful to avoid being overtly political, but his stress on the extent of federal aid going to the worst-hit states indirectly allows him to draw a distinction between himself and Romney.
Romney, in a debate last year with other Republican candidates seeking the presidential nomination, advocated that the federal emergency management agency (Fema), which is overseeing the rescue and clean-up operations, should have its budget cut to help reduce the federal deficit.
While Romney was advocating the transfer of some Fema powers to states and did not specifically say this would result in less money for emergency operations, the clip from the debate is being shown repeatedly on television and could harm him.
It is fast developing into a potentially embarrassing campaign issue for the Republican challenger, with Democrats stressing the importance of the federal government's strategic overview.
The New York Times, in an editorial, described Romney's plan as absurd. "Those in Hurricane Sandy's path are fortunate that, for now, that ideology has not replaced sound policy," the editorial said.
Romney was pressed 14 times on the issue by reporters shouting questions at him but all were ignored.
The extent to which Romney has been sidelined by the storm was evident in the Dayton area, Ohio, where he held a hurriedly re-organised event on Tuesday.
A 'victory rally' was changed into 'a storm relief' event, and Romney restricted his comments in a highly shortened five-minute address to praising the "generosity of the American people – it's part of the American way".
Romney recalled how when he was governor of Massachusetts his state had welcomed refugees from the 2005 Katrina hurricane in New Orleans.
CNN encapsulated Romney's problem. It broadcast barely a sentence or two of his speech before abruptly cutting away to its storm coverage.
After speaking, Romney "set to work" packing up tins of food and bottles of juice that local people had donated to victims of the storm in New Jersey.
While Romney in person showed notable restraint in fending off politics for the day, the same could not be said for his wider campaign. Radio adverts warning voters that "Ohio cannot afford four more years of Obama's failed policies" were still blazing across the state.
Obama had been planning to visit Ohio on Wednesday but cancelled the trip.
One of the biggest surprise endorsement for Obama's stewardship during the storm came from Christie, who at one time was being touted as a potential Republican presidential candidate.
"The federal government's response has been great," he told NBC, adding that he had been on the phone with Obama several times up to midnight Monday. New Jersey is one of the worst-hit areas.
He had asked the president to designate New Jersey a disaster area and added: "The president has been outstanding in this."
In a separate television interview, Christie, who has been out campaigning regularly on Romney's behalf, said: "The president has been all over this and deserves great credit."
The Obama campaign used its mammoth email list of supporters, normally subjected to regular daily pleas for donations, to urge them to offer financial help to the American Red Cross.
Although Obama is not campaigning personally, his campaign teams are carrying on as normal in the crucial swing states. The disruption has been worst in New York and New Jersey but neither are likely to have an impact on the election as they are both solidly Democratic.
It is the eight or so swing states that will determine the outcome and, apart from Virginia, New Hampshire and North Carolina, they have been untouched by the storm. Elsewhere, Obama and Romney staff and volunteers were pursuing their schedules, rounding up potential supporters and trying to persuade them to vote early.
Polling has been disrupted by the storm but the latest show the two neck and neck, with Romney enjoying a one- or two-point lead nationally, but Obama ahead in five of the eight swing states, Romney in two and the two tied in Virginia.


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A robust genetic transformation protocol to obtain transgenic shoots of Solanum tuberosum L. cultivar 'Kufri Chipsona 1'
Amanpreet Kaur1,
Shivani Guleria1,
M. Sudhakara Reddy1 &
Anil Kumar ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-2261-96861
Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants (2020)Cite this article
The genetic transformation of plants is an important biotechnological tool used for crop improvement for many decades. The present study was focussed to investigate various factors affecting genetic transformation of potato cultivar 'Kufri Chipsona 1'. It was observed that explants pre-cultured for 2 days on MS2 medium (MS medium containing 10 µM silver nitrate, 10 µM BA, 15 µM GA3), injured with a surgical blade and co-cultivated with Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain EHA105 [O.D600 (0.6)] for 2 days results in maximum transient β-glucuronidase (GUS) expression. The addition of 100 µM acetosyringone in MS2 medium also increased rate of transient GUS expression in both the explants. Clumps of putative transgenic shoots were regenerated using the optimised culture conditions from leaf and internodal explants. The stable integration of T-DNA was established using histochemical staining for GUS and amplification of DNA fragment specific to nptII and uidA genes. Within the clumps, around 67.85% of shoots showed uniform GUS expression in all the tissues and about 32.15% shoots show intermittent GUS expression establishing chimeric nature. Uniform GUS staining of the tissue was used as initial marker of non-chimeric transgenic shoots. Quantitative expression of nptII transgene was found to be directly proportional to uniformity of GUS staining in transgenic shoots. The present investigation indicated that manipulation of culture conditions and the medium composition may help to get transgenic shoots with uniform expression of transgene in all the tissues of potato cultivar 'Kufri Chipsona 1'.
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Kaur, A., Guleria, S., Reddy, M.S. et al. A robust genetic transformation protocol to obtain transgenic shoots of Solanum tuberosum L. cultivar 'Kufri Chipsona 1'. Physiol Mol Biol Plants (2020) doi:10.1007/s12298-019-00747-4
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