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Таляль ібн Абдаллах (; нар. 1823– 11 березня 1868) — 4-й емір Джебель-Шаммара у 1847—1868 роках.

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Походив з династії Аль-Рашид. Старший син Абдаллаха ібн Алі, еміра Джебель-Шаммари. Народився 1823 року, ймовірно в Ер-Ріяді, ще до того як батько у 1835 році став еміром. Разом з батьком і стрийком Убайдом брав участь у військових кампаніях проти сусідів. 1843 року оженився на доньці Фейсала I, еміра Неджду. 1845 року відзначився у війні проти емірату Унайза (з регіону Ель-Касим).

1847 року після смерті батька став еміром. При цьому це було порушенням давньої арабської традиції, за якою спадкувати владу повинен був Убайда, брат Абдаллаха. Втім той начебто сам відмовився від трону.

Загалом продовжив політику попередника, насамперед підтримував добросусідські стосунки із еміратом Неджд. Вже невдовзі відправив до Фейсала I у подарунок верблюдів і коней та підтвердив свою васальну залежність. 1855 року допоміг тестю придушити повстання в еміраті Унайза. Таляль надалі продовжував платити данину кіньми, часткою податку з прочан та здобичі від набігів.

Водночас Таляль продовжив загарбницькі походи на північ і захід, захопивши оази Хайбар і Тайму. У завойовані області не призначалися намісники, а залишалися місцеві вожді. Разом з тим йому вдалося створити державну адміністрацію, яка була заснована на племінному союзі шаммарів. Таляль взяв під контроль караванний шлях і шлях прочан з Багдаду до Мекки. Також встановив гарні відносини з урядом османського султана Абдул-Меджида I, визнавши його номінальну зверхність. В результаті в мечетях підвладних міст почали згадувати ім'я османського султана як халіфа в п'ятничній молитві. Натомість отримав османський фірман на право титулюватися еміром і панувати в Джебель-Шаммарі. Цим було покладено основи незалежності від емірати Неджд.

Вирізнявся релігійною терпимістю, дозволивши мешкати і торгувати в Хаїлі шиїтам та юдеям, обкладаючи їх великими податками. На ці гроші він завершив будівництво палацу-замку Барзан і обніс Хаїль 7-метровою стіною, збудував ринковий квартал, велику мечеть і багато громадських колодязів.

У березні 1868 року у Таляля сталося несподіване запаморочення розуму, і він наклав на себе руки. Також висловлюється думка, що вистрілив в себе навмисно, страдаючи через якусь хворобу, яку вважав невиліковною. Оскільки самогубство тоді було рідкісним явищем для арабів, його підданим було оголошено, що Таляль випадково вистрілив у себе, вивчаючи новий пістолет. Йому успадкував брат Мітаб.

Джерела
 Michael John Baran (1992). The Rashidi Amirate of Hayl: The Rise, Development and Decline of a Pre-Modern Arabian Principality, 1835—1921 (PhD thesis). University of Michigan. pp. 51, 79, 265
 Eveline J. van der Steen (2009). «Tribal States in History: The Emirate of Ibn Rashid as a Case Study». Al Rafidan. 30: 121.
 M. Talha Çiçek (2017). The tribal partners of empire in Arabia: the Ottomans and the Rashidis of Najd, 1880—1918. New Perspectives on Turkey. 56 (156): 112.
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So it's only a headline, but Jay Leno could use this one off a press release from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Scientists there used genetics to raise the levels of dopamine receptors in rats. Previous research shows the receptors are depleted in human alcoholics, leading people to drink more to get the same buzz.
In the study, some genetically manipulated rats also had been previously trained to self-administer alcohol. So when these party animals started cutting back on the booze, we got this headline: "Gene Therapy Technique Reduces Alcohol Consumption in Rats."
Never knew drunken rats posed a problem worth a cure.
Research breakthroughs. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration recently publicized research showing that treating mothers for their addictions results in "sharp drops in alcohol and drug use and reduced criminal behavior" as well as healthier babies.
No one will dispute the importance of keeping mothers and mothers-to-be off drugs and away from alcohol. But did we really need research or a National Press Club briefing to tell us this? Our money's on a one-word answer: no.
Warning, warning. Have we really come to this? With Halloween fast approaching, it's wise to remind people of certain health and safety precautions: Don't wear long costumes that you can trip on, do wear makeup instead of masks, carry a flashlight instead of a candle. You know, common-sense precautions.
Which leaves us wondering about this warning on a Batman costume: "Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly."
Think big. Last October, we reported that ParkStone Medical Information Systems said it would keep its handheld electronic prescription-writing tool as-is, rather than jumping on the bandwagon with its competitors and adding all sorts of bells and whistles to its practice software for personal digital assistants.
Less than a month later, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company announced that it would add lab order, lab results and electronic claims submission functions to its PDA software.
Now, ParkStone has decided to go the whole nine yards, selling actual PDA devices and even the rights to its basic electronic script-writing technology--in a bankruptcy liquidation.
A federal court was set to auction most of ParkStone's assets, including its intellectual property. The firm also planned to sell 625 Compaq iPaq PDAs on its own and effectively go out of business.
As famed Chicago city planner Daniel Burnham once said, "Make no small plans."
Bearing a resemblance. On Sept. 18, pharmacy benefits manager AdvancePCS proudly announced that it had won a multiyear contract to distribute drug discount cards to the 400,000 West Virginia residents age 60 and older.
Gov. Bob Wise was equally enthused, saying in a statement released by the PBM, "I have made lowering the cost of prescription drugs a priority in my administration, and the Golden Mountaineer card program for seniors is a big step in this direction."
Wise's comments are remarkably similar to those made by HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson last July, when he announced a drug discount program for Medicare recipients.
Only problem is, a federal judge ruled earlier in September that HHS did not have the legal authority to start a discount drug card program and issued a temporary injunction halting the effort.
The court order was in response to a complaint by the National Association of Chain Drugstores. Its members stand to lose billions if seniors start buying their prescription medications through mail-order pharmacies such as AdvancePCS.
Predictably, the Irving, Texas-based PBM, a key supporter of the Bush administration's Medicare initiative, defends the West Virginia program. "There is no similarity between it and the Bush proposal," an AdvancePCS spokesperson says. "About the only 'similarity' between the two programs is that the targeted users are older Americans."
The spokesperson overlooked another similarity: the likelihood of further litigation.

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Die Skandia Open 2001 sind ein Tennisturnier, das vom 11. bis 17. September 2001 in Linz stattfand. Es war Teil der ATP Challenger Series 2001 und wurde im Freien auf Sandplatz ausgetragen.

Das Teilnehmerfeld der Einzelkonkurrenz bestand aus 32 Spielern, jenes der Doppelkonkurrenz aus 16 Paaren.

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Weblinks und Quellen
 Einzel-Turnierplan auf der ATP-Homepage (PDF)
 Doppel-Turnierplan auf der ATP-Homepage (PDF)
 Einzelqualifikation-Turnierplan auf der ATP-Homepage (PDF)
 Doppelqualifikation-Turnierplan auf der ATP-Homepage (PDF)

ATP Challenger Series 2001
Tennisturnier in Linz

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Ritika Gulatis first music album Hukum, song out now
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September 10: Ritika was, from an early age, interested in making her mark as a model and actress. She pursued her goal with a lot of conviction and was well supported by her family. She started in 2012 by taking part in the Miss Delhi competition and got early recognition. She fought all odds coming from a middle-class background and shifted to Mumbai to achieve her dreams.
As she had no background or contacts in Bollywood, she struggled a lot but never gave up on her dreams. She was very clear about her principles and never compromised on any parameter. One of her main mottos is that – slow & steady wins the race. She is very selective in her roles and is in no hurry. She believes in delivering quality & not quantity. As a consequence, she bagged leading roles in a couple of movies. Unfortunately, only one movie saw a box office release, and she was appreciated for her acting skills.
As she loves music and dancing, she shifted gears to music videos & albums. Her first music album, where she was the lead actress, called "Hukum", a song out now. Check Out Video: https://youtu.be/AVGvkWUWk-E
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Niseko base 6am: -5.5℃, 15cm snowfall in 12hours, snowing. Moiwa800m: -8.9℃, W10-15m/s, light storm and soft-slabs developing. Annupuri1120m: 175cm snowdepth. Hirafu peak: -9℃, NW15m/s, 20cm snowdrifts. Coastal data Benkei cape: NNW12m/s, Kamui cape: W11m/s, 1011hPa, 2.0m waves. Kutchan Town: 134cm snowdepth.
Snowfall started from pre-dawn due to passing low-pressure system. Westerly wind has picked up above 800m elevation, making the cornices and snowdrifts develop up to 30-40cm. The avalanche hazard will rise in south facing slopes above 1000m such as Backbowl's and Osawa's steep walls. Potential sliding layer is Jan 4-5th low-pressure system snowfall or Dec 27th depth hoar layer. Many of the avalanche accidents occur in leeward steep slopes, knolls and cornice slopes under stormy weather. Gates' opening is undetermined. Please follow the ski patrol's instructions.
Niseko is a resort and many people gather here. The Niseko Rules are official Rules for preventing accidents in the out of bounds area. And according to the Niseko mayor, Prime Minister Abe and the director general of the forestry agency have validated it. Every person using the Niseko resort facility has to follow those Rules.
The wind has been relatively moderate this season and the snow is building up in different aspects than the average seasons. Avalanches occur as the snowdrifts' slabs collapses. Be prudent in white-out conditions. Have you turned your beacon on? Have a nice day.


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An adoptive child can be accepted by a married couple, by a single person or by registered partners. The adoptive parent takes the place of the corresponding biological parent.
The suitability of the adopting person to assume the parenting of an adoptive child is assessed in detail by the youth department of the relevant district authoritytGerman text, the municipal executiveGerman text and, in Vienna, the Youth and Family OfficeGerman text.
Due to the considerable amount of interest in adoption, applicants should expect a waiting period of at least two to three years. Single people and couples who already have biological children generally have a lower chance of being able to adopt a child. If the child's biological parents have died, relatives of the deceased have a better chance of being able to adopt the child.
Further information on foreign adoption can also be found at oesterreich.gv.at.
An essential requirement for the approval of the adoption is the reasonable expectation or the circumstance that a relationship corresponding to that between biological parents and children will be established or already exists between the adopting persons and the child to be adopted. The adoption must be in the best interests of children who do not have full legal capacity. In the case of children who do have full legal capacity (i.e. who are of full age), on the other hand, there must be a close relationship similar to that of a parent-child relationship. This is particularly likely to be the case if the child to be adopted and the adopting person have either lived together in the same household for five years or have supported each other in a comparably close community. This time span only serves as guidance.
There must be no conflicting 'overriding concern' in respect of a biological child of the adopting person (e.g. endangerment of the maintenance or upbringing of biological children). Financial interests of the biological children (e.g. reduction of their share in the inheritance) are generally not taken into consideration.
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Both future adoptive parents must consent to the adoption.
The personal, social, health and economic conditions must all be right.
Procedure for adopting a child:
Contact is made with the child and youth support authority (Kinder- und Jugendhilfeträger), formerly referred to as the youth welfare authority (Jugendwohlfahrtsträger), which is locally responsible:
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Adoptions can be arranged only by the child and youth support authority, formerly referred to as the youth welfare authority, or by recognised private institutions that are licensed to arrange adoptions in the respective province. The relevant child and youth support authority can provide you with information about this (and about private adoption agencies).
The charging of a fee for arranging an adoption is not permitted!
You should be cautious of supposedly quick and unbureaucratic assistance from private agencies in Austria or abroad!
An adoption is brought about by a written contract between the adoptive parents and the adoptive child, and that contract must still be approved by the court.
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The adoption of a child is brought about by a written contract between the adopting person and the child to be adopted and by judicial approval at the request of one of the parties to the contract. If the child to be adopted does not have full legal capacity, the contract is concluded by his/her legal representative.
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confirmation of the registration of the biological parents and the adoptive parents;
certificate of nationality of the adoptive child, biological parents and adoptive parents;
declarations of consent of the biological parents and the future siblings (if there are any);
power of attorney of the biological parents;
if applicable, proof of the university degree of the adoptive child, biological parents or adoptive parents.
Upon request, the confirmation of registration of residence can be obtained by the authority via a search in the Central Civil Register (Zentrales Melderegister, ZMR).
Links to advice centres and further information can also be found at oesterreich.gv.at.
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Q: SyntaxError in virtual environment with Python 2.7 I have pip installed the virtualenvwrapper in my Ubuntu 14.04 and when I make a new virtual environment, regardless of the version of python I think I pick, I get Python 3 in the virtualenv. For example, if I:
mkvirtualenv -p /usr/bin/python2.7 newvirenv

When I use ipython in the terminal and try to do a print statement in the python 2 way, like:
print "Hello world"

I get:
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'

I've already tried to install ipython in the virtualenv as well but that does not work either. I checked /usr/bin/ and the interpreter is there!
What am I doing wrong?
PS: I have anaconda installed. But now I always install modules via pip.

A: I was probably doing something wrong when installing ipython in the virtual environment. Doing:
pip install ipython

Inside the virtual environment should work. Thanks jonrsharpe

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I feel like I'm right on the verge of feeling like a butterfly. I have one last lie to uncover and I just can't wait to be who I am meant to be. I feel like all the barriers are coming down. I feel like I am finally at the heart of who I really am.
I believe the last lie is that I have never felt beautiful. All the things done to me and all the bad decisions I've made have made me feel dirty to the core. I feel like I was made this way, like nothing can change it. But this is a lie.
The truth is I am beautiful exactly the way I am. I don't have to try to be anyone else but me. I am designed to perfection to be used for more than I can realize. I have meaning in this life. I have purpose. I have more to offer than just weeping and self-destruction.
I want to make a difference. I want to change the world. I want more.


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Q: Unsure how to fix "lvalue required" error #include<stdio.h>
main()
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int x,n,r;
scanf("%d" , & x);
    for (n=2;n<(x/2);n++)
    {
            (x%n=r);              //error is here
            (r=0) ? (print("%d\n is a factor")):(print("%d\n is not a factor"));
    }

}

No sure why im getting the "lvalue required as left operand of assignment" error.
Any help would be much appreciated.

A: You are trying to assign r to x%n which is invalid. You probably wanted
r=x%n;

Also, replace
(r=0) ? (print("%d\n is a factor")):(print("%d\n is not a factor"));

with
(r==0) ? (printf("%d\n is a factor",x)):(printf("%d\n is not a factor",x));

= is the assignment operator, not the comparison operator(==).


The aim of this paper is to examine the possible contributions of Optimality Theory (OT) to one of the classical problems of French phonology: the phenomenon of h aspire words (Fouche 1959, Klein 1963, Rothe 1978, Encreve 1988). These are vowel initial words that do not provoke any of the typical prosodic processes of French such as Enchainement (syllabification of a fixed final consonant into the empty onset position of the following word (1)), Liaison (surfacing of a latent final consonant into the onset position of the following word (2)) and Elision (deletion of certain vowels in pre-vocalic position (3)).
This provides strong evidence for the assumption that the beginning of h aspire words is granted a special protection while usual vowel initial words have their left edges masked by the above mentioned processes. Such a protection, however, causes other problems: the absence of Elision and the non-surfacing of latent consonants as well as the surfacing of latent schwas provoke an increase of hiatuses (V.V), which are rather dispreferred in French. Furthermore, the non-application of Enchainement yields the structure C.V (i.e. a syllable with a coda immediately followed by a syllable without an onset), a constellation that implies a con-joint violation of the basic universal constraints on syllable structure ONSET and NOCODA. The question arises of how such problematic cases are dealt with phonetically.
In order to answer this question we examined data from an experiment conducted in May 2004 with 12 native speakers of French. The analysis reveals that, following a fixed coda consonant, the beginning of an h aspire word is crucially delayed, thus leaving a pause between the coda consonant and the initial vowel, the latter sometimes being characterized by the phenomenon of creaky voice: sept Hongrois [sEt._?O~gRwa]. Void in some cases, this pause is often filled with phonetic material caused by constrictions of the glottis and/or a glottal stop - sounds that in French are usually limited to cases of special emphasis. Speakers thus tend to create some sort of 'silent' onset position in order to avoid the problematic C.V constellation. In our data such 'silent onsets' also appear after a preceding vowel (tout Hongrois [tu._?O~gRwa] 'every Hungarian'), although the constellation V.V is tolerated in French. Such hiatuses are even created when underlying floating schwas surface before h aspire words as required by the norm (une hausse [y.n@.os]). Here again our data display variation: Instead of realizing the schwa, some speakers have the coda consonant followed by a neat interruption and a glottal stop (une hausse [y.n@_?os]), while others combine both strategies (une hausse [yn._?os]). Besides these cases where the specific character of h aspire words is maintained by the creation of a 'silent onset' and/or through hiatus, another frequent strategy consists in treating the items in question as usual vowel initial words: The final (fixed or latent) consonant of the preceding word consequently resyllabifies into the onset position (une hausse [y.nos], tout Hongrois [tu.tO~gRwa]).
In order to account for the phonetic cues we observed in the beginning of h aspire words, we propose an underlying initial segment /~?/ that is responsible for the special behavior of the items in question and surfaces as a (more or less) 'silent onset'. As the non-treatment of h aspire words as such cannot systematically be interpreted as a function of a certain speech style, the segment (/~?/) is assumed to be absent from the input of speakers who pronounce them like usual vowel initial words. For speakers who switch between these two main realizations, double input forms have to be admitted. The main dimension of variation encountered here thus constitutes a case of so-called pseudo-optionality (Mueller 1999, Anttila 2002): it is kept out of the grammar and left to the lexicon, an approach that is in sharp contrast to Tranel / del Gobbo's 2002 proposal where word specific alignment constraints are adopted. To account for the other types of variation mentioned above, we discuss and evaluate Anttila's 1997, 2002 stratified grammars model and Boersma/Hayes' 2001 concept of stochastic OT.
Anttila, Arto (1997). 'Deriving variation from grammar.' - In: Hinskens, Frans / van Houten, Roeland / Wetzels, Leo (eds.): Variation, Change, and Phonological Theory. - Amsterdam: Benjamins, 35-68.
Anttila, Arto (2002). 'Variation and Phonological Theory.' - In: Chambers, Jack K. / Trudgill, Peter / Schilling-Estes, Natalie (eds.): The Handbook of Language Variation and Change. - Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 206-243.
Boersma, Paul / Hayes, Bruce (2001). 'Empirical Tests of the Gradual Learning Algorithm.' - In: Linguistic Inquiry 32, 45-86.
Encreve, Pierre (1988). La liaison avec et sans enchainement. Phonologie tridimensionelle et usages du francais. - Paris: Seuil.
Fouche, Pierre (21959). Traite de prononciation francaise. - Paris: Klincksieck.
Klein, Hans-Wilhelm (1963). Phonetik und Phonologie des Franzoesischen. - Muenchen: Hueber.
Mueller, Gereon (1999). 'Optionality in optimality-theoretic syntax.' - In: Glot International 4:5, 3-8.
Rothe, Wolfgang (1978). Phonologie des Franzoesischen. - Berlin: Schmidt.
Tranel, Bernard / del Gobbo, Francesca (2002). 'Local Conjunction in Italian and French Phonology.' - In: Wiltshire, Caroline R. / Camps, Joaquim (eds.): Romance Phonology and Variation. - Amsterdam: Benjamins, 191-218.


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Wales move to top of Pool B, while South Africa beat Italy in close encounter.
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Valencia, Spain Wales moved to the top of Pool B after a convincing 5-0 win over Thailand. The spectators were then in for a real treat as South Africa and Italy played out a high quality, competitive match that could have gone either way. It was South Africa who emerged victorious but both teams showed that they are here in Valencia determined to leave everything on the pitch.
Wales v Thailand
On paper this Pool B match should have been a close contest with Wales ranked 27 and Thailand 28 in the FIH World Rankings. However, Wales' opening match against South Africa will have sent a warning to all the higher ranked teams at this event that Kevin Johnson and his squad are here to prove their worth on the international stage.
Thailand, for their part, are an Asian side that is developing apace and every match will prove a steep but hugely valuable experience to the young team, that has nine teenagers (including two 15-year-olds) within its ranks.
The opposing styles of play were in evidence from the first whistle. A high press, with Leah Wilkinson as the lynchpin, meant the European side could swing the ball from left to right until a gap appeared. Thailand, by contrast, utilised the aerial ball well to get out of defence and then looked to their speedy forwards to put Wales under pressure.
It was Wales who took the lead when Sophie Robinson struck home from a penalty corner after some great build-up play to give her side a boost just ahead of the quarter break.
The lead was doubled through a courageous diving shot from Leah Wilkinson. The ball had rebounded from a penalty corner and the captain dived full length to send the ball high into the goal, past Siraya Yimkrajang.
A surging run by Natthakarn Aunjai forced the Welsh line back and the Thai team's collective quick stick work and speedy change of direction caused the Wales' defence some concerns as the Asian team began to work their way into the match.
The final minutes of the first half saw Wales drop off and form a defensive press, challenging the Thailand team to run at them. The strategy nearly came apart when the ever-dangerous Aunjai intercepted the ball and ran at the defence. Wilkinson was on hand to clear up.
The second half saw Wales really begin to exert pressure on Thailand. Swinging the ball around the pitch, the Welsh were slowly sucking the energy from the Thai players as they sought to get meaningful possession. The ploy was rewarded when Phoebe Richards worked the ball around the back of the Thai defence and slipped it to Natasha Mark-Jones, who had no hesitation in striking it home.
The fourth goal came as a result of a slick penalty corner routine. It was Wilkinson who scored her second of the match, connecting neatly with a slipped pass to send the ball high into the corner of the goal.
A first goal for her country was the reward for a good all-round performance from Xenna Hughes. The ball was crossed in by Sian French and Hughes was in front of the penalty spot and able to put it round the 'keeper.
Thailand worked hard to find a consoaltion goal and, in the final minutes of the game, the speed of their attack, spearheaded by Kornkanok Sanpoung, caused some chaos in the Wales circle.
"We have a young team and we are learning with every game. We must keep our structure and play with discipline in our next game. We must also take our opportunities better," Natthakarn Aunjui had said previous to this game. Despite the scoreline, the team is obviously working to fulfill those demands and improving with each game.
"We made sure we stuck to our principles," said goalscorer Hughes. "We tried out our presses to put pressure on them but also kept our discipline. And our penalty corners worked well. We didn't give them all away – they are our secret weapon."
Wales 5, Thailand 0 (Pool B)
Umpires: Dihaya Deepa (IND), Mercedes Sanchez (ARG),
Italy v South Africa
Two teams ranked in the top 20, both feverishly seeking a place in the FIH Olympic qualifiers in October and November – this was always going to be a feisty matchup – a stressful occasion for the teams, a tasty encounter for hockey fans.
Italy (WR:17) came into the game on the back of a dominant 7-0 win over Thailand, while South Africa (WR:15) had endured a much tougher encounter against underrated Wales, a match that ended 2-2.
The match started with both teams playing uncompromising hockey. Maria Socino and Elisabetta Pacella were looking menacing as they probed for a way through the South Africa defence but, marshalled by the experienced Celia Evans, the African champions held firm.
South Africa's best chance of the first 15 came in the final minute of the quarter after Nomnikelo Veto's shot was well stopped by Natalia Schinoni in the Italian goal. The resulting penalty corner was cleared safely.
The second quarter was more of the same. Italy were playing quick, smooth passes but were unable to find a final, telling shot. South Africa were extremely busy all over the pitch, chasing for possession or firing balls up to their forward line but with no end product.
A sense of desperation was creeping into both teams' games as players began carrying the ball too far and getting caught in possession. For Italy, Celina Traverso was playing a fantastic holding role at the heart of the Italian defence, clearing up any South African attack that made it past the Italian midfield line. But, in a measure of how much of this game was being played between the two circles, neither goalkeeper had been unduly challenged for most of the half.
That changed with 30 seconds left on the clock in the first half as Bianca Wood threw herself at the ball as it bobbled in front of Schinoni in the Italian goal. The ball flew into the net and South Africa had the lead they had been seeking.
The third quarter was a good demonstration of game management by South Africa's experienced players. Evans, Erin Hunter and Lisa Marie Deetlefs in particular, slowed the pace of play, swung the ball around the pitch and generally took the pace out of the Italian attack.
Italy's job was made tougher when another multi-capped South Africa player, Dirkie Chamberlain, popped up to slam home her team's second goal and give them a two-goal cushion.
The game became even more dramatic in the final 15 minutes when Eugenia Bianchi scored from a penalty corner. With just a few minutes left on the clock, there was going to be a frenetic end to the game. There were just 30 seconds left when Bianchi had the chance to equal the score but her shot flew tantalisingly inches wide of the South African goal.
Italy's captain Chiara Tiddy said: "It was such a good game but we should have made more of our possession in the first two quarters. We made two mistakes and they scored twice. But that is what it is and that's fine.
"We know that the next game against Wales is an important one. We know it will be tough, Wales are strong and run a lot. We know them well though and we will be prepared."
"After yesterday's draw we needed that," said Celia Evans. "We controlled the first half of the game but in the final quarter they put us under a lot of pressure. We conceded a lot of penalty corners but we managed to defend them quite well."
Goal scorer Dirkie Chamberlain added: "It is great to have people with experience in our squad, The young players bring energy but players like Celia – who has returned from a long term injury – are really important to the squad.
"We now need to think about staying mentally focused, keeping the ball more and probably slowing it down a little. We will be firing and full of energy when we come out against Thailand."
Today's results means that Wales top Pool B on goal difference, with South Africa in second place, Italy third and Thailand in fourth.
Italy 1, South Africa 2 (Pool B)
Umpires: Ines El Hajim (FRA) Gabriele Schmitz (GER).
Match schedule: Friday 21 June (CET)
17:00 Canada v Namibia (Pool A)
19:00 Belarus v Spain (Pool A)
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Generation Snow Flake and the Long History of Paint-Brushing Generations
Jamal Smith
The irony in this meme is that the above picture for 'my generation' was something it too was attacked for by its forebearers.
I was watching a Youtube channel that I follow that talks about odd historical and cultural oddities the other day and this particular day was different. The subject they choose to focus on bordered on an explanation, a criticism, and a rant about Millennials' tendency to over react to any offense. I already knew and written about the stigma over that generation. Hell, even the upcoming generation is assumed by some people to be better than them because they are having to struggle for something. The Youtube video used the a derogatory term to describe this hostility called generation snowflake.
Courtesy of Fox Pictures. This famous, 1999 quote from the Generation X staple, Fight Club, was initially an criticism leveled at Generation X.
Rule 1: You Do Not Talk About Generation SnowFlake
Where the statement comes from is often debated. Many believe it comes from 1996's novel and movie, Fight Club during Tyler Durden's famous rant about generation X's self-righteousness and their feeling of being lost. In it, he refers to its members by saying,
"You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake! You are the same decaying matter as everything else!"
Others say it is far older going back to the 19th century where it used for White people who preferred their own race over Blacks.
Regardless of its origin, the current application is used for Millennials' hyper-sensitivity. The slam rides on the gravitas of accompanying, historical influences. They evolved alongside the internet and the rise of liberal, social consciousness to society's forefront. The rights of the oppressed and under-represented were becoming increasingly important and Millennials were already well-versed in the sins of the past.
These elements combined into a cultural storm, also leading to the creation of the social justice warriors, or SJW's, and the subsequent polarizing of society. Last year's Berkeley college riots over far-right speakers are a perfect example of how severe the divide has gotten. There is a push to demand more attention and effort to creating a better world that their parents and teachers kept preaching. The lack of empathy to struggling classes and groups that still continues Millennials see as major part of the problem in utopia's stalling.
Generation snowflake is part of a social push-back against this push-back. People who refer to Millennials this way see their idealistic movements as not attempts to make a better society, but to make a world that caters to their sense of entitlements. Everything should be handed to them on a silver platter and nothing offensive can be indulged, unless it they're the ones being offensive. And if its public, it should be shamed back into the shadows. They are considered whiners who spend more time on the internet with their mobiles and social media, than actually engaging real people, and can't handle the reality of it in the flesh.
An example of this would be the reactions to Donald Trump's victory during the 2016 presidential election. As it became more and more apparent that Trump's character was severely lacking, left-minded Americans and lobbyists started going to social media to voice their anger and demand that he not be president in order to shame him and kill his support. This had worked in the past with previous politicians who were reliant on public opinion and their money to keep their jobs. This time though it did not and Millennial and liberals were left in deep shock. I saw many people crying.
courtesy of uwdigitalcollections (CC BY 2.0 (left) and Fabrice Florin, https://www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/38488882960 (CC BY-SA 2.0) (right)
Not a Trend, but a Legacy
While there are some good points, I don't think all these criticisms are fair and if anything, kind of hypocritical. Millennials are the latest in fifty-six years of cultural shifts. In the nineties, what we call today ''SJW's' was then referred to as being politically correct and its accompanying generation was also considered over-sexed and self-righteous. In the eighties, the decade that spawned generational decadence and indulgence, also saw its generation the same way with its 'social media' being MTV and cable.
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The true start of this trend however goes back to the 1960's. This was the first, real culture clash between status quo and the demand to change that status quo. All the elements applied to youth in subsequent generations, started here: a youth raised on prosperity and new opportunities, relatively free of struggle, and questioning the previous social values that got them there. When the coined, 'counter-culture' revolution started questioning their elders and more so, America's involvement in Vietnam and their refusal to go, they were called selfish and worse, communists.
The youth in turn formed a hostile position to their conservative adversaries, seeing them as accomplices to decades old atrocities and oppression. This led many of them to actively reject anything associated with the past: values, clothing style, religion and the like.
"Value shifts are common is prospering societies."
So seen from a larger, historical perspective, generation snowflake isn't a sign of a fallen society or youth gone wrong. It is the latest in underlying cultural and historical shifts that have been ongoing on for decades. I see five core factors driving these engines of social change.
Prosperity creating room for invention and new ideas with little, initial opposition. A previous generation becoming comfortable in their social status and its persistence to adhere to that status quo. An upcoming generations' wanting to engage new ideas and subsequently being perceived as arrogant from their elders. And lastly, a tendency of all sides involved to settle into their own perceptions of the other without engaging them or listening to alternate points of view.
Value shifts are common is prospering societies. Lack of social catastrophes lends to fewer challenges and a luxury to being inquisitive. People naturally become settled in their ways, even former hell-raisers who may have become over time too cynical that they will change anything. Challengers do have a certain amount of arrogance to take on established ideals because you have to in order to do so. And any kind of conflict naturally produces sides who honestly have no interest in the truth, just in what furthers their own lifestyles and views.
Courtesy of John Silvercloud/Flickr. Each generation has struggles to work through. Sometimes its passed down and other times its unique to them.
Easy Misconceptions
The problem with general labels is that they come from self-contained bubbles. Many people who use them don't have much interaction with people outside of their social group, let alone asked what their thoughts were on social questions. New information is kept to a minimum and what little information that does enter is often skewed by lack of positive experiences or any experience at all and the fear that their position may actually in fact be wrong. This is what leads to judgments like 'snowflake'.
Many Millennials are not as fragile as some make them out to be and do work hard to get by, forced to work in the economic and social circumstances that surround them. For example, just making a Youtube channel has become a minor production in itself, with getting equipment, editing, and dealing with trolls. The rising popularity of cosplay while it appears like its just tits, ass, and fan-service, is actually a major undertaking that can take months and money. And regarding being offended, most Millennials would probably tell you to stop being butt-hurt by what was said rather than start a riot over it.
And while many SJW's are over-reactive and should learn to ignore certain comments and choose their battles more carefully, the place where their angst comes from is legit. America does have a long past with mistreating other genders, races, handicapped, and so on. They've all had suffered greatly at some point in our past. To just ignore that would be just as wrong as caving into a few loud-mouths who know how to use social media.
The last point is especially important because the internet has a way of making everything seem bigger than it actually is. The few can seem like the many. Sometimes that's a good thing and other times its not.
It maybe that those judging these people as snowflakes, have themselves lost some their own youthful drive that they can change the world. Perhaps they see the new generation as making the same mistakes that they did, as was the case with generation X and their parents, who were former hippies and counter-culture activists.
Admittedly, insulting other people who are not like us comes naturally. No one is perfect and everyone of every generation is prone to it. However, in a time where those hostilities are starting to create lasting and damaging effects in our society, it maybe time to get out of our comfortable high places and start interacting with those others so we can see each others' humanity.
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Zodiac Soundtrack
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Scary Transits
Much has been said by the astrologers about the current transit of Aries by Mars. Mars entered the sign of Aries, his astrological home base, last July. Aries is a cardinal fire sign, Mars is red hot. Both the planet and the sign are associated with impulsiveness, explosiveness, passion, heat, combustibility, combat, competitiveness and an urgent need for action. Together and separately, these themes and qualities, along with many others of a similar ilk (including war and warriors), are highlighted by this transit in which the energies ascribed to both the planet and the sign are heated up and intensified. While Mars ordinarily spends around two months in each sign of the Zodiac during it's orbit around the Sun, due to a retrograde period which began September 9, the planet will wander whence it came, appearing to retrace its path in the sky, reactivating contacts it made with other planets and points during its forward motion, most notably Saturn, Pluto and Jupiter in Capricorn, to which Mars makes consecutive tense aspects respectively, only to retrace the path and the aspects a third time after turning direct on November 13, not leaving the sign of Aries until January. Astrologically, this is called a dramatic sky, and that would be putting it mildly.
I am not predicting anything here, rather I've compiled a Scary Transits Zodiac Soundtrack with some music which is evocative of the atmosphere expected in the coming months by many inspiring astrologers worldwide. Mars and Saturn are regarded by classical astrologers as "malefic" planets, embodying challenging and unfortunate energies; the later discovered Pluto has also been ascribed the foreboding side of life. Any and all of the three can supply us with reasons to be fearful. Indeed, the conjunction in the sky of Pluto and Saturn in January 2020 set the tone for what has been a universally difficult year. In modern astrology, we are encouraged to exercise our free will to harness the intensity of these planets and transmute the energy in ways that might spare us a little despair, or even better, benefit us, our fellow humans and the planet. Indeed, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez said in her iconic heartfelt speech on the night of Justice Roth Bader Ginsberg's passing that now is a time to take fear and use it as fuel. She said that people often commented on her courage, but that in fact everything she has accomplished (which is a lot) was a result of her fear inciting her take action. Melvin Van Peebles said "Trouble is just Opportunity in work clothes". These ideas will in some cases seem like luxurious platitudes, but if you believe in the kinds of energetic realms to which I refer, find constructive ways to let off steam in the days ahead. Physical exercise (such as dancing to Zodiac Soundtracks) is a good idea most of the time, but particularly during the Scary Mars in Aries transits. Keep your burning desires simmering on the back burner to be brought back into play at a more opportune moment. Mind your responsibilities (Saturn); envision a total transformation (Pluto) of your life in which the world can be a better place than it was under the old systems (Saturn) which are undergoing death and rebirth (Pluto). Be on the lookout for opportunities now that Jupiter has turned direct and is pulling away from the heavy Capricorn scenario moving onward towards Aquarius (could it finally be the dawning of the Age?) and of course, optimistically have faith (Jupiter) that the days ahead will be less scary and that everyone can know what how it feels to be free.
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On Behalf of Alan C. Olson & Associates | Jun 3, 2020 | Civil Rights
Today's riots mark one more turning point for the civil rights of all Americans. On June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy addressed the nation on the most pressing domestic issue of that day and today: the struggle to affirm civil rights for all Americans. Lamenting that 100 years had passed since the abolishment of slavery, and 2000 years since the new covenant was established by the Holy Trinity, Kennedy described racism as a moral issue that required legislation to correct: "The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated".
Poignant to what is happening in our nation today, Kennedy recognized that, "redress is sought in the streets, in demonstrations, parades, and protests which create tensions and threaten violence and threaten lives. We face, therefore, a moral crisis as a country and as a people. It cannot be met by repressive police action. It cannot be left to increased demonstrations in the streets. It cannot be quieted by token moves or talk. [] A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all."
President Donald Trump tweeted today that, "my Admin has done more for the Black Community than any President since Abraham Lincoln." We can debate whether Trump accurately states the record, but more importantly; what great change in leadership can we expect from him going forward to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all?
As Kennedy made clear to the nation in 1963, we have a right to expect that the minority community will be responsible, will uphold the law, "but they have a right to expect that the law will be fair, and color blind." Trump believes he has surpassed Kennedy's accomplishments for the civil rights of Americans and compares his own work to Lincoln's emancipation of the slaves. With that level of confidence, I'm hopeful that he will invoke well-considered leadership that avoids divisiveness and promotes healing among all races. In the words of Lincoln:
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
11/19/1863 Gettysburg Address
For the full text of John Kennedy's speech on civil rights, along with an audio recording, visit the Web site of the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum at http://www.jfklibrary.org


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The Open Source Phones Are Upon Us
by Ostatic Staff - Feb. 14, 2013
Q4 Smartphone Shipments Reflect Android and Samsung Momentum
Survey Reveals Some Open Source Surprises
In a 2010 post here on OStatic, I asked this question: "Is It Too Late for an Open Source Challenge to Android?" And in a follow-up post a few weeks ago, I discussed the impending arrival of a slew of mobile phones based on Firefox OS and Ubuntu. Now, there are even more concrete signs that we are going to see heavy competition among open mobile operating systems this year. Not ony have Firefox OS-based phones arrived (seen above), but Ubuntu phones are coming faster than many people thought they would.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting, based on a conversation with Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth, that Ubuntu phones will ship in October. If you thought Ubuntu phones might only appeal to consumer fans of open source, the market for them looks much wider. As The Journal reports:
"The smartphones can be docked to larger displays, wirelessly connected to keyboards and other peripherals, and have Windows-based applications streamed to them from corporate servers. This would mean users could access all manner of corporate data through a single, pocket-sized device. 'You can share Windows apps to the phone desktop,' said Mr. Shuttleworth during a meeting in New York Tuesday."
These comments from Shuttleworth clearly point to a future for Ubuntu smartphones in businesses, and Shuttleworth has been focused on enterprises with his overall Ubuntu strategy for some time. Ubuntu's mobile OS is optimized for the Samsung Galaxy line of phones, which is a leader among lines of Android-based phones, so we're going to see Samsung placing some big bets on open source operating systems.
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So how welcome these new open mobile platforms will be in the smartphone market? Given the security concerns that most enterprises have, Canonical's intent to get Ubuntu phones in the hands of business users may not go as smoothly as planned. However, just look at the few short years that it took for Android to succeed. There are a lot of people who will welcome phones based on open standards and open source. These phones will be big news later this year.


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Honolulu Charts a Path Away from Fossil Fuels
As part of the American Cities Climate Challenge, a coalition of climate advocates just helped pass a series of bills that will curb emissions and rein in Honolulu's sky-high cost of living at once.
March 02, 2021 Courtney Lindwall
A study by University of Hawai'i found a third of the state's shoreline is vulnerable to erosion as the waves and storms that hit the islands intensify because of rising sea levels. Here, a view of Honolulu's Waikiki Beach.
Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
The Honolulu of Elizabeth Stampe's childhood has changed.
Some of the sandy beaches she remembers frequenting as a teenager have been swallowed by the Pacific Ocean. Once rare in Hawai'i, hurricane warnings and torrential downpours known as "rain bombs" have become a regular enough occurrence that Stampe sometimes worries about the safety of her family and friends living on the island of O'ahu. And when she visits them from San Francisco, where she works as a climate-focused city strategist for NRDC, she can't help but notice that Honolulu seems to be getting warmer. In fact, the city experienced its hottest year on record in 2019.
These sea-level and extreme weather trends serve as urgent reminders that Hawai'i must confront its unhealthy reliance on fossil fuels. The state remains the most oil-dependent in the country, with petroleum making up about two-thirds of its energy consumption—a fact that is out of sync with many Hawai'i residents' environmental values.
"There's this idea of living 'pono,' which means righteously or in alignment with your values," Stampe says. "And in Hawai'ian culture, that means valuing people and valuing the land; to take care. Kanaka Maoli [Native Hawai'ians] and Hawai'i residents have always paid so much attention to the natural world around them—to the stars for navigation, to the birds, to the plants. It's inspiring, and it colors Hawai'ian culture today, even though so much has already been lost."
Since 2019, Honolulu has been one of 25 cities participating in the American Cities Climate Challenge. A partnership between Bloomberg Philanthropies, NRDC, Delivery Associates, and several other organizations, the Climate Challenge is a program to spur city-led climate action within the building, energy, and transportation sectors.
Last year, Honolulu's Climate Challenge team helped move the needle forward to pass a series of bills that will ease the city's transition to cleaner, more equitable energy sources.
Hawai'i's Fossil Fuel Past
With its abundant sunshine, wind, and underground reservoir of volcanic heat, Hawai'i is a natural candidate for the clean power revolution. In 2015, the state became the first in the nation to set the goal of 100 percent renewable energy by 2045.
But progress has been slow. Geography is partly to blame: The state sits on the most isolated archipelago in the world and has no oil, coal, or gas resources of its own. It spends an estimated $5 billion each year to ship petroleum, its top import, thousands of miles across the Pacific. The result? High emissions and high energy bills—for instance, Hawai'i residents pay upwards of 20 percent more than the national average for gasoline and more than double for electricity.
"Despite Hawai'i being a beautiful place to live in, it can be a hard and an expensive place to live in too," says Stampe, who remembers noticing that even basics like milk were twice as pricey when her family moved to Honolulu from Columbus, Ohio.
As a small island state, Hawai'i is also getting hit harder—and faster—by the climate crisis. Already, rising sea levels are threatening critical infrastructure, like O'ahu's low-lying coastal highways. Storms are intensifying and becoming more frequent. And coastal coral reefs—worth billions economically on top of their irreplaceable cultural and environmental values—are bleaching rapidly as the ocean warms and acidifies.
A woman pushes her bicycle through flooding caused by Hurricane Lane in Hilo, Hawai'i, in 2018.
Terray Sylvester/Reuters
"Given Hawai'i's vulnerability to climate change, it's shocking—even to me, as someone who grew up in Hawai'i—how reliant the state is on fossil fuels and what that reliance means for affordability," Stampe says.
Paradise Paved Over
Anyone who lives on O'ahu can tell that it wasn't designed with pedestrians in mind, says Melissa Miyashiro, the managing director of strategy and policy at Blue Planet Foundation, a Honolulu-based clean energy advocacy group.
The vast majority of the island's nearly one million residents get around by car, creating heavy traffic. Relatively few commuters take public transportation and many would-be cyclists and pedestrians are intimidated by bike lanes and sidewalks that just don't feel safe.
"This car-centric design has really caught up with us over time as Honolulu has become more densely populated," says Miyashiro. "We don't have a lot of land to build out and redesign new communities. Instead, we're having to rethink something that's already built, which has been really challenging."
The coast road up the northeast side of Kaua'i, south of Princeville
Ed Freeman/Getty Images
To address this problem, a coalition of organizations concerned about climate—a group that includes NRDC, Blue Planet Foundation, Faith Action for Community Equity, Sierra Club of Hawai'i, and Ulupono Initiative—homed in on an overabundance of parking lots. An outdated requirement that developers build a certain number of parking spaces alongside each new home and business has only reinforced the city's car culture. Each new apartment complex or shopping center either brings more large garages, more acres of asphalt, or both. This eats into land better used for housing, pedestrian-safe sidewalks, protected bike lanes, or public transit corridors—as well as for trees and green space. "When you think about a land-constrained island, that's definitely not something that's in the interest of our communities," Miyashiro says.
Reforming Honolulu's parking ordinances should have substantial impacts on its housing affordability crisis too. Not only are many residents paying for more parking than they need, but each parking space makes the cost of living higher as all goods include the cost of that excess required parking. They also make the city's remaining land more expensive.
This issue of affordability works in a self-perpetuating loop, Miyashiro explains. As the cost of living in Honolulu has gone up, residents have moved farther away from the urban center to less expensive neighboring towns—which lengthens car commutes and increases the need for parking.
Bill 2, passed in December 2020, does away with these outdated parking requirements—and it will help to free up space and cut tailpipe emissions in the process. The Climate Challenge also helped Honolulu plan and build its first bus-only lane in 30 years, along a busy route downtown, which will help speed up bus trips and encourage ridership.The Climate Challenge supported the creation of new protected bike lanes as well. Local advocates applaud these steps and are calling for more.
"We're a small island, and we have good weather nearly all the time. It makes sense for people to bike and walk around more often," says Matt Geyer, chair of Faith Action's environmental justice task force. "We have no excuse not to lead on this issue."
More Equitable Energy
Boosting energy efficiency can also help cities curb pollution, lower power bills, and improve standards of living—and Honolulu's new energy code does just that.
Passed last May, the code update, Bill 25, requires that new buildings run on less energy, potentially saving residents and landlords up to 50 percent on their utility bills. Hundreds of Honolulu residents testified to support its passing.
Updated for the first time since 2006, the energy codes were rewritten with Hawai'i's tropical climate in mind, encouraging simple means for staying cool—such as adding fans, window glazing, and shaded reflective walls, as well as compact design, big porches, and more efficient appliances.
"For generations, houses in Hawai'i have been built to take advantage of the climate, to allow cooling breezes to flow through. They've been built for the rain and the sun," Stampe says. "It's smart and prescient to think about where you are and design accordingly, to learn from the past and incorporate that into new buildings as you look forward."
The new energy code also addresses the growing demand for rooftop solar and electric vehicles by requiring most new homes and buildings to include wiring for both. Such clean energy infrastructure helps residents install solar whenever they're ready and will support the estimated 22,000 electric vehicles Honolulu expects to welcome by 2030.
"If you have to drive, but you can start using solar to charge your electric car, suddenly your transportation costs plummet," Stampe says. "Given the high cost of gas in Hawai'i, that's huge." But sticking to electricity powered by dirty fossil fuels would cut into those savings—a lot. Factoring in the high price of Hawai'i's imported electricity sources, a recent study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory named the state as the least cost-efficient for buying electric cars. Transitioning to solar power, however, would help Hawai'i residents cut costs at home and on the road.
The modernization of the codes, Miyashiro explains, can also play a role in Honolulu's economic recovery in the wake of COVID-19. "One of the core foundations of our economy—tourism—was essentially shut down for most of last year. So we're having a reckoning with how our economy is structured and the ambitious climate goals that we've set as a state and county," she says. Hiring workers to make buildings and homes more energy efficient and solar compatible would make progress on both.
Armed with a Plan
In 2016, the city and county of Honolulu created the Office of Climate Change, Sustainability, and Resiliency to both prepare the city for and help stave off the worst of the climate crisis. Now, the agency's role is ramping up.
Thanks to Bill 65—which passed in December with support by the Climate Challenge—Honolulu must finalize its first climate action plan. The document was drafted with input from stakeholders across O'ahu and the University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization. The plan lays out strategies the city can take over the next five years to reach its goal of carbon neutrality by 2045.
Nicola Hedge, now the deputy director of Honolulu's resilience office and previously the Climate Challenge's local NRDC staffer, helped create the climate action plan. "Time and again, as the community was engaged throughout this process, we were reminded that we cannot sit back and wait for climate change to destroy more of our coastline," says Hedge, who helped shepherd and pass the three critical climate bills, as well as the city's new bus and bike lanes. "We have to invest now in solutions that reduce polluting emissions, put people back to work, lower energy bills, and create more livable communities."
"Stakeholders kept us honest about what it takes to really reduce emissions and what the most effective ways are to do that in buildings and energy, transportation, and waste management—which are the biggest slices of our greenhouse gas inventory pie," says Matthew Gonser, Honolulu's new chief resilience officer.
Rising air and ocean temperatures, as well as shifting rainfall patterns and changing ocean chemistry, are all affecting the people and ecosystems of Hawai'i. Here, a jetty at Waikiki Beach following Hurricane Lane.
Mario Tama/Getty Images
Gonser also sees promise in the newly passed benchmarking requirement—a Climate Challenge–supported action—that says the city must report the energy and water consumption in most public buildings. With the city using that data to fix inefficiencies in things like outdated appliances and drafty windows, the new reporting program is projected to save Honolulu's taxpayers as much as $7 million over the next decade.
While all three Climate Challenge–backed bills mark substantive steps forward, they could have been stronger—a mark of how much, despite mayoral leadership, status quo interests had the ear of Honolulu's previous city council. But with vocal community residents, especially many active youth, the bills passed.
Now, the council has changed, there's a new mayor, and, of course, a new federal administration in Washington. There may be new paths forward. And the local demand only continues to build. "We have a great opportunity to show innovation," Gonser says. "We can show how you can link climate action with economic recovery and growth—and start to signal not only inspiration and hope but also real prosperity."
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