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Q: Scaffolding with bootstrap:themed is throwing application error Used rails to generate new project.
Added twitter-bootstrap-rails to Gemfile
    source 'https://rubygems.org'

    gem 'rails', '3.2.8'
    # Use thin as webserver
    gem 'thin'
    # Mysql
    gem 'mysql2'
    # Gems used only for assets and not required
    # in production environments by default.
    group :assets do
      gem 'sass-rails',   '~> 3.2.3'
      gem 'coffee-rails', '~> 3.2.1'
      # See https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs#readme for more supported runtimes
      gem 'therubyracer', :platforms => :ruby
      gem "less-rails"
      gem 'uglifier', '>= 1.0.3'
    end
    # Twitter bootstrap baby
    gem 'twitter-bootstrap-rails', :git => 'git://github.com/seyhunak/twitter-bootstrap-rails.git'
    # json
    gem 'json'
    # jQuery is the win
    gem 'jquery-rails'
    gem 'jquery-ui-rails'
    # Devise for auth goodness
    gem 'devise'
    # Cancan for permission goodness
    gem 'cancan'

    # Fog allows for easy communication with clouds
    gem 'fog'

    group :development, :test do
      # Cannot run as gem and use heroku
      # See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6288910/heroku-deployment-gemfile-lock-problem
      # gem 'rb-fsevent', :require => false if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /darwin/i
      gem 'faker'
      gem 'factory_girl_rails'
      gem 'rspec-rails'
      gem 'shoulda-matchers'
      gem 'capybara'
      gem 'launchy'
      gem 'database_cleaner'
      gem 'guard-rspec'
    end

    #
    # group :production do
    #   gem 'pg'
    # end

Did a bundle install, all went well.
Then I did
    $ rails g bootstrap:install

Still all is good.
Next, did this:
    $ rails g bootstrap:layout application fixed

still good.
Then I did this:
    $ rails g bootstrap:themed Posts

and got this:
    /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb:230:in `block in constantize': uninitialized constant Post (NameError)
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb:229:in `each'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb:229:in `constantize'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/inflections.rb:54:in `constantize'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:59:in `block in columns'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:69:in `rescue_block'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:58:in `columns'
        from (erb):9:in `template'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/lib/ruby/1.9.1/erb.rb:838:in `eval'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/lib/ruby/1.9.1/erb.rb:838:in `result'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/file_manipulation.rb:111:in `block in template'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:54:in `call'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:54:in `render'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:47:in `identical?'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:73:in `on_conflict_behavior'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/empty_directory.rb:130:in `invoke_with_conflict_check'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:61:in `invoke!'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions.rb:95:in `action'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:26:in `create_file'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/file_manipulation.rb:110:in `template'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:97:in `block in generate_erb'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:96:in `each'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:96:in `generate_erb'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:92:in `generate_views'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:19:in `copy_views'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/task.rb:27:in `run'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/invocation.rb:120:in `invoke_task'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `block in invoke_all'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `each'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `map'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `invoke_all'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/group.rb:238:in `dispatch'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/base.rb:425:in `start'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/railties-3.2.8/lib/rails/generators.rb:171:in `invoke'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/railties-3.2.8/lib/rails/commands/generate.rb:12:in `<top (required)>'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/railties-3.2.8/lib/rails/commands.rb:29:in `<top (required)>'
        from script/rails:6:in `require'
        from script/rails:6:in `<main>'
    /Volumes/dev/projects/jason/fuckthis $ rails g bootstrap:themed posts
    /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb:230:in `block in constantize': uninitialized constant Post (NameError)
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb:229:in `each'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb:229:in `constantize'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/inflections.rb:54:in `constantize'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:59:in `block in columns'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:69:in `rescue_block'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:58:in `columns'
        from (erb):9:in `template'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/lib/ruby/1.9.1/erb.rb:838:in `eval'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/lib/ruby/1.9.1/erb.rb:838:in `result'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/file_manipulation.rb:111:in `block in template'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:54:in `call'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:54:in `render'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:47:in `identical?'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:73:in `on_conflict_behavior'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/empty_directory.rb:130:in `invoke_with_conflict_check'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:61:in `invoke!'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions.rb:95:in `action'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:26:in `create_file'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/file_manipulation.rb:110:in `template'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:97:in `block in generate_erb'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:96:in `each'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:96:in `generate_erb'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:92:in `generate_views'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:19:in `copy_views'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/task.rb:27:in `run'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/invocation.rb:120:in `invoke_task'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `block in invoke_all'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `each'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `map'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `invoke_all'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/group.rb:238:in `dispatch'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/base.rb:425:in `start'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/railties-3.2.8/lib/rails/generators.rb:171:in `invoke'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/railties-3.2.8/lib/rails/commands/generate.rb:12:in `<top (required)>'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/railties-3.2.8/lib/rails/commands.rb:29:in `<top (required)>'
        from script/rails:6:in `require'
        from script/rails:6:in `<main>'
    /Volumes/dev/projects/jason/fuckthis $ rails g bootstrap:themed posts -f
    /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb:230:in `block in constantize': uninitialized constant Post (NameError)
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb:229:in `each'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb:229:in `constantize'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/activesupport-3.2.8/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/inflections.rb:54:in `constantize'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:59:in `block in columns'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:69:in `rescue_block'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:58:in `columns'
        from (erb):9:in `template'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/lib/ruby/1.9.1/erb.rb:838:in `eval'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/lib/ruby/1.9.1/erb.rb:838:in `result'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/file_manipulation.rb:111:in `block in template'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:54:in `call'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:54:in `render'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:47:in `identical?'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:73:in `on_conflict_behavior'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/empty_directory.rb:130:in `invoke_with_conflict_check'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:61:in `invoke!'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions.rb:95:in `action'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/create_file.rb:26:in `create_file'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/actions/file_manipulation.rb:110:in `template'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:97:in `block in generate_erb'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:96:in `each'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:96:in `generate_erb'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:92:in `generate_views'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/twitter-bootstrap-rails-2.1.6/lib/generators/bootstrap/themed/themed_generator.rb:19:in `copy_views'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/task.rb:27:in `run'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/invocation.rb:120:in `invoke_task'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `block in invoke_all'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `each'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `map'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `invoke_all'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/group.rb:238:in `dispatch'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/thor-0.16.0/lib/thor/base.rb:425:in `start'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/railties-3.2.8/lib/rails/generators.rb:171:in `invoke'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/railties-3.2.8/lib/rails/commands/generate.rb:12:in `<top (required)>'
        from /Users/jason/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286/gems/railties-3.2.8/lib/rails/commands.rb:29:in `<top (required)>'
        from script/rails:6:in `require'
        from script/rails:6:in `<main>'

I have rolled back to twitter-bootstrap-rails 2.1.5 and 2.1.4 to no avail.
Please advise.

A: You need to create the Post scaffold first.  From https://github.com/seyhunak/twitter-bootstrap-rails/blob/master/README.md:
rails g scaffold Post title:string description:text
rake db:migrate
rails g bootstrap:themed Posts


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Hindu activists allege mass religious conversion in K'taka
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Belagavi: Tension prevailed in Maratha Colony in Karnataka's Belagavi district on Sunday after Hindu activists laid siege to a residential building alleging mass religious conversion.
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in the past decade, hearing aid technology has come a very long way. these days, most hearing aids are wireless devices that are able to connect to your smartphones and even one model that connects directly to the internet. hearing aid wearers are now able to stream phone conversations, music, and other media from their smartphones directly to their hearing aids through a wireless connection. through downloadable apps, wearers have a whole world of features at their fingertips. many hearing aids also offer an incredible gps function. when wearers change their listening preferences, smartphone apps archive user preferences and when they return to these locations, the hearing aid automatically switches to pre-set preferences. aside from these conveniences, hearing aids are also powered by very fast processing platforms and operating systems, providing wearers with incredible features to amplify sound, recognize speech, and locate sounds within their environment. as with many of our portable electronic devices, hearing aids require a great amount of energy to perform these functions. this leads to high battery consumption, which comes with its own set of complications.
Most hearing aids operate in the 1 to 1.6 voltage (V) range, with the most common battery the zinc air. With traditional hearing aids that do not boast new digital and wireless technology, zinc air hearing aid batteries could last anywhere between one to two weeks, which meant binaural hearing aid wearers used, on average, 100 zinc air batteries a year. However, with the higher energy usage of wireless technology, zinc air batteries last one to two days, on average. This means that 150 billion zinc air hearing aid batteries are disposed of annually. Obviously, this comes at a cost to both the hearing aid wearer and the environment. Depending on usage, some hearing aid wearers estimate spending approximately $150 a year on hearing aid batteries. Additionally, zinc air batteries are not good for the environment u2013 because they are not recyclable. As they land in landfills, zinc air batteries become an environmental hazard, which run the risk of seeping lead and acid into underground water supplies. This begs the questions: how do we efficiently and responsibly power our new, advanced hearing aids with extraordinary features while ensuring limited battery waste?
Sivantos Group, the parent company of Siemens and Signia, offers the eCharger. The eCharger is compatible with several Siemens and Signia hearing aid models: Carat and Pure (both receiver-in-canal), as well as Motion (behind-the-ear).The eCharger is a simple device and easy to use: hearing aid wearers simply place their Siemens/Signia hearing aids into a chamber overnight (at least 6 hours) and wake up to fully charged batteries. The eCharger also functions simultaneously as a dehumidifier. Siemens and Signia rechargeable hearing aids require one pair of rechargeable batteries per year.
Starkey Hearing Technology's VFusion Rechargeable Battery System has revolutionized the way batteries are charged. VFusion is a USB device that charges special batteries produced by Starkey. A single charge gives batteries 18+ hours of power, which then gives Starkey hearing aid wearers a level of confidence in their hearing aids as they make their way through the day. To use VFusion, simply place batteries into a USB thumb-drive (which holds two batteries). You could even use your computer to charge these batteries through the USB drive! The VFusion costs $130 upfront, but it's a great investment, as hearing aid wearers only need to purchase two pairs of rechargeable VFusion batteries annually.
Phonak's Audeo B-R is the company's first hearing aid with a rechargeable battery system. The Audeo B-R is a receiver-in-canal hearing aid that is powered by a new lithium-ion rechargeable battery. Along with brand-new features with the Belong Processing Platform, the Audeo B-R is the first hearing aid with a built-in lithium-ion rechargeable battery that provides 2 hours of hearing. Additionally, the Phonak B-R offers the fastest charging time, for the longest lasting battery power.Phonak B-R wearers only need to charge their batteries for 30 minutes, which gives 6 hours of immediate use. A longer charging time yields longer battery life. Phonak B-R hearing aids are charged with the new Phonak Charger Case, and the lithium-ion battery lasts through the lifetime of the hearing aid, which means wearers will no longer need to buy batteries!


In fall 2018, the State Support Network (Network) completed facilitation of three communties of practice (CoPs) in collaboration with teams from a variety of state educational agencies (SEAs). Technical assistance within these three CoPs focused on state report cards, school quality and student success (SQSS) indicators, and evidence-based practices.
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RBS-Administrator, Roland Berger Stiftung · 28.04.2017
The German-Iraqi charity WADI is receiving the Roland Berger Human Dignity Award 2017 for its longstanding and successful campaign for the human rights and autonomy of Iraqi citizens. For the past 25 years, WADI has initiated and run a wide range of programs in northern Iraq – from information campaigns about female genital mutilation to children's education programs to medical and psychological first aid offered to Yazidi victims who have been tortured by the terrorist organization IS. It is the founder's wish that other organizations around the world follow the example set by WADI.
WADI e.V., the "Federation for Crisis Assistance and Development Cooperation", is an NGO that advocates for women and children in Iraq. Founded as an umbrella association, it was set up in 1992 by initiatives and individuals on the ground helping the suffering population of war-torn Iraq after the second Gulf War in 1991. WADI e.V. is headed by German journalist Thomas von der Osten-Sacken and by Abdullah Sabir in Iraq.
The name WADI is an Arabic word meaning riverbed. "Our mission is to bring water to the dry riverbed to make things flourish again" – this is the principle by which the charity, working from its head office in Frankfurt and an office in Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq, devotes itself to its central aim: improving living conditions for women in the extremely patriarchal society of the Middle East and fostering their participation in public life.
In the 1990s, WADI built kindergartens and schools in Sulaymaniyah Province, became involved in campaigns against forced marriage and honor killings, and developed a literacy program through which more than 5,000 girls so far have learned to read and write. The establishment and support of women's centers and consequently also women's cafes has been a part of WADI's agenda since the very beginning. WADI has opened three such women's centers in Iraqi Kurdistan since 1999. They offer women a range of activities, from literacy programs to computer, sewing and hairdressing courses to legal advice. Above all the centers aim to be a place for women to meet, somewhere beyond their own four walls. About 200 women visit the center at Halabja. WADI also operates radio stations for women and young people with the aim of raising awareness of women's rights.
Through its campaign entitled "Stop FGM in Kurdistan", WADI was able to get the practice of female genital mutilation banned in Kurdistan in 2011. The international community had long overlooked the fact that female circumcision was taking place in Iraq. It was only when a survey conducted by WADI in 2007/2008 was published that people became aware that genital mutilation was not an exclusively African problem. Of the 1,500 girls who responded to the survey, 72% had had their genitals cut. Besides the legal prohi- bition of the practice, the promotion of "FGM-free" villages helped to achieve a substantial reduction in the rate of genital mutilation.
Since IS terrorists attacked Yazidi villages in northern Iraq in August 2014, WADI has been primarily looking after abused Yazidi girls who have escaped IS captivity, as well as child refugees from Syria. At the Jinda Center in the northern Iraqi town of Dohuk, WADI takes care of Yazidi women who have been able to escape from the hands of IS or whose freedom has been bought. WADI picks the women up from the surrounding refugee camps and takes them to the adult daycare facility, where the charity offers courses in handicrafts, hairdressing or computer skills, operates a greenhouse where they teach the women farming skills, and provides a forum for the women to get together and talk. Mobile all-female WADI teams go around the northern Iraqi refugee camps offering first aid to Yazidi women who have survived the IS terror, speaking with them and providing medical aid.
Photo: WADI e.V.
Header photo: WADI e.V.
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Knee injury in yoga usually involves tearing the Meniscus, a double ring of cartilage between the Femur (thighbone) and the Tibia (lower leg bone) – either through carelessness – by practicing asanas with the feet and the knees pointing in different directions, or in Padmasana. It is also possible to overstretch the supporting ligaments at the sides of the knees.
People also experience pain behind the knee, on the outer side of the knee, on the inner side below the knee or around the Patella (kneecap) itself.
Knee pain should never be ignored, in the hope that it will go away – the causes need to be investigated and dealt with before attempting any asanas that are painful. It is also highly risky to practice when there is swelling around the knees because swelling inhibits stabilisation by the muscles attached to the Patella and can lead to injury. Students and teachers should take care to avoid this kind of injury because the majority of Meniscus tears require surgery and rarely heal by themselves because the blood supply to cartilage is very limited.
Knee problems are complex because some kinds of knee pain comes from an actual injury to knee structures like the meniscus or ligaments, but most other knee pain is caused by instability of the hips, which can cause structural damage in the knee.


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Q: utf-8 cannot insert to mysql after connection to mssql first of all , I connected two database -mssql & mysql- .
 global $link,$link_voip;
    $link = mssql_connect('A', 'B', 'C');
    mssql_select_db('D', $link);
    if (!$link) {
        die('Something went wrong while connecting to MSSQL');
    }
    $link_voip = mysql_connect('E','F','G') or die("err");

mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'", $link_voip);
mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8'", $link_voip);
mysql_query("SET character_set_connection = 'utf8'", $link_voip);
mysql_select_db('voip', $link_voip);

I want to update a row on mysql database with mssql's information:
I get information correctly , but  mysql database cannot insert utf-8 (persian language).
I'm working with phpmyadmin ,I used to try:1- change collation to utf_general_ci 2- add
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'", $link_voip);
mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8'", $link_voip);

before query.
3-add N before variable that may be changed.
    $q="UPDATE cc_card SET  firstname=N'$fname' , lastname=N'$lname',phone='$phone',credit='$credit'
    WHERE id='$id'";

but still it doesn't work.

A: 1- in mssql :
   1-1. check table type is nvarchar
   1-2. convert to varbinary (CONVERT(varbinary(MAX),tblname)
           1-3. use bin2hex   1-3. use chr(hexdec$varibale)
           1-5. use iconv
2- in mysql:
use N before variable for update/insert in database

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This Portable Mini Bar series is easy build and once the party is over, it's just as easy to to tear down for storage or transport. Dis-assembly takes just a few minutes. The entire bar fits in the back of your pickup truck, SUV or RV.
This project is well suited for seasonal use in areas such as a three season room or serves as a patio bar or portable tiki bar. Easy construction, you could be off to the store and have this cool little bar built just in time for cocktail hour.
Portable: Disassembles quickly for easy transport.
This project is the basic foundation for the L-shaped version; the EHBP-07 L-shaped Portable Bar which consists of TWO EHBP-05's and an easily transported corner hub. So, to build the L-shaped version, you'll need these plans together with the instructions in EHBP-07.
However it is included in the CHBD database.
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Good morning friends. I hope that you had a relaxful sleep and are faring to go today. My wife & I have to see someone today and the after that I'm taking her to lunch. My daughter Nicole just started her new job in the area. It is with " Families First Funeral Home ". After talking with her, she is excited and very happy with her change. She said that the people at Families First are are very professional and very loving to all. I'm very happy & proud for her. I guess I know where I'll be going when the time comes. Ha,ha,ha.
First Convict: I heard the Warden's daughter up and married a guy down on Cellblock D. The Warden's mighty upset about it too.
Second Convict: Why? Because she married a con?
First Convict: No. Because they eloped!
It's a convicts first day in prison. He's a young convict and he's crying. An older convict comes over and sits down. He says look it's not so bad here. For instance, do you like movies? The new guy says, "Yeah I love movies." Every Monday we have movie night, first run movie. Do you like Italian food? The new guy says, "Yeah I like Italian food." On Tuesday in the cafeteria, it is all Italian food. Do you like baseball? The new guy says, "I love baseball." Every Wednesday we have a pick up game and everyone plays even the guards, it is really fun. The old guy says, "One more question, are you by any chance a homosexual?" The new guy says, "no I'm not." Ah, you're not going to like Thursday.
Three convicts escape from prison. They make it to a nearby town but are confronted by a policeman.
"Hey, aren't you those three escaped convicts?", asked the policeman.
Entering the pier of Antigua.
Lunch out is a fun thing. Hubby and I do that from time to time. Have a blast.
WE enjoyed our lunch a great deal and then went home when I started to arrange our dinner. Eat,eat, eat is all that we do. Ha,ha,ha. See ya.
I glad that you enjoyed the funny stuff. See ya.
Hey, living nawth jawjah, I know all those redneck terms! Thanks for the smiles. Have a super day.


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Ladislav Bernatský (31. května 1904 Moravská Loděnice – 8. ledna 1982 Olomouc) byl český básník, novinář a v letech 1949–1950 předseda JNV v Olomouci.

Biografie
Narodil se do rolnické rodiny, v roce 1923 maturoval na české reálce v Olomouci a roku 1928 absolvoval Filozofickou fakultu Masarykovy univerzity v Brně. Poté pracoval jako učitel a redaktor firemních novin v Baťových závodech ve Zlíně. Psal i do agrárního Venkova nebo Selských listů a byl členem Moravského kola spisovatelů v Brně. Na konci 30. let se Ladislav Bernatský vrátil do rodné obce, kde se kromě provozování vlastního hospodářství věnoval překladům z francouzštiny a vydal dvě sbírky básní: Mimo rodnou zem (1939) a Věčná květenství (1941), ve kterých se vyznal z lásky k rodnému kraji.

Během německé okupace navázal kontakty s představiteli komunistického odboje a po válce vstoupil do KSČ. Brzy dosáhl významných funkcí, hned v roce 1946 se stal předsedou olomouckého okresního národního výboru a o dva roky později také předsedou krajského akčního výboru Národní fronty. Když byl v roce 1949 sloučen okres Olomouc-venkov s městem, stal se předsedou sloučeného jednotného národního výboru a tím i hlavním představitelem Olomouce. Již o rok později ale na něj dopadly probíhající stranické čistky a byl odvolán ze všech funkcí. Pracoval poté v Majetíně jako účetní v místním JZD a v roce 1961 byl jmenován předsedou JZD Velký Týnec, z něhož vytvořil prosperující závod. Ke stranické politice ani k poezii se však již nevrátil.

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Představitelé Olomouce
Čeští básníci
Čeští novináři
Členové KSČ
Absolventi Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity
Narození v roce 1904
Narození 31. května
Narození v Bohuňovicích (okres Olomouc)
Úmrtí v roce 1982
Úmrtí 8. ledna
Úmrtí v Olomouci
Muži

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package org.onosproject.cli.net;

import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import org.onosproject.cli.AbstractChoicesCompleter;
import org.onosproject.net.region.Region;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Region type completer.
 */
public class RegionTypeCompleter extends AbstractChoicesCompleter {
    @Override
    protected List<String> choices() {
        List<String> types = Lists.newArrayList();
        for (Region.Type type : Region.Type.values()) {
            types.add(type.toString());
        }

        return types;
    }
}

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Nivea Men, the male-oriented skin care brand from Beiersdorf, and soccer club Real Madrid C.F. entered into an extensive sponsorship agreement for the Spanish market. With it, the brand expands on its successful involvement with international soccer.
The products of the Nivea Men series will now support the Spanish soccer club, as Real Madrid players won't only be playing a major role in elite soccer, but also in the communication activities of Nivea Men in the future. For the launch campaign, the team will be represented by Sergio Ramos and Álvaro Arbeloa, Marcelo and Gonzalo Higuaín. The collaboration will last for three years until the end of the 2015/16 season, and both brands share equal values such as spirit of self-improvement and effort, passion and team spirit.
"We are excited about the new partnership and the related projects. Real Madrid is a great match for Nivea Men because in our marketing strategy the passion for [soccer] plays a very important role. This helps us to emotionalize our products," said Ralph Gusko, Beiersdorf executive board member for brands.


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you don't understand you're loneliness, because who are you even?
Is there a way to know about this?
Parker Baldin is a writer from Montreal. His work has appeared in The Void and Headlight among other publications.


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For some shoppers, buying Obamacare is turning into a marathon
If you don't succeed at first.... (REUTERS/Mike Segar)
Welcome to Health Reform Watch, Sarah Kliff's regular look at how the Affordable Care Act is changing the American health-care system — and being changed by it. You can reach Sarah with questions, comments and suggestions here. Check back every Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon for the latest edition, and read previous columns here.
Carl Bidleman made his first attempt at buying insurance under the health law at midnight on Tuesday, the moment the marketplaces opened. He couldn't get the site to load and the representative at a call center suggested trying again in the morning.
So he did, at 8 a.m., after walking his dog and brewing a cup of coffee. And again that afternoon. And that evening.
Twenty-one attempts tries and 36 hours later, Bidleman had found the holy grail: Successfully purchasing a health insurance policy.
"I went out right after and got some beer at the store before going back to work," Bidleman, a 63-year-old video editor in San Francisco. "I had to take a moment and celebrate finally getting this done."
Ever since the new health insurance marketplaces launched Tuesday, long wait times and frozen screens have plagued potential shoppers, hoping to get a first glimpse of new health options. Health and Human Services say the Web sites are overloaded and have scrambled to increase their capacity by adding new servers and assigning additional engineers to the project.
Many shoppers have thrown in the towel, at least for the foreseeable future. Coverage under the health law doesn't start until Jan. 1, regardless of whether enrollees sign up on Oct. 1 or Dec. 1.
But then there are the marathon shoppers: The intrepid few who have already made upwards of a dozen attempts to buy health insurance coverage, and have no intention of stopping until they succeed.
"Morning, afternoon, evening," says Brian Morgan, a 31-year-old IT manager from outside St. Louis, of the times he has tried the marketplace. "I've tried a few times and gotten to different stages. I'll probably try to keep doing it once a day."
"I usually try and log on before bed and it will say the site is overloaded, but it will save your place in line," says Shara Connors, a 44-year-old Pennsylvania woman who estimates she has made 25 attempts to sign up. "So I leave my computer on overnight, get up at 6 a.m. and see if I've gotten any further.
"I'm nothing," Connors said, "If not persistent."
The persistent effort is, in a way, unnecessary, given that there's no limit to the amount of sign-ups under Obamacare. But as with the launch of new gadgets or movies, there always a small crowd that sees value in being first.
"If you're first in line, you're trying a product where the value isn't totally clear," says Jonah Berger, a marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On. "At the same time, you seem cool to have access to something no one else has. It's just like when a new restaurant opens. There's a social cache to be someone who navigated the exchanges."
For some, gaining that social capital is worth the extreme effort that goes into nabbing early access.
"If you ever look outside the Apple store and see people camped out, or go down to Duke and see people waiting for basketball tickets, it suggests people will undergo a lot of hardship," Berger said. "Is everyone going to do that? No. But for people who want access, they'll be willing."
Some, like Bidleman, consider themselves strong supporters of the health-care law. They saw an early purchase as partially ideological, a way to show the world that people wanted to enroll in the hotly-disputed program.
"We were involved in the Kerry campaign," Bidleman says of himself and his wife, to describe his politics. "I've been waiting for this and once I sign up, the numbers will start to add up. People will start seeing there's a demand for this."
Bidleman spent just about two days straight trying to register on his state's insurance marketplace, checking in on the progress editing a video (incidentally, the video was about a free health clinc in San Francisco.)
"I was literally trying all day," he says. "I'd be sitting at my editing desk and turn to my personal computer and try again, see how far I would get. I'd think I'm actually going to get through and buy it, and then get an error message."
Bidle ultimately completed the process early Wednesday afternoon. He purchased a health plan that he estimates is about $700 cheaper than the product he buys now on the individual market.
"You see this again and again, and you're sort of like Pavlov's dog, expecting the same thing to happen," he said. "Then the page loads and you can celebrate, you actually bought this."
Others, like Jon Tucci, just wanted to get the shopping squared away as soon as possible.
"I'm an advance guy," says the 60-year-old West Virginia resident who logged onto HealthCare.Gov at midnight on Tuesday. "I like to get things done early.
Tucci spent about an hour trying to enroll but couldn't get past a log-in screen, and gave up around 1 a.m. He was back at it five hours later, waking up at 6 a.m. to try and sign up before work. After a 45-minute call to the customer service center got disconnected, he gave up and headed to work.
Wednesday, Tucci was back at it. "I tried yesterday about 10 a.m. and then I tried about 2 p.m. and then about 8 p.m.," he says. "I get the message that everybody else gets: Please be patient."
Opponents of the health law also found themselves playing the waiting game. That includes Anthony D. Wilson, a self-described conservative who thinks there isn't much government can do better than private industry.
Still, he figures that "the government doesn't undo much once they jump into something. We have to live with it and make the best of it what we can."
So early on Tuesday, the 55-year-old engineer in Indiana logged on to Healthcare.gov in hopes of getting a glimpse of what he might have to pay next year for under the law. No luck. He tried again every few hours Tuesday, and again on Wednesday morning after checking his e-mail for the first time of the day, and again later when he had a break in the work day.
Each time, he got hung up when the system said to hold tight and keep the page open lest he lose his place in line. At least once, he kept the page open for more than two hours before getting an error message indicating that the attempt had failed.
He guesses he's tried getting on about 20 times since Tuesday morning, including at least twice Wednesday. He isn't frustrated – yet. "It's kind of comical at this point. I just try it, and laugh, and go on."
With reporting from Sandhya Somashekhar
KLIFF NOTES: Top health policy reads from around the Web.
Millions of poor Americans will be left uncovered by the health law. "A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance, the very kinds of people that the program was intended to help, according to an analysis of census data by The New York Times." Sabrina Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff in the New York Times.
Here's why its so difficult to get Obamacare's exchanges to work. An excellent interview from the Switch's Tim Lee, on why the marketplaces are having so many problems.
Meet an early Obamacare enrollee. "Leslie Foster, a 28-year-old freelance filmmaker in Hollywood, is among the first to sign up for an insurance plan. After spending several hours browsing the California insurance "exchange" late Tuesday night—when traffic was lower and the online marketplace operated more smoothly—Mr. Foster made his choice at about 10 a.m. Wednesday." Christopher Weaver in the Wall Street Journal.


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Q: How to call default list variables in terraform module I want to call list variables from below code. But, It is throwing error instead after mentioning the default value in variables.tf
Terraform Service Folder (/root/terraform-ukg-smtp).
main.tf
module "google_uig" {
  source = "/root/terraform-google-vm/modules/compute_engine_uig"
  depends_on = [
    module.google_vm
  ]
  project     = var.project
  count       = var.num_instances
  zone        = var.zone == null ? data.google_compute_zones.available.names[count.index % length(data.google_compute_zones.available.names)] : var.zone
  name        = "apoc-uig-${random_integer.integer[count.index].result}"
  instances   = element((module.google_vm[*].google_instance_id), count.index)
  named_ports = var.named_ports
}

variables.tf
variable "named_ports" {
  description = "Named name and named port"
  type = list(object({
    port_name   = string
    port_number = number
  }))
  default = [{
    port_name   = "smtp"
    port_number = "33"
  }]
}

Terraform Core Folder (/root/terraform-google-vm/modules/compute_engine_uig).
main.tf
# Instance Group
resource "google_compute_instance_group" "google_uig" {
  count     = var.num_instances
  project   = var.project
  zone      = var.zone
  name      = var.name
  instances = var.instances
  dynamic "named_port" {
    for_each = var.named_ports != null ? toset([1]) : toset([])
    content {
      name = named_port.value.port_name
      port = named_port.value.port_number
    }
  }
}

variables.tf
variable "named_ports" {
  description = "Named name and named port"
  type = list(object({
    port_name = string
    port_number = number
  }))
  default = null
}

ERROR
╷
│ Error: Unsupported argument
│
│   on main.tf line 66, in module "google_uig":
│   66:   port_number = each.value["port_number"]
│
│ An argument named "port_number" is not expected here.

A: The error actually lies in the file /root/terraform-google-vm/modules/compute_engine_uig/main.tf, which you have not added to your question. But from the error message, I think to know what is wrong.
The resource google_compute_instance_group.google_uig in compute_engine_uig/main.tf should look like this:
resource "google_compute_instance_group" "google_uig" {
  other_keys = other_values

  dynamic "named_port" {
    for_each = var.named_ports
    content {
      name = named_port.value.name
      port = named_port.value.port
    }
  }
}

From the error message, it seems that you have written
name = named_ports.value.name

i.e., with a plural s instead of
name = named_port.value.name

in the content block.
If this doesn't solve it, please add the file that throws the error.

Edit from 30.05.2022:
Two more problems are now visible:

*

*You set for_each = var.named_ports != null ? toset([1]) : toset([]), which is not correct. You have to iterate over var.named_ports (as I have written above), not over a set containing the number 1. Just copy it word by word from the code above.

*Additionaly, you have defined the type of port_number in your variable named_ports as "number", but you have given a string "33". This may be fine for terraform since it does a lot of conversion in the background, but better change it too.


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''' This is a benchmark of the amount of time the algorithm takes to spit out LHS samples'''
from time import time
import lhsmdu

def runtime(numDimensions, numSamples):
    ''' Checks runtime using standard variables '''
    start_time = time()
    m = lhsmdu.sample(numDimensions,numSamples)
    end_time = time()
    return end_time-start_time

print(runtime(3,4))


NES Classic Edition: a small replica of the original Nintendo system. It includes 30 already installed classic games, such as PAC-MAN and Donkey Kong.
PlayStation VR: lets you play PlayStation games in a virtual reality setting.
DJI Mavic Pro: allows up to 27 minutes of flight at 40 miles-per-hour. It includes 5 cameras and a 4.3 mile transmission range.
Amazon Echo Dot: Amazon's product that uses Alexa voice service to do things for you, such as set alarms or even find answers to questions you have.
Apple iPhone 7 Plus: a phone that features a 5.5 inch display. Its display is known for being bright and vivid, and the battery life is great.
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Disappearing Beaches: Modeling Shoreline Change in Southern California
By Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program May 31, 2017
Southern California could lose up to two-thirds of its beaches by 2100, if sea level rises 3 to 6 feet (0.9 to 1.8 meters) and human intervention is limited, according to a study conducted at the U.S. Geological Survey and recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research–Earth Surface.
This article is part of the May 2017 issue of the Sound Waves newsletter.
Exposed bedrock on the beach during very low (negative) tide at Isla Vista, California. Photo credit: Alex Snyder, USGS.
Southern California could lose up to two-thirds of its beaches by 2100, if sea level rises 3 to 6 feet (0.9 to 1.8 meters) and human intervention is limited. That is according to a study conducted at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research–Earth Surface.
Lead author Sean Vitousek and his USGS collaborators—Patrick Barnard, Patrick Limber, Li Erikson, and Blake Cole (now with Hyperloop One)—developed a new mathematical model, CoSMoS-COAST (Coastal Storm Modeling System–Coastal One-line Assimilated Simulation Tool), to forecast changes in shoreline shape and position. They applied it in Southern California to see where shorelines would be by the end of this century. The results indicate that 31 to 67 percent of Southern California beaches could erode completely—up to existing coastal infrastructure or sea cliffs.
"Beaches are perhaps the most iconic feature of California, and the potential for losing this identity is real. The effect of California losing its beaches is not just a matter of affecting the tourism economy. Losing the protecting swath of beach sand between us and the pounding surf exposes critical infrastructure, businesses, and homes to damage. Beaches are natural resources, and it is likely that human-management efforts must increase in order to preserve them," said Vitousek, who was a post-doctoral fellow at the USGS when he conducted this study. He is now a professor in the Department of Civil and Materials Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Although a majority (72 percent) of beaches in Southern California show historical trends of growing larger (due to large artificial beach nourishments since the 1930s), predictions indicate that erosion caused by accelerated sea-level rise will shrink nearly all the beaches.
"Beaches in Southern California are a crucial feature of the economy, and the first line of defense against coastal-storm impacts for the 18 million residents in the region. This study indicates that we will have to perform massive and costly interventions to preserve these beaches in the future under the erosive pressures of anticipated sea-level rise, or risk losing many of the economic and protective benefits beaches provide," said USGS geologist and coauthor Barnard.
Exposed bedrock on the beach, below the University of California, Santa Barbara. Photo credit: Daniel Hoover, USGS.
Installing large boulders as riprap to armor the shore against further erosion at Goleta Beach in Southern California. The tide is very low (negative). Photo credit: Daniel Hoover, USGS.
The CoSMoS-COAST model is part of the larger Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS), which provides detailed forecasts of flooding due to storms of various intensities over a range of future sea levels. CoSMoS developers initially focused on forecasting flooding of present-day shorelines. But chronic erosion, driven by accelerating rates of sea-level rise, will gradually alter today's shorelines and move many of them farther inland. The scientists realized that using present-day beach profiles in flood-prediction models could lead to an underestimation of the future hazard. CoSMoS-COAST enables them to predict the position and shape of a future coastline before running CoSMoS to forecast the flooding likely to occur there.
CoSMoS-COAST takes into account important factors that influence the shape and position of a shoreline, including transport of sediment by longshore currents (the process that causes sand to pile up on one side of a jetty), transport of sediment across the shoreline by tides and waves (the process that moves sand from beaches to offshore sandbars during winter storms), and landward migration of the shoreline due to sea-level rise. It also incorporates measured shoreline data to calibrate predictions and improve reliability. The model can be applied to virtually any coastal setting, including the complex mixture of dunes, bluffs, cliffs, estuaries, river mouths, and urban infrastructure that make up Southern California beaches.
Although shoreline change is very hard to predict, scientists are confident in CoSMoS-COAST's predictive capability applied to the forecast period (2010–2100) because of how accurately the model is able to reproduce historical shoreline change between 1995 and 2010. This flexible and multifaceted model can help managers assess and adjust their beach-nourishment efforts to keep pace with potential long-term erosion.
An example of the shoreline data for La Jolla Shores, used in the CoSMoS-COAST model. The many squiggly colored lines indicate the changing shoreline location through time [basemaps from Google Earth]. Image credit: Sean Vitousek, USGS.
"The public already has to overcome obstacles in getting to the beach, from limited public transportation to illegally blocked pathways," said California Coastal Commission Executive Director John Ainsworth. "The prospect of losing so many of our beaches in Southern California to sea-level rise is frankly unacceptable. The beaches are our public parks and economic heart and soul of our coastal communities. We must do everything we can to ensure that as much of the iconic California coast is preserved for future generations as possible."
The full report, "A model integrating longshore and cross-shore processes for predicting long-term shoreline response to climate change," was posted online March 15, 2017, by the American Geophysical Union in their Journal of Geophysical Research–Earth Surface.
The news was picked up by numerous media outlets; examples include the Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/california-beach-erosion_us_58d97a32e4b0f805b3227bfb), Scientific American (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sunken-pleasure-california-will-need-mountains-of-sand-to-save-its-beaches/), NBC Los Angeles (http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Study-Predicts-Significant-Southern-California-Beach-Erosion-417269103.html), KRON4 San Francisco (http://kron4.com/2017/03/28/study-predicts-significant-southern-california-beach-erosion/), Smithsonian Magazine (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/california-may-lose-popular-surfing-spots-rising-seas-180963001/), Surfer Magazine (https://www.surfer.com/environmental-news/geophysicists-say-goodbye-to-your-beaches-socal/#z5wl2JDp60RxepTT.97), Southern California Public Radio (KPCC, http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2017/03/29/55871/unless-we-do-something-about-it-many-socal-beaches/), the Orange County Register (http://www.ocregister.com/articles/beaches-747708-scientists-sand.html), the International Business Times (http://www.ibtimes.com/south-california-beaches-rising-sea-level-could-erode-most-shoreline-2100-usgs-report-2516093), the Hans India (http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/Young-Hans/2017-03-30/Study-predicts-major-Southern-California-beaches-erosion/289935), and the MeteoWeb in Italy (http://www.meteoweb.eu/2017/03/clima-le-spiagge-della-california-del-sud-a-rischio-erosione-entro-il-2100/878743/).
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Scottland is a quietly boiling pot of talented artists who negotiate the cold, the grey and the rain to do their thing and get their artwork done. For a Scottish graffiti artist, rain and cold are not enough of a deterant to stop making art. Glasgow is no exception and the local graffiti scene has been painting the former Clydeside Galvanizers on the sly for over 10 years.
But the work doesn't stop here, it's just getting started. With a mission to keep the surrounding spaces clean of tags and to convince the local bussiness community that a legal graffiti space will not make their businesses unviable, the mission ist o use the sucess oft he Yardworks space to create more legal oppurtunites for local artists to expand their territory and possibilities.


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Q: How do I hide the bottom status bar on the Samsung Galaxy Tab? I couldn't find the way to hide (programaticaly or manually) the bottom status bar (back, home, active apps, and screen capture) of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with Android 3.1. Is that possible?

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No, sorry. Without the system bar, the user cannot exit your app.


Gold and Iron Drop Items: Now with a mod!
Poll: Would you like this in vannila MineCraft?
I don't see the problem here. I think the reason you can't fortune iron is because it's too easy to collect for such a good item. And also, gold because Mojang probably want to keep to a bit of realism, and make you smelt it into the ingot, so that way it sacrifices fortune, which isn't a huge problem.
They should either fix this or keep it as it is currently. However, I don't agree with the OP's idea.
No Support. Iron and Gold being smeltable gives a bit of variety when mining. If every ore acted exactly the same mining would be even more boring than it is currently. Iron and Gold cannot be affected by fortune, and as a result they are more valuable. Gold is already too common for what it does, and iron is only a rare resource if you plan on making lots of hopper contraptions. Even though the art is awesome, I would not like them to be added to minecraft.
I like this mainly so I can make iron and gold fit in my texture pack better.
The texture on the drops look a bit weird.
No Support. Iron and Gold being smeltable gives a bit of variety when mining.
They are still smeltable. Did you even bother to look at the pictures?
Hmmmm... I must have misread something. With that in mind, you have my full support. Fantastic textures, by the way.
Support. This is a good idea, and the sprites look very nice.
I do Support this but: They need better icons, for 1; the gold ore looks like someone put butter on a rock (lol butter, sky will like) it shouldn't be budder. The iron ore could look a little better too.
But despite this I do support.
Iron is used in too many things NOT to make it fortune-able; and, really, how often do you actually use the iron ore as a block? The answer is never. You don't, because you don't build caves. People who downvote this because it's "been in the game for a while" or because the change "doesn't effect them" probably should rethink their philosophies before returning to the Help section. Tradition and the current way not actively doing harm are two of the worst reasons to keep status quo, especially when better options are readily available.
I hate people who say this.
Full Support. Right now the only thing I use fortune on is diamonds and emeralds.
I am wondering if the blocks will give xp when your mining and when your smelting, because it really should be one or the other, not both.
Other than letting us get more use out of fortune enchantments and making gold a bit easier to get as well as making iron easier to get. But other than that your right this idea has no use at all to anyone who doesn't use enchantments, gold, or iron.
I think this isn't necesary, iron and gold are fine as they are now.
The point of the suggestion is to make gold and iron consistent with everything else aesthetically. Diamonds, emeralds, Lapiz, etc, all drop items instead of blocks, and as someone working on a texture pack, it would be nice to make iron and gold match up.
There is no reason NOT to support this. It changes nothing for those who don't like it, and adds some customization ability to those that do. It is literally a win-win for both sides.


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Coach Carlin holds a USSF National C License, NSCAA National Diploma, NSCAA State Goalkeeping Diploma and a NSCAA Special Topics Diploma. He is the varsity head coach at Hingham High School where his teams have won 9 Patriot League Championships.
He received special honors, being voted High School Coach of the Year in 2005 for Eastern Massachusetts. Ken started coaching club soccer with the Blazers in 1995 and has been with Galway for the last 10 years. He continues to play soccer in the first division of the New England OTHSL.
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What happened to my grandparent's world?
Each summer I couldn't wait to go visit my grandparents. It involved a dreadful road trip but was worth every mile once I arrived.
One set lived on a wheat ranch. Flat, dusty, with miles of amber waves of grain. I would get up with the sun, gather eggs, dig potatoes, hang clothes on the line, pick apricots, and as I got older I'd help with the cooking and cleaning for a harvest crew. Work never felt so good.
The other set spent their summers vacationing lakeside amidst the tallest trees I'd ever seen. Their summers were slower paced with the biggest decision involving whether to canoe or swim.
Like most children discover, grandparents are amazing. You wonder how your parents could have ever come from such loving and considerate people. Weeks without arguments and at mealtime: no beets or liver.
Some family members used to think I was a bit "tweaked" when it came to end-times prophesy, those wars and rumors of war, the Mark of the Beast, and the dreaded Antichrist.I confess, I read dozens of prophesy books, highlighted passages in the Book of Revelation and then applied it to all of the "signs of the times".
But that was waaaay back in the 70's & 80's. I've chilled out considerably since then. However, what I see now reminds me of what I read a long time ago. I'm several decades older and less prone to exaggeration and fear mongering. But the melt down in the Middle East harkens to some very real end-times scenarios.Believe me, I'm all for freedom and ousting despot rulers but I'm troubled about the power struggle that may follow from Islamic extremists. And the Apocalypse is all about extremism at its worst.
All of those rumors about mothers-in-law aren't necessarily true. Since my daughter's wedding, I've had over 5 years of mother-in-law training and I think I've done a respectable job getting along with my son-in-law. We've become close friends as well as family. We share inside jokes and future hopes. He even willingly sleeps on our foldout couch. And by now he undoubtedly understands why his wife sometimes is the way she is, because he has seen the way her parents are.
As parents, we weren't weird all the time, but we were on occasion. Perhaps there may be an instance or two where our adult children might exhibit my Type A mania or their father's Type B dreaminess. Some weirdness could have rubbed off on our kids, but the cool thing is that marriage has a way of working out those kinks.
The Seahawks came into Super Bowl XL riding a tidal wave of enthusiasm. After starting the season 2-2, then winning 11 straight games, the Seattle mania was not to be contained. This amazing team just cinched their first Super Bowl appearance in their 30-year history.
Even if you weren't a huge football fan in the Pacific Northwest, you couldn't ignore the distinctive blue and green team colors streaming from windows, cars, flag poles, and painted bodies. On Game Day, like millions of others, I flipped the remote to watch the game. Yet, I was in a place I had never imagined being on Super Bowl Sunday—my dad's hospital room.
He'd been critically ill for nearly a month, and I had been traveling back and forth to Tucson to be with him. A bigger sports fan I had never known. My father knew stats and all the teams, and while he admittedly preferred college football, he'd followed the Seahawks since their inception. Now his team had made it.


There are secrets hidden within The Whisper Jar.
These are not the sort of secrets you can whisper into jam jars, twist the lid and know (or hope) they'll stay hidden; these are secrets that spill out across the pages of Carole Lanham's debut collection, which weaves tales that prove just how un-innocent childhood can sometimes be.
There are vampires and maybe vampires, and werewolves and fairies, and macabre torture devices that may or may not kill depending on the flick of a switch. There are the rhyming tales - the title story The Whisper Jar and the tragic The Adventures of Velvet Honeybone, Girl Werewuff - tales of woe, of childhood friendship, and how the magic dies with approaching adulthood. Each story is a delight, and the tales are told in Lanham's unique and compelling voice.
Although some secrets should stay hidden, Carole Lanham's The Whisper Jar should not. The ebook is available to pre-order from Morrigan Books and the book is released on October 31st.
Oh, that sounds chilling and creepy, two of my favorite "C" words.
I love this book so hard.
It just looks wonderful, doesn't it?
Thanks so much for wonderful review, Cate!
I wanted to let people know that I will be giving away a free copy of The Whisper Jar tonight 11/12/11) at midnight.
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FY16 deadline still week away, govt rural electrification target met
7,008 villages have been electrified till date whereas the target for the year was set at 7,000ETEnergyWorld | Updated: March 23, 2016, 15:56 IST
NEW DELHI: The government has said 7,008 villages have been electrified till date in the current financial year under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna.
The target, which was set at 7,000 villages for 2015-16, has been achieved a week before the end of the year, an official release said.
"A small step for a village, a giant leap for India. Annual target of electrifying 7000 villages achieved! # Garv Se," Piyush Goyal, minister for power, coal and renewable energy tweeted.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had set the target of rural electrification of 18,452 villages by May 2018..
The project has been taken on mission mode and strategy for electrification consists of squeezing the implementation schedule to 12 months and also dividing village electrification process in 12 Stage milestones with defined timelines for monitoring.
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Marijuana in the Golden State and beyond
Some California Renters Face Additional Restrictions on Smoking Pot at Home
Just because recreational weed is legal in California, doesn't necessarily mean you can smoke or grow pot in your apartment.
By Jessica Rice
Published Jun 21, 2017 at 11:33 AM | Updated at 11:33 AM PDT on Jun 21, 2017
LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 01: A for rent sign is posted in front of an apartment building on February 1, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Although Proposition 64 says it is legal for Californians to smoke and grow a limited amount of cannabis plants in their homes, some renters face an additional set of restrictions that can prohibit them from partaking at home.
Under Prop 64, "owners may forbid the possession or use of marijuana on their property subject to normal tenant law for renters," which means apartment owners and landlords can restrict renters from lighting up, according to the LA County Department of Public Health.
Renters should check their leases to see if their landlord prohibits the "consumption or cultivation of marijuana" in units, advised Los Angeles County's new Office of Cannabis Management.
Owners will evict tenants if they refuse to abide by a no smoking prohibition, which typically applies to both tobacco and marijuana, said Debra Carlton, a spokeswoman for the California Apartment Association.
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Voters approved Prop. 64 in November, but Carlton says the association's stance on weed has not changed. She does not expect apartment owners will shift their policies either.
"We believe that rental property owners have the right to prohibit use of marijuana on their property," Carlton said. "The challenge they face are neighboring tenants who complain about the nuisance and being exposed to secondhand smoke -- themselves and their children."
But in most cases, renters with a medical marijuana prescription should be able to consume cannabis in edible form by using edibles or oils.
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Carlton said she's never heard of owners who have concerns about those products, since they do not cause a nuisance to neighbors. She does not believe recreational edibles are a concern to most owners either.
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What's at the root of the dispute between USM faculty and administration?
University of Southern Maine student Meaghan LaSala (left) stands next to another supporter holding a sign on Wednesday at a news conference at the school's Portland campus, where students and faculty members protested layoffs there.
David Flanagan, the retired CEO of Central Maine Power Co. and a former University of Maine System trustee, was named the interim president at the troubled University of Southern Maine last year.
Professor Susan Feiner leads the call for USM students to march to a University of Maine System trustees meeting and demand an end to faculty and program cuts last year in Portland.
PORTLAND, Maine — On Sunday and Monday, a three-person team from the American Association of University Professors will visit the University of Southern Maine as part of an investigation into school administrators' efforts to fill a budget gap, a process that involved cutting more than 50 faculty positions and five full programs.
As expected, USM administrators and faculty members have very different perspectives on this visit.
Administration representatives are wary the AAUP panel will arrive with a predetermined outcome in mind — that the school was unjustified in laying people off and eliminating programs — and nothing USM officials say will make any difference.
USM faculty members sharply disagree, and suggest that by taking the tack that the investigation has a foregone conclusion, the administration is building in excuses in case the AAUP team finds fault with the budget cuts.
Both sides also disagree on whether the AAUP's findings will have any meaningful impact on the dispute over the cuts.
The administration repeatedly has said AAUP has no standing — it doesn't serve as the union that represents USM faculty, nor does it legally regulate higher education in Maine. University faculty members counter that AAUP standards and guidelines are explicitly referenced as the underpinnings of USM's governance documents, so the school can't run afoul of the AAUP without by extension running afoul of its own constitution.
One thing both sides seem to agree on is this: A late April arbitration process will yield the final decision on whether the university's faculty and program cuts can stand.
What's at the base of the dispute?
The university has been claiming budget crises for several years, and is now on its third president since 2012. Former Central Maine Power Co. CEO David Flanagan was given the presidency on a temporary basis in July and charged with stabilizing the USM budget — by whatever unpopular means necessary — before a permanent president is chosen to take over next summer.
To react to what he called a $16 million budget shortfall for the upcoming fiscal year, Flanagan cut 51 faculty positions and five programs, as well as dozens of staff jobs.
Students and faculty decried the cuts, saying the reductions gouged school course offerings to a point where USM would struggle to attract and retain students. Critics also lamented the disappearance of programs that once were sources of great distinction for USM — such as the American and New England Studies program.
Susan Feiner — co-president of the USM branch of the Associated Faculties of the Universities of Maine, the labor union that represents the school's faculty members — has been among those to argue more directly that the school's budget crisis has been overblown, if not fabricated entirely. Feiner said the university is on stronger financial footing than administrators let on, and that, if engaged, faculty members could help find spending cuts that wouldn't result in lost professors and programs.
What will the AAUP find?
Quint said the scheduling of the visit — with what he described as short notice and a lack of flexibility — is a sign the panel isn't truly interested in giving USM administrators a fair shot.
In a Thursday letter to the AAUP, Flanagan reiterates the stance that the organization has no standing in the dispute, but offers a Sunday night window to meet with the investigative team.
Feiner, geography professor Lydia Savage and other faculty members have pointed out that AAUP rarely conducts these types of investigations, arguing that the AAUP only launches such probes in high-alarm or extreme circumstances.
"There are no foregone conclusions here," said Lorrayne Carroll, an associate professor of English at USM and president of the local AAUP branch.
After visiting the school and conducting its investigation, the AAUP could place USM on its censure list, a black mark Feiner said would hurt the university's ability to recruit high-quality professors, but which Quint brushed off as a few days' worth of bad publicity and nothing more damaging.
So while the AAUP isn't involved directly in collective bargaining between the administration and faculty at USM, the association's standards are so tightly woven into the school's governance documents that the university can't buck the AAUP without bucking its own constitution, faculty members argue.
To build off that point, Feiner said AAUP standards surrounding faculty governance — establishment of faculty influence over the university's mission statement and curriculum, among other things — are cited in USM's guiding documents and were trampled by the administration in its budget decisions and recent pursuit of a community-integrated, hands-on "metropolitan university" approach to higher education.
The overlap between AAUP standards and USM standards continues on to the discussion of ethics, Feiner said.
"The notion of professional ethics is very much grounded in the area of shared, faculty governance. When you break from faculty governance, you're acting unethically," Feiner said. "It's certainly not ethical to fire people via email. That's certainly not ethical. It's not ethical to misrepresent the financial status of the University of Maine System. So no, I would say [USM administrators] have not acted ethically.
"I believe that in arbitration, we are likely to use the results of the AAUP investigation as evidence of the ways in which the contract has been violated," she continued.
On Friday, the USM faculty senate voted 27-1, with one abstention, for a measure that urges Flanagan and the administration to rescind the cuts because their failure to consult with the faculty senate before eliminating programs and positions violated the university's constitution, according to the faculty senate's interpretation of that document.
Quint acknowledged the constitution passages that reference the AAUP documents, but disagreed that they give the association leverage over the university.
He noted that the USM constitution also includes language explicitly stating that nothing therein should be construed as granting ultimate decision-making authority to anyone other than the University of Maine System board of trustees — which voted in September and November to implement the controversial cuts.
When it comes to the question of ethics, Quint said it's a subjective standard.
Faculty members disagree with the notion that the administration complied with the union contract in its job and program cuts.
In late April, representatives of the two sides will meet with an arbitrator whose ruling on the dispute will be final. If that arbitrator agrees with the faculty union, which hopes to have the AAUP investigation report as evidence on its side, the university will need to reinstate the eliminated positions and programs and quickly develop a new budget before the July 1 start of the next fiscal year.
Feiner said, as an example, the university was required to undergo a suspension period and a period of graduating students in a given program before that program is eliminated, and USM skipped straight to the elimination stage with the five program cuts. She also said the board of trustees has specific time windows within a given year to eliminate programs — one in June and one in January — and that trustees acted outside those windows by voting on the cuts in September and November.
Quint didn't respond directly to the contract and governance violations Feiner claimed.


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