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Q: Hiding navigation after clicking somewhere esle not working correctly I have a burger nav. After clicking the burger sidebar nav shows up and hides after clicking once more. I want to make it so I don't have to click the burger button, but I can click somewhere else (main container, etc.) and hide the sidebar.
This is the burger button code:
function navBurger() {
    var element = document.querySelector(".navbar");
    var burger = document.querySelector(".burger-btn");
    element.classList.toggle("extended");
    burger.classList.toggle("open");
}

This part works just fine, but when I add this:
window.onclick = function() {
    var element = document.querySelector(".navbar");
    var burger = document.querySelector(".burger-btn");

    if (element.classList.contains("extended")) {
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            element.classList.remove("extended");
            burger.classList.remove("open");
        }
    }
}

Navigation will hide after the first click, but I am not able to show and then hide it after that first click. It's like the script thinks that navigation still has that class (but it was removed) and won't let the navbar be opened.
Is there a way to solve this?

A: In your original code, after clicking the first time to open the nav, the window onclick would then remove the classes added by clicking on the menu button as the event bubbled up.  To fix this, add event.stopPropagation() to your menu click handler.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Event/stopPropagation
I also removed the re-bind of the onclick handler, as it was causing the first click to not close the menu properly.

function navBurger(e) {
    console.log('button clicked')
    var element = document.querySelector(".navbar");
    var burger = document.querySelector(".burger-btn");
    element.classList.toggle("extended");
    burger.classList.toggle("open");
    // Prevents the window onclick from firing after this function runs
    // try commenting this out
    e.stopPropagation();
}

window.onclick = function() {
    console.log('onclick triggered');
    var element = document.querySelector(".navbar");
    var burger = document.querySelector(".burger-btn");

    if (element.classList.contains("extended")) {
        element.classList.remove("extended");
        burger.classList.remove("open");
    }
}

document.querySelector(".burger-btn").addEventListener("click", navBurger);
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  background: green;
}

.burger-btn.open::after {
  content: "Open";
  display: inline;
}
<nav class="navbar"><button class="burger-btn" type="button">Nav</button></nav>

A: The cause of the problem is that the global click handler replaces itself with a nested, unconditional function to turn off the burger menu. A second click will open the menu but bubble up to the window handler and turn it off again.
The global handler needs to determine if the click is inside or outside the extended menu before turning it off. Applying the closest method to the click event target can help with this.
window.onload = function() {
    var element = document.querySelector(".navbar");
    var burger = document.querySelector(".burger-btn");
    window.onclick = function(event) {
        if( burger.classList.contains("open")
          && !event.target.closest(".extended") ) {
            // the click is outside an open extended element
            element.classList.remove("extended");
            burger.classList.remove("open");
        }
    };
};

The above should close the burger menu if the user clicks outside the element with class "extended". JQuery documentation covers the jQuery closest method and event.target if you wish to write the code in jQuery.
Note setting window.onclick is set in window.onload to avoid confusion, and that using oneventname properties of elements is better replaced  by using addEventListener calls in JavaScript.


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by Fred Lachat
"How many times I gotta tell you to knock it off?" Ronnie said. "One'a these days you're gonna pull something with the wrong guy."
"C'mon, Chickie," Joey said. "You worry too much. Guy wanted to act tough, so I reminded him he needed to show a little respect, is all."
Ronnie DiCicco didn't think of himself as a wiseguy—in his mind he was just a sheetmetal worker moonlighting as a debt collector. When they first took this collections gig, they were told the job would be like working for one of those companies who called or sent letters when you fell behind on your credit card bill, except they'd be communicating face-to-face since it was bad form to create a paper trail when you're collecting gambling debts and street taxes from low-level deadbeats. Their job was to simply let them know they had a week to pay; next time it would be someone from the Family stopping by to collect.
Ronnie opened the driver's side door and started to duck into the seat before he paused to look over the car's roof at Joey. He said, "I don't care if you act like you're a made man when you're out tryn'a get laid, but you gotta tone things down when we go on these runs. Stop throwing your weight around like we're connected—cause we're not. If someone wants to lash out at us, who cares? We're delivering a message they don't wanna hear. It's just business."
"I'm not just gonna let some scumbag talk back to me," Joey said. "They don't like our message—fine—but they needa keep their mouths shut."
"You know the rules. Our job is to remind 'em they got an outstanding debt. That's it. We don't collect the money, we don't make threats, we don't put our hands on anyone. That's not our role. I don't see why you always need to push things."
Joey shrugged and said, "Rules? I always looked at them more like guidelines."
Ronnie glared at Joey, letting him know he didn't see anything funny about this.
Joey sighed. As he got in the car he said, "I'll try to behave myself. Okay? But I'm not gonna let no one treat me like a punk."
The following night, their first stop was a corner bar hidden in the shadows of the elevated span of I-95. They parked in the lot between the highway's pillars and walked across Front Street. As they approached the bar, Joey tapped Ronnie's arm. "No wonder the guy's behind on his payments—it's Friday night and the place looks dead."
"You'd think they'd at least turn the lights up a bit," Ronnie said. He saw the glow from the electric sign hanging over the door and the neon beer signs propped up in the windows, the only signs of life. "It better be open."
They walked past a window and looked into the dimly lit barroom and saw the bartender leaning against the linoleum surface of the bar talking to a man in a black leather coat, the only customer.
Ronnie opened the door and Joey followed him inside. As the door shut, Ronnie sensed movement coming from the shadows to his left. Before he could turn his head, he felt the barrel of the wooden baseball bat slam into his shoulder. Hunched over, he felt the knob of the bat handle as it was thrust down on his back. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Joey on all fours getting kicked in the ribs.
The man wearing the leather coat walked over from his barstool. He stood over them and said, "Next time either of you'se does anything other than what we pay you to do, you're done. Understand?"
Ronnie and Joey lay crumpled on the floor gasping for air, unable to respond.
The men stepped over them and walked out the front door, while the bartender stood behind the bar polishing a beer glass. Joey began to laugh but it sounded more like a hacking cough. When he finally caught his breath, he said, "You know what Ronnie…maybe I should start listening to you."
~FIN~
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Celebrating 150 Years of Palaeontology in the United States
Remembering Hadrosaurus foulkii the first major Dinosaur Find Researched in the USA
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the discovery and description of the first major dinosaur find in the United States (Hadrosaurus foulkii). In 1858, the distinguished anatomist Dr Joseph Leidy of the University of Pennsylvania examined a series of large fossil bones that had been unearthed at Haddonfield, New Jersey on the United States east coast. A number of other fossil bones and teeth had come to light earlier, for example, Leidy himself was sent some fossil teeth found in Montana in 1855, but this was the first time a large deposit of fossil bones, seemingly belonging to one animal had been found.
Dr Leidy was aware of the discoveries of dinosaur remains in Europe and he named and described the bones as belonging to a new type of dinosaur "a great extinct herbivorous lizard" that "may have been in the habit of browsing, sustaining itself, kangaroo-like, in an erect position on its back extremities and tail".
This dinosaur was named Hadrosaurus foulkii in honour of the amateur naturalist William Parker Foulke who had discovered the fossils.
This was the first dinosaur to be named and described in the United States, although other names for isolated fossil bones and teeth had been used by American scientists for some time – a classic being the now defunct Trachodon.
It was Leidy who first put forward the hypothesis that hadrosaurs like Hadrosaurus were amphibious – swimming animals that either lived in and around marshes or lakes, or fled into them if they had been threatened by a predator.
A number of events are planned to commemorate this momentous event, although the genus Hadrosaurus is debated in some circles and it can be regarded as not valid. Unfortunately, the specimen excavated in 1858 lacked a skull, and the lack of a skull (key diagnostic in classifying hadrosaurines), means that it cannot be classified with certainty. This explains why Hadrosaurus foulkii is often omitted from text books.
Hadrosaurus was typical of the hadrosaurines – the flat-headed duck-billed dinosaurs, if they possessed head crests they were very small, unlike their flamboyant relatives the lambeosaurines with their extravagant crests such as seen on dinosaurs like Parasaurolophus and lambeosaurus.
An Illustration of a Typical Hadrosaurine Duck-Billed Dinosaur like Hadrosaurus
The lack of a skull, did not stop the enterprising American scientific community putting this find on display. In 1868, this fossil was put on exhibit at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. Helping in the construction of this exhibit was the English sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, who had been employed by Sir Richard Owen to create the Crystal Palace dinosaur models for the Great Exhibition in 1851.
To read more about the work of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins: The Central Park Mystery.
Hadrosaurus may remain a nomen dubium, but the skeleton remains on display to this day.
Everything Dinosaur stocks a wide range of prehistoric animal models including replicas of hadrosaurs and lambeosaurs. For example, the CollectA Age of Dinosaur Popular range contains many duck-billed dinosaur figures: CollectA Age of Dinosaurs Popular Range.
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Sealed and delivered: Royal wedding invites dispatched
Staff WriterMarch 25, 2018 GMT
LONDON — Time to check that mailbox.
Kensington Palace said invitations for the wedding between Prince Harry and his American fiancée Meghan Markle have been dispatched.
Some 600 people have been invited to the May 19 nuptials at noon at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. All 600 have also been invited to a lunchtime reception given by Queen Elizabeth II at St George's Hall.
The invitations, which are beveled and gilded along the edges, feature Prince Charles' three-feather badge embossed in gold. They feature italic writing on thick white card, and are issued under the name of Charles, father of the groom.
The invitations revealed the dress code for wedding guests: Uniform, morning coat or lounge suit for men, or day dress with a hat for ladies.
The stationery was made by Barnard & Westwood, which has held the Royal Warrant for printing and bookbinding since 1985.
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The Last Notes
Program of the 2019 Sacred Art Festival in Madrid
Concerts included in the Infinite Music Cycle will be held at the Teatros del Canal of the Community of Madrid, within the framework of the XXIX International Festival of Sacred Art of the Community of Madrid. From March 17 to April 10 in the Red, Green rooms and Negra. Infinite Music CycleMARÍA BERASARTE + PEPE RIVERO TRÍO (Spain / Cuba) - City without sleep.
History of the Syrian Civil War and Syrian refugees
Every day we receive new information about Syrian refugees, but do we really know what their story is? The media shows, we see continuous debates about them even on social networks and opposing positions in the population about whether or not to help them and in what way To understand a little more one of the biggest problems of today and in all of contemporary history, we must go back to 1963, when this humanitarian crisis was born, which was magnified since 2011.
They find the third European Paleolithic painting about birds and humans
If in Palaeolithic art it is rare to find representations of scenes instead of individual figures, it is even less so that the protagonists of these scenes are birds instead of mammals, such as goats, deer or horses.In fact, in Europe prehistorians only they had so far located three scenes of Paleolithic art shared by birds and humans.
Biography of Emilio Lara
Emilio Lara (Jaén, 1968) has a doctorate in Anthropology, a degree in Humanities with an Extraordinary Award, a National End of Degree Award and a professor of Geography and History in Secondary Education. He has published several history books and dozens of articles in university magazines and educational centers. Spanish, Italian and French research.
Hellenistic-era anchors discovered on Egypt's Mediterranean coast
An archaeological mission led by the University of Alexandria has unearthed several anchors from the Hellenistic era while surveying the Baghoosh area near Marsa Matruh, under the supervision of the Central Department of Submerged Antiquities of the Ministry of Antiquities. The head of the department, Ihab Fahmy , declared that the anchors were made of stone, iron and lead, and that they dated from the Hellenistic period and up to the 20th century.
Exhibition "Pedro Figari - African Nostalgias", in the National Museum of Visual Arts of Uruguay
The National Museum of Visual Arts (MNAV) and the Figari Museum, both dependent on the National Directorate of Culture of the MEC, together with the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) organize the exhibition "Pedro Figari: African nostalgia." exhibited at the MASP from December 14, 2018 to February 10, 2019 and in this instance it will be presented at the National Museum of Visual Arts (MNAV) from March 21 to May 26, 2019.
Rental of premises with reduced rents in Madrid for artists
The General Directorate for Cultural Promotion, in collaboration with the Community of Madrid Social Housing Agency, opens a new call for the selection of 50 artists who may rent premises with reduced rents for the development of their professional activity, especially for workshops or regular work studies.
Thanks to the Assassin`s Creed franchise, we have been able to travel back in time and delve into different historical eras and civilizations, being a video game quite well achieved in terms of rigor with its reconstructions and stories. For a video game, the end result is very interesting, which, added to its playability, have made it become one of the most attractive games and from which we all expect new deliveries.
Biography of Ana María Velasco Molpeceres
Ana María Velasco Molpeceres is a hired researcher and professor at the University of Valladolid. She has a degree in Journalism (UVa), a graduate in Art History (UNED) and in Geography and History (UNED). He has completed the Master in Communication Research as a Historical-Social Agent (UVa) and the Postgraduate Degree in History and Aesthetics of Cinematography (UVa).
They discover an Etruscan-Roman cemetery in Corsica
Archaeologists working on the island of Corsica have discovered a new structure that is part of an Etruscan-Roman cemetery dating back to the 4th century BC. and until the 3rd century AD, in a statement issued by the Institut national de recherches arquéologiques préventives (Inrap), this cemetery was discovered after the construction of a new house on the site.
Who were Hercules' male lovers?
One of the most well-known facets of Hercules, in addition to his incredible strength and his near-immortality, is his loving capacity, he is known for dozens of lovers, including the 50 daughters of King Thespian, who were given as an offering to the demigod in exchange. that he hunted the formidable Lion of Nemea, one of the 12 labors of Hercules.
Harvard publishes a Cervantes discovery from the University of Oviedo
The Harvard Library Bulletin publishes in its latest issue the edition and introduction by Emilio Martínez Mata (University of Oviedo) and Clark Colahan (Whitman College) of the manuscript of an unknown theatrical recreation of Don Quixote in the England of the Enlightenment. Preserved in the Houghton Library of Harvard University, it contains a play by James Wadham Whitchurch, entitled Don Quixote, A Comedy (1774-1776), never printed or performed, of which there was no news.
Who was Andreas Bauer? Creator with Koening of the high-speed printing press
Andreas Bauer was a German engineer who developed the first industrial steam printing press together with Friedrich Koening, who invented the technology and sold it to The Times in 1814.Bauer was born in Stuttgart on August 18, 1783 and studied mechanics and optics, before study mathematics in Tübingen, 40 km south of his hometown.
ADIPROPE warns about the need to increase the care, safety and prevention of Spain's World Heritage after fire in Notre Dame
Faced with the sad events recently experienced in Paris, where an emblematic World Heritage symbol was affected by a terrible fire, the Association for the Dissemination and Promotion of World Heritage of Spain, ADIPROPE, wants to first of all regret this serious event as well as show solidarity with the French people and warn about the need to increase care, security and prevention of our World Heritage after the fire of the Notre Dame Cathedral.
The climate changed radically a million years ago by ocean circulation
A million years ago, the Earth's climate abruptly altered for reasons that are still unknown. Large masses of continental ice accumulated in the polar regions, glacial cycles became longer and colder - the most intense in the world. the history of the Quaternary - and as a consequence, the global climate system was altered on a planetary scale.
2,500-year-old pot of eggs found in China
A team of Chinese archaeologists has found a pot of 2,500-year-old eggs in a tomb in Changzhou, Jiangsu province. According to the report provided by experts, the eggs were found in a clay pot along with other ceramic containers. , pots and plates, in a tomb in the village of Shangyang.
The forgotten remains of an unknown giant predator found in a drawer: Simbakubwa kutokaafrika
In 2013, Matthew Borths, a postdoctoral student at the National Science Foundation (USA), found in a drawer the fossil remains of a specimen unknown to date: the Simbakubwa kutokaafrika. His study of the remains, carried out together to paleontologist Nancy Stevens, from the University of Ohio (USA).
The largest (known) Mayan statuette workshop found in Guatemala
A group of archaeologists discovered on a private property in Cobán, Alta Verapaz (Guatemala), more than 400 fragments of statuettes and molds to make them, in what is considered the largest Mayan statuette workshop ever found. site with heavy machinery when they located several ceramic fragments, so they contacted Brent Woodfill, an archaeologist at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States, to examine what they had found at the site, called Aragon.
Cannibalism was profitable for the 'Homo antecessor', according to a CENIEH study
Scientists Jesús Rodríguez, Ana Mateos and Guillermo Zorrilla, from the National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH), have just published a study in the Journal of Human Evolution in which they analyze the cannibalistic behavior of the Atapuerca populations from ago a million years ago, the results of which show that anthropophagy was a profitable strategy for Homo antecessor.
Program Day and Night of the Museums 2019 (Spain)
Note: The information will be expanded as we learn about more programs. The role of museums in society is changing. Although in the past they were considered static institutions, museums are reinventing themselves to be more interactive, flexible, adaptable and mobile, focusing on the audience and targeting their communities.
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The Chrysler 300 Is Dated but Still Classy
by Matthew Skwarczek on March 24, 2020
Sedan selection from American automakers has shrunk. While Hyundai, Honda, and Toyota have all updated their lineups, Ford's lone sedan will be gone by 2021, while Lincoln may stop selling sedans completely. Meanwhile, Cadillac and Chevrolet each offer 2 sedans. However, it's the Dodge Charger, Dodge's lone, ancient sedan, that's seen the most success. The Charger, though, has a more comfort-focused cousin: the Chrysler 300. But has the 300 become a bit long-in-the-tooth?
Chrysler 300 specs and features
2020 Chrysler 300C | Chrysler
The 2020 Chrysler 300 is available in 6 different trims, from the $29,590 Touring to the $41,995 300C. The standard engine is a 292-hp 3.6-liter V6, while a 363-hp 5.7-liter V8 is optional on the $36,965 300S and standard on the 300C. Both engines come exclusively with an 8-speed automatic. Rear-wheel drive is standard, although all-wheel drive is optional on V6-equipped cars.
2020 Chrysler 300 interior | Chrysler
All Chrysler 300s come standard with an 8.4" infotainment touchscreen, with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. However, for advanced driver-assistance features like emergency braking and rear cross-traffic detection, you'll have to step above the base Touring model and spec the SafetyTec Plus package. Although Car and Driver reports the rear seats don't fold completely flat, they can split 60/40 to fit larger items in the trunk.
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The $38,595 Limited adds heated power-adjustable front seats with lumbar support, along with leather trim and dual-zone automatic climate control. The 300C meanwhile has heated and ventilated front seats, as well as heated rear seats and power-adjustable steering wheel.
Chrysler 300: old-school charm and limitations
The Chrysler 300 is built on the same platform as the Dodge Charger and Challenger, explains Road & Track, which originally dates back to the 90s. The good news about that is, like with the Toyota 4Runner, Chrysler has basically removed most of the 300's quality issues. Consumer Reports found the Chrysler sedan to have an above-average reliability, and it is a CR-recommended product. However, again like the 4Runner, that old-school approach has its downsides.
The Straight Pipes found the Chrysler 300's interior to have some issues. Although it has soft-touch material, it looks and feels rather cheap and dated. Motor Trend found the 300's interior "' astonishingly dated,'" with quite a few trim pieces feeling cheap and flimsy. Car and Driver reports other cars in this segment have better-looking and more-premium-feeling interiors. In addition, although the optional leather seats are comfortable, they're not very well-bolstered.
MT did find the 300S handled and braked fairly-well for a car of its size. However, Car and Driver reports the 300S's has noticeably-stiffer suspension, and its larger wheels deliver harsh impacts on poor roads. And while the steering is light, the driver needs to turn the wheel quite a bit to change direction.
The Straight Pipes, though, did find the Chrysler 300 to be a comfortable, everyday commuter. The ride—apart from the 300S—is comfortable, and the sedan's design still looks classy.
Alternative choices
2018 Kia Stinger | Kia
For those looking for some extra performance, the Kia Stinger GT is a worthwhile alternative. The sports sedan offers a 365-hp 3.3-liter twin-turbo V6, and a more-practical hatchback-style trunk. And in terms of handling, Kelley Blue Book reports the Kia Stinger is definitely a step up from the Chrysler 300.
2020 Kia Cadenza | Kia
For a more luxury-focused alternative, there's the Kia Cadenza. For 2020, the Cadenza gained a larger infotainment screen, a standard driver-assistance feature suite, and a redesigned exterior. Even the highest trim is a great value at approximately $45,000.
2020 Dodge Charger R/T Scat Pack overhead | Dodge
Or, if you want to stick with an American sedan, there's also the Dodge Charger R/T Scat Pack. For roughly the same price as the 300C, you can get a similar RWD sedan with a 485-hp 6.4-liter V8. Car and Driver reports it also offers adaptive dampers and Brembo brakes. Although, the Kia Stinger has the better interior.
2021 Toyota Avalon Limited AWD front | Toyota
If you're after a comfortable commuter with AWD, there's also the Toyota Avalon AWD to consider. Although it only comes with a 205-hp 2.5-liter four-cylinder, Autoblog reports the sedan is extremely comfortable and stable, even on snowy roads.
Despite its charm, the Chrysler 300 is getting left behind. But, with rumors of an updated Charger swirling, perhaps Chrysler's last sedan will also see a refresh to keep it competitive.
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Interview: David Lynch on 'Inland Empire' II – The DVD
Written by Sean Axmaker November 9, 2011
Back in 2007, in conjunction with the release of Inland Empire, I had the opportunity to interview David Lynch twice in the same year. This is the second of the two interviews, conducted over the phone and focused on the DVD release of Inland Empire, which he produced and distributed independently through his company Absurda. An edited version was published on MSN, as part of the "What's in Your DVD Player" series. Here is a longer version of that interview. Lynch talks about movies and DVDs, what his favorite movie is and why commentary is "the worst possible thing a person can do." – SAx
What's the last DVD that you've seen?
I saw The Hustler last week, with Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Jackie Gleason and George C. Scott. It's a great film. It's black and white and it really sets a place and a time and a world and I really enjoyed watching it again.
I love the photography by Eugene Shuftan, and all the great poolroom footage with the haze and the smoke.
It's really, really a well made film. Really tight and great performances, really good writing. It's a very interesting film.
Do you have a favorite DVD?
Sunset Boulevard. Tonight we're going to the Billy Wilder Theater, and Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard is maybe my favorite world to go into, for sure in the top ten worlds to go into.
Do you ever check out the DVD supplements?
Hardly ever. But I gotta say, on the Inland Empire DVD, they're worth checking out.
You have of course never done a commentary track, but you do load up the Inland Empire disc with a lot of interesting extras and the "Stories" section could almost be a stand-alone commentary because you talk about so many things around the film.
I believe talking is okay separate from a thing, but a commentary track that goes along through a film, I think is maybe the worst possible thing a person could do. From then on, the film is seen in terms of the memory of that commentary and it changes things forever. Things are rounded if they're separate. Stories surrounding a film or things surrounding it, that's a different kind a thing and I think those things are okay.
You have about 70 minutes of deleted footage in the "More Things That Happened" section and you've edited them so they it plays like their it's own dreamlike film.
Right. You know, there are things in "More Things That Happened" that give a feeling that could be like a brother or sister to the film. It's like if you know a family but you haven't met the sister yet, you go over to Ohio and meet the sister and it adds more to the feeling of the whole family.
What was your inspiration for the black and white cooking show supplement, "Quinoa" (pronounced "keen-wah")?
I've seen a lot of cooking shows on television and I guess it wasn't even my idea. May it was my idea, something I was going to do, I don't remember how it happened, but I do know how to cook quinoa. The recipe was given to me by a girl named Chrysta Bell, who's a great singer, so I learned how to do that quinoa and decided that it would be good to do kind of a cooking segment.
Besides nourishing, if you cook it according to that recipe, it's really a great taste. In the film, you can't really see, the light got burnt out on the sea salt and the amount of quinoa I had in there. The amount of quinoa I had was about a third of a cup for one person in an inch or an inch and a quarter of water, because you notice my water burned out before the end, that doesn't always happen. I didn't put in enough water. And if you remember also, I didn't turn the flame down right away, so it burned up a little too much water, And the sea salt is just like a half inch in diameter mound in your hand, something like that.
You produced the DVD yourself, through your own company, Absurda.
Yeah, a whole bunch of us, we worked together.
What is your involvement in the creation of the DVD supplements?
Let's go bit by bit. "More Things That Happened," I put that together, and "Quinoa" I sort of did that. It was actually edited by Noriko Miyakawa and filmed by two or three guys around. "Lynch 2" was filmed by a guy who probably doesn't want me to give his name but he also did a documentary on me. He followed me around for like nine or ten months, day in and day out, so I got really used to him being around and he was able to get a lot of things. So there's a documentary and then "Lynch 2" is a half hour or so of behind the scenes at Inland Empire.
Is the documentary you're referring to "Lynch [One]"?
This is the fifth DVD you have produced through Absurda. Are there any practical lessons you learned along the way in producing your own DVDs?
It's so beautiful, the world. You still need, in the final stages, to go to an outside facility for mass printing and producing and they need to be checked in certain ways, but so much of this anyone can do in their house, and that's the beauty of today's world. And then through trial and error, we discovered pipelines to stores and different places and that's kind of an exciting thing. So you feel like you're more in control of where things go, how they go, and it's a good experience but a whole lot of work and I've had a lot of help from people working 24/7.
You went to Rhino to distribute this disc.
Rhino! A great company. And I think Rhino put out the Eraserhead soundtrack, I'm not positive about that, way back when. Rhino is a hip place and they've been fantastic. [ed note – Rhino didn't release the soundtrack – but they should have]
I listened to the soundtrack LP of Eraserhead before I ever saw the movie. This was pre-video and it was the closest I could get to the film until later in college. It disturbed me greatly.
It's a nice world, the world of Henry Spencer. I loved being in that world, I gotta tell you. You're just bringing it all back.
I love the opportunity to be able to go back in it in the DVD you produced. It's not like seeing it as a midnight movie in a theater, which is how I first saw it, but if you turn off all your lights…
If you turn off all your lights and you've got as big a screen as possible and good sound, we all can go in to a world in our home and that's happening more and more and more, as you know.
In the "Stories" section of the Inland Empire supplements, you go on a rant about people watching movies on their phones. So how do you feel about the huge explosion of home theater?
I feel great about the home theater. It's so hopeful. It's a counterpart to the telephone experience, or the computer screen, but a lot of people are going to see their films on computers and phones and they will think they saw the films but they will not have seen the film. And that's a sadness, as I say in "Stories," that's a real sadness. It's very hard to sink into a world when the picture is so small. I hope that the home theater, big screens at home will be something embrace so they can feel and think in the world, not have all this distraction around it.
Do you think that's a generational thing? Where my generation put efforts into high end stereos and big screen TVs for home theater, my nieces and nephews are listening to music on iPods and watching YouTube, closing themselves off with headphones for solo experiences.
Solo experiences are very good, but a solo experience on a phone is way, way different from a solo experience in your home when you've got a big, big screen and big sound. All that has to happen is somebody who is used to seeing it on a computer screen or on a phone has the experience of seeing it bigger and better sound, and then it's done. They say, "Oh, I get it," and they try to get that for themselves.
Absurda's DVD release of 'Inland Empire'
Sound is such an essential part of your movies. Do you have to mix it differently for the home theater experience?
You compress things for DVD so your dynamic range is squeezed. Otherwise, you're riding the volume every time you're seeing a film, you've got to pump up the quiet areas and slam down the loud areas, so you take the mountain peaks and the valleys and you bring them close together. You just gotta do that.
Is that because of the limitation of home theater speakers in contrast to theater sound systems?
It's partly that, the television speakers and things, but it's mostly there's so much noise in the world. You don't want to squeeze it too much but you want to squeeze it a little so they catch those quieter areas and they can still feel the loud.
You spell "disk" with a "k" on the DVD case, where most people spell it with a "c." Is there something behind that?
I think you can spell it either way, but we had a little talk about it and I think a "k," and I think it's the Polish connection, "k" is a nice letter.
"K" is a nice letter. I've got one in my name.
I've got one in mine.
Wait a minute, unless you have a middle name I don't know of…
I have a middle name that starts with "k."
That's not well known. Will you tell me what it is?
(laughing) You can find out.
[I did – it's Keith]
When it comes to producing a DVD, what are the kinds of supplements that you'd like to see on DVD and the kinds of extras t hat you think DVD can bring to people?
Number one, I think the film is the main thing. All the rest, it's like a circus. There's the main tent and then there's lots of little tents. In the little tents, I would like to see people telling stories about the experience and I would like to see scenes that weren't there, but not put back into the film. And I would like to feel a little bit of what it was like to be there during the time of the making but not anything that would disturb the film. Extras are interesting but the film has got to be protected.
Do you think you can create a way to bring people into the film with these extraneous extras, that you can interact with them, get them to engage with the film in different ways?
I think maybe a little bit, but the film should do that. If it doesn't do that, you could put a lot of extras on and it wouldn't help. Inland Empire is a film that… The good thing about a DVD is you can see it whenever you want, again and again. It's been my experience when talking to people that the first time they see Inland Empire it's one thing, and the second and third time, it's a whole different thing. So there's a very good thing about a DVD, but like I said, the bigger the screen, the darker the room, the best sound you can get, so you can go into the world and have that experience. That's the ticket.
© 2007 by Sean Axmaker
Tags: David Lynch, Eraserhead, Inland Empire
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(YA Review) An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir – Don't Shush Me!
Tahir, Sabaa. An Ember in the Ashes: A Novel. , 2015. Print. ISBN-13: 9781595148032.
Why'd I read it?: This books has received wonderful press and reviews and came highly recommended.
A wonderfully creative and fully realized fantasy world, with a range of characters who each have their own personal struggle to overcome within the broader overall problems of the society they live in. An Ember in the Ashes gets a lot of points for creative and unique world-building. The world these characters live in is complex and dark, and has issues that feel very "human" and real, which really causes the reader to be pulled in. I enjoyed that even though the author was obviously influenced from other familiar stories, the world she creates is unique and I didn't feel that I had ever read another book quite like it. I very much enjoyed, also, that the book is told from alternating perspectives of a male and a female main character. Both of these characters had not only vastly different backgrounds, but their current stations in life vary greatly, as do their futures appear too. In other words, these characters are not on the same journey together, rather they are each on their own separate journeys, and just happen to have their paths cross a couple of times. We are used to getting two characters thrown together on the same journey in other books, and its easy to see why such characters would bond and relate. But Tahir takes a different approach and really keeps these two character's personal journeys separate from each other, which makes their ability to meet and bond, and feel sympathy for each other even more touching because of how difficult it is for two such different people to relate. I really loved how different this author's approach was to the character and relationship developments in this book. The characters are very well developed and do show growth and maturity throughout the book which feels believable. They are flawed and imperfect, as well which makes them infinitely more interesting to read about. This book started slow for me but by the middle I was hooked and the end has me eagerly waiting to see what happens next!
The next book in the series is A Torch Against the Night, TBR April, 2016.
The AEITA website includes character bios and other extras about the book and the world!


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What will our workplaces be like in the future?
MT at 50: From the rise of the gig economy to 'bossless' environments, there will be a growth in flexibility in the years ahead. But with that comes less security and an end to the traditional career ladder.
by Ian Wylie
Tarek, a self-employed furniture designer, opens the door, introduces himself and welcomes me in to my workplace for the day. He makes me a coffee in his kitchen, then sits me down at a desk in his living room, in a chair that he designed himself. From my desk, I can see Les Invalides which houses Napoleon's tomb. And just peaking above the apartments opposite is the Eiffel Tower.
For €20, I'm spending the day in Tarek's Parisian flat, in the new world of work. While companies like WeWork are popularising the concept of co-working in shared spaces, companies like OfficeRiders are going a step further into the sharing economy - it's an Airbnb for workspaces, where homeowners like Tarek rent out their underutilised rooms to entrepreneurs, freelancers, start-ups, or people on business trips, like me, who'd prefer not to work in a Starbucks.
'If you are sharing the space, it's a good way to connect with other people,' explains OfficeRiders CEO Florian Delifer on a Skype call, using Tarek's Wi-Fi. 'In future, on our platform you'll also be able to spot not just the right workspace, but also the right people to work with and collaborate.'
Note the word 'workspace' where once we said 'office' or even 'workplace'. It's a nod to the reality that work can happen anywhere. Just as our workspaces are becoming more individual, so too is the nature of the work we do, when we do it and how we do it, as we enter a future of greater choice, decision-making and individual responsibility for the consequences.
Small – and agile – is beautiful
Already, 58% of all jobs growth across the EU between 2002 and 2010 is accounted for by small or micro enterprises with fewer than 10 employees.
According to several surveys, more than half of young people say they expect eventually to work independently or in small enterprises, and as many as two out of three declare an intention to leave their organisation by 2020 (The Deloitte Millennial Survey 2016). Their career expectations are mobile – not a job for life, but the hope for a life of jobs.
How should large corporates respond? Some are creating more agile business models - more cross-functional teams, more matrixed working. 'There's movement away from traditional corporate hierarchies, and rapid access to specialist skills on an as-needed basis, creating more job movement and even jobs becoming more like time-based roles,' explains CIPD chief executive Peter Cheese. 'There has been significant growth in flexi-working and irregular hours working, partly driven by individual choice but also by the growing demands of our 24/7 consumer-driven economies.'
Democracy and intrapreneurialism
The 'democratisation' of the workplace has been an emergent theme for some time, weakening the structures of command and control, and driving more collaborative learning and growth. At the extreme have been the much-cited examples – Zappos.com, WL Gore, Morning Star – of 'holacracies' or 'bossless' environments where employees decide how and what tasks and projects to work on, within transparent rules and guidelines.
Zappos.com call centre in Las Vegas: you can book a tour to experience its bossless culture as well as its workplace artwork
The workplaces of the future are likely to encourage their employees to think and act like entrepreneurs within the confines of the organisation, free to take full ownership of particular domains or projects, with minimal supervision or bureaucracy.
This kind of 'intrapreneurship' is likely to be encouraged at every level, not just in the management or creative roles. Online shoe shop Zappos.com, for example, has abolished scripts in its call centres and given customer service staff the freedom to deal with complaints however they see fit.
The Future Workplace, a recent report commissioned by financial protection specialist Unum and written by The Future Laboratory, concluded that to attract and retain high-calibre employees, employers will need to foster a more collaborative environment – hot-desking, ideas workshops and regularly switching teams.
A 2015 McKinsey Global Institute report also suggested that as much as $12tn could be added to the global economy by 2025 by advancing women's equality in the workplace. Managing retirement rates, attracting and retaining young people, and doing a better job of diversity and inclusion will become increasingly important priorities.
Most estimates put the proportion of freelance workers at between 15 and 30% of the workforce already, and predict these forms of working could account for 40% or more of the workforce in the future.
There has been much excitement about the so-called 'gig economy' and new business models exemplified by the likes of Uber that run on the 'human cloud' – a vast global pool of freelancers available to work on demand from remote locations on any number of digital tasks.
Online platforms, such as Topcoder, Upwork or Amazon Mechanical Turk, match employers with freelancers, inviting them to bid for each task, which might be tagging photos, or writing code. McKinsey predicts that by 2025 some 540 million workers will have used one of these platforms to find work.
Champions of this crowdsourcing model claim it as a powerful force for the redistribution of wealth, bringing a fresh stream of income and flexible work into emerging economies such as India and the Philippines.
Critics say it's a 'race to the bottom', with workers in Mumbai or Manila able to undercut their peers in Geneva or London thanks to their lower living costs. Economist Guy Standing warns of creating a 'precariat' of workers with no financial security, job stability or prospect of career progression. And it's not just unskilled labour that will migrate to these platforms, says Standing. The knowledge economy is subject to the same forces of routinisation, division of labour and contracting out as the industrial and service economies.
There is already a precedent. In 2008, Pfizer realised that its most highly skilled employees were spending up to 40% of their time on routine tasks, entering data, producing PowerPoint slides and doing research on the web. The company now contracts out much of this work. But this on-demand economy will also present challenges for employers seeking to create consistent cultures, and for managers needing to connect and engage with their teams.
Flexibility not security
'Ultimately, this should be about creating greater choice in where and how we work - about the individualisation of work, balanced with the needs of organisations and productive output,' says CIPD's Cheese. 'But there is much need for adaptation of our processes, practices, laws, organisational systems, welfare and support systems, and what we measure and account for if we are to meet these trends.'
The 'office', the 'job', the 'salary', the subsidised canteen and the final-salary pension all belong to a previous century. That is both liberating and frightening. Management thinker Charles Handy – who popularised the phrase 'portfolio career' – advised his children to look for customers, not bosses. The on-demand, sharing economy is more likely to be a happier experience for those who value flexibility rather than stability – but all of us must get used to fending for ourselves.
Source: PwC, Future of Work, 2015
NO MORE CAREER LADDER
If flatter structures mean an end to the traditional promotion-based career ladder, what's the alternative?
At LinkedIn, employees are offered a 'tour of duty' in a role or on a project. When the tour is over, both sides can agree to renew it or end the agreement, in which case the company helps the employee find another job.
Genentech has a Career Lab that helps employees articulate and communicate their value so they can be more competitive for internal positions - and more employable for external ones.
And National Grid's diamond-shaped career maps help focus employees on taking lateral and vertical moves together to reach a critical position.
Insight and technology firm CEB advises firms to create career partnerships and move to a growth-based culture:
1. Design careers around experiences not positions.
2. Motivate employees with employability not grander job titles progression.
3. Push opportunities to employees instead of just pulling them into new positions.
4. Create a talent brokerage rather than just setting expectations for managers to share talent.
What will the world of work and corporate training look like in the next five years? Check out the video below for a glimpse into the future.
Top image source: Mauricio Pesce
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The Fifth Circuit's decision on the FDIC's Extender Statute aligns with prior rulings issued by the First, Second and Tenth Circuits.
Fifth Circuit Revives FDIC's Securities Fraud Suit
on	 August 10, 2015 Legal, Newsbytes
Case: FDIC v. RBS Securities Inc.
Issue: Whether the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s Extender Statute preempts the Texas Securities Act's five-year statute of repose.
Case Summary: The Fifth Circuit revived the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. as Receiver's (FDIC-R) securities fraud suit against Goldman Sachs & Co., RBS Securities Inc., and Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. (companies) alleging that they misrepresented $2.1 billion in residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). The Fifth Circuit ruled that the FDIC's Extender Statute preempts all states' statutes of repose as well as statutes of limitations.
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) closed Austin, Texas-based Guaranty Bank. The FDIC-R brought the suit on behalf of Guaranty Bank alleging that the companies violated federal and state securities laws by making false and misleading statements in connection with selling and underwriting $2.1 billion in RMBS. The parties disputed whether the FDIC's Extender Statute preempts the Texas Securities Act's five-year statute of repose.
In relying on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in CTS Corp. v. Waldburger, which held that North Carolina's statute of repose was not preempted by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), the Texas district court ruled that the FDIC-R's securities claims were time barred by Texas five-year statute of repose.
On appeal, the Fifth Circuit reversed, holding that the FDIC's Extender Statute preempts all states' statutes of repose as well as statutes of limitations. In reaching its decision, the Court determined that the underlying congressional intent of the FDIC's Extender Statute was to grant the FDIC a three-year grace period after being appointed as receiver to investigate claims and "pull all state limitations periods into the statute's ambit, regardless of whether they are characterized as statute of limitations or statutes of repose."
Bottom Line: The Fifth Circuit's decision on the FDIC's Extender Statute aligns with prior rulings issued by the First, Second and Tenth Circuits.
Thomas Pinder
Thomas Pinder is senior vice president and deputy general counsel at ABA.


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I try to get 3 Documents from Mongodb. I don´t know where can i use {$limit: 3}, or alternative command.

A: You can use it at the end of the query.
@Query("{'source':?0,'target':?1}", sort = "{'date': -1}", limit = 1)

Or you can use the  @Aggregation annotation
read this for more details.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/71292598/8470055

A: You can provide Pageable as query method parameter
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List<Object> findTop3Objects(Pageable pageable);

And init Pageable this way:
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Discussion in 'Residential Energy Codes' started by Coder, Jan 10, 2019.
Copper only so that if they have to throw heat at it to thaw they dont melt. Like someone else on here said, cutting costs of construction doesn't make housing more affordable, it just puts more money in the contractors pocket.
I'm sorry, I didn't realize your code required on-site generation of energy.
I'm wondering if photovoltaic wouldn't be a better option. We have areas that have been running solar panels for about 40 years with little drop in efficiency. In lower latitudes they get a lot more wattage, but it really hurts the lifespan of the units. Montana has a latitude relatively similar to where I am.
The ordinance — which could be introduced at the Board of Supervisors' meeting Tuesday meeting or next week — is Breed's latest effort to chip away at what she sees as the administrative forces that make it harder to build housing.
Breed's proposal wouldn't expedite projects but would make them less expensive to get moving.
The ordinance would prevent the city from moving money from one pocket to another. In San Francisco, the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development is the main source of funding for affordable housing projects.
Sam Moss, executive director of the Mission Housing Development Corp., said it was "fairly ludicrous" for another city agency, the Department of Building Inspection, to then take a portion of that money back for permit reviews and inspection services, which is how the process currently works.
The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp. and the Mission Economic Development Agency are just a few weeks away from breaking ground on a 143-unit, 100-percent affordable housing complex at 1990 Folsom St. in the Mission District, a project the two organizations developed jointly.
According to the Mayor's Office of Housing, the building inspection permitting fees alone for that project were about $150,000.
The ordinance is also meant to encourage the development of accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, often called in-law or granny flats. In August, Breed instructed city departments to clear within six months the backlog of some 900 ADUs stuck in the approval pipeline — a deadline that will expire at the end of the month. She also mandated that the city speed up the review of new requests to build ADUs.
On top of making it easier to get an ADU built, Breed's proposed ordinance would also make them less expensive. City officials said the building inspection permit fees for ADUs range from $7,000 to $10,000, on average.
Here, we have 6 months from the date we should have know about a violation for any corrective action. After that date, we can no longer pursue enforcement. In this situation, if she has been taxed for two dwelling units for more than 6 months, we would not be able to force her to do anything. The property would be labeled a legal non-conforming use and can continue with that use.
Man I hope her lawyer rubs the County's nose in that. A judge around here would smack us down hard if the 2 issues in that paragraph are true.
It's all a best guess.
I have never heard of a death in a sprinklered SFD house.
So then you're ok with writing code based on best guesses? That's my issue here. Prove it saves a life, or leave it out of the code.
"The ordinance would prevent the city from moving money from one pocket to another. In San Francisco, the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development is the main source of funding for affordable housing projects."
You can't have it both ways. You are against using building permit fees to subsidize other agencies yet you think waiving building permit fees for a department that probably receives a majority of its construction funding through federal grants is okay.
If a building department operates as a special revenue fund and all fees stay within that department to cover operating cost then no permit fees are ever waived. Why should those who pay a fee for a specific service subsidize the cost to provide that same service to others.
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Cannot prove that, nor can they prove Seat belts save lives.
Cannot prove that drinking and driving will end in an accident.
Do you want those "vehicular codes" changed?
Cannot prove that Smoke or CM Detectors, save lives.
Cannot Prove that framing anchors will keep the building intact during an earthquake or wind event.
So it should be a free for all, no society, Build what you want, where you want and sell it to any poor slob, because nothing is provable.
So Joe, you enforce No codes, because you cant prove it? You as a code enforcement officer collect money for not enforcing the state codes?
I agree and also see lots of constitutional issues here, the point is that the city makes lots of money with it's building department, now that it's building policies have put people on the streets something has to be done, so they want to reduce fees for the poor but not the rest of us, more good old communism, take from the rich and give to the poor.
San Francisco demolished it's entire Western Addition, Oakland it's entire West Oakland, both almost 100% black areas that the cities wanted to clear out.
City officials, however, saw only the negatives. In 1947, a city report said that only a "clean sweep" could make the Western Addition "a genuinely good place to live." In 1948, the Board of Supervisors declared the neighborhood a "blighted area" and designated it for redevelopment, for which federal funds were made available.
In Oakland a good friend was Oakland's only black building inspector, he was a licensed engineer and drew/engineered my plans and even got my permits in some cities, back when builders and inspectors were friends. Because he was black the city assigned him the chore of condemning West Oakland, after all why go through the courts, get property through eminent domain, pay for it, when you can send a building inspector out and condemn it? He asked that I ride with him one day, he didn't even bother to go in, he had seen so many that he could write up a list of violations at the curb and hang them on the doors, those old Victorians were only worth $5,000 to $10,000 at the time, they all had brick foundations and foundations alone would cost more than that. A demolition contractor got the entire area, he bought a war surplus army tank, started at one end of a block and ran right through all the homes that collapsed on top of his tank. meanwhile he had excavators picking up the debris and dropping it into lines of semi trucks.
Is there any difference between the building departments of the 50s clearing blacks out of town and those of today enforcing green and energy codes? All are political, just look at Alexandria Occasio Cortez's "Green New Deal".
No, Mark, I enforce what they pay me to enforce. All of the codes we have adopted or are obliged to enforce by the State, even the ones I don't agree with. The difference is, when we're adopting new codes, updating existing one's, or my crazy State tries to pass any, I opine against those that overreach. Like those we've talked about in this thread - energy, sfd sprinklers, etc.
And seatbelts? That's a whole other topic, but forcing me to wear a device while operating a vehicle I own and where only I may be injured as a result of "disobedience", is protecting me from myself and a giant overreach of law. But the insurance lobby sure is happy..
Residential wallboard inspection, not sure about you but I have had one handful of inspections fail and it was due to them not being ready. What about replacing this inspection with an affidavit from the responsible party, dated, print and signed. Indicating material placed, method of fastening, material to do so and spacing. A simple one page form you generate could become the affidavit.
The exception to this would be if the wallboard is part of a braced wall assembly and without question core walls.
Bad idea, thats all you need to do, give the "Sharkskins" another treasure chest to open.
Since the I Codes existence, how many wallboard inspections have you had to fail for incorrect installation? This doesn't include firewalls and core walls.
The only residential drywall inspecting I am going to do now is in accordance with the 2015 IRC section R109.1.5.1, braced wall panels and garage lids under living space.
Builder wanting to save $$$, just did a rgh-in inspection. Joist hangers all bent laying in the mud, nail clips all over the place, bent soffit vents, boards laying around with nails, mud all over the siding (hear the newly applied paint will pop off wherever there's clay soil on the siding afterwards). Does the builder real know where he/she's loosing money? And they think the city's gigging em!
It's a travesty I say!!
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And had one that the drywall job looked unbelievable bad and used E3906.6 more than 1/8" opening around electrical boxes.
It all started when they began cutting the vocational trades from High School curriculum.
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Ironically enough, yesterday I failed two production bldr homes for lack of fasteners at the butting sections of wallboard on the ceiling.
Even with this I'm not 100percent convinced this is still needs to remain a mandatory requirement.


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West Nile virus is still here, and it's spreading among U.S. birds
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By Jason Bittel 15-19 minutes
Chief, a white-and-orange English setter, knifes through a forest of pale-barked aspen, so thick in places the trees seem to gobble him up, the ding ding ding of his collar the only clue to his whereabouts.
These impenetrable thickets in central Pennsylvania known as the Scotia Barrens make for hard hiking. But they're prime habitat for ruffed grouse—crow-size birds whose mottled, russet coloring blends into the fallen leaves Chief is sniffing feverishly. If he flushes out a ruffed grouse on this November afternoon, he'll get an extra hearty pat from his owner, Lisa Williams. That's because Pennsylvania's official state bird is getting harder to find.
"Depending on who you talk to, the ruffed grouse is either the king of the game birds, or it's a forest chicken," says Williams, grouse biologist for the Pennsylvania Game Commission, a state agency whose mission is to conserve birds and mammals for present and future generations. Hunters prize ruffed grouse because they're canny—elusive on the ground and tricky targets in the air.
They're native to the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains, the Great Lakes region, and large swaths of Canada. In the spring mating season, males hop onto a log and beat their wings rapidly and rhythmically in a crescendoing womp womp womp— "drumming" that carries more than a quarter of a mile,even through thick cover such as we're tromping through following Chief's helter-skelter lead.
But after a few hours of searching, the setter comes up short.
A male ruffed grouse in Yellowstone National Park, in Wyoming, puts on a courtship display. These spectacular, elusive birds are a favorite among hunters.
A ruffed grouse perches on a branch in Minnesota's Sax-Zim Bog. In 2005, a biologist found West Nile antibodies in birds killed at the Annual National Grouse and Woodcock Hunt, in north-central Minnesota. Crows, blue jays, and owls are some of the 300 species hit hard by the mosquito-borne disease.
Photograph by Michael Quinton, Minden Pictures (top) and Photograph by Benjamin Olson, Minden Pictures (bottom)
Between 1978 and 2000, flush rates for ruffed grouse reported by hunters in Pennsylvania declined by 2 percent, reflecting the aging of the thick, young forests the birds need for food and shelter, Williams says. But then, between 2001 and the end of 2018, flush rates plummeted by 54 percent.
The culprit?
West Nile virus: a mosquito-borne pathogen that dominated the news when it appeared in New York City in the summer of 1999. Many expected the virus to race through the human population as a pandemic, but the disease peaked four years later with just under 10,000 cases nationwide. The fear waned.
The virus lingered in the woods, however, spreading from bird to bird— not just ruffed grouse but more than 300 species, causing brain lesions, and killing millions of birds. "Some of our best-loved backyard birds are missing," Williams says. Crows, owls, and blue jays are among those that have suffered severe losses to West Nile virus. Ruffed grouse numbers have fallen in states from Minnesota and Michigan to North Carolina and New Jersey, a problem exacerbated by climate change.
In Pennsylvania, Williams says, ruffed grouse declined by an estimated 23 percent between 2017 and 2018—"a horrendous year." West Nile virus, she adds, is "a classic climate change disease." Earlier springs in the forests give mosquitoes more time to pump out larvae, and increases in precipitation, also spurred by climate change, create more stagnant pools in which the insects can reproduce.
For all the seriousness of the situation, ruffed grouse numbers have yet to fall to a level that would trigger Endangered Species Act protections. That's all the more reason to act now, Williams says. "The time to intervene is before you're in that emergency-room situation. You want to do something while you still have enough animals to respond and work with."
Following a hunch
Williams spent nearly two decades as a bat expert at the Pennsylvania Game Commission before switching to ruffed grouse in 2011. She had witnessed firsthand how white nose syndrome, a fungus that infects the faces and wings of bats, devastated local bat populations, and the more she examined ruffed grouse population information, the more she suspected that something similar was happening to the birds. But no one could say for sure, because in the early years after the virus showed up, most research focused on human health. (Read more about the killer fungus wreaking havoc on bats.)
In 2004, for example, Pennsylvania's largest breeder of captive grouse reported that 24 out of 30 birds died during a two-week period. This prompted him to send one of the dead birds to a lab for testing, which determined West Nile virus as the cause of death. In 2005, a biologist found West Nile antibodies in birds killed at the Annual National Grouse and Woodcock Hunt, in north-central Minnesota. In 2006, experiments showed that West Nile could be particularly lethal to greater sage grouse, a relative of ruffed grouse native to the American West.
"There were all these different things that came together as I was sort of working through this hunch," Williams says.
To get a better idea of what was going on, Williams mined information provided by hunters—an "amazing" trove going back to 1965. In Pennsylvania, ruffed grouse hunts are permitted from mid-October to the end of November, as well as for another 10 days in mid-to-late December. Each hunter is allowed to take up to two grouse a day but isn't permitted to have more than six in the freezer at one time to prevent overexploitation of the birds.
In November 2019, I joined Duane Diefenbach, a wildlife ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, and his English setter Chelsea, in Susquehannock State Forest, in north-central Pennsylvania. Diefenbach is one of hundreds of hunters who report to the commission everything from the number of hours they spend looking for grouse and where they search to how many times their dogs flush out birds.
When cornered, a ruffed grouse explodes out of the forest undergrowth with thunderclapping wings. So when Chelsea freezes, signaling that she's scented a grouse, Diefenbach closes in, shotgun poised. But no bird erupts. "This is probably where the grouse was 10 minutes ago," he says ruefully.
By the end of our outing, though, Chelsea and a younger setter named Parker have flushed out eight grouse. Diefenbach doesn't bag a single one, though. "That's how it goes with grouse hunting," he says with a grin.
Eight ruffed grouse may seem a good number, but 30 years ago, a day in this forest would likely have yielded 20 or so, according to Diefenbach. "Everyone I know agrees there's fewer grouse, and that's because there's less habitat…but if you're a dedicated grouse hunter, you know that the changes over the past 10 years have nothing to do with habitat."
To get a deeper understanding of the effects of West Nile virus on ruffed grouse, in 2014 Williams began asking hunters to mail in feathers and blood samples, which she tested for the disease. Counterintuitively, she says, in a bad West Nile year, only about 4 percent of hunted birds have antibodies that indicate previous West Nile infection. But in years when West Nile ebbs, up to a quarter of the hunted birds may test positive for antibodies. That's because when the virus is hitting hard, exposed grouse don't survive long enough to be shot by hunters in the fall.
Williams says this suggests that the virus's true toll is likely even higher, because there's no way to estimate how many ruffed grouse die from it before the hunting season begins.
Since 2014, states from Minnesota to Maine and North Carolina have followed Pennsylvania's example and collected ruffed grouse blood samples. Most places register declines similar to Pennsylvania's, but Maine, inexplicably, seems largely unaffected. This could be because most hunting—and 98 percent of the testing—takes place in the northern part of the state where the climate is generally cooler, says Kelsey Sullivan, migratory bird biologist at Maine's Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Or, he adds, it could be "that quality habitats reduce occurrence and increase the ability of grouse to withstand and diffuse the virus." And Maine's north woods are as close to paradise for ruffed grouse as it gets.
Lisa Williams has been pushing the importance of habitat for a while. And in 2019, she teamed up with Bob Blystone and Jeremy Diehl, geographic information system analysts at the Pennsylvania Game Commission, to develop a computer model to assess habitat quality. It's called the Grouse Priority Area Siting Tool (G-PAST), and it can help wildlife managers identify the best and worst areas for conserving ruffed grouse.
G-PAST predicts, for example, that the Scotia Barrens—previously some of the best ruffed grouse habitat in the state—is unlikely to regain that status region-wide because of its low elevation (where mosquitoes tend to thrive), its flat terrain (conducive to standing water where mosquitoes breed), and its lack of proximity to existing grouse populations (which hold potential for repopulating the area). By contrast, G-PAST finds that parts of Susquehannock State Forest, where the terrain is higher, could serve as critical ruffed grouse sanctuaries.
With that information, the Pennsylvania Game Commission can target forest areas for management strategies such as cutting stands of older trees to encourage the new growth preferred by ruffed grouse, which will also invigorate more than 30 other species, including deer, bears, turkeys, and rattlesnakes.
Another way to help grouse is by adjusting the pressures people put on them. New Jersey has banned ruffed grouse hunting indefinitely and is working with Pennsylvania to create its own version of G-PAST. Both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have shortened their hunting seasons, and Ohio is considering doing the same. Hunters have been supportive of the measures.
"Grouse hunters are their own unique breed," Williams says. "They're highly passionate about the species, and they're willing to give up their own recreation to try to help."
Meanwhile, in coordination with hunters and other Great Lakes states, Minnesota's Department of Natural Resources, based in Saint Paul, recently started a two-year study of West Nile virus in ruffed grouse. According to Charlotte Roy, the department's grouse project leader, the state is experiencing more frequent extreme rainfall events, which may lead to more West Nile-carrying mosquitoes.
"I think we should be aware of the impacts that we're having on natural processes and potentially take corrective action where we can," she says. "West Nile virus is going to be out there whether we pay attention to it or not."
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Understanding the Nordic Combined at the Winter Olympics
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The Nordic Combined event in the Winter Olympics combines the best of both ski jumping and cross-country. This sport looks for the best overall athlete — one that has the strength and control required for ski jumping as well as the endurance required for cross-country skiing.
This sport has been around since the early 1800s when communities in Norway would gather for winter carnivals. These carnivals always included athletics and this event determined the all-around winner. Nordic combined individual events (both normal hill and large hill) have been a part of the Winter Olympics since 1924; however, the team event was only added in 1988.
Only men are allowed to compete in this sport in the Winter Olympics, although women have petitions to play several times. The latest petition was made in 2009, and was rejected, although the case made it all the way to the Canadian Supreme Court. Despite the fact that women can't yet compete in the Olympics, the women's version of Nordic combined is gaining in popularity around the world.
In this event, skiers start by gliding down a steep hill and up over a bump. This abrupt bump at the end of the hill propels the jumper into the air at speeds around 90 kph. The skier jumps from one larger hill onto the down slope of another smaller hill. To score well, he must maintain control throughout.
When all competitors have jumped, they begin the cross-country portion (a 10 km race) in a pursuit start — which simply means that the skier with the best jump goes first. Each successive jumper begins in the order they placed during the jumping portion.
There are two different skiing techniques in cross-country skiing: the classic and the freestyle. In the classic technique, the toe and heel of the foot are secured to the ski and the skis move back and forth in a parallel pattern. In the free technique, only the toe is secured to a shorter ski and the skier moves his feet from side to side in a way that looks more like speed skating than skiing. The free technique is substantially faster. The Olympic Nordic combined event alternates between the two cross country styles from year to year. At the 2010 Games in Vancouver, the event will be skied freestyle.
To determine how long each competitor must wait before beginning the cross country section of the competition, the Olympic judges use something called the Gunderson method, which works like this: Judges calculate how many points separate the competitors after the jumping portion, and each jumping point is worth 4 seconds. So, for example, if the person in first place of the jumping section of the competition is 10 points ahead of the second-place jumper, then the person in first place gets a 40 second lead over the person in second place in cross country. This pattern continues through the entire field — and the last place competitor might have to wait several minutes before leaving.
By staggering the start of the cross-country portion, there is no need to wait for points to be calculated at the end of the cross-country portion. Whoever crosses the finish line first wins.
In the team event, there are four members on each team. The basic pattern is the same except that the cross-country portion of the event is a 4 x 5 k event. At the end of each leg, a skier hands off to his team mate by touching him.


Sustainability standards for seafood mainly address environmental performance criteria and are less concerned with the welfare of fisheries workers who produce the seafood. Yet human rights violations such as slavery and human trafficking are widespread in fisheries around the world, and underscore the need for certification bodies and other seafood supply chain actors to improve social performance, in addition to addressing environmental challenges. Calls for socially responsible seafood have referenced human rights law and policy frameworks to shape the guiding principles of socially responsible seafood and to provide the legal machinery to implement these aspirations, but practical guidance on how to achieve this is lacking. This paper explores the extent to which a recognised social responsibility standard is reinforced by existing human rights legal and policy instruments.


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Q: .NET User Controls -- Subclass with dropdown? I am making a control, but I am having an issue.
Right now it works fine doing things such as:
Public Class CircularProgressBar : Inherits UserControl
Private _barWidth As Integer = 4
Public Property BarWidth() As Integer
    Get
        Return _barWidth
    End Get
    Set(ByVal v As Integer)
        _barWidth = v : Invalidate()
    End Set
End Property

..etc
End Class

The above for example will show in the properties window just fine. However, I want 1-5 bars to be displayed in the same control, it would work fine if I just defined an array/list or did _barWidth1, _barWidth2, etc.  But obviously there is more values then just width and it looks very ugly in the properties page.
I wanted something like a DROPDOWN per bar, so I thought about adding a class, I.e.
Public Class CircularProgressBar : Inherits UserControl
    Public Class BarTest
     ....subclasscode
    End Class
..Class Code
End Class

However, the dropdown for the values won't appear. They do If I do Public Class BarTest : Inherits UserControl as well, but then it comes with a ton of not needed values. What I need is some way to have the drop down, but not with all the extras that inherting the usercontrol has. I am probably missing something very small.
Thanks!

A: Its not entirely clear what is being edited/saved or what these are - since you are talking about a property editor their nature is of some import.
UIType Editors are not a stylistic choice.  There are several built-in which VS will automatically use based on the Type. Even if you write your own, you usually inherit from some existing base class so they don't often end up looking too dissimilar.
In the simplest case, maybe an exposed array would work (again, very little is known about what you are up to).
Public Class DemoBarControl
    Inherits UserControl

    Private barz As Int32()
   <DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)>
    Public Property BarSizes As Int32()
        Get
            Return barz
        End Get
        Set(value As Int32())
            For n As Int32 = 0 To Math.Min(value.Count-1, 4)
                barz(n) = If(value(n) > 0, value(n), 0)
            Next
        End Set
    End Property

    Friend Function ShouldSerializeBarSizes() ...
    Friend Sub ResetBarSizes...

    Public Sub New()
        barz = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4}
    End Sub
    ...

This results in the following display:

Is that perhaps what you mean by a drop down?
That is the ExpandableObjectConverter automatically used in this case. The display is a little rough because it is just a naked array, but it is simple.  Notice the ... button which will open the standard collection editor and allow the user to add new elements (sort of).  Since the actual storage is an array, extras are filtered out in the Setter (and you can test ranges), but it might confuse the user.  Serialization is handled by VS:
'
'DemoBarControl2
'
Me.DemoBarControl2.BarSizes = New Integer() {2, 5, 2, 3, 4}

So, all would seem to be well. It seems like there might be more to defining a Bar (such as which one).  If so, you could define a Bar class to store {Index, Width, Color} - whatever, and expose a collection of them.


A Florida government official is currently facing federal charges for allegations of mortgage fraud, stemming from activity allegedly occurring over a three-year period. According to the website www.loansafe.org, the North Miami mayor, in addition to three other individuals, was recently indicted in federal court on a total of 14 fraud-related charges.
Two of the suspects prepared loan documents for straw buyers, containing false information about the financial status of the proposed purchaser. Once the loans were approved, funds were wired to a title agency, owned by one of the suspects, for distribution.
The suspects also reportedly submitted duplicate HUD-1 forms to the bank to inflate the purchase prices. They also allegedly falsely represented their receipt of down payments and closing costs from the straw buyers.
The indictment also alleges that the mayor owned a company that received a percentage of the fraudulently secured mortgage company funds. Some monthly mortgage payments were made from the account. However, the majority of the properties were reportedly foreclosed upon.
The indictment also alleges that the mayor used some of the deposited funds for her personal benefit.
The indictment reportedly includes eight violations for each defendant on charges of conspiracy to commit fraud, under Title 18, United States Code, Sec. 1349. This statute prohibits any act of conspiracy with the intent to commit a legal act. The indictment also included six counts of wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sec. 1343. The law makes defrauding a financial institution illegal. According to the article, the alleged scam resulted in a loss of $8 million for banks and the foreclosure of 20 residential properties.
A mortgage fraud conviction can result in serious penalties, especially since these charges are generally prosecuted in federal courts. The Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act establishes that a mortgage fraud conviction can carry a maximum of 30 years incarceration and a $1 million fine, depending on the circumstances of the case. The defendants in this case are facing the 30-year maximum. If convicted, it is likely that they will also have to make financial restitution to the victims. According to the report on www.loansafe.org, the mayor was suspended from public office by Florida Governor Rick Scott directly following her appearance in federal court.
As exemplified with this case, even allegations of mortgage fraud can have devastating financial, personal and professional consequences. These suspects are innocent until proven guilty, yet they are forced to experience public ridicule in the media and loss of employment income. In addition, the prosecution of these cases in federal court can be prove extremely challenging for the defendant. It is vital to secure the representation of an experienced lawyer.
If you have been charged with a fraud offense in Florida, contact Miami based Ratzan & Faccidomo, LLC today at 305-600-3519 for a confidential and free consultation.